Chapter Ninety-Seven: Under Tang Cavalry, there is no enemy

Kang Yan lives outside the city, and it is rare to encounter a sunny day. The Tibetan people were grazing sheep while lazily basking in the sun.

Early in the morning, Songtsen Ganbei climbed the hill and looked at the Tang army camp in the northwest.

Songtsen Gampo frowned, looked at Ru Daren beside him and said, "Hasn't Chen Ying moved yet?" ”

Ru Daren sighed and said, "Chen Ying'er is a fox, and if there is a little wind and grass, it will retract into their hole!" ”

Although Ru Daren looked down on Chen Ying's "cowardly" behavior, it is undeniable that the camp where Chen Ying took root is a hard bone and not easy to gnaw.

The war camp is not a city, but it does not mean that Chen Ying's war camp is easy to attack.

Originally, the stump with the thickness of the bowl mouth was buried in the earth to a depth of three feet, and such a camp wall was not difficult to deal with. However, along the edge of the lowland, the Tang army camp erected a wooden wall, which was poked out with sharpened spears to form a hedgehog shape, and outside the wooden wall, there were antlers.

Inside the wooden wall, there is also an earthen wall! This is an earthen wall rammed with sand and gravel, and the boiled sand is mixed with gravel to build up, which is the unique wall-building technology of the Han people, and was later introduced to Bohai, Goguryeo and other places, in history. Both the Khitan and the Jin kingdoms used this technology to build a great wall to defend against Mobei.

The officers and soldiers of the Tang Army in Anxi have long been without a single branch of the army, any branch of the army, more than three kinds of equipment, Tang crossbows, horizontal knives are indispensable, even if it is the head of the army, they also carry a Tang crossbow with a pot of arrows, and a horizontal knife.

Although Chen Yingchu hurriedly attacked, the arrows he brought were limited, more than 10,000 men and horses, and no more than 200,000 crossbow arrows at most, an average of 20 per person, but he carried a lot of oil refining bombs.

Ru Daren once tentatively launched an attack on Chen Ying's camp, and a vanguard of 3,000 men went up, killing more than 1,000 people in just a quarter of an hour. If it weren't for the quick withdrawal, I'm afraid that the 3,000 men and horses would all be folded there.

Ru Daren would rather use his head to Gongkang Yanju City than attack Chen Ying's camp. After all, in Chen Ying's camp, the neighing of war horses resounded in the sky, obviously the same war horses did not know how many, once Chen Ying was like Liu Tong, he connected the war horses to iron locks and formed a chain of horses to attack the Tubo army, Ru Daren may not even have a place to cry.

Songtsen Gampo looked at the lifeless Kang Yan Ju City, and said coldly: "Chen Ying does not come out of the turtle shell, which proves that we have not put enough pressure on Kang Yan Ju City, and order the Red Silk Army to break the city!" ”

The Red Tassel Army is the proud work of Songtsan Gampo, and the Tubo people have always been unrestrained, and the battlefield discipline is even more of a mess. Victory is a swarm, defeat is a collapse.

In order to strictly enforce the discipline of the Tibetan army, Songtsen Gampo deliberately let people gather the flaming fox tail, and when they encountered the soldiers who retreated without a leader, they hung this fiery fox tail, but unfortunately when this policy was just implemented, there were too many Tibetan routs, even the gray and black foxes in the snow field, they could not get so many fox tails.

Later, Songtsen Gampo asked people to tie the red chicken feathers with cowhide ropes and tie them behind the heads of the retreating rout. Such an army became the Red Tassel Army, and its treatment was halved, and it was despised by the people.

Songtsen Gampo called on the Tibetan soldiers to be ashamed of the snow, and over time, the Tibetan people regarded the red tassel as a lifelong shame, and only with the blood and head of the enemy could they take off the red tassel.

In fact, the so-called Red Silk Army is similar to the jumping soldiers in the Tang Army, and the jumping soldiers of the Tang Army are mainly low-status people such as prisoners and businessmen and sons-in-law.

It can be said that this is a dead soldier army.

