At the northern pass of the Qilian Mountains, Li Xuan recovered his thoughts and said calmly: "The powerful general is in Shazhou, and there is also Shiyin Zhenren, so we should be able to respond."
Although Ming Chongyan is not a general, his presence always puts people at ease.
The Qilian Mountain Pass in Shazhou is a hundred miles away from here, and there are many twists and turns to get there from Shulenan Mountain.
Going further down the Qilian Mountains requires at least two days from Zhangye to Jiuquan and then to Junqian.
Two days were enough for Li Xuan to kill him.
Quan Shancai took command at the front line in Suzhou, and the pressure on the Tibetan people immediately increased greatly.
While Ming Chongyan was taking a breath, he could also use his hand to kill Suzhou directly.
An army of ten thousand is not something that just anyone can turn a blind eye to.
Liu Shenli nodded calmly, Quan Shancai and Ming Chongyan fought... Quan Shancai, who had just been tricked by the North Gate bachelor, should still have some chance of winning.
Especially here in the military.
Li Xuan lowered his head and thought, how sick is General Qibi Heli of Zuowei?
Why is there no news at all in Chang'an?
Hua Dazhi did not seem to notice the secret exchange of information between Li Xuan and Liu Shenli. He withdrew his gaze from the Tuyuhun cavalry at the end of his sight, looked at Li Xuan cautiously, and said: "Your Majesty, the Tuyuhun people have begun to move. We need to Don’t you need to make any extra preparations?”
Today, in the Great Douba Valley, there is only a huge pile of wood in the middle section that is more than ten meters high and has a diameter of more than a hundred meters. There is nothing else.
In this way, Li Xuan divided his troops into two groups.
A thousand right guards guarded the Beishan Pass, and two thousand Eastern Tuyuhun soldiers guarded the east exit of Daduba Valley. Only the west side was left to Tibetan and Western Tuyuhun soldiers.
Hua Dazhi really didn't know why Li Xuan dared to be so trustworthy?
"Two thousand Tuyuhun cavalry are at the front, five thousand cavalry are behind, and there are another two thousand Tubo cavalry ready to attack at any time." Liu Shenli looked at the densely packed figures at the end of his sight, and suddenly accurately stated the strength of the Tuyuhun and Tubo people.
Li Xuan suddenly turned around and looked at Liu Shenli in disbelief: This number was almost the same as Li Xuan's own estimate of the enemy's strength.
Liu Shenli smiled calmly, and then said: "My father once studied with Pei Renji, the Duke of Hedong County. At that time, he also served as General Zuo Xiaowei Lang. He fought in the Western Regions and was later transferred to the general position as a great craftsman."
Pei Renji, a native of the late Sui Dynasty, served as an important minister under Li Mi and Wang Shichong, but he is most famous for having two sons.
Pei Xingyan, known as the third best hero in the world, and Pei Xingjian, the Minister of War of the Tang Dynasty, known as the God of War.
If Liu Shenli hadn't mentioned it, Li Xuan wouldn't even have known that Liu Shenli and Pei Xingjian had this relationship.
In addition, Liu Shenli's wife is the cousin of Pei Yan, the Minister of Punishment.
His own sister married Yan Zhuang, Yan Lide's son.
Di Renjie is Yan Liben's apprentice.
This dense network of relationships is terrifyingly complex.
Li Xuan shook her head and threw all these distracting thoughts away. Then she looked at Liu Shenli and said, "Uncle Shi, can you give me some advice?"
"I don't know what the prince is going to do. I still need the prince's advice." Liu Shenli looked at Li Xuan curiously.
To be honest, he didn't know what Li Xuan wanted to do to defeat the Tubo's nearly 10,000 cavalry offensive with the three thousand soldiers in front of him.
Li Xuan smiled softly and said nonchalantly: "It's nothing, it's just suffocation."
…
The sound of horse hooves resounded loudly at the west entrance of Daduuba Valley, followed by thousands of Tuyuhun cavalry who rushed in brazenly.
The mountain road for more than ten miles goes straight forward, and there is no enemy in the middle. There is only a huge firewood pile in the middle of the mountain road.
The valley opens to the north, leading directly to the Qilian Mountain Pass.
The Tuyuhun people have already set their sights on Li Xuan, Liu Shenli and others at the northern pass.
With a sudden rush forward, the Tuyuhun cavalry suddenly split into two, with one group heading towards the east valley entrance, and the other heading towards the north pass.
Li Xuan turned sideways and solemnly whispered: "Send the order, start the fire!"
The green dragon flag on the big rock on the right waved vigorously, and at this moment, there was a "whoop".
Thousands of people had been busy all night, and the huge pile of wood suddenly burst into flames from the middle.
The two fast horses ran wildly towards the pass on the north side of Qilian Mountain.
The war horse at the front of Tuyuhun saw the sudden rising of flames and subconsciously slowed down.
The cavalry on horseback looked around with vigilant eyes. The hillsides on both sides were rugged with dead rocks, and there were only dozens of dead trees higher up.
There are more woods at the east and north valley entrances. Once a fire breaks out, only Li Xuan and the others will be burned.
The speed of the war horse was already very fast. Even if it was deliberately slowed down, it still rushed past both sides of the fire.
To prevent accidents, they also stayed as far away from the flames as possible.
Seeing this scene, Li Xuan sneered slightly at the corner of her mouth: "Send the order, everyone, shoot with crossbows, no one is allowed to move forward without orders."
"Here!" Li Zhu cupped his hands and went to convey the order in a blink of an eye.
…
On the mountain road less than five miles away, the Tuyuhun cavalry rushed very quickly, but the fire behind them also shot up into the sky at a very fast speed.
