Chapter Seven: Complete Victory

  Li Changguo stood where he was, the only way to escape, holding a long gun and standing there, like a god of war, giving people a great sense of oppression. Xiaobo Lu and the Tubo soldiers looked at him in their eyes, feeling powerless.

  Who can be Li Changguo's opponent with his bravery? It is better to fall from the mountain slope than to escape from Li Changguo, and the Tibetan soldiers did not have a bit of courage.

  Li Changguo blocked the enemy's way, cutting off their retreat. Kang De was greatly inspired, waving his arm and swinging his horizontal knife, shouting: "Brothers, kill!"

  At this moment, even if Kangde did not give the order, the Tang army knew what to do. Xiao Bulü and the Tibetan soldiers had no way to escape, so why not beat the dog in the water now?

  "Long live the Great Tang!"

  The Tang army roared, issuing a shocking battle cry, as fierce as tigers, chasing after the remnants of the small Balur and Tubo armies, beating them mercilessly. It was like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves; wherever they passed, there were corpses everywhere, not a single person could survive.

  The small Boer and Tubo soldiers had already lost their courage, without any strength to fight back, and could only be slaughtered by the Tang army. In a short while, the mountains and fields were filled with corpses, and the fresh blood dyed the hills red.

  The small Bo Lu and the Tibetan soldiers would rather flee in all directions on the mountain slope than dare to fight Li Changguo. Li Changguo stood at the strategic pass for half a day, but not a single enemy came forward to challenge him. Compared with Kang De and others who were killing wildly, he seemed calm and quiet.

  "Spare the life of Tang's army!"

  "Spare the lives of our ancestors!"

  "Spare my life!"

  Xiaobo Lu and Tubo soldiers were chased to the point of having nowhere to go, kneeling on the ground, raising their hands high to beg for mercy.

  This time, the attack on the fort, Xiao Bolu and Tubo mobilized a total of 500 troops, which is ten times the strength of the fort. This is an overwhelming advantage in terms of military strength. Although they have been fighting until now, Xiao Bolu and Tubo have suffered heavy casualties, with more than half of their men killed or wounded. If they gritted their teeth and fought to the death, there was still much to be accomplished.

  The problem is that they were so frightened that they didn't have the courage to resist. One of the two chiliarchs was killed and the other was captured, losing their leader, they became headless flies, except for fleeing in all directions, who dared to have a fighting spirit.

  Second, Li Changguo was too brave and scared them to death. They were afraid that Li Changguo would pursue and kill them. Although at this time Li Changguo was still standing alone on the narrow path, not a single Tibetan soldier dared to try to escape from him.

  "My goodness! You little Brats, you're really something else. You've only been at it for a short while and now you're begging for mercy!"

  "Tibetans, aren't you the brave warriors of Tibet? Come on, let's have a great battle!"

  "These are the brave warriors you Tibetans boast about? They're nothing!"

  Tang Jun felt that continuing to kill was no longer very interesting, so he sheathed his sword. However, the insults and abusive language continued unabated, like a long river flowing endlessly. But when Xiao Bolu and the Tibetan soldiers heard it, they didn't react at all - they had already become numb.

  The next thing was simple, which was to sweep the battlefield. There were more than 200 corpses on the battlefield, and the Tang army had to search for them one by one, which really took some effort.

  Kant is worried, a victory too great also makes people worry, what a strange thing!

  Li Changguo reminded him, with captives present, why did the Tang army need to take action? Kang De suddenly understood and wanted the captives to clean up the battlefield, while the Tang army monitored from behind. The captives dared not disobey orders and had no choice but to go and clean up the battlefield.

  Before long, the battlefield was cleared and the spoils of war were sorted out.

  In this battle, Li Changguo and his men killed a total of 247 enemy soldiers, the rest were all captured, it was a great victory!

  What was even more precious was that the Little Boer thousand husband Long Gezazhashi died, and the Tubo thousand husband Zaxi was captured by Li Changguo. This added icing to the cake, making this victory even more "valuable".

