Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 261 King Zhang's Big Son (7000 words, two in one)

Xue Shantong, the magistrate of Shouchang County, was actually right. There were indeed only 500 people who arrived in Shouchang County earlier.

Because it is more than 2000 miles from King City of Khotan to Zhongyun Kingdom and then to Shouchang, including thousands of miles of Taklamakan Desert. Passing [-] people at one time is already the limit of the limit.

Because Zhang Zhao came back this time, in addition to the armor, weapons and equipment on his body, he also had to bring back his treasures worth 5 million pennies.

These things greatly limited the team's ability to carry other items, causing them to be unable to fill up with water and food, and could only rely on oasis supplies on the way.

But when five thousand generals and tens of thousands of mules and horses come back at once, no oasis can afford this supply.

What's more, there are tens of thousands of Tang'er who followed him from Anxihui, men, women and children. They can't achieve the same physical strength, discipline and hard work as soldiers.

So Zhang Zhao could only divide the returning team into five groups. The first group of 500 people was led by him personally, all of them were elite soldiers.

There are 200 armored cavalry, [-] Basimi and Broken Leaf Archers, and the remaining [-] people are all the most elite cavalry heavy infantry.

The second group of 2000 people was led by Yin Yaozi, and it is estimated that they only set off from Khotan now.

The next three rounds were arranged by Wu Yuan'er and Guo Guangsheng. They first went to Zhongyun Country to stay for a period of time. After Zhang Zhao settled down, he would choose to return east.

But even with these two thousand and five hundred elites, not to mention running amok in Guasha, self-protection is more than enough.

The current population of the Guiyi Army, if not counting the dependent nomadic tribes, is about 27 to [-].

Extreme mobilization can probably pull out 8000 to [-] people, but this is only possible under the condition of desperately betting on the national luck.

On weekdays, the standing army is only more than [-] people, and the reserve mobilization force can draw more than [-] people.

That is to say, in general battles, the size of the Guiyi Army's troops is three thousand Guasha Han'er heavy cavalry and heavy infantry, and one or two thousand light cavalry attached to the nomads, plus the civilian men who transport supplies, generally known as ten thousand elite soldiers .

However, there is one thing that needs to be noted. Although the Guiyi Army has only 8000 people in its extreme mobilization, almost all of them are wearing armor, and the ability to kill the enemy in battle is also passed down from generation to generation.

Among them, the elite 3000 people have very strong fighting power. If they are put in Anxi and beat [-] to [-] Persians, there will be no problem.

Generally speaking, Gui Yijun is a bitter hedgehog with thorns all over his body. It doesn't matter if you are a tiger or a lion, if you want to eat him, at least you can prick your body full of blood.

As the old enemy of the Guiyi Army to the east, the Ganzhou Uighurs are also this type of Xiaoqiang.

The core population of the Uighurs in Ganzhou is slightly larger than that of the Guiyi Army, about 35 to [-]. Since they are nomadic, they can pull out [-] to [-] soldiers through extreme mobilization.

And it's all cavalry, but the armor rate is not as good as that of the Guiyi Army, but it can reach more than [-]%.

All these situations were told to Zhang Zhao by Mrs. Cao San, who squinted her eyes and smiled sweetly beside him.

In the past four years, Mrs. Cao San has not been idle. She has summarized all the situations of the Guiyi Army and the Uighurs in Ganzhou.

From the military to the people's livelihood, and even the grievances and grievances between the major families, they are all very detailed.

This tentatively counted as a military report made Zhang Zhao gasp. He thought it would be easy to handle when he came back, but he didn't expect that these are two poor and tyrannical Xiaoqiangs!

It's normal to think about it. For example, the Ganzhou Uyghur in history was a super small strong who fought against Xixia and Liao for decades before being beaten to the ground.

You must know that although the combat effectiveness of the Xixia Army has not been particularly strong, the Xixia Army during Li Yuanhao's period was not.

At the same time, compared with the grassland peoples such as the Turks and the Huns in the prosperous period, the Khitan and Liao Kingdom seemed a bit of a rookie.

