Cold crossbow arrows shot from behind Li Xuan, passed over his head, and directly entered the chest of the Tibetan cavalry in front of him, and blood flew out immediately.
Before he could land, more crossbow arrows flew over his head and shot directly into more cavalry and horses on the stone bridge behind.
Li Xuan retreated from the bridge, but the crossbowmen immediately came up to replace him.
Countless crossbow arrows rained down on all the Tibetan cavalry on the stone bridge.
"Bang bang bang!" The crossbow arrow shot directly through the body of the Tibetan cavalry and was nailed to the stone bridge.
The width of the stone bridge severely restricted the movements of the Tibetan cavalry. They were unable to advance or retreat, and could only face death in despair.
The entire stone bridge has become a death hell for hundreds of cavalry on it.
Li Xuan's eyes crossed the stone bridge and fell on the Brenzan Blade on the other side.
In an instant, Brenzan felt like he was being targeted by a vicious wolf.
The opponent led him into a trap step by step, and then used specific terrain to surround and kill him.
Surrounded and killed?
Brenzan was suddenly startled and looked behind him subconsciously, but in the farmland behind him and the distant mountains and forests, he couldn't see anything wrong at all.
No, no.
There was such a big battle in Taozhou City. Why were the villages in the distance so quiet? They should at least send someone to take a look at the situation.
Brenzann suddenly felt a numbness in his scalp, and immediately ordered: "Immediately let Tuwu Zhi and Shan Zangqing lead their troops back to join the army. All the cavalry on the bridge will withdraw, and everyone will disperse immediately."
As soon as Blenzan Blade's order came out, everyone was stunned, but no one hesitated and immediately went to deliver the order like crazy.
However, before they had gone far, a war horse came quickly from the upper reaches of the Tao River from the south, carrying a figure covered with blood on its back.
The opponent was lying on his horse. When he saw this, he tried his best to lift up and seemed to be shouting something to the army here. Dozens of horses immediately flew out from the army to greet him, but at this moment, a A long arrow suddenly flew from behind, and with a "swish" sound, an arrow penetrated the cavalryman's body.
The cavalryman swayed for a moment, and the next moment, he fell directly to the ground.
At this time, the sound of huge horse hoofbeats sounded in the north, followed closely by countless black cavalry who had rushed down from the south along the Taohe West River.
Black clothes and black armor, cavalry of the Tang Army.
Where did the Tang Army cavalry come from?
Not only Brenzan Blade was dumbfounded, but almost everyone who saw this scene was dumbfounded.
How could they have reinforcements? The Tibetan cavalry's raid only lasted for an hour or two from the beginning to now. How could they have reinforcements?
"This is the cavalry under the command of General Hei Te Changzhi, the right-wing army guard who rushed to Lintan a while ago." Zhang Yungong stood on the city wall, his face was pale, and he said with a sad smile: "Hei Te Changzhi appears here, so To the north are the men of General Wei Li Jinxing, who leads the army on the right."
Zhang Yungong has now completely seen clearly that although Li Xian still has certain abilities, it is the King of Nanchang who is really behind all this.
In addition to being the deputy marshal and deputy general manager of the Taohe Road March, the King of Nanchang was also the grandson-in-law of left prime minister Liu Rengui.
Both Li Jinxing and Hei Te Changzhi were Liu Rengui's subordinates in Andong Road.
Now that the Tibetan cavalry is attacking, only the King of Nanchang can make them actively cooperate.
Now looking from the city head to the stone bridge head, Li Xuan is standing there. He is not blocking the Tibetan cavalry from converging. He is protecting his spoils.
Of the three thousand Tubo cavalry, one thousand died under Li Xuan, while the remaining two thousand were the prey of Hei Te Changzhi and Li Jinxing.
Brenzan Blade was not a mediocre person. He wanted to understand this. Without any hesitation, he immediately turned the horse's head, and the crazy horse rushed towards the west direction at high speed.
The countless Tubo cavalry around them followed up without any hesitation. Thousands of people fled frantically towards the mountains to the west, showing no signs of fighting.
At this time, a loud bang sounded from the south, and countless cavalry in black clothes and black armor came from the south to attack at high speed and outflank them.
…
Li Xuan crossed the stone bridge and looked towards the direction where the Brenzan Blade was escaping. There were vast mountains there. Li Xuan couldn't help but sigh and said: "As expected, he is a veteran on the battlefield, and he still has his own tricks."
"Your Majesty, does he want to regroup at the foot of the mountain and fight the army?" Zhou Qian stopped on one side on horseback and looked at the Tibetan cavalry in the distance with a solemn expression.
"No smart person would do this." Li Xuan shook his head and said: "General Hei Te Chang brought a thousand cavalry, and Duke Yan brought a thousand cavalry, covering both sides. The key is in Hedong. On the shore, there are also my king’s fifteen hundred cavalry and one thousand crossbowmen, how can he stop them?”
At this point, Li Xuan paused for a moment and said softly: "The key is that Tubo doesn't know how many of our troops have come now, nor how many reinforcements are behind our troops. In their panic, they might be like a gecko, and they might break off." Let’s survive.”
Li Xuan turned around and looked at the Tubo cavalry on both sides of the city gate who were being hunted by crossbowmen and cavalry. He frowned and said, "Tell Qiu Zhenmu and Cui Ding to hurry up and join in the excitement in the west." Minato.”
"Here!" When Zhou Qian heard this, his face immediately lit up, and he turned around and went to deliver the order.
More than 500 Tibetan cavalry lost their mobility and were surrounded by crossbowmen and right-guard cavalry. Although they still resisted desperately, they were completely slaughtered in only two quarters of an hour.
