As a general, you should fight in front of the battle array.
As a commander, you should sit in the army.
Although Su Ce wanted to go to the city wall to fight the Tubo people in person, Su Ce understood his identity better at this moment.
"Bed crossbow, shoot!"
"Royal!"
"push!"
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The city wall was already in danger due to the all-out attack of the Tibetan army. Looking at the disheveled Tibetan slaves, although Ganjun understood that this was a strategy of attrition by the Tibetan people, he could only bite the bullet and push up.
The main army fights, and the auxiliary troops provide cover.
The injured soldiers were carried down the city wall by auxiliary soldiers and transported to the governor's mansion in the city. Because of the large courtyard, it had been temporarily used as a place for injured soldiers.
"Carry the alive ones in, and carry the battle-damaged ones to the next door."
The military doctor wearing white linen shouted loudly at the gate of the Governor's Mansion.
The Tubo people were too cruel, and their arrows were coated with feces. Such a wound required a large piece of flesh to be cut out. After hundreds of years of fighting, military doctors in the army had their own methods of treating wounds. Whether they can survive depends on the individual. It's fate.
"Adjust Baipi Ma, and also inform the governor that there is enough medicine for injuries, so he should not worry!"
"promise!"
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The auxiliary soldiers of the governor's office were busy moving around under the command of dozens of military doctors.
The shouts in the courtyard were intertwined with the cries of pain from the wounded soldiers.
Compared to the Governor's Mansion, the courtyard next to the Governor's Mansion seemed extremely quiet.
"Sun An, Jiannan Road, died!"
"Du Feng of Jiannan Road died!"
"Jiannan Daozhang Temple is dead!"
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The youngest soldiers in the army are all here. Here they take off the damaged armor of the lifeless Zepao, take off the wooden plaques on the armor, and take off the bloody clothes soaked in blood.
The hand holding the horizontal knife twists the needle and thread. The wounds with big mouths are mostly concentrated on the face and neck, and the needle and thread need to sew these wounds.
Under the command of a school captain, buckets of well water turned red.
With tears in his eyes, he looked at the neatly arranged robes lying in the courtyard, and the captain sang an ancient war song.
"I am wearing iron armor and carrying a long sword. I am fighting with you. The road is long.
We share the same hatred against the enemy, and we share life and death. We fight with our sons, and our hearts are not sluggish.
Walking on the swallows, chasing the wild children. Fighting with the son, singing fearlessly."
The captain of the school was singing, and the young soldiers with needles and threads were singing. Soon the singing in the center of the city spread to the city walls, and the soldiers who were fighting also sang ancient war songs in a boring way.
After three times, the Tubo people on the city wall were still pouring into the city.
In the center of the city, a senior cadre lieutenant placed a torch on the pyre.
When the sun is high at noon, the fireworks in the city go out.
General jar, collecting bones.
The government troops are out, when will they return?
Wooden sign, bloody clothes, general jar.
They were all placed in wooden boxes.
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"Casualties!" Su Ce had been taking command in the archery tower all morning. His voice was dry and hoarse, and his words were like sandpaper rubbing against each other.
Zhao Pei held a brand new roster in his hand, glanced at Su Ce, and took a deep breath: "Four hundred and seventy-six people were killed, and one thousand three hundred were injured!"
"There are no enemy troops in the east of the city, so we sent out reconnaissance cavalry to contact Yizhou." Su Ce looked at the Tubo people who had just retreated outside the city expressionlessly.
Zhao Pei knew that no matter how elite the Daqian Mansion soldiers were, they would be cannibalized by the invisible Tubo people outside the city. Manpower had its limits, and it was always too little to defeat more with less. However, Zhao Pei did not refute it. Su Ce, this is the fate of the soldiers and cannot be avoided.
"In the afternoon, I will lead two thousand cavalry out of the city. The Tubo people's camp does not have that many cattle and sheep. Obviously they also brought food here. If this consumption continues, Maozhou cannot sustain it! In the afternoon, I will lead the cavalry out of the city and go around to Tubo. If there is no food on the people's food road, Yizhou only needs to send a fine cavalry, and none of these Tibetans can escape." Su Ce looked down at the map around Maozhou City, holding on to one place, and losing both people and land.
Maozhou is isolated and helpless, so we divide our troops and send out a supporting army.
Yizhou City!
"King of Shu, the criminal will be punished!" Zhou Zheng seemed to have changed into a different person in just five days. The armor on his body was covered in blood, and the palace's silver armor looked like blood armor.
The whole person walked in front of the king of Shu, Zhao Zaixiao. The fishy smell coming from the shop made the attendants around the king of Shu feel nauseous.
But Zhao Zaixiao's expression did not change at all.
"Battle damage!"
"Behead 79,000 thieves and lose 13,000 troops!"
King Zhao Zaixiao of Shu closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Some things only require a military order, but every word is written with dry bones.
"Su Ce of Maozhou made a decision. Two thousand cavalrymen cut off the Tubo grain road. Five thousand cavalrymen were transferred from the Yizhou camp and put under your command to rush to Maozhou's aid and defend Maozhou. One day later, he led the remaining 20,000 troops of Yizhou from the mountain road south of Maozhou city.
Bypassing Maozhou to block the Tibetan people's retreat, as soon as the soldiers from Jiannan Pass arrived, they used the beacon smoke as a signal to surround and annihilate the Tibetan army."
Maozhou was in danger, but Maozhou was not the only place being attacked by the Tibetans at this time.
