Chapter 140: Creating Miracle

The Tang army was like a rope leading a cow, leading 20,000 Tubo soldiers to gallop on the vast grassland outside the city of Doma.

At about ten miles, the left-wing cavalry of Tubo had already set a distance away from the main force of Tubo. Under the sharp arrows of the Tang army, nearly half of the casualties were killed and severely damaged. Wherever others passed, the ground was red.

Cheng Xiaotian knew that the opportunity to deal with them was coming. He quickly put away his bow and arrow, grabbed the horse spear, shouted, and rushed towards the left-wing cavalry of Tubo.

Since passing the Shibao City, the vast northern Tibetan Plateau has become a paradise for this cavalry, free to come and go, and invincible. If it weren't for the frustration of the city of Doma, I wouldn't know where they had fought. After Doma was frustrated, the Tang army would have been in a state of great trouble and would have wanted to fight with the Tubo people. When they saw Cheng Xiaotian rushing up, they were all overjoyed, grabbed the horse spear, and shouted and killed them.

After being dragged by the Tang army, the left-wing cavalry of Tubo was in chaos and almost formed an army. Before I could figure out what was going on, I saw the water splashes of the Tang army like huge waves, and I knew it was not good.

Now, in order not to have greater casualties, the best way for the Tubo army is to break away from contact and avoid attacking the Tang army. However, it was too late. The Tang army floated like a strong wind, and the horse spear in its hand was like a poisonous snake, devouring the lives of the Tubo cavalry.

Behind the horse spear is a horizontal sword. In the snow-like sword light, the Tubo cavalry fell off their horses, shouting and neighing, and they were in chaos and defeated.

When Dalan saw the Tang army rushing towards his left-wing cavalry, he knew something was wrong and immediately led the right-wing cavalry to rescue him. However, Cheng Xiaotian was very smart and would never give him a chance. After rushing into the Tubo cavalry formation, he immediately ordered a melee.

The Tubo cavalry was killed and killed by the Tang army during this period. After stabbing the horse spear and slashing with a horizontal knife, there was no way to resist it. After leaving behind more than a thousand corpses, they fled in a panic and fled straight to the right-wing cavalry led by Dalan.

He let out a sigh, Cheng Xiaotian waved his hand and ordered the Tang army to reorganize the formation and go to the distance. After a few miles away, the Tang army's formation had been rectified. Cheng Xiaotian ordered the Tang army to slow down and prepare to deal with another cavalry in Dalan.

Dalan already understood Cheng Xiaotian's tactics, and the Tubo army would do this tactic. However, the Tubo army had a fatal flaw, that is, the range of the bow was not as good as that of Tang Junyuan. According to Cheng Xiaotian's fighting style, his cavalry rushed up to him and was just a life-threatening death.

Now, the most important way is to suppress Cheng Xiaotian so that he cannot play this advantage. However, there are hundreds of miles of flat grasslands under the city of Doma, which is a paradise for cavalry to gallop. Although the rain is quite heavy, the impact of heavy rain on the Tubo army and the Tang army is the same. It is very difficult to trap the Tang army.

According to Dalan's vision, Cheng Xiaotian would either fight him head-on in this battle, retreat or escape. He would never have expected that Cheng Xiaotian would use the Turkic tactics to make him helpless.

At this moment, the imperial guard Qianhu Nowang arrived and asked, "Master, please let us imperial guards go! I don't believe that they can escape from the palm of our imperial guards."

Dalan is now in a difficult situation. If Cheng Xiaotian does not annihilate Cheng, he will not be able to deal with the reinforcements coming. According to Cheng Xiaotian's fighting style, the Tang army's bows and arrows are long, and the Tubo army will go up and die, but he has no choice but to fight. After pondering for a while, Dalan nodded and said, "Change all the imperial guards in the country, divide them into three routes, and then transfer this cavalry to attack from four directions at the same time. I will deploy the infantry to other locations to support you."

This idea is good, Nowan praised: "The Grand Marshal is brilliant!"

The order was passed down, and the imperial guards in the city were transferred out of the city, divided into three parts, occupying three directions. Cheng Xiaotian saw it and laughed: "Brothers: These are the elite of Tubo Zanpu, the imperial guards of Tubo! Our luck today actually caused us to bump into it! Brothers, do you have the confidence to kill them?"

"Yes!" After fighting for this time, the left-wing cavalry of Tubo was defeated. Everyone was excited and shouted loudly.

