Section 10 The Fall

Until the remnants of Shang Wanwen fled back to Qinzhou, these Tubo people did not know how they lost, because Shang Wanwen's defeat was more like the result of encountering a series of supernatural events.

Although it is said that at the beginning, Shang Wanwen's so-called elite subordinates let the cavalry of Fengxiang City raid a wave, and they lost their armor to others, which can indeed be said to be quite embarrassing.

But the soldiers and horses carefully trained by this Shang maid can actually be regarded as elite, and that defeat can actually be regarded as a non-war crime, after all, it is an unstable foothold and negligence. After Shang Wanwen arrived with her own leader, she immediately suppressed the Fengxiang army out of the city.

suppressed the Fengxiang army, Shang Wanwen was also happy to guard the door for Zampu outside Fengxiang City, his enthusiasm for looting was not high, and this time he participated because of Zampu's request and Shang Dongzan's request.

However, it seems that the passing years are not conducive to sitting in Tai Sui, and strange things have always happened in Shang Wanwen's camp since a few days ago.

The first is that the animals in the camp are restless at night. The horses and pack beasts neighed all night, as if they had been struck by evil, and refused to live in peace.

Then there was the death of people in the camp.

The scale of the beginning was not large, but it was discovered that a few of the guards and secret posts who were guarding at night had died inexplicably. There were no wounds on the whole body, except that there seemed to be blood in the mouth and nose.

At that time, there were rumors in the camp that the master of Yu Guo in Fengxiang City came to steal the camp at night, and broke the sentinel's heart with pure internal force.

The sergeants on the night patrol and the torches in the barracks have increased considerably, but the footsteps of death have never stopped.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the entire tent were found dead in their sleep, and the soldiers on the night patrol seemed to smell a stench before finding their bodies.

The death of these dead people was the same horrific state, with coagulated blood stains between the seven orifices, and large patches of corpse spots on their faces and bodies.

There was a lot of discussion in the barracks, although some people insisted that it was caused by the masters of the Yu army who came to steal the camp, but gradually some theories believed that it was done by demons and evil spirits.

For the ignorant ordinary sergeants, the so-called mountains have mountain ghosts, rivers have river gods, and there are also gods of Yu country on the ground. The mysterious death phenomenon may be a sign of the discovery of the gods of the Yu Kingdom, and rumors such as these spread in the barracks.

The land of Tibet was originally extremely superstitious, and Zampu was believed to have the blood of the gods, and the ignorance of the soldiers below could be imagined. However, as the lord of an army and a veteran general who is older than the army, she naturally will not believe the nonsense of demons and evil spirits, but she is worried about whether it will be caused by the epidemic.

The military camps were already densely populated, and with the deaths caused by the war and the usual poor hygiene, it was not impossible for a large-scale outbreak to occur.

When she was a child, she went out with her father to fight the Uighurs, and was hit by a great plague.

They fought several bloody battles with the Uighurs in the Western Regions, and the riders under the banner of Jingshi Mingyan were all iron-clad heavy horses, and the speed of the assault on the battlefield was not fast, but they were skilled in martial arts and cooperated with each other, and the battle array was pressed over like a mountain, unavoidable and unstoppable.

The Tibetan army, under the leadership of the then Tsangpu Trisong Detsen, fought continuously with the Uighurs, and the two sides fought nine consecutive battles, and the Tibetan army was defeated in every battle, demoralized, and full of wounded soldiers.

After that, there was an outbreak of plague in the barracks, and most of the people began to vomit and diarrhea, and then developed a high fever, and died within a few days.

Tri Songdezan had no choice but to set up a separate battalion of wounded soldiers and soldiers infected with the plague, and left them to fend for themselves, and then led the army back to the High Court in several ways, which was considered to have temporarily given up the battle for the Western Regions with the Uighurs.

At that time, Shang Wanwen was thrown into the camp of the wounded soldiers because of a high fever, and the fear he experienced at that time made him never forget it for the rest of his life.

As a result, Shang was captured by the Uighurs and lived there for four or five years until his father sent someone to ransom him with gold and silver.

Since there were signs of plague in the camp, Shanzhou Jiedu naturally had to take measures to deal with it, and Shang Wanwen asked the medical officer with the army to boil medicinal soup and distribute it to the whole army, and on the other hand, she abandoned the original camp and chose a dry and ventilated place to set up a new camp.

In addition, the system of sub-battalions was strictly enforced, and the whole army was divided into two camps, the front and rear, and all personnel exchanges between the two battalions were put an end to except for the officers who were close to the servants and maids.

