Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 659
Chapter 72 The whole army collapses and escapes
Chen Ying was very happy to reform his own military system. He believed that a Zhechong Mansion with 500 people could be like a regiment in later generations, undertaking one aspect of tactical tasks.So he changed the 200 men and horses in the Shangjun Mansion of the Tang Dynasty to 500 men and horses.

Fortunately, the military system was relatively chaotic in the early Tang Dynasty, so no one really cares about Chen Ying.In this way, the original regiment was 200 people, but it became 300 people.However, most of the other Tang troops used a regiment of 200 people. Now there are only a few troops led by Chen Ying's Xiaocai Army, Modao Army, Beiwei Army, the originally formed Dingyuan Army, and the left and right guards of the East Palace.

Su Dingfang is the captain of Chen Ying's personal guard, the Yue Cavalry Regiment. This Yue Cavalry Regiment is different from the Xiao Cavalry Army's Hook and Sickle Cavalry Regiment.In fact, the Yue cavalry army under Chen Ying's command is the real light cavalry. To be precise, the hook and sickle cavalry are already considered semi-heavy cavalry. The difference from the heavy cavalry is only a horse armor.

The Yueqi regiment under Su Dingfang's command is a full-staffed Yueqi regiment, equipped with 310 two one-stone strong bows, [-] hard crossbows, and two pots of arrows, a total of [-] pieces.In addition, they are equipped with sabers, folding shields, and four throwing axes per person.The most important thing is that they are not equipped with two horses per person in the Xiaocai Army, but are equipped with three horses.

There are only 310 cavalry with two men, equipped with a thousand horses.

About 150 miles southwest of Golden Beach, it is called Ten Thousand Springs.In fact, here is the first supply point on the Silk Road west of Liangzhou city.However, in later generations, when Chen Ying traveled to Wuwei, the place had already become a dune of yellow sand.After the tour guide's explanation, Chen Yingcai knew that this place used to be a wetland.

In the vicissitudes of history, after Chen Ying arrived in Liangzhou, he had no doubt that he could defeat Tong Yehu Khan. After all, the tactic of hooked and sickle cavalry was a cold weapon era trained by him using Polish wing cavalry. There is no such thing as the strongest cavalry. one.Even if you make Genghis Khan alive, you can still beat them to cry.

Tong Yehu is definitely not an opponent, but Chen Ying knows that it is easy to defeat Tong Yehu, but it is not easy to wipe them out, it can be said to be very difficult.The place in Liangzhou is too vast, and there are too many places to run.

However, this is a very critical place. After passing Ten Thousand Springs, one needs to reach Camel City (Gaotai County) in Zhangye, more than 300 miles away, in order to have a water supply point.If there is no water reserve, if you want to travel more than 300 miles in Hexi, it will be no different from sending you to death.

Therefore, Chen Ying guessed that once Tong Yehu or the Turkic people left Liangzhou to break through, the place of Ten Thousand Springs would definitely be a must.When Zhang Huaiwei led the Modao Army to divide the troops, Chen Ying also ordered Su Dingfang to lead his Yueqi regiment, and set up an ambush at Ten Thousand Springs first.

Ten thousand springs is an important supply point on the Silk Road. Food can be grown naturally when there is water. During the Han Dynasty, a garrison area and a garrison were also set up here.But time has passed, when Su Dingfang arrived here, he found that the original military camp had already turned into a pile of loess mounds, only about eight or nine feet higher than the ordinary ground.

However, in the past, business travelers built a wall and fence here for the convenience of doing business.Doing business on the Silk Road is even more dangerous than drug trafficking in later generations, and those who dare to travel long distances in this era are not good people. They all do business when they can, and when they can’t, He also plays a cameo as a robber, and he can grab as much as he can.

This water source is also a place frequented by sand robbers and bandits.In order to ensure their own safety, these business travelers have built a stockade, which seems to be full of gaps, but in fact there are traps everywhere.As for this seemingly dilapidated wall, if three hundred elites were stationed there, it would not be able to chew it down if there were not thousands of troops.

Su Dingfang was lucky. When he came, there happened to be a Lite caravan of about [-] people in Ten Thousand Springs.Su Dingfang didn't say anything, and directly let people occupy the magpie's nest, and detained the Lite caravan. In order to prevent the Turks from discovering their isolated Tang army, Su Dingfang also transformed into a Lite businessman from the Western Regions. .

Anyway, in this era, it is normal for three to 500 people to do business, and large-scale caravans have a scale of tens of thousands of people.

