In order to prevent the soldiers from being defeated one by one by the Sui army, Langri Zampu did not return directly to the military camp. Instead, he waited for the remaining troops who had withdrawn from Jishi Pass to join forces. After more than 40,000 people were gathered, he made a mighty move towards the court.

Heading south.

Langri Zampu looked at this mighty army, but he couldn't be happy at all. This expedition to the Sui Dynasty brought together almost all the main forces of Tibet and all the warriors who could fight. More than 200,000 elite soldiers sounded quite majestic.

, but precisely because of this army, Tubo was able to become the king on the plateau, killing Supi, destroying the country with Dangxiang, surrendering to Tuyuhun, and allowing Xiangxiong, the daughter kingdom, and the big and small Bolu to retreat steadily.

But after this battle, Yang Tong openly and honestly killed nearly 30,000 warriors, and then Lunkeer lost another 50,000 in Doma Town. The combined forces of Caisen, Nong and other Supi people almost overwhelmed Yang Tong.

, he lost tens of thousands more troops, and then Lu Dongzan's 70,000 elite troops were defeated again. Adding in his own troops lost at Jishi Pass, Tubo's more than 200,000 elite troops were left with only Niang Shangnang's 40,000.

people, and about 20,000 of their own soldiers. In other words, Tubo lost as many as 160,000 warriors.

This is equivalent to crippling the main force of Tibet. Although there are still more than 60,000 elite soldiers, they can still dominate the plateau, but not only Xixiong, the daughter country, and the big and small Bolu have lost their suppression, I am afraid that even the internal opposition forces

They are also about to cause trouble, and with the Sui Dynasty eyeing them eagerly, Tubo may have to hide its tail between its legs in the coming days.

The important thing is that only about half of the 890,000 or 90,000 coalition soldiers who went to Jishi Pass came back to gather, which shows that the other half either died or became prisoners of the Sui army. In terms of military strength, they had lost their absolute advantage;

As for the morale of the army, with the successive disastrous defeats, the whole army was in great turmoil.

Looking at the generals with dejected expressions, Langri Zamp believed that not only these people, but also all the soldiers in the army had probably increased their ambition to fight again at this moment.

What's worse is that Yang Tong has sent an army to kill Luoche, who is empty of troops. With the full help of Xiangxiong Kingdom, Luoche, the royal city he envisioned, may not be able to be saved. He only hopes that the royal family can escape.

"Everyone goes back to the military camp first and retreats early tomorrow morning." Langri Zamp glanced at Jishiguan, which was again occupied by the Sui army. I don't know what kind of tone he used to say this? It was all over his body.

The power seemed to be drained away in an instant.

Nowadays, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and the generals have no intention of retreating. Even if they retreat like this? Tubo will completely lose the momentum to compete with the Sui Dynasty within a few decades. But Tubo is in trouble internally and externally? The war has spread to the country? If you stay, everyone will tell you what happened here.

This battle.

Yang Tong, who had won consecutive battles, had become a lingering nightmare for the Tubo people. Even Langri Zampu did not dare to fight against him? Let alone ordinary soldiers? So he could only retreat and retreat.

With this army in hand, Tubo at least still has some ability to protect itself, but if all the troops and horses are exhausted, Tubo will really be doomed!

What is the plan for now? We can only take this remnant army to retreat to Tuyuhun Jiyu City, and after joining Niang Shangnang, we can then use the name of revenge of the Sui Dynasty to lure Murong Xiaojun, who was already frightened to the extreme, to go to Tubo? So as to achieve the annexation of Tuyuhun.

Military strength, the purpose of national power.

As the King of Tubo, Langri Zampu is deeply worried about the future of Tubo? Is it really impossible? Can we only give up Supi, Dangxiang, Bailanqiang and other places? He retreats to his hometown in Shannan and silently licks the wounds of the war.

"Zanpu, at some point at the Nanshan Pass, a large herd of cattle appeared, blocking our way." A soldier came from the south and reported to Langri Zanpu.

"Cow? Where did the cow come from?"

