Chapter Seventy-Six: The Beginning

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The afterglow of the setting sun shone on Udgan, and a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky, but the people who were hurrying at the foot of Udgan obviously had no intention of appreciating such a view. After a rain, the road below the mountain was trampled to mud, and the water flowed quietly, with a few carts with broken wheels and several dead cattle and sheep submerged in the water, and goshawks were circling at the water's edge in search of food. The faint sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and a large group of nearly 1,000 Tubo cavalry stopped, their whole bodies were tightly covered by armor, and only two cold eyes were revealed behind their masks. With a lift of his hand, Tripa Gyaltsen said:

"Change horses."

The already muddy road was even more muddy, and horseshoe prints covered the original footprints. When it was getting dark, another cavalry of two or three thousand men arrived, but chose to stay by the river rather than continue on. Everyone knows that the prey is ahead, the big war is about to begin, and a little more rest at this time will give you more hope of surviving tomorrow.

Dozens of miles to the east, bonfires were lit in the camp of the Shatuo people, and the cry of babies could be heard from time to time. Zhu Xie Duzhong and Zhu Xie Zhiyi sat by a bonfire, and a scout horse hurriedly ran to the front of the camp, dismounted and knelt down, and said:

"In a big way, the pursuers of the Tibetans have crossed the Taoshui and set up camp only thirty miles away from us."

Zhu Xie Zhiyi jumped up violently and said:

"What do you say? It couldn't be, we've only been gone for three days. ”

The worries of the past three days have become a reality, and once the danger is confirmed, the pressure on Zhu Xie to be loyal has decreased a lot, and he asked:

"How many are there, and who is leading the troops?"

"More than a thousand cavalrymen, the people of Criba Gyaltsen. There was also a cavalry of more than 2,000 people on the Taoshui side. ”

Zhu Xie is loyal:

"That's what God means. Call the heads of the tribes. ”

Before dawn the next day, the Shatuo brigade began to march eastward under the guidance of the starlight, but the team was missing Zhu Xie Duzhong and Zhu Xie Zhiyi's father and son, and replaced by Zhu Xie Duzhong's second son Zhu Xie Qingsuo. A brigade of tens of thousands of people spread all over the mountains, and Zhu Xie Qingsu looked in the direction he came from worriedly.

In the place where the Shatuo people had walked yesterday, in a lush meadow by a tributary of Taoshui, one of the horsemen of Tripa Gyaltsen had come out of a blanket by the side of his horse, sleepy-eyed and ready to pee. In the end, it was the elite of Tubo, even if he was in pursuit, he did not forget to release the sentry from far and near, and when he opened his sleepy eyes, by the starlight, he found that the sentries were tense and stood straighter than before, the cavalryman smiled, this brother, really dutiful, staggered to a sentry, patted the sentry on the shoulder, and said:

"Brother, don't be so nervous, it's too late for the Shatuo people to escape."

Before he finished speaking, he felt a cold throat and wanted to scream, but his mouth was already covered, and just when he was about to collapse to the ground, the remaining trace of clarity caught a sentence spoken in stiff Tubo language:

"How can we Shatuo people escape?"

Countless figures grew out of the lush grass, bent over, and gently, step by step, approached the sleeping Tibetan cavalry.

Tripa Gyaltsen was dreaming, dreaming that he led a thousand invincible Tibetan warriors to catch up with Zhu Xie Duzhong's brigade, Zhu Xie Duzhong discharged tens of thousands of Shatuo cavalry, trying to defeat him, he was ordered by the Great Theory, but only followed and harassed, as a result, the Shatuo people lost patience and sent two thousand troops to besiege him, so he ran back with his cavalry. No, no, how can I, Tripa Gyaltsen, run, my Tibetan warriors are invincible, and the gods of this religion will bless us •••••• Buddhism, to hell••••• so I, Tripa Gyaltsen, led the invincible Tubo warriors, and killed them, killing the corpses of the Shatuo people all over the field, cattle and sheep everywhere, haha, the end of the cattle and sheep is some of them, Zampu is waiting for him, Zampu said:

Chiba Gyaltsen, you are more powerful than the Tang people's Hao Xuan and Ye Shi Liangfu combined, from now on, you are a great comment, no, you are a great praise (Tubo Daxiang).

Tripa Gyaltsen was about to take over the Great Seal of Ronzan from Tsangpu's hand, when he turned back and saw a Shatuo soldier swinging a knife at him, and Tripa Gyaltsen was startled and abruptly dodged.

What's going on?

Awakened Tripa Gyaltsen watched all this in amazement, and countless Shatuo people seemed to emerge from the ground, rushing to the Tubo soldiers who had just woken up from their sleep, and had not yet put on their armor and found their weapons. Looking back at the place where he had slept, a long knife was sitting there. A cold sweat broke out on Tripa Gyaltsen's head. The instinctive reaction caused him to bend down and step back, hit the attacker in the abdomen with an elbow, and with a stroke of his hand, grabbed the attacker's neck, straightened up, clamped his arm, twisted the attacker's neck, snatched the scimitar in the attacker's hand, and dodged another attack from behind.

More and more Tibetan soldiers found weapons or seized the enemy's weapons, and the Yushatuo soldiers were killed together, but when it was dawn, there were only a few people left of more than a thousand Tibetan cavalry who fled for their lives, and the head of Chiba Gyaltsen was also cut off.

"Let them go back, but let them die two days late!"

The other Shatuo soldiers silently cleaned up the battlefield, led the horses of the Tubo people, picked up the weapons of the Tubo soldiers, turned out the dry food, gold and silver of the Tubo soldiers, and mended the dead Tubo soldiers and Shatuo soldiers. In addition to those who escaped, there were more than 1,000 mounts of the Tibetans. Zhu Xie Zhiyi grinned and rode on Tripa Gyaltsen's mount, but the joy was overwhelmed by the tremendous pressure. Not long after, Zhu Xie Duzhong and Zhu Xie Zhiyi took two thousand broken Shatuo warriors, drove thousands of horses, and galloped eastward. A bloody smell was left behind him.

When more than 2,000 cavalry of the second Tibetan army arrived, they saw the head of Triba Gyaltsen hanging from a lonely tree from a distance. Nearly noon, the third team of 3,000 cavalry of Tubo passed here, and by the evening, Shatuo's Tanma had counted four groups of Tubo pursuers, with a total of nearly 20,000 horsemen. Tanma from other directions of Shatuo also reported one after another, and the Tibetan army came from all directions.

From this day on, Tubo's month-long siege and interception of Shatuo from Taoshui to Shimen officially began.