Chapter 553
A group of lamas gathered around the bonfire, and the human skin drums in their hands beat "dong" and "dong". One by one, she stretched out her arms and kicked her legs like a convulsion, and the beautiful Tubo princess's eyes became distant and deep after being poured a bowl of unknown liquid.
Songtsen Gampo had a bare back, and his body was scarred by a knife. Several Tibetans were using golden bowls to smear his blood on the guru's forehead. With the cheers of everyone, the beautiful princess walked to the bonfire. Her eyes were still as deep as the waters of Namtso's lake.
The flames curled her hair, and she walked forward barefoot. Until the foot stepped on the burning wood, there was a burst of green smoke and the smell of burnt flesh. It seemed that in an instant, the flames crawled all over her body. The princess didn't even have time to struggle before she was consumed by raging fire. The princess's oil dripped on the wood, so the flames were even greater.
Billowing black smoke soared upwards and soared into the sky! The descendants of the macaques and the rock witch have reached a dead end, and they must rush down the plateau to fight the cowardly Han Chinese. Otherwise, there will be a day in the future. The despicable Han people will turn the plateau into a desperate area. Songtsen Gampo knows this, those lamas know it or not, no one knows. Perhaps they were more focused on burning everything they saw, such as this beautiful princess.
To sacrifice this thing is to give a gift to the heavens, and the higher the gift, the more difficult it is for the high-ranking representative to beg for the heavens. In order to win the war, Songtsen Gampo was willing to give everything he had, including the beautiful princess.
"O gods in the sky! I give everything to you to be sheltered by you. The offspring of the macaque and the rock witch have been addicted for too long. This is our last chance, and if we fail, we will have no more sacrifices to offer you. Your temple will be deserted, and your teachings will be left untouched.
O gods! Bless your faithful in all battles. Use our swords and blood to reclaim untold wealth and glory. Kill the evil Tang people, and Tubo will win! Tibet will win! ”
Songtsen Gampo dipped his hand in his own blood and smeared it on his forehead, and the countless Tibetan soldiers under the altar all raised their weapons. Amid the huge cheers, a group of Dons were pulled out. As soon as the knife swiped on the neck, blood gushed out. The body, which was still struggling, was pushed into a huge pit.
When the pit was crawling with wriggling bodies, a torch was thrown into it. The flames rose more than a foot high in an instant, and there seemed to be heart-rending wails along with the flames. In an instant, the cheers were louder.
Huge human skin drums were beaten, in the midst of rumbling drums. A white yak was pulled over, and Songtsen Gampo stabbed it with a knife in his hand. More than a dozen gurus in hideous masks stared at the blood flowing from the white yak without blinking. I want to know what kind of pattern this blood can gather into when it is on the ground.
The red and dazzling yaks gradually gathered into a pool of blood on the ground, and the teachers cheered. They cut their own hands and mixed blood into them. Then, he writhed around this little blood-pooled maniac.
"Warriors of Tibet, I will defeat the Tang people. Pick up your weapons and we'll attack! "Songtsen Gampo drew his saber and raised it high to the sky!
The deafening cheers made the earth seem to tremble. Countless galloping iron horses trampled on the tranquility of the plateau, and against the blue sky, the white clouds rushed to Qingtang with murderous energy.
On the beautiful Hehuang grassland, cattle and sheep also have the blue sky on their heads and the earth on their feet. The shepherd was shouting to an unknown tune as he looked at the train rushing by. The cattle and sheep did not have the slightest panic, as if they were looking at the steppe wolves watching from afar.
These days, the train has not been broken, and there are four or five trains entering Qingtang City every day.
The herdsmen couldn't get into Qingtang and didn't know what was going on inside. Anyway, they know it, since the Tang people took over here. As long as they pay a certain amount of cattle and sheep every year, they can live freely.
No one will take away their wives, and no one will care about their property. It is not that one day, the guru in the temple will come and take away their children. Then, when I wanted to see the child, I could only wipe my tears in front of the human drum in the guru's hand.
When there are Tang people, life is beautiful. When the Tibetans were in their time, life was like a nightmare.
