SFS Chapter 782 Heavy casualties
Chapter 782 Heavy casualties
Chapter 782 Heavy casualties
Even the most powerful eagle shooter on the grassland can only hit a target four hundred paces away.
If Xue Rengui shot at him from such a distance in the first place, he would definitely laugh and think Xue Rengui is a fool.
But after seeing Xue Rengui's force, he didn't think that Xue Rengui's actions were just to frighten him.
And when Xue Rengui drew his bow to aim at her, for some reason, he felt a chill in his heart, and there was a threat of death.
Sabolo didn't have time to think about it, so he rode his horse to avoid it.
However, Xue Rengui's five arrows were not shot in a five-star continuum, but calculated the possible evasion directions of Sabolo.
Although Sabolo dodged the first arrow with his horse, he failed to dodge all the arrows
"Forehead!"
The arrow passed through the middle of Sabolo's neck, bringing out a line of blood.
Sha Boluo looked at Xue Rengui with some astonishment, then lost consciousness and fell from the horse.
"My lord!"
Shabolo's soldiers exclaimed and quickly surrounded him.
When they saw the arrow hole piercing through Shabolo's neck, these soldiers shouted with red eyes: "Master Qijin was shot to death by that Tang general, kill him to avenge Lord Qijin!"
"Master Chengjin is dead?"
The shouts of those personal soldiers not only failed to arouse the same hatred of the Turkic cavalry on the battlefield, but also made the Turkic cavalry have no fighting spirit.
"kill!"
The Turkic cavalry lost their will to fight because of Shaboluo's death. Naturally, Xue Rengui would not let go of this opportunity, shouted loudly, and rushed to kill with his halberd.
Seeing Xue Rengui kill the enemy's coach, the heroic guard greatly increased his fighting spirit, and his tired body seemed to be suddenly full of strength after fighting for so long.
Shaboluo's death dealt a great blow to the Western Turkic soldiers, and they were no match for the brave guard at all.
"Run!"
I don't know who yelled first, causing those Western Turkic soldiers who had no fighting spirit to be defeated directly.
Just as Xue Rengui wanted to lead his troops to chase him down, a military commander shouted loudly: "General, the Turks from the camp have come out."
Xue Rengui looked back and saw that there were less than 2000 of the 200 cavalry who were responsible for intercepting the gap. They couldn't stop the Turkic cavalry at all, and a large number of cavalry rushed out of the gap.
Although the Valiant Guards were elite, it was unrealistic to use 2000 men to stop those crazy Western Turkic soldiers for too long.
The reason why it can be delayed for so long is that the cavalry of the Western Turks fell into chaos and could not charge at all.
The cavalry can't charge and the natural power drops sharply, so they can intercept for so long.
Even so, there were not one out of ten of the two thousand cavalry, and they paid a huge price.
Xue Rengui had no choice but to give up his plan to pursue and lead his troops back to deal with the soldiers who rushed out of the camp.
When Siriguleng was about to flee to Nandaying, he heard the news that Shaboluo had been shot and killed, so he dared to go there and led people directly to the depths of the grassland.
"Wait!" Cheng Yaojin stopped, and said: "Those people suddenly changed direction, there must be something wrong with the South Camp, stop chasing, go to support the brave guard first!"
When Cheng Yaojin came to the battlefield outside the South Camp, he was a little dumbfounded.
Blood flowed into rivers throughout the grassland, and there were broken corpses trampled by war horses everywhere.
Cheng Yaojin has been on the battlefield for a long time, not because he was dumbfounded by the blood on the battlefield, but because the war here is over, Lin Xuan and Xue Rengui are commanding the soldiers to collect the weapons of those who surrendered.
When Lin Xuan saw Cheng Yaojin leading the army coming, he quickly brought Cheng Chumo and Xue Rengui to meet him.
"See General!"
Cheng Yaojin waved his hand and asked, "How is the battle going?"
"Back to the general, the 2 Turkic cavalry who entered the camp killed more than 1 people, surrendered more than 1 people, and the remaining less than [-] people ran away. In addition, the Turkic leaders this time were the five major troops of the Western Turks. One of them, Shaboluo, has been shot dead by Rengui, and more than [-] of his subordinates have fled." Lin Xuan said.
"Okay, okay!" Cheng Yaojin laughed and said, "This time you have made a great contribution, and this old man will personally ask for the credit for you."
"General, if it wasn't for Rengui's timely support and shooting of Shaboluo, it would have been difficult to achieve such a result." Lin Xuan said.
In fact, if Xue Rengui hadn't sent someone to block the gap, the cavalry who entered the camp would have run away long ago.
Lin Xuan had all infantry in his hands, how could he catch up with the cavalry.
Moreover, Sabolo also took [-] cavalry out.
If Xue Rengui hadn't shot and killed Shaboluo, which caused the Turkic cavalry to flee, once the turkish cavalry continued to drag out, the brave guards would be in danger of being flanked by the front and back.
"The general ordered his subordinates to come here, and his subordinates dare not take credit for it." Xue Rengui said.
"Haha." Cheng Yaojin laughed and said, "Pushing and pushing has become the credit of the old man. The detailed battle situation will be reported to His Majesty when the old man understands it clearly. His Majesty will decide whose credit."
At the end of the war, the battlefield was first cleaned and the wounded were treated.
In addition, after fighting fiercely for nearly a day, I was already exhausted after eating some dry food.
But with so many horses dead, the soldiers could have a full meal.
As for the corpses of those horses stained with human blood, it was nothing at all.
Cannibalism was not uncommon in ancient times.
Some people even used human flesh as military rations.
These horse meat stained with human blood are not unacceptable to soldiers.
The enticing smell of meat wafted from the camp, because there was too much meat and the weather was so hot that it was impossible to finish it all. Cheng Yaojin was very generous, not only the cavalry of the Mukun tribe, but even the soldiers who surrendered were given a lot of meat.
Lin Xuan didn't eat horse meat, it's one thing to taste bad, and he also felt that he was in a panic, so he ate some dry food to deal with it.
After the meal, Cheng Yaojin arranged for several lieutenants to lead the troops to clean the battlefield.
The weather is hot now, if those corpses are not buried as soon as possible, it is easy to cause plague.
Generally, when the two armies are at war, they will allow the other side to send people to collect the bodies of their own soldiers during the truce.
On the one hand, the dead are the greatest, and on the other hand, they are afraid of causing a plague.
Now all the people in the Western Turks have run away, and the burial of the corpses can only be done by the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.
After making arrangements, Cheng Yaojin summoned the generals to discuss the matter.
"Today's victory depends on the concerted efforts of all of you. Your Majesty will be delighted when he learns about it!" Cheng Yaojin said with a smile.
All the generals laughed, they fought for the purpose of being a marquis and prime minister, and Li Shimin would not be stingy in rewarding such a great victory.
"Have the casualties been counted?" Cheng Yaojin asked.
"Returning to the general, the casualties have been counted. There are more than [-] soldiers who died in battle, and [-] soldiers were injured. Western Turkic [-] cavalry, less than [-] escaped, and more than [-] were captured. The rest were all killed in battle. More than [-] horses, cattle and sheep were captured..." The commander of the army, Bo, described the deaths and the results of the battle in detail.
Fifty thousand against one hundred thousand, with more than 3 casualties, killing most of the opponent, it is a big victory.
But after everyone listened, no one could be happy.
(End of this chapter)