Wang Hou made a plan in his chest, he led the army to face the enemy head-on, and the deputy general Gao Yongnian went around behind the enemy, and waited until noon tomorrow to attack together, and attacked before and after.

The Qiang people are fierce, which refers to their means of acting, trading with the Han people, often drawing swords against each other when they disagree, not good at verbal communication, and having an anxious personality and going straight. Most of the prisoners of war were killed by cruel means, such as gouging out their eyes and noses and taking out human skulls, which was extremely barbaric.

But when it comes to war strategy, they are too far behind. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo was able to compete with the Tang Dynasty, mainly because Princess Wencheng and her relatives brought them civilization, and various metal tools entered their daily life, and at the same time carried out land reform, allowing them to enter the feudal society, and the national strength was greatly increased. And then there's the fact that they're taking advantage geographically.

The Qiang people live in the plateau, like the Hehuang area is only more than 2,000 meters above sea level, the Han soldiers have little influence, and then go west, the altitude reaches 3,000, the Han people will suffer a big loss in the past, they don't have to fight, altitude sickness can kill the Han people. Not only the Han Chinese, but also the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions could not use troops against Tibet.

Therefore, the Qiang people swelled for hundreds of years, and then the whole country respected the Buddha, and they did not need to be beaten by others, and they were destroyed, and the society gradually regressed, developing from feudal society to slavery, and it could no longer become a climate.

Even now, the Qiang people have seen countless war scenes between the Western Xia and the Song Dynasty, but they still have not made much progress, and in the face of a big war, they still have the same old tactics, overwhelming the enemy with numerical superiority.

It is also necessary to occupy a high place, form a geographical advantage, and facilitate the cavalry to charge.

Wang Hou didn't care, waited until the three armies finished eating, and ordered to retreat three miles, guard at the Minshan Pass, camp with his back to the Minjiang River, and rest tonight.

Tong Guan was puzzled and asked why. Wang Hou smiled and said: "We have few people, retreat, they think we are afraid, they will be proud and complacent, and tomorrow they will come down from the mountains to attack us." ”

Tong Guan asked rhetorically: "If you want to attack, why not take advantage of it now?" ”

Wang Houdao: "We retreated after eating, and we were not in a hurry, they must have thought that there was fraud, so they did not dare to send troops." ”

Tong Guan asked again: "What if they find out the truth and attack the camp at night?" ”

Wang Hou laughed, "Tong Observation makes you worry too much, the plateau area can't fight at night, just rest assured." ”

Tong Guan saw that Wang was full of confidence, so he didn't ask much, and went back to the camp to rest. After going back, he was still puzzled, and asked the generals on the left and right, "Why can't you fight at night in the plateau area?" ”

This is Tong Guan's studious heart, he has been active in the Central Plains and Jiangnan places, the first time he came to the Northwest Plateau, many things do not understand, he wants to understand.

All the generals of the army came from Tokyo, and it was the first time they participated in the Battle of the Highlands, and no one could answer. Seeing this, Wang Han said hehe twice, and came out of the crowd, "The oxygen content of the air in the plateau area is low, and people's memory and brain thinking are affected during the day. And at night, people's eyesight will also become weaker, here is the mountains and roads are dangerous, the terrain is complicated, rash war, most of them will be chaotic, therefore, Wang Jingluo said that they will definitely not dare to attack at night. ”

After all, in a war of tens of thousands of people, it is easy to cause chaos when they collide together, and they become enemies and enemies.

Tong Guan heard such a theory for the first time, he was very surprised, so he pulled Wang Han to ask carefully, Wang Han also deliberately showcased, knew nothing, said everything, said that Tong Guan had never heard of it, and there was no record in the book, which completely refreshed Tong Guan's cognition.

Tong Guan asked Wang Han, "These contents are all recorded in the Xuannu Soldier's Book?" ”

Wang Han replied: "Exactly, otherwise, I am a nobody, I have never even been out of Tokyo since I was a child, where do I know these secrets." ”

Tong Guan let the left and right leave to rest, leaving Wang Han alone, and asked, "Is there really a god in the world?" ”

Wang Han said yes.

