Love Affairs in Chang'an - Chapter 294

Chapter 294 War Broke Out
Just as the spring ploughing in Lanzhou was in full swing, there were many good news in the south of the Great Tang Dynasty. Minister of Officials, when the road march marquis Hou Junji, led the troops south to retreat the enemy in Songzhou. It was surprisingly difficult to kill the Tibetans by using the method of sneaky battles, so they were caught off guard. BingFeng frustrated, pine dry ZanBu panic retreat, pine state recovered. Hou Junji used his army to kill, and Songtsan Gambo suffered a huge defeat, leaving thousands of corpses behind and returning to the plateau.

Up to a few years ago, after the Great Tang calmed down Tuyuhun, they did not start any foreign war. The victory of the Battle of Song Zhou made the entire Great Tang rejoice.

However, when Songtsan Ganbu led 200,000 troops into the invasion, the Tuyuhun Territory and the Qiang tribes that had surrendered in fear did not return because of this. He had only recovered Song Zhou, but he had yet to achieve the desired goal.

Most of the Tuyuhun territory that was lost was near Dafeichuan, near Shan City.

The news of the Songzhou victory came, and the blood of the frontline soldiers was boiling again, and they couldn’t sit still any longer. Qin Mubai’s pressure came again.

At this time, spring plowing and farming was at a critical juncture, and with great difficulty, all kinds of seeds, farm tools, and farming cows were also in place. However, the soldiers on the frontlines were holding back too much. They could only stare at the achievements of their brothers. Watching the Tibetan cavalry in Dafeichuan every day, they pretended to turn a blind eye. This was like letting a pack of wolves eat vegetables in a vegetable garden, but watching fat sheep wander around outside the garden with eagerness.

As expected, Xue Wanjun came to ask for help!

This time, he was a little polite. He did not gather a group of generals like last time and directly ran to the Governor’s Mansion to force the palace. Instead, he wrote a formal petition and sent people to worship the Governor, Qin Shubao.

When Qin Mubai received the petition, he was in the Governor’s Mansion, and the father and son worked together. Qin Shubao believed that it was not the best policy to suppress the fighting spirit and fighting spirit of the soldiers. Xue Wanjun and the others were obviously jealous of Hou Junji’s contributions. It would be better for them to attack properly to activate their muscles and bones and fight a few small battles with the Tibetan enemy in Dafeichuan.

Qin Mubai thought for a moment and agreed.

Qin Shubao gave the order to allow Xue Wanjun to “fight Tibet in three wars”, but there were three major restrictions: First, the number of troops should not exceed three thousand at a time, the rations should not exceed ten days, and the depth should not exceed a hundred miles. This was like limiting the scale of the battle.

Xue Wanjun received the order. Although he was a little unhappy, he still managed to accept it. This was better than not being able to defend it.

Immediately, he reorganized his troops and gathered three thousand elite cavalry to attack the nearest Tibetan military camp. For several months, the Tibetans saw that the Tang army had closed the city and didn’t concentrate on farming, so they weren’t prepared. Faced with the sudden attack of the vanguard general Xue Wanjun, they were powerless to resist. They lost their army and left hundreds of corpses behind, fleeing back in a hurry.

Xue Wanjun won the battle. His morale was a hundred times higher. Without pausing, he took advantage of the victory to advance several dozen li towards Dafeichuan. Along the way, he encountered several Tibetan cavalry, large and small, and annihilated them all. Lian Zhan was victorious.

At this point, three thousand cavalry loss is very small, every kill to break the army will take food to the enemy, replenishment is still considered adequate. After his consecutive victories, Xue Wanjun had already forgotten Qin Shubao’s military order, as if he fantasized about repeating Huo Qubing’s heroic feat of capturing the enemy from a thousand miles away. As a result, he led the three thousand cavalry into the Qinghai Lake’s hinterland, Dafei Chuan!

This was the place where the Tibetan garrison had tens of thousands of soldiers!

