Tibet

[I don’t know what happened to the chapter yesterday at noon. The automatic upload failed. Lao Gao only found out when I published the book in the evening. I’m very sorry to everyone.]

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The commander of the Tubo army discovered the intention of the Tang army to launch a crossbow, and immediately ordered: "Kill them!"

The Tubo soldiers brandished daggers and shields, shouted and rushed towards the Tang army. The Tang army's heavy crossbow arrows were fired together, and the arrows were like rain. The Tubo soldiers running in front fell down one by one.

But the Tibetan soldiers were very tough. They were not intimidated by the strong bows and crossbows, and they still rushed forward one after another.

Li Ye saw that the opponent was so murderous that it was impossible to force him back with a crossbow, so he could only fight head-on.

"The other armies retreat, Modao's army enters!"

The order was conveyed, and the soldiers of the heavy shield corps and heavy crossbow corps quickly retreated, and 500 heavy armored infantry lined up, with thirty people in a row and more than a dozen rows in sequence.

I saw the soldiers of the Mo Dao Army wielding their Mo Dao, cold light flashing, and the two armies collided. In an instant, blood and flesh flew everywhere, heads rolled to the ground, corpses were everywhere, internal organs flowed out, and the air was suddenly filled with a pungent stench.

This is a veritable battlefield meat grinder. Groups of Tibetan soldiers rushed up. They couldn't get close to the heavy armored infantry. As soon as they raised their daggers, they were cut into pieces.

The ground was covered with flesh and blood and corpses, and the heavy armored infantry took turns taking turns to rest. The army advanced like a wall, trampling on the bones on the ground. The swords flew up and down, killing the Tibetan soldiers step by step, and then gradually retreated to the heights.

The Tubo captain saw that the opponent's heavy armored infantry was extremely powerful, and his own soldiers were no match at all. If he continued to kill them like this, his entire army would be destroyed.

He shouted: "All troops retreat!"

The remaining more than 2,300 Tibetan soldiers turned around and fled, quickly retreating.

Li Ye immediately ordered: "Modao's army gives way and the cavalry will pursue them!"

Five hundred Modao soldiers immediately moved closer to the stone walls on both sides and made way for them.

Nan Jiyun waved his spear and shouted: "The cavalry charges with me!"

He took the lead and led two thousand cavalry to chase the Tibetan soldiers, followed by two thousand spear infantry. The running Tubo soldiers had no time to assemble their formation, and the Tang army's cavalry did not give them a chance to assemble.

The small number of soldiers resisted and could not withstand the Tang Army's cavalry charge. They were chased by the cavalry all the way, and corpses were scattered all over the ground. Even if they escaped the cavalry charge, they could not escape the follow-up kill by the spear infantry.

There were fewer and fewer Tibetan soldiers, and even the Tubo captain of ten thousand men was shot off his horse by Nan Jiyun, and pierced through the chest with a backhand shot.

After chasing for more than twenty miles, the last twenty Tibetan soldiers also fell under the iron hoofs of the Tang army.

After annihilating three thousand Tibetan troops, the army continued to advance south. The army arrived at the last military city. This military city should be said to be a pass. It was built directly on the road. Passes were built in front and behind, blocking the road. We had to leave from the city. Enter through the gate and come out through another gate to pass.

Li Ye nodded and took out his clairvoyance to look at the pass carefully. The pass was built in a narrow place to guard the road, so the pass was not wide and could accommodate at most two to three hundred people.

There is also a Chinese character above the city gate, Sanshui Pass. This is a pass built by the Tang army. Just look at the style of the city gate.

The guide said to Li Ye: "Your Highness, this is the Guancheng built in the early years of Tianbao. It is divided into Nanguan and Beiguan. This is Beiguan, and about a mile away is Nanguan. There are open areas and water sources inside, and thousands of people can be stationed there. people."

"It seems the pass is not high!"

The guide smiled and said: "Your Highness, it's not that the pass is not high. It was built by the Tang army to defend against Tibet. The south pass must be very tall and the north pass is short. Therefore, for the Tubo army, the defensive value of this pass is not high, but It’s different for us.”

No matter how Li Ye looked with his clairvoyance, he did not find any enemy soldiers on the pass. He secretly thought in his heart, is there really no Tibetan army in the pass?

Li Ye immediately said to Nan Jiyun: "Send a team of soldiers to check!"

Immediately a group of soldiers ran over to check. After a while, the soldiers climbed to the top of the city and waved to this side to indicate that there was no one in the city.

