Chapter 153: Sweeping Thousands of Army

The heavy infantryman raised the sword high and slashed it hard. The Tubo soldiers screamed in pain, and some of them were chopped into pieces without having time to scream.

Jide Zuzan's heart was thrilled. He knew that the heavy infantry of the Tang army was invincible and unmatched, so he ordered the Tubo army to retreat to avoid unnecessary casualties.

The power of heavy infantry is indeed great, not without weaknesses. The weakness of heavy infantry is that they bear too much weight and are very slow. Another thing is that they cannot last because they bear too much weight, so they aim to fight quickly and quickly. It is just a matter of the opposite direction and use the flexible advantages of the Tubo light cavalry to fight with heavy infantry until the heavy infantry is dragged down and then go back to the decisive battle. This is a stable victory situation.

The problem is that the miracle of the light cavalry defeating heavy infantry was created by the Mongols during the Western Expedition, not by Jide Zuzan. He could do nothing except to ask the Tubo army to avoid contact with heavy infantry.

To everyone's surprise, Geshuhan commanded the heavy infantry to advance nearly two miles, and ordered the heavy infantry to stop and no longer attack.

Jide Zuzan was puzzled and stared at the heavy infantry. Yes, he had no intention of attacking again. According to the general style of the Tang army, once the heavy infantry was put into the battlefield, it would be a scene of sweeping across thousands of troops. He would not rest until the battle was completed. It was the first time to use heavy infantry like today.

The generals of Tubo were very familiar with the Tang army, and they were also full of questions.

Not only were they curious, but even Cheng Xiaotian was extremely puzzled. He rushed to Geshuhan and asked, "General Geshu, what's wrong with you? Why did you stop? This is a heavy infantry, with hundreds of kilograms of equipment on his body. He can't hold on for long. If he doesn't fight again, the brothers will be tired. At that time, the Tubo people will attack again, and the consequences will be unimaginable!"

"General Cheng is worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield for a long time. He said it incisively!" Ge Shuhan brived his high fives.

Cheng Xiaotian rolled his eyes and said, "General Ge Shuhan, don't talk about him here! A sharp bird! Anyone who has been on the battlefield knows it! Your General Ge Shu is also a person who crawled over the dead. He won't not understand this. What exactly are you going to do?"

Geshuhan did not answer the question and said with a smile: "General Cheng, please take your brothers and defend the infantry. Hear the order, and ask the brothers behind to cross the river quickly!"

Cheng Xiaotian looked at the heavy infantry who rushed over in confusion, and saw that they were in the whole team. Look at this posture, they didn't seem to be not fighting, but they wanted to fight hard, but Ge Shu Han would let the heavy infantry who arrived first stop?

"General Geshu, you are sophisticated! I'm convinced!" Cheng Xiaotian suddenly figured it out, and patted Geshu Han on the shoulder heavily, overjoyed: "General Geshu, don't worry, I'll make arrangements now!" Without waiting for Geshu Han to speak, he left in a hurry.

After several days of fierce battle, the vanguard lost a lot of personnel. The biggest casualties were the fierce battles with the Tubo army when they were covering up the heavy infantry crossing the river. In total, nearly 4,000 casualties were left. There were about 6,000 people left, and they still had good combat power.

Cheng Xiaotian gave the order, the vanguard troops rode on war horses and lined up their formation. The soldiers of the vanguard troops were puzzled, and someone couldn't help but ask, "General, do you still have to fight? We have only a few people, how can we fight?"

"Stop talking nonsense! Just wait for the order!" Cheng Xiaotian shouted, and the soldier dared not say anything more.

It was already an hour since all the heavy infantry on the north bank crossed the Nujiang River. During this hour, Jide Zuzan did not order the Tubo army to attack, because there were heavy infantry there, and even if he wanted to attack, it was useless and only increased casualties.

What puzzled Jidezuzan the most was that the heavy infantry had no intention of attacking yet, and just put the Mo Dao on the ground and used it as a crutch, and the Tang army leaned on it to rest.

The generals of Tubo were also strange, and they kept giving advice and commenting, but they did not guess the purpose of the Tang army.

Finally, the heavy infantry took action. This time, it was not a team of heavy infantry that moved, but two teams moved, one headed east and the other headed west.

Cheng Xiaotian's vanguard was divided into two and was escorted by heavy infantry soldiers.

