Chapter 114: Dragon Fighting in the Wild Two

Standing at the top of the city, Hushagar remembered what happened yesterday.

Yesterday evening, he received an unfavorable battle report from Xiashule. The battle report said that the Tang army had sent a cavalry to attack the Uighur troops who were sieging the city and attacked Xiashule City. Then he attacked twice. "The first time attacked the siege in the Ximen direction, and the second time was to go out of the city and attacked us at night, which caused considerable damage to our army. Seeing that it was difficult to siege the city, General Morant had retreated fifteen miles and confronted the Tang Kou. He also asked the general to send reinforcements to him quickly." The envoy who sent the letter said.

Hu Shagar's face darkened at that time. Judging from the messenger's description, the group of Tang Kou first defeated outside the city, rushed into the city, then attacked twice, and won twice! Finally, Morant forced to retreat. This was equivalent to three battles and three victory!

"A soldier? How many people are there!" Hu Shagar asked in a deep voice.

Although Morant had practiced with him several times before coming, and the messenger's face did not show any strangeness, his heart was still pounding: "In the chaos, it is not clear how many people there are, about two thousand people and less than three thousand people."

"Two or three thousand people!"

Hushagar's face changed a little.

After coming back to his senses, the Hu cavalry had already begun to accelerate!

This battle must be won!

The situation in Shule is quite subtle at the moment. Hu Shagar analyzed the information he had and concluded that it was very bad! Judging from the information from all aspects, it seems that he is not able to rely on Bogra Khan to help - there is no idea what happened in the north! Not long ago, Bogra Khan also came to a secret letter saying that everything was going as scheduled, but within a few days, the Tang gang actually burned the Geluoling Pass and broke into the Jokhang Temple, "breaking 7,000 with 300" and broke through the encirclement of Jokhang Temple!

How did Tang Kou arrive here? From the merchants who came back after his acquiesce to the Tang family's military camp, Hushagar indirectly obtained some descriptions of the battle situation west of the Geluoling Pass by the Tang family. Zheng Wei did not directly answer this question, but only imply that Bograhan had been destroyed.

Of course, the news given by the enemy was unbelievable, but Hushagar could not help but think of Masoud and Sekan. He was very clear about the defeat of the two. Both times, when he thought he had the upper hand, he suddenly suffered an unexpected counterattack, and then he was inexplicably wiped out! One, two, and three, did Bograhan also encounter the same fate?

Judging from the information sent back by Bogra Khan before, this may exist - this group of Tang Kou actually forced Bogra Khan's army to retreat in Julan City, which means that the other party has a military force comparable to Bogra Khan. With such military force as the basis, if tactical effect is added, it is possible that Bogra Khan will be defeated by this group of Tang Kou. Even because the defeat came too quickly, Bogra Khan did not have time to report to this side!

Although all the rumors were suppressed and even though he was unwilling to believe that this group of Tang Kou broke into this area after defeating Bogra Khan, what other explanations were there? The other party could not fly over from Bogra Khan's army with wings.

Hu Shagar's psychological burden was already quite heavy, and the news from the north shocked him - Xia Shule was actually controlled by them! How many troops does this group of Tang Kou have?

The Jokhang Temple is located fifty miles west of Shule, and the Xia Shule is located ninety miles north of Shule. It is a journey that light cavalry can reach within one day. The reason why Hushagar was able to ensure the safety of the north before was because he had an offensive against Shule, but now the situation has reversed and the situation in the north has become unstable. If the frontal troops of the Tang army set out from the west and the partial troops in the north lead the Ming scholars to the south, then Shule City will be blocked from the northeast to the southwest.

The south is a mountain where birds cannot cross, and there is a bad intention in the east - Hushagar is losing his depth step by step.

And what’s even more fatal is the human heart!

Hu Shagar has received news that the tribes and tribes in the southwest of Shule are already flirting with the Tang army. Once the news of the fall of Shule comes out, will they still obey their own command? If the tribes betray and the troops they can call will be reduced by at least 10,000, and if Khotan, who claims to be a subordinate of the Tang Dynasty, also sends troops to help, Shule will become an isolated city!

Hushagar seemed to see: an invisible net was already formed.

In the era of cold weapons, it is extremely dangerous to be surrounded by a city that has lost foreign aid - that means that the Tang army does not need to forcibly attack the city. It just needs to surround the city, cut off its transportation, and wait for the food in the city to be out of stock!

No! You must defeat the main force of the Tang army before that day comes! You must take advantage of the fact that the troops still obey their orders and fight the Tang army while their troops and morale are still at their peak!

Hushagar speculated from the experiences of Maswude and Sekan that this group of Tang Kou should be good at surprise attacks. If it is a head-on battle, it should be possible to ensure that it will not fall into the enemy's trap!

