The "brothers" looked at each other from a distance.

Xiao Zhang rode his horse up the slope, first reported the pursuit to Lu Zhimao, and then talked to Xiao Yan's "brother".

But among these brothers in the Guogong Mansion, Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhang are the least familiar. She and Xiao Cheng were "enemies" who fought from childhood to adulthood, and they also had fist-to-flesh "affection" with Xiao Zhang, but they and Xiao Zhang only met at the Chinese New Year's Eve sacrifice and family banquet, and the words added up to less than ten sentences, Xiao Yan was intuitive and sharp, feeling that this eldest brother looked at her as if he was estimating the value of a piece of jade, even if he was pleasant, it was like wearing a mask. In comparison, Xiao Yan would rather get along with Xiao Cheng and Xiao Jue, even if these two are domineering and ruthless, but at least the likes and dislikes are real and not false.

This will see Xiao Zhang on the battlefield, Xiao Yan didn't have the joy of seeing "brothers" in his heart, of course, he didn't hate it, he saluted and called "second brother" according to the rules, and he didn't say much.

Lu Zhimao praised her in front of Xiao Zhang.

Xiao Zhang's face under the mask was a little ugly, he initially had a little bit of a mind to win over Xiao Yan, but seeing that she had a close relationship with Chengheyuan, he stopped thinking about it, and at this moment he heard Lu Zhimao praise her for her command talent, and he was jealous in his heart, laughed, patted Xiao Yan's shoulder, as if he was very happy, and said in a hearty voice: "The seventeenth brother has become a talent, and I am very pleased to be my brother." ”

Xiao Yan said in her heart, it sounded as if her second brother cared about her.

She could only hehe.

After a few words with Xiao Zhang, Xiao Yan and Cao Guangzong went down the hill and returned to the Xiao cavalry army, some of which cleaned up the battlefield, and some of them still maintained a posture of preparing for battle. Xiao Zhang's cavalry battalion also galloped over with 500 horsemen, one left and one right with the Xiao cavalry, facing northwest, holding a bow and leading the horse. If the Tibetan army pursued by the Xiao cavalry and the heavy cavalry battalion fled to this side, they could fight at any time to block it.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves in the northwest direction was getting closer and closer, and gradually the banners of the cavalry at the forefront could be seen.

Xiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief, the Xiao cavalry army and the heavy cavalry battalion must have won the pursuit, even if there were fleeing Tubo cavalry, it must be scattered cavalry, so there is no need to worry.

After the three armies converged, they each cleared the battlefield and then collected their troops and returned to the camp.

In this battle, the Tang army was divided into three battlefields, annihilating more than 13,000 horsemen of the Tubo army, plundering back 780,000 cattle and sheep, and the Tang army lost more than 4,000 people, which was much smaller than the Tubo army.

After this great victory, the participating armies were rewarded.

Xiao Yan had previously killed the enemy in Yuanzhou, and was awarded the captain of the Nine Grades to accompany Rong, and later assisted in Xiaoshahai to kill the three masters of the Oroton Empire with arrows, and awarded the Huaihua Halberd Commander under the Nine Pins, and then helped the Qingchuan County Lord to kill the Master of the Tubo Cave True Realm in the Snow Mountain, this time the merit was higher, Xiao Yu crossed the eight products, and directly reported to the Huaihua Sige under the Eight Pins, and reported to the Hexi Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, but the final approval of the Ministry of War was the Captain of the Xuanjie on the Eight Pins, which is said to be approved by the sage himself.

This time, Xiao Yan made military exploits, and according to the number of military merits, he was awarded the return of the seven grades to the Marquis of Dezhong.

Rising from the eighth rank to the seventh rank seems to be only a small step, but from the eighth rank to the seventh grade, this is a hurdle in the martial rank.

Datang's martial arts rank is nine grades and forty-five orders, from the third grade and below, are one grade is divided into three levels, from bottom to top, the higher the higher the military merit rotation required for promotion, especially the promotion of cross-product, sometimes higher than the number of military merit revolutions of the same product in a row of two ranks, just like from the eighth grade to the seventh grade is the cross-level, although it is only a small order, but the required military merit is the sum of the military merit revolutions of the third order within the positive eight grades, because from the seventh grade is the lowest military rank of the deputy general of a battalion.

Xiao Yan's record in this battle is proud, and the number of personal kills is second only to Cao Yuandu and Xiao Yu, the two generals who are accustomed to taking the lead. Of course, generals above the battalion general do not look at the number of individual kills and prisoners, but look at the results of the team, but the regiment commander and brigade commander record the number of enemies killed by the individual and the results of the team. Xiao Yan's two records are very good, and more importantly, she not only successfully completed the task on her own battlefield, but also played an important role in containing the enemy in the second battlefield. The sum of these records allowed her to break through the threshold of eight to seven grades.

