Chapter 453: Broken Leaf Fengyun (18)

The tragic encounter was finally decided at dawn the next day. As the Tang army threw the 500 thunderbolt chariots that had just arrived into battle, the powerful serial bed crossbow and the terrifying sky thunder bomb became the turning point of the war. The Turkic slave army, which fought with the right-wing cavalry of the Tang army, lost more than half of it, and collapsed first. Their escape from the battlefield directly triggered the complete defeat of the Dashi Army. The Tang army chased for more than ten miles and killed the Dashi Army and overturned the Dashi Army. In the end, Moyali led less than 5,000 remaining troops to flee back to General Peiluo City. In this battle, the Tang army also suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and paid a heavy price.

But this battle also changed the situation of the entire war. More than 30,000 Tang troops and more than 20 small countries who had just arrived, including Shule, Gaochang, Kucha, etc., formed an 80,000 coalition force from the south to advance to General Peiluo City, which made the Dashi Army in an embarrassing situation of being attacked from both sides. Alan's attempt to counterattack the Chaser Ye's horseback strategy completely failed.

At this moment, the 60,000 troops of Ma Lin from Zhuque City crossed Geling and appeared ten miles east of General Peiluo City; under the leadership of Wang Siyu, the 50,000 troops of Saiye also approached the General Peiluo City from the north, but to the west was the insurmountable Saiye Mountains. In this way, the 130,000 Great Food Army was besieged by more than 200,000 Tang troops in a narrow corridor that was ten miles long and five miles wide. All the heavy weapons were abandoned outside Saiye City, and what was even worse was that the food they carried was less than ten days left.

On November 25, 2018, the third day after the Dashi Army was besieged, a rare blizzard suddenly came, sweeping across the entire Shattered Leaf Valley. The blizzard came at noon, extremely violent, and the wild cold wind swept the snowflakes, destroying and ravaging everything on the ground. The dust and gravel were swept by the wind and snow, flying in the gray world. The tents tilted under the pressure of the wind, moaning, and the tents that were slightly unstable were all swept away. People could not stand and could only crawl on the ground and crawl towards the corner of the leeward.

The snowstorm lasted for two days, and the Thunder Leaf War came to a halt under the raging blizzard. Two days later, when the snowstorm gradually subsided, the earth was already white, with thick snow reaching its knees, and it was difficult for people to walk. Despite this, the Tang army was extremely vigilant and always pay attention to the possible breakthrough of the Dashi Army.

"Master, I think you are a little worried. How could the Dashi Army survive such a thick snow?" The group of people were walking in the snow with difficulty. The head coach Wang Siyu was walking in the front, and the censor Wu Yuanheng followed him. Suiye received a handwritten order from the emperor. Wu Yuanheng arrived early in the morning to deliver the letter, but met Wang Siyu inspecting the post.

Wang Siyu looked back at him and smiled, "Then it was snowing heavily when you said you were sweating. Everyone thought that the Tang army would not attack in the snow, but our Tang army succeeded in the sneak attack."

Wu Yuanheng could not keep up with Wang Siyu's pace. He ran a few steps out of breath and defended unconvincedly: "The first thing is that the snow was not heavy, and after the snow, the Tang army's war horses could gallop on the snow. If it were today's snow, General Shi would not be able to go south."

Wang Siyu heard that he was quite dissatisfied with his tone, so he smiled and said, "Okay, let me give you another example. More than ten years ago, when I was a small captain, I went to Tianbao County, Wuwei County with His Majesty. We stayed there for a short time and took Wuwei. Do you know how it took it? The wind and snow were even more violent than this. We walked in the blizzard for three days and three nights, and more than one hundred miles of mountain roads. The cold was even more terrifying than the King of Hell. We gritted our teeth and stood up in the blizzard, and finally succeeded in the surprise attack on Wuwei."

"There is such a thing?" Wu Yuanheng was extremely surprised. He scratched the back of his head and said, "Didn't the court's documents say that Wei Er took the initiative to surrender His Majesty into Wuwei? Why did it turn into a sneak attack in Xueye?"

