A long branch, the endless torrent impacted and pried, and the embankment on the west bank of the Sezhi River exploded in an instant.
Large tracts of water flowed crazily towards the large amounts of land on the west bank of the Sere River.
Downstream, a thousand Tubo cavalry stood there with frightened faces, trying to escape, but the horses refused to obey orders at all.
In an instant, a huge amount of flood water had been captured directly from above.
In an instant, all the war horses were running wildly without control, but were soon overtaken by the torrent.
Under the beating of the torrent, the war horse was immediately knocked to its knees by the huge force, and the cavalry on top was immediately thrown away.
These Tibetan cavalry were too close.
The mountain torrent struck down, but before the impact on the plains weakened, the Tubo cavalry standing at the foot of the mountain and downstream suffered an immediate disaster.
Less than half of the thousands of cavalry disappeared in an instant.
Li Xuan withdrew his gaze, grabbed the horse's rope, pulled the horse back, and took two steps back higher.
The torrent surged out, and even his feet felt trembling.
The countless war horses behind them neighed in low voices, and their hoofs made uneasy tapping sounds.
Li Xuan turned sideways and looked at Cui Ding behind him, and said coldly: "Send the order, control the horses, take a rest, and strangle the Tibetan cavalry in half an hour."
Cui Ding held the horse down and was stunned for a moment, then immediately raised his hands solemnly: "Here!"
Everyone knew that Lun Qinling was going to open a dam to release water, but Liu Rengui never thought of stopping the flood from the beginning. He wanted to take the opportunity to exterminate all the Tibetan cavalry on the north bank.
It is impossible for the Tubo people to use tens of thousands of cavalry to accompany the Tang army, and they must withdraw.
With this withdrawal, Liu Rengui's opportunity came.
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Li Xuan put her hand on the horse's neck, gently comforting him, and at the same time turned her head to look at the river ahead.
The sudden explosion of the west bank dike directly diverted nearly one-third of the water flow, but the remaining two-thirds of the water flow still hit the sharp wooden piles.
The third step dam was not completed, not even half of it, and the water poured down hard from the gaps between the wooden piles.
But there were many other stones, wood, etc., but they were stopped, and the step dam began to be gradually completed.
A huge amount of floodwater rushed downwards and hit the second step dam hard, making a huge roar. The entire step dam instantly made the sound of a girl being crushed by a strong man.
The second step dam also did not hold up for long. The torrent was filled directly and then rushed towards the third step dam. But fortunately, the second step dam was held up and the speed of the torrent slowed down a lot. .
At this time, a lot of water had accumulated in the last step dam, and the impact of the torrent was immediately reduced by half.
But after a while, the flood that had accumulated for a long time finally overflowed the step dam and headed downstream.
At this time, the impact of the flood was much smaller, and the river began to gradually restrain the rushing water dragon.
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Li Xuan's eyes looked further downstream. At this moment, the left guard and the right guard had begun to stride forward. The crossbows and long spears in their hands kept scattering and stabbing to chase down the Tibetan cavalry who kept retreating in front. .
The sudden impact of the torrent immediately made the horses restless. The Tibetan soldiers tried their best to control the horses.
In fact, most Tibetan soldiers had no idea about the opening of the dam to release floods. For a while, they had no idea what was happening.
At this time, military orders came from the rear. One part of the cavalry stayed to stop the enemy, and the rest all retreated, crossing the river and retreating to the west bank of the Sej River.
However, they were not even halfway through the retreat when the rushing torrent was already rushing down from the upper reaches.
Even though the torrent had weakened a lot, all the war horses in the river were swept down in an instant.
At this moment, there was a "boom", a huge roar that almost seemed to ring in the ears. A huge crack suddenly opened in the east bank embankment, and the rushing water quickly moved towards the left and right guards, and also There were Tubo soldiers who rushed over to where the cavalry was.
No one knows when the Tibetans dug a crack there.
The huge torrent rushed down and rushed forward along a not very obvious river channel.
A large area of the Tubo cavalry was knocked down in an instant, but at this time, the Tang army in the rear was still firing crossbows steadily to hunt down these fallen enemies.
With a "boom", hundreds of left guard soldiers were directly hit by the flood, but just a moment later, they hit the hard ground behind them.
The place where Zuowei and the Tubo people fought happened to be in the lowest valley in the entire Kebo River.
This is a place you can choose from in Qinling.
In order to suppress the fast-moving Tang army in this area, the Tubo people almost threw all the 10,000 cavalrymen of Tubo Qingbei Protector Shang Jiezan into it. However, after a bloody battle, these 10,000 cavalrymen died. There are less than three thousand left.
If it weren't for the 10,000 cavalry waiting further behind, I'm afraid the Tibetans would have completely collapsed.
It was the cost of more than 7,000 lives that made the Tibetan people's plan almost succeed.
The roaring water rushed out the left guard soldier at the front, but it was only sent ten feet away before the force of the flood was exhausted.
At this time, more floods rushed towards the valley area, but the area they traveled was only the lowest and narrowest area in the center, and the number of soldiers of the Tang Dynasty affected was less than one-third.
Even these people were just knocked out and quickly got up in the turbulent torrent.
Xiao Siye, the general of the left guard, stood at the back and looked like he wanted to say something when he saw this scene, but in the end he did not speak.
He raised his head and looked at the upper reaches of the Seri River in the distance, where Li Xuan was. He sighed softly in his heart, and then turned his eyes to the Tibetan soldiers in front of him.
In the rear, the military flag has been raised high.
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Under the banner of lions and elephants in the distance, Lun Qinling watched calmly as the torrent on the other side rushed down the mountain top, then opened a hole in the mountainside and washed away towards the east bank. After passing through three step dams, the remaining water flow The speed of washing suddenly slowed down a lot.