However, Xiao Yan's most shining thing in this battle is not her military exploits, but her command talent on the battlefield, especially the use of chiseling tactics to be amazing, Lu Zhimao praised her for "attacking the enemy's weakness, and Chen Wugong's ability". Regardless of whether Lu Zhimao's praise is exaggerated, Xiao Yan's battle is indeed famous in the army.

Xiao Zhang's heart was a little gloomy, and he didn't understand why his maternal uncle wanted to raise Xiao Yan so highly. Lu Zhimao sighed slightly, thinking that his nephew was still a little tender, and said: "Seventeen Lang is only sixteen years old now, a young talent, it is the time to be high-spirited, young people are complacent, and their hearts are arrogant, the higher they hold it, the easier it is to fall on their heels." ”

Xiao Zhang immediately admired, "It's still my uncle who is thoughtful." "He knew what to do.

With Xiao Zhang's help from below, Xiao Yan's fame in the army has spread even more, and the praises of "natural general" and "Chen Wugong's second" have almost spread throughout the army.

This allowed her to reach a high level of prestige in the Eleventh Battalion. Because of Xiao Yan's command, the military merits obtained by the first regiment are the highest in the 11th battalion, and the people of the first regiment have made a big limelight, and have received countless envious eyes from other regiments.

Xu Chongmo was a little worried, called Xiao Yan over, and vaguely reminded her that it was just a battle, don't be proud.

Xiao Yan's eyes were as clear and clear as ever, and he said neither willingly nor modestly: "I'm still far from the position of the general, what are I proud of?" ”

Xu Chongmo was choked by her answer, how confident does this have to be to say such a thing?

But being able to say this shows that he was not carried away by those praises, Xu Chongmo was relieved, he didn't want this young man to be ruined in these excessive praises.

Xu Chongmo is not the only one who is worried about this, Gu Di also reminded Xiao Yu: "The army's praise for Seventeen Langjun is probably a bit excessive. "Alluding to someone pushing.

Xiao Yu's eyes were deep, and there was a hint of coldness, he nodded slightly, and said: "This kid is determined, and he won't lose his mind just because he is praised by others." ”

Gu Di pointed to it, so he didn't say more, but he was surprised that Liang Guogong believed in the heart of the seventeenth son so much, and thought that he would have to pay more attention to this seventeenth man in the future.

Xiao Yan didn't know these secret twists and turns, of course she was happy with the spread of her reputation, if she wanted to be promoted quickly in the army, she couldn't be silent, but she just listened to the praise in the army, and didn't feel that she was really "Chen Qingzhi's second", at least not now.

Her mind is pure, there are not many ideas, only the goal of persistence, before the goal is not reached, a qiē praise is just a flower on the side of the road, you can appreciate it, but you will not stop because of it, just like martial arts, no matter how much others appreciate it, they can't become their own strength, only hard work, in order to continue to improve.

Xiao Yan was just happy about her fame for a while and didn't pay attention to it, in addition to caring most about the promotion of military merits, what she thought about the most in the past few days was - who was the person who put cold arrows on the battlefield to plot against her?

But she didn't have any contact with the people of the Xiao Cavalry Army before, how could she be such an enemy? How much revenge is it to take the liberty of shooting a comrade on the battlefield?

Or is it a Tibetan fine work mixed in the Xiao cavalry?

Xiao Yan couldn't sit still when he thought of this, if it was Tubo's meticulous work, this would not be a personal vendetta. immediately found an opportunity to see Xiao Yu, told me about it, and the cold arrow that shot her was also given to Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yan looked at the three-edged heavy arrow carefully, and sneered in his mouth, and the cold meaning made Xiao Yan tremble.

"You don't care about it." Xiao Yu said.

"Yes." Xiao Yan responded.

She didn't want to be distracted by this, not to mention that she was only a lieutenant now, so she couldn't investigate.

Xiao Yu looked at her for a while, "Be careful on the battlefield in the future - you have a good reputation in the army." But in the Jingnan Army, you can rest assured. ”

"Yes." Xiao Yan said.

After she left, Xiao Yu slapped her on the desk.

Huan Yi took the iron arrow and looked at it for a while, and said in a deep voice: "The Xiao cavalry is not a heavy cavalry in this battle, and those who can match this kind of heavy arrow must be a captain or above." "If you fight against heavy cavalry, then everyone must be equipped with three-edged heavy arrows." This makes the search area smaller. However, if it is a Tibetan spy, it may not be that he will secretly carry heavy arrows. ”

Xiao Yu nodded with a cold face, "The cavalry regiment that is a hundred paces behind the seventeenth is all suspects. ”

She took the arrow and went to Cao Yuandu, since it was shot by the Xiao cavalry, Cao Yuandu should be responsible.