The cavalry outside the city had rushed within two hundred steps! The 8,000 Uighur army and 15,000 militiamen had also set off.

An Shoujing ordered: "Bridge!"

Behind the fifteen rows of swords and axes, eighty waist crossbows, and two hundred and ten heavy crossbows were ready!

The situation on the battlefield is about to break out!

Zheng Wei led Mubaid's envoy, Tubo, Turkic tribes, and three tribe leaders of the three surnames Zhaowu. Li Bin took Jialing and walked out of the two gates in the southeast and northeast respectively to watch the battle on a raised high ground.

"Are the Tang army fully confident? Otherwise, how dare I let me watch the battle?" The messenger was surprised.

Jialing had never seen such a battle formation. Although he had practiced his meditation skills very well, he was a little shocked when he was running together.

"Can we stop it?" Jialing asked in a low voice.

Li Bin did not answer his question, but said: "Now it seems that it is the Uighur attacking and we defend, but in fact we have always taken the initiative. Whether from the overall strategic perspective or from the battlefield today."

"Oh?" The little monk Jialing didn't understand much.

Li Bin pointed to Shulejian City and sighed, "The Uighurs' tactics have begun to change, but unfortunately, this kind of change may not be a good thing."

Jialing still didn't understand. What Li Bin said at this time was not the changes in the military operations arranged by Hu Shagar, but the changes in the combat mode of the Uighurs.

After obtaining Shule, Satuk began to live a settlement life. Some of the soldiers and generals also broke away from the combat habits and combat thinking of nomadic peoples, and localized into the military model of the city-states in the Western Regions. Satuk had the ambition of far-reaching map, so after he conquered Talas, he did not return to Shule, a more comfortable, richer, safer and more convenient base camp, but instead chose Talas as his permanent resident, because Talas is a place of four battles, and the troops stationed there is more conducive to training soldiers. If he retreated to Shule, it would be a conservative situation, and garrisoning Talas was an offensive posture.

Therefore, the soldiers around Satuk are complex, ranging from Rangers to Arabic troops to Oasis city-state soldiers, while Hushagar is mainly city-state soldiers in Shule. Moreover, Hushagar himself is a stable faction with both civil and military resources.

Hushagar was not a simple general. He was a minister who integrated military and politics. When Holland went to the battlefield, all he had to consider was victory, while Hushagar had to consider was much more complicated.

When Li Bin was still in the Jokhang Temple, he had imagined: "If I were Hushagar, I would send light cavalry from all over the country, plunder the villages of Tang Min, and massacre Tang Min. When I met a large army of Tang army, I would withdraw back to the city. When I saw a gap, I would go out to the city to attack and plunder, kill everyone, and burn the fields..."

When he talked to the generals about this ruthless plan, Yang Dingguo and Faru were shocked. If Hu Shagar really did this, tens of thousands of Tang people would be in panic. Faru might surrender with tears in order to protect the Tang people. Even if he did not surrender, the inside of the Jokhang Temple would definitely be divided. Some people would doubt whether it was right or wrong to lead the Tang army in Anxi into Shule. By then, Zhang Mai would not be able to attack the city with all his heart.

"As long as we drag it for a month or two, and when the Satuk army covers it from the west, we will be completely finished!"

However, there are two prerequisites for Hu Shagar to do this: one is that he must know himself and his enemies to the Tang army, that is, he knows Zhang Mai and others very well; the second is that he must make up his mind to destroy Shule to resist the Tang army. If this vicious plan is implemented, the economy of Shule area will be regressed for at least ten years and the population will be sharply reduced by half! And it will make all ethnic groups in the Western Regions look at the ruthless and ruthless people of the Uighurs.

To date, the Uighur group led by Hu Shagar is still the legal government in Shule area. Before the Tang army in Anxi entered, all ethnic groups in Shule area, including Tang people, belonged to the people under this government. Although Shule Tang people had "changed their minds", except for madmen, who could change their thinking so quickly and use massacres of people in the territory to deal with the enemy?

Thinking of this, Li Bin suddenly had a ridiculous feeling. At present, the Anxi Tang cavalry was exerting the characteristics of light cavalry maneuvers in the Dashule area, while Hu Shagar held the city and refused to let it go after getting a chance to fight head-on. Hu Han's military habits seemed to be subtly reversed at this moment: the Uighurs under Hu Shagar were limited by the blind spot of their settlement and persistence because they had been settled in the local area for many years, while the Tang army led by Zhang Mai was unscrupulous and imaginative in the midst of the rampant thousands of miles!

However, what is even more amazing is that the Tang army was not a pure nomadic cavalry. In fact, in addition to the light cavalry, the Anxi Tang army also has powerful foot crossbows!

One hundred and fifty steps!

