When the Tibetan Zanpu sent out his troops, it was customary to drive the conquered tribes as the vanguard, and the soldiers and horses of the headquarters as backup. The warriors of the Zhangxiong, Subi, Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, Bailan and other tribes who were conquered by the Xibuye clan were usually the characters who rushed to the first wave as cannon fodder. These tribes suffered great casualties during war, and very little when they divided the spoils.

Most of the Subi tribal knights who were besieged and killed by the Tubo army only had shabby leather armor, and some did not even have leather armor. On the other hand, the elite of the Luo under the banner of the king of the Zhu Dan army in the ruler belt actually had about thirty percent of the armor made of iron pieces on their bodies, and the spears, shields and heavy swords they held in their hands were not comparable to the simple weapons of the warriors of the Subi tribe.

This time, the ruler belt Zhu Dan led the army to surge, and the first wave to come up must still be those servant troops, which is an obvious thing. However, the more than 20,000 people in the Tibetan army are obviously the strength that the ruler belt Zhudan can really rely on. Looking at the equipment of these guys, you can know that these people can be cavalry and infantry. More than 20,000 elites are the most important capital in this battle.

More than 500 of his clan were besieged and killed by Zampu, and the remaining thousands of Subi warriors were extremely angry, but none of them spoke. They have been conquered by the Logos for more than a hundred years, and they are used to these things.

Ma Lan did not continue to stay in front of the Tubo army, but returned directly to the surrendered city with the generals. It is enough to get off the horse and give it once, and the battle still has to be fought in real terms.

Standing on the head of the surrendered city, you can see that the army is followed by a large number of Tibetan slaves, old and weak women and children, driving a large number of sheep, horses, and yaks.

This was the most common situation for the Tibetans during the war, relying on these livestock to maintain supplies for a long time, which was convenient for continuous warfare, and they could quickly replenish their troops to fight again in the event of setbacks. However, the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, you can only win and not lose, and once you are completely defeated, everything belongs to the enemy. In the battle with the Tibetans, the Tang army captured tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of sheep, horses, and yaks after victory.

The dense Tubo people marched like a wall, the ground shook violently, and the old and weak men hidden in the trench held the weapons in their hands excitedly one by one. They know their fate, but they don't fear it.

This is Zhangxiong's battle for the restoration of the country, and it must be won. As the people of the great King Zhangzhung, they were ready to shed blood.

The Tibetan army stopped two miles outside the trench, and the black crowd looked like an ocean from the top of the city.

Backed by the mountains, close to the avenue, surrounded by moats on three sides, the city can not be compared with the big city of the Central Plains, but it exhausts the wisdom of Ma Lan, combines the characteristics of the Central Plains city and the western fortress, and is designed to be extremely special.

The city is not the square shape common in the Central Plains cities, but the shape of a six-pointed star, the city wall is tortuous, and there are many turns, and the eight-bull crossbow is hidden in the corners. Even if the enemy has heavy siege equipment, it is extremely difficult to open a gap in the city wall.

Ma Lan did not build this city just for this battle, but to use the city as a permanent stronghold of the Tang Dynasty on the plateau.

The trenches outside the city were used to weaken the Tibetans, which was the task that the Zhangxiong needed to complete, and when the Tibetans were within the range of the Eight Ox Crossbows, it was the time for Anxi Jian'er to strike.

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The crumbling meadows, the sharp barbed wire behind the trenches, and the sudden emergence of a huge city all seemed to make it difficult for the Tibetans to adapt. After the Tibetan army stopped, there were constantly rangers galloping out to check, but they did not immediately attack.

Ma Lan stood at the head of the surrendered city and watched this scene, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The Tibetan people came from afar, and they were sleepy and tired, and it was normal for them to want to rest. The elephant male waited in the trench for a long time, like a taut bowstring, and if he waited too long, he would inevitably be discouraged. Naturally, he would not allow such a thing to happen.

Ma Lan waved his hand, and soon a young man's head covered with lime hung on the high pole at the head of the city, and the whole Xizhou Dalian had several big words written on it, "Son of Zampu", fluttering back and forth in the wind. The big characters are written in blood, which is extremely conspicuous on Bai Lian.

The Tibetan rangers are flying back and forth, and the situation here will definitely be known by Zhudan. Ma Lan didn't believe that after seeing his son's head, this old guy could still sit still.

Sure enough, as Ma Lan expected, a moment later, the desolate horn sound in the Tubo army sounded intensively, and the Tubo cavalry of the brigade lined up in formation and began to slowly approach the city.

These people only have rudimentary leather armor on their bodies, and some of them don't even have leather armor, which are the cannon fodder troops who were recruited by the ruler with Zhudan.

The cavalry approached the trench, but did not know what to do, when the trumpet sounded again, and the sound became more rapid.

The leader of the cavalry roared angrily, and the cavalrymen dismounted one by one and approached the first trench with their weapons. Suddenly, a large number of Qiang people appeared in the trench, and a shower of arrows came over.

