Located in a peak and valley dozens of miles southwest of Wang Xiaojie Mizha, there is a group of more than 500 Tang Army players who are resting and eating.

The left near the peak ridge is stretched, the mountain rocks are abrupt, and occasionally some kaolin snow melt water flows along the mountain, but it does not flow at the foot of the mountain at all, and only moistens a little green color in the position of the halfway up the mountain.

Some people in the team climbed the mountain to fetch water, some fed the war horses, some collected firewood, and of course, there were also people patrolling at the left sentry.

Some of this team are veterans of Heyuan who have been in the army all year round, and some are the elites of Guannei who have just entered Long. After running on horseback for half a day, after stopping, some people could not bear the hunger, and took off the grain rice from the skin around their waists to eat.

"Wait a minute, fetch water before eating! The sea east wind and sand are dry, there is no drinking water to accompany food, and the grain food is afraid that it will swell and damage the skin! ”

Seeing this, an old soldier from Heyuan spoke out to stop it, and he saw that the new pawn was still hungry, so he said: "In the past, there was a soldier with a distended abdomen, thinking that it was a stuffy stomach, and after death, I took a look at the abdomen, and the grain and rice were all accumulated in the stomach and swelled into a lump, if you don't pay attention to the taste, you can still catch it and continue to eat." ”

When the new pawn heard this, he suddenly felt retching, and his desire to eat quickly receded, but he still couldn't help but complain a few words about the poor military food in Longbian.

"Be content, how can Longyou be the same as Longbian. That is, His Royal Highness King Yongwang ascended to Long this year, gathering grain and rice to nourish the army, if it was in previous years, even such meals could not be available day and night. ”

Hearing the old pawn say this, the new pawns also came to the spirit, and at the same time couldn't help but talk about the many benefits of His Royal Highness King Yong: "His Royal Highness knows that soldiers love pawns, and there are more than one or two deeds." The reward is unseen in recent years, so the internal and external armor battles are happy to serve His Royal Highness King Yong. In the early days, His Royal Highness led hundreds of armor people, and he shook the palace defense, and Kuang Zheng Dingding......"

The old soldiers of Heyuan were also quite curious about the majestic deeds of His Royal Highness King Yong, and when they heard the soldiers in the customs talking about this topic, they couldn't help but come over to ask for details.

"All silence!"

At this time, Guo Zhiyun, the commander of the soldiers who had arranged a lookout around him, returned to this temporary camp, and when he heard the topic of discussion among the soldiers, he immediately pulled his face and said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness King Yong is the Venerable of the Heavenly Family, or he is powerful or graceful, I can wait for the camp soldiers to respectfully accept it, and there are all kinds of deeds, how can I use it to shake my tongue and relieve my boredom!" ”

Guo Zhiyun is mighty and brave, and his prestige in the army is very high, and when he heard his reprimand, everyone was busy and stopped, but some people couldn't help but laugh and said: "Everyone in the camp said that His Royal Highness King Yongwang appreciates Captain Guo." In this battle, our soldiers will try their best to use their lives, and the assistant lieutenant will win great feats. ”

Guo Zhiyun has a rigorous personality and doesn't like to discuss these topics, but when the soldiers say this, they also admire him, and a smile also appeared on his face after hearing this: "If you can control the big thief, you can get great success." We are in the battle, not for others, but we can perceive the grace of the army, and take advantage of this heroic military life to live up to our ambition and future. ”

While talking, the people who climbed the mountain to fetch water had already returned, set up simple stoves on the spot, and lit fires to cook. In early summer, there is a lot of moisture between the heaven and the earth, and the smoke of the firewood picked up is not small, and it goes directly to the sky.

The game is different from the simple scouts, which are a small number of elite secret operations, mainly spying on military aircraft. You Yi also undertakes many combat missions, so you don't have to be careful to hide your whereabouts, sometimes you can't see the enemy for a long time, and even take the initiative to reveal traces to attract enemy troops, eliminate the enemy troops in the area, and suppress the overall initiative of its army.

As soon as the fire was raised, the soldiers quickly went into the dining horses and stopped chatting. Soon after, the soldiers on the left gave a warning sound.

Guo Zhiyun motioned for his servants to speed up their meal, and he personally looked at the direction where the warning was issued, and climbed a tall and smooth rock on the hillside, and saw smoke and dust flying behind the slope a few miles away, and there were eagle harriers hovering in the sky above.

