Chapter 3: Sword Light

Under the snow-capped mountain is a green meadow, as far as the eye can see, the crowd in the distance has appeared in sight, and the team of more than 1,000 people is divided into four or five groups, which looks quite spectacular.

Xue Chongxun was wearing bright plate armor, and there was a smooth and reflective bronze mirror on the back of his chest. He sent Jincheng to the rear wing, asked the Nanya soldiers to divide a part of protection, and then put on a scarf to protect his head, with ear guards and a button, and made some preparations, and said to the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Regiment: "Our Flying Tiger Regiment is fighting a battle of winning more with less. Everyone burst into laughter.

He turned back to Jin Cheng and said, "Wait for me, I'll be back soon." ”

Jin Cheng said with concern on his face: "Xue Lang, you must be well." Xue Chongxun said with a smile: "Your Highness, rest assured, I have great confidence in the brothers of the Flying Tiger Regiment. ”

"You wait...... Jin Cheng turned his back and beckoned Xue Chongxun over, bowing his head and blushing and quietly stuffing something into his hand. Xue Chongxun grabbed it in his hand and pinched it, it was a smooth and soft pink fabric, he put it in front of his nose and smelled it, smelled a very special fragrance, and asked with some doubts: "What is this, what is it for?" ”

Jin Cheng said in a low voice: "It's a woman's underwear, I heard the old man say that this thing can prevent stray arrows, you put it in the armor, and the arrows can't touch you......"

It turned out to be something superstitious. But Xue Chongxun felt that it was very fragrant, and it could also make Jin Cheng feel at ease, so he reluctantly stuffed it into the cuirass and said with a smile: "This arrow is going to turn when it sees me." ”

After that, he turned over and got on his horse, hugged his fists and saluted Jincheng, rode his horse to the front of the army, and stood side by side with Zhang Wulang and other generals. He pretended to be relaxed and asked, "Zhang Wulang, how do you think you should fight?" ”

Zhang Wulang said: "There are many enemy soldiers, we should not fight, divide the troops and dismount to form a battle peak team to stabilize the position, and then it is safer to use the horsemen as a jump." ”

Xue Chongxun immediately said briskly: "It's up to Goro's plan." ”

Zhang Wulang said: "I ordered the Zhanfeng team, and Xue Lang led the jumping." ”

Xue Chongxun immediately shouted: "Bao Cheng, the left brigade dismounted, prepared bows and crossbows and knives to form a battle peak formation." Li Kuiyong of the right brigade led the horse team to listen to my orders. ”

"The last will be ordered!"

After a burst of shouting, the Flying Tiger Regiment was very skillful and skillful in forming a queue according to the formation of the usual training, and one hundred and two people from the left brigade formed two battle peak teams, waiting in line with infantry. Xue Chongxun led a hundred cavalry of the right brigade to the flank.

The Tibetan soldiers, who were cavalry troops, slowly marched to about a thousand paces and then stopped, and after a moment's pause, a group of light horsemen left the brigade and rushed forward to make a tentative attack.

At about 200 paces, the Tibetan cavalry increased their speed and pounced on this side. One hundred and fifty steps, Zhang Wulang shouted: "Crossbowmen shoot!" ”

The first row of Zhanfeng team fired a round of fine crossbows, and many of its Tibetan cavalry fell off their horses, and the range of cavalry was not as far as that of infantry crossbows, so they could only suffer two rounds of crossbows in vain.

Xue Chongxun knew that the other party was just trying to attack, so he didn't rush to let the horse team attack. At this time, the tambourine in the army sounded, and the two teams of Zhanfeng immediately moved forward, and Xue Chongxun also led the horse team to protect the flank and follow up slowly.

