Eight thousand dragged down the river, An Lushan's last hole card, the top combat power of the Tang Army
An Lushan rebelled, using his soldiers, who were named "Dragoch River". The river is like the meaning of "Jian'er". Although An Lushan died in the first year of the Anshi Rebellion, his army still fought for seven or eight years, the most elite of which was the Dragloch River Cavalry.
The name is difficult to understand, but it means a transliteration of the Turkic word arlik, which is close to the pronunciation of 曳劀河 [ yè là hé ] which means "warrior" in Turkic.
When An Lushan collected the Khitan, he carefully selected from the warriors of Tongluo and Xi, and finally formed the Dragloge River Cavalry. The force initially consisted of only 8,000 men, but gradually expanded to tens of thousands.
The Tagging River Cavalry was actually an army of a mixture of infantry and cavalry, the most important of which were heavy cavalry, and at its most numerous were more than 50,000 horses.
In the era of cold weapons, the strength of the heavy cavalry should not be underestimated, they are like modern land tanks, they are fully armored, only their eyes are exposed, and conventional bows and arrows cannot pose a threat to them at all.
The forces of Luoluohe regard An Lushan as their father-in-law, and An Lushan naturally fully supports these "fake sons". Due to the heavy weight of the heavy cavalry armor, ordinary horses could not bear it, so they not only had to find the strongest horse, but also had to ride more than one person, which shows An Lushan's thoughtfulness.
The Xi people have six sections, provinces, and rulers, and their language and customs are different from those of the Khitan, and they are good at farming, archery on foot, and hunting in the mountains, and they travel very fast. ”
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The outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion turned the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. The armies of both sides have been fighting for a long time, and the strength is equal, and the two warring sides are extremely heavy, and the battle situation is extremely fierce but lacks changes.
Although the Tang Dynasty eventually put down the rebellion, it also lost a large number of main forces. Without this war, the Tang Dynasty might have lasted much longer, perhaps even into the Song Dynasty.
In the battle of Xiangji Temple, Li Jiao, the king of Guangping of the Tang Dynasty, Guo Ziyi, the veteran general, and Li Siye, the fierce general, led the border armies of Anxi, Beiting, and Khotan with a total of 150,000 troops and the Zhuhu coalition army, and fought a fierce battle with 100,000 people of An Shouzhong and Li Guiren's Luoluo River cavalry, the Lan army, and the Jingluo army.
In this battle, the 30,000 Shuofang elites led by the three generals Li, Guo and Li tried to pass through the Hedong region and open up the road to Anshi's lair, but they were stubbornly resisted by the 3,000 cavalry who dragged down the river, causing a stalemate that lasted for two months.
Despite their best efforts, due to the rebellion of the Yan brothers, Li, Guo, and Li's grain and grass ** had serious problems and were almost exhausted.
In the end, there was only one last fight left in the duel between the two armies, and the outcome was unpredictable, and it was all up to the will of heaven. If it weren't for the fact that the number of Tang Mo's sword soldiers far exceeded that of the Luoluo River, it was still unknown whether the Anshi Rebellion could be quelled.