The main force of the Tang army had been stationed 30 miles east of Shanzhou City for three days. The main force of the Tubo army retreated to Linqiang and still had no movement.

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However, in the past three days, 56 small Tubo cavalry teams have been raiding the main force of the Tang army. However, Li 9 Prefecture has made extremely strict arrangements for post-spotting and guard posts, and Tubo small-scale cavalry teams have not succeeded. In this regard, Li 9 Prefecture used to do it frequently, so he has a lot of experience and solutions to deal with it.

The 56 small cavalry of the Tubo Army retreated after not taking advantage of the situation. Many people in the Tang army had altitude sickness, but after these three days of rest, the situation improved a little.

Li 9zhou walked around the central army's tent with his hands behind his back, and the armor on his body rustled. The chief generals and staff of the army in the tent did not speak. The other three armies may have caused no news until now due to roads, weather and terrain. This made Li 9zhou and the generals a little anxious.

"No, we are too passive to be led by the nose." Li 9zhou stopped and said.

Sun Shouyi said: "Here, the right time and place are not conducive to our army. If we act rashly, there may be danger of annihilation of the entire army."

Another general also stood up and said, "The officials also think that this matter cannot be done rashly, and should be steady and steady. A general's previous deployment and arrangements were not all very good? The slow march gave the soldiers plenty of time to adapt to the altitude sickness. Now it seems that there is no problem in such arrangements and arrangements, and the Tubo army cannot find an opportunity to take advantage of them."

Li 9zhou shook his head and said, "This kind of deployment seemed to be fine in the past, but now it seems to be passive. The Tubo army has no worry about plateau reactions and is very familiar with the terrain here. Sooner or later, they will find the movements of other armies. If our main force 1 marchs at this speed, the Tubo army will have enough time to mobilize troops to encircle and annihilate other armies. Now the initiative is not in my hands. The Tubo people can fight as much as they want. The main force of our army will move forward and will be surrounded by the sphere of influence of the Tubo army. You are right. For example, today's time and geographical location are not conducive to our army, but our army has at least some people. My Tang Dynasty is in Longyou, Hexi and Tuyuhun for so many years, and it is still very popular. This is our only advantage here. We must seize this advantage to win. Otherwise, in our current state, it is impossible to win."

Sun Shouyi asked: "Could the coach have already made better plans?"

Li 9zhou did not speak out and suddenly asked, "How high and thick are the walls of Shanzhou?"

"According to regulations, the city wall should be 3 meters high and 1 meters high and 6 meters thick."

Although the imperial system is so prescribed, it is hard to say whether officials will complete the city walls without fail when organizing civilians to build them. In order to save expenses and practice, some officials built the city walls less than 1.5% of the regulations. In some places, the city walls are purely shoddy projects.

"How many troops are there in the city?"

The general in charge of cavalry and sergeant sentry stood up and replied: "There are 5,000 Tubo defenders."

The 5,000 troops stationed, not too many, nor too few. Li 9zhou was silent and said, "The City of Shanzhou is now just an empty city."

Li 9zhou walked back to his seat and sat down and looked at the generals and said, "The main force of our army must put huge pressure on the main force of the Tubo army. We will attack Shanzhou overnight and seize Shanzhou City first."

Late at night, with the order from Li 9zhou, the army set out slowly towards Shanzhou City.

Just after midnight, the army attacked.

Li 9zhou ordered: "Send an order to send people to block the city gates for me, no sound is allowed, and no Tubo soldiers are allowed to escape."

The soldiers under his command were divided into three echelons, the first and second echelons were responsible for climbing and raids, and the third echelon was responsible for covering with crossbows.

At the beginning, the distance was far away, and Li 9zhou and others did not find Tubo soldiers standing guard and patrolling on the city wall.

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"Go!" Li 9zhou 1 waved his hand, and the soldiers touched the underground of the city wall one after another. Ten strong soldiers formed a circle of hands holding hands, and eight soldiers stepped on their shoulders and stood on their shoulders to form two human ladders. After these people stood firm, six soldiers climbed up to climb on the second human ladder on the first human ladder, and then formed the third adult ladder. Then four soldiers climbed up to form the fourth human ladder. The fifth human ladder consisted of two people. These two people climbed up the human wall on the human ladder, and then hooked the battlements of the city wall with iron hooks. One of them pulled out a dagger to touch the two Tubo soldiers who were dozing. In addition, the soldiers continued to put down more ropes for the comrades below to climb up the city wall with ropes.

The Tubo army discovered it and the two sides fought on the top of the city.

"Swoosh swosh swosh swosh..." As a round of crossbow arrows were shot out, the Tubo soldiers fell into a pool of blood.

"The Tang army and the Tang army are here." The four Tubo people ran wildly.

One arrow shot out, and one runaway Tubo people were shot to the ground. Tang soldiers chased and shouted and screamed, and terrified screams spread for four weeks.

