To justifiably obtain the command of the Hu soldiers, Yanglin has taken a step forward, and now he needs to urgently solve the fuel problem of the tank, this new tank is not the original version of the coal steam engine, but the same gasoline steam engine installed as the Tianshen, in the Western Regions, crude oil is not difficult to find, but the purification problem still needs Yanglin's people to do it personally, so Yanglin arranged two teams of Hu Jun to Wang Yong and the two Hu Jun to be responsible for finding crude oil, and then purifying.

And the rest of the army, Yanglin does not intend to let them stay under Qiuci City to wait for the arrival of the Tubo army, the enemy outside the country is the highest realm of defensive warfare, through Wang Xiyue's relationship, Yanglin contacted some rich people in Qiuci City, and raised from many parties, they obtained food and grass that can be used by 15,000 cavalry for a month, two days later, Yanglin led all the cavalry to the west, he wanted to block their road before the Tubo people walked down the plateau, At the same time, the news of the attack of the Tubo people spread to the defenders of the other three towns, and asked them to hurry to the border to build defenses.

On the day that Li Shimin was rescued by Yanglin, Lu Dongzan led his subordinates to rush to Tubo, the same Gai Suwen also left the Turkic Department and returned to Goryeo, after the initial panic, the Turks gradually stabilized, and the loss of Qingzhuang was undoubtedly a great blow to them, but they were more afraid of the Tang army's retaliation, so Mo Si led all the clansmen to the Tubo Plateau, he knew that he was not the opponent of the Qiuci defenders, and did not loot the towns under the jurisdiction of Qiuci Town, but chose to drink some soup behind the Tubo army, At present, their strength is too weak.

Three days of rapid marching, Yang Lin has a new understanding of the combat power of the Hu cavalry, although their equipment is simple, but they are natives of the Western Regions, they know the mountains and rivers here very well, and they have lived on horseback since childhood, so they have walked out of more than 800 miles in these three days, until they see the towering snow-capped mountains they are sure that they have stepped into the territory of Tubo.

"Report to the general, the front is the Guancheng of the Tubo people, there are not many defenders, and they are only responsible for collecting taxes from passing merchants." A scout who was already very proficient in Chinese reported to Yang Lin Dao.

"Sekijo? Just hit down to be one of our supply stations. Yang Lin muttered to himself, while his eyes never left the map in his hand, in recent years, the Tang Dynasty not only improved all its internal maps, but also the geographical environment of neighboring countries also touched a rough, at present their location has been very close to the Golmud region of Qinghai in the future, this is the first entrance to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Tubo people marched into the Western Regions, must take this road.

"His subordinate Brut asks for battle, and only three thousand cavalry are needed to win this pass."

The Hu cavalry is good at field warfare, but it is not suitable for siege, their carry-on equipment is a standard leather armor and a scimitar in addition to bows and arrows, and there are no siege equipment, but it doesn't matter, Yang Lin glanced at this general who was obviously more like a European, and shook his head, he didn't want to take 3,000 lives to fill a small Guancheng, isn't there a tank there, and it will be over if the city gate is opened with an artillery bombardment, and even the matter of camping at night is saved, and he lives directly in the city.

"Boom Boom"

The tank's steam engine was filled with gasoline of not very high purity, and bursts of black smoke were burned, and when the few Tibetan defenders in the city found this behemoth, they had no fighting spirit.

"How's it going, Scorpion, have you learned how to calibrate the target?"

Yang Lin covered his mouth with his hand and pointed to the wooden gate of Guancheng 100 meters away, and the smell of black smoke was really not good.

"Look!"

Yuwen Scorpion kept turning the turntable of the turret left and right, aiming at the target according to the crosshair, the artillery accuracy of this new tank has been extremely high, even the shells are pressed out of the copper shell with a heavy pressure machine tool, the power is comparable to the Japanese artillery during World War II, the inner wall of the thin threaded barrel makes its range already reach a thousand meters, and so the scorpion adjusts the crosshairs, pulls the trigger and launches, there is a loud bang, and the recoil makes the entire tank shake violently, with a puff of gunpowder smoke spreading, A cannonball with a flaming tail flew out of the barrel at a rapid pace.

"Boom."

There was another earth-shattering loud noise, and the horses of more than 10,000 Hu Jun began to be uneasy, and then looked at the wooden gate of the city, which had already been broken into pieces, in fact, the level of the scorpion cannon was average, and he was completely a novice, how could the cannonball made of smokeless medicine be too powerful, and it only exploded in the hole of the city gate, and the wooden gate was shattered.

"Now, the city gate has been breached?"

Brut was petrified in an instant, he had seen a large-caliber artillery that could shoot scattered shells and flowering shells, but he didn't know that such a thin barrel on this tank and combat vehicle could shoot flowering shells that were much more powerful than the large-caliber artillery equipped by the Tang Army, how did he know the difference between black and smokeless firearms!