Even if these are useless, it is better to graze cattle and sheep well. This year's water and grass are abundant, and it is a good time for cattle and sheep to stick to their fat. I hope that this year I will harvest more lambs, and next year my flock will be bigger. Shepherds, who don't want their herds to grow stronger.
Yellow clouds suddenly rose from the top of the mountain, and a thunderous sound rolled against the ground, and the whole earth seemed to tremble. The shepherd watched all this in astonishment, and then drove his cattle and sheep out of the pasture as quickly as he could.
"It's really here!" Yun Hao raised his binoculars and looked at the Tubo cavalry galloping in the distance.
On the plateau, they can brag that they are eagles. When I got here, I wasn't even a local chicken. It's just that with so many cavalry, it's not easy to annihilate them all. We need to think of a good way!
"Su Dingfang, you are also a famous general of this dynasty. Tell me how to kill all these Tibetans. When the war broke out in the Western Regions, I didn't want to keep a large army behind me, just to maintain the railroad. Yun Hao held on to the city wall, looked at Su Dingfang and said.
"The last will go around their flanks tomorrow, until they are tired of the siege. The cavalry assaulted from the rear, and it was sure that they could wipe out the Tibetan dog thieves in one fell swoop. "Su Dingfang is obviously very confident in the cavalry under his command.
"Your method is good, Master Sheng Yan, can you tell me?"
"Cavalry insertion behind enemy lines, needs to be carried out now. We can't wait for the enemy to attack, but we need to attack before they threaten the railroad. We will concentrate all our firearms and carry out a bombardment of the enemy. When Master Sheng Yan spoke, Su Dingfang's face was cloudy.
In this way, the merits of their cavalry will be wiped out a lot. All along, Su Dingfang wanted to rely on his military exploits to become a marquis. This expedition to the west is a good opportunity for him.
"Sheng Yanshi is right, we can't let the Tibetans threaten the safety of the railway. The task of your cavalry is to after the collapse of the enemy army. Monitor their movements from the flank, so that the Tibetans do not dare to divide their troops. As long as a small group of Tibetans leaves, you will pounce on them like wolves and eat them. As for the Tubo brigade, then leave it to the airship.
So they flee all the way, and we chase and kill all the way. In order to minimize casualties and obtain the greatest results. If you want to make meritorious contributions, there are a lot of heads to be cut off in the Western Regions. Your share is indispensable! Yun Hao patted Su Dingfang's shoulder and said with a smile.
"No! The subordinates are going to prepare! With Yun Hao's promise, Su Dingfang responded to the promise and took his guards down the city wall. An hour later, the cavalry of the brigade galloped out through the gates on both sides. They have been stationed here for several years and are very familiar with the terrain.
It took only half a day for the vanguard of the Tubo people to arrive, and the Tubo people led by them howled excitedly. When he saw the dense Tang army formation next to the railway, his first reaction was not to be afraid, but to be happy, he had long wanted to wear the armor of the Tang people, what a chance.
When one person moved, all the Tubo people began to move, and the Tang people blocked some wooden shelves in front of the military formation, could these things hinder the attack of the Tubo warriors?
There is no organization, only the formation naturally formed during the robbery in Pingyueli, some of the Tubo people who have seen the weapons of the Tang people hesitated and fell behind slightly, those who have never been on the formal battlefield, only participated in the robbery of the young Tubo people, "whoop" and "whoop" screamed and rushed over, they thought that this time as before, with their own force can break this military formation, in Tianzhu they have rushed across countless military formations.
Sheng Yanshi swallowed with difficulty, "These dogs are invulnerable? ”。 In Sheng Yanshi's eyes, this kind of unorganized charge is tantamount to suicide.
"Try it, general, let's try it, I don't believe that there are people in this world who can't be killed with a crossbow." Seeing that the Tibetan horse team crossed the rangefinder arrow, the captain activated the machine of the Eight Bull Crossbow with a single hammer.
These eight-bull crossbows are all products after the improvement of the academy, the volume has been reduced by as much as two times, but the power has not been reduced much, many wood parts have been replaced with steel, and the two crossbow arms are all made of soft steel.