  Fifty-nine war horses were captured, over a hundred sets of armor, hundreds of curved swords, and nearly a hundred taels of gold and silver. This is a huge gain.

  "Long live the Great Tang!"

  "Long live the Great Tang!"

  As soon as the results came out, the soldiers let out a thunderous roar and gave full vent to their joy.

  In the history of the Tang Dynasty, there were many classic battles, such as Li Jing's night raid on Yinshan, Pei Xingjian's great battle at Heishan, Su Dingfang's destruction of the Western Turks, and Li Jing's great victory over the Tuyuhun... In these great wars, the Tang army achieved brilliant results.

  This battle, compared to those classic examples, is far, far inferior. However, Li Changguo and his men achieved a remarkable feat by defeating the enemy with only 50 people against 500, which is an astonishing achievement. Who can't be delighted? Who can't be excited?

  "Don't let him go!"

  Kang De rushed over like a leopard, grabbed Li Changguo's hand and let out a loud roar as he flung him away.

  With the cooperation of these soldiers in Ferre, Li Changguo was thrown up and caught again when he fell down.

  Kangde is the fire chief of Weizhou, his official position is the highest, logically speaking, he should be the one to take credit, however, everyone understands that if it weren't for Li Changguo, they wouldn't have achieved such a feat, this glory should belong to Li Changguo!

  If it weren't for Li Changguo seeing through Xiao Bolu's trickery, perhaps the city would have been caught off guard by Xiao Bolu!

  If it weren't for Li Changguo's suggestion of setting up an ambush when they were besieged in Kangde, there wouldn't have been such a victory!

  If it weren't for Li Changguo's bravery, becoming the sharp tip of the Tang army's spear, charging forward and shattering the enemy's will to fight, crushing their morale, the Tang army wouldn't have won so easily!

  If it weren't for Li Changguo blocking the way, the Tang army wouldn't have been able to annihilate all of the invading enemy, and definitely some of the enemy would have escaped!

  All of this is because of Li Changguo! At this moment of success, this glory should belong to him!

  From Zhang Liangkong down to ordinary soldiers, all thought so!

  "Long live Chairman Li!"

  "Long live Chairman Li!"

  The soldiers threw Li Changguo up and cheered as they did so.

  After a long time, the joy of the soldiers gradually subsided, and they finally stopped. With a single order from Kant, carrying the enemy's head, escorting prisoners, triumphantly returning to the fortress.

  Kang De Ma came to Li Changguo's side, laughing before speaking, his eyes narrowed together, his thumb raised in praise: "Li Shilong, you are truly brave and fierce! I knew you were brave, but I didn't expect you to be so brave. Do you know how many enemies you killed?"

  This really stumped Li Changguo, at the time he was only focused on killing, thinking that no matter how many came, he would kill them all, and didn't even remember how many he had killed.

  "Guess what?" Kant smiled, sizing up Li Changguo, the more he looked, the more pleasing to his eyes, and said the numbers: "You killed sixty-three people! We killed a total of two hundred and forty-seven people, you killed sixty-three people, you are really too brave!"

  This is indeed an astonishing number, and the soldiers were amazed once again.

  Kang De added: "This is just the killing in the early stage of the battle, later when we pursued and killed the enemy, you were guarding the key road and didn't take action!"

  With Li Changguo's bravery, if he didn't have to defend the key pass, his achievements in this battle would be even greater!

  War is not about individual bravery, but about the courage of a team. Li Changguo was invincible in his bravery, cutting off the enemy's retreat and saving more troops to pursue the enemy, thus achieving a brilliant victory.

  "The famous brave warriors of the Tang Dynasty, Qin Qiong and Wei Zheng's bravery is nothing more than this!"

  Kang De was overwhelmed with emotion and rushed to Li Changguo, making a fist and paying his respects: "Li Shizhang, you have achieved such great merit, promotion is inevitable, I congratulate you here!"

  "Congratulations, Li Shang!"

  The soldiers all shouted congratulations in unison.

  Li Changguo's military achievements are great, and his promotion is already a foregone conclusion.