The archery skills of the old and weak Zhangxiong were not bad, and dozens of unlucky Tubo people were shot down on the edge of the trench. Seeing that it was not the terrifying crossbow rain of the Tang army that greeted them, the Tubo soldiers had confidence, roared angrily and rushed forward with their weapons, jumped directly into the trench, and started a bloody battle with the Xiangxiong people.

There was a sudden sound of killing in the trench, and the weapons of both sides were roughly the same, and there was no way to dodge in the narrow trench, all of them were hard-hitting.

An elderly Zhangxiong warrior pierced a sharp Tibetan spear into the opponent's ribs, but when he pulled out the spear, his sternum was shattered by a heavy sword, and the Tibetan warrior with the sword was stabbed in the waist by a young Zhangxiong and fell down with the old Zhangxiong.

The sound of roars sounded densely in the first trench, and the sound of sharp blades entering flesh continued one after another, and the ground inside the trench was soon stained red with blood.

Soon the Zhangxiong people in the first trench were cleared, and the Tibetans also paid a great price. The fanatical Zhangxiong people were not afraid of death in order to restore the country, although they were old and weak, they also caused great damage to the Tubo people.

Behind the trench was a high slope of earth made by digging the trench and beaten with a sharp barbed wire. The Tibetan warriors had no choice but to follow a few fleeing Zhangxiong men along the winding trench.

As soon as he turned a lane, he was faced with another wave of arrows, and at such a close distance, the leather armor could not defend against it, and suddenly the Tubo people fell again. And out of nowhere, a wave of elephant males rushed out of nowhere, all of them holding sharp Tibetan spears, and they were densely stabbed like a forest. The Zhangxiong man in front also threw down his horned bow and pounced with a Tibetan spear.

Attacked from both sides by the Zhangxiong, the numerical advantage of the Tibetans was useless. Other weapons suddenly became extremely cumbersome here, and the long and sharp Tubo spears took advantage in the trenches, and more than 100 Tubo warriors were blocked by more than 40 Xiangxiong men with spears in the alley on both sides, and they were killed cleanly in a short time.

After killing all the Tibetans, the Xiangxiong people quickly disappeared into the alleyway, and the follow-up Tibetan warriors rushed up, only to see a back.

On the ground between the trenches, there were some zigzag passages, enough to accommodate several war horses in parallel, and some of the Tibetan soldiers rushed into it on horseback, and shot at the male and elephant men in the trench with feathered arrows, but suddenly the war horses neighed and fell down one by one.

After falling off the horses, the knights found that the ground under their feet was full of dense shallow pits, and the horses broke their hooves as soon as they stepped into them. The elephant and the male rushed up the slope of the tunnel, and with a burst of sharp spears, they stabbed all the knights to death, and slipped down the slope into the trench.

In the trench, from time to time the sound of the short orders of the Zhangxiong people sounded, and a ** Zhangxiong people came and went suddenly, surrounding and intercepting the Tubo people who poured into the trench. Each Zhangxiong was extremely familiar with the trench he was stationed in, and had learned to listen to the simple orders invented by the Tang people from the chieftains. In the narrow trenches, the long, sharp Tibetan spear became the most terrifying weapon, and the individual's martial prowess was completely useless.

Some Tibetans struggled to climb the trench, and he was greeted by feathered arrows flying from all directions. They didn't have a strong defensive armor, and at such a close distance, they were directly shot into hedgehogs by the elephant males.

The follow-up Tubo soldiers did not know what was happening in front of them, and they continued to jump down the trench, and once they jumped, they quickly lost their direction and could only follow their companions to kill aimlessly.

The ubiquitous lanes, the ubiquitous Zhangxiong people, and the groups of Tibetan soldiers were attacked, divided, and intercepted by the Zhangxiong people, and fell under the sharp Tibetan spears.

More than 2,000 Tibetan warriors entered the trench, and soon the sound of fighting in the trench calmed down, and the rich bloody atmosphere drifted in the trench, and the ownerless war horses wandered back and forth in front of the trench and refused to leave. Hundreds of Zhangxiong men suddenly rushed out of the trench from the slope, drove the war horses left by the Tubo people back along the passage between the trenches, and all of them rushed to the city under the surrender.

The first tentative attack of the Tibetans ended like this.

The one-armed Elephant King stood beside Ma Lu, his eyes becoming extremely bright. He really didn't expect the battle to be like this, and the old and weak of the Xiangxiong people actually wiped out the enemy so quickly.

As requested in advance, casualties on both sides were quickly reported. More than 2,600 soldiers of the Subi tribe sent by the Tubo people were all killed in the battle, one did not return alive, and more than 500 Zhangxiong people were killed in the battle, and the number of wounded was basically the same.

The 500 wounded basically lost their combat effectiveness, and most of them could no longer participate in the battle, but even so, the loss ratio of the elite soldiers of the Subi tribe and the old and weak of the Zhangxiong reached an astonishing ratio of two to one.

Listening to the excited voice of the Zhangxiong scout, Ma Lan nodded with a light smile, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Li Gongpo, the king of Xiangxiong, looked at Ma Lan, and suddenly knelt heavily on the ground and bowed to Ma Lan again and again. (To be continued.) )