Chapter 21 The Battle of History and Kingdom (Part 2)
Before he had reached the Suha camp, Sun Xiurong, who was in the valley, received news from Suha's risk of his life.
In the ninth year of Tianbao, twelve years after Sun Xiurong officially came out, he also had a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of personally training the army.
"Under normal circumstances, as long as the Ye army has maintained an extremely high winning rate, they, including the regular camp and the soldiers, can only act according to Caodian, although they cannot guarantee victory in every battle, but they can still guarantee that they will not be defeated."
So, after letting Heifu and Li Jincai continue to trap Ziyad in Samoy City, he did not go south along the east post road, but personally led the Bogda camp and Bahanna's army to the south, and let Hou Qi's Rehai camp go south alone from the west post road.
This is because, according to the news from Suha, his camp was very close to the mountain pass, and there were several times more enemies besieging him. In this way, if another army headed south from the western post road and suddenly appeared under Qishi City, he would take down the city if he had the chance. If he had no chance, he would also let Hassan, who besieged Suha's camp, divide his troops.
Qishi City is only more than twenty miles away from the mountain pass. At this time, the Thunder Ye Army, which is mainly cavalry, has a chance.
Even when time is urgent, Sun Xiurong did not give up any opportunity he could seize. This is naturally based on the strong combat power of the Sailing Ye Army. Moreover, Hou Qi is also a long-time general among the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Even if he suddenly encounters the enemy, he will not be defeated immediately.
That's all.
Sure enough, when he learned that Suha had resisted Hassan's rapid attack for three days, he immediately accelerated his pace.
This time, he was foolish again.
He asked Dou Xueyu to lead Bakhan's army to move quickly to the near Suha camp, which shocked the heavy cavalry of Zhimo Wujie who was attacking the camp. He had already suffered a lot of damage under the strong firepower of Suha camp, but now he simply retreated.
At Hassan, he had three thousand light cavalry under his command, and he was also sent out at this time to plan to siege the army of Bahanna with Zhihuwujie.
Perhaps because he was blinded by the losses for several consecutive days, and Hassan already knew that Ziad in Samoe City had 7,000 infantry and cavalry, he believed that Sun Xiurong would not have more military power except for being able to send the Bakhan army near the mountain pass.
So, the heavy cavalry who led the Wujie and the Tocharian general Mahmood, under Hassan, surrounded Dou Xueyu's Sanqian Bakhan's cavalry one after another!
Among the countries in Hezhong, the combat power of the Pakhan country was quite good, otherwise it would not have remained independent for a long time under the attack of the Tang Dynasty and Dashi. One of the key factors is naturally the Dayuan Horse.
With the advantage of Dayuan horse's height and size, Dou Xueyu completely blocked the fierce attacks of Zhisiwujie and Mahmoud at the beginning.
But as time passed, the advantages of the Zhimo Wujie heavy cavalry in combat power and the bravery of the Mahmud light cavalry finally gave the Dashi Army the upper hand. After half an hour passed, Dou Xueyu did not see the arrival of the Bogda Battalion, and the enemy's offensive became more and more fierce!
Suha, who was in the camp, naturally saw this scene. After thinking for a while, he decided to take the initiative to attack. He knew that "the Protectorate would never let the Bahan army go south alone. There must be a regular camp of the Sailye Army behind the Bahan army, but it has not appeared in half an hour, so he naturally has other plans..."
At this time, he stood on the high platform in the camp and looked around, and finally understood.
"The back of the Bahan army is probably the Dadu Protector himself. Otherwise, if it were other camps, if they saw the Bahan army in trouble again, they would definitely go to fight to rescue immediately. Only the Dadu Protector would have other ideas... What would this be?"
"Today, the enemy probably took the initiative and pulled out all the military forces. Except for the side facing the mountain pass, there were no enemies. All the other three sides of our camp were besieged by enemies, and there were thousands of people on each side. It seemed that he was determined to take down our camp today."
"At this time, if the head of the Great Protector's camp was walking close to the mountains, since everyone's eyes were now on the battlefield close to the mountain pass, it was very likely that the gods would move behind the enemy's infantry without knowing it..."
"As long as I draw some of my military strength into any infantry formation, I can not only indirectly rescue Dou Xueyu, but also cover the troops of the Great Protector, and even disrupt the enemy's sight. Hassan clearly wants to fight to the decisive battle today, wouldn't it be exactly what he wants?"
So he opened the door of Dongying Village and led 1,500 cavalrymen to rush out!
Suha's sudden battle surprised and happy Hassan outside the camp. He knew very well the rules of the Ye Army. Hu Shang from Talas had long passed on his form to the Hezhong area, and wasn't it just half of the cavalry and half of the cavalry and infantry.
When siege Suha's camp, he let the spearmen surround the east, the sword and shield soldiers surround the west, and the south was his base camp, where there were five thousand infantry and cavalry, which was his core force.
After Suha emerged from Dongying Gate, she was facing a spear formation that was like a forest!
At this time, Zhihujie, who received the news, was about to defeat Dou Xueyu, so he ignored Suha because he knew that it was not easy to use cavalry to break through the spear formation originating from Damascus?
