Chapter 546: Burning the barracks, Tubo is defeated
Chapter 546: Burning the military camp, Tubo was defeated
The Commander's Mansion is almost in the center of the city, but the location of the military camp is on an open space to the west of Jiulong! Moreover, he doesn't know that although it is the first time for Balumu and others to enter Jiulong City , however, they are very familiar with the layout of Jiulong City.
Before Shen Tang led his troops, he had already let Lu Feng and An Ye Pavilion enter Chengdu Mansion Road! Therefore, a lot of information had been discovered by them in advance! For example, the general layout of Jiulong City; The location of the barracks.
Although the number of soldiers in the city is changing, if there are no accidents, the military camp will not change at will.
At the city gate, with six thousand soldiers in hand, Xin Qiji firmly guarded the position of the stairs, blocking the Tibetan soldiers on the city wall.
As for attacking the city wall, he is in no hurry!
If we attack forcefully now, the damage to our own side will inevitably be considerable.
And after the army pacifies the city first, the Tubo people here will become a lone army. By then, they will have no strength and courage to resist.
Let us say that Balumu led more than 10,000 cavalry all the way to the Tibetan barracks!
This Tubo barracks is not small, occupying less than half of the western part of the city.
However, because Jiulong City is really safe, apart from simply setting up some horse and wooden stake fences, there are very few other defenses.
After all, as long as the north and south gates are guarded, the city will be absolutely safe.
In this case, why should they waste time and effort to actually build a large camp?
Therefore, the camp here can be said to be a camp rather than a densely populated place of residence.
Moreover, Jiulong City is not big after all, so although the camp occupies most of the western half of the city, it is still extremely small compared to the real military camp.
Therefore, the military camp is almost surrounded by military tents. Apart from some simple divisions, there are no other facilities at all.
Faced with this situation, the cavalry under Balumu's command really have a lot of experience!
But the leader, Balumu, sneered, and then ordered to the army behind him, "Light the torch! Go straight in and burn the camp, and you are not allowed to stay in the military camp. After it is burned, everyone is roaming around. Outside the camp, anyone who dares to show their head will be shot directly!"
Such a military camp is far inferior to the military formations of the Song Dynasty!
Under a round of cavalry shooting, those Tibetans who had no time to gather and guard the camp gate were killed directly by the rain of arrows.
Then, the leading group of cavalry threw a hook and lock, and under the galloping horses, the gate was pulled open with huge force.
Afterwards, the mighty cavalry rushed directly into the Tubo camp!
Under Balumu's order, the cavalry didn't bother to fight the frightened and scattered Tibetans. They just took out the torches in their hands and ignited each tent, and then galloped forward!
In less than two quarters of an hour, all the more than 10,000 cavalrymen walked out of the camp. Then, more than 10,000 cavalrymen spread out and surrounded the entire camp.
Riding and shooting is the specialty of the Jin cavalry! But the Tubo camps were connected, the soldiers were in panic, and they lacked water. In this case, those little flames quickly turned into a prairie fire! In this situation Under such circumstances, how could these Tubo people still think about putting out fires or fighting?
Immediately, they ran away in all directions, trying to escape from the camp.
However, such Tubo people were unable to cause much harm to Balumu and others when facing the cavalry outside who were preparing to attack.
Moreover, not long after, Ji Rong and Heihan Hezhuo, who led a large number of infantry from the rear, came! Then, the Song army formed an array outside the Tibetan camp, and rounds of arrows were thrown towards the disaster.
After leaving, those Tubo people who survived by chance suffered heavy casualties one by one!
Commander Suolang Wangdui did not arrive at the camp at all! Because, on the way, he got the news and situation at the camp! Obviously, even if he led his soldiers there, besides risking his life,
Besides, there is no way to reverse the situation, nor to save the army from the sea of fire!
Suolang Wangdui was so angry that he was about to burst with anger, but he was unable to save himself!
In the end, without much hesitation, he led his soldiers directly towards the south of the city.
Afterwards, they joined the three thousand defenders in the south of the city and fled hurriedly out of Jiulong with the remaining defeated soldiers, heading straight for Chengdu Prefecture.
In this battle, Suolangwang's defeat was really frustrating! There were a total of 30,000 elites, and in the end, only four to five thousand people escaped with him.
Moreover, what was even more frustrating was that he didn't even know who his enemy was in this battle.
Are they from Song Dynasty?
But shouldn’t the Song people be in Maozhou?
Why did it suddenly appear in Jiulong?
Qiang people?
The Qiang people are indeed not of the same mind as the Tubo people, but, at least under the current circumstances, the Qiang people have no reason to attack them?
Moreover, looking at the appearance of those cavalry from a distance, they look very similar to the Jin people. It cannot be that the Jin people came to help the Song Dynasty and pacify the Chengdu Mansion...
The Tibetans were defeated miserably in this battle. In fact, this was not because the Tibetans were not strong.
On the contrary, if there was a head-on war with the Song Dynasty, the ordinary soldiers of the Song Dynasty would not necessarily be the opponents of the Tubo people! Otherwise, even if there was an ambush at the beginning, Shao Hongyuan and the tens of thousands of soldiers who later supported him would not have directly wiped out the entire army! It is true.
Shen Tang's army came too suddenly, and both the infantry and cavalry were elite, catching the Tubo people by surprise!
In addition, the Song army still has an advantage in terms of military strength. Xin Qiji, Balumu, Heihan Hezhuo, and Jirong are all fierce generals who charge into battle! How can the Tubo people be invincible?
The fire in the Tubo barracks lasted for two hours. Among the nearly 20,000 troops, only less than a thousand survived in the end! Afterwards, some soldiers and horses were left to guard these Tubo soldiers, Balumu and Hei
Khan and Zhuo led their cavalry to search the entire Jiulong City to prevent any soldiers from hiding, while Jirong led the rest of the infantry back to the north city gate, preparing to eliminate the last wave of remnant soldiers with Xin Qiji!
"Report!"
Shen Tang sat alone in the military tent with his eyes closed and calm, waiting for news after the war.
Suddenly, a long shout came, and a personal guard entered the camp with an orderly soldier!
"Commander, the battle report of Jiulong City has arrived!"
Then, I heard the messenger saying urgently to Shen Tang, "General, Jiulong City is already under our control. We have killed more than 20,000 enemies and captured more than 4,000. The remaining thousands of Tubo people are under their command."
Under his leadership, he abandoned the city and fled.
Now, the entire Jiulong City has been controlled by our army!"