Chapter 19 Bloody Battle of Xing Shui
Pei Min cut off the last Tubo soldier who had climbed the city with one sword and shouted: "Top the hand, pour oil! Archer, light the fire!"
The boiling oil poured down from the top of the city, and then the lit rockets and hay fell down. The city suddenly turned into a scarlet sea of fire.
Because of climbing the city, the Tubo soldiers gathered at the city and gathered together.
Some agile Tubo soldiers were lucky enough to roll and crawl away, but most of them could not be avoided being wrapped in it, screaming endlessly. More than 500 soldiers with remaining strength rushed out of the sea of fire, caught fire, and struggled to escape back. Some of them were shot down by bows and arrows on the top of the city, and some fell to the ground halfway through the run, allowing the flames to wrap their bodies and burn them to ash carbon.
There was a burnt smell permeated on the battlefield.
In the sea of fire under the opposite city tower, Tubo finally stopped the offensive.
Pei Min was relieved, and he did not expect that Tubo would have such a skill. The carefully trained soldiers climbing the city were not at the same level as ordinary soldiers, and they were completely out of the same level as those of ordinary soldiers.
Fortunately, he has his ladder passing through the wall!
The moment Tubo climbed the city, he immediately transferred the mercenaries.
Mercenaries are not very useful in defending the city. Their individual combat power is indeed strong, but when it comes to cooperation and obedience, they are far less than that of the Tang soldiers. What they need to defend the city is cooperation, not personal combat power. For some reason, mercenaries have been on standby near the urn city, waiting to be dispatched.
The Tubo army ascended the city wall, which was the time to reflect the value of mercenaries.
Pei Min didn't want the tired Tang army to sacrifice more, so he directly transferred the mercenaries.
The mercenaries also reflected their individual combat effectiveness. Like the evil wolf, they threw all the Tubo soldiers who climbed the city to the top of the city.
The city was filled with joy and morale was greatly boosted.
The fire gradually extinguished, and the siege equipment was completely destroyed at this time. Although Tubo had many soldiers and generals, it was difficult to organize a decent offensive for a while. Pei Min was relieved and seized the time to fill his stomach. He bit the stewed lamb in his mouth, but his eyes fell on the mercenaries, thinking about it.
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The bank of Xing River in Xingyuan, Longzhou.
The Tubo 100-year-old man named Bifulu sat naked on the huge rock by the river with a big horse sword, with only a shorts and wet all over, obviously he had just crawled out of the water.
"This ghost weather!" Beeflu rudely fanned with his hands and cursed.
The commander of the thousand-man Taibo couldn't help but say, "Everything is good in the Tang Dynasty, it's just too hot...it's life...hey, what is that?" He put on a pergola in his hand and saw several Tubo cavalry running over from afar, holding up a flag in his hands, celebrating their unique Tubo flag words.
"It's only my own people!" Beeflu understood the meaning of the flag and waved his hand to let the rover approach and speak.
"General Biferulu!" came to ride a military salute and said, "Captain Rana hopes to get the help of the general. The vanguard of the Tang Dynasty has passed Yong County, Qizhou and is heading towards Xingyuan."
When Beeflu heard this, he was furious and whipped his head. With a "pop", Lai Qi felt a torn pain coming from his cheek, and it hurt inside his ears. His head became dizzy, he couldn't stand firmly, and he fell heavily involuntarily.
"Damn it, what is Rana? In just a few days, the Tang Pioneer Army passed Yong County. The marshal's request was that it could not be fifty miles a day, but it was hundreds of miles." The Beverlu martial arts group was fierce and unruly. He had a nickname in Tubo. He flattered the superiors, but was rude to the subordinates, beat and scolded them at all times, and never reasoned. However, he was fierce and warlike, and his military achievements were brilliant, which was highly valued by Tubo Marshal Di Dayan.
The cavalry was mentally prepared to be beaten, and did not dare to touch the wound. They struggled to get up and said, "The Tang Pioneer Army is very powerful. They have 8,000 people. The commander of Rana attacked three times, but did not take any advantage, and lost many troops."
"Bah!" Beeflu spitted disdainfully: "No matter how powerful the Tang general is, how powerful can he be? Don't make excuses for being incompetent..." These days, he traveled to Longzhou, swept the villages and counties, and plucked the feathers over the geese, and gained some gains. None of the Tang soldiers who lived in the city had the courage to come out to fight. For the Tang army, he now looked at him from the bottom of his heart and kicked the rider away and said, "Looking at him, let him meet me, I will go and meet that 'awesome' vanguard cavalry, and see how amazing it is!"
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Panshi County.
Wang Haibin looked at the topographic map of Longzhou and was thinking about some things in his mind.
"Brother Wang!" A young schoolman strode to Wang Haibin and said, "The bridge has been repaired and can be used by the army."
"Good job!" Wang Haibin put away the topographic map and said, "Let's go directly to Xingyuan and go up the water of the source..."
The little school was reluctant to speak but stopped, and he was very dissatisfied and dared not say anything. His name was Zhang Lan. It turned out that he was a young man who was busy waiting to die in Feng'an Army. However, influenced by Wang Haibin, he became an ambitious boy and Wang Haibin's deputy. In his eyes, Wang Haibin was brave and resourceful, and was one of the best heroes in the world.
