"Hu Jingzhang? Didn't he already arrive in Jianchang City before? Not dead yet? Li Xuanqing was stunned when he received the information brought by Hu Xiaosi, it seems that he came to this world and really changed the fate of some people, it is rare that this guy can live alive until now. However, Li Xuanqing didn't have much interest in this group of people, but he was concerned about Wen Tao's collusion with the Tubo people to enter Nanzhao, if it wasn't too difficult to enter Tibet from the southwest, he wanted Xue Yang to directly lead his troops into Tibet.

"Let Xue Yang see the opportunity to act, if the Tubo people dare to come, they will fight back directly." Li Xuanqing looked at the route taken by Xue Yang and nodded, Shanyan Mansion is located in the north of the Erhai region, once it is taken, it can not only threaten Zheng Maihei and support Li Yang and Chai Jia to capture the core area of Nanzhao Kingdom, but also lead troops to attack Hu Jingzhang and Tubo people from the west when necessary, providing a buffer for the integration of troops on the southern front, which is a good choice.

"Your Majesty, this kid Xue Yang is getting more and more experienced in fighting." Hu Xiaosi naturally also saw that Xue Yang already had an overall vision of the entire battlefield, and exclaimed: "If today's army is full of talents, I'm afraid that after we sweep the world, these people will encourage the emperor to fight the surrounding messy countries, otherwise it will be a waste of talent." ”

"You don't have to worry about it, they will fight it." Li Xuan glanced at Hu Xiaosi innocently, this is a typical guy who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, but the empire does need these bloodies with the blood to expand the territory, otherwise how can the Tang Empire achieve its goals.

In the base camp of the Chang'an Empire, Li Xuanqing's eyes began to shift from the inside of the empire, when Xue Yang was also rushing towards the Shanyan Mansion while thinking about the direction of the entire Nanzhao war situation, he was still in control of this kind of large-scale battle, so the tension was more of a vision improvement, with this kind of overall vision, as the commander, he considered more about how to lay out, how to coordinate the various departments to complete the set tasks, so that the opponent always followed his own pace.

The attack point chosen by Xue Yang is undoubtedly the most in line with the interests of the Tiance army in Nanzhao at this time, and once the Shanxi Mansion gets it, it will inevitably drive the entire battle situation to shift in the direction favorable to the Tiance army, even if Tubo and Hu Jingzhang join forces to break east, they will be blocked by their own layers. However, compared with Hu Jingzhang, Xue Yang still pays more attention to the Tubo people, even if he participated in the whole process of Wang Houchun's battle against the Tubo people in Yuanzhou, Xue Yang still has a natural vigilance against this group of plateau torrents, which is like a sharp blade hanging over the head of the Central Plains Empire, which will fall at any time.

"The emperor should be trying to find a way to completely solve these Tubo people, right?" Xue Yang was secretly pondering Li Xuanqing's strategic deployment, and the messenger in front hurriedly arrived, "Marshal Qiqi, the vanguard of our army has arrived at the city of Shanyanfu, and the defenders in the city have been waiting solemnly, it seems that they expected our army to attack the city." The messenger's words made Xue Yang stunned for a moment, and then he understood and smiled: "They are not guarding against us, but from the west." Tell the striker to prepare for the siege immediately, and we can't waste time to take it immediately. ”

Xue Yang's words were equivalent to igniting a fuse of the battle in front of the city, only to see that the forward troops directly began to line up after receiving the order, and all the siege preparations were already in place when Xue Yang led the team to arrive, only to see more than a dozen explosives bags rising into the sky in an instant, heading towards the direction of the city tower. The cities in the southwest and the south of the Yangtze River in the interior are different, basically they are all stone villages, and the degree of solidity cannot be compared with the mainland, but the location is more dangerous, occupying a geographical advantage, easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, for the consistent practice of the Tiance Army, there is basically no city that cannot be attacked, and the explosive bag and blasting canister are put together, and no matter how strong the city is, it can be directly exploded.

So in the sound of an explosion, the Demoman carried the blaster and continued to leap forward, and began to head towards the doorway under the castle tower, and the protection of the Demoman has been done very well to this day, basically wearing expensive leather and plastic soft armor to enhance the protection during the journey, to avoid being killed by the opponent in the middle.

The defenders of Shanyan Mansion have not fought with the Tiance Army, and they have not prepared in advance for the opponent's gunpowder weapons, and this time the city tower was invaded by explosives bags, and was blown up to the flesh and blood, and countless soldiers lost their lives in the first wave of explosions, and the city defenders had not had time to adjust the deployment of the city wall under their feet suddenly seemed to be held up by an invisible force, and then a more violent explosion came from under their feet, and the entire city wall seemed to fly into the sky, falling apart, and countless rubbles scattered and flying, completely disrupting the formation of both sides of the power amplifier.

