However, Li Mingda who was hurriedly returned to the camp also received good news and bad news. The good news is that it was just a bravado to actively attack the thief army from the Simon in front of him. Therefore, under the strict defense of the Wuwei united children and Gu Zang who stayed behind, the thief army clamored and attacked for most of the day. Has not been able to break through the inch.
However, the next bad news made Li Mingda's face suddenly collapsed. Only then did he remember what he seemed to have overlooked; it was the Chang'an back-ups who had been sent by him to support Chengnan. You must know that he led his troops through the north, east, and west of the city, but he was not able to see them.
It was only afterwards that it was because these reinforcements were already dead. Compared to the unfavorable situation, they were able to retreat and resist some of the camps, waiting for the support of the Xianyang Army and Yaozhou Regiment, and those support sent by Chang'an. The army was actually in a state of discomfort. After only one face-to-face encounter, he was fired in turns by the thief army, and the bomb dropped by the charge, broke up face to face.
To make matters worse, because of our efforts to gather these defeated soldiers, the spies from the thief army rushed in. Therefore, it was possible to use a kind of firework as a sign to mark the approximate location of the grain, grass, and equipment stored in the camp for most of the thief army that followed the attack; and a special firearm was used to continuously bombard the arson near the camp fence. It burned out of control on the spot.
The thieves outside the camp took the opportunity to block and block the ditch that can get water from Wangchuan, and as a result, they can only watch or burn more and more, and the strong men can't break their wrists and abandon the large camps filled with supplies, carts and horses. Clear enough partitions to prevent spreading. This is the final status quo that can be seen after Li Mingda leads his troops back.
"This is... a small portion of the grain and grass, and the siege equipment... It's all from the gap between the teeth for the people in the town to save money, so it's gone!!! Why don't you go. ..."
Li Mingda almost flogged with a gloomy breath, and all the left-behind generals who knelt down and pleaded guilty. They were all covered with blood, but no one dared to make a sound.
However, no matter how he vented his anger and remedied it afterwards, he could not change a fact and result. It is his original tactics of outflanking and flanking and rushing to aid, which has already fallen short in the multi-strike exchange of the city's thief army; it can be said that he has lost a lot of money both from the combat and tactical levels.
Because, the result of the final battle between Chengxi Main Formation and Taiping Thieves, it was an accident that hit the key of Li Mingda's troops. No matter how brave and brave the Liangzhou children are, they will undoubtedly consume more than the others under the overall situation of insufficient food and grass, and they will not be able to maintain the siege or even the defensive for a long time.
You must know the basic principle of "a horse (soldier) as six pawns", and the cost of armoring is even more than that; after another winter of consumption, whether it is the tribes or the returnees, the horse and the horse will win. Weak is waiting to replenish fat in the beginning of spring. Therefore, in the situation of general poverty and weakness in the customs, maintaining the daily state and basic combat effectiveness of the Liangzhou official under his command accounted for most of the daily expenses;
Even in the previous continuous battles in the west and south of the city, the enemy who killed more than three times the damage would not be compensated. What's more, under the situation that he has not been able to completely defeat and annihilate the thief army in the west of the city, and has to abandon and return to the establishment, the next battle will not be so good. .
In contrast, Li Guangjin, the nephew in the death formation, and the leader of the armored horse, is a less important secondary issue for the corresponding damage and the chain reaction of the follow-up cousin Li Mingzhen. Immediately he dropped his bloody whip, panting and shouting to the trembling book official:
"Then I ordered Jian to send people to Chang'an to ask for help again... It is said that the Lantian Pirate Army broke through with all its strength and has killed and wounded thousands of people because of our defeat."
"However, the support of the army and the soldiers were really unbearable, causing the encirclement to be broken in several places and almost out of control... It was really hateful and hateful, and Sui was beheaded by the military law."
"Please go to the camp and town Taiwan to add more grain and grass and be able to use troops and horses. Otherwise, once the enemy (Lantian, Dachang) in the pass comes to attack, our department can only recruit troops and retire for a while..."
However, it seemed that he had met his worst plans and expectations, and it didn't take long for the messenger to go to Chang'an; there was a cavalry covered in blood who was helped in by the soldiers and shouted hoarsely before dark. :
"Du Tuan! The thief army in Dachang Pass suddenly broke out. The Shanzhou regiment practiced and retreated to the Murong Department to fight, but was hit by the thief army's arrangement and the ground collapsed for no reason, and was bombarded by the Qiqiao firearms at the head of the city; the leader of Murong. The following was not on the spot, the Shanzhou Guo regiment was missing, and the rest were unstoppable..."
