Chapter 153: The Battle of Jiqu

On one side is the big mountain, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the number of such peaks is not far away, and I don't know what the specific name is. On the other side is Jiqu, which is the Lhasa River.

One side is in the northeast and one is in the southwest. Blocked both ends of the Jiqu River Valley.

In terms of geographical advantages, it is probably the Ming army that has a slight advantage.

Because Jiqu flows from northeast to southwest, and finally joins the Brahmaputra River.

However, the advantage of this field is very small in the battle between the two sides.

On top of a large mountain to the north.

The Gelugpists have long been in their positions.

Looking at the battlefield from afar.

But after a while, the Geju sect, the Sakya sect, the Nyingma sect, these four major sects, that is, what the Han people say, the Yellow Sect, the Flower Sect, the White Sect, the Red Sect and other large and small sects all sent people.

Honestly, anyway. If it weren't for Kuntu's gathering of large and small sects in Tibet at the Jokhang Temple, these people would not have been able to come so together.

However, most of the disciples who came were young disciples, after all, all the major factions, except for the Gelug sect, could not leave the Jokhang Temple at this moment.

The two sides are in Tibet, and although there are many contradictions between them, they can still get by in terms of face.

Both sides arrived at this place, and for a while there was some embarrassment. But there are a few people who act as intermediaries, and they can talk to each other.

I don't know who said it, and said, "I don't know, who wins and who loses in this battle?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.

After a while, the people from the Gelug faction spoke up and said: "Although the number of the Great Ming Army is small, they are all very elite, and General Guangning Bofan is also the choice of famous generals and the rising star of the Ming Dynasty. ”

The Geju faction was immediately reluctant, they cooperated with the Heshuo special department the most, and this time, the Geju faction invested a lot of energy.

How and the Shuote faction was defeated, not to mention that everything that the Geju faction had done before was not rewarded. The evolution of the situation after the great victory of the Ming army alone was not conducive to the Geju faction.

After all, the Geju faction is in the scope of cooperation with the Heshuo Special Ministry, and the Heshuo Special Ministry controls the secular forces, and the Geju faction wants to use the secular forces to subdue the other factions.

Ge Jupai immediately said: "This is a mistake, it has never been seen that less is more, the Ming army has come from afar, it is already a tired army, and the number is small, how can it be the opponent of the Heshuo Special Department to wait for work." ”

The Nyingma faction came up to relieve the siege and said, "What you both said makes sense. However, I personally hope that Da Ming can win, but how it will depend on the form on the battlefield. ”

The Nyingma school is the oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism, but it is ancient, but it is a little bit in decline. Of course, the decline here does not mean that the Nyingma sect is going to be lost. Rather, the Nyingma sect is present in many places

However, due to internal and external reasons, it is impossible to touch the supreme power of Tibetan Buddhism and the power to command the various sects.

In this contest, the Nyingma faction is a mere spectator.

No matter who wins, the interests that the Nyingma faction should have will not be moved much, this is the self-confidence of the Nyingma faction.

But even as a simple spectator, the Nyingma faction also has its own interest tendency, and is more inclined to the Ming court.

The burden to be borne by the Ming Dynasty is far easier than that under the command of the Heshute Ministry.

While these men were sighing, someone suddenly said, "There is a fight." ”

Everyone desperately moved forward, trampling countless gravel down the hillside for a while. That's when everyone stopped.

It's just that they are far away, and all they can see is a general outline.

However, he saw that the cavalry of the two sides were separated by several miles and began to charge against each other.

A large area of smoke and dust was kicked up, and from a distance, it looked like two giant dragons colliding together.

There was a crackling, sound like fried beans.

At this point, the sound is a little smaller, but it can still be heard.

Someone immediately said: "This is the sound of the firecracker, it must be used by the Ming army." But how did they use firearms on horseback? ”

This question stopped these monks at once.

The Ming Dynasty did not use firearms for a year or two, and even counted forward, when Emperor Taizu and Chen Youliang were competing for hegemony, they used a large number of artillery.