"Wei Yan gave up?" Wang Siyu sneered disdainfully, "Just, Wei Yan wanted to kill us all at that time. Will he give us Wuwei? Since the court wants to write like this, I have nothing to say, but we fought in that battle very hard, but if we hadn't attacked on the snowy night like that, our strength would not be able to defeat Wuwei."

While speaking, Wang Siyu came to a post office, and dozens of soldiers were repairing the whistle that was blown down by the blizzard. "How about it, all the brothers here are fine!"

The soldiers turned around and saw that the general was coming. They were so scared that they knelt down and saluted, "See the general."

A team said again: "Reporting to the general's question, a brother in the whistleblower broke his leg and sent back to the Broken Leaf to heal. Apart from that, no casualties were found."

"It's good that there are no casualties." Wang Siyu nodded and asked again: "There is a situation on the Dashi Army. I mean, have you found any abnormalities?"

He reminded the team with one sentence, and he nodded quickly and said, "Yes! We caught a soldier who surrendered by Bakhan. He was also a sentryman. He took advantage of the snow to touch us to surrender."

"Oh? There is such a thing." Wang Siyu was very interested and asked quickly: "Where is this surrendered soldier? Take him to see me!"

The team was quickly getting up and running towards the tent in the distance, shouting a few times. After a moment, two soldiers brought a man in their thirties over here. From the outside, they could see that it was a Turkish man. He stepped forward and knelt on the ground and said something loudly in Turkic language. A soldier who knew Turkic language translated: "This person said that the food of the Dashi Army was in crisis. They could only eat a little bit of food every day, and they were not allowed to kill horses. They were so hungry that everyone guessed whether something had happened to sweat. He was thinking about his family, so he escaped while the wind and snow. He said he didn't want to fight."

Wang Siyu pondered for a moment and said to the soldier: "Ask him, how many people are there in the Dashi Army who are sweating?"

The soldier asked a few words in Turkic language and replied: "He said there were more than 4,000 people, and the base was not far from here, about four or five miles away. The people stationed with them were Shi Guoren and Shi Guoren."

Wang Siyu pondered and said nothing. This unexpected discovery made him know that the food for the great cannibals was not much. In this case, the great cannibals would definitely favor one or the other, which made many soldiers from the alliance begin to feel dissatisfied. If what the soldier said was true, it would be an opportunity to divide the enemy's army, but the road was extremely difficult. How could the other people who could sarcos know the news?

He glanced at the soldier of Bahan and said to the translator: "Tell him that if he is willing to go back and pass on the message for me, I will reward him with a thousand sheep and ten horses after the war. Do you ask him if he wants it?"

The soldier translated the words of the commander to the man Bahan. His eyes gradually lit up and he nodded heavily. Without the translation, Wang Siyu knew that he was willing, so he lit up slightly and said a few more words to the man. Then he ordered the man to let him go. The man Bahan walked south with deep and shallow feet, and gradually, his figure disappeared into the woods.

At this time, Wu Yuanheng came over and said, "Master, I think it would be difficult to achieve the effect that Master wants with this person alone. We should send more people to copy Turkic letters, telling them that if the surrender immediately, they can release the food home, and if the stubborn persons are punished as slaves at the Shaye Silver Mine for twenty years, we will send the letters to the enemy's positions. I think, it's like a bird cannot withstand the temptation of poisonous snakes, and many people will definitely come out to surrender obediently."

Wang Siyu nodded repeatedly, "Your advice is very good. I will go back and order someone to copy it now. I just need to use some method to send the letter to the enemy's formation. I must think about it carefully."

Wu Yuanheng looked up at the wind direction in the sky, smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Marshal, don't worry, I have a good idea."

At night, two thousand Tang soldiers placed more than 500 round barrel-shaped objects in rows on the snow, each round barrel was about one meter high. Tang soldiers were in groups, one from left to right and one from right to lit the barrel, and the other lit a fire stick, approaching the bottom of the barrel, with a slight sound of "boom!", a flame ignited below. In the flames, it could be seen that there was a fire-proof board box filled with tinder oil, and there was a bamboo basket under the box.

