The desert wolf peak is lonely, and the sky is vast and roaring.

The Iron Rider trampled through the Elysium and whipped the exotic battlefield.

Because the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the highest plateau in the world, known as the "roof of the world", the average annual temperature of the hinterland of the plateau is below 0 °C, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is densely packed with mountains and rivers, the terrain is steep and changeable, the terrain is complex, the mountains are uneven, the drop is huge, and the roads are dangerous and difficult to travel.

Therefore, this time, the 10,000 Angel Firearms Legion led by Xia Xue did not carry a heavy angel cannon that required a large number of horses to be hauled, but let Zhao Feng's artillery battalion bring a light artillery specially used for mountain warfare - Angel Mortar, although the range is not as far as the Angel Cannon, the farthest can only hit 2500 meters, but the rate of fire is very fast, the fastest can fire 30 shells in a minute, the most important thing is that the Angel mortar uses a special alloy, the weight is very light, the weight of the whole gun is only 14 kg, the length of the gun body is only 1 meter, one person can carry it and run, Light weight, small size, strong mobility, flexible and lightweight, can quickly transfer positions.

Although the shell of the Angel mortar is not heavy, only 1.3 kg, the effective killing radius can reach 12 meters, although it is not as good as the 20-meter killing radius of the Angel cannon, but it is more than twice as high as the killing radius of 5 meters of the hand shell. In addition, the rate of fire is fast, the firepower is very fierce during the battle, and the killing effect is very good. Moreover, mortars . Cannon. The trajectory is curved, and it can kill enemies at close range or behind obstacles such as hills, which is very suitable for the steep and mountainous terrain of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The 10,000 Angel Special Combat Regiment are all one-person and double-ridden, can be rotated to ride, and there are many horses pulling the baggage vehicles, the baggage vehicles of the Angel Special Combat Regiment are all axles and carriages made of alloy steel, and the wheels made of alloy steel are also wrapped with solid rubber as tires, and the body is also a stronger and lighter alloy material, which is stronger, lighter, faster, and more stable than wooden baggage vehicles, and the 20,000 plateau cavalry led by Xue Rengui is also a two-person horse, so the army of the western expedition to Tibet is very fast.

Halfway through, Xia Xue asked Xue Rengui to lead 20,000 plateau elite Tang first. The army rushed to the Western Regions, recaptured the four towns of Anxi from the hands of Tibet, and opened up the Silk Road. He led 10,000 angel firearms regiments to directly attack Tubo itself, contain the main force of Tubo, and wait for Xue Rengui to recapture the four towns of Anxi, and then lead the army south to attack Tubo with his angel army.

Xue Rengui happily took the order and left, the last time Dafeichuan lost the battle, he has been holding back the fire in his belly, this time he can just take revenge and revenge.

There was a heavy white snow everywhere, and the sky and the earth were silvery white. The wind howled, striking people in the face like a knife. Snowflakes covered their armor, and those at the front of the line even had frost on their eyebrows and beards.

Xia Xue, who was dressed in a white cloak, looked so icy and heroic, she faced the howling cold wind and said fiercely in her heart: "Those who offend my husband will be punished even if they are far away!" Those who offend my Tang Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away! Tibet, I'm coming! ”

Within a few days, the Angel Special Operations Group arrived at the current Tangbo border, and after a day of repairs, Xia Xue immediately led the Angel Army to the largest city at the junction of Qinghai and Ganlong - Menyuan City.

Menyuan City is tall and sturdy, it is the gateway of the Ganlong region and the gateway of the Qinghai region, the geographical location is very important, and it belongs to the place where the soldiers must fight.

Now Menyuan City is occupied by Tibet, and more than 10,000 Tibetan soldiers are stationed in the city.

On the morning of late October 642 A.D., the sky was overcast. Although the snow had stopped, the sky had not cleared, and the lead-colored clouds were still accumulating, pressing on top of each other, and the gray sky was so low that it seemed to be falling. The snow on the ground was very thick, and when the wind blew through, it rolled up the snow foam and sent it straight to the people.