Seeing that he was about to rush to the front of the Tang people's array, the first Tubo who killed felt that his body was flying, and it was flying backwards, and he crossed his companion high, at this time he felt that his chest was very painful, a thick crossbow pierced his body, he saw a heart flying backwards with him, and then he felt the boundless darkness invade him, and finally completely annihilated himself.
"General, you see, the eight-bull crossbow can shoot them, just now only one arrow killed, this time I will shoot arrows at a place with a lot of people, can you kill them? Can an eight-ox crossbow kill a dead person? The lieutenant chattered, and once again activated the Eight Ox Crossbow, and this time, the sound of the Eight Ox Crossbow resounded in the desert like a thunderbolt, and a row of arrow walls composed of siege chisels pushed through the crossbow array.
No matter how strong the Tubo people are, they are still as fragile as a piece of paper under the bombardment of the Eight Ox Crossbows, and every time they shoot, the siege chisel will open a no-man's road in the dense Tubo crowd.
After a round of crossbow arrows was fired, the battlefield was already a mourning, if it was shot to death by the eight-bull crossbow once, those who were cut through the arms and thighs by the thick siege chiseled The wails of the Tubo people resounded throughout the Hehuang grassland.
Death did not frighten these Tibetans, they held the corpses of their companions, and once again rushed forward bravely, such an attack had made countless people fearful, and they imagined that this time would be no exception.
This reminded Yun Hao of those people who shouted "onboard" fanatical charge. The same people are on their backs, the same loyalty, the same desire for victory.
Of course, the result was just as miserable, when the corpses were covered in the open space, the Tubo people's decision was very simple, they rushed into the Nala Pass without thinking, and when they retreated, they decisively killed those wounded companions, and when Yun Hao's cavalry began to charge, there was not a single living person on the ground.
Standing at the head of Qingtang City, looking at the Tubo people who disappeared into view, and then looking at the corpses on the ground, an extremely unreal feeling filled Yun Ye's whole body, so victory?
"Dashuai, the Tubo people left more than 2,450 corpses, and there were 3,000 people who fled, our eight-bull crossbow did not achieve the expected effect, these Tubo people walked too resolutely, without the slightest act of war." Sheng Yanshi reported with his fists in his arms.
"Let the cavalry withdraw, and the airship will reconnoiter within a radius of five hundred miles. Lao Tzu must know that the Tubo people withdrew so happily for Mao. In order to attract them to attack, Lao Tzu did not even use gunpowder. Yun Hao was a little depressed, and the military formation that was quietly arranged only killed more than 2,000 people. Haven't the Tibetans always been resolute? Won't the retreating people be tied to the back of their heads by fox tails and laughed at by everyone?
How has it changed today! Songtsen Gampo, what the hell is this bastard doing.
The moment Songtsen Gampo saw the airship, he could only reluctantly order the Tubo people who were ambushing the position to withdraw. After covering each other and getting closer, they slowly retreated to the Nala Pass.
The airship is a hurdle that he can't get around no matter what, and it's in the sky. Looking down on the earth like an eagle, Songtsen Gampo did not believe that his army of 80,000 could be hidden under the nine lands.
The airship returned, and a cold sweat broke out in Sheng Yanshi's head.
Songtsen Gampo actually arranged 80,000 Tibetan troops on both sides of the Nala Pass at night. If his own cavalry had pursued him regardless of the situation today, he might not be able to come back now.
"I'll just say something is wrong, those who are suicidal are the bait. The sheep herder just herds the sheep well, and it is okay to play any art of war. It makes Lao Tzu scared and worried! After knowing the arrangement of the Tubo people, Yun Hao was relieved.
For the Tang Army, unless it was dark or bad weather. The battlefield is one-way transparent to Yun Hao! Relying on cheating battlefield reconnaissance, Yun Hao is almost invincible.
There are not many people in the Tubo people who really understand, just look at those Tubo soldiers. They didn't pay any attention to the fact that they had lost the battle during the day, and these guys drank barley wine. Eating barley noodles, some lucky ones are still barbecuing their prey on the bonfire.
The song spread throughout the barracks, and one man began to sing. Soon a crowd of people would start singing, and Songtsen Gampo looked at these silly fellows and closed his eyes sadly.