More unexpected floods flowed into the Shazhuyu River along the river, causing the amount of water rushing into the Tang Army's camp to be reduced by more than half when the Dark Hand broke out.
The flood that could have reached the chest suddenly reached the knees, and the power of the flood was greatly reduced.
Not only that, in the Tawen River and Hargun River on the east side, flash floods failed to even wash away the mechanisms that had been secretly set up before.
Buffered by three step dams and constrained by the river channel, they rushed into the Shazhuyu River one after another.
At this point, Qinling's water attack plan was completely bankrupt.
No matter who Qin Ling was, standing on the south bank and looking at where Li Xuan was, he immediately understood what went wrong.
Unexpectedly, Lun Qinling's face remained calm, and his eyes fell on the west side of Kebo River, where more torrents rushed down from the mountain.
However, the Tubo people did not do anything at all, so the embankment was not destroyed at all.
But the rushing water still filled all the rivers.
Just like the ones in front of me.
In silence, the cavalry, infantry, left guard, right guard, front army, rear army, and last army of the Tang Dynasty were all cut into several parts.
Lun Qinling raised his hand, waved it back, and said softly: "Let's get started."
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"Let's start!" Li Xuan shouted, and the next moment, a thousand cavalry were already rushing towards the Tubo cavalry down the mountain.
The black long stick appeared in Li Xuan's hand at some point, and it was sharp and shining coldly.
Before the Tubo cavalry at the foot of the mountain could recover from the previous impact of the dam breach, the loud sound of horse hooves could already be heard from above.
The floodwater from the previous dam break had flowed further downstream, and they had escaped to places where the floodwater could not reach them.
Although he escaped, he was in such a state of embarrassment that he never thought that Li Xuan would kill him at this time.
On the mountainside above their heads, the black cavalry rushed down like a torrent. Just after this crisis, an even louder sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded behind the right guard cavalry.
Many people couldn't help but look up and saw thousands of Tubo cavalry rushing out from the dense forests in the mountains.
At a rough count, there are at least three thousand.
The Tubo people, this time the number of cavalry they invited to fight was not 30,000, but 40,000.
The governor of Qingbei, Shang Jiezan, had 20,000 cavalry, and the governor of Qingxi, Su Hegui, had 20,000 cavalry.
Su Hegui's 20,000 cavalry had long been overwhelmed by Wang Xiaojie, and even Shang Jiezan's 5,000 cavalry could not stop Wang Xiaojie.
Of the remaining fifteen thousand, more than four thousand were destroyed in Li Xuan's hands, and another thousand were washed away by floods because they were spying on Li Xuan, leaving only seven or eight hundred people.
Five thousand cavalry suffered heavy losses under the bombardment of the main force of the left guard, and now less than two thousand have escaped.
But there are still 6,000 soldiers and horses scattered and hidden deep in the mountains and forests, waiting to be divided and strangled after the Tang army's various units are scattered by the flood.
The main force of 6,000 right guards led by Wang Xiaojie now needs to deal with the 8,000 cavalry commanded by Shang Jiezan himself, as well as Su Hegui's troops who may come back at any time.
What Li Xuan had to face was a total of more than 2,000 Tibetan soldiers with little fighting spirit at the foot of the mountain in front of them and on the west bank of the lower reaches, as well as 3,000 pursuing troops behind them.
In fact, if Li Xuan hadn't inserted a pole across the way, these five thousand Tubo cavalry would have killed Wang Xiaojie's retreat directly.
At that time, what Wang Xiaojie's 6,000 men will have to face will not be Shang Jiezan's 8,000 cavalry and Su Hegui's 20,000 cavalry who may come back at any time.
Instead, the 20,000 people from the Suhe Gui tribe and the 13,000 monks from the Jiezan tribe were the killer move of Lun Qinling.
The infantry of the Tang Army were completely isolated behind the Seri River, and they could only watch their cavalry being strangled.
No, Qin Ling's trump card doesn't end there. Water attack is one of the means he uses to deal with the infantry of the Tang Dynasty, but it is not the most important means.
There was a "boom" and the earth shook.
Everyone immediately looked towards the place where the sound came from, and suddenly saw ten ferocious beasts rushing out from the camp of Lun Qinling.
The speed of these ferocious beasts is not very fast, but every step they take will cause the entire earth to vibrate tremendously.
He is one foot three tall, covered with thick and heavy iron armor, two sharp teeth rushing forward, a long nose, ears like banana fans, extremely thick skin, stocky short legs, and a huge neighing sound, like Charge forward like a fortress.
Like cavalry.
An elephant cavalry that rarely appears on the battlefield, but when it appears, it leads to countless killings.
Even Li Xuan's eyes widened when he saw the elephant cavalry.
As for Qinling's last trump card, it turned out to be these elephant cavalry, and the targets of their charge were actually the left-guard infantry in the area between the Twain River and the Sere River.
One wonders what kind of carnage will be caused once the elephant cavalry is allowed to rush into the main force of the left guard.
Li Xuan turned his head hard. He couldn't care about this now, because behind him, there were three thousand Tubo cavalry who had been ready to go and were chasing them crazily. In front of him, there were also two waves, more than two thousand. The Tibetan cavalry were blocking the way.
The situation has become extremely bad.
At this time, the thunderous sound of horse hoofs sounded in the east, and countless cavalry suddenly appeared on the south bank of the Shazhuyu River in the southeast, charging toward the central army formation of Lun Qinling.
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A tentative invitation to fight turned into a decisive battle between Tang Dynasty and Tibet.
(End of chapter)
