On June 14, the 17th year of Zhenguan, the time came, the sky was not yet transparent, there was a thin layer of mist floating on the side of Tawakule Lake, not thick, just rippling like a light veil, covering the Tang Army camp by the lake softly, looking at it from afar, the Tang Army camp that was still quiet at this time also had a fairyland-like feeling, however, with a terrible horn sounding, this quiet and peaceful atmosphere instantly disappeared without a trace, replaced by the scraping sound of iron armor and the shouts of the gang leaders, The entire Tang army camp came alive in an instant, and there was a busy scene everywhere.

The war is imminent, it is definitely a lie to say that he is not nervous, Ren is a brave person, and at this time he can't help but feel a little worried, but the brave can control his emotions, and the cowardly can only tremble in vain, Ge Xia thinks that he is not a coward, but he is about to go to the battlefield for the first time He still can't suppress the fear in his heart, he only feels that there is a fire burning in his heart, which makes people sit still, but he can't even eat breakfast, and he barely put down the dishes and chopsticks after a few bites, He didn't care about the nonsense of his comrades-in-arms, hid in the tent alone, picked up a rag, and silently wiped the already bright knife, although his hand moved, his heart was still a mess.

Ge Xia thought a lot, but he felt that he didn't really think about anything, as the first to defect to the Yue King Li Zhen of the Western Turkic tribe - a member of the Xibulo tribe, Ge Xia did not participate in the last battle with Ashina Sero because of his age, but since the first two months, he finally turned sixteen years old, he has the qualifications to join the army, in order to live a good life for his parents, younger brothers and sisters at home, Ge Xia did not hesitate to choose the road of joining the army, after all, as a soldier, not only has a considerable salary to get, The family can also be exempted from all taxes and miscellaneous labor, in addition, can still share more than ten acres of cotton fields, a number of cattle and sheep, and this is definitely a huge income for poor families, in order for the elderly parents to live better, but also for the younger siblings to go to free school, not to mention just to go to the army, it is a sea of swords and fires, Ge Xia also dares to break through.

Ge Xia felt that he was very lucky, it should be said that he was extremely lucky, with his illiterate herdsman's son, and he had no background in the army, just because of his great relationship, he successfully passed the three military examinations, and was unexpectedly selected into the Baidao team, the most elite unit in the army, not only the salary is twice as high as that of ordinary sergeants, but the family has a lot more cattle and sheep, and more importantly, he can also arbitrarily choose the cotton fields allocated by the Dadu Protectorate, such a good thing is something that others can't look forward to. And Ge Xia had it easily, although the training was a little harder on weekdays, and he had to learn Chinese after training, but for Ge Xia, who had an endless desire for knowledge, all this was exactly what he wanted, and the only thing that made Ge Xia a little troubled was the battle in front of him.

As a small tribe people, although Ge Xia has never fought, but he has long been accustomed to killing, he is not very afraid of war, and even a little eager for the fierce war to come as soon as possible, he is eager to make meritorious contributions, as long as he can make a great contribution, he will have the opportunity to be promoted, not to mention the improvement of his own status, that is, the income of the family can also be multiplied several times, after a few years, save some money, it should be enough for Yaya's bride price. Thinking of the daughter-in-law who had been married since childhood, but could not marry due to the lack of bride price, Ge Xia's heart was a burst of sweetness, and he was even more eager for the arrival of the war, but Ge Xia had never killed anyone after all, and he was extremely worried about whether he could let go of his hands and feet on the battlefield, he was afraid, afraid that he would miss a major event because of panic, so he was nervous, not only did the hand that wiped Baidao tremble slightly, but the palm of his hand involuntarily gushed out with sweat, and his heart was like numbness, and he didn't even notice that someone had been standing behind him for a long time.