Tong Guan smiled strangely, twisted his little beard, rolled his eyes twice, and said, "I'll tell you a story, you listen to it first." ”

Tong Guan said, "Before the official family ascended the throne, I heard that there was a strange person in Tokyo who could tear down half of his face. What is a self-dismantling half? It was he who could split his face in two, half blood skeleton and half normal human face. When the official family heard about his curiosity, he asked people to search all over Tokyo, and I happened to know a friend who knew where the strange man who had demolished his face lived, so I found him and asked him to go to the official house. ”

Wang Han heard this, and his mind moved, and he already knew that Tong Guan was talking about Lin Lingsu, and this old thief used the method of self-demolition to deceive Duanwang's trust.

Tong Guan continued, "When the man arrived in front of the official's house, he also performed a self-demolition face, which was really scary, but the speed was extremely fast, and he quickly closed it after the demolition. The official asked him to dismantle it for a while, but he said that the demolition took too long and he couldn't go back. ”

Wang Han: "And then? ”

Tong Guan said with a smile: "Then, the official family left him in the mansion for him to eat and drink, and after a few days, he wrote six words, and then left." After a pause, "Do you know what is written?" ”

Wang Han replied: "Ji people should be on the throne." ”

"Exactly." Tong Guan said and laughed and asked Wang Han, "Do you think this matter is mysterious?" ”

Wang Han, who asked, wondered, and didn't know what Tong Guan meant by asking, so he had to follow his words and answer, "Xuanqi." ”

Tong Guan shook his head, "The story is not over, this matter was heard by the prime minister of the dynasty, Zhang Dan, and he also issued an order to find this strange person, and he happened to ask me." ”

Zhang Dian also found Lin Lingsu?

That's going to be fun. You must know that Zhang Dian was the first atheist in the Great Song Dynasty, when he was the prefect, he took a carriage home, but the road was blocked, and when he stretched out his head, there was a carriage in front of him, which was more luxurious and comfortable than his carriage, swaggering by, and did not give way to him. Zhang Dian asked who it was, and the next person replied that it was Lingbao Dao Chief, Zhang Dian this little temper, where could he endure it, he was stopped on the spot, pulled the Taoist priest down, beat dozens of sticks on the street, and then drove out of the jurisdiction, never allowed to enter.

You must know that the Great Song Dynasty has always respected the Tao since Zhenzong, Taoists do not have to pay taxes and servitude, and they cannot be tortured when they encounter lawsuits.

Of course, Zhang Dan's short temper is not only reflected in the fight against Taoist priests, he dared to order the border officials to shoot the people who crossed the border to get water from the Liao State with 100,000 soldiers at the border, and it was clear that he wanted to provoke the Song and Liao wars, and it was not casual for such a person to beat a Taoist priest.

Wang Han's curiosity was hooked, and he hurriedly asked, "What is the result?" ”

Tong Guan smiled, changed to a comfortable sitting position, and said: "Zhang Duan found him and asked him to perform another self-demolition, and if he couldn't perform, he would cut off his head." ”

Speaking of which, Wang Han already knew that Lin Lingsu had smashed it.

Sure enough, Tong Guan smiled and said: "The man was frightened by Zhang Dian and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, saying that he was forced by life to go to the capital to perform magic tricks, and he didn't know that King Duan would invite him to live in the palace." Later, Zhang Dian remembered that he was not at fault, so he let him go. ”

Wang Han was puzzled, "Even King Duan dares to deceive, and he still says that there is no big fault?" ”

Tong Guan's eyes blinked, "What was Zhang Dan's impression of the official family back then, you wouldn't have heard of it, right?" ”

Of course, Wang Han has heard that Zhang Dian can't even look down on Zhao Ji with half an eye, and said in front of the queen that King Duan is frivolous and can't be a king. This is a civilized written language, and it is estimated that the real OS in Zhang Dian's heart at that time should be: Zhao Ji can be a hammer emperor.

Hearing this, Wang Han also understood what Tong Guan meant, Tong Guan didn't believe that he was a disciple of Xuannu at all.