In other words, Xue Wanjun was truly a fierce tiger on the battlefield. At this moment, facing an enemy ten times more powerful than him, he was brazenly fearless and immediately attacked with a spear. The Tibetans had never thought that Xue Wanjun would dare to provoke them with three thousand cavalry. At first, they still suspected that Xue Wanjun was just bait for the outpost, and there was an army ambushing behind him. After hesitating for a while, the Tibetans basically only stubbornly defended and did not officially engage in a decisive battle.

Afterwards, the Tibetans discovered that Xue Wanjun was truly a lonely army that had sent him to his death!

This time, the Tibetans were annoyed. Their plateau cavalry were not vegetarian!

Challenges failed again and again. The enemy camp was too big to charge in. Xue Wanjun was also preparing to retreat. That night, the Tibetans suddenly launched a counterattack, and ten thousand cavalry attacked!

Xue Wanjun was worthy of being called a full general. He did not panic at night and stood up to resist in an orderly manner. But helplessly, they were outnumbered, and their teachers and seniors were exhausted as they retreated step by step. They fought and retreated, retreating. Tibetans also suppressed a stomach of anger, not willing to good dry rest? While they were attacking, they sent out another group of light cavalry to block Xue Wanjun’s path of retreat. The encirclement was complete, and Xue Wanjun was trapped in a tight encirclement, becoming a bitter battle.

Seeing that the three thousand cavalry were about to be destroyed, the defeat in this battle was already clear at a glance. Xue Wanjun was so regretful that he almost drew his saber to commit suicide. Lieutenant general left and right persuaded him to kill him and lead more than a hundred cavalry to break through the siege and flee back to Shan City.

Of the three thousand elite cavalry, only Baiji was left, and most of them were injured. General Xue Wanjun lost more than ten sore blood in his body and was in a coma.

The Tibetans took advantage of the victory to counterattack, and their troops went straight to Shan City. Shan City lost its main general, and for a moment, it was in chaos. Several deputy generals hurriedly organized troops to defend the city, and the civilians and soldiers who went out to work as farmers also hurriedly retreated. Half of them escaped into Shan City, while the other half escaped into other counties. The Tibetans did not stop and surrounded Shan City like an iron barrel. They also sent people to plunder, burn, and plunder, trample on farmland, and destroy canals.

For a moment, Shan City was in danger!

When the news reached the Governor’s Mansion, Qin Shubao slapped the table and burst into rage-“Xue Wanche, you should be killed!”

“Father, calm down!” Qin Mubai hurriedly advised, “Xue Wanche disobeyed the orders of the army and made an unreasonable decision. As a result, the city suffered heavy losses. It is indeed an unforgivable sin. However, the most urgent matter at the moment is to resolve the crisis in Shan City!”

“This old man will personally lead the troops to break the thief!” Qin Shubao narrowed his phoenix eyes, and his killing intent burst forth, wanting to kill the deputy general to retrieve his tiger-headed golden spear.

“Father, wait a moment!” Qin Mubai hurriedly dissuaded him and said, “Father is the master of the armed forces, and can you underestimate the enemy? In this critical period, Lanzhou cannot be left without a master. Father should take charge of the Governor’s Mansion, right? Let this child go out on behalf of his father and lead the army to defuse the chaos!”

“You? You’ve never been on the battlefield. You only know how to talk on paper. That’s inappropriate!” Qin Shubao hurriedly waved his hand and said, “You should stay in the Governor’s Mansion to take care of these government affairs and people’s livelihood! This old man is too old to take those Tibetan children seriously!”

“Father, think twice!” Qin Mubai said bitterly, “If Lanzhou is defeated in the first battle, the prefectures and counties under my command will definitely be shaken. The morale of the soldiers of the three armies will rise and fall. At this moment, Commander Father’s priority should be to appease the civilians and the general situation. If Commander Father personally attacks, even if he wins, he will not be able to regain his military prestige. If my son wins the battle, he will be able to fight with a small battle, which will be enough to inspire the three armies!”

