The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is full of lakes in the high plains, there are no four seasons in the Doma area, only cold and warm seasons, in the vast grassland east of the Doma Valley, there is a lake called Maron Tsogen, this lake is injected by dozens of rivers with melting ice and snow, and finally forms a blue plateau pearl.

Surrounded by mountains and meadows, the lake is surrounded by mountains and meadows, and because it is in a volcanic zone, the grasslands along the coast are green and grassy, the pastures are abundant, and the vast pastures and sufficient water sources make it a winter place for the royal family of Dangxiangqiang. However, after the party was divided by Tubo and Tuyuhun, this was already the territory of Tubo.

In the afternoon of that day, next to a forest about thirty miles away from Maron Tsogen Lake, Wang Xiongdan led two thousand Xuanjia troops to the east.

At this time, Ma Hua, a lieutenant who was familiar with the terrain, said to Wang Xiongdan: "General Wang, if you go east again, there is a swamp dozens of miles long, and Lu Dongzan's army is also rushing to this side. ”

Wang Xiongdan reined in his war horse, and saw that there was a small river winding to the north not far away, so he looked at the surrounding terrain, and found that a huge snow-capped mountain was faintly visible in the north, and a Gobi desert was nearby, and asked Ma Hua: "Is there a sidewalk to give way to that swamp?" ”

Ma Hua thought for a moment and said, "There is indeed such a road, as long as you follow this river for thirty miles to the north, you will reach the Lake of Maron Tsogen, and after this lake, there is a meadow about a mile wide through the other end of the swamp. The swamp at this time of year is extremely difficult to walk, and maybe Lu Dongzan may also take this path. ”

Wang Xiongsheng ordered: "The whole army turns north!" ”

The whole army traveled more than ten miles north according to the order, and two scouts rushed to the scene and reported: "General Yu, I found the food supply team of the Tubo army in front, and there were tens of thousands of sheep. ”

Wang Xiongdan hurriedly asked, "How many troops are escorted?" ”

"There were not many people, except for more than 300 shepherds, only 300 soldiers escorted." The scout replied.

"What can a three-hundred-person escort team do? Singing or funny? Wang Xiongdan looked at the scout angrily and said, "Can't you go farther?" If it's a pit, what are we going to do? ”

Ma Hua explained: "The general is wrong to blame them. ”

"What's the explanation?"

"More than 10,000 sheep walk together, the smell is very strong, dozens of miles away wild wolves can smell this, and they will definitely come to eat sheep at night, so these three hundred cavalry are guarding against wolves who steal sheep, not us."

"I see, it's a long experience." Wang Xiongtan suddenly slapped his head.

"General." Adjutant General Cheng Chu shook his hands and said excitedly: "With only 300 people, we can completely annihilate them in one battle, and no one can escape." ”

"Our task is to constantly harass Lu Dongzan, so that he thinks that our army is not strong enough, and he can rest assured that he will go to a decisive battle with the Holy Lord, if he is completely annihilated, who will report the news?"

"I forgot." Cheng Chumo smiled embarrassedly: "Then how do we fight?" ”

"Judging by my years of experience as a thief, Maron Tsogen Lake must be a big fish." Wang Xiongdan touched the beard on his chin, and said with a sparkling eye: "You take a thousand men and horses to choose a place to ambush, you must block their retreat, and you must not let anyone go back to report the news." Ma Hua and I each took five hundred men and horses to attack their ranks from the left and right flanks, and as for the southern passage, let them deliver a message. ”

"The last will obey." Cheng Chumo and Ma Hua deployed according to the order.

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Not long after.

The shepherd drove tens of thousands of sheep along the river into the ambush circle of the Sui army, with 150 cavalry guards on each side, and from time to time there were heroic songs, and there was no urgency or tension in the wartime at all.

Just when the team behind completely entered the ambush circle, there was a fierce sound of horses' hooves from the north, and I saw a cavalry from the northeast and northwest, like two arrows off the string, as fast as the wind and dense as a forest, sweeping towards the flock of sheep.

