Chapter 296, Destroying the withering and decaying

Yang Peng took a closer look at the Tubo military camp, thought for a moment, and muttered: "How can you be willing if you don't give it a try!" Turning his head to Wang Kai, he said, "Wang Kai," Wang Kai responded, and immediately led more than a hundred black-clothed, masked and unarmored guards to quietly walk towards the gate. When they got to the vicinity, they stopped, and the twelve guards divided into two groups, and climbed over the fence and entered the inside from the darker areas on the left and right sides of the gate, all of them like raccoon cats moving in the night, even if they stared at it, they only felt a black shadow flickering away.

The twelve hidden killers walked lightly towards the twelve sentries by the gate under the cover of shadows. The twelve sentinels were divided into two teams, six or six opposite each other on the left and right sides of the gate, and at the same time, there were also two sentries on the two watchtowers next to it and the corridor on the gate. The twelve guards came silently behind the twelve sentinels, suddenly jumped out of the darkness, covered the sentry's mouth and nose with his left hand, and slit the sentry's throat with the dagger in his right hand, and the twelve sentry died at the same time, and then the twelve guards dragged the corpses of the twelve burnt cakes into the darkness on both sides.

A sentry on the watchtower heard that there seemed to be some strange noise below, so he stretched out his head to look down, but he saw the twelve sentries who were supposed to be below, and couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly called his companion: "Hey, come and see, where have all those guys run down?" Another sentry came over, and also stretched out his head to look down, and sure enough, the sentries were gone, and could not help but scold: "These stupid donkeys must have gone to be lazy!" ”

At this time, both sentries felt as if someone was climbing the watchtower, and thought it was one of the sentinels who had disappeared from below. At this moment, there was a sudden sound of 'boom' breaking the air in the air, and before the two sentries could react, they saw the two sentries in the corridor below soften at the same time, and they couldn't help but be shocked, and a terrible thought immediately surged in their minds. At this moment, a black shadow suddenly jumped up at the staircase in the middle of the watchtower, and slashed the throats of the two of them respectively, and both of them died before they could scream. At the same time, the sentries on the opposite tower were also eliminated by stealth in the same way.

One of the guards poked out of the watchtower and gestured downward, and the guards guarding below immediately rushed to the gate and opened it. Wang Kai immediately led all the secret guards to rush up, removed the horses in front of the gate, and then rushed into the military camp, divided into several teams and scattered.

Yang Peng saw that Wang Kai and them succeeded, and immediately led the army to rush forward, and the majestic sound of killing suddenly sounded, breaking the silence of the night in an instant. Eighty thousand troops poured into the barracks like a tidal wave, and iron hooves trampled directly over the tents, and the tents and the Tibetan soldiers who woke up inside were trampled into mud; The infantry rushed into the tent, the Tibetan army was panicking, many people were still bare-assed, the infantry army swung their knives and killed, and the blood was flying, and the Tibetan soldiers died one after another.

At the same time, the forage fields and grain farms burst into flames, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of huge torches were formed, and the flames that rushed to the sky illuminated the night into day; Suddenly there was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves from the side of the stable, and it turned out that tens of thousands of war horses gathered in the stable rushed out in fright, and some black figures could be seen behind them driving the horses, which made the barracks even more chaotic.

Zampotai hurriedly ran out of the big tent with a big knife, only to see that the entire military camp was in chaos, countless Yan Yun troops were galloping across the country, and his own soldiers were running in all directions in panic like chickens and ducks that had blown up their nests, most of them had not had time to put on their clothes and pants, and they saw that they had fallen under the blades and iron hooves of Yan Yun Army, and the screams and shouts rang out. "This, this, how can this be?" Zamb exclaimed in disbelief. At this moment, he thought that Yan Yunjun should only attack tomorrow! In fact, it's not just him, all the Tibetan soldiers have this idea, in their subconscious, King Yan is a terrible enemy, a strong man in the world, such an enemy said in public that he would come to take revenge tomorrow, then he must come back tomorrow to attack, how could he come to raid tonight?

