Seeing this scene, Ge Xiaqin knew that something was wrong, and ordered again and again: "Quickly blow the horn, withdraw, withdraw into the valley." ”

However, the right flank of the Flying Tiger Cavalry led by Bai Xiaode had completed the outflanking and wanted to wipe them out on this triangular plain.

"Quick, charge with me, stand out!"

These Gui archers of Su Biru escorted Ge Xiaqin and rushed to the right flank of the Flying Tiger Cavalry, but they were stopped by Bai Xiaode's concentrated strength, so they had to turn to other directions to protrude, and were blocked by Tian Zhen, the left wing of the Flying Tiger Cavalry.

Bai Xiaode's eyes stared at Ge Xiaqin, who was surrounded and fled, and shouted: "Don't let him run away!" The one with the brightest helmet on his head and the obscene appearance is the main general! ”

Ge Xiaqin was in a hurry, took off his pocket while galloping, and exchanged the felt hats of the warriors beside him.

As soon as the samurai touched the top of his head, he was immediately greeted by arrows from all directions, and his protection was much weaker than that of his general, and he fell under his horse with six arrows in his body.

Ge Xiaqin gasped, changed directions and continued to break through, leaning down on his horse to start his escape technique. Unexpectedly, a yellow horse lay at his side, Bai Xiaode held a spear in his hand and sneered: "Do you think that Lao Tzu will not be able to find you if you change your hat?" Come on! ”

Ge Xiaqin hurriedly pulled out the broad-edged knife to resist, and opened and closed it in his hand, but Bai Xiaode's marksmanship was even more tricky, and the spear picked up the broad-bladed knife one by one, and the head of the spear stabbed him directly in the neck, and blood gushed and fell to the ground.

Bai Xiaode picked up the head of the enemy general and tied it to the side of the horse, and while brandishing a spear to kill, he shouted loudly: "Your general has been killed by me, don't dismount and surrender quickly!" ”

A part of the Tibetan army stubbornly resisted and broke out of the encirclement and rushed into the valley, and more Gui archers had already thrown away their weapons and honestly dismounted and knelt beside the horses.

Bai Xiaode continued to pursue until Tianzhu County brought back five or six hundred heads before retreating to Gulang.

In this battle, the Hexi Army annihilated more than 10,400 cavalry from the four Dongdais of Su Biru, captured more than 9,000 enemy troops, and only a few enemy troops fled back to Shanzhou from the valley of Gulang.

This number of kills may not seem like much in the several battles between Tang and Tibet, but the quality is incomparable to those victories in the past. In the past, the Tang army captured most of the slave Dongdai of Tibet, and most of the trophies were yaks and sheep. This is the same as the tail of the gecko.

These four cavalry Dongdai were the core military force of Subiru, and defeating them would be tantamount to draining their backbone.

Li Siye was obviously not satisfied with just such a victory, and this victory was not enough to completely remove the threat of Tubo to the Hexi Corridor, what he wanted was that Su Biru's vitality was greatly damaged, and he would not have the ability to launch a large-scale campaign within four or five years, so that he could ensure that the rear of Hexi had no worries, and he could rest assured that he could free up his hands to eliminate local feudal towns such as Deng Jingshan in Hedong and Shi Siming in Youzhou.

He handed over the captives and horses to Bai Xiaode, and ordered him to lead only 3,000 men with artillery battalions to escort them to Baiting and Jiaocheng to defend and capture, and piggyback on the prisoners' labor to repair and expand the city walls of the two places that had been damaged by artillery.

