The light cavalry of the Tang army were very close to each other, and their horses were lined up in a row, advancing like a wall.
Jiang Shuo did not have such a long-handled weapon in his hand, and the Long Xiang horse's pace could not be consistent with that of other military horses. If he was forcibly inserted into the military formation, it would disrupt the Tang army's rhythm. The yellow horse was quite understanding of human nature, and actually let go on its own. Slowly falling behind the cavalry.
The number of archers and cavalry was equal. The Tubo archers knew that if they broke up and fled at this moment, they would be like lambs to be slaughtered, with no way out. A general in the army shouted loudly, and the archers immediately used their bows to shoot straight. At this moment, the two armies were extremely close. , the knights of the Tang Army were all tightly packed together, and the Tibetan archers hardly needed to aim, they just shot arrows desperately in the direction of the Tang Army.
At this moment, the knights of the Tang Army were all prostrate on their saddles, trying to reduce the area covered with arrows. The horses under their crotches also seemed to be psychic. They also lowered their horses' heads and ran wildly. The men, horses, and spears stabbed the Tubo army in a straight line, However, Long Xiangma and Jiang Shuo were revealed behind them, and Jiang Shuo had no choice but to draw out his seven-star sword and continuously dial the eagle feathers.
In this way, the Tubo archers could only fire three rounds, and the Tang army lost more than a dozen people. Finally, Ma Shu's two-foot-long eight-edged sword blade had pierced his eyes. The archer in the front row was immediately pierced through the chest. Ma Shu penetrated the first Behind the man's chest, under the impact of the war horse, he pierced the second man and then the third man.
There were two or three people tied to each horse pole. The strong Dawan horses carried the knights and the people hung on the horse poles, and continued to run forward. Only then did Jiang Shuo know that the poles were used. What is the role of the "retention complex" of the Changbai Ginger system? After piercing several people, the retention complex prevented the horse from penetrating further. If the piercing continued, the knight would not be able to pull out his horse.
Seeing the power of the Tang army's horses, all the will of the Tubo archers to resist was immediately shattered. Some people began to turn around and run away. As long as someone started to turn around, more and more people would run away. Finally, like an avalanche, the entire army formation instantly The earth collapsed, and the Tubo people began to howl and run backwards.
But how could two legs run faster than four legs? Moreover, the Tang army was carrying a horse that was eight feet long?
Jiang Shuo was behind Gao Xiuyan at the moment. When he saw him withdrawing his horse, he stepped on it with his foot. The white grate was tied to the thin iron rod between the horse's pole and the sword blade. With one step, the white grate slid forward. , pressed against the body of the first Tibetan man who was pierced, blood immediately sprayed out, dyeing the white grate into dark red.
All the knights of the Tang Army shook the Tibetan corpses to the ground in this way. Since the iron rod was thinner than both ends, the white grate could only slide on the iron rod and would not come out. After shaking off the corpses, the knights gradually dispersed, chasing and assassinating the Tibetan archers. Within a moment, there were no Tibetan archers left standing.
Jiang Shuo stood blankly at the position where the Tang army and the Tubo army had just come into contact. He never thought that two hundred corpses would look like a pile of corpses to people. The corpses nearby were piled up, and the farther away they were, the more corpses they got. There are few, but the furthest one can only escape a hundred steps.
Jiang Shuo was in a daze throughout the whole process, not stepping forward to kill anyone, and certainly not participating in the pursuit. This was the first time he had witnessed a real war, a war between two armies!
Everyone in the Tang army may not be very skilled in martial arts, and the Tubo people may not be incompetent in their bow skills. Everyone in the Tubo archers has a sword hanging on their waist. There may be many good swordsmen among them, but they don't even have a chance to draw out the sword. Assassinated.
This kind of unilateral killing on the battlefield shocked Jiang Shuo. He turned around blankly, only to see that Dugu Xiang and Tuoba Qimei did not follow. When Jiang Shuo rode his horse to follow Gao Xiuyan and rushed down, Dugu Xiang did not sit down. After him, he stayed on the mountain ridge with Tuoba Qimei.
Jiang Shuo patted the dragon horse, and the yellow horse turned and walked back. Dugu Xiang jumped down from the mountain ridge and ran towards him.
