Ding Chizan and De Chizan looked at each other and saw a hint of ferocity in each other's eyes.
Because they knew that if they went further, they would reach a mountainous area with endless rolling hills.
As long as they entered the mountains, neither the Tubo soldiers nor the Tang soldiers could increase their marching speed.
The Tibetan soldiers, who have always been good at fighting in mountains and hills, will slowly catch up with the Tang cavalry due to their advantage in distance.
Twenty thousand horses were like enlarged ants, crawling hard on the rugged and winding road.
The roadless road with rugged rocks and bumps looks flat from a distance, as if nature has laid a thick green carpet on this mountain range.
But when you actually walk in, you will realize how uneven the extremely primitive "green carpet" is.
There are many hidden pits and strange rocks. Even the edges of the rocks are as sharp as blades. If you are not careful, you may scratch the horse's leg and lose its mobility.
Dozens of war horses have broken their legs due to the uneven potholes and strange rocks hiding underground caves. Many soldiers also sprained their feet because of the extremely difficult to find mountain roads and are now limping with great effort. Move forward.
Under the rolling mountain peaks, the Tibetan soldiers also moved slowly, and the tall horses would also get sprained by the mountain road or fall on the sharp rock.
Li Hong had already fallen off the horse and refused Banmei and Xunlan to help him lead the horse. He led the horse forward slowly, one step at a time, one step at a time.
Under such terrain conditions, only Hua Meng, Mang Zhong, Cheetah, Banmei Xunlan, and Lawless were the most relaxed.
Their own martial arts are already very high, and coupled with their light body skills, even if they are holding a horse, they are much faster than ordinary people.
Hua Meng's figure was on the halfway slope of the mountain, like a jumping rabbit, flying high and low over strange rocks and shrubs. In a short time, he ran to Li Hong.
Li Hong then handed the reins to Hua Meng and walked forward easily, listening to Hua Meng's report.
"Master, hurry up. As long as we climb over this mountain before dark, we will be safe." Hua Meng was panting while facing the harsh conditions of nature.
"Hei Te Changzhi is at the cliff in front?" Li Hong raised his eyes and looked into the distance. After looking for a long time, he didn't find where Hei Te Changzhi was ambushing.
"Yes, Master, as long as we go slower and suppress the speed of the Tibetan soldiers, they can ensure complete concealment." Hua Meng glanced behind him, who was slowly descending from another mountain range and was about to prepare. Tibetan soldiers heading to this mountain range.
The most insurmountable thing about fighting on a plateau is the thin air. Li Hong tried hard to even out his breath, but altitude sickness made his eardrums a little uncomfortable.
"Send a few people to roll down rocks from high places to slow them down. The troops must get over them. Otherwise, when we pass by, I'm afraid they will enter the ambush circle. By then, if we hurt ourselves again, the gain will outweigh the losses." Li Hong looked a little worried.
The speed of the Tibetan soldiers marching on the plateau was beyond his imagination. In half a day, they had actually shortened the distance a lot.
Through the telescope, Li Hong could vaguely see a few agile soldiers from the Tang Dynasty on the opposite cliff. Their bodies were covered with branches and they were burying explosives under the huge rocks.
That night, Li Hong led 20,000 cavalry and all passed through Hei Te Changzhi's ambush.
When he passed by, Jingzhe followed Hei Te Changzhi closely, never leaving.
Jingzhe has been holding the horizontal knife in his right hand. As long as Hei Te Changzhi is slightly abnormal, Jingzhe will raise the knife and kill Hei Te Changzhi first.
The thought that people who are not from my race must have different minds seems to have been planted in Jingzhe's head, and he is deeply afraid that when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince passes by, Black Teeth Chang will become rebellious.
Fortunately, everything went as Li Hong expected. When Li Hong passed by, Black Teeth Changzhi was even more nervous than Hua Meng, and ordered no one in the army to make any changes.
Li Hong did not stop and continued to climb mountains and ridges overnight, because only in this way could he reach the end of the endless mountains before dawn, where he could let his troops rest and regroup.
Next is a vast plain, starting from Dangxiang and heading straight towards Fuqi City.
He expected that on the way to Fuqi City, there would be Tibetan soldiers coming to intercept him.
A night of traveling made all 20,000 people a little exhausted. No matter how high their martial arts skills were, Banmei and Xunlan were still two women, and altitude sickness was getting more and more serious.
Li Hong looked at Banmei and Xunlan, who were clearly unable to hold on as the sky was getting brighter, and naturally he felt pity in his heart.
So he ordered the two women to mount their horses immediately, with Hua Meng and Cheetah holding the reins.
But the two girls refused to obey. Their pale cheeks, chapped lips, and tired eyes were full of determination. If His Highness the Crown Prince did not mount the horse, he would not mount the horse himself.
