Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 787 Broken Leaf
Go back in time one year.

In the fourth year of Shaoming, on the first day of February, Anxi Province, northwest of Gumo Prefecture, Boda Ridge.

Yao Yuanfu tightened the cotton-padded jacket on his body, but it still felt a bit airy, so he found two ropes, and tightened the jacket a little more, until he felt that it affected his breathing.

Then, he put two large wooden boards threaded with hemp rope on his back, which were actually a pair of skis.

Don't think that this thing was invented by later generations. The ancients were not that stupid. It is so simple to be able to walk on the snow without many high-tech things. It has already been figured out in countless real lives.

Boda Ridge is the Bedieli Mountain Pass in the northwest of Wushi County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Autonomous Region.

This has always been an important mountain pass on the Silk Road, but it was abandoned after the decline of the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo people cut off Hexi.

Guo Guangcheng was wrapped up like a rice dumpling. He smiled and held a small bag and handed it to Yao Yuanfu.

Yao Yuanfu took it and shook it, he could hear the sound of water, and immediately grinned.

The cold wind in Boda Ridge in early February is biting, and the lowest temperature can reach minus ten degrees. At this time, no matter what water you bring, it will freeze. Only spirits will not solidify and make a sound.

Guo Guangyi, who claimed to be Khan in Suiye, was much smarter than Zhang Ting thought. Since his rebellion, he has been paying close attention to the movements in Shule. There are several checkpoints and a stronghold, if there is any trouble, Sui Ye will be notified.

After Huguang arrived in Khotan, he immediately sent several groups of people to tentatively pass through the ancient road of Tang monks, but without exception, they were all found and called back. Even in winter, a small number of people were standing on the ancient road.

Realizing that the opponent was already prepared, Hu Guang immediately changed his strategy and settled down to train his troops.

This time he marched west, he only brought [-] paces, and the rest of the army needed to be recruited from Anxi and Beiting.

However, the military strength of Anxi and Beiting has declined rapidly since Zhang Teng returned to the east, especially after the Gaochang Uighurs were dealt with.

Because Zhang Ting took away most of the elite, especially the elite officers, and after that, basically all those who could fight in Anxi and Beiting were wiped out by Zhang Ting.

Since then, the Silk Road has continued to recover, and after 200 years of war, a large number of people have been lost, and a large number of troops have gone to Ningyuan (Fergana Basin), and the entire place is sparsely populated.

As a result, the entire Anxi and Beiting are full of arable fields and fertile pastures for grazing, and there are prosperous trade routes. How many people can rest assured to engage in armaments!

Everyone is busy seizing the good opportunity to make a fortune and having children.

Look at Li Shengtian and Cao Yuanxin, they didn’t take the maintenance of military equipment to heart. In order to fulfill their long-cherished wish to visit the Central Plains, the two parents left state affairs and ran away together. Li Shengtian even thought about staying in the Central Plains and not returning to Anxi. .

Both of them are like this, how can the people below be better?
Including the barbarians like Anxi and Beiting, what to say, they actually like to lie down and play leisurely.

So in just over a dozen years, the entire Anxi and Beiting upper class Wen Tianwu played, and the lower class enjoyed the good life brought by the prosperous age, which was much better than the people in the Central Plains.

However, the consequence of this is that Hu Guang originally came to put down Suiye Guo's rebellion, but he had to first arrest the military affairs of the three institutions of Anxi, Beiting, and Jin.

Busy every day almost starting from scratch, recruiting, training, and building ordnance, there is no time to lead the army to crusade.

No wonder Guo Guangyi dared to rebel. It turned out that Shule's deterrence against Suiye had almost disappeared. If it wasn't for Suiye's lack of people, and he was afraid that Zhang Tie would lead the army directly, maybe this dog would dare to come down the mountain to attack Shule.

In this way, Hu Guang trained soldiers for five months at a stretch, and by the way, fed the four thousand warriors who came to Anxi with him to become fat and strong.

