Under the cover of the heavy night fog, more than a dozen cavalrymen rushed into the Tang army's camp like lightning, and Zhang Huan was urgently awakened by his personal soldiers.

"Chimong Dezan is dead!" Zhang Huanteng stood up. He couldn't believe his ears. Looking at the Tang army with a serious face, he was sure that he was not dreaming. Tubo Zanpu was indeed dead, but his intuition told him that things might not be that simple. He sat down slowly and asked in a deep voice: "How did you get the news? Tell me in detail, there must be no hiding at all."

A Tang soldier came forward to report: "Report to the governor, this is what his subordinates saw with their own eyes."

"Wait!" Zhang Huan interrupted him. He looked up and down at the soldier, and suddenly asked in surprise: "Aren't you Guan Ying, who was promoted to the commander of Guoyi in Zhang Sancheng? Why have you become a soldier again?"

Guan Ying lowered his head in shame, "The subordinates left the camp without General Cao's consent and led the army to attack Dashi City. They should be killed according to military laws, but they almost captured the enemy chief alive and found the news of the enemy chief's death. Therefore, General Wang lost his merits and was only exempted from his military post."

"So that's the case." Zhang Huan smiled. Without saying anything, he asked him again: "You said you almost captured Tubo Zanpu alive, what's going on?"

"I was lucky enough to find the whereabouts of the enemy chief." Guan Ying then found out how he got the news and how he followed him. Finally, he found that it was Chisong Dezan hiding in Dashi City. He led the enemy out and entered the city to explain the bloody battle with the Tubo army in detail. Finally, he sighed and said regretfully: "I am about to succeed, but at this time, Tubo Zanpu was killed and the Tubo reinforcements arrived. His subordinates failed and failed to take down the head of Tubo Zanpu."

"Did you see Tubo Zanpu die with your own eyes?" Zhang Huan asked immediately.

"I didn't see you in person, but my brothers knew Tubo. Two of them shouted in panic, saying that Zanpu had died of illness. Afterwards, the captives caught by his subordinates also said that Zanpu had been infected with poisonous arrows in Tocharo, and died of poisonous attacks."

Zhang Huan smiled slightly, "So that's it!"

He walked slowly in the camp with his hands behind his back. Generally speaking, when the enemy commander died, the soldiers no longer had the intention to fight, but they could take advantage of the opportunity to defeat him in one fell swoop. But there was another possibility in the middle, that is, Chisong Dezan was not actually dead. The so-called mourning soldiers will win. When the balance of power is not conducive to him, he took the opportunity to release mourn, which not only confuses the enemy, but also inspires the fighting spirit of his army, and may also turn the situation around in one fell swoop. He should not be careless because of this.

Zhang Huan stopped, looked at Guan Ying and smiled and said, "Can you accept your punishment for General Wang?"

"I am convinced!" Guan Ying said without hesitation: "Although my subordinates were dismissed, the brothers who attacked Dashi City were rewarded with great rewards. General Wang clearly had no choice but to say anything."

"If you think this way, it means you are really wrong." Zhang Huan smiled and said, "Since General Wang sent you to inform me, then you should stay as my personal guard!"

Guan Ying was extremely excited and bowed half-kneel to Zhang Huan, "I am willing to serve the governor!"

Zhang Huan only smiled but did not answer. When Guan Ying retreated, he immediately walked to the sand table and carefully observed the situation of the Tang, Tubo and Dashi. It had been five days since the news that Dashi occupied Shule. Regardless of whether all his follow-up troops arrived, as far as their prince was captured by the Tang army, they could not sit firmly on Diaoyutai anymore. Judging from the fact that his scouts had not yet discovered the situation of the Dashi army, they were at least four or five days away from here, and four to five days. By the time they arrived, the battle between him and Tubo should have ended.

