Taking advantage of the narrow pass in front of the Rongbao, Duan Xiushi placed the soldiers of the Tang army at the front, the Mo Dao team also served as crossbowmen and were stationed at the rear, and the Tiaodang team protected the two wings. As for the archers, they climbed up the city wall and struck from a high position.
Looking at the Tibetan soldiers on the hillside, they were crowded and fighting like a forest. Duan Xiushi looked at the Yumen Army envoy Chang Huiwu next to him and asked with a smile: "Have envoy Chang ever seen such a battle?"
Chang Huiwu, the envoy of the Yumen Army, was the general who defeated the Tibetan general Mang Suzhen with Guo Ziyi in Dunhuang.
He is eight feet tall, has a face as heavy as a jujube, and has a majestic appearance. He is often praised by his subordinates as being somewhat similar to Wu Sheng Guan Yunchang.
Chang Huiwu was so happy that he grew a long beard, gave up his usual horse-steed sword, and used the Yanyue Sword instead. This incident became a joke among the Tang army.
At this time, after hearing Duan Xiushi's words, Chang Huiwu looked arrogant and snorted: "I think back then, the Tibetan soldiers outside Dunhuang City covered the sky and the sun. With the Yanyue Sword in my hand, I killed several people in the enemy's formation, just like...
Kill chickens and dogs..."
Hearing Chang Hui Wu start bragging about his past achievements as usual, Duan Xiushi didn't feel bored at all, but nodded and laughed.
The surrounding Tang soldiers heard the two military envoys chatting and laughing, and the initial tension caused by eight thousand versus one hundred thousand slowly subsided.
Seeing that the Tibetan soldiers were about to enter the range of bows and arrows, Duan Xiushi said to his subordinates: "When the Tibetan people meet, they will bow to the ground with both hands and make the sound of barking dogs. They are really like dog soldiers. As the powerful soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, how can we be afraid?
brute?"
When everyone in the Tang army heard this, some laughed, and some shouted loudly: "Kill the dog breeds!"
All of a sudden, everyone in the Tang army shouted: "Kill the dog breeds!"
Chang Huiwu glanced at Duan Xiushi, who was similar to a scholar in both appearance and temperament, shook his head and whispered: "After all, he has read books, and his scolding is extraordinary."
After the Tibetan army entered the shooting range, accompanied by the sound of drums, bows and arrows like a heavy rain fell from the Rongbao wall into the enemy's formation.
The mountain road is inherently narrow and rugged with rocks, making it impossible to charge in formation.
The Tibetan army moved forward slowly, and suffered a lot of casualties under the attack of arrows.
Some Tibetan soldiers wanted to find a hiding place on the mountain road. The supervising team in the rear, while killing the fearful soldiers, shouted loudly: "Don't stop, move forward!"
At the cost of hundreds of lives, the Tibetan army finally reached the pass in front of Rongbao.
The soldiers of the Tang Army, who had been waiting for a long time, all shouted loudly and set up their large shields on the ground, firmly blocking the way.
Some of the Tubo soldiers were so ferocious that they went crazy and rushed up the shield wall, trying to crawl into the Tang army's formation.
The spear in the soldier's hand, seeing the right moment, stabbed the climbing Tibetan soldier through the gap, and then pushed the corpse down the shield wall.
Within a few breaths, the Tibetan soldiers were killed in front of the shield wall and retreated continuously. The original offensive momentum was also blocked.
The Mo Dao team in the rear formation, when the two armies entered the confrontation stage, moved forward towards the shield wall. Under the command of the team leader, they took out the crossbow machine, and began to fire crossbow bolts outward through the gap in the shield wall.
The crossbow machine used by the Mo Dao team is an infantry crossbow, which is powerful and heavy.
A crossbow bolt can often penetrate three layers of leather armor when shot at close range.
Therefore, after the crossbow arrows were fired, there was no enemy standing in front of the Tang army's shield wall.
When the remaining Tibetan soldiers saw this, they became afraid, stopped, and even began to retreat.
Chang Huiwu, the envoy of the Yumen Army who was directing the battle at the pass, saw that the Tibetan army was unsteady. He raised the Yanyue Sword and shouted: "Mo Dao Team, kill!"
There was another chorus of shouts, and the heavily armored Mo Dao team put away their crossbows, lifted up the ten-foot-long Mo Dao, waited for the shield wall to separate, and filed out from it.
Arriving at the front of the formation, Mo Daoshou took a step forward, raised the blade at an angle, exerted force on his waist and horse, and poured all his strength into the handle of the sword, splitting the Huashan Mountain with force and attacking the enemy's head.
Hundreds of huge blades were seen falling from the sky. The bodies of the Tubo soldiers and soldiers who were caught in the light of the blades were all cut off, their flesh and bones broken, and their shapes were horrific.
