9. Baijiashan meets the enemy
When 4,000 Tang cavalry, including the Yicong cavalry of the Yelong clan, chased forty miles northwest of Qingzhou City at lightning speed, they first caught up with the bone tail of the rear, the men and women gathered together, and a total of 5,000 tents, and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, but there were no horses, let alone war horses, so they could only rely on their feet to trek towards the horses and trek slowly.
When the Guwei Fanluo saw the hillside behind him, the Tang cavalry chased him up fiercely. Once the roaring black and white Pixiu battle flag appeared in their eyes, the Guwei Fanluo immediately "exploded": the chiefs and the heroes had no horses, so they stepped on camels, drilled into gaps, and began to run for no life. More Fanluo people could only scream, hold the animals with their hands, and then ran with their feet, and were thrown farther and farther away by the chiefs.
They also hoped that the Tang army would rest due to fatigue, but the cavalry was much faster, especially the Dangxiang war horses under their crotch were even more majestic. Soon the Tang army stretched out its galloping wings and rushed to the high ground on both sides of the Bone Tail Fanluo, and then the central front also launched a surprise attack:
Four thousand Tang cavalry divided into three major directions, and different teams scattered, flattened the horse spear, horse fork, or waved the pavilion and mace, and launched a cruel and fierce pursuit of the bone tail of the slaughter.
Luo Xiazi at the tail of the bone was only thirteen years old at this time. He saw the people next to him, including his parents, running with their heads in their arms. A group of women cursing desperately and annoyedly. They wanted to fight with the pursuers, but they did not have any weapons to fight in their hands. Soon, arrows roared and flew past both sides of Luo Xiazi, first sparse, then dense and rhythmic. This indicated that the Tang army was getting closer and closer. The "huh" and "huh" arrows swept over Luo Xiazi's head, or the ruler on his shoulders, frightened his scalp and his footsteps became more and more messy.
Soon one of Luo Xiazi's sisters shouted, and an arrow pierced into her back. The sister slid forward on her back, then fell into the grass, silently, and countless people around her feet and cattle and sheep hooves ran over.
It was a big sun in July. On the entire wilderness on the east bank of the Maling River, light and smoke were unobstructed.
Luo Xiazi's sister was shot to death or trampled to death in broad daylight. Who knows?
She is just one of the thousands of members of the Bone Tails who suffered at the same time.
More and more people were shot down, and the chieftain ran away again, "Even if he arrived at Maling, what can he do?" This is the general psychology of the entire Fanluo people.
At this time, the cavalry of the Tang army had already rushed in savagely. With the Chinese yelling, Luo Xiazi fell to the ground. The sheep that his father told him to take good care of in advance had scattered. In his horrible eyes, a Tang family cavalry was wearing a fine chain mail of Xifan style, with his men and horses covering their sweat beads, shouting, and then holding the sharp Pu knife in both hands. With the force of the horse, a dazzling blood splashed on the back shoulder of a Dangxiang man, and then fell under the horse's hooves. The chopped back of the back of the ridge, the flesh and fur of the clothes were turned out at the same time, mixed with the mustard raised in the air, causing the fishy smell to penetrate into Luo Xiazi's nasal cavity, making him feel sick.
More cavalrymen followed with their swords and horse spears to kill everyone they could see.
In front of Luo Xiazi's eyes, the head was kicked around under the horse's hooves, and the blood-stained grass mustard was stained with his braids. He collapsed and was frightened silly until a lasso was put on his neck and dragged him to the ground...
After the disaster of the bone-tail Fanluo, the cavalry of Fan Xichao began to clear the battlefield and used ropes to pull more than 3,000 subdued men and women in Dangxiang, including Luo Xiazi, back to the camp.
Almost at the same time, Ming Huaiyi led the Second Battle Cavalry, and a total of 4,000 people had already taken over and rushed over the battlefield where corpses were everywhere, and continued to pursue them.
In the evening, the Second Cavalry captured Ahm and Wei Xi and fought with soldiers, setting fire to the two camp tents of the two camp chariots. The fire filled the city of Qingzhou, and everyone was thrilling.
After a full night of melee, Wei Xifanluo, who was squeezed to Abang, who was squeezed to the banks of the Maling River, saw that the third cavalry of the Tang family had arrived under the command of Gao Gu, and begged for surrender in complete despair.
This time, Ming Huaiyi and Gao Gu failed to kill them all. Because they received instructions in advance, if Dang Qiang was willing to surrender along the way, they could accept it. Since Gao Yue's previous deterrence had worked, there was no need to kill all the precious laborers.
In terms of war, Gao Yue likes to calculate and measure costs and benefits.
Then Gao Gu and Ming Huaiyi merged with 8,000 cavalrymen, carrying the food and fodder needed for three days, and continued to chase other fleeing Dangxiang Fanluo.
As a result, at noon the next day, a sweaty commander named Si Yuhou galloped to Dachangyuan, where Gaoyue's tent was located, and shouted that the thirteen tribes of Dangxiang Fan, who had been ordered to chase and annihilate under the previous quarter, had all surrendered in the wilderness more than fifty miles south of Malingnan. Our Tang Dynasty captured more than 21,000 men and women, and more than 100,000 cattle and sheep!
Then, with the previous attacks on the three tribes of Qiaoshan, the total number of people obtained is no less than 30,000.
"Dangxiang, who has no war horses, is even worse than a two-legged sheep." Gao Yue thought to himself.
He would not miss such a great opportunity, that is, he had no intention of stopping until he completely wiped out the Dangxiang of Quangqingzhou.
Gao Yue asked Su Yan, the chief secretary of the army, to write Lu Bu, and quickly sent the description of the war in Qingzhou to the Daming Palace. He also wrote a piece of paper with a pen to invite the emperor to reward the soldiers who made specific contributions.
Shu Hurong, the chief of the large Zerg who was wiped out by Ah Ma, Wei Xi, Gu Tai, Qu Xibao, and Pao Lun, was pulling more than 4,000 strong men in his clan to head towards Mubo Castle.
In addition, Ye Lichi led nearly 6,000 children from the tribe to march on the road to Maling.
Almost at the same time, the second general of the Yining Army under Fuyu Huai, a total of 3,600 generals and soldiers, as well as hundreds of soldiers from Supu and Guo Zaizhen's fifteen battalions, had arrived at Baijiabao, 30 miles south of Mubo Fort. They were resting and resting. The Tang soldiers who were constantly sweating there could already see the beacon towers on Mubo Fort Cang City.
Guo Zaizhen held the sword sheath and pointed to the beacon tower on the opposite valley, and suggested to Fu Yuhuai: The valley here is winding and twisting, which is conducive to ambushing. We will raise the beacon first and get a response before marching there.
Fuyuhuai also agreed, so the soldiers of the Fifth Battalion of Feishan piled up the reeds they carried with them into three parts, lit them one by one, and soon the orange-red flames rose into the air.
Soon, the beacon fire on the opposite side rose, but black wolf smoke was emitting.
Chapter completed!