"Now the thieves who have exited the pass have gone outside Lantian Pass, Bailuyuan went to Khotan, Subi, Tubo and other three ministries of defense to culminate. Please also Dutuan to send troops to support quickly..."
Hearing these words, Li Mingda almost rushed to his brain and his eyes went black, almost fainting with breath. However, he still supports the recovery and maintenance of basic sobriety, and the left and right sides who have been summoned by the ascendant in a hasty tone will solemnly order:
"If the order continues, this formation is about to pull out of the camp and retreat from Chang'an direction after the night... This Lantian city is no longer besieged, and there is no need to be besieged again..."
"Then, according to the one-hour delay, inform Xian Yangjun and the children of Yaozhou and Hezhou (Tuanlian) one by one... Order them to leave the camp and return to Chang'an by themselves!"
"Du Tuan, why is this!"
However, the general beside him exclaimed in surprise:
"My department still has the power to fight..."
"Didn't this formation have already defeated the thieves in the city..."
"Why give up the current good situation!!"
"I have decided, but those who dare to speak more and who defy or procrastinate shall engage in military law..."
However, Li Mingda had no mood to explain too much to them, let alone those obstacles that could shake the military's mind.
Although he still looks down on these lost firearms and the protection of the city wall, he can't resist the peaceful thieves who are charged by the cavalry at all. I don't know how this blocked Lantian city has reached a tacit understanding and cooperation with the blue sky and the blue sky more than 20 miles away. But this also proves that the Taiping Thief may still have the right to mobilize and want to do something; this is no longer the Jingnan soldiers and horses that he manages all the way, and can alone take on the situation and the corresponding situation.
At least compared to these young generals who have grown up in the process of external expansion and border conflicts and are somewhat high-spirited, as one of the few veterans of the Guiyi Army who has followed the previous two generations of military commanders, Li Mingda However, he would not underestimate the peace thief who has occupied a large area of the rich and prosperous areas in the south, which can represent the upper limit of the manpower and material resources to be mobilized.
"What about the people of the Ministry of the People's Republic of China..."
However, right next to Li Mingda who was about to turn around, someone couldn't help but ask this question. However, the expressionless Li Mingda said coldly:
"It's too late to save, I can only ask for blessings..."
Then the general suddenly remembered that this Li Shishi and Li Dutuan were well-known in the Guiyi Army, who was particularly true to those inside and outside the feudal clan. It is also quite a criticism of the way that Xianshuai Huai Shen Gong Enjie and Huairou feudal vassals, even after defeating them, encourages his subordinates to marry with them.
At the same time, as Changan's response and feedback, it was also unexpectedly quick. Soon there will be a team with a blue wolf head high and wearing fur-edged striped armor and leather braided armor. It has already rushed to Jingnan from the standby Jingdong Changlepo on the moonlight. Wuliuyi. But the leader of the bright armor was wearing a long fox-tail peaked helmet, and a harrier servant Gu Junqing stood on the saddle frame, and he was also looking forward to something under the pale moonlight.
He is the nephew of Fu Gujun, the Uighur leader of Xizhou, and is also the leading general of the Uighur soldiers and horses of the Western Army. We must know that in today's Great Western Army, there are three groups of people related to the Uighur tribe alone; it corresponds to the three survivors who scattered and died on the grassland after the Uighur Khanate was defeated by the Uighur khanate decades ago.
One group moved to the old place of Gaochang/Xizhou (Turpan Basin), and they were called Gaochang Uighurs or Xizhou Uighurs; that is, the main servant bone department. There is also a Chu River that moved to the west of Congling, namely the West Uighur of Congling; the contemporary leader Pontler claimed to be the nephew of the last khan. There is another group of contemporary leaders called Hexi Uighurs who moved to the Hexi Corridor and was highly influenced by Sinicization.
The origin of Pugu is even higher than the vassal vassal, even far above the Anxi's known as the last Khan's nephew, and the tranquility of the Ganzhou Ministry. Because his ancestor was the third Zhongxing hero in Qianyuan period after Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi, a generation of famous Tang general servant Gu Huai'en, a family of more than 40 people were killed in the country, known as the merger with Yan Zhenqing and Yan Jianqing. It is called the loyal and loyal of the civil and military.