Songzhou City in Longyou was also attacked by the Tubos at this time. However, Songzhou and the Tubos had enough troops to come and go. The Tubos lost 30,000 troops, but they did not even touch the wall of Songzhou City.
There are only so many military forces. Some places are heavily guarded, while other places are weak. If the number of people fighting exceeds 100,000, the strategy will seem hollow. Especially in this kind of offensive war without depth, the competition is the army's strength.
toughness.
The Central Wing of Tubo lost troops and generals, so the idea of conquering Songzhou and harassing Guanlong was abandoned.
However, in Jiannan Road, the Tubo people have a great chance. Tubo Zampu personally leads 20,000 snow mountain riders and is rushing to the direction of Maozhou. As for the Tubo army in Songzhou, they have begun to build walls in various mountain valleys. The Tubo army is in Songzhou
It has become a defensive position, but Maozhou City is in danger after several days of offensive.
"Night attack tonight!" It has been two days since Su Ce led two thousand cavalry out of Maozhou City. After two days of marching over a hundred miles, they have already reached the back of the Tubo people.
The Tubo people imitated Dagan, but only superficially. Dagan sent out troops, with one main army and two supplies.
The Tibetan army did not have many cattle and sheep, and there were not so many livestock for them to eat on the plateau, so the Tubo people also had food routes.
For an army with more than 50,000 people, logistics is extremely important.
The Tubo people regarded the lives of slaves as grass clippings. Using slaves to consume Maozhou's military strength was a good strategy, but it also became their weakness.
Looking at the unguarded Tubo baggage train in the valley, Su Ce knew that he had made the right bet.
With insufficient troops at hand, Su Ce was betting that Zhao Pei and Maozhou City's Zepao could defend Maozhou.
"Leave no one behind!" Su Ce shouted and rushed down the gentle slope with his horse. The light cavalry behind him followed closely behind.
"Beep!"
"Beep!"
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The captain of the cavalry blew the copper whistle he held in his mouth. The harsh sound of the whistle caused the well-trained Daqian light cavalry to divide into ten groups.
Five hundred light cavalry were like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer against a thousand-strong Tibetan carriage team.
But this chicken must be killed.
The heavy cavalry and armored cavalry remained fifty miles behind the Tibetan military camp. They wanted to block the Tibetan return reinforcements in these mountains and valleys.
The complex terrain of Xichuan was not a battlefield for large groups of cavalry. Su Ce also knew this, so he divided the two thousand cavalry into dozens of groups.
Except for the largest group of 500 light cavalry, the other cavalry mostly consisted of a team or a brigade.
In this way, the entire Tibetan people did not have a grain truck to transport into the military camp for a whole day.
No food!
It will make the Tibetan army go crazy, but after the madness, it will be destroyed.
"Zhao Sima, brothers send us off!"
"I know!" Zhao Pei picked up the pen and crossed out the last stroke in the military register. His eyes were sunken and Zhao Zi hadn't slept for more than two days.
Su Ce left three days ago, and there are still 6,000 soldiers in the city gasping for air. Today, the Tibetan offensive is particularly fierce. The Tibetan archers and guards also joined the battle. The arrows in the city have been exhausted, and the soldiers on the wall only have
The arrows that the Tibetans shot into the city could be pulled out from the wooden planks that were transported up the city wall.
Looking at the exquisite arrows, the soldiers of Maozhou City just wanted to slaughter all the wealthy families in Jiannan Road, because these arrows engraved with the marks of Yizhou Arsenal are the wealthy families that have risen in Jiannan Road in recent years.
Sold little by little to the Tubo people.
As the Tibetan archers and guards joined the siege team, the pressure on the soldiers of Maozhou City was too great.
The same armor, the same weapons, but for the lack of cooperation on the part of the Tubo people, there is no telling whether Maozhou City could have been defended or not.
"Burn! Let's go to the next place!" Looking at the Tibetan slaves begging for mercy on the ground, Su Ce just glanced at them, waved his hand, and his cavalry slaughtered all the Tibetan slaves who were kneeling begging for mercy.
War is never kind.
Zhou Zheng set out from Yizhou. In order to preserve the strength of his war horses, he walked very steadily.
The reconnaissance cavalry in the army traveled back and forth between Maozhou and Yizhou. The terrain of Xichuan was uneven, so the Tibetans could only attack the west side of Maozhou City. The government soldiers at the east gate only prevented the Tibetans from taking a detour to attack the city. However, as Maozhou
Ximen's imperial troops were completely destroyed, and Zhao Pei also transferred many imperial troops from the other three sides.
"Maozhou is still in our hands!" Zhou Zheng stopped a scout and after a brief inquiry, he was relieved when he got the answer he wanted.
In the Tubo camp,
"No food! Where is our baggage?"
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Not to mention the panic in the Tubo camp, Tubo Zampu did not even lower his eyebrows when he received the battle report.
In his expectation, the Zhongyi attacked Songzhou, and then harassed Guanlong and Daqianfu soldiers. Hehe, when the time comes, Jiannan and Guanlong would choose one from the other, so that Tubo could occupy Jiannan Road. With the danger of Bashan, the entire
Jiannan will become the territory of the Tubo people.
However, the sudden increase in the number of troops at the end caused his plan to go awry.
However, as long as Songzhou's army can hold back Daqianguanlong's troops, then Jiannan Road will still belong to Tubo.
But no one expected that a decisive battle between Daqian and Tubo in Xichuan would be beyond everyone's expectations.