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Volume 2: Wang Changan Chapter 23: The bloody battle of Gu Mu'er (Part 2)

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    ~Date:~October 19th~

    Chapter 23 The bloody battle of Gu Mu'er (Part 2)

    What greeted the Great Eater Cavalry was a heavy rain of crossbow arrows. Duan Yuntian felt absolutely uneasy at this moment. Although he had judged that there would be an ambush, when the Great Eater Cavalry actually appeared, he realized that he had underestimated the determination of a country that had been fighting for many years.  So many elite cannibals appeared, and his forward line of more than 6,000 people was besieged by tens of thousands of cavalry. Duan Yuntian felt an evil fire in his heart and rushed up. He saw his son's cavalry fighting with the cannibal cavalry.  Another large group of cavalry attacked him. His face was as blue as iron, and he directly ordered his infantry to advance in formation against the cavalry, while the crossbowmen fired at the fastest rate of fire.  ====

    More than a dozen of Abu Muslim's soldiers fell down, but the commander's expression did not change at all. He still raised his sword high, the flag behind him was still fluttering, and the Zhou army's sharpest crossbows were already famous all over the world.  , the Dashi cavalry left thousands of cavalry on the way to charge. These experienced cavalry have saved their lives in several years of civil war, but today in the Gumuer Valley, they fell to the ground silently and changed.  into a corpse.

    The cavalry charge was approaching in an instant, and countless loud noises merged into a huge sound of steel collision. Screams and waves of blood were set off. Two strongholds with the same will of steel collided head-on. On one side were Muslim warriors with firm religious beliefs, and on the other side were Muslim warriors with firm religious beliefs.  It was the Iron Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty that had forged its invincible reputation through countless bloody battles. One side was cavalry and the other side was infantry. This difference in arms was not reflected at all on the battlefield.

    It stands to reason that the infantry will never be able to withstand the desperate charge of the cavalry. Once the cavalry does not avoid the military formation like a forest of spears, then the violent cavalry attack will cause extremely terrible losses to the infantry. Once the two sides come into contact, it will be  In this way, relying on the extremely huge inertia, the Dashi cavalry rushed in like a huge wave, drowning several rows of spearmen in front of Duan Yuntian's infantry. The war horses and the cavalry on the horses covered all the spearmen, and seemed to break through the infantry formation with one impact.  .

    However, this is just an appearance. Before the impact, the Zhou army's infantry had already stood still. Not only did all the spearmen arrange themselves into a tight human wall, but the ends of the spears in each person's hands were deeply pierced into the ground. The cavalry saw  It seemed that they had broken through the spear array, but there were not many places where the long spears actually hung down to reveal gaps. Like waves hitting a rock, the Zhou army's spearmen were soon exposed among the piles of corpses.

    In this collision, the Zhou army's infantry suffered a lot of losses, but not as much as the loss of the Dashi cavalry. Almost all the thousands of cavalry in front suffered casualties. Many cavalry had more than one bloody hole poked in their bodies, and were directly penetrated by the spears.  On the front, there are at least six rows of long guns erected in a dense forest of guns. On the front, there are at least three rows of sharp long guns pointing straight ahead. The first row is ordinary long guns, the second row is extended horse-rejecting guns, and the third row is ordinary long guns.  Long spears, thus forming three rows of spears of almost the same length in front of the formation. It is understandable that the Dashi Cavalry encountered such a spear formation head-on and suffered heavy losses.

    The cavalry behind them, with their comrades in front sacrificing their lives to block the power of the spear formation, rushed their horses forward crazily, letting their horses trample on the bodies of their fallen comrades or enemies in front, trying to open a gap in the Zhou army's formation and sit down.  Once the dismounted war horse is injured by a spear, he immediately jumps out from above the horse's head and pounces on the Zhou army. As long as it can kill a Zhou army, or just injure a Zhou army, the cavalry will sacrifice their lives.  Go and change.