This is actually a mindset, ordinary people often do not doubt what the people they fear in their hearts say, they will have a subconscious, so a powerful enemy will not lie to themselves. The reason why Chen Xiao went to the Tubo military camp during the day to say that nonsense was actually that the oath was only a secondary purpose, and the main purpose was to set a trap on the enemy, otherwise it would not be a simple matter to completely annihilate this huge enemy army, even if it was successfully annihilated, I am afraid that it would pay a considerable price.

When Zambuttai was in a daze, he suddenly saw a team of fierce war horses rushing towards this side, and the leader was the Yan King he had seen during the day. Zambu hurriedly retreated, and his own soldiers immediately met him.

Yang Peng and dozens of his hidden soldiers crashed into the middle of the pro-soldiers, and many pro-soldiers were knocked out by the powerful impact force, and at the same time, the horse lance horizontal knife flew up and down, killing the corpses of the pro-soldiers and flying blood. Yang Peng and the others broke through the barrier of the pro-soldiers and rushed to Zanbuta, and Yang Peng stabbed at Zanbuta. At the moment of life and death, Zanbu Tai couldn't care about the general's face, so he hurriedly rolled on the spot, narrowly dodged Yang Peng's blow, and rolled into the big tent. Yang Peng frowned, rode his horse and rushed into the big tent, but saw Zanbutai cut the tent cloth on the opposite side with a waist knife, and turned out with his head and feet. Yang Peng scolded, and immediately turned his horse's head and ran out of the big tent, at this time, the secret guards were killing and scattering those pro-soldiers, and those pro-soldiers ran around with rolling and crawling, but they were cut to the ground one by one by a horizontal knife, and luckily escaped into the darkness.

Yang Peng rode his horse to the back of the big tent, but he didn't see Zambuta, and when he looked around, he only saw that the chaotic camp tent was chasing and killing the Tubo people everywhere, but there was no shadow of Zambuta.

The Tubo soldiers who were lucky enough to escape from the barracks didn't have time to catch their breath, and they encountered the Yanyun army wrapped around the two wings. Yan Yunjun pursued from all sides, screams, shouts, horses' hooves, and slashing echoed in the night sky.

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The next morning, when the sun's light shone on the earth, the melee that had lasted all night finally ended. White smoke and black smoke rose from many places in the barracks, and the originally neat barracks became a mess, many fences collapsed, countless tents were burned, and countless tents were flattened; The corpses on the ground were all over the ground, the blood water turned the original yellow ground into a dark brown, and the air was filled with a heavy smell of burnt and blood, and a group of Tubo prisoners shrugged their heads and gathered at the concentration point under the escort of the Yan Yun army, at the same time, there were many Yan Yun soldiers cleaning up the battlefield and cleaning up the corpses and carrying the loot.

On the wasteland outside the barracks, there was also a miserable scene of corpses all over the field, and the soldiers of the Tubo Army who escaped from the barracks last night were attacked by the Yanyun Army on both wings outside the barracks, and they died seven or eight out of ten, and there were not many who could escape.

Yang Peng and more than 100 secret guards immediately stood on a hill near the barracks and looked at the scene in front of them.

The sound of horses' hooves came from up and down, and Yang Peng followed the prestige, only to see Yang Erya, who was dressed in a beautiful military uniform, leading more than a dozen Feifeng female guards to gallop over. They galloped to Yang Peng's face, reined in the horse, Yang Erya hugged her fists excitedly and said: "Big brother, the enemy army has been wiped out, and less than 10,000 people have fled to the west into the deep mountains and old forests!" In addition, we have seized countless baggage supplies and countless treasures in the military camp in Tibet! ”

Yang Peng nodded and asked, "Have you caught Zanbuta?" ”