‘”That makes sense” Qin Shubao seemed to be moved. He stroked his long beard and nodded. “If this old man sent an unknown rising star to defeat the Tibetans and relieve the danger of Shan City in one go, perhaps it would be better than if this old man personally went out to fight-that’s good!” “Sanlang, I will order you to lead the Yi Manor cavalry personally and allocate another 3,000 cavalry to Yue Qi, a total of 5,000 elite cavalry. Starry Night will attack Shan City and retreat from the encirclement!”

“Yes!” Qin Mubai loudly promised to take the talisman and leave.

“Wait!” Qin Shubao suddenly stopped him and walked forward and whispered, “The battlefield is no joke. Be careful!”

“Father, don’t worry.” Qin Mubai smiled and said, “Didn’t you come here from your first battle? This child has inherited Father’s Tiger Head Golden Spear. I have never seen blood since I launched my attack. Only today!”

Qin Shubao smiled happily and patted Qin Mubai’s shoulder again, “It’s my son!-Go!”

Lanzhou army, half of the cavalry, the elite division of the Great Tang. The Yi Manor’s Central Army and Yue Qi were even more elite among the elites. The five thousand troops quickly gathered. Qin Mubai was fully dressed and mounted. There was no need for him to do anything to boost his morale. He waved his tiger-headed golden spear towards the northwest. The five thousand cavalry galloped out and gazed at Shan City, wrapped in smoke and dust for several zhang.

The situation was critical, and every second was filled with fighter jets. Shan City was also a hundred miles away from Lanzhou, so there was no problem for the cavalry to charge at them. However, the elite cavalry would also be at the end of their rope after they charged at him with all their might. Hence, Qin Mubai pressed down on the charger at Half Stream Pang to rest. People eat dry food, horse chew grass, drink some water to replenish their strength. At the same time, they sent out scouts to investigate the situation.

Xue Rengui and Yuwen Hongtai were chewing on dried wheat cakes and examining the map around Shan City when they arrived and squatted beside Qin Mubai.

“Gentlemen, what do you think?” Qin Mubai pointed at the map and said.

“I don’t understand this. All I know is that I have to rush to the front when the fight starts!” Yuwen Hongtai said.

Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui laughed. The two of them focused on the terrain around Shan City. Then, Xue Rengui said, “Young General, you are very precious. After eating this wheat cake, you should be able to leave.” The Tibetans took advantage of this victory to make trouble in the siege. In fact, they had also committed the same military taboo as Xue Wanjun-going deep into the city alone! “But if they delay for a long time, they will really take over Shan City, or occupy some villages, hills, and valleys, which are favorable terrain, it will be quite disadvantageous to our army!”

“That makes sense.” Qin Mubai nodded, “This is also why I marched at full speed towards the starry night. Every inch of time is divided into fighter planes. At the same time, if Tibet stays in Shan City for another moment, we will also suffer more losses. Those herdsmen who were burned and robbed, as well as the irrigation works that were trampled and destroyed, it will be difficult for us to rebuild and tidy up.”

“Motherf*cker, these Tibetans are just like locusts!” Yuwen Hongtai cursed, “War is war, fire is fire, land is trampled on! You are so harmful!”

“This is their usual trick.” Qin Mubai knitted his eyebrows and said, “Robbery is one of their main purposes in waging war.” But even if they took down the city, they didn’t have the mood to manage and defend it, and the farmland of the city couldn’t be moved away. As a result, they had no choice but to carry out destruction. They won’t take it away, and they won’t let us get it. “The purpose of destroying these things is simply to fear that we will grow stronger and pose a threat to them.”

“Son of a bitch, sinister!” Yuwen Hongtai spat twice, “When we kill them on the plateau, we will tear down their villas, slaughter their yaks and ruin their fields! Forget about women, Tibetan women are too ugly, they are all like men!”

‘”Haha!” Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui burst into laughter.