At this time, Zhang Huan's eyes moved to a small town on the sand table, above the city of Jupila. At present, the main force of the Tubo people stayed here. Wang Siyu's army was ten miles west of them, and he was still twenty miles away from them. The small town headed north was the most steepest and majestic section of the Tianshan Mountains, and the south was also the middle of Tulun Radical. The sea of ​​sand was long and stretched for two thousand miles. The Tubo army could not go out alive, so their only way out was to fight for the Tang army.

"The time is ripe!" Zhang Huan stood up straight and said to himself.

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The autumn wind is solemn. Under the cold sky in August, the vast grassland is silent. A goshawk slides down the wind, hovering alone under the dense layers of clouds.

The eighty thousand Tang troops were divided into three huge square formations, less than two miles apart from each other, distributed parallel to the vast grasslands. They stepped on huge and heavy drum beats and marched westward with rhythm. The Tang troops, both the infantry and the crossbowmen, rode war horses, each of them had a serious look, their lips were bitten, and their waists were straight. Although he or he was just a small soldier among the eighty thousand people, they knew that this battle was directly related to the achievements of their wars in the Western Regions over the past six months, the honor and rise of the empire, and even their lives. They also had no way out. They either killed the Tubo people or were killed by the enemy. This would be a battle to decide the victory and loss by life and death. Everyone, even their commander, left a suicide note,

There were 300 Thunderbolt chariots mixed in the northern formation of the Tang army. After experiencing the battle with the Geluo people, the Tang army had discovered that its gunpowder was far more powerful than the effect of crossbow arrows, so it developed its purpose to a singularization. There would be no crossbow soldiers hidden in the chariot, which greatly reduced its load and allowed it to fire during running, either a stone cannon or a crossbow. In addition, each chariot would have 300 cavalry guards. In order not to frighten the war horses, the Tang army specially conducted adaptive training for 10,000 cavalry, so that the war horses could get used to the loud noise and flames of gunpowder explosions. At the same time, a batch of war horses specially made a number of war horses with leather to thicken the ears. These measures greatly reduced the fear of the Tang army's war horses for gunpowder.

Zhang Huan's Iron Guards are located in a square formation in the middle. The three thousand Xiliang Army's most elite cavalry teams closely guard the commander. At this moment, Zhang Huan's eyes were focused on the goshawks soaring in the sky. This is a kind of bird of prey unique to the grassland, feeding on hares and grassland rats. Most of them live in dense forests at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains. Many experienced herders use them to determine their direction.

The army was less than ten miles away from Kubiluo City. A scout rushed from the front and reported to Zhang Huan: "General Wang Siyu was confronting the Tubo army ahead, waiting for the command of the governor!"

"You can attack!" Zhang Huan's short and powerful command as soon as he arrived, the soldiers behind him immediately released more than twenty goshawks dyed red.

Dozens of red dots soared into the air and flew towards the northwest city of Kubira along the wind.

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On the grassland north of Kubiluo City, Wang Siyu's 20,000 cavalry seemed to be a long bow that was gradually pulled, with arrows on the strings, ready to go. Two miles ahead of them, 40,000 Tubo troops were ready to fight. Like the Tang army, they even rode on horseback, but at this time the infantry had already dismounted and formed four 10,000 square formations, totaling 30,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry.

This is also an army that was fought in Tocharo, with extremely strong combat power. Although the news of Zanpu's death immersed him in sorrow, their will was not depressed. On the contrary, the desire to survive burned in their hearts, which further inspired their fighting spirit. The biggest feature of the Tubo army was its tenacity and courage, and it was the enemy who had obvious advantages in their countless battles, but it was their fierce battle that caused the enemy with the strength of their troops to collapse first.

So will this scene happen again today? Let us wait and see if the 100,000 Tang troops and 40,000 Tubo troops.

Due to the popularization of long-distance weapons in modern wars, it is difficult to have any tragic close-range hand-to-hand combat. Even after a battle, the soldiers on both sides did not even meet each other. However, in ancient wars, especially on flat grasslands, wars relied on the fierce attacks of cavalry and spectacular marches to show epic heroic deeds.

Wang Siyu's eyes gradually narrowed into a slit. He saw several red eagles flying over the city of Kubiluo, which was a signal of attack.