Due to the strict law of the Tibetan state, the upper and lower levels worked together, the internal situation was relatively stable, the people were fierce and martial, and the military geography in the Helong area was very favorable to it. Tubo is located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the attack on Tang can be condescending and go straight to Pingchuan; However, the Tang Dynasty attacked Tubo, but had to attack the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which was cold and oxygen-deficient, and it was very inconvenient to march and fight. So, more than a year after the Tang-Tibetan War, Tang. The army was defeated and won less, and was beaten by the Tubo with a bag, and the Tubo army did not take the Tang at all. The army is in the eye.

The Tibetan defenders on Menyuan City looked at Tang. The army only came with 10,000 people, and there were more than 10,000 people defending the city, and they all laughed at the fact that there was no one in Datang. Last month, Don. The army once sent more than 60,000 troops, besieged Menyuan City for a month without taking it, and suffered heavy casualties, and finally had to retreat. Because in the ancient era of cold weapons, the strength of the siege of the city was generally more than five times the strength of the defender to have hope, so the Tubo soldiers in the city of Menyuan did not take this ten thousand Tang at all. The army is in the eye.

"Zhao Ning listens to orders!" Xia Xue said quietly.

"The last general!" Zhao Ning walked to the middle of the big tent and saluted Xia Xue with a fist.

"Give the Tibetan army a big meal!" Xia Xue smiled slightly.

"Yes!" Zhao Ning also grinned and walked out with his head held high.

"All 200 mortars are laid out for Lao Tzu, 1,000 meters away from the target, each group is in place, and give the Tibetan barbarians a hot meal!"

"Yes!" The leaders of each artillery team led the team to the shelling point. In groups of two, a total of 200 mortars, 400 people, and a hundred people as backup artillery. In order to prevent the Tibetan defenders on Menyuan City from going out of the city to attack the angel artillery battalion, 1,000 machine gunners and 3,000 riflemen were lined up behind the artillery battalion for protection.

"Charge No. 2! Calibrate the ballistics! Zhao Feng ordered.

A mortar captain took aim at Menyuan City with his right thumb, fired a shell at Menyuan City, and then quickly corrected the trajectory and fired another shell.

"Report, ballistics have been corrected and calibrated."

"Ready, adjust the angle of fire according to the calibrated parameters, and all are ready to launch!"

"Fire!" Zhao Ning put on the earplugs and shouted loudly.

"Knock knock!"

"Knock knock!"

"Knock knock!"

……

On the Gate Source City, he was inexplicably looking at hundreds of Tang people. The army ran around in a line more than 1,000 meters away, put some very small iron cylinders on the ground, and did not see any large stone throwers, nor did they see any ladders, crash cars or other siege equipment, when they were not clear, suddenly an iron lump fell from the air, and landed two steps away in front of the city wall, with a loud bang, the Tubo soldiers in the city were startled, and they were not stunned, suddenly there was a loud bang in the city, and I heard someone screaming in the city, and it was estimated that I was hit by the iron lump.

"What kind of stone thrower is this?" The Tibetan soldiers wondered in their hearts.

Suddenly, they found that a dark cloud had fallen from the sky, and it was not a dark cloud, but an iron lump like raindrops, and one after another dark clouds from the sky were falling down on the Tibetan defenders on the city wall, like flocks of black crows, whistling down with the breath of death.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

……

Then there was a loud bang, like a swift and fierce summer thunder, the loud noise was accompanied by a violent explosion at the same time, the city wall was full of fire, shrapnel flew sideways, screamed again and again, everywhere were stumps and broken arms, everywhere was a different place for the body, everywhere was a blur of flesh and blood, everywhere was broken flesh and blood, the shock wave of the explosion blew many Tibetan soldiers directly to the city and fell to their deaths, less than a tea time, there were no Tubo soldiers who could stand up on the city of Menyuan, a tragic situation of Shura hell.

……

In less than half an hour, Menyuan City, the largest city on the Tibetan border, was taken, and the Tubo defenders in the city were basically wiped out.

This battle stunned the Tubo soldiers, and also stunned the Tang soldiers who were guarding the border. Jun was stunned, oh my God, is this still human? It's just too rebellious!

After Xia Xue captured Menyuan City, he did not continue to lead the army to advance, but ordered Tang in the rear. The generals sent 10,000 horses to clean up the battlefield and garrison Menyuan Castle.

