On August 28, Zhao Ziliang left 3,000 soldiers and horses from King Mohechu Tutun of the Shi Kingdom to guard Luosi City.
He led 2,000 Tang troops and more than 20,000 people from the ten tribes of Western Turks to set off for Baishui City.
On the first day of the march, Zhao Ziliang received news from the direction of Baishui City.
More than 10,000 food troops stationed in Sogdia and Tocharia were marching towards Baishui City under the leadership of the leading general Daoud.
Within a hundred miles, after Wei Meng reported the news, he immediately led his troops to harass, slow down the movement of the food army, and quickly sent people to report the news to Zhao Ziliang.
After Zhao Ziliang read the letter sent by Wei Meng, he said to Chen Qing, the marching commander: "This is the general's order, and the whole army is speeding up.
They will arrive at Baishui City to camp late at night today."
"Promise" Chen Qing agreed and immediately sent messengers to convey military orders to the leaders of various ministries.
After the whole army accelerated their march, Zhao Ziliang rode his horse and sent someone to call Wang Can to ask: "Is there any news from Chu Ge?"
Wang Can shook his head and said: "General, there is no news from Chu Ge yet."
Zhao Ziliang didn't say anything when he heard the words, flicked his whip, and accelerated his horse to rush forward.
At this time, in the upper reaches of the Yaosha River, Chu Ge was leading a thousand fine cavalry of the Tang army to ambush on the back of a sand dune on the east bank of the Yaosha River.
Although it had begun to enter late autumn, the temperature in the desert was already very high at noon, and the soldiers were burned by the scorching heat.
The sand was so hot that I was covered in sweat.
No one said anything, and the mouths of the war horses were tied up with ropes.
The thirsty soldiers took out their water bags from time to time and poured two mouthfuls of water into their mouths to quench their thirst.
The water they drank quickly flowed out through their sweat glands. .
At this time, the dull sound of horse hoofs suddenly appeared in the ears of Chu Ge and all the Tang Army soldiers.
Chu Ge climbed up the sand dune and revealed a head from the top.
Looking around, he saw a Tang Army scout riding on his horse and galloping towards him.
Looking behind the Tang Army scout cavalry, there was nothing.
He turned his head and looked down, held up his hands, and slid down the dune along the sand.
The scout galloped to the bottom of the sand dune.
Chu Ge had just slipped down when he heard the knight panting and reporting to him: "General Chu, the big man-eater has appeared."
When the wait finally arrived, Chu Ge immediately asked: "How far is it from here?
How many troops do they have?
How is their morale?"
The scout said: "It is no more than fifteen miles away.
The number of troops should not exceed 1,200, and there are more than 800 horses.
Morale is low.
The opponent's marching speed is extremely slow.
There should be a serious shortage of water and food.
The military flags are all No one can carry it” After listening to the report, Chu Ge said: "The Dashi army generally has very few infantry.
They came to attack Sogdia and Shiguo this time with cavalry.
The infantry left in Hengluosi City cannot escape our army's pursuit.
It seems that they The four hundred horseless men must have lost their horses in the desert, or killed their horses because of hunger.
Therefore, we have to deal with the cannibalistic eight hundred cavalry first.
Now they are short of men and horses.
Wait until they reach the river to drink water.
When the time comes, we immediately launch an attack to scout where the rest of the cavalry are.”
"Captain and the others will be back soon."
Sure enough, not long after, more than a dozen riders were seen moving slowly this way.
As these scouts moved this way, they cleared the horse hoof prints along the way to prevent their whereabouts from being discovered by the food army.
After hearing the report from the captain of the reconnaissance team again, Chu Ge felt more confident.
He ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
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No one was allowed to attack without permission, and no one was allowed to make a sound before there was an order.
Although it was less than fifteen miles, the Great Eaters had traveled for about three hours.
This shows how slow the Great Eaters' march was at this time.
It also proved that they were short of water and food, otherwise the army would have been unable to move.
The marching speed cannot be that slow, unless it is deliberately delayed.
It was already past three o'clock in the afternoon, and the Great Eaters arrived two miles away from the Medicine Killing Water.
The frontmost cavalrymen of the Great Eaters were so thirsty that their eyes were dim, and a white line appeared in their blurred vision.
They rubbed their eyes, trying hard to see what the white line in front of them was.
Soon, the white line turned into a river, and they even heard the sound of the river flowing.
The big eater immediately shouted excitedly: "Water, water, we have arrived at the Yaoxashui River.
We are saved."
When the other big cannibals heard this figure, they ran as hard as they could towards the river.
Those who couldn't run speeded up and moved forward.
Afterwards, most of them started shouting with excitement, and many people dropped their weapons.
After taking off their armor, some people even disliked the slow pace of their horses, so they jumped off their horses and ran towards the river.
Chu Ge lay on the sand dune and stretched out his head to observe for a while, then waved his hand to the bottom of the back of the dune.
The Tang Army cavalry on the back of the dune slowly climbed up the dune with their horses.
The big cannibal, who had almost died of thirst, threw all his caution away when he saw the river.
Said still looked like a governor at this time.
His eyes were dim, his lips were chapped, and the skin on his face was covered with sand.
