Elegy of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 310 Qiu! eight! Of! soul!

On the Ebao Ridge, a one-sided battle continues. Flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the shouts shook the sky.

From the beginning, the panicked Tibetans failed to organize an organized defense.

After the siege began, several strong soldiers of the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army put a rope on the wooden fence of the Tibetan city wall and pulled hard. The wooden fence, already fragile due to the weather and the sun, fell down.

Seeing that the "city wall" was breached, more than a dozen Tibetan soldiers came to their senses and rushed to fill the gap in the fence without even having time to put on their helmets. Immediately, some of them were hit in the neck by several flying arrows and fell to the ground.

Wu Chengen and Wu Chengxun, who were both known as the Yuanmen Erlong in the Hexi Army, each had a big bow in their hands and were assisting the sharp knife troops of the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army in charging into the city. He Changqi raised his knife and slashed three people in a row. The dozen or so soldiers behind him covered each other and rushed into the city alternately.

Kill gods when you meet them, kill Buddhas when you meet them!

Beside He Changqi, there were many elite soldiers of the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army who used crossbows to clear the way. The Tubo soldiers were knocked down one after another like wheat being cut, and most of them didn't even have time to raise their shields. People kept rushing out of the alleyways in the city, but it was like a tactic to add fuel to the fire. The organization was scattered and they could only fight on their own, running around like headless flies.

There are no gates in Ebao, and there are wooden fences everywhere.

The magic soldiers of the Tang Army descended from the sky and rushed into the city through several gaps at the same time. They cut down people on sight and charged in like wild beasts. The Tubo people, who didn't even wear armor, basically lost their combat effectiveness after being hit by a crossbow arrow. The next step was to be hacked to death sooner or trampled to death later.

The "chicken thieves" Tibetans generally do not wear armor due to the harsh and changeable climate. In fact, they cannot wear armor during daily patrols. Although the Tibetan army had strict military regulations that required wearing armor on duty, almost no one in Ebao followed it seriously.

Legislators never know where the pain of grassroots implementation lies.

When armies fought in the feudal era, their morale would often collapse after 15% battle losses. It was rare for one side to kill all its opponents in one go. The bloody battle of Ebaoling was that the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army had clearly gained an absolute advantage, but they did not listen to the Tibetan people's begging for mercy.

They had never seen anyone so brave in fighting. He Changqi's fighting style was as if it was the last moment of his life, so he just let it go!

Anyway, there is only one word: kill!

Although his face remained calm, Guo Ziyi was greatly shocked by this elite training method, the face-breaking tactics, and the fierce and merciless one-sided killing.

Not only did He Changqi, who led the team, kill more people, but the team behind him also killed a lot of people. In just one hour, the two dragons of Yuanmen shot a total of ten arrow pots, with an average of fifty arrows in each arrow pot. After the battle, both of their arms were shaking.

So who is this person who betrayed Datang's military deployment?

Unless Fang Chongyong gave a death order here, no matter who ordered them to stop, these people would not be able to carry out the military order.

The weather during the Battle of the Valley is changeable. When the cold comes, you have to take off your armor, and when the heat comes, you also have to take off your armor. Sometimes the cold and hot weather cycle several times in a day, and each time is less than an hour.

That's why they can have the current strategic deployment, and in the defense zone of Longyou Jiedu Envoy, they have the upper hand in the battle!

Is it with the Ministry of War, or... with the saint?

Guo Ziyi was thinking about this terrible thing and no longer dared to think about it any further.

His status must be very high, right?

According to previous estimates, Fang Chongyong thought that there should be 5,000 Tibetan troops in Ebaoling, right? It is not easy to supply here, only compared to the Tang army in the Hexi Corridor, but the Yiyuan area is not far south of the Ebao Ridge, and there are no mountain roads to go.

What destroyed the morale of the Tibetans was actually the effectively organized sharp swordsmen in the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army, which numbered no more than a hundred people. In the offensive and defensive battle for a small fortress like Ebao, the sharp-sword troops with less than a hundred people killed the Tubo people in fear and had a miraculous effect.

This person knew very well how the Central Committee of the Tang Dynasty used troops. He also knew that the Hexi Army was going to expedition to the Western Regions and was unlikely to send troops to support Longyou. Therefore, the Tubo people relaxed their guard against Hexi Town and transferred the main force on the northern front to Shanzhou. To the north, prepare to attack the Hehuang Valley from the north and the south to seize Shibao City.

The dozens of people following him were all like this. They were all red-eyed. In the end, they only judged whether they were enemies based on their clothes. As long as they were not wearing white sheepskin clothes, they would all be killed! It's basically a judgment with eyes, and the body uses a conditioned reflex to judge whether to swing the knife or not.

Guo Ziyi said with a sigh.

Kill until all is finished!

They did not take pleasure in killing, but unconsciously exerted all their fighting power in a tense state, as if they had entered a fixed program, and they were already fighting crazy.

The elite soldiers in Ebaoling should also have been mobilized. "

If this is really what he thought, it can only mean that there are spies from the Tubo people in the center of the Tang Dynasty, or that there are important officials in the court who are having an affair with the Tubo people.

