Unlike Wang Fangyi's easy freehand capture of Lu Dongzan, when Li Jingxuan, Xue Na, and Qin Zhan faced Sambas, who had already risked his life like a mad dog, they could suffer a lot.

Originally, the 20,000 elite horsemen around Sambas were the elite of the Tibetan elite, good at riding and shooting, and their individual combat ability was also very strong. Secondly, when Sambas heard that Lu Dongzan had abandoned him, not only did he not hate Lu Dongzan because of this, and fled to Tubo regardless of Lu Dongzan's deployment, but chose to continue to carry out Lu Dongzan's orders, aiming at the armies of Li Jingxuan, Xue Na, and Qin Zhan.

The combat effectiveness of the 20,000 Tubo people who put their lives aside is indeed not to be said, it is definitely quite powerful, even if Li Jingxuan, Qin Zhan, and Xue Na's army have an advantage in numbers, but after a day of fighting, they also lost nearly 4,000 men and horses.

In the first battle, 4,000 iron cavalry were lost, and this was still without capturing Lu Dongzan, and the opponent still had more than 10,000 elite cavalry on standby at any time to launch an attack.

This "No > Wrong" made Li Jingxuan, Xue Na, and Qin Zhan worried.

They already knew that Wang Fangyi had gone to arrest Lu Dongzan, and they didn't blame Wang Fangyi for doing anything wrong, because Wang Fangyi really came with them to deal with Sambas and Lu Dongzan ran away, which was their dereliction of duty.

Moreover, they had 24,000 iron horsemen, and Sambas had 20,000 elite horsemen, and there was nothing wrong with Wang Fangyi leaving Sambas to them. It's just that the battle of the Sambas army, which is still trapped in beasts, obviously exceeded the estimation of Li Jingxuan and the three of them, and they suffered a big loss.

But fortunately, in the battle on the second day, Xue Na gave full play to his characteristics as a military general. Just when Sambas commanded the army to continue to charge at Li Jingxuan and their army, Xue Na led three hundred elite iron cavalry to break into the Sambas formation, one person, one horse and one Fangtian painting halberd, monopolizing the two hundred guards around Sambas, and randomly took off Sambas's head to end this tragic battle.

However, because of too many losses, the Datang Iron Cavalry was resentful, and they spilled their resentment on the Tubo Elite Cavalry who surrendered.

Therefore, in this battle, Li Jingxuan, Xue Na, and Qin Zhan did not get anything except a head of Sambas, only 20,000 Tubo corpses that fell to the ground can prove that they did fight a cruel war.

"It's a thrilling day." Li Jingxuan said very scaredly. If there is no Xue Na, it is estimated that it is not up to anyone to say who will win and who will lose today.

"Fortunately, there is General Xue." Qin Zhan also sighed and sighed. This is the advantage of having a terrifying general by his side, who can capture the flag and reverse the stalemate at a critical moment.

"Don't praise me, let's go back quickly." Xue Na said embarrassedly, he knew that his father had led tens of thousands of iron horsemen to support His Royal Highness the Prince, and it was estimated that he was about to arrive in Hezhou City, he didn't want to go back after his father arrived in Hezhou City, he wanted to return to Hezhou City one step ahead of his father.

"Let's go, let's go home." Li Jingxuan said proudly.

The army regrouped and began to march towards Hezhou.

In Hezhou City, when Li Hong received the news of Li Jingxuan, although his face did not show any emotional fluctuations, he was very dissatisfied with this battle. The fierce Lingzhou Iron Cavalry, the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry, which is no worse than the Turkic Elite Cavalry, and the 10,000 Elite Cavalry guarding the capital, and the 24,000 people of the three Iron Cavalry against the 20,000 Tubo army of Sambas, the result of the battle is dangerous, if it were not for Xue Na's personal strength, he killed Sambas by capturing the flag, Li Jingxuan's side is estimated to have the possibility of defeat, and a total of 6,000 men and horses were lost in the two battles, which can make Li Hong satisfied?

He only used more than 7,000 horses to defeat Lu Dongzan's 40,000 army, and the casualties were not so large.

