However, because they had sophisticated equipment and excellent geographical location, the mortality ratio between the two sides was as high as thirty to one.
Moreover, because the commanders of the two cavalry groups in Dashi were shot and killed by arrows, the commander of Qi Zhen along the way saw that the situation was not good and quickly issued an order to retreat.
As soon as Dashi's cavalry retreated, Datang's neat tricycle formation quickly fired up and gave chase.
At this time, it completely turned into a one-sided massacre, and there was no such thing as casualties.
From beginning to end, the number of soldiers killed in the Tang Dynasty did not exceed a hundred.
As for the number of Dashi soldiers killed in battle, well, their corpses are scattered everywhere in the entire depression, so it is difficult to count them yet.
But the death toll is definitely no less than 10,000.
Moreover, this number is still rising rapidly with the continuous pursuit of Datang.
At this time, Dashi's cavalry had passed more than half of their number through three narrow roads.
It is very easy to change from the rear team to the front team. You can just turn around and run away.
However, if the cavalrymen who are on the road or within the road want to turn around and run away, it is not that easy.
The road was too narrow and the people were a little dense, so it was difficult for the horses to turn their heads.
What's more, even if you turn the horse's head around, if the horse in front doesn't run, where will the horse behind you run?
Suddenly, the formation of the Dashi Cavalry was in chaos.
Those in the back desperately wanted to evacuate, while those in the front couldn't get up quickly even if they wanted to because of the narrow road.
The Tang Dynasty steam tricycle array's pursuit is getting closer and closer, and it is imminent.
The Dashi Cavalry, eyes red with rage, couldn't help but draw out his weapon and waved his butcher knife at his comrades beside him.
Dashi's cavalry were not to say invincible at that time, at least they were one of the best.
They have fought in the north and south, and have never encountered such a situation as a defeat.
But now, they encountered Datang's neat tricycle formation and were defeated for the first time.
At this time, Khalid, Ibn, and Wei Lide, who were sitting at the foot of Jinji Mountain, felt a little uneasy for some reason.
Could it be that if these 50,000 cavalrymen went to massacre the 50,000 infantrymen of the Tang Dynasty, would there be any danger?
How can this be?
The cavalry itself is the natural enemy of the infantry. Even if they are defeated, they can still retreat calmly. No, no!
However, inexplicably, this uneasy feeling is getting worse and worse.
Wei Lide finally couldn't help but send out scouts to check the situation.
Soon, some scouts came back.
"General, our cavalry has returned."
Wei Lide asked with a gloomy face: "What is going on?"
"General, it seems, it seems, we have been defeated!"
Um?
If 50,000 cavalry encounter 50,000 infantry, do you think we are defeated?
How could it fail?
Wei Lide was angry and frightened inside, but even at this moment, he could still remain calm.
"Pass my order to light the mountain on fire! After burning the mountain, the 30,000-strong army retreats ten miles to standby. In case of emergency, the generals can make their own decisions before the battle."
"Guard Battalion, follow me!"
Since all 50,000 cavalrymen had been defeated, Wei Lide concluded that the opponent must have cavalry.
Otherwise, the fifty thousand cavalry would not have been defeated like this.
Since even the cavalry has been defeated, there is little point in sending 30,000 more infantry.
What's more, he also had 20,000 infantry ambushes on his side.
After conveying the order, Wei Lide immediately led a thousand guards battalion cavalry and quickly rushed to the battlefield.
When he was still seven or eight miles away from the battlefield, Wei Lide discovered the defeated Dashi Cavalry in front of him.
Wei Lide quickly gathered these cavalrymen, glanced at the number of people, and found that there were only about seven or eight thousand people.
Although there are still cavalry coming from behind, the number has become increasingly scarce.
Wei Lide couldn't help but feel a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart, and couldn't help but ask: "What happened? Why did you collapse? What is the situation?"
After asking, no one answered for a long time.
Wei Lide became even more angry: "Ah? All of them are mute, right? I'm asking you questions and talking!"
"General, I, I don't know!"
What?
you do not know?
This answer made Wei Lide's nose almost twist with anger.
You even ran away and you still don’t know why you were defeated?
You don’t know anything, so why don’t you just run around?
"You don't know? Okay, very good! If you escape before the battle, you should be killed according to the law! Cut off his head!"
As soon as he heard that General Wei Lide was going to chop off his head, the soldier became anxious and immediately said: "General, I am not a deserter. This is the retreat order given by our commander!"
"It's like this. At that time, Datang's 50,000 infantrymen were in a depression, and I was at the back of the team. When the team was halfway in, a fierce battle broke out in front."