The Xuanjia army came too quickly and too suddenly, and the Tubo cavalry was still in doubt, the Xuanjia army had rushed to a hundred paces away, and the escort soldiers were suddenly in a big mess, and they drew their swords to face the battle, and the shepherd's soul was scattered, and he desperately turned his horse to flee without caring about the sheep, and the sheep were attacked by the cavalry, and they also scattered and fled.

"Hold on! Hold them off! ”

A Tibetan general shouted loudly, but his voice could not be heard far at all in the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and the Tibetan cavalry was shocked by the enemy's brilliant momentum, some people saw the imposing enemy rushing forward, and was swept by a burst of crossbow arrows, and couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, thinking that just by virtue of their three hundred people to go up to die, they fled south without hesitation, but when one fled, other soldiers followed suit, a large number of Tibetan cavalry fled in front, and were chased and killed by the Xuanjia army across horses, even if some people wanted to fight back, was also scattered and coerced by the rout. The whole team was like an avalanche, and the rout was out of control.

The Xuanjia army was merciless, and all the Tubo soldiers were shot to death like a rain of arrows, and soon the two streams were united, killing the enemy with unstoppable force, and suddenly the blood mist was filled, the corpses were separated and fell to the ground, and the screams continued to sound. Together with more than a dozen shepherds who had no time to escape, they also died tragically under the random arrows, and thousands of scattered fat sheep also became the food and grass supply of the Xuanjia army.

After about an hour, the Xuanjia army slaughtered sheep and barbecued meat by the river, which was very lively, and Cheng Chumo found Wang Xiongdan, and reported: "General, I took the brothers to count the enemy army, except for the escape of more than 20 enemy troops and some herdsmen, all the rest were annihilated and separated. ”

"Are there any captives?" Wang Xiongtan heard the meaning of Cheng Chumo's words and asked with a smile.

"The last general has captured a centurion, and he has explained them one by one, if you want to know the specific situation of Maron Tsogen Lake, the general may wish to interrogate more."

"Are there any big fish?"

"As the general expected, there is really a big fish in the lake of Maron Tsogen." Cheng Chumo smiled and praised with his fingers.

"Let's go! Ask him to go. Wang Xiong was overjoyed.

The centurion was very honest under the threat of a butcher's knife, and he told the situation of Maron Tsogen Lake in a fifteen-fifteen-ten manner.

With the continuous expansion of the Tibetan power to the north, the Maron Cuogen Lake, which has no scorching heat in summer and no severe cold in winter, has become an important granary for the Tibetan army, where the cattle, sheep and horses used for military food are fed by tens of thousands of Suvi people, and if the army in front needs it, they will immediately supply it from here.

This time, Langri Zampu fought with the soldiers of the whole country, and all the young and strong people were at the forefront of the war, and most of the shepherds were women, children and the elderly. However, when he suffered a heavy setback at Jishi Pass, he transferred 10,000 troops back to protect the safety of the grain road. But 4,000 of them were guarding the supply convoy along the way, so the army at Maron Tsogen Lake was only about 5,000 men.

Although there were more Tubo cavalry than Sui troops left behind in the camp, Wang Xiongdan decided to attack the enemy camp at night after some thought.

He said to several generals: "The Dominan Valley is occupied by our army, so that the Maron Tsogen Lake has become the only food supply place for Langri Zampu and Lu Dongzan, if we destroy it, the Tubo army will fall into the dilemma of having no food to eat, and Langri Zampu can still get supplies from Tuyuhun, but Lu Dongzan's 70,000 troops can only be obtained in Tubo, but far from quenching the thirst of the near is secondary, the main thing is that the saints will not sit idly by and watch the Tubo army get supplies easily." Therefore, we must not only fight this battle, but also win it neatly. ”

Cheng Chumo nodded and said: "In terms of troops, we are indeed inferior to others, but we have the advantage of surprise, and we can completely catch them off guard." ”

"General Ma, do you think to fight or not?" Seeing that Ma Hua was deep in thought, Wang Xiongdan hurriedly asked.

Hugh saw that Ma Hua was just a captain, but this guy started from Luoyang, and he was mixed with Yang Tong, but he was neither the Xiaoguo Army, nor the remnants of Zhang Xutuo's army, but a temporarily recruited soldier, and was later picked up by Qin Qiong from among the recruits, from an ordinary soldier, step by step to the division-level deputy general General Huya, and then won a place in the Xuanjia Army and was demoted to a captain, but as long as he passed this intensive training pass, he returned to the original army in the future, not to mention the division-level general General Huben, who commanded 5,000 people. Therefore, Wang Xiongtan attaches great importance to his opinion.

