Section 25 Death

Li Xu was riding on a horse, and he had excellent eyesight, and the emperor could see the banners of the Tibetan army fluttering in front of him.

Just now, Li Xu was very faithful to gently let go of Shang Dongzan's army under Shang Dongzan's monk's fear, and the emperor ordered the Fengxiang army to give way to a passable road, so that the Tubo people could go back and be busy fighting for power and profit.

For the enemy, internal strife is often more deadly than external oppression. Li Xu knew very well that letting Shang Dongzan go back would have more benefits than cutting off his head.

In fact, from another point of view, the reason why today's Dayu looks like a street is not because there are too many internal strife and therefore no strength to deal with external enemies?

Finally, the biggest victory in the foreign war since the Kwantung Rebellion was put on Li Xu's lips, although this was not the martial arts of Feng Wolf Juxu and Le Shi Yanran, the emperor was still excited at the thought of being able to confer the head of Tubo Zanpu.

If you want a big enemy, you will be brave, and you will be cowardly when you are a small enemy. Although the situation is very good, Li Xu is also as worried as Emperor Guangwu of Han when victory is within reach.

I'm afraid that Rhondarma will slip through his fingers.

"It seems that Bae Xiang has already faced up with Langdarma. Han Rui looked at the banner of the Yu army in the distance, and then gently patted the horse's neck slightly to appease the restless war horse under his crotch, and there was no real killing, which made this energetic animal a little uncomfortable.

"Rhondarma doesn't have any goods in his hands, and the strength of the army is probably only about 5,000. Su Che pointed to the formation of the Tibetan army in the distance.

The Tibetan army also realized that there was a Yu army in the rear, and they quickly changed their formation into a non-standard circular formation. It's just that their forces are too weak, and the widest part of this circle formation is only about 100 people.

This made Li Xu squint his eyes excitedly, according to the experience of the previous battle formation, such a thick formation could not stop the emperor's rush at all, and through the fluctuation induction, the emperor did not find that there were any masters in the opponent's formation who could be as long as himself, and there were not even a few masters who were about the same.

Didn't you say that there were still a few masters of the Yongzhong Bon Sect who could practice their hands? The emperor subconsciously glanced at Lu Yinxi and Yue Gu Han beside him, and was quite a bit of a loss of the sword hanging in the air.

As the big leader of the landlord class, Li Xu was very uncomfortable with the fear of exploitation.

Han Rui very uprightly pulled the troops into several horizontal columns, slowly pressed forward, and stopped when there was still a stone's throw away from the Tibetan army.

The flag is shaking here, Pei Du is also responding to the harmony there, the military flag shot by the left servant of Shangshu is shaking, and the Yu army that was originally arranged with fish scales gradually greeted it in a concave shape, and the Yu army on the east and west sides surrounded the Tubo people's widest military formation of no more than 100 people in the middle.

"Crossbowman. Han Rui commanded softly.

One of the best weapons of the Central Plains army is the bow and crossbow, and all dynasties have always had a large number of elite projection troops. The Yu army was no exception, and strong bows and crossbows have always been the standard for the forbidden army and the foreign army.

At the command of the Jiedu envoy, the crossbowmen in the Fengxiang army immediately walked to the front of the queue under the command of banners and horns, bent their bows and arrows, and began to fire deadly clusters of arrows at the Tibetan army.

The Tubo people in the circle naturally did not sit still, and many burly warriors with large single bows stood out from the circle and began to shoot at the shooters of the Yu army.

The armament of the Tibetan people pursues rearmament in armor, which is an inevitability determined by their social form, and they use the most resources to arm those elites.

The bow is a weapon that takes a lot of resources to form a combat power, and the arrows used for training, the bowstring, and even the bow itself are consumables. Similarly, the samurai who wielded the bow had to be a strong warrior, and hungry people, poor peasants, and slaves were not enough to use as archers.

The archers of the Tibetan army were all burly men in heavy armor, and these mighty hoplites had always been the killer weapon of the Tubo and Yu armies and the Uighurs.

It's just that now there are only 5,000 Langdarma's troops, and there are still too few warriors who can stand up and shoot against the Yu army, and most of these shooters are Praetorian guards from the city of Luo and led by Zampu himself.

Even the most optimistic people in the Tibetan army knew that after experiencing defeat and betrayal, they had actually reached the point of despair, and burying their bones in a foreign land was almost a doomed fate.

However, they are all warriors who grew up under the heavenly dome, and they are not willing to be captured, although they know that they will inevitably be beheaded and then made into a Jingguan that is intimidated by the Yu people after being salted in lime. But today, since you can shoot your bow, you have to draw arrows to fight back.

The clusters of Yu's arrows and crossbows are sharpened in the shape of prismatic arrows, which are used to deal with heavy armor, which are more lethal to enemies with no armor without barbs and barbs, but can deal with the heavy armor of the Tibetan armor.