Tong Guan smiled and added a glass of wine to Wang Han, and said: "Although that person is a magician, he also has some real skills, otherwise, he would not be able to write the words Jiren should be a great treasure." ”

It is also a fact that in fact, Zhezong is seriously ill and childless, and the smart ministers in the court can estimate that Zhao Ji will be the emperor in the future, because when Zhao Ji was born, Shenzong dreamed of the queen of Li, and Zhao Ji is indeed smart, writing lyrics, writing poems and paintings, which is deeply liked by the queen mother, and he does not have a second person who is not an emperor.

It is not uncommon for the ministers of the court and the central government to estimate that Zhao Ji is the emperor, and Lin Lingsu can also estimate that Tong Guan of course said that he has the ability.

Wang Han asked: "Since you know that he is a magician, why don't you kick him out of Tokyo and leave him with the official family for what?" ”

Tong Guan hehe, "There must always be someone by the side of the official family to be happy." After speaking, he changed his color and looked at Wang Han, "It's you, where did you learn this ability?" Tokyo has never heard your name before. ”

Wang Han thought about it and replied: "Actually, I am also very confused, anyway, overnight, I have a good martial arts, and I have a lot of knowledge in my brain that I have never seen." You may say that my martial arts were learned from Zhou Dong, but there are not 1,000 people who learn from Zhou Dong, but there are 800 people, how many can reach my level in two years? ”

Tong Guan asked again, "How did you learn your skills?" ”

Wang Han shrugged, "It's just a dream, a dream of a Xuannu." ”

Tong Guan didn't ask anymore, drank the wine in the glass, and smiled, "Go and rest, see the power of your artillery tomorrow." ”

Out of the manager's tent, Wang Han sighed in his heart, Tong Guan is worthy of being a big traitor, he is smart, he speaks well, he must not offend anyone, and he has a fight with Cai Jing.

Early in the morning of the second day, the barracks were full of the smell of meat, but it was the war today, and the meal prepared by the gang room was enough for the soldiers to eat.

It was like this before the war, after eating this meal, I don't know where the next meal is, and I will be a full ghost when I die.

As for the Qiang people, as expected by Wang Hou, they had already come down from the hillside, arrived at the root of the mountain, and gathered with the Song army for three miles, and they were also eating and gathering.

Wang Hou sent people up to talk and asked them what conditions they wanted before they were willing to surrender, and the Qiang people made conditions, asking the Song to recognize the legal status of the Tibetan state, establish a border between the two sides, and so on.

The messenger said that he would go back and report and discuss, but in fact he was delaying time.

When the sun was about to be due south and the temperature was rising, Wang Hou began to give orders and prepare to attack. The tactics are: first send two thousand cavalry on the left and right to disturb the formation, the Qiang people release arrows, turn back, the Qiang people will come to chase, the Chinese army has three thousand archers in front of the formation, and there are infantry arches in the back, wait until the front army receives the formation, the archers retreat, the infantry army is on top, and the cavalry on the left and right wings cross the formation to cut the battlefield.

This arrangement is made with the intention of exhausting the main force of the Qiang people. The Qiang people don't understand the advanced strategy, they will only do it brutally, 30,000 or 40,000 people rush down the mountain, once the front is stuck with the Song army, the back will only pounce up, don't you know, there will be 5,000 cavalry of Gao Yongnian on the top of the rocky mountain.

The formed cavalry galloped from high to low, and the infantry in the rear of the Qiang people would become lambs to the slaughter without any resistance, and all of them would have to be crushed by iron hooves.

This is a poisonous plan, but it is also Wang Hou's plan, he just wants to cripple Tibet at one time. The history of the Song Dynasty records that Wang Hou subdued Hehuang several times before, and only killed 5,000 enemy heads in the battle with the least beheading, and the most was the battle in the third year of Yuanfu, which killed more than 20,000 enemies and earned as much as 30,000 cattle and horses.

Now that Tobaro has gathered 40,000 people, Wang Hou thinks that this battle will cost at least 20,000 enemies, otherwise he will not be able to show his own means, nor will he be able to show the majesty of the Celestial Empire.

After Wang Hou finished issuing the order, he missed Wang Han, stood in front of the tent, and asked Ai Ai, "May I ask Xianggong, how do we arrange it?" ”

Wang Hou was stunned when he heard this, looked at the other party carefully, and remembered that this was the captain who came to Tokyo to experiment with a new type of artillery, but he forgot about it.

