War is an act of violence that forces the enemy to obey our will. Similarly, war is an absolute means for us to obtain wealth and power.
But our war is to seek a fair, just and stable society for the Tubo people who live in dire straits.
For their happy life and for their Zampu Mansong Mangzan to no longer be controlled by the treacherous minister Lu Dongzan, the Tang Dynasty, as a superior country, has the responsibility and obligation to help them.
The impassioned speech only made his guards' eyes flash with stars, and they didn't understand why His Highness the Crown Prince was so crazy when he woke up so early in the morning.
Quan Yi had already led his team to the other side of the mountains to wait for the Tibetan caravan, but His Royal Highness was actually facing the snow-capped mountains in the distance, looking upright and awe-inspiring.
"Forget it, after saying so much, few of you understand. Just remember that you won't let Quan Yi's men steal the limelight for a while." Li Hong looked at the two hundred people with blank faces and thought for a moment. The night's pre-war mobilization seemed to have been in vain.
War in this era still tends to be barbaric, and truth is always the first thing to be sacrificed.
The most easily identifiable thing about the Tubo people is naturally their clothing and hair.
A robe similar to a fur collar and a belt intertwined with animal skins are their most distinctive features.
The hair accessories are also easier to distinguish. The braids on the head are the same for both men and women. Once the hat is taken off, it immediately looks messy.
A caravan of camels so long that the tail could not be seen slowly came from a long and narrow corner in the distance of the Kunlun Mountains.
The clear and mysterious sound of camel bells rang out on the open plateau. The tinkling sound, coupled with the occasional shouts from merchants, attracted the cry of mountain eagles flying in the blue sky and white clouds.
The chirping of mountain eagles that filled the sky did not make the camel team pause or doubt for a moment. The dromedary in the lead was unique to Tibet.
Yaks are also good at walking on mountain trails. Like dromedary camels, they are extremely cold-resistant and extremely endurance. As pack animals, both of them are the most proud animals of Tibetan merchants.
Putting down the telescope in his hand, Li Hong looked at the camel caravan like a small river. There were more than 2,000 merchants, which might not be so spectacular in the big desert.
But on the winding mountain road, these people are a dominant group that no one dares to mess with in Congling.
Behind the mountain, there were already powerful soldiers and horses ambushing them, and on the other side, in a place as narrow as a canyon, Li Hong had been waiting for a long time.
Yu Tuqi looked at the long camel caravan. He really couldn't figure out how to eat these caravans without having an advantage in numbers.
"Isn't the old guy not here?" Li Hong murmured to himself, facing the mountain wind.
The camel team could already see a small group of two thousand people, but they could not see any decent and important people among them.
"Sir, you don't mean..." Hua Menggudong swallowed, not daring to speak out.
Li Hong ignored Hua Meng's question. Of course he knew the importance of this battle and the consequences if it failed.
Along the way, Li Hong did not reveal that Lu Dongzan was in the camel caravan. He had always used the Tubo merchant operation planned by Lu Dongzan as an excuse to explain why he attacked a camel caravan. , and let yourself take action personally.
"Sign the flag, order Quan Yi, don't move no matter what happens, wait for the order." After Li Hong finished speaking, he picked up a heavy, long-range sniper crossbow next to him and found a commanding height.
If the old man Lu Dongzan didn't show up, these camel teams might disappear from his eyes in a swaggering manner.
This is a situation that Li Hong will never allow to happen, so now he can only act like the sniper in his previous life, using a long-distance crossbow to try to kill the leader of the camel team to see what will happen.
An iron arrow with a body full of spiral patterns was slowly inserted into the slot by Li Hong.
Looking at the leader of the camel caravan who was still walking leisurely and contentedly, Li Hong took off the blindfold he wore as a Pirates of the Caribbean when setting off today and began to target the leader.
Li Hong estimated that the mountain wind would cause deviations in the accuracy of the arrow. With the sound of eagles above his head, Li Hong immediately pulled the trigger. The sound of the arrow breaking through the air echoed with the sound of eagles in the sky.
"Master..." Xiaoxue looked nervously at the leader who was still walking.
"Don't worry, let the arrow fly for a while." As soon as Li Hong finished speaking, he heard the sound of the camel bell at the front, and there was a hint of confusion.
"Yeah, one hit." Li Hong quickly snatched the telescope from Xiaoxue's hand and hurriedly observed it carefully.
The leader was struck right between the eyebrows and fell to the ground. The dromedary was frightened by the sound of the wind caused by the arrow, and reflexively moved back. As a result, the bell on the dromedary's neck became confused. sound.
The camel caravan slowly stopped, except at the beginning, when there was a small chaos ahead when he shot the leader. Within a moment, the entire team quickly returned to calm.
