People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 839 Tianchi dam breaks, Li Xuan digs embankment

On the west bank of the middle reaches of the Seri River, Li Xuan reined in his horse, held his breath, and his eyes were as cold as a blade, passing over two thousand Tibetan cavalry who were crossing the river downstream.

Diagonally ahead, a thousand Tubo cavalry were ready to attack.

As long as Li Xuan charges down with his cavalry, they will immediately pounce on him.

Li Xuan didn't move, and neither did the thousand right guard cavalry behind him.

Nan Ju urged the horse forward slightly and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty!"

"Don't worry about it." Li Xuan glanced at the left guard infantry who were fighting behind him and the two thousand Tubo cavalry who were crossing the river. He shook his head calmly and said, "Those are the work of General Xiao. There is no need for us to snatch them away." Done."

What Li Xuan did today was too eye-catching, and it didn't look like him anymore, making him feel a little uncomfortable.

"Besides, it's time to let the horses rest. Today's battle is far from over." Li Xuan said, looking sideways behind him.

The right guard infantry at the back was quickly building a step dam, and a step dam had been quickly formed in the shortest time.

The location of each step dam has been carefully selected, and the construction of each step dam can greatly store water.

The completion of the step dam after Li Xuan's death means that most of Qinling's water attack plan has gone bankrupt.

Li Xuan's eyes fell on the lion and elephant flag of the Tubo Army on the other side.

He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what exactly was wrong at the moment.

Regarding Qinling's plan, it is definitely not as simple as it seems.

When the floods rushed down, it was not only the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were flooded, but also the Tibetan cavalry.

Under the flood, the cavalry did receive less impact than the infantry, but don't forget that the infantry itself does not need to move much. As long as they can keep their feet, the crossbow in their hands is their best killer. Sharp weapon.

Not to mention, with Li Xuan's current methods, the effect of Qinling's water attack method will inevitably be greatly reduced.

But how could Qin Ling's methods be so simple? His hands must be ruthless methods that could completely annihilate tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

This is the discussion of Qinling.

This was the Lun Qinling who defeated Xue Rengui all that year.

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Li Xuan looked sideways at Cui Ding and Nan Ju behind him, and asked in a low voice: "What do you think is the real trump card of Lun Qinling?"

"Could it be a ship?" Cui Ding couldn't help but ask.

Nan Ju directly denied Cui Ding's guess and said in a deep voice: "The Tubo people cannot have a navy, nor can they have so many warships. All they have are some rafts. In this situation, Down, the speed of the raft is not even comparable to the speed of human walking."

Cui Ding shook his head decisively and said: "Then I can't think of anything, but I dare to ask, Your Majesty, if it were the Prince who did this, what kind of methods would the Prince use to target the army?"

"Didn't you just say that it's the navy?" Li Xuan looked at the Tang and Tu armies who were fighting fiercely downstream again, and said solemnly: "If I set up a trap, I will never trap all of my own people in it, because Fire and water are merciless, and the strategy of causing too much damage to oneself is not a good strategy, but if the king is in the position of Lun Qinling...then his best method, besides poison and disaster, is rolling rocks?"

"Your Majesty, are you talking about catapults?" Nan Ju looked at Li Xuan in surprise, then looked at the distance between the Shazhuyu River and the army in the distance. He shook his head and said, "Even in our dynasty, we may not have such ability. A catapult that projects kilometers?”

"It won't be a catapult, it's just something similar to a catapult, something that can directly crush tens of thousands of troops gathered together." Thoughts in Li Xuan's mind kept flashing, but no matter what he thought, he wanted to There is no telling what means Qin Ling can use in this environment.

If you can't think of the methods that Lun Qinling will use, it will be difficult to come up with good countermeasures in advance.

Li Xuan couldn't help but frown, and looked towards the mountains and forests.

Gray Eagle's eyes scanned the entire battlefield.

To the west, Wang Xiaojie's troops had already reached the Chaka Salt Lake; to the east, Xiao Siye was strangling the Tibetan cavalry, and the battle situation was in the upper hand.

In the rear, Sun Ren's division was slowly approaching the center of the battle and was about to cross the Tawen River.

Above, the first step dam behind Li Xuan has been completed, and his soldiers have begun to turn further upstream to prepare for the construction of the second step dam.

Even now, Lu Qinling has not realized that his water attack plan has failed.

Li Xuan's initial cavalry charge was to buy time for his infantry to build a step dam and increase the distance.

The second step dam has been completed, and the power of the Tibetan water attack technique will be reduced to the extreme.

Everything seemed to be developing in a direction beneficial to Datang, but Li Xuan always felt that they were falling into the trap of talking about Qinling.

"Water, water, water..." Li Xuan subconsciously turned her head and looked at Nan Ju, muttering his name unconsciously in her heart: "Nan Ju, Ju, fire, water, fire, fire?"

A flash of light flashed in Li Xuan's mind, and Li Xuan's eyes flashed. There was only one word left in Li Xuan's mind: fire!

Naturally, water is used to put out fires.

"Nan Ju, send the message immediately. The left guard, right guard cavalry and archers will start preparing rockets immediately. Hurry, immediately, you go in person." Li Xuan looked anxious and even couldn't help but push Nan Ju.

Nan Ju shuddered inexplicably, and immediately raised his hands and said: "The general will go now."

In the blink of an eye, Nanju had already led two hundred cavalrymen to rush across the Sere River and headed towards the main force of the right guard.

The Tubo cavalry in front of Li Xuan saw Nan Ju's movements. After a moment of panic, they still did nothing and just stared at Li Xuan.

"Send the order, start immediately, prepare rockets." Li Xuan immediately asked his men to prepare rockets.

Although he couldn't figure out what Lun Qinling planned to do, he knew how to destroy Lun Qinling's plan.

