The north wind is getting stronger and stronger, and the wind sweeps the heavy snow, overwhelming the earth, and the sky and the earth become gray.

A fierce battle ended in the town of Doma, the Sui army became more and more courageous, killing the Tubo army that fell into the encirclement suffered heavy casualties, the corpses piled up, the blood stained the grassland, the whole town of Doma was full of corpses, and the sound of wailing in the snow surrounded by the two mountains seemed to be more piercing than ever.

The key to this battle was not to defeat the 50,000 Tubo army that entered the 'hub', but to completely annihilate it.

Only by completely annihilating them, can the secrets such as the trap pit, crossbow array, Mo knife array, and heavy cavalry be preserved, and can they get a surprise effect in the next war. It was from this point of consideration that Yang Tong put the battlefield in the empty town of Doma, instead of blocking the Tubo army in the narrow valley in the south and preventing them from going north to fight.

To the left and right of the town of Doma were tall mountains, and the terrain was open and flat, which could only drag the enemy into battle, and the light cavalry could gallop south, cut off the enemy's retreat, and thus end one of the pots; Even if he watched from afar, the Tibetan scouts who did not fight fled, they could not take away the secrets of the Sui army.

As a result of the war, as Yang Dong wished, no one escaped from the circle surrounded by the heavy troops of the Great Sui, but the Tubo army, which became a trapped beast, also showed fierce combat power, bringing a lot of casualties to the Sui army.

On a raised mountain, Yang Tong stood for a long time facing the land where more than 100,000 troops had fought fiercely, there was no joy of victory in his eyes, only a heavy pathos shrouded in his heart; In front of him were the corpses of countless Great Sui soldiers who followed him in the southern and northern wars, the blood stains on their faces had been washed away, and they were lying neatly on the ground ravaged by the blizzard.

The snowflakes fell on his armor and body, making him seem to have become a snowman, and behind him, Wei Fengwu, Shui Tianji, Yin Mingyue, Shui Tianji and his own soldiers were full of worries, constantly exchanging glances: the saint has been standing for half an hour, and he will be frozen if he continues like this.

At this time, a rumbling hoof sound came from a distance, and Du Ruhui's voice came from the wind and snow, "What about the saint?" ”

Everyone greeted them with great joy, and Fengxue walked quickly to a person, it was Du Ruhui who arranged post-war affairs.

"Du Shangshu, the saint has been standing for half an hour, you can persuade him." Wei Fengwu said anxiously.

Du Ruhui was shocked, he didn't have time to greet the queen, the princess, and the princesses, he walked quickly towards Yang Tong, and when he was about to get closer, Yang Dong's voice came, "Is it Keming?" ”

"Holy Lord, it's a micro-minister." Du Ruhui slowed down, although Yang Tong's voice was flat, but he still felt a strong sadness, Du Ruhui sighed slightly.

In this battle, the Tubo army behaved very bravely, when they were in a dilemma, under the decisive counterattack of Ron Keer and others, they still caused a lot of casualties to the Sui army, and exchanged 50,000 fresh lives for five or six thousand casualties of the Sui army.

Their resilience is the strongest army that Yang Tong has encountered since he raised his army, not to mention the Khitan, Xi, Eastern and Western Turks, Tuyuhun, and even Goguryeo, which is also an agricultural nation.

From the performance of these people, Du Ruhui felt two words, that is, fanaticism.

Not bad.

This is a group of fanatics and madmen who have been indoctrinated by Bon ideology. Not only has a strong physique, but also a crazy soul that is not afraid of death.

"Holy Lord, there are still 70,000 Tibetan troops coming from the east, the war between my Great Sui and Tubo is not over yet, and now is not the time to be sad!" Du Ruhui persuaded in a low voice.

"'The crockpot will inevitably break by the well, and the general will inevitably die in battle'. Dying on the battlefield is the glory of my Great Sui soldiers, and it is also the lifelong pursuit of every soldier...... I am very proud to have such a good son......" Yang Tong sighed and said, "It's just that I want to go south overnight and annihilate the 70,000 army led by Lu Dongzan on the way. When I was leaving, I was ashamed that I couldn't give them a ride. ”

When Du Ruyan heard this, he couldn't speak for a long time.

"The Holy One is going south in the snow?"

"Yes, if we face each other head-on again, I'm afraid our army will still have a lot of damage, so I have to wait for work and fight Lu Dongzan by surprise." Yang Tong's voice became very calm, and he said, "Before leaving, I want to say goodbye to the soldiers and ask them to forgive their emperor and commander for not giving them a ride. ”

Everyone immediately understood Yang Tong's heart.

"Xiao Wu, you are the Empress of the Great Sui, your identity is sufficient, but you are not the General of the Great Sui, I now canonize you as the Generalissimo, preside over the ceremony on my behalf, and send the soldiers on a ride." Yang Tong said to Wei Fengwu beside him.