The Tubo soldiers, who had just been killed and wounded, were soon stepped on by the corpses of the armor soldiers. After advancing hundreds of steps, a group of Tubo men and horses formed a four-row charging formation and rushed towards them again. After more than 100 steps, he suffered a crossbow rain again. At this time, Xue Chongxun saw their equipment clearly, most of them were equipped with bows and arrows, Suoqin and other swords, and the armor had chain mail and leather armor, because the Tubo soldiers were horse teams and did not carry heavy weapons such as ballistas, compared with the Tang army wearing plate armor and carrying various standard weapons, the other party's equipment was indeed two grades worse.

Relying on the numerical superiority, the Tubo people desperately approached the advance of the Tang army, and when they were fifty or sixty paces, they attacked with cavalry and archery, and the Tang army's Zhanfeng team also changed bows and arrows to fight back, advancing while fighting. The Tibetans are very skilled in riding and archery, and they can operate freely on their horses, but the horses are bumpy, and their accuracy is certainly not as good as that of foot shooting.

The Tang Army's Mingguang armor had a miraculous effect on bows and arrows, especially the Zhanfeng team was covered in armor, although they did not use swords and shields, they did not suffer much damage. The cavalry of the Tubo people could not stop the advance of the Zhanfeng team, and then carried out a cavalry charge, at this time, the Tang army infantry abandoned the bow and crossbow, picked up the Mo knife, formed a dense knife formation, and advanced instead of retreating.

The bright light armor and the Mo knife were bright and shining, shining in the setting sun, and from a distance, they were like two walls of light rushing forward. The two armies were close to each other, and the Tubo cavalry was equipped with dense Mo knives, and the men and horses were broken, like eggs hitting stones, and the front line broke up and fled backwards.

The situation on the meadow has become very strange, the number of people is clear at a glance, the camp of Tibet is obviously wide, and the two armies are facing each other, as if a big black dog and a chicken are standing together. At this time, the left flank of Tibet moved, rushing from the flank, and at the same time launched another attack from the front.

Seeing this, Xue Chongxun raised his Mo knife and shouted, "Let's go!" A hundred horses galloped out, and the sound of horses' hooves made the grass roar. After the two horse teams approached, they immediately began to mount and shoot, and after a long battle, the Tibetans were poorly armoured and suffered more casualties. Xue Chongxun was also hit by two arrows, but his finely built armor made him unscathed, but after the war horse was shot to death, he fell and his knee was faintly painful, so he changed horses and fought again.

The Left Brigade Modao Team led by Zhang Wulang only had two battle peak teams, but they were as hard as a steel machine, and Rao was five times the size of the Tubo soldiers of the Tang Army, and he could not break through its array. If the battle continued in this way, there was only one way to retreat, and the Tubo immediately changed their tactics and outflanked them left and right with superior forces, intending to deal with the Tang infantry with light cavalry maneuvers.

At this moment, Zhang Wulang shouted: "Change!" ”

When the Tubo soldiers were not approaching, the two battle peak teams quickly changed their formation, forming a circular formation, shrinking the formation, with the Mo sword on the outside and the crossbowmen in the center. Xue Chongxun's horse team also received the middle of the circle.

The Tubo soldiers outflanked from the left and right and quickly surrounded the Tang army, but the round camp in the middle stood still like a turtle, and the area was small after shrinking, so that the Tubo numerical advantage could not be converted into attack strength, and could only spread bows and arrows around the circle array.

At this time, Xue Chongxun shouted: "Beat the drums, the horse team attack!" ”

"Knock knock!" Although it is a small drum, it has a sense of rhythm. If it was a big drum, it would have been more imposing, but unfortunately those supplies had already been discarded when they fled earlier.

Xue Chongxun immediately led Bao Cheng's troops to protrude from the corner of the circle array, and rushed straight to the corner of the enemy soldiers who surrounded them, only dozens of steps apart, and in an instant, they were short to each other, and the nine-foot-tall Bao Cheng rushed to the first, and each face was solved with a knife, and the iron cavalry was like a broken bamboo to split the Tibetan crowd.

Suddenly, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the battle was dark, and after a while, Bao Cheng and Xue Chongxun were all poured with blood, like bloody people. The soldiers of the Flying Tiger Regiment are all selected fierce men, unstoppable, several impacts back and forth, and the Tubo horse team has signs of chaos.