"Hit! Definitely going to fight. Ma Hua said in a deep voice: "But every soldier of the Xuanjia Army is the best military attache of each army, and everyone will be the mainstay of the army in the future, even if it is an ordinary soldier, it is more valuable than a thousand Tubo soldiers; In order to achieve the maximum results with the least losses, we need to think of a good way. ”

Wang Xiongdan suddenly came to his senses and said, "Let's listen carefully." ”

Ma Hua said: "The most effective way to deal with the nomadic army is actually a fire attack strategy, as long as the fire burns, their cattle, sheep, and horses are all our soldiers, we completely use these chaos to deal a fatal blow to Tibet; This method was used by the Holy Lord and the generals, but every time it achieved great results. ”

"That's it." Wang Xiongdan immediately made a decision and said to everyone: "With the team as the combat unit, everyone must be ruthless, regardless of whether they are old and weak, women and children, they will all be killed to create more chaos!" ”

"The last general obeys!" And they bowed down,

"General Cheng." Wang Xiongdan said to Cheng Chu silently: "You take five hundred brothers to attack their sheepfold, once there is no follow-up supply, Lu Dongzan, who is in an embarrassment, can only launch a desperate attack on my camp, and the honeycomb crossbow will let him know what it means to sweep away the leaves by the wind." ”

"The last will obey." Cheng Chumo nodded, he knew that Wang Xiongdan was taking care of his new battlefield Ding.

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Time passed imperceptibly, and it was the time when people were sleeping soundly, and there were only a few sentinels patrolling inside and outside the Tibetan camp on the shore of Maron Tsogen Lake.

The patrol soldiers are mainly concentrated in the area of captive livestock, which covers an area of more than 2,000 acres and has a million sheep and tens of thousands of war horses, which is also the most important property of the nomads and the source of food for the army.

With so many animals gathered together, it was easy for the wolves to sneak up at night, so hundreds of cavalry patrolled the perimeter of the circle.

A mile away, Cheng Chumo led five hundred Xuanjia troops to wait for him, Cheng Chumo looked extremely nervous, this was the first key battle he had participated in since he joined the army, which was equivalent to this logistics powerhouse, and it was just a small fight during the day. Whether or not he can succeed is not only related to the fortunes of the Great Sui State, but also related to his own future, and this kind of war he has been looking forward to for a long time.

Suddenly, a soldier whispered, "General, look! ”

Cheng Chumo woke up from his contemplation, he stared into the distance, and saw a fire burning in the Tubo camp, this was Wang Xiongdan's attack, and he immediately ordered the opponent: "Prepare to attack!" ”

The five hundred Xuanjia soldiers clenched their spears and drew their swords, waiting for the final order.

At this time, a scout rushed to the scene and shouted: "General Cheng, the Tubo patrol posts have been withdrawn!" ”

Cheng Chumo was waiting for this moment, and he shouted loudly: "Brothers, kill me!" ”

"Kill!"

In a shout, 1,500 Xuanjia army suddenly launched, like a burst of embankment torrent to the cattle pen to kill, at this time, the hundreds of patrol posts outside the sheep and horse pen were alarmed, and rushed back to rescue, so that the patrol posts here were less than 100 people, they could not resist the surging Xuanjia army, or died under the knife, or ran for their lives, the Xuanjia army crashed through the fence, rushed into the vast livestock pen, and killed in the flock of nearly a million sheep.

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More than 1,000 cavalry of the Xuanjia Army rushed into the Tibetan camp, a team of 50 people, led by a team, who galloped across the camp with torches in their hands, set fire to the tents, and mercilessly slaughtered women, children and old people who ran and cried.

Smoke billowed from the camp and fire raged, and children and women stumbled and ran, crying and screaming, but only merciless slashing with swords and spears awaited them.

This slaughter lasted for two hours, and it was not until dawn that the Xuanjia cavalry blew the horn of withdrawal.