When he heard that he had reached the Yaoshashui River ahead of him, he immediately ran towards the river regardless of his image.
Several of his personal guards had to hold back their thirst and follow closely.
When most of the big cannibals arrived at the river and were drinking and playing, Chu Ge immediately waved his hand and got on his horse first.
Other soldiers and generals of the Tang army also mounted their horses one after another.
He took out his spear, and the soldiers and generals of the Tang army also took out their spears.
Long weapons.
"Soldiers, our hard work for many days has finally come to fruition today.
Victory is right in front of us.
Follow me and rush down, kill the big cannibal, and then return to Baishui City to eat meat and drink wine."
All the soldiers of the Tang army kept raising their weapons and returned to the camp loudly: "Okay, okay, okay" "Kill" Chu Ge pointed his spear forward and galloped down the sand dune.
The soldiers of the Tang Army on the left and right also rushed down the sand dune with their horses and towards the big food who was drinking water by the river two miles away.
The army rushed over.
Chu Ge held a long spear and galloped on his horse while shouting: "Sayed, this general has been waiting for you for a long time.
Please accept your orders."
Said, who was drinking water, was so frightened when he saw the familiar figure of Chu Ge that he immediately got on his horse and swam toward the middle of the river.
His personal guards also got on their horses and rushed into the river.
The food army who was drinking water and playing by the river heard shouts of killing coming from behind and behind them.
Everyone was shocked.
They turned around and saw a large number of Tang Army cavalry rushing down from the low sand dunes at the sides and rear.
The cavalry rushed down the sand dune, rushing faster and faster.
The originally loose formation quickly completed the assembly of the whole team during the process of rushing down the sand dune, and formed a neat and well-trained formation while running at high speed.
Well-trained and well-equipped elite cavalry.
In the blink of an eye, a vicious attacking dragon formation appeared.
While the cannibals were still panicking, the Tang Army cavalry lined up in ten neat columns and charged into the cannibals.
At this time, most of the cannibals were People were looking for their horses, and others swam into the river out of fear.
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Although this was just a light cavalry, its collision force was not something that these frightened food troops could withstand.
Each of the food soldiers stood on the sand and picked up their weapons to fight against the charging Tang Army cavalry.
But they soon discovered that they were wrong.
They were either pierced through the chest with a spear by the Tang Army cavalry and strung on the barrel of the gun, or their heads were cut off, or they were knocked away by the charging horses and died.
This Tang Army cavalry, led by Chu Ge, was like an extremely efficient harvester.
Wherever it passed, the soldiers of the Food Army fell like wheat.
The clever soldiers of the Food Army took advantage of the Tang Army before they could kill them.
He had already thrown himself into the middle of the river.
Even though the water flow was very fast, his chances of survival were still much higher than staying where he was.
Chu Ge learned 70 to 80% of Zhao Ziliang's cavalry tactics.
He commanded the cavalry very well and led them to kill two people back and forth by the river.
There were only corpses left on the river, and some were still alive.
The Dashi army fled in all directions, but they were soon chased and killed by the Tang army.
After the battle, the captain in charge of cleaning the battlefield came to report: "General Chu, the Said you mentioned was not found among the corpses and prisoners."
Chu Ge said angrily: "Oh, let this damn Said run away."
After losing his temper, Chu Ge ordered: "It's getting late today.
After cleaning the battlefield, we will camp here.
Tomorrow morning we will take the prisoners and captured horses, weapons, and armor back to Baishui City."
"promise" Whitewater City.
The day after Zhao Ziliang led his army to arrive, Wei Meng led his army back from the south.
The army was loose and the soldiers were a little tired.
Many of the soldiers had knife marks on their armor.
It seemed that they had already fought with the large food army led by Daoud.
Airport.
After Wei Meng settled his troops and horses, he immediately came to see Zhao Ziliang and reported: "General, the last general has fought several battles with the food army.
The scale is not large.
It is just to delay time and test their combat power.
This food army The combat effectiveness of the army is better than that of the food army led by Biyide.
They are now seventy miles away and they are expected to arrive here tomorrow morning.
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Okay, then we will wait here for a while.
You can go down to rest first and come over in the evening to discuss matters."
"promise" Zhao Ziliang was studying tactics to deal with Daoud.
Wang Can walked in happily and reported: "General, Chu Ge is back."
"Let him in quickly" "promise" Chu Ge soon walked into the big tent covered with dust, saluted Zhao Ziliang and said: "See the general, the last general is back.
The last general is incompetent and failed to catch Said, so he ran away."
"Oh, tell me the specific situation."
"Nuo" Chu Ge then described the entire ambush and battle process in detail.
After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang asked: "So Said only took dozens of his own soldiers and swam to the other side of the river and ran away."
"Yes, the scout cavalry inspected it beforehand.
There were about 1,200 people in the food army crossing the desert.
After the battle, we counted the enemy corpses and found that the difference between the number of corpses and the number detected by the scout cavalry was only a few dozen people."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while, waved his hand and said: "Forget it, just run away.
These people who often haunt the desert are all very clever.
It's not easy to kill them all at once.
You go down and rest first."
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"Tomorrow, follow me to fight against the 10,000-strong army of food commanded by Daoud."
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