Tens of thousands of horses swept across the land after the summer rain like the wind.

At the beginning of the heavy rain, the road was a little muddy, and the horses' hooves were trampling, splashing a little mud.

It was a pure cavalry army, with two horses, a walking horse and a war horse, advancing at the speed of a rapid march.

Horses that evolved naturally are not the goal of life to run for a hundred or dozens of pounds. Even horses that have been domesticated and bred have very limited physical strength and endurance, so horsepower needs to be cherished and taken care of. The horse's hooves need to be protected, sweating and sweating should be paid attention to, the horse's waist can not be worn and injured, and the horse's legs need to be massaged regularly. At the end of the day, it takes a considerable amount of time just to take care of the horses.

Therefore, in ordinary marches, the horse team does not go faster than the foot team, and the kind of long-distance run that looks cool is usually at the expense of the horse's vitality. In particular, horses that served as knightly mounts on long marches often died after long marches.

Therefore, the knights who did not have horses provided by the national horse administration did not have the ability to run long distances at any cost. However, after capturing Bajin City, the Song army captured thousands of Tibetan horses, so the mobility of the imperial knights suddenly increased greatly, and they could carry out long-distance attacks.

On the afternoon of the day when Ba Jin City was breached by the house slave men, Wang Hou and Tong Guan led 15,000 follow-up troops to arrive. In addition to piles of heads, thousands of captured war horses, walking horses, and three or four thousand frightened Tubo prisoners of war (although the heads of the prisoners of war were not cut off, they could also be exchanged for houses), Yang Keshi also brought Doropa's son Amon - Doropa's eldest son Ah Lingjie was unlucky and let a knight pick it with a horse!

Amon lost his two elder brothers in half a day, and was chased and killed ten times by a group of fierce Han knights, almost cutting off people's heads, and he was already scared to the point of nervous breakdown. After seeing Wang Hou and Tong Guan, he didn't have a temper at all, and immediately knelt down to beg for life, what people asked, he confessed, people didn't expect to ask, he also said 1510, even how many daughters of his father slept with, how many illegitimate children he confessed, and I don't know how he knew?

After figuring out the deployment of Doropa, Wang Hou immediately adjusted the deployment, leaving Wang Yu and Gao Yu as the main force, and taking the heads of Ah Lingjie and Duo Ma Ling to attack Wachui Village in the northwest of Ba Jinling; On the one hand, together with Tong Guan and Yang Keshi, he led 3,000 cavalry (including 1,000 knights and 2,000 horseback auxiliaries) and 2,000 Fanhan light horsemen on Xining Road, one person and two horses, and escorted Amon around Wachui Village to Zhidang City.

At noon the next day, 5,000 cavalry arrived at the city of Zhidang with murderous spirit, and did not attack the city, so Ameng howled and cried under the city, and frightened the Tubo chieftain who defended the city to surrender immediately - it's terrible! In the Huangzhong area, the three young masters of the Doropa family, who are known as good at fighting, let the family slaughter two alive in one morning, and one was tied up into a twisted flower! The 7,000 Tibetan warriors of the Doroba family were also wiped out!

Moreover, such a record was fought when the Song army attacked the city and the Tubo army defended the city......

What's going on with Song Jun now? All of a sudden, the heavenly soldiers are invincible? Where does the leader of the city still have the courage to fight against the heavenly soldiers? Immediately Kaicheng surrendered - anyway, they often do such things as surrendering to save their lives, and they have long been used to it.

While getting the hostages, food, horses, and leading the party from Zhidangcheng, Wang Hou, Tong Guan, and Yang Keshi also got a surprising piece of information. Probably because he didn't feel very relieved about his three sons, Doropa, the great leader of Huangzhong Tubo, was leading his troops to Bajin City.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! If Doropa retracts into Michuan City, it will still be a bit troublesome to solve, and if Doropa's main force can be annihilated in the field, then the entire Huangzhong will be won.

As for the question of whether they can win the war, after seeing how the "house slave warriors" cleaned up Ba Jincheng, Wang Hou and Tong Guan no longer have any doubts.

The dragon warrior is so powerful, the knight in front of the palace will not be bad, right? And Wang Hou and Tong Guan don't have to fight with Doropa, as long as they can stick to the opponent, and wait until those dragon warriors come up, Doroba will be finished.

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An army was marching through the peaks and valleys of the Gongzang Ridge at this time.

Standing in the middle of the line, you can't see the end of the line, and you can't see the end of the line backwards. There are tens of thousands of people.

Doropa, the great leader of the Tibetan Tibetans in Huangzhong, was in this team. Riding a Qinghai dragon stallion, wearing a felt hat decorated with gold flowers, a round-necked robe with purple flowers and narrow sleeves, and a gold belt tied around his waist, although he was a Tubo person, he was completely the costume of a Western Xia nobleman.

Both Doropa and the prince of the Western Domain, Xi Luosa, were hardcore pro-Xia factions and also held official positions conferred by the Western Xia—for Tsongkha Tubo, the Northern Song Dynasty was the imperialist aggressor, and the Western Xia were the internationalist fighters who came to their aid, so it was natural to be pro-Xia.