After seeing this, Guo Zhiyun made a gesture to the rear, and the soldiers in the rear quickly ended their meal and checked the saddle bridle armor.

The enemy forces are getting closer and closer, and it seems that they are not passers-by, but have come for them. After judging this, Guo Zhiyun gathered his troops and said loudly: "Transfer your position and prepare for battle." ”

The arrangers mounted their horses and retreated along the gentle slope to the rear. At the same time, the military appearance of the Tubo army pursuing behind was also completely exposed, it was a team of more than 700 people, but there were as many as 2,000 war horses on its own, and they were galloping at high speed in the wilderness to pursue, and the momentum was quite huge.

The Tubo game is more mobile, and the most intuitive thing is that the number of war horses rationed by its troops is larger, and one pawn and two horses are the basic configuration, and sometimes even more.

Although Tang Jun's game is also elite and high-end, it is still much inferior to Tubo in this regard. For example, Guo Zhiyun's team is equipped with more than 800 horses, but there are still 200 of them who are only pack horses carrying military equipment and cannot go into battle.

Therefore, Guo Zhiyun's squad belongs to the second-tier team in the game, and its main responsibility is to find and fight with the enemy game, attract the enemy's military strength, so as to create fighters for other first-line games to encircle and kill the elite of Tibet.

After all, the high mobility of the Tibetans itself has a home advantage, and if they just blindly flee to avoid the battle, it will be difficult for the Tang army to catch up with the enemy and cause effective casualties.

There was a mountain pass ten miles away from the rear that was suitable for the Tang Army's operations, but in the process of transferring positions, the distance between the two sides was rapidly narrowing. The Tubo army that was chasing at the forefront even began to wave their arms and throw flying stones to attack the Tang army.

The Tibetan armor is excellent, but it is not good at making bow and crossbow equipment, which is very disadvantageous in long-range strikes in the field. However, the Tibetan army also had its own unique means of attack, that is, attacking with rope bags and throwing stones.

This seems a bit of a joke, but in the process of running at high speed, those pebbles themselves have the blessing of horse strength, once thrown out, they can even kill the war horse in a short distance, and the lethality is very strong.

Hearing the screams of people and horses being hit by stone bullets from the rear, Guo Zhiyun frowned and shouted: "The big archers have left the army and sniped the thief army!" ”

As soon as the words fell, nearly 100 Tang soldiers on the left and right wings of the rushing team broke away from the brigade, and each side of the mountains on both sides, turned over and dismounted to draw their bows and shoot.

The armor of the Tubo army is strong, but in this kind of high-speed pursuit, of course, it is impossible to wear it neatly, even if the horses are replaced, the manpower cannot withstand the long-distance negative armor gallop.

Therefore, when the strong archers of the Tang army drew their bows and reflected, many of the Tubo soldiers who were chasing at the front were killed by arrows, and the rear soldiers did not dare to chase too close, so they slowed down their speed, making the pursuit a pause.

If the Tang army did not have a large archer with strong arm strength and a very long range, they might be chased to death by the Tubo. But now that the Tang army is equipped, the Tubo army can only let the Tang army move to favorable terrain after losing a few lives.

Seeing that they had succeeded in stopping the pursuit of the Tibetan army, the archers mounted their horses again and galloped to join the large army in front.

Soon, the team moved to a previously selected alternate battlefield, which was a valley mouth with a small belly and a mountain side. After dismounting, Guo Zhiyun was inferior to the negative armor, and first led a hundred big archers to wait for the enemy in the periphery.

As for the rest of the army, they drove their horses to the center of the old place, and then dismounted and quickly armoured. At this time, the Tubo army also stopped outside Lixu and also began to prepare to kill in armor.

The two sides did not communicate with each other at all, but only raced against time to arm themselves. Time passed quickly, and when the 100 spearmen and shieldmen in the rear of the Tang army were equipped and took over the position of the archers in front, the Tubo army was also preliminarily assembled, and some of them broke away from the headquarters and rode into the front to invade the Tang army's defense.

Compared with the Tang army's neat ration of bows and crossbows, the long-range attacks of the Tibetan charging array were varied, with all kinds of utensils, flying stones, throwing cones, and captured and homemade bows and crossbows.

Although such a blow also has a certain lethality, the overall degree of coordination is not high enough, so the pressure on the Tang Army's defense is not great.

