On the 23rd, the two sides began to spread out scouts and rangers to compete for the field of view of the battlefield, which can be said to be tacit or unanimous.

At this time, the former army came with information one after another, and Li Sheng and Guo Ying, who was sitting in the Chinese army, compared and analyzed the information sent back by several scouts.

Because the sources of scouts are all visually inspected from a distance or tortured from the mouth of the enemy, there must be exaggerated enemy conditions or other untrue elements, and the commander of the Chinese army is to synthesize the things presented in the intelligence, carefully analyze them, and then remove some obviously untrue information, so as to deduce the reality of the enemy's army.

Of course, intelligence can sometimes deceive people, such as Sun Bin reducing the stove with one hand, and Yu Xu increasing the stove with the other, and playing the opponent in the palm of his hand.

This is a great test of the judgment of the Chinese generals.

But it is not the most troublesome thing, the most troublesome thing is that the situation on the battlefield is not static, but ever-changing, and the main general must make corresponding adjustments and deployments according to the changes in the battlefield.

Li Sheng is okay, he has never seen any scenes after more than 20 years of fighting, quite a Taishan collapse in front of him without changing his color, and the elk is happy on the left and his eyes are not instantaneous, but others are not as calm as him.

"The momentum of the Tibetan people is very fierce! Just 40,000 soldiers and horses were deployed along the way, or the veteran talked about hiding the horses, this is really going to fight with us in a big way...... This battle is quite fierce! ”

Before the battle, Du Shaocheng, the general under Liang Chongyi, the commander of the Shannan Dongdao Jiedu, shouted first, and the Xianghan soldiers would follow Liang Chongyi to divide the Xianghan for more than ten years.

As soon as Du Shaocheng shouted like this, the faces of the generals suddenly became a little unpleasant, especially Yang Chaosheng, the vanguard general of the infantry army in Suining, sneered and ridiculed in public: "If General Du is afraid, you can go home, and when we finish this battle, we will go to you Xianghan."

I want to see the land of your seven states, where 20,000 soldiers and horses can last for a few days. ”

The scouts and rangers under Han Min's hands suffered a lot of losses, and they were also holding back a fire in their hearts, and when they heard this, they immediately echoed and scolded: "Liang Chongyi's old man is really eye-catching, raising you such useless waste, and daring to dream of splitting the earth and sealing the king, it is really ridiculous."

I don't think the imperial court needs to send troops to fight, just Huaining Li Xilie alone, and you waste can be swallowed to the point that there are no bones left. ”

"Presumptuous!"

Just said casually, and was ridiculed repeatedly, how could Du Shaocheng bear it?

He immediately got up and roared angrily: "You are just a small soldier, how dare you be so rebellious, or do you mean that you are all savages on the border, and you don't know how to be respectful and humble." ”

"That's better than you gutless rats!"

Han Min did not show weakness, and the tip of the needle pushed back against Mai Mangdi.

"Before the enemy is received, what is the danger, the number of soldiers and horses in Tubo is only 40,000, more than half of the Hequ Party and Han'er, and the real Tubo is not more than 10,000, and the number of my army is similar, what is the fierce, what is the danger?"

"You ......"

"Enough, what does the noise look like?"

At a critical moment, Li Sheng finally spoke out to stop it.

When everyone saw that his face was pale, he was so angry that they didn't dare to say anything more.

Guo Ying estimated that the Son of Heaven did not give him the festival when Li Sheng left Beijing, otherwise he would have beheaded both of them on the spot.

After pondering for a moment, Li Sheng slowly glanced at everyone, and said: "As the Han soldiers and horses envoy said, there are only 40,000 soldiers and horses on the North Tubo Road, and the general will judge that his soldiers and horses belong to the feint attack among the three routes, and the purpose is to drag us south to help Xichuan."

Therefore, we must fight this battle quickly, and we must not drag it out any longer. ”

"All will be wise!"

Guo Ying thought so.

Although the Hequ Party and the Han army under the command of Tubo cannot be said to be a rabble, the armor of the soldiers is far inferior to the soldiers and horses of the Tubo headquarters, and it is not reasonable to use such an army to attack.

It was only because the army did not reconnoiter clearly that this link was ignored.

Now that the intentions of the Tubo people have been confirmed, this battle must be resolved quickly, otherwise the Tubo people will fall for their tricks.

However, what if the other party intends to avoid the war and not go head-to-head with the Tang Army?

Guo Ying felt unlikely.

Isn't it just that there is a plan to use them to consume the strength of the Tang Army, how can it not be fought.

Okay, then hit!

……

On the 24th, the Tang army advanced twenty miles to the west, thirty miles from the camp of Tubo standing in Baiba City.

On the 25th, the Tang army advanced fifteen miles to the west, and the Tibetans did not move.

On the 26th, the Tang army advanced five miles to the west, and the Tubo army moved two miles to the east, and the two sides were eight miles apart.