These 4000 people thought they were here to fight, but they fell straight into the honey pot.

Anxi and Beiting are rich and prosperous, and there is endless beef and mutton every day, and endless apple wine.

Moreover, this place has gone through hundreds of years of war. There are more women than men, and the orchid style is open. In addition, they are envious of the appearance of the Han people.

Many families even offered money to beg them for a moment in the Spring Festival, just to cross the species. Most of them are yellow-headed and green-eyed orchids, and all of them hope that their next generation will have black hair and black eyes.

For five months, it was like being in heaven.

And Hu Guang didn't indulge blindly, but grasped with both hands loosely and tightly. Those who had no bottom line at all were quickly beaten by him.

The more he can't control the thing below, the stricter Hu Guang will control him, and the less rewards he will have.

The more ambitious he is, at least he knows how to restrain himself, the more he will let go, and he will give rewards from time to time.

He raised them like this for five months, until the warriors themselves felt sorry for the court's military salary and General Hu's Enyi, Hu Guang came out to assign tasks.

This task is, since Suiye's Guo Guangyi has blocked the ancient road of Tang Seng, and the road from Shule to Suiye is impassable, then change another road.

From Gumo to the northwest, cross the Boda Ridge, find the Zhenzhu River (Nalun River), follow the Zhenzhu River, all the way to the southwest, and raid Suiye!
For this reason, Hu Guang selected the most elite 300 people and gave them a pair of armors.

Hu Guang didn't believe it, everyone in Suiye Guo's family was willing to follow Guo Guangyi to become barbarians when it was obvious that Tang'er was going to be honored again.

He didn't believe that the Guo family had persisted in Suiye for 70 years without forgetting their homeland, and after returning home smoothly, they were willing to collectively betray the long-cherished wish of their ancestors for 200 years.

Of course, the selection of 300 people does not mean that only 300 people set off, but a full 2000 people set off.

It's just that the main task of the remaining 700 people is not to fight, but to serve as two-legged mules and horses for the three hundred soldiers, helping them carry armor, weapons and other supplies.

Yao Yuanfu opened the wine bag, took a big sip, and instantly felt his body warmed up a lot. Although this was actually deceiving his body, it was much better than fighting hard.

He looked back at the swaying team in the wind and snow, and said to Guo Guangcheng with a smile: "Finally, we have climbed over this mountain range. It is better than a certain company imagined. There are only more than 200 people missing, not more than 500 as the two of us thought." .”

Guo Guangcheng also laughed, "Mr. Yao, you are the unparalleled fierce general appointed by the sage. Whether we can win Suiye in this battle depends on you and the hundred bears and tigers under your command."

The hundred bodyguards that Yao Yuanfu recruited were all fierce men who had served Khitan in Baituanwei Village in the past, and followed him to raise righteousness outside Yanshi City.

Although the essence of these Central Plains soldiers lacked some rules, but when they killed people on the battlefield, it was really frightening to see.

It happened that a dental soldier passed by the two of them, and when he heard Guo Guangcheng's words, he immediately grinned.

"Guo Guanren, don't worry, the sage gave our Yeniang thirty pennies of pension money. After arriving in Anxi, the general tiger will fatten the sheep and wine every day, and the little lady Hu Ji will keep going. Of course, I will repay the favor and kill those native chickens and dogs. Rivers of blood flow!"

Another dental soldier also said with a smile: "That is, when a certain family was in Kucha, they had enjoyed thirteen orchids, and they were pregnant with at least nine of them.

It doesn't matter what his last name is or what he looks like in the future, but he has always saved his seed, and the beauties of wine and wine have enjoyed it, so now he should repay the grace of God. "

Guo Guangcheng was a little embarrassed, because what he actually wanted to say was, don't kill too hard.

Because there are not only traitors like Guo Guangyi in Suiye City, but also many relatives of his Guo family. If he was killed indiscriminately, he would not be able to cry.