"What?" Cao Yuandu stood up in surprise, almost didn't pull off a few of his beards, and scolded angrily, "If you want me to find out which bastard is a spy, I have to crush his eggs!" ”

His Xiao cavalry army is not like Xiao Yu's Jingnan army, deliberately raised some Tubo details to pass on news, the Xiao cavalry army has been cleaned several times before and after, and there are even spies from the Tubo people?

Not to mention Cao Yuandu's investigation, after the Qingtang royal court suffered a big defeat, Gesang Dama felt that he had been tricked by the Hexi army, and in anger sent 30,000 cavalry to attack the Tang army's camp.

However, the Tang army's camp had been built very well in the previous month's "slow war". There are three trenches dug outside the camp, behind the trench is the berm as high as one zhang and one, between the berm and the first trench, many trench vertical spikes, pit vertical spikes of defensive facilities and traps are arranged, and on the berm, every ten zhang is built with a wooden tower, arranged crossbows and stone throwers, after the berm, there are breastworks and pheasant moats, which are convenient for the guards to shoot arrows, and in the place where the breastwork and the berm are connected, there are sharpened horse rejection piles obliquely outward. In short, if the Tibetan cavalry wants to attack the camp, it is a layer of barriers.

The Hexi Army took a defensive position under the orders of the commander of the Central Army.

Although the Tang army's camp was not as tall and strong as the city, it had already lost many horses and horses when it had to rush through the ditch berm, and more than 100 people died in the first charge. A second, third, and fourth charge...... The south could not fight the north, the north could not fight the east, the east could not fight the west, and more than 900 people died.

Seeing that the attack could not be carried out, the Tibetan army had to retreat.

Xiao Yu looked at the wooden tower, and saw that although the retreat of the Fan army was panicked, the banner was not chaotic, and smiled at the left and right: "This is to lead us to pursue." "It was ordered that the four armies should not attack.

The Tubo army withdrew two miles, and the Tang army did not "take advantage of the victory to attack", and the Tubo general was so angry that he scolded fiercely, so he had to really withdraw his troops.

In this battle, the Tibetans did not take any advantage, but lost more than 1,000 people.

The leader of the army was scolded by Kelsang Dama so that his head hung down to his chest, and he was also very aggrieved, Tang Jun shrank in the turtle shell, how could he fight? I stumbled a few words.

Kelsang Dama jumped up, "Then surround and fight!" See how long they can shrink! ”

The next day, the Tibetan army sent another 30,000 cavalry to attack the camp, and the Tibetan lord stopped attacking the camp this time, and ordered the cavalry to gallop the war horses to the upper reaches of the river to pull horse dung, polluting the water source of the Tang army. He also ordered the cavalry to dig up the earth and block the river above the horse manure.

The rivers in this area of the Qiangtang grassland are not very wide or deep, and the 20,000 cavalry of Tubo dug up the soil for two hours and filled the river.

However, the Tang army had already made preparations, and when they built the camp, they dug large pits with water storage on all sides of the camp, and there was no shortage of water for seven days.

Can the Tibetan army besiege the seven-day camp?

On the first day of the attack on the camp, the Tibetans lost another seven or eight hundred people. That night, they camped ten miles east of the Tang army camp, that is, the upstream of the river that flowed into the Tang army camp.

As soon as the Tibetan army fell asleep that night, they heard the sound of horses' hooves and the earth-shattering sound of drums and trumpets.

The Don army attacked the camp?

The Tibetan soldiers all rushed out of the tent and hurriedly cavalry the whole team, but found that the Tang army did not attack the camp, but sent a team of cavalry to beat drums and blow trumpets to harass. The Tibetan lord sent 3,000 cavalry to pursue, but he was worried about the ambush, and sent another 5,000 cavalry to the rear. The cavalry sent out by the Tang army to harass was the cavalry of the Youyi battalion, which rode the fast Sabi horses, which were faster than the Tubo horses, and quickly returned to the camp. The Tibetan cavalry could not pursue, so they had to turn their horses back to the camp.

After the third watch, the horses' hooves and drums and trumpets sounded loudly again.

The Tubo army was worried that the Tang army would attack the camp, and they all went out of their tents and got on the horse.

As a result, it was the Tang Army's Youyi battalion that came to harass.

If this happened three or four times, the Tibetan troops in the camp were exhausted.

When the sky turned white the next day, the Tibetan army did not sleep well. The Tang army came to attack.

The camp of the Tubo army was only set up with a simple horse rejection pile, which was difficult to defend the camp, and the Tubo general did not think about defending the camp, but originally hoped that the Tang army would fight, and immediately ordered 25,000 cavalry to go out of the camp to meet the battle, leaving 4,000 cavalry to guard the camp.