This is even more strange. Before Jide Zuzan could figure it out, the heavy infantry was divided into four teams and moved in four directions, east, west, south, and north. Jide Zuzan suddenly understood that the Tang army had a great appetite, and Geshuhan wanted to use 20,000 heavy infantry to annihilate his army of more than 100,000.

"It's a whim! Twenty thousand heavy infantrymen want to annihilate my tens of thousands of troops. If you have a bold idea, you will not succeed!" Jide Zuzan sneered at Geshuhan's idea.

In front of heavy infantry, the Tubo army had no power to fight back. It only wanted to annihilate more than 100,000 yuan in just 20,000 yuan. That was not bold, but arrogant! A crazy idea that only madmen could think of!

A contemptuous anger arose in Jide Zuzan's heart: "It's too underestimated to me, Tubo! Since we want to fight, we will fight! Even if we are pigs, we will hold you to death!"

With a certain idea, Jide Zuzan ordered the Tubo army to fight. The Tubo army lined up in neat combat formations to rush towards the heavy infantry of the Tang army.

The heavy infantry has not yet reached a position that can encircle the Tubo army. Jide Zuzan wanted to take advantage of the heavy infantry's march to launch a sudden attack, and to disrupt the heavy infantry's formation before it formed so that it could not exert its power.

In his words, his idea was very good, but he was destined to be impossible to succeed. Geshuhan dared to have such a bold idea, so he naturally had various preparations. When he saw the Tubo army start attacking, Geshuhan sneered, jumped to a big drum, grabbed the drumstick from the soldier, and beat the drum hard.

Dozens of big drums were beating together, and the sound was like thunder. This was the order of the battle! The heavy infantry stopped and quickly formed a formation. Geshuhan knew that Jide Zuzan was strong. If he understood Geshuhan's idea, it would probably not be withdrawn, but would order the Tubo army to attack.

Then, heavy infantry must become combat formations in the shortest time. Therefore, each heavy infantry interspersed in two rows, which is very simple to turn into a row, and the combat formation will soon be restored.

Of course, Geshuhan also thought of another situation, that is, Jide Zuzan did not fight with him, but led his army to retreat. Now, the loss of Nujiang is a foregone conclusion. The Tubo army retreated, found another place, formed a formation, and then dealt with the Tang army. This is a wise choice.

If this happens, heavy infantry will not be able to catch up, and at least some Tubo army must be wiped out.

Fortunately, Jide Zuzan actually wanted to fight, and he hit Ge Shuhan's mind. This is a good opportunity, an excellent opportunity to severely damage the Tubo army!

It is impossible to use 20,000 heavy infantry to wipe out more than 100,000 troops. Even if Sun Wu is underground, it is impossible. Geshuhan considers that Jide Zuzan has a strong and resolute personality, he cannot tolerate the contempt he is most despised, so he deliberately poses to see if he can inspire him to fight.

Unexpectedly, after the trial was successful, Ge Shuhan was very excited and beat the drum and put it in a force.

Twenty thousand heavy infantry were divided into four teams, each with five thousand people, lined up in neat combat formations, facing the Tubo army from four directions. Cheng Xiaotian's vanguard was also divided into four to guard the heavy infantry to prevent the Tubo army from sneak attacking from behind.

If you look out from the air, you will see countless Tubo troops and heavy infantry colliding head-on, just like two mountains colliding with each other, making a shocking sound.

As a sharp sword light flashed, the ground suddenly turned red! Countless Tubo soldiers were killed and injured, and a large area fell down at once, leaving the heavy infantry in front of them empty.

The heavy infantry raised the Mo sword again and began to harvest the lives of the Tubo soldiers.

After only a short while, Tubo lost thousands of people. Jidezuzan's teeth clenched and suddenly woke up. When he got into the fight like this, he just threw an egg on the stone, which was useless.

For the sake of the present, we should focus on preserving our strength and retreating is the best choice. After a decision, we should immediately order the Tubo army obtained the order and began to retreat.

The heavy infantry was too slow and could not catch up anyway. Ge Shuhan was so angry that he threw the drumsticks heavily on the ground and shouted: "Cheng Xiaotian, hurry up and hold on!"

Cheng Xiaotian reacted quickly and was busy commanding the vanguard to intercept the troops. However, the Tubo army was attacked by heavy infantry and was already frustrated. Once he had the order to retreat, he would run fast and he could do so much.

