Chapter 837: Elephant Cavalry, Elephant Cavalry
A long lance, endless torrent impact prying, the embankment on the west bank of the Serge River burst instantly.
Vast expanses of water rushed frantically towards a large amount of land on the west bank of the Serge River.
Downstream, a thousand Tibetan cavalry stood there with frightened faces, trying to escape, but the horses did not obey the call at all.
In an instant, a huge flood had been photographed directly from above.
Suddenly, all the war horses were already galloping uncontrollably, but they were soon caught up by the torrent.
Under the beating of the torrent, the war horse was immediately slapped to its knees by the huge force, and the cavalry above was thrown out at once.
These Tibetan cavalry were too close.
The torrent rushed down, and before the impact of the plain weakened, these Tibetan cavalry standing downstream at the foot of the mountain immediately suffered.
A small half of the thousands of cavalry disappeared in an instant.
Li Xuan retracted his gaze, grabbed the horse rope, pulled the war horse back, and took two steps back to a higher place.
The torrent rushed out, and even his feet felt trembling.
The countless war horses behind him neighed even more loudly, and the horses' hooves emitted a burst of uneasy kicking sounds.
Li Xuan looked sideways at Cui Ding behind him, and said in a cold voice: "Order, control the war horse, hurry up and rest, and after half an hour, strangle the Tubo cavalry." ”
Cui Ding held down the horse, was slightly stunned, and then immediately gave up his hand: "Oh! ”
Everyone knew that the Qinling Tomb was going to open a dam to release water, but Liu Renliang never thought about stopping this flood from the beginning, and he wanted to take the opportunity to exterminate all the Tibetan cavalry on the north bank.
It is inevitable that the Tubo people will not use tens of thousands of cavalry to accompany the Tang army for burial, and they will have to withdraw.
With this withdrawal, Liu Renliang's opportunity came.
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Li Xuan pressed his hand on the horse's neck and gently comforted him, while turning his head to look at the river in front of him.
The sudden explosion of the west bank embankment directly diverted nearly one-third of the water, but the remaining two-thirds of the water still hit the pointed wooden piles.
The third step dam was not completed, not even halfway there, and the flood water crashed down through the cracks in the stakes.
But there were many other stones, wood, and the like, but they were stopped, and the step dam began to be gradually improved.
A huge amount of flood rushed down, hitting the second step dam fiercely, making a huge roar, and the entire step dam instantly made the sound of a girl being crushed by a strong man.
The second step dam also didn't last long, the torrent had already filled up directly, and then rushed towards the third step dam, but fortunately, the second step dam held up, and the speed of the torrent slowed down a lot.
At this time, a lot of water had accumulated in the last step dam, and the impact of the torrent was immediately weakened by half.
But a moment later, the long-standing flood water finally overflowed the step dam and rushed downstream.
At this time, the impact of the flood has been much smaller, and the river has gradually restrained this rushing water dragon.
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Li Xuan's gaze looked further downstream, and at this moment, the left guard and the right guard had begun to stride forward, and the crossbow and lance in their hands kept scattering and stabbing to chase the retreating Tubo cavalry in front.
The torrent of roaring impact made the war horse restless at the first time, and the Tubo soldiers tried their best to control the war horse.
In fact, the vast majority of Tibetan soldiers did not know what was happening for a while.
At this time, the military order from the rear came, and one cavalry stayed to block the enemy, and all the rest retreated, crossing the river and withdrawing to the west bank of the Serge River.
However, they were not half of their retreat, and the rushing torrent was already rushing down from the upstream.
Even if the torrent had weakened a lot, all the war horses in the river were swept away in an instant.
At this moment, there was a "boom", a huge roar almost like it sounded in the ears, a huge crack suddenly cracked on the east bank embankment, and the rushing water rushed quickly towards the left guard and the right guard, as well as the position where the cavalry was located after the Tubo break.
No one knows exactly when the Tibetans dug a crack there.
A huge torrent rushed down and rushed forward along a channel that was not very obvious.
After the break, the Tubo cavalry was instantly swept down in a large area, but at this time, the rear of the Tang army was still steadily shooting bows and crossbows, hunting these fallen enemies.
With a "boom", hundreds of Left Guard soldiers were directly knocked out by the flood, but only a moment later, they crashed into the hard ground behind them.
The place where Zuo Wei and the Tubo people fought happened to be in the lowest valley of the entire Thirsty Bo River.
This is the place where the Qin Tomb can be chosen.
In order to suppress the Tang army that was marching too fast in this area, the Tubo people almost threw all the 10,000 cavalry under the Tubo Qingbei Protector Jiezan into it, but after a bloody battle, less than 3,000 of the 10,000 cavalry died.
If it weren't for the rear, there were still 10,000 cavalry waiting for them, I am afraid that the Tubo people would have completely collapsed long ago.
It was the cost of more than 7,000 lives that made the plan of the Tibetans almost succeed.
The roaring water rushed the front left guard soldiers directly, but only ten zhang away, the strength of the flood had been exhausted.
At this time, more floods rushed towards the river valley area, but in the area where they went, there was only the lowest and narrow section in the center, and the Tang Dynasty soldiers were affected, not even the number of Sanyi.
Even these people were just knocked out, and they quickly got up in the turbulent torrent.
Xiao Siye, the general of the left guard, stood at the back, and when he saw this scene, he seemed to say something, but he still didn't open his mouth after all.
He raised his head and looked at the upper reaches of the Sairi River in the distance, where Li Xuan was, sighed lightly in his heart, and then turned his gaze to the Tubo soldiers in front of him.
In the rear, the military flag was already hoisted high.
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Under the lion elephant in the distance, the Qin Ling calmly watched the torrent on the opposite bank rush down to the top of the mountain, and then split a hole in the mountainside, and washed away towards the east bank, and the remaining water flow slowed down a lot after passing through three step dams.
