Chapter 521: The Night of the Full Moon
readx; Outside the city of Ashu, on a bare high post about ten miles away from Shang Jiasu's military camp, a huge tent has been erected, this is what Shang Jiasu said about the middle tent, that is to say, it is not in the other party's camp, in the dark, the huge tent is empty around, only a few soldiers are on guard, but if you look closely, you will find that the soil around this high ground is a little strange, as if it has just been renovated, but ordinary people do not pay attention to these details. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The two soldiers sent by Shang Xi Dongzan had already inspected the surrounding situation, and Shang Jiasu only brought a hundred personal soldiers to discuss the details of cooperation, and these people did not pose a threat to Shang Xi Dongzan.
Although Shang Xi Dongzan had single-handedly gone to Lancheng to negotiate with Shang Jiasu, at this time and that time, at that time, they only talked about cooperation between them, and there was no plan to annex each other, and at this time, their cooperation had reached the most critical moment, and anything would happen.
Night is the best cover for sin, Shang Jiasu has already arrived one step ahead, he stood by the big tent, looking at the dark city of Ah Shu from afar, his eyes were full of murderous intent, at this time, his eyes turned to the northeast, where Shang Xi Dongzan's camp was located, less than ten miles away from his camp, as long as he killed Shang Xi Dongzan, he could take the opportunity to collect Shang Xi Dongzan's army.
Not far away, there were two of Shang Xi Dongzan's personal soldiers, they watched the surrounding situation vigilantly, especially Shang Jiasu's large camp, they paid attention to every move over there, and once there was an abnormal army movement over there, they would immediately notify Shang Xi Dongzan.
Shang Jiasu showed a cold smile in his eyes, he glanced behind the high ground out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly he found a pile of new soil that moved slightly, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of anger in his heart, and gave his own soldiers a look, and the soldiers understood, and slowly walked over and stepped on the pile of slightly moving dirt.
At this time, a fire appeared in the distance, and a team of more than 100 people surrounded Shang Xi Dongzan, Shang Jiasu's heart jumped pounding, and a personal soldier who went to verify rushed over, and whispered in his ear: "It's Shang Xi Dongzan, a total of one hundred and three people." ”
"Good! and when he entered the horde. ”
Shang Jiasu slowly retreated to the big tent, taking advantage of Shang Xi Dongzan's unpreparedness, walked out of another small door quickly, and ran down a path to the high post, an owl's chirping sounded, the mound on the high post quietly turned over, and several snowy long swords emerged from the mound.
In a dark forest two miles away, the two thousand elite soldiers arranged by Shang Jiasu were ready to be launched at any time.
.......... There is a large forest outside the city of Ashu, like a green silk scarf will surround the city tightly, at this time there is also a forest about two miles away from the camp of Shang Jiasu, the forest is silent, filled with a murderous aura, in the depths of the forest, a group of about 500 'Tubo cavalry' is quietly lurking, waiting for the moment when the opportunity comes.
These 500 people are naturally the Tang Army's disguise, they are just wearing the armor of the Tubo people, and they shot at a critical moment, these 500 Tang Army is the first scout battalion of the Anxi Army, that is, the scout battalion from which Li Qing'an was born, and it is also the most elite army of the Anxi Army.
The general who led this scout battalion to carry out the mission today is the Zhonglang general Qin Haiyang, this legendary old scout general in the Anxi Army has become one of Li Qing'an's henchmen, and some major special tasks are completed by him, such as tonight's operation, which is related to the outcome of the entire Tocharian Campaign, Li Qingan did not dare to be careless, not only sent the most elite first scout battalion, but also sent this experienced scout veteran.
Qin Haiyang and the first scout camp did not disappoint Li Qing'an, although Shang Xi Dongzan set up a team of spies east of Ashu City after the grain was robbed, but the first scout camp marched extremely secretively, evaded the surveillance of all the spies, and successfully came to the city of Ashu and sneaked into this forest.
They had lurked into another forest twenty miles away the previous night, and had been waiting patiently for Shang Jiasu's army to move north, and at dusk they had received the latest information that Shang Jiasu's army of 80,000 had reached the city of Achuan and was stationed three miles away from them.
At this time, a black shadow rushed in from outside the forest and ran in front of Qin Haiyang to report: "General Qin, someone from the city has come out, about a hundred people, holding torches and marching towards the high post. ”
The time was almost up, Qin Haiyang waved his hand and ordered in a low voice: "Go!" ”
The five hundred scouts moved quickly, leading their respective horses, and walked silently out of the forest.
