Lintao Prefecture is located in the west of Shaanxi.
Going further west from here is Duogansi Xuanweisi. Simply put, it is the place where the Tubo people live.
Lintao is a border area here. There are Lintao guards stationed there with a certain number of artillery and other firearms to defend against Tibet. In some border areas, both the garrison and firearms are much more than those in other places. This is normal.
However, no matter how much, there is a limit. The imperial court has a certain number of restrictions on the firearms distributed. After all, they are too powerful.
Lintao Prefecture, on the edge of Li River, in a river valley, there is Tumen Pass. The pass was built according to the terrain of the valley. Going to the west, there is a direct passage to Tubo. The purpose of the existence of this pass is to defend against the Tubo people. Appear suddenly and break into the pass.
On this day, the Tumen was closed, and a man named Yan Qiang led more than a hundred soldiers to garrison at the pass.
Since this area of Shaanxi has not experienced a large-scale war for a long time, there are not many guards at the passes. Generally speaking, a hundred people are enough to defend the passes. When the number of people increases, the passes are not large. If there is any emergency, they will not be able to use it. Come to defense.
When it comes to guarding the gate, the more people there are, the better it is.
Yan Qiang led more than 20 people out of the customs and headed west. They rode horses for more than 20 miles, briefly inspecting the border areas to prevent enemies from appearing and people from outside the area smuggling into Lintao. This was basically their daily routine. work.
Especially recently, after the Tubo envoys returned from their mission to the Ming Dynasty, they were given an order from above to inspect the border outside Tumen Pass every day.
Inspection records must also be kept, and inspections must not be delayed for any reason.
Yan Qiang takes people out every day. If he is not free, he will arrange for the soldiers below to take people out for inspection on his behalf.
"Baihu, everything is fine today."
A soldier easily rode his horse to follow Yan Qiang from behind and said calmly: "How could the Tibetans dare to invade? We must be very safe in Lintao. The people above are too nervous."
If Tubo wants to invade the Ming Dynasty, there are not many ways to do so.
Under normal circumstances, they attack Longyou from Taozhou, Lintao and Minzhou, and then march to the Weihe Plain. This has been a common attack route since the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, we can borrow a road from Nanzhao, pass through the Snowy Mountains, and hit Yongchang along the west side of Gaoligong Mountain to attack Sichuan and Shu. From Yunnan to Sichuan, many longitudinal mountains are accessible, but now Yunnan , is no longer Nanzhao during the Tang Dynasty.
With Mu Sheng guarding it, this road is basically impassable.
Of course, there is a third offensive route, which was also one of the most commonly used routes by Tubo during the Tang Dynasty. It was to enter the Hexi Corridor from the Qilian Mountains and attack Guazhou, Shazhou and other places, which could cut off the Tang Dynasty's control of the Western Regions at that time.
The current Ming Dynasty is not the Tang Dynasty. If Tubo wants to invade, the only route of attack seems to be Taozhou and other places.
After hearing what the soldier said, Yan Qiang said seriously: "Don't talk nonsense. There is nothing wrong with patrolling the borders and protecting our country! The food and salary given to us by the imperial court is enough for our family to live well. Now it is us who repay the imperial court." It’s time.”
You must know that after Zhu Xuan helped the Ming Dynasty make money, the amount of food and salary provided by the imperial court to soldiers everywhere doubled compared with before.
Ming Dynasty was not short of money, Zhu Xuan was not short of money, and he treated his soldiers much better.
Soldiers guarding the border and fighting the enemy deserve better treatment.
The other soldiers who followed Yan Qiang on patrol agreed with Yan Qiang's words.
The treatment given by Daming could not be better.
Yan Qiang looked it over and found that there were indeed no other questions, so he said: "Okay, let's go back!"
The soldier just now said again: "Baihu, what I said is also true."
This guy is lazy and wants to be lazy. Of course he is on a white-collar salary and is more comfortable doing nothing.
Yan Qiang snorted softly, and when he turned around and was about to scold him, suddenly a sound of horse hoofbeats came from the west. This sound made their nerves tense at the same time, and they turned back to look to the west.
I saw a group of more than a hundred Tubo cavalry, who didn't know when they appeared or entered Lintao, and were running towards them.
Yan Qiang and others have been guarding this place for so many years, and this is the first time they see Tibetan cavalry appear and kill them.
They were startled at the same time.
"run!"
Yan Qiang reacted the fastest and immediately shouted loudly.
No one among the soldiers around them could have imagined that the Tibetans would really come in. There were only about twenty of them. They were no match for the more than a hundred cavalry. Fighting would be almost like sending someone to death. They instinctively followed Yan Qiang and ran back.
The chasing Tibetan cavalry laughed heartily at this time, and some people drew their bows and shot at Yan Qiang and the others.
The lazy soldier just now was shot down on the spot, and several others fell quickly.
"damn it!"
Seeing that the Tibetans were chasing more and more closely, Yan Yan became furious and shouted: "Rifle, hit!"
Now it seemed like there was no way to escape. They gritted their teeth and decided to risk their lives. The remaining dozen or so Ming soldiers took out the semi-automatic rifles on their backs, opened the bullets, pushed the bolt, turned around and started shooting. .
The Tubo people had just fired a round of arrows, and when they were about to change their arrows, the bullets shot out and hit the Tubo people.
Gunshots echoed.
The Tubo people had never seen a rifle before, and they didn't know how powerful the rifle was. They were still laughing wildly, thinking that they could take down the Ming army cavalry in front of them, and continued to rush over, but they didn't expect that the bullets were coming right in front of them.
Bullets splashed out, and more than ten Tibetan soldiers who rushed over were knocked down on the spot.
"Walk!"
Yan Qiang shouted: "Fight while walking!"
The Tubo people were not convinced and wanted to pursue them again.
Riding his horse to chase faster, he drew his bow and shot arrows while chasing.
Several more people fell down around Yan Qiang.
Although the arrows are far less effective than rifles and their accuracy is not good, there are many Tibetan people and so many arrows are fired at them, so they are still somewhat effective.
"beat!"
The accuracy of their rifles will be improved a lot.
As long as gunshots ring out, someone is bound to fall.
"Grenade!"
At this time, Yan gave a loud shout.
Grenades have long been researched by experts from the Science Pavilion. They are a new batch of weapons that are not only equipped in the army, but also distributed on a large scale to the border areas.
Seeing that the enemy was pursuing them, there were only seven or eight of them left. It was very difficult to fight back with guns, so they simply pulled the safety of the grenade and threw it on the ground.
"run!"
a soldier yelled.
They galloped on horseback and quickly rushed out of the range of the grenade.
boom……
The Tubo people just caught up and walked over the grenade, and there was a sound of explosion. The Tubo cavalry passing by were blown to pieces on the spot, and many people died.
Although the Tubo people further behind were not hit by the bomb.
But it was so terrifying and the sudden explosion frightened their horses. At this time, they were running around and they could not catch up. The Tubo knights were also afraid of the power and terror of the grenade explosion, so they stopped one after another and did not dare to pursue them.
"Go back quickly!"
Yan Qiang looked back, not daring to stay any longer.
The Tibetans were really going to invade, and he had to send the news back as soon as possible.
Daming, there's going to be a war again!
