After the Battle of Jishishan, this was the second head-on battle between Li Qinzai’s troops and the Tibetan army.
This was a relatively sudden encounter, with no prior formation of troops and no cheers from horns and drums.
The scouts of the two armies met and fought, each understood the other's movements, and then gathered their troops and took action.
Two thousand soldiers, armed with three-eyed blunderbuss, lined up at the front.
The three-eyed gun is a typical matchlock gun, and each shot of it relies on igniting the match to detonate the gunpowder.
The disadvantage is that the firing process is relatively slow, and each shot needs to be ignited. The advantage is that each soldier can fire three shots in a row, then quickly get out of the way, and the second row takes over, and continues to fire three shots in a row.
Two thousand three-eyed muskets were fired in unison, with astonishing lethality.
Li Qinzai once destroyed a country with 6,000 three-eyed blunderbuss. Although the 30,000 Tibetan troops in front of him were much more powerful than the Japanese massed charge, the Tang army was still able to hold its own against the enemy's thousands of troops.
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When the Tibetan army charged, the Tang army pressed firmly in front of the formation and remained motionless. There were loud noises from the front formation and bursts of white smoke filled the air.
In the smoke and flames of war, when tens of thousands of Tibetan troops charged within a hundred steps, their casualties increased, and the morale of the troops became increasingly low.
However, the Tibetan army was not without resistance, and the range of their bows and arrows was within a hundred steps. So after suffering heavy casualties, the Tibetan army's arrow rain finally came.
A round of volleys was fired, and the black rain of arrows was like black clouds in the sky, covering the Tang army.
With just one round of arrow rain, hundreds of people in the Tang army fell down wailing.
"Fill the spot!" Sun Congdong shouted with eyes wide open.
The injured soldiers were carried to the rear. The gunmen took up the injured positions without saying a word. Under the command of Ling Qi, they continued to fire the three-eyed muskets.
Sun Congdong commanded the muskets, while Song and Jin Tu commanded the cavalry.
Seeing that his own formation was already within the range of the enemy's bows and arrows, Song Jintu drew his sword and pointed at the sky, shouting: "Fight to the death with righteousness, serve the country with loyalty, and the Tang Dynasty will be victorious!"
"Hunt the flag! Enter the cavalry! Outflank the central army on the left and right and cut the enemy formation!"
The black command flag waved down, and more than 3,000 cavalrymen rode out, bypassing the charging enemy army in the center, and headed towards the Tibetan central army from the left and right flanks.
Song Jintu took the lead and rushed to the front. This man who was usually taciturn was like a murderous god descending from the sky on the battlefield, leading the soldiers into the battle fiercely.
In the Chinese army's formation, the fire gunners suffered hundreds of casualties, but the remaining more than a thousand people were still able to hold down the position, because during the charge of the Tibetan army, the fire gunmen's volleys also hit the Tibetan army.
The army suffered huge casualties.
When thousands of horses are galloping, once the front row is shot off the horse, not only will the outcome be tragic, but the charging speed of the entire charging team will be slowed down.
Whether it is trampling the body of the robe in front or jumping over the horse, it will seriously affect the speed of the war horse.
The enemy army slowed down, but the Tang army's three-eyed musket did not slow down. They still braved the rain of arrows and fired volley after round.
Both sides come and go, but in this era, firearms still have an absolute advantage. From the comparison of casualties on both sides, it can be clearly seen that when the wheel of history rolls forward, those who try to stop it will eventually be crushed.
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The Tubo army suffered thousands of casualties, but when they were a hundred steps away from the Tang army's front line, their charging speed had to slow down due to Paoze's fall, and even greater casualties came.
The artillerymen of the Tang Army were like nails, nailed to their position and did not retreat even one step.
The Tibetan soldiers waved their machetes and roared, but rounds of firearm projectiles still penetrated their bodies mercilessly.
Li Qinzai has been watching the game from the back.
Commanding battles was not his strong point, and he had decisively handed over the command to Sun Congdong and Song Jintu.
But he can see the changes in the battlefield situation every moment.
Seeing that the momentum of the Tibetan army's charge was getting slower and slower, and there were even signs of turning around and escaping from the rear, Li Qinzai finally felt a big stone fall to the ground.
If the central formation is stable, we will not suffer a big loss in this encounter.
The focus now is the cavalry charge led by Song Jintu.
Looking around, more than 3,000 cavalry led by Song Jintu were galloping away, bypassing the Tibetan front formation from the left and right sides, and like two sharp swords, pierced hard into the Tibetan army.
Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Army has been invincible in the world, and the greatest advantage of the Tang Army's invincibility lies in plain warfare, especially the bravery of the cavalry. Looking at the world today, there are few armies from neighboring countries that can compete with the Tang Army's cavalry.
The cavalry charge of the Tang Army relied on their bravery. Once the cavalry was launched, they often risked their lives to prevent the enemy from being defeated and charging endlessly.
The more than 3,000 cavalrymen under Song Jintu's command were originally brave and capable Tang Dynasty frontier troops. They were much stronger than the Tubo army in terms of combat experience and fierce and ruthless aura.
With Song Jintu taking the lead, the cavalry soldiers were divided into two groups, the left and right groups, and quickly inserted into the center of the Tibetan army.
In the chaotic army formation, dust and smoke billowed. Song Jintu and his soldiers quickly blended into the dust and smoke that filled the sky and were no longer visible.
Li Qinzai watched from a distance, his heart was raised, and he looked around uneasily.
While Sun Congdong was commanding the fire gunmen, he was also constantly observing the movements of Song Jintu's troops. Seeing more than three thousand soldiers disappearing in the dust and smoke, Sun Congdong was a little anxious and shouted: "Fire gunmen, come in -!"
The gunmen with more than a thousand fire guns finally took a step forward. After taking a few steps, the first one squatted down and fired two rounds, and then continued to move forward.
When Li Qinzai was in a hurry, he suddenly saw a cloud of yellow dust rising in the distance from Shanzhou City, rushing toward the Tibetan army. He couldn't help but feel nervous.
"Ah Si, call Jin quickly and order Sun Congdong and Song Jintu to retreat!" Li Qinzai gave the decisive order.
The troops hurriedly sounded the gold and blew the trumpets. Sun Congdong, who was originally attacking, was stunned, but he did not dare to disobey in front of the formation, so he ordered to retreat while firing guns.
Not long after, Song Jintu's troops also withdrew from the dust and smoke and ran towards Li Qinzai quickly.
Sun Congdong ran to Li Qinzai and said in astonishment: "Uncle Li, why do you call me gold?"
Li Qinzai raised his chin, motioned to the yellow dust in the direction of Shanzhou City, and said: "The enemy's reinforcements have arrived, we must withdraw."
In today's encounter, the Tibetan army faced the enemy Li Qinzai's force of about 20,000 troops, and 10,000 soldiers were still surrounding Shanzhou City. Perhaps seeing signs that the fighting Tibetan army was exhausted, the Tibetan army general had no choice but to retreat the besieged city.
Ten thousand Tibetan troops were also mobilized.
With the gradually exhausted army fighting against the new reinforcements, Li Qinzai was not sure that he would do such a stupid thing, so he decisively ordered a retreat.
Song Jintu's troops quickly joined Li Qinzai. Under Li Qinzai's order, thousands of soldiers and horses turned around and retreated to the west, while Tibetans were also chasing after them. After pursuing for about 20 miles, the Tubo army was worried about an ambush in front, so they ordered