Chapter 836: The Tianchi dam bursts, and Li Xuan digs the embankment
On the west bank of the middle reaches of the Sairi River, Li Xuan restrained his horse, held his breath, and his eyes were as cold as a blade, passing over the two thousand Tibetan cavalry who were crossing the river downstream.
In front of the diagonal side, a thousand Tibetan elite horsemen were ready to go.
As long as Li Xuan led the cavalry to charge downward, they would immediately pounce.
Li Xuan didn't move, and neither did the 1,000 right guard cavalry behind him.
Nanju urged the horse forward slightly, and asked in a low voice, "Lord Wang!" ”
"Leave it alone." Li Xuan glanced at the left guard infantry who were fighting behind him, as well as the two thousand Tubo cavalry who were crossing the river, shook his head calmly, and said, "Those are the merits of General Xiao, so we don't need to grab the credits." ”
Li Xuan's work today is already too dazzling, and the dazzling eyes are a little different from himself, which makes him feel a little uncomfortable.
"Besides, it's time for the war horse to rest, and today's battle is far from over." Li Xuan said, glancing sideways behind her.
The right-guard foot soldiers in the back were quickly building a step dam, and a step dam had been quickly formed in the shortest possible time.
The location of each step dam has been carefully selected, and each step dam can store a large amount of water.
The completion of this stepped dam behind Li Xuan means that most of the water attack plan for Qinling has gone bankrupt.
Li Xuan's gaze fell on the lion elephant of the Tubo army on the other side.
He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong for a while.
On Qinling's plan, it must not be as simple as it seems.
The flood washed down, and it was not only the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were flooded, but even the cavalry of the Tubo people themselves would be affected.
Under the flood, the cavalry did receive less momentum than the foot soldiers, but don't forget, the foot soldiers themselves don't need to move much, as long as they can stand their feet, the crossbow in their hands is their best killing weapon.
Not to mention, now under Li Xuan's methods, the effect of the Qinling Water Attack Method will inevitably be greatly reduced.
But how can Qinling's methods be so simple, his hands will definitely be a vicious method that can completely bury tens of thousands of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty.
This is the Tomb of Qin.
This is the Qinling who defeated Xue Rengui back then.
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Li Xuan looked sideways at Cui Ding and Nanju behind him, and asked in a low voice, "What do you think is the real killer feature of Qinling?" ”
"Could it be a ship?" Cui Ding couldn't help but speak.
Nanju directly denied Cui Ding's speculation, and said in a deep voice: "It is impossible for the Tubo people to have a naval army, nor can they have so many warships, what they have is just some rafts, in this situation in front of them, the speed of the raft is not even as fast as the speed of people." ”
Cui Ding shook his head decisively and said: "Then the last general can't think of it, but the last general dares to ask, Lord Wang, if this matter is done by the Lord Wang, what means will the Lord use to target the army?" ”
"Didn't you just say it, it's a water army." Li Xuan looked at the Tang and Tu armies that were fighting fiercely again downstream, and said with a solemn face: "If this king sets up a situation, he will definitely not trap all his own people, because the strategy of water and fire is ruthless, and the strategy of too much damage is not a good strategy, but if this king is in the position of discussing the Qinling...... So his best means, in addition to poison and disaster, is it a rolling stone? ”
"The prince means catapults?" Nanju looked at Li Xuan in surprise, then looked at the distance between the Shazhu Jade River and the army in the distance, shook his head and said, "Even in my dynasty, there may not be such a catapult that can project several kilometers, right?" ”
"It won't be a catapult, it's just something like a catapult, something that can directly crush the tens of thousands of troops gathered together." Li Xuan's thoughts kept flickering, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't think of the means that Qinling could use in this environment.
If you can't think of the means that will be used in the Qin Ling, it is difficult to come up with good means in advance.
Li Xuan's brows couldn't help frowning, and her eyes looked at the mountains and forests.
Gray Eagle's gaze swept across the battlefield.