Yang Erya's excited look disappeared, and she frowned and shook her head, "No!" I suspect he may have fled into the mountains and forests! Yang Peng remembered what happened last night, and couldn't help but scold: "This bastard is not good at fighting, but there is a way to escape, just like a mouse!" ”

At this time, there was another sound of horses' hooves at the bottom of the mountain, and it turned out that Xuanzan was leading several officers to gallop over. came to Yang Peng, reined in the horse, hugged his fists and said, "King Yan!" Yang Peng said: "If it weren't for your Ninth Army to defend Xizhou desperately, our army would not have today's big victory!" Now that the Tibetan army has collapsed, the task of recovering the western prefectures and counties will be completed by your Ninth Legion! Tianyou and several of his officers were grateful, and Tianyou bowed: "Thank you King Yan!" Then he turned his horse's head and led several officers to run down.

Yang Peng said to Wang Kai again: "Order Shi Liancheng to ask his First Army to go forward and cooperate with the Ninth Army to recover the western states and counties!" Wang Kai answered the promise and rode away.

Later that day, Tianyou led 20,000 soldiers of the Ninth Army to leave Xizhou and advance westward. At the same time, the First Legion led by Shi Liancheng cooperated with the Ninth Legion, and the First Legion did not want to regain any place first, and this honor only belonged to the Ninth Legion.

Because the main force of Tubo had collapsed, and the news spread to the western states and counties, the remaining Tubo soldiers were terrified, and fled in a hurry before the Yanyun army arrived; And those officials of Zhizhou, Zhixian and other officials who had surrendered to Tibet before were impatient to wave the two-winged flying tiger flag to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. In just three days, all the previously occupied prefectures and counties were recovered.

The Qingtang City of Tubo, near the current Qinghai Lake, more than 100 miles west of Xining Prefecture, was the most important city in Tubo near the Western Xia and Song Kingdoms at that time, with 100,000 heavy troops stationed. The commander's name is Zampu, a member of the Tibetan royal family, in his sixties, very tall, with a clear appearance, and he is also a famous general in Tubo.

On this day, the garden of General Zampu Zhengda's mansion was scattered, and suddenly a soldier hurriedly reported: "General, the messenger of General Zampu is here, and all urgent military affairs must be reported to the general!" ”

When Zampu heard that it was an urgent military matter, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately walked towards the front hall. When I arrived at the front hall, I saw a dusty officer standing on top of the hall. As soon as the officer saw Zampu, he immediately bowed and said, "The servant greets the general!" Then he held up the letter with both hands and presented it to Zampu: "This is our general's handwritten letter!" ”

Zampu took the letter, opened it, took out the letterhead, unfolded it, and looked at it. His expression suddenly became solemn, and he raised his head and asked the officer in front of him: "Yan Wang Yang Peng led the army to Xizhou, is this true?" The officer said, "It's true! Please send reinforcements quickly! Zampu didn't answer immediately, he paced a few steps with the letter in his hands behind his back, turned his head and said, "The letter says that King Yan only arrived with 200,000 reinforcements, can't he resist with the strength of General Zampu?" The officer hurriedly said: "The general doesn't know, the combat strength of the Yanyun Army is very terrifying, and even the Ninth Army Corps, which ranks last, has also made us suffer a lot of losses!" And the 200,000 army led by King Yan are all the most elite direct legions and the first legion, although it is 200,000, it must be 400,000 to deal with them! ……”

When Zampu heard this, he was very surprised and said with a smile: "This kind of thing is really unbelievable! I don't believe there is such a powerful army in the world! ”

The officer hurriedly said: "We didn't believe it originally, but after fighting with Yan Yunjun, we can't believe it!" Then he urged: "My general and hundreds of thousands of soldiers are in a dangerous situation, and I also ask the general to quickly dispatch a large army to support, I'm afraid it's too late!" ”

Zampu paced back and forth a few more steps, stopped, and said to the officer: "My 100,000 army, the duty is to garrison Qingtang, even I can't be mobilized without His Majesty's order!" ......" When the officer heard this, he didn't plan to send reinforcements, and immediately became anxious: "General, the matter is already extremely urgent, please don't stick to the rules!" Otherwise, once my army of hundreds of thousands is overturned, this, this ......"

