At the same time that Li Tang's two armies went south to attack the land of Hanzhong and Bashu, a team of more than 200,000 people slowly advanced westward, which was the 50,000 Tubo army led by Qinling Rilong and the more than 200,000 young and strong Han people and young women who were plundered and enslaved.

This huge team marched west along the Weishui Road through Longxi County and Lintao County to cross the Yellow River in the direction of Jishi Mountain (Bayankala Mountains), and out of Lintao was the Tuyuhun homeland occupied by the Tubo, so the Tubo soldiers relaxed excitedly after crossing the Yellow River.

The rich harvest of this trip to Guanzhong made them can't help but know that Tubo was only a small tribe before, and it has only developed to this point through continuous external expansion in the past few decades, although they now have an army of two or three hundred thousand capable of fighting well, but they are still hillbillies who have never seen the world.

Even these Tibetan soldiers and generals did not dare to think that their people could not only attack the capital of the powerful Central Plains Empire, but also loot this huge city, and the wealth they plundered was ten thousand times richer than the accumulation of hundreds of years in Tibet.

Not to mention the gold, silver, money, silk and other riches plundered back, the more than 200,000 young women and young slaves brought back this trip alone are a huge wealth, and the young and strong slaves can carry out heavier labor for the Tubo people, and liberate more young and strong people to join the army and fight for the Tubo people.

And those young women can give birth to a large number of children for the Tubo people, so that the sparsely populated Tubo can increase its population more rapidly, thinking of this, Qinling Ri couldn't help but think of the two young and beautiful women last night.

Although they all claim to be women from Xianbei aristocratic families, but in the eyes of Qinling Rilong, these Xianbei people in the Central Plains are the same thing as the Han people, and the Tuyuhun people who now surrender to Tubo are not descendants of Murong Xianbei at the beginning, thinking about it, their skin is really smooth, it is even smoother than the silk they looted.

Among these young and strong slaves, the most important thing for Qinling Rilong is the thousands of craftsmen with all kinds of exquisite skills, these craftsmen are almost all the craftsmen with the highest level of technology left in the Guanzhong area of the Sui Empire, once these craftsmen are brought back, then the Tubo people can develop rapidly.

After crossing the Yellow River, the group of men and horses walked not far away from Heyuan County, although it was not close to the territory of the Xia people, but Qinling Ri Lane was still a little uneasy, he wanted to take these male and female slaves all the way to the two big lakes in Heyuan, where his Zanpu Nang Ri Zanan should be waiting for his good news.

Heyuan County is said to be the county seat set up by the Sui Empire in the hometown of Tuyuhun, but because the Tuyuhun tribe here can only be nomadic and not suitable for urban life, and the number of people in the Central Plains here is very small, so the Sui Empire only built a military city that can accommodate 30,000 people.

Such a small city in the Central Plains and the Xia Kingdom, which can no longer be small, is already a large city on the Tuyuhun Plateau, and Qinling Ri Lane is ready to rest here for a day before moving towards Zhaling Lake and Ngoring Lake.

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to Heyuan County, he was surprised that he didn't see any nomadic Tubo people along the way, and there was no one from the more than 10,000 Tubo troops originally stationed in Heyuan City to greet him, even if these people were jealous of their achievements, but they didn't even come to see the excitement.

As the distance got closer and closer, Qinling Ri Lane faintly heard a strange buzzing sound, he couldn't bear it and took hundreds of personal soldiers to fight forward, and when he was close to the city, he suddenly smelled an unbearable stench, and then saw that the inside and outside of Heyuan City were actually covered with the corpses of Tubo soldiers.

Even though the weather on the plateau is very cool in summer, it is still very hot under the sun during the day, and the county town of Heyuan has been slaughtered, and it seems that these people have only been killed for more than a day, and the Tubo army in the city, including the Tubo tribes, has all been killed.

The quiet city, the corpses all over the city, the flies flying all over the sky, the vultures hovering in the sky, and the head of the Tubo lord of Heyuan County, Chaya, who was still open-eyed, was placed at the gate of the city.

"Let's go, let's go!"

When Qinling Ri Lane saw the words written on the city gate, 'Those who slaughter the children of the Han family will be beheaded!' When I was ten big characters, I finally knew that this matter was done by the Xia army, and there was no other home.

He didn't dare to delay any longer, you must know that Heyuan County is not the closest place to Xiping County of Xia Kingdom, and there is still a Pouring River County in front of it, but now even Heyuan County in the rear has been slaughtered by the army of Xia Kingdom, so there is no need to mention several other counties that are closer to Xia Kingdom.

At this time, Qinling Rilong already knew that his whereabouts must have fallen into the grasp of the Xia army, so he quietly ordered a team of elite soldiers to gather all the most important people among the hundreds of Han craftsmen to cross the forest and take another path, and he personally led the army to escort more than 200,000 slaves to continue the march in the direction of Shuanghu.

Those young and strong Han slaves who were plundered by the Tubo people had already accepted their fate, but when they saw the panicked appearance of the Tubo people in Heyuan City, and the stench of corpses they could smell from afar, they immediately knew that someone was probably coming to attack this group of Tubos.

These young men knew that the Sui Empire was completely finished, and it was impossible for the Sui Empire army to rescue them, and they were likely to be enemies of the Tubo people on the plateau, even if these people were other barbarians on the Qiangtang Plateau, they still felt that it would be a good thing to defeat the Tubo people.

It took more than 30 miles to leave the west of Heyuan County in a day, after all, this is a high-altitude area, so after the difficult trek, the casualties of young and strong slaves increased rapidly, and hundreds of young men and women died of fatigue from the long journey in just a few dozen miles.

