The Tang Dynasty now had two difficult enemies, one was Goguryeo and the other was Tubo.
These two are really difficult to deal with. The most important thing is the special geography of their country. Goguryeo has many mountains and Tubo has many plateaus. Both terrains are easy to defend and difficult to attack militarily.
Therefore, after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks in the north, Xue Yantuo, were defeated, but Goguryeo in the east and Tubo in the west were never conquered.
The reason is that the plain warfare that the Tang army is best at has no use in these two countries. To deal with ordinary enemies, the general gives an order and thousands of troops and horses launch together to crush the enemy directly.
And for these two, well, they were suffering from hypoxia, sprained feet, and the horses couldn't run.
For decades after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo and Goguryeo were never brought down. The three generations of emperors were actually very aggrieved.
This time, Tubo invaded Tuyuhun. They chose to come down from the plateau and fight on the vast plains of Tuyuhun. In fact, they avoided their strengths and exploited their weaknesses. However, the Tubo army has always fought fiercely and bravely. Even on the plains, they were not weak at all. He was beaten and retreated steadily.
Today, it is the turn of the Tang army to fight against Tibet.
Tubo fought smoothly against Tuyuhun, but the Tang army was not Tuyuhun. The bronze opponent was suddenly replaced by a king opponent, and the taste of the battle was very different.
Amidst the rumbling war drums, more than a thousand soldiers of the Tang Army were waiting in formation. They were arranged in three rows. Each soldier calmly took out a handful of black things from the leather bag on his waist and stuffed them into it. A strange weapon was placed in the cavity. After tamping it down, it was filled with iron pellets and a lead was pulled out.
Seven or eight miles away, the Tibetan army, which had already set up its formation, looked at the opposite military formation from a distance, and suddenly discovered that today's opponent had changed.
The armor of the Tang army was completely different from the leather armor of the Tuyuhun army. It reflected the luster of metal in the sunlight. The three-row horizontal formation was very strange. The Tubo army had never seen it before.
Generally speaking, the front line of the military formation is usually a shield formation or a spear formation, followed by bows and arrows, followed by spear formations and sword formations. The cavalry is arranged on the left and right wings. After the bows and arrows are fired in turn, the army will slowly advance.
But the more than a thousand Tang Army soldiers in front only had three rows of horizontal formations, and the weapons in their hands were weird and cute...
The Tubo generals were puzzled, but this did not affect the launch of the army. The concept of the Tubo people is very simple. No matter what weapon you use, you have to carry one head on two shoulders. If you pretend to be a ghost, you will still die.
The long horn horns suddenly stopped, the rapid and fierce beating of war drums sounded, and the Tibetan army began to advance forward.
After Tuyuhun's military formation, Nuohebo Khan squinted at the formation of the Tang army in front of him, feeling increasingly uneasy.
At this time, more than a thousand Tang troops were lined up in front, and the center formation and the left and right flanks were still held by the Tuyuhun troops. However, these more than a thousand Tang troops looked so weak and helpless among thousands of troops, like a group of people falling into a wolf's den. There are not enough chicks in there to fit between your teeth.
Moreover, the weapons in their hands are also weird, filled with medicine and small projectiles. Can such a broken stick withstand a Tibetan charge of ten thousand people?
Nuobo Khan stroked his messy beard uneasily. This oily man felt like a leek about to be harvested. He knew that the sickle was dangling in front of his eyes, but he still couldn't escape.
However, no matter what, it was too late to correct everything. The Tibetan army on the opposite side had already launched.
Amidst the sound of war drums, the Tubo army let out a thunderous roar, and then led a horse out of the front line. The horses galloped, and the black crowd rushed out with the Tubo generals.
With banners flying in the clouds and dust filling the sky, ten thousand Tubo cavalry rushed towards Tuyuhun's front line.
The murderous aura as cold as winter was overwhelming, like a black devil with its bloody mouth, viciously pounced on the Tang army.
Under such a terrifying charging momentum, the Tang army's formation suddenly became a little panicked, and some soldiers' legs became weak.
Sun Congdong was worthy of being a leading general. Seeing that his robe was a little unstable, he immediately raised a small black flag in his hand and shouted sternly: "Hold still! Anyone who hinders the army in front of the formation will be killed!"
"Hold the gun flat and listen to my orders."
The slightly chaotic Tang Army array immediately calmed down, and the soldiers followed the order and raised their three-eyed muskets, aiming straight ahead.
Sun Congdong stared at the Tibetan army getting closer and closer, measuring their distance, five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps...
When he was almost two hundred steps away, Sun Congdong shouted: "Light the fire!"
The soldiers immediately pointed the burning fire sticks at the lead of the three-eyed gun.
boom!
There was an earth-shattering thunderclap. Not only did a large section of the charging Tubo army fall down, but even the Tuyuhun army behind the Tang army was frightened into chaos. The war horses under everyone's crotch were even more panicked. The neighing people stood up, and countless people were killed by the war horses. He threw off his horse's back and fell heavily into the yellow sand.
Nuohebo Khan was also startled. He subconsciously turned his horse's head and fled back, but he saw plumes of white smoke rising from the Tang army's formation, and a large number of Tibetan troops charging in the distance screamed and fell off their horses.
Nuohebo Khan's heart was moved, and his strong curiosity defeated his fear, until the Tang army's front line lit the fuse again, there was a loud bang, and the Tubo army fell again.
Every time the Tang army lit the fuse with a fire stick, after a loud noise, a large number of the charging Tibetan army always screamed and fell.
Nuobo Khan was not stupid. At this moment, he gradually understood something.
It turned out that the strange weapon held by the Tang army was so powerful that nearly half of the Tubo army's forwards had been knocked down before the two sides engaged in battle.
But what the soldiers of the Tang Army did was just mechanically ignite and launch fire. After the gunpowder pellets in the three eyes were fired, the first row quickly retreated, and the row of Tang soldiers behind them who were full of ammunition quickly made up for it, and then continued to light the fire. emission.
The speed of the Tubo army's rapid charge has been greatly slowed down. The loud weapons in the hands of the Tang army are frightening. The Tubo army at the front fell off their horses after being shot, which also created a human obstacle for the Tubo cavalry charging behind. , many war horses were tripped by the fallen robe, and a large area was formed when he fell.
The battlefield was in chaos. The charging speed of the Tubo cavalry was getting slower and slower. People in the team were screaming, screaming, shouting with swords, and even running away out of fear...
If a charging team encounters such a chaotic situation, the charge will have failed.
Nuobo Khan also saw the battlefield situation clearly, and immediately ordered thousands of Tuyuhun cavalry on the left and right flanks to outflank and press forward.
The sound of the war drums became more and more urgent and intense. When the tens of thousands of Tuyuhun soldiers who were originally on the weaker side saw that more than a thousand Tang troops had caused such huge casualties to the Tibetan army, their long-sagged military morale instantly rose.
They cheered and roared in the ranks, raising their swords as they charged from left to right. Even the flags in front seemed to be cheering and dancing in the strong wind.
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