Ten miles southeast of Suzhou, Heweipo

After Hou Guangliang arrived here one day, he used his seal to summon local government soldiers from Suzhou.

Soon... Heweipo gathered an army of about 80,000 people. The Tang Dynasty used the system of government troops, so the people who were summoned at this time were all strong, no worse than the soldiers in Tubo and Tuyuhun on the opposite side.

This time, Li Zhan allowed Hou Guangliang to command the war of so many people. In fact, Li Zhan was training generals for Li Chengqian, mainly Hou Guangliang was loyal to the king. Li Zhan felt that Hou Guangliang was many times better than his father Hou Junji.

Therefore, Li Zhan wanted to train Hou Guangliang and make Hou Guangliang a great help for Li Chengqian.

On the school ground, dust and smoke rolled.

Hou Guangliang looked at the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were gathering from all over the place with his sword eyes. Without hesitation, he shouted loudly: "Enter the Central Army's tent!"

Eighty thousand soldiers, including fifty-eight generals, entered the central army's tent. Hou Guangliang exercised such great power for the first time. Fortunately, some of these generals were Hou Junji's old subordinates.

As Hou Junji's eldest son, Hou Junji's old subordinates will definitely support him, which is why Li Zhan directly pushed Hou Guangliang out.

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Suzhou... is located in the northwest, east of Jiuquan City, the northern foot of Qilian Mountains, and the central and western Hexi Corridor. Suzhou District is located in the Mengxin Desert area with relatively high geographical latitude and altitude. It belongs to the three-stage area of ​​the Hexi Corridor Plain "fan top-fan skirt-fan edge" area. There are no mountains in the territory, flat and wide, with a high terrain in the southwest and low in the northeast, with a slight incline, with an average altitude of 1,360 meters.

The overall characteristics of the climate are: dry climate, less precipitation, strong evaporation, long sunshine, large temperature difference between hot and hot in winter and cold in summer, and drought in autumn and spring and windy sand.

Although it is difficult for Suzhou City to break through without reinforcements after being surrounded by Suzhou City, because there are plains outside, and it is easy to catch up when you break through, Suzhou City has been waiting for assistance.

Hou Guangliang held his first military meeting in the central army's tent.

The content of the meeting was about how to rescue Suzhou. After some discussion, the generals present asked for battle. Finally, Hou Guangliang decided to fight quickly... With the Tiger Army as the center, he attacked the central army tent of Songtsen Gampo in Tubo.

At this time, just after Hou Guangliang made up his plan, the Tubo military camp finally got the matter of Hou Guangliang's army reaching and surfing the land, but Songtsen Gampo was not in a hurry at all.

If Hou Guangliang was replaced by Hou Junji, then Songtsen Gampo might have thought about a way out. After all, Hou Junji is a long-famous veteran, and Songtsen cadres dare not underestimate him.

But the person who came was not Hou Junji but Hou Guangliang, which forced Songtsen Gampo to be contemptuous.

After the two armies knew each other, they had already set off their formation. The next day, the two armies were less than one mile apart, with thunderous drums and military flags... The war was about to begin.

Songtsen Gampo looked at the army opposite him, not worried that he would lose at all.

Indeed... the Tang Dynasty's army was very strong, but Songtsen Gampo believed that his Tubo army would be stronger. The war began with a horn... First, Hou Guangliang's left wing moved first.

A large number of cavalry rushed towards the right wing of Tubo, because the right wing of Tubo was the cavalry of Tuyuhun, and for a while, they could not resist the impact of the Tang cavalry. At this time, Songtsen Gampo ordered that the left wing of Tubo should take the right wing of the Tang Dynasty directly.

Just when the right wing of the Tang Dynasty and the left wing of the Tubo were fighting together, Hou Guangliang knew that the opportunity had come. The cavalry composed of 10,000 Hu Ben Army and Jiuhu Army stabbed directly into Songtsen Gampo's central army like a sharp sword.

"Haha..." After learning that Hou Guangliang personally led the cavalry to rush to his central army, Songtsen Gampo smiled proudly, because he had already made preparations. Last night, he had imagined that Hou Guangliang would think about rushing to his central army.

So just now, he deliberately let his left wing directly kill the right wing of the Tang Dynasty, in order to lure Hou Guangliang to attack his central army.

Because in Songtsen Gampo's central army, a heavy armored infantry of 3,000 people were prepared for Hou Guangliang's cavalry.

These heavy armored infantry, three layers of armor... are not in the sword, and each person has a saber to kill the horse... These are the heavy armored infantry that Songtsen Gampo developed himself after seeing the Mo Dao warriors of the Tang Dynasty.