The Tubo army that was chased was chopped to the ground, and the fleeing Tubo people were shot down one by one. The Tubo army in the city finally reacted, and hundreds of Tubo army rushed out of the city to meet the Tang army.

"Kill!" Li 9zhou's steel knife was slashed from the air, slashing the Tubo army rushing towards him in half, and a can of blood splattered his body.

Some Tubo people saw that they could not escape, so they stopped and turned around to fight the Tang army. However, they soon found that they were wrong. Before they could react, they were pierced by the Tang army and stopped escaping and turned to meet the enemy. The Tubo people who were stabbed to death or chopped to the ground.

Wherever the Tang army passed, there were large pieces of Tubo people's bodies left, and the Tubo army that left the city to fight was soon submerged in a large number of Tang cavalry.

Li 9zhou led his personal soldiers to shoot arrows and kill them, and cut 708 out of the Tubo army that had left the city to fight. The trumpet horns had already sounded in the rear of the Tang army, and the sound of the desolate trumpet was very far away.

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On the city wall, some Tubo troops saw the Tang army following a large number of Tubo people and chasing them. A thousand men yelled: "Close the city gate quickly."

In order not to allow the Tang army to rush into the city, the people in the city had to lock all the Tubo people outside the city who had no time to escape into the city. The Tubo people who did not escape into the city in time were soon killed by the Tang army who chased them. The Tubo army on the city wall could only watch the people outside the city being killed by the Tang army.

A wave of arrows shot down from the city wall, and Li 9zhou immediately waved his big knife to push away the arrows, and retreated beyond the range of the arrows.

The archers scattered one after another, leaving 3 steps between people, and began to aim at the Tubo army on the city wall with bows and arrows. The Tang army's bows and arrows were much longer than the Tubo people's bows and arrows. Although the Tubo people had the advantage of the high part of the city wall, they still could not shoot at the Tang army's archers. One Tubo soldiers with exposed bodies were shot by arrows one after another.

Some Tubo troops fell down the city wall after being shot, some fell directly on the battlements, and some fell down. The Tang army infantry general pulled out his waist and shouted: "The first echelon of the sword and shield soldiers attacked, and the second echelon was ready!"

The first echelon of Tang army infantry rushed towards the city wall with shields and waist knives. At the same time, two siege ladders were carried by Tang army soldiers and rushed towards the city wall.

The Tubo army on the city wall was suppressed so hard that they dared not show their heads. Once the heads showed up, there was a high possibility of being shot. The Tang army's siege infantry rushed under the city wall without any obstacles, and the siege ladders were put on the city wall.

The Tang soldiers had their waist knives in their mouths, held their shields in their left hand, and grabbed the escalator with their right hand and climbed up.

Some Tubo soldiers rushed to the side of the battlements to shoot arrows at the Tang army infantry climbing the ladder, but were quickly shot to death by the Tang army archers below. The Tubo army did not expect the Tang army to come here suddenly. Therefore, there was no equipment and supplies to defend the city, tinder oil, thunderstones, rolling wood, bed crossbow, etc. on the city wall. Even on favorable terrain, it was impossible to suppress the Tang army's siege army.

After paying extremely limited casualties, the Tang army's infantry easily climbed up the city wall and fought against the Tubo army. More and more Tang army infantry climbed up the city wall. The limited number of Tubo army was quickly driven off the city wall. The Tang army chased the city one way down to the city gate.

The iron cavalry of the Tang army rushed into the city like a black torrent. The Tubo soldiers who were fleeing in the city were chased and killed. In less than a while, all the Tubo people in the city were wiped out.

The Tang army occupied Shanzhou City.

Before he could catch his breath, a flying cavalry rushed over and quickly came through the city gate hole and reported to Li 9zhou: "Dazaru Gong brought people to kill him."

Li 9zhou nodded and said, "Dazaru Lugong is not a fool. I'm sending an order to fight. Sun Shouyi, you will immediately gather with 3,000 cavalrymen of the Guards and prepare to follow me out of the city to fight the Tubo cavalry."

The 3,000 guards quickly assembled outside the west gate, and Li 9zhou rode his horse and rushed to the west.

The scene of 3,000 cavalry running caused four smoke and dust over the army, yellow grass flying, and the rumbling sound of horse hooves alarmed the oncoming Tubo cavalry.

"Go forward at full speed, line up in a front-array formation, and follow me to defeat the Tubo army!"

The messenger behind him immediately raised a small flag and kept waving it to convey the orders of Li 9zhou. The 3,000 guards of the Tang army slowly completed the arrangement and arrangement of the formation while riding a horse. When the army rushed to the Tubo army, the vanguard formation was just completed.

"Kill!" Li 9zhou yelled, and his steel knife in his hand looked at the oncoming general of the Tubo army.

Li 9zhou slashed over with an extremely rapid momentum. When the Tubo general on the opposite side saw this speed, he was shocked. It was too late to avoid it and was split in half.

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"I have been killed by Tubo generals, and all the soldiers are killed." Li 9zhou yelled.
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