But he was really frustrated in his heart these days. Tubo attacked them three times in a row, but none of them got any benefits. There were obvious opportunities to pursue them in these three times, but Wang Haibin stopped them abnormally. They were obviously good at fighting at close range, but they insisted on letting them ride crossbows to guerrillas north, allowing Tubo to retreat calmly.
Wang Haibin patted Zhang Lan on the shoulder and said, "What's the hurry? How can that little meat be enough for us to eat? Let's wait, next is a tough battle."
Zhang Lan looked at Wang Haibin who was full of confidence and shouted: "Brother Wang wants to swallow the Tubo You Yijun in one bite?"
Wang Haibin shook his head and smiled and said, "I'm not that big-minded. I can't eat it in three ways, and I can still do it... We don't have that big face, so let them deal with us in three ways."
dawn.
On the banks of Xingshui!
The rising sun shyly revealed half of its face. In the early morning of summer, the sky and the earth were white, without wind or fog, and even a little stuffy!
The heavy and chaotic sound of the horse's hooves treading on the ground was like a war drum, making the Xingshui surface tremble ripples.
The cavalry rushed over with their horses. Although there were only four thousand vanguards, their loose lineup, rolling smoke and huge shouts made them look like a flood.
Wang Haibin narrowed his eyes and said to Zhang Lan: "As long as the plan is done! I'll give them some color. After my cavalry goes to battle, I'll leave it to you."
Zhang Lan patted her chest with a strong face.
Wang Haibin waved his hand, and with the dull and dense sound of war drums, hundreds of flags swayed on the front, and two thousand elite cavalry roared to meet him.
Two pioneers approached like lightning!
Wang Haibin whistled!
Two thousand cavalrymen crawled on the horse's back and charged in an instant.
Almost at the same time, the arrow feathers of the Tubo cavalry had already attacked.
The whistling arrows echoed throughout the battlefield. The vanguard troops led by Wang Haibin rushed out of the range of arrow feathers, and less than a hundred people were shot. Prevention was taken in advance. Most of the soldiers who were shot in the arrow were in vests. They had leather armor protection. Although they were injured, they were not fatal and still had the power to fight.
After a round of arrow feathers came down, Wang Haibin's cavalry only lost three people... They were unlucky and their horses were severely damaged, so they fell to the ground.
Wang Haibin's cavalry are all Hequ war horses. The biggest feature of Hequ war horses is strong explosive power, short-distance sprinting, unparalleled in the world.
With the spirit of Tubo cavalry and shooting, facing Wang Haibin's cavalry, he had no time to shoot in the second round.
After a few breaths, the elite cavalry of the Tang army wedged into the Tubo cavalry. Large pieces of blood and corpses fell underground from the horse's back, and then they were stepped into meat paste by countless war horses.
The collision between the two cavalry teams led the Tang army to take the initiative with a destructive advantage.
Wang Haibin knocked his feet against the abdomen of the horse, and the horse spear in his hand was slashed. The huge horse spear pierced through the chest of a Tubo soldier in front, lifted him up with one hand, and swung him forward suddenly, and actually smashed the six or seven cavalry in front of him.
In the distance, Beeflu looked at the battlefield with an embarrassment, his face twitched, and cursed: "Rana is damn..." The news he received was that the Northland horses that the Tang cavalry were riding like flying. This is not the North Horse, it is obviously the Hequ Horse!
The explosive power of the Hequ horses is far from comparable to that of their Youyi army, which focuses on guerrilla attacks. This is more than assault. How could their Youyi army be an opponent of the Tang army riding Hequ horses?
No hesitation!
Beeflu shouted, "Taibo, Moore, each leads five thousand cavalry, and detours from left to right, destroy the six thousand infantrymen behind the Tang army, and surround him. I will stomp him down!"
With his orders, thousands of cavalry detoured left and right, sweeping across the river bank and grassland like a whirlwind, and storming to the front of the Tang army.
Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps...
The two armies gradually gathered together!
Suddenly, one by one, the elite Tubo cavalry rolled on the ground inexplicably, fell off the horse's back, and howled and cried.
Where they rolled past, there was blood dripping, and the dark caltrops on the green grass were emitting scarlet blood.
shoot!
Zhang Lan looked at the Tubo cavalry who had been in a mess and licked his lips!
Tang Jun, who held a powerful crossbow in four thousand hands, pulled the brace.
Wang Haibin heard the miserable screams behind him and shouted loudly to the soldiers he had trained with, "Soldiers, follow me to charge in that direction!"
As he said that, he pointed with a spear, and there was the Tubo Celestial.
The caltrops were sprinkled after he attacked, and there was no word "retreat" in his mind.
If you don’t die, you won’t rush!
Waving the giant horse spear, Wang Haibin roared and urged the horse to move forward, forcing himself to separate the flesh and blood of the Tubo army. The autumn wind broke through the encirclement like falling leaves, pointing directly to the Tubo flag!
Chapter completed!