However, it took a whole day to wait.I didn't even see the Turkic people. The soldiers of the Yueqi regiment were a bit complaining. Everyone knew that fighting with Chen Ying would definitely eat a lot of meat and be rewarded for his meritorious service. But following Su Dingfang, let alone eating meat, even The soup was not picked up.

The deputy captain was already waiting impatiently, so he asked Su Dingfang: "Captain Su, it's not a problem for us to wait like this, why don't I take a brigade and scout eastward, in case General Zhang Huaiwei needs support?" , we can still help!"

"No need!" Su Dingfang rejected the deputy captain's proposal without hesitation.He is a persistent person, and once he decides to do something, he will definitely carry it out to the end.In history, Li Jing asked him to lead 200 cavalry to raid Jieli Khan's king account. At that time, Jieli Khan had hundreds of thousands of elite cavalry, let alone 2000 cavalry, even if [-] cavalry, most people would not Not having the guts to do it.

However, Su Dingfang not only did it without complaint, but turned upside down the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Eastern Turkic Khanate in one go.

He wants to do meritorious service, and he also wants to save the lives of his brothers.Su Dingfang can now see that Datang has already won a decisive victory in the northern battlefield, and at worst, he can fight against Liang and Xiao.At this time, the days of peace are coming, and there is hope for good days.

The deputy captain's head is active, and his lips are almost worn out.Su Dingfang had only one sentence: "If you don't go anywhere, just wait here for the Turkic people!"

The deputy captain said: "What if the Western Turks don't come?"

"General Chen said that the Western Turks will come here, and they will definitely come!" Su Dingfang said firmly, "I believe in General Chen!"

"Trust General Chen!"

Hearing this, the deputy captain had nothing to say.

In fact, Chen Ying has become the out-and-out military god of the Tang Dynasty in the hearts of the soldiers in the army.Anyone who speaks ill of Chen Ying, or doubts Chen Ying's decision, will definitely be the public enemy of all the soldiers.

The officers and soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Army could only pretend to be traders avoiding the disaster of war, while detaining the passing traders along the way, while waiting anxiously for the arrival of the Turkic people here.

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When it was about to get dark, the Western Turkic army outside Liangzhou City inevitably collapsed.

All the Western Turkic troops fled towards the west in panic. Flags, armor, food, grass, and weapons were thrown all over the ground. Wounded soldiers were abandoned on the side of the road screaming in despair. Abandoned, staying with the wounded soldier, watching his master disappear into the cloud of smoke and dust, hissing mournfully.

The scene of such a defeat made everyone who survived this bloody battle suffer from the shame of life and death for the rest of their lives, unable to lift their heads.

Since Tumen Khan rebelled against Rouran, the Turkic cavalry has traveled from Jinshan (Altai Mountain) to Baishan Heishui in Liaodong, from the north and south of Yinshan Mountain to Beihai, from Khorasan to Tangju, and from Anxi to Tiaozhi. Iron cavalry has wiped out the enemy countless times at a negligible cost of thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands or even 10,000+, and replaced the Huns and Xianbei with a small tribe with a population of only a few hundred thousand in just a few decades. The Rouran people became the overlords on the grassland.

They made great military exploits of Turkic iron cavalry. Dozens of hundreds of tribes and tens of millions of people knelt under their horseshoes and sang conquests. They never tried such a disastrous defeat!
In the former Sui Dynasty, they were defeated by the Sui Dynasty three times, and the losses were very heavy.However, during the Sui Dynasty, they still did not believe the Turkic defeat, because the Turks lost three times during the Sui Dynasty. There was one main factor, their internal discord, and the Sui Dynasty was only for the benefit of fishermen.

But this time, there was no internal discord, but a frontal field battle without conspiracy. This complete defeat shattered the Turkic cavalry that they had established since Tumen Khan.

This kind of myth-shattering fear is more serious than the loss of a hundred thousand elite soldiers, leaving their minds blank and at a loss!
At this time, although the shadow of the hooked and sickle guns of the Xiaocai Army could no longer be seen behind them, the despicable traitors from the Ninth Division of Zhaowu were chasing after them. Many, in ordinary times, any Teller leading thousands of cavalry can beat Zhaowu Jiubu to kneel on the ground and call Dad.

However, at this time, none of the Turkic people turned around to face their enemy. They only had one thought in their heads, how far they could run.He just wanted to escape, the farther the better, let Zhaowu's nine cavalrymen bite behind them like leeches, capture abandoned wounded soldiers, and collect abandoned horses.

What kind of fate these wounded soldiers will have, they are too lazy to think about it, and they are too lazy to think about it. It is important to escape!

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