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Chapter 576 Surprise Attack on Naqu
Nagqu, located between Tanglha Mountain and Nyainqentanglha Mountain, also known as Zhuodai, means a herding tribe in Tibetan. It has been the main military grain and horse supply base of the Tubo Dynasty since ancient times, and it is also the ancient road of Tangbo. The strategically important pass, which is under the jurisdiction of the Subi tribe, is where the Naqu River in the upper reaches of the Nu River meanders. Since Songtsan Gampo unified the whole of Tibet, he has spared no effort to build They built a military stronghold, which was guarded by [-] elite members of the Subi tribe. Since Tuyuhun was destroyed by Tubo, the importance of the military stronghold here has declined, and now there are only more than a thousand people guarding it.

A few days ago, it was rumored that the Tang army that wiped out Gar Qinling was about to attack Tubo on a large scale. Suli Gulu, the leader of the Subi tribe, was worried, and gathered more than [-] elite soldiers to garrison the army fortification. According to the news, it is said that the Tang army will definitely not come, so Suli Gulu dispersed the soldiers and horses with peace of mind, leaving only the original guards to guard the army stronghold. Naturally, the defense is not very strict at all. No, it's already high in the sun, and a group of Tubo officers and soldiers are lazily eating their breakfast, let alone their spirits, most of the officers and soldiers are still yawning, if it weren't for the high tower With several sentries in armor, the Nagqu Military Village is like a refugee camp.

"Bah, it's so fucking cold, it's going to snow, but you have to stay in this dilapidated village for a month, what a bad luck!"

"Come on, Nabaqiang, it's good that you didn't let your kid go to patrol outside. Although this dilapidated tower has air leaks from all sides, it still has a roof. It's better than being covered in frost. You can be content with it!"

"That is, compared to those brothers who died in Tuyuhun in vain, we are lucky."

Winter is approaching, and the temperature on the plateau has already dropped almost to freezing point. Even though the sun has risen high at this time, the sunlight is soft and tight, and it is impossible to dispel the threatening chill at all. The sentinels who started to be on duty were already very cold, and they were complaining and stamping their feet vigorously to keep warm, but none of them took the job of keeping an eye on the enemy's situation to heart.

"Hey, look, what's going on over the mountain?"

A group of guards were chattering nonsense, a small soldier accidentally turned his body, and suddenly saw a cavalry army approaching the military stronghold at the foot of the mountain outside Lixu, he couldn't help but exclaimed .

"Cut, what a fuss, it's just a bunch of routs. You don't see much these days. Unlucky, you ran into these useless bastards again early in the morning!"

"Oh, I don't know who's going to have bad luck again, it's really hateful!"

With that little soldier's exclamation, all the guards heard the prestige and looked over. They saw a group of cavalrymen in tattered armor coming slowly on horseback. They didn't care much, because Since half a month ago, there have been groups of fleeing generals returning from time to time on this ancient Tang-Tibet road. Although there have been many fewer of them recently, they can still be seen occasionally. Don't think that this group of defeated troops can't deal with the Tang army. Back in the country, under the broken jars, they cheated and robbed the land, but they caused some troubles for the Subi tribe. It was really annoying, and all the sentries thought that these people were not pleasing , everyone cursed a few times with disgust on their faces, but no one took the arrival of this group of defeated troops to heart.

It's getting closer, it's getting closer, it's only less than a hundred steps away, and the head of a thousand households who has been riding his horse in the forefront of the "broken army" slowly turned his lower neck and slowly raised his head. Turning his head, he revealed a resolute face full of wind and frost, his eyes were as sharp as a knife and swept towards the half-opened and half-closed village gate. This person was surprisingly Tuoba Shanye. The army is exactly the vanguard of the Tang army pretending to be--five days ago, the main force of the Tang army set off from the bank of Qinghai Lake and hurried along the ancient Tang-Fan road. They entered the Tubo Kingdom quietly, at this moment, as long as the Nagqu military stronghold is captured, the gate to the Luoxie will be unimpeded. The speed is not young and old, but because he 12 very much does not want to lead the army alone for the first time, he spoiled the scene.

"Hey, go away, go away, don't come near, say you, a bunch of trash, don't go far away, it's fucking bad luck! Go away, go away!"

Just when Tang Jun in disguise quietly approached less than forty steps away from the gate of the military village, a Tubo head of a hundred households suddenly swayed and walked out from the gate. He meandering towards the gate of the village, he was immediately annoyed, his eyes widened, and he scolded unceremoniously, the tone was like chasing a beggar.

"Kill in!"

