When the news of the Khitan defeat in Liaodong came to the territory of Youzhou, where the Pinglu Army was in, sooner than expected; even the most conservative and stable local generals and the family of soldiers could not help but Under the rumors and descriptions of people returning to the city, they became eager and radical.
Then, as waves of people went to Yacheng to meet and beg for orders, just a few days later, the first four thousand cavalry soldiers, as the advance, had already assembled in the territory of Youzhou and drove northward without stopping. Then, more athletes from the local generals, Men Shibing, also gathered in the city under Youzhou City with swords, armoured bows and horses in the conscription order issued by the new term Jieya, and began to receive points and receive the relief money issued by Jieya. Material use.
After all, in the spring, such a thing as a large-scale attack on foreigners with impaired strength; but it has not happened for more than 20 years. The last time it was the festival commander Li Maoxun from the eastern Uighurs, and Zhang Zhongwu, the predecessor of Li Keju and his son, during the Huichang period of the Northern Expedition to the Uighurs (the battle of the Uighur Khan in the Tang Dynasty), and defeated the Uighurs by killing Hushan (now the right flag of Bahrain, Inner Mongolia). Shan), decapitated 10,000 people, brought down more than 20,000 people, and Wu Jie Khan was wounded and escaped;
Since then, more than 800 Uyghur envoys who stayed in the Khitan and Xi tribes were killed, and the two tribes returned to the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty. Then in the middle and middle ages, he broke through the northern mountains and reinforced his control over the two capitals of Rao Le and Songmo. But it was also because the foreigners who were driven by the army had planted the roots of curse. Later, when he died of illness, because his successor son Zhang Zhifang was addicted to alcohol and tortured soldiers and was expelled from the army, Li Maoxun and Li Keju, who were born in Uighurs, came to the top.
Therefore, in the Lu Longjun army from generation to generation, there have always been factions and differences between Rang Nei (King Qin) or An Wai (beibian); it was only when Li Keju, who had led the Rang Nei faction for many years, was defeated after repeated defeats in the country. Li Quanzhong, who had regained his power, naturally took the position of the Anwai faction; and urgently needed to cut meat from these Yanbian foreigners, who had gathered a considerable scale, to come back in order to compensate.
Therefore, their response this time is more positive than usual. On the one hand, this is certainly because of the losses after years of expeditions and the defeat in Daibei, which caused many soldiers and families to fall into difficulties and difficulties; on the other hand, it was a rare hemorrhage to accept this festival. The recruited athletes generously distributed enough money, food and materials.
In addition to the most common bean-wheat rice cloth, there are also canned meat and vegetables, paper-packed biscuits, jaggery and tea cakes, salt cubes, etc. that have just appeared in Yandi. I got a bag of more or less heavy copper coins; it's just that these coins look quite new, and the words on them are not the most common kinds of Tongbao of Kaiyuan, Dazhong, Qianfu, etc., but completely unfamiliar. Taiping Green Money.
Although many people couldn't help but murmured in their hearts, but after breaking it apart to confirm that it was really good at a fair price, and after privately taking it to smelt the copper material that was also yellow, they accepted this reality without any objection and Bolan accepted this reality. . In their view, this may be the new color cast privately by a feudal town; but as long as the fineness and materials are sufficient, even if it is melted into copper ingots and copperware, the value can be preserved.
As a general of the advance horse team, Liu Rengong, who has just returned from a batch of aid materials and released prisoners in Daibei territory controlled by the Taiping Army. Therefore, only on the third day of the first cavalry departure, the 24,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 accompanying civilians who have been initially arranged and prepared are also under the personal leadership of Li Quanzhong, Hao Hao **** Drove northward.
Then, as this army drove through the Ji, Ping, and Ying prefectures north of Youzhou, there were successively local soil regiments and guard soldiers along the way to surrender; According to the rumor, hundreds to thousands of civil servants have also been sent through various states and counties to help the army with horses and morning cows and soy and wheat grass.
