Xiao Yan guessed that their battlefield was not the main battlefield.

Although she is only a lieutenant and is not qualified to know the strategy in the army, she can also analyze the situation on the battlefield.

The Tubo army has not come with reinforcements until now, it is certainly not that there is no news - no matter how simple the Tubo people's brains are, they are not a tendon to the end, seeing that the Tang army dispatched heavy cavalry, and the Xiao cavalry army soared out of their combat effectiveness, it is not at all a posture of fighting a dozen and collecting troops, if the Tubo general is not stupid, he will definitely send cavalry to report to the Qingtang Wang.

But so far, no reinforcements have come, there are two possibilities: one is that the reinforcements sent by the royal court were intercepted by the Tang army halfway, and the other is that the royal court has no way to send reinforcements.

If it is the first possibility, the royal court has already sent reinforcements, in order to prevent the main force of the Tang army from intercepting, the reinforcements sent must be no less than 30,000 cavalry, then the battlefield where the Tang army intercepts the reinforcements is the main battlefield.

If it is the second possibility, the royal court has no way to send reinforcements at all, then it may be that the main force of the Tang army is attacking Naqu, the land of the king's tent, or the main force of the royal court has been transferred to other places, and the army left behind in the royal court does not dare to send reinforcements, fearing that the Tang army's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain will put the royal court in danger. - Xiao Yan thinks that the former is less likely.

It is possible for the Hexi army to attack the royal court and contain the royal court's forces, but it will not send the main force to attack, because the time has not yet come.

If from a tactical point of view, the Hexi army attacked Wang Ting at the right time, in the previous month's "slow war", the Qiwu army and the Weisheng army had already adapted to the plateau operation, and the longer the time dragged on, the rations of the 50,000 army would be under pressure.

But from a strategic point of view, this is not the right time to capture the royal court in one fell swoop.

The difference between strategy and tactics is to consider the overall situation, not only the shape of the Hexi Army and the Qingtang Army, but also the shape of the entire Tubo, as well as the shape of the Tubo and the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Yan read his father's notes when he read the book of soldiers, saying that 100 generals can only know how to lead troops, and 1,000 generals must understand tactics, and to be 10,000 generals and 100,000 generals, you must not only be proficient in tactics, but also grasp the overall situation and understand strategy, otherwise you will win on the battlefield, but if you connect with the overall situation, you may be defeated.

Xiao Yan remembered that when Shen Qingyi told her "Gaozong's Record", he said that the heart of the Tang Dynasty to plot Tibet began with Gao Wu - compared with Xiao Cong's subtlety in telling history, Xiao Yan preferred Shen Qingyi's point in telling history: this "heart of plotting Tibet" definitely does not only refer to the Qingtang Dynasty, but the entire Tubo!

From the point of view of this strategy, it is the right time for the Tang Dynasty to send troops when there is internal strife in Tubo, of course, if it can wait a year or two for Qingtang and Luo to send troops when they are both defeated, it is still early to send troops, but unfortunately the Tubo people assassinated the Qingchuan county lord too early, and the Tang Dynasty could not wait until a year or two later if it wanted to seize the reason for this righteous crusade. That's why the envoys of the Tang Dynasty have only stayed in Tubo for so long, and let some Qing Tang Dynasty fight and blame each other, just to postpone the time to the right time to start the war.

And if the Tang Dynasty wants to plan the entire Tubo, it is impossible to just send troops to Qingtang Dao. Xiao Yan guessed that the imperial court should have assembled a large army in Xining Dao, and as long as the battle on Qingtang's side attracted Luo's attention, the main force of Datang would send troops from Xining Dao. And the imperial court named her father the "Chief of the Qingtang Road March", which is likely to paralyze Tibet. Because according to the practice of the Tang Dynasty to send troops to fight, it is generally in the name of the destination of the war, if the Tang army attacks the entire Tubo, the commander should be the "general manager of the march of the Luo Dao", "the general manager of the march", that is, the marshal of the capital, if it is only one of the marshals, it is generally the "chief of the march", and her father is the "chief of the march of the Qingtang Road", which makes the Tubo people think that the Tang Dynasty is only sent to Hexi, and the target of the army is Qingtang.

Luo Qi is obviously happy to see this situation, with the mentality of the Tubo people that "land is not as important as the enemy", the Luo Dynasty will definitely not fight against the Tang Dynasty with the Qingtang King, but is likely to stick a knife in the back of the Qingtang King.

Xiao Yan felt that if she was the boss, she would definitely not launch the main force to attack the royal court at this time, forcing the Qingtang King to fight to the death, so that the losses of the Hexi army would be too great, and the best time was when Luo sent troops to attack the Qingtang King, so that the Qingtang King would suffer from the enemy, and the Hexi Army would be able to take the Naqu Royal Court at the smallest cost.

