Tibet

Although the terrain south of Chiling is undulating, it is grassland with no ravines or rugged rocks, so the battlefield can be laid out here.

Seventy thousand Tubo troops appeared on a low hillside. On the flat grassland a few miles away was the main force of the Tang army. They were neatly lined up, well-equipped, with spears like a forest, and flags flying, full of murderous intent.

Just the opposite of the Tibetan army, the 40,000 Tang army was mainly composed of cavalry, with only a small number of infantry.

"Woo——" A low horn sound sounded in the Tang Army's team. The team moved away, and a huge statue slowly appeared. The statue was two feet high and colorful. It stood on a large wooden platform and was pulled by dozens of strong bulls. After exiting the team, there were also dozens of small statues of gods in various costumes, all about one foot in size, also pulled out.

These are all clay statues of the Tuyuhun people. They were almost smashed to pieces by the Tubo army. Only these dozen were left, which were dragged out by the Tang army.

Dazalugong knew that these statues should have been transported from Huangshui County. In order to make the Tuyuhun people work hard, these statues were not smashed and kept.

But he was confused as to what Tang Jun meant by taking out these statues.

At this moment, I saw soldiers from Tianzhu kneeling down to worship. Dazalugong was stunned. Do the gods of Tianzhu and Tyuhun people believe in the same?

What he didn't know was that the Brahman religion that Tianzhu people believed in had hundreds of thousands of gods. There were so many gods that they themselves couldn't figure them out. Especially these Tianzhu soldiers who came from lower classes would instinctively worship the gods when they saw the statues.

Dazalugong was furious and immediately ordered: "Blow the horn for me and the whole army will attack!"

"Woo--Woo--"

A long trumpet sound sounded in the Tibetan army, which was an order to attack.

The five thousand Tubo cavalry were actually the war supervisors. They shouted loudly and urged the Tianzhu army to attack.

After all, the Tianzhu soldiers had been training for two or three years, and they already had an instinctive reaction. When the charge horn sounded, they no longer paid homage to them. They pulled out their swords one after another and charged towards the Tang army with shouts.

The hillside was covered with running Tianzhu soldiers.

Li Sheng could see clearly from a distance, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth. As expected, the Tubo cavalry were only supervising the battle and would not participate in the battle. They remained motionless behind.

Li Sheng immediately ordered: "Shoot the rocket!"

The soldiers of the Tang army immediately fired nine rockets into the sky. They saw a cavalry force coming from behind on both sides. Each cavalry force had about ten thousand people. The leader was Pei Xiu. He waved his spear and led ten thousand cavalry to kill the Tubo cavalry. go.

Another cavalry force of ten thousand people passed between the Tubo army and the Tianzhu soldiers, cutting off the Tubo army and the Tianzhu soldiers.

Dazalugong was shocked. He immediately understood the opponent's intention. The opponent wanted to annihilate the Tibetan army first, but Zanpu let the Tianzhu people consume the Tang army instead of letting them fight the Tibetan army. If the battle continued like this, the entire army would be destroyed.

Dazalukong never fought an uncertain battle, so he immediately ordered: "Retreat!"

The five thousand cavalry immediately turned around and retreated to the southeast, with Pei Xiu leading ten thousand cavalry in hot pursuit.

Another 10,000 cavalrymen were led by deputy general Zhang Bingquan. Instead of pursuing them, they took out bags of kerosene, pierced them with knives, and threw them on the ground. The kerosene gurgled out and soon formed a kerosene belt several miles long. Dozens of the 10,000 cavalrymen were left behind, while the rest of the army pursued the Tibetan cavalry in the direction of withdrawal.

If only Pei Xiu's 10,000 cavalry pursues them, the 5,000 Tibetan cavalry will turn around and fight tooth and nail. Even if they win, it will be a miserable victory. Only with 20,000 cavalry chasing them can we be sure of complete victory.

The 70,000 Tianzhu soldiers did not know that something had happened behind them. They still charged forward under the leadership of the generals of the Tianzhu army. Their usual centurions and commanders were Tibetan people, and their deputy generals were Tianzhu people.

But at the last moment of the battle, the Tubo centurions and thousands of captains were withdrawn, and were replaced by Tianzhu deputy generals. Although the soldiers were ignorant and did not understand anything, these Tianzhu generals knew very well that the Tubo people The army did not regard them as human beings at all, but let them consume the Tang army. Even if they all died in battle, it would not be a pity at all.