The inside was filled with letters written in Turkic and Sogdian. As the fire ignited, the huge round barrels actually slowly rose. Two soldiers, a bamboo pole, rose higher and higher, and finally rose to twenty feet high. Under the blowing of the north wind, they carried the letters from bamboo baskets to the position of the Dashi Army. More than 500 Kongming lanterns filled the sky. In the sky, they looked like a group of fireflies in summer, which looked particularly strange and dazzling.

In the narrow area besieged by the Tang army, there is a city called General Peiluo City. This is the acropolis of the Sailed Leaf. Although it is an acropolis, the city is not small and can be garrisoned about 10,000 troops. In addition, thousands of households have been emptied, and the general Peiluo City can even accommodate 20,000 to 30,000 troops. Currently, more than 20,000 Khurasan troops are stationed in the city. They enjoy the sufficient supply of food. On the outside of the city, there are nearly 30,000 Egyptian troops and more than 10,000 Turkic slave troops. They enjoy half-full food supply. The most peripheral Kangguo, Anguo, Shiguo and other associations have low status, poor equipment, and extremely weak combat power, so they are also the worst treatment. They can only eat one meal a day, and the Supreme Commander also issued strict orders to prohibit killing horses, and those who violate the order will be sentenced to death.

Unfair treatment and hunger torture the morale of the Xiecong National Army. In addition, after the blizzard, most of the Xiecong National Army officers and soldiers believed that there was no hope of breaking through. They gradually became desperate about their future. Just then, the sky lanterns falling from the sky came to the Xiecong National Army with letters from looking at the Tang army. The uprising broke out. The leniency of surrender and the severe punishment of stubborn resistance violently impacted the hearts of every soldier. The morale began to collapse quickly, rumors were flying everywhere, and people gathered together everywhere.

The soldiers who spoke were only separated by a piece of paper from the complete collapse of the army's morale. The situation was like boiling tiny oil. Only a tiny spark could ignite a large-scale surrender wave. At this time, General Pei Luo's city was quiet. The tall walls seemed to be made of fire-proof boards. They could not feel the flames about to explode on the outside. At this moment, a Kongming lantern with a lasting endurance flew into General Pei Luo's city. Several personal soldiers flew into the commander's room where the meeting was being held with the Tang army's letter.

With a loud bang, Alan slapped hard on the table. His beloved Syrian pot was also overturned and fell heavily to the ground. A large piece of it was concave at the bottom of the pot, but he didn't care. He shouted loudly: "Send someone to search immediately. Anyone who dares to hide the document will be executed. Go now."

"Yes!" A leader of the Khurasan Legion agreed loudly and turned around to deal with the accident. When Moyali next to him was furious when he saw the commander, he quickly whispered: "General, this matter cannot be handled hastily. I am worried that it will inspire a mutiny."

"Then what do you want me to do?" Alan turned his head and stared at him and said, "Would you please let me comfort them? I have to use any comfort. There are only five days left in the food. Of course, we must give priority to ensuring strong combat effectiveness. These miscellaneous armies are not loyal to the Caliph, so what can we do without high pressure?" Alan was extremely angry.

"The general asked to calm down. The subordinates suggested that they should be allowed to kill horses to temporarily resolve the shortage of food. Then wait for the situation to calm down slightly, then exchange them with the Egyptian army and let them be in the middle to prevent them from surrendering to the enemy."

Alan's angry face was slightly relieved. Killing horses was a taboo in the army. He had always firmly opposed it, but from the current situation, it was impossible to escape all of them. So he simply let the Union go from the National Army to become a stepping stone for the Khorasan Army. Without horses, he let them hold the Tang army behind him. Alan finally nodded slightly, "Okay! I agree that they kill horses to solve the food problem, but they cannot just appease them. They must be leniency and strictness. My order just now remains unchanged. Anyone who dares to hide the documents will be executed."

