When Ma Lu talked about Li Xiu, there was admiration in the eyes of several people, and they nodded at the same time.

Since Li Xiu is presiding over the matter, I think what the general said can really be realized.

A few months ago, news came from Chang'an that the deceased Li Linfu broke out because of his conspiracy with the chief of Tongluo, Absi, to rebel, and was deprived of all his posthumous mourning, deposed as a commoner, and his body was dug up and reburied with the rites of the common people, and several sons and sons-in-law were dismissed from office and exiled to Yuanjun. The two prime ministers who hosted the case, Yang Guozhong and Chen Xilie, both used this merit to become the prince of the country.

Li Xiu was not taken back to Chang'an by Bian Lingcheng because of Ma Lingcheng's insistence, and after Bian Lingcheng left, Ma Ling said that Li Xiu went to Chang'an to mourn his father and died of illness in the road. With this incident, it did not affect Li Xiu's family, because Chang'an thought he was dead.

When the news of Li Linfu's framing reached Anxi, Li Xiu did not feel too much sadness, and continued to develop various weapons in the Ma family's workshop, and the supply of Yuan Rong crossbows for the Anxi army has not been interrupted. This is a natural craftsman, a man who is extremely obsessed with weapons. These staff members all know how important Li Xiu is to the Anxi Army today.

For Li Linfu, these staff members don't have much good impression in their hearts, Li Linfu is a minister who has been framed by each other, and it is also unpleasant to be framed by Yang Guozhong after his death. However, for Li Xiu, Duan Xiushi and others admired it from the bottom of their hearts.

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For Ma Luan, Li Xiu is now his right-hand man, and many of his ideas are realized by Li Xiu.

The formula of black powder is ready-made, stable and safe smokeless gunpowder - fire cotton can only be a dream in the short term, not that Xizhou is rich in cotton, he can use it to make cotton in large quantities.

The power of black powder is really limited, and the invention of fire cotton is far away, and now the direction of Li Xiu's efforts is the granulation of black powder. Although Ma Lu read a lot in his previous life, he never really made these things, so now he can only rely on Li Xiu to complete them.

What he told several staff members was his ideals, and as for whether Li Xiu could help him realize it, Ma Lu himself was not sure.

If it can't be developed to the level of cotton wool, gunpowder is not as reliable as the Yuanrong crossbow for the Anxi army. Of course, compared to the price of the Yuan Rong crossbow, the black powder is much cheaper.

These are all idle words, and the most important thing now is the big war tomorrow. The secret agent battalion has a total of more than 30 catties of black powder of experimental nature, and now it is estimated that it has been used up, and this thing is not enough to rely on before it develops to smokeless gunpowder.

The Qiang people were destined to not be able to sleep tonight, but Ma Lu fell asleep peacefully in the surrendered city, and woke up the next morning with a radiant spirit. When I climbed to the top of the city, I saw that the trumpets of the Tibetan army were sounding in unison, and it seemed that they were preparing to attack.

Inside the trench, the male and female men were already ready, and they clenched the spears in their hands excitedly.

This time, it was still the warriors of the Subi tribe who were at the forefront. Just look at the slow pace of these guys and you can see how depressed their morale is.

Together with the warriors of the Subi tribe, there were more than 2,000 Tuyuhun people, all of whom looked listless and slow.

The century-old prestige of the Tibetan royal family made them have to step forward, but the reputation of the ancestor of the protector of the god of war made them feel even more frightened.

Each of these more than 5,000 people carried a bag of dirt, which was the method that Zhu Dan had come up with all night to deal with the trench. The army approached the trench, and suddenly a group of elephant males appeared in the trench, and the feathered arrows shot at them one after another, and many tribal warriors fell to the ground.

Some of the soldiers in the Tuyuhun army threw down the dirt bags, stood on the ground and shot at the Zhangxiong people on the edge of the trench, relying on the advantage of numbers, and quickly suppressed the Zhangxiong people, while the rest of the Tuyuhun soldiers quickly approached the trench and shouted to throw the dirt bags into the trench.

After all, they are warriors, and the fear of the ancestor of the Dharma Protector God of War is one thing, but once the war starts, everything else will be forgotten for the time being.

Soon a section of the trench was filled in by the dirt bags, and the Tuyuhun warriors rushed up with a shout, and after rushing to the top of the slope made of soil, they slapped the barbed wire on the slope with their spears and heavy swords, trying to cut the barbed wire.

The elephants roared and rushed from the trenches behind, some of them shooting with bows and arrows in the trenches, while others rushed up the slope and condescended behind the barbed wire, stabbing the Tuyuhun people with spears in a dense manner.

After the barbed wire fence behind the first trench was cut by heavy swords and spears, the Tuyuhun warriors rushed down from the top of the slope and rushed to the second trench.

Filling the trenches is not a new idea, and these conditions are expected in advance. The Zhangxiong did not appear flustered, and the Zhangxiong in charge of the command issued short orders from time to time, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

The Tuyuhun broke through the first ditch, but most of them had no dirt bags at hand, but at this time they became live targets for the Zhangxiong bows and arrows, and the Zhangxiongs from all three directions could shoot at them with bows and arrows.

