Chapter 92 North of Xiangji Temple, Luring the Enemy Deep Into the Territory
Faced with this question raised by the Tibetan King Dama, the Tibetan generals present naturally did not know how to answer.
However, this did not stump the clever Tibetan generals.
Someone immediately ordered the messenger to rush to the battlefield to convey the King's will to the Tibetan cavalry commander Bai Ma and find out the identity of the enemy commander.
Obviously, for the generals, including the Tibetan King Dama, they did not regard this Han cavalry of more than 10,000 people as a qualified battlefield opponent.
In the eyes of the arrogant Tibetan generals, this was just a small training battle.
Strictly speaking, it was no wonder that the Tibetan generals underestimated the enemy.
In fact, they took advantage of the civil strife in Daxin to send troops to the east. In the process of conquering the states along the Hexi and Longyou lines, the Anxi frontier army that fought against the Tibetan army seemed vulnerable.
For example, in the Battle of Longyou, the Tubo cavalry general Baima led a vanguard of 10,000 cavalrymen to defeat the 50,000 Anxi frontier troops in two rounds of charge.
Another example is that the Tubo King Dama personally commanded 200,000 Tubo troops to fight against the 100,000 elite Anxi frontier troops who came back to support Chang'an City.
With the same trick, the elite Anxi frontier troops, known as "invincible in battle and invincible in attack", were defeated and fled back to Chang'an City in a hurry.
Since the Tubo army's eastward expedition, such battles, whether it is a victory of the few or a victory of the many, the final victory will fall to the Tubo side.
In this way, with the confidence of repeated victories, the Tubo King Dama, who was arrogant by nature, became even more arrogant, and often put on an attitude of "the sky is the boss, the earth is the second, and he is the third".
Invisibly, the Tibetan generals under his command became arrogant, thinking that the Tibetan army was invincible and the enemy was nothing.
Therefore, there was a strange scene at this moment, where the Tibetan generals sent messengers to the battle zone to find out the identity of the enemy's commander.
After a while, the messenger finally conveyed the Tibetan Zamp's order to Bai Ma, who was fighting with the Xuanjia Army cavalry on the battlefield.
The latter waved a long sword and faced several Xuanjia cavalry on horseback without losing the upper hand.
Clang!
Suddenly, Bai Ma used a powerful sweep to force back several Xuanjia cavalry who were besieging him.
Bai Ma looked at Zuo Liangcai who was fighting desperately not far away, and shouted: "Would you like to leave your name?"
Over there, Zuo Liangcai, who was holding the hard spear with both hands and knocking a Tibetan cavalryman off his horse again, heard the words and replied without raising his head:
"Zuo Liangcai is the vanguard commander of the Longcheng Western Expedition Army under the command of Jin Wang Chen Huaian!"
After saying that, he rode his horse again and waved his spear to charge the enemy.
Soon, the information about Zuo Liangcai's identity was passed back to the ears of Dama Zamp by the Tibetan messenger and horsemen.
"Zuo Liangcai?"
Dama said to himself: "Hearing the name, he is quite a dragon among men, a famous general!"
He shook his head and continued: "It's a pity that he is a short-lived man. He has martial arts skills, but he can't follow any famous master. He has to join the tent of Chen Huaian, a short-lived ghost. What a pity, what a pity!"
After saying that, Dama seemed to lose interest. He waved his hand and said: "Pass the order down, annihilate all the cavalry of the Han army, leaving no one alive!"
"It will also make Guo Dingfang and the remnants of the Anxi border army in Chang'an City give up the idea of holding on and waiting for help!"
"Got the order!"
However, on the battlefield that was changing rapidly, before the messenger of Tubo Zamp Dama could set off, Zuo Liangcai suddenly commanded the black armor cavalry to change their formation.
The black armor army changed the dense wedge formation into an inverted triangle offensive formation.
Zuo Liangcai, one man, one horse, one spear, stood proudly at the top of the inverted triangle attack formation, pointing the lance in his hand, with the tip of the spear pointing directly at the direction of the Tubo camp.
Zuo Liangcai shouted: "Target, Tubo camp, charge!"
"Kill!"
In an instant, the shouts of killing outside Chang'an City shook the sky.
Zuo Liangcai rushed on horseback, and used the lance in his hand to open a hole in the Tubo cavalry camp.
Behind him, 800 new troops of Po Lu continued to expand the enemy's defense line torn open by General Zuo, opening up space for the subsequent charge of the black armor cavalry.
In the blink of an eye, the black armor cavalry, who were originally deep in the encirclement of the Tubo army and exhausted, seemed to have been reborn and burst out with amazing combat power.
Under the leadership of the main general Zuo Liangcai, the 30,000 Tubo cavalry that surrounded them were divided into two with an inverted triangle attack formation.
Then, they marched straight into the Tubo camp.
"Good!"
"Very good!"
"Well done!"
On the east gate wall of Chang'an City, General Guo Dingfang, the general of Zhenxi, was leading the generals of the Anxi frontier army guarding the city to watch the battle.
After seeing Zuo Liangcai lead his troops to fight against the enemy with a small number of troops, tear open the Tubo cavalry defense line, and rush straight to the Tubo camp, he couldn't help but burst into tears and cheered.
In his heart, he even had a belief that "Thanks to His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin for not abandoning me, I will follow you to the death."
Guo Dingfang couldn't help but lie on the city wall and roared to the sky: "The reinforcements from Longcheng have arrived, the siege of Chang'an has been lifted, and the defeat of the Tubo enemy is just around the corner!"
"General, but from my observation, the reinforcements from Longcheng are only more than 10,000 troops. Can they resist 200,000 Tubo bandits?"
The next moment, the voice of an Anxi border garrison commander was like a basin of cold water, pouring down on the garrison commanders who were about to cheer.
It was chilling, chilling.
Yes, the two sides fought fiercely until this point, and only these ten thousand soldiers and horses were fighting on the battlefield.
In the end, the commander-in-chief was determined to die and led his soldiers to raid the Tubo camp.
This scene, in the eyes of the Anxi border army generals who were somewhat disheartened after losing battles and trapped in Chang'an City, was undoubtedly a heroic sacrifice to resist foreign humiliation.
There was no hope of defeating the Tubo enemy army in them.
Hahaha!
At this time, Guo Dingfang suddenly laughed out loud and said to the general who raised the doubt: "He Dongshi, do you dare to make a bet with this general?"
"Let's bet that this Longcheng army has raised an army and this time it is a strategy to lure the enemy deep into the territory!"
"The large force of the Longcheng reinforcements must be in a mountain near Chang'an City, preparing for battle and waiting for the Tubo enemy to fall into the trap!"
Sure enough, Guo Dingfang's voice had just fallen.
Over there, the black armored cavalrymen who had raided the Tubo camp turned their horses' heads and fired rockets with their manu equipment on horseback, setting the tents of the Tubo camp on fire.
After a round of volleys of rockets, they rode away without hesitation.
The direction of retreat was exactly north of Xiangji Temple!
Hahaha!
Guo Dingfang laughed again, and said with tears in his eyes: "What do you think? Is my guess right? Everyone, just wait and see--"
"The Dragon City Army of His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin must be somewhere outside Chang'an City, waiting for the Anxi Border Army soldiers who died on the battlefield for me, and the innocent people who died tragically under the butcher knife of the Tubo barbarians, to avenge their hatred!"