On July 21, the thirteenth year of Tianbao, Eryuan, 8,000 troops and 20,000 Dali Baiman auxiliary troops have been in ambush here for two days.

Eryuan, as the name suggests, is the source of Erhai Lake, the local rivers and streams criss-cross, lakes are dotted, sixty miles to the north of Eryuan, there is a long and narrow passageway, the west is a lake with a radius of more than four miles, the east is the mountains with peaks and mountains, in one of the valleys, there are 800 Tiance most elite light cavalry and 6,000 Tiance infantry, their task is to wait for 80,000 Tubo troops to enter the Eryuan territory, block the way, close the door and fight dogs.

At this time, the "Southern Zhao" actually did not complete its great cause of unifying the southwest, and there were indigenous tribes such as the Golden Tooth Department, the Puzi Department, and the Mangbu Department in the south, and the remnants of the Langqiong Edict, the Xuan Zhao and the Luo Zhi Zhao were all entrenched in Jianchuan and the enemy.

Although Nanzhao and Tubo formed a brotherly country, but they were each with their own ghosts, although Nanzhao repeatedly invited the Tubo army to help, but never let it into the hinterland between Longshou Pass and Longwei City; And Tubo also out of the desire to restrain Nanzhao, secretly supported the Langqiong Edict, the Xuan Zhao and the Luo Zhi Zhao, so the territory actually controlled by the Nanzhao was actually very small.

In another time and space, until the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, and no longer able to conquer Nanzhao, the internal was busy quelling the chaos and fighting for power and profit, Nanzhao and Tubo jointly sent troops, encroached on a large amount of land in Jiannan Road, and the history of Nanzhao broke through Wangzhou, and the looted materials and population blocked the mountain road for more than 300 miles.

Relying on the nourishment of these manpower and materials, Nanzhao was able to pacify the southern tribes. Later, the Tang Dynasty eased up, and the Nanzhao and Tibetan coalition forces were defeated by Li Sheng, and Nanzhao immediately turned his back on Tubo and pointed to the "Dehua Tablet" to show the Tang envoys. It shows that the heart is back to Tang.

As a result, Nanzhao not only did not have to return large tracts of encroached land. It was also with the help of Wei Gao, the envoy of Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu. Not only did he finally get his wish to eliminate the trouble of his henchmen entrenched near Jianchuan, but he also continued to expand his territory to Tubo, and pushed the country to Yubencheng, completely driving the Tubo forces out of Yunnan and laying down a big territory, which can be described as a winner in life.

Of course, the 15,000 Tiance troops ambushed in the hinterland of Eryuan and the northern valley at the moment did not know this, and their only concern was when the 80,000 Tibetan army would be able to enter their encirclement.

Especially the Seven Thousand Heavenly Strategies Army that was ambushed in the valley. They set out first, and have been in ambush here for almost four days, and now they are all miserable.

Ambushing troops in the valley does not mean that you can go a day or half a day in advance, but you must go for more than three or four days. If there is an army in ambush in the valley or in the woods, there will be birds hovering in the sky without falling, and for the famous generals of a hundred battles, it can be seen at a glance.

So it has to be long enough not to light a fire and keep quiet all the time. In this way, the birds will gradually get used to it, so that they will not see anything unusual from the outside. Achieve the purpose of ambush.

Of course, all ambushes need to be like this, and they don't need to deal with the two straw bales of Xianyu Zhongtong and An Lushan, but Xiao Qubing knows that Enlan Dazarugong is the number one general in Tubo, so how dare he take it lightly.

So the 7,000-day army suffered, no fire, nothing to keep quiet, the key is the climate here, the humidity is very heavy, and the temperature difference between day and night is very large, and you can't make a fire, and you want to be quiet, don't you want to die?

Almost 30 percent of the soldiers have already experienced slight symptoms of physical discomfort, or are infected with wind and cold, or have dull pain in their joints.

Even more difficult than the 7,000 Tiance Army were more than a dozen special combat team members of the Tiance Army who were lying around lurking and observing, and on a small mountain on the side of the road, the leader of the special operations team named Hu Yueyuan was staring at the road in the distance with red eyes.