Suha could of course bypass the spear formation and rush to Hassan's main formation, which is mainly composed of heavy infantry and a few heavy cavalry, or go directly to the sword and shield army formation that is easier to deal with, but he still rushed to the spear formation!
There is a reason for him to do this.
He carefully observed from the high platform in the camp that although there were spears, Hassan's spear formation was not like Ziad's. Ziad's spear formation was only a circle of about three rows of spear soldiers around it, and there were a large number of archers in its heart.
But archers are scarce resources everywhere. There are no archers in Hassan's Tocharo spearmen, they are all spearmen, because the dense spearheads can be seen clearly on the platform.
The spear formation without archers is completely a dead formation!
Of course, this cannot be blamed on Suha. After the rise of the black food market, it is impossible to arm all the hundreds of thousands of people recruited in the Khorasan area with armor and high-quality and cooperative weapons. Therefore, the most convenient and the most cost-effective spear soldiers are the most. It would be great to be able to match the spear soldiers with a piece of leather armor, let alone iron armor and archers to cooperate.
"rumble......"
Suha's 1,500 cavalrymen approached the spearmen!
From the beginning of his camp, Suha made arrangements for his cavalry. The five hundred cavalry in front were naturally used for close combat. One tiger gun was particularly obvious, but the cavalry hidden behind them all started to fight.
When approaching about sixty feet, a large number of crossbow arrows landed over the spear formation!
Then he did not observe the enemy's losses, but continued to lean forward with five hundred cavalry. When approaching the enemy's formation about five feet, the five hundred cavalry threw out the thunder in his hand!
This is a lighter thunder, which is similar to later generations' grenades. The power of this cavalry with black gunpowder is naturally far less powerful than that of later generations' grenades. When it explodes, it can crack more than four pieces, which will burn high incense. Generally speaking, the most people crack into three pieces.
However, in Suha's view, this shock to the enemy is far greater than the real killing!
Five hundred cavalry rushed by not far away in front of the spearmen, and then the second group of five hundred cavalry. At this time, under the attack of the crossbow arrows and the shocking thunder, the Tochar spearmen, who had never seen this situation, were already on the verge of collapse. At this time, the second group of cavalry came a short crossbow against the spearmen directly opposite!
When the third group of cavalry came up, the spear soldiers on the side of Suha and the others were completely in chaos. They turned around and ran backwards. The third group of cavalry naturally rushed in!
Suha broke Hassan's spear formation while breathing!
Seeing that the spear formation was about to collapse, Hassan naturally would not sit idly by and quickly sent out the cavalry beside him!
At this time, Suha asked the five hundred cavalry to continue to kill the spearmen all over the field. The five hundred cavalry turned their heads to rescue Dou Xueyu, but he brought the five hundred cavalry to meet the cavalry sent by Hassan!
After fighting for about half an hour, Sun Xiurong was still missing. At this time, both sides gradually returned to balance the power, and the dispersed spear soldiers showed signs of gathering under the command of the officers.
Suha's five hundred cavalry were all completely heavy cavalry, that is, heavy cavalry with short crossbows and tiger spears. After facing almost the same number of heavy cavalry sent by Hassan, they still had the upper hand. For the Dashi Army, whether it was heavy cavalry or light cavalry, they were still used to using knives, which was nothing more than different weights.
Therefore, tiger spears naturally gained the upper hand, but with the gathering of spear soldiers again, the situation began to develop towards the unfavorable side of Suha.
At this time, there were nearly two thousand cavalry in Suha's camp. If another thousand cavalry could come out, it would definitely be able to be reversal. However, since Suha didn't know when Sun Xiurong would appear, firmly guarding the nails near the mountain pass was the top priority, so he could only grit his teeth and persevere.
Hassan in the back formation finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, he already knew that as long as the normal development continues, he would be the one who wins, but the key now is to eliminate all 1,500 cavalrymen from Suha's camp outside. It would be much easier to wait for 1,500 cavalry to be destroyed and then break through the camp.
Thinking of this, he decided to attack the whole line and ordered the sword and shield barracks on one side to set out again to attack the camp!
This time, for one success, he asked all three thousand swords and shield soldiers to join!
In the past few days, he also roughly understood that the enemy's iron bombs emitted with the roar were not launched continuously all the time. There was a gap between them. After about ten times of issuing, it would take a while to start again. Before Suha was dispatched, the firearms in the camp were fired exactly ten times!
Three thousand swords and shield soldiers were rushing towards the camp. This time, Hassan issued a death order, and he was ready to break through the camp even if he sacrificed 30% of his troops!
Suha's eyes were solemn.
At this time, there was still no movement from Sun Xiurong's army!
He naturally had a way to contact the camp. After a while, he decided to return them all to the camp.
However, on the battlefield where the three cavalrymen were killed, they had to be summoned back and returned to the camp smoothly. This was definitely an extremely complicated technical job. It required the three cavalry battalions' chief generals and nearby drummers to be alive at the moment.
The people around Suha were naturally still there, and he shouted: "Blow the trumpet and whistle the gold!"
Chapter completed!