More unexpected floods flowed down the river into the Shazhuyu River, causing the outbreak of the secret hand, and the amount of water rushing into the Tang army's camp was reduced by more than half.
The flood that could have been able to reach the chest suddenly did not reach the knees, and the power of the flood was greatly reduced.
Not only that, but on the east side of the Tawen River and the Harteri River, under the flash floods, they have not even been able to break away the previously secretly set up mechanism.
Under the buffer of the three step dams, under the constraints of the river, they rushed into the Shazhuyu River one after another.
At this point, the water attack plan of the Qinling Tomb was completely bankrupt.
On what kind of person Qinling was, standing on the south bank and looking at where Li Xuan was, he immediately understood what was wrong.
Unexpectedly, Lun Qinling's face remained calm, and his gaze fell further west on the Thirsty Wave River, where more torrents rushed down the mountain.
However, the Tibetan people did not do anything themselves, so they did not break the embankment at all.
However, the rushing water still filled all the rivers.
Just like the one in front of you.
In silence, the cavalry, foot soldiers, left guard, right guard, front army, rear army, and last army of the Tang Dynasty were all cut off into several parts.
On Qinling raised his hand, waved it back, and said softly, "Let's start." ”
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"Let's get started!" Li Xuan shouted an order, and the next moment, a thousand cavalry had already rushed towards the Tubo cavalry under the mountain.
The black lance didn't know when it had appeared in Li Xuan's hand, and it was sharp and flashing with cold light.
The Tibetan cavalry under the mountain had not yet recovered from the previous impact of the dam break, and the sound of horses' hooves had already come from above.
The flood water from the previous dam failure had gone further downstream, and they had fled to places out of the reach of the floodwaters.
Although he escaped, he was very embarrassed, and he didn't expect that Li Xuan would kill him at this time.
On the mountainside overhead, the black cavalry rushed down like a torrent, and just after this crisis, the more roaring sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded behind the right guard cavalry.
Many people couldn't help but look up, and they saw thousands of Tibetan cavalry rushing out of the dense forests in the mountains.
A rough count shows that there are at least three thousand.
The number of cavalry used in this invitation to the Tibetan people was not 30,000, but 40,000.
There are 20,000 cavalry under the command of the Qingbei Protector Shang Jiezan, and 20,000 cavalry under the command of the Qingxi Protector and Gui.
Su Hegui's 20,000 cavalry had long been crushed by Wang Xiaojie, and even the 5,000 men and horses of Shang Jiezan's headquarters could not stop Wang Xiaojie.
The remaining fifteen thousand, more than four thousand were destroyed in Li Xuan's hands, and another thousand were washed away by the flood because of spying on Li Xuan, and there were only seven or eight hundred people left.
Five thousand cavalry suffered heavy losses under the bombardment of the main forces of the left guard, and now less than two thousand have escaped.
But there are still 6,000 soldiers and horses, scattered and hidden in the depths of the mountains and forests, just to wait for the Tang army to be dispersed by the flood, and then it is good to divide and strangle.
The main force of 6,000 right guards led by Wang Xiaojie now needs to deal with the 8,000 cavalry personally commanded by Shang Jiezan, as well as Su and Guibu who may be killed back at any time.
What Li Xuan needed to face was at the foot of the mountain in front of him, and on the west bank of the most downstream, there were more than 2,000 Tubo soldiers who had lost much fighting spirit, as well as 3,000 chasing soldiers behind him.
In fact, if it weren't for Li Xuan's horizontal shot, these 5,000 Tubo cavalry would have directly killed Wang Xiaojie's back road.
At that time, what Wang Xiaojie's 6,000 men would have to face was not Shang Jiezan's 8,000 cavalry and Su Hegui's 20,000 cavalry, who might be killed at any time.
It is the 20,000 monks of the Su and Gui tribe and the 13,000 people of the Jie Zan Department, which is the killing move of the Qin Ling.
The foot soldiers of the Tang army were completely isolated behind the Saizhi River, and they could only watch their cavalry being hanged.
No, on Qinling's killer weapon is not limited to this, water attack is one of the means he uses to deal with the Tang Dynasty foot soldiers, but it is not the most important means.
With a "boom", the earth shook.
Everyone looked towards the place where the sound came from for the first time, and suddenly saw ten hideous beasts rushing out of the camp of the Lun Qin Tomb.
The speed of these beasts was not very fast, but with every step, the entire earth shook violently.
As tall as one zhang three, his whole body was covered with thick and heavy iron armor, two sharp teeth rushed forward, a long nose, ears like a banana fan, a thick skin, stocky short legs, and a huge hissing sound, charging forward like a fortress.
Elephant cavalry.
Elephant cavalry that rarely appears on the battlefield, but when it appears, it brings with it countless killings.
Even Li Xuan's eyes widened the moment he saw the elephant cavalry.
On the last killer weapon of Qinling, it turned out to be these elephant cavalry, and the object of their charge was actually the left guard foot soldiers in the middle of the Twain River and the Serge River.
I also want to know what kind of killing will be caused once this elephant cavalry rushes into the main force of the left guard.
Li Xuan turned his head vigorously, he couldn't care about these now, because behind him, there were still three thousand Tubo cavalry who had long been ready to attack and were frantically chasing, and in front of him there were also two waves before and after, and more than two thousand Tubo cavalry were blocking the way.
The situation has reached the point of dire.
At this time, the roaring sound of horses' hooves sounded in the east, and countless cavalry suddenly appeared on the south bank of the Shazhuyu River in the southeast, rushing towards the large formation of the Chinese army in the Lunqinling.
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A tentative invitation battle, I don't know when it has evolved into a decisive battle between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo.
(End of chapter)