That's only relative. The Liao army in the period of Empress Dowager Chengtian Xiao Chuo was still very powerful.

The Ganzhou Uyghurs, who were served by the two great powers of the Liao Kingdom and Xixia in turn, have resisted for more than [-] years with only [-] people.

Especially in the year of its demise, Xixia came first and fought around Ganzhou for more than two months. Then the Liao army broke through Suzhou and besieged Ganzhou for as many as four months. People came back to fight for another two months.

The two great powers took turns hammering hard for eight months, before finally beating the Uighurs in Ganzhou to the ground.

Zhang Zhao began to make plans slowly while listening to Mrs. Cao San's narration.

The more Mrs. Cao looked at Zhang Zhao, the more she was satisfied, because since Zhang Zhao hugged Mrs. Cao in Khotan, he never touched her.

For a widow like him who has been widowed for more than ten years, this is not a bad thing, but a good thing, because Zhang Zhao did not despise her, but treated her with courtesy.

"I don't know if it's still coughing badly? Write me a letter and have someone take it home. If you still cough, don't rush to Dunhuang. Let's take care of your health."

Zhang Zhao chanted while writing, this feeling was really strange, he didn't think about it at all before seeing him, and he didn't feel anything special when he saw it.

But as soon as I left, I would think of it from time to time, every frown and smile seemed to be imprinted in my mind.

This time when he came back, Cao Yanmian and Ayiguli didn't bring them with them, because his son and daughter were still young and couldn't bear such a long journey, even Li Ruoliu and Li Zhun, he didn't plan to bring them either.

With the horrific infant mortality rate in this era, it's better to be careful, so the only women who came back with Zhang Zhao were Mrs. Cao San and Guo Wan'er, a little wild cat who didn't lay eggs.

"Okay, I'll write it when we get to Shouchang!" Mrs. Cao nodded, but her heart had already flown hundreds of miles away.

I don't know how her Nobunaga is doing now. Although he lost his father when he was two years old, he probably can't accept a Yeye who is only a few years older than him, right?

. . . .

The sun was setting, and the sun's long afterglow shone on the head of Shouchang City.

Today, the guards on the top of the city are the soldiers of the third general from the right of the fourth capital, and the general is a Sogdian named Kang Rong.

He looked at the direction where the sun was setting in a bored way, feeling a little unsure of what was going on in his heart.

The life of soldiers is so boring. When there is no battle, they usually just stay there.

As the town soldiers of Shouchang Town, their garrison period is a rotation of one and a half years.

During the one and a half years of the garrison period, they did not need to cultivate, and their salaries and equivalent rice grains were all provided by the public.

It's just enough to eat, there is a little surplus, and few people can save it.

In the environment of having sex every three days, most soldiers in the barracks have such bad habits, either gambling or whoring.

After gambling and whoring, what brings is emptiness, just like Kang Rong, he only now realizes why he has to look at the sunset?It also made his eyes sting because he found that what he was looking at was loneliness!

In a big gamble yesterday, Kang Rong not only lost all his three paychecks, but also owed more than five paychecks.

This year, the grain harvest in the field is poor, and the five members of the family are relying on his three paychecks to survive the famine. What should we do?
Sudden!At the end of the dark golden sky in the distance, a lot of smoke and dust appeared, followed by countless flags that seemed to suddenly appear on the horizon.

Teams of soldiers appeared under the setting sun. They rode tall horses, their armor reflected the golden light of the sun, and there were dots of starlight on the front of their spears.

"Knock knock..." Kang Rong swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva before finally yelling loudly.

"Ring the alarm! Enemy! Masses of enemy!"

The person who inquired about Zhang Zhao's return was the confidant of Xue Shantong, the magistrate of Shouchang County, and Xue Shantong rushed to Dunhuang to report the news, so the residents of Shouchang City did not even know that Zhang Zhao had returned.

The sun was about to set, and the entire Shouchang Town was in chaos. Chickens and dogs jumped on the street, children, women and children ran to their homes crying and crying, and the middle-aged men rushed to the city with knives and guns.