.......... At the same moment when the Tang army scout camp was heading out of the forest, in the southern city of Ashu City, an army of 40,000 people also quietly left the city, Shang Xi Dongzan was dressed in black chain mail, like all the soldiers, with a white cloth tied on his right arm, at this time they distinguished themselves from the mark of Shang Jiasu's army, he carried a spear in his hand, and the goal was very clear, it was the high post where Shang Jiasu was located.
Shang Xi Dongzan did not intend to sneak attack the opponent's camp, but to intercept Shang Jiasu who had returned triumphantly, as long as Shang Jiasu was captured, he could force him to submit and obey his own command, although there was some risk, but in order to successfully seize the command of the 80,000 army, Shang Xi Dongzan had to take this risk no matter what.
If he can't succeed, the two Tibetan armies will be completely divided, the heavy burden on Shang Xi Dongzan, internal and external troubles make him feel tired, at this time he has no time to take care of the Tang army, but put all his energy and mind on capturing Shang Jiasu's army, tomorrow is the night of the full moon, he only has time tonight.
Shang Xi Dongzan led the army out of the city, but he did not rush forward, he looked at the opponent's camp a few miles away in the southeast direction, the lights in the camp flickered, and he could faintly see a figure shaking, and he looked at Gao Gang in the southwest direction, at this time he seemed to see a team of torches going towards Gao Gang, that was his substitute.
Shang Xi Dongzan's heart became nervous, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the situation in the direction of Gao Gang........ On the high post, 'Shangxi Dongzan' was already close to the giant tent, and an officer greeted him and said: "General Shangxi Dongzan, everything is ready, my general is waiting in the big tent, please!" ”
"Hmmm! I know. ”
'Shang Xi Dongzan' urn agreed angrily, turned over and dismounted, and walked quickly to the big tent, his more than 100 personal soldiers followed closely behind, walked to the door of the tent, and there was an owl's chirping on the high post, this time for the second time, only to see from the land behind the high post, a pile of shallow soil was lifted, below is a wooden plank, under the wooden board there are deep pits, squatting in which there are three or five Tubo soldiers with sharp blades, they jumped out of the deep pit, and there were suddenly black pressed soldiers on the hillside, there were as many as a thousand people, and the long sword in the hand exuded the cold light of the forest in the dark night。
"Who are you?"
Someone spotted them and shouted, "Dashuai, there is a situation!" ”
'Shang Xi Dongzan' was taken aback, and the footsteps about to enter the tent stopped, at this time, there was a shout of killing all around, and more than a thousand Tibetan soldiers rushed up from all directions frantically, "Kill! Kill Shang Xi Dongzan! ”
Shangxi Dongzan's personal soldiers were caught off guard, and more than 20 people were cut down at once, and the enemy troops around them were surging, and the rest of them resisted desperately, escorting 'Shangxi Dongzan' to break through to Gaogang.
A mile away, Shang Jiasu looked coldly at the battle on the high post, with a smug smile in his eyes, he didn't expect it to be so easy to succeed, and the two thousand elite soldiers he ambushed almost didn't have any effect.
The two thousand elite soldiers who were ambushed in the forest a few miles away had slowly walked out of the forest, and they had not received Shang Jiasu's order to attack, and their hearts were filled with an inexplicable sense of loss, as if they had a feeling of punching into the air.
The shouting and killing sound on the high post became smaller and smaller, and gradually fell silent, 'Shangxi Dongzan' finally failed to get off the high post, and was swallowed up by more than a thousand of their own people who were also the Tubo army, for a moment, only to hear the sound of horses' hooves, dozens of people rushed over, and an officer held his head high in his hand, and shouted proudly: "General! Shang Xi Dongzan's head, we succeeded. ”
"Well done!"
Shang Jiasu shouted excitedly, he turned his head to look at Ah Shu City, the city was still dark, as if what happened on the high post had no effect on them.
Shang Jiasu was stunned, it was impossible to be so quiet! He remembered that Gao Gangshang had succeeded so easily, and an ominous feeling rose in his heart, and he hurriedly took the head, and several of his own soldiers put the torches closer, only to see that this person was indeed very similar to Shang Xi Dongzan, but much younger.
