Chapter 305 God's Power from Heaven
"Hahaha--"
In the handsome tent of Tang's military camp, there were bursts of cheerful laughter, and occasionally the smell of barbecue floated in the air of Dafeichuan tile blue with the wind.
"Young General, it's really a strategy to win thousands of miles!" Xue Wanjun raised a bowl of tea and said, "Xue replaces tea with wine to respect the major general!"
"General Xie Xue, Qin is ashamed." Qin Mubai drank tea with him and replied with a smile.
The two armies are against each other, and the army is forbidden to drink alcohol. This is not only the provisions of the Military Law of the Tang Dynasty, but also the generals issued by Qin Shubao. No one dares to violate it.
Xue Wanche was much more silent than his eldest brother, especially when he saw Xue Rengui standing behind Qin Mubai. At the beginning, the fierce general who defeated him in Dengzhou, his expression was always a little depressed.
Qin Mubai looked into his eyes and asked him with a smile, "Does the general seem to have concerns?"
"Oh, no." Xue Wanche replied, "It's just..."
"How about it?"
Xue Wanche said, "It's just that I'm thinking that although we have curbed the 60,000 troops of Tubo and pressed them in the hinterland of Dafeichuan, what can we use to expel and defeat them? It's the busy summer season. On the one's, the grain and fodder are not particularly abundant, and on the other, it should not be delayed for a long time, which has delayed the army's field!"
"What General Xue said is right!" Qin Mubai nodded and smiled and said, "For the whole Dafeichuan strategy, we have only implemented half of the tactics. It's really too early to be happy. 60,000 Tubo iron riders, which was definitely a huge force that could not be despised in the past. If we want to defeat the enemy with the strength of the soldiers, it is almost impossible with the current strength of Lanzhou.
"What's the clever plan of the young general?" Brother Xue asked together.
Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Don't worry. When I understand, I will take a detailed look at the camp of the Tubo army before making a final determination.
"Okay..." The Xue brothers are also helpless and difficult to ask. Although they are the general Qin Mubai is just a general of Yifu, it is obvious that the strategy to defeat the enemy is only under his control. Even if the two brothers had three heads and six arms, they did not have any confidence to destroy the 60,000 troops of Tubo with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.
The next morning, Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui took a few light riders and walked around the hill next to the Tang army's canyon, and looked up at the Tubo camp a few miles away.
The area around Dafeichuan and Qinghai Lake is not as much wind and sand as in Lanzhou. The sky is clear between the blue water and the blue sky, and the visibility is excellent. Although it is several miles away, you can still see the huge camp of the Tubo people stretching for several miles, like a yak lying between the junction of the blue water and the white snowfield of the green field.
The scenery is beautiful.
"Rengui, you have wandered many times in front of the Tubo Camp. How is the terrain in that area?" Qin Mubai asked.
"It's a very flat pasture, next to Qinghai Lake." Xue Rengui replied, "When Tubo people build a camp, they will choose a beautiful place of water and grass."
Qin Mubai nodded and thought: The range of the cannon in red is a problem. There are still several miles between the two armies, and they are full of plains and grasslands, which is obviously a unique cavalry battlefield. If you push blindly, as soon as the Tubo people find something strange, only Xiao kills more than a hundred riders, and the painstaking efforts of my 300,000 red cannons will be ruined. Moreover, cannons cannot be regarded as the main battle. On its first appearance, its powerful cannon power can be fully utilized.
"Rengui, if you go to the Tubo camp to challenge now, will they still pay attention to it?" Qin Mubai asked with a smile.
"It's hard to say." Xue Rengui also smiled and said, "After being teased repeatedly, the Tubo people must be ashamed and angry. The young general used a lot of strange and suspicious soldiers. They can't tell which way is real and which way is fake. It is possible that one would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one person go.
"It makes sense." Qin Mubai raised the corners of his mouth and smiled strangely, "Then I have to scare them again and coax them with a large number of drums to make them dizzy and dare not leave the camp."
"Can you do it again?" Xue Rengui asked.
"Just put the new wine in the old bottle." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Go back to the camp. I have a way."
Just after dinner that afternoon, Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui set out together. In addition to the original Yifu elite Yueqi, Qin Mubai also brought more than a thousand drummers and horns, more than a hundred huge war drums and hundreds of golden horns. Everyone is puzzled. How can they bring such a bunch of shabby things to challenge? Qin Mubai didn't say much, and set off as soon as he finished.
A few miles, it will arrive soon. Along the way, they met the Tubo scouts and ignored them, so they went back to the camp to report. When Qin Mubai and others arrived in front of the Tubo camp, the sun was setting and it was about to be night. As expected, there were a lot of bows and arrows in the Tubo camp, waiting.
Looking at their posture, they are in a defensive posture of guarding the camp.
"Oh, it's interesting. When the 60,000 troops saw more than 2,000 of us coming, they actually put on the defensive first. Qin Mubai said with a smile.