But the key point is that after Luo Xianda, the envoy of Shouchang Township, was driven home to eat old rice, the military affairs of the Shouchang Township Army and even the entire Shouchang City were handled by the county magistrate Xue Shantong.

Now due to special reasons in Dunhuang, Xue Shantong can only go back to report the situation by himself. Once he leaves, the entire Shouchang City will be leaderless.

So much so that when Zhu Xianwei was grabbed from the bed of the widow's house next door by the panicked soldiers, he didn't even have time to put on his pants.

When he ran to the top of the city with his trousers in hand, he was horrified to find that the city gate was not closed, and he yelled at Kang Rong when he broke the opening.

"You bastard? Why don't you ignore the city gates, are you stupid if you lose money?"

It turned out that the money that Kang Rong lost was lost to the county captain. The unlucky Sogdian general lost his head in a hurry, and was immediately shocked. When he went down howling, he beat and scolded the soldiers to close the city gate. Afterwards, the army on the opposite side also arrived.

"Your mother! My life is over!" The county lieutenant looked at the army that was only a dozen meters away from the city, and he couldn't even bring up the thought of resistance in his mind.

The army under the city was in a very strict formation, even the color of the armor was the same. Thousands of Qingqi were like fists outstretched, holding this Shouchang City in the palm of their hands.

"Blind Kang! You farm slave! Open the door to your old mother!

Zhu Niuer?Are you fucking in official robes?The dog's old pervert still has a little luck
Yu Niang, are you on the top of the wall, Yu Niang?You see, I have earned a lot of money, and I am coming back to marry you! "

To do this, you have to be a horse kite, he yelled and cursed, and immediately stunned everyone on the top of the city.

Kang Rong and Zhu Xianwei looked at each other, always felt that the people below looked familiar, but couldn't remember who they were for a while.

"Kite? You are a horse kite? You suffer from the plague, did you not die in Anxi?"

At this time, someone recognized who the person below was, and Yu Niang was about to go down the city crying and crying.

She recognized that the one sitting on the boxes was none other than Ma Yaozi, the concubine who went to Anxi with Mr. Zhang Erlang.

"Hold her, hold her quickly!" County Captain Zhu hurriedly asked someone to hold Yuniang.

Shouchang City is located to the west of the Guiyi Army, even when the Guiyi Army was at its weakest, it hadn't fought much.

The gate of the city is supported by a few large wooden bolts, if this crazy woman runs down, the gate can really be opened.

"Ma Yaozi, where did the athlete behind you come from? Is it Zhang Erlang's army horse?"

When someone grabbed Yuniang, Zhu Xianwei also recognized the person below, and it was indeed Ma Yaozi.

"You farm slave? What qualifications do you have to call Mr. Zhang Erlang? It's not Mr. Erlang's soldiers, could it be yours?

Hurry up and open the door, Mr. Erlang has rescued all the descendants of Anxi Dadu who were trapped in Anxi in the past! "

Ma Yaozi doesn't let others call Zhang Zhao Zhang Erlang Jun, but he can only call Er Lang Jun himself.

Because according to the rules at this time, the Kingdom of Khotan also claimed to be the Kingdom of Great Treasures of the Great Dynasty, and the Great Dynasty refers to the Dynasty of the Central Plains.

So strictly speaking, Zhang Zhao's deputy king of Khotan cannot be established, because the Khotan Jin Kingdom is not qualified to be a king.

At the same time, his title of Ju'er Khan is not very useful here. Zhang Zhao got the title of Ju'er Khan because of the recommendation of his subordinates, the Baximi and Suiye tribes.

At the same time, he also defeated Bugla Khan of the Kara Khanate in Polu Prefecture, so he can use it in Anxi.

But in Hexi, the majority of Uyghurs are Ganzhou Uyghurs. Unless Zhang Zhao can defeat or even annex Ganzhou Uyghurs like he defeated Saktu, otherwise his Juerhan will be untenable in Hexi.

It can be said that Zhang Zhao is currently commanding an army of [-] troops, but he does not have a legal identity.