“Rengui, that’s what I think.” Qin Mubai pondered for a while and said, “Although the enemy army has ten thousand cavalry, they came from afar and plundered the city, and their forces were scattered.” Our army is rushing to kill until the might of the soldiers is strong. They will definitely not be reluctant to fight. With their usual tactics and the situation before them, they would most likely swarm back and not fight to the death. Therefore, our army must muster up strength to kill them in the first battle! Therefore, I’ve decided to let you lead the Baiji Guards and the elites of the Yi Manor as the vanguard and let go of their horsepower to charge in. No matter what group of enemies you encounter, you just need to charge in and don’t look back. Hong Tai and I will be responsible for covering your left and right to help you deal with the aftermath and protect you! ”

“Yes! General Mo will accept the order!” Xue Rengui clasped her fists solemnly. Her face was silent, and her eyes were filled with battle intent.

“Ah, why didn’t you let me take the lead?” Yuwen Hongtai was unhappy.

“Forget it.” Qin Mubai smiled and said, “You are stunned. You only care about your killing intent. Maybe you don’t even know if you lose Suisuo behind you. It’s one thing for Rengui Pioneer to charge into the formation and be invincible in martial arts. He knows how to save time and momentum.”

“Humph! In the end, I hate that I can’t beat him!” Yuwen Hongtai cursed, “Surnamed Xue, why did you come to Lanzhou with nothing else? If you don’t come, this vanguard will definitely be mine!”

“Haha!” Xue Rengui laughed loudly, “General Yuwen, don’t be angry. I’ll give you the vanguard next time!”

“Don’t break your promise!” Yuwen Hongtai said seriously with his eyes wide open like a child.

“Don’t talk too much. Hurry up and go back to prepare. It’s about to start!” Qin Mubai stood up and put away the map.

The second general cupped his fists and promised, immediately returning to rectify the troops and immediately rushing towards Shan City.

Shortly after, he encountered a scout who was reporting on his military intelligence. He said that there were a large number of Tibetan cavalry in front of him. They had just plundered a pasture farmland and were slowly retreating towards Shan City with large numbers of cattle, sheep, and livestock.

Only, it was less than twenty li away from Shan City, and one could almost hear the rumbling of horns and war drums coming from the direction of Shan City.

“Xue Rengui!” Qin Mubai shouted.

“The last one is here!” Xue Rengui, who was wearing a white horse and silver robe, came out and cupped his fists in agreement.

“Attack immediately-Kill the enemy and make contributions!”

“Yes!”

Dou Qi was high!

Xue Rengui leapt onto the horse and shouted, “All soldiers, follow me-charge!”

“Roar!” The more elites of the Zhongjun army rode, the more they followed Xue Rengui and trained for a long time. They knew that Xue Rengui was invincible in martial arts. With him around, it was like having a backbone. The two thousand elites let out a deep roar as their hooves shook the ground and they rushed forward angrily.

“Yuwen Hongtai!”

“Yes!” Yuwen Hongtai roared and flashed out, his momentum like thunder.

“I order you to lead your troops and follow Xue Rengui to the right to kill. This general will lead the rest of the troops and cover with you. The three armies will form horns and join forces to kill each other. You are only allowed to enter, you are not allowed to retreat! Those who disobey the order, slay!”

“Yes!”

When Yuwen Hongtai roared with thunder, he was actually delighted. He galloped his horse to the front of the cavalry and told his flag-bearer to raise the flag of Yuwen high. Then, he raised the phoenix-winged golden clang in his hand and shouted, “It’s a man! Charge with me! Cut off your head!”

‘”Kill” A group of cavalry followed Yuwen Hongtai, the Black Iron Magical Beast, and rushed forward after Xue Rengui.

“Soldiers-attack!” Qin Mubai shouted as he raised his wrought iron tiger-headed golden spear and pulled back his horse.

The cavalry soldiers behind him let out a deep roar, and their horses galloped into smoke and dust, sweeping forward.

Above the boundless yellow sand desert, three groups of cavalry sped forward in the shape of cones. Five thousand cavalry shook the clouds on the ground.

At this moment, the thousands of Tibetan cavalry in front of them had also noticed something strange behind them. A horned war horn blew, and the Tibetan cavalry turned their horses around and abandoned the cattle and sheep they had captured, charging towards the Tang army!