Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 4826 New Weapons
The guards were indifferent to their queen's revelry on horseback, and cut off Subi Yangxiong's head in the felt tent with scimitars in hand. Subi Mojie was trembling with excitement as she saw her brother's head and body separated and blood flowing. She had been looking forward to this day for a long time. Although the tradition of the Subi Kingdom was "passing on the throne to daughters but not to sons", Subi Yangxiong was a brave and high-spirited young man, and many people in the tribe supported him. If he had not been expelled from the country, who knows what would have happened.

Today we have finally eliminated this threat and put an end to it forever. How can we not be happy and excited?
When he found that the "war horse" under his crotch had weak limbs, foamed at the mouth, and could no longer fight, he was immediately disappointed. However, he did not look for a few more people to rape and abuse as he had done in the past. He just drank a sip of water and waited for news about the recruitment of Subi Yangxiong's men and horses, as well as battle reports from the direction of Liemohai.

Soon, the battle report arrived.

"Your Majesty, yesterday afternoon, Lun Qinling personally led a large army from Nuanquanyi to attack Liemohai. The prince lined up to block the road and wanted to fight to the death. However, Lun Qinling charged with the 'armored cavalry', and the prince was defeated. The entire army was scattered and was chased by Bolunzan, killing and wounding thousands of people. Now Lun Qinling has occupied Liemohai and is reorganizing the troops and treating the wounded. There is no sign of him coming to attack Huashixia."

"Armored cavalry?"

Su Bimojie showed fear and asked in surprise: "Did the Tang army join the battle?"

"No, it's just that the Tang army gave the Gar tribe about thirty sets of armor, and Bolun Zanren personally led twenty-nine people to charge into the battle. The men and horses were all armored and invulnerable to swords and spears. They directly pierced through the prince's front army, which caused the entire army to collapse."

Subimojie breathed a sigh of relief. If the Tang army joined the battle, she would withdraw her troops immediately and would not pay attention even to the order from the Zamp. But since the Tang army did not join the battle, how could Qinling's mere few thousand troops capture the Huashixia natural barrier where she and her army of more than ten thousand were stationed?
He then cursed: "Subi Yangxiong is the shame of the Suobi Kingdom. The king ordered him to abandon Liemohai and retreat to Huashi Gorge to join forces with us to defend the natural moat, but he was greedy for merit and disobeyed the king's order, which led to a great defeat. Countless children of the Suobi Kingdom died under his stupid orders. His crime is unforgivable! Publicize Subi Yangxiong's crimes to the entire army!"

"Yes!"

"Your Majesty, there are 3,000 men under Su Pi Yang Xiong who are willing to pledge allegiance to Your Majesty and accept reorganization. The rest who are stubborn will be either beheaded or captured."

"No matter if they are dead or prisoners, they will all be killed!"

"Yes!"

"Come here, tell the whole army not to slack off and wait for Lun Qinling to arrive. We must defeat him in one fell swoop!"

"Yes!"

After Subi Mojie incorporated Subi Yangxiong's followers, his military strength increased to 20,000. With a strong army and occupying a dangerous pass, he was full of confidence and was just waiting for Lun Qinling to rush over and wipe him out, which would be a great achievement.

By then, even if the Zamp was dissatisfied with me killing Subi Yangxiong, he would have to admit the fact...

However, there was no movement from Liemohai.

At midnight, Subi Mojie, who had been excited, worried and happy all day, was extremely tired and fell into a deep sleep, but was awakened by a hurried knock on the door.

"Your Majesty, enemy scouts have been spotted north of Huashi Gorge and east of Dongqu, and there are even more troops following them!"

"Is it coming?"

Su Bimojie jumped up and said, "Order the whole army to be on alert and prepare to meet the enemy!"

As the saying goes, "A man's reputation is like his shadow." Lun Qinling was a recognized talent among the younger generation of Tubo. This time, when he started a rebellion, he successively captured Naluyi, Nuanquanyi, and Liemohai, and his troops were heading straight for Huashixia. He was so arrogant and domineering. How could she not be cautious?

Moreover, the enemy is equipped with the Tang Army's "armored cavalry" with unparalleled combat power. If they break through the defense line and cross the Dongqu River into the formation without care, the situation will be over.

However, after waiting for a long time, there was no movement north of Huashixia.

Subi Mojie asked curiously, "Why haven't you come yet?"

The officers and soldiers on both sides said, "Perhaps because he saw that Your Majesty was ready for battle, Lun Qinling thought he was no match for him, so he did not dare to attack rashly."

Su Bimojie agreed with this and, after looking at the sky, he gave the order: "Leave a scout to keep an eye on the direction of Liemohai, and the rest of the troops go back to rest."

"Yes."

Subimojie returned to the tent yawning, hugged his male lover in his arms, and fell asleep in a short while.

But the knock on the door woke her up again. Su Bimojie kicked the male lover in his arms to the ground in annoyance, turned over and climbed up, grabbing the felt's hair, and angrily asked, "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, the enemy is coming!"

Subimojie quickly grabbed a fur coat nearby and put it on without caring about his exposed chest, and walked out barefoot.

The inside and outside of the post station and the camp extending to the foot of the mountain were brightly lit with candles. War horses were neighing and people were everywhere. The soldiers who had just rested hurriedly got up, grabbed their weapons and assembled urgently under the shouting of their leaders. But for a moment, either the leaders could not find their deployment, or the soldiers could not find their superiors, and the shouting and neighing of horses were chaotic.