"Damn, why is this stone town so difficult. The third battalion in charge of the attack was almost hit by the rubble, and as soon as he scolded angrily, he found that after the smoke and dust, almost the entire city wall was crushed by the explosion, and he didn't care about other troops and began to charge into the city. Behind him, countless soldiers began to follow the charge with muskets, and some logistics troops began to quickly carry the soldiers who had been accidentally wounded on the front line to the rear for the accompanying military doctors to treat.

Zheng Maihei, who was in Dali City when Xue Yang took Shanxian Mansion here, also received a report from his eldest son, and the Tubo people appeared, and about 20,000 cavalry had crossed the border of Nanzhao Kingdom into the vicinity of Jianchuan City. The plateau iron cavalry was really apprehensive to the people in Nanzhao, and Zheng Maisi did not dare to slack off and let his eldest son begin to shrink his forces in the west to defend the pass, and at the same time began to think about how to gain a chance between the two powers.

Along with Zheng Maisi, there are also Xuan Yingwei and Hu Jingzhang who pay attention to the movements of the Tubo people. The Tubo people were invited by Wen Tao, so he naturally wanted to get in touch with them as soon as possible, Hu Jingzhang, who learned the news, immediately sent Wen Tao to Jianchuan, ready to discuss with the Tubo about jointly dealing with the Tiance army, in fact, Hu Jingzhang was a little dissatisfied with the Tubo people only sent 20,000 people, but he was a person who had fought several battles with the Tiance army, especially the old opponent Xue Yang who led the troops this time, so before leaving, he told Wen Tao that he must find a way to let the Tubo people send reinforcements again. Otherwise, relying on the 100,000 troops of the two families combined, they would not be able to compete with each other at all.

And Qin Kong, who got the news almost at the same time, immediately passed the news to Xue Yang and sent people back to the Chang'an base camp immediately, the Tubo people sent troops, and 20,000 plateau iron cavalry had entered Jianchuan. When this news reached the Shanyan Mansion, Xue Yang had already finished resting on the side of the Shanyan Mansion and was preparing to go further north, and after getting the news, he immediately changed direction and went to Nongdong City. Nongdong City is located between Yangtho Baa City and Zheng Maihei's Longhe City, which is the dividing line between the two armies. If the combined forces of Tubo and Hu Jingzhang want to go east, they will inevitably have to go to Dongcheng, so Xue Yang plans to ambush the Tubo people here. Before leaving, Xue Yang told Xuan Yingwei to spread the news of the fall of Shanxian Mansion to Zheng Maisi as soon as possible, forcing him to continue to shrink his forces in the west. At the same time, he summoned Li Yang and Chai Jia, asking him to go north immediately after taking Jianshui City to directly attack the Governor's Mansion of Tonghaidu, and direct his troops to Dali City, Zheng Maihei's old nest.

Xue Yang's arrangement can be said to be directly aimed at the Tubo, and at the same time to clear the threat of Zheng Maisi in the south as soon as possible, so that the rear army can be integrated as soon as possible and converge before the arrival of the opponent's army. However, in Xue Yang's arrangement, the soldiers and horses led by Xu Ying and Li Shenfu disappeared from the battle sequence, and these two began to hide their traces almost when Xue Yang divided his troops to go to Shanyan Mansion, and Huichuan City did not wait for their men and horses as scheduled, as if they disappeared overnight, Xue Yang did not ask about this, but asked Xuan Yingwei to inquire about the information on the side of Yang Tho Baa City and let them pass it on to Xu Ying as soon as possible.

Xue Yang's side quickly adjusted his deployment after learning that the Tubo people were coming, and prepared to attack. Wen Tao ran into trouble in Jianchuan City, this Tubo people are obviously not the Tubo people who fought against the Tiance Army in Yuanzhou back then, they don't know anything about the combat power of the Tiance Army, and they are also very arrogant and arrogant, and they don't put the Tiance Army in their eyes at all, in their opinion, the Tang Empire can't be the opponent of their Tubo Iron Cavalry since the Anshi Rebellion, and they directly refused Wen Tao's request to let them send reinforcements. Wen Tao, the leader of the tomb robbers who was eloquent and eloquent, touched his nose and went back to see Hu Jingzhang, and directly said that the Tubo people were unreliable and needed to find another way.

Hu Jingzhang and Wen Tao opened the map and began to find their way out. In the past few years, in the western mountainous area of Nanzhao, in addition to resting and recuperating, they have also continuously improved the map of the year, which can be regarded as having a very in-depth understanding of the southwest region. After studying all night, the two set their sights on Yeosu City, which was far away from the center of the battle and almost on the western border.

