Tens of thousands of Tibetan troops began to start slowly, the road is very wide, very hard, and very flat, there has been no war here for decades, the scenery along the way is beautiful, a piece of verdant, the Suichi River flows through, divides the canyon into two, the mountains in the upper reaches are full of snowmelt, the mountain streams are clear and springs are everywhere, the water flow is turbulent, nourishing the beautiful and rich land on both sides.

The army stopped and walked for more than an hour, less than three miles from the mouth of the gorge, when a scout cavalry came quickly to report, "Report to the governor, Suihe Fort is empty, but there is a faint whisper of war horses in the woods on both sides." ”

Ma Chongying waved his hand, the team stopped, and he said to himself coldly: "Sure enough, as I expected, I want to fight back before leaving." ”

He turned back to his lieutenant Siddhazang and said, "Take 10,000 troops and go to surprise the enemy and lure them out." ”

Speaking of this, he jumped off his horse again and probed the width and depth of the Suichi River, turned around and immediately ordered: "Order the army to leave the river bank quickly, and no drinking water shall be allowed!" ”

The river obviously has traces of being cut off, which means that when their army drinks water, the monstrous river will suddenly come, Ma Chongying stood up and looked at both sides, this place has been significantly narrowed, after the valley was divided into two by the river, the road has been less than 100 steps wide, the soldiers did not dare to approach the river, they have moved closer to the side of the mountain forest, the mountains on both sides are high and dense, and the smoke and water vapor are like dull floating clouds gathered in the mountain depression, which will not disperse for a long time.

Ma Chongying frowned, and he had a faint sense of foreboding.

"Governor! The mountains and forests must be protected from enemy arrows, so it is better to let the shield army guard the border. One of the generals suggested.

Ma Chongying nodded, "Do it!" ”

"The shield army is backed by the mountains and forests!" An order was passed down, and the Tubo army changed its team, at this time. Ma Chongying's guard officer ran up with a few strange-shaped pottery jars, "Dudu, I found these jars on the side of the road, there are a lot of strange mud powder in them, and a letter. ”

Behind him, many soldiers also came up with several jars each, large and small, there were hundreds, Ma Chongying took the letter, and vaguely saw the word 'horse' written on the cover of the letter. It is not clear in the darkness of the night.

"Light the torch!" As soon as Ma Chongying's words fell, he suddenly thought of something. Glancing at the mountains and forests warily, he immediately handed the letter to the guard officer. "Read it to me!"

He himself walked a dozen paces away, dozens of torches approached together, and the guard officer had just opened the letter, when the clay pot in front of him suddenly exploded violently, and the huge explosion was deafening, and the red flash pierced people's eyes, and a wave of heat rushed to the face. It is mixed with a strong pungent smell of smoke and blood.

Explosions exploded one after another in the Tibetan army. Not only did the clay pots picked up on the side of the road explode, but hundreds of black clay pots that were snorting and burning suddenly flew out of the woods. There was a violent explosion above the heads of the Tibetan army, and sharp pieces of iron flew sideways in the clay pot, each small piece of iron shining blue in the moonlight.

Thick smoke, loud noises, and red flames filled the valley. Frightened shouts, wails resounded through the valley, the horses neighed, broke free from the reins and fled in all directions, the huge lethality accompanied by the extreme shock effect made the Tubo army chaotic, at this moment, the mountains and forests ten thousand arrows fired together, the arrows were as dense as a torrential rain, accompanied by one after another gunpowder jars, exploded in the Tubo army, the Tubo soldiers were frightened by the earthquake of the gods, and ran for their lives without a head, and a large area fell to the ground with arrows.

Chaos and fear seriously shook the military heart of the Tubo army, Ma Chongying's war horse had been blown up, hundreds of personal soldiers used shields to form a shield array to protect the bloody commander, slowly retreated, Ma Chongying's face was pale, his teeth almost bit his lip to blood, but his eyes also revealed an inexplicable fear, the Tang Army invented an extremely terrible weapon.

"Don't panic, get your team in order!" He hissed and shouted as hard as he could.

However, the 20,000 Tang cavalry team came up from behind, their swords were sharp, their fighting spirit was vigorous, and they hit the low morale of the Tubo rear army like devastating, although the Tubo army was strong, but in the chaos they could not match the powerful Tang cavalry, especially the gunpowder caused the ground shock so that the Tubo army had no intention of fighting, and was killed and retreated, at the same time, the front army of Siddha Tibet was also defeated and retreated, Siddha Zang himself was killed by an arrow, and the Tang army in all directions killed together, shouting and killing echoed and roared in the valley.

At first, there were Tibetan soldiers who disregarded the commander's ban, jumped down the river one after another, and rushed to the other bank, the river was not deep, and soon more than 2,000 people fled to the other bank and fled westward, and the successful escape of their companions made more and more Tibetan soldiers jump into the water, and the escape place may make the resistance of the Tibetan army finally collapse, they lost their armor and began to flee for their lives.

In the pine forest four hundred steps away from Ma Chongying, Zhang Huan stared coldly at the shield mountain like a small hill, and behind this shield mountain, he should be the commander of the enemy army.

"Pass on my order, there is a person who kills Ma Chongying, the official will be promoted to three levels, and the reward will be ten thousand taels of gold!"

