Chapter 7: Fantasy

From Chiling to now, everyone has not rested carefully for two days and two nights. Everyone drags their tired bodies and takes heavy steps, and the marching speed is getting slower and slower.

While listening to the noise of unknown birds in the mountains and forests, Xue Chongxun used his groggy mind to think about countermeasures. After thinking for a long time, he said to the generals around him: There is no tent or quilt, so he stopped to camp at night and had to freeze and get sick.We will camp at noon, rest during the day and march at night.

The temperature difference between day and night on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is very large. During the day, the sun is warm and hot, but when the sun sets, it can make people tremble.

Several people discussed the arrangements for marching and camping again.

The pursuers of Tubo are also humans, and they cannot chase them continuously and need to rest. Therefore, everyone thinks that resting for a long time can increase the speed of the march.

It’s just that the route is a bit particular.

They have been walking along the water source Sun and Moon Creek these two days, and now they plan to change their direction in order to hide their whereabouts.

This section of the road of Sun and Moon Creek flows southward, and after about a hundred miles, it will turn eastward and flow through the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Xue Chongxun discussed with the generals and decided to leave the water source and turn to the southeast.

In this way, the river bank and marching route of Sun and Moon Creek can form a mountain horn, and the army can converge with the river in two or three days.

The plan agreed that everyone walked southeast for half a day. When the sun reached Zhongtian, Xue Chongxun ordered the marching to stop and sent people to cut down wood and camp.

The hatchets and other items that were robbed in the Tuyuhun village in the morning came in handy. The hatchets were more skillful when cutting trees. The horizontal knife was used to chop people, so it was really laborious to use them to cut trees.

The sentry was arranged to take turns, and most of them fell to the ground and fell asleep.

As soon as Xue Chongxun sat down, he felt sleepy and fell asleep quickly. He didn't expect that this hard ground could sleep so comfortably, which was even more pleasant than the silk bed in the Daming Palace.

Xue Chongxun slept very hard. When he woke up, it was already dark around him, and the snoring sounds were still coming one after another.

Then he remembered that on the way to escape, the soldiers' snoring sounded very beautiful, which made people feel at ease. At least in this unfamiliar place, there were not only one person, but also a group of brothers and brothers.

A soldier next to him saw Xue Chongxun sitting up and said: The sun has just set, are you going to order your brothers to get up?

The temperature is indeed significantly lower than during the day, but the warm ground atmosphere has not yet dissipated and is not cold.Xue Chongxun said: Wait for a while, and then asked everyone to get up and eat something to continue on the way.

Two or three other generals woke up and sat next to Xue Chongxun to chat.Another veteran with a gray beard also came up, and Xue Chongxun said: It’s rare to have a rest for a while.

The veteran said: If you are older, you will feel less sleepy.

Xue Chongxun glanced at him and suddenly remembered that the old man was a veteran who said under the stone castle that he had been to Fan here. The old man was lucky and was still alive.

So Xue Chongxun couldn't help chatting with him for a few more words: It's cold for a while and it's time to move around to keep the cold.

At this moment, a soldier suddenly rushed over and said in a panic: Report to the prince, a group of people and horses were found in the southeast. It was too dark and they did not use a torch and did not defend against us.Half a mile away.

How many people are there?Xue Chongxun was surprised.

The person who came to the house said: The place where the unfolds is not big, it should not exceed one thousand people.

Xue Chongxun frowned and pondered: How did he appear in front of us?

A general said: This place is the territory of Tuyuhun people, probably Tuyuhun people.

Xue Chongxun looked up and said to the man: He ordered the scout team to continue investigating and figure out the number of people!

Pass the order and prepare for war!

There was a burst of shouts and noise in the camp. The soldiers woke up from their sleep and arranged in a hurry. Some wanted to light torches, but were stopped by the general.

Damn, what are the scouts doing? Only when you find someone else so close?

They came in the dark and were in front of them again, and half a mile later found that it was pretty good.

……

Now that we are running away hastily, we will probably run into pieces and be defeated. Fortunately, the scouts soon reported that there were not many enemies.

Xue Chongxun looked back at the army, and had no armor or weapons, his combat effectiveness was definitely not as good as before; but most of the other party were Tuyuhun people, and the combat power of these devastated slaves was worse than that of Tubo. Xue Chongxun pondered for a moment and made up his mind to fight.

Tuyuhun originally lived in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for many years, close to the Longyou area. It was a small country sandwiched between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo. It was mainly composed of Xianbei people and was dependent on the Tang Dynasty at the beginning. At the same time, the Tang Dynasty also used them as a bridgehead to resist the Tubo forces.

However, the Tang army and Tubo were unfavorable, resulting in Tuyuhun being annexed by Tubo. Some of their tribe moved to the Tang Dynasty, and some remained in Qinghai and became vassals of Tubo.

This is the case with war. The more you win the battle, the fewer the enemies will be. Once it is unfavorable, the more you fight, the more you fight. The Tuyuhun people were originally conquered by the Tang people, but they became enemies again.