To the west, Wang Xiaojie's troops have already reached the Chaka Salt Lake; On the east side, Xiao Siye was strangling the Tubo cavalry, and the battle situation was in the upper hand.
In the rear, Sun Ren's division was slowly approaching the center of the battle, and was about to cross the Tawen River.
Above, the first step-dam behind Li Xuan had been completed, and his soldiers had begun to turn further upstream and began to prepare for the construction of the second step-dam.
Even now, Lun Qinling did not realize that his plan for water attack had failed.
Li Xuan's initial cavalry charge was to buy time for his infantry to build a ladder dam and open up the distance.
The second step dam has been completed, and the power of the Tubo people's water attack technique will be reduced to the extreme.
Everything seems to be developing in a direction that is beneficial to the Tang Dynasty, but Li Xuan always feels that now they are falling into the trap of discussing Qinling in the middle.
"Water, water, water......" Li Xuan subconsciously turned his head, looked at Nanju, and unconsciously chanted his name in his heart: "Nanju, torch, fire, water, fire, fire?" ”
A flash of light flashed in his mind, Li Xuan's eyes flashed, and that light was left in Li Xuan's mind: fire!
With water, it is natural to extinguish fires.
"Nanju, summon immediately, the left guard, the right guard cavalry and archers, start preparing the rocket immediately, quickly, immediately, you go in person." Li Xuan's expression was so hurried that he couldn't help but push Nanju.
Nanju shuddered inexplicably, and immediately arched his hand: "The last general will go right now." ”
In the blink of an eye, Nanju had already rushed across the Serge River with two hundred cavalry and headed towards the main force of the right guard.
The Tubo cavalry in front of Li Xuan, after seeing Nanju's movements, after a panic, still didn't do anything, just stared at Li Xuan.
"Order, start now, prepare the rocket." Li Xuan immediately asked his subordinates to prepare rockets.
Although he couldn't figure out what he planned to do with the Qin Tomb, he knew how to destroy the plan of the Qin Tomb.
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As soon as Li Xuan inserted ten rockets into his waist, Cui Ding rode over from behind: "Lord Wang, I wait until my strength has recovered, do you want to rush to kill those guys on the other side first." ”
Those guys on the opposite side are the 1,000 Tubo cavalry who are in front, always on guard against Li Xuan and others.
It can be seen that they are all elites, and they are closely formed with each other, and there are almost no flaws.
Even if Li Xuan wanted to rush and kill, it would take some effort.
Li Xuan took a deep look at the Tubo cavalry who were on guard for a thousand moments, lest he suddenly rush up, turned his head, looked at the high place of Nanshan behind him, and said softly: "Don't worry, do it to them now, we will lose too much, wait a minute, maybe we can easily destroy them." ”
Relaxed?
When Cui Ding heard this, his eyes were overjoyed, and his eyes even glanced at those Tubo cavalry with some schadenfreude, and then he arched his hand in awe to Li Xuan: "Huh! ”
Suddenly, a hurried sound of horses' hooves sounded in the rear.
Li Xuan turned around, and suddenly saw Su Baotong coming from behind, and arched his hand at Li Xuan: "Lord Wang, the second step dam has been completed." ”
Li Xuan's expression suddenly became solemn, he looked up, and shouted in a low voice: "Go, everyone, go up with all your strength and help build the third embankment." ”
"Whoa!"
Everyone present immediately turned their horses' heads and quickly rushed towards the third step dam with Li Xuan.
At this time, the Tubo cavalry below watched Li Xuan's movements, and there was a commotion.
Soon, three horses headed south.
Li Xuan didn't care about this, and now at this time, the 2,000 Tubo reinforcements downstream had all crossed the Sairi River and fought with the Tang Chinese army.
Li Xuan suddenly felt that time had been strangled on his neck like a thin rope.
Three kilometers upstream, a right-guard foot soldier was quickly nailing the last fifty remaining sharp wooden stakes into the river.
On the banks of the river, more straw bags should be used to raise the embankment, so that the dam can be raised to the greatest extent and the water storage can be increased.
