Chapter 225: A Strange Battle

The atmosphere was a little solemn, and many people looked forward with a solemn look on their faces, and the hands of the weapons they held were secretly clenched......

The eastern camp was full of flags, and there were 10,000 red-clothed and armored Tang Dynasty soldiers standing in clusters, and they had only one thought of winning in their hearts, looking directly at the opposing camp. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

To the west is the military camp of the Nanzhao tribe built by the mountain, and the three thousand men and horses in front of the military camp are in a long line, although the number is relatively small, but the courage is quite strong, and they all look at the east with fierce eyes.

The two camps were a mile apart in a depression, with dense woods to the south and a cliff to the north, a deep ravine and a waterfall cascading down the cliff.

Li Tianqi and Xiao Shura quickly ran out of the cliff in the north at this time, but fortunately, Xiao Shura noticed that something was wrong and hurriedly reined in the cliff, but found that at this time they were seeing the two camps facing each other.

The cliff here is about 100 zhang away from the opposite side, and it is also dozens of zhang higher than the opposite side. The depression on the other side of the cliff is on the north side of both camps, and is covered with various oddly shaped rocks of various sizes.

The trumpet sounded, and the teams of the two sides gradually approached, and they could clearly see each other's uniforms.

"The Tang army actually invaded." Xiao Shura was a little hateful, but when she looked at the camp in the east, she showed a subtle smile.

"This ......" Li Tianqi didn't know what to say at this time. In his heart, it was not a good move to invade other countries, although he was from the Tang Dynasty, he couldn't figure out why the Tang army appeared here.

Xiao Shura looked at the sky and said, "It's quite early at this time, so let's be bystanders." ”

Li Tianqi had never personally experienced the camp confrontation, but he was also a little curious, and at this time he was also riding a horse with Xiao Shura, so he had to do so.

The two dismounted and stood on the cliff, not only was there no dense forest to cover them, but they could clearly look down on the confrontation between the two armies from a high perspective.

The two armies gradually approached, and the morale-boosting shouts of the generals on both sides could be faintly heard.

After a while, the distance between the two armies was only seventy or eighty zhang, and the archers bent their bows and arrows and shot each other in a rain of arrows.

I saw a sound of breaking the air like the sound of a swarm of hornets flying, countless arrows rained down on the opponent's camp, and the sergeants in the front of both sides raised their shields to resist the attack of the arrow rain and slowly moved forward.

10,000 Tang troops and 3,000 Nanzhao troops, just by looking at the number of soldiers participating in the battle on both sides, you can have a prediction of the situation.

Xiao Shura asked, "Which side do you think will win?" ”

Li Tianqi didn't want to predict the two sides of the war, so he said: "What can we do if we talk about this kind of thing of licking blood on the knife edge, but these family members of the army have to worry." ”

"Yo-heh." Xiao Shura pursed his lips and said, "I didn't expect you to still have a bodhisattva heart." Let me tell you, the Nanzhao army will win. ”

When Li Tianqi heard her so sure, some doubts rose in his heart, and he asked, "Why are you so sure?" ”

Xiao Shura said, "Of course I'm sure. If you don't believe it, just look at it. ”

The shouting of killing suddenly sounded, and the two sides began to fight hand-to-hand, and the left and right wings of the 10,000 Tang Army advanced rapidly, fanning the three thousand Nanzhao soldiers in half of the way.

The Nanzhao soldiers mostly used spears, and at this moment, they stabbed at the Tang army like a hedgehog in unison.

Some of the shields in the hands of the Tang army who rushed forward were stabbed by multiple spears, and their strength was weak, and the shields fell and were not picked up and were pushed by their companions in the rear.

And the Tang army was not to be outdone, and the sergeants standing behind the front looked for opportunities to fire feather arrows from the cracks, and some Nanzhao sergeants were killed on the spot.

In a moment, there were more than a hundred people lying on the ground.

The boulders in the north were suddenly overturned, and there were thousands of Nanzhao soldiers with weapons in their hands, shouting and striking down from the north.

The right wing of the Tang army was fighting hard, and was preparing to entrap the three thousand enemies in one go, but they never thought of rushing down the thousands of Nanzhao soldiers on their backs, and the formation was a little flustered, they not only needed to guard against the enemy in the fan-shaped bag, but also to guard against the enemy rushing from behind, and what made them even more flustered was that due to the change in the situation, they did not receive the general's instructions for a long time.

That is, in the blink of an eye, the Nanzhao soldiers in front who rushed down from the north and ran fast had already begun to exchange hands with the Tang army, and the sound of a fighting gun was mixed with the sound of human voices.

The right flank of the Tang army was constantly screaming, and it seemed that there were heavy losses. The right flank began to shrink gradually, the semi-surrounded Nanzhao sergeants were greatly boosted at the moment, and the shouts of killing were even more deafening, although the Tang army was more numerous than the Nanzhao army, but at this moment they were worried about whether the enemy was still ambushed and some military morale was shaken, and Nanzhao found a loophole.

Xiao Shura scolded with hatred: "Great! Kill me! ”

Li Tianqi shook his head helplessly and sighed: "Do you really hate these Tang Jun so much? ”

"Humph!" Xiao Shura didn't speak again.