Somehow, after hearing that there was a large herd of cattle, Langri Zamp subconsciously felt that these soldiers were hungry and dazzled.

Thinking about it, it's normal for everyone to be hungry and blind after having been fighting for so many days and being soaked in heavy rain for so long.

"Quick, shoot those cows." Chu Suiliang felt bad. The Sui Dynasty would go to the grasslands to plunder at every turn. There were so many livestock that they were inundated with animals. When they fought, they would use the Fire Ox Formation and the Fire Horse Formation at every turn.

, resulting in this method of warfare being used to death by the Sui army. When the Tang army encountered the Sui army, it first defended against fine cavalry, the second against bows and crossbows, and the third against fire, oxen and horses.

As soon as he heard the herd of cattle appeared, Chu Suiliang guessed that the Fire Bull Formation was coming.

"Are you hungry, sir?" Langri Zamp said cheerfully: "The cow that was shot still had a lot of blood. This beef is not delicious. Only beef that has been drained of blood will taste better."

Chu Suiliang said dumbfounded: "No...the Sui army planned to let the fire ox charge into the formation..."

"ah?"

Langri Zanpu was shocked. Judging from the time, the Sui army might have succeeded.

In this case, regardless of whether those cattle were arranged by the Sui army or not, they must be killed.

"Rumble"

Just when the coalition forces stopped and were about to shoot the cattle, a pile of huge rocks suddenly rolled down from the cliff next to them, blocking the way forward. Langri Zanpu suddenly looked up and saw a Sui army appearing on the mountain.

It was too far to see clearly, but I could see little bits of firelight lighting up the mountain, and a distinctive big bald head stood out among the crowd.

Using this big bald head as a reference, Langri Zampu, who squinted his eyes, stopped at the person next to the bald head. Looking at the man in eye-catching armor, Langri Zampu seemed to find it difficult to breathe.

Sui Emperor Yang Tong?

Langri Zampu gritted his teeth and looked at the man who single-handedly pulled Tubo from glory to abyss. He cursed and swore in his heart that as long as Langri Zampu didn't die, one day he would make Yang Tong pay a hundred times the price.

But Langri Zanpu, who was paying attention to Yang Tong, didn't realize that they were in the narrow passage in front of Jishi Pass, where Wang Fubao had ambushed Tuyuhun and Xiao Wang had died in Luwu.

The rain of stones wiped out all five thousand Tuyuhun soldiers led by Lu Wu. He saw that the terrain here was dangerous and it was the only way for Tuyuhun to go north, so he asked Li Shimo to choose a place to build Jishi Pass.

And the person Langri Zamp saw was indeed Yang Tong.

The big bald man next to him was naturally Master Xuanzang, who had failed to sneak away. Under Yang Tong's inspiration, he not only gave up going to the West to worship Buddha and seek scriptures, but also went further and further on the path of first becoming a demon and then becoming a Buddha.

Coming further and further.

Traveling eastward, they not only had to annihilate the intercepting skirmishers, but also had to go around many twists and turns. The journey was actually slower than Wei Fengwu, Shui Tianji, and Du Ruhui, until they saw the smoke rising from all directions.

Yang Tong abandoned his heavy troops and went into battle lightly with his fine cavalry. He used the golden eagle to contact Shuitian Ji and found out that after Tubo had withdrawn, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he divided his troops into two groups and asked Pei Xingyan to lead 30,000 soldiers.

The elite soldiers went to break the coalition camp, and he personally led more than 20,000 people to set up an ambush here.

The Tubo people also fled towards the south as planned, giving Yang Tong the opportunity to annihilate them in one fell swoop. Seeing the chaos in the coalition troops from a distance, Yang Tong cracked the sky with a fierce wave of his hand.

The officers and soldiers of the Sui army threw their torches into the cattle filled with oil. The flames rose into the sky and fell into the cattle one after another like stars in the night.

"boom"

After a brief silence, the fire instantly broke out among the cattle. Two or more blazing fire cattle ran around the mountain pass. With no way to go left and right, they killed dozens of each other and then turned toward the coalition forces.