Due to the special geographical and cultural environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Xia Xue did not adopt any quick victory methods such as "blitzkrieg", but adopted the tactics of Zeng Guofan, the founder of the Hunan Army in later generations: "Tie a hard village and fight a dumb battle", which is a clumsy victory and a clever victory. "Sun Tzu's Art of War" has a cloud that "the first is invincible, so that the enemy can be victorious", "hard village" is to ensure undefeated, and "dumb battle" is to slowly advance.

Xia Xue took a steady and steady approach in this way, and when she hit one place, she let Tang in the rear. The army occupies one place and constantly advances to encroach on the territory of Tibet. This relatively steady style of play is also to allow the fighters of the Angel Special Operations Regiment to slowly adapt to the harsh climate and altitude sickness of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

In less than four months, all the cities of Tubo in Qinghai were basically taken.

In early February 643, Xia Xue led the Angel Special Combat Group to the foot of Tanggula Mountain, where the climate was the harshest and the coldest and hypoxic.

The elevation of the Tanggula Mountains is about 6,000 meters, and the highest peak, Geladandong, is 6,621 meters above sea level, which means "mountain range on the plateau" in Tibetan, and is also the famous mountain god in Tibet, which means "the mountain that the eagle cannot fly over" in Mongolian. It is said that Genghis Khan, a generation of Tianjiao in later generations, led a large army to enter the South Asian subcontinent through the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but was blocked by the Tanggula Mountain. The harsh climate and the lack of oxygen in the high cold have caused a large number of people and horses to die. The invincible Genghis Khan could only look at the mountains and sigh, and returned in defeat.

Fortunately, Xia Xue had come here with her father in the future world, and climbed the most majestic Sandankangsang Snow Mountain in Tanggula Mountain. Therefore, she made sufficient preparations, so that every Angel Army soldier wore thick cotton clothes and leather clothes, and everyone was also distributed with oxygen bags and heating items, and the war horses were also prepared to protect them from the cold. Even each soldier was issued with sunglasses to prevent snow blindness, although the glass mask on his high-tech helmet can automatically adjust the color and brightness according to the light from the outside, no need to wear sunglasses, the helmet also has an automatic temperature adjustment function like an air conditioner, so there is no need to wear a very thick cotton hat, but the soldiers do not have this high-tech equipment, so it is very necessary to equip them with special plateau equipment to prevent non-combat attrition. She didn't want them to get hurt on these things.

Although her high-tech clothes are particularly cold-proof, in order to ensure that she does not get frostbitten, Xia Xue still wears a snow-white mink fur on top of her jacket.

The wind is howling, the pink-carved summer snow is high above the war horse, a snow-white sable fur, cold and clear, peerless, behind the glass mask, the world's rare beautiful face reveals a calm and alert color.

On the Tanggula Pass, the view is much wider than that of the Kunlun Pass. There are crystal clear snow-capped mountains in the distance, and the sun is stronger than the mountain, and the real plateau has arrived! Due to the lack of oxygen, the brain will be slightly drunk and excited.

The wind here is bitterly cold, and a cloud drifts overhead, either rain or snow or hail, and the climate is quite harsh.

Tanggula Mountain is the gateway from Qinghai to the homeland of Tibet, as long as you turn over it, then the capital of Tibet: Luo Su will come unexpectedly.

One day after entering Tanggula Mountain, there is a canyon in front of you, the canyon area is about 20 miles long, the mountains on both sides of the canyon are more than 60 meters high, and the canyon is about 10 meters wide. This canyon is in a north-south direction, and the magic is that the snow-capped mountains on one side of the canyon are majestic, covered in silver, like a fairy wearing a white feather coat; On the other side, the shrubs are verdant, fragrant and full of life.

This kind of magical canyon, Xia Xue and her father came to Tanggula Mountain when she was a child, it seems that there is a canyon called "Naqu Zhuoma" is this kind of magical canyon, there is a pure snow-capped mountain glacier melted into a clear valley mountain stream, entering Naqu Zhuoma Canyon is like walking into a paradise.