Therefore, when Li Quanzhong led the army along the long and narrow Liaoxi Corridor with the mountains and the sea to the west, crossing the Bailang Mountain and arriving at Liucheng in the hinterland of Yingzhou. After gathering the last thousands of local garrisons, it was already known as an army of fifty thousand (30,000). Six thousand pawns) are strong. At this time, new news was just received that several small Khitan tribes nomadic in the upper reaches of the White Wolf River had been attacked and captured by Liu Rengong.
At the same time, under a sparse tree cluster near the Yanshan Mountains in Tanzhou, Yelu Abaoji, who had been hiding in Tibet for several days, also slowly opened his somewhat swollen and bloodshot eyes, just as far as his eyes could reach. There are only more than twenty people who still follow him. Although they were talking quietly, eating, drinking, or arranging their saddles, they couldn't hide the low and blank expression on their faces.
Because they did not choose to return along the Liaoxi Corridor they had come, they fled from the territory of Pingzhou and fled into the more rugged and dangerous Yanshan Remains, although they got rid of those Lu Longjun’s searches and installations along the way. The card intercepted, but it also reduced the staff of the mission team; they were originally not a semi-fishing, hunting, semi-nomadic tribe who was good at mountain climbing. The process of crossing the Yanshan Trail was a bit horrible.
Mounts continued to fall to death and injuries, and even the middlemen, including Yelu Abaoji, became somewhat scarred. It’s just that there is a kind of strength and faith that continues to support them to keep going, stepping out of this stretch of mountain and returning to the Rao Le River Basin behind the mountain, bringing back the news of Lu Longjun’s imminent invasion as soon as possible; standing shoulder to shoulder with their own people. Fight hard to save and save the lives of more tribes.
However, in Youzhou City, more than two hundred miles away from him, a group of prisoners covered in rags and stains of mud and blood were also escorted by a few united sergeants and stumbled into the city gate; changed from them Looking at the tattered leather robe and cone hat, it seemed that they belonged to the Department of Law and did not have the army rear team that could escape.
Because Shuru, who fled back to report the letter, was unacceptable, and because he was unfamiliar with the terrain, he got a little bit too late when he arrived at the place; Macheng (northwest of Yixian, Hebei) was the first to get the news quickly through the post station. Shouzhuo, preemptively closed the city gates and besieged the troops that arrived nearby; even though the leader Shuluping was inspiring to fight, he still failed to break through more and more local defenders. Surrounded by.
In the end, these soldiers from the Law Department fought and walked and were forced to the bank of the Rushui River. Then, desperately desperate, they jumped into the river to try to escape; but this time their luck was completely exhausted. Because a soil group rushed to the other side of the river, it easily intercepted these exhausted athletes on the river beach.
Then, after a dying struggle, most of the remaining athletes in the Shulv Department drowned and died in the river; a small number of them became the members of this group after being filled with water. The prisoner; and after a certain price, he was transferred to the chasing Lu Longjun, and he was sent back to Youzhou City as a prisoner, but he just happened to miss Lu Longjun's swearing ceremony.
Not long after the captives were taken into the city of Youzhou, as the sky darkened, a tightly wrapped carriage came to Danzhou Street, Jibeifang, as a new commander/remember on the bright side. Inside the mansion where Jingxiang stayed. Then, a few more healthy women came down and came to the inner courtyard carrying a bunch of things that were constantly squirming, and then put them down in front of Jingxiang who was surprised and said respectfully:
"The little woman came to deliver on the order of the festival. This is what the nobleman specified..."
Afterwards, they worked together to uncover the hood, suddenly revealing a face with disheveled hair, and then uncovered the shackles of the whole body and shook vigorously, and suddenly a piece of a woman with a swollen lower abdomen was rolled down and exposed Jing Xiang was stunned before him, and then he was quickly held down by his hands and feet, and continued:
"It's the Shulu clan who just captured Fan Fu..."
At this moment, Jing Xiang only felt that his mind was blank, and he was a little dry and speechless, and there was some kind of unknown buzz in his ears. (End of this chapter)