I understand, but it is difficult for them to defect in battle. They lack a Tianzhu general. This is also the shrewdness of Tubo. There must not be a Tianzhu general, otherwise the 70,000 Tianzhu people will become a rope. , and if we want to use them as consumables, it will not be so easy. Maybe the 70,000 Tianzhu army will come back to attack Tubo.

The 70,000-strong army came overwhelmingly toward the Tang army. When they were still hundreds of steps away, the place where the statue was placed burst into flames. A raging fire suddenly formed and engulfed the statue.

The soldiers running in front were so frightened that they stopped in their tracks. At this moment, the 70,000 Tianzhu soldiers saw an even more terrifying scene.

Just listen to a series of earth-shattering explosions. All the statues were suddenly shattered into pieces. The explosions were like thunder. The explosions were one after another, one after another. A raging fire was also burning behind them, as well as on the left and right. Violent explosions were heard one after another all around. .

The Tianzhu soldiers had never heard of it and were frightened. Everyone thought that they had offended the gods and made the gods angry. The 70,000 Tianzhu soldiers were so frightened that they knelt down and kowtowed to plead guilty to Lord Shiva.

At this time, a group of Tang Army cavalry rushed over and shouted in Tubo, "The gods are angry. Put down your weapons and you will avoid death!"

At this time, a Tianzhu general immediately realized that he had a chance to survive. He stood up and shouted to the soldiers behind him. The soldiers put down their swords and raised their hands.

Without the supervision of the Tibetans, and with the people in front leading the way, the Indian soldiers who did not want to offend the gods quickly put down their weapons and stood up. Groups of soldiers raised their hands and ran towards the northwest gap.

This is the nature of the Indian A-san people, which has been engraved in their genes for generations. When they see the weak, they rush up to bully them. When they meet the strong, they are as timid as mice and rush to escape.

Otherwise, Wang Xuance would not have been able to sweep across the Indian countries with the thousands of Nepalese troops he borrowed, and hundreds of thousands of Indian troops were defeated by him.

Otherwise, more than a thousand years later, there would not be the feat of three Chinese soldiers capturing an ace artillery battalion of India.

Just when all the Indian soldiers chose to surrender, a fierce battle was taking place on the grassland more than 20 miles away. Dazalu Gong saw that the other side had only more than 10,000 cavalry chasing, so he immediately ordered the entire army to turn around and fight the Tang army.

But the fierce battle lasted only a quarter of an hour, and the deputy general Zhang Bingquan led 10,000 cavalry to support. The two cavalry attacked from the front and back, and the Tubo cavalry was defeated, with countless casualties. Dazalugong led more than 2,000 remnants to flee south.

Unexpectedly, they were intercepted by Hunyu's army again in Dafeichuan, and the Tubo army was almost destroyed. Dazalugong only took dozens of people to break out of the siege and escaped back to the plateau.

Half a month later, before the heavy snow came, 70,000 Indian prisoners of war were sent to Chang'an.

This group of prisoners of war, known as Kunlun slaves, will soon take a boat to Jiangdu. After a short rest in Jiangdu, they will be sent to Quanzhou by sea in three batches. They will serve five years of labor overseas in the Tang Dynasty. After five years, they can choose. If they are willing to return to their hometown, the Tang Dynasty will send a ship to send them back to Tianzhu. If they are willing to stay, they will be transformed into hired workers and can get a salary of 30 wen a day and continue to work as lumberjacks.

In fact, most of the prisoners of war were unwilling to return to their hometowns. Even if they returned to India, they were still low-caste pariahs, or even untouchables.

It is more likely that they would be sold as slaves again by the rulers of India, living a more miserable life, worse than pigs and dogs.

At least in the Tang Dynasty, they could still have enough food, clothes to wear, a place to live, and doctors to treat them when they were sick.

These Kunlun slaves basically chose to stay in the Luzon Islands. Ten years later, they obtained household registration in the Tang Dynasty.

Many of them married women from Southeast Asia or India, and gave birth to children in the Luzon Islands. Their children also became overseas civilians of the Tang Dynasty, mostly making a living by farming and small business.