At this distance, although the neighing of people and horses could not be heard, the sharp-eyed soldiers could see the scene of the scouts on both sides entangled with each other, catching and killing each other.

The Tang Army scouts were slightly superior.

First, the Youzhou Raider and the Lu Dragoon were already famous horses that shocked the world, and secondly, Li Sheng gave them a very high reward, and they could get three silk horses for beheading.

Third, the cavalry of the Tubo cavalry is too stretched, if it were not for the existence of the Achai (Tuyuhun) cavalry, the battlefield environment would have been controlled by the Tang army.

It is no wonder that the Tibetans did not belong to the nomadic civilization after all, and the soldiers were all unfamiliar with bows and horses, but their heavily armored cavalry, or hoplite cavalry, were the strongest army in the world, which often discouraged the Tang army's foot soldiers.

Imagine, slashing with swords, drawing bows and arrows, but people are unharmed, who is not stunned when they encounter it.

In the previous Tang and Tibetan wars, the Tang army could also use heavy cavalry to attack or use the Modao army to fight with one of them, but now that the horse-producing land has been lost and the elite soldiers are scattered in the towns, the Tang army is a little stretched against the Tubo heavy infantry.

Fortunately, Li Sheng was thoughtful and collected dozens of heavy crossbows from Chang'an's arsenal.

At dawn on the 27th, the Tibetan army took the lead in launching an attack, and the Han army took the lead, about 10,000 people, according to the Tubo statement, it was 10,000 households.

These Han soldiers were originally Tang people, and they were forced to surrender to Tibet after the fall of the prefecture and county, and they were often requisitioned in the face of major wars, and because their parents, wives and children were hostages under the rule of Tubo, they often behaved extremely desperately and bravely on the battlefield.

Perhaps it won't be long before the scene in Sikong Tu's poem, "The Han are all nonsense, but they scold the Han people to the city" will appear in their descendants.

But Guo Ying couldn't stop this, he could only take advantage of the situation, just like now, he could only listen to the horn of the Chinese army, look at the Lingqi, and follow the army to march in harmony.

Han Min's Youzhou infantry cavalry fought day after day, and Li Sheng was embarrassed to let them serve as the main attack in the battle to meet the enemy, so he let Guo Ying, Yang Chaosheng, and Zhang Tingzhi fight with their troops and horses.

Yang Chaosheng took the initiative to assume the "arrow" that the forward opened, Guo Ying and Zhang Tingzhi were a little behind him, the Shence army was the left wing, the Youzhou army was the right wing, and Li Sheng led the Xianghan soldiers in the center.

Shannan soldiers are the last and are in reserve.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

"Woo woo woo ......"

The drums beat and the trumpets whimpered.

The murderous aura of the Golden Iron Horse instantly permeated this wilderness where the two armies were fighting, and Guo Ying felt that his blood was boiling.

At the beginning, the marching speed of the two armies was quite normal, but when they reached about two or three miles, the rhythm suddenly dropped, because both sides had to reorganize the army, and the army was fighting, and it was no better than the school field to compete in art exercises.

The soldiers were equipped with Tibetan spears, which were thinner and longer than the wooden guns used by the Tang army, so Li Sheng arranged a sharp arrow formation with the least contact surface, and tried to minimize the casualties of the Tang army.

As long as the blade can be inserted into the formation, then there are more options for the two wings, if the enemy's main town does not waver, then it will follow the broken door, if the enemy's main town is shaken, then it will roll up the bead curtain and attack its wings.

In this way, the two armies marched in the opposite direction, and the distance of two miles was stunned for half an hour, and finally the two sides looked at each other from a distance of 100 meters.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

"Woo woo woo ......"

At this time, the Chinese military drum horn sounded again, and after an instant, Yang Chaosheng's department in the forward blade position of the Tang army moved, and its momentum was like a rabbit, as fast as thunder, like lightning cutting through the sky, directly taking the Tubo army formation.

These jumping soldiers who rushed to the front held a horizontal knife in one hand, a large shield in the other to protect their chest, abdomen and face, and their bodies bowed slightly like leopards, and they rushed to the front of the Tubo Han army almost in the blink of an eye.

Guo Ying and Zhang Tingzhi also followed closely behind Yang Chaosheng's department, and also moved forward, and the archers in the Chinese military formations on the two sides also began to throw in unison.

The difference is only that the Tubo bow is weak, and the arrows thrown are weak and weak, and because the Tang army uses a sharp arrow array, the arrows fired by the Tubo side cannot cover the two wings of the Tang army at all.

And the arrows shot by the Tang army fell steadily in the formation of the Tubo Han army.

Of course, it is impossible to rely on a projectile of more than 100 steps to cause a large attrition of the opponent, at most it is to weaken the morale of the enemy.

However, Li Sheng's arrangement of troops is indeed wonderful.