A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 1025: Conversation by the river shows strength and weakness, battle in front of the battlefield

"Master Zhu, Qingtang City is not far ahead."

In the southern part of the Huangshui River, on the north bank of the Yellow River, teams of Xia troops, armed to the teeth and with flags flying, crossed the bridge in order and arrived at the territory of the Huangshui River.

Zhu Lingde, the commander-in-chief of Daxia in this campaign, under the introduction of Pan Luozhi, the leader of the Tibetan tribe in Hezhou, looked through a telescope at the Uighur cavalry cruising in the distance.

"Qingtang City is the original Shanzhou of the Tang Dynasty."

Zhu Lingde, who is already at the age of fifty, said this with a hint of meaning.

Pan Luozhi smiled awkwardly and said:

"Master Zhu, you are joking. This happened during the time of the old Tang Dynasty. As early as the reign of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, the Tang people could not defend the area and retreated to Guanzhong. We Tibetans have guarded the northwest on behalf of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years, and it has become our territory."

"Where did the Tang people's land come from?"

"Besides, the Emperor of Daxia is in power now. It's a new dynasty with a new system. Why should we keep dwelling on past events? What do you think?"

If it weren't for the need to rely on the power of the Xia people to expel the Uighurs and rescue the Buddhist disciples, Pan Luozhi would have stopped serving long ago.

You can stay in Hezhou area and do whatever you want behind closed doors. Isn't that great?

Although the Tubo Dynasty collapsed, the Tubo people still have their own demeanor.

"Oh, really?" Zhu Lingde put down the copper telescope and handed it to the guard behind him. He looked at Pan Luozhi with a smile and asked:
"Then why do you still ask our emperor for help? Aren't you unable to defend it?"

Pan Luozhi was speechless.

"Besides, we're back, aren't we?"

After hearing this, Pan Luozhi frowned and looked at the Great Xia coach who was standing upright on the bluestone with his cloak blown up by the river breeze.

He began to doubt the correctness of Zhe Bujia's request for reinforcements from Daxia. Isn't this really inviting a wolf into the house?
"Li Kaixu."

"I am here." A young cavalry general rode forward to receive the order.

"I want you to lead five hundred cavalrymen to drive these annoying flies five miles away for me. No mistakes."

"As ordered."

As the Xia cavalry moved out, they soon engaged in a battle with the Uighur cavalry roaming around.

Although the Uighur cavalry came and went like the wind and their archery was extremely accurate.

But the Xia cavalry was not to be trifled with. Most of their soldiers came from the north, and they had fine horses from Xiazhou. Each of them had an arm shield the size of a human face, and wore light chain mail armor carefully crafted by the imperial court. They were well equipped with bows and crossbows, and had sharp swords and spears.

Soon, the five hundred elite cavalrymen killed all the Uighur cavalry roaming around without leaving a single piece of armor.

There was not a single Uighur in sight.

"What do you think of our Great Xia cavalry, Chief Pan?"

Although Pan Luozhi was unwilling, he had to admit that these Xia army cavalry were rare and powerful cavalry in the world.

Zhu Lingde laughed and said, "We have 5,000 cavalrymen like this in Daxia. The next best ones have tens of thousands of cavalrymen, and the worst ones are comparable to the Khitan cavalrymen, who have tens of thousands of cavalrymen."

After that, he pointed to the 1,000 imperial guards who happened to be passing by in formation and said, "We have 4,000 such infantrymen, tens of thousands of similarly elite ones, and hundreds of thousands of available garrison troops."

Pan Luozhi looked and saw that this infantry was equipped to the teeth. They were equipped with iron spears more than two meters long, swords at their waists, and wore heavy armor and iron masks, with only a pair of eyes exposed.

Even their hands were covered with iron gloves and their feet with iron footwear, so when they walked, they stirred up clouds of dust.

These were actually Daxia's elite Iron Man Infantry, organized as the Left Wing of the Iron Man Infantry, with a strength of 2,000 soldiers divided into two battalions, left and right.

Although the rest of the imperial guards are not as well-armed as the Iron Man Infantry, judging from their postures, they are also powerful armies in the world.

