Chapter 94: Azashi Goes to His Death

After Azhashi's plan was seen through by Li Mao at a glance, the armies of both sides entered a tacit repair period in the next three days, and on the fourth day, Gao Xianzhi's southern army took the lead in launching a general attack! And as a result, just as Gao Xianzhi predicted from the news sent by Li Mao, the Southern Tubo Route Army was busy retreating and did not show much strong blocking force.

In this way, the Tang Army, which originally suffered the loss of terrain, no longer has any worries! Under the opening of thousands of chariots, Gao Xianzhi's army won successive battles, and in the end, he directly advanced the team from Motuo to the front line of Nyingchi and faced Azashi across the mountain.

However, although the 200,000 troops on the South Tubo Road fought all the way and fled all the way, in the end, there were still 100,000 elites who retreated to the Shannan military town near the Luoqi Wangcheng to garrison and rebuild an iron wall.

Of course, all this is also a good result of Azhashi's prediction in advance, and the strong man's broken wrist, if he had come back to his senses ten or twenty years later, I'm afraid things would not have been so simple.

However, the reason why the Tubo South Route Army was able to survive 100,000 elites was because of its geographical advantages, just when Gao Xianzhi's army was chasing and fighting all the way, the weather suddenly came to a heavy snowfall, and Gao Xianzhi almost scolded Li Mao to death for this matter, saying why didn't he inform himself earlier. And after Li Mao read his complaining letter, she also scolded her mother on the spot with tears and laughter!

However, the 200,000 troops on the North Tubo Road did not have such good luck, and when they just withdrew from the defense line of Naqu, Li Yi, the king of Anxin, who had always liked to use strange soldiers, personally led 30,000 iron cavalry to bite them tightly, and the style of play was flexible, not according to common sense.

The most important thing is that at the same time, the 50,000 Turkic cavalry led by Wang Zhongsi also came from the right side of Naqu, and within seven or eight days, they captured Jiali, Dangxiong and other major towns one after another, and then directly rose to the front of the North Tubo Route Army to block their grain routes.

As a result, the 20th Army of the North Tubo Road was immediately in turmoil! After struggling with Li Yi in the end, after a few days of fighting, only more than 10,000 people broke through and turned to the current (Mozhu) to defend to the death! The remaining 100,000 people surrendered to the Tang Army without blood! At this moment, the Tang Tu War, which lasted for more than three months, finally settled.

Although Li Mao's Qamdo was still in a fierce confrontation with Azhashi at this time, with the reversal of the enemy's 200,000 combat forces, the outcome of the victory was basically without suspense.

After Li Mao got Li Yi's army to completely annihilate the Northern Tubo Route Army, he also took advantage of the hot iron to open the city gate and line up the remaining more than 10,000 cavalry and the general Wang Azaxi to make a hard steel.

It stands to reason that Li Mao's more than 10,000 people should be a little bit unsightly compared with Azaxi's 30,000 or 40,000 old and weak, but the reason why Li Mao dared to give up the advantage of defending the city and come to the other party so fearlessly is also related to the past urine of the strongest army in the Tang Dynasty.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have always been proud of their military merits, and the central government of the Li and Tang Dynasty attaches great importance to the cultivation of cavalry, which has caused the soldiers to be especially good at hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield.

And the way of playing, like Li Mao's before, would rather die in the city than show his head, in fact, is very shameless in the eyes of most soldiers' tears. So in order to achieve the two purposes of decompressing the soldiers and Gao Xianzhi's army at the same time. Li Mao resolutely made the decision to fight against Azasi head-on.

However, when the king of the Dajin Army, Azhashi, saw Li Mao leading all the defenders in Qamdo City to rush out of the city gate, he was also very relieved and laughed and said, "Haha...... Li Mao is also a benevolent and righteous person, so that this king and I can fight again on the back of the old man's horse before the time being! It's not in vain, it's not in vain......"

"General! Let's follow you! You're going to go alone, so how are we going to live as old men in the guards! You can take me and kill it again! "Good! That's right, all the old guards listen, let's old guys rush to kill one last time! "Order!"

With a cheer in front of the Tubo army, something that shocked everyone in the Tang army happened! Azhashi took the lead, and then he was followed by more than a thousand veterans with vicissitudes of life rushing straight towards the city of Qamdo, while the remaining 30,000 people stood there like clay sculptures one by one!

"Your Highness! What is the old thief Azashi doing! Let your subordinates take the guards to fight him for a few rounds! "Rush to kill what? He wants to die, do you want to die too? Passing on the king's military order, all the soldiers retreated a hundred steps, and the crossbow stepped forward to fire a volley......"

After Li Mao gave the order, the Tang army immediately fired a volley of 10,000 arrows in the array. So Azashi kept charging forward in the rain of arrows, until the arrow fell in front of the Tang army's ballista.

And after Azasi went to the end, more than 30,000 Tubo troops threw away their weapons and fell to the ground! Seeing such a scene, Li Mao also had to respect the old general Azasi, who had been fighting for a month and a half.

"Yang Zhao! Take care of the rest! Bury Azhashi and leave him in the city of Chamdo forever! Because this city is what he wants to take until he dies! In addition, these tens of thousands of captives were also settled in the city of Qamdo, and it was said that the king allowed them to keep the spirit of Azhashi for eternity! "Wow!"

After Yang Guozhong brought all the captives into Qamdo City with more than 1,000 soldiers, Gao Xianzhi personally rushed over with more than 5,000 forwards, and when he saw the corpses all over the mountains under the city, he couldn't help but whisper to appease Li Mao.

"Your Highness! This has always been the case on the battlefield! The first time you meet, there will definitely be a lot of things you don't get used to! Why don't you go back to the city capital to recuperate for a few days! ”

"No, when your army comes, quickly burn all the corpses, fortunately this winter is coming, otherwise there will be a stinky plague sooner...... Now we have to compete with my father's decree, and we must force Chide to surrender before he agrees to peace talks!" ”

"What? Your Highness, you won't attack the royal city of Luoqi! Although the main force of Tibet is only more than 100,000 people at the moment, the news of Azhasi's death in battle will soon reach the ears of Chide, and he will definitely entangle the army to defend his royal city as quickly as possible...... Your Highness, think twice! ”

"Gao Xianzhi is still the highest military general in Jiannan Province now, you can raise any opinions, but what this king said is a military order, if you don't respect the order, this king has the right to remove you from the position of marshal!"