Zampu also felt that the matter was a little serious, thought about it, and said: "In this way, while ordering the army to prepare, I will send people to Luoqi to ask His Majesty the Emperor for his life!" When the emperor orders me, I will immediately send out the army......"

The officer frowned and said, "But ......"

Zampu waved his hand, "You don't have to worry too much! Zanbuta's army of more than 200,000 troops is guarded, and the Yanyun army can't help them! The officer felt that what Zampu said made sense, and knew that no matter how much persuasion would come out, he answered.

Zampu immediately wrote a letter, stamped it with the golden seal of his general, sealed it, and then called the herald, handed the letter to him, and ordered him to send it to His Majesty immediately (Logo, which is now Lhasa, is the ancient name. The herald answered and ran down. Then Zampu summoned the four most important generals under his command and ordered them to immediately prepare for the promotion, and the four generals were ordered to leave.

In the next three days, news came from the border one after another, and it turned out to be the news that the troops who had originally guarded Lanzhou and other places had fled back, and all kinds of rumors flew all over the sky, making Zampu suspicious, but he still didn't believe that Zampu's hundreds of thousands of troops would be defeated in such a short time.

Three days later, Zampu was still waiting for news from the Logos, but there was no news from the Logos, but it was Zanbu and the others who suddenly arrived. Zampu was taken aback, and hurriedly went out to greet him, but saw that Zampu and the others were in ragged clothes and embarrassed, just like flower beggars! Zampu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "How is the general, how did you make it like this?" Zangbu was so ashamed that he sighed, but was silent.

Zampu felt that this gate was not a place to speak, so he immediately ordered his own soldiers to lead the soldiers under Zambuta to the backyard, and he invited Zambuta and Dosang into the hall. The guests and hosts sat down, and some soldiers brought tea, and Zambutai and Duosang, who were already thirsty and smoking, did not care about their image, grabbed the tea bowl and poured it down, but they were still very thirsty. Seeing this, Zampu simply ordered his soldiers to bring two large teapots and put them in front of the two of them. The two of them didn't bother to pour the tea into the tea bowl, so they picked up the teapot and grunted at the spout. It took a long time for the two of them to put down the teapot and let out a long breath.

Zampu felt that he was really rude just now, and stood up and said ashamedly: "What a faux pas!" Zampu waved his hand, "The general doesn't have to be polite. It's just that the general should not be under the city of Xizhou, but why did he come here? Then his heart moved, and he asked in an unbelievable tone: "Is it, is it ......?"

Zanbu was so ashamed that he didn't dare to face Zanpu, and then scolded angrily: "That King Yan is really as cunning as a fox!" We've fallen for him! Then he told the story of the attack, and then how to escape into the deep mountains and old forests, and how to escape into the territory of Tibet, and finally sighed, and said with great sadness: "300,000 troops, 300,000 troops, only a few hundred of us are left who can or come back!" In fact, there were almost 5,000 Tubo troops who fled back from Lanzhou and other places, but there were only a few hundred of them left in the Tubo army that marched to Xizhou.

That night, the army collapsed, a total of almost 10,000 people fled into the mountains and mountains between Tonghui Pass and Gaolan Mountain, the Tubo army ran in a panic, and the vast majority of people got lost in the mountains and mountains, only Zanbutai and other hundreds of people escaped from the mountains by luck, and then fled to Qingtang.