But when he saw that the Tubo army was still arming on the back road and had begun to put on the war horses, Guo Zhiyun's face suddenly changed. There are not many heavily armed cavalry in the Tibetan army, but once it appears, it is definitely a nightmare for the lightly armed soldiers.

"Withdraw, withdraw! Shangmo Knife Team! ”

In fact, the lethality of the Modao team for the equipped heavy cavalry is also limited, but in this kind of field encounter, except for the Modao team, the rest of the military formation is as fragile as paper when facing the equipped heavy cavalry.

The Tang army in the valley maintained a counterattack while shrinking the battle formation backwards. The terrain at the mouth of the valley is too flat, and once the enemy charges with heavy cavalry, it will be even more difficult to stop.

There are quite a few gully arcs in the valley, which can offset the momentum of the heavy cavalry to a certain extent, but once it completely retreats into the valley, it will create a favorable situation for Tubo to catch turtles in an urn, and the Tang army in the valley has no choice but to fight to the death.

But in such a situation, there was no better choice, and the Tubo army used more than a dozen lives to test out the Tang army's archers. And now that Tubo has put on an unconventional class of troops such as heavy cavalry, the Tang army will of course have to pay some price.

When most of the Tang army retreated into the valley to rearrange the formation, some archers stayed at the mouth of the valley in order to snipe the Tibetan light cavalry and prevent it from rushing into the valley prematurely to sweep the battle formation.

A quarter of an hour later, the Tibetan heavy cavalry was armed, and although there were only fifty armor troops, it was an almost insoluble existence on this small battlefield. At this time, the Tubo light cavalry that attacked the valley mouth was even more vicious, and the lethality of the Tang army's bow and crossbow was already limited, and now it was impossible to even do the basic blocking.

So dozens of people in the valley gave up their bows and changed their guns, and arranged a thin but firm rejecting horse gun formation at the mouth of the valley. But when the heavy cavalry advanced forward, the spear array was fragile.

"The moon black geese flew high, and Qinling fled at night...... Lao Tzu is unlucky, take the first step, and if you survive, when the horse steps on the city, don't forget to sacrifice ......"

After the Tang soldiers who stayed at the valley mouth roared, they rushed forward with their guns, and soon, this thin battle formation was rushed by the heavy cavalry of Tubo, and the battlefield at the valley mouth suddenly turned bloody.

Seeing that Pao Ze was dying, the Tang soldiers in the valley were also red-eyed, and vented their grief and anger with a roar. Guo Zhiyun led thirty Mo knife men to form a formation on the flank of the valley, and his face was covered with armor, and his face could no longer be seen clearly, but the knuckles holding the knife were faintly white.

The Tang army in the valley formed a formation according to the situation, and the charge of the Tubo heavy cavalry was like a hammer beating the ground one by one, and the first to rush towards the Tang army's war horse group, which was to disperse the Tang army's mobility, in order to completely annihilate this Tang army. The Tang army's war horses were disturbed by this, and they fled to the surrounding slopes.

The area in the valley is not small, and more than 400 Tang soldiers did not gather together, and 200 of them guarded the slightly rugged slope with swords, shields, and spears. Guo Zhiyun's Mo knife hand formed a unique formation, standing sideways on the left side of the slope.

In addition, hundreds of archers took all the arrows of the Tang army along the way to kill the Tubo army in various directions into the valley, this encounter, there is no difference between attack and defense, only to kill the enemy first, never die!

The Tubo heavy cavalry that rushed into the valley had the power of domination on the battlefield, and took the lead in breaking up the horses of the Tang army, and then stared at the sword and shield hands on the slope and the Mo knife array on the slope.

After a little hesitation, the Tubo heavy cavalry did not immediately attack the slope ridge, but handed over the direction to let the light cavalry rush first.

Nearly 100 Tubo light horsemen rode horses, and the target of the attack was the Mo Dao hand at the bottom of the slope.

Guo Zhiyun led the Mo swordsmen to retreat to the left flank flexibly, so that the flanks of the Tubo army were completely exposed to the view of the battle formation on the slope, and then fifty pikemen swooped down, instantly harvesting more than a dozen lives on the flank, and the Tang army's pikemen also lost seven or eight people in this rush.

