7. Defeat of the Son of Heaven
The sound of horse hooves comes from a long distance, first very light and faintly.
But soon it became dense and violent. The Xia soldiers inside and outside Wuyan City only felt that the battlements were trembling slightly. The earth in the fog was like a drum face, and the horse's hooves were like countless hammers, hitting it vigorously!
Several Xia soldiers held up the fire and looked at the water jar placed on the top of the city in horror. The water in the jar on the west wall was particularly shaking, with ripples waving.
"On the west side, are the Tang cavalry coming to attack Wuyan City?" Yuan Hui climbed to the top of the city and urgently summoned the chiefs to discuss.
Everyone was a little unbelievable, because the Tang army now has the advantage in numbers and has won a great victory, it is logical that they would not come here to launch a night attack, but they would use cavalry...
Suddenly, in the heavy fog, a fierce battle seemed to erupt. Swords slashed and touched each other, bows and arrows broke through the air, and the shouts of people and horses came.
"Is it possible that the Tang army that entered Wuyan fought with these cavalry?"
After a while, the Xia cavalry, who were facing a great enemy, boarded up and stood guard behind the wooden fence.
In the fog, the sound of horse hooves rumbled, becoming clearer and clearer.
Gradually, groups of cavalry in blue-gray clothes and armors had removed the fog that had originally hidden on the body of the people and horses. In each small group, there were torches holding light and dark. However, the Xia army clearly saw that the opponents were fighting with beautiful battle flags such as red lions, snow lotus, and pegasus. The number of cavalry was increasing, three thousand, five thousand, or more, and they were getting closer and closer to the wooden fence.
"Don't let them get close!" Yuan Hui didn't know whether the cavalry were enemies or friends, so he waved his hand at the top of the city and shouted orders to his subordinates.
But the cavalry that walked out of the fog slowed down. The officers who were leading the way, all of them covered their tiger tails, and their armor was covered with shawls made of tiger and leopard skins, and then they walked into the wooden fence of Wuyan City a hundred steps outside the fluent Xifan language:
"We are warriors from Dafan. We have defeated the Tang soldiers who are besieged in the city and come to help the emperor Zanpu Zhongqing!"
At this time, Yuan Hui on the top of the city blinked his eyes and looked at the group of cavalry in the fog, as if he was in a dream.
He originally hoped that Xifan would send troops to cross the Yellow River and come to Yanzhou to help him.
However, the cavalry of Xifan was too powerful, so they rushed to Youzhou directly.
"How about the Tang Bing in Yanzhou?"
The Xifan enemy defense envoys shouted: "It has been defeated by the coalition forces of our Dafan North and Dongdao Dalun, and countless zombies are lying in the desert. The seven vanguards, Xiaotongjia (Thousand Houses), rushed to this city first. Can you ask who is the Qing Emperor?"
Yuan Hui suddenly pressed the arm of the people around him, and then shouted: "We waited for the Xia people to ask Zanpu for reinforcements, and sent 17 people. Except for Ye Shidang's rebellion, where are the others? If you can let one or two of them come forward, we will naturally open the city gate."
"Your Xia Kingdom envoy is indeed in the Dafan army, but it is still at Liuboling."
At this time, Yuan Hui's hair was standing up, and suddenly he jumped up nervously, "This is the Tang army pretended to make money from Wuyan City. Cum and shoot me hard!"
Before he finished speaking, several enemy defense envoys in front of the "Dafan Cavalry" suddenly shouted at the front of the horse, held a strong bow in his hand, rushed directly to the wooden fence and then led the bow and shot arrows.
This almost hit the faces of several Xia army chiefs opposite him.
The tumbling heads of the arrows shot out were as sharp as giant needles. Ten steps away, they penetrated the heads of Chief Dangxiang in the Xia army.
Brain and blood squirted out from behind the dead man's head.
In front and behind the wooden fence, horses were soon intertwined, and wailing sounds were heard everywhere. The "Xifan Cavalry" army suddenly rushed to attack the line of defense and started fighting with the Xia cavalry.
