Riding out of Ebao Ridge, there is a lush grassland to the south. The Obo River, which originates from the Obo Ridge, winds eastward through the green grass like a transparent jade belt. This river is one of the main sources of water in Ebaoling, and it is also the main reason why the Han Dynasty built a city in Ebaoling.

Fang Chongyong rode on a horse, with about a thousand cavalry behind him.

He Changqi and Guan Chongsi respectively led about 1,000 cavalry from the other two routes, and attacked together to sweep away the Tibetan herdsmen and Tibetan scouts in the grasslands on the outskirts of the Obo Mountains.

This road goes to the southeast, which is the famous "Qilian Prairie", the main grazing place of Tuyuhun in those years.

And further southeast, in the direction of the valley, through a short obstacle, is the agricultural area on the edge of the source! This is one of the three main supply bases prepared by the Tubo army for the confrontation with the Tang Dynasty, and its strategic position is very important.

No matter how big the hearts of the Tibetan people are, it is impossible not to leave no soldiers and horses behind, and a vicious battle is inevitable.

Riding on the horse, Fang Chongyong felt his buttocks slap one by one, as if he was lying on a beautiful and lovely woman and loving him, and his body wanted to move with the rhythm of the horse, as if rocking on the waves.

It's sour, and it's tired!

It would be nice if you could conquer the world by conquering a woman in bed.

What a simple rule of the game, just work hard. If you are handsome and good, you can do whatever you want, why is there no such world?

Chongyong's thinking on horseback is very divergent, and in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, perhaps the nobles were born to live to old age and die by entertainment, but in the Tang Dynasty, this kind of game rules are obviously not suitable for "children of official eunuchs" like him.

In the era of abundant martial virtues, killing and being killed were common things. Only with a knife in your hand can you cut out a piece of the sky! To be born as a human being in Datang is to hone your skills in killing, otherwise you can only be a humble dog.

Of course, this technique is not limited to learning how to use a knife to cut someone. A person who thinks like this is only worthy of being a warrior before the battle.

Leading troops and commanding, buying people's hearts, making money and even appeasing the people's hearts and developing production are all for the sake of martial virtue. Just as a knife needs a blade, it needs a handle and a scabbard. A knife with a good blade doesn't go far, and it doesn't last long.

It is precisely because the Tibetan people have blades but no scabbards that they have a strong military force and then collapse for a thousand years.

While he was thinking about the mess in his mind, Fang Chongyong suddenly saw that at the end of the field of vision, there seemed to be a team of baggage, mules dragging flatbed carts on the grass.

He shouted to the two dragons of Yuanmen not far away, "Help this section commander see what kind of banner that team is." ”

Fang Chongyong vaguely saw that there were colorful flags in the convoy, but he couldn't see what pattern was drawn on it. The bunting itself does not say anything, even the Tang Army will use the bunting on some occasions.

"Jie Shuai! This is the wind horse flag of the Tibetan elephant Xiongru! It is generally only available in Tubo Nangxia! ”

Wu Chengen, one of the two dragons in Yuanmen, shouted at Fang Chongyong, he had been in the Hexi army for twenty years, and he was already familiar with the banner of the Tubo army.

Songtsen Gampo's administrative reform and political and military integration of Tibet is the so-called "Wuru 61 Dongdai". Generally, there are ten Dongdai under one "Ru". However, after Songtsen Gampo conquered the Zhangzhung region, he did not set up the "Zhangzhung Ru".

Why didn't the Tibetans set up Xiangxiong Ru?

Because Zhangxiong is said to have been located in the southwest of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in ancient times, and the population was estimated to have exceeded 10 million in its heyday!

At that time, the climate of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was warm and humid, and the Ali region of Tibet, where Zhangzhung was located, was a patch of grasslands and forests, and the climate was pleasant. In other words, Zhangzhung has created a relatively high level of civilization and splendid culture.