The method Dalan used was like cloth pieces on a chessboard. When he set the pieces down, it would become a big net, which would leave Cheng Xiaotian nowhere to retreat or escape. Mobility was Cheng Xiaotian's magic weapon for victory, so how could Dalan have restrained his hands and feet? Cheng Xiaotian took off his hard bow and rushed towards the Tubo imperial guards on the left like lightning.

The most threat to Cheng Xiaotian was the Tubo cavalry. Because the cavalry ran fast, they quickly defeated the Tubo cavalry, so Cheng Xiaotian chose this imperial guard to attack.

Nowan was in this imperial guards, and was very dissatisfied and snorted coldly: "You can shoot arrows, can't we?" Commanding the imperial guards came up.

What he could not have imagined was that after a rain of arrows in the Tang army, they suddenly divided into two parts and circled around his left side. As long as they bypassed them, the obstruction arranged by Dalan would be invalid and would become the Tang army leading the Tubo army and run away.

Nowang naturally would not let the Tang army go, and divided the imperial guards into two parts and chased them up. Both sides were arrows like rain, with each suffering casualties. After a violent collision, the Tang army bypassed the imperial guards, and Shao Sheng and Cheng Xiaotian gathered together.

This time, it took some time to bypass the imperial guards, and the Tang army suffered more casualties. However, it was worth it. The Tang army broke out from the encirclement arranged by Dalan and let them gallop across hundreds of miles of grassland.

The Tang army gathered together and adopted the tactic of the ox-shaped archery, taking advantage of the Tang army's range of bows and arrows that were farther than that of the Tubo army, seized the opportunity to shoot a round of arrows and retreated immediately, and there was absolutely no need to put it aside.

When it comes to cavalry and shooting, the Tubo army is not necessarily worse than the Tang army. However, the bow is not as strong as the Tang army's bow, and no one can do it. What Nuowang wants most at this moment is that his imperial guards can have a hard bow from the Tang army, so the Tang army's fighting style will be invalid immediately.

War is not just a competition between the army, but also a competition between civilization and technology. Tubo is far inferior to the Tang Dynasty in this regard. Where did the hard bow come from? Nowang was just thinking about it.

If the Imperial Guard had no choice but to deal with the Tang army, then not only would Nuowang have a dull face, but even Jide Zuzan's face was not good-looking. Nuowang knew that chasing him was a death sentence, but for the sake of the Imperial Guard, he had to lead the Imperial Guard to chase him.

Chasing and fleeing, Cheng Xiaotian commanded the Tang army to kill and injure the imperial guards during the retreat. At the beginning, Cheng Xiaotian circled around the city of Doma, and later Dalan commanded the Tubo army to set up points everywhere to intercept the Tang army. If he wanted to circle around Doma, he would take the Tang army to the distance.

On the unblocked grassland, it is the paradise of cavalry. The Tang army can gallop freely. If Dalan wants to block Cheng Xiaotian, it is impossible. Infantry, it is useless to run fast without cavalry. Cavalry is useful, but it is just to chase after it. What's the use of it? It's just a matter of increasing casualties!

Nowang tightly clenched the Tang army. After half an hour passed, his imperial guards suffered hundreds of casualties. This was the elite of the Tubo army, who was particularly good at fighting, wearing iron armor and had good protection. If it were other troops, there would have been thousands of casualties.

On the other hand, the Tang army had only a few dozen casualties. Cheng Xiaotian knew the power of the Tubo imperial guards, so he did not want to confront them head-on. He ordered the Tang army not to stop and shoot arrows, and asked them to turn around and shoot arrows. This would save some time, facilitate distance from the imperial guards and reduce casualties.

Dalan had no choice but to come from behind with all the cavalry. He was determined to bite the Tang army and not give him rest time. The Tang army's cavalry shooting was good, but the Tang army's arrows were always used up. When the Tang army had no arrows, they would come to fight with the Tang army again. See if you can escape to the sky?

The Tang army was not divided into branches, and each had a pair of bows and arrows. Even infantrymen would have twenty regular arrows. Cheng Xiaotian advanced quickly with light clothes, relying on riding and shooting. Each arrow was equipped with several quiver pots. It would be easier for them to use up all the arrows.

The two armies began a big chase on the grassland outside the city of Doma. Until dark, the Tang army's arrows were not used up. Daran was extremely depressed and had to order the army to camp and rest.

After the army set up a camp, Dalan came to count the casualties. If he didn't count it, he was shocked. Just today, his army suffered as many casualties as 5,000. Among them, the casualties of the imperial guards reached an astonishing 30%.

