I don’t know which tent was ignited first, but with the strong wind swirling in the valley, the fire quickly spread——
Xu Tang galloped between the lit tents, his long branches tumbling like a dragon, and mercilessly slashing streaks of cold light over the heads of the Tibetan soldiers who were trying to resist.
"Crack!"
Xu Fan was biting a Tibetan general and killed him until he was unable to parry. He could only use an iron shield to resist, but he didn't want the pole in his hand to bear too much force to break at this moment.
When General Fan saw that Xu Tan was alone, he threw his iron shield aside, revealing his ferocious face, and rushed towards Xu Tan with several other soldiers on the left and right who still had the courage to fight, each raising their sharp swords.
Their numbers were still too small and they defeated too many enemies. After each tent was set on fire, in order to more effectively pursue and kill the defeated enemies, they could only be divided into small groups to pursue them separately.
Xu Tang was very capable of killing, and he rushed forward without hesitation, but he did not know when he had opened a long distance from the guards behind him.
Xu Zang was fearless, smiled coldly, and threw the broken pole aside.
Xu Teng jumped off the saddle, not looking at the several Tibetan soldiers who were attacking from both sides. His eyes were just fixed on the Tibetan general who was attacking with his sword. He stepped forward diagonally, and the long sword unsheathed was like a ray of lightning.
, slashed towards Fan Jiang's left shoulder with even more ferocity and swiftness.
The Fan general was also a brave man. Although Xu Tan stepped forward diagonally, making it difficult for him to continue his slashing momentum, he turned the long knife in his hand from chopping to cutting, and slashed towards Xu Tan's armpit at a faster speed.
Hao Zijia may be afraid of brave people who are using the sword to chop hard, but it is difficult to use force to lift the force, and more needs to rely on the sharpness of the blade - the long sword in General Fan's hand is indeed a good blade, and it can be sharpened in the sun.
The cold light flashed from the mouth, but it was not enough to break through the wart armor. There was a "click" sound, and the tough armor fragments on the edge of the blade bounced away, making it difficult to get in, let alone a large bloody gash under Xu Zang's left armpit.
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Xu Fang's sword was slightly slower, but it cut off Fan's left shoulder and shoulder armor without any hindrance.
"Ouch!" Fan covered his bloody left shoulder with the discarded knife, turned around and ran back, and fell down after only a few steps.
Several Tibetan soldiers no longer had the courage to surround and kill Xu Pang, so they turned around and tried to escape. Several cavalrymen rushed out from the side, stabbing with spears and trampling on them with iron hooves, trampling down the Tibetan soldiers.
Zhang Xiongshan thrust his spear into the chest of a Tibetan soldier, threw an iron shield at Xu Teng, and shouted: "Take it easy, don't really think that there are no brave people in Tibet!"
Xu Tan returned to the sweating horse and saw that the quiver had been empty and the blade in his hand was also cut and curled. He picked up a similar-shaped Fan knife and put it back into the scabbard, then followed Zhang Xiong Mountain to the slope hill in the west.
Go away.
The Pingba surrounded by the mountains is, as a whole, like a large urn with a small bottom and an open belly, and is connected to the surrounding Pingba and hilly plains through the wide valleys on the north and south sides.
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Thousands of Tibetan soldiers fled like a tide towards the wide valleys on both sides.
The remnants of the troops who went south were already at the end of their strength and had not yet received a good rest. Their physical strength could not sustain them for long periods of fighting. Except for Sun Yanguan's troops who made a slightly deeper attack, Xiao Xun and Wu Sanrong's troops focused more on encircling and annihilating the defeated enemy near the mouth of the gorge.
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Xu Zang, the number of reinforcements led by Su Mi was too limited, and the pursuit was too scattered. Seeing some unnecessary casualties, Su Mi could only order the withdrawal of troops at this time, and rushed over to see Xiao Yanhan:
"Su Mung has met with Princess Xiao on the order of the envoy. I hope it's not too late!"
"It's not late, it's not late, it's just right!" Wu Sanrong laughed.
Although the troops going south had already suffered extremely heavy casualties, they had already been expected before going south. Xu Fang and Su Miao appeared in time, killing ten times the number of Tibetan soldiers and relieving the siege of the remnants of the troops going south. Of course, it cannot be said that
Late.
Otherwise, we can't expect the reinforcements to go around Taoyuan to respond, right?
"How many reinforcements did Hou Jun send south this time?" Zhang Xiongshan asked in a loud voice.
Su Mi said: "Biyang learned that Princess Xiao was leading a group of tribesmen to go south via Taoyuan, so the envoy ordered an armed merchant group headed by General Wang Ju to form an armed merchant group, including Lifengtang Wuwei, horsemen and Xuanfeng Army.
Including the accompanying soldiers, a total of 4,000 troops went south. On the way, a large number of people were sick and had difficulty traveling. Before the month, 3,000 troops arrived at Shanju County in the west of Dali. After that, Shi Xun led 500 people to stay in Shanju County.
Wang Ju and Shi Hu led 2,000 cavalry to the southern route to Kangyanchuan in search of Princess Xiao. Xu Tan and I led 500 cavalry to go north along the Lu River -
—But I didn’t expect that we would meet Zhang Canjun and Princess Xiao first..."
"How come the DPRK ordered you to go south to Dali so quickly?" Zhang Xiongshan asked in confusion.
After sending a messenger back to Biyang to report the news, Zhang Xiongshan could predict that the production department would definitely send reinforcements to meet him. However, considering the containment between the DPRK and China, Zhang Xiongshan thought that no matter how quickly, the reinforcements would not be able to arrive until the end of the year to join them.
Although it took more than two months for the rescue team to arrive at the extreme speed that was originally expected, but this speed was beyond Zhang Xiongshan's expectation.