The first enemy defense envoy who shot arrows still shouted in a foreign language: "I am Prince Chuyue, Zhu Xie is a wise man, and the emperor who rebels Qiang Qing is here to give him the title!"
"The Shatuo people joined Tang?" Yuan Hui was shocked.
As a result, a large number of cavalry appeared in the north of the city, and fire broke out from the fog. A young general who was the first to shout: "I am Murong Fu, the retreating prince of Qinghai State, and those who rebel against the Qiang surrender will be spared from death!"
"What? Tuyuhun from Helong also surrendered to Tang?"
Later, a large number of Tang army infantry and cavalry also shook the battle flags and rushed out, most of which were soldiers of Dingwu and Yining Army.
Now the Dangxiang Xia army in Wuyan City was frightened and had no intention of resisting the enemy. They rode horses or camels, abandoned the city, and ran to the Naiwangjing further east.
This also includes the so-called Qingtianzi Yuanhui.
Naiwangjing fell again tonight. The Xia cavalry in the wild ran with whips. Shatu and Tuyuhun cavalry chased them fiercely. Yuanhui lay on the saddle. The snowflakes were like blades, holding ice particles, and kept whistling through his cheeks and beards. Of course, there were arrows shot from the Shatu people behind him.
The personal soldiers were either shot and killed and fled, and finally got caught in the ruins in the snow. His horse was hit by an arrow on the back of the buttocks. Yuan Hui threw himself forward and fell firmly into the snow. His eyes were covered with snow foam. After he struggled to get up, he saw his mount screaming and rolling, then straightened his front hooves and could never stand up while lying on his side.
Yuanhui hurriedly lowered his waist and crawled for a few steps.
In the dim snow around, cavalrymen rode their horses everywhere, some were defeated soldiers on their own, and some were pursuing enemy soldiers. He leaned under the tree and took off his cloak that symbolized his identity, trying to make himself look like an ordinary soldier.
But not far away, a group of howling Shatuo cavalry strangled their horses' heads and swayed in white mist. They held torches and rushed towards them like lightning.
If I still stayed under this tree, no matter what, I would definitely be shot to death by them.
At the moment of life and death, a Xia soldier came over, dismounted his horse, and then gave up his mount to Yuanhui.
"Who are you?" The moment before whipping and running, Yuan Hui, who was extremely grateful, turned around and asked.
"Fine seal and move the rat." The Xia army soldier answered his name.
Yuan Hui couldn't see the other person's appearance clearly. He only vaguely felt that he was a young man with hair loose and bearded. The war horse under his crotch started to run, and in a flash, the young man fell behind him.
The group of Shatuo cavalry rushed over and immediately swung their swords to slash at the thin seal that had lost their horses.
The horse's hooves raised snow, and the thin seal moved the mouse should have been cut and fell down in the light of the knife...
Two days later, Yuanhui fled back to Tongwancheng.
There were not ten or five survivors in the Xia army on the entire Western Front. Yuan Hui, who was devastated, simply asked all the tribesmen in the Yinzhou area of the Eastern Front to come back and defend the vicinity of Tongwancheng, so as not to be destroyed by the Tang army.
Now from Wuyankou to Naiwangjing, it was all captured by the Tang army commanded by Gao Yue.
Because the city was originally available, Gao Yue then asked the soldiers of each army to repair the camps and cities in Changze, Wuyan and Liuboling after the snow stopped.
As expected, it was the same as Gao Yue expected. About a few days later, after receiving the news of Yuanhui's defeat, more than 10,000 Dangxiang from Luzi Pass in Shannan knew that he was in a desperate situation. Under the leadership of the leader Pochao Yimo, he took the initiative to offer the castle and surrendered to Hun Yu's army.
"The Qiang Rebellion is completely quelled, and it will not be the winter solstice of the next year at the latest." Gao Yue said this in his report to the Daming Palace.
Chapter completed!