War is an act of violence to force our enemy to obey our will. Similarly, war is also an absolute means for us to gain wealth and power.
But our war is to seek a fair, just and stable country for the Tibetan people who are living in dire straits.
For their happy life, and for their king Mangsong Mangtsen to no longer be controlled by the treacherous minister Lu Dongtsen, the Tang Dynasty, as a superior country, has the responsibility and obligation to help them.
The passionate speech only made his guards' eyes sparkle. They didn't understand why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was so crazy so early in the morning.
Quan Yi had already led his team to the other side of the mountains to wait for the Tubo caravan, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was facing the snow-capped mountains in the distance with a righteous look on his face.
"Forget it. I've said so much, but few of you understand. Just remember, you must not let Quan Yi's men steal the limelight." Li Hong looked at the two hundred people with confused faces. It seemed that the pre-war mobilization he had been thinking about all night was in vain.
The wars of this era still tend to be barbaric, and truth is always the first thing to be sacrificed.
The most easily recognizable features of the Tibetans are, of course, their clothing and their hair.
A robe with a fur collar and a belt made of animal fur is their most distinctive feature.
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Hair accessories are even easier to distinguish. A head full of small braids is the same for both men and women. Once the hat is taken off, it immediately looks messy.
A camel caravan so long that one could not see its tail slowly came from a narrow corner in the distance of the Kunlun Mountains.
The crisp sound of camel bells with a hint of mystery rang out on the empty plateau. The tinkling sound plus the occasional shouts of merchants attracted the cries of mountain eagles flying among the blue sky and white clouds.
The cries of mountain eagles echoing through the sky did not make the camel caravan stop or doubt for a moment, as the dromedary in the lead was unique to Tibet.
Yaks are also good at walking on mountain trails. Like dromedaries, they are extremely cold-resistant and have great endurance. As pack animals, both are the livestock that Tibetan merchants are most proud of.
Putting down the telescope, Li Hong looked at the camel caravan that was like a small river. More than 2,000 merchants might not look very spectacular in the desert.
But on the winding mountain roads, these people are a dominant group that no one dares to mess with in the Pamir Mountains.
Quan Yi's troops had already been lying in ambush behind the mountain, and on the other side, in an area as narrow as a canyon, Li Hong had been waiting for a long time.
Wei Tuqi looked at the camel caravan that looked like a long dragon. He really couldn't figure out how they could defeat these caravans when they were not at a numerical advantage.
"The old man wouldn't have not come, would he?" Li Hong muttered to himself facing the mountain breeze.
Nearly two thousand people could be seen in the camel caravan, but there was no sign of any important figures among them.
"Master, you are not going to say..." Hua Meng swallowed hard and didn't dare to say anything.
Li Hong ignored Hua Meng's question. He certainly knew the importance of this battle and the consequences if it failed.
Along the way, Li Hong did not reveal that Lu Dongzan was in the camel caravan. All along, he used the Tibetan merchant action planned by Lu Dongzan as an excuse to fool others: why did they have to let him personally go out to attack a camel caravan?
"Send a flag signal and command Quan Yi. No matter what happens, don't move and wait for orders." After Li Hong finished speaking, he picked up a heavy, long-range sniper crossbow beside him and found a commanding height.
If old man Lu Dongzan didn't show up, these camel caravans would probably disappear from his sight in a swagger.
This was a situation that Li Hong would never allow to happen, so he could only try to shoot the leader of the camel caravan with a long-range crossbow, just like the sniper in his previous life, to see what would happen.
Li Hong slowly inserted a fine iron arrow with spiral patterns on its shaft into the slot.
Looking at the leader of the camel caravan who was still walking leisurely forward, Li Hong took off the eye mask he wore when he set out today as a pirate of the Caribbean, and began to aim at the leader.
Li Hong estimated that the mountain wind would cause a deviation in the arrow's accuracy. As he heard an eagle cry above his head, Li Hong decisively pulled the trigger. The sound of the arrow breaking through the air and the eagle cry in the sky complemented each other.
"Master..." Xiaoxue looked nervously at the leader who was still walking.
"No hurry, let the arrows fly for a while." Just as Li Hong finished speaking, he heard the sound of camel bells in the front and a hint of chaos.
"Yeah, it hit the target." Li Hong quickly snatched the telescope from Xiaoxue's hand and observed it carefully.
The leader was hit right in the middle of the forehead by his own arrow and fell to the ground all of a sudden. The dromedary was frightened by the sound of the wind caused by the arrow and retreated reflexively, causing the camel bells on the dromedary's neck to make chaotic sounds.
The camel caravan slowly stopped, except for a little chaos at the beginning when he shot the leader. In a short while, the whole team quickly returned to calm.