The Tuyuhun people fell one after another in the rain of arrows of the Zhangxiong people, but when they looked back, the warriors of the Subi tribe stopped at the edge of the first trench, holding dirt bags but did not mean to rush up. The Tuyuhun people led by him shouted loudly, but the warriors of the Subi tribe did not move.

The Tuyuhun warriors who still had dirt bags in their hands threw the dirt bags into the second trench and pressed more than a dozen elephant males, but under the rain of arrows, it was completely chaotic, and many guys with dirt bags directly threw the dirt bags into the horizontal trenches on both sides, and the trenches in three directions were only filled in a shallow layer, and they were still deep trenches that could not be crossed at all.

Seeing his soldiers falling one after another under the feathered arrows of the Zhangxiong people, the Tuyuhun people led by him were also red-eyed, and cursed the damned Subi people fiercely in their hearts, and with a roar of rage, they jumped down the trench with a heavy sword, and killed an old man who released arrows with a single sword.

The leader took the lead, and the rest of the Tuyuhun warriors immediately jumped off the trench one after another, surrounded the nearby Zhangxiong and began to fight. The elephants and males fell, the survivors fled to the trenches behind, and the Tuyuhun warriors chased after them one after another.

At this point, it's exactly the same as yesterday. The deep trenches and lanes are staggered, and it has completely become the world of the Zhangxiong people, and the Tuyuhun people are scurrying around in groups like headless flies, and they are divided and surrounded by the Zhangxiong people who come and go suddenly, and they rely on the sharp Tubo spears to surround and kill little by little.

More than 2,000 Suvi warriors who attacked at the same time stood on the bank of the first trench with earthen bags on their shoulders, listening to the angry shouts of the Xiangxiong people in the trench and the screams of the Tuyuhun people dying in silence. In the Tubo military camp two miles behind him, the horn of urging the attack sounded constantly, but the soldiers of the Subi tribe did not move.

Soon the sound of fighting in the trench slowly subsided, and the Zhangxiong people cheered hoarsely in the trench, praising the protection of the great protector of the god of war, and it was obvious that the more than 2,000 strong Tuyuhun people had all died.

Ma Lan stood at the head of the surrendered city and looked at the Subians with great interest.

The Subi tribe is the most ferocious among the Tubo tribes, although there are only more than 30,000 households, but it occupies a very large area of land in the northernmost part of the plateau from east to west, the west is connected with Zhangxiong, and the east is the Tuyuhun tribes, the Tubo people and the Tang Dynasty compete for the source of the river, and the Subi tribe participates in it as a pioneer in every battle.

The northernmost part of the plateau, backed by the Kunlun Mountains, is the most barren area, and it is the poverty of life that makes the Suvi people mad warriors. However, it is precisely because of the barrenness of this land that the population of the Subi tribe has never been large, more than 30,000 households, which was a long time ago, and now I am afraid that it is less than 30,000.

This time, there are more than 5,000 soldiers of the Subi tribe who appeared under the surrendered city, and this is probably all the elite of the Subi tribe that can be dispatched. After all, Ge Shuhan on the Heyuan side is marching, and the participation of Subi soldiers is indispensable to fight against the Longyou army.

These more than 5,000 soldiers, were besieged and killed by the ruler Zhudan Liwei, yesterday as cannon fodder tentative attack and more than 2,000 died, now there is no longer the banner of the Subi tribe in the Tubo army, more than 2,000 soldiers parked on the edge of the trench are all the soldiers of the Subi tribe.

If all these people are dead, the Subi tribe is afraid that it will really be over.

Ma Lan understood that this was what the leader of the Subi tribe hesitated about, and it was also the reason why the Subi tribe was stagnant. However, according to the rules of the Qiang people, the Subi tribe is already a betrayal if they do not obey the order, and they can't change this fact if they rush up now.

There are more than 2,000 Subians, and he really doesn't pay attention to it, and he has no intention of surrendering. A tribe like this that has a blood feud with the Tang Dynasty, whether it is the Tuyuhun or the Subian, he doesn't want to surrender. In the war between the Tibetan and Tang dynasties, these tribes were the vanguard, and far more Han people died at the hands of these tribes than at the hands of the real Luo people. Such a tribe, Ma Ling wants to destroy it when he has the opportunity, and he will not be soft when he kills them all.

In the Tibetan army, the sound of the horn sounded earth-shattering, and the black pressure of the people moved forward, this time, the slowly approaching soldiers of various departments were densely packed. Judging from the banner, except for the more than 20,000 people of the Chinese army of the ruler belt Zhudan, the rest of the soldiers of all departments were all dispatched!

After a while, the Chinese army with Zhudan also began to slowly approach behind the soldiers of various divisions, and all of them dismounted their horses and rushed forward on foot.

Seeing the approaching warriors, the warriors of the Subi tribe were a little at a loss for a while.

The army behind was approaching so fast that it was about to collide with each other, and the leader of the Subi tribe howled in pain, threw down his weapon heavily, and walked forward along the winding passage in the trench.

Surrender is the most humiliating thing, even if it is the great protector of the God of War Patriarch who surrenders, but for the continuation of the Subi tribe, he can't care so much.

The rest of the Subi warriors also threw down their weapons and quickly poured into the passage left between the trenches. The shallow pit that could break the horse's hooves had no effect on the people, and they walked defenseless into the depths of the trench, and the elephant and the male had no way to stop them. (To be continued.) )