"Not good!"
Shang Jiasu realized that he had been tricked, and he shouted, "Return to the camp quickly!" ”
He turned his horse's head and ran towards his camp, his subordinates and two thousand cavalry followed closely, but he ran out of a few miles, his left flank suddenly came from a scream, Shang Jiasu turned his head, only to see that in the night, a black oppressive army appeared, they were almost a sneak attack, this army was extremely numerous, there were tens of thousands of people, like an overwhelming tide, and Shang Jiasu's army was surrounded in an instant, shouting and screaming, and the sound of killing and screaming resounded.
Shang Jiasu's face turned white with fright, he realized that this was Shang Xi Dongzan's main force, he had already seen through his strategy and ambushed here, Shang Jiasu was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, and after a while, he ordered left and right: "Quickly go back to the camp for help!" ”
"General, we are already surrounded and can't get out."
Shang Jiasu knew that he had reached the moment of life and death, and he was so anxious that he scolded: "Bastard! Rush out, it's too late. ”
Hundreds of pro-soldiers formed a commando team and broke through to the outside, but their 3,000 people were surrounded by 40,000 people, and they couldn't break through at all, Shang Xi Dongzan waved his spear and looked up to the sky and laughed: "Shang Jiasu, do you think you are smart?" Actually, you're the stupidest big fool, you go die! ”
He turned around and glanced east, ten miles away was Shang Jiasu's camp, but the camp would not know the situation here, and Shang Jiasu's messengers along the way were all killed by him.
Shang Xi Dongzan shouted loudly: "Whoever captures Shang Jiasu's head will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, a hundred pearls, and an official promotion of three levels!" ”
The Tibetan army stepped forward bravely, and Shang Jiasu and his army became smaller and smaller, and gradually, the general trend was gone........ Shang Jiasu's camp was also in chaos at this time, only to see hundreds of Tibetan cavalry as if running around the camp like a marquee, their arrows were like flying locusts, intensively shot into the camp fence, their arrows were accurate and abnormal, each round of shooting, a large number of soldiers fell, in a moment, ten rounds of arrows were shot, thousands of dead and wounded, frightened the soldiers did not dare to approach the camp fence again, soon, this group of cavalry rushed to the camp gate, they ignited the rockets, in the dark night, one rocket after another rose into the air, shooting towards the camp in a parabola, Many tents in the north were set on fire, and the northwest side of the camp was suddenly in flames, and hundreds of tents were set on fire, and there was chaos in the camp.
Seeing that there were only a few hundred people on the other side, several captains threw their camp into chaos, and could not help but burst into a rage, shouting: "Pursuit, cut them all alive!" ”
The Tibetan camp was opened, and tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers rushed out of the camp like ant colonies leaving the nest, rushing towards these hundreds of people, Qin Haiyang opened his bow and arrows, and shot down a Tubo commander who was running in the front with an arrow, and he laughed proudly: "Go!" ”
The five hundred cavalry turned their horses' heads, and the horses rushed westward with vigor, and the Tang army scout battalion was equipped with the best Arab war horses, and the horses were extremely fast, like clouds driving fog, and the dwarf horses on the Tibetan plateau could not catch up with them at all.
But the Tang army is obviously luring the enemy, they are not running fast, and the Tubo army has always maintained a distance of ** ten steps, the range of Tubo's bow and arrow is about seventy steps, so that if they are about to leave, the Tubo army feels that it is only a little bit away from catching up, and the 20,000 Tubo army persevered in pursuit, only chasing seven or eight miles of road, rushing up a hill, and they suddenly found a battle in the distance.
I saw tens of thousands of troops besieging an army, shouting and killing to the sky, screaming again and again, the Tubo army pursuing the Tang army was stunned, and the commander who led the army to pursue was the first to react, "Not good! It was the general who was besieged. ”
At this time, he didn't care about chasing the hundreds of people anymore, he immediately sent people back to ask for help, and roared again, led the army to Shang Xi Dongzan's army to kill, in the night, two different factions of the Tibetan army for the dominance of Tocharo, finally broke out a full-scale infighting, as the reinforcements from both sides continued to come, the 140,000 Tubo army launched a melee outside the city of Ashu.