As for the casualties of the Tang army, he roughly estimated that it was only about one thousand. This was just an ordinary army of the Tang army, not very elite army, which actually caused the casualties of the imperial guards to reach 30%, and he would not believe it even if he was killed.

The facts are right in front of you, and you won’t be able to believe it!

Regarding this battle, Cheng Xiaotian concluded afterwards: "In the battle under the city of Doma, the reason why we can use a very small price to exchange for huge victory! It is not my tactical rival, nor is it that my brothers are particularly good at fighting because we have a good bow, which is longer than the bow of the Tubo Imperial Army. Otherwise, I will have to take my brothers to escape!"

What made Cheng Xiaotian feel regretful was that Dalan concentrated all the cavalry, and he could only kill and injure the Tubo cavalry, but could not defeat him. If Dalan had not concentrated all the cavalry, if his cavalry were dispersed, his cavalry would repeat the mistakes of his left-wing cavalry, first consumed the Tang army, and then defeated him in one fell swoop when the time was right.

That night, Cheng Xiaotian was afraid of Dalan's surprise attack, and even more afraid that he would send troops to surround them in secret, so he would be more careful. Fortunately, Dalan did not do this.

The reason why Darran did not do this is because his army was far away from Doma City, and it was impossible for his army to come. Second, if there is a night of melee, there will be great casualties. Because this melee will not only kill and hurt the enemy, but also kill and hurt the own people. Sometimes after fighting for half a night, it will be impossible to do this.

On the second day, both sides continued to chase. This time, Cheng Xiaotian did not flee elsewhere, but returned to Doma City. When Cheng Xiaotian retreated to Doma City, all the Tubo troops outside Doma City retreated into the city and stood on the top of the city to watch the chase scenes between the two sides.

Dalan was smart. What he paid the most attention to was not the casualties, nor how great the Tang army's cavalry was, but the Tang army's quiver. As he watched, Tang army's quiver was getting fewer and fewer quiver, and the haze in his heart gradually dissipated. At this level of consumption, the Tang army would not have arrows until it was dark. By then, the Tang army would either flee or fight with them, which was exactly what he expected.

This is one of the reasons why Dalan gave up the plan to steal the camp last night. In his opinion, the Tang army's arrows will be exhausted sooner or later, and it will be too urgent for a moment.

As he expected, Cheng Xiaotian was also extremely anxious. Cheng Tianxiao rolled on the battlefield for so many years, but he never worried about the lack of arrows. Although Cheng Xiaotian was anxious, he was not worried because he made up his mind to continue to circle with the Tubo army when the arrows were used up. As long as he persisted for another day or two, the subsequent troops would arrive.

At dusk, the rain stopped and the sky cleared. The long-lost sun showed a smile, and it seemed that the weather was going to be clear.

As the weather improved, the Tang army's advancement speed would be faster, and reinforcements arrived earlier, Cheng Xiaotian's heart was a little bit wider, and Dalanmo's idea became more firm.

Cheng Xiaotian touched the quiver with his right hand, but he took a emptied look. The thing he was most worried about happened, and the arrows finally ran out!

The Tang army had all the arrows, and the opportunity to encircle and annihilate came. Darlanda was excited and shouted loudly, leading the Tubo army to cover up and kill him.

"General, what should I do?" Shao Sheng felt very sorry: "If I had known, I would bring more arrows!"

No one has the ability to know the truth and can do nothing.

Cheng Xiaotian waved his hand and said, "Retreat, don't fight with the Tubo people head-on! Don't fight unless you have to!"

This is all he could do. However, Dalan was a shrewd man. He also thought that Cheng Xiaotian might retreat without fighting, so he transferred the army in the city and arranged it around. As soon as the opportunity came, he ordered the Tubo army to rush towards the Tang army from all directions.

Looking at the Tubo army that was surging up like a tide, Cheng Xiaotian led the Tang army to rush into the slanting thorns, intending to rush out before the Tubo army encirclement was formed.

The Tang army moved like the wind and went very quickly. The Tubo army was not slow, so they hurriedly caught up, but they were still one step slower, and the Tang army had already rushed out.

A team of Tubo infantry was rushing over. Cheng Xiaotian said coldly: "Horse spear! Get ready to rush!" The Tang army held up the horse spear and rushed towards the Tubo infantry. After the horse spear was stabbed, it was a horizontal knife. After a storm-like attack, the Tubo infantry suffered a lot of casualties. However, the Tubo imperial guards were led by Nowang.

The infantry was blocking the important road. If they were not defeated, the Tang army would not rush out. Therefore, Cheng Xiaotian would not be able to do so. But this burden was bitten by Nowang.