At this time, it was already close to the afternoon Shen, and just when Qinling Rilong was about to let the soldiers urge him to hurry overnight, suddenly thousands of cavalry attacked his team from the flank, starting with a series of intensive rocket attacks and subsequent intensive crossbow shots, so that Qinling Rilong knew that this must be the vanguard of the Xia army.

On the one hand, Qinling Rilong sent tens of thousands of cavalry to pursue and expel him, and on the other hand, he ordered tens of thousands of other soldiers to organize more than 200,000 young and strong male and female slaves as their own meat shields, as a barrier for the Tibetan army to escape.

For a while, the 200,000 young and strong slaves cried, but the ambushed Xia army was a little helpless, and seeing this, Qin Lingri proudly escorted the 200,000 young and strong slaves to continue to advance, and the angry Xia army itched at the root of his teeth.

"General, I'll lead the troops to charge!" Li Dalang, who had taken refuge in Xia Jun, blushed angrily, he sighed that he was fortunate to have taken refuge in Xia Jun in advance, and secretly took out his family members and clansmen early, otherwise he and his clansmen would have been the fate of these men and women in front of him.

Tu An, the general of the Xia State who led this cavalry, was the new generation of generals who graduated from the Pingyang County Military Academy after the old generals under Wang Ze were divided, and he also knew that these male and female slaves in front of him were all from Guanzhong, and many of them were Li Dalang's relatives and friends in the past, so he nodded and agreed to Li Dalang's request to fight.

Although Li Dalang's martial arts are not the best, his mind is quite clever, and a group of cousins from his own family are very elevated, so in just five or six years, he actually became a lieutenant officer in the cavalry team of the Xia Army, with more than 3,000 elite cavalry under his command.

With this Xia army cavalry, Li Dalang was not stupid and rushed straight forward, which would not only not save people but also make these hostages suffer heavy casualties, so he just led the cavalry to block the march of the crowd on the periphery, so that this chaotic crowd not only could not cover the advance of the Tubo army, but also affected the movement of the Tubo people in turn.

After a long delay, seeing that the sun began to set, Qinling Ri Lane couldn't bear it anymore and had to send another cavalry of thousands of people to expel the thousands of people under Li Dalang.

Tu An saw that Li Dalang's strategy was effective, and immediately sent other generals to attack and harass in turn, so after several groups of cavalry were sent out, there were only about 15,000 Tubo soldiers who cared for the 200,000 young and strong slaves, and Tu An immediately ordered a general attack.

Seeing this, Qin Ling Ri also knew that he was powerless to return to the sky, and at this time the sky had darkened, so he ordered to abandon the 200,000 young slaves and most of the property to retreat with all their might, although the Xia army lost tens of thousands of people again in the continuous pursuit, but the Tubo army still had nearly 30,000 people escaped.

Although the Xia army had done its best to rescue them, the more than 200,000 young men and women in the previous melee still killed and injured tens of thousands of people, and only more than 180,000 people survived in the end.

"Damn, these Tubo buns are lucky, they can still escape in front of our 100,000 army!" Li Dalang wiped the bloody horizontal knife while viciously spitting bloody foam, and then said to Li Erlang and Li Erbin beside him very unwillingly.

"Big brother, don't be a pity!" Li Erbin said with a smile, "We have left more than 20,000 lives of Tubo people, and there is General Shuliang in Heyuan to deal with it, so there are many opportunities to kill Tubo people in the future!" ”

Of course, Qinling Rilong would not know about these conversations of the Li brothers, although he suffered defeat at this time, but he did not lose the name of the famous general of Tubo, even in the face of the Xia army, which was twice as powerful as the combat effectiveness, he also led most of the army to withdraw.

However, when he arrived at the rich grassland between the two lakes in the source of the river where Nangri Nonzan was stationed before, what he saw was not the more than 100,000 Tubo troops led by Nangri Nonzan, but the 100,000 Xia cavalry waiting here.

Getting rid of the pursuit of the Xia army before had exhausted all the energy of Nangri Ronzan and these Tubo soldiers, and I originally thought that I could rest here in Heyuan, but I unexpectedly saw that it was the 100,000 elite soldiers of the Xia army who had been waiting for a long time.

Seeing this, Qin Lingri knew that he could no longer escape, so he organized soldiers to defend on the spot in an attempt to give the Xia army more casualties, but in front of the Xia army's super powerful explosive rockets, no matter how strong the fortifications were, they could not stop the Xia army's attack at all.

Just over a hundred rockets filled with yellow explosives soon blew up the fortifications that Qinlingri had built with great difficulty, and then an endless stream of crossbow arrows continued to cover it.

In the face of such a desperate situation, the desperate Tibetan soldiers launched a decisive assault, they were not afraid of death, and they were able to die heroically under the enemy's swords and guns, which was far more acceptable to them than hiding and being shot to death.

However, Xia Jun proved with his own practical actions that what is useless, countless crossbow arrows, muskets are constantly shooting, this kind of musket is not a black gunpowder filled musket, but the latest research of smokeless gunpowder made of nitrocellulose.

This kind of gunpowder can well solve the shortcomings of black powder because of the lack of oxygen and incomplete combustion, and the power is greatly reduced, but the current output of the process is not high, but it is enough to support the military action of the Xia army this time.

When several projectiles pierced the body of Qinling Ri Lane one after another, he suddenly felt a sharp pain, and the strength in his body quickly dissipated, although he still had some regrets in his heart, but thinking that the hundreds of Han craftsmen he quietly sent to Shannan had always been as strong as the Xia people in front of him, so he showed a smile and fell.