It was only a hundred, and they were all counted very quickly.
By this time, the dust that had filled the air from the collapse of the city wall had calmed down a bit, and we were able to see some of the gaps clearly under the moonlight.
As expected, due to the limited height of the city wall of Kucha City and the small amount of earthwork, even after it fell, the slope of the gap could still allow the war horses to pass.
Almost at the same time, Zhang Tiezhu shouted:
"Light the fire~"
Suddenly, dozens of injured veterans of the Anxi Army struggled to support their bodies, and then quickly lit more than two hundred camels and war horse tails with the torches in their hands.
Because the war horses and camels had been doused with fire oil early on, it could be said that as long as these tails were touched by a little spark, they would immediately burn violently.
The sudden severe pain caused these originally docile animals to immediately burst into crazy wildness.
Instinctively, they rushed towards the gap in front of them.
Head on, they collided with a group of Tibetans outside the city who were trying to compete for the first victory in breaking the city and were currently rushing in with a look of fanaticism.
In the blink of an eye, these Tubo people were knocked to the ground, trampled over by dense hooves, and trampled to death on the spot.
Then, these crazy horses and camels continued to move forward.
Withstanding the blows from the Tubo people's swords and guns, he forcibly carved a way through the crowd.
At the moment when the leading horse rushed out of the city wall, Zhang Tiezhu, who had already jumped on his horse, raised his hand, Ma Shan, who was said to have cost most of his fortune to buy it, and shouted loudly:
"Charge, Xuange camp is advancing but not retreating~"
While speaking, he kicked the horse's belly hard with his legs, leading out like an arrow. At this moment, there was no trace of old age in this almost 70-year-old man.
The waist pole that was originally bent became straight again.
It was just like when Hu Biao and others saw them a few days ago.
Seeing this, the others also whipped their horses hard with their whips and quickly followed up, rushing out of the city that was about to fall...
Lowering his head and bending over, Hu Biao lay completely on the horse's body.
His left hand firmly grasped the mane on the war horse's neck, and the whip in his right hand kept beating the war horse, causing the ground under his feet to retreat rapidly.
Relying on such an embarrassed and ugly posture, Hu Biao was not thrown off the bumpy horse.
He was also able to keep up with the second cavalry squad, which was moving forward at a crazy pace.
Because he was protected in the middle of the entire team and was wearing a powerful protective Mingguang Armor, Hu Biao was currently considered the safest among them all.
He is also the only person in the entire second cavalry team who still has some leisure and leisure under the current circumstances to observe the development of the entire battlefield.
So even many years later, he still remembered all the details of this breakout battle quite clearly.
It's like what happened yesterday, it's still fresh in my memory.
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At 9:52 p.m., the first war horse with its butt on fire rushed out of the city wall with a high-pitched scream; it, with a large number of companions behind it, crashed into the incoming Tibetan army.
The group of Tibetans who were attacking the city outside the city never thought that the Tang army in the city would break through at such a moment.
After all, in their opinion, they could live longer by hiding in the city.
More than two minutes ago, more than two hundred cavalrymen from the Anxi Army who had opened the blocked city gate took the initiative to fight their way out under the leadership of Guo Xin, their hated opponent.
No one in the Tibetan army thought that the coaches of these opponents were just decoys.
When I saw the big flag with the word "Guo" and the man under the flag, Guo Xin, wearing a blood-red cloak and a shining armor, who had been cursed by them countless times.
Suddenly, almost the entire battlefield of the Tubo people and their lackeys went crazy.
Whether it's for great achievements or revenge on former enemies.
The large number of cavalry that was originally cruising on the battlefield immediately rushed towards the two hundred cavalry.
Even the infantrymen around the city gate couldn't care less about continuing to attack the city for a while, and they all stretched out their legs to kill Guo Xin, a more valuable target.
It can be said that Guo Xin, the coach of the Anxi Army, used such a death charge to attract most of the opponent's attention for Hu Biao and the others.