"How can the imperial court issue an edict?"
Xu Zang also rushed over at this time and sneered,
"We arrived at Jingjiang Mansion and stayed for half a month. We knew clearly that the DPRK would not issue an edict, so we forged an edict, then arranged for someone to pretend to be an envoy delivering the edict, and also arrived at Jingjiang Mansion under false pretense. Guangxi Supervisor
We were also stupid because we couldn't tell the authenticity of the edict and the envoys. At that time, an envoy from the Dali Kingdom happened to be in Jingjiang Mansion to discuss the sale of tea and horses. After we deceived the Guangxi Supervisor, we also tricked the envoy from the Dali Kingdom into leaving Jingjiang with us.
Go all the way west."
Xiao Yanhan could imagine that Xu Huaiding ordered Wang Ju and others to break through and block the southward advance at all costs. The imperial court agreed that it would be best to send reinforcements from Jingxiang to the south. The imperial court was holding back. Forging edicts was not a difficult decision. Thinking of this, Xiao Yanhan
My mood couldn't help but rise and fall again.
"The Guangxi Supervisor may not be able to distinguish the authenticity of the imperial edict,"
Su Mung didn't think that the Guangxi supervisory officials were idiots who couldn't tell the authenticity of the edict, and said,
"It is more likely that there were only two thousand troops stationed in Jingjiang Mansion at the time. Even if they knew the authenticity of the edict, they could only pretend not to know it! However, we left Jingjiang Mansion smoothly, but the Guangxi Supervisor did not want to take responsibility.
Afterwards, I will definitely find a way to expose the issue of correcting the imperial edict. It is estimated that the chief minister and the envoy will have a headache over this matter!"
Zhang Xiongshan guessed that what Su Mung said was closer to the truth.
One of the reasons why Xu Huai tried every possible means to persuade the remnants of the Khitan to overcome all difficulties and move south was that the space for the remnants of the Khitan to the west of Minshan Mountain was extremely narrow, and the passage to the west was locked. If they did not move south, they would most likely surrender to the Chihu people under the pressure of survival.
This is what Xu Huai does not want to see.
Another core reason is that Xu Huai had long considered the lack of defense in the southwest of Dai Viet.
Jingjiang Mansion is the seat of the Guangxi Supervisor. There are only 2,000 troops stationed in the city, and there are only a hundred or so in other cities. Hundreds of county soldiers and government troops are guarding it. It is difficult to imagine that once the Chihu people send a partial division to cross the Tubo Highlands and go south.
, or first conquer the Tubo tribes and the Dali Kingdom, and order Tubo and Dali to send troops from the southwest. How can Dai Viet hold important towns such as Jingjiang Prefecture and Yongzhou in the southwest?
At this time, there were only 2,000 troops stationed in Jingjiang Mansion, and their combat effectiveness was still extremely sparse. Of course, they did not dare to fall out with the well-armed armed merchant group with a strength of 4,000 people.
Let’s wait until the business group is sent to Dali.
Of course, the Guangxi Supervisor pretended not to recognize the authenticity of the edict, but this matter could not be kept secret for long, and there would definitely be future troubles, but this was no longer something they had to consider thousands of miles away.
Xu Zang also said nonchalantly:
"As long as they can't bite us for a while!"
Xiao Yanhan, Wu Sanrong, Xiao Xun and others also have no time to worry about correcting the imperial edict for the production department. They still don't know that Wang Ju and Shi Hu are leading the main reinforcements to follow.
Wherever the southern front has gone, and the Tibetan soldiers will come back at any time, the key is to decide what they should do next.
"We should go south immediately - Buqu Temple is to the north of us. There are not many Tibetan soldiers fleeing south, and Buqu Temple has limited influence on the Duogansi area south of Shenyu Mountain..." Xiao Xuan advocated going south immediately, except for the former
Apart from the fact that there are no strong enemies blocking the road, we also hope to meet up with the main reinforcements as soon as possible so that we can truly breathe a sigh of relief.
"Why do we need to be afraid of these Tibetan soldiers?" Xu Tang said nonchalantly, "We are just here with our soldiers, and are we afraid that the Tibetan soldiers will dare to bite us again?"
"The Tibetan soldiers did not expect that we were receiving reinforcements from Princess Xiao, and almost no preparations were made in advance. The ones chasing Princess Xiao were mainly cavalry, and there was no main infantry force, but it does not mean that there is no such thing. North of Duogansi
The Tibetan soldiers from the Duosima tribe served the Dangxiang people in their early years and responded to my recruitment on the Xihe Road. There is no shortage of brave Tibetan soldiers who are good at using shields and spears to fight on foot.
The casting level is also very high,”
Su Mung was not dazzled by the previous victory. He cautiously compared the pros and cons of going and staying, and said,
"Of course, the Tibetan army is newly defeated, and it will be difficult to regroup the army for a while. We can stay here for more than a month and wait for Wang Ju, Shi Hu and others to arrive."
"If Xu Huai were here, how would he make a decision?" Xiao Yanhan could not suppress the excitement in her chest at this time. When everyone had different opinions, she couldn't help but wonder how Xu Huai would make a decision here.
"If you were here, you would probably agree with Xu Zang's idea," Zhang Xiongshan said.
Xu Huai's fundamental purpose was to hope that the remaining Khitan troops could move south.
Now, in order to avoid the Tibetan forces in the north of Duogansi headed by Buqu Temple heading south, they have not actually opened up the passage between Duogansi and Taoyuan. The best way is to take advantage of the Chihu people before they can react.
The southern route attracts the attention of the Tibetan soldiers in the northern part of Duo Gansi, or strives to win a few more victories, and then try to persuade Xiao Linshi to send more Khitan soldiers and horses to follow the path they have taken...