Shang Wanwen's efforts did not stop the spread of deaths, and there were widespread deaths in both camps, this time the dead were also covered in no wounds, and a large amount of blood spilled from their mouths and noses.

In just one night, Shang Wanwen lost more than 100 people. In a few days, the Shang Wanwen stationed outside Fengxiang City lost nearly 300 people, which was a loss that could not be ignored for the Shang Wanwen who had only 5,000 people in the whole army.

The continuous large-scale mysterious deaths made Shang Wanwen wonder if the gods of the Yu Kingdom in the dark might really lower their anger, otherwise how could such a large-scale death event be explained?

He sat down on his knees in front of the tent and prayed sincerely to the gods and Buddhas, asking for their help and guidance.

The next day, Shang Wanwen's adjutants found that the Shanzhou Jiedu envoy had died in front of the tent.

More than 300 other Tibetan soldiers died that night. One-tenth of the troops died in front of and behind, and the general who commanded the whole army was also lost. The scythe of the god of war is always accustomed to harvesting those cheap lives, but under the butcher's knife of the plague god, everyone is equal, and no one will survive by wearing an extra piece of armor and knowing more martial arts.

After a brief meeting of the noble officers, it was decided that the whole army would retreat and return to Shanzhou with the captured slaves and goods. They cast lots and selected one of the unlucky ones to inform Zamprangdama, and the rest of them immediately set out in batches with their respective troops.

It's just that they soon encountered Feng Xiangjun's interception.

The Fengxiang army, which was originally sitting quietly in Fengxiang City, suddenly regained the courage of field battles, and they took the initiative to go out of the city to invade the Tubo people who were already in turmoil, and Su Che's cavalry dropped behind the Tubo army like hungry wild dogs, waiting for an opportunity to pounce and take a bite.

The reason for such a change is actually because Li Xu rode alone into Fengxiang City from the north.

The sudden arrival of the emperor not only gave Han Rui and Feng Xiangjun a new assessment of the emperor's adventurous tendencies, but also brought the latest changes in the battle situation to Han Rui and Feng Xiangjun, arousing their desire to make meritorious contributions in the field.

Since ancient times, the common people of Yu have always believed that "the emperors are all good, and all the traitors harm people." "This illusion. They believe that all the injustices in the world are because the emperor does not pay attention to them, and they regard the emperor as a sage living in the world from the bottom of their hearts. And the formation of this illusion also has the effect of the so-called "outer saint and inner king" ruling technique.

The arrival of the emperor made the Fengxiang army realize that this was an opportunity for them to turn over, as long as they made meritorious contributions in front of the emperor, they naturally had an iron-clad future waiting for them.

But Li Xu knows very well that the positive Shang maid is not easy to match, and with the current strength of the Feng Xiang Army, he wants to be right with the Shanzhou Jiedu, which is really inadequate.

The riders of the Shence Army led by Li Xu are also the elite screened out of the Central Forbidden Army, and they seem to be fish belly, but because they have become the foil of the emperor's combat power.

As for the Fengxiang Army, Li Xu and Han Rui are very clear that this is a local army that takes local defense as the reverse of army building, and its combat power is really very limited.

So the emperor was still responsible for weakening the Tubo army, and Li Xu used his own infrasonic weapon this time, using the true qi of the red ground to shock the air to generate infrasound waves to strike at the encamped Tubo army.

This move was originally a big killing weapon used by Li Xu to call the master, so the emperor of the chicken thief was not ready to show it on the battlefield, and he didn't use this weapon when he rushed inside and outside with the Shence army before.

Now that he steals chickens at night, Li Xu doesn't have so many taboos, and he just uses the manpower under Shang Wanwen's account to conduct a weapon test.

Fortunately, with the almost infinite true qi as a support, Li Xu figured out how to control the specific direction of infrasound waves and the technical problem of long-distance delivery on the first day.

The next day, Li Xu figured out the most suitable force to deal with ordinary soldiers, improve the infrasonic killing efficiency, and through the fine-tuning of the frequency, quickly damaged the heart and lungs of the Tubo army, causing respiratory bleeding, and finally formed congestion in the mouth and nose.

Later, the emperor gradually got into a better situation, and with light skills, he touched the camp of the Tibetan army, and quietly shook Shang Wanwen to death.

This time, it disrupted Li Xu's plan, and the emperor was ready to let the Tibetan army lose at least one-third of it before looking for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle. However, the Tubo army, which had lost its commander, quickly lost the confidence to hold on, and immediately began to retreat, Li Xu and Han Rui discussed it again, and launched a pursuit.