The Tang army sent 5,000 cavalry, the main general Cao Yuandu, led the Xiao cavalry army with 3,000 cavalry, and the Jingnan army with 2,000 cavalry - Xiao Yan's cavalry regiment was also among them.

Xiao Yan's first regiment lost fifty-six cavalry in the last field battle, Xiao Yan transferred fifty-four people from the elite cavalry of the second battalion to her regiment, and Xiao Yan transferred two people from his own tooth army to serve as Xiao Yan's escort in the name of Xiao Yan's own soldiers, and made up two hundred cavalry.

The two hundred cavalry led by Xiao Yan did not attack with any battalion, and Cao Yuandu decisively gave full play to her advantages and let her cavalry regiment fight on its own as a surprise soldier.

The Tibetan lord stood on a high platform made of earth in the camp and watched the battle between the two armies outside the camp.

I saw a team of more than 200 people in scarlet robes and black armor marching west in the east and west of the Tubo army's formation, tearing apart the formation of the Tubo army every time.

The Tibetan lord sighed, and the horsewhip pointed at the silver-faced Tang Qi at the head and said, "Who is that person?" ”

Both left and right shook their heads and said they didn't know, and one of them said: "It should be from the Jingnan Army." ”

The Jingnan army of the Tang people was scarlet robe and white armor, and the Xiao cavalry army was black armor.

Another said: "The flag is embroidered with geese, I haven't seen it in the Jingnan Army before, is it a new battalion?" ”

The Tibetan lord said angrily: "No matter who it is, send someone to intercept him!" ”

The herald answered and ran out of the camp.

However, the Tubo army sent 400 cavalry to intercept it did not have any effect, but was torn apart by Xiao Yan's cavalry regiment, and it also fell into chaos.

The staff of the Tibetan commander took a breath of cold air, and they had already seen that the place where this Tang cavalry team holding the banner of the wild geese was heading would definitely cause chaos in the Tubo army, because the formation was torn apart, and the command was chaotic.

Although cavalry combat is not as heavy as infantry, it must not be chaotic, and if it is chaotic, it is easy to fall into divided battles, or fight like headless flies without knowing where to go.

Now the 25,000 Tibetan cavalry has been torn apart by this team of wild goose cavalry, as if it was a sharp knife, one knife in the east and one knife in the west, and each knife was cut in the crack of the bone, as if Ding Ding dismembered the cow, and the whole cow was dismembered.

The Tibetan lord did not understand what Ku Ding Xie Niu was, but he could see that the Tubo army was torn apart.

Cao Yuandu was also very capable of grasping the fighter plane, commanding the cavalry to march westward □□, and rushed the 25,000 Tubo army into an even more formation.

The general of Tubo was about to send a master to intercept and kill the leader of the wild goose horse, but the Tang army sounded the gong and withdrew.

The formation of the Tubo army was in chaos, and there was no way to pursue it immediately, and when the formation was ready, the Tang army had already run away.

The Tibetan lord was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and the 25,000 horsemen were scattered by 5,000 horsemen?! After counting the men and horses, it was found that more than 3,000 horsemen had been lost in this battle, and the blood really spurted out.

The Tang army returned to the camp in high spirits.

The cavalry of Xiao Yan's regiment was even more energetic, among them, the fifty-four cavalrymen who were transferred by Xiao Yan from the elite second battalion were originally dissatisfied with the transfer to the eleventh battalion, but they were all smiling at this time, and no one wanted to return to the second battalion again.

Following this miraculous captain, why don't they worry about doing miraculous feats?

The author has something to say: Remarks:

Martial rank: that is, the military rank, which is equivalent to the military rank, such as the modern captain, lieutenant colonel, major general, etc., but the ancient military rank and the modern military rank are not compatible, and it cannot be said which military rank is equivalent to which military rank in the modern era, because the system is different, there is no way to compare.

For example, the regiment commander of the modern army, the lowest corresponding military rank is lieutenant colonel, a modern regiment is about 1000 people, which is equivalent to a battalion in this article, but the lowest military rank of the battalion general is from the seventh rank, and it is still in the low-level range of the 45 military ranks, and the lieutenant colonel is in the middle rank in the modern military rank-

The author has a cold, and it is said that the cold can fight the past by itself, so he insists on not taking a drip, insisting on not taking Western medicine, and if he meows, he has to resist the past. After the worst two days ahead, I can write today, although my head is heavier, and I can still think.

Another: After posting this chapter, change the typos in the previous chapters, if you find that the previous chapters are updated, it is correcting typos or fixing bugs, and those with obsessive-compulsive disorder can look back (laughs).

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