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As soon as Li Xuan inserted the ten rockets into his waist, Cui Ding came up from behind on horseback and said, "Your Majesty, after we have recovered our strength, do we want to rush to kill those guys on the opposite side first?"

Those guys on the opposite side are the thousand Tubo cavalry who are always on guard against Li Xuan and others.It can be seen that they are all elites, and their formations are close to each other, with almost no flaws.

Even if Li Xuan wanted to charge, it would take a lot of effort.

Li Xuan took a deep look at the Tibetan cavalry who were always on guard, lest he suddenly rush forward. He turned around and looked at the heights of Nanshan behind him, and said softly: "There is no rush. If we attack them now, we will lose too much." , wait a minute, maybe we can destroy them easily."

easy?

When Cui Ding heard this, his eyes were filled with joy. He even looked at the Tubo cavalry with some schadenfreude, and then he raised his hands to Li Xuan in awe and said, "Here!"

Suddenly, a rapid sound of horse hooves sounded from behind.

Li Xuan turned around and saw Su Baotong coming from behind. He cupped his hands and said to Li Xuan, "Your Majesty, the second step dam has been completed."

Li Xuan's expression suddenly became solemn, she looked up and shouted in a low voice: "Let's go, everyone, go up with all your strength and help build the third dam."

"Here!"

Everyone present immediately turned their horses and followed Li Xuan towards the third step dam.

At this time, the Tubo cavalry below looked at Li Xuan's movements and there was a commotion.

Soon, three war horses headed south.

Li Xuan didn't care about this. At this time, all the two thousand Tibetan reinforcements downstream had crossed the Seri River and were fighting with the Central Army of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Xuan suddenly felt that time was tightly tied around his neck like a thin rope.

Three kilometers upstream, a Nayouwei infantryman was quickly driving the last fifty pointed wooden stakes into the river.

On the banks of the river, more straw bags must be used to heighten the banks, so that the dam can be raised to the maximum extent and water storage can be increased.

Li Xuan immediately turned over and dismounted, and shouted in a cold voice: "Everyone, help immediately, shovel the soil and pack the bags."

No one hesitated at all. The 1000 people immediately dismounted and used the straw bags and wooden shovels they carried with them to quickly dig and load soil on the west bank of the Sej River.

Li Xuan felt cold and immediately shouted: "Dig diagonally downward along a ditch!"

Everyone immediately looked up at Li Xuan in great surprise, and saw Li Xuan pointing in the direction of a thousand cavalrymen downstream. Everyone was slightly stunned, and then they immediately focused on their full strength and started digging quickly.

Li Xuan's eyes have fallen on the Tang Central Army and the Tubo Cavalry, who are already entangled with each other.

In a short period of time, it would be difficult for them to separate.

At this time, among the Tubo army on the south bank of the Shazhuyu River, a huge lion-elephant flag suddenly waved.

An incomparable tremor suddenly appeared on Li Xuan. He immediately turned around and shouted loudly: "Everyone leave the river immediately, get on the horse, block the horse's ears, cover the horse's eyes, and control the horse!"

Li Xuan took the lead and desperately tore off the corners of his clothes, crumpled them into a ball and stuffed them into the war horse's ears. At the same time, he wrapped a cloth strip around the war horse's eyes and whispered to comfort it: "It's okay, it's okay."

The black war horse, which was originally a little panicked, slowly calmed down.

At this moment, suddenly, there was a thunderbolt, a boom, and a huge roar came from the sky.

Everyone immediately turned around and saw a huge water dragon breaking through the mountain forest on the high mountain to the north, sweeping away rolling stones, wooden piles, and all other obstacles, and rushed down from the high mountain quickly, with overwhelming force.

The huge roar instantly made the horses under everyone's crotches extremely impatient.

Even though the horse's ears were stuffed with the corners of his clothes, there was still a roaring sound transmitted into the horses' heads, and the ground was shaking, making their horses' hooves unsteady.

The most important thing is the endless air pressure brought by the rushing water from upstream.

Even Li Xuan felt vaguely unable to breathe, let alone a war horse.

Li Xuan looked up. Behind the roaring water dragon, there was a Tianchi that appeared quietly on the top of the mountain.

There is no Tianchi in the mountains, but Lun Qin Ling diverts all the water from the surrounding mountains into the upper reaches of the Seri River and accumulates it to form a Tianchi, which is then hidden among the mountains and dense forests. Anyone who tries to get close will be blocked and killed. , even the Tang army scouts could not avoid it.

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Tianchi bursts, and the rushing river flows down the river.

Hedao tried to restrain the crazy water dragon, but was shocked by the water dragon's impact.

Li Xuan's eyes fell on the center of the river in front of him. Fifty pointed wooden stakes were already staring at the river.

Countless straw bags were piled up on the front and back sides to secure them, but unfortunately, before they were even halfway there, the Tibetan people had already breached the embankment.

At this time, under the huge roar, all the soldiers were crawling and running, quickly leaving the river bank.

Among the several Tianchis in Nanshan that can be seen from a high altitude, the Tianchi in the upper reaches of the Seri River is the largest, has the most water storage, and the most ferocious water flowing down it.

Li Xuan made quick calculations in her heart, and finally couldn't help but shake her head.

Not enough. Three step dams cannot completely control the torrent here.

Looking at the Tubo cavalry in the distance who had begun to gradually leave the battlefield, Li Xuan's lips turned cold.

He had directly grabbed the eight-foot-long spear in his hand, and then violently threw it towards the west bank embankment where a ditch had been dug.

The long spear pierced hard from the bottom, pierced the embankment, and penetrated directly into the river, even going through one meter.

At this moment, the surging torrent had already rushed down, directly hitting Changsha.

The embankment on the west bank suddenly burst.

(End of this chapter)