"Strike!" He roared, and the low trumpet sound suddenly sounded. The Tang cavalry seemed to have accumulated a flood at an extreme. The dam collapsed, the flood was rushing, and the white waves were surging, and it was like a storm on the field. Ten thousand cavalry divided into two teams, sweeping towards the two wings of the Tubo army.

The Tubo army was obviously shocked by the attack momentum of the Tang army like a landslide. Their formation gradually moved backwards, but under the order of the experienced chief general Xiqizang, they finally insisted on the formation in the face of the violent Tang army's attack.

"Shoot the arrow!" With a cold order from Xizang, five thousand Tubo archers fired arrows at the Tang army together. The rain of arrows formed a black mist and flew towards the Tang army densely, mixed with the launch of several stone cannons, and several dark stones also smashed at the Tang army.

At the same time, the Tang army's crossbow arrows also began to shoot, and thousands of arrows roared towards the Tubo army. As the arrow rain shuttled, Tang army soldiers continued to fall from their horses, screaming and being swallowed by the rolling horse's hooves. Tubo also fell in pieces, as if they had been cut down wheat.

"Strike!" Xijiazang also gave an order and five thousand Tubo cavalry went up to fight. Although the five thousand cavalry were not necessarily the opponent of the Tang army, it could effectively weaken the offensive momentum of the Tang army's cavalry, thus preventing the Tang army from breaking through the large formation formed by the Tubo army.

Xijiazang was a veteran general. As early as the beginning of Emperor Suzong of Tang ascended the throne, he led the Tubo army and the Nanzhao army to jointly attack Jiannan of the Tang Dynasty, which frightened the Supreme Emperor, who was still in Shu County at that time. Decades of war had accumulated rich experience for him. He knew that the 20,000 cavalry of the Tang army was not the real main force of the Tang army today. The main force of the Tang army should be behind him, waiting for his chaos to kill. He also knew that Zanpu's death had caused a huge blow to the soldiers' psychology. Once the Tang army was chasing the battlefield, he would be extremely defeated.

In any case, you can't mess up your position, this is the bottom line that hides at this moment.

A hundred steps away, the fierce right-wing Tang army collided with the Tubo cavalry, and the war horses cried and the flesh and blood flew everywhere. The Tang army and the Tubo army were trapped in a close-range hand-to-hand battle. They fought each other, with long spears and spears, and horizontal swords and long swords collided. Some people were constantly being picked off the horse, screaming and trampling into flesh mud by iron hooves.

To the north, the left wing of the Tang army rushed to the side of the Tubo army's infantry formation without any stop. Seeing the Tang army's cavalry coming like a mountain, the front rows of Tubo army shouted desperately, closed their eyes and held their spears to stab the Tang army.

But an accident happened at this time. The Tang army did not attack the enemy's phalanx, but rushed towards the Tubo archers that had retreated to the back. General Cao Hanchen took the lead, waved his sword, and instantly slashed into the group of archers.

Among all the troops, the defense of the crossbow army is undoubtedly the weakest link. This is not only because they do not have weapons, but also because they have been training for years and years, they are mainly archery, especially when fighting with enemy cavalry, they are undoubtedly flocks of sheep under the feet of tigers.

Under the stormy impact of the Tang cavalry, the five thousand archers began to mess up the formation and turned around and fled backwards.

At this moment, the Tang army's passionate charge horn sounded again, and the drums sounded loudly. Wang Siyu had already discovered the phalanx where the enemy commander was. He made a quick decision and led another 10,000 cavalry to rush towards the southernmost infantry phalanx.

Wang Siyu rode the divine horse "Blizzard" that Zhang Huan just rewarded him. This was the purebred Arab horse that made him dream of. He dedicated it to his lord. Zhang Huan accepted it happily, but returned it to him as the reward for his occupation of Kucha.

With this divine horse, Wang Siyu was like a tiger with wings. He rushed to the enemy formation, shook his iron spear and roared wildly, and the war horse jumped high, and actually jumped into the enemy formation like clouds and fog from above the Tubo army.

