The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 605

The sun is far away from the wine, and the wind and rain are all over the west building.

——Excerpt from "Xie Ting Farewell" Xu Hun (Tang Dynasty)

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Bai Fuen used both force and power, and without killing a single person, he let the generals see his own methods.

Previously, there were some generals in Anbei Court who saw that Bai Fu was in a high position when he was young, but he was still a little contemptuous and dissatisfied deep in his heart.

After this incident, even though Bai Fu was young, his ability to grasp people's hearts and his sophisticated methods made the generals not dare to underestimate him.

The generals were in awe, not daring to take chances, and instead put all their body and mind into military training.

Bai Fu set a topic, mixed the masters of the Sichuan Gang and generals at all levels, and divided them into two groups to discuss the methods of military training.

After more than a month, the two groups presented their research results respectively.

In the first group, the masters of the Sichuan Gang came up with a solution for the martial arts of recruits: they created several simple and easy-to-learn moves based on the standard weapons of the Tang Army such as long spears and horizontal knives.

In these skills, the moves are simple and crisp, and the moves are quick and precise.Don't seek exquisite moves, but seek to control the enemy with one move and kill with one blow.

After the actual combat between Anxi veterans and Xiangyong recruits, these moves are effective and have great lethality, and have been unanimously affirmed by the veterans.

The second group, the elite from the Anbei Court, allowed the disciples of the Chuan Gang to improve their horse riding skills and battle drills to a new level.

In the "Martial Arts Hall" of Lihentian, Persian general Alberts taught the disciples of the Chuan gang to control the horse with both hands out of the rein;

Under the careful instruction of the Persian general Alberts, the disciples of Chuan Gang rode horses as if they were walking on flat ground, and their martial arts were not affected at all.

However, due to the limitation of the size of the venue and the requirements of secrecy and security, it is difficult for Lihentian to carry out large-scale military exercises.

Take Yuchi's hussars provoking quarrels and provoking troubles as an example: Although the Dashi horse has also been trained to resist interference and avoid being frightened, when it comes to an army of ten thousand people, the momentum and sound of this large army fighting on the battlefield far exceeds the training of Li Hentian.Therefore, there was the previous scene.

Although Yuchi Hussar is rebellious and stubborn, he is indeed a battle-tested veteran. He has designed many unimaginable training programs, which have suffered a lot for the elites of the Sichuan Gang and the brave new recruits.

Yuchi's hussars had very strict requirements, and the training of soldiers was extremely harsh. At the least, they would scold the dog bloody, and at the worst, they picked up the whip, covered their head and face, and whipped them violently.

But what surprised Bai Fu was that not only did the soldiers not feel resentful after being beaten so badly, but they became closer to Yuchi Hussar.

It wasn't until one day that Bai Fu accidentally saw Yuchi Hussar squatting down and sucking thick sores for a soldier with rotten legs, that he understood the reason.

Bai Fuxin said: "It is said that the famous general Wu Qi loves soldiers like a son, and is willing to suck thick sores for soldiers. I used to laugh at Wu Qi for being a good showman and good at buying people's hearts.

This trick seems to be tried and tested repeatedly, but since the ages, only Xiang Yu and Wu Qi have been recorded in the annals of history.

I saw it today, and I realized that there were generals like this in the Tang army, and finally realized the true meaning of this place: Without a heart of loving soldiers like a child, without the sincerity of giving wholeheartedly, ordinary generals would not be able to do such things as sucking sores and thickening.

The soldiers are not stupid either, they know who is sanctimonious and who is sincere! "

Bai Fu found Hu Yan Tie Yi and asked: "I asked Sima in the army to find the resume of Yuchi Hussar. After reading it, I was quite confused.

Yuchi has been in the army for such a long time, his military achievements are quite outstanding, and he is deeply loved by the soldiers, why is he still just a small brigade commander after so many years? "

Huyan Tieyi sighed: "He became famous very early, but he has fallen to where he is today. The bad thing is that he hasn't read many books, and he still has a bad temper like a donkey."