On the top of the city, Lieutenant Zhu looked up and saw that the thousands of troops below the city were indeed flying the Sun, Moon, Star and Three Star Banner of the Tang Dynasty, and those sturdy generals did indeed look like Han Chinese.

But he still didn't dare to open the door, it would be bad if Ma Yaozi took refuge in some foreign race to earn money to open the city gate.

"Ma Yaozi, you said you earned enough money to marry Yuniang, are you bragging? You went to Anxi and escaped death, and you can come back with money?"

By coincidence, Kang Rong brought the topic to money, perhaps because of his recent losses?
"Bragging? What do you farm slaves know? Mr. Zhang Erlang is a god and Buddha in the world, who is not rich after Mr. Erlang?
What a narrow escape, I am in Anxi, I cook rice stew every day, and there is a young lady serving me every night, so happy you can't imagine! "

As he said that, Ma Yaozi kicked open the box under his buttocks, opened a big bag, grabbed a handful of things and threw them into the sky.

With a bang, the box tumbled to the ground, and the white silver collars were exposed in the air. These silver collars were all newly cast by Zhang Zhao in Yuanguo, Tianzhu Town, so they were very eye-catching.

"Buddha! Those are fragrant leaves and nutmeg, what a crime! This one is worth more than a hundred dollars, and money is not so wasteful!"

There is a sharp-eyed spice merchant on the top of the city, who can see what the horse kite is throwing tens of meters away.

At this time, the main production area of ​​fragrant leaves is in the Mediterranean region, and the output of Central Asia and India is not high, and China simply does not produce it. It is an absolute high-end condiment.

This handful of fragrant leaves flew up into the sky, and immediately made the businessman extremely miserable, as if the horse kite was flying his property.

When Yuniang on the top of the city heard Ma Yaozi brag about having a little girl every night, her face was so dark that she could drip water.

Then when the businessman said that Ma Yaozi had given away one hundred dollars directly, the distressed people were all distorted, and she struggled to rush down to find Ma Yaozi to settle the score.

Kang Rong looked at the silver collars all over the floor, and swallowed hard. That piece of silver collar seemed to be at least twelve taels, and there was still a lot to pay off his gambling debts with one piece, and it would still allow his family to get through this crisis. year.

The general was about to take the risk of letting someone open the city gate, when the clattering of horseshoes sounded from the east.

Everyone ran to the corner of the city to have a look, and saw a young general in silver robes wearing a small silver crown galloping from the east.

The silver-robed young general's riding skills are quite good, standing up or lying down, shooting arrows with a strong bow in his hand, and the seven or eight cavalry chasing him screamed when they were shot.

A cavalry general wanted to intercept it from the side, but the young silver-robed general held a bow in his left hand and a lance in his right hand, and with a light sweep, the cavalry general screamed and had to avoid it quickly.

"Xin Chang'er!" Mrs. Cao San beside Zhang Zhao suddenly exclaimed.

"Mr. Erlang, tell them to stop, that's Nobunaga!"

Is this the third lady's son Murong Nobunaga?Really. Really a big boy, uh!Good warrior!
"Don't worry, San Niang, this kid is quite measured, he used pier arrows, and he didn't use all his strength when dancing the lance."

Pier arrows are used for training. If there is no arrowhead, it will only hurt when it hits a target with armor, and it will not hurt people's lives.

And when he hit the cavalry general with his spear just now, he didn't use all his strength, otherwise he would definitely be knocked off his horse.

good!Riding, archery, and lance are all excellent, and the brain is not bad, knowing the severity!
"Ma Sha is the one to go! Remember not to hurt my son!" Zhang Zhao waved at Ma Sha.

Everyone was very angry just now, thinking that a kid should not let his prestige be destroyed, but now when he heard that he is King Zhang's big boy, he immediately burst into laughter.

"Killer, don't capsize in the gutter! I think this little Sheren is not easy to deal with!" Bai Congxin even laughed a few times with the air conditioner.

"Boy! Look at the arrow!" Ma Shacai galloped out of the formation, raised his strong bow and shouted loudly.

Murong Nobunaga looked at the long-bodied ape-arm coming from the opposite side, and at first glance he was a titan who was good at fighting on horseback.

