Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3866 Capture the retreat

On the battlefield, the situation changed abruptly.

Who would have thought that a moment ago, they would launch a tide-like offensive against the Youtunwei position, ignoring the heavy casualties and swearing to break through the Youtunwei defense line, the morale would collapse and the army would be defeated the next moment?
On the battlefield, countless powerful and private soldiers threw away their weapons, squatted down and hugged their heads, and surrendered obediently.

Iron hooves burst forth, and Tubo horses roared like wind and clouds, ignoring the soldiers who dropped their weapons and crouched on the ground, and brandished Tibetan knives at those soldiers who were still running away, slashing fiercely!The soldiers panicked and forgot to surrender on the spot. They scattered and fled in horror, but they were chased and killed by the scattered Tubo Huqi all the way, and their corpses lay all over the ground.

Changsun Yan led his own soldiers and was blocked by layers of chaotic troops, with no way to advance or retreat.A group of Tubo horsemen saw that there was a cavalry in the rebellious army, their eyes lit up immediately, knowing that this was probably an enemy general, and that killing or capturing it would be a great feat, so they rushed forward with shouts.

Changsun Yan was so frightened that he rolled down from his horse, dropped the horizontal knife in his hand, squatted on the ground and hugged his head: "I surrender, I surrender!"

What dignity, what ambition, at this moment, under the knife edge of Tubo Huqi, the only thing in his heart is to save his own life...

Life is alive, everything still has a chance to make a comeback; life is lost, even if someone praises "spine", what's the point?
A group of Tubo horsemen rushed forward like a whirlwind, reined in their horses and stood still, several soldiers jumped off their horses, stepped forward and kicked Changsun Yan to the ground, and one of them asked in blunt Chinese: "Who are you? What is your identity?"

Seeing that the armor on Chang Sunyan's body is different from others, it is obvious that his status is unusual, but he is surrounded by so many cavalry, maybe he is a high-ranking official...

Changsun Yan was afraid that these Tubo barbarians would slash without saying a word, so when he heard the question, he dared not hide the slightest bit: "I am Changsun Yan, the fourth son of the Changsun family, and I am the leader of this powerful private army!"

The Tubo soldier was overjoyed, trotted back, and said a few words in Tubo to the other general on horseback.

The general is tall and tall, with a bronze complexion, sitting on the horse like Yuan Ting and Yue Zhi, he is Lu Dongzan's son Zanpo...

Zanpo raised her eyes and looked at the prisoners everywhere, and heard that the chief general of the army was captured. She was in a good mood and said with satisfaction: "Tie him up and bring him into the army. Leave 2000 people to guard the prisoners. If anyone resists, they will be killed without mercy." The rest of the team immediately went south to join the cavalry of the Youtun Guards, the last time I let the private army of the Yuwen family run away, this time we will definitely defeat them!"

"Here!"

When the order was issued, the Tubo Huqi immediately split into two. Someone tied Changsun Yan with five flowers and put them on the saddle. One part stayed here to guard the captives, and the other part galloped south with Zanpo riding.Thousands of Tubo Hu cavalry rode their horses roaring like thunder.

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Yuwen Longyan looked at Tubo Huqi from far to near, and his marching trajectory drew an arc, crossing in front of his formation abruptly, dividing himself and Changsun Yansuo in front of him into two.Where is there any chance in my heart?Regardless of Chang Sunyan's fate, he repeatedly ordered the whole army to retreat.

They didn't dare to withdraw too quickly. Although they were all elites of the Guanlong army, they lacked a tacit understanding with each other. If they withdrew too quickly and the formation became disorganized, and the Tubo Huqi seized the opportunity to turn around and kill them, that would be terrible. It's over.

Even though he knew that the cavalry from Youtunwei might be coming towards him at a certain place, they might suddenly appear in the next moment...

The whole army was extremely nervous, watching the Tubo Hu Qi slaughtering the elite private army wantonly hacking and killing. Those elite private soldiers surrendered one by one, but they were powerless, they did not dare to stop and retreated with all their strength.

The army retreated through Gwanghwamun, and the lights of the archery tower on the northwest corner of Chang'an City Wall were already faintly visible. As long as you go around here, you can reach Kaiyuanmen, which is the defense area of ​​the Guanlong army. The Guanlong army in the Jinguangmen area can also be reinforced immediately.

Yu Wenlong heaved a sigh of relief, but before he let go of his hanging heart, he heard horseshoes rumbling in his ears, his face changed in shock, and he looked up to the south.

I saw a cavalry galloping westward along the Chang'an city wall, with bright armor and thunderous hooves...

Yuwen Long's eyes were about to burst, and he hissed loudly: "Go, go, the enemy army wants to cut off our army's retreat!"

