Chapter 518: Engagement

The Tang Dynasty now has two thorny enemies, one is Goguryeo and the other is Tibet.

These two are really difficult to deal with, and the most important thing is the special geography of their country, Goguryeo is mountainous, and Tubo is more than the plateau, both of which are easy to defend and difficult to attack militarily.

Therefore, after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks in the north, Xue Yantuo were defeated, but Goguryeo in the east and Tubo in the west have not been able to conquer.

The reason is that the plain warfare that the Tang army is best at is useless in these two countries, and against ordinary enemies, the general gives an order, and thousands of troops and horses are launched together, and they are directly crushed against the enemy.

And for these two, well, lack of oxygen, broken feet, horses can't run.

Decades after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo and Goguryeo have not been cleaned up, and the three generations of emperors are actually very aggrieved.

This time, the Tubo invaded Tuyuhun, they chose to come down from the plateau and fight on the vast plain of Tuyuhun, in fact, it is to avoid the strengths and promote the weaknesses, but the Tubo army has always fought fiercely and bravely, even on the plains, it is not weak at all, and the Tuyuhun home battle has been defeated and retreated.

Today, it is the turn of the Tang army to clash with Tibet.

Tubo fought Tuyuhun smoothly, but the Tang army was not Tuyuhun, and the bronze opponent suddenly changed to the king's opponent, and the taste of the battle was very different.

In the rumbling war drums, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Tang Army lined up, they were arranged in three rows, and each soldier was unhurriedly taking out a handful of black things from the leather bag on his waist, stuffing it into the hole of the strange weapon, tamping it and then filling it with iron pellets, and pulling out a lead.

Seven or eight miles away, the Tubo army, which had already set up its formation, looked at the opposite military formation from afar, and found that today's opponent had changed.

The armor of the Tang army was completely different from the leather armor of the Tuyuhun army, reflecting the luster of metal in the sun, and the formation of three rows of horizontal formations was very strange, which the Tubo army had never seen.

Generally speaking, the front of the army is usually a shield array, or a spear array, followed by a bow and arrow, followed by a spear array and a knife array, and the cavalry is arranged on the left and right flanks, and the bow and arrow are fired before the army slowly advances.

The more than 1,000 Tang Army soldiers in front of them only have three rows of horizontal formations, and the weapons in their hands are strange and cute......

The Tibetan generals were puzzled, but it did not affect the launch of the army. The concept of the Tibetan people is very simple, no matter what weapon you use, you are two shoulders with a head, pretending to be a ghost and still die with a knife.

The long horn stopped abruptly, the rapid and fierce war drums sounded, and the Tibetan army began to move forward.

After the formation of the Tuyuhun army, the Khan squinted at the array of the Tang army in front of him, and his heart became more and more uneasy.

At this time, more than 1,000 Tang troops were lined up in front, and the middle and left and right flanks were still pressed by the Tuyuhun army, but the Tang army of more than 1,000 people looked so thin and helpless in the midst of thousands of troops and horses, like a group of chickens who fell into a wolf's den, and they were not enough to stuff their teeth on the other side.

And the weapons in their hands are also weird and weird, they are stuffed with medicine and small projectiles, just relying on such a broken stick, can they block a 10,000-strong charge in Tibet?

The Khan stroked his messy beard uneasily, the oil was now in a mood like a leek about to be harvested, knowing that the scythe was already dangling in front of him, but still unable to escape.

However, in any case, there was no time to correct everything, and the Tibetan army on the opposite side had already been launched.

In the sound of war drums, the Tubo army let out an earth-shattering roar, and then the generals rushed out of the front first, beating their horses and galloping, and the black crowd rushed out with the Tubo generals.

The banner was cloudy, the sand and dust were all over the sky, and 10,000 Tibetan cavalry rushed towards the front of Tuyuhun.

The murderous aura like winter was overwhelming, like a black demon king with a bloody mouth, viciously pounced on Tang Jun.

Under such a terrifying charging momentum, the Tang army's array suddenly appeared a little panicked, and some of the soldiers' legs were already weak.

Sun Congdong deserved to be a leading general, and seeing that the robe was a little unstable, he immediately raised a small black flag in his hand and shouted: "Steady!" The military fighter in front of the battle is slashed! ”

"Gun Pingju, listen to my orders."

The slightly chaotic Tang army array immediately calmed down, and the soldiers raised their three-eyed guns according to the order and aimed straight ahead.

Sun Congdong's eyes stared at the Tubo army that was getting closer and closer, measuring their distance, five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps......

It wasn't until he was almost two hundred steps away that Sun Congdong shouted: "Light the fire!" ”

The soldiers immediately pointed the foil of the burning fire at the lead of the three-eyed gun.

Rumble!

There was an earth-shattering thunderclap, not only the charging Tubo army fell a large piece, but even the Tuyuhun army behind the Tang army was also frightened and confused, and the war horses under everyone's crotch were even more panicked, and the neighing people stood up, and countless people were lifted off their horses by the war horses and fell heavily into the yellow sand.

The Khan was also startled, and subconsciously turned his horse's head and fled back, but saw puffs of white smoke rising from the Tang army's formation, and the Tubo army charging in the distance had a large scream and fell off his horse.

The Khan's heart moved, and his strong curiosity overcame fear, until the Tang army lit the fuse again in the front line, and there was a loud bang, and the Tubo army fell again.

Every time the Tang army lit the fuse with a fire fold, after the loud noise, there was always a large scream of the charging Tubo army.

Noho Khan was not stupid, and he gradually understood something at this moment.

It turned out that the strange weapons of the Tang army were so powerful that before the two sides could fight, nearly half of the forward of the Tubo army had been knocked down.

After the gunpowder projectiles in the three eyes were fired, the first row quickly retreated, and the back row of Tang soldiers full of bullets quickly replenished it, and then continued to ignite and fire.

The speed of the attack of the Tubo army that was charging rapidly has been greatly slowed down, and the weapons that will make a loud noise in the hands of the Tang army are already terrifying, and the Tubo army that rushed to the front was shot and fell off the horse, which also caused human obstacles to the Tubo cavalry charging behind, and many horses were tripped by the robes that fell to the ground, and a large area was fallen.

The battlefield was in chaos, the charge of the Tibetan cavalry was getting slower and slower, and the people in the ranks were shouting and neighing, crying bitterly, raising their swords and scolding, and those who fled from the battle out of fear......

If a charging team is in such a chaotic situation, the charge is already a failure.

The Khan also saw the situation on the battlefield clearly, and immediately ordered thousands of Tuyuhun cavalry on the left and right flanks to outflank and press it.

The sound of war drums became more and more rapid and intense, and tens of thousands of Tuyuhun soldiers who were on the weak side saw that more than 1,000 Tang troops had inflicted such huge casualties on the Tubo army, and the momentum of the long-declining army instantly rose.

They cheered and roared in the ranks, raising their swords as they flanked the charge to the left and right, and even the banners in front of them seemed to be cheering, hunting and dancing in the wind.

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