Zhao Ziliang's plan was to have Zhang Shouyu divide the left army into several small groups to pursue the Khitans; on the other hand, he would lead the central army and the right army to put down their heavy equipment, travel lightly, and rush straight to the Dule River as quickly as possible.
Block the Khitans To escape north, if they want to reach the territory of Datongluo, the Khitans must cross the river.
The river is not deep and the current is gentle, which is very beneficial for crossing the river.
Therefore, Zhao Ziliang must lead his army to Dule before the Khitans arrive. river.
Long-distance rapid marches are a huge test for the army.
Even though they are cavalry, it is much easier for soldiers to ride horses than to walk.
But after a long time, people will not be able to bear it.
The Hedong Army had never experienced such a rapid march.
It lasted for three days and three nights without any pause.
When the horses were tired, they would change horses.
The men on the horses would eat, drink, relieve themselves and sleep by themselves.
At first, the soldiers were not used to sleeping on horses.
After two days in a row, most of the soldiers couldn't bear it anymore.
They lay on the horses and fell asleep, letting the horses carry them forward.
Fortunately, Zhao Ziliang has arranged for the generals to take turns leading the way, so that they will not go in the wrong direction.
Half of the people's initiative is relatively poor, and most of them are forced out.
The Hedong Army has never conducted such an intense long-distance march before.
In just two days, this Hedong Cavalry was forced to do so.
Forced to adapt to this combat rhythm, in order to maintain sufficient physical strength, the soldiers had to force themselves to sleep on horseback and force themselves to meet all physiological needs on horseback.
Although there were people leading the way, and although under Zhao Ziliang's order, the soldiers tied up their horses so that they would not fall behind after people fell asleep, there were still many people who could not stand the bumps of this long-distance rapid march and died of fatigue.
The number of people was not small.
After marching for three consecutive days, the number of people who died from fatigue once reached 120.
This is an extremely terrifying number.
Seeing the soldiers working to death one by one, Zhao Ziliang had to ride a horse to the side of the team and run back and forth to encourage the soldiers.
After all, not every soldier in an army that has not undergone strict training can withstand such an intensity of long-distance marching. of.
"Hold on, don't give up.
If you are really too tired, force yourself to fall asleep on the horse.
There is a rope on the horse, and no one will be separated from the group.
Even if you can't sleep, force yourself to sleep.
Otherwise you won’t be able to reach your destination.”
Zhao Ziliang rode his horse on the roadside to cheer the soldiers loudly, but when a person is tired, just one or two words can relieve fatigue, and Zhao Ziliang's words can only have a slight effect, letting the soldiers rest assured on the back of the horse.
Just go to bed.
Gao Xiuyan, who was standing next to him, suggested: "General, the soldiers are really tired.
Otherwise, let the soldiers stop and rest for half a day before setting off on the road."
Zhao Ziliang immediately objected: "No, if you want to rest, you must rest after arriving at the Dule River.
We must get to the Dule River before the Khitans.
Otherwise, if their large group of people are allowed to cross the Dule River, what we have done before will be lost."
Everything you have done has been in vain.”
Gao Xiuyan was quite puzzled by Zhao Ziliang's determination to eradicate all the Khitans, "General, I don't understand why you must drive out all the Khitans.
Those who disrespect me, the Tang Dynasty, are the Xi people.
Just defeat them.
Why did the general want to kill them all?
Is it necessary to do this?"
Zhao Ziliang looked at the cavalry of the Tang army passing by and sighed: "There are countless small countries and barbarians around the Tang Dynasty.
Most of them are surrendering to our dynasty, but there are a few who really sincerely surrender.
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Now these small countries and tribes surrender because our dynasty is strong.
And they are weak.
Once our dynasty weakens, they will definitely take advantage of it.
There have been examples of this in history.
Hundreds of years ago, the Chinese invaders devastated our Central Plains into desolation.
How could civilization be destroyed?
They are almost completely destroyed.
The Khitan people are used to being unruly.
Our government rewards them with so much food, grass and supplies every year, but they are not satisfied and often go south to plunder.
Do you really think that the Tang Dynasty has no temper?
