Blocking the enemy in front, another class came out - the sword and shield soldiers.

The sword and shield soldier with a horizontal sword in one hand and a round shield in the other hand go around the sides of the formation and insert it towards the enemy's sides.

At this time, the archers had little effect, and they also put down their bows and arrows, and followed with their swords, and only the marksmen, who followed the large army and continued to shoot under the cover of the brothers.

The 40,000 army, forming four phalanxes, faced with more than 40,000 Tubo, both belonging to the infantry, the gap was too big, as the sword and shield soldiers with archers spread out from both sides, they surrounded the Tubo.

The round shield was waved to block the weapons of the Tubo people, and then a knife was chopped, and rows of sword and shield soldiers were the same action, raising the shield to block, splitting the knife, and repeating it constantly.

Beneath the steel knife, blood and severed limbs danced together, human heads rolled off the ground, and screams were endless.

The archer carries a single sword, and when there is a gap in the front row of sword and shield soldiers, he immediately fills it, filling the formation at any time, and the people with superb archery skills keep harvesting the enemy's lives with cold arrows in their hands, especially the officials among them, commanding.

The Tubo infantry has no way to fight the Tang army formation, even if they fight with their lives, it is difficult to fight to the death, the huge steel shield is simply an insurmountable city wall, whether it is a knife and axe, or a stick hit, it is unwavering, slowly approaching, and the spear stretched out from time to time is like a god of death constantly harvesting.

Swords and shields are the main force of melee combat on the battlefield, and their defense is very strong, and they wear assault armor (armor in the front, no armor in the back. Advancing relentlessly, with the exception of some heavy weapons, everything else is largely ignored.

In just half an hour, the Tibetans could not accept this one-sided death, and began to rout, retreating towards the center, no matter how the Kumara shouted and cursed, the soldiers continued to retreat.

As soon as the enemy retreated, the archers were happy again, and they took off their bows and arrows and began to harvest.

Seeing that there were bows and arrows, the Tibetan people ran faster, and when they attacked together, their morale was high, and they were not afraid of life and death, but once they were timid, they began to flee and avoided things that could threaten their lives, and they would not consider anything else.

When he looked around, he was in despair, nearly 100,000 troops, half of the cavalry were inseparable, fighting together, unable to retreat, and the other half had begun to rout, so it could be said that there was no chance of victory.

"Run! Be sure to run! For the first time, the thought of running away came to his mind, and it grew stronger and stronger.

Riding on horseback, he anxiously walked back and forth a few steps, and finally found a place to escape, and found a guard to whisper.

The guards quickly gathered a few hundred people to stand behind him.

"Kill!" Kumara let out a loud shout and pretended to rush towards the place where the cavalry was fighting.

When the others saw it, they also hurriedly followed, and all the patriarchs rushed towards the battlefield with nearly a thousand personal guards.

Riding a war horse, he quickly approached the battlefield, but Kumara unexpectedly ran around the edge of the battlefield in an arc and into the distance...... Ran.

He made a very wise choice, the cavalry in this place was all fighting, and there was no extra force to pursue and kill his hundreds of men.

In this way, Kumara left his two sons, and all the army ran away, which also shows the difference between him and Gar Donzan, one is ambitious and takes care of the overall situation, and the other is greedy for life and afraid of death, and only thinks about himself.

It doesn't matter if he escapes, the other patriarchs are not shallow, and the nearly 1,000 people who originally charged with him never expected that they would run around, and this group of people crashed directly into the battlefield.

"I'll fuck you grandma!" One of the patriarchs was so angry that he jumped to his feet and cursed.

Others also scolded one after another, and no one did not hate this kind of behavior of betraying others in exchange for their own lives.

Of course, the act of drinking Kumara fell in the eyes of many people, which made many of the cavalrymen who were fighting demoralized and had no intention of fighting.

"It's down, we're down!" The idea of life prevailed, and if they were alive, few people wanted to die, a patriarch raised his arms and shouted.

"It's down, it's down." The power of example is endless, and the other patriarchs are rightly shouting loudly.

Then everyone jumped off their horses and shouted loudly, and for a time the sound of surrender sounded everywhere.

The soldiers who had no intention of fighting also shouted one after another, these soldiers were not the elite trained by Gar Dongzan, and many people were usually deceived and afraid of evil, so they surrendered faster.

It didn't take long for all the Tubo people to surrender on the ground, and Li Xiaogong and others naturally would not kill the prisoners, after all, these young men are good coolies for mining, you must know that the Tang Dynasty is short of everything now, especially ore.

Alkali ore is a necessity for making paper and selling fur, which is needed in large quantities by the saltpeter emperor, and can also be used to make ice. Copper and iron ore, gem mines, there is no shortage of people.

Now the nobles of the Tang Dynasty are like mad dogs, and when they go there, they will let their subordinates explore all the mountains to see if there are mines.

Li Shimin knew that he could not rely on the supervision of the imperial court, and the mining was slow, so he set the rules, all the mineral deposits in the Central Plains, it was found that the mining party owned thirty percent, and the rest belonged to the imperial court.

With the surrender of Tibet, the Songzhou battlefield also came to an end, this battle was actually quite dangerous, but fortunately, the Tibetans were not united, so they were broken by each one.

The cavalry losses in the last battle were the most tragic, most of the hour, 20,000 cavalry had 10,000 dead, and the rest were all wounded, and even a few generals were also hung in several places.

Of course, the Tibetan cavalry did not fall behind, nearly 50,000 people, more than 30,000 dead and wounded, even if they did not surrender, the rest of the people had to fight to see who held out and did not collapse.

As for the infantry, the death of the Tibetan is even more ugly, you must know that a large part of the infantry is all Lingnan, and many of the people from Nanyang are copycat Tu tribes, they don't know what mercy is, and they are also some unworthy masters.

Fighting with wild beasts in the mountains, there is nothing else to say, that is, desperately, they have become accustomed to fighting for their lives as soon as they go to the battlefield, and if they win, they can get the rich rewards of the Tang Dynasty, all of which are rare and rare things, in the eyes of some of them, the armor they wear and the weapons in their hands are more valuable than their lives.

And they also have a settlement fee for the war, and there are military expenses every month, of course, the first settlement fee is all kinds of materials, after all, they didn't recognize copper coins in the cottage at that time, even if they had copper coins, there was no place to spend them.

Now that I have been out for more than half a year, I also understand the benefits of Brother Kong Fang, I am very satisfied with the military salary paid every month, in their eyes, the present day is heaven, as for the hard work, it is nothing, if I don't fight a few times in the cottage that month, I would have starved to death a long time ago, and now I only fight once in a while, not to mention that even if I die, the family can still get a lot of compensation.

(End of chapter)