The Rouge River, the river is wide and the river is turbulent, and many boats line on it, transiting supplies between Hezhou and Taozhou.

On the riverbank, Li Xuan slowly slowed down his horse's speed and approached the river, and the Qianniu guards behind him also slowed down their horses.

The boatman on the riverbank, seeing the Qianniuwei who were all armed above, subconsciously drove the boat towards the opposite bank.

Even many ships from the upper reaches of the river, when they saw them, they subconsciously approached the opposite shore.

I don't know why, after this line of boats passed, there were only three or three boats left on the river, as if some plague had appeared, and they were afraid to approach.

The Brenzan blade on the cliff in the distance, seeing this scene, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

This is the case on the plateau, when a wolf approaches, the sheep will immediately subconsciously go away, without exception.

After Li Xuan stayed on the shore for a while, he didn't speak, and finally suddenly urged the horse, and the whole person immediately rushed forward.

The many Qianniu guards behind hurriedly urged the horses, but after all, they were still a step slower, and the distance between the two sides was opened up by dozens of meters.

Li Xuan subconsciously raised his head and looked at the cliff that suddenly appeared hundreds of meters ahead.

His eyes were raised, and a flock of geese suddenly swept through the air above his head.

Suddenly, as soon as Li Xuan pulled the reins, the horse suddenly stopped, his right hand was raised high, and the dozens of cavalry behind him also slowed down their horses in an instant.

Li Xuan's gaze swept over the cliff, and under the cover of the dense woods, there was no figure at all, not even the neighing of the horses.

A hint of disdain flashed at the corner of Li Xuan's mouth.

Immediately following, without the slightest hesitation, Li Xuan immediately turned the horse's head and shook the horse rope vigorously.

The next moment, the high-headed horse had already taken Li Xuan and quickly rushed towards the way he came, in the direction of Taozhou City.

The group of Qianniu Wei followed without the slightest hesitation, and the speed was mentioned in a blink of an eye, and in a very short time, it had completely disappeared from the sight of the Brenzan Blade on the top of the mountain.

On the cliff, Brenzan watched Li Xuan leave, his eyes widened in disbelief, and he didn't have time to do anything until they disappeared.

Not knowing what to think, Brenzan turned his head sharply, and saw hundreds of soldiers ready to throw stones and bows behind him, as well as a thousand cavalry on the gentle slope on the other side.

The voices of people and horses were very low, but even then, there was nothing around but these two sounds.

There should have been birdsong, but it had long since disappeared without a trace because the birds were hiding away from them.

"Damn." Brenzan cursed fiercely, but all this was arranged by his own hands, but unexpectedly, in the end, a huge flaw was revealed.

Without the slightest hesitation, Brenzan Blade pulled out the sharp long knife at his waist, and the long knife shimmered with silver light in the sunlight, pointing in the direction where Li Xuan disappeared.

"Charge, charge, capture the king of Nanchang alive and take Taozhou City." The roar of the Brenzan blade resounded throughout the cliff.

In an instant, more than 1,000 Tibetan cavalry had turned around and mounted their horses, and then rushed towards the bottom of the mountain at great speed, and at the same time, countless roars sounded.

"Capture the king of Nanchang alive and take Taozhou City."

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"Capture the king of Nanchang alive and take Taozhou City."

A sound like thunder sounded behind him, and Li Xuan didn't have a head, urging the horse to rush forward quickly.

Almost in a very short time, he had already led people out of the river valley, and the speed was amazing.

There was no need for him to say anything more, the fifty thousand bull cavalry had already turned extremely fast and rushed towards the west gate of the state capital.

Behind them, amid the roaring sound of horses' hooves, the Tibetan cavalry had already rushed out of the Rouge River Valley.

The Rouge River flows from west to east, and after coming out of the river valley, it travels eastward along the river channel, and after more than ten miles, it joins the Tao River, and then flows north to Lanzhou.

The Tao River flows down from the southern plateau and flows from the southeast to the northwest, diagonally downward.

Taozhou city sits in the north and faces south, the southwest corner of the city and the Tao River meet, the more north, the Tao River is farther away from the city.

To the north of the city, the confluence of the Tao River and the Rouge River is more than three miles away from the city wall, and it is even farther away from the north gate of the state city.

The quickest way to cross the river into the city is to follow the river south and cross the bridge at the West Gate.

After crossing the bridge, only a little more than a mile is where the gate of the West City is located.

Li Xuan and his party rushed down, and the bridge was located not far ahead.

Behind them, countless horses' hooves followed them like thunder.

Li Xuan finally turned around, and for a while he couldn't see how many cavalry there were, and he frantically killed Li Xuan's place.

But unfortunately, the distance between them and Li Xuan is really not short, many people have already drawn their longbows in their hands, but the long arrows they shoot can't reach Li Xuan at all, and they are even too far behind.

Seeing this scene, Li Xuan faintly showed a hint of relaxation, and in a blink of an eye, the high-headed horse had already rushed across the stone bridge with him.

The stone bridge, although not too wide, is large enough for three horses in parallel.

I don't know why, at this time, there were no people coming and going on the stone bridge, and even outside the West Gate, there were not many people.

In the distance, Brenzan saw that Li Xuan had already crossed the stone bridge, and his eyes were even more furious.

He didn't expect that Li Xuan's speed would be so fast, their Tubo cavalry was fast enough, but Li Xuan's speed was even faster.

But think about it, although the war horses of the Tubo people are all good horses on the plateau that are good at running, but where is Li Xuan's war horse bad.

Qianniuwei itself is the emperor's personal guard, and the horses he rides are even more first-class, compared to the Tubo war horse, which is not bad at all, especially this is not a plateau at all, and the characteristics of the Tubo war horse cannot be brought into play at all.

