Datang: From exiled prince to eternal tyrant

Chapter 214 Riverside Raid
For the past few days, Songtsan Gampo has been troubled by his injuries and felt dizzy from the pain.

Fortunately, he was in good health, and the arrow wound did not worsen.

By this time, he was no longer in so much pain, and his spirit was much better.

Sitting up, he got out of his tent to get some fresh air outside.

But when he saw the mess in the camp, he felt faintly angry.

A few days ago, Li Ke's many schemes disturbed his camp.

Feeling the dull pain in the wound again, Songtsen Gampo quickly closed his eyes and no longer looked at the miserable situation of the camp.

He walked to the river bank, looking away from his camp.

Taking a deep breath, he felt the fresh air to offset his anger.

Looking at the rolling Tibetan River, Songtsan Gampo couldn't help feeling the magnificence of the rivers and mountains under his control.

He sighed in his heart that such a magnificent mountain and river should only be ruled by him alone.

Thinking in this direction, he couldn't help but bear a grudge against Li Ke, which caused his wound to hurt again.

"hiss……"

Songtsan Gampo quickly stopped his reverie and stared at the Tibetan River farther away.

"what?"

He suddenly discovered that small black spots appeared on the river in the distance.

Songtsan Gampo's heart sank, and he looked over intently again.

On closer inspection, the little black dots seemed to be heading this way, and the black dots turned into black lines.

Then, the hull appeared under the black line...

That's...a warship!
Countless warships are coming here overwhelmingly!

Songtsan Gampo was startled, and immediately thought that his Tubo warship had been captured by Li Ke.

Looking at the warships in front of us again, isn't such a large-scale warship the same batch of warships that the Shu army handed over?

Are they going to... raid the camp?
Or go north into the city?

Songtsan Gampo thought for a moment, and immediately judged that Li Ke was going to attack the camp - it would not be good for Li Ke to attack the city at this time.

"Quick! Quick! Prepare to fight!"

He immediately turned around and summoned the generals.

In the handsome tent, all the high-ranking generals of Tubo gathered together.

"Zanpu, come out of camp to intercept! The opponent has that ballista. If the warships are called to approach, our camp will be in trouble..."

The generals called for battle one after another, asking to go out of the camp to intercept.

Songtsan Gampo was still hesitating, wondering if this was another plot by Li Ke.

Li Ke deliberately sent warships out to force his army out of the camp, and then divided his troops to ambush on land and launch a surprise attack...

It's not impossible...

However, if they do not go out of the camp to intercept, once the warship approaches the camp, it will cause chaos.

The warship spread out one word at a time, and shot the terrifying crossbow arrows at the camp, which would cause huge damage.

A few days ago, the Shu army only sent four or five crossbow carts, which already caused huge trouble.

If this time, he used the cover of the river, approached the camp, and attacked with that giant crossbow... the consequences would be disastrous!
Songtsin Gampo was tangled up.

Obviously guessing that Li Ke might have an ambush, he still didn't dare to be sloppy and let the opponent's warship approach.

After thinking for a long time, he finally waved his hand and sent [-] crossbowmen out of the camp to intercept him, and sent some cavalry and infantry to cover behind him to prevent Li Ke from ambush.

With Li Ke's troops divided into two groups, the number of troops on land should not be large, and this part of the army should be able to stop it.

The army quickly set off and came to the open space on the river bank two miles south of the camp.

The crossbowmen have prepared sharp arrows and are ready to attack the warships of the Shu army.

It is said that rockets are the most effective way to deal with these wooden warships, but there is not much Tubo fire oil.

After moving out all the fire oil, he equipped the crossbowmen in the back row with rockets to attack the nearest warship.

The warship sailed in the wind, at a very high speed, and gradually approached.

The Tubo people could already see clearly that the nearest warship was full of people, and it seemed that many soldiers were leaning on the side of the boat.

And behind those soldiers, there was a huge ballista parked on the boat, which was a sharp weapon to launch an attack on the Tubo camp.

The general quickly ordered the crossbowmen to shoot arrows.

Sharp arrows like locusts flew over and shot at the warship.

Before the sharp arrow arrived, some soldiers of the Shu army were overwhelmed by the momentum and jumped into the water in fright.

Excited in their hearts, these crossbowmen took their arrows and wanted to attack the enemy again.

The rockets were also in place, aimed at the warship.

"Aim and release!"

The second round of passwords was shouted, and the soldiers were fully focused, ready to shoot arrows.

"Boom!"

"Kill! Kill!"

"Boom!"

At this time, the ears of the Tubo people suddenly burst out with a loud sound.

There were footsteps, horseshoes, and the shouts of killing from the soldiers...

The Tubo people turned their heads to look at the source of the sound, and everyone panicked when they saw it.

From their right side, the troops of the Shu army suddenly rushed out, and the troops rushed over like sea water.

"Quick...quick...enemy attack!"

The general only shouted once, and someone waved to the cavalry and infantry behind him.

The Tubo army also rushed over to cover the retreat of the crossbowmen.

However, the speed of the Shu army was too fast, before the crossbowmen left the battlefield, they rushed over and fought with the Tubo soldiers.

Li Ke naturally took the lead and rushed to the front.

This time, the Tubo army came out of the camp, and he naturally would not miss this opportunity.

Raising his halberd, he swept away a few scattered arrows that were shot in a panic, and with one halberd, he knocked down several Tubo crossbowmen.

Immediately afterwards, he galloped his horse and rushed towards the Tubo cavalry behind the crossbowman.

These crossbowmen are now sheep waiting to be slaughtered and have no combat effectiveness. Li Ke left them to the cavalry behind him.

The leaping horse rushed into the enemy's main force, and Li Ke swept across with his halberd, knocking down the leading cavalry.

Then, with the momentum of the charge, he kept swinging his halberd, and swept the Tubo cavalry into a shocking whirlwind.

Its momentum was so fast that the Tibetan cavalry rushed to get out of the way, and the formation fell apart for a while.

Anyone who dares to get close to him will have to bear the sharp edge of Fang Tian's painted halberd.

Behind Li Ke, the heavy cavalry followed him and charged towards the Tubo cavalry.

With thick armor and a ten-foot-long spear, the heavy cavalry ran over like tanks, smashing the Tubo cavalry into pieces.

On both sides of the heavy cavalry, the light cavalry had already cruised behind the Tubo people and charged the infantry.

The main force of the infantry led by Ma Liuzhi was at the end. Their first target was the Tubo crossbowmen who fled in a hurry.

Those Tubo crossbowmen could only draw out their sabers and fight with the real infantry.

After all, crossbowmen are long-distance combat troops, and they are naturally inferior to the elite infantry under Ma Liuzhi's command in hand-to-hand combat.

For a while, the Tubo people were killed and fled one after another, and the river bank flat was piled up with corpses.

The blood of the Tubo people poured into the Tibetan River, supporting the endless warships on the river to go north.

Without the threat of crossbowmen, these warships were unstoppable, and they had crossed the line of defense and headed straight for the Tubo camp.

For a time, wailing was everywhere, and the crossbowmen died one after another.

Ma Liuzhi quickly ended the battle here, and raised his eyes to look forward, where the various cavalry units led by Li Ke were still fighting with the main force of Tubo.

(End of this chapter)