There was not much suspense in the battle of Shazhou, although Zhu Xie Jinhai still had 11,000 soldiers, but 3,000 of them were poisoned and lost their combat effectiveness, and their bodies were far from recovering.

In fact, Zhu Xie Jinhai only had 8,000 usable troops, but the morale of 8,000 people was low, and the war-weariness was serious.

Zhu Xie Jinhai also had no intention of fighting, and led more than 3,000 soldiers from the Moon Department to flee back to Xizhou in a panic, he didn't dare to go to Yizhou, this fiasco, the old miscellaneous hair of the Elders' Council had to skin him.

The 20,000 Shatuo army set out to attack Shazhou, less than 4,000 escaped, and the remaining 16,000 were lost in Shazhou and Guazhou, suffering heavy casualties, and more than 10,000 were captured by the Tang army alone.

This time the Tang army accepted prisoners of war, and they needed labor to mine the mines, and these 10,000 prisoners of war came at the right time.

The most direct consequence of this battle of Shazhou was that the Tang army captured Guazhou, and the entire Hexi Corridor was recovered by the Tang army.

And Zhu Xie Jinhai's fiasco again also led to the outbreak of old grievances between the various tribes within Shatuo, and Shatuo began to show signs of splitting, which is a later story, not to mention for the time being.

Shule is second only to Qiuzi in importance among the four towns of Anxi, and its strategic position is extremely important, it is the only way for Anxi to Tocharo, and it can be said that it is the western gate of Anxi.

And the oasis here is vast, the land is fertile, since the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains army is here to tuntian, here is the place with the most fertile fields in Anxi, with more than 50,000 acres of wheat fields, according to the calculation of two stones per mu, one year can harvest 100,000 stone wheat, can feed 10,000 troops.

In the Tang Fan League the year before last, Shule Town was completely ceded to Tubo, and the Tang army was forced to withdraw from Shule, and the painstaking century-old foundation was surrendered to Tubo, which led to Guo Xin's death in grief and anger.

Shule currently has a total of 5,000 Tubo elite soldiers, which is the ruling center of Tubo in Anxi, and the Tubo army also knows about the alliance between the Tang army and the Anxi countries, but they don't care about it at all.

Interestingly, when King Shule went to the Qiuci Alliance, he also asked the Tubo generals for their opinions, but he did not have any opinions, and listened to them as if the Qiuci Alliance had nothing to do with the Tubo army.

This is also the characteristic of the Tibetan army, they are more pragmatic, unwilling to pay attention to those cumbersome things of etiquette, they only like to use force on the battlefield to solve all contradictions and conflicts, even if the king of Shule and the Tang army will be allied 10,000 times, as long as they kill the Tang army, the king of Shule will have to kneel at his feet like a dog.

On the morning of this day, the Tubo general Shang Hu got the news of the spies, more than 40,000 coalition troops appeared thirty miles north of Shule City, Shang Hu did not look down on the armies of the Anxi countries at all, it was simply ineffective, and the first battle was defeated, it was a group of rabble, he was more concerned about the number of the Tang army, and the news was lost on the end of the city, and the murder was more auspicious, he guessed that it had been annihilated by the Tang army.

Based on his nearly ten years of experience in the Anxi garrison, he knew that this was by no means the work of the Anxi army, and the old and weak army in Anxi could not annihilate a thousand elite Tibetan soldiers at all, and this must be an army from outside.

How many of them came? How is the equipment? How is the combat effectiveness? These are the issues that concern him.

On Shang Hu sent spies again to inquire in detail about the situation of the Tang army.

After five days of marching, the Anxi coalition army finally arrived in Shule, and set up a large camp thirty miles away from Shule City, it should be said that two large camps were set up, one was the large camp of the Anxi coalition army, they did not participate in the war, but only came to cheer for the Tang army.

In fact, the Tang army was not willing to camp with them, although it was an allied army, but the Tang army really couldn't get used to the freedom and looseness of these Anxi local troops, doing whatever they wanted, disobeying orders, and not stopping orders.

Assembled early in the morning, the Tang army was all assembled before the end of the first drum, and the Anxi local army took at least half an hour to assemble, yawning one by one from the big tent to assemble, no wonder it was defeated by the Tubo army, such an army is really terrible.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Guo Song was looking at the map of the Tubo garrison provided by the king of Shule, the Tubo camp was the former Tang army's wall-type camp, which was built extremely strongly, they were obviously afraid that the Tang army would mix into the city of Shule, or the Shule army and people would secretly help the Tang army, so they were unwilling to garrison troops in the city.

The camp covers an area of about 2,000 acres, with 1,000 tents, part of which is a military camp and the other part is a sheepfold.

"Are there any loopholes in this big camp?" Guo Song asked Lu Yang Dao next to him.

Lu Yang thought for a while and said: "There are basically no loopholes in this barracks, if you have to look for it strictly, then it is too old, and the walls are a little decayed, maybe this is its only flaw." ”

Li Bing suggested: "Envoy, try it with gunpowder arrows?" ”

Guo Song smiled and said: "Gunpowder arrows are not good, the other party must be prepared, the military camp occupies too much area, the camp tent is relatively small, and the big tent in the military camp should be far away from the wall......"