Zhu Lingde looked at Pan Luozhi, who was distracted by the infantry and cavalry of Daxia, and said with a hint of sarcasm: "Tell me, where can we not go in this world, let alone the former Tang territory?"

Pan Luozhi said nothing. September 11

Upon learning that the Xia army was coming to support, the Uighur Khan Yaoluo Gerenyu made a prompt decision and left behind a force of more than 10,000 men to continue monitoring the Tibetans in Qingtang City.

He personally led 70,000 Uighur cavalry eastward to Miaochuan City to fight against the Xia army.

Yaoluo Gerenyu looked at the 10,000 infantrymen in the center of the Xia army, who were neatly arranged as one person, and 10,000 cavalrymen on each side, lined up on the south bank of the Huangshui River.

Sometimes, you can tell whether the enemy is easy to defeat just by looking at the opponent's formation.

Although his side had a large number of people, Yaoluo Ge Renyu still felt unsure.

While he was communicating with heaven and earth, the Uighur general Jing Qiong rode out on his horse, arrived in front of the two armies, and spoke wildly, inviting the generals to fight.

Zhu Lingde snorted coldly and sent out the vanguard officer Hu Zhen.

Hu Zhen, who had a beard, was strong and sturdy, and was wearing a bright armor, received the order, rode up to Zhu Lingde, and said with a smile:

"Master, please sit still in the battle formation and watch me capture that barbarian and serve him wine to my brothers."

After saying that, he picked up a double-edged axe and rode towards Jing Qiong.

In an instant, the sounds of drums and trumpets from both armies rang out one after another, stirring the hearts of the people.

After all, the Uighurs did not have as many weapons as the Xia people, so the rapid beating of drums by the Xia army soon drowned out the sound of Uighur trumpets.

"Big victory!"

The Xia army soldiers were very excited when they heard this and shouted loudly.

This affected Jing Qiong and Hu Zhen who were fighting on the battlefield.

Hearing the great victory sounds behind him, Hu Zhen's face flushed and he felt the strength in his hands increase a little.

On the other hand, Jing Qiong couldn't help but be distracted by the fact that his own cheering was suppressed by the opponent.

"Hu dog, watch out for the axe!" Hu Zhen stood up from his horse, gripped the axe handle tightly with both hands, and chopped towards Jing Qiong like a mountain falling down on his head.

Jing Qiong was shocked and quickly raised his lance, not daring to take the attack head-on. He tried his best to push it to his side.

"Haha, go away." Seeing that Jing Qiong had been fooled, Hu Zhen moved the axe blade along the lance to his chest, and suddenly exerted force, hitting him with the axe.

Jing Qiong couldn't sit still and was knocked off the horse.

Hu Zhen took advantage of the situation and used the reverse groove of the axe blade to hook back and hook away his horse lance.

Without his weapon, Jing Qiong lost all sense of security and thought his life was over.

Unexpectedly, Hu Zhen came from behind, bent down and grabbed Jing Qiong on horseback, and captured him back to the battle line alive.

The Xia army soldiers were extremely excited when they saw this. Their morale reached its peak and they shouted at the top of their lungs: "Victory! Victory! Victory!"

Upon seeing this, Yaoluo Ge Renyu knew that he could not wait any longer, as his own morale would collapse if he waited any longer, so he immediately ordered the entire army to attack.

Although the Xia army was under a fierce rain of arrows, the Uighur generals led them fearlessly and still rushed to the front of the Xia army.

The two armies began to fight.

However, Pan Luozhi and other Tibetan soldiers in Hezhou only numbered a few thousand and were of no use. They were afraid that they would collapse and disrupt their own formation.

So Zhu Lingde ordered him to stay behind to prevent the Tibetan defenders in Miaochuan City from colluding with the Uighurs to attack him from both sides and cut off his retreat.

As for why Zhu Lingde believed in Pan Luozhi's Xunhua Tubo but not Miaochuan Tubo.

Just look at the 1,000 Xia troops stationed by Zhu Lingde outside Xunhua City, and you will understand why Pan Luozhi and others are so obedient.

(End of this chapter)