Chapter 146: This is the situation!
On the vast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the blue sky and pleasant autumn colors have always been the most admired scenery of the Garqin Mausoleum, but now he does not have such Yaxing, because the current war is really bad for him.
Originally, Garqinling thought that he had the leadership of his own well-known and noble, and took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Tang Dynasty, coupled with his military talent, he should be able to seize the four towns of Anxi of Tuyuhun and the Tang Dynasty, so that the strength of Tubo expanded rapidly, and then he went to control some countries in the west and northwest, and he could establish a large empire that could compete with the Tang Dynasty, and the fact was also according to his expected development, the four towns of Anxi have been captured, and even Tuyuhun has almost been captured, and although the Tang Dynasty sent Xue Rengui, but there are only 50,000 people, Moreover, the main general Xue Rengui and the deputy general Guo Zhifeng are not in harmony, and he has already formulated a perfect plan to ensure that this time Datang will definitely return with a fiasco.
But at the most critical moment, the situation went wrong, first it seemed that there was absolutely nothing possible happening, his third brother Zanpo and the 200,000 army under his command were burned by a fire, and then his fourth brother Siduo and the 10,000 army under his command were also killed in the sea of fire, and then later, the enemy general took advantage of his cautious side, created a mystery, and then took the opportunity to build the camp as solid as a rock, and when he reacted, he had already regretted it, and then later, That man cooperated with Xue Rengui, formed a corner, and jointly adopted a defensive strategy, but forced him, the party that launched the initiative to attack, had no choice but to retreat.
And this retreat means that Tubo can only spit out the four towns of Tuyuhun and Anxi that were annexed before!
But even so, Garqinling could only choose to retreat, which was enough for him to be aggrieved.
However, what made him even more aggrieved was still behind, because when he really retreated, he found that the Tang army actually set up the camp in the place where he had to retreat, Doma, here is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and there is only one road to pass, but the only road has been blocked by the Tang army, if the Garqin Mausoleum wants to return to Luo, there is only one way to capture the Tang army camp, otherwise, it will have to go west to detour more than a thousand miles of mountain roads, and such a far mountain road is simply a nightmare for the Tubo army that lacks grain and grass and is cavalry, If they really choose to take this path, I am afraid that they will not be able to reach the logic, and they will already starve to death halfway.
What is even more worrying is that when the Garqin Mausoleum leads the army to make a detour, the Tang army is likely to pass through Doma and go straight to Luo, so that the Garqin Mausoleum will not only face the problem of defeat, but may even have the misfortune of losing the country.
"I really didn't expect this Tang general to choose to camp here, it seems that he has indeed put a lot of effort into the geographical location of my Tubo." Gar Qinling smiled bitterly, I don't know if this sentence was a compliment to Li or a mockery of himself.
In fact, how did the Garqin Mausoleum know that Li Xian had robbed the tomb of a nobleman in the hometown of Tubo in his previous life, and because of that tomb robbery, he already knew everything about the mountains and rivers in Tubo, but now it was 1,400 years ago, and he didn't know if it would be different from later generations, so he made a special exploration for this purpose, and finally decided to camp here.
But whether you know it or not, the only thing that the Garqin Mausoleum has to do at present is to order the attack on the camp.
"Who should this mysterious Tang Army general be? I got the news not long ago, when the emperor of the Tang Dynasty sent the generals, he sent Xue Rengui as the chief general, and then Ashina Daozhen and Guo Beifeng as deputy generals, no matter who these two people are, they definitely don't have such extraordinary wisdom, it shouldn't be any of them, but apart from them, who else can suppress Guo Beifeng and Ashina Daozhen, so as to serve as the chief general of the Tang Army? Hey? I almost forgot that there was another person of noble status in the Tang army who went out with the army, and that person was Li Xian, the king of Zhou, and I heard that the guy had fought dozens of battles in the battle against Goguryeo, and none of them were defeated, hmph, at that time that man was only twelve or thirteen years old, and he had such ability, and at this time he was sixteen or seventeen years old, and it was not surprising that he could do such a thing as burning the camp. ”
Garqinling finally confirmed the identity of the Tang army's commander-in-chief, but it was useless at this time, because he then saw Li Xian's true strength, because despite the army's hard work, in addition to the loss of more than 2,000 people, no progress was made in a day.
"It's hateful, that's true, but it's come to this, even if I want to give up, it's impossible." Although it is not easy to launch a large-scale attack in view of the terrain, the Garqin Mausoleum believes that no matter what kind of fortified city soup pool, as long as you are determined to conquer, there will always be a day to break through.
What's more, Garqinling was not an ordinary person, he ordered his soldiers to cut down trees in the nearby mountains and forests, and then made catapults one after another, ready to launch a fierce attack on the Tang army's camp.