The arrows that flew out smashed into the armor of the Tibetan armor with a clanging sound, and even if the inexhaustible arrows did not penetrate into the bodies of these armorers along the gap in the armor, they still felt the impact of an angry fist, although they still had thick brocade or leather robes under their armor.

Although the performance of the longbow in their hands was slightly inferior to that of the bow in Yu's hand, the archery skills and physical fitness were enough to pull the two sides to a relatively fair level. The only regret is that compared to the lightly armored crossbowmen of the Yu army, the number of Tibetan armor soldiers is too small.

The Yu army's arrows rained down like a torrent of arrows, and the Tubo soldiers standing on the outermost side drew their bows and fired back in such a dangerous environment.

In addition to the need for archers to have a strong core strength, archery also has high requirements for the mind, and the posture of the Tubo armor soldiers to counterattack under the powerful offensive of the Yu army, even if Li Xu and Han Rui are their hostile camps, they can't help but admire.

Admiration from the enemy is doomed to hypocrisy.

Soon, those Tibetan warriors who seemed to be gods in the snowy region were shot into broken pockets by Yu Jun's arrows, and the arrows with tail feathers on their bodies that were still trembling fell to the ground.

Their numbers were simply too small to pose a sufficient threat to Yu's shooters.

If the Yu Army archer who was hit by the arrow was not seriously injured, he could easily retreat to the back of the formation for simple bandaging and treatment, while the Tubo armor soldiers were still trapped and fighting, making useless death struggles.

After these samurai, with their backs to the flag and their helmets and armor mostly decorated with kingfisher feathers, fell, waiting for the Tibetan army in the circle was like a long public execution.

The Yu army poured their arrows into the circle, and the shields and stakes they carried on the march could barely block some of them.

On the more well-prepared side of the Yu army in the east, there were even three ballistas that could catapult short spear-sized ammunition into the circle. Under the harvest of this kind of death weapon, no matter the level of martial arts or the strength of the armor, everyone is treated equally, and death is also fair at this time.

In the face of the Tubo people who were already difficult to penetrate at the end of the crossbow, and even without Li Xu or other masters, relying only on conventional military means was enough to easily harvest these Tubo troops who had fallen into death.

This intensive accumulation of shots was over after almost a quarter of an hour, and although there were special martial arts skills to strengthen it, the physical strength and energy of the Yu Army shooters had reached a limit.

They had already achieved very great results, nearly thirty percent of the Tibetan army died under the dense rain of arrows, and there were a number of casualties, and the wounded soldiers who were hit by the arrows were mourning all over the field, and the howls of pain and the curses of the Tibetan language greeted the eardrums of the Yu troops on both sides of the east and west.

Only forty percent of the remaining Tibetan army still retained a certain combat effectiveness, and they shrunk into a smaller circle to resist the pressure of the surrounding Yu army, and now there were only more than twenty people left in the widest part of this circle array, or even less than thirty people.

Li Xu clearly saw a curly-haired man wearing gorgeous armor in the center, and around him stood several rows of heavily armored guards holding metal shields and Go to block arrows.

If there is no accident, this person should be Tubo Zangprangdama.

Of course, it is not excluded that Tubo Zampu disguised himself as an ordinary soldier, so Li Xu's attitude was also very simple.

The so-called killing mistakes, there is no letting go. The emperor was ready to kill all of these Tubo people without sparing.

Just as Li Xu was about to break the formation by himself, the Yu army on Pei Du's side had a new movement.

More than 200 warriors armed with long knives walked out of the military formation on Pei Du's side, they were wearing emerald green robes, wearing cyan scarves like Guan Erge in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series, and their hands were full of long knives with straight blades.

This long knife type is different, and it is longer than any kind of knife Li Xu has ever seen. The length of the blade is about four feet, and the length of the handle is between one and two feet.

These warriors are divided into two rows, one in front of the other behind, each with a sharp blade rushing out, leaning on the right shoulder of a huge long knife, more than two hundred sharp blades reflect the cold light, not to mention, what is even more rare is that Li Xu sees that the light in their eyes is exposed, the breath is particularly long, and the pace and body style are revealing a capability, obviously they are all masters of true qi and essence consolidation.

In terms of elite, there are absolutely no such elite people in the Yu army.

"Could it be ......" Li Xu pondered for a moment, then turned his head to the well-informed Chengtian Sword Sect and asked, "...... Is this Lianyunzhai's elite 'Thunder Cliff'?"

Yue Guhan didn't have time to answer in the future, but Lu Yinxi responded with a heavy face.

"Yes, this is the elite Thunder Cliff of Lianyun Village, each of them is a good practitioner of the Dream Shattering Knife, and what is even more rare is that they prohibit it and ignore death. Poor Dao thought that it was Guan Yunchang's five hundred school swordsmen in the book, and it was nothing more than that. ”

Yue Guhan added: "It's just that this suit is a little greener." ”

"This is for the sake of the Oriental Jiayimu. Lu Yuxi, who is familiar with the theory of the five elements, retorted.