Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1389
After Zhang Dingbao received the task, he did not dare to delay, and took more than ten family members, equipment, water, and sufficient horses, and set off eastward that day.

In terms of distance, he should go east all the way at this time, pass through the northern part of Zhongjing and the southern part of Tongzhou, and arrive at Longyuan Mansion.But this area is still under the control of the Bohai Sea, Zhang Dingbao really dare not take the risk, so he can only go south, first go to Zhongjing, find Xia Jun's guards, and then make a plan.

On the 28th, he arrived outside the city of Xiande Mansion in Zhongjing.Fortunately, almost all the Bohai soldiers retreated into the city. The wilderness is a paradise for Xia Jun to ride. After some negotiations, he was brought into the barracks by the suspicious Xia Bing.

"Let's take the route to Luzhou, it has already been captured by our army." Shao Chengjie spoke forcefully.

Zhang Dingbao didn't know what made this person unhappy, so he could only reply: "Can your Highness send someone to escort him?"

"Let Yin Anzhi and those people escort them, they are in Luzhou." Shao Chengjie's expression was still very bad.

"Thank you for your protection, Your Highness." Zhang Dingbao breathed a sigh of relief.

He probably knew now, maybe Luzhou was directly captured by Yinan, and King Qin was a little unhappy?What a competitive nature.

Zhongjing Xianfu has 25 counties under the jurisdiction of Xian, Lu, Tie, Tang, Xing and Rong six prefectures.After all, it was the capital city in the early years, and the maintenance of the post roads was not bad. Not to mention the transportation network extending in all directions, at least any prefecture or prefecture you want to go to has roads. The cost of building roads in mountainous areas is very high, and Bohai has continued for 200 years. With great efforts and the legacy of the Goguryeo era, today's transportation network is the result.

Zhongjing Xiande Mansion or Xianzhou, in later generations Helong City Xicheng Gucheng Village (Xi Gucheng), there are five palaces in the city.

Luzhou is located in the area of ​​Dongshengyong Town, Longjing City in later generations.

Adding several other prefectures, to put it bluntly, the geographical scope of Zhongjing is roughly Yanji, Antu, Helong, Longjing, and Musan in North Korea in Yanbian Prefecture in the later generations, but Bohai State abruptly divided six prefectures and 25 counties...

Zhang Dingbao didn't stay long in Xianzhou. After hearing that Xingzhou had been captured by Xia's army, he secretly lamented that the army was defeated like a mountain. Then he went east all the way to Luzhou.

Luzhou is considered a relatively wealthy place, rich in rice.

Zhang Dingbao traveled all the way, but among the scattered villages, the farmers were still busy.He secretly thought in his heart, it seems that Yin An Zhi's military discipline is much better than those messy government soldiers and even Wei Sheng's army. After all, they are soldiers of the Son of Heaven, with such pride that they don't even bother to bully unarmed people.

On the night of the 28th, he stayed in a farmhouse in the west of Shanlu County, Luzhou.

Under the big elm tree, Zhang Dingbao chatted with the village elders for a long time.

"In the past few days, noble people have fled from the north." The old man said, "They are all noble people from Shangjing, which was rare in the past."

"They are in Luzhou?" Zhang Dingbao asked in surprise.

"Going south." The old man said.

That is to go to Nanjing!

Zhang Dingbao sighed and asked, "What do the elders think of the Xia people?"

"It's okay. There are food requisitions, but they didn't hurt people." The old man said, "Our Lucheng is relatively rich and can afford it. If we change to other places, we may not be able to survive if the food is levied. gone."

"What do you think if someone comes to recruit soldiers and horses to fight the Xia people?" Zhang Dingbao asked.

"The nobleman is also from Shangjing, right?" the old man asked with his eyes fixed.

"I'm from Xijing." Zhang Dingbao said with a smile.

"Don't worry about it." The old man sighed, and said: "When we fought with the Khitan people, five people from the village were confiscated, and in the end only two came back. Last year we said we would fight the Xia people, and five people were requisitioned. Until now None of them came back. I saw that the nobles in Shangjing went south one after another, and they must have suffered a big defeat. Fighting and fighting, who can fight!"

"It's okay if the Xia people occupy Bohai Sea entirely?" Zhang Dingbao asked again.

The old man was silent for a long time, before he said: "If the Xia people can help us clean up the tribes in the mountains, so what if we listen to them?"

Zhang Dingbao was taken aback.

When he stayed behind in Xijing, he knew the conflict between the Mohe tribe who moved inland and the Bohai people.

After all, Bohai people are "Chinese people", occupying the best land, water sources, pastures, and forests.