    This madness did bring a lot of damage to the Zhou army. The armor of the infantry in front was still very sophisticated. Not many spearmen were killed directly, but the stampede of the cavalry that followed was very fatal.  The few Zhou infantrymen who were not killed in the first round of the attack suffered heavy casualties in the attack of the large group of cavalry that followed.

    The well-tempered infantry formation of the Zhou army against the cavalry has withstood the test. The first round of attacks did not break through the Zhou army's formation. Once it withstood, the dead bodies of men and horses on the ground blocked the cavalry line that followed, and the charge of the cavalry was blocked.  was restrained. At this time, the Zhou army's spearmen began to use the length of their spears to harvest the lives of the large food cavalry. They exhaled and made a sound, thrust out their spears at the same time, and then pulled them out. Regardless of whether the men or horses were stabbed, they would soon die from blood loss.  In a coma, the chain armor on the Dashi Cavalry was the armor that Li Zuoguo first used to arm his own cavalry. Because he changed the armor and sold it to Zelfal, the chain armor had good protection against slashing, but it was not effective against assassination.

    The spear can easily break through the chain armor, pierce the body of the Great Eater Cavalry, and take away the fresh lives. On the battlefield, the Great Eater Cavalry roared forward, seeming to have the upper hand, but the speed at which they were killed was  Very fast, the loss was much greater than that of the Zhou army. The particularly brave Dashi cavalry even broke through the spearmen's formation, but in front of them were the most elite sword and shield soldiers in the Zhou army. Each of the sword and shield soldiers was composed of three people.  The small team, using their swords at random, quickly killed the large food cavalry who rushed into the inner circle.

    Under the moonlight, the entire Gumu'er Valley was divided into three battlefields for bloody battles. One hundred thousand soldiers risked their lives to fight. Above their headsThe flying feather arrows and crossbows were like knives cutting through the sky. Soldiers screamed and fell to the ground at any time. The sound of knives and guns piercing their bodies was like being in a huge slaughterhouse. The corpses on the ground were spread out one layer at a time, and the long grass was spread out.  They were all covered, and blood flowed across the ground, forming puddles of blood. The screams of the war horses made the entire valley reverberate.

    At this time, the Tocharians and Dashi could not afford to lose the battle. The Tocharians also showed their final bloody strength, but the Zhou army calmly and efficiently harvested the lives of the enemy soldiers. The cavalry, for the first time,  In front of the infantry, they lost the power of a battle to determine the outcome. The Great Eaters have not yet encountered the most powerful ultimate infantry of the Great Zhou Dynasty against cavalry - the Mo Daobing. But now the Zhou army infantry in the valley has also given the Great Eater cavalry a taste of the Zhou army.  The military infantry is powerful.

    Zhang Xiaoyong's circular defense formation has shrunk a lot. This is not because it can no longer be sustained, but in order to better reduce the strength of the troops, the soldiers must also be rotated. Otherwise, the soldiers will not be able to support it for such a long time and spit fire.  Luo and Dashi's cavalry were in the same situation. They divided into several groups to attack, but they were unable to do anything to this tenacious infantry. They were like a stubborn stone under a waterfall, standing still no matter how strong the water flow was.

    Duan Yaoming is sitting in the center of the circle. His armor has been taken off, exposing his upper body. His strong muscles are like large pieces of pig iron. A military doctor is carefully applying medicine to the wound on Duan Yaoming's left shoulder. Duan Yaoming  He became impatient and said with a slightly hoarse voice: "Hurry up, our brigade will be rotated up soon, why are you taking such a long time?"

    The doctor raised his head and glanced at Duan Yaoming, admiring him in his heart. If someone else had suffered such an injury, he would have been unable to lift his left hand. But this tall and strong brigade commander didn't care at all, and there was no pain on his face at all.  With an expression on his face, the doctor said: "You'll be fine soon, Brigadier. You'd better not go into battle with this kind of injury. Just rest here. Otherwise, if you tear the wound again, your entire left arm will be useless."

    Duan Yaoming turned his head and stared at the doctor fiercely: "What nonsense are you talking about? How can I let my brother go up and fight for his life while he lies behind me? Stop talking nonsense and tie up the wound tightly for me immediately."