Along with it, Songtsen Gampo's order was issued. The soldiers of the Red Silk Army of the Tibetan army began to discharge the attacking troops and slowly advanced towards the city of Kangyanju.

The soldiers of the Red Silk Army in Tibet advanced faster and faster, as if they were pouring into the city of Kangyanju like a tsunami.

"Your Majesty, what now?" Someone was yelling at Subhinajan.

Subhinajan looked back and saw that it was Tangmuji. This is a famous warrior in the Subi tribe, more than nine feet tall, and at this time he has killed people in blood, and horses in blood. But even such a fierce general, when he saw the soldiers of the Tubo Red Silk Army rushing over, there was still a trace of despair on his face.

Subinazhen smiled bitterly, "What else can I do? Let's fight to the death! ”

Dankiji opened his mouth, but the words came to his lips but did not speak.

Subinazhen's smile was even more bitter, and she said slowly: "Don't think about surrendering, the Tang people treat us well, we can't be so wolf-hearted...... Besides, do you think the Tibetans will let us go? No, they're going to kill us! ”

"Boom! ……”

A loud explosion interrupted Subinazhen's words, and she fled to see an orange fireball rising from the middle of the Tubo Red Silk Army, and dozens of horsemen and horses were covered in blood, screaming and falling. In a short time, the dozens of riders turned into fire knights, screaming and struggling, begging for mercy......

I saw the appearance on the city wall, holding an axe to cut a stick and cable, and the projectile arm of the trebuchet threw a wooden barrel weighing more than 50 catties more than 200 steps away, shrouding dozens of soldiers of the Tubo Red Silk Army in a sea of fire.

The trebuchet is equipped with incendiary bombs and is extremely powerful.

The soldiers of the Tubo Red Silk Army, who were intensively impacted, were burned into flames in the sound of explosions one after another.

Songtsen Gampo's face changed greatly, and he roared indignantly: "Damn Tang dog, you can only bully people with firearms!" ”

Regardless of the black cat or the white cat, anyway, the soldiers of the Beiwei army used these incendiary bombs to delay the attack of the Tibetans.

Xun Xiang looked at the charred Tubo soldiers, licked his lips excitedly, and said: "This thing is really easy to use, but it's a pity that it's a little less, only three or four pieces per person, and it will be thrown away in a few clicks...... Bring more if you know earlier! ”

Liu Tong said with a smile: "Who would have thought that the Tubo people would actually use the idea of encircling the point to send reinforcements, if you knew...... I don't have this thing with me, with a thunderbolt! ”

The black powder had already been made in the seventh year of Wude, and Chen Ying had already made it. Except for the time of the Xuanwu Gate Change, Chen Ying used one, which was not safe black powder, and it was not really put into the battlefield.

As a person of later generations, Chen Ying knows very well. The power of black powder was too weak, even in the Ming Dynasty, arquebuses were already equipped on a large scale, in fact, muskets did not have an advantage over bows and crossbows.

Before Chen Ying's God of War was unsuccessful, Chen Ying did not intend to unleash Pandora's devil.

Subinazhen was shocked, woke up from the ecstasy, and said secretly in her heart: "Yes, although the lethality is huge, but after all, the number is limited, if you throw it out, the enemy army will come from all directions, squeezing them flat!" Thinking of this, she pointed at the Tibetan troops with her saber and shouted: "Kaicheng, rush me!" ”

Subina Zhen shoved the youngest son behind him into Xun Xiang's arms, raised his Mo knife, and let out a terrifying roar from his chest: "Snow shame, snow shame!" ”

Saying that, like the god of war, she took the lead, rushed towards the Tubo array, raised her Mo knife and swept it away, raised her knife in the vigorous explosion, and rushed her horse, and the Tubo who was blown up was shocked to watch these crazy guys leaping out of the smoke, and in the next second, their heads were out of their necks and flew out in a whirl......

Subi Nazhen led the remnants of the Subi tribe to charge like a bamboo, and the Tibetan army was powerless to fight back.

Songtsen Gampo angrily threw his horsewhip on the ground, knowing that his attempt to besiege the city of Kangjuyan had been defeated.