Subi Mojie also felt a headache and dizziness. He had led the country's army to Huashixia in a hurry since he received the order from the Zamp. He had to set up camp and reorganize the ordnance. He didn't even have time to cook when he encountered Subi Yangxiong's defeated soldiers. Then he had to guard, detain, kill and capture them. At night, wave after wave of enemy scouts came, causing chaos. He was physically tired, mentally tense and irritable, and felt very uncomfortable.

Another scout came running over, and Subimojie shouted, "Where is the enemy army?"

"Stop at the north of the gorge."

"How many troops are there? Are they coming in full force?"

"It's hard to see clearly in the dark. The scouts sent to the north of the gorge haven't returned yet, so it's difficult to detect the number of enemy troops."

"Useless!" Su Bimojie cursed, "The enemy is all cavalry, can't we estimate it from the sound of their hooves?"

"From the sound of horse hooves, there should be no more than 500 of them, but when we looked over from the ridge, we saw a dark mass of no less than 5,000. The difference is so great that we don't know the reason, so we dare not estimate."

Su Bimojie was stunned for a moment, then he said "Pah": "This must be Lun Qinling's plan to tire out the soldiers. He is trying to use such means to scare and harass us so that we are suspicious and can't sleep. It's really cunning!"

Having said that, she didn't dare to let the soldiers go back to the camp to sleep. What if their guess was wrong? If they were careless and Lun Qinling attacked them and crossed the Dongqu River, it would be troublesome.

The enemy did not launch a surprise attack until dawn. Instead, the scouts on the ridge saw clearly that the enemy was just running back and forth with hundreds of cavalry dragging a lot of branches, creating a huge momentum and looking like a dark mass...

Subimojie was very angry and kept cursing Lun Qinling for his cunning and insidiousness, but he was also alert. Since Lun Qinling used such a strategy of confusing the enemy, it meant that a surprise attack might be launched at any time. So he ordered the entire army to be on high alert. Not only did they have to take turns sleeping, but even eating times were staggered. There were always two to three thousand people stationed in the dangerous area north of the hill and west of Dongqu to defend the river.

However, for three consecutive days, enemy soldiers came to harass every day, but there was no sign of Lun Qinling leading his troops to attack. Subimojie's army was exhausted. Everyone knew that Lun Qinling's army might launch a surprise attack at the next moment, and they had to be alert and prepared at all times. However, such a long period of mental tension, exhaustion and fatigue caused the morale of the entire army to decline visibly.

Subimojie realized that this was a conspiracy by Lun Qinling and there was no way to crack it. He could only wait passively while writing a letter to Lhasa City to ask for reinforcements.

She also understood that the reason why the Zamp asked her to guard Huashi Gorge was to consume the strength of the Subi Kingdom, and it was highly likely that no reinforcements would be sent...

In front of her is Lun Qinling's resourcefulness, and behind her is Songtsen Gampo's insidiousness and cunningness. These two people did not take her seriously at all and all they deployed were open schemes. They were not afraid that you would see through them, because they did not believe that you could crack them.

The two "evil men" one in front and one behind made Subi Mojie's confidence in winning disappear bit by bit in the torment of waiting, and what replaced it was endless fear...

*****
Lun Qinling watched the Tang army's carriages and horses return along the road along the shore of Liemo Sea, until all he could see was the shimmering water of Liemo Sea and the Tang army had disappeared. Only then did he turn around and look at Bolun Zanren who was squatting beside a pile of wooden boxes and looking through them.

These wooden boxes were roughly five feet long and one foot wide, and there were more than a dozen of them stacked one on top of the other. These were the "secret weapons" that Pei Xingjian sent a team of 500 Tang soldiers from Hexi to Liemohai to support him in capturing Huashixia.

One of the boxes had its lid opened, and inside were neatly laid out long arrows, each exactly five feet long, with three wrist-thick tubes tied to the shaft, and long fuses underneath. It was said that this was a newly developed weapon by the Tang army, called a "rocket"...

Since Bo Lun Zanren wore the iron armor and helmet of the Tang army and became an "armored cavalryman", he has been more and more respectful of the Tang army's equipment. Now, looking at the weapons that the Tang army values ​​so much in front of him, he is confused...

"Brother, how big a bow do you need to shoot such a thick and long arrow?"

"You don't need a bow to shoot this thing. You just need to aim at the target and light the fuse with a fire starter."

Lun Qinling also squatted down, took out a "rocket" from the box, looked at it carefully, and glanced at Bolun Zanren after a while: "Do you have any fire starter?"

Bo Lun Zanren's eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes!"

He took out a lighter from his bosom, removed the lid and blew hard. A wisp of green smoke came out, revealing a red spark. He looked at his brother expectantly: "Brother, do you want to try firing one?"

Lun Qinling nodded: "Well, let's see how powerful it is, you try it."

"Right on my mind!"

Not knowing how powerful this rocket was, Lun Qinling retreated ten steps away and warned Bo Lun Zanren: "Be careful, and retreat after it's fired!"

Bo Lun Zanren walked out a dozen steps, placed the upper part of a rocket on a stone to form an upward angle, and then brought the fire lighter close to the fuse. The fuse was lit and smoked and quickly shortened. Bo Lun Zanren did not dare to be careless and quickly retreated. He stopped in front of Lun Qinling and turned around to block Lun Qinling.

When the fuse burned out, the three "tubes" on the arrow shaft simultaneously ejected flames and smoke from the back, driving the arrow out in a parabola for more than two hundred feet before landing on the ground.

"boom!"

There was a loud bang and the smoke filled the earth.