Bai Fuming handed Huyan Tieyi a cup of tea and said, "Let's listen."

Huyan Tieyi took a sip of hot tea, and the few petals of tea buds floating in the water brought back his memories: "

In March of the sixth year of Tianbao, Yuchi Hussar was already the school lieutenant of Zhechong Prefecture from the seventh rank, and Xi Yuanqing was the left and right vanguard officer, following General Gao Xianzhi to crusade against Xiao Bolu.

The great chiefs in the city of Xiaobolu Anuyue are all Tubo's confidantes, and they are perfunctory with the Tang army on the surface, and secretly send spies to seek help from Tubo.

Yuchi Hushi and Xi Yuanqing entered the city of Anuyue by using false routes to attack Guo.In order to avoid internal and external collusion, the two lured the group of great chiefs to surrender, and then killed them all.

After Xiao Bolu returned triumphantly, General Gao Xianzhi offended Meng Lingcha, the envoy of the Four Towns Jiedu.

Because the eunuch Bian Lingcheng supported Gao Xianzhi, Fumeng Lingcha couldn't do anything to Gao Xianzhi.Fumeng Lingcha ordered Yuchi Hushi and Xi Yuanqing, General Gao's beloved generals, to be severely punished on the grounds that they had murdered the surrendered soldiers.

In the Battle of Xiaobolu, Xi Yuanqing made a great contribution by cutting off the Suyi vine bridge and blocking Tubo's reinforcements.The merits and demerits are balanced and will not be held accountable.

Yuchi Hussar was not so lucky, and was directly demoted to Huo Zhang. "

"Oh, General Xi Yuanqing is the military envoy of Jiannan today, and he is in command of one side." Bai Fu said.

"Isn't it? One step away is a thousand miles away. How about I say his life is bad." Huyan Tieyi sighed.

Huyan Tieyi went on to say: "This time the demotion was done on behalf of General Gao Xianzhi, so the demotion didn't take long.

Later, the imperial court issued an edict to elevate General Xianzhi to Hongluqing and false Yushi Zhongcheng to replace Fumeng Lingcha as the envoy of the Four Towns, and Yuchi Huqi was reinstated.

But the second time he was demoted, it was because he offended General Gao Xianzhi.

For eight years in Tianbao, General Gao Xianzhi coveted the wealth of the Shi Kingdom and wanted to plunder it for himself, so he sent troops to cover up and captured the king of the Shi Kingdom, Naju Chebishi and his followers.

Afterwards, General Gao Xianzhi sent troops to kill and plunder Shi Guo, even the old, weak, sick and disabled were not spared.In this operation, General Gao Xianzhi won a total of more than ten burdocks from the Stone Kingdom, five or six camels of gold, and countless other goods, servants, and horses.

At this time, Yuchi Hussar was already the captain of Guoyi, the lower mansion of the sixth rank.

After receiving the order, although he took the lead in looting the Shi country, he disobeyed General Gao Xianzhi's military order and refused to massacre the people of the Shi country.He even let go of Hu merchants with the nine surnames of Zhaowu who were trading in the country of Shi, so that the news was leaked and the truth was known to the court.

General Gao Xianzhi was furious, and he gave him a staff of one hundred army sticks, and demoted him to the rank of soldier again.

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In the tenth year of Tianbao, in the battle of Talas, the Tang army and the Dashi army fought fiercely for five days, but there was no victory or defeat.

When the two sides were in a stalemate, Ge Luolu's troops in the Tang army suddenly rebelled and joined forces with Dashi to attack the Tang army. General Gao Xianzhi was defeated and fled at night.

Due to the narrow road, Ba Khan's men and horses blocked their way, but thanks to the generals of Youweiwei Li Siye and Yuchi Hussars, they fought a bloody road with their sticks, and General Gao Xianzhi was able to escape.