And when will the Logos send troops? It should be when the Qingtang King's forces were greatly damaged but there was still the strength to fight again with the Tang army, so Luo Qi sent troops at this time to occupy the Qingtang territory in the south of Nagqu, and there was room for bargaining with the Tang army. If you sit back and watch the Tang army occupy the entire Qingtang Dynasty, the Luo royal court will be in a disadvantageous situation.

Combined with this strategic situation, Xiao Yan judged that the main force of the Hexi Army should be in the pastoral area of the Qingtang tribe at this time.

Xiao Yan heard Xiao Ji say that the last time the Jingnan Army and the Xiao Cavalry Army attacked Qingtang, the army only brought five days of rations, and then used war to feed the war, which was learned from the Tubo people, and governed them in the way of others. This time the army attacked Qingtang, Xiao Yan estimated that he only brought a month or two of rations, and he would definitely loot the pastoral area later, which was also a tactic, not only to supplement his own supplies, but also to consume the other party's supplies, and to hit morale.

The entire Qiangtang grassland is the pastoral area of the Qingtang tribe, but after the Hexi army invaded the Qiangtang, the Qingtang King must have concentrated the pastoral areas of all the tribes on the south bank of the Naqu River, the rear of the royal court, in order to prevent logistics from being attacked.

The main force of the Hexi Army should have been camping since yesterday, and went west for 200 miles to camp, and only this morning they waded through the shallows of the upper reaches of the Nagqu River, made a big circle to the south bank of the Nagqu River, and attacked the pastoral areas behind the royal court.

The Hexi army will not attack the pastoral area less than 20,000 cavalry, of which thousands of cavalry may be horse infantry, responsible for looting grain and driving cattle and sheep, and only 14,500 cavalry may be the real cavalry, but the herdsmen will not calculate so clearly, and they will probably think that there are 30,000 cavalry.

After receiving the rescue report from the pastoral area, the Qingtang Wang Tent must have thought that the Hexi Army had dispatched the main force to attack the logistics, and would send at least 30,000 cavalry to rescue the pastoral area, and received Xiao Yan's request for help from the Tubo army on the battlefield, and the Wang Tent should send reinforcements again, but there would not be so many reinforcements, at least 10,000 cavalry should be left to guard the Wang Tent, and it is estimated that the reinforcements sent should be about 5,000 to 8,000 cavalry.

The team sent by the Hexi Army to intercept this batch of Tibetan reinforcements must be mainly infantry, because the main force of the Hexi Guan's light and light cavalry has been dispatched to two battlefields, so the cavalry that intercepted this batch of Tibetan reinforcements is only 1,000 cavalry at most, and the rest are infantry.

If the infantry fights with the cavalry, the Tang army is not afraid, and with the training of the Tang army and the advantages of bows and crossbows, it can often be ridden on foot, but the purpose of the Tibetan reinforcements is to rescue, not to fight positional battles with the infantry, choose to flank and rush out, and it is difficult for the infantry to intercept the cavalry. It is difficult to say whether the 1,000 cavalry of the Hexi Interception Army can cooperate with the 7,000 or 8,000 infantry to intercept this group of Tibetan cavalry.

If the Tibetan cavalry fleeing south was allowed to join the cavalry that came to the rescue, it would be another big battle.

Xiao Yan's knife pointed to the southeast, of course, not to attack the royal court, but to point in the direction of the Tubo reinforcements.

The Tang Army's meritorious service is calculated based on the total team merit of the combat mission, and at the same time, the merit is calculated based on the contribution of the individual in the battle and the number of enemies killed. A regiment led by Xiao Yan has successfully completed their combat mission, as a rule, they should be nearby to support the battle on the battlefield in the middle, but the Tang army in the middle has gained the upper hand, under the attack of the Ma Bu army, the two thousand Tubo cavalry have suffered one-third casualties, and it is only a matter of time before they are annihilated.

She and the fifteen horsemen behind her stepped onto the captured Tubo war horses, let their war horses rest their horsepower, waved their horsewhips and whipped them on the horse's buttocks, galloped across the grassland, and soon caught up with the Tang heavy cavalry chasing the Tubo cavalry in front, interspersed through the gap three zhang wide in the middle.

"Ouch, which battalion is this?" There were sounds of surprise from the heavy cavalry.

"The 1st Regiment of the 11th Battalion of the Jingnan Army." Xiao Yan did not slow down as he spoke, and his voice condensed in the galloping wind.

Eleventh battalion, isn't that a recruit battalion?

"Oh, what a guts!" Some of the heavy cavalry laughed.

But no one said anything excessive, and the people who wanted to laugh at them also swallowed their words temporarily, because Xiao Yanlu's hand of communication skills was obviously a master - although martial arts masters did not play a decisive role in the battle of tens of thousands of people, they were useful on local battlefields, not to mention that the fifteen cavalry led by Xiao Yan were the best among the recruits at first glance, and ordinary veterans could not compare to them, so they couldn't laugh at others for not being able to measure themselves. What's more, people can think of borrowing Tibetan war horses, and they are not meritorious and brainless.