After the order was completed, Alan sat down very tiredly. He never thought he would fall into this predicament today. A sudden blizzard disrupted his combat plan. Alan.

Mercein, a famous general of the Great Food who had followed Rashid Caliph to the Byzantium and was known as the "guardian of the Green Dome Palace", will have to face extremely serious consequences, the life and death of the 130,000 army. So far, Alan does not think he has made any strategic mistakes. Yes, God once gave him more than two months, but he was unable to capture the city of Saiye. The Great Food has always had innate defects in siege. Both the Wumaiye Dynasty and the Abbasid Dynasty were in line with each other. It has been hundreds of years.

Four besieges of Constantinople, and four failed to siege the city, so it was not accidental that Sailye's failure to siege the city was not accidental. After all, it was the decision-making level of Dashi who underestimated the difficulty of attacking Sailye City, underestimated the Tang Dynasty's tenacity to defend the city, and even underestimated the Tang Dynasty's determination to win the Sailye Battle with all its strength. God would not give him two more opportunities. Since Alan could not win Sailye for more than two months, the opportunity naturally turned to the hands of the Tang army. This is natural fairness. A blizzard that favors the Tang army fully demonstrates this.

The commander's room was very quiet, and several senior generals were waiting for the commander's next lecture. Alan seemed to have some sense. He immediately woke up from his thoughts and waved his hand and said, "Let's continue to have a meeting. Let's discuss the possibility of breaking through the East Road."

The Tang army's letters have completely disrupted the morale of the soldiers of the Xiecong Kingdom. Almost every Xiecong Kingdom's military camp has someone publicly talked about how to surrender to the Tang army. The officers also have their own thoughts and do not care about the increasingly dangerous atmosphere in the military camp.

In the camp where Bahanna joined the army, a sentry was standing on a big rock and proclaiming loudly to thousands of soldiers, "I almost died in the heavy snow. Fortunately, I was rescued by the Tang army. They told me that Bahanna had undergone a huge change. The Tang army sent troops from Ashibu City to burn the military rations of the Great Cannibal, annihilated the lackeys of the Samman family. Our king had risen up and officially split from the Great Cannibal, and went to the Tang Dynasty. Do you know that when we belonged to the Tang Dynasty, they never levy a tax on us, but the Great Cannibal and the Samman family exploited our family and destroyed our ranch, occupied our ranch, and forced us to give up our faith. We are still working for such rulers. Brothers, listen to me, we surrender to the Tang Dynasty and help our king."

The sentinel's words resonated with countless soldiers, and even many officers had a strong desire to surrender. Even their kings rebelled against the Great Food. So what reason do they have to serve the Great Food here?

"The Khurasan people are here!" Someone shouted, and saw a murderous army rushing into the gate of the camp. There were a hundred people, all of them, armored and iron helmets, holding scimitars in their hands, and they all looked fierce. The soldiers were so scared that their faces changed drastically and they retreated one after another. They were like a group of sheep that were used to being oppressed, fearing the evil wolf of the Khurasan people from the bottom of their hearts.

In order to confiscate the letters sent by the Association from the National Army, the Khurasan army sent ten patrol teams, each with a hundred people. This team happened to find the Bahanna military camp.

"What are you doing here? Do you want to rebel?" The leader of the Khurasan army roared and shouted like thunder. He saw the soldier standing on the big stone preaching, and pointed his hand and said, "This man is a rebel. Take him up."

Immediately, more than a dozen Khorasan soldiers rushed towards the preaching soldiers. The soldiers of Bahan retreated timidly, but they still lacked the courage to resist. When the soldier saw the Khorasan people rushing towards him, he was extremely angry and shouted loudly: "Brothers, why don't you resist? Do you really want to let the Khorasan people kill me?"

"Kill him for me!" The captain of the Khurasan people issued a vicious murder order.