And the big horses that Li Xuan himself rode were all better than other Qianniuwei horses.

Seeing that Li Xuan was about to rush into Taozhou City without stopping on horseback, suddenly, at the gate of Taozhou City, a small number of people suddenly panicked.

Under the city gate, the two carriages overturned directly, blocking Li Xuan's way at once.

Brenzan Blade smiled from afar, and in an instant he had rushed to the edge of the stone bridge with his men.

Looking at Li Xuan, who was stopped under the city gate in the distance, Brenzan Blade's mind flashed slightly, and subconsciously, Brenzan Blade slammed the horse, and the whole person calmed down instantly.

He waved his hand to both sides, and hundreds of cavalry had already rushed past him, directly towards the city gate in the distance.

Brenzan raised his head and looked at the city wall above the city gate, and suddenly saw that the two Fu Yuan crossbows had already been raised, and the cold light was aimed at the shore.

When the first Tubo cavalry cavalry rushed across the stone bridge, with a "buzz", a huge Fuyuan crossbow arrow had instantly cut through countless spaces, and shot directly at the cavalry at the bridge.

The Tubo cavalry had shrunk under the horse's belly in a blink of an eye, but immediately after, they heard a "bang", and the flesh and blood exploded.

The extremely sharp crossbow arrow had already penetrated the horse's body, and then a fierce arrow directly pierced the body of the Tibetan cavalry under the horse's belly.

Even the people and horses were pierced together, and the blood flowed all over the ground in an instant.

With a "bang", the cavalry and the horses fell directly to the ground, but at this time, more Tubo cavalry had already ignored the death of their comrades, and had rushed across the stone bridge in an instant.

With a "hum", another Fuyuan crossbow arrow was shot, and with a "bang", another Tubo cavalry was pierced through the body, but it could not stop the Tubo cavalry from rushing and killing.

Standing in front of the city gate, Li Xuan had already turned his horse, looked at the Tubo cavalry rushing in the distance, smiled contemptuously at the corner of his mouth, and said coldly: "Release the arrow." ”

At the sound of an order, the fifty Qianniu guards, who had already lined up side by side, all drew their longbows from behind them, and aimed their long arrows at the Tubo cavalry at the front, and in a blink of an eye, they had already released their bowstrings.

With a "buzz", fifty long arrows flew through a distance of one hundred and fifty paces.

The Tibetan cavalry flexibly turned over and hid under the belly of the horse, but before they could have any thoughts, the war horse on their side suddenly weakened, and then fell to the side, and fell directly to the ground with a bang.

The blood that spurted from the horse's neck sprayed them directly in the face, and the long arrow stuck there made them even more frightened.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen war horses had fallen to the ground, and without exception, their necks were full of long arrows.

Shoot people and horses.

Qianniuwei shot all the horses in the bow and arrow range with extreme calm.

Blood and death did not stop the charge of the Tubo cavalry at all, and the total distance was no more than one mile, and rushing over could kill Li Xuan and rush into the city.

Li Xuan stood in front of the city gate so calmly, although there were many Tubo cavalry rushing over from the bridge in front, but because of the width of the bridge, there were only three cavalry who crossed the bridge each time.

After rushing over, the cavalry charged forward with great speed.

Above his head, the Fuyuan crossbow was constantly firing, and after dodging the Fuyuan crossbow, he would face the sniping of fifty Qianniuwei archers.

For a time, the Tubo cavalry was like filling with oil, one by one, and in the blink of an eye, there were already fifty horsemen, who died under the bow and arrow, but even so, there were still many Tubo cavalry rushing onto the stone bridge and rushing towards Li Xuan's city gate to kill.

They're fighting, they're fighting for their lives, like bees.

Li Xuan's Qianniuwei, although they are all good at archers and arrows, but also because there are not many Tubo cavalry rushing over from the bridge, a round of salvo can not only shoot a dozen cavalry in total, even if it is ten rounds, it is only more than a hundred cavalry.

At this moment, the number of cavalry gathered on the opposite side was at least thousands.

Bren Zan Blade stood on the other side of the bridge, looking at Li Xuan on the opposite side calmly.

Li Xuan didn't make a move, but just looked at the Brenzan blade with the same calmness, and the eyes of the two people collided in midair, and countless fires collided at once.

The Tibetan cavalry was cut down like wheat, but only half an hour later, a rain of arrows shot from under the city walls, and suddenly there were many fewer of them.

It was at this time, unconsciously, that the corpses of the Tubo cavalry on the ground had begun to somewhat block the subsequent charges.

They subconsciously spread out to the sides and beyond, trying to charge through the weaker parts of the arrows.

The rain of arrows under the city gate became more and more unscrupulous, especially after many rounds of archery, even the superb Qianniuwei's arms were already very sour.

A general wearing a brown tiger skin cloak and a green jade headband on his head shouted an order before he crossed the stone bridge: "Disperse, rush and kill." ”

More Tibetan cavalry quickly scattered to both sides, and as soon as the new general rushed across the stone bridge, his eyes couldn't help but raise and fall on the city.

There, more soldiers had begun to gather, and among them there were quite a few archers.

"Charge." The young general gave an order, and the next moment, the two hundred horsemen who had spread out had already rushed towards the city wall.

Behind them, more Tibetan cavalry were still rushing frantically.

Then, just as they rushed to a distance of only half the city gate, there was a "boom", and countless black arrows flew up suddenly.

In the blink of an eye, the rain of arrows had fallen into the Tibetan cavalry, bringing countless blood flowers and death in an instant.

(End of chapter)