Therefore, it is deeply feared by Tibet, and the culture of the Zhangxiong region has also profoundly influenced the culture of Tibet, and it is also the birthplace of Bon culture. This is yet another example of the infiltration of the conqueror by the reverse culture of the vanquished.

Now that Zhang-zhung's political system has been broken up by force, the Tibetans certainly do not want Zhang-zhung to exist as a complete political entity.

Although there is no Xiangxiong Ru in Tibet, the Tang army used to distinguish the ten Dongdai on the Zhangxiong side as "Xiangxiong Ru". These people are usually driven by the Praetorian Guards in the Tibetan army to the front line to fight against the Tang Dynasty as peripheral cannon fodder, and are often engaged in logistics and transportation related tasks.

Dongdai in the Zhangxiong region has always been a large "Nangxia" in the Tubo army, undertaking logistical tasks. The Tang Army's border army in the west also saw the Fengma Banner and knew that this was the logistics team of the Tubo Army.

After the Qinling, Tubo also began to specialize in military affairs, and the war was no longer fought in the front of the young and strong, and the old and weak women and children were supplied in the rear, and the three major supply bases were also set up because of this. The mobilization of Dongdai, which is dominated by Zhangxiongru and Su Biru, is responsible for logistics and peripheral reconnaissance tasks, which is also the norm in the Tubo army.

Yuanmen Erlong, who had fought in Hexi for 20 years, informed Fang Chongyong of this. They saw the slow-moving convoy approaching, and Chongyong could see clearly below, all of them were colorful flags, and there were no patterns on them.

Nima, no wonder you can't see clearly!

Fang Chongyong cursed secretly in his heart, he thought that he had rushed too much on women and caused his eyesight to deteriorate.

"Blowing the trumpet, waving the flag. Let the brethren rush forward and scatter the ranks of the Tibetans and let them run! The baggage was left in place, and Liu Gong sent someone to lick the bag. ”

Fang Chongyong ordered Wu Chengen.

"Lick the bag?"

Wu Chengen was stunned for a moment, not understanding what this sentence meant.

"That's it...... Carrying supplies to Ebao Ridge. ”

Fang Chongyong explained expressionlessly.

"Order!"

Wu Chengen roared, then took out the horn from his arms and blew it directly!

Woooooo

The desolate horn sounded, and the silver-speared filial piety sergeant, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, to rush up and slash and kill, galloped on the grassland like a wild horse, and rushed towards the logistics convoy of the Tubo people.

While sprinting, take out the horse bow and shoot arrows. One after another "Wind Horse Flags" were cut down, and those third-rate soldiers of the Tubo Army from Zhangxiong had no will to resist, so they threw down the convoy and ran away, faster than rabbits!

What was originally thought to be a fierce battle turned into a one-sided horseback riding and slashing. Fortunately, these are all military exploits, and the soldiers of the Silver Spear Filial Piety Army are not hypocritical.

Fang Chongyong held the saddle between his legs, stepped on the stirrups with his feet, rode on the horse, and held his arms alone in the distance, coldly looking at the one-sided fight in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a burst of curiosity in his heart.

Where is the main force of the Tibetan army? It is impossible that the logistics base does not have the main force of the Tubo army, right?

According to his speculation, the garrison on the Ebao Ridge should be a second-rate Tibetan army from the Subi District who was responsible for the vigilance mission, and the dress and equipment were relatively close to the Qiang people, and the fighting will was weak, and it was likely to be Sun Boru's people from the Subi District;

And now this logistics force transporting baggage is a logistics soldier from Zhangxiong District, which is a third-rate army in the Tubo army, and runs away when it sees the cavalry of the Tang Army.

The Tubo royal family and the descendants belonged, and the Weiru army, which was rich in great discussions, why didn't they see it?

Fang Chongyong was from his cheap Tibetan "righteous brother" Enlanda Zalugong back then, and found out that the other party was from a Tibetan powerful family north of Luoqi City, which was the royal Praetorian Guard family belonging to Weiru.