Songtsen Gampo has been looking for opportunities to try the power of his heavy armored infantry. Today's battle is a key battle. As long as he wins himself, the princess and her skills will be obtained.

Of course, on the contrary, the Tubo generals would get anything, so Songtsen Gampo took out his heavy armored infantry without hesitation.

Three hundred steps...two hundred steps...one hundred steps...just when Hou Guangliang's cavalry was less than one hundred steps away from Songtsen Gampo's heavy armored infantry, suddenly, Hou Guangliang's cavalry stopped and followed piles of small sticks about dozens of centimeters long and were thrown into the heavy armored infantry formation.

"Magnetic pull..." The fuse spitted out its fire letter.

Some of the heavily armored infantrymen of Songtsen Gampo were curious to pick up this little stick and wanted to see what this little stick was, but the moment they picked it up.

"Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..."

The explosions were endless, and the heavily armored infantry fell into a pool of blood. Songtsen Gampo was frightened by the crazy explosion outside. Just as Songtsen Gampo was about to leave the tent to see what was going on, the fires coming out from outside made Songtsen Gampo's eyes stagnate.

Then there was another powerful and serial explosion sound.

Screaming, wailing, suffering, and insults... mixed with the sound of running, it resounded throughout the Tubo military camp. Then, a guard immediately protected Songtsen Gampo, and then changed into other clothes for Songtsen Gampo as soon as possible, took Songtsen Gampo out of the military camp, and fled to Tubo.

On the other side, Hou Guangliang looked at the Tubo three thousand heavy armored infantry who were instantly bombed by his grenade. He was overjoyed and shouted quickly: "Preparation for the second round..."

A word "stop" was shouted out, and more than 10,000 grenades were thrown out again.

Following the Tubo Central Army camp, there were endless explosions. Such terrible explosion power directly caused the battle-hardened Tubo soldiers to lose their combat effectiveness. I don’t know who shouted in Tubo language and ran away!

Tens of thousands of Tubo troops fled wildly towards the direction of Tubo without hesitation.

Hou Guangliang also seized the opportunity at the first time, and then immediately ordered the army to cover up the killing, including 60,000 Tubo troops and 20,000 Tuyuhun troops, and only less than 10,000 people left, and all the others were left in Suzhou.

Since then, Hou Guangliang has become famous in his battle...!

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On the contrary, Songtsen Gampo completely lost confidence because of this failure. He didn't understand why he would lose to Hou Guangliang, although he knew that the more he would win him was the little stick that would explode.

But Songtsen Gampo regretted it very much. If he had been more cautious with Hou Guangliang, he might not have lost so badly.

He brought 60,000 people, but on the way back, less than 10,000 people were present, which made Songtsen Gampo a little uncomfortable. More importantly, there was no loss in the Tang Dynasty, which made Songtsen Gampo even more grudges.

So when Songtsen Gampo returned, people were always carrying it... But just when Songtsen Gampo arrived at the border of Tuyuhun and thought he could pass through Tuyuhun and return to Tubo quickly.

However, Li Zhan was already waiting for Songtsen Gampo on the road that Songtsen Gampo was the only way back to Tubo early.

This is a canyon... Songtsen Gampo had to pass here if he wanted to go back. Li Zhan never thought about attacking Tubo directly. Why... Because the ghost place in Tubo is not something that ordinary people can attack.

Many people think that Tubo cannot attack because of altitude sickness, which is not the case.

The plateau reaction has always been there, but the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty still defeated Tubo, and the main reason why the Tang Dynasty was unable to defeat Tubo was the climate problem.

At this time... due to climate problems, the world has reached a very special period of warming. Due to the rise in temperature, the snowy areas and wastelands with an average altitude of about 4,000 meters on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau were all plateau pastures with abundant water and grass. Due to the development of animal husbandry, the population growth and the increase in the power of the Tubo Kingdom were also stimulated.

Therefore, the Tubo Kingdom occupied the Hexi Corridor, which is very important in strategic location, under the abundance of population and resources, and threatened the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Zhan rushed into Tubo with 10,000 people, which was to seek death. At this time, Tubo could already be one person and four horses. Li Zhan might be able to rush in, but what he couldn't get out was another matter.

On the contrary, the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty did not fight Tubo and fled in a hurry because of its strength. That was because during the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, they were in a period of world temperature decline, and the East Asian continent and other plains may not be greatly affected by the temperature drop.

However, due to the severe cold climate, the Tibetan Plateau lost the grasslands and farmland with abundant aquatic plants and was covered with heavy snow and snow.

Due to the lack of animal husbandry, the Tubo Dynasty also declined. When facing the invasion of nomadic cavalry such as the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, they had to choose to surrender.