Suddenly, Cheng Xiaotian found that a team of imperial guards was not far from him. He led the cavalry to rush over without hesitation. Fortunately, he happened to be in front of this imperial guards.

Geshuhan saw it and was happy in his heart. As long as he killed the imperial guards, it would be no less. He hurriedly commanded the heavy infantry to press it on. There were more than 10,000 people in this imperial guards. If they were annihilated, Tubo would suffer a great loss. Geshuhan ordered the heavy infantry to run up in combat formations instead of walking.

The speed of heavy infantry was accelerated, but the Tubo imperial guards escaped faster. By the time the heavy infantry arrived, thousands of people had already escaped.

After almost eight thousand imperial guards were held, the heavy infantry slashed them with a wave of unsold swords, slashing them into pieces.

Not only did Jide Zuzan's plan to retake Nujiang failed, but he also lost more than 10,000 troops due to his anger, including 8,000 imperial guards, which made him feel distressed. He just remembered a very famous saying, "The Lord should not provoke troops because of anger." It is so foresighted!

The troops were ordered to clean the battlefield and set up camp. As soon as the order was passed, the Tang army took action in an orderly manner.

Cheng Xiaotian rode a horse to Geshuhan, clasped his fists and said, "General Geshu, thank you! If you hadn't arrived in time, the consequences would be unimaginable!"

Ge Shuhan shook his hand and said, "Don't thank you, don't thank you! I can't afford it!"

Cheng Xiaotian jumped off the horse and joked: "Do you want me to kneel down to you and thank you for your life-saving grace?"

Geshuhan said seriously: "You really don't need to thank me! I'm here this time, I really didn't come to save you."

Cheng Xiaotian smiled and said, "You are not here to save me, so what are you here to do?"

Geshuhan explained: "The Grand Marshal received your report and was going to send cavalry to reinforce you. But I stopped the Grand Marshal. It would be great if you didn't scold me. How dare I treat you as your thanks!"

"Yes! Why didn't the general send cavalry, but instead sent heavy infantry? What's going on?" Cheng Xiaotian realized something was wrong and couldn't help but wonder.

Ge Shuhan sat on the rock by the river and patted him: "Sit down and I'll tell you slowly."

Cheng Xiaotian sat down as he said, urging him: "Tell me quickly!"

"Speak first, you can't scold people!" Ge Shuhan reminded him, and then he talked about the process.

Guo Qianguan was overjoyed when he received Cheng Xiaotian's report: "Look, Cheng Xiaotian is so amazing that he actually occupied the floating bridge on the Nujiang River. The same is true for the Tubo people. After building the floating bridge, they did not send many people to guard it, so they took advantage of the loopholes for Cheng Xiaotian! Take it down easily!"

Chen Wanrong was also happy: "That's because the Tubo people didn't expect us to come so quickly. Speaking of which, it was General Geshu who defeated Sang Wang in one fell swoop, which created conditions for Cheng Xiaotian."

If Ge Shuhan hadn't defeated Sang Wang in one fell swoop, Cheng Xiaotian wouldn't have done this, and the generals agreed in unison.

Guo Qianguan nodded and said, "The military supervisor is right, they all make contributions! Now, the most important thing for us is to send people to reinforce! It is more important to guard the pontoon bridge than anything else, so send cavalry!"

No one disagrees with this, and the generals are completely different. Just pass by, no one disagrees with this approach. This person is Geshuhan: "Master, I think that the important thing now is not to rush to General Cheng to help him, but to seize the Nujiang River in one fell swoop!"

"General Geshu, when did you start to learn the sour scholars and fall off your book bag?" Fei Junxing disagreed with Geshuhan's statement: "Running to Cheng Xiaotian is to seize the Nujiang River. As long as the floating bridge is there, the Nujiang River is in our hands, what's the difference?"

What he said was exactly what everyone was thinking, and he nodded and said yes.

Geshu Han stood up suddenly: "This is completely different! If we only want to reinforce General Cheng, we can send cavalry. However, cavalry is conducive to rushing in open areas, but how can we place it on the riverside? Send cavalry, this is a nest of troops! The number of people has increased, but we cannot capture the Nujiang River. It is just a endless bloody battle with the Tubo people on the beach, which is insignificant in the overall situation."

After he said this, everyone also understood.

