Chapter 503 Snowland Soldiers

The focus of the Tang army's attack on Dabolu was not to take over Dabolu's capital, but to wipe out the 5,000 Tubo troops of Dabolu, and to occupy two bridges across the Shiquan River.

The deep ravine on the Shiquan River divides the Dabolu Kingdom into two. Dabolu has two cities. In addition to the capital of Baleti in Hexi, there is also a small city called Langdo to the east. Tens of thousands of people in the country are distributed on both sides of the Shiquan River, which is completely connected by two bridges.

The two bridges are about twenty miles apart and are called North Bridge and South Bridge by the locals. Both bridges are guarded by the Tubo army. The bridge to the north is wider and is an iron cable bridge. It can pass through large baggage and is the main road for the Dabolu people. The south bridge is a vine bridge. Since the North Bridge was conquered by the Tubo people as a military bridge, the locals can only detour the South Bridge.

The road to Nanqiao also requires passing through the Tubo castle, but it has another small road connected. Compared with the heavy troops guarding the North Bridge, the Tubo army in Nanqiao is much smaller, with only one hundred people, fifty people east of the bridge and fifty people west of the bridge, mainly to collect the bridge fee.

At the third o'clock in the night, the South Bridge suddenly became lively. The King of Dabolu Tingsu led the Sanqian Bolu army to appear next to the South Bridge. The reason for their crossing was very simple. He wanted to go to the east bank of the river to inspect his subjects. Although it was a bit strange for the three thousand troops to walk on the South Bridge, Tingsu was the leader of a country after all. Except for the lord Luncha Dezan above him, other Tubo soldiers did not dare to make things difficult for him. The Sanqian Bolu army walked across the South Bridge in a mighty manner and headed towards the hinterland of the east bank.

In the darkness, although the Bolu army's appearance could not be seen clearly, several Tubo soldiers still discovered the strangeness of this army. The Bolu army was equipped with a short sword, which was a weapon eliminated by the Tubo army. However, this Bolu army wore a long sword, which was quite similar to the horizontal sword of the Tang army. Everyone was wrapped in robes. Although the weather was cold, it always made people feel that there was something hidden under the robes, and their war horses seemed to be particularly majestic.

Despite the doubts, they still did not attract enough attention from these Tubo soldiers. It is no wonder that the Tang army had never set foot on the land of Dabolu. Not to mention the Tang army, no Han army had ever set foot on the land of Dabolu, so they never thought that the Tang army would arrive.

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Shortly after Tingsu led the Sanqian Bolu army across the east coast, another Tubo army of more than a thousand people came to the west coast of Nanqiao. There were many strange things tonight. The Tubo centurion stationed on the west coast of Nanqiao immediately met and asked, "Why don't you walk on the north bridge?"

In the night, someone replied in Tubo: "The North Bridge has two iron cables broken and are under emergency repair. They cannot pass. We can only walk on the South Bridge."

There was no flaw in the answer. The centurion thought it was the army crossing the bridge some time ago that caused the North Bridge to be damaged, so he turned around and waved, "Let it go!"

The dozen Tubo soldiers guarding the bridge immediately dodged away, and the army drove towards the vine bridge. As the soldiers got closer, a general with a big sword rode his horse past the centurion. At this moment, the centurion suddenly realized that the army was wrong. They were not Tubo people. He was shocked and was about to shout, but a cold light flashed by. He was cut off his head by the general riding a horse. The army rushed forward and surrounded the fifty soldiers guarding the bridge. Amid the screams, all of them were killed. At this time, a faint scream came from the other side, and one hundred Tubo soldiers on both sides were instantly dealt with.

At this time, the beacon towers on both sides of the South Bridge were lit. This was a signal of help, and the night sky was particularly bright and dazzling.

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The art of war says: "Know yourself and your enemy, and you will win every battle."

This sentence is true for the Tang and Turkish armies. The number of troops, deployment of the Tubo army, the advantages of the terrain they occupied, the reinforcements of the Tubo army, etc., and the Tang army is well aware of all the situations of the Tubo army.

On the contrary, the Tubo army knew nothing about the Tang army. The view that the Han army had never been involved in Dabolu' was deeply rooted in their minds. No one would believe that the Tang army was by their side at this time. The serious asymmetry of intelligence made the situation at this time like a normal person fighting a blind man and a deaf man.

The balance of victory has begun to tilt towards the Tang army. If intelligence is compared to the time, then the attitude of the Dabolu Kingdom is to be harmonious and there is no doubt that Dabolu's help to the Tang army was the key to this battle. It was the Dabolu people's turn against each other, which caused the Tubo's geographical advantage to be eroded little by little. The Tang army had occupied the Nanqiao and ignited the beacon for help.