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men, the Tang army each bravely competed for the first, to the shield mountain to kill, one of the extremely vicious appearance of the infantry general like a fierce god descended to the earth, a foot tall, he was wearing a heavy iron armor, holding a shield in one hand, carrying a huge one-horned bronze man in the other hand smashed and chopped, the corpses were all over the field, the broken flesh was flying, and the flesh was killed, and the road of flesh and blood was killed, and he forced to the shield mountain step by step, this is known as the first fierce general of the Xiliang Army, the Qiang people Cheng Lie, the news of the loss of Wuwei made his heart full of hatred, The bygone years came back to him one by one, and his wife and daughter of Wuwei County would no longer exist under the iron heel of the Tubo army.

Hatred erupted in his heart, and the only way to calm the sorrow in his heart was to kill him. He approached Ma Chongying step by step, and he had even seen the old head.

But this is where the most elite Tubo army is located, and Ma Chongying's 2,000-man personal guards are willing to die to escort the commander to retreat to the river, but under the frantic attack of the Tang army, the personal guards are stripped off layer by layer.

Seeing that Ma Chongying was less than ten steps away from the river, Cheng Lie roared, stepped on the dead corpses all over the ground, and leaped over the heads of countless people, he picked up the bronze man and swept left and right, dozens of people were beaten to broken tendons, brains were broken, and screams were everywhere, Ma Chongying was less than a zhang away from him.

At this time, Ma Chongying felt that the god of death was so close to him for the first time, he suddenly remembered Wang Zhonghe's lone horse flying spear, remembered Ge Shuhan's three-step broken gun, fought with the Tang army for decades, and finally died in the hands of the Tang people, he looked at this person holding the bronze man and smiled miserably, is the cruel smile on the other party's face the smile of the god of death? It's so ugly.

No! This is not the smile of the god of death, the smile of the god of death is a hundred steps away, he stood quietly with a bow in his hand, staring at himself, his eyes were cold, and there was a long-lost sneer on the corner of his mouth, Ma Chongying suddenly understood who he was, he smiled bitterly, and slowly fell down holding the arrow in his throat.

An hour later, the war was finally over, the air was filled with gunsmoke, bloody and pungent, the valley more than three miles long was full of corpses, nearly 40,000 Tubo troops were killed except for more than 10,000 people who jumped into the water and escaped, and the Tang army also killed and wounded more than 3,000 people.

While the Tang army was nervously cleaning up the battlefield and burning corpses, Zhang Huan sat on a large rock and listened to the accounts of several Tibetan soldiers, who were indeed Tibetan soldiers, but they had been scouts of the Tang army two months earlier.

The first man with a thin face was Li Guozhen, the scout captain of the Tang Army who was changed to Daang, he knelt in front of the commander, covered his face and cried bitterly, he thought that he would never be able to return to his hometown, and next to him kneeling was the deputy Zhengqiang people Xianzhu, and several others had died in the chaos.

Zhang Huan walked up to them and helped them up, took off the military uniforms of the Tubo people for them, took two pieces of Tang army armor and put them on, he stared into Li Guozhen's eyes and said, "I accept your order!" ”

A spicy breath rushed straight to Li Guozhen's nasal cavity, and he slowly half-knelt down and gave a military salute, and said loudly: "Li Guozhen, the captain of the 12th team of the 3rd Battalion, has come to hand over the order." ”

Zhang Huan smiled slightly, he picked up Li Guozhen and patted him on the shoulder, "Do a good job, I hope to hear the name of Zhonglang General Li Guozhen one day." ”

Li Guozhen bit her lip and nodded solemnly, without saying a word.

At this time, the infantry general Cheng Lie strode over, bowed to Zhang Huan, and said angrily: "Lord Qi, don't I have no credit for Ma Chongying's death?" ”

"What, are you going to fight with me?" Zhang Huan looked at him and smiled.

"But. . . Cheng Lie scratched the back of his head and wanted to defend himself, but Zhang Huan stopped him with a wave of his hand, "You have no merit, but you have hard work, and 10,000 taels of gold will be left to the families of the fallen brothers. ”

Cheng Lie was overjoyed, Lang will be the second only military position in the Xiliang Army after He Lou Wuji, he half-knelt and saluted, "The last general Xie Dudu will be rewarded!" ”

"Dudu, are you., Du Mei next to him was very surprised, he heard that Zhang Huan had something to say, Huangshui soldiers and horses, did he change his mind again and didn't want to withdraw the army?

Zhang Huan looked in the direction of Shibao City and smiled coldly: "Why do you want to escape?" The best defense is offense. ”

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves in the distance sounded loudly, and I saw Li Shuangyu galloping over, his face showed ecstasy, followed by two messengers, Li Shuangyu flew off his horse and ran to Zhang Huan and said excitedly: "Dudu, I just received the news that Wang Siyu has taken Shibao City." ”

"What!" Zhang Huanhuo stood up, with an incredible look in his eyes, and he hurriedly asked the messenger: "Tell me what happened?" ”

"Back to the governor, we entered the hinterland of Tubo from the side of Jigu Fort, and succeeded in a surprise attack on Stone Fort City from behind."

"Great!" Zhang Huan rubbed his hands excitedly, although he wanted to take Shibao City, but he also knew that Shibao City was so easy to take, and he was bound to pay a tragic price, and now Wang Siyu had made a miraculous achievement, which meant that his Hehuang strategy had been half successful.

He immediately turned on his horse and commanded in a loud voice, "March to Stone Castle City!" ”