Guo Ziyi crossed his arms and said thoughtfully, he thought of an extremely terrifying thing.

In the past few decades, no Tang army has come to attack Ebao. Who among the Tubo army would have the thought to guard against thieves for a thousand days?

It shouldn't be too difficult for the Tubo army to support five thousand men to defend the key node of Qiyuan. After all, Yiyuan is the logistics base of Tubo, and Ebaoling can be considered as being next to the logistics base.

It is impossible for ordinary Tang Dynasty border generals to know in advance the military situation of the Hexi Army's expedition to the Western Regions, right?

Even if they knew it, it was only a recent matter. The Tubo people obviously knew it a long time ago.

He Changqi nodded slightly, with a look of disdain on his face, and turned around to leave.

It wasn't until they defeated Ebao that the heads of these people calmed down and the hot sweat on their bodies turned into cold sweat. They looked at the hideous corpses on the ground and were frightened, and couldn't help but swallow their saliva. Seeing the blood stains already flowing into ditches on the ground, I suppressed my nausea.

More than half of the Tubo soldiers were hacked to death by other Silver Spear Xiaojie soldiers who rushed forward after their morale collapsed, just like slaughtering chickens. The fighting intensity of these soldiers was not high, because the morale of the Tubo people had been shattered by that time.

Under Fang Chongyong's high-pressure orders in advance, the thousand-man Silver Spear Xiaojie Army vanguard was already in a state of mental blankness during the battle because they were worried about the enemy's large number of troops. Even if the Tibetan people's morale collapsed later, they still raised their swords and killed the Tibetan soldiers who were kneeling on the ground begging for mercy. It was no brainer at all.

An hour later, He Changqi, whose blood had not dried on his body and whose true colors were almost unrecognizable in his sheepskin clothes, came to Guo Ziyi with a human head, threw the head to the ground very rudely and said: "This is the head of the Tubo Ebao garrison Qian. The total number of people. I just counted the number of people and found that the Ebao garrison has less than 2,000 people, which is much less than expected."

"Ah."

"Go and set up defenses. Fang Jieshuai will be here in half a day."

Many of these soldiers have experienced many battles, but many are fighting for the first time. Just because they were selected into the Silver Spear Filial Piety Army because of their good health and excellent skills and tactics, it does not mean that they have actually killed ten or a hundred people with their own swords.

When these soldiers rushed to kill, they didn't think much at all, and they didn't know how many lives they had in their hands. It was only after the battle was over that they discovered that their group had become gods of murder. The other members of the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army consciously used their shooting arms and crossbows to cover their positions.

He Changqi led the first fifty people in the Silver Spear Filial Filial Festival, and fought all the way from the gap in the fence to the tower of Ebao. The white sheepskin clothes on his body were all dyed red. His helmet, cheeks, and hands were all covered in blood, which fell to the ground drop by drop. He even broke five swords!

Wearing armor and patrolling in this climate might sometimes lead to death.

It takes time to mobilize the army, especially since the Tibetan people's logistical strength is far lower than that of the Tang Dynasty, and the preparation time required is longer, so they need to plan in advance.

Guo Ziyi, who was at the rear of the battle formation, watched the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army kill the enemy throughout the process. He did not participate in it. Instead, he led a few soldiers from the Chishui Army and watched silently.

In slave Tubo, strict military orders often turned into decorations. As long as there has been no fighting at the corresponding location for a long time, lax defense is inevitable.

The soldiers beside Guo Ziyi had a look of fear on their faces, but they were holding back, showing a very tangled facial expression.

Therefore, the Tubo side probably knew very early that the Hexi Army was going to expedition to the Western Regions and started preparations very early.

No military orders were issued.

"The Tubo army urgently attacked Shibao City in Shanzhou and needed to gather troops. Perhaps the main force of the Tubo army, which was originally near Qianyuan, has moved south from Qianyuan.

"Envoy Guo, this Silver Spear of Filial Piety is so unruly and cruel, will it be possible to repay it in the future?

Who can control them? "

A soldier came over and asked in a low voice.

"Wen Wu is the first and Wu Wu is the second. The people who should be in charge of them must be in charge. What the hell do you think?"

Guo Ziyi waved her hands tiredly, too lazy to argue with a soldier. …

At the highest point of Ebao Ridge, more than a thousand heads of Tibetan soldiers were made into a "Jingguan" and placed together. There are constantly scavenging birds such as vultures circling in the sky, as if they are impressed by the momentum of Jingguan and dare not come down.

Fang Chongyong looked at the triumphant He Changqi in front of him with a speechless expression. Then he looked at the heads of the Tibetan soldiers who were surrounded by the imperial palace. He suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "How many heads are there in this imperial palace?"

"Huijie Shuai, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five! Not a single one is missing! Not a single Tibetan army escaped!"

He Changqi almost had "Praise me quickly" written on his face. If he had a tail, his tail would fly up to the sky.

"Do you think the number of people is too many or too few?"