Some heavy cavalry may not have such courage when they think that they are new soldiers, and they have some sincere appreciation in their hearts.

Xiao Yan led her fifteen horsemen at a gallop, and the whip of the horse crackled.

One of the heavy cavalry captains in front of her to the left turned his head, a hideous Shura mask on his face, and his eyes were as sharp as substance.

Xiao Yan looked up and recognized the captain.

The first battalion of the Jingnan Army is the heavy cavalry battalion, also known as the battle battalion, the legendary first beautiful man in the army, Ge Shuguang, is the captain of the first battalion and the first regiment.

Not to mention those green eyes.

At the same time, Ge Shuguang also recognized her.

Of course, Ge Shuguang had never met Xiao Yan, but he heard his father Ge Shuye solemnly mention this very outstanding captain of the new barracks - Xiao Seventeen, the son of the Metropolitan Governor of Hexi.

The two looked at each other, as if knives collided with each other.

Ge Shuguang turned his head.

At this glance, Xiao Yan's horse had already passed him.

The horses of the heavy cavalry of the Jingnan Army are a cross breed of the big food horse, the Eli horse and the Qinghai horse, the Tang Dynasty was successfully cultivated in Sabize for a hundred years, named the Sapi horse, which has the advantage of being tall and speed of the horse in the Western Regions, and adapts to the plateau climate, although the long-distance trek is not as good as the Tubo horse, but the important thing is that they are fast, and the war horses of the Tubo people are generally shorter, can withstand the cold of the plateau, and can also travel long distances, but the speed is not very fast. Therefore, when the heavy cavalry of the first battalion fought with the Tibetan light cavalry, they were not much worse in speed. But Ge Shuguang and they have been fighting for an hour, Xiao Yan and they not only lost dozens of pounds in weight, but also beat the Tubo horse regardless of horsepower, the speed was naturally a little faster, and soon crossed the heavy cavalry camp and chased after the cavalry army in front.

The battalion commander of the first battalion laughed in his heart, and said in his heart that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

Xiao Yan led fifteen cavalry to catch up with the Xiao cavalry.

The horses of the Xiao cavalry are also Sabi horses, but they have already fought two battles with the Tibetans, and they have never stopped, because they are light cavalry, so they run ahead of the heavy cavalry.

As far as Xiao Yan could see, the vanguard of the Xiao cavalry army had chased within a hundred steps of the rear of the Tubo escape, and the general flag of the Xiao cavalry army was in the front, Cao Yuandu took the lead, and the shining bright light armor and golden spear were very eye-catching.

The Tubo army that fled in front suddenly rushed out of the four horsemen and turned around and pounced on Cao Yuandu.

Xiao Yan was taken aback: Four Ascending Extreme Realms?!

At this time, four martial cavalry generals also galloped out from behind Cao Yuandu, fighting with the four Tibetan masters.

But three more arrows flew out from the Tubo army, and shot at Cao Yuandu's face like tails.

Cao Yuandu swung his golden gun forward and knocked the first arrow away, and the force on the arrow made his arm numb. He knew that it was an arrow shot by the Tubo Ascending Extreme Realm Archer, and in the previous battle, he had been hit by the sharpshooter in the left shoulder. Cao Yuandu knocked the first arrow and didn't dare to underestimate the two arrows behind him, the internal force was condensed in his arm, and he shouted, and the tip of the gun pulled out two afterimages, knocking on the second and third arrows respectively.

But his second shot was missed.

The third arrow actually accelerated and hit the tail of the second arrow in an instant, making its arrow speed exceed Cao Yuandu's estimate, which made Cao Yuandu's second shot that blocked fall behind the arrow feather of the second arrow, but it hit the arrow of the third arrow.

And the second arrow was as fast as a meteor, shooting towards Cao Yuandu's eyes.

Cao Yuandu raised his head in a hurry, and the tip of the arrow almost flew past his face, shooting into the chest of the pro-soldier holding the flag behind him, and it didn't enter half a foot, and the pro-soldier threw the banner to the pro-soldier on the right and fell off the horse.

And Cao Yuandu's crisis had not yet passed, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth arrows were also shooting like meteors catching the moon towards his war horse and his left and right chests.

The author has something to say: Remarks:

Wang Court and Wang Ting: Wang Ting has the meaning of the imperial court, but it is mostly used for the place where the Hu monarch set up a curtain, generally referring to the Khan Court of the Hu Nationality, which refers to the location of the royal tent of the Qingtang Dynasty. Therefore, when talking about the royal court, the royal court (referring to the imperial court) is used to distinguish it.

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