The rider archers in the ministries have begun to open and are ready to shoot - but they are still preparing, and one hundred and fifty steps are not yet designed for the rider.

Xi Sheng ordered first: "Sit!"

The Modao Battle Axe Camp listed in the front, the spearmen, the horizontal sword and long shield hands squat together.

Just after the fifteen rows of infantry squatted down in front, An Shoujing had already given the order: "Shoot!"

babble--

Hundreds of hissing sounds were tangled together, forming a sound that broke through the air that made the eardrum feel very uncomfortable!

In rapid movement, the shooting accuracy and penetration of the rider's archer are simply incomparable to that of the stepper archer, let alone a crossbowman!

The strong crossbow is heavy, and the waist crossbow cannot be used immediately. However, before the rider cannot perform its long-range shooting effect, the Tang crossbow soldiers were already fired according to the order, and thousands of feathered arrows arrived like lightning!

Jialing only saw countless black dots appearing in the air behind, like locusts in the air in the disaster, but their movements were like thousands of meteors!

Hu Shagar stood at the top of the city and saw more accurately! Although he had estimated the strength of these crossbow arrows in less than a second! He said in surprise: "Is this a crossbow soldier from Dongtu?"

Under the suppression of the Tang army's long-range troops, dozens of cavalry rushing in the front rolled and fell, and some were tripped by overturned war horses and comrades. This round of shooting killed nearly a hundred people. For the Uighur army rushing forward, it was like a bamboo shoot peeled off a thin layer of skin!

Hushagar's mouth twitched slightly, but he did not lose confidence. Such a small pause could not stop the charge of the cavalry.

Guo Luo held the telescope, but saw it more clearly!

Jialing and others only looked away, so they were easily shocked by the galloping momentum of thousands of horses, but Guo Luo noticed more subtle details. When dealing with the flying arrows that were coming towards him, when facing the test of life and death, the quality of the soldiers would be fully revealed. Guo Luo used his telescope to notice the panic of the cavalry running in the front.

"These cavalry have not undergone rigorous collective training!"

Guo Luo made a judgment: the more than 10,000 cavalry rushed over were gathered together temporarily.

The panic of individuals is covered in the galloping horses and can continue to rush forward for the time being, but what if they suffer a huge ups and downs?

"bow--"

When the enemy cavalry rushed to a hundred steps, An Shoujing gave an order!

The crossbow soldiers have a long range and the effective distance can reach 150 steps, while the archers are around 100 steps. Therefore, after fighting in formation, they must first fire the crossbow and then use the bow and arrow!

This round is the archer shooting!

Continuous pearl arrow technique!

The cavalry that rushed forward was stripped of a thin layer of "bamboo skin".

At the same time, An Shuye ordered: "Refusing horse nails!"

While the archers fired a beaded arrow, all three hundred crossbowmen put down the crossbow weapons, picked up a basket of horse-repellent nails prepared by their side, skillfully penetrated through the gaps in the infantry formation, threw the Martin in the basket one by one before the infantry formation, and quickly retreated from the gap! Then they threw the basket away, pulled out the horizontal knife, and short spear! They turned into a light-step horizontal knife hand.

The horse-repellent nail is a bit like antlers. When thrown away, it falls on the ground. There are always three sharp ends facing upwards. It is a hidden weapon for women and elderly people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to collect wood along the way.

"stand!"

At the moment when the 300 crossbowmen in the fifth Zhe Chongfu left the horse and retreated, Xi Sheng issued an order!

Mo Dao Hand, Tomahawk, Spear Hand, and Dao Shield Hand all stood on horse stance!

The center of gravity of the battlefield has shifted to them.

The infantry formation has become the backbone!

The Huma of all the tribes came so fast!

After five consecutive arrows were fired, the two sides had reached a close contact!

Hu Shagar leaned forward, held the city wall in front of him with both hands, and Guo Luo's hand holding the telescope also tightened.

At this time, more than ten thousand Hu cavalry had already rushed very close. The power of ten thousand horses stalked can cause twice as much psychological pressure to people every time they bet nearly ten feet!

Jialing's breathing became rapid, and his heart seemed to be about to be broken!

"How can they stand by the soldiers who face countless horse hoofs directly in front of me!"

Seeing that Wanmao would definitely form a terrifying illusion that he would be trampled into meat paste by horse hooves in a few seconds. The maximum impact of the cavalry's charge is not a collision, trampling, or chopping, but it is a fear of people!

As long as the enemy is afraid and panicked, they cannot stand the ground and the infantry formation is in chaos, they can only wait to massacre the other party!

Xi Sheng despises everything in front of him!

In this Mo Dao Jiang, who had experienced several times of fighting against horses, he had already regarded everything in front of him as an illusion. His heart seemed to be made of iron, and his feet seemed to be made of iron!
To be continued...