He waved his iron spear and swept everything like a storm. In front of him, he was filled with corpses and blood flowed into a river, killing the Tubo iron formation and attacking the enemy's commander.

Xiqiaozang saw Wang Siyu coming down to earth, killing in his camp alone, as if he was rampant in a place where no one was. He was frightened and retreated quickly under the protection of his personal guards, while shouting loudly, "Kill him! Kill him!"

The Tubo army was also angry. Nearly a thousand Tubo soldiers rushed forward, slashing their spears and stabbed them at Wang Siyu and his war horses. However, his war horse was worthy of being a BMW divine horse. It was extremely agile and psychic, and it suddenly accelerated its speed and avoided the Tubo army's attack on it while running. Wang Siyu saw that the enemy commander had disappeared. His eyes slanted and saw a tall white flag.

As soon as he pulled the reins, Blizzard carried him to cover the flag. Wang Siyu was like a thunderbolt that penetrated the forest. In an instant, he rushed to the Tubo flag. His gun trembled and stabbed the two flag bearers into each other. Then he waved it. The corpse on the tip of the gun flew out. However, Wang Siyu drew out his long sword and cut three swords sideways, and cut off the flagpole. The flag painted with snow mountains and lions fell down with a bang.

With the fall of the Tubo banner, the Tang army was as powerful as the Tubo army, and they defeated them step by step, and the Tubo army's formation began to appear in chaos.

At this moment, the earth began to tremble. There were two black lines in the distance, one left and one right, like two long black dragons, rushing towards the Tubo army. When they approached, there were hundreds of strange-shaped black carriages, each carriage was pulled by eight horses, and six wheels were galloping under the long carriage.

There were 300 cavalry guards around each carriage. The Tubo army stared at the two long cavalry convoys passing by them in a daze, especially the rapid evacuation of the Tang cavalry made countless Tubo soldiers feel vaguely uneasy.

Suddenly, a strange sound came from the carriage, and hundreds of dark balls fell densely above Tubo's heads. Some Tubo troops saw the burning fuses on the balls and began to scream in horror, "Sky Thunder! Sky Thunder!" Flew desperately to both sides, violent explosions echoed on the grassland, deafening, and red flames burst out, forming a sea of ​​fire. The huge shock waves carried countless pieces of broken porcelain flying in all directions, with broken limbs and broken arms flying across the board, and the wailing and fear were endless. Since Ma Chongying's troops were wiped out with the cheers of gunpowder for the first time, gunpowder has become a nightmare for the Tubo people. Even Chisong Dezan was unforgettable to remember this powerful weapon before his death.

At the moment when the porcelain bomb exploded, the square formation that the Tubo army had been struggling to maintain quickly collapsed. The Tubo soldiers fled around frantically. They screamed hysterically and trampled on each other, just to avoid the wrath of the God of Thunder, and they had completely lost the courage to resist.

The thunder chariots rushed past the Tubo army, and they turned around and galloped eastward again, launching a new round of throws. In just two rounds of explosions, 40,000 Tubo army was defeated.

"Kill!" Wang Siyu raised his spear into the sky. The 20,000 Tang army cavalry were like surging waves running towards the coast, covering the defeated Tubo army. The green grass rolled under the horse's hooves, and the Tubo army was wailing, fear enveloping them. They rushed to escape and fell to the ground. The angry horse's hooves rushed past them, and the long spear pierced their chests mercilessly. The Tang army fought bravely to kill the enemy. The blood of the Tang men burned like flames in their bodies, driving away the dark and humiliating history of the Tang Dynasty.

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At the end of August of the sixth year of Xuanren, the Tang army defeated the last 40,000 Tubo main force in Kubiluo City and beheaded more than 35,000 people. At this point, the Anxi Tubo army declared the entire army was wiped out.

The Tang army kept working without stopping, and the cold sword pointed at the Dashi Army that invaded Shule again.
Chapter completed!