Chapter 132: Take Taross Lightly
Chapter 132: Take Talas easily
The cold weather is getting closer and closer, but after obtaining Julan City, the Tang army has a stronghold, and the Melki Mountain City will not be attacked, and further, it will be a smooth road to attack Talas.
There are wells in the city of Julan, and some food and grass that the Uighur army had no time to burn. Even if there is no food and grass, it doesn't matter.
"We are in Yingtang Village (Destroy Tangcheng), General Anwu should have hoarded some things. We should go there to get supplies, which should be enough for the winter," said Yang Xin's deputy general Tian Han.
Since Anwu burned down the city of Destruction, he temporarily built a village there, which was still changed to the name of Yingtang Village. There are two roads between Talas and Julan City. Yingtang Village is located in the center of the South Road. It is precisely the existence of this Yingtang Village that makes the defense line in the Talas area incomplete, which is also one of the important reasons why Satuk gave up the Talas area.
"Then we will send people to Yingtang Village now and let General An Wu go back and forth. When General Guo (Guo Wei) arrives, he will be able to move his troops toward Talas."
But Yang Xin shook his head: "No."
"No?"
"We want to attack Talas and also inform Yingtangzhai, but we don't inform them to meet, but we don't inform them to attack." Yang Xin said.
"What?"
"The weather is getting colder and colder now." Yang Xin said: "At a short time, half a month, and a long time, the weather will become unfavorable for combat, so this year's battle must be resolved within one! Notify Yingtang Village and wait for General Guo again. Such a delay would be too wasteful of time. At that time, it might be snowing heavily when we drive under the city of Talas. Besides, such delays will also make Talas ready."
Yang Xin's analysis was approved by Xu Congshi.
"Then, General Yang means..."
"Operation directly!" Yang Xin said: "When I sent troops, General Guo had already promised me to act conveniently before. My military rank is now higher than Anwu, so I will use the order in front of the formation to recruit him to Talas! I attacked from the north and he attacked from the south. Both sides met at the city of Talas. Before the severe winter came, he would restore Talas in one fell swoop!"
The generals of the Silver Spear and Arrow King were cheered up and agreed.
"However," said a captain: "General Yang said just now that the severe winter is approaching and heavy snow may occur at any time. Talas is a big city, relying on our two thousand people, even if we add the brothers from Yingtang Village, it is probably difficult to capture a big city like Talas."
Although Talas is not as large as Suoye and Shule, it has always been a military center. Satuk has been operating here for many years. Although the economy has been extremely exhausted in recent years, its military facilities have not been abandoned and have been added every year. It is a very famous city in Central Asia.
Yang Xin smiled, "Two thousand men? No, there are only one thousand men. General Xu and the others are going to stay here and wait for General Guo. Julancheng Xinde, we must leave an army before the subsequent troops arrive."
"What! One thousand men?" All the generals were shocked: "One thousand men will attack Talas?"
"This...this..."
This is no longer awesome, but crazy.
A big city like Talas is possible even if it is attacked by tens of thousands of people but cannot be defeated. If only one thousand people are used... it is simply not enough to attack one of its affiliated cities.
Yang Xin smiled and said, "Actually, for Talas, is there a big difference between one thousand horses and two thousand horses?"
The generals also felt it was reasonable after hearing this.
"So, are we going to attack?" Tian Han said.
When talking about surprise attacks, all the generals became excited again - experienced generals definitely don’t like surprise attacks, while new generals like surprise attacks the most. Surprise attacks usually mean winning more with less, usually mean extraordinary contributions, and usually means establishing a desirable military merit!
The Silver Spear Army was all young, from soldiers to generals, so everyone was excited when they heard it.
But Yang Xin said, "No, we will not attack, but march upright! It is precisely because we are advancing upright that we should be quick! This battle is not the enemy's city wall, but the enemy's heart!" He laughed in the surprise of everyone again, "So, the envoy sent to welcome the Tang Village must tell An Wu that he should act faster, otherwise he would not have the chance to make a contribution, haha..."
This military meeting actually happened on the night when Xu Congshi invaded Julan City. The next day, Yang Xin packed up his troops and set off, and was still guided by veterans from the Anxi Tang Army.