The sound of shouting and killing resounded in the night sky, the drums sounded like thunder, the corpses accumulated, and the blood flowed like a river, and the entire city of Ashu fell into an unprecedented catastrophe.............. The sky gradually brightened, and the main force of the Tang army composed of 60,000 troops appeared twenty miles east of Achuan City, and today will be the night of the full moon, but unfortunately Shangxi Dongzan will not be able to see the full moon at night.
This area of hills is undulating, and there is a large forest in the fall, which obscures the sight, and he can't see the shadow of Achuan City, Li Qing'an rushed up a slow hill on his horse, squinting his eyes and looking in the direction of Achuan City, from here, he can faintly see the city wall of Achuan City, but he sees that there is billowing black smoke burning above Achuan City, and he doesn't know how the two Tibetan armies are fighting?
He turned around and asked his soldiers, "Is there any news from General Helou?" ”
He Lou Yurun led 20,000 troops, detoured to the south of Ashu City to intercept the Tubo army that might retreat, and his own soldiers rushed to the scout paperwork, and came back in a moment to report: "Hui to the general, He Lou Yurun has just sent news that the Tubo army has not retreated south. ”
At this time, a personal soldier pointed to the front and shouted: "General, look, it's General Qin and they are back." ”
I saw a cavalry team of five hundred people rushing out of a forest, their morale was high, and they galloped quickly to this side, Qin Haiyang rushed up the slow hill, turned over and dismounted, and half-knelt to Li Qing'an and saluted: "Report to the general, return smoothly from your humble duties, and return to the general!" ”
"What about the casualties of the brethren?"
"Returning to the general, only three brothers were slightly wounded, not seriously wounded, and not killed."
"Very good, what about the two Tibetan armies? Are they infighting? ”
"Our strategy is very successful, Shang Xi Dongzan and Shang Jiasu both want to take advantage of this opportunity to swallow each other, they have their own scheming, but Shang Xi Dongzan is superior, Shang Jiasu was almost intercepted and killed, it was we who led his army to come and saved his life, they have been killing until the fifth watch, Shang Xi Dongzan is invincible, has retreated into the city, Shang Jiasu's army also rushed into the city, they are still fighting in the city, the situation is unknown."
Li Qing'an nodded, the infighting of the Tubo people was expected by him, in fact, as early as the end of the war, the two of them planted the seeds of today's hatred, maybe they couldn't fight, but walked separately, but under their own clever arrangement, this seed became a spark, igniting the hatred between them in advance.
Li Qing'an immediately ordered: "Pass my order, the whole army will speed up, send troops to Achuan City, and at the same time send an order to He Lou Yurun, his 20,000 people must stop the defeated army of Tubo for me, if the main force of the Tubo army runs away, I want his head." ”
He urged the horse to gallop back to the ranks, the 30,000 cavalry of the Tang army took the lead, followed by 300 heavy chariots driven by twenty-four war horses, each chariot had thirty crossbowmen, ten of which were very special, painted all over the body in fiery red, they were called thunderbolt fire and thunder chariots by the Tang army, and the rear army was 20,000 cavalry, closely following the chariots, and the Tang army brigade was mighty towards Achuan City.
.......... At this time, the city of Ashu was already a hell on earth, the corpses outside the city were strewn with pillows, the blood flowed like a river, staining a large area of the land, more than half of the Tubo army had been killing each other and died tragically, they had already killed red eyes, and everyone had only one thought in their hearts, 'Kill each other!' ’
The battlefield has been transferred to the city, and there are less than 20,000 people left in Shang Xi Dongzan's 60,000 army, while Shang Jiasu's army is still nearly half, about 40,000 people, and Shang Jiasu's army has clearly gained the upper hand.
At this time, the entire population of Asha City was involved in the war, nearly 100,000 people were driven out of their homes by both sides, used as a cover for meat shields, fierce fighting was going on in every street and alley, and the city was full of killed soldiers and civilians.
The largest battle took place in the square in front of the palace, and Shang Xi Dongzan led nearly 9,000 men to use the palace buildings to resist it, while Shang Jiasu led nearly 30,000 people to launch a frantic attack on the palace again and again, and he drove tens of thousands of people to charge in front of him.
The square was full of cries and shouts, the moans of the undead who fell in a pool of blood, the stumps and broken arms, the heads were all over the ground, the corpses were piled up, Shang Jiasu had already killed the red eyes, although Shang Xi Dongzan asked for a truce several times, but he refused to agree, he must cut Shang Xi Dongzan into meat sauce to relieve the hatred in his heart, he was shot in the back by Shang Xi Dongzan with an arrow, and almost died.
