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Part 11: Civil strife in the capital Chapter 55: The outcome is decided

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    Chapter 55 The outcome is determined

    Flags are flying and drums are beating.

    Under the clear blue sky under the clear sun, more than 60,000 Tang troops and Nanzhao troops were fighting in one place. Each other's armors were distinct and looked particularly eye-catching.

    Standing on the temporarily piled earth mountain, Pei Xingjian looked down at the battle situation. He originally had the belief that he would die, but he gradually began to smile.

    Fang Yiai's Mo Dao Army ranks first under Du He in terms of offensive power. Even the Xuanfeng Army, one of the three major armies of the Tang Dynasty, cannot compare.  If it weren't for the fatal disadvantage in speed, he would have long been replaced as the vanguard.  However, the current situation does not require speed at all.

    Nanzhao wanted to seize the Tang army's food, grass and baggage, so it pressed all its troops forward without caring about the rear.  The rear defense line is extremely weak.  At the same time, Pei Xingjian planned to burn the food and grass and die with the Nanzhao army before he was informed of the arrival of reinforcements.

    He had used the grain carts as guardrails to form a circle, luring the Nanzhao army into the circle.  The appearance of Fang Yiai unexpectedly blocked the Nanzhao army's retreat.  The two armies inadvertently completed a tacit cooperation and made dumplings for the Nanzhao army.

    This time, the strength of the Mo Dao Army was fully reflected. The domineering and powerful Mo Dao slashed at a person's body, and the direct result was that the opponent lost combat effectiveness. This was the result of the missed attack.  If it hits the vital point, there is no need to worry about it. The victim doesn't even have a 0.1% chance of survival.

    Blood splattered everywhere, and people fell on their backs.

    Under the incomparable strength of the Modao Army, the Nanzhao Army, which had the upper hand, gradually became unable to hold on.

    Mengren¡¯s mind was in chaos, and he could hardly believe his eyes.

    He boasted that he had strong soldiers and was unparalleled in foot combat, but facing the terrifying explosive power of the Modao Army, he didn't even have the strength to resist.

    This is a completely one-sided massacre

    In fact, this result is not entirely due to the strength of Mo Daojun, but also the technological gap.  It's like cold weapons and hot weapons. No matter how many millions of soldiers you have, they will be useless against atomic bombs.

    In addition to possessing an indestructible Mo Dao, each member of the Mo Dao Army is covered with more than fifty kilograms of infantry armor. Ordinary swords cannot harm them at all.  Nanzhao is located in a remote area and its smelting technology is backward. Most of their weapons are of low quality and it is difficult to cause great damage to infantry armor.

    With one thing going down and the other going up, the brave Nanzhao army naturally gave the Modao army a hard time.

    The winner gradually became clear.

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    Lu Qiang was so dizzy that he could no longer remember how many people he had killed or how many times he had been stabbed.

    Not to mention how depressed he was now, he felt extremely regretful. If he had known this, he would not have betrayed Tang Jun's information for that little money.

    "Selling information, money comes quickly, but you also have to spend it with your life."

    Originally, Lu Qiang had already made sufficient plans. He knew that because he revealed the information, he was likely to be attacked, so he decided to be a deserter from the beginning and take advantage of the chaos to escape from the battlefield.

    He has money on him, where can¡¯t he go?

    In the end, everything was like a phantom in a dream, all whimsical.

    The Tang army was not in chaos at all as he wanted. Under Pei Xingjian's reasonable and effective command, even though it was weak and could not withstand Nanzhao's offensive, the army was not in chaos, but was counterattacking bit by bit.

    Lu Qiang was on the front line, with Tang troops on his left and right.  The Tang army's punishment for deserters was extremely harsh, and it was impossible to retreat alone.  In addition, the Tang army was brave. If the general had not fled, the soldiers would rarely desert. He could only follow the command and continue to fight on the front line.

    Although his character was not good, his martial arts skills were quite good. He killed many Nanzhao troops and was wounded in many places, but he could still stand and wield his sword to protect himself.

    Lu Qiang cut down a soldier with one blow, and took the opportunity to look left and right, only to see the various flags of the Tang army sparsely mixed into the sea of ??people.  For a while, several flags merged into each other, and for a while, they spread out and charged deep into the tens of thousands of enemy troops.  Looking forward, there stands a banner with the word "Fang" in the farthest distance: a Tang Army general is charging at the front.  The unique armor and the terrifying Mo Dao looked like a murderous god in the crowd. With one strike of the sword, at least five or six people were killed by the sword.

    With him here, we can win.

    Lu Qiang had this idea in his mind, shouted loudly, summoned his remaining strength, and raised his sword with the torrent.

    Even the villain Lu Qiang was inspired, not to mention other soldiers, and the morale of the Tang army increased significantly.

    Under the attack from the front and back, the Nanzhao army became more and more strenuous. No matter how brave they were, it was difficult for them to recover. Seeing that they could not hold on, they gritted their teeth and had no choice but to give the order to break out.?

    The direction he chose to break out was exactly where Lu Qiang was

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    Meng Yan still had some military skills. He left aside Fang Yiai's Mo Dao Army and used the grain transport army as a breakthrough to break out of the encirclement in one fell swoop.

    Although Pei Xingjian was aware of the intentions of the Nanzhao army at the first time, he did not have strong soldiers to resist the Nanzhao army's breakout. He could only delay them as much as possible and give Modao's army more opportunities to kill the enemy.

    The grain transport troops under Pei Xingjian were not strong enough, and they were in danger of being counterattacked and annihilated in pursuit.  Fang Yiai's soldiers were quite strong, but they were not fast enough, so he could only watch helplessly as they broke through.

