The people of Errong are not miserable, and the land of Hunan is nearly fully preserved. I have no hope of returning to the crime, so I went straight to Chang'an Road for eight thousand.
"Wu Guan Xi Feng Pei Liu Tu Fan" Tang Han Yu
—I am the dividing line —
Between the peaks and ridges of the Qinling Mountains, Dou Quan, the governor of Quanshangzhou, who described as handsome, stood on the south gate of Wuguan, watching the fiercely fighting smoke and beacon in the sky, moving towards him bit by bit. come.
The former site of Yaoguan at the northwestern tip of Shangzhou is also being attacked by the Guanzhong thief army from Lantianyu; it can be said that he, the last defender of Shannan Dao who insisted on his duties, is also being attacked from head to tail. A dead end.
The Shangyu Road where Wuguan is located in the Qinling Mountains splits a valley, and the strategic location that connects the Guanzhong Plain and the Nanyang Basin is really important. Because the Hangu Pass is really difficult to fight against the natural dangers, the offensive team often attacked Hangu Pass head-on and attacked Wu Pass with a surprise attack.
The most famous is the battle of Xiang Yu and Liu Bang at the end of the Qin Dynasty. When the main force of the Qin army fought Xiang Yu fiercely in Hebei, and Hangu Pass was also heavily guarded. Taking advantage of Xianyang to Wuguan to defend the emptiness, Liu Bang led an army of 20,000 to break Wu Pass, arrived at Bashang via Bailuyuan, and forced the prince Qin to land. infant.
Another example is the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the Han Dynasty. Zhou Yafu did not go through Hangu Pass but Wu Pass, because the speed of this road can be unexpected, and it can greatly break the allied forces of the kings of the Guandong. During the ten years of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (354) during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Huan Wen led his army to attack the Di family in Guanzhong, which was Wuguan One Road.
In the twelfth year of Yixi (416), Liu Yu killed the Qin, and the fourth year of the Eastern Wei Dynasty (537), the prime minister raised his troops to attack the Western Wei and so on. Most of the battles were on Wuguan Road. In the third year of Liang Chengsheng (554), the Western Wei Dynasty sent troops from Wuguan, passed through Xiangyang, fell into the Jiangling, and captured Emperor Liang Yuan.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Wuguan Road was an important channel from the capital to Jinghan and Jianghuai. Many scribes and officials traveled through this road to obtain official posts or take up posts. Therefore, some people called Wuguan Road the "road of fame and wealth."
Many demoted officials, such as Han Yu, Laidian, Yan Zhenqing, Zhou Ziliang, Yang Zhicheng, Gu Shiyong, Wang Bo, etc., also took Wuguan Road when they were demoted to Chaozhou, Jingxiang, Lingnan and other places.
Among them, from the Lantian Post in the northwest of Lantian City, which is dedicated to expatriate officials, to the Yangcheng Post which leads to the mountain (south), the east (dao), and the river (south) Luo (yang); Wuguan Road Zhongguang is a famous post in the world There are as many as 17 pavilions,
Today, the five stations in Guanzhong, including Lantian, Qingni, Han Gong, Lanqiao, and Lanxi in Shangbei, and the three stations in Qingyun and Yangcheng in Shangnan, have all fallen; and as a temporary short-term defender, Dou Quan is of course not. The kind of minister who is particularly determined to serve the country.
He is a descendant of the Dou clan, and his ancestors also went abroad, such as the princes of the Imperial Court and Shang Shupusher. But more often it is Mengyin selecting officials; then as an attendant, a bachelor, and a man, he is accompanied by introspection with the hall, the secretary, or between the pavilions.
At the beginning, he had bribed his courtiers and begged for his backers, so he was able to free himself as a defender who was the mainstay of Wuguan. He did not avoid the military fronts and the flames of war, and he planned to guard a way out for his backer;
As a result, the imperial court situation collapsed unexpectedly. His patron in the capital failed to escape and became a prisoner of the thief army; then he was relied on as a national screen by the Shandong Jiedu envoy, which was equally unhelpful, and Xingshi went south to challenge the thief but was instead. Lay the reason.