He is from Weiru's Tuodai Dongdai, which is the basic plate of the first section of the Tibetan Praetorian Guard.

Therefore, Dazarugon suppressed the rebellion of Sun Boru in the Subi District very thoroughly. For the people of Tubo Weiru, the people of Tubo Sun Boru may not be closer than the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Princess Jincheng of the Tang Dynasty is also married to Tubo Zampu! Who wouldn't have a relationship!

The Zhangxiong, Subi, Senbo, and Tuyuhun (this was added later) in Tibet are called the Inner Four Clans, and their nobles are not Tubo's own people, but are second-class or even third-class people in the domestic aristocracy of Tubo.

Soon, the battle ended, and there was no suspense about the ending.

Fang Chongyong rode forward to check the situation, a battle of this scale and intensity did not require him to be encouraged at all, let alone to take the lead in charging on a horse. There are a lot of corpses on the ground, basically all of them are from the Tubo army, and there is not a single one in armor.

The flatbed trucks were filled with sacks of grain, dry firewood and hay tied up with ropes, and some dairy products, but there were no rare goods.

"Fang Jieshuai, I just asked the prisoners, they went to deliver grain, straw and firewood to the defenders on Ebao Ridge. The Nangxia to which they belonged was indeed Guge Dongdai in Zhangxiong District, adjacent to Subiru, and they were all slave soldiers mobilized by Zampu together.

Just marching for two months! ”

Wu Chengen looked strange, and the other party said Chongyong. This wave of Tubo is a national mobilization, and the cannon fodder in the adjacent areas of the non-Datang Dynasty has mobilized a lot of people to come over, so the picture is not small!

"Got it, let's get ready to attack the source."

Fang Chongyong waved his hand indifferently, but he was concerned about what Guo Ziyi said.

The top brass of the Tubo military really knows everything about the military deployment of the Tang Dynasty! At least two months in advance!

If the normal military deployment is followed, Fang Chongyong should have taken the elite of the Hexi Army to the Western Regions at this moment, and maybe the army has already arrived in Qiuzi.

It was precisely because of Pei Kuan's assassination that Fang Chongyong was forced to return to Chang'an, and he was delayed back and forth for more than a month.

The facts are in front of us, if you only rely on the armies in the adjacent areas of Tubo and the Tang Dynasty, you will not be able to compete with the border armies under the command of Hexi and Longyou at the same time. The mountain roads in Tibet are not like the official post roads built by the Tang Dynasty, and the marching speed is much slower, and it takes a lot of time for them to transfer troops.

I am afraid that this battle was premeditated, but the Tubo people did not expect the unexpected events in the Tang Dynasty.

This time, it was the first time that Fang Chongyong was worried about whether Wang Zhongsi could withstand it!

This wave of Tubo is determined to win Shibao City!

"Let's go, continue to the southeast, and meet him at the lion's mouth."

Fang Chongyong gave Wu Chengen an order.

……

Six hours later, in the Lion's Mouth Valley east of Kangyuan, the 3,000 cavalry of the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army finally converged here.

He Changqi and Guan Chongsi respectively brought Fang Chongyong two pieces of good and bad news.

The good news brought by He Changqi was that the south of Ebaoling had been cleared, and there were not many Tibetan troops, only sporadic scouts. The men were either killed or captured, and some information was asked. In short, there are no ambushes or anything like that west of Kangyuan, just go straight to Kangyuan!

The bad news brought by Guan Chongsi was: I learned from the captives that in the Qilian area west of Ebaoling, there was a Dongdai in Tubo grazing here, and the number of troops was unknown, and it was estimated that there were thousands of people in the sky.

Therefore, the problem in front of Fang Chongyong is that the team of the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army is less than 3,000 cavalry, so will it continue to attack the logistics base of the Tubo people to the east? Or do you want to go west to break the Tibetan division first?