Wang Zhongsi took over the conversation and said, "General Geshu's words make sense. In my opinion, it is better to send infantry. It is best to send heavy infantry. Fighting on the beach, heavy infantry is best. As long as the heavy infantry arrives, you can not only guard the floating bridge, but also defeat the Tubo army, gaining us a wide area and creating conditions for the army to advance."

If the Tang army wants to gain a foothold south of the Nujiang River, it needs a foothold, which is called a "bridgehead" or "beacht position" in military terms. If there is no foothold, even if all 100,000 troops arrive at the Nujiang River, it will be useless. It is just a sightseeing on the north bank. Wang Zhongsi's proposal was naturally approved by all generals.

Guo Qianguan immediately ordered the general: "General Geshu first proposed his proposal, so General Geshu will take on this position and give you 20,000 heavy infantrymen. General Geshu, are there any problems?"

"The last one will obey the order!" Geshuhan received the order.

Speaking of this, Cheng Xiaotian frowned and was puzzled: "There are thousands of miles to arrive here from the camp. Although the heavy infantry is equipped with war horses, it is also used to carry equipment and dry food. Even if you are rushing day and night, you will not arrive so quickly.

"I've seen that the infantry brothers are all full of energy, not as tired as they last crossed Jishi Mountain. Why is that?"

Ge Shuhan patted Cheng Xiaotian's shoulder, stood up and said, "Let's go, General Cheng, go see the same thing as me, and you will understand."

"What are you trying to keep?" Cheng Xiaotian muttered dissatisfiedly, and still followed Ge Shuhan.

The two of them passed through the floating bridge and arrived at the north shore. Before Ge Shuhan could speak, Cheng Xiaotian screamed in shock: "So many war horses? Where did they come from?"

With his keen eyes, he could see at a glance that there were tens of thousands of war horses on the north bank.

"Of course we brought it!" Geshuhan replied.

Cheng Xiaotian was even more surprised: "This is the cavalry's war horse! Why did it come to your hands? Could it be that the cavalry used the war horse for you?"

This incident was too unbelievable, but Ge Shuhan nodded and said, "That's right! This is the cavalry's war horse. As soon as I received the order, the little kid came up with an idea, saying that we would arrive at the fastest speed and ask the cavalry to give the war horses out for us. General Cheng, you didn't see General Fei's face being so long, longer than a horse's face!"

After talking about it, I started to laugh.

"Happy! Happy!" Cheng Xiaotian laughed loudly and high-high to appreciate: "Fei Junxing always thought his cavalry was fast. Now, there is no war horse. Let's see how his cavalry can be fast? Cavalry turns into infantry, this method is very new!"

Geshuhan continued: "Each of us has three war horses, one for riding, one for carrying equipment and dry food, and the other for resting, for rotation. Do you think we can't be happy?"

"That's definitely fast! It's much faster than the cavalry who rushes on two legs!" Cheng Xiaotian was very happy and smiled very happily. Suddenly, his smile froze on his face and touched his forehead: "No! In this way, you should have arrived at the battlefield long ago, why haven't you been fighting? The grass here fell, a large area, are you sleeping here? Ge Shuhan, you are watching us fight to the death, but sleeping here, are you guilty?"

His eyes widened and pointed at Geshuhan, wishing he could slap Geshuhan twice.

Cheng Xiaotian is almost desperate, so Brother Shuhan is fine. He arrives early and sleeps here. Anyone will get angry in such a thing. You can't blame Cheng Xiaotian!

Ge Shuhan's face was somber: "General Cheng, you can't talk nonsense. Do you think I want to sleep here? We have been traveling hundreds of miles and are trapped in the army and are exhausted. When we arrive, we will be in battle. What kind of combat power is there? This is a heavy infantry, not a cavalry, but only a hundred kilograms of clothing. If you don't sleep for a while, you will recover. How can you fight? I don't just want a floating bridge, but also a wide area to prepare for the arrival of the army."

Cheng Xiaotian, who was full of anger, suddenly couldn't come out. After a long time of silence, he said: "General Geshu, your handling is right, I can't blame him. However, when I think of this, I feel uncomfortable. You have to treat me to a drink!"

From the overall perspective, Ge Shuhan's handling is understandable! Cheng Xiaotian knew that he was right and was emotionally unacceptable. He asked Ge Shuhan to invite him to drink, and he would compensate him for it, and he had no other meaning.
Chapter completed!