This Talas area was a decent area occupied by the Anxi Tang army, the predecessor of the Tiance Tang army. Talas was also a decent big city occupied by the Anxi Tang army for the first time. At that time, the Anxi Tang army even considered whether to use Talas as a base. Although it was later rejected, since it had this idea, the Tang army's exploration troops were naturally not comparable to other newly conquered areas. For some Anxi veterans, entering the Talas area was not a new entry, but a kind of "fight back"!
Yang Xin divided the troops into three parts, front, middle and back, each with more than 300 people. The front rushed and galloped rapidly, creating a violent rushing momentum. The middle part received the results from the back, and the back part followed you in the back. When the current part's horsepower was weak, it would be filled in from the middle part that caught up. The three teams actually would not set the distance apart, but just a division of labor in time.
There were thousands of people who fled from Julan City, including military and civilians. Shu Yibar, who first escaped, had already fled a hundred miles away, and the slowest escaped less than twenty miles away from Julan City!
Not long after Yang Xinchi left Julan City, he met the first batch of defeated soldiers!
"Hmph, dogs, die!"
With one finger of Yang Xin's silver spear, hundreds of cavalry rushed out and launched a fierce attack on the defeated soldiers.
"Silver Spear General! The King of the Tang Dynasty's Gun!"
There was no need to fight at all. When Yang Xin's silver spear lit up, the hundreds of defeated soldiers fled in a panic like a stray dog.
Yang Xin left the city before dawn. At this time, the rising sun rose for a long time, and the sky was filled with glows in the east. The snow scarf rushed back against the glows, just like a white dragon from the east falling from the sky! Devour all the old demon clowns to the west!
"Tangren, Tangren &...they want to kill them all!"
The Uighurs looked at the Tang cavalry coming from the east, and their hearts were filled with powerlessness. At this moment, a central nation rejuvenated her vitality - even in the distant border, it became so unpredictable, while another barbaric overlord declined.
The former glory of the Uighurs has been gone forever, and this battlefield is only part of the entire greater defeat. The failure of the established one and the complete hopeless future have caused a huge torture of physical and mental torture.
The Tang army actually had only one thousand cavalry, but the three troops followed one after another, which seemed to have the illusion of endless pursuit of soldiers.
Most of the Uighurs had horses, and they didn't run slowly, but Yang Xin came faster! The Silver Spear Army was the elite of the Tang Dynasty troops, and its mounts were almost as good as those of the sweat-blooded cavalry regiments in the East!
On that day, there was another thing faster than the Tang army's cavalry, which was the rumor - "Here, come! The Tang army is chasing us behind!"
The news was quickly passed forward, and Shu Yibal had heard the news before he arrived in Talas.
He is actually a general in one aspect. He has a very good evaluation of him in all aspects, but at this time he was defeated one after another and became fragile.
This Talas was once the leader of his journey to the Western Regions! Satuk's reputation rose to prominence, and his magical skills began here.
But now, the former Uighur Empire has been broken, and Shu Yibal's heart has become a little helpless, and he feels his future is confused...
"Are there really a way out with Bograhan...?"
The Uighurs are now like a lost child, with a wolf behind them - no! It is a wolf-eating dragon! And ahead is endless darkness, even the most determined person will be shaken at this time.
"I have been defeated twice by Tangren, and they are both Zhang Mai."
Zhang Mai, Zhang Mai...
It was like a spell, put on Satuk's head, put on Shu Ibar's head, put on the head of all the Uighurs!
Wherever this name goes, it makes people feel an invincible sense of weakness.
"Escape, escape."
Although the road ahead is unclear, this is the only way.
Shu Yibar had hundreds of confidants around him, but deserters appeared during the escape. When he arrived in Talas, there were less than 200 people left. He opened the city gate and took over Talas' city defense. This big city had become the front line for the Uighurs to resist the Tang Dynasty.
"But, can it be resisted?"
The earth east of Talas was plain. At noon the next day after Shu Yibar returned to Talas, a silver spear appeared on the horizon!