The Tang army's entire journey from bypassing the ridge to launching the charge was only five hundred steps. Jiang Shuo was reunited with Dugu Xiang in the blink of an eye, but he felt that something was wrong. He suddenly thought that the location of the valley where the Tang army's infantry and the Tubo cavalry fought was completely missing. The sound was as if the battle in the valley ended at the same time as the cavalry charged.
He was about to ask Dugu Xiang, but found that she was trembling slightly. Jiang Shuo felt more and more surprised. He looked toward the river valley, only to see a few uniformed war horses pacing aimlessly, and the knights on them had long since disappeared. .
Jiang Shuo stretched out his hand to pull Dugu Xiang onto the horse. Dugu Xiang immediately curled up behind him. Jiang Shuo could feel the coldness of her hands and feet through her clothes. He gently pinched the dragon's horse's belly and walked toward the river valley. .
When I walked in, I discovered that throughout the valley, Tubo knights and war horses were lying on the ground in random order, with black iron arrows stuck in their bodies. Blood gurgled out and gathered into a dark red stream. It turned out that the Tang army's infantry were equipped with arm-shaped crossbows. At such a close distance, although the Tubo knights were wearing heavy armor, they could not stop the powerful fire from the Tang army's arm-shaped crossbows. arrows.
The infantry of the Tang army had lethal weapons, but they did not use them during the battle. They actually wanted to completely attract the Tibetan cavalry, and held on until the Tibetan archers pressed on them. Then they took out their crossbows and started shooting the Tibetan knights. The purpose from the beginning was not to protect oneself, but to completely annihilate the enemy.
It should be noted that the Tang army was all lightly armed, but they dared to lure the heavily armed Tibetan cavalry into a close fight with them. How brave was this!
At this moment, Jiang Shuo realized why the Tang army all wore light armor. Their tactics were never to stay on the defensive, but to expose their opponents' weaknesses and defeat them with a single blow.
Jiang Shuo and Dugu Xiang have been in the world for a long time. Although they are young, they think they have seen a lot of life and death. Instead of being afraid of the battle between the two armies, they are a little excited.
At this moment, they saw the true cruelty of war. Such a small contact battle claimed the lives of hundreds of people in an instant, which shocked the two of them. Sure enough, in terms of war, a person's martial arts level is really insignificant. The leader's strategy and command are the most important.
Zhang Shouyu was very excited after winning a big victory. When he saw Jiang Shuo and Dugu Xiang approaching, he came up to them and said with a smile: "Brother Su, did we fight well in this battle?"
Jiang Shuo nodded and said: "Fighting and martial arts competition are indeed very different. The Zhenwu Army fought beautifully in this battle!"
But he heard a loud "hum" from someone, and Zhang Shouyu hurriedly said: "Little brother Sui, you are mistaken. This battle is not only composed of the Zhenwu Army, but also the cavalry of the Lintao Army, and our infantry is Chishui. , Lintao, Zhenwu, and Heyuan armies! The one commanding the battle today is General Li Guangbi, envoy of the Chishui Army."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to compare with one person. The man was not much older than forty years old. He was similar to other sergeants. He was wearing a coarse soldier's uniform. The only difference was that he had a red forehead bandage tied on his head and applied to his face. Look, Li Guangbi was born with a broad face, thin eyebrows and long eyes, and a short beard on his lips. He seemed to have the demeanor of a famous general.
Jiang Shuo recognized that the person who just made a "hum" sound was Li Guangbi, the military envoy of Li. He thought that only the Zhenwu Army had made great achievements, which made Li Guangbi, who commanded the Chishui Army, very unhappy.
He did not know that Li Guangbi's Chishui Army was under the jurisdiction of the Hexi Jiedushi, and Guo Ziyi's Longyou Jiedushi was currently under the command of Wang Zhongsigong, both in Hexi and Longyou. The two armies would fight together. Not surprising.
The Chishui and Zhenwu armies both belonged to Wang Zhongsi, but Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi were in the same situation and could no longer sit on the same couch.
Therefore, Li Guangbi was so displeased when he heard that Jiang Shuo only mentioned Zhenwu Army. Jiang Shuo hurriedly crossed his hands to Li Guangbi and said, "Jiang Shuo is ignorant, please forgive Li Jun."
