The Tang army leader who led two thousand troops to ambush the Tibetan army was named Zhou Bin, who was appointed deputy governor of Jiannan. Back then, he led an army to ambush an army of tens of thousands led by Li Zhen, the son of Li Lin, on the Three Gorges Road. He had rich ambush experience.
The first thing he did was to collect big trees near the cliff path and pile their trunks into a hill to block the road. There were more than one pile.
In addition to arranging huge piles of wood to block the road, he also arranged for soldiers to go up the cliff.
There is indeed a winding trail above the cliff, about ten miles long, which was opened by herb collectors and passed through the top of the cliff. However, the entrance to the trail is on the side of the Tang army, and the Tibetan army cannot go up.
Last time, the Tang army ambushed 1,500 Tibetan soldiers on this trail.
At this time, news came from the front that the Tibetan army had appeared twenty miles away.
Zhou Bin immediately ordered: "The army goes to the cliff!"
An army of hundreds of people climbed up the cliff carrying kerosene and iron fire thunder.
More than 30,000 Tibetan troops galloped all the way. In the afternoon, they entered the relatively dangerous Lushui Canyon. There were steep mountains on both sides of the river, and below was the turbulent Lushui River. There was only one foot-wide channel.
Cliff official road.
This section of the road is about forty miles in total. The merchants are very frightened when walking this section of the road, and they lead the mule team and walk closely inside.
On the other hand, the Tubo army didn't pay much attention to this kind of cliff terrain. They continued to speed up and ran in formation, with many soldiers running on the edge. Perhaps they had seen this kind of high-drop terrain too much, so they didn't take it to heart.
Thirty thousand soldiers ran for about thirty miles, and suddenly stopped. The front shouted, begging for shelter, reining in the horses, and asked loudly: "What happened in front?"
Soon, a soldier came over to report, "To the Commander-in-Chief, the mountain road ahead is blocked by a giant tree and we can't pass through it!"
Qizang Zhezhe frowned and ordered: "Why don't you throw the giant tree into the river quickly?"
"Follow the order!" the soldier turned around and ran back.
Qi Zangzhezhe looked around, and he felt a little nervous. He had walked this road countless times, and now he realized how dangerous it was. If the Tang army wanted to ambush him on this road, wouldn't his army be unable to fly?
He didn't know the details of the previous death of 1,500 soldiers. He thought they died in battle at the foot of Huichuan City.
It's really because the Jianchuan area is full of cliffs and cliffs. They walk every day and have become numb. Just like an animal trainer who deals with wild beasts every day, when he encounters wild beasts in the wild, he will be as scared as ordinary people.
He will not realize the danger until the wild beast really wants to bite him to death. This is actually the principle of boiling a frog in warm water.
A few miles ahead, there is a pile of hundreds of giant trees blocking the mountain road, filled with kerosene. If you go about three miles further, you will also find a pile of giant trees. Two thousand Tang troops who ambush here in advance want to be safe.
A total of two piles of giant trees were prepared and distributed on the five-mile-long cliff road.
The forward Tibetan general received the order from the general and immediately ordered hundreds of soldiers to push the wood down the cliff.
Hundreds of soldiers had just approached the giant pile of wood when a rocket suddenly fired from a distance, igniting the giant tree and the kerosene on both sides. It burned with a "Boom!" and the feet of hundreds of soldiers were covered in kerosene.
, the fire spread rapidly and engulfed them instantly.
Hundreds of soldiers screamed and fled back in fear. Many people panicked and fell into the river. Only balls of fire fell into the turbulent waves under the cliff.
Of the hundreds of soldiers who escaped, only about thirty returned. They were completely black, their hair and beards were all burned off, large areas of skin fell off, and they were seriously burned. The rest of the soldiers fell to the ground and were burned to death.
Qizang Zhazhe knew something was wrong and immediately ordered: "Turn around immediately and return to Huichuan!"
The army quickly turned around, but after walking less than a mile, a series of violent explosions suddenly came from the east. The mountain was shaking. The soldiers could not stand and fell one after another. Huge rocks were seen rolling down the cliff.
Tang Jun used more than a dozen heavy iron fire mines. Each iron fire mine weighed three hundred kilograms and was full of explosives. The explosion was so powerful that the mountains shook.
News arrived that the road had been blown up by the Tang army. Qi Zang Zhazhao rushed to the explosion site. The scene in front of him made him take a breath of air. A three-hundred-foot-long road was gone and became a straight up and down road.
cliff.