This time, the one who came to rescue Nanqiao was a thousand Tubo troops on the east coast. They were only twenty miles away from Nanqiao. King Tingsu of Dabolu personally ran to the Tubo camp on the east coast for help. Hundreds of Dabolu people in the three villages rebelled because they were dissatisfied with the heavy tax burden. They attacked the Tubo troops in Nanqiao, and Tingsu begged the Tubo troops to go for rescue.

The Tang army used the intrigues of war and the desire of human nature to the extreme again and again. The Tubo army on the east coast never suspected that the king of Dabolu Tingsu had become a spy, nor did they know that their ten thousand men had led their troops to pursue the Tang army's patrol.

In their opinion, suppressing the uprising of the Dabolu people was a pleasant thing, especially after killing all the men, the remaining women would naturally become their trophy. The boring life of the garrison soldiers required this bloody game. The desire for women blinded the last trace of reason of the Tubo people. A thousand Tubo troops rushed to the south bridge impatiently, and within an hour they arrived at the south bridge. The rebellious village was on the west bank. The fifty Tubo soldiers stationed in the east of the bridge were gone. The night fog filled the canyon and could not see anything. Only the noise and noise on the other side were heard, mixed with the screams of young women, and many women were shouting: "Please, let me go," as if begging for something, and the pleading sound drifted with the wind.

"It's my soldier!"

Tingsu shouted loudly: "It must be my soldiers who surrounded them. I promise you that as long as you kill the rebels, all women can be given to you as slaves, even my concubines."

King Dabolu made a promise like a poisonous snake to seduce the young and strong and over-energy Tubo soldiers. The blood of the young Tubo soldiers began to boil. They rushed to the vine bridge desperately and rushed to the other side. At this time, Tingsu, who had made a wonderful promise, disappeared silently.

The vine bridge was about 200 steps long. When the Tubo soldiers who were the most vanguard were still fifty steps away from the west bank, more than 700 Tubo troops had already rushed to the vine bridge. The vine bridge began to shake. This was normal. Tubo soldiers were also used to this kind of shaking, but soon, the shaking and tilting of the vine bridge exceeded the normal range. The Tubo army vanguard began to shout, his voice extremely terrifying and desperate.

They had seen dozens of people in front of them cutting the vine bridge with a knife. Only a loud breaking sound was heard. The vine bridge was cut off one side, and the vine bridge suddenly overturned. Hundreds of Tubo troops on the bridge screamed and fell down the valley. One hundred people grabbed the vine bridge and shouted in fear. At this time, nearly three hundred Tubo troops had not yet been uploaded on the east bank. In the night, arrows came like rain, and dense rain of arrows blocked all the escapes of Tubo.

On the way, many Tubo troops fled for a few steps and then screamed and fell down. In just a quarter of an hour, all the Tubo troops on the shore were shot to death. The Tubo soldiers who were lucky enough to exist on the vine bridge were also shot down the bridge by a rain of arrows and fell into the deep valley where the rivers rush. From the beginning to the end, the thousand Tubo troops were wiped out until the end, and they didn't know that they were dead at the hands of the Tang army. Soon, the Tubo camp on the east bank suddenly burst into flames, and the shouts of killing shocked the earth.

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The castle on the west bank of the canyon is the last defensive fortress of the Dabolu Tubo Army. The castle is built on a stone platform more than ten meters high. The castle is hundreds of feet long and three meters high. It is made of solid huge stones. This is a fort built by the Tubo Army in the sixth year of Tianbao. The castle is not big and can only accommodate more than 500 soldiers at most. It is full of food, which is enough for the Tubo people to support for a year.

All night, the Tubo soldiers in the castle were worried and spent their sleepless night. They saw the firelight on the east side of the canyon and heard the shouts of the military camp not far away. I don’t know how many Tang troops came. It was not until dawn that the shouts of killing gradually calmed down, and the firelight on the east bank disappeared.

The sky gradually became brighter, and the snowy peaks on the plateau were immersed in the golden light of the morning glow. The snow-capped peaks kept changing with a magnificent luster, and the morning on the plateau was as beautiful as usual.

But the Tubo army in the castle could not appreciate the beautiful scenery in the morning glow, and their hearts fell into the abyss. The castle was surrounded by dense Tang army and Dabolu army, with tens of thousands of people. The Tubo soldiers woke up as if they were dreaming. They paniced and sounded the trumpet. Hundreds of Tubo army climbed to the top of the city and looked down at the dark Tang army.

The only thing that made them feel relieved was that they had a solid city, with enough food and water they had for a year. Their castle did not even have a gate, and they rely on soft ladders to enter and exit. The sturdy castle was even a bit like the stone castle city of that year. Didn’t the stone castle city block the attack of tens of thousands of Tang soldiers with less than a thousand soldiers?