Compared to the relatively well-informed state guards in the Nanyang Basin, it was too late for him to receive news of the defeat of Liu Jurong from Shannan, and he found that his north-south passages had been cut off and there was nowhere to escape.
Therefore, he was trapped here in a disguised form, and became a model of loyalty to his duties in a peril. This is a great irony and sadness for him as a common occurrence. Fortunately, he is not without reliance at the moment.
In addition to the two thousand regiments from Shangluo County, there are more than one thousand Shannan defeated troops who have retreated into Wuguan. In addition, a Shence town soldier who has retreated from Guanzhong constitutes all of Wuguan city today. Guard force.
Outside of Wuguan City, there are numerous valleys with twists and turns. Before the gate is closed, there is more water around the wall, forming a narrow passage and the ground; therefore, the foreign soldiers and horses want to attack the gate. If it does, there is not much room and space for deployment;
On the contrary, he had to be exposed to a dozen rounds of strong arrow rain baptism on Guancheng, endure the constant casualties and persist unwaveringly in order to reach the city gate safely.
Then, he collected materials from Shangluo City, recruited people's husbands, and repaired and reinforced the parts of Guancheng that had fallen into disrepair. Many arrow towers and guard posts were added behind the wall, and fences, horses and trenches were set up on the narrow roads outside the city;
It also recruited those travelers and merchants who were stranded between the two passes, from which they were selected and placed in the camp after the pass, as a backup for guarding the pass.
Although he is not good at military affairs, he at least knows to hand things over to someone who knows how to do it; for example, Li Jicong and Sima Li Jicong, who was born in the frontier army of Shuo Fang, and Lu Guangxuan, general of Fengtian Town, the Shence Army who retreated into Shangzhou. .
It is to make it one north and one south to keep the gate and Wuguan points; in Shangluo County, he urged the locals to raise money and grain, and Ding Zhuang, thinking that he would stick to the plan for a long time to change. However, it is true that people are not as good as heaven.
Yesterday, he suddenly received an emergency report in his city, but it was Lu Guangxuan, a Shence town general who was in Wuguan in the south. Go to the steep Pangtuo Ridge to set up an ambush.
As a result, Dou Quan, as a custodian, had to rush over from Shangluo to sit in Wuguan in person to avoid any mistakes and omissions; just before the sky fell completely, he reconfirmed the location of the beacon in the distance. He went back to his residence to rest with his stomach full of thoughts.
Just as he tossed and turned and went to sleep in his clothes for no longer knowing how long, he was suddenly pushed to wake up amidst the eager and panic voice:
"Ming Mansion, wake up soon..."
"President, things are not good..."
"Fu Zun, Lu Zhen has returned from the defeat that he had already lost overnight..."
In the cold night breeze that made people's skin trembling, Dou Quan, dressed in an obviously unfit and heavy armor, hurried to the top of Guancheng where the torch was bright; there was still a crowd of people shouting and shouting under the door. sound;
And the fences, horse-riding and trenches where they came from have been overturned and filled a little, and there are many tragically dead corpses scattered around. Dou Quan couldn't help but sink in his mind, and hurriedly asked under the city:
"Where is General Lu? Why did he retreat from defeat..."
His words are like pouring hot oil in the crowds under the city, which arouses more babbles.
"Because the attacking thief army has a demon method... to call out the lunar yin in the daytime,"
"Why did we endure the wind that blew for most of the day on the mountain, but it was useless at all..."
"Those thieves discovered our ambush from far away, and before they got close, they shot arrows and set fire to the top of the hill guarded by the Erlangs..."
"A lot of the Erlangs were driven out before the battle, and the ambush was destroyed."
"Lu Zhen will personally lead people to kill thieves, but he doesn't prevent those thieves from using the demon method to summon thunder, and they are now horrified and out of control..."
"We tried our best to come back to report to Mingzun... Poor God, please hurry up and open the door..."
"Open the door and let them in..."
Dou Quan heard that although there was still some confusion, he instructed the left and right,
"President, I'm afraid this will mess up the military's mind, so be careful of spies to mix in..."
A state official quickly persuaded.
"If I don't let them in, I'm afraid the hearts of the people in the city will be messed up... Even if I let them in first, then we will do supervision and screening."