"Ge Xia, what's the matter, are you scared?" Just when Ge Xia was thinking, a voice suddenly sounded behind him, which immediately woke Ge Xia up from his reverie, turned around suddenly, and saw the comer, Ge Xia jumped up in a hurry, held a knife in his hand, and made a military salute in a proper manner: "Subordinates see Deputy Gao." ”

Gao Heng is the deputy of the high team, since the battle of Yueling Lake, Gao Heng, who has recovered from the injury, has been promoted because of the accumulated military exploits, first promoted to the captain, and then promoted to the deputy team due to the expansion of the army, and has become a member of the elite Baidao team in the army because of his strength, he has received a notice from the military academy before the war, and now he is a cadet of the Western Regions Military Academy. insisted on waiting for the battle to pass before entering the school, the matter was not small, it seemed that he did not follow the order, he should have been dismissed from the military academy and demoted, but fortunately, his old boss Wang Dake ran around for it, which can be regarded as keeping Gao Heng's school status.

Gao Heng didn't want to study in the military academy, nor did he want to get the opportunity to be promoted, but he couldn't rest assured that a group of recruits in the team would lose his life by mistake, and he was afraid that this group of rookies would lose their lives by mistake due to panic, especially what made him feel at ease was this little guy named Ge Xia - Gao Heng himself is not big, and he is only nineteen years old now, but after experiencing several battles, he has been extremely calm, whenever he sees the young Ge Xia, he always remembers the scene when he first joined the army, Thinking of his old boss Wang Dake's love for him, Gao Heng felt that he had a reason to escort Ge Xia on a journey, so that he would not fall in the first battle, this was just a kind of will in the dark, Gao Heng himself couldn't tell what it was for, but anyway, when the war came, Gao Heng still noticed Ge Xia's restlessness, so he came to find it, and planned to say something to appease.

"Are you scared?" Gao Heng smiled gently, and repeated the question again.

"No, ah, just a little nervous." Ge Xia knew that the Gao team was very protective of him, but he didn't hide it, but he just reached out and scratched his head, and said embarrassedly.

"Nervous?" Gao Heng smiled, stretched out his hand and patted Ge Xia's thick shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's always a good thing to be nervous, this shows that you have entered the combat state, don't worry too much, Your Highness never fights uncertain battles, and our army will win this battle!" ”

At this time, Li Zhen was already rumored to be a god-like existence in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, Ge Xia naturally would not doubt what Gao Heng said, and immediately lifted his spirits, straightened his waist and said: "Yes, our army will win!" ”

"That's good......" Gao Heng nodded, just thinking about explaining a few more words, when he suddenly heard a terrible horn sound outside the tent, he didn't care about saying more, he quickly turned around and rushed to the outside of the tent, but he didn't forget to turn his head and explain the last sentence to Ge Xia: "Gather, stand by my side for a while, don't worry, just follow me." Ge Xia nodded heavily, and without saying much, he quickly arranged the clothes and armor on his body, and rushed out of the big tent with the long sword in his hand, rushing towards the place where his queue was.

"Your Highness, the cavalry battalion has been assembled, please instruct Your Highness!"

"Your Highness, the infantry battalion has been assembled, please instruct Your Highness!"

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After the captains of each battalion gathered their teams, they rushed to Li Zhen, who was standing in front of the big tent of the Chinese army, and reported loudly, but Li Zhen was always expressionless, that is, he never even nodded his head, until the commanders of each battalion had arrived, Li Zhen waved his hand and ordered concisely: "Blow the trumpet, go!" At this order, the terrible horn sounded again, and the commanders of the battalions rushed to their own camps on horseback, shouting slogans, and after a while, more than 10,000 Tang troops lined up in a neat queue, marched out of the camp on horseback, and rolled south along the open space by the lake......

Baizhang Plain, as the name suggests, is a flat land with a radius of 100 zhang, located in the middle of the camp of the Tang Army and the Three Kingdoms Alliance, because of its proximity to Tawakule Lake, this place is not a desert, but a rare green grassland, high on both sides and low in the middle, like a shallow funnel in general, the left and right sides of Baizhang Yuan are rolling large sand dunes, and there is a small hill bag that is not too high at each end of the front and back, there are no too tall trees on the mountain, some are just clusters of low shrubs, As for the center of the Baizhang Plain, there is a gentle meadow, there is no doubt that this is a good battlefield for horse fighting, for the warring sides, the geographical advantage is equal, no one suffers, and this is the place of battle proposed by the Khotanese king Fu Jaxiong.