Zampu listened to Zampota's words, he didn't speak for a long time, his heart was full of shock and disbelief, if it weren't for Zampota being in front of him, he still couldn't believe it. "I really don't know what to say...... I can't believe that in just a few days, hundreds of thousands of troops have collapsed! Is Yan Yunjun really that strong? ”

Zambu was too depressed to speak; Duo Sang said: "Yan Yunjun is known as the elite of the world, it can really be said that it is worthy of its reputation!" The Ninth Legion, which was ranked last, made us suffer a lot, and Chen Jie, the general of the Ninth Legion, single-handedly killed our entire army! To tell you the truth, if Chen Jie hadn't been seriously injured and died, we would have retreated at that time! Hey, if that's the case, maybe there won't be such a miserable takeover, it's really unpredictable! ”

Zampu frowned.

Duo Sang continued: "Actually, after the enemy broke into the camp, we also carried out several counterattacks, but the opponent's combat strength was too strong, and our counterattack was just organized and defeated by their invincible soldiers, and finally completely collapsed and could no longer be contained!" I heard the legend of Yan Yunjun before, and I just thought it was a thing for boring people to spread falsehoods, but after the confrontation with them, I found that some of the rumors were not enough to show their horror! ”

Zampu was silent for a moment, then raised his head and said, "The two of you are already very tired, so let's rest first." Then he called his own soldiers and ordered them to take them down to rest. The two stood up and saluted Zampu, and followed their soldiers down.

Zampu pondered for a moment, and immediately called the herald, ordering all the troops to be ready for battle, but also ordered all the troops not to act rashly, even if Yan Yunjun took the initiative to provoke, they must not act rashly, and even if the violator wins, he will not be forgiven. Then Zamp sent a messenger to bring the latest information to Logo.

On the same day, Luo Shi sent an order, ordering Zampu to lead a large army into Qinfeng Road to support Zampu Tai, which was obviously in response to Zampu's previous request, and now it is obviously out of time to move. Zamp did not carry out this order, and continued to wait for new orders from the Logos. Soon after, another order came, ordering Zampu to defend it tightly, and told Zampu that 100,000 reinforcements were gathering here, and at the same time, the envoy of the Qin mission had set off for Qinfeng Road to prepare to negotiate with Yan Yunjun.

A few days later, the minister came to Qingtang, met with Zampu, and asked, "What actions does Yan Yunjun have to do these days?" Zampu said: "The army gathered on the border, but did not attack!" I guess they're still waiting for the logistics! The minister's brows furrowed, and his heart was very heavy. This minister was also a member of the royal family, named Zambala, and was one of the few civil officials in the Tibetan kingdom who was proficient in Han culture.

Zampu sighed, "I don't understand, how did the Han people, who had always been cowardly, suddenly become so fierce?" ”

Zambala sneered, "Cowardice? Where does this really come from? In fact, you don't know them, they can be said to be the most ferocious people in the world, and because of this, Confucianism and Taoism will be born to curb their cruelty, but Yan Yun completely autonomous, especially Confucianism, and deliberately stimulate the murderous nature in their blood, which is like opening the cage that locks up the beast, the beast escapes from the trap, and also induces the beast to pounce! That's why the Yan Yun Army you're facing is so terrifying! Without the shackles of Confucianism, I really don't know how much damage Yan Yun will cause to this world! Ay! ”

Zampu smiled: "Your Excellency is too mysterious! ”

"Xuan? Hmph, you must also know about the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the Central Plains, don't you think that the Han people at that time and the Han people today are completely different at all? At that time, the Han people were extremely cruel and murderous, and they didn't take their own lives seriously or other people's lives, but now the Han people seem to be very submissive, why is this? Zampu frowned. Zambala said: "It's all the effect of Confucianism!" ”

The two were silent for a moment, and Zampu asked, "My lord is here, is it asking for peace?" ”

Zambala nodded, "Of course, we don't have a grudge against Yan Yun in the first place, so we really can't fight to the death!" After a pause, "Even if we want to use troops against Yan Yun, we must not rush to the front!" That Xixia promised Qin Fenglu to us, it was really ill-intentioned, and he wanted to attract the trouble, so that we could share the pressure for them, we can't fall for this and make wedding clothes for others! ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.