The Mohe tribe who moved inland belonged to the spoils of the "Beilue" kings of the Bohai Sea. They were afraid that they would rebel, so they moved inward to the hinterland, such as Wujing-they belonged to the "savages".

There is obviously not that harmonious relationship between the Chinese and the savages.

When the national power of Bohai was strong, the savage tribe didn't dare to act rashly, but after the decline, they might have ideas.It's just that he never thought that the local conflicts would be so sharp?Already in dire straits?
God is sorry to see, this is the acquaintance who immigrated from the inland, how can the raw affluent in the north hate them?

In the 200th year of the Kingdom Dynasty, Sumo Mohe was the main body, absorbing Goguryeo, Han, Sogdian, and a small number of Khitan and Xi people, forming the Bohai ethnic group, but failed to absorb a large number of Heishui Mohe. It has to be said that it is a Major misstep.

They don't pay taxes, don't register for household registration, and live a hard life of fishing and hunting. The mountains and forests are their best shelter, and they lie dormant silently, waiting for the opportunity.

Zhang Dingbao was suddenly a little scared. After Bohai's subjugation, no one would get involved with these savage tribes, right?That would really provoke the sage to be furious and send troops to conquer.At that time, it will be bloody and rainy, and it will be terrible.

But when I thought that I was going to move to the Central Plains soon, I felt that it didn't seem to have any effect.However, there is still something in my heart that I can't let go of.

Zhang Dingbao, who was full of worries, left the next day. When he went outside Luzhou City, he met Yin Anzhi.After the body was verified, a military academy named Li Xiaoxi led 500 people to escort him eastward, which made Zhang Dingbao somewhat flattered.

It is not far from Luzhou to Yongyuanfu Zhiqingzhou, about two hundred miles away.Along the post road in the mountain valley, it is convenient and fast.Coupled with a large number of horses, they arrived in the outskirts of Gyeongju on the first day of July.

Along the way, I met a few Bohai cruisers.

The warriors of Silver Saddle Straight were very "rude" and would kill as soon as they went up without saying a word.They have superb skills and excellent armor, and the soldiers and horses of Longyuan Mansion can't take advantage of them.

Zhang Dingbao didn't say anything, but seeing his "motherland" being bullied like this, he still sighed in his heart.

If you can't beat it, what can you do!

However, the closer you get to Gyeongju, the less you ride on the Bohai Sea, and you can hardly see them in the end, which makes Zhang Dingbao very puzzled.It wasn't until Tokyo City was in sight that he finally understood: the Mohe tribe rebelled!

Crowds surrounded the city of Gyeongju, all the houses in Fuguo were burned down, men, women and children were arrested and wept in the camp.

The tribal savages took great pleasure in snatching big and small bags.Some people even wore colorful silk cloth, which was taken off from an unknown woman, which looked quite funny.

They saw Yin Anzhi rushing towards him from a distance, and in surprise, they rushed towards him with a yell, and some even shot arrows from a distance.

"Put on armor and carry the spear!" Li Xiaoxi gave them a cold look and ordered.

Zhang Dingbao made up his mind and silently watched the warriors with five hundred silver saddles get off their horses, then took off the armor on the pack horses, put them on each other at a dizzying speed, and then carried the thick lances on their backs, and got on the horses one by one .

If it is a strong soldier!

Zhang Dingbao had been severely beaten, and he had incomprehensible confidence in the fighting power of the Xia people.These savages should be taught a lesson by Master Wang.

The five hundred riders were divided into three groups and slowly descended from the hillside.

Zhang Dingbao found a convenient place to observe and watched carefully.But I saw five hundred steel torrents descending the hillside, rushing to the gentle grass, and piercing into the chaos of savages like an arrow from the string.

No surprises.Five hundred cavalry pierced through the thin defense line of the Mohe tribal soldiers in a single encounter, and then slanted across the periphery of the most crowded and densest part of their formation.

Ma Qian picked up the dead bodies and kept throwing them into the crowd, creating chaos.

After the first wave of charging was over, the second batch came. More than a hundred horse spears wantonly stabbed the paper-like fur of the Mohe people, and the corpses were thrown away like raindrops.

The third wave came one after another, and it was another charge, which once again provoked dozens of people.

Good guy, the three groups of people took turns attacking, relying on their excellent armor and skilled martial arts, they wantonly ravaged the formation of the Mohe people like skinning.

The reaction of the Mohe people can not be described as unpleasant!Someone stepped forward to block, and the people behind quickly lined up, but under the charge of five hundred cavalry, they were still in a mess. Two or three hundred people were killed or injured, and their morale was almost on the verge of collapse.

"Dong dong dong..." The battle drums rang at the top of the city, and the gate of Qingzhou city was opened wide. More than a thousand Bohai soldiers rushed out from the city, taking advantage of the moment when the Mohe tribal soldiers were beaten, they slammed them from the side and back.