Even the use of firearms is the ancestral tradition of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the large use of this new favorite began in the Orthodox years.

It's not that before orthodoxy, there were no individual firearms like firearms, but the Ming army didn't like it very much. The Ming army preferred small cannons to firearms.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen instructed Shaofu to manufacture a large number of qualified firearms, which are not much different from the quality of later generations in terms of power, and when fighting against cavalry, they are still a little weak.

But it has already been accepted by the soldiers of the Ming army.

Therefore, firecrackers began to be installed in large numbers in the army, and they were used to replace many archers.

More than ten years have passed, and this reputation has long spread to Tibet, but Tibet is still remote, I don't know, when fighting with the tile spurs, the Ming cavalry used a lot of handcuffs.

And this time, part of the handcuffs in Fan Guang's hand are new flintlock versions.

After all, the more convenient it is to strike the gun on the horse, the better, and if you don't need to ignite it, it's even better.

It's just that the principle of flintlock is very simple, but the problem of firing rate is very simple. It's not very useful on the foot side, after all, the firecrackers shoot in formation.

To form a dense fire, explain the salvo. But the cavalry is different, if you can't beat it a few more times

Come on.

But for a moment, these people stopped talking about the firecracker.

Because the battlefield changes very quickly.

But he saw that the cavalry of the Ming army was like a fast knife, rushing to the middle of the cavalry of the Shuote Division, and killing him hard. A large banner with a model character came out from the cavalry formation of the Heshuo Special Department from afar.

If this step is fought, this situation, all that remains is the collapse of the army of the Heshute Division.

But this is a cavalry engagement.

The classical cavalry engaged and hedged once, known as Yihe. The Jin people said that if they don't fight a hundred he, how can they be called horse army.

Therefore, although in this combination, the cavalry of the Ming army took the lead by taking advantage of the power of the firecracker. But the real battle is yet to come.

Under the watchful eye of countless Tibetan monks from afar.

The two sides are like two crazy bulls, hedging against each other, rushing past, reflexively returning to the formation, and then rushing together.

The cavalry of the Ming army and the cavalry of the Heshute Department both showed full resilience.

Because no one has the possibility of giving up, and no one has a way out.

Those who give up are the ones who will never come out.

It's just that there is always a limit to the fight between the two sides.

Fan Guang only felt stiff, he was breathing desperately, but the more desperately he breathed, there was also a feeling of being out of breath, if someone lifted Fan Guang's face armor to take a look, he knew that Fan Guang was already full of red and purple at this moment.

Fan Guang is still very confident in his martial arts.

After all, it is also a talent who is killed in martial arts.

It's just that the martial arts he has practiced since he was a child feel a little out of order at the moment. He only felt that his hands and feet were weak, and he was very weak to fight.

It turns out that ten percent of martial arts, and it's good to be able to play three achievements.

Fan Guang overestimated himself and underestimated the so-called qi disease on the plateau.

In normal times, Fan Guang acted without hindrance. But when he is really strenuous and active, he feels extremely difficult, and even the more strenuous the activity, the more uncomfortable this feeling becomes, as if someone has blocked his mouth and nose and prevented him from breathing.

It's just that fighting on the battlefield is the most energy-consuming behavior.

In real hand-to-hand combat, it only takes a few minutes to fight, and the person who comes down will be sweating profusely and panting.

Not to mention, this time and again.

Fan Guang could only rely on his tough armor, the sharp long knife in his hand, and the war horse under his crotch, and try to use as little physical strength as possible.

However, on the battlefield, Fan Guang was still relieved.

Because Fan Guang obviously found that he had overestimated the Heshute Department before.

He used the elite strength of the Tile Spur Headquarters to measure the Heshute Division. It's just that I didn't expect that the performance of the Heshuo Special Department would be so poor.

He didn't know that even the current elite of the tile spur was not as good as the elite of the previous time, let alone the foreign forces such as the Heshute Ministry.