"It's a pity, the barrel of the tank is not perfect enough, the internal space is also limited, the number of times it can be fired and the shells it carries are not much, otherwise, why not be afraid of the Tibetan army, General Brut, take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy is frightened by the power of the tank gun, you quickly lead people to rush in, remember to block their retreat first, do not let a single person escape, your number is more than ten times theirs, I don't want to see casualties."

Under Yang Lin's reminder, Brut hurriedly gathered his subordinates to beat horses and rushed to the hole in the city gate, when passing by the big pit in front of the city gate that was bombarded by cannonballs, Brut seemed to remember some words that Wang Xiyue had said, and seemed to say that this heavenly horse was the most powerful man in the Tang Dynasty, and it turned out that what she said was true.

The rain of blood was churning on the city, there was no suspense in the war between 15,000 and 800, and while the battle was over in half an hour, Brut also carefully cleaned up the houses in the city, except for the Han and Hu people who were taken captive here, all the Tubo people were strictly controlled, and their characteristics were too obvious to be distinguished. "There are not many paths to the plateau, and there are even fewer places suitable for building a city, and we only have less than a month's grain and grass, so it is not advisable to venture in, Brut, pass on my orders, all the scouts stop to rest and immediately get on their horses, bring enough dried meat and spirits, and continue to explore along the road, and go as far as they can in three days, and every time they encounter a valley or narrow road along the way, they will send a person back to report to me, until they meet the Tibetan army, and project this letter to the Tibetan military camp, and their task will be completed."

Breathing in the cold air, Yang Lin handed a short parchment letter to Brut. The temperature here is too low, people and animals survive here, the calories consumed will be greatly increased, the original carrying of a month of grain and grass may only be enough for twenty days, and the war with the Tubo people can never end so quickly, Guancheng is the closest sheltered city in Tubo to Qiuzi, Yanglin wants to set up a base camp here, and continuously receive the grain and grass that Wang Xiyue borrowed from various tribes in the Western Regions. "Letters? Is it a war book? I was looking forward to Lu Dongzan's expression when he received a letter of declaration of war from 15,000 cavalry to his hundreds of thousands of troops. "The scorpion successfully smashed the gate of the city for the first time, and he was a little complacent.

"It's a war book! But we're not 15,000 troops, we're 150,000 troops. Yang Lin smiled lightly.

"An army of 150,000? Where do we have an army of 150,000? Aren't you lying? ”

"The soldier is not tired of deceit, so why deceive him? False reporting is a science, you know? This is a profound psychological tactic, if Lu Dongzan knows that I myself have taken the lead and led an army of 150,000 to block his way out of Tibet, how do you think he will respond? He will definitely think that our Datang has already been on guard against him, and his will to fight will fade half in an instant. Even if he is still determined to be the enemy of my Datang, then he will need more time to prepare a larger army to fight me, I just hope that he will bring more people to come, we are not good to fight on the plateau, so we have to lure them down to fight, Tubo is short of food, once he uses more than 500,000 people and animals, I think, in a few years, Tubo is the territory of our Datang. ”

"Why is that?"

"As I said earlier, the Tubo people are short of food, even if they have been making war reserves all these years, but if they send out 500,000 troops at a time, the grain and grass they carry will definitely not exceed 300,000, the Tubo people are also people, their consumption of food in the ice and snow is as huge, and we only need to drag it for three months, they will be in a dilemma, when the time comes, it will not be so simple for them to leave, capture him hundreds of thousands of young and strong, does Tubo still have the strength to compete with my Tang Dynasty?"

"You said for a long time, the most important thing is to hold the Tubo army for three months, may I ask, why should we hold them for three months?"

"Don't you think it's getting colder here when winter comes? Don't you think that when you drink tea, the water cools faster, my 150,000 army, it's this wind and snow, you can see when the time comes! Yang Lin sold a pass, and he didn't bother to talk to the strategic idiot of Scorpion, so he jumped off the tank and arranged some matters for the garrison in the city.

Outside the distant Chang'an City, there is also a huge military scene, Li Tai's army all the way from Taiyuan to Chang'an, almost never encountered any resistance, only ten days, he came to Chang'an City, but this is the beginning of his nightmare, Chang'an City's defensive armament for the first time in front of the world all showed, dozens of miles of city walls, a black hole of the cannon mouth neatly arranged, there are nearly a thousand doors, so that people are panicked, and Li Tai has already prepared three hundred rocket launchers have not been pulled out, He has been playing rocket artillery for many years, he knows too well what it is, his own detachable simple rocket launchers, no matter the range, accuracy, and the power of the ammunition fired can not be compared with these giants, at this moment, even if the gate of Chang'an City is wide open, no one dares to rush forward, so far, Li Tai's 100,000 troops are under Chang'an City, a single bullet has not been fired, it shows a sign of defeat, and set up camp ten miles away. (To be continued.) )