Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 343 Battle Twelve
Block the enemy ahead, and at this time another unit comes into play--sword and shield soldiers.

The sword and shield soldiers had a horizontal sword in one hand and a round shield in the other. They circled out from both sides of the formation and inserted towards the sides of the enemy.

At this time, the experience of the archers is not very effective. They also put down their bows and arrows and followed up with their knives. Only the sharpshooters followed the large army and continued to shoot under the cover of their brothers.

The 4 army formed four phalanxes, facing more than [-] Tubo people, both of whom belonged to infantry, the gap was too great, as the sword and shield soldiers with archers spread out from both sides, they surrounded the Tubo people .

The round shield swung up to block the Tubo's weapons, and then slashed down with a knife. The rows of sword and shield soldiers performed the same movement, raising their shields to block, chopping their knives, and repeated it over and over again.

Under the steel knife, blood and severed limbs dance together, human heads roll down on the ground, and screams can be heard endlessly.

The archer holds a single sword in his hand, and when there is a gap in the front row of swords and shields, he immediately fills up and fills up the formation at any time. People with superb archery skills keep harvesting the lives of the enemy with cold arrows, especially the officials among them, commanding.

The Tubo infantry had nothing to do with the Tang army formation, even if they fought with their lives, it would be difficult to fight to the death. The huge steel shield was like an insurmountable city wall. , slowly approaching, the long spear stretched out from time to time, like the god of death is constantly harvesting.

Sword and shield soldiers exist as the main force in close combat on the battlefield, and their defense is very strong. They wear assault armor (the front is armor, the back is not.) Pushing forward indomitably, except for some heavy weapons, they basically ignore others.

But half an hour later, the Tubo people could not accept this unilateral death, and began to retreat, retreating towards the middle. No matter how much they yelled and cursed at Kumara, the soldiers continued to retreat.

As soon as the enemy retreated, the archers were happy again, and took off their bows and arrows one after another to start harvesting.

Seeing bows and arrows, the Tubo people ran faster now. When they attacked together, their morale was high, and they were not afraid of life and death. Once they became timid, they started to flee. Consider other.

Drinking Kumara looked around, feeling hopeless, nearly [-] troops, half of the cavalry were inseparable, fighting together, unable to withdraw, the other half had already begun to defeat, it can be said that there was no chance of winning.

"Escape! You must escape!" For the first time, the idea of ​​escaping came to Kumaro's heart, and it became more and more intense.

Kumara rode on horseback, walked back and forth anxiously for a few steps, finally found the place to escape, and whispered to his guard.

The personal guards quickly gathered hundreds of people behind him.

"Kill!" Kumara yelled, pretending to rush towards the place where the cavalry was fighting.

When the others saw it, they quickly followed, and all the patriarchs rushed towards the battlefield with nearly a thousand personal guards.

Riding on a horse, he quickly approached the battlefield, but drinking Kumara unexpectedly, circled an arc around the edge of the battlefield, and ran away... ran away.

His choice was very wise. The cavalry in this place were all fighting, and there was no extra force to chase and kill his hundreds of people.

In this way, Kumara left his two sons, and all the troops ran away. This also shows that he is different from Gar Dongzan. One has great ambitions and cares about the overall situation, while the other is greedy for life and afraid of death, and only thinks about himself.

It didn't matter that he ran away, he made the other patriarchs quite a hole. The nearly thousand people who had charged along with him never expected that they would run around, and this group of people would crash into the battlefield directly.

"I'll fuck your grandma!" A patriarch jumped up and down angrily.

Others also cursed one after another, and no one did not hate this kind of behavior of betraying others in exchange for their own lives.

Of course, the act of drinking Kumara fell into the eyes of many people, which demoralized many cavalrymen who were fighting and had no intention of fighting.

"Surrender, we surrender!" The idea of ​​survival prevailed, and few people want to die if they can live, a patriarch raised his arms and shouted.

"Surrender, surrender." The power of an example is infinite, and the other patriarchs also shouted confidently.

Then everyone jumped off their horses and shouted loudly, and the sound of surrender sounded everywhere for a while.

The soldiers who had no intention of fighting also shouted, these soldiers are not the elite trained by Gar Dongzan, usually many people bully the good and fear the evil, and now they surrender faster.

It didn't take long for all the Tubo people to surrender, and Li Xiaogong and others naturally wouldn't kill the prisoners. After all, these young men are good coolies for mining. You must know that Datang is short of everything, especially ore.

Alkaline ore is a must for making paper and selling fur. The emperor needs a lot of saltpeter, and it can also make ice.Copper and iron mines, gemstone mines, there is no shortage of people.

Now the nobles of Datang are like mad dogs, they will let their subordinates search all the mountains wherever they go, to see if there are mines.

Li Shimin knew that only relying on the supervision of the imperial court could not make it through, and mining was slow, so he set a rule that all the mineral deposits in the Central Plains, if discovered, the mining party owns [-]%, and the rest belongs to the imperial court. As for the central plains, the imperial court only needs [-]%, and there is no additional tax. , It is only made into finished products for sale, and additional taxes are collected.

With the surrender of Tubo, the Songzhou battlefield also came to an end. This battle was actually quite dangerous. Fortunately, Tubo was not united, so they were defeated one by one.

The cavalry lost the most in the last battle. In half an hour, [-] of the [-] cavalry died, and the rest were injured. With the magic weapon in hand, the blood all over his body was left by the enemy.

Of course, the Tubo cavalry did not lose any benefits. There were nearly 5 people, and more than [-] were killed or injured.

As for the infantry, the death of Tubo was even more ugly. You must know that most of the infantry were from Lingnan, and many of the people from Nanyang were from Shanzhai Tu. They don't know what kindness is, and they are also some desperate masters.

Fighting wild beasts in the mountains, there is nothing else to say, just desperate, they are used to fighting desperately as soon as they go to the battlefield, and if they win, they will get a generous reward from the Tang Dynasty. Now the armor I wear and the weapon in my hand are worth more than my life.

Moreover, they also had settlement allowances for the war, as well as military expenses every month. Of course, the settlement allowances for the first time were all kinds of materials. After all, copper coins were not recognized in their cottage at that time, and even if they had copper coins, there was nowhere to spend them.

It has been more than half a year since I came out now, and I also understand the benefits of Brother Kong Fang. I am very satisfied with the monthly military salary. In their eyes, life is heaven now. He died of starvation, and now it's just an occasional beating, not to mention that even if he dies, the family can still get a lot of compensation.

(End of this chapter)