Li Xuan immediately turned over and dismounted, and shouted coldly: "Everyone, help immediately, shovel soil and bag it." ”
Without the slightest hesitation, a thousand men dismounted and quickly excavated and loaded the earth on the west bank of the Serge River with straw bags and wooden shovels that they had brought with them.
Li Xuan's heart was cold, and he immediately shouted: "Dig down diagonally along a ditch!" ”
Everyone immediately looked up at Li Xuan in great surprise, and saw Li Xuan pointing in the direction of the thousand cavalry downstream, everyone was slightly stunned, and then immediately grabbed all their strength and quickly dug up.
Li Xuan's gaze had already fallen on the Tang Dynasty Central Army and the Tubo cavalry, which were already entangled to death.
In a short period of time, it will be difficult for them to separate.
At this time, among the Tubo Chinese army on the south bank of the Shazhuyu River, the huge lion elephant flag suddenly waved.
An incomparable tremor instantly appeared on Li Xuan, he immediately turned around and shouted an order: "Everyone leave the river immediately, get on the horse, block the horse's ears, cover the horse's eyes, and control the horse!" ”
Li Xuan had already taken the lead in desperately tearing off the corners of his clothes, crumpling them into a ball and stuffing them into the ears of the war horse, and at the same time wrapped the eyes of the war horse with strips of cloth, and comforted it in a low voice: "It's okay, it's okay." ”
The black war horse, which was originally a little flustered, slowly calmed down.
At this moment, suddenly, there was a thunderclap and a boom on the sunny sky, and a huge roar came from the sky.
Immediately they turned around, and saw a huge incomparable water dragon breaking through the mountain forest on the high mountain to the north, sweeping through the rolling stones, wooden stakes, and all other obstacles, and quickly crashing down from the high mountain.
The huge roar instantly made the war horses under everyone's crotch extremely impatient.
Even if the ears of the horses were stuffed with the corners of their clothes, there was still a loud sound in the heads of the horses, and the ground kept trembling, making their hooves unstable.
The most important thing is the endless air pressure brought about by the rushing flood water upstream.
Even Li Xuan faintly had a feeling that he couldn't breathe, let alone a war horse.
Li Xuan looked up, and behind the roaring water dragon that broke through together, there was a heavenly pond that quietly appeared on the top of the mountain.
There was no Tianchi in the mountain, but the Qinling Tomb led all the water in the surrounding mountains into the upper reaches of the Sairi River, piled up to form a Tianchi, and then covered it between the mountains and dense forests, and anyone who tried to get close was all blocked and killed, even the Tang army scouts could not avoid it.
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The Tianchi burst, and the rushing river rushed down the river.
The river tries to restrain the mad water dragon, but is hit by the water dragon.
Li Xuan's gaze fell on the middle of the river in front of him, and fifty sharp wooden stakes had been stared at the river.
Countless straw bags were piled up on the front and back sides to fix them, but unfortunately, they were not halfway there, and the Tibetans had already broken the embankment.
At this time, under the loud roar, all the soldiers crawled and ran, and quickly left the riverbank.
In the line of sight from high in the sky, among the several heavenly pools in Nanshan, the heavenly pond in the upper reaches of the Sairi River is the largest, the largest water storage, and the water flowing down is also the most fierce.
Li Xuan made a quick calculation in his heart, and finally couldn't help but shake his head in his heart.
Not enough, three step dams, not enough to completely control the torrent here.
Looking at the Tubo cavalry in the distance, who had begun to gradually break away from the battlefield, the corners of Li Xuan's mouth were cold.
The long lance in his hand had been directly grabbed by him, and then he threw it directly at the embankment on the west bank where a trench had been dug out.
The lance stabbed hard from the bottom, pierced the embankment, pierced directly into the river, and even pierced a meter out.
At this moment, the rushing torrent had already rushed down, directly rushing on the lance.
The embankment on the west bank suddenly exploded.
(End of chapter)