"It's strange that there is such a magical place hidden in Tanggula Mountain." Ouyang Qian muttered beside Xia Xue, "But be careful that there is an ambush, Your Majesty." ”

"This hellish place is not only deprived of oxygen, but it can freeze people's ears, how can there be ambushes?" Ouyang Yong, who was dressed like a brown bear, pulled down his thick cotton hat.

"The whole army temporarily stops advancing and stands by in place!"

After Xia Xue gave the order, she climbed to a nearby high ground, raised a high-tech telescope from the future to carefully observe the high ground on both sides of the canyon, as a commander, must be cautious. If the Tibetans set up ambushes on the high ground on both sides of this canyon, then no matter how powerful the Angel Special Combat Regiment was, they would be severely killed and injured by the rolling wooden boulders thrown from above.

To the naked eye, there was indeed nothing on the high ground on either side of the canyon except for dense bushes and thick snow. Xia Xue turned on the infrared and thermal imaging functions of the telescope, and she couldn't help but be excited, "Sure enough, there is an ambush!" "Through the thermal imaging function, it was found that on the high ground on both sides of the canyon, there were at least 20,000 ambushes of more than 20,000 people.

"Thanks to no carelessness! Otherwise, the consequences are unimaginable! Xia Xue secretly broke out in a cold sweat on her head. She also admired that the Tubo people were really a plateau people, so cold, such an oxygen-deficient place, there were so many people in ambush motionless, and it was estimated that it had been ambushed for not a day or two.

When she found the ambush, Xia Xue knew it in her heart, she called Zhao Ning and quietly commanded a few words, and Zhao Ning went down with a solemn expression.

After a while, about 100 meters in front of the mouth of the gorge, 500 artillery battalion fighters set up small mortars. Behind the 500 artillery men were 1,000 machine gunners and 2,000 riflemen.

"Target, on the high ground on both sides of the canyon, carpet bombing!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

……

The more than 20,000 Tibetan soldiers who were ambushed on both sides of the canyon were led by the general Qilixu, who had been in ambush here for three days. Hearing that the eldest grandson of the Tang Dynasty Empress personally led ten thousand Tang. The army came to attack Tubo, and the new Tubo Zanpu Mangsong Mangzan laughed when he heard the news, and all the Tubo generals also laughed.

"It seems that the Tang Dynasty is really no good, there is no one left, and the queen is sent to fight. Ha ha. I heard that this eldest grandson queen is as beautiful as a fairy, if anyone captures her alive, I will reward him with 10,000 taels of gold and 10,000 cattle and horses! Mangsong Mangzan laughed and said.

However, what I didn't expect was that this beauty queen would lead 10,000 Tang. The army was invincible all the way, attacking the city and pulling out the fortress, and soon took the whole of Qinghai, and now it has immediately arrived at the capital of Tibet. This was so shocking, indeed too shocking, Mangsong Mangzan almost dropped his jaw in shock, this result was beyond everyone's imagination.

The arrogant and contemptuous enemy immediately turned into a great enemy, and the grass and trees were all soldiers. Tubo Zanpu Mangsong Mangzan hurriedly dispatched troops to let the famous general Gar. Qinling abandoned the four towns of Anxi and withdrew all the 400,000 Tibetan troops in the Western Regions to the Tibetan homeland for defense.

He also ordered the general Qi Lixu to set up 20,000 ambush troops on a canyon on a road in the Tanggula Mountains, the gateway to Tibet, and prepared to take advantage of the favorable terrain to invade the Tang Dynasty. The army was wiped out.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

……

Zhao Ning divided the highlands on both sides of the canyon into many grids, and after grouping 100 mortars, they specialized in cleaning the highlands on the left side of the canyon, and the remaining 100 on the right side of the highlands. The total length of the canyon is about 20 miles, that is, about 10,000 meters, the mountains on both sides of the canyon are more than 60 meters high, and the canyon is about 10 meters wide.