Wang Hou didn't panic, and said, "Captain Wang and the archers will advance and retreat together." ”

Wang Han was anxious, "Xianggong, the range of my artillery is also eight hundred paces recently, and the farthest range of my bow and arrow is only three hundred steps. ”

Wang Hou blinked, "Oh, that's it, it's easy to fire a cannon at 800 paces and give the Qiang people a dismount." ”

Wang Han was dumbfounded when he heard this, and after a long time, Wang Hou didn't take the artillery to heart at all, and didn't care about the power of the artillery at all.

But isn't it, in Wang Hou's opinion, these melon batches of porcelain hammers from Tokyo are all here to mix military merits, Tong Guan is, Gao Yu is, this seventeen or eighteen-year-old little doll is even more, everyone knows it, but they can't bear to poke through the window paper, is it really up to you to go into battle to kill the enemy?

After Wang Hou finished speaking, he didn't look at Wang Han, walked out of the big tent with his hands behind his back, boarded the Zhongjun platform, and prepared to give the order to beat the drum.

Wang Han didn't say much when he saw this, because it was plain to say, they were all martial artists, and they couldn't understand the temper of martial artists, so he made it to show him first, and he missed the fighter, so he wanted to blame me.

Wang Han hurried back, asked people to push the artillery cart forward and followed the archers to set up the front army. They were all familiar hands who practiced on weekdays, and they acted quickly, and soon set up a horizontal and vertical phalanx in front of the formation, and the shells were loaded.

Because there are few cannons and the barrel is not heat-resistant, it cannot be fired at the same time, and the method of firing a row of cannons is adopted. After the first row, wait for three breaths, then put the second row, and so on. After putting four rows and reloading, the temperature on the plateau is low, and the barrel cools quickly.

Wang Han set up a formation here, and the cavalry who went to disturb the camp had already returned, only to hear the shouting of killing, the cavalry were holding their heads and running around, and countless bows and arrows were chasing behind.

The way for the cavalry to disturb the camp was very simple, riding their horses to the place where the enemy was an arrow away, and the bows and arrows were released, but the horses came back. The Qiang cavalry heard the war drums of the Song army and couldn't hold it, and rode their horses to meet the enemy, but the Song army released arrows and fled, and the Qiang people immediately chased the horses wildly, screaming in their mouths, extremely excited and proud, chasing all the way and releasing arrows all the way, and it was reasonable for someone on both sides to fall off their horses.

There are many Qiang soldiers, few Song soldiers, and at this moment the Song people are fleeing and showing cowardice, fueling the anger of the Qiang people.

Ling Zhen and the others only saw the smoke and dust billowing in front of them, and when they heard the sound of horses' hooves, the earth seemed to shake. Panicked and sweating in the cold, his Adam's apple swelled up and down, and his eyes kept wandering between Wang Han and the enemy.

Wang Han was not in a hurry, holding his hands behind his back, calm and composed.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer, almost five hundred paces apart, Wang Hancai waved his hand violently, "Open the cannon!" ”

Ling Zhen couldn't wait for a long time, and the torches in his hands swept over the twists one by one, not counting three, it was just a tom five sounds.

Wang Han waved his hand again, "Put it again!" ”

Ling Zhen nodded again.

But in the camp of the Qiang cavalry, five fiery and gorgeous red flowers burst out in an instant.

The five big red flowers, each blooming area is only one zhang in size, but the power of the explosion is three zhang square. Within three zhang, all people are turning on their backs.

The horses, who had grown on the plateau, had never heard such a powerful loud noise, and suddenly exploded in their ears, and they were all frightened, and they scurried uncontrollably, colliding and trampling.

Before the Qiang could even comprehend what was happening, the thunder of tom tom exploded again in the torrent of beasts, accompanied by the neighing of horses and men, like devils from hell.

When the third round was over, Wang Han saw a man wearing a white sable fur hat in the Qiang army, standing on horseback, shouting something eagerly.

Needless to say, a boss.

Wang Han stepped behind the cannon in one step and personally controlled the direction.

There was a loud bang on the ground, and the man who was scolding Fang Xuan was instantly shrouded in green smoke and red, and when the smoke dispersed, the person was gone, only a red and white mink fur hat fell high from the sky.