Section 43: Cuipingguan
The sound of killing filled the entire river beach plain, and it turned out that a quiet wilderness turned into a Shura field. The cavalry with the help of the mobile advantage urged the war horses under their crotch to launch fierce attacks on the Tiannan Army group that were divided into countless small pieces. The most painful thing for the Tiannan Army was the nomadic archers who had already been concentrated in array. After occupying the absolute advantage in number, they formed one bow and arrow attack group after another in an orderly manner, hid behind the besieged comrades and used waves of arrow rain to destroy the dynasty.
The Tiannan Army soldiers who attacked the cavalry and culled, and the strong archers in the Mot cavalry concentrated their strength to shoot the Tiannan officers with marks according to the requirements when they were trained, which even stabbed the Tiannan Army with a fierce attack. After losing the officer's command, the gathered defense circles were soon broken and killed by the Mot cavalry and became a dead soul under the sword. In this case, surrender seemed to have become a redundant, and the Tiannan Army did not seem to have such awareness.
As the battle situation progressed, countless soldiers of the Tiannan Army were consciously oppressed like river banks. On one side was turbulent and turbid river water, on the other side were swords and guns raised by the enemy. Soon, this war gradually turned into a massacre. The Tiannan Army, which had lost its unified command, could no longer form a complete defense circle with its own strength, and the nomadic cavalry seemed to have fully understood this. Whenever the Tiannan side attempted to form a defense circle, it would always be frantically charged by several times the nomadic cavalry until it was attempted to defeat the opponent.
The battle situation was changing little by little towards the northwest side. The soldiers of the Tiannan Army who had given up their hope of breaking through the encirclement also fully demonstrated their tenacious side. Even when facing the Northwest Army, which had the advantage, they did not retreat and fully utilized the flexible characteristics of infantry formations to combine into various small attack formations. However, the number of enemies was too large. When living lives disappeared under the enemy's weapons and horse hooves, the two division commanders also realized that there was no big suspense in this battle, and the defeat of their own side was only a matter of time before, and tenacious resistance was just a matter of casualties.
When the Tiannan Army finally made up its mind to give up the main forces that had been completely trapped in the depths of the enemy's siege and organized some troops to break through the eastern defense line and prepare to retreat to the Longmen Pass, they found that the black cavalry team from the eastern pass was ready to go. Before the Tiannan Army that had struggled out of the encirclement had time to make any reaction, they had already been impatient with the 10,000 Tubu Iron Cavalry had already rolled up to the west with a scattered sea. The two commanders with a dead face exchanged glances with each other, knowing that the enemy's arrangement would obviously not give them any hope. At almost the same time, they pulled out their waist swords and took the lead in meeting the surging waves. They were immediately hit into blood. Only one Tubu cavalry who was dancing with a sword and felt that there was an extra spoil under their swords.
This battle, known as the "Fight of Xiangshuitan", made the army in the mainland of the empire feel the power of the transformed nomadic cavalry under Li Wufeng's command for the first time. Although the opponent was only two incomplete divisions, anyone knew that these two incomplete divisions were the first and second divisions of the first legion of the Tiannan Lang family. They can be said to be the trump card among the elites of the Lang family. Even at the last moment, the combat power shown by these two divisions was still worthy of their number. Even at an absolute disadvantage, facing the nomadic cavalry that had absolute advantage in quantity, morale and power, they still fought to the death until the last breath, defending the honor of the Tiannan soldiers with their blood and life.
In this battle, the excellent performance of the Mot First and Second Ten thousand cavalry teams, who were the first to break through the enemy's defense line, was highly recognized by Liang Chongxin, the commander-in-chief of the Kansai War Zone, and immediately reported to the Northwest Military and Political Administration for Commendation for commendation. This battle also defended Liang Chongxin's position in the Northwest Army.
What made Liang Chongxin and Li Wufeng most satisfied was not actually winning Bashan and Cuiping Pass. The ability to completely annihilate the first and second two Lang family ace corps in the first and second legions of Tiannan First Legion was what they cared about the most. The two aces that were eliminated without reservation were completely different from defeating and defeating. The originally incomplete First and Second Division had a general framework and a large number of experienced officers and veterans. As long as the reserve soldiers were supplemented, a complete division could be reproduced. Now that it was eliminated completely, it not only completely cut off the recovery of these two divisions, but also greatly hit the morale of the Tiannan Army. The subsequent influence was limitless.