"When the team was more than half way in, the commander gave the order to retreat. As for what happened inside and why they were defeated, I really don't know."
After hearing his explanation, Wei Lide immediately thought of the depression, and his heart couldn't help but thump.
Wei Lide ordered three lines of cavalry to encircle and suppress Datang's 50,000 infantry.
Because the infantry of the Tang Dynasty were always on the move, Wei Lide naturally could not order them to carry out encirclement and suppression at a fixed position in advance. Instead, it had to be based on the position of the infantry of the Tang Dynasty.
This requires cavalry from all walks of life to act according to the opportunity.
But Wei Lide never expected that 50,000 Tang Dynasty infantrymen would be in the depression.
The depression is obviously an excellent place to lay a trap!
Needless to say, the Tang army must have set up a trap and defeated his large cavalry.
This situation can only show that Datang has already made arrangements.
Could it be that all the 20,000 Tang infantrymen on Jinji Mountain were their abandoned sons?
For a moment, Wei Lide found it difficult to figure out the crux of the matter.
But now was not the time to hesitate. While Wei Lide was rearranging the defeated cavalry, he sent people to pick up the soldiers who were coming.
At the same time, a defensive position was set up to meet them.
…
At this time, the war in the depression was coming to an end.
The cavalry trapped in the depression were almost dead at this time.
However, because the corpses of eating soldiers and war horses littered the fields, and the exit road was relatively narrow, the road was temporarily blocked.
At this time, the 10,000 infantrymen serving as bait in the depression also came into use.
Of course, there cannot be 50,000 Tang infantry in the depression.
The total force Li Min brought this time was only over 50,000. How could they put them all here?
The number of 50,000 infantrymen was actually deliberately released by Li Min.
Using the information station of the Huya Special Forces, the wrong message was delivered to Dashi.
The general of Dashi used wrong information to formulate wrong countermeasures.
This was the great victory of the Tang army.
There were actually only 10,000 infantrymen in the depression.
But now, these infantrymen are ready for use.
They quickly cleared away the corpses of the gluttonous soldiers and the horses blocking the road, quickly cleared a road, and then allowed the steam tricycle team to pass.
…
At the same time, Dashi Commander-in-Chief Khalid, Ibn, and Wei Lid were constantly leading the fleeing cavalry, while organizing the cavalry, and decided to have a confrontation with the Tang Dynasty's chariot team.
Now, Wei Lide has learned from the soldiers who later escaped the reason why Datang defeated them.
Because Datang had a new type of weapon, which was actually a chariot formation.
As a formation, the chariot formation was once popular, and was used to set up a defensive formation using horse-drawn carriages.
But later it was basically no longer used. Even if it was used, it was only a passive defensive posture.
It is a tactic that has basically been eliminated by the wheel of history.
But now, the chariot invented by the Tang Dynasty is very powerful.
It is said that this kind of chariot is made of steel and is very tall and strong.
Bows and arrows cannot break its body, and steel knives cannot cut its body. Moreover, the chariot can also fire powerful crossbows quickly and accurately.
What's even more amazing is that this kind of chariot can actually run on its own! And it runs quite fast, only slightly slower than their war horses.
There is actually a steel chariot that can run automatically?
When I heard the news, even though I knew my soldiers, I would never dare to deceive myself about this kind of thing.
But Wei Lide was still dubious.
Because this kind of thing was completely beyond his scope of cognition.
Well, the main reason is that Dashi is a bit far away from Datang.
They have been busy expanding in recent years and have not paid attention to the affairs of the distant Tang Dynasty.
If they have ever paid attention to Datang, they will definitely know that Datang now has trains.
That is a real running steel behemoth. One vehicle can pull tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands or even millions of kilograms of cargo!
It can run much faster than a war horse!
Unfortunately, Wei Lide has only heard the story of Zhuge Liang's wooden cow and his horse.
The wooden cow and the flowing horse are just a legend, and there is no real thing passed down and it has not been verified.
So, this time, Wei Lide decided to see with his own eyes the true power of the Iron Chariot.
Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you deploy corresponding tactics in the next battle.
Soon, Wei Lide saw the true appearance of Datang's steel chariot.
Although I have heard the appearance of a steel chariot from the soldiers' mouths.
But when Wei Lide saw the steel chariot with his own eyes, he was still deeply shocked!
The speeding steel train, billowing smoke and lightning, was so unstoppable that Wei Lide was shocked.
"Attack!"
Wei Lide still issued the order to attack. He must find out the weakness of the steel chariot.
Otherwise, it will be even harder to fight this battle in the future.
Wei Lide was calculating the distance between the two sides.
Soon, Wei Lide discovered that the steel chariot was actually slowing down.