    Looking at Duan Yaoming's murderous eyes, the doctor nodded silently, wrapped Duan Yaoming's wound tightly with medicated gauze, and wrapped it tightly around the back of his shoulders. Duan Yaoming put on the armor on the ground, but on his shoulders  The injury prevented him from fastening the buckle of his armor under his armpit. The doctor stretched out his hand to help Duan Yaoming fasten the belt. Duan Yaoming stood up, flexed his left hand, patted the doctor and said, "Good workmanship. Go and take care of it."  Another brother."

    After Duan Yaoming said that, he picked up his mace, turned around and walked towards the perimeter. After walking for more than ten steps, he shouted. More than a hundred soldiers lying on the ground stood up immediately and followed Duan Yaoming.  A queue formed naturally while walking, with spears pointed at the sky. It was completely different from the lazy look just now. Duan Yaoming's brigade had nearly half of its casualties, and Duan Yaoming, the remaining soldiers, all gave them spears.  As a gunman, according to Duan Yaoming: "The best thing is to stand on the outside and fight the enemy face to face."

    Duan Yaoming's brigade replaced the brigade to the north, which happened to be the defense area where Fang Chi was located. Fang Chi retreated with his brigade. He still had 150 people in his hand, and there were only 60 spearmen left, and  There were still ninety-one sword and shield soldiers, and the crossbowmen were all gathered together to shoot. Fang Chi's soldiers suffered much better casualties than Duan Yaoming. When he was replaced, Fang Chi looked at Duan Yaoming and said, "Old Duan, your injury  How about it? Don¡¯t hold on if you can¡¯t help it.¡±

    Duan Yaoming said angrily: "Bullshit, hold on, I can still run and jump after you were defeated. These guys outside are tired now, and the offensive is very weak. You can rest more and see how I kill people."

    Fang Chi shook his head. Yaoming really wanted to save face. He led his soldiers and retreated to the front of the crossbowmen and sat down to rest. Several soldiers came up from behind and brought water bags. Fang Chi took one of the water bags.  , raised his head and drank. He was very thirsty, and his voice was hoarse after shouting for so long. Fang Chi and the others had to seize the time to rest. The number of cavalry outside far exceeded them, but they took longer to rest.  .

    Duan Heng turned around with his backhand, and with the turning movement, he sped up and slashed. The head of a large food cavalry was chopped off in half. He fell down from his horse without saying a word and was killed on the spot. The cavalry around him was already sparse. On his side,  Already having the absolute upper hand, only Han Yuanzhong was still strangling the Dashi Cavalry unhurriedly. Duan Heng and his troops, and the soldiers around him, immediately moved closer to the general.

    The war horses began to gallop like dragons. More and more cavalry gathered around Duan Heng. Soon they formed a torrent. The Dashi cavalry could no longer form an organized resistance. After three thousand cavalry gathered behind Duan Heng,  He fiercely inserted himself into the large food cavalry who was struggling to resist Han Yuanzhong. At this time, the fifteen thousand who blocked Duan Heng?The food cavalry was already helpless.

    The sky slowly turned white, and it was almost dawn. The two sides had been fighting desperately for three hours in the Gumuer Valley. Many soldiers suddenly fell to the ground while fighting, losing their lives.  It was completely exhausting. In this kind of high-intensity fighting, adrenaline was secreted sharply, and the body could not feel the fatigue at all. When it felt tired, it was already time to support it.

    At this time, the situation had completely changed. After Duan Heng gathered all the cavalry, he killed the 15,000 cavalry of the Great Eater Lightning Legion who were blocking him, and immediately launched an attack on the cavalry besieging Zhang Xiaoyong, killing three of the opponent's cavalry.  After going back and forth, in conjunction with Zhang Xiaoyong's counterattack, the Tocharian cavalry, which had low morale, was killed and turned upside down. Duan Heng could see the difference between the Tocharian cavalry and the Dashi cavalry at a glance.

