18. Tombs describe the national mourning
One hour later, the camps in the north of Xifan City and the camps in the east of Xifan City collapsed one after another. The soldiers of the border troops of the host country felt that the Da Lun Shang Jiezan must have been defeated, and the enemy's flags were also replaced on Tiehua Mountain, and fired everywhere, so they began to flee.
The water flows through the south and east of Huating City. A scattered path called "Huiqu" was previously dug to the northeastern highland of the city to irrigate the fields above it. Now it has become a place for foreign soldiers to rush to rush, with people trampling on each other and corpses blocking the canal, so the water in Huiqu does not flow.
Fuyuhuai and Zhang Yufei's troops also happened to attack from Huiqu. After intercepting the fleeing brigade of foreign soldiers, they killed each other!
Before noon, Shang Jiezan and Xu Li began to defeat. At first, they and thousands of Dongdai imperial troops were able to maintain order of fighting and retreating. However, the Tang army attacked and fought from several sides. The organization of the nearly thirty thousand-man teams that Zanpu had given Shang Jiezan began to collapse: some were injured in the battle, while others were injured in the army, and then they were killed in the battle. In this way, one battalion after another, and finally went to destruction.
At dusk, Gao Yue did not have time to enter Huating City, but directly commanded the mule army to pursue it thirty miles northwest of Huating City. He looked back and saw that the corpses of foreign soldiers were piled up along the road. As for abandoned war horses, cattle, camels and other livestock, armor, flags, and rods, there were countless. A blood-red setting sun wandered on the top of Tiehua Mountain, but Gao Yue still ordered: Mi Yuan and Ming Huaiyi to lead the cavalry to continue chasing and kill all the foreign soldiers as much as possible.
So Ming Huaiyi chased after Sanliang Palace and met the Xuanwu soldiers of Liu Chang's troops who were also running from Shangang and Dao Palace. The soldiers also held their heads in their hands and shouted to join the cavalry of Ming Huaiyi:
Just now, a large number of defeated foreign soldiers were about to go back from Sanliang Palace to climb Longshan. They were almost slaughtered by Xuanwu soldiers, and their headless bodies were lying under the blue-gray cliff.
"When I saw the great speech of Xifan, did I have any frog flag?" Ming Huaiyi asked.
Several Yu Hou of Xuanwu Army stood and looked at him with swords, then shook his head.
Liu Chang, the chief censor of the prosecutor, received Ming Huaiyi in Sanliang Palace and asked his subordinates to feed the cavalry and horses pursued by Fengxiang and Xingyuan. He said that he had not seen Shang Jiezan. Regarding Xu Li, he must have escaped from other mountain paths like a rat who escaped from the cave.
At this time, Gao Yue's troops, namely infantry, crossbowmen and mule soldiers, who were behind to clean up the battlefield, met Hun Yeh and Liu Haibin who came from Diaoke Gorge - they also intercepted more than 3,000 fleeing foreign soldiers, killed most of them, and all the others were captured.
Under the attack from all sides, Shang Jiezan had nearly 30,000 soldiers, and few of them hid in Longshan alive. The cleaning and bookkeeping work on the battlefield was until the next morning:
On the north bank of the Shui River, there were the bodies of 1,700 foreign soldiers, and hundreds of others were lying on the cold water bottom and washed to the Shui River Canyon on the other side of Wuma Mountain;
In the unknown valley west of the city, there were only a few dozen Western-Armored cavalry who had originally ambushed, and the rest were killed;
Further down, there were 3,800 bodies in the Fan Army camp west of Huating;
Nearly three thousand corpses were upside down in the plains and highlands flowing through the city and northeast of the city;
At the foot of Tiehua Mountain in the east of the city, most of the camps besieged by the foreign army were burned down, and 1,200 bodies were found in the intervening sites;
From dozens of miles from Huating City to Sanliang Palace in Xiaolong Mountain, another 2,500 foreign soldiers were hunted down or died along the road due to their own tramplings;
The Hunjun troops who came from Diaoke Gorge also killed 2,100 foreign soldiers.