Suffering this heavy blow, the morale of the Tubo army collapsed and they began to flee backwards.
Chang Huiwu led his troops to chase the enemy 100 meters away and killed the enemy half way up the mountain before returning in formation.
At the center of the Tibetan army at the foot of the mountain, Sang Chiruo looked at the soldiers who had fled, smiled slightly, and said to Yin Tu beside him: "Did you see it? These are the pampered private soldiers of the nobles. In the past, they showed off their power, and once they are against
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty had no choice but to escape."
Yin Tu: "There are thousands of households. Can Shan Wei's army be dispatched now?"
Sang Chiruo shook his head: "Wait a minute...this Tang Jun is a bit weird."
Yin Tu: "Weird?"
Sang Chiruo: "I can't tell you exactly what it is for a while. I always feel that something is wrong."
In the next three days, Sang Chiruo ordered the Tibetan army to be divided into several teams according to the six-winged tribes, and they used wheel warfare to attack the mountain peak Rong Fort day and night.
After three days of attacking, the entire hill was covered with traces of war.
Blood dyed the land bright red, and corpses piled up in every corner.
The Tang army fought from day to night without any rest. While casualties increased, consumables such as arrows also gradually ran out.
Duan Xiu fully understood that the situation was critical, so he asked his soldiers to take out the Crouching Tiger Cannon, charge it and place it in the front line.
On the other hand, Chang Huiwu received Duan Xiushi's order and began to instruct his subordinates to pretend that they were exhausted and gradually retreated.
When the Tibetan army saw this situation, they thought that the Tang army was exhausted and had reached the end of its strength.
Seeing that the Tang army was about to collapse, many generals asked the coach Sang Chiruo to fight, hoping to be the first to attack the Rongbao and gain the first victory.
Therefore, on the morning of the fourth day after the Battle of Shanque Peak broke out, the Tibetan army organized the largest offensive.
Three wings and six troops totaling 9,000 people, including 1,200 armored elites, formed an array and began to attack the Tang Army's Rong Fort.
Looking at the Tubo soldiers like a tide at the foot of the mountain, Duan Xiushi nodded to Chang Huiwu.
The two knew that the time had come.
The soldiers of the Tang Army retreated back from the pass, leaving a large open space, and formed a semicircle formation to surround the rear of the pass.
Nearly ten thousand Tubo soldiers, armed with sparse arrows, rushed into the pass, squeezed into the open space, and fought together with the Tang army's front line.
As more and more Tibetan soldiers entered the pass, the Tang army's front became increasingly crowded.
A Tang Army soldier needs to resist three or even four enemy troops attacking at the same time.
In an instant, the Tang army's formation was on the verge of collapse, and the morale of the Tubo army was high.
At this stall, Duan Xiushi personally climbed up the city wall and beat the war drum.
The drums sounded, and the Tang army carried out hundreds of iron lumps emitting white smoke from the front line.
The Tubo sergeant in the front row looked at these strange objects less than a few meters away from him and was confused for a moment.
The next second, accompanied by a deafening explosion, hundreds of tiger squatting cannons were fired at once.
The hot iron sand, like a steel storm, carried huge kinetic energy, emitted a sharp whistling sound, and shot in all directions.
Almost instantly, before many Tubo soldiers could realize what had happened, countless holes appeared on their bodies, and blood filled the air like mist.
With just one volley, a large number of Tibetan soldiers behind the pass fell, and hundreds of them were killed in an instant.
The remaining soldiers were stunned by the huge explosion and the tragic scene in front of them, and lost the ability to move and think.
Taking advantage of this gap, the front line of the Tang army began to advance, and the gunners hiding behind the large shield also began to reload ammunition.
When the Tang army's front line met the Tubo people again, the second loading of the Crouching Tiger Cannon had just been completed.
The roar sounded again, like thunder coming from the sky.
Another volley.
Hundreds of Tibetans were once again killed by gunfire.
This time, the surviving Tibetan soldiers finally reacted.
Everyone dropped their weapons and ran back desperately, crying and rushing down the hillside.
As the Tubo people fled, they shouted: "The Tang army used magic!"
Chang Huiwu took advantage of this opportunity and led the Tang army's light cavalry to cover up the enemy in the rear.
The nine thousand elite troops of the three wings and six tribes of Tubo were completely defeated. Countless people were killed by the Tang army and fell off the cliff.
As for the Tubo army at the foot of the mountain, everyone was shocked at this sudden change.
Some Tibetan generals and nobles heard the roar and saw the front line collapsing, their faces turned earth-colored, and they almost fell down.
The Tubo coach Sang Chiruo had long lost his previous calmness. His whole face was full of surprise, and he murmured: "What happened?"
This chapter has been completed!