Chapter 283 The death of Shule
None of the leaders of each tribe is a fool.
They felt that the words of Princess Yangu and Yelucha were more credible. From the words of Princess Yangu and Yelucha, and then recalling the unusual gains of An Lushan since conquered their Khitan tribe, wasn’t it just for his own ambitions?
Moreover, when I think about it, the things that happened back then were actually not something that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty could have ordered. As the founding of the Tang Dynasty, they were "neighbors" with the Tang Dynasty. They understood the conceit of the Han people in the Tang Dynasty. They could not do such despicable things for their own face. The only explanation is of course that what Princess Yangu and Yelucha said is true.
This makes people angry. The Khitans have been used by An Lushan over the years. Now their warriors are still helping An Lushan charge into battle. How can the dead warriors in the past be in peace?
In addition, the new leader Murhu is not authentic.
Muerhu was the new Khitan leader who was supported by An Lushan. With An Lushan's various promises after winning the Tang Dynasty, Muerhu wanted to become an An Lushan's dog. He led 18,000 Khitan cavalry and An Lushan to rebel south together, because he was afraid that which tribe made great contributions would affect his position in An Lushan's heart and shake his position as the leader. He did not let any tribe leader follow him to charge An Lushan, but just drew cavalry from each tribe, which is why all the leaders of each tribe remained in the Khitan territory.
If it weren't for An Lushan's suppression, they wouldn't have been able to hand over the warriors of this tribe to Muerhu in any case.
Some people believe in the words of Princess Yangu and Yelucha, and Muerhu is still guarding against them like that, which makes them extremely dissatisfied.
Also, this time, Li Fei and the Tang Army have no hope of defeating Li Fei.
Indeed, they were able to escape deep into the grassland and temporarily avoid Li Fei's and Andong's Tang army's edge, but other women and children in their tribe could not escape the Tang army. They were afraid that Li Fei would capture all the people of their tribe to the Andong Protectorate, just like he attacked the Chifeng royal city and treated Huaixiu Khan's tribe, and would also capture all the people in their tribe to the Andong Protectorate.
By then, without the tribe, even if they escape into the depths of the grassland, they will lose their roots.
With all the superposition, they were unwilling to resist with the people from the leader tribes such as Shele.
"You dare to betray the leader of Muerhu and the Prince of Dongping. If the leader of Muerhu and the Prince of Dongping come back to seize the world of the Tang Dynasty, they will not let you go!" Shele could only make harsh words, what should he do if he could not take so many leaders of the tribe?
"Retreat, retreat!" Shele shouted, wanting to take the more than 3,000 Khitan cavalry left by his side to retreat, first retreat to the depths of the grassland, and wait for the reinforcements left by An Lushan in Pinglu to recover the Khitan after An Lushan's reinforcements came.
It’s a pity that it’s too late.
At this moment, in the Modao Formation, thirty small catapults began to show their power, and thunderbolt bullets that ignited the fuse were thrown out.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The thunderbolt bomb exploded, accompanied by balls of fire and thick smoke.
Although this primitive thunderbolt bomb is not very powerful and cannot produce a few shrapnel, the air waves it explodes are also amazing enough.
Not to mention war horses, even if it is the first time a person sees such an explosion, he will be shocked.
A thunderbolt bomb exploded under the abdomen of a Khitan cavalry. The blazing waves mixed with thick smoke directly overturned the Khitan cavalry and the war horses to the ground.
The explosion of some thunderbolt bombs was so scared that the Khitan war horses around the explosion jumped up and then neighed and ran wildly. Many Khitan cavalry were lifted off their horses like this, and finally they were trampled to death by the out-of-control war horses.
"Kill! Encircle with the Modao Formation, don't let anyone go!" In the rear, Li Fei also ordered 20,000 Andong Iron Cavalry to attack, preparing to annihilate the stubborn people such as Shele, and completely make all the Khitan tribes surrender.
"Kill!" Andong's Iron Cavalry charged, and Yelucha and Princess Yangu also took the thousand Khitan cavalry formed for them.
Shele was frightened. He didn't know what Tang army used, but could cause such a horrifying movement, which made them sit down and all the horses were frightened and uncontrollable.
The war horses were frightened and uncontrolled and rushing wildly would undoubtedly affect their defeat and escape. At this time, Li Fei ordered 20,000 Andong cavalry to rush over. Once he could not escape and was surrounded, he would be unable to escape.
Shele desperately controlled the frightened war horse, trying to control the war horse to retreat deep in the grassland.
However, the sudden frightened war horse could not be controlled so easily. The war horse that Shele sat down not only did not lead Shele to the depths of the grassland to the west, but instead ran more than ten steps towards the rushing Andong Iron Cavalry, and finally turned around on the spot.
She was so scared that she was about to break her gallbladder, and then She was so angry that she almost vomited blood.
He saw a war horse next to him that seemed to be in a better condition. He gritted his teeth, and without hesitation, he gave up the war horse that he had sat down and turned to ride the war horse next to him that seemed to be in a better condition.
"Go!Go!" Shele desperately slapped the horse's buttocks that had been replaced by the war horse, trying to escape before being surrounded.
"Boom! Boom! Boom---" Unfortunately, the second wave of thunderbolt bombs was thrown into the Modao Formation, and the explosion like thunder and thick smoke once again frightened the war horse that She's just transferred to. The war horse almost jumped up on the spot, and then ran wildly regardless of the direction.
"Ah--" Shele was pushed off the horse, fell down, and screamed. Fortunately, he was not stepped on by other running war horses, otherwise it would be even worse.
However, when he got up from the ground, the 20,000 Andong Iron Cavalry and the Modao Formation had already surrounded him and other Khitan cavalry. Very few of them could escape before this, of course, not including Shele.
"It's over!" Shele was frightened and wanted to find other war horses.
Just a few dozen meters away from Shele, Wu Sheng slashed a Khitan cavalry blocking the road and rushed towards Shele.
The Jiedushi told him that a stern and hard-working member like Shele would not even give him a chance to surrender and would just kill him.
Shele had no war horses, and he was eager to find a new war horse. He didn't notice that a fierce man like Wu Sheng had already killed him.
"Puff!" The horizontal knife flew past, and Shele's head flew up directly.
As soon as Shele died, the other terrified and scattered Khitan cavalry had no will to resist and threw away their weapons and surrendered.
In this battle, more than 2,000 deadly Khitan cavalry including Shele were killed and captured more than 1,000 prisoners. More than 8,000 other cavalrymen from the other tribes either gave up on participating in the war from the beginning, threw away the bows, arrows, and scimitars without resisting, or after charging with Shele for a while, they also withdrew from the battlefield and did not continue to participate in the war.
In short, in this battle, since none of the people from the leader tribes such as Shele could escape, it was basically considered that all the problems were wiped out in one battle.
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Chapter completed!