    Duan Heng's attack route happened to be behind the Tocharian cavalry. After two flanking attacks, the Tocharian cavalry ran away for a long time. After fighting hard in the middle of the night, they really could not stop such an attack. Their morale suddenly fell to the bottom.  It collapsed. Such a collapse happened so fast that even the generals of the Great Food Cavalry had no time to react. The ground was full of Tocharian troops shouting in disarray. The Tocharian people could no longer stand such a bloody battle.  Their casualties exceeded 40%. All the more than 10,000 cavalrymen turned their backs and began to flee in the opposite direction.

    Garissa tried his best to stop it, and his soldiers beheaded dozens of deserters. However, once the morale of the army was depressed, it was difficult to recover, and they could not stop the Tocharian cavalry from escaping. Afterwards, Duan Heng's cavalry did not seem to have experienced anything in the middle of the night.  After a hard fight, they rushed into the Dashi cavalry. Zhang Xiaoyong, a veteran, was not in vain. He immediately organized his troops to counterattack. Gradually, Dashi's cavalry could no longer support it. First, individual Dashi cavalry began to fight alone.  They ran away from the team, and then the cavalry fled one by one. The power of example is infinite. The rout of the Tocharian cavalry also affected the Taishi cavalry.

    To be honest, the battle of the Dashi Cavalry has been very good so far. With long-range weapons not having the upper hand at all, the casualties have reached 60%. Only about 10,000 of the 30,000 cavalry are still on the horse. Another hard battle.  In the middle of the night, both physical strength and horsepower had been squeezed to the limit. What's more, the infantry commanded by Zhang Xiaoyong was also hopelessly tenacious. No matter how many casualties there were, they still held the formation firmly with no sign of being breached. Coupled with Duan Heng's cavalry, the fierce cavalry  Hit, the big cannibal collapsed.

    The cavalry turned around and left, leaving their backs for crossbow arrows. Duan Heng's cavalry had a little more horsepower than these big food cavalry, and they immediately started a limited pursuit. Many of the big food cavalry's horses ran away not far away.  He fell down and threw the cavalry on his back far away. Duan Heng chased for less than two miles, immediately gathered the cavalry and turned back to the battlefield. Zhang Xiaoyong also gathered his infantry, and two troops, one at a time, swept the Gumu'er Valley.  It's blocked here.

    Behind them was Abu Muslim's cavalry unit who was still fighting with Duan Yuntian's infantry. Abu Muslim had already seen the defeat of his own troops plus the Tocharian cavalry, but he organized his cavalry round after round as if nothing had happened.  Charged against the crossbows of the Zhou army, Abu Muslim knew that he had been defeated. His defeat here also announced the complete end of Dashi's plot against Shule in Anxi, and also gave Dashi an excuse to send troops against Dashi. This defeat  It really ruined Dashi. Not only did Dashi's most elite troops lose, but the wish of the Muhammad family in his heart to become the emperor of Dashi was probably in vain. This was what made Abu Muslim despair.

    Abu Muslim didn¡¯t want to escape. At the moment when the cavalry he sent to stop Duan Heng was defeated, he still had time to escape, but what was the point?  Going back to Dashi will face the same fate as death. Zerfar will definitely hand himself over to Da Zhou as a scapegoat, and maybe even hand over the entire Muhammad family. Grand Ayatollah Gusin Muhammad estimates at this time  Has he been imprisoned by Zelfar?  Abu Muslim only had cold despair in his heart, so why not let himself die heroically on the battlefield?  This legendary figure who rose from slave to general at the age of fourteen gave up the idea of ??survival in the face of absolute power.

    The Muslim legions under Abu Muslim were all elites who were willing to fight to the death for him. Duan Yuntian found it strange that under such great pressure, the enemy on the opposite side seemed to be sacrificing their lives in the battle as if they didn't care about casualties at all. There were layers of corpses on the ground.  Stack, unexpectedly, he rushed towards the spear without any hesitation. As long as the soldier still had breath, he would chop the weapon in his hand at the Zhou soldiers. This was no longer fighting, but seeking death.