Even from miles away, you can feel the warmth.
As the fight approached, almost everyone held their breath for a moment.
On the hillsides on both sides, the crossbows in the hands of the right guard soldiers were raised at 45 degrees. Under the hillside, the right guard soldiers had formed a formation at the pass.
The sword and shield bearers are in front, the spearmen are in the back, and the crossbowmen are in the back. More weapons cannot be transported.
The Tuyuhun cavalry on the opposite side also drew their bows and arrows at the same time. Almost instantly, most of the Tuyuhun cavalry suddenly felt dizzy.
The next moment, the bow and arrow flew out uncontrollably.
Seeing the arrows coming out of the bow, all falling on the ground in the center, with only a few "ding-ding" on the shields, almost everyone on the right guard and the right lead guard was stunned.
At this moment, a cold command came from above: "Fire the arrow."
"Here!" Subconsciously obeying the order, all the soldiers immediately pulled the trigger.
The black crossbow arrows covered the Tuyuhun cavalry like black clouds.
The Tuyuhun soldiers subconsciously wanted to hide under the horse's belly, but suddenly they felt weak all over.
With a "bang", a Tuyuhun cavalry fell directly to the ground, followed by crazy horse hooves trampling hard.
"Ding, ding, ding!" Under the rain of black arrows, each war horse was severely penetrated, and fell directly to the ground with a "pop".
The blood spread instantly.
Only a few war horses rushed towards the arrows, but they dispersed randomly.
When all the Tuyuhun cavalry rushed to the Qilian Pass, most of them felt dizzy and couldn't raise their strength.
At this time, the crossbow arrows from the opposite side fell like black clouds again...
After only three rounds, the Tuyuhun cavalry did not even wait for them to rush to the pass before they fell to the ground weakly, as if they were under witchcraft.
No one took action at all. All the Tuyuhun cavalry fell off their horses one by one, row by row, inexplicably.
It was extremely scary to watch.
All the right guards and right leader guards subconsciously looked at Li Xuan, who was under the blue dragon flag at the pass.
Standing there in black clothes and armor, Li Xuan looked like a demon.
Seeing the Tuyuhun cavalry who fell to the ground without them having to do anything, Hua Dazhi looked at Li Xuan in disbelief: "Is this suffocation?"
Li Xuan nodded calmly and said lightly: "The air here is already very high, the air is thin, and the flames are burning, which consumes the air rapidly. If there are only three or five people, it will be fine. Thousands of people rush in at once. And their way to survive?”
Li Xuan raised her head and looked upward, and said in a cold voice: "No one is allowed to move. After half an hour, the firewood is burned out, and then we can move forward. Let the archers be on guard. If anyone in front wakes up, they will be shot immediately."
Their location is already outside the range of the flame temperature. As long as time passes, the Tuyuhun people will soon wake up.
Suffocation only makes them faint temporarily, and killing people directly is not possible.
Not to mention, someone with good physical fitness didn't faint from beginning to end.
This was a very ordinary scene in Li Xuan's eyes, but it had already frightened the Tuyuhun soldiers further behind.
More than two thousand Tuyuhun cavalry rushed into the valley. Before they could even touch the Tang army, they fell to the ground one after another as if they had encountered devils.
The Tibetan soldiers in the rear tried their best to urge the Tuyuhun soldiers forward, but the Tuyuhun soldiers seemed to be still frightened, and they all remained motionless.
It wasn't until the flames in the valley completely disappeared that everyone breathed an inexplicable sigh of relief.
At this moment, a group of Tubo cavalry suddenly rushed up from the Tuyuhun cavalry, and rushed into the valley within a moment.
However, before they could rush to the center of the valley, they saw the Tubo cavalry swaying from a distance, and the next moment, they all fell to the ground.
All the Tuyuhun cavalry couldn't help but tremble, and there were waves of commotion. Many people couldn't help but turn their horses around, but they were all suppressed by the Tubo people, and the chaos gradually spread.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly, the sound of "tap tap tap tap" footsteps was heard on the west side of the Dashu Bagu Valley.
Immediately afterwards, a Tang Army cavalryman in black clothes and armor appeared in front of the Tuyuhun soldiers.
Everyone's faces were covered with black masks, and from a distance they looked like devils from hell.
The next moment, these devils were like crazy. They raised their long spears and charged towards the Tuyuhun cavalry.
With their sharp blades and stern eyes, the Tuyuhun cavalry suddenly and inexplicably became chaotic before the Tang army even approached.
With a "dang" sound, the long knife in the hand of a cavalry fell to the ground uncontrollably.
In an instant, he turned around desperately and rushed towards the other end of the Shule Valley.
Just when the Tubo cavalry later wanted to stop them, they saw more Tuyuhun cavalry turning around like crazy and charging towards them recklessly.
From a distance, it looked like a torrent rushing towards the exit on the other side of the Shule Valley.
The camp roared and the morale of the army collapsed.
The morale of the five thousand Tuyuhun cavalry was completely shattered. In the blink of an eye, they had drowned two thousand Tubo cavalry...
At this time, the black cavalry behind them deliberately slowed down their horses and began to press forward step by step.
Further forward, there are 8,000 Tubo cavalry and 5,000 Tuyuhun, where are their real opponents.
"The Tubo people are finished." Hua Dazhi couldn't help but shook his head, his face full of unbelievable shock.
Liu Shenli stood on one side and looked at Li Xuan with a hint of horror in his eyes.
Li Xuan turned slightly sideways and said, "Let the brothers of the right leading army guard come forward, reap the rewards of battle, and then send a message to Chang'an."
"Here!" Hua Dazhi subconsciously accepted the offer with a solemn expression on his face.
(End of chapter)