If you choose to turn around and go west, although you can remove the hidden danger, you will have to go back, and you will have to give up the opportunity to attack that is already within reach.

Wait for the Qilian region (Qilian County, Qinghai Province), and then turn around and attack the source, even if the commander of the Tubo army is a fool, he will return to his senses, right?

If you choose to continue to the east, there are no of the above hidden dangers, but as long as the Tubo army in the Qilian area blocks the lion's mouth, the silver spear filial piety army will be blocked by the Tubo army in the source and attacked by the east and west, don't fantasize about the outcome.

It must have been a life-and-death battle.

Of course, you can also choose to divide the troops, but the result of the division of troops is likely to be that the results of the battle on both sides will not be obtained. This idea flashed in his heart, and was vetoed by Fang Chongyong.

This situation is like a person who picks up a wallet on the road, or he steals it himself as if nothing happened; Either leave it all to the police and treat it as nothing.

You can't choose to be greedy for money and hand over some of it to the police, then it will become something, and something big will happen.

Fang Chongyong put everyone aside and sat in front of a small fire, looking at the blazing bonfire, weighing the pros and cons in his heart.

War is like this, you can't wait until you have everything ready, let the enemy lie in bed according to your expectations, and fiddle with it naked!

On the battlefield, crises often arise, and they are often sudden and frightening.

Continue east? Or turn around and head west?

This is probably the winner or loser of this battle, Fang Chongyong thought secretly.

He suddenly remembered An Lushan not long ago, the one he calculated for himself in Fenglingyi, the Zoroastrian "divination" who wanted his old life!

I'm afraid that An Lushan was in the same mood as himself now at that time, right?

If you make the wrong choice, you may well die.

Because the person concerned didn't have the courage to guess at all, he simply handed over the choice to the ethereal gods and luck.

How sad is this, if people don't even believe in themselves, how can they believe in luck?

"Fang Jieshuai, the horses have been fed, should we march now while the night is falling? The captives said that the main force of the Tubo army in Qiyuan had gone south, and they were afraid of changes. ”

He Changqi cautiously came to Fang Chongyong's side and suggested in a low voice. He didn't know that there was a Tibetan division in the west of Ebao Ridge.

"You're right, I'm afraid of change."

Fang Chongyong stood up, pulled out the Wind Phantom Knife, and shouted to the several generals who had already surrounded him: "All the generals obey orders!" Get on the horse, pull out, and kill through the source tonight, there is no advance or retreat! ”

"Fang Jieshuai, the Qilian area west of Ebaoling......"

Guan Chongsi didn't dare to say it directly in public with a worried face, this news was the news he interrogated the prisoners. Chong Qianyuan is certainly exciting, but it is not good to be flanked by the Tubo army!

"This time it's a big bet.

Win the silver spear filial piety festival gods, lose our mighty and go to the underworld to continue to make trouble!

This went to Quantai to recruit the old department, and the banner of 100,000 beheaded Yama.

Wouldn't it be nice to be a big husband just to be willful and not afraid of life and death! ”

Fang Chongyong put the Wind Phantom Knife into its scabbard, patted Guan Chonghe's shoulder, and walked towards his war horse.

"Let's go, I'm afraid of him!"

He Changqi patted Guan Chongsi's back hard and said.

Then he hurriedly followed Fang Chongyong's side, patted the horse quietly, and said: "Don't worry, a certain tiger is not screaming in vain, and he will definitely rush to the front when he waits, so as not to let those Tubo people hurt you in the slightest." After this battle, let everyone in the world know the power of our silver spear filial piety army. ”

"You really have to bring your own dog's head to say this."

Fang Chongyong sighed helplessly and teased.

"What dog's head?"

He Changqi was stunned for a moment, but saw that Fang Chongyong had already turned over and got on his horse, and his figure was majestic under the firelight.

(End of chapter)