For this The only way to raise an unripe white-eyed wolf is to wipe it out completely and show it to other tribes and small countries.
This is the consequences of invading our Tang Dynasty.
If they want to invade our Tang Dynasty in the future, they must consider the consequences."
Gao Xiuyan nodded and changed his tone, "The general understands his intention, but the Holy Emperor and the court may not understand it.
If the general orders the annihilation of the entire Khitan clan, he will inevitably be impeached by the officials.
Once the public opinion in the government and the opposition becomes uproar, the situation will be catastrophic.
Under the control, the Holy Emperor may not be able to hold it back, and the general will inevitably do so."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "As long as the power of the Tang Dynasty is always there, the country is peaceful and the people are prosperous, and the people are prosperous, my personal honor and disgrace, Zhao Ziliang, don't matter.
If it doesn't work, I will go back to my hometown to farm at the worst.
Pass on, keep the marching speed, before noon tomorrow You must arrive at the banks of the Dule River” Gao Xiuyan looked stern, cupped his hands and said: "No" At noon on October 22, Zhao Ziliang led his troops to the banks of the Dule River.
Seeing that the soldiers were tired, hungry and thirsty, he immediately sent his personal retinue to take charge of security and investigation, and ordered the soldiers to go down to the river to take a bath.
He was allowed to drink raw water and asked the cooks to prepare a fire to make rice immediately.
According to Zhao Ziliang's estimation, the Khitans would not arrive so soon.
After all, Zhang Shouyu's left army was constantly chasing and harassing them along the way.
The Khitans had dispersed into several small groups of ten people.
These scattered small groups had to avoid the pursuit of the Tang army.
To kill, you have to find water sources, and you have to save horse power.
After all, the Khitan people only have one horse each, so they can't be like Zhao Zi.
Liang's subordinates almost each have more than two horses, and most of these horses are captured war horses from various tribes.
The horses are Mongolian horses.
They are not only hardy but also cold-resistant, not picky about food, and are the best horses for long-distance and high-speed marches.
It is the best riding tool, and half of the war horses selected are mares, because they can also provide mare's milk as food for the cavalry.
During this period, the Hedong Tang Army led by Zhao Ziliang swept away almost all the Khitan territory, wiped out hundreds of tribes, and captured nearly 40,000 war horses.
These Mongolian horses had already been used, so Zhao Ziliang decided to gather them all Free up and form a powerful cavalry army in the future After eating and drinking enough, the Tang army finally regained its energy after an afternoon and a night's rest.
In the early morning of October 23, Zhao Ziliang arranged for the army to stay overnight and replace his own bodyguards, taking over the investigation and security affairs. .
Only an hour later, someone from the reconnaissance cavalry came to report that the Khitan team was crossing the river more than a dozen places to the west.
However, the Khitan cavalry team that was crossing the river was all shot dead in the river by the Tang army's reconnaissance cavalry.
Realizing that the Khitans were about to arrive, Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered Gao Xiuyan's right army to line up on the south bank of the Dule River to patrol the river.
If any Khitans were found trying to cross the river, they would immediately kill them.
By the end of the afternoon, Zhao Ziliang received a report from Gao Xiuyan's order that more than 300 Khitan people had been killed on the river bank and in the river.
Zhao Ziliang knew that the Khitan people would not be able to cross the river easily again.
Sure enough, some of the escaped Khitan people fled back south.
The Khitan people they met along the way soon learned that the Tang army had blocked their northward escape route.
The scattered Khitan teams gathered one after another, and by the afternoon Shen Shi Nu was also captured.
Reports and news, the scattered Khitan squads gathered around Nu Jie again in order to survive.
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By nightfall, more than 500 riders had gathered around him.
In order to cross the river as quickly as possible and escape to the north bank of the Dule River, Nu Jie led a team at night to try to break through the Tang army's blockade and forcibly cross the river.
However, they were soon discovered by the Tang army.
After the horn sounded, a large number of Tang troops came to fight with them.
Nu Jie took the great wizard with him.
He and a dozen slave guards took advantage of the chaos and evacuated south.
The remaining hundreds of Khitan cavalry were all killed by the river.
Until the next morning, the river was still blood-red.