The mortar can hit up to 2500 meters, the rate of fire is very fast, it can fire 30 shells at the fastest in a minute, and it can also fire at least 20 shells, and the shells are not heavy, only 1.3 kg, but the effective killing radius can reach 12 meters, although it is not as good as the 20-meter killing radius of the angel cannon, but it is more than twice as high as the killing radius of 5 meters of the hand Liu shell. Moreover, mortars . Cannon. The trajectory is curved, and it can kill enemies hiding in high ground. 200 mortars can fire 4000-6000 shells in one minute, and 8000-12000 shells in 2 minutes. Anyway, the mortar shells are very small and light, so this time to attack the hinterland of Tibet, Xia Xue carried a large number of mortar shells, so there is no need to worry about running out.

Since the width of the canyon is about 10 meters, which is not very wide, Zhao Ning ordered that the 200 mortars be divided into 4 columns, each platoon of 4 mortars, and each mortar is operated by two artillerymen, a total of 50 rows, and the spacing of each platoon is 10 meters.

The firing began with the last row of four mortar artillerymen, who were responsible for the high ground on both sides of the entrance to the canyon, and carried out carpet saturation bombardment on the high ground on both sides according to the pre-demarcated area, and after firing 160-240 shells for 2 minutes, they stopped firing, carried the mortar and ammunition box and ran to the front of the first row of the queue 10 meters away to set up the mortar and wait for the firing.

When the last row of shells ran forward after 2 minutes, the penultimate row began to fire, and after firing the shells for 2 minutes, they also ran to the front of the queue with mortars and ammunition boxes, and set up their guns 10 meters away from the original last row of artillery that had just run to the front......

And so on, just like this, the shells are fired without stopping, moving forward without stopping, and the carpet saturation bombing is carried out without stopping.

This arrangement has the effect of covering the safe and continuous advance of the artillery, and also has the effect of driving the Tibetan soldiers on the high ground to run into the canyon, just like driving away fish in the river.

In this way, the 10,000-meter-long canyon is completely covered after advancing 500 meters each time and advancing 20 times.

After the carpet bombing, Xia Xue was still not at ease, and sent Zhao Feng to lead 100 snipers to climb the highlands on both sides of the canyon in two groups to search to see if there were any still alive Tubo ambush soldiers, Zhao Feng was ordered to lead the sniper team to climb the high ground, and carefully searched and checked all the places on the top with the scope on the sniper rifle, only to see that there were stumps and broken arms everywhere, not even a complete human body, where are there still living people, the scene is really tragic, Zhao Feng and other battle-hardened veterans who watched it gasped," This carpet bombing is terrifying! "However, I also saw that the Tibetan people on the high ground on both sides of the canyon had a large number of rolling stone and sassal wood, if it weren't for Her Majesty's clever calculation, then the angel army would have suffered heavy losses in the canyon.

The Tubo soldiers, who had been ambushed in the high ground of the canyon for three days, did not expect that they would be greeted not by triumphant songs, but by cannonballs in the sky, but by screams and wails, severed limbs and arms, broken flesh and blood, and artillery fire. In less than half an hour, there were basically no people left on the high ground who could stand up, and the general Qilixu was also killed by shells in the carpet bombing.

Xia Xue was also worried that the Tubo soldiers were running around after being bombed, and there might be those who slipped through the net, but she didn't expect that the military discipline of the Tubo army was very harsh, and if there was no order to retreat, retreat, escape, or run around, they would be tortured such as gouging out their eyes, cramping, Ling Chi, peeling, and lighting sky lanterns, so these Tubo soldiers who were ambushed could only watch the raindrops of shells fall from the sky and blow themselves and their comrades into pieces, and they did not dare to move, which led to the annihilation of the whole army and no one escaped.

The Angel Special Purpose Corps successfully passed through the Death Canyon of Tanggula Mountain, after passing through the canyon, Xia Xue sent a telegram to the logistics troops of the Angel Army in the rear, and delivered a large number of mortar shells, machine gun shells and other ammunition and supplies such as grain and grass, this time the canyon consumed a lot of ammunition, Xia Xue knew that after crossing Tanggula Mountain, it would enter the hinterland of Tibet, so there would be more vicious battles to face, so logistics support such as ammunition, grain and grass supply was the most important thing, and it could not be greedy for merit.

After crossing Tanggula Mountain, the soldiers of the Angel Firearms Legion had already approached the capital of Tibet, and there was a panic in Tibet.