Speaking of this, Guo Song suddenly thought of something, pondered for a moment and said: "The secret of breaking this military camp may lie in the sentence 'the military camp occupies too much land'. ”

Lu Yang and Li Bing woke up at the same time that the number of 5,000 troops in Tubo was too small, and the battalion, covering an area of more than 2,000 acres, could not defend it at all.

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In the afternoon of the next day, 20,000 Tang troops appeared in the east of the Tubo army camp, the large army was neatly arranged, with flags waving, spears like a forest, and murderous spirit.

The ranks of the Tang Army beat a slow but shocking drum, 'Knock-knock-'.

The drums beat very rhythmically, as if they were provoking the Tibetan army, waiting for them to fight.

Five thousand soldiers of the Tibetan army appeared on the high walls around them, and the main general, Lun Shang, looked coldly at the Tang army two miles away, of course he understood the intentions of the Tang army, and was urging himself to send troops to fight.

"General, are you going to fight?" A commander asked in a low voice.

"You idiot!"

On Shang suddenly reprimanded angrily: "The enemy army is four times larger than ours, and the morale is high, you let us go out and send us to death?" ”

He turned back to the generals and said: "It is up to us to decide when we should go to war, we can't be led by the nose by the Tang army, hang them for a few days, and when their morale weakens a little, it will be the time for us to fight." ”

Time passed little by little, night gradually fell, the Tang army did not garrison, did not retreat, still guarded the south of the camp, as if waiting for something?

Five thousand Tibetans were in full array, with two thousand men defending in the east and one thousand on each of the other three sides.

Just when night fell, there was a change in the west of the camp, a 3,000-strong Tang crossbowmen launched a fierce attack on the east wall, dense crossbow arrows shot to the east city, the Tang crossbow had a much longer range than the Tubo bow and arrow, and the dense arrows suppressed the 1,000 Tubo soldiers on the wall.

Under the critical situation, the chief general Lun Shanghu ordered that the Tibetan soldiers defending the north and south sides should each transfer 500 men to support the western wall.

The Tibetan camp was a rectangle, long from north to south and short from east to west, and when there were only 500 people left to guard each side of the north and south, the crisis quietly came.

The eastern part of the north wall belonged to the sheep and horse pen, which was now largely defenced by soldiers, and the soldiers were all on the western side.

More than a dozen Tang soldiers crawled towards the high wall, they used wooden planks to erect on the trench outside the high wall, two soldiers rushed up, inserted a long pointed wooden stick deep into the crack of the mud wall, and hung a huge porcelain bottle fire thunder, his seat was not guarded by Tibetan soldiers, and he had just been transferred to defend the western wall.

Several Tang soldiers ran quickly, and after running dozens of steps, they lay on the ground and covered their ears.

'Boom!' There was a violent muffled sound, black smoke rose into the air, just as Lu Yang said, the high wall was decayed, and the shock wave of the porcelain bottle fire thunder also blew it up a large hole several zhang long.

Hundreds of Tang soldiers rushed over, quickly erected planks as wide as 20 zhang on the trench, and they struggled to push to another section of the crumbling and collapsed board wall, and the gap became 10 zhang wide.

At this time, a thousand heavy armored infantry trotted in, holding a long Mo knife in their hands, the tip of the knife pointed straight to the sky, the team was neat, murderous, and they rushed directly into the big hole that exploded.

Behind them another three thousand cavalry of the Tang Army appeared, closely following behind the heavy infantry.

There was a large open space in the barracks, just between the sheep and horse pens and the barracks, and I saw countless Tibetan soldiers running towards this side, and they also heard a violent explosion and rushed towards this side.

The hoplites quickly lined up, and a thousand sword and shield soldiers guarded the left and right sides and behind them, and headed towards the Tibetan soldiers.

3,000 cavalry galloped in the camp, cutting the Tibetan camp into two, and 5,000 Tibetans turned into two armies fighting separately.

On Shang Hu finally understood the tactics of the Tang army, they launched an attack in the west, just to disperse their forces, and then break through from the middle, he immediately made a decision, and ordered loudly: "Break through to the west and join the army in the west!" ”

In any case, the 5,000 Tibetan army must be integrated in order to compete with the Tang army, otherwise it will definitely be divided and annihilated, he was so anxious at this time that he couldn't take care of the Tang army in the east, and the 3,000 army quickly rushed to the west.

At this time, Guo Song also gave an order, "Attack!" ”

10,000 Tang cavalry killed the camp gate, they threw out the rope, pulled down the camp gate, the army entered the Tubo army camp, and the 3,000 Tubo army who were evacuating saw the enemy army killed, and had to quickly assemble and fight fiercely with the Tang cavalry who caught up.

At this time, the 2,000 Tubo soldiers in the west were slaughtered, and only a few hundred Tubo soldiers were left to resist, and they were surrounded by 3,000 Tang cavalry regiments.

The hoplites turned east and struck the backs of 3,000 Tibetan soldiers.......