But with this flank disturbance, the Tubo momentum became scattered, Guo Zhiyun grabbed this short-lived fighter, and shouted in a thunderstorm: "Kill!" ”

Thirty Mo swordsmen met them head-on, and the flesh and blood flew when the knives fell, although the armor of the Tubo army was good, but they were also vulnerable in front of the invincible Mo swords, and in an instant, one or twenty men and horses were killed on the spot.

Guo Zhiyun was strong, killed a thief with a knife, and then slashed with his backhand, and cut the abdomen of a war horse, blood and organs flowed down, and the Tubo sergeant on the horseback also fell down, just about to struggle to get up, but Guo Zhiyun stepped on the front door, and the spurs behind the boots directly trampled the pawn into a blur of flesh and blood, and the facial bones were cracked!

"Withdraw, withdraw! Tang Junmo's knife is too ruthless......"

This way, the commander of the Tubo soldiers saw that he had suffered heavy losses as soon as he made contact, and for a while the fighting spirit disappeared, and he was ready to retreat in his entirety, but the Mo knife was out, how could there be advance and retreat, and between the sword shadow and blood and light, nearly half of the Tubo light cavalry was killed on this road, and only dozens of people fled back on the back road.

In just one round of contact, the people and horses on the slope fell to the ground, seeing that although the Tang army was in a desperate situation, it was still high-spirited, and the Tubo troops in the valley were also a little frightened, and for a while the battlefield fell into a strange calm.

It was not completely calm, because the great archers of the Tang army scattered among the slopes were still shooting at the Tubo army in the valley. The arrow on the war horse will definitely die, and the people with negative armor are also mixed, which makes the Tubo army deeply trapped and have to shrink the formation again and again.

After a short stalemate, the Tibetan heavy cavalry once again crossed the crowd and prepared to attack the slope. Although the terrain was not conducive to the charge of the heavy cavalry, they really had no better means of killing the enemy than the heavy cavalry.

Moreover, there are a large number of armies in both countries in this realm, although they have forced the Tang army into a desperate situation, but if they can't kill the enemy quickly, once the Tang army from other roads comes to reinforce them, there will be more variables.

Heavy armor rushed to kill, the momentum was naturally extraordinary, and the iron hooves plowed the ground, which shook the Tang Army soldiers above the slope ridge and felt that the ground under their feet vibrate, which made people almost have the idea of flying away. Only under the constraints of the battle formation, and the left and right comrades rely on each other, can I feel a little more stable in my heart.

"Mo Dao is here, and the thieves have not crossed this realm!"

Guo Zhiyun roared again, and stood up to the powerful pressure of the Tubo heavy cavalry on the slope. In front of the heavy cavalry with all men and horses, even if the Mo knife hand is the front, it is no different from sending his life, but if he can't stifle the charge of the enemy's heavy cavalry, once he lets it hit the battle formation above with full potential, the battle formation will collapse, and it will fall into the siege of the Tubo army.

Thirty Mo swordsmen have orders, they no longer wield knives to chop, but pestle the big knife straight to the ground in front of them, with flesh and blood, with the steel knife in their hands to erect a flesh and blood fence, step out, life and death do not matter, only with this heroic, to inspire the comrades on the slope to fight bravely to the death!

Bang!

The Tubo heavy horse at the front crashed into a Mo knife hand, and the Mo knife hand with heavy armor was directly knocked into the air, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

The Tubo heavy cavalry with the men and horses in the armor still continued to rush forward by inertia, but the sharp Mo knife was deeply embedded in the armor of the people and horses, and after rushing out of a distance of nearly two zhang, it suddenly fell to the ground, and dragged out a deep trace of nearly half a zhang against the mountain on the ground, which shows the speed of its momentum!

Facts have proved that even the Mo knife hand with fine armor and a sharp blade is also vulnerable when charging directly as a heavy horse, as the Tubo heavy horse rushes through, including Guo Zhiyun, no one in the thirty Mo knife hands is in the stand, and the great force directly knocks people away, and the armor is already full of blood foam after landing.

The Tibetan heavy cavalry also paid a heavy price for this, and more than 20 heavy cavalry, or men or horses, lost their combat effectiveness, and the loss was almost half.

This is not the most serious, seeing that the general personally rejected the enemy, and did not know life and death, the Tang army armor soldiers on the slope were also blinded, and they all shouted and swooped down the slope, and directly entered the heavy cavalry battle formation of Tubo.

