The northern part of the country was far away, and the battle in the south was hard.
The flags are like bird wings, and the armor is like fish scales.
Cold water hurts horses, sad wind and sorrow kills people.
Cunxin understands the sun, and thousands of miles are dark and yellow.
"War City South"
Tang Dynasty: Yang Jiong
—I am the dividing line —
Southeast of Chang'an City, Hengba is near the Wusong Station near Guandu.
"You said that a large number of Taiping thieves suddenly popped out from Lantianyu?"
Sage Zhu Xieyi, who was being talked about by Cui An, also looked at the Anqing clan chieftain who had already been defeated from Lantian City and led the remnant to retreat, and the governor of Jiufu Shi Jingcun and his party:
"That's it. The situation that Lantian city has been holding on is just an illusion deliberately created by the thieves... From beginning to end, only a group of thieves in variegated robes and even armors appeared on the wall. None of them... so all kinds of things, I'm afraid it's not a big plan for a long time!"
Shi Jingcun, who lost his helmet while fleeing, draped his gray hair casually on his shoulders and stuck to his sweaty cheeks, also said with a heavy tone:
"As a result, when the Erlangs relaxed for a while, they were culled overnight by many armored thieves and broke through the camp. There were also a large number of people and horses from Lantianyu who joined together outside; they also scorched and scorched countless firearms, which disturbed the horses. Uneasy and difficult to ride and gather."
"My son Lang fought in the camp until dawn. In the end, there was still a misfortune that could not be resisted, and he had to turn in separately..."
"In that case, I'm afraid that it's not the Sager Department at Dachang Pass that is also not good? Jian Pingji, when was the last time the Sager Department contacted the main line? ..."
Zhu Xieyisheng did not continue to hold him accountable, but frowned.
"Returning, it is exactly four quarters in the afternoon two days ago, please transfer a batch of pack animals to the shipment..."
The General Shatuo named Jian Lingji hurriedly bowed and replied:
"not good!"
At this time, there is no need for Zhu Xieyi to speak. As one of the few Tang dynasties in his subordinates, the only secretary among the generals who dresses as the head of the crotch, he has won the trust of Zhu Xieyi in Weizhou (now Zhangjiakou). Yu County) Ren Gai Yu yelled out first:
"If there are accidents and unknowns in the Sager Ministry, I am afraid that the dangerous situation in the south of Chang'an City is also the plot from the headquarters."
"That said, Tuoba Sigong is a terrible place to go.?"
Zhu Xieyi said with awe-inspiring eyes:
"Not only cannot we go, we have to send someone to contact us to know..."
Guy Yu continued to say seriously:
"Then Yan Bashui rushed northward and moved closer to the post camp in the east of the city, and only when they were able to interact and respond to each other with the soldiers and horses in the Shangjing city did they feel at ease."
"Very good... Just as you say, Junli, Cunzhang!"
Saint Zhu Xieyi made a decisive decision without hesitation:
"Subordinates are here."
On the spot, Zuo Du, who was born in Bianzhen’s arrogance and strong background, ran Yakang Junli, and Yi'er both put Li Cunzhang on the spot, and said:
"Let each of you rate a target, alternately being the choice of the palace army and the police queen. Don't beg to fight against the thieves, try to delay the enemy's power first,"
Zhu Xieyisheng said loudly:
"Telling,"
The narrow-faced Kang Junli and the generous Li Cunzhang also responded loudly. It's just that when they led out to prepare for the gathering of people and horses, they successively received a small message from Zhu Xieyi's holy place:
"Challenge\My lord has something to say, after a little entanglement with the thief army, you can lead your troops to the west and make a posture of confluence with the party Xiang army under Tuoba (Sigong) left behind..."
As for the team that was sent to investigate and respond to Chang'an City, Li Kerang, who was on standby for help, was retired and the Tatar united the tribe. The troops led by Li Kexiu, the envoy of Fengcheng Army, seemed to have been forgotten by everyone. Similar.
Since Zhu Xieyi Sheng didn't take the initiative to mention it during the temporary military meeting, naturally no one would talk about it after the military meeting. After all, under some deliberate or unintentional arrangement, most of the relatives and ancestors of the former Yuzhou governor and Li Youjin, the commander of the Shatuo tribe, are also gathered in this partial division.
Coupled with the deputy envoy of the South Datong Army, Li Kerang, the Yuzhou united children (fan fallen soldiers) and the military commander of the Uyghur Army as the Superintendent of the Army, it can be said that Li Youjin, who once led the three tribes of Shatuo, is mostly old All the daily crews are alive.
And the corresponding relationship among them can only be understood without words. After all, although Li Youjin has made great contributions to protecting Zhu Xie's tribe, he also made great contributions to the return of Zhu Xie and his son.
But after Zhu Xiechi regained the power of the tribe, and handed over all matters of conquest to Saint Zhu Xieyi; as time passed and the situation gradually changed, things still inevitably changed.
Especially in the conquests that followed the official army, the young and vigorous young and strong forces in the tribe headed by Zhu Xieyisheng inevitably rose up and completely mastered the military leadership; these old-school tribal leaders also happened. Different degrees of differentiation.