At this time, he held the arrow engraved with the name of Shang Xi Dongzan in his hand, and shouted hoarsely: "Kill Shang Xi Dongzan, cut off the head of others, reward 5,000 taels of gold, 10,000 sheep, and be named the commander of ten thousand masters!" ”
There will be a brave man under the heavy reward, and his army began to attack frantically, they attacked the palace from all directions, at the main gate, about 10,000 civilians were forcibly driven away by the Tubo army, trying to let them rush into the palace, desperate cries, squeezing screams, resounded, and Shang Xi Dongzan was also merciless, and the civilians who rushed up they were all killed, and four mountains of corpses seven or eight feet high had been piled up in front of the palace.
"Shang Jiasu, please listen to me, we can no longer kill each other, I will give you the position of governor of Tocharo, all the food will be given to you, and I will leave Tocharian!"
Shang Xi Dongzan's voice was already hoarse, but his plea was exchanged for Shang Jiasu's even more frantic shouting, "Kill him, cook him into broth, and everyone will share a bowl." ”
Right here, a cavalryman galloped over, almost fell off his horse, stumbled in front of Shang Jiasu and shouted: "General, the big thing is not good, the main force of the Tang army is already five miles away from Ashu City." ”
"Ahh
Shang Jiasu was stunned, and the arrow in his hand was 'dang! When he landed, the main force of the Tang army came, Li Qing'an came, his mind was blank, and at this time, several commanders ran in front of him and said loudly: "General, we must withdraw immediately, the soldiers have been fighting all night, they are exhausted, and if we don't leave, we will be wiped out." ”
Shang Jiasu woke up like a dream, and he shouted sharply: "Retreat quickly!" Order the whole army to retreat south, quick! ”
The war was reversed, the Tubo soldiers stopped fighting, the news that the main force of the Tang army was killed instantly spread throughout the city, the news made the Tubo soldiers who were no longer able to fight collapsed, many people woke up like a dream at this time, their real enemy came, the Tubo soldiers who rushed from all directions rushed to the south of the city, like the ebb tide of the sea, at this time they no longer distinguish between the enemy and me, all of them scrambled, trampled on each other, countless people were pushed down, trampled to death, suffocated to death, they only had one thought, "escape!" Flee for your life to the south. ”
Shang Xidong was dumbfounded, I don't know how long it took, he slowly came to his senses, looked around, most of the soldiers around him fled, and only three or four hundred personal soldiers remained.
He muttered, "What I did, what we did!" ”
He hissed and shouted to the sky: "What have we all done, we didn't die in the hands of the Tang Army, but in the hands of our own people, oh my God!" Today is the night of the full moon! ”
Shang Xi Dongzan was already crazy, the pain made him lose his mind, he shouted, suddenly, he reversed the hilt of his sword, a sword stabbed his chest, the sword pierced the chest, the shouting stopped abruptly, Shang Xi Dongzan slowly fell.
.......... The tens of thousands of Tubo troops outside the southern city had no chance to escape, Li Qing'an's main force of 60,000 Tang troops had blocked their retreat, and the 500 scout army closed the city gate from behind, and the Tubo army had no way to retreat, and they fell into the meat grinder-like slaughter of the Tang army.
Three hundred chariots rampaged through the Tibetan rebellion, each horse was heavily armoured, they ran like flying, and countless Tibetan soldiers were knocked over by the chariots, trampled to death by the horses, and crushed to death.
Arrows on both sides of the chariot were like dense rain, where the chariot passed, a large number of Tubo people were shot down, and the 50,000 Tang cavalry were even more vicious, they divided and surrounded the Tubo soldiers, and the army was brutally killed by the Tang army, fleeing for their lives everywhere, running everywhere.
Although the Tibetan army also had the heart to resist, they were no longer able to fight, and most of them didn't even have the strength to escape, they were like a group of lambs, completely trapped in the slaughter of the Tang army.
The Battle of Tocharian in the second year of Sadaji ended in an unimaginable ending, when 230,000 Tibetan troops were annihilated by the Anxi army at the end of the year and Tocharo, and Tocharian became the final grave of the Tibetan army, and the 180,000 army, including the Tibetan Zampu, was wiped out.
Ambition and recklessness completely destroyed the Tibetan kingdom.
(To be continued)