Except for a few people who occasionally raised their heads and looked to both sides, everyone else just stood quietly beside their dromedaries or yaks, looking straight ahead.
"These people are not simple. None of them are real merchants. They are all elite soldiers and generals of Tubo." Li Hong said excitedly, and he was even more convinced that Lu Dongzan must be hidden in the camel team.
Li Hong carefully observed the entire camel team with binoculars. He did not miss any small detail, but there was no small movement in the camel team winding on the mountain road.
The entire camel caravan seemed to be frozen. No one spoke or moved. They stood there like terracotta warriors and horses, motionless.
"Master, what should we do now?" Xiaoxue was a little nervous due to this strange atmosphere, and asked in a low voice.
"Wait." Li Hong put down the telescope and set up an arrow again.
Sure enough, among the seemingly programmed camel caravans at the foot of the mountain, a man suddenly appeared and trotted up and down to the front of the caravan.
He knelt down and looked at the dead leader, then nodded to the people behind him, led the dromedary and began to prepare to move forward.
"Whoosh..." The arrow cut through the air with a trace of shock.
The man had just taken seven or eight steps forward with the dromedary, and then, like the first man, the arrow in his eyebrows fell to the ground.
The camel team was just like the beginning. After a slight panic at the front, it became orderly again without any trace of chaos.
In this way, the entire camel team walked forward for less than thirty steps, and seven people were shot dead by Li Hong.
But the entire camel team still did not have the panic situation that Li Hong wanted. The entire camel team was still eerily calm, still orderly and orderly.
Li Hong frowned and had to re-evaluate Tubo's strength. These people were too scary and too calm.
No wonder Tubo was able to stand erect on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, making it impossible for Bai Yi Dashi and the Tang Dynasty to do anything to it, and it also allowed Tubo to continue to expand to the south.
The sunlight of time slowly slanted from the south slope, but the Tubo caravan still stood there motionless. They did not send anyone to continue to lead the way forward. Instead, they just stood there, blowing the mountain breeze, and waited quietly. With.
Li Hong let out a long breath and looked at the sun that had already moved away above his head. He understood that these people were waiting for the sky to darken before continuing on, and they were not waiting for reinforcements as Wei Tuqi thought.
Li Hong's estimate of the current situation was somewhat optimistic. He chose this place to ambush and intercept because the road here was narrow and the Tubo camel caravan could not pass side by side.
But at the same time, this place is not suitable for using the terrain to charge from the bottom up.
What he originally wanted was to cause chaos in the Tubo camel caravan after shooting, and then take advantage of the chaos to cut off the connection between the camel caravan, divide it into several segments, and annihilate them.
But obviously Lu Dongzan expected that he would do this, so he had this immobile mountain camel team, standing here like the Great Wall, leaving Li Hong unable to come up with a good idea for a while.
In this first confrontation, the two have not yet met, although it is not clear who will win or lose.
However, even though Li Hong took advantage of all the geographical advantages, he did not gain any advantage. This shows that Lu Dongzan has the upper hand between the two.
The sky will soon turn to Lu Dongzan's side. As soon as it gets dark, Lu Dongzan will fight to kill a few more people, and then he can calmly carry the goods through here and get out of the ambush circle.
"Shoot." Li Hong said calmly, looking at the camel team that seemed to be frozen by the mountain wind, with a trace of anger flashing in his eyes.
Hua Meng ran away in a hurry. At a place at the foot of the mountain beyond the sight of the camel team, the red flag began to wave. It was not until the flag there responded that Hua Meng put down the flag in his hand, handed it to others and ran back.
When he came out of Chang'an City, Li Zhi only gave him twenty powerful sniper crossbows. Now Quan Yi has ten on his side and ten on his own.
What he has to do now is to let these twenty people spread out and shoot the Tubo people who are like wooden stakes at the foot of the mountain before dark.
The arrows pierced the air with a sharp sound and carried a cold killing intent. They shot at random in the long Tubo camel caravan, looking for flaws.
Li Hong held up the telescope and observed carefully. He saw that after the Tubo man who was hit by the arrow fell down, the Tubo man in front and behind turned out to be expressionless and undisturbed. He still stood there as before, not afraid of the next one. The arrows will hit him.
But the camel caravan was too long, so long that Li Hong felt desperate. After each Tibetan fell, whether it was the yak or the one-humped camel, they panicked a little, then regained their composure, and stood quietly. There.
Twenty sniper crossbows were unable to shake the several-mile-long Tubo camel caravan.
In Li Hong's view, he was like breaking the legs of a thousand-legged centipede, with no substantial impact at all.
No matter how he shot him, he still couldn't effectively hurt the "centipede" at the foot of the mountain that might be able to bite him back.
(End of chapter)