Li Xiaoxi gathered his troops in the distance, seeing that the horsepower was still sufficient, he led the knight back and rushed back.

This back and forth attack really killed the Mohe people.The whole army collapsed on the spot, and the burden was thrown all over the place. Everyone lost their fighting spirit and rushed to flee.

More than 2000 soldiers rushed out of the city. Most of them did not have military uniforms, and their weapons were simple, but they had high morale, and they chased and slashed at the Mohe people, as if they were venting their anger.

Li Xiaoxi gathered his subordinates slowly, left the battlefield, and retreated to a distance.

"Let's go and meet up!" Zhang Dingbao rode his horse down the hillside, to the front of the Yinan straight formation.

"Today we know the reputation of the silver-saddle warrior, and there is no false legend." Zhang Dingbao praised.

The nephews and attendants behind him were also dumbfounded just now, when they saw the blood-soaked silver-saddle warriors, they felt admiration and fear in their hearts, and they didn't even dare to look at these killing gods.

"Stop talking nonsense, are those people friends or enemies? If I don't stop, I will overwhelm them." Li Xiaoxi said, pointing forward.

Zhang Dingbao turned his head to look, but saw more than a hundred riders coming out of the city, the leader of which seemed familiar.

"Don't worry, General, Longyuan Yin Doujin is my brother-in-law, and I will definitely say that he is coming to surrender." Zhang Dingbao said confidently.

Li Xiaoxi nodded, but before he could speak, he saw the opposite rider rushing towards him, stopped the horse seventy steps away, and shouted loudly: "But Master Daxia? Come down! Come down!"

Zhang Dingbao was dumbfounded.

"You can come here yourself." Li Xiaoxi sat firmly on the horse and replied loudly.

Hearing this, the knight got off his horse and walked forward.

"Dou Mei?" Zhang Dingbao shouted when someone approached.

"Uncle?" Dou Mei asked in surprise, "Why did you come here? No, did you make a mistake? Uncle, this... When did Xijing have such a strong army?"

"It's not wrong to surrender..." Zhang Dingbao smiled wryly, and said: "Uncle also surrendered, today I came to persuade your grandpa to surrender."

"Why are you persuading..." This Dou Mei also seemed to have a carefree personality, only to hear him say: "Ten days ago, there were continuous boats leading the Bin and Theorem to the south, and everything in the north was in chaos. The five black water rebellions, As the border wall went south, Huaiyuan, Anyuan, and Anbian mansions collapsed, and now only Dongping Mansion is still holding on, and the rest have fallen. My grandfather heard that Shangjing was besieged, and thought that this test might not be passed, so he planned to raise In the land of four prefectures and eighteen counties, it was summer, but those barbarians made trouble again, and most of the soldiers from Tokyo had been transferred to the west, which caught us by surprise, alas..."

"This..." It was also the first time Zhang Dingbao heard about the northern prefectures.

The five parts of the Black Water, whether it will be reversed sooner or later, could it be that the Xia people recruited them?But now is not the time to get entangled in this matter. The most important thing is to unify the thoughts of the four prefectures and eighteen counties in Longyuan Prefecture.

The other thing is about Nanhai Mansion in Nanjing.

"Over there in Nanjing, is there a solution?" Zhang Dingbao asked.

"We have surrendered, what can Nanjing do?" Dou Mei said: "Lonely hanging outside, is it possible to surrender to Korea?"

Zhang Dingbao shook his head, and said: "Looking like Gong Yi, he is just a handsome thief. No one can surrender him. What's the situation in Shibin Mansion and Ting Li Mansion?"

"It's a mess." Dou Mei said: "There are too many barbarians. The raw barbarians and the familiar barbarians are colluding with each other. The situation is so bad that a large army must be conquered. But in this situation, where are the soldiers and horses? No more, nothing left. , The achievements of the Northern Strategy for more than a hundred years will be destroyed in one day."

"It's a pity!" Zhang Dingbao sighed when he heard the words, thoughtful in his heart.

What did the sage think of the tribes of Mohe?Not necessarily positive.These people went south in a big way, burning, killing and looting, which aroused panic and anger among the people of the country. If they can be calmed down, it may be helpful to the overall situation.

Perhaps, he and his brother-in-law should jointly write a letter, expressing their interests to the sage?
No, it's better to meet the saint in person.

Most of Shangjing has not yet fallen. If he and Dou Jin, as the chief officials of Xijing and Tokyo respectively, go to the outside of Shangjing to persuade them to surrender, maybe they can make great contributions.

Thinking of this, Zhang Dingbao already has a plan.

(End of this chapter)