Just south of Chang'an city, Tuoba Sizhong, one of the party leaders who was temporarily forgotten, was also embarrassed and crouched on the road to escape. It was just that he was originally wearing a silver crown in the Greatcloak, but now he only wears a tattered single that resembles ordinary people.
And his heart is also full of anxiety and anxiety. Because of this defeat, he lost not only three thousand Tuoba Pingxia’s cavalrymen, but also vassal players from other Dangxiang clans. Even if he could escape safely in the end, he would inevitably need other Dangxiang clans to explain. .
You must know that as the largest clan among the party branches, the Tuoba clan has always firmly held its natural position as the tribal monarch and the leader of the expedition; but in addition, there are also the Xifeng clan, the Feiting clan, and the Wangli clan. Clan with big surnames such as Clan, Pochao, Yeci, Fangdang, Miqin, etc.;
Among them, there are more than 10,000 rides for the big ones and thousands of riders for the small ones. For example, he once occupied the position of the ruler of the whole clan, but Hou is still the most powerful challenger of the Tuoba clan, and the Xifeng clan that has also been entrusted by the imperial court.
As early as the third year of Emperor Taizong’s Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty (629), he was entrusted to the party by Zheng Yuanhe, the governor of Nanhui Prefecture. One of the party leaders Xi Bulai led his subordinates to the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty established a state in the place (now Songpan County, Sichuan). West), awarded Xi Fengbu Lai as the governor, the first person to vote for the Tang Dynasty.
In the 9th year of Zhenguan (635 years), Tang Xia Zhao sent envoys to 16 states and 340,000 people were attached to the party account. Only Tuyuhun King Murong Fuyun was married to the party chief, Tuoba Chici, who also belonged to the Tang dynasty when he was defeated in battle with the Tang and the people were rebellious and separated.
The imperial court established 32 Jizhou states such as Yi, Lao, Lin, Ke, etc., and appointed the attached tribal leader as the governor of the West Rong Prefecture. He gave Tuoba Chici as the governor of the West Rong Prefecture and gave the surname Li, who was controlled by the Songzhou governor’s office and was named Pingxi Gong opened the way to rejuvenate the Tuoba clan.
It was not until the second year of Guangde Tang (764) that Hebei Deputy Marshal Pu Gu Huaien had made great achievements in pacifying the chaos, but he was trapped by eunuchs and rebelled, and incited Dangxiang, Tuyuhun and other tribes to rebel against the Tang Dynasty. He was immediately put down and fleeing. .
In order to prevent the Dangxiang and other tribes from being instigated by him, Shuofang (located in the southwest of Lingwu County, Ningxia) Jiedu Guo Ziyi suggested that the court move the Dangxiang living in Jingbian and other six prefectures to the north of Yinzhou (now northwest of Mizhi County, Shaanxi). Live in the area east of Xiazhou (now west of Hengshan County, Shaanxi);
He also called on the five chiefs of the Dangxiang tribe, General Zuo Yulin, Tuoba Chaoguang and Tuoba Qimei, to enter the dynasty and give them generous rewards. From then on, Tuoba Qimei lived in Gyeongju and named Dongshan; Tuoba Chaoguang lived in Xiazhou. , No. Pingxia Department. Now there is the source of the growth of the two Tuoba clans in the east and the west.
Later, during the Taihe and Kaicheng (827-840) years of Emperor Wenzong of Tang Dynasty, the Dongshan Dangxiang reappeared in chaos; until the fourth year of Dazhong, Tang Xuanzong Zhao Fengxiang Li Ye and Hedong Li Qianhe conquered Dangxiang and quelled it. The remaining Dongshan Dangxiang tribe fled to the territory of Xiazhou, and the two Tuoba clan merged into one, and the Pingxia tribe overwhelmed the leader and the other tribes.
From this, it also took advantage of the authority of the Tang Dynasty’s orders and canonization, and the Pingxia Tribe, which served as the border city and military buffer outside the Great Wall, controlled and monopolized most of the reciprocal exchanges. Since then, the Pingxia Tribe has gradually overwhelmed the various ministries. There is no question of repeated conquests from above and from left to right.
Therefore, this time the imperial court gave orders, and the Tuoba tribe, who was the first to bear the brunt, had to come. On the one hand, it is true that the lessons of the Shatuo tribe they personally participated in the crusade are not far away; on the other hand, if the Tuoba tribe rejects it, then the next time he calls on the authority of the party ministries, it will be greatly reduced, let alone be affected. The possibility of people taking the opportunity to replace it.
