Chapter 33: Kill the Flag

Beiluntai City is located in the middle section of the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains. Here, Luntai Mountain Road extends northward, and the terrain gradually opens up, slowly forming a plain, and Beiluntai City is located here. The green ground is everywhere in summer, and there is no snowfall or snow. The cold wind blows the dead branches of poplar trees. The undead trunks are like snatching hairs high against the increasingly frozen cold wind. In the past six months, due to the frequent military activities, there is a large area of ​​grass in the west of the city.

Trampled so hard that it could not grow, the bare ground was covered with sand and dust blowing from the north, whistling in the wind. You can see that there was a steep cliff in the south farther south. Below that cliff was the entrance to the ancient Tianshan Road. However, the cliff seemed very close but was still far away. Beiluntai City guarded the land from here to there - and this land was just piled with mountains of forage, raising more than half of the Tang army's rations in the form of sheep.

Yang Yi's arrangement could make the Uighurs and Khitan look at the sheep but couldn't get over it. But now Satuk's army has rushed to the front, and tens of thousands of cavalry could rush over at any time, but just when the Uighurs were excited about this, a cavalry rushed out! It was the elite of the Tang cavalry, the guard general Tian Hao of Zhang Mai.

He gently waved the sword, and with the force of the horse, he easily killed a Uighur with the help of the horse.

Tian Hao has only been practicing the Possus sword for seven months, but his real combat experience has exceeded ten years. Recently, he has found that if the method is right, he doesn't use much force to kill people. He is riding a sweat-blooded BMW under his crotch, which is of course also given by Zhang Mai. After two years of running-in, he has a feeling of being one with his own hands. He doesn't need to use a whip with his hands, but just gently pinch the BMW with his legs, he can understand Tian Hao's meaning. At the speed of the sweat-blooded BMW, he always easily rushed to the enemy and took his head at a speed that the enemy could not react.

The Uighurs seemed a little caught off guard under Tian Hao's attack. Although their chief general had thought that the Tang army would go out of the city to intercept, they did not expect that it would come so quickly and they dispatched elite troops as soon as they arrived.

Ge Lan had already prepared manpower and was preparing to siege, but he set up three sieges and rushed back by Tian Hao. The Khitan march became intermittent due to Tian Hao's assault. If he could not be solved, the army would not be able to successfully attack the Tang army's third ring road even if it passed. It was not casual to choose the site of Beiluntai City.

"Next time you rush out, you must stop him!"

When the sun had already begun to set westward and the Uighurs were preparing to siege with a triangle, Tian Hao suddenly shrank under the city wall and dismounted and rested under the cover of arrow rain on the city!

At the same time, the Tang army in the second palace also left the city, but they rushed southwest to prepare to intercept the troops and horses that had passed by the Uighurs.

"These Tang people who kill thousands of swords!"

Should the army continue to move south, or should they first rush to Tian Hao, who was hiding under the city wall?

After the previous few tentative attacks, Satuk said to Ge Lan: "The front line of the Tang army is very strong, and they have a lot of people, but it is impossible for everyone to be so strong - if so, they don't have to defend, and we are not their opponents when rushed over directly. So I predict that Zhang Mai must have arranged the strongest troops on the outside line, and the internal forces should be all weak brigades. As long as we break through the periphery, the internal can be solved like crushing cheese!"

Perhaps the back is the fatal pit of the Tang army, but the strategic location of Beiluntai City determines that this city must be captured first before it can pass. If it cannot be captured for a while, at least the Tang army's cavalry must be blocked so that they cannot leave the city or dare not leave the city!

Seeing that the Uighurs were about to go over, Guo Shiyong had to go out to fight, but seeing that Tian Hao had already come out, Ge Lan couldn't stop him.

Facing the fierce attacks of the elite cavalry of the Tang army, Ge Lan seemed a little caught off guard. It was not that he was not prepared, but he didn't expect that the Thousand People's Mansion had such strong attack power. The cavalry in this mansion actually had the amazing combat power of the Han enemy of the Five Barbarians. Fortunately, for the Uighurs, such Tang army was not all.

In the rear, Satuk urged troops, and another seven thousand-man teams rushed over, but if the Tang cavalry was not suppressed back, the road to the south would become too narrow.

Satuk was commanding troops to surround the northeast of Beiluntai City, which made Li Bin doubt whether his former master planned to siege the city. The circumference of Beiluntai City was very short, and if Satuk wanted to siege it, it would be more than enough.