    When Zhang Xiaoyong and Duan Heng approached from behind Abu Muslim, the battle was coming to an end. Duan Yuntian's infantry formed a semicircle, with Zhang Xiaoyong and Duan Heng behind them, pushing back the troops around Abu Muslim.  About 7,000 remaining soldiers surrounded it, and Abu Muslim was unable to fly.

    The sun poked its head out on the hillside, and the soft golden light slowly spread in the Gumuer Valley. The whole place was illuminated by the sun.The valley was all bright, and the corpses on the ground were spread all over the huge valley. The corpses with various expressions were still frozen at the moment before death. Many wounded soldiers groaned weakly among the corpses. A small team  A small group of Zhou army soldiers were carefully cleaning the battlefield and carrying away their own wounded soldiers. The enemy's wounded soldiers were simply given a knife to end their pain. The cavalry guns and crossbow arrows thrown on the battlefield should be recovered as much as possible. These  It's all money.

    The corpses of the war horses were gathered together and placed on carts. These were meat and could not be wasted. The corpses of the enemy were separated from the corpses of our own people. The enemy corpses were gathered together and thrown directly into the dug pits. Fifty huge  The pits have been dug in the valley, the armors and weapons of the enemies are collected, the corpses are thrown into the pits, and the pits are filled as soon as they are full. These things are all sent from the Tocharian camp at noon.  Ten thousand captives did it, and all these Tocharian captives were extremely honest after seeing such a tragic situation.

    The Zhou army's army was dispatched and cut down countless trees on the surrounding mountains. The corpses of the Zhou army's dead soldiers were lined up neatly. Twenty huge temporary crematoriums were spitting out flames. The Zhou army's dead soldiers were buried in  They took off their military badges, collected their ashes, and put them into beautifully crafted wooden boxes, which were to be transported back to the Temple of War in Qiuci for enshrinement. Countless military flags were placed beside the crematorium. This was a sign of the Zhou who lost his organization.  The flag of the army was raised. Eight entire brigades of the infantry were killed, including the brigade commander. Twenty-five hundred cavalry were killed and 8,100 were killed in the infantry. Zhang Xiaoyong, who had attracted the opponent's ambush, finally  There were only 3,800 people left, and the number of wounded soldiers reached more than 1,100, with almost 60% casualties. It was the unit with the greatest losses in this battle.

    The Zhou army killed 10,673 people in battle, while the ambushed Dashi and Tocharian armies killed more than 36,000, captured more than 15,000, and escaped about 10,000, most of whom were the last.  The Tocharian soldier who escaped first, Abu Muslim, died in the battle. After being surrounded at the last moment, Abu Muslim personally led the remaining cavalry to launch a desperate charge against the Zhou army, and finally found the strongest of the Great Eaters.  When the commander's body was found, sixty-one crossbow arrows were hit on his body, and more than a hundred crossbow arrows were on his horse. In the end, only more than 300 of the cavalrymen around Abu Muslim survived, and they were all injured and later killed.  Captured.

    The next day, the Dashi Division who wanted to deceive Dalun Pass was discovered. As a result, they tried to attack Dalun Pass but suffered heavy losses and had to retreat. When they were retreating, they encountered Duan Heng leading 5,000 cavalry back to Dalun Pass to take the troops.  After collecting the caskets of the soldiers' ashes, another round of killings took place. More than two thousand defeated soldiers rushed into the mountains west of Dalun Pass and disappeared without a trace.

    At this point, the entire battle of Dalun Pass came to an end. In this battle, Duan Yuntian dispatched a total of 45,000 Zhou troops, and the Tocharian coalition army and the Dashi army totaled 180,000 troops. More than 13,000 Zhou troops were killed and nearly 10,000 were injured.  There were also heavy casualties, but 100,000 enemies were killed and 30,000 were captured. There were no barbarian soldiers in the entire Tocharian front line, and only 5,000 of the 60,000-strong army of the Great Eclipse remained. Almost all of the most elite troops were there.  Everything was explained in the bloody battle in the Gumuer Valley. This battle established the situation in the west of the Great Zhou Dynasty for the next two hundred years. It was known in history as the bloody battle of Gumuer.

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