Obviously, the cavalry of Youtunwei had been lurking for a long time, and they detoured all the way from Yong'anqu, trying to go straight behind and cut off the retreat of his army.It's just that this place is too close to the city wall of Chang'an, and the enemy can't hide and hide, so it shows its true face.

But the enemy army is full of cavalry, with strong mobility. Once they get around the northwest corner of the city wall, they will completely cut off their retreat. At that time, they will attack back and forth with Tubo Huqi. whole body.

He didn't care about the danger, let alone whether the right guard cavalry would give up cutting off the retreat route and kill him directly. He just wanted to reach the northwest corner of the city wall to occupy a favorable position and defeat the right guard cavalry's plot, so he led his own soldiers to ride as usual Running wildly, trying to get ahead of You Tunwei.

The Youtunwei cavalry obviously also understood Yuwenlong's plan, and didn't care that if they entered the Guanlong army formation at this moment, they would kill wantonly, and just galloped westward along the base of the city wall.

Within a distance of more than a hundred feet, the two cavalry ran side by side towards the northwest corner of the city wall, and a competition between truncation and anti-truncation began here.

Yu Wenlong's strategy was correct. Only by occupying the favorable terrain in the northwest corner of the city wall could he attack the right guard cavalry, thus giving his troops a chance to flee to the direction of Kaiyuanmen.But he forgot that the strategy of Youtunwei this time is the same as the previous one, not only the cavalry of Youtunwei interspersed, but also the Tubo Hu cavalry chased and killed them.

The two cavalry here are rushing like lightning to seize the opportunity. Behind them, the Tubo Hu cavalry has already covered the sky and covered the ground.All the cavalry had been taken away by Yu Wenlong trying to stop the cavalry of the Youtunwei. The rest of the infantry ran wildly, but how could they outrun the horses?

Tubo Huqi chased them from behind, and Zampo commanded the troops to charge into the battle and then cut off the Guanlong army into sections, encircling and suppressing them separately, but once again sighed in his heart: So it turns out that fighting is such an easy thing?

The army of the Tang army frightened the world and made the Tubo people very afraid. Otherwise, they would not have coveted the city of the Tang Dynasty but hesitated to launch a frontal war to attack the city and plunder the land.But this time, accompanying Fang Jun to help Chang'an, gave Yu Zanpo an unbelievable impression - it seems that the Tang Dynasty's more than one million troops, except for the Youtunwei, the rest have limited combat power, and Tubo may not have the power to fight...

Of course, this idea only popped up in his mind for a moment, and was immediately suppressed by himself.

Although he is from Tubo, Tubo is Tubo, and the Gar family is the Gar family, so they must not be confused.Now that the Gar family is under the suspicion of Songtsan Gampo and kicked to Qinghai Lake to bear the pressure of facing the Tang Dynasty soldiers, how can he be willing to let Tubo attack the Datang city to strengthen its power?
I wish Songtsan Gampo would be promoted to genius...

Facing the Guanlong infantry, the Tubo Huqi showed the advantages of the cavalry to the fullest, driving, dispersing, dividing, encircling and suppressing... closely following the tail of the Guanlong army and slaughtering wantonly, killing corpses all over the field, crying ghosts and wolves howling.

Yu Wenlong galloped at full speed and couldn't see the situation behind him, but even if he knew that Tubo Huqi was chasing and killing his army, so what?At this moment, turning around and going back to rescue the infantry would be to seek death. Not only would you have to fight head-on with the fierce Tubo Huqi, the outcome is unknown, but you would also have to endure the desperate situation of being cut off by the right-guard cavalry.

He could only go forward blindly, constantly, trying to occupy the northwest corner of the city wall before the right guard cavalry, thus providing a retreat channel for the troops under his command.

Although most of the army is likely to be lost, but one can escape counts as one...

The two cavalry are like running a race, they are not far apart, one side only needs to deviate from the route and approach the other side, and then they can fight hand to hand, but no one cares about the other side, just increase the speed of the horse to the fastest, and head towards the northwest of Chang'an City with all their strength Horn run wild.

The sound of rumbling hoofs roared like rolling thunder, and the people in Lifang inside the city wall were alarmed. They were surprised at first, and then full of fear. Could it be that someone wanted to break through the city wall and burn the flames of war to the entire Chang'an City?
In the end, it was Yu Wenlong who led the army to arrive first.

There is a highland in the northwest corner of Chang'an City. Once you occupy this place, you can commandeer and launch a dive on the enemy to take advantage of the location.However, Yu Wenlong had just rushed to the high ground, and before he had time to set up his formation, the right guard cavalry had already arrived like a whirlwind.

Fighting broke out suddenly.

(End of this chapter)