    Pei Xingjian asked people to clean the battlefield, and went to greet Fang Yiai in person.

    "General Fang arrived in time. If General Fang hadn't arrived in time, I, Pei Xingjian, would have become a sinner of the Tang Dynasty." Pei Xingjian knew the importance of this food and grass to the Tang army, and he had millions of hopes for Fang Yiai, who arrived in time.  Extremely grateful.

    Because of Du He's relationship, Fang Yiai had a good relationship with Su Dingfang. They were considered good friends. He also seemed very enthusiastic towards his friend's apprentice and said with a smile: "I don't know what the situation is, but I can tell that you guys are fighting very hard."  Tenacious What I don¡¯t understand is why Tubo still has so many soldiers and horses, they have turned the old *** into mice, how did these soldiers come?"

    Pei Xingjian said: "It should be reinforcements. If I guessed correctly, this is a card hidden by Songtsen Gampo. It is reinforcements from other countries. In fact, I also don't know somethingwhy they appeared on our army's food route, that's accurate.  He calculated the time and laid an ambush."

    This question has been in Pei Xingjian's mind for a while. He has had this question since he discovered the enemy attack, but the situation at that time did not allow him to think more about it. Now that the battle was won, this question came to his mind again.

    As a nation with a history of thousands of years, China has been able to prevent many military problems in the Tang Dynasty.  As Liangdao said, in the Tang Dynasty, food and grass were almost never robbed.  Just because for thousands of years, there are too many allusions to the collapse due to the interruption of grain routes and the robbery of grain and grass.  By the time of the Tang Dynasty, a set of effective and reasonable prevention methods had been developed.

    On the food road leading to the army, there are patrols responsible for inspecting the safety of the food road. They are handed over in sections. As long as there is an ambush by the army, there is no chance of escaping their sight. However, this ambush seems to have come from the sky.  .

    There is only one explanation. The ambush soldiers can know exactly their route, their movements, and their marching speed, even to the minute and second.  Before they arrived, he rushed to the battlefield and set up an ambush.

    Fang Yiai cried out in a low voice: "Are you suspecting that someone in the army has leaked information?"

    Pei Xingjian nodded silently. This was something he didn't want to see, but it was a fact.

    The two talked in low voices for a long time.

    Pei Xingjian said: "I'm going to see the wounded soldiers, and I'll leave it to General Fang for defense matters."

    Fang Yiai solemnly promised.

    Pei Xingjian came to the temporary medical camp to express condolences to the injured soldiers.

    Arriving at the seriously injured area, Pei Xingjian found many soldiers whispering in front of him. He was surprised and stepped forward two steps: "What's wrong?"

    When the soldiers saw that it was Pei Xingjian, they hurriedly saluted.

    Pei Xingjian ignored it. His eyes were attracted by a seriously injured patient treated by a military doctor. To be precise, he was attracted by the ingot of ingots next to the seriously injured patient.  It's white and shiny, and there are as many as five ingots.

    At this time, a soldier responded: "Your Majesty, these coins rolled out of Captain Lu Qiang. He was seriously injured and unconscious. The doctor removed his coat and bandaged his wounds, and these ingots rolled away."  come out."

    Pei Xingjian's eyes revealed the slightest chill. Prices in the Tang Dynasty were extremely low, and the money was extremely large.  A bucket of rice cost only four or five yuan, and a small silver nugget cost four to five thousand yuan in future generations.  This also means that the general wages in the Tang Dynasty were not high, and dozens of Kaiyuan Tongbao could sustain a household for a month.

    As a captain, Lu Qiang's monthly military salary was only a hundred Kaiyuan Tongbao. How could he have several ingots of silver ingots?

    Pei Xingjian smiled calmly and asked the doctors to take care of Lu Qiang and use all possible means to save him.

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    The Valley of Decisive Victory.

    This is a little-known mountain col located in Tubo. It is uninhabited and has no name.  But because it was related to the survival of Tubo, Songtsen Gampo specially designated the decisive valley for this mountain col to express that life and death depended on one battle.

    Songtsen Gampo was a little uneasy. According to his calculations, the attack on the Tang army's food and fodder was just a few days away. Can the defeat be turned into a disaster??, at this moment.

    Although he got the exact information, he was still a little worried. After all, this was related to the life and death of Tubo, so he had to act cautiously.

    Songtsan Gampo spread out a detailed topographic map of Tubo on the ground, and once again calculated the upcoming war in his mind to ensure that it would be seamless and able to annihilate all the Tang troops led by Du He in Tubo.

    He pointed at the ambush site of Nanzhao and made a mental calculation: "The strength of the Tang army is limited, and the Nanzhao army in distress is a rare elite, and its number is several times that of the Tang army. There is no reason for failure Once the Tang army wins  Knowing that the way back is cut off, he will definitely retreat. However, Du He is not an ordinary person, and he will definitely not retreat hastily. He is from the Tang Dynasty and will not care about the life and death of our Tubo people. If he falls into that situation, he will most likely launch an army.  The main purpose of grabbing food is to make a living for the Tang army. After grabbing enough food, they will retreat calmly. Only in this way can we not fall into a desperate situation without food. This is a way of survival in a dead end, and what we have to do  Just to block this slightly exposed way of life."

    Songtsen Gampo was replaying the next battle situation like a movie in his mind. He felt that everything was flawless, and his restless heart was slightly comforted.

    However, at this time, he got a piece of news.

    The Tang army has arrived, and more than ten thousand Tang soldiers have blocked the entrance of the valley, cutting off their retreat
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