Chapter 23: God's Soldier descends from heaven, deceitful and impermanent
However, the two thousand Tubo troops have already penetrated the Tao River. Due to the influence of water resistance, how could they retreat just by saying that they can retreat?
But after all, he had been through a long battle formation and was facing a crisis at this time. He was slightly panicked and turned to calm down, shouting loudly: "Go and cover the centurion quickly. All the warriors shot me at the bamboo raft opposite. They had nowhere to hide on the bamboo raft, and they were our targets..."
Under his arrangement, the Tubo soldiers retreated and fled in the water. Everyone on the shore took out bows and arrows, preparing to wait for the Tang army on the bamboo raft to enter the range so that they could provide routine cover for their compatriots in the water.
Marba had already taken out his bow and arrow. Seeing that the Tang army was about to enter the range, the Tang army opposite suddenly moved two soldiers in front of the bamboo raft back, revealing the soldiers full of crossbow arrows behind!
Jiang Yue thought of the lunatic attackers of Tubo that night, and their food team was killed, causing the boss to be killed and the entire food team was demoted. If Pei Min had not rescued him, he would have been in Lingnan with snakes and insects, with a ferocious look on his face and shouted: "Cheep!"
The crossbow arrows flying all over the sky!
Marba was speechless and at a loss: the Tang army's powerful crossbow was unparalleled in the world, and the Fuyuan crossbow had a range of up to three hundred steps, which was far above the bow and arrow.
There was no hidden place to hide by the Taoshui River. In an instant, the soul-chasing crossbow arrows passed through the bodies of Tubo soldiers, and some even pierced through two or three people with one arrow.
Tubo soldiers on the banks of the river fell to the ground one by one, and blood gathered into the stream and flowed into the river.
"Bite them, don't relax!" Jiang Yue calmly commanded. In fact, he didn't need to give special orders. The trained crossbowmen would also shoot in an orderly manner, so that the crossbow arrows would be waved one by one, almost without any partition.
After only five or six rounds, there were not many Tubo soldiers standing on the river bank. Most of the Tubo soldiers were so scared that they were shot and lying on the ground and crawling backwards.
"Change the target and shoot into the river!" Jiang Yue saw that there was no one standing on the river bank, so he decisively changed his target to the Tubo soldiers in the center of the river.
Under the ten thousand crossbows, the Tao River was dyed red.
Marba also lay on the ground, not daring to get up, and looked at the scene in front of him, and was in tears.
The method of overlapping the Tang army was not invincible. They fought with the Tang army for a hundred years and had research and understanding of the tactics of the Tang army. They were entangled by the method of overlapping the crossbows. No matter how fast the cavalry was, they would be difficult to break free from the net. The most effective method was to rush over and fight with the Tang army with the loss, so that the power of the crossbow arrows would be impossible to swing.
But the Tang army was all on the Taoshui River. With the help of the geographical advantage, they had nowhere to get close. How could the horse bow that shot them be comparable to the Fuyuan Crossbow?
The Tang army is almost invincible on this Tao River!
"Retreat!" Marba was in tears and led the remaining soldiers to crawl out of the range of the Fuyuan Crossbow.
"Dive, crash!" Jiang Yue gave another order.
The Tang army, who were leading the way, jumped into the Tao River one by one, one by one!
The bamboo rafts they had vacant hit the Tubo soldiers in the water fiercely.
The forefront of the bamboo raft was actually cut into sharp thorns!
The sharp bamboo raft rushed towards the Tubo soldiers struggling in the river with the help of the impact of the water. The two men and horses collided and knocked over, and scarlet blood spread on the river surface.
The Tubo soldiers who were already running were hit by such a fierce attack and immediately broke into several junctures.
The fierce Shence army rushed forward, and the cavalry in the water were inferior to infantry, and the thick and long cavalry rifles could not be wielded at all. The light Tang sword was easy to hold its head high on the water surface or to stab it under the water.
Marba did not really retreat, and he wanted to take a try to see if he could find an opportunity to save the Tubo soldiers in the water.
But Jiang Yue did not give him this opportunity: there were always 800 Fuyuan crossbowmen on the bamboo raft, and as long as they approached, they would definitely not be able to get it!
Marba looked at it like this, watching his warriors, one by one, were slaughtered, and said reluctantly: "Retreat!"
This time he really withdrew!
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News of Marba's retreat reached a hidden hill three miles away.
"Sunzi said, 'All those who fight are in harmony and win with wonder. Therefore, those who are good at making strange things are infinite as heaven and earth, and are endless as rivers and seas. The battle is only strange and right, and the changes of strange and right are invincible. Strange and right are mutually generated, like a cycle of no reason!" Feng Changqing looked at Pei Min in front of him and sighed: "The governor Pei really gained the samadhi of the army, his layout is so broad that he predicts the enemy's wisdom, and his humble position is convinced!"
Pei Min laughed and said, "Chang Qing mischievously, for this battle, you suffered for half a year in Jiuqu, Hexi. After that, I planned for another half a year, but there was no level at all. So why not fight? It's better to go home and farm! The good show has just begun!" He said, letting the five hundred cavalry behind him tie branches on the horse's tail and whispered: "Chang Qing will wait for my triumphant news. I will win this battle. I recommend you as Sima of the Prefecture!"
He waved his hand and shouted at the five hundred cavalrymen who chased Marba.
Sima of the Prefecture, second only to the prefecture chief, Feng Changqing's thin body was shocked in vain and said loudly: "I am waiting for the governor to reunite!" Suddenly, he felt a little deeply hated, why was he so short and broken, and could not fight with Pei Min to fight the enemy bravely.
Marba had no idea at this moment, and as for Ganingbu, he could only leave his fate.
The Tang army was prepared so well that there must have been a way to deal with it. If you can run away in a dilemma, you can't care about so many things.
Suddenly, I felt something strange behind me, but I saw dust flying not far away. Obviously, a large group of cavalry teams were flying towards them. There were roughly more than 2,000 cavalry...
When they looked around, there were only more than 1,500 people around them, and they were shouting, "No!" They ran all the way today, rushed into Taoshui from Hexi, and rushed to the quarry workshop. They did not stop all the way. The horses were exhausted and were greatly affected. If they continued like this, they had to catch up. Without any hesitation, Marba ordered the whole to be broken into pieces and fled in scattered.
Just as Li Shimin's evaluation of the foreign race: he saw profits and walked away when he saw difficulties, and he ran away when he was difficult, and did not keep his formation. He used bows and arrows as his minions and armor as his regular clothes. He did not line up and walked, and there was no place to camp. He chased water and grass as his living rooms, and he used sheep and horse as his military rations. He won't stop and seek wealth, and he was ashamed to be defeated.
But when Marba really saw clearly the number of Tang troops chasing him, he almost let out a mouthful of old blood!
The Tang army had only 500 people, but they were so scared that they were broken into pieces, and they broke up their military strength advantages!
Chapter completed!