The queen's title is the supreme superb, purely in terms of status, only above the emperor, and the generalissimo is a first-class military official, although the canonization is a bit far-fetched, but it is also the most perfect plan at present.

"Concubine, thank you." Wei Fengwu's heart was hot, and she was very excited about her husband's arrangement.

Since Yang Tong carried out the cremation ceremony, after the end of the war, the soldiers of the whole army would send the fallen soldiers on their last journey, and then put the ashes of the fallen soldiers into their own leather bags, and after the class teachers returned to the court, they would either be buried in the martyrs' cemetery or sent back to their hometowns at the request of the martyrs' families.

In the cremation process, the highest-status boss presides over this ceremony, and if the emperor presides over and worships, it is the highest honor for the fallen soldiers; However, because of the tactical needs, not only Yang Tong wanted to go south, but also Pei Xingyan, Niu Jinda, Wang Fubao and other generals who went to seize the camp with the momentum of a great victory, I am afraid that they would also have to go out with the army...... It is no wonder that Yang Tong feels guilty about these soldiers.

She also knows that cremating the remains of soldiers is the supreme ritual in the army, and now her husband has let him preside over it, which is actually her honor.

"Keming, you come to assist the Empress." Yang Tong said to Du Ruhui.

"Wechen obeys." Du Ruhui is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he is familiar with all kinds of rituals, he bowed, and said: "Holy Lord, just now the scouts came to report, the Tubo battalion is empty, and there are only 3,000 defenders, which have been decided by our army in a battle. ”

"Got it."

Yang Tong's eyes swept over the faces of Shui Tianji, Yin Mingyue, and Yang Qinfang one by one, and after a little thought, he said: "Mingyue went out with me, Tianji stayed to accompany the queen, and Lujiang took five hundred Shura guards to escort her." ”

Shura Wei is very good at spying on military intelligence, so Yang Tong let Yin Mingyue accompany the army, compared to her, Yang Qinfang is too far behind.

"Whoa." Yang Qinfang was unhappy about Yang Tong's arrangement, but she didn't dare to disobey the order, let alone joke about Wei Fengwu's safety, so she had to respond aggrievedly.

Yang Tong walked down the hill, turned over his horse, and shouted: "Let's go, go and deal with Lu Dongzan." ”

Before the words fell, he rode away.

The Xuanjia Army followed closely.

The sound of rumbling hooves sounded, and it didn't take long for this battlefield to slowly calm down, except for the soldiers who stayed behind to clean the battlefield, the main force of the Great Sui went south.

The more than 10,000 soldiers of the Sui army who stayed behind watched the army go south, until the back of the last soldier was submerged in the snowstorm, and then they took action, carefully looking for and identifying in the pile of corpses again and again, for fear that there would be a loss of dead robes.

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In the snowy day, the sky is dark earlier, more than 300 miles away in the southeast of the Doma Valley, is the oxbow lake, that is, today's Dongcao Along Lake, it is located on the north bank of the Yellow River, the Yellow River bed swings to form the Yan Lake, the south of the lake body is the natural embankment and flood plain of the Yellow River, and the other directions are all mountains; There are many small lakes in the low depression of the floodplain, and when the water is large, it is connected with the winter grass Along, and there is no year when the water rises, and it is a grassland with abundant water and grass.

Beneath the tall mountains northwest of Lake Dongcao Along, tents are connected into a huge camp with no end in sight. This is Lu Dongzan's camp.

They marched westward on the orders of Langri Zampu, attempting to unite with the Ronko to form an army and destroy Wang Fubao, so as to burn the flames of war to the territory of Heyuan, and then detour back to the back of Jishi Pass to deal a fatal blow to the Sui Emperor. Then the two armies converged, rushed down the plateau, and killed the Great Sui Lintao, Douhe, Caohan, Longxi and other Hehuang counties; In the west, you can conquer the Hexi of the Sui Dynasty, occupy the seven counties of Heyuan, Xihai, Shanshan, Jimo, Dunhuang, Yiwu, and Mingyue of the Sui Dynasty, dominate the Western Regions, and control the Silk Road, cutting off the economic lifeline of the Sui Dynasty;

This is also the strategic goal set by Langri Zampu before sending troops, if this strategy is successful, the entire land of Longyou will definitely be killed by the most crazy and bloody slaughter in Tibet;

Historically, this strategy was indeed completed by Tubo, who annexed Tuyuhun, threatened Hexi, and dominated the Western Regions after the defeat of the famous general Xue Rengui in Dafeichuan, and became the henchmen of the Li Tang Dynasty, but who is to blame?

Naturally, it is to blame Li Shimin, the so-called emperor of the ages.