Dou Quan looked at the panic-faced defenders on the city wall and said decisively.
After this wave of collapsed troops rushed into the city gate, the sky began to slowly reveal a faint white belly in the distance: At this time, from the overlooking position on the mountain walls on both sides of Guancheng, once again Someone yelled loudly while ringing the vigilant gongs and bronze bells;
Only a moment later, all the officials and generals in Guancheng, headed by Dou Quan, all saw the one slowly emerging from the mountains, embroidered with a hideous winged fish-shaped behemoth. The cyan flag, and at the beginning of the rising sun, the armour was gleaming like a vast expanse of scales swimming in the army.
But what made them even more distracted was the strange-shaped boat that appeared on Danshui along with this army, without the need for any people and animals on the shore to pull fibers, and went upstream in the ripples of the water.
And on one of the strange ships, the artillery craftsman Bai Duolu, who had just finished reciting the prayer "I wish the enemy will live in hell", also recited again:
"The cannon is truth, and its range is justice..."
—I am the dividing line —
Amidst the faint roar and vibrations, the article about Lin De Temple who fled south but was trapped in the local area should be controlled by Du Guangting; he also raised his head in confusion among a bureau in Guancheng, but saw his own written report. Because of the wrong pen, a large amount of ink was painted on the sticker.
In fact, he was still a Taoist priest, named as Shengbin, named Dongyingzi. This is because he studied Confucian Botong Jing and Zi in his early years, but he was repeatedly admitted to the scholars in the Xianyizong dynasty, so he escaped from the world to enter Tiantai Mountain. As a result, he was recognized by the current polo emperor with his reputation in the monasticism, and he was recruited into the country as an official.
Compared to his little-known achievements in the usual poems, book-making, and poetry, it is a different way in another literary field. He has authored Taoist classics such as "Guangcheng Ji" and "Annotation to the Classics of Changqing Jingjing" from Taishang Laojun.
But what is more famous is that he once wrote "The Biography of the Qiu Yanke"; but now he enshrines Pei Yan with another servant who is driving into Shu. The "Kunlun Slaves" and "Nie Yinniang" written by him are also called World’s "Legend".
It’s just that no matter how well his "Legend" is written and how thorough the study of the classics is, it will not change the result of the fall of the emperor Xixing Jingcheng; it will also not change the status quo that he is trapped here and requisitioned to get some Anmin notices.
It’s just that when he managed to write the notice and take it out, he found that Zaojin was already in a mess, and the street market in Wuguan was already full of panic running around; his fellow clan brother even ran into the door. I yelled loudly when I saw him.
"It's not good, brother, it was the peace thief in Shannan who attacked overnight..."
"It is said that there is a thunder and fire method passed down by the demon monk in the army of that generation, but with the sound of thunder, the battlement will collapse and the flesh and blood of the guard will become mud..."
"The place where the history of the Dou Ji is buried under the rubble, the guards have already begun to flee..."
At the same time, among the defeated soldiers behind the city gate, the former Shannan Jinzhou borrowed the Long March defender Zhang Dong, who was waiting for inspection; also quickly lit a wine gourd filled with gunpowder powder and broken iron pieces and threw it in the crowd most densely. The place.
There were a few people who acted and performed the same way as him, and objects that looked like water sacs and clay pots were also thrown out. I only heard a bang after another, and the unprepared crowd suddenly overwhelmed amidst the gray smoke blooming and the air waves rolling.
After the smoke was blown away, there was only one body left lying on the ground. Although it seems that no one died directly because of this, the bloody struggling and groaning on the ground is even more frightening. Those who can still stand, etc. are also scrambled and trampled away.
Then, Zhang Dong blew his whistle and shouted in unison.
"The city is broken..."
"The governor is dead..."
"Everyone escaped..."
Under the cover of smoke and dust with ease, he picked up the abandoned swordsman and fumbled towards the gate of Guancheng.
After another half day, Du Guangting, who ran out of Wuguan and fled to Shangluo County, had not had time to catch a sigh of relief under the crowded door before he saw the pale battle flag chased by Qingqi on the far side of the road.
Then, he was pushed and pushed by the panicked crowd, squeezing into the trench under the city wall step by step. (End of this chapter)