In this battle, tens of thousands of Tang troops were killed and injured, and only a thousand soldiers remained.

After the Battle of Talas, General Gao Xianzhi was dismissed from the post of Jiedushi of the Four Towns of Anxi, and entered Beijing as General Youjinwu.

In the next few years, Yuchi Hushi followed Wang Zhengjian and Feng Changqing, the next two envoys of the Four Towns of Anxi, to fight in the east and west.

In November of the 14th year of Tianbao, An Lushan rebelled.At this time, Yuchi Hussar was following Anxi Jiedu envoy Feng Changqing back to Chang'an to report on his duties.His Majesty urgently sent General Feng Changqing to Luoyang to recruit troops to fight.

The imperial court also appointed Guo Ziyi as Shuofang Jiedu envoy, You Yulin General Wang Chengye as Taiyuan Yin, Wei Weiqing Zhang Jieran as Henan Jiedu envoy, and Cheng Qianli as Luzhou governor;
Subsequently, His Majesty appointed King Rong Li Wan as Marshal and General Gao Xianzhi as Deputy Marshal to lead Feiqi, Xiqi, Shuofang, Hexi, Longyou and other troops to resist the rebels.

General Gao Xianzhi, who was out of work at home, took charge of the army again, and immediately transferred Yuchi Hussars to serve under his command.

On December [-]th, An Lushan captured Luoyang, General Feng Changqing was defeated in Sishui, and led the remaining troops to retreat to Shanjun.General Feng Changqing suggested that General Gao Xianzhi, who was stationed in Shanjun, abandon Shanjun and retreat to Tongguan.

General Gao Xianzhi saw that the bandits were powerful, and he thought so.He decided to temporarily avoid the enemy's front, retreat to Tongguan, and use Tongguan's natural danger to prevent the rebels from advancing westward to Chang'an.

General Gao made a decisive decision and ordered the withdrawal of Tongguan, and ordered Yuchi Hussars to break the rear.

When retreating, Yuchi Hussars adopted the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the field. Without the court's order, he acted arbitrarily and acted cheaply. He opened the Taiyuan warehouse without authorization, distributed all the silk cloth in the warehouse to the soldiers, and set fire to the rest.

On the way to retreat, the Tang army was chased by the rebels and collapsed at the first touch.

On December [-], after the two generals Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi were beheaded at Tongguan, Bian Lingcheng, the eunuch of the supervising army, used the excuse of burning the Taiyuan warehouse and demoted Yuchi Hushi to a trumpeter.

All of this can be described as time, luck, and fate! "

After Huyan Tieyi finished speaking, he drank the cold tea in the bowl in one gulp, feeling resentful for his brother who worshiped him.

As a bystander, Bai Fu gained something else.

Bai Fu thought to himself: "Although Yuchi Hussar is a special case, it is by no means an isolated case.

During the Tianbao period, singing and dancing prospered.The old man Xuanzong blindly indulged in pleasure and did not want to interfere in political affairs. He entrusted the government to Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and other treacherous people, which led to the corruption of the Tang Dynasty and the surge of followers.

The court is like this, how can the army be spared.

The loyal master died in prison, Gao and Feng died unjustly, An Lushan, Shi Siming and other rebels took off.

The old man Ziyi was a late bloomer, and General Guangbi was ordered in danger.

In the Anbeiting Army, there should be many underappreciated soldiers like Yuchi Hussar.If you can know the pearl with your eyes and promote them, why worry about being high and enfeoffed, there will be no famous generals.

In time, a group of young generals will be promoted from the elite of the Sichuan Clan and the brave new recruits from the village, and the camp in the Anbei Court will surely gather talents, shine bright stars, and regain the prestige of the Western Frontier!"

　The song of labor unravels the boat, the red leaves, green mountains and rapids.

　　The sun is far away from the wine, and the wind and rain are all over the west building.

　　——"Xie Ting Farewell" Xu Hun (Tang Dynasty)

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(End of this chapter)