Therefore, as his eldest brother, Tuoba Sigong, who has just been authorized by Xia Sui Yin Jiedu, is also a decisive figure; the same time, he ordered all ministries to dispatch troops according to the corresponding proportions, and join them in battle together; provided by Daibeihang Battalion At the same time of clothing and food, according to their performance and efforts to obtain gains.
This way, on the one hand, the emptiness of the rear can be avoided, and the original balance of power and balance can be broken, leading to infighting and aggression among the party surnames; it can also disperse and weaken the strength of these party surnames in a disguised manner during combat; and even reward them with grace. The name is just right to win over and win over the warriors.
As the younger brother of the leader of Tuoba, Tuoba Sizhong, one of the three provincial governors in Pingxia, was able to obtain one-third of this commander of the Fanluo cavalry, and he was qualified to serve under the direct subordinates of Hedong Xingying; He is skilled and obedient to his brother; but more importantly, it is because he had served as a court guard in his early years and knew how to deal with these court figures.
Therefore, when he found that the rear camp had been broken through and could not be held, he also tried to break through and rush out, but he yelled again and again to encourage and lead the gathered troops, trying to find and attack the thieves. Weakness of the connection; and then again and again was blocked back.
And when he didn’t know the number of times, with the remnant cavalry that had been severely disintegrated and weakened, he was about to smash through the edge of a group of thieves’ infantry, showing where the formation was chaotic; but he didn’t prevent head-on collision. There was a band of thieves holding firearms, and then they were laid to the ground in patches in a flash of radiation.
Even Tuoba Sizhong, who was still fighting hard, was injured on the spot by an unknown firearm of the thief army. Wei Muxi fell to death one after another.
Then he lost the last bit of control of the situation, and ran out under the desperate protection of the remaining soldiers, while watching the cavalry that broke down on the spot. After being surrounded by the thieves who pressed forward and backward, he was surrounded by many in the crowd. The raised sharp blade pierced the horse's belly and thigh, and it was overturned to the ground either dead or wounded.
In the end, under the guards of only a dozen horses, they fled to the south with all their strength. However, Tuoba Sizhong, who was temporarily out of sight of the thief army, could not stop the pain from falling from the horse back and fainted to death in a dry river ditch. When he woke up again in a bush, the wound was bandaged, but he was already alone.
Fortunately, compared to most of the party chiefs and tribes who were protruding foreheads and were covered in fishy and greasy dirt, Tuoba Sizhong, who had been stranded in Beijing as a proton, rarely maintained the clothes of the Han family and was able to speak fluently. The existence of words;
Therefore, he removed the party crown, forehead ornaments and narrow-sleeved gowns on the horseback, and removed the green, gold and silver medal ring on his chest. Only the Tang-style single clothes inside was deliberately scratched and stained with mud. It is very easy for him. He mingled with the defeated soldiers and escaped temporarily.
Even on the way to escape later, I accidentally ran into a thief army ranger from far away, but because he regarded him as a local civilian husband who was captured, not only did he not be embarrassed but threw him a piece of bread to indicate a place to ask for help, and that’s it. Luckily, he escaped the pass.
Then, when I don’t know how long I’ve been walking, Tuoba Sigong, who only feels the wound under his ribs, is about to crack apart, staggers his head into a clear river ditch, slurping and satiating at the same time, But I saw another figure in the reflection on the surface of the ** Yang water.
It was a man with a shaggy head and a face covered with cracked mud. He was wrinkled and bags under his eyes were bloodshot. A few pieces of dirty cloth that I did not know where he picked up were wrapped around his body, and his waist was still swollen. A circle of things seems to be the same as the refugees that can be seen on the ground in Guanzhong.
It's just that the opponent held a half-spear in his hand and squatted on the ground, which made Tuoba Sizhong, who was wounded and exhausted, somewhat jealous and guarded; however, just after a moment, Tuoba Sizhong reluctantly made a smile. , As if one is familiar with the road;
"Dare to ask this guy, is there anything to eat... I have something to exchange..."
He vaguely and consciously guessed the identity of the other party. In the Guanzhong land of eight hundred miles in Qinchuan, there are not only the two camps of officials and thieves; in the gap between their campaigns and killings, there are also many walls and grasses that follow the flow, according to the villages and towns. Protect themselves, and secretly attack and rob passers-by and defeated Tu Tuan village soldiers.
There were also disintegrated. After the collapse, the scattered soldiers and the brave soldiers spontaneously formed the bandits and bandits, as well as the groups of refugees who moved back and forth between the bandits and the people; this one is more like one of them. Of the single-member.
In this case, Tuoba Sizhong felt that there might be a chance to let him relax his vigilance and think that he was plotting one or two, but the words the other party said made him frightened:
"I'm afraid I'm a big man in the army..." (End of this chapter)