In a poplar forest fifty miles away from the Dule River, more than a thousand Khitan cavalry gathered around Nu Jie again.
After he learned that it was impossible to cross the river easily, he sent people to summon the nearby Khitan cavalry team at the advice of the great wizard, and brought They all gathered together to strengthen themselves.
Nu Jie sat on the ground with a miserable look on his face, "Great Wizard, are we really desperate?
If we surrender, will the Tang Army accept it?"
The great wizard sighed: "If the commander-in-chief of the Tang Army was not Zhao Ziliang, he might accept it, but if the commander-in-chief of the Tang Army were him, he would probably not accept our surrender."
After hearing these words, Nu Jie's face became ferocious, and he said fiercely: "If there is a roadblock in front and there are pursuers behind, it is always a dead end, so why should we sit and wait for death to give the order and gather all the people we can?"
All the men gathered together to fight Zhao Ziliang to the death."
"Okay, since you are going to die, let's fight to the death with the Tang people."
After hearing this, the remaining captains and centurions also burst out with their primitive beastly ferocity.
Even trapped animals are still fighting, let alone humans.
On the morning of October 25th, Nu Jie led more than 1,600 Khitan cavalry who had gathered up after two days and marched openly towards the Dule River, preparing for a decisive battle with the Tang army.
They marched very slowly.
On the one hand, in order to prevent the Tang army from attacking again Guerrilla, on the one hand, waiting for the main force of the Tang army to appear.
Zhao Ziliang did not live up to Nu Jie's expectations.
This was the last battle with the Khitans.
There was no need to resort to any tricks.
He was already waiting at the Dule River with 2,500 cavalry from the center and right armies.
By the river, Zhang Shouyu also came from the west with more than 1,400 cavalry from the Zuo Army to join him.
Guo Ziyi also led 500 cavalry with the wounded, cattle, sheep and food hundreds of miles away to the south. .
The two sides faced each other two miles apart.
The Khitan people had not undergone strict training and their formations were scattered.
However, after more than half a year of training, the Tang army had a relatively neat and tight formation.
Although the Tang army was not as good as the Khitan in terms of riding skills, in terms of tactical coordination, the Khitan people were better than the others.
Can't catch up either.
The two sides had a tacit understanding and started at the same time.
Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Gong" "Swish, swish, swish," the cavalrymen of the Tang Army took out their bows one after another, and while galloping forward, they opened their bows and waited.
After the Khitan cavalry entered the shooting range, Zhao Ziliang gave the order: "Let the arrows scatter freely."
The Khitans secretly purchased a lot of crossbows from the Tang Dynasty.
Many of Nuji's subordinates were also equipped with Tang Army standard crossbows.
The range was equivalent to the Tang Army's cavalry.
So the Khitans also started to fire arrows, and two arrows flew from their hands.
Shoot at the opponent.
On the way to the charge, people continued to be hit by arrows, fell off their horses and were trampled to pieces.
The arrows did not stop until several rounds of arrows were fired.
Both sides drew their weapons and rushed towards each other.
The Tang army, which had a dense formation, had an absolute advantage.
The first few rows of loose Khitan cavalry were instantly knocked away and overwhelmed, and the front row could not stop them.
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The Khitan back row was even worse.
The Khitan horses were knocked to the ground constantly, and the Khitan cavalry on horseback were also knocked out.
The Khitan cavalry formation was quickly killed by the Tang army, and the two sides fought.
Together, but in the previous charge, the Khitans lost more than half, and the Tang army had an absolute advantage in strength.
Although Nu Jie tried his best to kill, he could not prevent his own defeat.
Zhao Ziliang had noticed Nudu a long time ago.
He didn't know how many people he had killed with the golden nail Zao Yangshan in his hand.
In the confusion and trembling, he led his guards to kill a round trip and happened to meet Nudu.
His martial arts skills were beyond Zhao Ziliang's expectation.
This man had With some force, he actually blocked seven or eight of his attacks in a row.
However, after blocking Zhao Ziliang's seven or eight powerful attacks that he practiced, he was obviously weak.
His arms could not hold the iron spear, and he was killed even if he failed to block the ninth move.
The horse was split in half by Zhao Ziliang
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