The Tibetan army was the henchman of the Tang Dynasty for a long time, the Tang Dynasty could only be evenly matched with the Tubo army in the early years of the most powerful Tianbao, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty weakened rapidly, the Tubo army continued to invade the Tang Dynasty, plundered a large number of people and finances, and the originally rich Longyou was also empty, and the Tang Dynasty court was afraid of it like a tiger, talking about Tubo and changing color.

Although the national strength of Tubo was weakened at this time, the strength of the Tubo soldiers was not reduced, and they would fight to the death, and would never surrender lightly.

The 3,000 spear infantry could not even match the 3,000 Tubo sword and shield soldiers, and they were killed and retreated, and Guo Song had to urgently transfer back the 2,000 cavalry of the first battalion that was originally planned to intercept the defeated Tubo soldiers, and launched an attack on the Tubo infantry from the rear, which reversed the unfavorable situation of the Tang army's infantry.

At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the Tang soldiers who had experienced many night combat training completely had the upper hand, killing the dead corpses of the Tibetan army, bleeding and drifting, and in front of the heavy infantry of the Tang army, the corpses were piled up, and all the corpses were fragmented, and the blood was extremely cruel.

Although the Tibetan soldiers resisted desperately, the main general, Ron Lituo, saw that the Tang army had obviously conducted night training, and he knew that the general situation was gone, and he shouted loudly: "The whole army is breaking through to the west!" ”

To the south was the heavy infantry team, they couldn't break through, and there was a faint army in the east, he didn't know that it was a medical rescue team, and thought it was an army ambushed by the Tang army, and there were more enemy troops in the north, and only to the west might have a chance.

Most of the 5,000 cavalry had been killed, and less than 2,000 men were left to concentrate their forces to break through to the west. ”

When night fell, the Tang army's spear infantry could defeat the other side even without the help of cavalry, and Liang Wu received the order and immediately shouted: "The cavalry follow me!" ”

Nearly 2,000 cavalry of the first battalion followed Liang Wu to the west and joined the camp to block the breakthrough of the Tibetan cavalry, Guo Song then ordered a thousand heavily armored infantry to go to the north to support the spear infantry, these 1,000 soldiers were sword and shield infantry, well-trained, they killed the enemy's back from behind, and the 3,000 Tibetan infantry suffered even more heavy casualties, there were only six or seven hundred left, still stubbornly fighting to the death.

This war was fought from afternoon to late night, for nearly five hours, in addition to a dozen Tubo cavalry successfully broke through, 8,000 elite Tubo troops were finally annihilated by the Tang army, so far, the 15,000 Tubo troops who invaded Shazhou were all wiped out.

But the casualties of the Tang army also exceeded more than 4,000 people, and even the heavy infantry also had nearly 100 casualties, which was to kill 3,000 enemies and lose 800 self-inflicted losses.

A soldier turned over a corpse and suddenly shouted, "I found it!" ”

Several Tang soldiers gathered around, only to see that this corpse was a Tibetan general, different from other Tibetan generals, he had a gold seal hanging around his waist, and another Tang military captain who knew the Tibetan script stepped forward to tear off his waist card, and looked closely under the firelight, only to see that it was engraved with 'the former military governor on Lituo'.

"It's him, the chief general of Tubo!"

On Lituo's body was found, there is no way to verify how he died, it can only be said that he died in the chaos.

Guo Song got the news and hurriedly stepped forward, "Where is the enemy general?" ”

The lieutenant hurriedly stepped forward to report, "Governor Qiyu, that mat is it!" ”

Guo Song saw that there was a corpse of a Tubo general in a broken mat next to him, his flesh and blood were blurred, he should have been assassinated by a spear when he broke through, this Tubo was wearing chain mail and a silver helmet, and he was a senior general at first glance.

The lieutenant presented a leather bag again, "Here are his military badges, golden seals, golden arrows, and war swords, please take a look at them." ”

Guo Song took the skin and asked, "But about Lituo?" ”

"It's him, his official position is the former military governor."

This position is not low, equivalent to the general of the Tang Dynasty, it can be seen that this person has a very high status in the Tubo army, although he killed the main general Nonze, but the Tubo generals did not dare to question his leadership position.

Guo Song immediately ordered: "Collect the identity cards and swords of all the Tibetan generals and send them to the imperial court." ”

Ordinary Tibetan soldiers did not have waist cards, not even names, and only by collecting the waist cards and identity certificates of hundreds of Tibetan generals and sending them to the imperial court, the imperial court would believe that they had really annihilated an elite army of tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers.