Now we have to fight if we don’t fight. Since we want to fight, Cheng Xiaotian is not afraid and commands the Tang army to fight. The Tang army held a horse spear and rushed straight towards the imperial guards. The imperial guards held a spear, without fear, and came up.

"I can't escape at last!" Nowang smiled proudly and rushed up with the imperial guards.

The two armies met, as if two mountains collided, and the earth-shaking fighting, shouting, and horse sounds resounded throughout the sky.

There are many people who have fallen, including the Tang army and the Tubo army. Head-on combat is not conducive to the light-fit Tang army. They suffer a great loss, and the casualties are much greater than those of the Tubo Imperial Army.

After two days of pursuit, more than half of the imperial guards were killed or killed, and not many left. However, the Tang army suffered thousands of casualties, and this Tang army had only five thousand people. The thousands of casualties were also a considerable loss for Cheng Xiaotian.

Although the Tang army was unfavorable, they were not afraid. No one was afraid, and no one retreated. They all pulled out their swords and fought hard. Although the Tang army's equipment was unfavorable, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. The two armies fought head-on, and no one could get a advantage. As time passed, more and more corpses were accumulated on the ground, and blood dyed the water on the ground red. It was particularly terrifying in the sunset, like a blood lake.

More than half of the Tang army suffered casualties, and the Tubo imperial guards were almost wiped out. Dalan had to admire the courage and combat power of the Tang army, nodded, and rode out: "The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty listened: As long as you surrender, I will spare your lives! I can also guarantee that you will not be slaves!"

According to Tubo's regulations, prisoners of war were all slaves, especially the Tang army prisoners of war, which were the favorites of the slave masters. Even if they were not slaves, they had to try every means to become slaves. As promised like him, it was unique in Tubo's history.

"There are only people who died in battle in the Tang Dynasty, and no souls of humiliation!" Cheng Xiaotian answered him passionately.

"There are only people who died in battle in the Tang Dynasty, and no souls of humiliation!" Tang army shouted in unison, waving the horizontal sword in their hands and slashing and slashing.

Dalan admires Cheng Xiaotian's Tang army from the bottom of his heart. He is skilled in riding and shooting, sharply chopping and killing, and has extraordinary courage. He is definitely a rare elite force. With his inferior equipment, he can actually destroy the imperial guards. His combat power can be imagined.

The reason why he promised not to let the Tang army be a slave was because he had another idea, that was, he wanted to turn them into instructors and ask them to help train the Tubo army. The Tubo army was absorbing the strengths of the Tang army, but there were no soldiers who had lived in the Tang army for the rest of their lives to teach.

During the Western Han Dynasty, after the efforts of Emperor Wu of Han, the combat effectiveness of the Han army was unprecedentedly improved and became the target of attention of all countries around the country. At that time, the soldiers of the Han army were very popular. Even the Huns were learning from the Han army. They captured the Han army's soldiers and would not kill them or use them as slaves, but asked them to train the Hun army.

After Li Ling surrendered to the Huns, Emperor Wu of Han received information that Li Ling was teaching the Huns' army's tactics. Emperor Wu of Han destroyed Li Ling's family in anger. After finding out the truth, he was another traitor named Li Ling, not Li Ling, and Emperor Wu of Han regretted it. This also ruined Li Ling's idea of ​​returning to the Han Dynasty. He said a sad saying that has been passed down through the ages, "I have already subdued my humble conquer."

Similarly, the Tang army had excellent combat techniques and well-trained, and was imitated by neighboring countries. One of the important reasons why the Tang army's prisoners of war were popular was that the slave masters wanted them to train their own troops.

If you get the help of Cheng Xiaotian and the others, the combat effectiveness of the Tubo army will rise. After hearing Cheng Xiaotian's answer, Dalan sighed: "You must withdraw the imperial guards and let other troops go. Remember, let them die in battle! The hero should be born for battle and die for battle!"

The imperial guards retreated, and another Tubo army fought with the Tang army.

Dalan sighed and raised his tone: "General Cheng, don't worry, I will arrange your funeral according to the highest etiquette of our Tubo!"

"Thank you!" Cheng Xiaotian replied with a big laugh: "But, no need! Because we can't die!"

Daran laughed loudly: "General Cheng, I finally understand why your army is so capable of fighting because you are funny enough. Just talking and joking is enough to make them happy!"

Cheng Xiaotian smiled heartily and said, "General Dalan, what I said is true! If you don't believe it, you will know if you look back."
Chapter completed!