Chapter 45: Deputy Commander (Second Update, Vote Requested)

  Just after Du He killed the Golden Armor General with his flying sword, the Tibetan soldiers who witnessed this scene were all shocked and panicked, wandering around in confusion, their morale greatly reduced, crying out loudly.

  Du He couldn't understand what they were saying, but he could clearly see that their morale had plummeted and they no longer had the strength to resist.

  Li Ji also saw the problem and ordered the three armies to launch a full-scale attack, shrinking the encirclement circle, and unfolding the final battle.

  By noon the next day, the Tibetan army had no more resisters.

  They fought for a whole day and night!

  Apart from those who surrendered, the Tang army executed all enemies who refused to surrender.

  Li Ji marched onto the battlefield under the protection of his guards and headed straight for Du He's unit.

  "But Songtsen Gampo?" Li Ji asked!

  Du He shook his head, and after killing the Golden Armor General, he immediately lifted up his ghost mask, revealing a middle-aged man's face with a thick beard, completely different from the young man in his early twenties that he had seen before.

  "It must be that he deliberately impersonated Songts?n Gampo in order to attract the attention of our army, so as to cover up Songts?n Gampo's escape among the soldiers!" Du He felt a little regretful. If they could really capture and kill Songts?n Gampo, the mighty enemy of the Tang Dynasty, Tibet, would no longer exist.

  "It doesn't matter!" Li Ji hummed coldly and said: "I didn't believe he could fly up to the sky anyway!"

  "Impossible!" A terrifying thought surged in Du He's mind.

  Seeing Du He's inquiring gaze, Li Ji proudly said: "In this battle, our army was besieged by the Tubo, and after a fierce fight for a whole day and night, not a single Tubo soldier was able to break through our defense line!"

  Du He also expressed his heartfelt admiration, too awesome, with less than 80,000 people besieging nearly equal numbers of Tubo soldiers, not letting a single one escape, it's indeed an astonishing achievement.

  Li Ji was indeed a famous general of the Great Tang Dynasty, truly unmatched and extraordinary.

  The 750,000-strong Tibetan army was defeated, with over 400,000 soldiers killed and the rest surrendering. This was also Songtsen Gampo's first defeat in his lifetime.

  As for the Tang Dynasty side, they lost more than 6,000 men, and their victory was not to be described as easy and beautiful.

  Although Du He was on the battlefield for the first time, his position in this battle can be described with the four words "weighty and crucial".

  It's possible that he really escaped, even until the end Li Ji did not find Songts?n Gampo's shadow, maybe he had already escaped, or perhaps died in the chaos of war, for now it is unknown.

  After all, anything can happen on the battlefield. More than 40,000 Tibetan soldiers' corpses were destroyed, and many of them lost their faces. I don't know his unique features, and it's impossible to carefully check each one, so I had to give up.

  As soon as the war was over, Li Ji immediately dispatched General Zhi Shili to attack Songzhou. The remaining tens of thousands of Songzhou defenders, upon learning that their main force had been annihilated, did not dare to stay for a moment and fled in droves.

  Zhixi thought that the troops he led were also exhausted from the intense battle and could not pursue, but before that, he had sent a small team to raid the Tibetan supply line. So, he immediately ordered that small team to follow up and attack.

  The grain convoy had only over 3,000 people, but the Great Tang soldiers were brave and strong, while the more than 10,000 low-spirited soldiers who only knew how to flee were more than enough.

  Pursued for three whole days and achieved a battle achievement of beheading over a thousand people.

  The news of the Tibetan army's complete defeat spread out and shocked the entire south.

  The countries of Xiongnu, Nanzhao, and Nipaluo were all shaken with fear.

  The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty they had only heard of, but had never seen before, but the strong momentum of Tubo as a neighboring country was well known to them. However, the Tang Dynasty used less than a month's time to almost annihilate the 100,000-strong army of Tubo, this ability is not something that these small countries can compare with.

  Inside Songzhou City!

  Ko Chien-te's one move was extremely beautiful and extremely ruthless.

  Apart from Du Heiying, who was unscathed thanks to her extraordinary lightness skill, everyone else had some injuries, including Lu Tong and others of his caliber. Fang Yiai, relying on the solidity of his armor, managed to avoid many blows, but even he couldn't escape some harm at the weak points where the armor plates met.

  Also for this reason, Du He's tragic fate was treated unfairly. Among the generals, only he was not injured and did not need to rest, so all sorts of things fell on his head for him to handle.

  Every time he sees those idle friends chatting in the city, his heart is filled with indignation.

  Every day, he could only think about asking Li Jiaye for money back, and only by seeing his pleading expression would he feel a little better.

  That day early in the morning, Du He let Li Ji call him again.

  Du He arrived at the Governor's Mansion and as soon as he entered the gate, he began to complain: "Uncle Li, can't you let your nephew take a break? Your nephew is tired!"

  Li Ji smiled and said, "The capable ones work hard, don't worry, I will record your achievements one by one in the merit book, not a single bit less. By the way...I just received two interesting invitations here, take a look!" Li Ji's face was full of smiles, but Du He saw that his smile had a hint of hidden knife, very sinister and gloomy.

  Du He curiously took over these two interesting "invitations" and opened them for a read.

  The two invitations were very ordinary, with no meaning at all, but what was interesting was the signature at the bottom of the invitation: one was Bie Cong Wushi and the other was Shi Ba Li Buli. Very unique names, you can tell they are from a different ethnic group just by listening to them.

  Moreover, for both of them, Du He had already heard about it earlier, in the memorial written by Han Wei, the governor of Songzhou Prefecture. The two were none other than the two governors who betrayed the Great Tang.

  As Du He had expected, after the news of the Tibetan army's defeat spread, they immediately submitted a confession, writing about their innocence and how they were forced to do so. They then expressed their loyalty in grandiose terms, portraying themselves as great loyal ministers who pretended to surrender to Tibet for the benefit of the Tang Dynasty, similar to Jiang Wei.

  In order to curry favor with Li Ji, the commander of the three armies, he specially wrote a letter of invitation to him, hoping that he could go and have a conversation.

  Du He looked at the two invitations coldly and asked: "Uncle, what are you going to do?"

  "It's not what I'm going to do, but what you're going to do!" Li Ji said with a hint of a smile.

  Just as Du He was in a daze, Li Ji suddenly stood up and shouted loudly: "The Emperor's edict: Left Weiwei Zhonglang General Du He come forward to hear the imperial decree!"

  "Your subject is here!" Du He stood up instinctively, wondering what kind of trick Li Shimin was playing, why he couldn't just say something straightforward and had to resort to a verbal summons.

  "We hereby order that Left Weiwei Middle Langjiang Du He temporarily takes the post of Songzhou Dudu, and is fully responsible for all matters in the Songzhou Duhufu until the new Dudu arrives."

  "I understand your orders!" Du He's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he also understood Li Shimin's true intentions.

  The Governor of Songzhou was the head of the Dudufu, and the Dudufu's responsibilities included pacifying the various vassals, resisting external invasions, and having the power to comfort, conquer, reward, and punish neighboring tribes.

  To put it simply, Du He is already the leader of the alien tribes in this area, holding their lives and deaths in his hands.

  "Uncle Li, I've taken these two invitations, let me take care of it for you!"

  Du He smiled, his smile at this moment was like Li Ji's, with a hidden knife in the smile, very sinister and very gloomy.

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