When the day finally dawned, the Tang army began to clean up the battlefield, piled up the corpses of all the Tibetan soldiers and burned them, and then dug deep pits to bury them, and cremated the bodies of more than 2,300 Tang soldiers who died in battle, and the bones were put into cans and sent back to their respective hometowns.

It was already noon when the army returned to Dunhuang City, and at this time, the Shazhou Street of Dunhuang City was full of temporary tents, which were filled with more than 1,900 wounded soldiers, and thousands of Dunhuang people took the initiative to take care of them.

Sima Liu Zi stepped forward and said: "There are still 420 soldiers who are seriously injured and died, and Lang General Dong Xueqing was too seriously injured and unfortunately died. ”

The top general of the Hexi Army was the Lang general Dong Xueqing, Li Bing's lieutenant, who was impaled in the abdomen by a short spear of the Tubo army in the fierce battle, along with three captains and eight brigade commanders.

Guo Song nodded and asked, "Who is in Dong Xueqing's family?" ”

"He is not married, his parents have died of illness, and he has a brother in Wonju."

Guo Song groaned and said: "Just bury him in Shazhou, and other dead soldiers who have no family members are also buried in Shazhou." ”

"Obey!"

Liu Zi hurriedly went.

Guo Song returned to the state government, although he was also exhausted, he still had to write two letters, one was a letter to his family to report safety, and the other was a slightly detailed military report, and sent someone to send it to Zhangye, so that the Hexi Jiedu Mansion could arrange an 800-mile express delivery to Chang'an.

After finishing the letters, Guo Song finally got tired, collapsed, and fell into a deep sleep.

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The eight-hundred-mile express will take six days to reach Chang'an at the earliest, but the eagle letter arrived in Chang'an three days later, the Hexi Tang army regained Shazhou, and the news of the total annihilation of 12,000 Tubo troops immediately spread throughout the city, Chang'an City suddenly burst into jubilation, tens of thousands of people walked out of their homes, countless people beat gongs and drums, and celebrated the Tang Army's recovery of the Hexi Corridor, although the Hexi Corridor and Guazhou have not been recovered, but this is no longer important.

The loss of Anxi Courtyard and the loss of most of the Hexi Corridor has always been an unspeakable shame in the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty, so the recovery of the Hexi Corridor has awakened the memories of the prosperous Tang Dynasty in the hearts of the people of Chang'an, and at the same time satisfied everyone's long-lost little bit of great country dignity.

The name Guo Song is once again well-known in Chang'an, so that Guo Ziyi's mansion is crowded with Chang'an people who came to congratulate, and a lot of gossip is spreading, Guo Song is Guo Ziyi's grandson, although it is all gossip, but the people of Chang'an are convinced, Guo's repeated explanations are useless, Guo Ziyi had to let several sons come forward to thank the people of Chang'an for their love.

In the back hall of Guo's mansion, Guo Yao, the eldest son of Guo Ziyi, said to his father: "The people are happy to recover Shazhou, but the imperial court is very silent, many people think that Guo Song is too reckless, breaking the balance between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, they are worried that war will break out between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, and they are worried that Tubo will invade Longyou and Xichuan in a big way." ”

Guo Yao is also nearly sixty years old, and the official appointment is from the third rank of the prince Zhan Shi, the crown prince Shaobao, and is the highest official in the East Palace.

Guo Ziyi glanced at Guo Yao and asked slowly, "Is the situation you are talking about the thoughts of individual officials in the imperial court, or is it generally like this?" ”

"The child doesn't dare to say that all officials think like this, but at least seventy percent of the officials are worried, before that, the recovery of the Hexi Corridor was once a taboo for the imperial court, when Yuan Zai and Chang Gon were in power, no one dared to talk about the topic of recovering the Hexi Corridor in public, until Guo Song's recovery of Suzhou was supported by the Son of Heaven, no one would accidentally mention Shazhou, but it was only a very small number of people, and the vast majority of officials were not in favor of breaking the balance."

Guo Ziyi was silent for a moment and said: "What do you mean to say that Guo Song recovered Shazhou, although he gained a high reputation among the people, but the imperial court did not treat him, is that what you mean!" ”

"It is precisely because of this that the child feels that he will lose points in his career, and it can be said that he has offended the entire civil official group in this matter."

"It's not that serious! I heard that Han Yun and Li Mi supported him in recovering Shazhou. ”

"Father, I'm afraid Han Rong's phase is not long in coming."

Guo Ziyi was stunned, "What do you mean by this?" ”

(End of chapter)