Chapter 333

Wei Ran led the army to walk in Shancheng (now Xining) and looked at all kinds of corpses on the road. Some of them were killed by bows and arrows, some by swords and spears, and some were simply trampled to death by horseshoes.

There are no old or weak women or children among the corpses. The men are still OK. They are usually killed directly. A few who obviously resisted during their lifetime often suffered some abuse before they were completely solved.

The fate of women is even more miserable. Wei Ran has found many female corpses, naked, and obviously suffered from repeated ravages by many people.

Wei Ran found a female corpse with her face down and seemed to hold something in her arms. He opened the body with some expectation, and the woman really held a baby under the age of one year in her arms.

But as soon as he touched the baby's body, there was no sound. Wei Ran wanted to separate the mother and son and bury them together at that time. Only then did he find that there was a wound pierced by a spear in the woman's abdomen, which was connected with the wound on the baby.

He closed his eyes and didn't want to continue looking. A volcano was burning in his heart, which seemed to erupt at any time.

Next to bu Lanshan, she tried to cover the bodies, but found that she was too busy and couldn't help crying.

Wu Xinfei went into many houses to look for the witch who always liked to smile. At this time, her face was as cold as water, and her fluctuating chest contained a deep anger.

At this time, another woman in gorgeous purple came down from the sky. Looking at her elegant appearance and cold as frost, she seemed to be only a little older than Wu Xinfei, but Wu Xinfei called her master. This is an Xinyu, the leader of Tianmo sect.

After an Xinyu landed, she turned her head and looked at Zhuo Lancang, an old enemy on one side. The two sides nodded quite tacitly.

An Xinyu said, "the Tubo people deserve to die. My Tianmo sect's branch in Shanzhou has been completely destroyed by these aliens. This revenge will not be repaid! My heavenly demon sect will never stop! "

Wei Ran looked at the bodies stacked on the upper floor of the street. The sky seemed cloudy, just like his expression now. After a while, I carefully felt the bloody air in the city, clenched the scabbard of the horizontal knife at my waist, and turned away from the city.

No matter whether Tubo was out of anger or for any reason, it succeeded in delaying the pursuit of Wuwei army. If the bodies of hundreds of thousands of people in these two cities are not cleaned up in time, a plague will inevitably break out, and the whole Hexi corridor may become dead.

However, in this way, if Tubo wants to occupy Hexi Corridor in the future, it will pay twice the price. The slaughter of the city can not be taken lightly. Now that it has been done, it will be resisted by the local residents next time, and it will cost more to occupy it.

Wei Ran doesn't intend to give them the next chance. The next chance should be to send them to the reincarnation well. Haosheng will end the cause and effect!

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The Tibetan army turned southward as a whole, and Wei Ran thought it impossible for them to give up Shanzhou so easily.

When the Wuwei army cleaned up the two dead cities, Wei Ran volunteered to lead 100 elite scouts trained by himself to start from Shancheng and advance westward along the Chiling mountains to investigate the movements of the Tubo army.

The troops and horses left outside Shancheng were temporarily managed by Li Guangsi. In the training of troops in kuozhou and a series of Fortress offensive and defensive battles in Hehuang, Li Guangsi has been recognized by a considerable number of people with his own ability. Therefore, Wei Ran appointed him vice general, and no one objected.

Go west along the Huangshui River and go to the source of Huangshui River. The plain of this triangle area in later generations is called Huangyuan county. In the Tang Dynasty, it was a market for border trade between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo. The Tang dynasty built a military fort suirong city here to maintain the stability of the border.

When Wei Ran led his scouts here, suirong city had been seriously damaged. There are two main investigation directions during his trip. One is to the west of suirong city and directly to Gahai in the east of Qinghai Lake. The second is from suirong city to the south to the Sancha intersection area where Shibao city is located.

Almost needless to think, the main force of Tubo must be arranged in the three fork area with dense fortresses in Shibao city. However, Wei Ran first needs to eliminate the threat of Tibetan Army Rangers in the West for the army. No one wants to be attacked from the flank when attacking the scope of Shibao city.

Therefore, until the investigation of the situation in the east of Qinghai Lake is completed, the map is drawn through the tongue of the captured Tubo army, which is sent to Shancheng by the subordinates and gives their own opinions.

It is hoped that the city will be established in the east of Gahai, that is, the plain area where Haiyan County is located in later generations. As long as 5000 elite cavalry are stationed, it is enough to ensure that there is no worry on the flank, because the main force of Tubo is not here, and the equipment and combat effectiveness of cruising cavalry can not be compared with that of Wuwei army.

Then they went to the area where Shibao city was located for investigation.

Thinking of Shibao City, Wei Ran recalled the relevant stories his adoptive father told him when he taught him the art of war.

Shibao city is called Tieren city by Tubo. At first, it was built on high mountains by Tubo people, facing cliffs in three directions. Only a path with less than two people can approach the castle, and no siege equipment can be arranged on such terrain.

A strong attack requires a very high price, but the garrison stationed in Shibao city is only 400 at most, and the troops are scarce. It will not be too difficult to really concentrate our troops on an attack regardless of casualties.

Its strategic significance does not lie in the strength of the castle or the threat to the traffic arteries. But as the eyes of the Tubo army at this fork in the road, it is like the Sade anti missile system deployed by the U.S. military in South Korea.