He was only wearing a ring-lock armor inside, he didn't dare to take it hard, so he quickly got into the left horse's belly sideways.

But after waiting for a long time, he didn't feel the arrows flying over his head, but there was laughter all around.

The young man was thin-skinned, and when he heard the ridicule, he immediately became furious, but just as he put his body on the horse's back, before he had time to get the arrow, another roar of "Boy! Look at the arrow!" rang out.

Out of caution, Murong Xinchang quickly turned his body to the side of the horse again, but this time he still didn't hear the sound of the arrow flying, and the laughter became louder.

"Yeah, I'm going to kill you!" The young man was being teased again and again, and Murong Xinchang was furious to the extreme.

He decided to draw the bow and shoot regardless of morality, but when he got back behind the horse, he suddenly found that the opponent had come to him.

What a fast horse!
Murong Xinchang was shocked, at this moment Ma Shacai had stretched out his hand to grab him, it seemed that he wanted to capture him alive, which was even more insulting, but Murong Xinchang sneered, and pulled his hands towards Ma Shacai.

Ouch!Ma Shacai was startled suddenly, he pulled hard, but he couldn't move Murong Xinchang who was on the horse, and a strong force came from the opposite side, almost pulling him off the horse.

Now he didn't dare to underestimate the young man, he grabbed each other with both hands, wrestled vigorously, and their horses also started running side by side.

Third Lady Cao stared at the two of them, forgetting to breathe nervously, Zhang Zhao grabbed her hand and patted her comfortingly.

"Don't be afraid, Xinchang'er will be defeated soon! Because the horse under his crotch is not as good as Ma Shacai's folded ear horse."

Mrs. Cao San couldn't laugh or cry and glanced at Zhang Zhao. My son is about to lose. What kind of consolation is that?

Sure enough, as the two sides tugged for a while, the horse was also running hard. Murong Xinchang's war horse had been running for a while, and its physical strength and endurance were not as good as Ma Shacai's folded ear horse. After the distance, the horse let out a scream, bent its front legs, and 'sold' Murong Xinchang.

Ma Shacai yelled, and in the exclamation of Mrs. Cao, he tore Murong Nobunaga off his horse, then sped up his speed and threw him in front of Zhang Zhao.

"My lord, this young gentleman is not bad. My old horse didn't shoot him, and he didn't shoot me with an arrow. He is a good athlete!" Ma Shacai used a cheerful laugh to cover up the trembling that was about to lose strength.

"Da Lang, are you injured? Let my mother take a look!" Mrs. Cao San ran over immediately.

And Murong Xinchang, who felt ashamed, was so angry!Just poking her head like that, her handsome little face froze with anger, and there were even tears in her eyes, which made Sanniang Cao's heart ache.

"Mr. Dalang, I teach you a good boy, the ultimate goal of our martial arts is not for anything else, but to kill the enemy.
The reason why men go to the battlefield is to win. There are some things that are not suitable for appearing in a life-and-death struggle! "

Zhang Zhao suddenly became more interested in Murong Nobunaga in front of him, this is a good seed!It's actually quite exciting to have such a son, isn't it?
But Murong Xinchang didn't like to see him at all, and didn't give him face.

"I don't want you to teach me something, if it wasn't for my horsepower just now, I must have won!"

As he said that, Murong Xinchang was so angry that he burst into tears, but he still inadvertently glanced behind Zhang Zhao.

There is a top-notch second-generation hard-earned horse there, with excellent endurance and explosive power, which can be said to be hard to buy.

Zhang Zhao giggled, "I want it! It's not impossible, you can call someone to open the city gate first, and then tell me why you came, maybe a certain person is happy, so I will give you this BMW."

"Hmph! Who wants you to give it to me!" Murong Xinchang snorted arrogantly, then led his sad-faced war horse that had just been sold, and walked towards Shouchang City.

"Listen, people on the top of the city, this is the eldest grandson of Guiying, the governor of Guazhou. There is an order from the Jiedu Yamen to open the city gate!"

He said he didn't want Zhang Zhao's horse, but he was very honest. Murong Xinchang went to call the door, and he was also very smart, and he would pass orders falsely.