But soon some soldiers were surprised to find that at some point a few large black bricks and stones were built at the base of the castle wall and embedded them tightly into the base of the stone castle wall. This should have been done quietly by the Tang army last night. They did not attack on a large scale, and their actions in the darkness were difficult to detect. The Tubo soldiers were talking about it, not knowing what these black bricks and stones were. Some people brought stones to them, but they could not hit them at all.

At this time, the Tang army commander An Baozhen rode a horse and slowly stepped forward. He looked at the six black bricks and stones embedded in the city wall with some pride. They were the city-breaking thunder specially developed by the Anxi Firearms Camp. In fact, they were the twin brothers of the sky-breaking thunder. Although they had never seen the power of this city-breaking thunder, he had seen the power of the sky-breaking thunder with his own eyes. The explosion that shook the sky and the earth and burned both jade and stones made his memory extremely profound.

Although he could blow up the castle directly last night, he didn't do that. He needed to let Dabolu people see it with their own eyes and let them remember this day forever.

He looked back at King Tingsu of Dabolu and his army, and nodded to the executive officer next to him. The officer waved his flag and rushed forward to the two soldiers, holding torches in his hands, ignited the tinder on the ground. With a "boom!", the tinder burned rapidly, gradually forming a fire path, burning towards the fort three hundred steps away.

The fire road was getting closer and closer to the castle, and all the Tang soldiers held their breath. Five thousand pairs of eyes were watching the spread of the fire road with nervousness. Only three thousand soldiers of Dabolu curiously poked their heads and heads, coughing and talking, buzzing. The Tubo soldiers on the city felt a different feeling. They stared blankly as the fire road approached, and their hearts were filled with inexplicable fear, but no one thought of getting water to extinguish it. In fact, it was too late for them to think about it. Now there is only ice and no water in the castle. First, the ice must be burned, and then water will be poured down, but the fire road will not wait for them.

In just a moment, the fire road burned under the city. A slight sound of "swish!" was ignited, and the fuse that twisted into a tide was ignited at the same time. At this time, the five thousand Tang soldiers made almost the same move, blocking their ears with their arms and leaning on the ground, holding their heads with their hands. Even if they had never seen it, they had heard of the power of thunder.

The soldiers of Dabolu were stunned and laughed loudly, pointing at the Tang army's movements, laughing back and forth. At this moment, a shocking explosion suddenly broke out under the fort. The explosion was deafening and the earth was trembling. Many Dabolu soldiers stood unsteadily and fell to the ground. Then a stream of black smoke rose into the sky, smashing countless stones and dust in the black smoke, like hail, many Dabolu soldiers were beaten to the point of blood, their war horses panicked, and they ran away in scattering.

But these were nothing more important. The soldiers of Dabolu were so scared that their faces looked like earth. They knelt on the ground and crawled desperately. In their eyes, it was the mountain god roaring, the Thunder god showing their power, and even the king Tingsu knelt down. His face was pale and he kept kowtowing.

The power brought by the city-breaking thunder this time exceeded the imagination of the Great Bolu people. They could only regard it as the power of the gods. After many years, this abandoned Tubo castle was still there, and it became a temple admired by the Bolu people.

After a long time, thousands of Tang troops slowly stood up, patted the dust on their bodies, and looked at the Tubo people's castle. They saw that the castle had collapsed halfway, and the base of the wall was blown up to a large piece. The base of the wall could not bear the weight of the castle, just like a domino of Domes, collapsed all over, and most of the hundreds of Tubo troops were submerged in huge piles of bricks and stones.

"Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements!" An Baozhen sighed long.

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The Nebra Kingdom north of India, which is today the Kingdom of Nepal, in February of the second year of Zhenzhi, a Tang army full of baggage traveled between the mountains and ridges of the Nebra Kingdom. This Tang army had a total of 8,000 people, led by Feng Changqing, the governor of Xinde. They traveled eastward from Xinde. When the army passed by, all the countries in India offered food and bowed their heads. However, this march from Feng Changqing was not to conquer India, but to implement the important part of Li Qing'an's Tochari strategy, and to advance northward.

The march route they chose was the Nibura Road, which was sent to the Ibura in the early Tang Dynasty. This was also the main way for the Tubo people to communicate with the Nibura people. They crossed the Himalayas from the Mangyu Mountain Pass, or crossed the Himalayas from another important mountain pass, which is today's Nialam Pass, and entered the territory of Tubo.

But Feng Changqing also knew that this difficult march was also a huge adventure. If the Tubo army did not come out in full, their 8,000 expeditionary forces would probably be buried in a foreign country. However, in order to win this battle to completely defeat the Tubo people, Feng Changqing bet his future and destiny together.

Ten miles away, the royal city of Nibharati was bathed in the golden sunshine and the whole city of Kary was visible from afar. Feng Changqing waved his hand and said, "The army stopped advancing!"
Chapter completed!