At the same time that Songtsen Gampo angrily ordered the withdrawal of the army, Chen Ying led the anti-Songtsen Gampo coalition army he hastily organized, with more than 30,000 men and horses, to slaughter Songbang Fort.

In fact, the anti-Songtsen Gampo alliance formed by Chen Ying had more than 60,000 men at its peak, but it didn't stop along the way, and as a result, half of them were lost.

Chen Ying looked at these tired rabble, and smiled bitterly.

Seeing that Songbang Fort was in sight, the tribal leaders of the anti-Songtsen Gampo alliance who followed Chen Ying suddenly became uneasy.

The head of the Amdo department, Andonaji, looked at Chen Ying timidly and said, "General Chen, are we waiting for the people behind?" ”

"Wait? Why wait for the credit to be robbed? We crossed the snow-capped mountains and traveled thousands of miles to share the credit with others? Chen Ying shouted, "Do you really want the treasures of Songtsen Gampo and their women to share with others? ”

Chen Ying shouted, and the dozens of Tubo tribe leaders around him heard his voice clearly.

Andonagi's eyes showed a wolf-like glow, and he said loudly: "Of course...... No! ”

Chen Ying pointed to Songbang Fort in the distance and laughed: "The wealth accumulated in Tibet over the past decades, gold and silver treasures are piled up, are you willing to share them with others?" ”

Originally, these soldiers of the anti-Songtsen Gampo coalition army were still a little tired, but at this moment, they felt that it would be a shame if they did not build an inch after galloping thousands of miles.

Andronaji asked suspiciously, "Did the general really attack the city with cavalry?" ”

"Why can't you resist under Tang Qi?" Chen Ying raised the horizontal knife in his hand and shouted: "Under the iron hooves of this general, it doesn't matter if it's a city or a camp, I'll step on it!" ”

"Flatten them!"

As he spoke, the Hook and Sickle Cavalry soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry shouted in unison and rushed towards Songbang Fort.

Chen Ying naturally wouldn't be really stupid enough to lead the cavalry to attack the city, but he was cheating at this time.

As early as when Chen Ying led the anti-Songtsen Gampo coalition army to set off, the Tubo fine work in the middle of the Tiger Yi had already mixed into Songbang Fort, and along with the six barrels of more than 300 catties of black powder mixed into Songbang Fort.

It is certainly not enough for these black powders to blow up the stone city of Songbang Fort, but it is still possible to blow up the wooden gate covered with iron sheets.

Chen Yingce took the lead and shouted at the cavalry soldiers beside him: "Let the Tubo people see the majesty of our Han cavalry!" ”

Thousands of horsemen and hooked lancers lined up in a neat cavalry formation, and the horses' hooves raised their legs neatly and fell neatly, which gave a great shock to the soldiers of the Tibetan defenders on the city wall.

The ground shook, but even more shook the heartstrings of the Tibetan people

Thousands of cavalry dare to attack, then there must be reinforcements behind, and this must be the vanguard

Yes, it must be so.

Sure enough, after the hook and sickle lancers of the Anxi Army, as many as more than 10,000 anti-Songtsen Gampo cavalry, they slaughtered Songbang Fort.

The impact of the hook sickle is getting closer and closer.

1,000 steps, 800 steps, 500 steps......

At this time, the soldiers of the Tubo garrison in Songbang Fort did not notice at all: "Sneering ......" sound, if you have played with black powder, you must be very familiar with it, this is the sound that leads the ignition.

Chen Ying slowly raised his hand and shouted towards Songbang Fort City: "Haotian is above, borrow my divine power, Taishang Laojun is as anxious as the law...... Blow up to General Ben! ”

At this time, a loud bang sounded in the direction of the gate of Songbang Fort City.

"Boom!" A huge orange-red fireball rose into the air, and the towering city gatehouse, which was three feet high, was suddenly shrouded in gunsmoke.

In the face of the sudden change, the soldiers of the Tibetan defenders were either stunned, dumbfounded, or dumbfounded. Although the Tubo people were stunned, Chen Ying was not stunned, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the ruins of the gate tower of Songbang Fort and shouted: "Soldiers, rush with this general!" ”