As far as China is concerned, it can't actually fight against missiles, but its radar system can peep into the military deployment in China, so it has met with great opposition. If we really want to go to war, it must be the first nail to be pulled out.

The same is true of Shibao City, where the terrain is very high. All the castle systems within the scope of Sancha intersection are under the eyes of Tubo people. If the Tang Dynasty wants to use troops against them, there will be no secret. No matter which fortress to attack, the Tubo army can calmly make corresponding arrangements in advance.

In this way, the military method of the Tang army can only be to pull out the fortress point by point from the front with strong force and strength. The Tang army fought hard battles, but it was easy to be targeted by the other party, which would also cause great damage.

This is also the fundamental reason why every attack on Shibao city in history will cause great war damage. Because the death was not caused by attacking only one stone castle city, but the loss caused by the defense of the whole country by Tubo when attacking the fortress system under the stone castle city.

Shibao city is of great strategic significance to Tubo and the Tang Dynasty. Tubo has the Shibao city. They have mastered this area. They can enter Huangyuan in the north and disturb the Silk Road in Hexi corridor; Enter kuozhou in the East, threaten Jishi army fort from the rear, and forge ahead in kuozhou city; Heading west to return to the plateau is the most gentle section of the road. You can retreat calmly.

This is the bridgehead of Tubo, which is very close to Tuyuhun, the nearest supply area to Tubo. Unlike before in Shancheng area, when fighting a war of attrition with Wuwei army, supplies will not keep up.

Here, they can receive a steady stream of supplies from the rear. If it was the heyday of Tubo, it would really face the power of the whole country.

Wang Zhongsi, the governor of the four towns in the Ming Dynasty, saw the difficulties. Wang Zhongsi, who cherished his soldiers, did not want to cause huge casualties in the army. He directly gave up attacking Shibao city and was targeted by a series of demoted officials. Finally, he died of fear.

After seeing the fate of his boss, Wang Zhongsi, Ge Shuhan attacked him head-on and killed tens of thousands of elite soldiers. There was no calculation for the injured. He even wanted to kill the killers and generals for a time.

Starting from suirong city to Shibao City, the distance is very close, but it is only more than 60 Li. Wei Ran led the scouts for only thirty miles before he met 300 scouts sent by Tubo to cover the battlefield.

On the other side, seeing that Wei Ran was only a hundred scouts, he immediately roared up.

More than 100 scouts around Wei Fei are all cruel faces. They are trained by Wei Rong in their own training, plus their own martial arts skills. The weakest are the most excellent seeds in Wei's army.

Wei ran slowly quickened his horse's speed and took out his bow and arrow. "Leave a few alive. We need to find out the troop deployment of several recent fortresses."

While talking, the whole army adjusted the formation with tacit understanding. Hundreds of horses were arranged side by side, leaving no depth. The distance of five horses between the two riders almost filled the whole valley.

The Tubo scouts are lined up in a conical array with a thick depth. It is normal combat thinking to easily cut Wei Ran's word long snake array into two sections.

When the two sides gathered for 100 steps, the bows and arrows of the Wuwei army were well made and had reached the effective range of flat shooting. More than 100 scouts from Wei Huo's department had a very tacit understanding. At the same time, they shot with bows and horses.

The Tubo army formed a dense conical array and immediately hit arrows one after another. Some soldiers counted arrows and immediately fell down their horses and were trampled into meat and mud. Some horses were hurt and frightened by arrows, jumping around uncontrollably, disturbing the formation.

During this process, Wei Ran grasped five arrows in his bow hand and shot them continuously in an instant. The officer headed by the Tubo army had good martial arts. The first arrow was shot down by him with a bow, and the second was dodged by his horse's belly and shot into the face of an unlucky scout behind him.

The third shot went deep into the horse's throat and came out from the back of the horse's neck. The horse was killed. The officer could only hook the horse's neck of a nearby scout and intended to climb on the horse's back.

The fourth shot came again. He watched the arrow come. He couldn't escape at all. He was shot through his chest goggles and fell off his horse. But he was very skillful. He broke out his internal power. Unexpectedly, he stepped forward and bounced up again.

The fifth arrow pressed all his efforts into hell, hit him in the face, shot him to the ground, and then was trampled into meat mud by the rear horseshoes.

The powerful arrows shot by more than 100 subordinates of Wei Ran killed at least 40 Tibetan cavalry and disturbed their formation. Some Tibetan soldiers couldn't help but shoot arrows before they reached the effective range. Naturally, they couldn't produce any effect.

The two sides entered the range of 80 steps and finally reached the range of the Tubo army. Only then did they have calm soldiers to shoot back. However, because the leader general was shot and killed by Wei Ran, such shooting could not be integrated into scale, and appeared quite scattered.

Wei Huobu, who is in an evacuation formation and has only one column in depth, said that his lethality is limited. Wei Ran equipped these elite with sophisticated lock armour, fitted with goggles and covered with a layer of leather armour. His body's protective force is enough to block the damage of riding a bow at this distance.

In the head and face part, each soldier is equipped with a small arm shield in his left hand, which is made of refined iron. As long as he raises his arm, there is no arrow that can threaten the head and face.