The Battle of Xiangshuitan announced the beginning of the Northwest's formal intervention in the Central Plains. Later historians highly praised this battle. This was also the first time that the Northwest used nomadic cavalry from the Tenggeri grassland to other battlefields outside the Tenggeri grassland. Their characteristics of nomadic cavalry as fast as wind and fire were perfectly demonstrated in this battle. They ran for more than 200 miles from Kunlun Pass to Xiangshuitan for five hours without stopping, without giving the enemy any chance to react. Liang Chongxin also fully utilized the information transmission of the Gu family in Bashan, accurately calculated the time to the pinnacle, cleverly seized the moment when the Tiannan Army came out of the mountain to rest and launched a surprise attack. It was successful in one fell swoop and wiped out 30,000 elite troops in Tiannan.
After the war, the tactical instructors of the Northwest Military Academy agreed that the commander's grasp of time in the Xiangshuitan battle and the capture of fighter jets played a great role in the intelligence system. The tactical full use of the characteristics of the improved nomadic light cavalry and the brilliant results and strategic significance of this battle were enough to make this battle a classic battle into the history of war. Liang Chongxin himself showed his calm mind and forward-looking vision in this battle not only successfully wiped out the two divisions, but also laid a good foundation for the smooth development of a series of subsequent battles, which also marked the beginning of the collapse of the Lang family's forces in Kansai.
"Hey, third brother, look over there, why are people coming here in a mess?" An officer standing at Cuiping Quest waved his hand to cover his forehead, staring at the distance, and looked at a large group of caravans running from the west in confusion.
Almost everyone followed the captain's gaze to the west. Sure enough, a large group of horse teams rushed towards the door in a mess, as if they had encountered bandits robbed.
"Appoint those who are closed to check and see what's going on? Close the door first, and don't allow them to get close to the door! Let's talk about it after the inspection is clear." Although both sides of the east and west are under the control of their own troops, the careful officer still ordered the door to close and asked a small team of soldiers on duty downstairs to check and see what's going on.
"Sir, the younger one has asked clearly. These merchants said that they encountered our Tiannan Army in the Longmen Mountains and encountered an attack. When they heard that we were defeated, they thought the situation was wrong, so they ran back first." After checking and understanding the situation, the soldiers shouted downstairs.
Shocked, the officer on the city tower quickly went downstairs to open the city gate and took a few merchants to his place to ask carefully. All the merchants were all expressionless and obviously were quite frightened. They told him that the officers were shocked and frightened. Unexpectedly, the people in the northwest had invaded Bashan, and even the First and Second Division, which had just passed here, were defeated. What should we do? When we heard that the remnants of the First and Second Division had retreated to Cuiping Pass where they were guarding, the officer didn't care much, but just thought about how to report the details to the commander of Lujiang and asked Lujiang to send troops as soon as possible. There was only one regiment stationed here, how could we resist it?
The patrolmen in Cuiping Pass, who had usually undertaken daily inspection duties in Guanzhong, found out that these people were indeed Bashan merchants who often traveled between Lujiang and Bashan. The officers did not leave any trouble. They ordered them to lead the goods away. While they were negotiating, they saw that all the people were already swarming along the mountain road. They looked at the outfits that were the First and Second Divisions that had suffered defeat by the merchants. Although they were all tired, they looked at the marching formations and were still neat. They were just angry and cursed, and they shouted that there were pursuers thirty miles behind, and they wanted to close the soldiers and open the door quickly and let them enter the pass.
Although he was a little confused about why these defeated soldiers came so quickly, seeing the arrogant momentum of the other party seemed to be the greatness of the First Legion, especially with a few people who looked familiar, the officer did not think much about anything else and ordered the soldiers to open the door. However, the soldiers were too anxious and did not even whisper, and then rushed in. The familiar faces seemed to have a look of struggle and resistance on their faces. Seeing that the officer standing on the locket suddenly moved, his consciousness came too late, and the defeated soldiers who were still pouring in suddenly became a demon king who bought lives. The swords flew everywhere and blood rain splashed everywhere. The soldiers who had not yet reacted even had the surprise expression on their faces, and they fell into a pool of blood.
Chapter completed!