Chapter 1004: Winning or Losing Is Determined by Winning the Heart
Historical events are not happening now, and what is happening now is not historical events.
In history, it was clearly Ashina Xian's two tribes who fought against the three sides of the enemy army, and it became Zhang Xiaosong who led the troops to sneak attack and lay out.
At the same time, the Anxi Jiedushi dared to let them out to fight. The shouting of the five thousand cavalrymen boosted the morale of Ashina Xian's two tribes.
The Tubo side shouted that it was not, our baggage team had not been robbed and was coming soon.
The Tubo soldiers listened and did not believe it at all. So many cavalrymen ran over.
And the baggage had not been seen for these days. Wouldn't those cavalrymen go to attack the logistics troops?
Even the Tubo Nu Cong soldiers did not believe what their commander said.
They were not the idiots who had white skin disease in the other side of the earth at the time of Li Yi, who believed everything the top people said.
Their IQ was at least online. Can the baggage still come? Are you fooling a fool?
At this time, the five thousand people who came over took out the flags they got after the two attacks and found the bed crossbows of Ashina Xian's tribe.
They tied several flags to crossbows, aimed at the other side and fired, landing on the open space between the two sides.
At the same time, they shouted: "Two groups of baggage were all intercepted by our army. Check if the flags are real?"
"Burn them, rush over, burn them, no, they are fake." The Tubo commander shouted.
Some people lit torches and rushed over, without even looking at them, and burned them directly, and then pulled out the arrows from the crossbows and ran back.
The generals of Ashina Xian and Karluk smiled, and the generals of Anxi Jiedushi were also in a good mood.
Burn, burn well, burn it.
The soldiers of the Tubo tribe understood everything at once, they were gone, the supplies were gone.
The Tubo commander wanted to vomit blood, the Tang soldiers were too bad, what should he do next?
The Tang side had a large number of troops, and the infantry began to move, advancing from the left and right of the Tubo camp, as if they were going to surround it.
The cavalry of the Anxi Jiedushi behind them left far away, and did not block them, cooperating to form a three-way siege.
If they continue to block the retreat, the Tubo soldiers will have to fight to the death. Now that they have given up, what should Tubo do?
For a while, the Tubo troops were in a state of disarray. Some of them wanted to run away, stop fighting, or surrender.
The Tang army was several times larger than theirs, and there were so many cavalrymen that they could not even get enough food.
If they stayed for a few more days, the food would run out, and they would eat people?
The Tubo commander felt very cold at this moment. He wanted to command the troops to attack and charge.
However, the Tang army had built a military camp just like theirs, so it was a bad idea to charge the camp with cavalry or infantry.
Unless their own army was large and surrounded the Tang army's chain military camp, they could charge.
If their own cavalry went out, the Tang army would have more cavalry to deal with it.
If their own infantry charged the camp, the Tang army's extra cavalry would be ready to break through on the flank.
The two sides were fighting for mobility, initiative, number of people, logistics, and morale.
As for the formation, is it still necessary to look at it now? Even the god of war would have to kneel.
What formation works? The number of arms is there.
Expect the Tang generals to make mistakes in command? It's definitely a dream. Didn't you see the flags on the hot air balloon?
Maybe wait until dark, and then...
No, no, the Tang soldiers are not stupid. If I were in the position of the Tang soldiers now, would I not be alert at night?
I might harass at night, no, not at night, I should harass now.
The Tubo commander thought, and the pores all over his body opened and the hair stood up.
He thought of it, and the Tang soldiers and generals certainly thought of it.
The drums sounded, and Ashina Xian and the longbowmen of the Karluk marched forward in formation.
The 5,000 cavalrymen who had just come over chose horses with good physical strength and ran to the left and right.
The Modao soldiers of the Anxi Jiedushi shouted "Roar! Ha! Roar! Ha!" and ran forward. His cavalry ran to the distance, ready to use the inertia of the impact to throw arrows.
The Tubo commander looked up at the sky. He knew that the harassment had begun, just as he thought.
If the response is not appropriate, the harassment will turn into a strong attack.
There is a gap left behind for his people to escape, but once they start running, they will be defeated and the Tang army will definitely kill them.
Now it is not a question of whether to leave the rear guards and lead the people to retreat.
Deep into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, is it so easy to retreat?
What is the use of the rear guards? The Tang soldiers did not attack the rear guards, but continued to surround them and win by numbers.
The remaining 36,000 troops under his command could not escape, the supplies were insufficient, and many people were still hungry.
"Surrender and you will not be killed, surrender and you will not be killed, exchange for the people of the Tang Dynasty, exchange for the people of the Tang Dynasty, surrender, surrender and you can still get it back, surrender..."
Another wave of psychological offensives from the Tang army began, telling the Tibetans, if you surrender, we will use you to exchange for our people.
In fact, the number of people is enough, and there is no need for these Tibetan soldiers to exchange.
"Wild geese, in the sky, pairs line up in rows, the river is long, the autumn grass is yellow..."
It is not known who started it on the Tang side, many people sang the song together.
The soldiers could not sing the effect of harmonics and appoggiatura, and the pitch was not high, but low, without any singing technique, just a white voice.
Hoarse, unaccompanied, low, some were out of tune, it was obviously a single melody, but it was sung with a harmony effect, the out of tune was too serious.
Of course, it was this kind of singing that touched people's hearts the most.
Many Tubo soldiers were shaken, some hummed along, and some shed tears.
"The siege of Gaixia, surrounded by Chu songs." The Tubo commander understood, everything, but he could not find a way to break the deadlock.
"Surrender, surrender in exchange for the people, surrender, surrender in exchange..."
There are other groups of people trying to persuade them to surrender.
The infantry is advancing, and the cavalry is looking for opportunities.
A few more hot air balloons are taking off, and they are no longer the same hot air balloon, showing the Tubo its reserved strength.
"Hongyan, return north, take my thoughts with you, and sing far away..."
"Commander, surrender, I can't stand it anymore." A soldier threw down his weapon and shouted with tears on his face.
The people around him looked at him and threw down their weapons.
'Boom boom boom' Hundreds of cavalry appeared in front, with a package in their arms and torches in their hands.
The front army of the Tubo, which already knew how powerful they were, could not help but retreat, and their formation was in disarray.
They were afraid that these people would rush up and light that thing, and then in the boom, their formation would be destroyed, and the horses would be frightened.
The Tubo commander also shed tears, feeling aggrieved, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and they could still fight to the death.
"Surrender!" The commander squeezed out a word from his teeth, and he couldn't fight.
"Surrender, surrender." The messenger shouted.
The Tubo soldiers who heard the voice threw down their weapons and shouted in a mess: "Surrender, we surrender, don't kill us..."
Weapons fell to the ground, and people knelt down one by one. The Tubo team was tricked into surrendering.
The Tang Dynasty was very surprised. Is it so easy to use? No need to fight?
The cavalry holding the package breathed a sigh of relief. They were actually holding ordinary packages, not explosive packs and grenades at all.
There are not so many. My team is not considered a confidant, so they give less.
But I believe that after this battle, the performance of myself and others will be recognized by His Majesty the Tang Dynasty, and there will be more things in the future.
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