Some people began to feel that he was too weak and difficult to take on the task, and others felt that his daily performance and handling methods were too Tang-like and a little humbling, completely losing the original face of Shatuo from the other side of the desert.
And the so-called enduring humiliation and burdening the tribe to protect the remnants of the old deeds and momentary graces are far worse than having been alone for several years outside the Great Wall, gathering and creating a Zhu Xieyi saint who follows the army from nothing, which is more glorious and heroic. Ling Ran.
Although Li Youjin has always shown indisputable obedience and cooperation, as Zhu Xie's military commander during the transition period after Zhu Xie's death, the popularity and influence he possessed inevitably passed between the old and new factions. The trivial matters of collisions and conflicts are directly or indirectly reflected.
In addition, this time, after he was seriously injured in the conflict before Lantian Pass not long after the first battle, the trend of the people in the Shatuo tribe has undergone subtle changes. Therefore, according to the survival philosophy circulating on the grassland, a front wolf with its claws completely plucked out is the best and most reassuring ending that allows it to survive.
After all, the growth and rise of any ethnic group has its corresponding sacrifices and stepping stones as sacrifices.
—I am the dividing line of the stepping stone —
In the south of Chang'an, Li Kerang, deputy envoy of the Datong Army, was also fighting hard for his own survival. The retreating tribes that formed the main part of the Great Harmony Army had already collapsed with the leading Helian clan taking the lead in fleeing. As for the Tatar coalition forces from the various tribes north of the Yinshan Mountains, they rushed out early when the situation was not good. Up.
After all, most of these men under his command are morale and war-willed, and they are purely a messy tribe that they thought of as a feint. So in the end, they gathered around him and rushed out into an organizational system, but only the Weizhou regimental training and military guards who had discarded their luggage and flags were more than a thousand people;
However, his bad luck and calamity were not caused by this calamity. After several attempts to break through the siege, he was determined to move closer to Tongcheng in the south, and he was beaten back again and again in front of the enemy line that he had encountered unexpectedly. Only then did he woke up and then galloped east along the city wall, and At this time, there were only a hundred riders left beside him.
At this time, it seemed that the long-overdue luck finally took care of him. The thieves appeared one after another on the battlefield in the south of the city, and one after another rushed into the city of Chang'an, setting off intensified smoke. The clamor of the sky and the fierce fight, but temporarily ignored such a small group of fish that slipped through the net running close to the trenches.
However, when he had toiled around the perimeter of the long city wall in Chang'an, he came to the Yanxing gate in the southeastern section of the city and shouted his official title loudly, wanting to get help and support from the officers stationed in it; but because of loss Anything that could indicate his identity was unconsciously set down by a burst of random arrows from the head of the city, and a dozen or so riders died on the spot.
Li Kerang could not help but flee from the north with hatred, and ran along Chunming Gate and Tonghua Gate to the Taihe Gate east of the Daming Palace on the original Dragon Head, but there was never a defender willing to accept and accommodate them, these survivors. Taking refuge in the city, he will not inform Cui Sanggong for him; on the contrary, these mounts have been exhausted to death.
In the end, Li Kerang could only flee away with the last dozen rides amidst the sighs and howls of the left and right collapses; because in his memory, there was a deserted royal stable there. There are still some of the Shatuo herds grazing in it.
Compared with Li Kerang, who eventually escaped, the Fengcheng army envoy Li Kexiu, who led his troops to support and respond, slammed into the Taiping Army’s formation in the south of the city; he slammed into the Taiping Army’s in the south of the city. In the formation. In these encounters, the Sha Tuo Department originally thought that it was flying like the wind and shooting from a long distance to a short distance. Under the roar of a large number of guns equipped in the Taiping army’s preset camp, it was easily dispelled and dispelled. Disrupted.
These nomadic cavalry with only leather armor, leather robes, and small skin shields can't stop the lead shot from gunpowder from penetrating; they have horned bows and bids in their hands that have not reached close enough range, so they have to be far away. Yuanlian and his horse crashed to the ground with blood splashing all over his body;
And their rushing mounts were more shocked and shocked by the unprecedented firelight and roar. Instead of waiting to rush to the front, they started to raise their hooves and stunned one after another, each of them leaned back and fell apart, or rushed to avoid them, and smashed and rolled into a ball. But it is no longer possible to maintain and form any decent impact.
Therefore, after he personally led the troops to rush from the left to the right several times, Li Kexiu couldn't help but feel sad to find that most of his troops have become an out-and-out team. Because their mounts and pack animals were either frightened and fled away, or they had to be actively given up and slaughtered, so as not to become a factor in chaos and shake their own positions.
However, the Sanduo flag and the white copper flying bird army he held high in the air have become like magnets in this flame-dazzling battlefield. No matter how hard they struggle to break through, they can’t get rid of the constant scramble from all sides. The thieves who came; finally surrounded them in the ruins of Shaoling formerly known as Langguan Town. (End of this chapter)