According to history, when Princess Wencheng and her relatives were in Tibet, she brought 3,800 types of grains and 5,500 craftsmen, although these figures are undoubtedly exaggerated and exaggerated, but it is undeniable that with Princess Wencheng entering Tibet, such as agricultural tool manufacturing, textile, silk reeling, construction, papermaking, winemaking, pottery, milling and other production technologies and knowledge of calendar, medical skills, law, politics, and smelting of the art of war, have been passed on to Tibet one after another. As a result, earth-shaking changes have taken place in Tibet's clothing, food, housing, transportation, weapons and equipment, and so on.

The Tubo Dynasty, which easily obtained the essence of the Central Plains civilization that had accumulated for thousands of years, suddenly transformed into a powerful giant, and finally gave back to the Central Plains with weapons and killings, and once entered Daxing City, looting the imperial capital of the Li Tang Dynasty. It can be seen that once the highest decision-maker of an empire makes a mistake, it needs to use countless lives, countless loyal soldiers, and countless families to bear this mistake.

At this time, in Lu Dongzan's big tent, a Tubo general with countless thin braids sat on the desk, drinking milk wine, tearing mutton, chewing heavily, overflowing with oil and water, and eating well.

Lu Dongzan didn't pay attention to these generals, he seemed a little unate, and after a while, he silently put down the barbecue in his hand and let out a long sigh.

Everyone saw that Lu Dongzan, who was on the throne, was silent and sighed, and a general couldn't help but ask, "Why doesn't the general eat?" ”

"According to the itinerary, we were supposed to arrive at the camp of Doma tomorrow morning, but this snowstorm suddenly struck, causing our army to miss the trip, and in terms of distance, it will take us at least two to three days to get to the camp, and I am really a little worried."

Lu Dongzan looked at these generals with a mouthful of oil coldly, and his mood was extremely irritable.

According to Langri Zampu's plan, they should march in a hurry and take him by surprise when the Doma Sui army arrives. However, because these guys could not make any gains in the eastern battlefield, they made a fuss at the critical moment, and in order to force Zampu to promise more benefits, after they left the Jishi camp, they deliberately delayed for various reasons, and only walked twenty or thirty miles a day.

Lu Dongzan also endured this, and asked his cronies to go and tell Langri Zampu, and asked him to focus on the overall situation and meet the demands of these tribal leaders, Langri Zampu also made unprecedented concessions, but these people were too greedy to be satisfied.

When the army marched here in the evening of the previous day, and saw the clouds in the sky, they simply stayed here on the grounds that the soldiers were afraid of the blizzard.

As the so-called military situation is like fire, it cannot be delayed at all. However, two days were delayed by them like this, which made Lu Dongzan unbearable, and the anger in his heart was almost uncontrollable.

"The general thinks too much." Another general said nonchalantly: "On Ke'er, Mengxi, Sakeqi and others are all my warriors in Tibet, and in two days they will lead the army north, and we only need to follow behind, and we will definitely be able to kill the Sui army crying wolf and the whole army will be defeated." ”

"Yes, General, even though the Sui army is strong, but this is the snowy plateau where we have bred for generations, and the Sui army like a lamb will be cursed by the gods......"

"Yes, the reason why our army was defeated at Jishi Pass before was because we fought in Tuyuhun, and those soft bones in Tuyuhun defiled the gods, so the gods did not help us." One of them said eloquently: "As soon as we leave, a heavy snowstorm will fall in the sky, and this is the punishment of the gods for the Sui army." As soon as our army arrives, it will definitely be able to kill the Sui army, which has frozen to death and suffered countless frostbite, without leaving a single piece of armor. ”

“……”

The generals shouted one after another, listening to their words, as if killing the Sui army was like slaughtering pigs and dogs, and they were extremely disdainful of it.

Lu Dongzan's face sank like water, and the anger in his heart was almost aroused by these guys who were full of oil.

But no matter how angry you are, you have to endure it.

After a long time, I had to say patiently: "The Great Sui defeated the strong enemy of the Four Sais, and even the Eastern/Turkic and Western Turks, who have millions of people who control the strings, do not hate the hands of the Sui army. It can be seen that Emperor Sui, like Zampu, is also a man of destiny with the protection of the gods. In this way, our Tubo and Sui Dynasty have the same status in the eyes of the gods, the Sui army is well-armed, and the millions of heroes are invincible in the world. ”

A general snorted coldly: "I have countless Tibetan soldiers, are you still afraid that he will not succeed?" The general underestimated us too much. ”

"Why do you underestimate our army? I'm just talking about things. Lu Dongzan felt so tired, and he said bitterly: "I'm now worried that Emperor Sui, like us, has already sent troops to Doma, if the troops are equal." Our army will be completely defeated, and then the Great Sui Xiongshi will be like entering a no-man's land, and will reach Luo with a devastating force. If the Sui army did evil everywhere, they wouldn't care whose ranch it was. When the time comes, it will not only be Zampu who will be injured, but your pasture will also become a sea of corpses and blood. ”