"Kill out of the encirclement, kill it again, let's thread the needle and give it a few back and forth!" Xue Chongxun shouted, and led the army to raid after patting the horse. A group of cavalry was like a wolf entering a flock of sheep, and those Tubo soldiers were cut down like targets and cried out to their fathers and mothers, and they could no longer support them to turn around and flee.

Seeing this, the other Tibetan soldiers also ran along, and the formation was chaotic, but fortunately, the cavalry ran very fast. Seeing this, Bao Cheng admonished: "Wei Gong's military law, the enemy must not advance when retreating, my cavalry will chase for a while, and do not stay away from the rescue range of the Zhanfeng team." ”

This is the first time that the Flying Tiger Regiment has fought with a foreign race, and after a fight, it was found that the Tubo army was not so strong in front of the elite Tang army, and it seemed a little soft, and even the Tang Dynasty forbidden army could not compare. Xue Chongxun saw that so many people were actually fleeing with wolves, and a domineering aura rose from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, brandished his knife and pointed ahead, and shouted to the soldiers sideways: "Kill!" ”

The first brigade of light cavalry immediately followed, shooting with bows and arrows while chasing, and slashing with knives and spears when they reached the tail, and there were scattered corpses of Tubo people along the way.

After chasing for a while, Bao Cheng patted his horse to catch up with Xue Chongxun and said: "We should not be greedy for merit, if it is too far, if the enemy soldiers return to the melee, Zhang Wulang will not be able to respond in time, and it will be dangerous!" ”

Xue Chongxun thought about it, then accepted Bao Cheng's advice, turned around and shouted: "Just chase here, spare their dogs' lives for the time being." The horses slowed down, and the army cheered excitedly.

Xue Chongxun strangled the horse's head, the war horse neighed, the front hooves were raised high, Xue Chongxun looked down at the grassland, his chest was broad, and he shouted: "The Tang army is invincible!" ”

"Hooray! Long live ......" everyone shouted, echoing leisurely among the snow-capped mountains.

The Flying Tiger Regiment suffered a small death, with dozens of people slightly injured, but there were many black spots on the grass, almost all of which were the corpses of the Tibetan soldiers. When everyone returned to the rear, Zhang Shuo, who was originally very dissatisfied with Xue Chongxun, also gave him a thumbs up: "With one enemy and five, although our Tang army is often like this, we need to seize the favorable fighter opportunity to win, and we can still win by fighting hard with five times the enemy, admire and admire!" ”

Xue Chongxun took off his helmet and said with a smile: "Don't look at what elite division our Flying Tiger Regiment is!" What are the results of Zhang Xianggong? ”

"The pursuers did not dare to fight a decisive battle, but only tentatively approached once and then retreated to the west, and I did not send troops back to pursue." Zhang said with a straight expression, "The one who blocked the road was beaten away, we shouldn't stay for a long time, let's set off after a little repair." ”

At this time, the Flying Tiger Regiment sent men and horses to search everywhere and caught a number of war horses that ran away from the battlefield, most of which were Tibetan horses. Now for them, horses are the most important thing and the biggest problem.

Xue Chongxun led the horse to Jincheng and asked, "Does Your Highness know how to ride a horse?" Jin Cheng's face turned slightly red and said, "No...... Congress. Xue Chongxun smiled: "Then I'll take you." "Let's help her get on the horse.

The army gathered up for a while, took the wounded soldiers, and continued on their way in some haste. Those servants can be abandoned, but the wounded soldiers can't be abandoned, so as not to chill the soldiers. Fortunately, most of them were lightly injured and were martial artists, so it was not a big problem, but there were two seriously injured sergeants who were a little troublesome...... Now, in order to get rid of the pursuit of the Lang clan's brigade, they can only use the speed of rapid marching, and those who are seriously injured and cannot ride horses are dragged down. G