Xue Rengui said, "They have been fooled several times in a row, and they are more cautious."
"It's time for each person to be suspicious." Qin Mubai said with a laugh, "It's a taboo to be suspicious of soldiers. At this time, if they really send out a strong ride to deal with us, we really have no good idea. We can only turn around and run away. We can only throw away the drums and corners.
"It seems that the major general has made their minds clear." Xue Rengui laughed.
Tang Jun was more than a li away from the Tubo camp and did not call forward. Tubo waited for a while, probably making a decision not to understand this group of Tang troops, and gradually restored the normal order, but Yingkou arranged many sergeants to defend closely.
"The other general is quite calm and not panicked." Qin Mubai couldn't help laughing and said, "However, they will suffer when it's dark."
When it got dark, there was a fire in the Tubo camp, and the patrols and scouts went one after another. Obviously, the defense was strict. Qin Mubai ordered the sergeants to light a bonfire, but the man did not take off the armor and the horse did not go down. He divided into several teams and moved to both sides. The original fire left one or two people to take care of it to ensure that it would not be extinguished. Then, the troops dispersed and spread along the Tubo camp towards the four fields. They all kept a distance of one or two miles, and bonfires were lit everywhere, as much as they could.
The Tubo people were surprised to see that the camp was surrounded by bonfires all over the mountains and fields, and it was increasing. Could it be that the Tang army arrived at many troops in the middle of the night and prepared to form a siege against the Tubo battalion?
The Tubo generals did not dare to neglect, and none of them dared to sleep. They all gathered together and paid attention to the movement of the Tang army. In the camp of tens of thousands of troops, the people are bustling and lively, even more tense than during the day.
But after staring for a long time, I only saw the bonfire ignited, and I didn't close the Tang army to rob the camp from the night.
The Tubo people were annoyed, "It's another suspicious plan!" Don't pay attention to it!"
"What if there are so many Tang troops?"
"They don't have so many people! Moreover, the Han people are the most cunning. If there are so many people, they will deliberately hide from us from knowing their real situation. Now that they deliberately light so many bonfires, it proves that there are few of them!"
"Why don't we go out and kill them clean?"
"Idiot, what if they have an ambush? It's hard to explain where you are going in the night. Who knows which way is true and which way is fake!"
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The Tubo people quarreled endless and were confused. In view of the teasing of the suspected soldiers before, they decided not to rush out and be humiliated. Anyway, no matter how the Tang army fooled, it was impossible for them to eat their 60,000 troops alive with a little bit of people!
Therefore, it was decided to strictly guard the camp and ignore it.
Qin Mubai stayed up until midnight and ate a little night with Xue Rengui. Seeing that the Tubo camp returned to normal, he couldn't help laughing and said, "I haven't slept. Do you still want to sleep?" Rengui, tell them to get up and pee.
"Haha!" Xue Rengui shouted, picked up a big drum hammer and walked to a large military drum more than one person high, and banged the drum.
As soon as it sounded here, the Tang army drummers and horners who had just dispersed to the four fields responded.
Suddenly, there was a drum horn in the four fields, which made the water of Qinghai Lake stir.
The generals of Tibet were so scared that they frightened their feet to the sky from the yak couch.
"Robbery Camp, Tang Army Robbery Camp!"
The Tubo camp suddenly boiled.
In an instant, the drums and the horns were gone.
Qin Mubai decisively ordered: "Withdraw! - Big drums and horns, give them, and the whole army will retreat lightly!"
Two or three thousand people ran away, and the night was like a ghost of the wind.
Tuchi was dumbfounded. You looked at me, I looked at you, and roared together--
"How dare you tease us again!"
Crazy people and honest people have always been the most terrible, and I don't know what kind of Tubo people classify themselves. In a word, they opened the four doors and decided to take the risk of being ambushed to avenge the humiliation.
He rushed to those imaginary Tang army camps, but found some smoky fires and some drum horns that were cold by the wind of Qinghai Lake.
"Poke the drum and move the corner back!" In anger, General Tubo ordered so. They are not used to drums, and they can use horns.
Qin Mubai went back to the camp and fell asleep, like a gambler who came home from gambling and lost all. Xue Wanjun was stunned to see that all the people who came back were light pole cavalry, and a large number of heavy ordnances they had taken away before were gone. When asked Xue Rengui, Xue Rengui was also very confused. Finally, he had a rare humor and said, "The young general probably felt a little embarrassed to tease the Tubo people repeatedly, so he gave them those things as a consolation."
In the afternoon, Qin Mubai woke up. As soon as I came to the handsome tent, I found that everyone was waiting for him, and everyone's face was full of doubt.
Qin Mubai grinned: "Colleagues, everyone, go back to bed!"
"Ah?" Everyone was surprised.
"Ha ha! Have a good sleep, and we are going to beat drums again in the middle of the night. And this time, we were in a round all night. The soldiers were ordered to start sleeping now in batches. At night, I don't want to sleep.