Li Guangbi stood there and did not return the greeting. He only said coldly: "Those who don't know are not guilty..."
Jiang Shuo suddenly pulled out the seven-star sword with a "swipe" sound. Li Guangbi was shocked and said: "What are you going to do?"
Zhang Shouyu also said, "Brother Su, don't make mistakes!" He opened his arms and stood in front of Jiang Shuo.
Jiang Shuo paid no attention to anyone. With a flick of his wrist, the long sword flew out from his hand and flew past Zhang Shouyu. The Seven-Star Sword, also known as Meteor, flew in the air. The copper nails on the sword's spine not only shone brightly, but also strung together. It turned into a streak of yellow golden light, like a meteor streaking across the sky, and even made a "wuwu" sword sound.
The seven-star sword flew over Li Guangbi's right shoulder, spun behind his head, and then flew over Li Guangbi's left shoulder. The long sword spun back into Jiang Shuo's hand.
Jiang Shuo used the flying sword technique in "Xihe Sword Artifact Dance". Although it is profound and complicated, it is extremely fast in throwing and picking up moves! "
The seven-star sword rotated around Li Guangbi's head and returned to Jiang Shuo's hand. Li Guangbi sneered and said, "What kind of tricks did you use? It's not that easy to fool our envoy..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a muffled sound. Li Guangbi turned around and saw a Tibetan warrior lying straight behind him. There was a blood mark on the man's neck and he was still holding a steel knife in his hand. Only then did he realize that this was a Tubo warrior. He had previously faked his death and wanted to sneak attack the Tang army command, but was stabbed to death by Jiang Shuo's flying sword.
Li Guangbi lowered his head to look at the Tibetan warrior. His whole body was covered in heavy armor. It was difficult to kill him with one strike if stabbed in any part. Only the neck showed a flaw. However, Jiang Shuo's sword flew out between the two of them, but it was so accurate. Cutting his throat, this skill can be called a miraculous skill.
Li Guangbi turned around and bowed to Jiang Shuo with folded hands: "Thank you very much, little friend, Feijian for saving me, but it was Guangbi and Meng Lang. I hope you can forgive me."
Jiang Shuo hurriedly returned the greeting and said: "Whatever envoy Li said, the envoy carefully mapped out his words and wiped out all the Tibetan archers and cavalry in a matter of seconds. Jiang Shuo admired him very much."
Li Guangbi won this battle extremely well and was very proud of himself. Hearing Jiang Shuo's praise, he couldn't help laughing and said to Jiang Shuo: "Little friend Jiang, the Tubo people won't come again for a while. Follow me back to Linfan City and drink some wine." How about Yan Huan?"
Jiang Shuo was very willing to make friends with an expert like Li Guangbi, but he suddenly remembered that Ye Qingyao, Quan Xingjian and others were still missing. At the moment when Tang and Tibet were fighting, it would be extremely risky for a group of Han people to go deep into Tibet. It would be extremely risky to find them first. That's the top priority right now.
Thinking of this, Jiang Shuo crossed his hands to Li Guangbi and said: "Envoy Li, I really want to be close to the general and my two eldest brothers Zhang and Gao. However, we have friends who have gone deep into Tubo territory. Now I am eager to find them. I can't have any more friends." Please forgive me for the delay."
Li Guangbi asked curiously: "Oh? This is happening. At this time, what are they doing in Tubo territory?"
Jiang Shuo told the truth: "I have a friend who was seriously injured and the doctor couldn't treat her, so she was sent to the snow on the edge of the Dafei River to delay the onset of her injury with a thousand-year glacier. One of us is going to the Dafei River." Feichuan is looking for someone, and the two of them are going to Xihai to find medicine for her."
Li Guangbi became more and more curious and said: "Is there such a way to heal injuries? It's really unbelievable..." He turned to Zhang Shouyu and asked: "In the past few days we have been stationed here, have you seen anyone injured..."
Jiang Shuo said: "It's a woman...she should be three to five days earlier than me."
Li Guangbi said: "Well, the injured woman...do you have any clues?"
Zhang Shouyu crossed his hands and said, "No."
Dugu Xiang said: "The injured person was probably hidden in the carriage and covered up in the name of business trip."
This time Zhang Shouyu thought about it carefully and said, "It seems that there is such a group of people..."
Some people died, but not completely...