On the other hand, the Pugu headquarters on the grassland is also the core ruling class that constitutes the Uighur Khanate. One of the nine inner tribes, the two daughters of Puguhuaien are registered as princesses and are close to the Uighur Dengli Khan at the time. . In the end, he was able to worship the prosecutor Zuo Pu shot, Zhong Shuling, Hebei Deputy Marshal, Shuo Fang Jiedu, Prince Young Master, and canonized the Daning County King; but later, because of the observation of the military Rongshi Luo Fengxian, he had to rush back to the falcon to ask Self-protection.
Therefore, after the death of Dai Zong, Pu Gu Huai'en led the falcon and Tubo coalition forces to attack, but he persuaded the famous general Guo Ziyi to retreat all the way, defeated all the way, and finally died of illness in Mingsha City. But the Servant Bone Department was not unknown in the middle earth and the grassland until the demise of the Uighur Khanate, and it reappeared in the northwest with the exiled survivors.
In addition, there are many Uighurs who have drifted from Youzhou. The Uighurs who moved to the Hexi Corridor were scattered in Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, Tianshui, Helan Mountain and other places, and they directly became the children of Fanhu under the rule of the Guiyi Army. In the process of Zhang Yichao's overthrow of the Tubo rule, these Uighurs were both subordinates and allies, and played an important role.
Therefore, when disposing of the heritage left by the Tubo Kingdom after the war, as part of the rewards and rewards, it included the Qiang, Tubo, Sogdian, Uighur, Longjia, Sumo people, Tuyuhun, Dadao, etc. , Have obtained the corresponding fields and grasslands as a place to live, and also formed the basic pattern of the Fan-Han miscellaneous under the rule of the Guiyi Army.
However, the later emperors of the two generations of Tang Xuanzong and Tang Yizong took the containment of the Guiyi army as a national policy. Not only did they disguise and detain Zhang Yichao, who had come to Beijing, but also continued to lead the Jidu envoy of the Guiyi army; Zhang Huaishen, who stayed behind, was always unfairly named. Sorry. They also sent troops to take over the regained Liangzhou and set up the Liangzhou Jiedu Envoy, and also supported the "Endless People", Pang Teqin, An Ning, and Pu Gujun as forces that could contain and hinder the return to the rebels.
Even during the conflict between the Guiyi Army and the Uighur tribe, they strayed, and in the name of Uncle Tang’s going to the country, they were not allowed to pursue and regain the lost ground, and they were forbidden to attack the Uighur in Anxi. Therefore, under the support and maintenance of Tang Ting spared no effort, most of these tribes originally subordinate to the Rebellion Army felt that the gap was getting away, cut off the ground and left on their own.
Although Zhang Huaishen was in power in the early days, the Guiyi Army still attacked from all sides and continued to expand. He led the Han, Tubo, Wenmo, Tuyuhun and other ethnic groups to defeat the looting of the Uighurs in the south, and then successively defeated the Uighurs in Shazhou and Xitong (now the Sugan Lake in the Aksai Kazak Autonomous County in the southwest of Dunhuang) and captured the Uighur prince. . However, it still failed to change the fact that Xizhou Uighurs gradually occupied Beiting, Luntai, Qingzhen and Xizhou.
In the third year of Qianfu (876), due to internal disputes in the return to the army, the Xizhou Uyghur headed by Pu Gujun took the opportunity to capture the Yizhou (now Hami, Xinjiang) led by Zhang Huaishen, and the Xizhou Uyghur where Fu Gu Chengqing was located. Has already become the strongest among the three Uighurs. Therefore, for these Uyghur survivors, the love and care from Uncle Tang's going to the country is truly touching.
This time, the Xizhou Uighurs took the lead in responding to sending troops with more than 10,000 infantry. On the one hand, Yu Gong was to repay Uncle Tang for his consistent support of the country. On the other hand, Yu Shi was just imitating the Huihe Khanate in the Qianyuan and Dali reigns. The story is just for the promise of "outside the two capitals, the children of Caibo, take everything."
And his real name is only Pu Gu Ya, who can’t be on the stage, and now this Pu Gu Junqing’s name was specifically given to him by the old Zheng Tang; it was also to encourage him to imitate his ancestor Pu Gu Huai’en’s grand plan and great cause. The Tang Dynasty also has a place for Megatron and Zhongxing heroes.
What only made him a little bit annoyed and extra uncomfortable was that, as the chief culprit in the collapse of the Uighur Khanate decades ago, and the common generational enemy of the three-line Uighur tribes that are not under each other, they are entrenched in the land of Jiankun (now North Asia). (The upper reaches of the Yenisei River) also joined the Northwestern Allied Forces. (End of this chapter)