Fang Chongyong continued to ask, his face expressionless, already on the verge of explosion.

He Changqi recalled the scene at the meeting before departure and said reluctantly: "It was much less than expected."

"Yes, you also know that there are fewer than expected. What does that mean?"

Fang Chongyong asked rhetorically.

"Does it mean that... the Tubo people don't pay attention to Ebaoling?"

He Changqi asked doubtfully.

"Idiot! This shows that Qianyuan is empty! The main force of the Tibetan army has been transferred away!

Why don't you know how to lead troops to Qiyuan when you are on horseback? Why wait for me to come over?

If I poop on the road all day, will you wait all day? "

Fang Chongyong roared loudly at He Changqi. The officers and soldiers at all levels within a few dozen meters could hear clearly, but no one dared to laugh.

"This time, the handsome man brought two thousand silver spears to celebrate the festival, one man and two horses.

Now, fifty people are left to guard Ebao Ridge, and the others are to follow the commander of this section.

He Changqi, if you dare to delay the military plane again this time, the commander of this section will chop off your head first to sacrifice the flag!

Walk! Leave now!

You have time to do things like watch and watch, but you don’t have time to fight. I’m so angry! "

Fang Zhongyong pulled out the Swift Wind Phantom Knife, pointed at the sluggish Silver Spear Sergeant Xiaojie not far away, and cursed: "Look at it, let me prepare it, and we will leave after a stick of incense! Do you think we can conquer Ebao Ridge?" Have you won? You are really not afraid of the Tubo people’s counterattack, why don’t you hurry up and get ready to leave!”

Hearing this, all the generals dispersed. They had never seen Fang Chongyong so angry.

"Shuai Fang, should we wait for Liu Jun to arrive with the main force of the Dou Army before taking action? There are less than 3,000 soldiers in Ebao now..."

Guo Ziyi walked to Fang Chongyong and suggested in a low voice.

By holding on to Ebao Ridge, we are already in an invincible position. On the contrary, if the vanguard army is sent before the soldiers and horses arrive, Ebao Ridge will be gained and lost again, which will cause great strategic passivity.

The current task should be to guard this key battlefield node!

Guo Ziyi's suggestion is actually very pertinent.

"The Silver Spear Filial Piety Army is the emperor's personal army.

Only the Tubo people are afraid of us, not us.

Now that the time, place, and people are all on our side, if the soldiers of the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army still dare not charge, then there is no need for this army to exist.

An army without military spirit is not worthy of being an elite.

Envoy Guo Jun should guard Ebao. Envoy Liu Jun (Liu Gong) should have already set off with his army. The commander of this section has already sent someone to inform him immediately that he is coming with his troops. "

"Shuai Fang... If our two thousand silver spear Xiaojie Army can sweep across Qianyuan, then what's the point of letting the big Dou Army come over?"

Guo Ziyi, who is quick-thinking and proficient in the art of war, asked Fang Chongyong a question that hit his soul.

If Liu Gong is asked to come, there must be not enough troops. If there are not enough troops, we should not attack Qiyuan now.

If we have decided to leave now, then we already have enough troops and horses, and there is no need for Liu Gong to "travel" with a large army.

What exactly is Fang Chongyong going to do?

Guo Ziyi was very confused.

"Well, even the handsome guy in this section doesn't know.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter where we rush this time. What if we penetrate the Tibetan army on the northern front?

The Commander-in-Chief only knows that the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army is the emperor's personal army and can fight to the last man and return with his body wrapped in horse leather.

The only thing we can't do is be afraid of wolves in front of us and tigers in the back. Let's go and see you again in Qianyuan. "

Fang Chongyong got on his horse and waved to Guo Ziyi.

Guo Ziyi still doesn't know that in the future, the only thing she can rely on to make a living in the Tang Dynasty is the knife in her hand!

With a great opportunity in front of you, how can you give up sharpening your knife?

Fang Chongyong complained secretly in his heart, but would not say these words out loud.

He really wanted to be a smooth-talking civil servant and go about his business, but reality forced him to be strong and martial.

When the environment cannot adapt to you, you can only adapt to the environment actively or passively!

This is the choice of life!

Fang Zhongyong put the Swift Wind Phantom Sword back into its sheath and looked firmly at the green grassland at the foot of the mountain.

If you want to be able to suppress the lawless Qiu Ba of the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army, the general must not give in! After the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty came to an end, cowards did not deserve to live.

In this battle, Fang Chongyong wanted to make the name Silver Spear Filial Piety Army a taboo among the Tibetan army, and his expression changed! Become the irreplaceable trump card next to Brother Ji, and become your own trump card in Datang!

What is fear? Fang Chongyong's mouth showed a sneer.

A group of soldiers of the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army began to take off their sheepskin coats and other cold-proof equipment in an orderly manner, put them into their bags, and hung them on their horses.

Then they put on their leather armor and prepared to march on horseback.

The next target is the logistics base of the Tubo Northern Line: Qiyuan!

The ignorant and ignorant people still don’t know that the legend of the Silver Spear Filial Piety Army began here.

(End of this chapter)