However, in the west of the city, the cavalry of the Tang army had already galloped to arrive.

They stopped the sand castle defenders coming out of the west gate, slaughtered with bows and arrows and swords, and kicked heads around under the hooves of horses.

The soldiers of Xifan and the Qianghu soldiers hired from the Helong area could still desperately run to the mountain pass, while the soldiers of the old Changwu Army were the first to be frightened, so they could only kneel on the ground and ask for mercy, blocking the passage tightly.

Hu Qulu Ximeng saw that the city defenses were all collapsed, but he did not flee, "I am not willing to accept the shame of wearing a fox's tail on my head!" He rushed out of the government office on a horse, and met the three brothers Ming Huaiyi, Ming Jingyi and Ming Weiyi, who were advancing together.

It is true that these three brothers seized the inner and outer city gates, but the chain mail was all full of arrows that came from the shooting, and they once encountered great danger, but to say that the quality of the armor produced in the West is excellent, and even the arrows produced in the West can not be pierced, if not, it is estimated that the three brothers of the Ming family will all have a life, so although the three brothers have their own colors, they can still be alive.

After the two sides met, they were extremely red-eyed, Hu Qulu Ximeng felt that the opposite side was a warrior worthy of a battle, while the three Ming brothers thought that this guy with a silver body badge on his arm was definitely a big fish.

Hu Qu Lu Ximeng hoped that what he would get was a heroic death, but he didn't expect the three Ming brothers to rush up, and there was no martial virtue at all.

Ming Huaiyi shot an arrow first, hitting Hu Qulu Ximeng's armor piece, without causing much damage.

So Hu Qu Lu Ximeng also pulled the bow, Ming Jingyi rode his horse, held up the long lance in his hand, and stabbed Hu Qu Lu Ximeng's ribs at once, Hu Qu Lu Ximeng screamed, blood flowed like an infusion, immediately lay down on the saddle, and grabbed Ming Jingyi's lance with his hand.

"Brother, brother, cut the head!" Ming Jingyi couldn't pull out the lance in a hurry, so he yelled at the two brothers on the left and right.

Ming Huaiyi pulled out his horizontal knife, ready to slash the only body part that Qu Lu Ximeng exposed in the armor: the neck.

The blade flashed, Hu Qu Lu Ximeng's head slightly sideways, and a burst of sparks burst out, and Ming Huaiyi's horizontal knife actually failed to cut off Hu Qu Lu Ximeng's chain mail.

At this time, the youngest Ming Weiyi pulled out the meteor flail from Hulu under the saddle, and smashed it towards the door of Hu Qulu Ximeng's face with a loud voice.

The blood mist flew away with a dull sound: Hu Qu Lu Ximeng's head and the iron helmet he was wearing were completely crushed by the murderous blunt weapon of the flail, and the ambassador of the defense of the sand castle was unrecognizable and fell from his horse in a tragic death.

The three brothers jumped off their horses, and with great difficulty, they cut off the head of Huqu Lu Simon......

In the early morning, in the thick smoke of the sand castle, the platform, the battlement, the watchtower, the roof of the barracks, all stood cheering victory of the Tang soldiers, Gao Yue also climbed the corridor between the two corner towers of the west wall, on the high enemy platform opposite him, the heads of the beheaded soldiers, Qianghu soldiers and Changwu rebels, the base was neatly and neatly, like a small pyramid, all placed on the reed straw mat, the dark black blood stain and the blue and yellow straw mat were mixed together, particularly terrifying, that is, "Jingguan" - several Jingyuan camp soldiers holding horizontal knives, Standing around, as if boasting about their exploits.

There were less than 500 defenders who fled, some crossed Liupan Mountain, some escaped into the wilderness and hid, and the remaining 2,000 people, 1,500 were killed, and most of the remnants surrendered to Changwu soldiers.

Wang Chaogan was captured, and Daxi Xiaojun escaped from the mountain......