This is not a question of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, but of the generals commanding the battle. Obviously, for the three rookies who have no experience in leading troops to fight, this time Sambas is abusing vegetables and pinching soft persimmons. If Guo Shifeng leads the army, or the black tooth is Changzhi, or he will run into Pei Xingjian. It is estimated that there is a possibility that the soldiers will surrender without occupying them. Because Lu Dongzan abandoned Sambas and fled westward, as long as the Tang army generals were witty enough, they could completely rely on this to break the morale of the Sambas army, and then promise heavy benefits, he didn't believe that Sambas was not moved and did not surrender.

However, the news of Wang Fangyi that came then made Li Hong very happy, annihilated Lu Dongzan 20,000 and fled, and captured Lu Dongzan alive.

This shows that the war, which has been less than a month, has ended.

At the beginning, in the face of the 200,000 menacing army of Tubo Lu Dongzan, the Tang Dynasty seemed tired and difficult to deal with, but now he completely annihilated this army and captured Lu Dongzan alive. This cannot but be said without drama.

And what made Li Hong happy was that Wang Fangyi said in the letter that he had recruited 100,000 cavalry from the Western Regions, which could be used by Li Hong, and that this time he attacked Tubo, these 100,000 troops could be dispatched by Li Hong at will.

This made Li Hong excited, and he was worried that there were not enough cavalry to deal with the Tibetans. Now that Wang Fangyi has 100,000 cavalry that can be mobilized with him, he is not dissatisfied with anything?

"Chen Gong, you send a letter to Pei Xingjian, ask him to come to Hezhou City, and let's discuss how to attack Tubo." Li Hong said to Chen Gong. Pei Xingjian made a lot of contributions in this war, Li Hong couldn't help but see him, and Pei Xingjian was a disciple of Su Dingfang, and he was the main military general of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest in the future, Li Hong had to talk to Pei Xingjian in person to determine Pei Xingjian's attitude towards him, and he couldn't believe Pei Xingjian so easily because of Su Dingfang's relationship.

"No!" Chen Gong took the order and strode out of the hall.

"Your Highness, Wang Du Dusheng captured Lu Dongzan and returned to the city, do we hold a small welcome ceremony?" Sun Chuyue asked, he is also very happy now, following His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to quell the invasion of Tibet, although he did not participate, but this credit could not be missing him. In this way, his position in the prime minister's group will be more stable in the future, even if Li Ji wants to deal with him, he will not be afraid. He is a civilian official, he has the advantage of a civilian official, and now he has military merits again, and he is still afraid of Li Ji?

"Forget about the welcome ceremony, but let's have a prisoner sacrifice ceremony." Li Hong said with a smile.

"Prisoner sacrifice ceremony?" Sun asked puzzled.

"Let's set up a high platform in Hezhou City, and we will all review Wang Fangyi's army together, and then accept his prisoner Lu Dongzan." Li Hong said.

"Is that all right?". Sun Chuyue asked cautiously, after all, Lu Dongzan is the prime minister of Tubo, so he doesn't give face to the Tubo people, I'm afraid it will annoy the Tubo people. Li Hong said with a smile, "In a few days, as long as the soldiers and horses are all in place and the grain and grass are sufficient, Gu will go out to conquer Tibet, what else is there to be afraid of?" Besides, Hezhou City was destroyed before, and Lu Dongzan's traitor in Hezhou City has not been found, and we found a lot of money from his army when we were chased and killed by Lu Dongzan, which must have been sent by this traitor. Although we haven't found the traitor yet, it is also appropriate to deter him by offering prisoners. Otherwise, this group of people really thought that the Tubo people could be so strong that they could destroy Lone. ”

"Yes, Your Highness!" As soon as Li Hong explained this, Sun Chuyue didn't dare to say anything more, but bowed down to receive the order and immediately went to arrange it. Now Sun is about to run errands for Li Hong as the prime minister, he has no burden at all, and he is very happy.

Seeing Sun Chuyu leave, Li Hong's expression became very serious.

Luoyang's will had reached his hands, and although Gaozong agreed to his request to go to Tibet, he also saw all kinds of obstacles in Gaozong's will. Who is obstructing him, Li Hong knows it without asking. Therefore, for this expedition to Tibet, Gaozong was under great pressure. Li Hong wanted to continue to let Gaozong support him in the future, and there could be no mistakes in attacking Tibet this time.

This made Li Hong very stressed.

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