Although Tuoba Shanye couldn't understand the words of the head of a hundred households, he could guess the general meaning of what he said from his expression, and it seemed that he could not enter the gate of the village without alarming the Tubo army. , although my heart is slightly heavy, but I don't care too much. After all, I am close enough to the gate of the village at this time, and I can completely seize the gate of the village before the Tubo army reacts. Then he quickly moved his hands, untied the chain crossbow hidden in his waist, let out a loud voice without any politeness, and pulled the trigger, ten steel arrows shot out violently, instantly shooting the hundred-family longman. Became a hedgehog.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

When Tuoba Shanye made such a move, the officers and soldiers of the Tang army who followed him did not dare to be negligent, they roared and launched a charge, and rushed towards the gate of the village like an angry tornado. It was too big, and the Tubo sentry on the watchtower was immediately alarmed. Seeing that the momentum was wrong, they all shouted wildly. In an instant, the entire military camp was in chaos, and the people who were having breakfast The officers and soldiers rushed around chaotically, like headless chickens. Only a few brave people ran to the gate of the village desperately, trying to forcefully close the gate before the Tang army charged.

"open!"

The response of those Tubo warriors is not unreasonable. If they are really asked to close the gate, the Tang army may not be able to capture this military fortress in a short while. Once the time is delayed, the Subi tribe will also There is enough time to react, and this is obviously not the result that Tuoba Shanye is willing to face. Seeing that the half-open door has begun to close, Tuoba Shanye is a little anxious. Zongma rushed to the gate of the village, and with a shot in his hand, the long-horse lance was accurately inserted into the crack of the door, but when he heard a loud roar and his arms shook, the long-horse lance trembled violently Then, Shengsheng pried open the closed gate, and several Tubo warriors who were trying to close the gate were stunned by this huge tremor and fell to the ground.

Now that the gate has been opened, the surging Tang army will not be very polite, and they rushed into the army stronghold one after another, in order to be prepared to fight without defense, there is no suspense in this battle What's more, the elite level of the Hehuang Army's soldiers was far superior to that of these Tubo miscellaneous soldiers, so a one-sided massacre began, but more than a thousand Tubo officers and soldiers were killed like mowing grass In one place, nearly half of the troops died tragically on the spot, and the rest knelt down and begged for mercy. After the whole battle ended, in a little over two quarters of an hour, the Naqu army village had completely fallen under the control of the Tang army. The only fly in the ointment was It's because the momentum of the battle was too big, which alarmed many herdsmen who were nomadic near the military village. The news that the Tang army had killed them could no longer be concealed!
"Assemble the whole army, kill across the river, crush all obstacles!"

Now that his whereabouts had been exposed, Tuoba Shanye no longer concealed it, and simply ordered the assembly horn to be sounded, but after hearing a shrill horn sound, a billow of smoke and dust billowed from the bend of the mountain, and more than [-] Tang army vanguard main forces rushed out at high speed. He rushed to the front like flying, joined forces with the vanguard of Tuoba Shanye, rushed across the Naqu River, which was already in the dry season, and rushed towards the depths of the pasture, but just after rushing far, he had to They stopped because the Suli Gulu, the leader of the Subi tribe, had arrived with more than ten thousand troops hastily assembled!

"This general of the Tang Dynasty invited me. This old man is Suli Gulu, the leader of the Subi tribe. Now that our two countries are about to make peace, I don't know why the general invaded our border?"

Although Su Ligulu knew that the Tang army came with bad intentions, but when he saw the five thousand Tang troops in front of him were so majestic and unusually strong, he felt a little terrified. After a circle, he rode his horse forward for a while, and tried a sentence in Chinese that he was not very proficient in.

"The Tubo thieves have repeatedly violated our Great Tang Tianwei, heinous crimes, they should be destroyed! Brothers, come with me, destroy this court food, kill!"

The reason why Tuoba Shanye didn't launch an attack immediately was because he wanted to see the real situation of the opponent. At this moment, although there were many Tubo troops, the lineup was not complete. It was impossible for him to be the opponent of the Tang army. Lu was obsessed with words and words, so he shouted, raised the long horse in his hand, and rushed to the Tubo army at the head of the horse.

"Datang, mighty! Datang, mighty!"

The main general had already moved, and all the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army did not dare to be negligent. They roared their battle horns, followed closely behind Tuoba Shanye, and swept towards the Tubo Army like an angry tornado.

"Ah... Come on, come on, kill Tang thief!"

Su Li Gulu never expected that Tuoba Shanye would fight as soon as he said so. When he saw the Tang army coming surging, he panicked immediately, and while pulling his horse back, he roared and gave the order to attack.

"Hoho, hoho, hoho..."

Although the Tubo army was afraid of the prestige of the Tang army, but with their homeland behind them, they refused to retreat a little bit. They also roared and launched a countercharge, and the momentum was quite huge as the horses galloped. A plateau cavalry duel ended here. it has started.

(End of this chapter)