"Are you saying let's go to Yeosu, and then find a way to go to the Burmese side, or to the country of Mino?" Hu Jingzhang himself is not sure, and now he is still in the territory of Datang, but if he follows the route drawn by Wen Tao at the end, he has really gone to the most extreme place.

"Don't worry, Dashuai, it's not very bad over there, at least we can be said to be invincible in the past, and we can really build a country of our own." Wen Tao nodded and said, "And before leaving, I will go to pit this Nanzhao lord and ask him to pay for us to leave." Wen Tao didn't say a word, he was ready to pit Longxun right, and he also thought about taking Tubo into the water, so that he could avoid everyone's eyes, ears and sights, and retreat safely.

"Okay, I'm going to straighten out the soldiers and horses, and get through the thoughts of the people below, I'm afraid that I will really leave the country in the future and never return to my homeland." Hu Jingzhang also sighed, helpless.

After Wen Tao and Hu Jingzhang divided labor, Hu Jingzhang went to reorganize his soldiers and horses, and began to prepare for retreat, while Wen Tao secretly sent people to spread the news of Tubo's entry into Nanzhao's country, and tried to pass the news to the Tiance army.

I have to say that this Wen Tao's eloquence is really remarkable, in just a few days, he emptied all the last family funds of Long Xun, and also sent people to Jianchuan to fool the Tubo people, and let the Tubo people advance alone before Hu Jingzhang and Long Xun's men and horses arrived, go east to attack Langdongcheng, and then go to confront the Tiance army.

In the middle of May of the second year of the Apocalypse, Wen Tao instructed Long Xun to take his last soldiers and horses out of Yangtho City to supervise the battle of the Tubo people on the front line, while he and Hu Jingzhang quietly disappeared with everyone and rushed west to Lishui City, the westernmost part of the Nanzhao Kingdom.

And at this time, the Tubo people had just arrived in Nongdong City, because Xue Yang spread the news of the fall of Shanyan Mansion to Zheng Maihei, causing his eldest son to withdraw all the soldiers and horses of Nongdong City, making it an empty city. The Tibetans drove into the city without knowing it, and were about to rest and wait for Longxun's arrival, but they did not realize that a monstrous murderous trap had been unfolded here.

Xue Yang arranged the ambush soldiers in the city to take advantage of the Tubo people to relax their vigilance from various ambush points, the war started quickly in the city, the continuous gunfire made the Tubo people completely into chaos, in order to quickly solve the battle, Xue Yang ordered the troops to give up the three-stage salvo tactics, the ambush troops relied on the prior bunkers and houses to shoot and attack the helpless Tubo people, and the entire Langdong City fell into the flames of war in an instant.

Xue Yang himself led his personal guards outside the city to prepare to capture those fish that slipped through the net. This was supposed to be the first positional battle since the advent of the muskets, and the Tiance army in the city divided into countless units, and quickly followed after killing the enemy in front of them, stripping away those on the outskirts of the Tubo people one by one and then advancing towards the place where their commander was. The deafening sound of gunfire made it impossible for the Tibetans to organize an effective defense, and the cavalry was killed by the horses before they could get on their horses. The panicked Tubo commander could only reluctantly gather the personal guards around him and rushed towards the north city gate, hoping to leave Nongdong City as soon as possible and leave this group of opponents of unknown origin.

It's just that he obviously thinks too much, more than 50,000 Tiance troops plus 50,000 rifles against him 20,000 people, the battle didn't last long before it came to an end, the soldiers of the third battalion and the mountain battalion who were bigger and more comfortable saw the Tubo people and didn't want to raise their hands to be a shot, after several battles, the soldiers loved the new weapons in their hands to the extreme, this rifle can be described as the real king of war, no matter far or near. After the fierce battle, many soldiers began to carefully aim at their opponents to practice marksmanship, one shot at a time, so that after the end of the war, many soldiers complained that there were too few people from Tibet to kill. This battle also created a miracle since the establishment of the Tiance Army, the number of prisoners was the smallest, there were almost not many prisoners, and all the 20,000 Tibetans were killed except for the last personal guard who surrendered on the spot under the leadership of the commander.

Xue Yang looked at the Tubo people kneeling on the ground in front of him and smiled coldly, and asked the two of his subordinates to move all the corpses of all the Tubo people outside the city and pile them into two Jingguan, and then quickly reorganize the troops and horses to rest for a while, and then go directly south and quickly drive in the direction of Yang Tho Baa City, where the other branch of the Tiance Army should also arrive.

On May 15 of the second year of the Apocalypse, Xue Yang led his troops to defeat the news of 20,000 Tubo cavalry under the double transmission of Xuanyingwei's fast horses and flying pigeons, and on this day, Chai Jia and Li Yangbing set off from Jianshui City to Tonghai Governor's Mansion in two ways, and the war in the entire Nanzhao Kingdom opened a new page.