Gao Yue, who was standing on the corridor of the corner tower, frowned, because of the cold wind blowing from the distant mountains, the smell of extreme blood blew into his nose, looking at the bloody heads of Hu Qulu Ximeng and others, which were displayed naked at the head of the city as the martial arts of his own army, he was still a little unable to accept it from the era of civilization.

But Gao Yue's adaptability is very strong, he understands that in the Middle Ages, what did the soldiers want? Aside from clothing, food, and bounty, the greatest thing that remains should be the thrill of defeating the enemy and cutting off all their heads (or ears and noses), a savage pleasure.

"Destroy the sand castle, for the outpost of the ugly Fan to invade my Tang land, since it towered on the platform of the Hulu River in Yuanzhou for nearly 20 years, every time Xifan enters the Kou, do not rely on it to enter and exit the hole, today I Tang Jing cavalry, long attack thousands of miles, a battle and the thorn in the eye will be removed, the beheading level is 1,566, more than 300 Changwu rebels have been captured, all the remnants of the enemy have fled, the shame of the past, today to be happy, this victory is tantamount to breaking the Xifan foot! This glory is all due to the hard work of the soldiers, so the envoy announced that all the grain, wine, money, and livestock in the fort will be rewarded to the soldiers who participated in the battle! Gao Yue raised his sleeves and made the following decision amid the cheers of the crowd.

"Aren't you making a book?" Su Yan said with some concern.

Because the military system of the Tang Dynasty stipulated that the war could be rewarded, but the spoils of war had to be registered on the cloth, and there was no rule for "dividing" the spoils, which was only available in Western Tibet.

"Today's envoy is learning the rules of Xifan." Gao Yue was not afraid at all.

Then he lifted the hem of his official uniform, knelt down on the high corridor, looked at the east in the gray-black smoke and dust that was constantly rising, and shouted: "Empress Zhaode, on this day, the ministers will worship in front of the spirit with the blood of the Fan Kou who destroyed the sand castle." ”

At this time, the dense Tang soldiers at the head of the city and under the city all knelt down with Gao Yue, also looking far away at the east, and happily cried to the king and queen, "The queen of the great line, woo and mourn, Fu Wei is still feasting!" ”

After the capture and destruction of the sand castle, Gao Yue resolutely continued to send troops, seized several passes in the west of the fort, built a barrier to the soldiers, and watched the land of Longyou in Xifan, and then left 500 soldiers to guard the fort, and sent 500 soldiers to be led by the three brothers Gao Gu and Ming Huaiyi, who made soldiers and horses, personally escort the captured Wang Zhaogan to Beijing: As for whether Wang Chaogan will go to Gouzhiling in Dongshi or Dushuliu in Xishi, it depends on how the emperor will arrange it.

In addition, Gao Gu also brought meritorious soldiers with him on this trip, after all, in this battle, he cut off the heads of Hu Qulu Ximeng, the silver body, and the other seven brass and red bronze generals of the Western Tibetan army, Gao Yue will definitely arrange for the meritorious service to ask for meritorious rewards.

After that, for the Tang army, once the sand castle was destroyed, it was equivalent to the recovery of half of Yuanzhou until Xiao Pass, and completely cut off the communication channel between Shang Jiezan and Ma Chongying, the two Western Tibetan military groups.

Sure enough, at the end of the first month of the third year of Xingyuan, Gao Yue's cavalry galloped southward, holding the black and white Pixiu battle flag, and climbed on the high ground of Danzheng Gorge north of Pingliang.

This fashionable knot knew that his "left arm" Hu Qulu Ximeng had been killed in battle, and the bridgehead he had operated for many years had fallen to destroy the sand castle.

Now he is being attacked by Xing Junya and Liu Haibin on the front, Duan Xiushi is caught on the right side, and he is also threatened on the left side.

"It's this weird military flag again, the bear, or the black and white bear, which army of the Tang family is this?" The angry and panicked Shang Jiezan now knew that this group of men and horses who captured and destroyed the sand castle should not be the Divine Army.