Therefore, facing Hu Biao and others, the breakthrough with Fire Horse and Fire Camel as the vanguard was very successful.
At least in the early days, it was quite successful.
The Tubo people in this area seemed to be caught off guard, especially the hundreds of Tibetan infantry in front of the gap, who immediately became extremely frantic.
No one was stupid enough to stand in front of these crazy animals, they all fled to both sides.
But even so, some unlucky ones who couldn't dodge were knocked to the ground, and then trampled by dense hooves, turning into a puddle of meat.
Seeing this, the infantrymen on both sides rushed over frantically, but their legs were not as good as four legs.
Even if the people who were closer were able to get in the way in time, they were just delivering food.
Zhang Tiezhu and other old soldiers didn't kill like crazy, they just held their weapons and laid them across the horse's back.
As the horses passed each other at high speed, the sharp blades easily cut off the leather armor of the Tubo people, leaving a fatal wound on their bodies.
In the other hand, he held a small round shield and blocked the arrows that were shot at him.
In short, those Tibetan warriors who tried to keep them quickly turned into corpses lying on the ground.
For a time, there was actually no way to stop this small cavalry team that suddenly rushed out of the gap. There were more than ten times the number of Tubo people in the gap.
But when Hu Biao looked towards the position in front of the city gate, he painfully discovered that an area there was now almost surrounded by a large number of Tibetan cavalry.
This means that when Guo Shuai and his friends are surrounded by dozens of times more opponents, their horses cannot charge forward at all.
Today, they have lost their most important mobility, which means that soon, Guo Shuai and others will be besieged and die.
However, under the intensive siege, the two banners with the word "Tang" and "Guo" were still raised high, and continued to flutter with the strong night wind after dark.
Just like the Anxi Army's belief that they will never compromise with foreign enemies.
Occasionally, in the reflection of weapons under the moonlight, Hu Biao could even vaguely see this scene:
Guo Shuai, who was already over 70 years old, waved a horse spear in his hand, and one after another the Tubo people were knocked off their horses and fell to the ground. It was like the spear was like a dragon.
Sure enough, as Zhang Tiezhu said in the past, Guo Shuai, who was born as a top general in the Tang Dynasty, has good martial arts...
Three minutes later, Hu Biao and others were shocked to find that everything in front of them was empty.
It turned out that before they knew it, they had already penetrated the two enemy lines hurriedly set up by the Tibetan infantry under the city.
It is a pity that animals are animals after all, and those crazy horses and camels were completely out of control. Facing the vast wilderness, most of them have now dispersed.
There are less than half of the big animals left, and now that they are out of scale, their impact has been greatly reduced.
And in the position of the Tubo army, the horns transmitting military orders kept sounding; under such orders, cavalry one after another came towards this small army.
Among them, the fastest one rushed forward, and now it was already outside Li Xu.
Soon, the last 27 people of the second cavalry team of Xuan Ge Camp will face a more difficult and crucial battle.
When the cavalry charge each other, the winner can be determined in a very short time, but the battle is extremely fierce.
Suddenly, as if he felt something, Hu Biao suddenly looked towards the city gate.
I saw that the battle there was over, and only a big flag with the word "Tang" was still raised.
The reason why the flag didn't fall down was because a man wearing a red cloak and bright light armor was supporting the flagpole with his body.
The blood-red cloak is no longer elegant, and the armor full of gaps and blood stains can no longer reflect the firelight from a distance.
Therefore, the owner of this body should be dead, but looking at the pile of corpses piled high next to him after a deadly battle between soldiers from both sides.
More importantly, because of the man's aura that cannot be described in words, no one among the numerous Tibetan troops around him dared to step forward.
After seeing this scene, Hu Biao couldn't help but feel sad.
In the end, all the blazing emotions in his heart were replaced by one sentence: "Come on, Xuange camp is advancing or retreating~"