"Silver Spear! The King of the Guns of the Tang Dynasty!"
A panic spread throughout Talas City in an instant!
No one seemed to pay attention to how many people came to the Tang army. But when the silver spear lit up, the Uighurs trembled when they heard the word "Tang"!
When did the Uighurs become so cowardly?
Or, when did the Tang Dynasty become so powerful?
No! It’s not about becoming strong, but about becoming stronger again!
The time for descendants to restore their ancestors' glory has finally come!
Shu Yibar wanted to organize resistance to the Tang army, but found that deserters appeared under his nose!
He sighed and suddenly became a little desperate.
The city defense of Talas is complete, with more than 10,000 people in the city - among which three or four thousand are in the army, but Shu Yibal could not command them at this moment!
Everyone's hearts were panicked, they were all thinking about themselves!
Yang Xin came too quickly, and this speed defeated the confidence of the Talas defenders. And they were influenced by the defeated soldiers in Julan City. Shu Yibar had not had time to clean up this kind of morale. When he saw the Tang army suddenly appear, everyone felt that everything was over!
"Talas... can't hold on!"
At this time, a knife was placed on Shu Yibar's neck - it was his deputy general!
After all, Shu Yibal was a famous general in the Western Regions. His deputy general trembled his hands at the moment of deciding to rebel. Shu Yibal also noticed it, but he did not stop it. At the moment when his neck was held by a knife, he even felt a sense of relief.
For a year or two, Shu Yibal always felt that what he had planned was impossible to succeed, but he still had to continue to do his best to do his best, even if it was exchanged for failures again and again.
"Finally, there is no need to suffer this kind of torture anymore..."
Yang Xin's vanguard had only more than one hundred men, but he drove into Talas like this. Some of Satuk's loyalty escaped, but more people still chose to surrender.
One hundred Tang cavalry stepped into Talas, and the city tracks were filled with thousands of people, and everyone crawled on the ground and dared not look up.
Yang Xin erected his silver spear on the city of Talas. Many years ago, when tens of thousands of Tang troops in Anxi entered the city, Zhang Mai was not sure to defend him. But now, just one silver spear has established the territorial ownership of the city!
No one dares to invade external enemies, and no one dares to rebel within the internal people!
Because behind this silver spear is a rising empire and a resurrected nation!
Three days later, when An Wu and his men arrived in a hurry, they heard that Yang Xin had seized Talas with one hundred cavalry, and felt like he was listening to a myth.
"I used more than so many people to seize a small fort like Yingtang Fort! And it took me so long to lay out the layout." An Wu sighed and said, "It's so terrifying to the young man!"
His military rank is lower than Yang Xin, but his age and qualifications are older than Yang Xin.
"Haha!" Yang Xin smiled and said, "This is not my power, this is borrowing the marshal's mighty power! Where the Tang wind blows, why worry about Hu'er not bowing his head? Where the horse's hooves are stepping on, it is the world of my Tang Dynasty!"
An Wu's deputy general Liu Bai looked at Yang Xin with a smile, admired his words very much, and said to himself: "This gun king is not only good at martial arts in front of the formation, but also very good at speaking. No wonder he can get the favor of the marshal. He has a great future in the future!"
After Anwu also entered Talas, the weather became less suitable for outdoor activities. The wind blew and the snow spilled. If Yang Xin had arrived until now, I could not say that I could stabilize the military and civilians and close the city gate, the Tang army outside retreated depressedly.
But now, Shu Yibal was taken to Shayeye in the cold wind.
On a cold winter day, he and Yang Xin's victory report were sent to Zhang Mai.
"Yang Xin has taken Talas." Zhang Mai smiled on his face.
Guo Wei and others were expected to make the contribution of this battle, but they were still happy to see the good news. They used their actions to prove to the world that Zhang Mai did not see the wrong person.
After this battle, the rise of the Central Plains martial forces within the Tiance Tang Army was represented. After Wei Renpu observed this, he thought about everything.
However, Zhang Mai had turned to Shu Yibal. This person was also a familiar old opponent to Anxi Tangjun. He suddenly walked down from the throne and tied up Shu Yibal himself.
Chapter completed!