Here they ran wildly and rushed into the military formation in an instant. At this time, Langri Zamp's order had just been issued. Before the troops who had stopped marching could react, they were rushed into the crowd by a large group of fire bulls. The panicked fire

The bulls rampaged through the crowd, knocking off the soldiers who had been killed by the army.

"Go down the mountain and kill the enemy!" Yang Tong saw that the enemy army was in chaos and gave the order to attack. He also felt quite regretful in his heart. Due to the heavy rain today and lack of preparation in the rush, otherwise, a fire would have ended.

In battle, why do soldiers need to go down the mountain to kill the enemy?

"Kill the enemy!"

Almost at the same time, Wang Xiongdan and Wang Xiongdan, who were lurking on the mountain ridges on both sides, each led five thousand soldiers to kill down the mountain. Although the number was not large, it was already dark and the coalition soldiers could not see how many people there were on the other side.

A group of cattle carrying blazing fire ran into the army, and the army formation was smashed to pieces. For a moment, they felt that they were surrounded by enemy troops from all directions.

"The whole army turned around and re-captured Jishi Pass"

Langri Zamp commanded the army to fly north. This was their only way to survive at the moment. Although there were Sui troops at Jishi Pass, the mountain of corpses in front of the pass was still there. They could seize the pass and go north like they did during the day, avoiding the unknown number of people.

Geometry Yang Tong.

But at this moment, how could the coalition soldiers, who had been completely panicked, hear the order? They only felt that there were enemies everywhere, and anyone they considered a threat became the target of their swords.

In an instant, brutal killings filled the valley. Allied soldiers killing each other were everywhere, and the strong smell of blood continued to fill the air and spread.

Xuanzang put his palms together and recited in a low voice: "Namo Amitabha..."

"Pa" Yang Tong slapped his bald head, making a crisp sound and interrupting Xuanzang who was about to recite sutras.

"Why did Your Majesty beat the poor monk?" Xuanzang looked at Yang Tong with an innocent face.

Yang Tong smiled, looked at him and said, "Did I hit you?"

"Who is it if it's not you?" Xuanzang looked at Yang Tong angrily. In just a few days, his bald head had been knocked so many times that it seemed as if his head had grown bigger.

Yang Tong did not give him a chance to speak, and read: "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, after walking in the deep Prajna Paramita for a long time, he saw that the five aggregates are empty, and he survived all the hardships. Relics, color is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from color, color is emptiness,

Emptiness is color, and the same is true for feelings, thoughts, and consciousness. Relics, all dharmas are empty, neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing. Therefore, there is no color in the sky..."

Xuanzang was shocked when a piece of the Heart Sutra came out.

He stayed where he was, his heartbeat was racing and his tongue was so stiff that he couldn't speak. How could he think of chanting sutras?

"This is??"

Xuanzang asked loudly and lost his temper.

You must know that there was no translation at this time, and what Yang Tong read was the translation made by Xuanzang after he returned from Tianzhu.

But Xuanzang couldn't even go to Tianzhu at this time, and the Sui Dynasty didn't even have the Heart Sutra, let alone such a superb complete version?

How could this not shock Xuanzang?

"This is called the Heart Sutra." Yang Tong looked at the original author and asked, "Do you know what it means?"

"It means that there are many things in the world and life is short. You should cherish what you have in front of you. You should not complain about heaven and earth or fight over it, let alone be greedy for too many things that do not belong to you. As long as you have good thoughts and a Buddha in your heart, everything else will be fine.

It’s the clouds and smoke of the past... I wonder if what the poor monk said is correct? Please ask the Holy One to clarify.”

After Xuanzang finished speaking, he looked at Yang Tong expectantly.

It's like seeing a mentor in life.

Do not know why.

This Heart Sutra is so familiar that it seems to be deeply engraved in my heart, but even I don't know it.

"That's a good answer, but what you're talking about is just the appearance." Yang Tong said: "It actually has a deeper meaning. 'Color is emptiness, emptiness is color' refers to the chaos in the world, where everything is nothingness and nothing exists.

."

"This..." Xuanzang felt something was wrong, but he couldn't put it into words.
To be continued...