This gap can only be filled with plank roads, but the Tibetan army did not master the technology of laying plank roads, so they could only look at the gap and sigh.
With no choice, the Tubo army had no choice but to turn around and head west again. At this time, rocks continued to roll down the mountain, the mountain shook, and the ground trembled slightly, as if two small earthquakes had occurred in succession.
"General, the mountain seems to be collapsing!" several Tibetan generals shouted.
Qizangzhezhe also noticed obvious shaking on the ground, which was a sign that the mountain was about to collapse.
He suddenly became anxious and issued a death order: "No matter how many people die, we must open up a road at all costs!"
Thousands of Tibetan soldiers were ordered to clear the way. They took off their armor and spread it on the burning ground. They shoveled the charred corpses into the river and quickly approached the fire.
At this moment, dozens of fire thunders rolled down the mountain and exploded among the dense crowd on the mountain road. The Tibetan soldiers were immediately blown to pieces. Countless soldiers were thrown off the cliff by the air waves, and a thousand were killed and injured in an instant.
Remaining people.
Immediately afterwards, dozens of burning fire oil cans fell from the cliff again. This time, the threat was not great. Most of the fire oil cans shattered during the fall, and only a dozen or so fire oil cans fell on the mountain road.
But even the small fires caused by these dozens of fire oil cans scared the Tibetan soldiers out of their wits, and they ran back yelling.
Qizang Zhezhe was furious and ordered the war supervisors to come forward and kill dozens of people.
The remaining Tubo soldiers had no choice but to turn around and go back to move the wood. This time they learned their lesson and walked forward one by one close to the cliff, using shields to protect their bodies. The Tang soldiers above could not see them, regardless of the fire, thunder and fire.
The oil no longer works.
Someone went back to report to the commander-in-chief Zhou Bin. Zhou Bin immediately ordered: "Send an order to leave a team of observation posts on the mountain road. The rest of the soldiers will withdraw and prepare to detonate heavy fire mines!"
Several generals advised: "General, the mountain is already unstable. If heavy fire and thunder are detonated again, I'm afraid the mountain will collapse."
Zhou Bin shook his head and said: "Our mission is to trap the Tibetan army to death. We cannot be merciful at this time. Pass my order and prepare heavy fire and thunder. The army will immediately retreat thirty miles!"
The soldiers of the Tang army began to retreat quickly. Like the Tang army to the east, they planned to blow up the mountain road with two heavy fire thunders weighing 300 kilograms, completely trapping the Tibetan army on the mountain road.
Heavy fire mines were installed in the cracks at the bottom of the cliff, about a hundred steps apart, with two fire ropes tens of feet long.
One of the heavy fire mines was less than a hundred steps away from the first pile of giant trees.
At this time, the Tibetan army had already approached the huge pile of wood. They also found a way to move the huge pile of wood. They wrapped it in leather armor, tied a rope and pulled hard. One big tree was pulled down, and dozens of people pulled it down.
A huge tree pushed down the cliff.
After clearing away the huge pile of wood, two soldiers of the Tang Army lit the match and ran away.
Qi Zang Zhe Zhe was overjoyed and immediately ordered: "The whole army is moving forward at full speed!"
The Tibetan soldiers were already terrified, but suddenly they saw a glimmer of hope and immediately started running on the mountain road.
After running less than a mile, two earth-shaking explosions were heard, and the mountain road suddenly collapsed.
The mountains in this area have suffered several earthquakes in history and have become very unstable, with large rocks falling down frequently. The Tang army bombed the mountain twice, finally triggering a huge landslide. Not only did the mountain road collapse, but the cliff above also began to collapse.
There were more than 20 Tang Army soldiers above who were monitoring the enemy. Suddenly they realized something was wrong. The brigade commander shouted: "Run!"
The Tang army turned around and ran wildly, but more than a dozen Tang army soldiers were still unable to escape. They were instantly swallowed up by the rocks of the landslide. The mountains collapsed and the ground cracked, and they fell down under the irresistible force of nature.
On the mountain road, countless Tubo soldiers screamed in despair and slid down the hundred-foot cliff along with the huge mountain.
This was a major landslide that had not happened in a thousand years. The mountain collapsed for a full six miles, and nearly 30,000 Tibetan soldiers and thousands of Tibetan donkeys perished on the cliff.
This landslide also raised the riverbed of the Lu River, forming a barrier lake. The water quickly overflowed the barrier lake and continued to flow down, forming a rapid waterfall on the Lu River.