Li Tianqi said: "The confrontation between the two armies will always be ruined, alas, ......"

Xiao Shura couldn't help but say: "These are just the tricks of the people in power, and the soldiers are just chess pieces, maybe you don't understand it now, but you will know it later." ”

Under a burst of slashing, the Tang army showed signs of retreating, and the general was repeatedly encouraged and beat the war drums to stabilize the position.

"Bang!" As soon as a cannon rang out, the Tang army in the east rushed out a cavalry of 500 men and galloped to help.

The Tang army heard the sound of artillery behind him, and when he turned around, he saw a cavalry of 500 men galloping towards him, and he was overjoyed. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and some sudden changes can affect the situation.

......A strange hiss sounded from the dense forest, and more than 20 behemoths rushed out of the dense forest, and many trees were staggered by these behemoths.

"Elephant soldiers!" Li Tianqi was surprised.

"You know the elephants, too?" Xiao Shura looked at him.

Li Tianqi nodded, "I have read in the book that there are many wild elephant herds in the Lingnan Road area, but they are difficult to domesticate, so the Tang Army is not used to arm the army. Never thought that Nanzhao actually had wild elephants, but he also set up a special army? ”

Xiao Shura smiled: "Of course. Making the most of our resources is our strength. And there are a lot of wild elephants here than you in the Central Plains. ”

Indeed, the wild elephant from Nanzhao is twice as large as the area around the southern road of the Tang Ling, and its back is covered with long hair, which is very powerful and majestic.

At this moment, the five hundred Tang Dynasty cavalry were passing through the dense forest, and they were suddenly startled by the giant elephants rushing out, each of which was tied to the arrow tower, and there were six soldiers with bows and arrows on the arrow tower, and several spears placed aside.

The military horses of the Tang Dynasty had never seen such a lineup, more than 20 giant elephants collided head-on like a thick stone wall, and more than a dozen Tang Dynasty cavalry could not dodge, and were overturned by the giant elephants when they landed, trampled into meat and mud.

Those Tang Dynasty foot soldiers were fighting hard, originally thought that there was a cavalry coming, they would wipe out all the Nanzhao troops in front of them in one go, but they never thought that there was a scream behind them of people turning over on their backs, many people looked back, they had seen the giant elephant that suddenly rushed out of the dense forest, and they were even more frightened, they had never seen such a scene, at this time people had no fighting spirit.

Hundreds of Tang archers ran from the ranks of the Chinese army to the dense forest, and clusters of rockets were fired at the group of giant elephants, but the giant elephants were so thick with skin and flesh that they could not hurt the vital ones at all. The rain of fire stimulated their temper even more, these giant elephants ran, although they were slower than the horses, but it was enough, hundreds of cavalry panicked, crowded with each other, collided with each other, and could not disperse at all, and were taken advantage of by this giant elephant to rush, and at the moment they lost a lot of soldiers.

The remaining cavalry of more than 200 could only retreat, and a dozen or so riders were shot off their horses by Nanzhao archers on the back of giant elephants.

The Nanzhao soldiers were overjoyed and their morale was greatly boosted, while the Tang army infantry was even more exhausted, and they had begun to loosen up at this time.

At this time, there were 5,000 people left of the 10,000 people, and the infantry of the Nanzhao army had lost more than 1,000 people.

Li Tianqi said: "This is premeditated. The Tang army must have been lured deep into the enemy. It seems ......"

Xiao Shura smiled: "I was right. The Nanzhao army will win. ”

Before she could finish speaking, the earth shook violently. The two of them were caught off guard and almost didn't sit on the ground, they could feel that the whole cliff was also swinging from side to side at this time, and the waterfall actually showed the phenomenon of water flowing backwards at this moment!

The two sides were chasing each other and were shrouded in a large puff of smoke rising from the ground. In the thick smoke, some people screamed, some cried bitterly, and some laughed wildly.

"Whew-" The giant elephant also let out a hoarse cry, accompanied by dozens of heavy falling sounds, mixed with various sounds.

The ground was shaking, and the fiery red was already lying on the ground next to a stone wall, his head hanging on the ground, his eyes showing fear.

Li Tianqi and Xiao Shura saw that the place where the two armies were facing each other under the cliff was still a thick smoke at this time, and they couldn't see what was happening inside, and the smoke continued to emerge from the ground, covering the entire layer of ground.

"Is it moving again?" Xiao Shura asked in a trembling voice.

"It should be. Maybe the heavens can't stand it anymore. Li Tianqi said.

Suddenly, the movement suddenly disappeared, came and went suddenly, as if nothing had happened, and the smoke was quickly blown away by a gust of wind, but the sight in front of them surprised both of them!

I saw that the soldiers, cavalry and giant elephant soldiers who were still fighting above the ground, were all lying motionless on the ground......

Xiao Shura was surprised: "What's going on? I guessed the process correctly, but not the ending. Both sides were doomed. ”

Li Tianqi said: "The ground movement just now is too sudden. Apparently there is something wrong! ”

Xiao Shura said quietly: "Even if it is strange, we can't fight against the heavens. ”

It seems that she has taken this as a punishment from heaven in her heart.

But what is the truth? This is unknown, Li Tianqi silently felt a sense of desolation, for those soldiers......

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