Someone in the city also recognized Murong Xinchang, coupled with Ma Yaozi's money offensive, Kang Rong swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at Zhu Xianwei, and nodded at the same time.

The gate of Shouchang City slowly opened, Zhang Zhao's heart felt hot, and his eyes suddenly felt a little sore. Returning to the rebel army, this land where the Han sons in Hexi refused to die in the struggle of the Hulu, finally waited for him to come back!
. . . .

"What do you mean? One of Zhongyuan's counselors is persuading Mr. Cao to kill me? In the end, they negotiated to lure me back to house arrest, and then control my army?"

In the mansion in the east of Shouchang City, Zhang Zhao returned to the house where he lived for nearly 20 years.

Since he was exiled from Dunhuang when he was a child, he has been living here with Zhang Zhong, Yin Yaozi and others. This time he came back, of course he continued to live in his own home.

"That's right! That's what Jinniang said. She asked me to tell you, never go back to Dunhuang. Even if you go back, you have to go back with an army!"

The matter was of great importance, although Murong Xinchang didn't like Zhang Zhao, especially his mother acted like a little bird leaning against Zhang Zhao, which was completely unimaginable in the eyes of Murong Xinchang.

Because his mother in Murong's house has always been known for being strict and pungent, even grandpa always listens to his mother's opinion when encountering major issues, but now, Xiao Xin's eldest son secretly gritted his teeth.

But the matter is of great importance, whether you like it or not, he still didn't show his temper, instead he explained everything clearly.

"That's not right! It's ridiculous!" Zhang Zhao rubbed his head. How stupid would he be to come up with such a plan, and Zhang Zhao could control his army by placing him under house arrest?
This is not a wild night talk, don't say that Cao Yijin sent a message, even if Cao Yijin came to him personally, Zhang Zhao would not enter Dunhuang City so easily.

And even if he is controlled, his soldiers and horses will not listen to the Cao family's mobilization.

What's more, since this man named Pei Yuan is a counselor, when he instigated Cao Yuande to kill the Uighur princess, his logic was very strong and his analysis was correct, but how could he come up with such an idea out of nowhere?

As a counselor, he came back after meeting a dragon like Zhang Zhao. How could he directly lay down a poisonous plan before the conflict between the two sides became particularly intensified? Isn't he afraid that Zhang Zhao might not be able to deal with it, and Zhang Zhao would smash him to pieces in the end?

Isn't it a bit too hard to put one's wealth and life on the line for the sake of being a counselor?
More importantly, can Cao Yuande really believe in such a stupid plan?What about Cao Yuanzhong?Is a double son-in-law not as good as a big brother with a different mother?

There was something weird everywhere, and Zhang Zhao looked at Nobunaga Murong.

"Did your concubine tell me how she got the news?"

Murong Nobunaga was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "My mother told me not to ask, the matter is true anyway!"

This is even more strange!Zhang Zhao couldn't figure it out, Cao Yuande carried out such a big conspiracy, he didn't immediately put Cao Yuanzhong's family under house arrest, let Cao Yanlu go to Guazhou, and let Princess Tiansheng of Khotan wander around outside, what does this mean?
Did you give away the head on purpose?

Won't!There will be no such mistakes, so the biggest possibility is that when the plan was finalized, or even before, someone told Princess Tiansheng about it.

Then who is this person?

"Erlang, don't think about it anymore, Second Uncle is coming, isn't everything clear if you just catch him?"

Mrs. Cao San thought for a while, but she couldn't figure it out, so she simply suggested that Zhang Zhao not think about it.

Anyway, isn't Cao Yuanshen here to lie to Zhang Zhao, why not just arrest him?
"San Niang is really my female Zhuge!" Zhang Zhao deliberately praised Cao San Niang in front of Murong Nobunaga.

The third lady gave Zhang Zhao a hard look, and Murong Xinchang over there turned around in anger and went out!
　Don't talk about killing Pei Yuan, I'm spoiling it, this kid has a problem and he will clean it up, but he definitely can't kill him.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)