Chapter 72 The whole army collapsed and fled to death

Chen Ying was very happy to change the military system himself. He believed that one thousand five hundred people and one Zhechong Mansion could be like a regiment in later generations, and undertake tactical tasks on one hand. So he changed the 1,200 troops and horses of the Tang Dynasty's military mansion to 1,500 troops.

Fortunately, the military system in the early Tang Dynasty was quite chaotic, and no one really cared about Chen Ying. In this way, a regiment originally had two hundred people, but it turned into three hundred people. However, most of the other Tang troops adopted a regiment of two hundred people. Now only Chen Ying's cavalry, Modao Army, Beiwei Army, the Dingyuan Army, and the East Palace left and right guards led these few troops.

Su Dingfang was the captain of the Yue Cavalry Regiment under Chen Ying's personal guard. This Yue Cavalry Regiment is different from the Hollow Cavalry Lance Cavalry Regiment. In fact, the Yue Cavalry under Chen Ying is the real light cavalry. To be precise, the Hook Cavalry Lance Cavalry is already considered a semi-heavy cavalry, and the difference between it and the heavy cavalry is only one less equipped horse armor.

The Yueqi group under Su Dingfang's command was a full-built Yueqi group, equipped with 312 strong bows of one stone, 300 hard crossbows, and two pots of arrows, a total of thirty pieces. In addition, they were equipped with sabers, folded shields, and four axes for each person. The most important thing was that they were different from the two war horses of each person, but were equipped with three war horses.

There were only 312 cavalrymen equipped with a total of 1,000 war horses.

It is about 150 miles southwest of Jinsha Beach, called Yiwanquan. In fact, the first supply point west of Liangzhou City was found on the Silk Road. However, in later generations, when Chen Ying went to Wuwei, it had become a dune with yellow sand spreading. After the tour guide's explanation, Chen Ying realized that this was once a wetland.

The changing world of history, after Chen Ying arrived in Liangzhou, he had no doubt that he could defeat Tongye Hu Khan. After all, the tactic of the hook and sickle lance cavalry was the strongest cavalry in the era of cold weapons trained by the Polish wing cavalry. Even if he brought Genghis Khan to life, he could still beat them to cry and call them mother.

Tongye Hu is definitely not an opponent, but Chen Ying knew that it was easy to defeat Tongye Hu, but it was not easy to wipe out them all, which could be said to be very difficult. Liangzhou is too empty and there are too many places to run.

However, this is a very critical place. After 10,000 springs, you need to reach the Camel City (Gaotai County) in Zhangye, more than 300 miles away, to have a place to replenish water sources. If you don’t have water sources and want to travel more than 300 miles in Hexi, it’s no different from dying.

Therefore, Chen Ying guessed that once the commander Ye Hu or the Turks left Liangzhou to break through, the place of 10,000 springs would definitely be a must-pass place. When Zhang Huaiwei led the Modao Army to divide the troops, Chen Ying also ordered Su Dingfang to lead his Yueqi Regiment to set up an ambush at 10,000 springs first.

Yiwanquan is an important supply point on the Silk Road. With water, you can naturally grow food. During the Han Dynasty, a military farmland area was established here and a garrison was established. Time passed, and when Su Dingfang arrived here, he found that the original military camp had already turned into a pile of loess, but it was about eight or nine feet higher than the ordinary ground.

However, in order to facilitate business travel, a wall was built here. The risk factor for business traveling on the Silk Road was even greater than that of drug trafficking in later generations. Moreover, in this era, there was no good person who dared to go on long-distance business traveling. They all acted as robbers when they could do business, and they robbed them when they could.

In this water source, it is also a place where sand thieves and bandits often visit. In order to ensure their own safety, these business travelers built a village, which seemed to be filled with gaps everywhere, but in fact there were traps everywhere. Just this seemingly broken wall, if three hundred elite troops were stationed, without a few thousand people, they would not be able to catch it.

Su Dingfang was lucky. When he came, he happened to have a Lite caravan with about 500 people in Yiwanquan. Su Dingfang didn't say anything and directly asked someone to occupy the nest and detain the Lite caravan. In order to prevent the Turks from discovering their isolated Tang army, Su Dingfang also transformed into a Lite merchant coming from the Western Regions.

Anyway, in this era, three to five hundred people traveling are the norm, and large-scale caravans have thousands of people.

However, after waiting for a whole day, I didn't even see the shadow of the Turks. The soldiers of the Yueqi Group were a little complaining. Everyone knew that when Chen Ying fought, they would definitely eat large pieces of meat and earn rewards. However, after Su Dingfang, let alone eating meat, they didn't even catch soup.