"Taking advantage of the damage to the Subiru cavalry and the loss of the main combat effectiveness, our army should take advantage of the victory to pursue, even if it is temporarily unable to recover the stone castle, it will not be able to free up the strength to manage Shanzhou and Kuozhou, but Subiru must be disabled. Let the Tibetan people know that even if the Central Plains is temporarily in turmoil, our strength is enough to clean them up and make them dare not invade. ”

Xu Bin followed Li Siye's words and added: "What the lord said is extremely true, this battle is related to the security of the Hexi Corridor in the next five years, and only by pursuing it while winning can we gain the greatest advantage. ”

The Flying Tiger Cavalry generals won a great victory at the beginning, and their momentum was just right, and they immediately rushed to make dry food to replenish fresh water, and entered the territory of Tianzhu County in the early morning of the second day.

……

Lord Subi Ruben was waiting sixty miles southeast of Shanzhou City, and he was confident that what Ge Xiaqin had brought back to him must be the good news of the annihilation of the enemy army.

The "good news" finally arrived on the afternoon of the third day, and several ragged Tubo Gui warriors stumbled into the wooden walled city, trembling and kneeling in the big tent to report.

Ruben's face had become gloomy, and he only smiled crookedly and asked, "How many of you will come back with 20,000 iron horses?" And lost Lao Tzu's horse? ”

The samurai at the head replied, "We are not the only ones, and no one else dares to come back to see you, so we fled and hid in the nearby mountains. We thought we had to bring back the bad news so that we could be prepared in advance. ”

"So, do you still have merit?"

Several samurai kowtowed one after another: "Don't dare, don't dare, we're just thinking about making up for it." ”

"If you die on the battlefield, I will still think that you have merit, and I will also pay tribute to you in front of the gods of Gesang, Ge Xiaqin died on the battlefield, you are still alive, come on, push these two guys out and cut them down!"

"But for the sake of you daring to come back and report the news, I will allow your corpses to be buried in the sky and feed vultures and wild wolves."

Several samurai were grateful: "Thank you Ruben for giving us a clean funeral, and in the next life, we will be the warriors of Subiru and die on the battlefield for Ruben." ”

Subi waved his hand in disgust, and ordered the executioners to escort them out of the tent, at which time his generals and soldiers began to be silent, for fear that if they said something wrong or offered some bad intentions, they would be affected by Ruben's anger. ”

"Why don't you speak? Usually, they give me advice and ideas like flies, but now that our army has lost the four Dongdai of the main force, don't you have any ideas at all? ”

Under the suppression of Ruben's threatening eyes, the leader of the Tuyuhun tribe stood up and spoke: "Ruben, the Han people have a saying that victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and I have been fighting with Tang for nearly a hundred years, and it is usually a matter of eliminating the other's strengths. Even if the battle is lost, as long as you can preserve your strength, you can still regain what you lost today tomorrow. ”

There is nothing wrong with saying this, and there is no reason for Ruben to lose his temper, but he just laments that the four Dongdai of his descendants have all been wiped out, which directly causes the decline of his Subiru's deterrent power, which will not only make these small tribes dependent on him have undue ambitions, but also make his voice in the Potala Palace weakened and squeezed out by the rest of Siru.

Subiru was the strongest of the Tibetan Wuru military system, so his defeat would have disastrous consequences.

Ruben sighed in his heart and asked the Tuyuhun chief: "In your opinion, what should I do." ”

The leader hugged his chest and said: "If the Tang army wins another big victory, it will inevitably take advantage of the victory to expand the results, and our army should avoid its edge and take the initiative to retreat." ”

"What do you mean? Shall we retreat to the city of Kuozhou and hold on? ”

The leader replied sincerely: "No, it is difficult to hold the city of Kuozhou, and our army should completely withdraw from the Huangyuan area and flee to the north of the Tianwei Stone Castle. ”

Ruben completely fell silent when he heard this, marching into the Longyou Huangyuan area has always been his main strategic plan, and it has taken a lot of energy, manpower and material resources, if they have to withdraw from Kuozhou today, then their past achievements here will become a joke.

Su Biru did not have the determination of a strong man to break his wrist, and finally decided to retreat to the city of Kuozhou with his troops and stick to resist the Tang army.