The time is right, the sun is rising, the fog has dispersed, and the temperature has not yet risen, it is the best time of the day in the desert, the air is very fresh, every breath, give people a pleasant feeling, however, the two officers and soldiers who have arrived at the battlefield have no time to suffer such a pleasant experience, each nervously on both sides of the Baizhang Plain to deploy troops, preparing for the arrival of the big war - the Three Kingdoms Alliance Army with the Tibetan army as the vanguard, the five thousand Shule cavalry led by Hersa as the right wing, and the general of Khotan, the second brother of Fu Jiaxiong, Fu Jiayong, led five thousand foot soldiers, 3,000 cavalry for the left flank, Fu Jiaxiong led more than 20,000 infantry cavalry mixed team for the middle army, lined up behind the Tubo army formation, its infantry in front, and the cavalry on both sides, at any time to maneuver to respond to the two wings; The Tang army set up a defensive formation, except for the 4,000 rangers who were the reserve of Li Zhen's army, the rest of the divisions, whether they were cavalry or infantry troops, all dismounted and lined up - the 4,000 infantry of Lin Chenghe's department lined up in the center, and the cavalry led by Chen Wu was divided into two parts, one led by Chen Wu himself, and the other was led by Lin Ting, each with 2,000 men and horses to guard the two wings, and the formation discharged was the five plum blossom formations used by the Western Turks.

"Hahaha...... it is said that Li Zhen, the king of Yue, has the courage to skip people, in a certain view, but he has no courage to match, and he has not yet fought to fight, he has been cowardly like this, ridiculous, ridiculous, when a certain killing general will go up, directly take the enemy's army, Your Majesty and others will then cover up and kill, when the Tang army can be broken!" As soon as he saw Li Zhen's subordinates put on a defensive posture as soon as they came up, the commander of the Tubo army, Bu Nie Po, suddenly grinned and laughed, in his opinion, the hoplites under his command were invincible, and it was perfectly suitable to attack the infantry phalanx of the Tang army.

At this time, seeing Li Zhen discharge such a strange formation that is thick in the middle and thin on both sides, he also feels very strange in his heart - it stands to reason that the weak side of the army is on the defensive, but it is impossible to defeat the enemy whose strength is several times stronger than himself by defending alone, only by defending and attacking, and can get a chance to win, but at this time, the Tang army has no preparation for attack, it is completely a turtle shrinking into a ball, and being beaten, will immediately launch a fierce attack of the whole army, with the absolute superiority of military strength, a battle and defeat the other party, but the person who set up this formation is Li Zhen such a killing god, Fu Yanxiong is a little undecided, in the guess Li Zhen's true intentions, he doesn't want to take a risk, at this time I heard Bu Nie Po speak wildly, but his heart moved, and he had the intention to let Bu Nie Po go to explore Li Zhen's bottom first, so as to decide how to launch next, his eyes rolled, and he arched his hand with a smile and said: "In this way, there is Lao Dashuai, Once the commander breaks through the infantry defense line of the Tang Army, the widow will immediately wave his troops to kill the general. ”

"Good! Deal! Bu Nie Po said a word in a confident voice, and without further words, the horse rushed down the hill, came to the front of the Tubo array, drew the machete on his waist, swung it violently at the place where the Tang army was, and ordered in a loud voice: "The whole army attack!" ”

Although the Tibetans are nomadic people, there is no shortage of horses, but the composition of its army is mainly heavy infantry, supplemented by cavalry, of course, its infantry is also on horseback march, only after arriving at the battlefield, the party dismounts and marches in formation, as far as the four thousand soldiers and horses led by Bu Nipo are concerned, this army belongs to Bayeru, a total of 3,000 heavy armored infantry, the upper body is heavily armored, and the lower body also has heavy armor to cover the joints everywhere, the weapons used are large shields and spears, and its cavalry is a thousand horses, but not heavy cavalry, but light horses, scattered on both sides of the infantry array, Once the infantry attack is successful, the cavalry will rush up and quickly pass through the gap opened by their own infantry, so as to create greater trouble within the enemy army, and provide the most powerful support for the infantry's fatal blow, and once the infantry attack is frustrated, the cavalry is responsible for stepping forward to respond, desperately blocking the pursuit of the enemy, so as to buy time for the safe retreat of their infantry, the establishment of the army is to follow the decimal system created by the Huns, and the command is flexible, Its combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

The formation of the heavy infantry of Tibet is quite similar to the hoplites of the Western Greeks, the army does not move fast, but it is extremely thick and steady, the whole army gives people a feeling of mountain-like solemnity, but seeing the shield like a wall, the gun is like a forest, and it is slowly pressed forward, and its momentum is not under the Greek infantry phalanx at all.