"Don't rush into the city. Send people to continue checking in depth to see if there are any traps!"

Li Ye himself often set up traps and ambushes in the empty city. He was equally cautious about this empty city because the other party had no reason to abandon the city.

And he discovered a loophole. If there were no defenders, and the Tibetan army in front was defeated and retreated, wouldn't they even be able to enter his own city gate? This is simply unreasonable.

If something goes wrong, there will be a monster, so don't be careless.

Dozens of heavy shield soldiers advanced step by step holding shields, and news continued to spread.

"No flammable items were found, and there was no kerosene or the like buried on the ground."

There were special observers in the Tang army, ten of them in total, each wearing a clairvoyant.

They squatted on the top of the city and observed the movements around them with clairvoyance.

Several observers discovered the abnormal situation at the same time, and the leading general shouted: "Your Highness, there is something abnormal on the cliff platform on the right!"

Li Ye immediately raised his clairvoyance and looked at the cliff on the right. One side of the cliff here is a straight cliff, but the other side is not. It is a stepped cliff. There is a ridge about twenty feet above, like a ramp. Or the platform, and further up is the mountain.

It was clear from the clairvoyance that there were indeed hands moving on the platform, and a Tibetan soldier lying on the ground quietly looked down.

It was really a trap. Li Ye pointed to the platform above and asked the guide: "There is an ambush of enemy troops above. How did the Tibetan soldiers climb up?"

The guide was startled and said quickly: "It is possible to climb up from outside Guancheng, but it is difficult. You need to use ropes to help!"

Nan Jiyun climbed to the top of a big rock, lay down on the big rock and looked closely with clairvoyance. After a while, he came down from the top of the big rock and said to Li Ye: "Your Highness, there is an ambush. I saw at least 20 people lying on it. I saw at least 20 people lying on it." Saw the tops of their heads.”

Li Ye pondered for a moment and said: "Order the flame soldiers to set fire to the southern Guancheng first. If there is no abnormality, then occupy the southern Guancheng first."

The flaming soldiers are fuel soldiers, also called kerosene bearers. Immediately, hundreds of flaming soldiers rushed into the city. Under the cover of the soldiers with heavy shields, the flaming soldiers sprayed kerosene at the top of the city, then threw torches, and started on the southern pass on the city. Burn up.

Nan Jiyun said in confusion: "Your Highness, since there is no one at the top of the south city, what's the point of ambushing the enemy on the platform halfway up the mountain?"

Li Ye sneered and said: "This ambush is not aimed at us, it should be aimed at our logistics supplies. Didn't you notice? This Guancheng is a very good storage place for logistics grain and grass materials. Once we use this place as a logistics storage place, At night, they would climb down from above and burn our food and grass."

Nan Jiyun suddenly realized. He gritted his teeth and said: "What a vicious plan! If we didn't have clairvoyance, we would never have imagined that there was an ambush above."

At this time, a general came back to report: "Your Highness, there are no enemy troops in Nanguan City. After the city gate was opened, there were no enemy troops outside. They should have evacuated."

Nan Jiyun looked at Li Ye, how to clear out the enemy troops ambushing above?

Li Ye thought for a moment and then ordered: "Go and cut down a large number of pine branches, burn them below, and then call in the divine crossbow team!"

It is really inconvenient to deal with the soldiers ambushing above. They can't breathe fire or shoot arrows. They can't climb up to guard the pass, and the soldiers can't get up. After much deliberation, burning is the way to go.

Li Ye said again: "Bring me another fifty bags of oleander powder!"

Li Ye discovered that a large number of oleanders were planted in Hanzhong, but oleanders were afraid of the cold and could not be planted in Longyou. He asked his soldiers to pick a large number of oleanders, grind the branches, leaves and flowers into powder, and add them when burning. A large amount of toxic smoke will be produced.

In this expedition to Hexi, he carried more than 300 bags, weighing about 10,000 kilograms.

In fact, in addition to oleander, the Tang army also used aconite in large quantities. Of course, it was not only used by the Tang army in Helong, but also by the Yan army in Anlu Mountain. The roots of aconite were used to prepare poisonous arrows and had been used for a long time in history.

But using oleander to create poisonous smoke was Li Ye's original creation.

At the foot of the cliff, a large number of pine branches were set on fire, and a large amount of oleander powder was sprinkled inside. Thick smoke billowed straight into the platform above.