Chapter 66: The Battle of Snow Ridge
Located in the southwest of the Silk Country, Tibet is a truly sinister place. Contrary to its magnificent scenery, the living conditions here are as harsh as hell. Thin air, hot and cold weather, barren land, all of this can only allow the strongest of humanity to survive here.
The people who live in this land are marked with perseverance in their bones, and they have lived here strong and courageously since ancient times. Of course, there are very few areas suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry in this vast and vast area, and these areas have become the feng shui treasures coveted by all powerful tribes. Over the years, Tibet has established countless dynasties and experienced countless tragedies of disintegration, each time by the rise of a tribe that caused the surrounding tribes to submit to him, and then the country snowballed, and the empire of these tenacious men would become a formidable and powerful country even if it was sparsely populated. In history, Tibet has completed the unification of the situation several times, but they have stopped at the unification of the Tibetan tribes and have never continued to expand outward, the reason is nothing more than two points: the first is that the area of Tibet is too large, and the agricultural and animal husbandry production and population are insufficient, and the transportation within the empire has caused huge consumption, and can not continue to support the expansion of a broader space, even if there is, it can only be completed step by step, but the time for a dynasty to be strong can not wait for so long, Often, before they begin to expand, they begin to weaken, and then they have to give up the intention of expansion; The second is that the formation of the Tibetan Empire in history is very consistent, they are the core power composed of various tribes, and the supreme leader of the empire, Zampu, cannot govern the country completely according to his own will, but must learn to reconcile with the leaders of various tribes, which also leads to the rise of the Tibetan Empire, its expansion pace will gradually slow down, once the Tubo tribes are unified. Zamp was exhausted by the growing quarrels of the chieftains, and he was unable to expand any further.
Today's Tibetan Empire is in this situation. Since the first generation of Zampu established the foundation of the country, the Tibetan Empire has gone through three generations of male lords, and finally came close to completely unifying the Tibetan region. However, since the fourth generation of Zampu, this pace has been limited to stagnation, and the political instability caused by the early death of the next two generations of Zampu has completely stopped the pace of unification of Tibet. Until now, after the seventh Zampu succeeded to the throne, he finally reorganized the country and began to do the great cause that the ancestors had never completed.
Anbalturi rode on horseback and looked at the enemy troops on the opposite side of the cold wind on the plateau. The Cassili tribe is a powerful tribe located in the west. For so many years, the Tibetan Empire could only reluctantly admit its independent state, but today I am afraid that this situation will change.
Anbalturi is now forty-five years old, just two years ago he was the great Khan of Western Turki, but unfortunately he was defeated by the Great Khan of Eastern Turkistan Abicheril, the whole country was annexed, and he had no choice but to start a life of exile, but fortunately, the Tibetan prince Gesang specially invited him to come to Tibet, and treated him as a guest, so that he could barely stand firm. Now he is fighting as a subordinate of His Royal Highness the Prince. He was once the Great Khan of Tukhi, he can only succumb to his current position, only by establishing meritorious service can he re-emerge on the stage of Tibet, and then obtain a higher status, he is not old enough to be indifferent to everything, as long as there is a chance, his ambition will still prompt him to look for an opportunity to seek revenge on Abicilil.
However, in order to avoid causing trouble to Prince Gesang, he wanted to make sure that no one would recognize him, so he carefully prepared a mask in addition to his heavy armor to disguise himself. In the case of him, the Great Khan, who once commanded thousands of armies. At the moment, he only had 500 cavalry, which was a small number. However, Anbalturi still has high hopes for the quality of these soldiers.
Compared with the Tuqi cavalry, the Tibetan cavalry is more than fierce and less intelligent, and the strong individual combat ability of the Tubo cavalry is not under the Tuqi cavalry at all, but they are quite unfamiliar with group combat, and the tactics are relatively simple. In addition, the quality gap of the war horses and the air of the plateau limited the play of the horses, and the combat effectiveness was naturally a big difference with the Tuqi cavalry. But these soldiers are very different in the hands of Anbaltouri. In the past two years, he has carefully trained these 500 troops, just to show their skills on such an occasion as today.
The battle was as he expected, the warriors of the Kasiri tribe were brave and tenacious, and they resisted the attack of the Tibetan army on all fronts with inferior forces, but they did not show the slightest sign of defeat.
"The war is deadlocked at the moment. Your Highness would like you to come out of the battle. "Prince Gesang's attendant captain Rodessa hastened to give the order. It was under the guidance of this warrior that Anbalturi was able to come to Tibet, and Anbalturi has always respected him.
"Obey the order, please tell His Royal Highness the Prince, and the cavalry below will win the game."
With that, Anbalturi led five hundred cavalry to launch a surprise attack. Anbalturi did not intend to allow these five hundred men to join the senseless attrition of the two armies, and he had already identified a key point in the Cassiri Division, where the enemy army would be disintegrated, and the Cassili Division's formation would be in disarray.
His cavalry rushed in front of the enemy and fired three consecutive showers of arrows at the enemy in unison. These three bursts of fire were fast and accurate, and immediately swept down a large area of enemy troops. Before the other side could plug the gap, the five hundred cavalry of Anbalturi had already launched a surprise attack on this place with a broken bamboo. The hoofs and spears of the scimitar shattered Cassili's hopes of healing the wounds, and as the wounds widened, Cassili's formation began to disorganize.
That's the sweet fruit of hard training! Anbalturi thought so proudly in his heart. It was very easy for him to command these five hundred cavalry, and perhaps he was not really Abicheril's opponent, but he was also one of the few brave men in the Turkic country. It may have been his misfortune to encounter an abnormal military general like Abicheril, but once he changed opponents, Anbalturi's performance was still quite eye-catching.
"Down there is Cassily Warrior Bull, willing to risk his life to fight with Your Excellency!" A knight brandished a long-handled battle axe and rushed towards Anbalturi.
The person who can run to himself at this moment must be the person who sees clearly the harmfulness of this small group of cavalry under his command, and this person can have such courage and insight, which shows that he is not an ordinary warrior.
"Interesting, I'll meet you!" Anbalturi put away his scimitar and drew his tomahawk from behind his back to meet him.
The two of them have fought back and forth for more than a dozen rounds, and Anbalturi feels that the warrior in front of him is really good, and if he continues to fight, he may not be able to win in dozens of rounds, and the battle situation cannot withstand such a long delay, so the situation he has created will be in vain. So he shook his axe, freed his left hand, and coldly threw the whip around his waist at Bull.
A crisp "pop" sound exploded on Bull's helmet, and Bull did not suffer any damage, but was delayed by the loud sound for a moment, but this moment was enough, and Anbalturi took the opportunity to force the opponent's long-handled axe with the tomahawk in his right hand, and then knocked the opponent off the horse with the axe handle.
"I lost, kill me!" Bull said.
Anbalturi laughed when he heard this: "If I don't want to live if I lose, how can I have today's victory?" Leave your life in the hands of His Royal Highness Prince Gesang, warrior. ”
"This can't be, I'm a warrior of the Cassiri tribe." Bull replied unconvinced.
"Nothing is impossible, the Cassiri will soon become a member of the Tibetan Empire," Anbalturi pointed around and motioned to Bull to take a good look: "The victory and defeat have been decided." ”
Due to the defeat of Bull and the fighting of the cavalry of Anbalturi, the formation of the Cassiri division has completely collapsed, and the battle has been locked. Bull looked at the defeated allies, and the man sat down on the ground as if deflated. (To be continued.) )