Everyone smiled bitterly and puzzled, but they couldn't ask anything, so they had to implement it.
In the middle of the night, the sound of drums in the Tang military camp suddenly shook. The Tubo people a few miles away heard it clearly. They all jumped up and scolded, but they were afraid that the Tang army would really attack in the middle of the night. Therefore, the whole battalion was ready to rectify. As a result, after waiting in the middle of the night, not half of the Tang army attacked, so he stiffened his scalp and stuffed his ears, and most of them went back to bed. Qin Mubai sent a group of cavalry and lit a fire outside the Tubo camp. He scared them again, and then ran away.
Two or two times, the Tubo people almost had a nervous breakdown. He sent troops out to chase, and this time he didn't even touch the drum corner. It was not until I chased after the Tang Dynasty camp that I knew that the Tang army was beating the drum desperately in the array. In return, the Tibetan people ignored it. Everything was in order as usual. It was his turn to sleep. Everyone's ears were stuffed with cotton wool and just slept with their heads covered.
For the next few consecutive nights, it is still the same. Tubo's nerves seemed to be numb under repeated stimuli. There seems to be no other reaction except cursing.
On this night, the lights in the tent of the Tang army were bright, and all the generals arrived. Qin Mubai said, "Gentlemen, the Tubo army is only tonight! General Xue, please divide the army, look at my signal, and prepare to enter from the Tubo battalions!"
"What order?"
Qin Mubai smiled mysteriously: "That's right, after the rolling sound of thunder from the sky stops, it's a good opportunity to march!"
All the generals are at a loss!
"Trust me." Qin Mubai raised the corners of his mouth lightly and smiled.
"Good." Xue Wanjun gritted his teeth and let the generals lead the army and horses, riding seven roads in a total of different steps. The flag was clear to raise fire to respond, and then they would kill them into the Tubo camp together.
At night, the drums rumbled in the Tang military camp. Qin Mubai led two hundred soldiers of the Shenwu Camp and set out with 30 cannons in a carriage. These cannons have been tightly wrapped since they entered the village, which is no different from ordinary wrets, and have not caused any suspicion for a while. It was not until then that everyone was extremely stunned. They didn't know what Qin Mubai was going to do.
Yuwen Hongtai led 3,000 elite riders to escort from the side. This group of people set out first. In the night of the rumble of war drums, it was evenly calmly and safely scattered around the Tubo camp. Thirty cannons, the dark barrel was aimed at Tubo's camp, just like a fly swat aimed at the green-headed fly lying on the glass. The fire ready to be used to light the cannon ignited, and the Tubo people did not react at all. This was used to it.
Qin Mubai got off the horse, picked up a strong fire cloud, blocked his ears with cotton wool, and picked up three torches and threw them high into the sky.
The order has been issued, and the power of heaven is coming!
Thirty cannons were fired in a row, like the hammer of Thor knocking one after another. In the deafening rumble, thirty angry lotus flowers bloomed in the Tubo camp!
Tang Jun's ears were stuffed to death, and he couldn't hear many screams. I only saw bursts of smoke rolling into the sky, like a fierce dragon breaking through the earth's crust and jumping to the sky. Anyone who touches the people and horses in the Tubo camp will be broken into pieces! The things in the tent ignited a raging fire. Before long, it was like a sea of fire!
"My God, this is God's punishment!"
I didn't see an enemy's Tubo, so I could only make such horrible screams!
The bombardment has not stopped. The artillerymen are familiar with changing their angles and firing at different positions. The "Thunder" were like curses with eyes, which accurately fell into the camp of the Tubo people.
In the distance, Tang Jun was also shocked!
They only saw that in the Tubo camp with fire and black smoke, people and horses were in a mess, which was no longer like the army at all, but like the disaster scene of an earthquake or tsunami.
It seems that there is no need to fight this battle. The Tubo people opened the rear camp and were already fleeing crazily.
It's not retreating, but escaping!
In the face of Tianwei and God's punishment, there is nothing he can do, even if he is known as the unparalleled warrior on the plateau.
Qin Mubai issued an order to stop the shelling.
A moment later, the seven-way Tang army marched into the Tubo camp to carry out the later collection and control work. At this time, most of the 60,000 troops in Tibet almost escaped, and most of the remaining people who could not escape were either scared or injured or stunned by the shelling had no combat effectiveness.
In fact, there are not many Tubo people who died in the bombardment. At most, it is equivalent to the casualties of a small battle, and there are only two or three thousand people. However, it's all scary!
At dawn, Qin Mubai stood on the gun rack of the cannon and looked at the Tang flags all over the Dafeichuan camp. He raised the corners of his mouth and shook his head.
"A few earth cannons can also become the big killers of this era. Will the Tubo people, who are frightened by the power of the god from heaven, come to this land of Dafeichuan cursed by the god?