A dozen Khorasans surrounded Dashi and drew their swords to slash at him. Seeing that there was no way out, the soldiers roared, drew their swords and pounced down, and pierced a Khorasan soldier with one sword, but the swords of the others had already landed on him. He was covered in blood and stumbled and fled. The soldiers' blood finally ignited the blood in the heart of the man Bahan. Their sheep-like timid disappeared. The angry soldiers suddenly shouted, drew their swords and pounced on them, surrounding more than a hundred Khorasans to kill. The soldiers in the camp also rushed out. Four thousand people seemed to be in a wave of anger, quickly swallowing more than a hundred Khorasans.

"Kill out and surrender to the Tang Dynasty!" The roar of the man Bahan spread throughout the entire association from the national army. Countless soldiers of Bahan rushed to the north. Finally, even their corps commander took off their military uniforms and fled north among the Jin soldiers.

The rebellion of the man Bahan was to ignite the spark of boiling oil. The herd effect they stimulated was immeasurable. The entire outer position was out of control. On the vast snowfield, there were only dense black dots running for no purpose, heading north, east or south. The boredom of war, despair of the future, and unbearable hunger drove them to kill the Khurashan patrol soldiers, and large-scaled attacks on the Tang army, spontaneously without anyone organizing it. When the order to kill horses was passed to the outer camp, the camp was already empty, and only four or five thousand old, weak and injured soldiers were left in the 60,000 military troops who could not run.

The collective defection of the national army completely changed the situation of the war. That night, the Tang army pressed heavily from three sides. More than 500 captured heavy catapults slowly approached General Peiluo City from the south under the guidance of camels. Thousands of large food and irritation bombs poured out to the enemy's positions. The entire Peiluo City and the entire food and the entire food and the position of the food and the position of the food and the hell on earth became. Screams and scorched smells filled the sky above the food and more than 30,000 soldiers were burned to death by the violent Greeks. There were countless people who rushed out to surrender. Deputy General Moyali also surrendered to the Tang army.

However, Alan, commander of the Dashi Army, led 20,000 Khurasan cavalry to break through the east and was intercepted by 60,000 Beiting Tang troops. Then, Wang Siyu led his army to surround him from behind and cut off all the escape routes of the Khurasan army. The two armies had a huge gap in strength. After two hours of fierce battle, the last Khurasan cavalry were all annihilated by the Tang army, and Alan was commanded by Alan.

Mercen committed suicide in despair.

From then on, the Battle of Sailing Ye finally ended with the Tang army's victory. This battle started from the southward transition of the Gelulu people to the end of November of the following year. After a full year and two months, both countries devoted their entire nation to the strength of the country. The Dashi Army mobilized 300,000 people to participate in the war, and the national treasury was exhausted. The Tang Dynasty also mobilized nearly 200,000 troops, nearly one million Han people and civil servants from various countries in the Western Regions, allocated 10 million stones of food and 4 million qians of money. The final result was that the Dashi Army was allocated, and more than 100,000 surrendered people, and the entire Gelu people were destroyed.

The impact of this battle was extremely profound, marking the strategic offensive and defensive exchange between the Tang Dynasty and the Dashi Kingdom west of the Pamir Mountains. The Tang army gained the upper hand, and Bahanna and Shi Kingdom successively surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty's forces advanced to the Yaosha River Basin. Nearly 100 cities including Talas were occupied by the Tang army. The Dashi Kingdom was shocked and extremely frightened. Caliph Rashid urgently dispatched 80,000 most elite guards to reinforce Samarkand and cancelled them.

The unequal treaty signed with Byzantium ten years ago reached a reconciliation with Byzantium, allowing the troops stationed in Syria and Armenia to move south. At this time, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty was exhausted and could not carry out a western expedition. In addition, Tochar was still controlled by the cannibals, and the Uighurs were unwilling to die. Emperor Zhang Huan of the Tang Dynasty ordered the Tang army to stop at Yaoshahe and not advance west for the time being. At this point, the Tang Dynasty won a comprehensive victory in the Battle of Sailing Leaf.
Chapter completed!