Well, don't they need speed to win?
Soon, they will be within the range of their cavalry.
Wei Lide was quite confident in the range of their cavalry.
However, what surprised Wei Lide was that the opponent actually shot the arrow first.
call out!
Phew! Phew!
A burst of powerful crossbows was fired, and Dashi's three thousand cavalrymen suddenly fell on their backs.
Moreover, unlike mounted archery, the crossbow arrows of the Tang Iron and Steel Chariot were very fast.
And it has a strong sense of hierarchy, not a swarm of swarms.
Instead, they are designed in rows, piece by piece, in turn.
In this way, we can avoid wasting arrows as much as possible, pursue maximum lethality, and have a clear sense of hierarchy.
In this process, Datang's steel chariots became slower and slower.
It has almost stopped.
Wei Lide guessed that if their steel chariot collided with the horses while traveling, it would most likely cause it to overturn.
Once their chariot overturned, it would probably cause heavy losses.
When the time comes, we can make use of this to make a fuss.
The next moment, they were finally within the bow and arrow range of the Dashi Cavalry.
The archers of the Great Food Cavalry began to set up their bows and shoot arrows.
But as those soldiers said, if their arrows hit someone's steel chariot, they will be bounced away immediately.
There is absolutely no way to penetrate the tank.
After a few breaths, the Dashi Cavalry finally approached Datang's steel chariot after paying a heavy price.
But what happened next was just as the cavalrymen who had escaped back said, their steel knives couldn't split open the opponent's carriage at all.
Their height could not reach the soldiers in other people's cars.
You can only fight by standing on horseback.
However, in this way, the space for movement is lost and the person becomes a living target.
In a short period of time, there were very few of the three thousand cavalry left.
The remaining cavalry were finally defeated and fled in all directions.
However, with their backs to the Tang army, how could they avoid the crossbows?
As a result, these three thousand cavalry were about to be completely wiped out very quickly.
It was only then that Wei Lide woke up from his thoughts.
He was a little annoyed. He should have given the order to retreat earlier, so that some soldiers could survive.
However, Wei Lide felt that their sacrifice was not in vain.
He has already thought of a way to deal with these steel chariots.
Of course, they must pay an extremely heavy price.
But if you can snatch these steel chariots, then all costs will be worth it!
With these steel chariots in hand, when the time comes to conquer the West, there will be no disadvantages.
Next, Wei Lide quickly issued the order to attack!
Of course, the ones dispatched this time were not cavalry.
Instead, the infantry ambushed on both sides.
The cavalry is Wei Lide's treasure. Too many people have died today, which makes Wei Lide heartbroken.
Of course, he would feel equally distressed if he lost his infantry.
But compared with the harvest, these are all worth it.
Soon, 20,000 infantrymen poured out from both wings.
The wonderful thing is that the place where they hide is not the most suitable place for an ambush.
These food-eating soldiers quietly transformed the terrain and even used some principles of later camouflage uniforms.
Use color to deceive their enemies.
It's hard to spot them when they're not moving.
When they move, it's too late to get rid of them.
Wei Lide keenly noticed that when the Tang army on the opposite side saw their infantry, there was a look of surprise on their faces.
At this time, Wei Lide couldn't help but reveal a sinister smile on his face.
Did you just find out now? It’s too late, okay? Haha!
Well, what Wei Lide didn't know was that the shocked expressions on those Tang Jun's faces were really not fake! But——
However, the content of their surprise was far from what Wei Lid had imagined.
What made them astonished was that His Highness the King of Shu had issued an order long before they ambush.
When they chase out of the depression and encounter the opponent's infantry, they must try their best to eliminate the opponent's infantry.
When they rushed out of the depression just now, they were still wondering, where were the opponent's infantry?
Where are the opponent's infantry?
They were still confused at first, but the order issued by His Highness was to destroy their infantry as much as possible when they saw them.
But what should I do if I can’t touch it?
Just when they were wondering, what they never expected was that the enemy's infantry actually appeared right under their noses.
This is really, really cooperative with them!
Originally, they were still thinking about how to chase them!
Where is the use of pursuit now?
They took the initiative to deliver it to your door!
Because things changed so quickly, they didn't even react for a while.
Not long after, these infantrymen came within the range of their crossbows.
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were still polite to them. They immediately activated their weapons and started shooting wildly.
The hungry infantry suddenly fell in pieces.
However, these soldiers were not afraid of death, and continued to march forward with difficulty.
Not long after, these infantrymen were getting closer and closer to the steel chariot.
Wei Lide's face couldn't help but shine with excitement.
Very good!
That's great!
As long as the infantry surrounds them, these soldiers can quickly climb onto these steel chariots.