However, it was relied on by Doropa and Xi Luosa as the backing of Mount Tai is the Great White High Kingdom, but it has declined greatly in recent years. The defeat of Hengshan a few years ago had completely changed the state of the Song-Xia balance of power, and the Xiping Mansion (Lingzhou) and the Wuding River valley on the eastern line of Western Xia had lost the barriers of Hengshan and Tiandu Mountain, and they had to deploy heavy troops there. Therefore, the Western Xia could no longer afford to invest too much strength in the Hehuang battlefield on the Western Front.

However, the Great White High Kingdom still will not watch the fall of Tsongkha Tubo! King Chage of Jin led 3,000 Iron Harrier cavalry to Zhuoluo City, which is proof that the Great White High Kingdom will make a difference.

Now the question is just when will the Great White High Kingdom move...... It seems that they are going to wait for the warriors of Tsongkha and Tubo to fight with the Song army before they strike a fatal blow to the Song army, right?

Okay, let His Royal Highness the King of Jin of the Great White High Kingdom take a look at the skills of my Tubo boy!

This time, Doropa personally led the army south, because he had the intention of behaving well in front of the Western Xia kingdom. Therefore, after finding out that the Song army was divided into two routes, one way to Jingyu Pass, and one to Anxiang Pass, Doroba immediately made the decision to concentrate superior forces and fight all the way first.

And it is understandable to target the attack on the road of Anxiangguan. His three own sons are now overseers in the city of Bajin. Of course, he had to fight the hateful Song army with his sons.

Of course, he also knew that the Song army was very powerful, and it was impossible to annihilate the Song army all the way with his own men. But he didn't need to fight a battle of annihilation, as long as he could repel the invading enemy in Bajin City, the Western Xia army in Zhuoluo City might attack.

"Bajin City......" Dorobah whispered to the place where he had deployed his heavy troops. The terrain of Bajin City is dangerous, and there are 7,000 warriors to defend it, so it is impossible for the Song army to break through in a hurry. Now most of the Song army is still under the city, and it is also possible to divide the troops and plunder, to attack the city of Zhidang and Wachui Village.

Those two walled cities were not as strong as Bajin City, and the defenders were not strong, but they were likely to be broken by the Song army.

However, as long as Ba Jin City was not broken, it would be impossible for the Song army to go north. Moreover, they also had to divide their troops to guard the city of Zhidang and Wachui Village, and those who could go north to Longzhu Heicheng (35 miles north of Gongzangling) were an army of about 10,000 people.

I brought 20,000 Tibetan warriors this time, and I should be able to fight! Even if you can't win, it won't be a problem to retreat to Gongzangling and Longzhu Heicheng. Followed by Doropa, there were not only the elites of Michuan City, but also the 5,000 elite soldiers sent by Xicheng Luosa from Zongge City and Lijing City.

The army turned a bend in the mountain path, but the mountains that appeared in front of them were still cascading mountains. Seeing that the mountain road was winding, and I didn't know where the end was, Qiao Azhu from Lijing City was a little impetuous, "Doropa, how far is it from Zhidang City?" ”

The Lijing Qiao family was a very powerful Tsongkha Tubo wealthy clan in the Tusluo era, and was once the pillar of the Tsongkha Tubo regime - Tsangla was actually a very weak Zampu, he did not become Zampu because he had strength, but because he was born in the Yalong Juea royal line, one of the four major royal families after the division of the Tubo Empire, and was supported as Zampu by the Hao clan of Tsongkha Tubo (also known as Zongge Tubo), which was divided and leaderless at that time.

In order to grasp the real power, he could only maintain a balance between Li Lizun in Zongge City and Wen Qiqi in Miaochuan City, while co-opting and supporting the less powerful wealthy families. And the Qiao clan of Lijing City is the most important strength to rely on. The third wife of Na Luo is from the Qiao family, and Dong Yu, who inherited the throne of Na Luo, is also from the Qiao family. And the third-generation lord of Tsongkha Tubo, Ali Gu, was also supported by Qiao.

And today, although the Lijing Qiao clan is not as strong as it used to be, it is still the pillar of the Xiluo regime. This time, he was ordered by Brook Rosa to lead an army of 5,000 to reinforce Doropa.

"Far away," said Dorobah, turning to Joa, who was half a horse behind him, "there are still more than a hundred miles, and we will be there in two days." ”

"It's going to take two more days!" Qiao Azhu is only twenty-one years old this year, and he has not participated in the fierce battle with the Song army, and he doesn't know how powerful it is, so he said with some expectation, "I heard that the most useless Kaifeng forbidden army in the Song Kingdom was sent to Lanzhou, and I don't know if it will be encountered?" ”

"I can't meet it," Doroba said, "The officials of the Song Dynasty are confused, Wang Hou and Gao Yongnian, who brought troops to fight us, are not stupid, how could they use the Kaifeng army to charge into battle?" They must have been left in Lanzhou, and what we have to deal with is still the old opponent of Xining Road. ”

As he was talking, he saw a horse galloping towards him, and in a blink of an eye, he came to Doroba and Qiao Abury, and on horseback was a hard agent sent out by Doropa, and he reported to Doroba in a panic: "Great chief, the cavalry of the Song people has been found south of Gongzangling!" ”

"What?" Doroba was stunned, "It's coming too fast, isn't it?" ”