Although Xue Chongxun led the remnants of troops and had poor equipment, his discipline and training were still rigorous. The Tang people were able to control so many surrounding alien races because they could fight the Tang army's soldiers.

After a while, the remaining five or six hundred people were arranged in a battle sequence with each team as the core, and they were ready for battle.

Let the enemy taste the power of our Tang army!Xue Chongxun waved his sword and shouted.

The soldiers shouted with great courage, and the shouts echoed in the mountains and forests, and the shouts before the war made morale high.

Unexpectedly, people outside the camp rushed in from the camp gate in screaming.

Xue Chongxun was very puzzled when he saw this. When did the Tang Army collapse at once?

Thinking back to the Battle of Dafeichuan, Xue Rengui led 20,000 to 30,000 Tang troops to face 400,000 Tubo, facing the enemy's army twenty times that of him, and had no supplies, food and supplies, and penetrated into the enemy's territory. It was a desperate place, and he could still fight to the death and severely hurt Tubo at the cost of the entire army's annihilation, and let them take the initiative to propose peace talks.

Xue Chongxun immediately said angrily: What happened?!

snake!snake!snake!This word spreads in the military camp like a plague.

There are really snakes, many little snakes!

I saw countless little snakes crawling into the cracks of the camp's railings. The soft wandering things made people feel extremely numb at first glance.

The thing had a blue color, but its head was white, only the size of a finger, wandering flexibly and extremely fast.

Someone exclaimed: It’s a white-headed green snake on the plateau, it’s poisonous!Be careful, everyone!

The screams quickly rang everywhere, and the camp immediately became like hell, enveloped by a terrifying atmosphere.

Even the mules robbed in the village became restless and restless. The livestock was the most sensitive, and it probably felt the danger.

It's really evil. Is this a war?People's faces were full of panic, but they still worked hard to form battle formations according to the orders. As soldiers, they were conscious: without organization and battle formations, it was just a word of death.

Brothers, light torches, snakes are afraid of fire.

Everyone hurriedly lit the torch made of pine branches and waved it in their hands. The little snake really did not dare to approach it; but before many people had time to ignite the fire, a snake had swam in. The bitten people screamed and jumped in fear, which greatly affected the strictness of the formation. What's more, the snakes crawling into the formation were still biting people madly before they were killed!

Snakes generally do not attack people on their own initiative. Can those Tuyuhun people outside control such beasts?

Suddenly, a cold flute sound rippled in the air, sobbing like a resentful woman sobbing and resenting, or a spell like a wronged soul.

Woo... The sky seemed to suddenly become darker again.

The human being, who describes himself as the Lord of All Things, is actually always filled with panic and very fragile inside. The cold atmosphere makes the Tang army almost mentally collapse; the strange sound of the flute is like the judgment of death, and people don’t know what will happen.

Xue Chongxun pointed to the direction of the flute and shouted: Bow and crossbow!Crossbow team, arrows rolling...

At this time, a strange sound of flute suddenly mixed in the air with the rippling sound of flutes.

A long black stripes suddenly flew out from the dim sky, soft and tangled...snake!Can snakes fly?Of course not, someone must be throwing it with tools.

Shoot the arrow!Shoot the arrow!

The little snake fell from the sky, fell on people's heads, necks, vests... The cold feeling really makes people get goose bumps all over their body.

Screams were endless. Although everyone was lying on torches, the snake flew directly into the crowd, with nowhere to escape, and could only crawl and bite.

A general said to Xue Chongxun: Prince, you can't organize the team anymore, we can only attack immediately!

Such a chaotic team, completely unknown to the direction of the situation...

What about attacking like this?

But what can I do at this moment!

What Xue Chongxun is best at is acting decisively when he sees the opportunity, and immediately shouts: The army follows the order, the crossbow team is in front, the Zhanfeng team is in the back, and the whole army attacks!

The Tang army did not scatter immediately with extreme fear, despair, and the chaotic team, and had already shown extraordinary morale.

The chaotic crossbowmen shot arrows into the night sky scattered and blindly. Many people were still busy dealing with the poisonous snakes on their bodies and around them. The shouts of despair were mixed together. People danced the torches in their hands in a daze, and the noisy crowds carried each other and advanced extremely slowly.

The crossbowman and the Zhanfeng team were completely in a mess.It is nonsense to rush around during combat, especially if the infantry does not form a queue, it is really no different from killing.

There was a whistling sound in the air, and the arrow feathers poured down the dark sky, and the unequipped Tang people suffered heavy casualties.

It would be fine if they were asked to charge with arrows under normal circumstances; but in this situation, those little snakes that made life cold confusing the morale of the army, and the desire for arrows in the sky was like hell on earth.

After a while, someone started to run away, and the generals couldn't drink it, and soon they became disintegrating.The camp was quite flat, and the enemy cavalry had room to play. Seeing the Tang army in chaos, they rushed over.

Seeing this, the soldiers next to Xue Chongxun said: If the defeat is ahead, let's escape each of us. Perhaps some people can save their lives.