In fact, the destructive power of the catapult on the strong city is not as strong as the legend, and it is easy to be destroyed by the enemy, so its role is mainly to deter, and at the same time cooperate with other engineering equipment to attack the city, but for the camp that is all wooden structure, its role is really against the sky, so, on the first day after the catapult is made, the destructive power of these catapults for the camp is equivalent to the sum of the previous days!
In this way, the Tubo army felt extremely excited, but there was a faint panic in the Tang army camp.
"Li Xian's guy is the best at sneak attacks overnight, so you must be careful to guard the catapult." Garqin Ling expected that Li Xian would definitely take the way of night attack to destroy the catapult, so he set up an ambush in the camp to wait for Li Xian's army to arrive.
It's just that because Xue Rengui's army also came on this day and began to attack the rear camp of the Tubo army, Garqinling was personally sitting in Houzhai, commanding the 100,000 troops responsible for guarding Houzhai to defend against Xue Rengui's attack, and there was no time to take care of Qianzhai, so he handed over the task of guarding catapults and ambushing Li Xian to Su Hegui.
Su and Gui fought according to the plan of the Garqin Mausoleum, everything was in order, according to the order, there seemed to be no problem, because Li Xian did send someone to attack, Su and Gui saw that Li Xian led the army to arrive, and immediately ordered the ambush to go out, vowing to completely kill Li Xian and his Dajun, but I didn't expect Li Xian to be very slippery, seeing that he was deceived, he immediately decisively led the rear team to change to the front team, and then fought hard to get out of the encirclement, and went away, which made Su Hegui feel aggrieved, This battle only caused more than a dozen casualties among the Tang army, and judging by the fact that the clothes were still Turkic soldiers, it made their own side pay the price of hundreds of people for blocking the enemy's retreat.
"Fortunately, Li Xian's gang has retreated, although our army has paid the price of losing hundreds of people, but after all, it has held the catapult, I believe that as long as you throw stones like today, it will not take three days to smash Tang Man's camp to pieces, and then you Li Xian will be the reincarnation of the martial saint, and the overlord will be reborn, and you will still taste the taste of defeat, so Li Xian is just like this, the general said this guy so strongly, is it not to exonerate the third general and the fourth general?"
After Su Hegui drove away Li Xian, he was proud in his heart, and suddenly heard the chaos in the camp, and couldn't help but be angry in his heart, and was about to send his own soldiers out to ask the reason, but suddenly heard the sergeant come to say: "General, the big thing is not good, the Tang army that attacked the camp before actually went and returned, and our army was unprepared by him to break into the camp and burn the catapult that was successfully made by hard work." ”
"Huh? What do you say? Or was the catapult finally destroyed? Su Hegui was shocked when he heard this, he had promised the Garqin Mausoleum that he would keep the more than ten catapults, but he didn't expect it to be burned down like this.
"Li Xian's guy is really cunning, he actually came and went, which was so unguardable that I couldn't explain it to the general, but what could I do? It seems that I can only obediently admit my guilt, maybe the general can spare my life for the credit of the past. ”
Up to now, Su Hegui had no choice but to obediently go to the Garqin Mausoleum to ask for guilt.
After hearing the news, Garqinling was also shocked, and secretly scolded Su Hegui in his heart for being useless, and secretly sighed that if his third or fourth brother was alive, he would definitely be able to successfully complete the task he had delivered.
In fact, Garqinling really wanted to cut Su Hegui, a shameless traitor and a fool like a pig who betrayed the country for glory, but at the moment when he was employing people, and the influence of this person on the Tuyuhun people was really not low, and it was still useful to keep it, so he forcibly endured the disgusting in his heart and decided to let him go.
And since he wanted to let Su Hegui go, Garqinling had to put on an easy-going and indifferent look, and generously forgave Su Hegui for the crimes he committed today, and Su Hegui was moved to tears, swearing that he would swear allegiance to Garqinling and Tubo in this life, and would never dare to break his word, otherwise he would let himself die with ten thousand arrows through his heart.
Although Su Hegui's crime was forgiven, the situation of the Tubo army was still worrying, because the catapult was destroyed, and it would take at least five or six days to catch up with it, and by that time, Li Xian's camp had been repaired as before. What's more critical is that Xue Rengui has already led a large army to arrive, and will never allow the Tubo army to cut down trees and make catapults at will.
"Hey, that's the situation! Although I am conceited and wise, but in the current situation, sometimes even if I am unwilling, I am helpless. Looking at the sky, Garqin Mausoleum sighed softly, shook his head, and said with a wry smile. (To be continued.) )