Everyone should have heard of the Little Ice Age, that was at that time, the Tubo Dynasty was gone forever.

"Young Master, eat noodles..."

Li Yi came to Li Zhan's side and gave Li Zhan a bowl of noodles. Although Li Zhan was already His Highness, sometimes Li Yi would still call Mr. Li Zhan the wrong one.

Because Li Yi has always called him Young Master, of course, Li Zhan doesn't care, but instead likes to hear Li Yi call him Young Master.

But Mr. Ying and others didn't want Li Yi to scream, which was called "no etiquette."

"Oh... I'm wrong again, I'll punish Grandpa Ying later...!" After Li Yi called Mr. Li Zhan, he was slightly annoyed.

Li Zhan took the noodles and smiled, "Don't worry, if you don't say it, I won't say it, no one knows...!"

"Really...thank you, my husband...oh no...it's Your Highness..." After saying that, Li Yi smiled happily.

Following Li Yi, he squatted beside Li Zhan, watching Li Zhan finish the noodles bite by bit. After eating, Li Yi took out the dishes and chopsticks. Just after Li Yi left, Gao Hu walked over.

Li Zhan asked, "Have you eaten..."

Gao Hu smiled and nodded, "I ate... I just got the news. It should be two hours left. Songtsen Gampo is about to pass by here...!"

"Hehe...!" Li Zhan smiled and said, "Hou Guangliang is not bad. He is a person who can accomplish great things. But, better yet, this kid is not very ambitious. I feel relieved if Cheng Qian has such a person to help him."

"Your Highness... With you here, even Hou Junji dared not make any abnormal movements." Gao Hu said with a smile.

After saying that, Li Zhan looked at the sky and said, "But, I still want to leave... After defeating Tubo this time, I will submit a petition to my father and go to my fiefdom Dengzhou, and I will not be allowed to return to the capital without an imperial edict.

If you return to Beijing suddenly, you will be regarded as a rebellion."

"Your Highness...why is this?" Gao Hu looked at Li Zhan very confused, because he knew that these must be the conditions proposed by Li Zhan himself to limit himself. It was obvious that neither the emperor nor the prince would treat Li Zhan like this.

But Li Zhan laughed and said, "It must be like this... This is my sense of security for my father and the prince, and it is also my constraint on other younger brothers and sisters."

Speaking of this, Gao Hu knew what to say, but in the end, Gao Hu said: "Your Highness... I, Gao Hu, have no other requirements. After following you for so long, Gao Hu only has one requirement, that is, no matter where you go, Gao Hu will follow you wherever you go.

Gao Hu will only be loyal to you in his lifetime."

After saying that, Gao Hu knelt silently on one knee. Li Zhan laughed and helped Gao Hu up with his hands and said, "Don't worry... you will all follow me!"

After receiving Li Zhan's affirmative words, Gao Hu felt at ease.

After about two hours passed, a cloud of smoke rolled in front of him. At this time, the shadow lying beside Li Zhan said, "Your Highness... Songtsen Gampo is here."

Li Zhan smiled slightly: "I hope I can kill Songtsen Gampo this time. In this way, our border with Tubo will be peaceful for twenty years."

"Hope...but we only have 5,000 people chasing us, and Songtsen Gampo has a great chance of escaping."

Shadow's words made Li Zhan laugh and said, "Leave the will of heaven and do things... Shadow Old, please send the order. As long as you wait for Songtsen Gampo's central army to reach the canyon, throw the grenades to me indiscriminately, five per person, and throw them continuously.

I want to knock down these Tubo soldiers at once."

"As for orders..."

Soon, Mr. Ying went down to pass the order. After the order was passed, Li Zhan saw rows of soldiers climbing to the edge of the cliff, and then each of them had five grenades, showing a happy smile on his mouth.

Li Zhan also didn't understand. The Hu Benjun liked to throw grenades very much. Maybe he used grenades as a kind of entertainment thing. From the fear at the beginning to the joy now, this should be the process of acceptance.

Another quarter of an hour later, Li Zhan saw a large number of Tubo troops passing through the canyon. However, Li Zhan did not fight the Tubo army in the top, and if he wanted to fight, he would fight the central army, because Songtsen Gampo was likely to be central army.

What a pity... Li Zhan made a mistake this time, because Songtsen Gampo was indeed in the central army, but for some reason, Songtsen Gampo suddenly asked to walk in front.

This is a very strange thing, maybe it is called death. Songtsen Gampo also escaped a dead end because of this.

"Take it for me..."

Just when Songtsen Gampo's central army arrived at the canyon, Li Zhan ordered... Five thousand grenades roared down from the cliff, and the entire Tubo army was stunned.

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Chapter completed!