Very good, sure enough, the Tubo people couldn't hold their breath first, hehe, since they came, then they all stayed! The reason why Li Zhen laid out such a seemingly purely defensive formation was to annihilate the annoying army of the Tubo people first and clear the biggest obstacle for the next battle.

Facing the slowly advancing Tubo phalanx, Li Zhen himself was very relaxed, but the generals around him were a little nervous, after all, the huge pressure when the Tubo army array moved was not experienced by all the generals present, for the opponent who had never fought before, Rao is generals were already battle-hardened veterans, but they couldn't help but wonder in their hearts, You Sifan, who was newly promoted to the deputy commander of the infantry army, first couldn't hold his breath, and stood up and asked for his life: "Your Highness, the last general asked for orders to lead the troops of the headquarters to meet the attack immediately, and see if it was his Tubo Shengfan's gun array, It's still the last general's Baidao team! ”

Hehe, this stinky boy is always so breathless! Li Zhen glanced at You Sifan, and said expressionlessly: "No, it's not time to attack yet." ”

"But ......" You Sifan still wanted to argue a few words, but when he saw Li Zhen's brows furrowed again, he immediately swallowed back what he was going to say, swallowed his saliva, and retreated on his own, but there was an unconvinced expression on his face.

Take the elite of the Baidao team to fight to the death with the Tubo army, even if it wins, the damage is definitely not light, how can Li Zhen do such a loss-making transaction, at this time, not only did You Sifan have a wrong look on his face, but the rest of the generals also showed some worries, but they were not in a hurry, they just smiled, and did not open their mouths to explain, until the Tubo army formation walked through the center of Baizhang Plain, and came to a distance of only more than three hundred steps from the Tang army's infantry array, Li Zhen waved his hand and said: "Dong Qianli, Yan Eighteen!" ”

Dong and Yan are the second generals, and they are in the rear as a reserve, although they are also worried about the impact of the Tubo army, but they have not considered the matter of their own attack, at this time suddenly heard Li Zhen's head and pointed to his own head, for a while some children could not react, stunned for a moment, then they each came out of the ranks, and said in a loud voice: "The last general is waiting!" ”

"This king Ling'er and others will lead their troops and horses to attack, and they must annihilate the Tubo army!" Li Zhen's face was solemn, and he gave the first battle order in a loud voice.

"Ah, yes!"

"Yes!"

Dong and Yan knew that their combat strength was the weakest among the Tang army, and they were not sure to break through the well-organized Tubo army formation, but Li Zhen had already given the order, but he didn't dare not answer, so he could only bow down and answer, but he didn't leave immediately, he glanced at each other, and his face was full of doubts.

Dong and Yan's expressions couldn't hide Li Zhen's eyes, and seeing that the two of them hesitated at this time, how could they not know what the two were worried about, they smiled, and waved their hands: "Wait for you to come forward, this king has his own explanation." ”

Dong and Yan didn't dare to slack off, they hurriedly stepped forward, each standing with their hands down, Li Zhen lowered his voice, whispered in the ears of the two, and said with a smile at the end: "Go, if you don't cut off the head of the Tubo general, you don't have to come back to see the king!" ”

"The last general obeys!" Dong and Yan both showed a knowing smile on their faces, each of them made a loud promise, turned over their horses, rushed to their own troops not far away, shouted loudly, and a series of orders were quickly conveyed, and suddenly, a horn sounded, and the originally neatly arranged Tang infantry phalanx suddenly divided left and right, giving way to a passage more than three zhang wide, and four thousand rangers rushed down from the small mountain range like a dragon going out to sea, and rushed straight to the Tubo army formation in the center of the field, and the war officially kicked off......

Finishing (full book)