By then, all the advantages of these steel chariots will no longer exist.
However, the next moment, with a roar, those steel chariots started collectively and ran away.
Ran away... ran away...
This scene made Wei Lide dumbfounded.
How could they run?
How could they run?
They, uh, they would have run...
They are originally steel chariots, and they are meant to run!
People stop there because they have a greater advantage.
But it doesn't mean that people can't run.
If it were the cavalry, they would suffer heavy losses if they were surrounded and then ran away.
Because there is no speed advantage, cavalry will even be restrained by infantry.
And what about the Iron Chariot?
Will it be the same as the cavalry?
As for Dashi's infantry, some of them have been separated to surround Datang's steel chariots.
But Datang's steel chariot turned a blind eye to the people surrounding them in front of them.
I accelerated the accelerator slightly and hit it suddenly.
The serious soldiers who were blocking the front were panicking at this time.
But in order to fulfill their command of the Sword of Allah, they also risked their lives.
He closed his eyes, showing a tragic emotion of looking back at death.
Duang!
The next moment, he got his wish and was really dead!
Very miserable, very miserable!
Moreover, death is worthless.
Because it did not cause any damage to Datang's steel chariot.
The heavy-eating infantrymen at the back, having learned from the past, would not risk their lives again, so they hurriedly avoided it.
Unfortunately, this is not a car, but a convoy.
Those heavy-eating infantrymen twisted their butts and ducked away, and they were gone in a flash.
I twisted my butt and didn’t hide away. This life was over!
The Dashi infantry that surrounded them in front were quickly knocked out of sight.
And behind, those big food infantrymen were still chasing after them.
Seeing this scene, even Xue Rengui, the general of the Tang Dynasty, didn't understand it.
Is the commander of Dashi a former undercover agent of our Datang sect? Is he so cooperative?
This is because we are afraid that we cannot annihilate them!
Therefore, Xue Rengui quickly issued an order for the steam tricycle drivers to reduce their speed to avoid widening the distance.
Then he gave the order to shoot.
As a result, the Dashi soldiers who were chasing behind them began to fall in pieces.
At this time, these big food soldiers finally reacted.
Are we here to die?
At this time, Wei Lide, the commander-in-chief of Dashi, also reacted.
All the methods he used to deal with cavalry were ineffective against the steel chariots of the Tang Dynasty.
Wei Lide quickly issued the order to retreat.
It's a pity that Datang's steam tricycle team was originally intended to destroy them.
How could they be allowed to retreat?
Datang's steam tricycle fleet immediately turned around and began to follow them, shooting at them wildly.
The steam tricycle fleet of the Tang Dynasty was simply more annoying than the cavalry.
I really couldn't catch up, couldn't run away, and was eaten to death.
If the infantry meets the cavalry, they can still hold on for a while depending on their formation.
But when it comes to Datang's three-round steam attack, it really doesn't work in any formation.
If no solution can be found, these 20,000 infantrymen will be eaten by the Tang Dynasty sooner or later.
Moreover, Wei Lide believes that this time will not be too late.
At this time, it would be useless even if all the remaining cavalry were filled in.
In front of the steel chariots of the Tang Dynasty, the cavalry could only stand still and be beaten.
So, how can we escape?
Wei Lide is worthy of being the Sword of Allah in Dashi. Before that, he was a victorious general.
Wei Lide quickly came up with an excellent solution.
That is to ask the cavalry to help and set up roadblocks on the road.
The infantry can pass by calmly, but the steel chariots of the Tang Dynasty cannot pass so easily.
Seeing this scene, Li Min understood that it would be difficult for Datang to make progress today.
So, he immediately issued an order to stop the pursuit and clean up the battlefield.
In this battle, the Tang army annihilated more than 30,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 infantry.
In total, nearly 50,000 Dashi troops were wiped out.
As for the Tang Dynasty, less than a hundred soldiers were killed in total. It can be said to be a hearty and complete victory.
Now, the military strength of both sides is basically equal.
In terms of morale, it is even different.
At present, the situation in the Anxi Protectorate has been completely stabilized.
And next, whether to attack or defend, the situation is completely in Li Min's hands.
If you want to defend, you only need to wait until the Tang army arrives.
I believe that during this period, the food army will never dare to act rashly.
Even, in order to avoid greater losses, they would voluntarily withdraw from the territory of Datang.
But this is definitely not Li Min’s style!
Since you dare to invade my country, the Tang Dynasty, you must be prepared to be wiped out!
Next, Li Min decided to teach the Dashi Empire an unforgettable lesson.
We must make them deeply feel how wrong it is to dare to invade Datang's territory!