Li Hong looked at the two stubborn women speechlessly, then looked at the road down the mountain, and had no choice but to order the troops to rest here and continue on their way after an hour.
As soon as he finished speaking, Banmei and Xunlan made a noise, and regardless of how sharp the strange rocks under their feet were, they knelt on the ground and apologized to Li Hong, thinking that it was their fault for delaying the march.
Li Hong stroked Banmei's fair cheek and said lightly: "You are not worthy of me stopping the entire army because of you. I am sympathizing with the altitude sickness of other soldiers."
The sky gradually turned white, and the dew overnight soaked the armor on the body. The morning breeze blew by, making people shiver involuntarily.
The two women were wrapped together in a thick cloak by Li Hong. They were afraid that after an hour of rest, they would be exposed to the mountain breeze and be infected with the cold.
And just as they were getting ready to go, on the mountains opposite, they suddenly remembered the earth-shaking explosions. One after another, explosions rang out in the endless mountains.
It was as if a heavy rain was like thunder in the night, with firelight coming from the mountains opposite, and the desperate sound of explosions seemed to make Li Hong feel that the mountains under his feet were shaking.
The rumbling explosions were even more terrifying in the valley. The thunder-like roar drowned out the screams of the Tibetan soldiers. The entire mountain range seemed to have offended a certain mountain god, making the entire mountain range become terrifying because of the screams. .
Bai Qi, who had long been accustomed to the sound of explosions, suddenly stood on a rock with his front legs just after the explosion, and then began to howl at the top of his lungs.
The long howl of wolves, after the explosion fell silent, was like a clear spring nourishing other animals in the mountains. After a while, the cries of other animals rang out in the mountains.
"Is this Bai Qi asking other animals if something is wrong?" Li Hong took the telescope handed over by Hua Meng and quietly looked at the ambush area of Hei Te Changzhi, saying in a relaxed mood.
"We're fine, we're all fine." Li Hong rubbed Bai Qi's huge head and started walking down the mountain.
As for whether Ding Chizan and De Chizan behind him could escape from Hei Te Changzhi's ambush area, that was no longer his concern.
"What on earth is this sound?" Ding Chizan's eyes turned red!
He deliberately chose not to climb this mountain range last night because he wanted to continue to paralyze the enemy, and then took advantage of the Tibetan soldiers' mountainous operations to plan a surprise attack on the Tang soldiers early this morning.
But he didn't expect that they had already set up an ambush here, waiting for him to take the initiative to get in.
This sound was like the roaring thunder of a mountain god, and he was already familiar with it.
His cities, including Dechizan's, were all destroyed by such thunder.
Now, such thunder sounds again! The huge rocks and dust rushed towards them from high places with a crashing sound.
On the mountain road, because of the mountain climbing, his soldiers and horses could not disperse at all. Within a moment, the rolling stone had already rushed to them.
The huge impact force did not wait for him to order the troops behind him to disperse, and he himself was the first to be submerged by the flow of falling boulders.
Screams and calls for help were intertwined with each other. The Tibetan soldiers wanted to spread out and escape, but their speed could not compare with the speed of the rocks rolling down due to the explosion.
In a short time, when the first batch of stones rolled down to the foot of the mountain range, a total of 50,000 Tibetan soldiers and horses had completely lost their combat effectiveness.
Dechizan, who was also covered in scars, looked at these huge rocks in horror. He didn't want to believe that this was a trick by Tang Bing. He would rather believe that he was defeated by the thunder that pierced his eardrums, not by Tang Bing. soldiers.
"This is not something Tang Bing can control. This is God's punishment. This is God punishing us. God is on Tang Bing's side." De Chizan groaned as he lay there with one leg pressed by a boulder. .
But because the second wave of rolling stones fell rapidly, it was like the water level of the Guqu River suddenly rose a lot during the rainy season, and the waves carried pure water and submerged it.
Dechizan closed his eyes in pain. The moment the boulder submerged him, he didn't understand what the explosion was about.
Why was there such a huge explosion? In Tang Bing's hands, what exactly was it that could bring such power that it could shock people's eardrums and shake the earth
The rolling stones slowly fell in scattered pieces. It was no longer as violent and turbulent as it was at the beginning. The stones rolled feebly in twos and threes.
The Tang cavalry behind them, armed with crossbows, began to sweep away the corpses that had not been submerged by falling rocks on the half-slope of the mountain range.
As long as they encounter the shadow of the Tubo soldiers, they will first make up for it with a knife or shoot an arrow, regardless of life or death.
The heads of Dechizan and Dingchizan were beyond recognition. If it weren't for the tokens embroidered on their arms to prove their identities, Black Teeth Changzhi wouldn't be sure. The two round fleshy eyes in front of him were blurred, and the back of their heads couldn't be distinguished. , the thing on the front is actually the big head of two people.
(End of chapter)