"If he really planned to siege the city, that would be great." Li Bin said to Guo Shiyong: "Then we can wait here until the marshal returns."

If the Tang army really fights the city, it is not afraid. Moreover, the smaller the city, the more conducive it is to defend. Zhang Mai, who has 30,000 elite soldiers, is definitely not something that the Khitan's partial army can deal with. If the Khitan uses the main force to stop Zhang Mai, his partial army will not be able to trap Yang Yi.

"As long as the marshal sees the beacon I set, he will definitely come back." Ma Jirong thought to himself: "As long as we can handle it until he comes back, we will win!"

Of course, Zhang Mai may not have seen Fenghuo, or he may have seen him but failed to come back for various reasons. But at this moment, Ma Jirong needs to firmly up his belief, and he needs to believe that Zhang Mai will come back!

What the Tang army is worried about now is that Satuk has not planned to attack the city, but has prepared other tricks.

"Road forward! Rush over!"

Satuk commanded the soldiers and horses to go around Beiluntai City from both sides as if they were wrapping their arms around them, as if they were trying to circumvent it.

Tian Hao was not the only cavalry to be blocked from the city. When he returned to the city to rest, two cavalrymen took over his position. At the same time, he saw that Satuk was about to bypass the east, and Guo Shiyong also sent troops out of the south gate to cover the attack.

The two sides invested more and more troops, and the war became more and more fierce. Yang Yi did not expect that the Uighurs would force the city of Beiluntai with a large gap in military strength. At the beginning, he planned that if this area became a battlefield, the elite cavalry of the Tang army and the Modao and Battle Axe formation would kill the enemy's vitality, making the Khitan and the Uighurs look at the third ring of the Li Ring and sigh helplessly. Therefore, the ground outside the Beiluntai city was not dug into a pit, and the confrontation position was flat, and the mutual impact and slaughter of the cavalry and cavalry occurred in every corner outside the city.

clang clang—

The sound of swords and swords collided one after another, and the crossbows and the fired soil mixed with fishy blood flying all over the sky. The corpse fell occasionally, and was turned into a meat paste by the horse's hooves. The powder of flesh and blood mixed with the soil was blown back by the wind, and the sky outside the city was filled with the sky.

The bows and crossbows were moving in sync and the cavalry was scattered. Guo Shiyong had more and more troops outside the city, but compared to the troops he could send out, he was a little short of money. However, after receiving the order, every Tang army soldier left the city without hesitation. From the drums just now, more than an hour has passed. In the era of cold weapons, this was extremely tiring. Tian Hao had already rushed in and out three times. At this time, it was not to fight for positions but to weaken the enemy's fighting spirit as much as possible - this is the common goal of both sides.

No one on the tragic battlefield was stingy with his life. Although the Tang army was struggling, the Uighurs were not feeling well. Not everyone could remember the encouragement of the priests of the Tianfang Sect. What was really scary was the supervisory team behind them. They risked their lives to move forward, even if they were more dangerous, they also used their flesh and blood as weapons to tear the Tang army's front!

After all, the Tang army was at a disadvantage, and it was a very obvious disadvantage. A considerable number of soldiers were crossbowmen or fortification soldiers. If Satuk was siegeing the city, many militias in the city could be used. Under the protection of the city walls, even the grooms and peasants could kill the enemy. As for the crossbowmen, the power they used by relying on the city will be much stronger than the cavalry running outside! But if it was a field battle, the advantages of the Uighurs would be extremely obvious!

As the sun slanted westward, Satuk let his mount pace at the edge of the Tang army's range with a cold face. He was looking for a breakthrough!

The Uighur soldiers were increasingly prepared to know their position during the battle, and their numerical advantage gradually took effect. While the Tang army became more and more tired, they felt that the pressure they had to bear was getting greater and greater! It was not necessary to attack ten times the number of people with less than 10,000 cavalrymen.

Huge felts were raised to resist the strong arrows and crossbows shot from the Tang army at the head of the city, and some simple fortifications were thrown near the city gate to facilitate the entry and exit of the Tang army. The battle record that Tian Hao had just left the city was being flattened, and more and more Tang soldiers died in the rain of arrows of the Uighur cavalry archers. The morale was being eliminated bit by bit, and the Uighur army on both sides was like two arms, preparing to meet in the south of Beiluntai City.