In the face of the oppression of the Yu army, the retreat of the Tubo army was very difficult. In desperation, the Tubo officers could only send someone to ask Zampu for help, informed the Fengxiang army of the situation of the field battle out of the city, and then launched a field battle with the Fengxiang army.

At this time, the Tubo army still had an absolute advantage in the strength of the two sides. The strength of the Fengxiang army is about 3,000 people, while the strength of the Tubo army is still more than 4,000 people, and the guards of Shang Wanwen have always maintained high morale and combat effectiveness.

Most of Shang Wanwen's personal guards are heavy infantry. These heavy guards are known as the "Tower Army", and the members are all carefully selected wrestlers from the tribe under the leadership of Shang Wanwen.

These wrestlers follow the tantric monks to practice meditation and yoga, and spend their days recuperating and boiling their bodies with secret anointing elixirs, each of which can open a strong bow and bear heavy armor. Every time he fights, he wears three layers of blue iron armor and marches forward with a longbow in hand, which is an indestructible killer.

The Tibetan officers divided the whole army into five teams, each team stood in a row, the front team retreated and the rear team was killed, the rear team retreated and the rear team was killed, and the last team was the "tower army" riding war horses. If the vanguard wins, the tower army can chase on horseback, and if the front is defeated, the tower army is the last barrier and the last warlord.

The tactics of the Fengxiang army were simpler, and the Fengxiang army followed the traditional tactics of the Yu army, with crossbowmen armed with heavy crossbows in front, sword players in the back, and pikemen behind sword players.

The whole army was divided into three armies: left, center, and right, Han Rui personally sat in charge of the middle army, the left army was commanded by Mo Yusheng, and the right army was led by Su Che. The whole army formed a phalanx and slowly moved forward.

The real winner was seventy or eighty elite cavalry of the Fengxiang Army led by Li Xu himself, and this cavalry was hidden under the cover of the right army.

The Tubo army relied on the superiority in strength to press over first, and after experiencing a strong crossbow greeting from the Fengxiang army, it first rushed over and tore together with the troops on the front line of the Yu army.

Overall, although there is a lack of Shang Wanwen, a general who knows the soldiers, whether it is the quality of the soldiers or the command of the officers, the Tubo army under the account of the Shanzhou Jiedu envoy is more than a step stronger than the Fengxiang army. Although the tactics of the Tibetan army are relatively dull, the longbow and heavy arrows of the tower army are greeted by the tearing of the Tubo heavy infantry on the front line. The left, center, and right armies of the Fengxiang army all fell into a disadvantage.

Especially the left army where Mo Yusheng is located, when the formation is arranged, there are fewer elites than in the past, and under the crushing of the Tubo army, it is already a bit of a sense of imminent collapse.

Before the two sides engaged the enemy, Li Xu led the cavalry to the flank and rear of the Tubo army, and the Tubo people also sent several waves of cavalry to meet them, but they were not the emperor's opponents, and they were soon easily killed by the emperor with the cavalry.

After killing no less than 300 people in front and back, Li Xu took the iron cavalry of the Yu army to complete the flank detour, and decisively launched a surprise attack from the rear towards the center of the Tubo army.

This blow was like a hammer that hit the back of the Tibetan army, cutting off the central front of the Tibetan army, and then Li Xu swept away with the knights towards the right flank of the Tubo army, and the right flank of the Tubo army was the left army led by Mo Yusheng.

And Han Rui, who cut off the center of the Tibetan army, also commanded the central army to rotate to the right army, forming a flanking attack on the left side of the Tibetan army.

What followed was a typical rout, the defeated Tubo army lacked a clear command center, and immediately after the defeat of the battle, it collapsed completely, the defeated army abandoned the camp and the baggage and fled to the west, while Li Xu led the heavy cavalry to pursue.

The battle began in the morning, and by noon, the field outside Fengxiang City was already full of the corpses of the Tubo people and the booty they had dropped. The infantry of Fengxiang's army quickly took the camp of the Tubo people, liberated the people who had been captured by Shang Wanwen, and captured a batch of booty. By the time Li Xu had completed the pursuit and returned with the cavalry, a fire had already broken out outside Fengxiang City, and it was Han Rui burning the corpses of the Tubo people.

More lime-salted heads were piled up outside Fengxiang City, according to Mo Yusheng's calculations, the Yu army captured more than 1,300 heads in this battle, and the Tubo people in Shanzhou were completely broken this time, and Langdarma's back road back to Tubo was also cut off by the Yu army.

Li Xu took a move to block Langdarma's back road, and now he has to wait to see how Tubo Zampu responds.