Leaving the soldiers on the city wall to replenish their wounds, Li Xuan had already taken the lead in crossing the other side with the crossbowmen.
Then he quickly rushed towards the west battlefield.
However, although their speed was not slow, it was not as fast as the right-leading guard cavalry who were charging before.
Soon, at a fork in the road, Li Xuan saw a group of right-leading guard cavalry who were cleaning up the mess. Hundreds of Tibetan cavalry were lying on the ground.
They were left behind.
When these right-leading cavalry guards saw Li Xuan, they bowed and got out of the way without any hesitation.
Li Xuan nodded to them and then led his army directly past.
"The morale of the Tubo people has collapsed." Zhou Qian couldn't help but sigh when he saw the situation in front of him.
"Three thousand cavalry came to the Tang Dynasty, but in the end there were less than a thousand left. No matter how elite the soldiers were, they would feel panicked. What they are most worried about now is that they will be stuck by the army. Once the backup arrives, they will be completely It's over." Li Xuan said, raising her head and looking at the sky to the west.
There was another sound of fighting there. It seems that Blenzan Blade left two groups of Tibetan cavalry to block the footsteps of the army, while he himself led the army to rush into the mountains. Only after entering the mountains, their The situation will be much better.
After all, Tubo has a lot of mountainous areas, and the instinct to fight in mountains has been deeply engraved in their bones.
If they are really allowed to escape into the mountains and forests, I am afraid that many Tubo people may really escape. Some may even follow the mountains and climb the plateau from the south, and then return to Tubo.
"Speed up!" Li Xuan gave the order, and a group of crossbowmen began to run quickly. At this moment, the sound of rapid horse hooves came from behind.
Li Xuan turned around and saw that the right guard cavalry had rushed up, led by Qiu Zhenmu and Cui Ding.
"Yang Xuan."
"My subordinates are here." Yang Xuan immediately ran out from among the crossbows.
"Order all the crossbowmen to mount their horses immediately, one horse and two men, and rush to the west valley mouth together." Li Xuan gave the order sternly.
"Here!"
Li Xuan's order was conveyed quickly. After the cavalry and crossbowmen fought side by side, there was no longer any barrier.
In a blink of an eye, all the crossbowmen were on their horses.
"Let's go!" Li Xuan immediately took the lead and galloped away.
Two-quarters of an hour later, they had arrived at the mouth of the valley, and the bloody battlefield had come to an end.
Hundreds of Tibetan cavalry were intercepted at the mouth of the valley, because a group of cavalry had been placed here in advance, cutting off the Tibetan people's retreat.
Li Xuan came with his army, and on both sides, Hei Te Changzhi and Li Jinxing immediately came to greet them with their own soldiers.
"Your Majesty!" Black Teeth, who was as tall as an iron tower, raised his hand to Li Xuan from a distance, his voice like a bell.
Li Xuan quickly returned the salute: "General Zhonglang."
On the other side, Li Jinxing is almost sixty years old, but his hair is black and he is energetic.
After Li Xuan saw it, he took the lead and said: "General!"
"Your Majesty!" Li Jinxing returned the salute respectfully, and the cavalry behind him also slowed down their horses.
Li Jinxing was from Sumo Mohe, and his Sumo Mohe cavalry was the main force of the right-leading cavalry guard.
Hei Te Changzhi is a frontier army, and most of the thousand cavalry he leads are Youzhou troops.
"How is the situation?" Li Xuan looked at the battlefield in the distance and asked quickly.
"Reporting to the prince, Li Duozuo, the right-leading Wei Lang general, led one hundred cavalry and blocked the entrance to the valley. The Tibetan cavalry was directly stopped and then basically wiped out." Li Jinxing handed over his hand and recounted the details.
The Tubo cavalry fled from the valley entrance without hesitation, but they did not expect that Li Duozuo, the leader of the right army, had already led two teams of cavalry to block here.
A whole row of stones blocked the entrance of the valley, and the Tibetan cavalry rushed forward. They only needed to hunt easily.
"General Li Lang did a good job." Li Xuan nodded, and then said: "It doesn't matter to the others, but the Brenzan Blade must be found. If you want to see someone alive, you must see the corpse."
"Here!" Li Jinxing and Hei Te Changzhi took orders at the same time.
They all know that the current battle to annihilate three thousand Tubo cavalry is just the dessert before the entire Qinghai-Tibet War.
Although the Tubo people claim to have an army of 300,000, in fact all of them include servants.
And even so, the 300,000-strong army is just an imaginary number. Only 200,000 of them can really fight on the battlefield.
But even 200,000 people were twice as many as the entire Tang army.
It's going to be a tough fight, everyone knows that.
Three thousand cavalry is indeed nothing, but once Qin Ling's younger brother Brenzan Blade falls into their hands, whether captured alive or killed, the impact it can have is definitely not inferior to that of an army of 10,000. There are so many articles that can be written in it.
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Half an hour later, someone came to report: "Your Majesty, the General, and the Lieutenant General have discovered Tibetan warriors wearing Brenzan Blade uniforms, but no one or body has been found."
Li Xuan raised his eyebrows, sat on his horse, looked at the mountains to the west, and said softly: "It seems that he escaped alone first. Send an order, and the Taozhou soldiers and Li clan soldiers who are familiar with the terrain will immediately Enter the mountains to search and capture the Blenzan Blader alive. He will be promoted to the third level and receive a hundred thousand dollars. Now, I want to capture him alive."
Only a living Brenzan Blade can bring the greatest value to the Tang Dynasty.
(End of chapter)