However, the Tang army troops who had newly left the city encountered strong blockades outside the city. Some small troops were out of touch with the large army and did not continue in time. Once they were besieged, they became food for the Uighur army.

"Ship Guo!" Li Bin said: "Come back the cavalry quickly! Our cavalry is tired, and something will happen if we continue to fight!"

"Ship Guo!" Before Guo Shiyong made a decision, Tian Hao, who had returned to the city, rushed up and said, "Let me go out of the city again!"

"You have been hit seven times!" said Guo Shiyong.

"Yes!" Tian Hao said: "But I didn't take any advantage in the next three times! So I must let me go out for the eighth time! This time I will win a big victory!"

"But……"

"We must beat the Uighurs!" Tian Hao said: "Otherwise they can know that Beiluntai City is not a place they can cross! They must be completely held back, and then they can know that the delusions must pay a heavy price that they cannot bear when they go over! If we lose the ability to fight out of the city, everything outside the city will be completely reduced to their rampant place before the marshal returns!"

"But it's too dangerous to leave the city now!" Li Bin said: "Our troops are exhausted, but the Uighurs are as strong as the Japanese."

"I know there is a place to attack!" Tian Hao pointed to the south and said, "Let me defeat them! Let them shrink back! As long as we can complete this before dark and force the Uighurs to have no troops to take care of themselves, we will win this battle!"

Guo Shiyong looked south of the city with a thousand-mile mirror in the dim sunshine. There were not many two troops meeting in the small hill south of the city. There were only more than 3,000 people from the west and about 2,000 people from the east. There was a small fort at the place where they were going to meet. It was the fort nearest to Beiluntai City on the third ring road of the Li Luntai City. There were more than 300 militias stationed on it. Seeing the Uighurs shooting arrows and fighting desperately, and at the same time asking for help from Beiluntai City. If the defenders in the city went to fight, they saw hope, these militias might stick to it, but if there were no reinforcements in the city, these militias might not be able to defend until the last moment.

"Tian Hao's troops are the strongest attacking force in the city at this moment, it should be okay to fight out and come back." Guo Shiyong thought.

Defending the city with war is the tradition of the Tang army. Even in the Battle of Shule, where troops were weak, the Tang army's cavalry had never been afraid of leaving the city to fight. Moreover, now the Uighur army is in a row, and the connection with Murong Chunhua in the east has been cut off. If the south is blocked, the connection with the third ring road will be cut off! At that time, the rear may be confused!

"Okay!" Guo Shiyong said: "Catch these two men back to me so that they can't block Beiluntai City!"

Tian Hao received the order and led more than 800 cavalry through the city. Tian Hao rushed out suddenly and rushed straight to the Uighurs who were meeting in the small hill, first taking over the more than 3,000 people from the west.

In addition to Tian Hao, more than 800 people had changed their war horses. The Uighur army, who had already attacked the mountain, exclaimed and turned to meet the enemy. The militia in the village beating drums and gongs loudly, shouting that the Tang army was mighty and cheering for Tian Hao. The sword was scattered across the side. The Uighur people were slightly dispersed. Tian Hao was actually quite tired from noon to now, but at this time he was still cheering up and shouting: "Raising troops for thousands of days, use them for the present! Let the militia in the village and the new soldiers in the city see how the real soldiers fought!"

More than 800 people responded in unison, and the voice echoed in the dusty air. More than 800 Pojian swords made a heart-breaking sound of the wind, killing the generals and slashing the horses on the side. The exclamations of the Uighurs and the neighing of their war horses have become useless shouts. Tian Hao rushed in, broke through several layers of troops, and rushed under the general flag of the Uighurs.

Amid the chaotic roar of the Uighurs, their troops were also impacted and scattered. The people holding the flag screamed in shock, calling on their comrades to reinforce themselves. However, under Tian Hao's threat, it was too late!

The sweaty and bloody horse rushed under the enemy flag and saw that the flagpole was only thick with its wrists. Tian Hao shouted and waved his knife to cut it off!

"Okay!" Guo Shiyong's white beards flew up. From his perspective, Tian Hao's attack was almost unstoppable! He was expecting that the enemy flag would fall and the Uighurs would be frightened. He would break the enemy in and out without stopping. This clean and neat victory would bring great morale to the soldiers in the city.
Chapter completed!