The vice-captain was already anxious, and he asked Su Dingfang: "Person Su, it's not a big deal for us to do this. It's better for me to lead a brigade and reconnaissance eastward. If we encounter General Zhang Huaiwei's need of support, we can help!"

"No need!" Su Dingfang refused the vice-camp's proposal without hesitation. He was an obsessed person, and once he decided to do something, he would definitely carry out the final result. In history, Li Jing asked him to lead 200 cavalrymen to raid Jie Li Khan's account. At that time, Jie Li Khan had tens of thousands of elite cavalry around him. Not to mention 200 people, even two thousand cavalrymen, I'm afraid ordinary people would not have the courage to do it.

However, Su Dingfang not only did it without any complaints, but instead made a concerted effort to upset tens of thousands of soldiers from the Eastern Turkic Khanate.

He wanted to make contributions and save his brothers' lives. Su Dingfang now saw that the Tang Dynasty had achieved a decisive victory on the northern battlefield, and at the least he could also rule with Liang Xiao. At this time, peace was coming and good days were hopeful.

The vice-campire's head was erect, and his mouth was almost worn out. Su Dingfang only said one thing: "Where are you not going, just wait for the Turks to come here!"

The vice-captain said: "What if the Western Turks don't come?"

"General Chen said that the Western Turks would come here, and they would definitely come!" Su Dingfang said firmly: "I believe in General Chen!"

"Believe in General Chen!"

When the vice-campire heard this, he had nothing to say.

In fact, Chen Ying has become the perfect military god in the Tang Dynasty in the hearts of the soldiers in the army. Anyone who says bad things about Chen Ying may question Chen Ying's decision will definitely be the public enemy of the soldiers.

The soldiers of the Yue cavalry could only pretend to be vendors who avoided the war, while detaining vendors passing by, while anxiously waiting for the arrival of the Turks here.

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When it was about to dark, the Western Turkic army outside Liangzhou City inevitably collapsed.

The Western Turkic army fled to the west in panic. The flags, armor, food, and weapons were thrown all over the ground. The injured soldiers were abandoned and screamed in despair on the side of the road. The war horses that could not run were also abandoned. They stayed with the wounded soldiers and watched their master disappear into the large smoke and dust, making sad screams.

This defeated scene made everyone who survived this bloody battle suffer the shame of being worse than death for the rest of their lives and could not raise their heads.

Since the Tumen Khan raised his troops to resist Rouran, the Turkic cavalry went from Jinshan (that is, Altai Mountain), to Baishan Hei River in Liaodong, from Yinshan to Beihai, from Khurashan to Tangju, from Anxi to Tiaozhi, and Turkic cavalry killed thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of times at a meager price. With a small tribe with a population of only hundreds of thousands, it replaced the Huns, Xianbei people, and Rouran people in just a few decades, and became the overlords on the grassland.

It made great achievements in the Turkic Iron Cavalry, with dozens of tribes and tens of millions of people kneeling under their horses and singing conquest. Have they ever tried such a crushing defeat!

During the former Sui Dynasty, they were defeated three times by the Sui Dynasty, and the losses were also very heavy. However, during the Sui Dynasty, they did not believe in the miserable defeat of the Turks, because there was a major factor in the three defeats of the Turks during the Sui Dynasty. They were in conflict within the internal situation, and the Sui Dynasty was just to gain the benefits of fishermen.

But this time there was no internal discord, but on the frontal battlefield, there was no conspiracy or frontal field duel. This complete defeat shattered the gods that they had established the Turkic cavalry that cannot be occupied by Turkic cavalry since the Tumen Khan.

This fear of shattering myth is more serious than losing 100,000 elite soldiers, making their minds blank and they are at a loss!

At this time, although there was no sign of the hook and sickle spear behind them, the despicable traitors of the Ninth Zhaowu tribe. Even the traitors of the Ninth Zhaowu tribe were exhausted and not many. In normal times, any Teller led thousands of cavalry to fight the Ninth Zhaowu tribe, which was kneeling on the ground and called Dad.

However, at this time, the Turks did not even turn around to face their enemies. They had only one thought in their heads, and they ran as far as possible. They just wanted to escape, and the farther they ran, the better. They let the cavalry of the Nine Divisions of Zhaowu bit behind them like lees, capturing abandoned wounded soldiers and collecting abandoned war horses.

What kind of fate would these wounded soldiers have? They are too lazy to think about it and too lazy to think about it. Escape is important!
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