A total of more than 15,000 foreign soldiers were captured, 3,000 war horses, thousands of carrying animals, and more than 3,000 prisoners were captured. The lucky foreign soldiers all fled to the deep valley of Longshan while night and chaos, starved to death, freeze to death, exhausted to death, and injured in the wilderness, but not what Gao Yue and the others could count.
The Tang army also paid a heavy price. The two armies of Yining and Dingwu died in battle, more than 1,300 soldiers, more than 900 shooting soldiers, and another three or four hundred disappeared. However, they should have died in the earliest raid of crossing the river, mixed in the bodies of foreign soldiers, and rushed to the Weishui Canyon.
As for Huating City, there were two thousand shooting soldiers before the war, more than half of them were injured and hundreds of people were injured after the war.
In fact, during the head-on battle, the casualties of the Tang and Tibet were quite common, and most of the losses of the Western Tibet were all caused by the defeat.
After hearing the number of his own death, Gao Yue couldn't help it, covered his face with his sleeves and started crying.
He stood at the high hill of Wunian Mountain, looking at the scene of burying his children under it, crying silently. Other leaders called the soldiers "children", perhaps just a habitual title, but these children who died in battle were all cultivated by him. Some of them were those who built fields with him in Bailicheng in the past, some were recruited from Dangxiang City, and some were young people recruited from various prefectures and counties in Xingyuan. To Gao Yue, they were real children...
Gao Yue understands the glory of victory and the heavyness of sacrifice.
The clouds were low on this day, and the distant mountains of Huating disappeared, and it seemed particularly blurred in the turbid clouds and fog. Feng Xiang and Xingyuan's children who died in battle could no longer transport their bodies back to their mansion, so they could only buried them in a simple coffin on the spot.
When they set out, the Dingwu Army had prepared thousands of coffins, which were first placed in Shibili, and then transported to Fengxiang Shaoyin Xue Baijing to Fengyang City, but now it seems that the number is insufficient.
The people near Huating also came. For the sacrifice of Yining, Dingwu's children dug tombs and built coffins. The white banners erected around Wunian Mountain, everywhere. The tomb marks and tombs were stacked from afar.
When Gao Yue walked down the mountain and arrived in front of the camp, he saw the armor piled up like a mountain in front of the wooden fence, and tears flowed down again.
These armors were worn in front of their children. According to the requirements, they were buried in front of the tomb, and the armor was to be peeled off from them...
Going west, four days later, Shang Jiezan, talked about Xu Li, begging to hide and hide, and Soma and others rushed from Jizi Road and Baiyaling like a frightened bird, along the Wating River on the western foot of Longshan Mountain, to the Waste City of Shuiluo, and only then met the host soldiers who came to pick them up.
Shang Jiezan's face was as white as paper, covering her face, ashamed to meet others.
Because he was afraid that the soldiers who were receiving the support asked him where the other soldiers had gone?
Now Shang Jiezan has not even counted the casualties, and most of the clerks died in battle under Huating City...
Not long after, in Qinzhou, Weizhou, Shanzhou and other places, black sacrifice flags were erected in front of almost every household, and the women and children knelt under the banner, crying day and night.
In particular, the Supi tribe, which moved to the most Longyou East Road, suffered the most losses, which could cost two-thirds of the adult males who "Gui" were lost.
The Dongdai Injunction soldiers who Zanpu gave to Shang Jiezan were even more ten or four. The wooden slips that were reported to the death were also handed over to the Asuka Commander and sent to the plateau for a quick horse.
Shang Jiezan was afraid that the Han people in the host would take the opportunity to rebel, so he did not return to Shanzhou where the Jiedushi was located, but stopped in the palace in Qinzhou, allowing all the remaining soldiers to sanitate themselves and suppress the situation.
However, even more terrifying news came: Hun Yu and Gao Yue took the remnant power of the Huating Victory and led thousands of cavalry to cross Longshan to the vicinity of Shuiluo City, and wanted to challenge Shang Jiezan!
Chapter completed!