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At the same time, the Sui army's strong bow and long-range shooting exerted great power, and the dense feather arrows blocked every battlement of the female wall, so that the Tubo army could not raise its head at all.

Amid the thunderous drums of war, Mai Jicai commanded the infantry phalanx to begin to attack the city pass in turn.

This is a city pass built on the side of the mountain, one end of the city wall is connected to the mountain, and the other end is an independent city wall, stretching for several miles, and the other mountain is next to it.

Therefore, the city pass cannot be encircled, and the range of attack has two sides, and the last side leads to the canyon.

10,000 people rushed up and began to attack, and the Modao phalanx was warming up, advancing sideways, moving like a mountain.

This kind of heavy armor is not suitable for siege, only suitable for when the city gate is opened, pushing inside, invincible, and unable to stop.

Luo Zhaoyun lined them up, just to use the black powder bag to blow up a city gate at any time.

Sure enough, several special forces personnel, braving the rain of arrows and rolling stones, mixed among the Sui infantry, approached the city gate, and then piled up several explosive bags containing black powder on a stone gate shaft, lit the fuse, and decisively retreated.

Bang!

With an explosion, a stone door was blown off the axle, tilted and fell to the ground under the impact of the crash.

Subsequently, the soldiers of the Sui army attacked forward, and the Mo knife formation pressed on, directly into the city.

Gardonzan never dreamed that the Sui army would break the city so quickly, according to his idea, relying on the strength of the mountain city, the troops, grain, grass, and equipment in the city could hold out for at least a month.

Winter in the Northwest Plateau comes early, and a month later, there will be heavy snow and cold, and at that time, the Sui army will be forced to withdraw.

However, in less than a day, the Sui army miraculously broke through a city gate, and the Modao heavy armor army entered the city, like a wolf into a flock of sheep, and slashed and killed.

At this time, the defenders in the city were already in chaos, and they were hit again and again, their morale was low, and they had a kind of fear of the Sui army.

Seeing that the general situation had turned, Gardonzan had no choice but to order to continue the retreat and abandon the border city.

With a stick of incense, the Tibetan army withdrew from the city and fled to the border of Tibet.

Luo Zhaoyun personally led the cavalry to continue the pursuit, leaving the infantry to clean up the city and rebuild the border passes.

After chasing thirty miles, when he arrived at a Shuangluan Gorge and a mountain range, he heard the sound of fighting in front of him, and Xue Wancheng led his troops to ambush and intercept the Tubo army.

"Kill—"

The Sui army was menacing, covering and outflanking from behind, and the thousands of Tubo troops who were blocked were forced to resist and were finally slaughtered.

Gardonzan, who fled ahead, was extremely aggrieved, this time, he was defeated, inexplicably, he didn't develop his talents at all, and he was beaten by the Sui army in a daze.

"When on earth have I lost my chances?" Gardonzan was torturing himself in his heart, why he was so embarrassed and defeated so miserably.

In addition to the use of troops, the Sui army's troops, military intelligence, weapons, and formations are all stronger than those of the Tubo army, and when the number of people is equal, the Sui army's chances of victory are greater.

This is the main force that Tubo has accumulated for several years, and now it has buried forty or fifty thousand people, and Gardonzan is so aggrieved that he almost vomits blood, and he doesn't know how to go back to Tubo and how to explain to the king of Tubo.

After chasing for two days and one night, they had already penetrated deep into the territory of Tubo, Luo Zhaoyun ordered to stop the march, and assigned a cavalry squad to sneak attack those tribes, burning and arson, and giving the Tubo nomadic tribes a bloody lesson, so that they could remember that the Sui army in the northwest was not easy to mess with, and not to be lucky and come to invade.

If the cost of the crime is too low, these nomadic tribesmen will not have brains, and they will be afraid, and they will play a psychological shadow to deter the frontier, so that Tubo will stay honest for a few years and dare not commit it again, which is Luo Zhaoyun's strategic purpose.

As long as he is given a few years to maintain stability in the northwest, he can lead his troops eastward and sweep the princes of the world.

More than ten days later, Gar Dongzan returned to the hinterland, the king of Tubo learned the news of the defeat, thundered and furious, belittled Dongzan, in order to calm the anger of the tribes, temporarily cut the position of his national teacher, and at the same time sent people to Luo Cheng to ask for peace, to sign a treaty, no longer invade the northwest, please withdraw the Sui army from the Tubo Plateau.

Luo Zhaoyun sent Chu Suiliang to negotiate, ask for some war horses, cattle and sheep, and rescue the 20,000 or 30,000 people of Heyuan County who were plundered by the Tubo tribe, and then withdrew the troops.

During this period of rampant days of the Sui army, all party departments were shocked, and they saw the strength and combat power of the Sui army in the northwest, and they did not dare to provoke trouble on the border anymore.

"The young marshal makes us the king of the northwest!"

"King of the Northwest! King of the Northwest! ”

The rescued people gathered together and sent them back to the border pass, and when they saw Luo Cheng, they all bowed to the ground and shouted loudly.

Being able to return to his hometown and no longer be a slave is completely the courage of the young marshal to lead the troops, avenging their hatred and rescuing their freedom, all of them are convinced and sincerely supported.

Luo Zhaoyun comforted him, sent people to distribute food and clothing, and then asked Du Ruhui, Yu Zhining and others to arrange the follow-up resettlement details.

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Li Tang's army besieged Daxing City for more than 20 days, and nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses gathered to storm the imperial city at all times.

Xijing was in danger, and Qu Tutong came to aid with 30,000 soldiers and horses, but was blocked and scattered by Li Shentong and Liu Hongji.

At this moment, Qu Tutong retreated to Lantian with the remnants of the army, feeling that the general trend of Xijing had gone, and no one could save it.

A general Sang Xian said: "General Qu, we only have 8,000 people left, and we can't compete with the Tang army at all, and now the entire Guanlong nobles, the local government soldiers, the green forest is strong, and the mountain is against the king, all of them have joined the Li Tang army. ”

"yes, the tide is over."

"General, it's better for us to surrender Li Tangjun." A general said so.

Qu Tutong was angry and angry, and shouted: "I have received great favor from the country, serving the two masters, Your Majesty has taken very good care of me, and I betrayed in times of difficulty with the court's favor, how can I escape the national disaster?" You can only repay the country with death! ”

When the generals heard him say so loyal, they couldn't help but burst into tears, feeling sad and helpless for the decline of the imperial court.

Sang Xian's eyes moved, and he said: "General Qu, at present, Tongguan is guarded by Deputy General Yao Junsu, but Baqiao, Xinfeng, Weinan and other cities along the way have been conquered by the Tang army, cutting off our way back to Tongguan. There are only two ways for us to live, one is to leave Lantian, go to Wuguan, and go to Jiangdong to find Your Majesty; The second is to go west, go to General Luo Cheng, he integrated the eight counties in the northwest, gathered heavy troops, and is about to attack Xue Ju, who is about to attack Longyou, will have a decisive battle with Li Tangjun next year, and we will have a chance to take revenge.

Qu Tutong looked at the generals and asked, "What do you think?" ”

The generals were silent, everyone was very disgusted with Yang Guang in their hearts, and they had long lost the loyalty of the monarch and ministers.

"Go to the Northwest!" Some generals spoke, and the generals behind them also chimed in.