Except for a few people who occasionally looked up to the sides, everyone else just stood quietly beside their dromedaries or yaks, looking straight ahead.
"These people are not simple. None of them is a real merchant. They are all elite soldiers of Tubo." Li Hong said excitedly, and he became more convinced that Lu Dongzan must be hiding in the camel caravan.
Li Hong carefully observed the entire camel caravan with a telescope. He did not miss any small details, but the camel caravan winding on the mountain road did not make any small movements.
The entire camel caravan seemed to be frozen in time. No one spoke, no one moved. They just stood there like the Terracotta Warriors, motionless.
"Master, what should we do now?" Xiaoxue was a little nervous and suppressed by this weird atmosphere, and asked in a low voice.
"Wait." Li Hong put down the telescope and put another arrow on it.
Sure enough, among the camel caravans at the foot of the mountain that seemed to have been programmed, a man suddenly appeared and trotted up and down all the way to the front of the caravan.
He squatted down and looked at the leader who was already dead, then nodded to the people behind him, led the dromedary and began to prepare to move forward.
"Swoosh..." The arrow cut through the air, bringing with it a slight shock.
The man had just taken seven or eight steps forward with the dromedary when he was shot in the middle of his eyebrows, just like the first man, and fell to the ground.
The camel caravan was just like at the beginning. After a little panic in the front, it became neat and orderly without any confusion.
This happened one after another. Before the entire camel caravan had moved forward thirty steps, seven people had been shot dead by Li Hong.
However, the entire camel caravan still did not experience the panic situation that Li Hong wanted. The entire camel caravan was still eerily calm, and was still orderly and well-arranged.
Li Hong frowned and had to re-evaluate the strength of Tubo. These people were too terrifying and too calm.
No wonder Tubo was able to stand tall on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, making it impossible for the White Caliphate and the Tang Dynasty to do anything about it, and allowing Tubo to continue expanding to its south.
The sunlight of time slowly slanted from the south slope, but the Tibetan caravan still stood there motionless, and did not send anyone to continue leading the way forward. Instead, they just stood there, feeling the mountain breeze, and waiting quietly.
Li Hong let out a long sigh and looked at the sun which had already moved above his head. He understood that these people were waiting for it to get dark before continuing to move forward. They were not waiting for reinforcements as Wei Tuqi had thought.
Li Hong's estimate of the current situation was somewhat optimistic. He chose this place for ambush and interception because the road here is narrow and the Tibetan camel caravans cannot pass side by side.
But at the same time, this place is not suitable for taking advantage of the terrain and charging from the bottom up.
His original plan was to cause chaos in the Tubo camel caravan after shooting them, and then take advantage of the chaos to cut off the connection between the camel caravans, split them into several sections, and annihilate them separately.
But it was obvious that Lu Dongzan had expected that he would do so, so there was this immovable camel caravan standing here like the Great Wall, making it impossible for Li Hong to come up with a good solution for a while.
This was their first confrontation, and the two had not yet met, so it was hard to say who would win or lose.
However, even though Li Hong had all the advantages of geographical location, he did not gain any advantage at all, which means that Lu Dongzan has the upper hand between the two of them.
The weather was about to turn to Lu Dongzan's side. As soon as it got dark, Lu Dongzan could risk the death of a few more men and calmly carry the goods through here and get out of the ambush circle.
"Shoot them." Li Hong looked at the camel caravan that seemed to be frozen by the mountain wind, a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes, and he said lightly.
Hua Meng ran away hurriedly and arrived at a place at the foot of the mountain where the camel caravan could not see. A red flag began to wave. Only after the flag over there responded did Hua Meng put down the flag in his hand, handed it to someone else, and ran back.
When they came out of Chang'an City, Li Zhi only gave him twenty powerful sniper crossbows. Now Quan Yi has ten and he has ten.
What he had to do now was to let these twenty men spread out and shoot the Tibetans who were like wooden stakes at the foot of the mountain before dark.
Arrows pierced the air with a sharp sound and carried a hint of cold murderous intent as they were shot randomly at the long Tibetan camel caravan, looking for flaws.
Li Hong held up a telescope and observed carefully. He saw that after the Tibetan man who was hit by the arrow fell down, the Tibetans in front and behind him had no expression on their faces. They were not disturbed at all and still stood there as usual, not afraid that the next arrow would hit him.
But the camel caravan was too long, so long that Li Hong felt desperate. After each Tibetan fell, whether it was the yak or the dromedary, they would panic for a moment, then regain their composure and stand there quietly.
Twenty sniper crossbows were unable to shake the Tibetan camel caravan that stretched for several miles.
In Li Hong's opinion, it was like breaking the legs of a centipede, which had no substantial impact at all.
No matter how hard he shot, he still couldn't effectively hurt the "centipede" at the foot of the mountain, which might very well bite him back.
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