Just when he saw that his eyes hurt, a team of Tubo sentinels appeared in the field of vision of the telescope, so excited that his hands couldn't help but tremble a little, poked the deputy next to him, and whispered: "The Tubo sentinel is here!" ”

The deputy was dozing off, and at this time, he also suddenly became excited, rubbed his eyes and glanced at a few small black spots on the side of the road in the distance, and hurriedly gently put down the small pine tree behind him, and heard Hu Yueyuan whisper: "Finally here, this is the eleven light horse sentry scouts who are exploring the road in front." ”

The deputy looked at the time, carefully wrote down the time and number in a small notebook with charcoal, and then asked, "Captain, what does this Tibetan soldier look like?" ”

Hu Yueyuan handed him the monoculars and whispered: "What can it be, it's not like a barbarian, all of them are black and thick, like black bears, and they are not one or two points stronger than the Nanzhao soldiers, but compared to our Tiance army, it is still not enough." ”

"That is, our Tiance army is invincible." The deputy saw from the telescope that these Tibetan soldiers were extremely strong, talking and laughing, full of arrogance, and was also very disdainful, and asked with some expectation: "I don't know how long it will take for their strikers to come?" ”

"Wait." Hu Yueyuan muttered.

As a result, he waited for two hours before seeing a large group of Tibetan troops enter the field of vision, Hu Yueyuan's excited heart jumped out, but as soon as he finished counting the number of Tibetan troops, this group of Tibetan troops stopped leaving and began to cut down trees and camp.

Hu Yueyuan looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but scold: "Fuck it, it's only been three minutes before Shen Shi, which door is the camp?" ”

The deputy codenamed Gray Harrier said: "Maybe he is waiting for the Chinese army brigade." ”

"I hope so."

The result was that until it was dark, there was no follow-up arrival of the Tibetan army, but the 10,000 Tibetan forwards were camped quite meticulously, with wooden walls, trenches, and deer barricades.

And also sent more than 300 sentry scouts to patrol around, the closest to the Tiance ambush a pair of sentry spies almost walked to the valley mouth of the Tiance army ambush, fortunately, it was getting late, this team of Tubo sentry rode around the valley mouth, saw nothing unusual, and hurried back.

After nightfall, Hu Yueyuan quietly sneaked back to the valley dressed in a fishing net and leaf suit, and came to Xiao Quai's cowhide tent to report the situation: "Great Commander, this Tubo forward army has about 10,000 troops, all of which are fierce cavalry.

They stopped advancing before they reached the narrow road, and set up camp very carefully, until night, no follow-up army arrived, and then in front of them was the boundary of the three edicts, and the specific information was not yet known. ”

The hostility and jealousy of the three edicts towards the southern edict were very deep, and the road from Eryuan to Jianchuan was strictly blocked, unless the envoy was carrying a flag, he could pass through Jianchuan under the supervision of the three edicts, and the special combat members of the Tiance army did not dare to venture deeper.

Xiao Quzhi frowned and said, "Is this Enlan Dazarugon too cautious?" King Dali, there are no flaws in your people, right? ”

Duan Jianwei hurriedly said: "King Lanling can rest assured, the lower officials can guarantee that there is absolutely no problem." ”

Ma Sui said: "Great Commander, could it be that this Enlan Dazaru Gong deliberately wants to let Nanzhao and my Tiance army defeat both before attacking?" Didn't he first send a small team of sentry spies to Nanzhao to inquire about the news, maybe he had to wait for the team to have definite news before acting? ”

Xiao Quzhi groaned: "It is said that Tubo is now being attacked by the right army of Anxi Long, together with the Subi Department and the Zhangxiong Department, and the situation is already quite critical, so there should be no such thoughts, but it is not impossible." ”

After a pause, Xiao Quzhi's eyes flashed with coldness: "But we still have to plan for the worst, that is, Tubo already knows the news that Nanzhao has been destroyed." ”

Ma Sui kept tapping his fingers on the table and said, "If that's the case, if the situation is not right tomorrow, we will eat these 10,000 vanguard cavalry." (To be continued.) )