Without enough momentum, the heavy cavalry on the battlefield was just an iron can, and the remaining more than 30 Tubo heavy cavalry were stopped, and they could not withdraw from the battlefield in time, and they could only be forced to tremble with the Tang army soldiers who were not afraid of death.

Although the Tubo heavy cavalry still has the advantage of being armed with men and horses, and almost with the courage of one as ten, but the armor of the Tang army is also excellent, and the two sides are entangled in this, more than 30 Tubo heavy cavalry can not be used at all, and the armor of people and horses is too heavy, and the consumption is doubled between tossing and turning, although they also killed many Tang army armor soldiers, but they gradually suffered casualties.

"Recapture Gu Jia, you must not be plundered by the Tang Army!"

Seeing this scene, the general who commanded the army was also panicked, and the Tang army's courage was far beyond his imagination, and he was still entangled and fighting to the death at this point.

At the moment, what he is most concerned about is not the life and death of those heavy horses, but once those men and horses armor are destroyed by the Tang army, then even if the Tang army is completely annihilated in this battle, it will be more than worth the loss, so he hurriedly ordered the troops to charge, not distinguishing between the enemy and me, and giving priority to recapturing those men and horses armor.

However, at this moment, a sharp horn sounded again outside the valley, which meant that the Tang army on the left had discovered the battle here and was quickly supporting it.

"Here, reinforcements are coming! Leaving this thief army on the road, taking its armor and horses, we can't wait for this battle, what can be done? ”

Guo Zhiyun, who was knocked away, was in a worrying condition at this time, the cuirass and armor had even been knocked into the ribs, and his mind was even more groggy, just lying down and waiting to die, but after hearing the horn of the reinforcements, his mind suddenly sobered up, and he shouted loudly regardless of the injury.

"The captain is alive! Kill, kill! ”

Hearing Guo Zhiyun's order again, there was no shortage of Tang sergeants crying with joy, and the reinforcements were about to arrive, and the fighting spirit was inevitably more high, and the fighting was more courageous.

At this time, the Tibetan generals were in a dilemma, strictly speaking, the loss of their troops was not large, but the most important heavy cavalry completely lost its combat effectiveness in the Tang army's fearless refusal to kill, and the peripheral Tang army did not know how many people to help, if they continued to fight and exterminate the Tang army along the way, then they would be the next to be besieged.

Although it is a pity that fifty pairs of horses and armor are used, there are still thousands of war horses inside and outside the valley, and if all of them are captured by the enemy, then even if he escapes alive, what awaits him will be capital punishment!

The thought in his mind was fast, and General Fan quickly made a decision, and shouted loudly: "Withdraw, and leave the thief army behind, and fight again in the future!" ”

In the valley, the Tubo army withdrew like a tide, and the Tang army guerrillas who had fought so far were no longer able to fight. After the foreign enemy retreated, some people directly collapsed on the ground, and some people hurriedly went to treat their injured comrades, especially Guo Zhiyun and other Mo swordsmen who resisted the heavy cavalry of Tubo with their flesh and blood.

Of the thirty Mo knife hands, only a dozen survived in the end, and all of them were injured, and there was no shortage of people who were dying. This is also because the Tubo heavy cavalry rushed up, and the momentum had already weakened, if it was flat and rushed straight up, no matter how good the Tang army's armor protection was, I am afraid that no one would be spared.

A battle happened quickly and ended quickly, but the losses were very large, and the Tang army, which had more than 500 people, was finally left with nearly 300 people, and almost everyone was wounded except for those big archers.

There were more than 200 people damaged in battle, but the harvest was also huge, the most important heavy cavalry in Tibet was completely killed, and not a single one was empty, in addition, nearly 100 corpses were left.

This is the usual mode of battle between the two countries, and at the moment this battle is not the most tragic, the most tragic is the battle to the last soldier, until there is no longer any living on one side of the battlefield, the battle is over.

It is certain that the fighting spirit of the Tang army was high, but the ruthlessness of the Tibetans was also second to none among the border troubles they faced, which was far inferior even to the Turks, who had long been the overlords of Mobei.

"Captain Guo is here? It's a great battle! Collected more than a thousand horses from the thief army......"

Soon the Tang army outside the valley entered the valley after expelling the Tubo game, because of the harvest, the commander of the army couldn't help but show off loudly after leading the army into the valley, but when he saw the fifty pairs of high-quality men and horses armor collected by his comrades in the valley, the envy on his face could not be concealed.