Yao Yuanfu understood Guo Guangcheng's embarrassment now, and patted Guo Guangcheng's shoulder, "Erlang, don't worry, a certain family knows it well."

. . . .

Outside Suiye City, the work of repairing the sub-city is still going on. Just outside the sub-city, a wide moat was diverted from the Suiye River and passed around the sub-city.

In a plateau frontier like Suiye, it would be a waste of manpower and material resources to build a sub-city, Luocheng, and a large city with a complete moat.

Outside the city, foremen wearing long robes and carrying whips can be seen everywhere, and a large number of civilian men who can only wear single clothes in February are working hard.

From time to time, some people fell down in the muddy ground with ice flakes while walking. Some people got up under the whipping of the whip, and some people never got up again.

Guo Guangjie looked at all of this without the slightest sympathy in his eyes. What he cared about was when the defenses of Suiye City would be completed and the city would become a truly invincible city.

According to his elder brother Guo Guangyi's estimate, when the ice and snow melted, Khotan's army would definitely come up through the ancient road of Tang Seng again.

Although this ancient road is steep, it is too difficult to transport supplies and cannot be defended at all, so Suiye City is the best place to defend.

Guo Guangjie thought, with a smile on his face, if he can defeat the army from Khotan this time, then his brother's position will be completely stabilized, and he will be able to become the Khan of Suiye and Talas, and then attack Destroy Saman Persia and become Ju'er Khan in the river.

Guo Guangyi is not tall, and can even be said to be quite short.

Zhang Ting didn't know how he appeared suddenly, and even Guo Guangcheng didn't have much impression of this person. It was because Guo Guangyi was not at Suiye Guo's house at the very beginning. He was sent by Zhang Ting to follow Li Guoshou to garrison him. Tang Qi, a member of Ross.

After defeating the governor of Tuozhe City in Saman Persia, Zhang Ting transferred 6 soldiers and civilians of various ethnic groups in Suiye to Talas for garrison, with Li Guoshou as the main one.

He ordered a cavalry trained by Bai Congxin in Suiye City as his guard, and this cavalry was called Tang cavalry by the people of Suiye.

Guo Guangyi first stayed in Talas for a few years. Although he is not tall, he has superb riding skills and good shooting skills. More importantly, he is very good at affairs, which has won Li Guoshou's attention.

Although Li Guoshou was pushed to a high position by Zhang Ting, he was not very capable. Gradually, he handed over all the big and small affairs of Taros to Guo Guangyi.

Guo Guangyi also lived up to Li Guoshou's expectations. He not only stabilized the situation in Talas, but also made use of the geographical advantages to make Talas more and more prosperous.

Afterwards, Li Guoshou married his daughter to Guo Guangyi. Two years later, when Li Guoshou's only son was out hunting, he fell off his horse and broke his neck. Li Guoshou didn't even have a grandson. .

From then on, Li Guoshou could only rely on Guo Guangyi, who he couldn't do without and who had already mastered the power of Talas.

At this point, if Guo Guangyi is a Han Chinese who yearns for his hometown and understands righteousness, he will at least be the king of a great feudal kingdom in Zhang Yu's plan in the future, and he will also be a hero in history books.

But unfortunately, Guo Guangyi started from the bottom. In the previous Suiye Guo family, if he was below a certain height, he could not receive the cultural education about Tang'er in the Guo family. Guo Guangyi had never experienced this.

Don't look at him as a Han Chinese, but his way of thinking is completely Uighur-style.

More importantly, he was born in Suiye and grew up in Suiye, thinking that Suiye plus Khotan is the whole world.

He has never seen the Tang Dynasty and the Central Plains at all, and he can only speak Chinese in general, so he has basically no sense of belonging.

After that, things will be simple. This is not simply a settlement between Li Guoshou and Suiye Guo's family.

Guo Xuanli and Li Guoshou have been fighting openly and secretly for more than ten years, and it is impossible to reconcile easily.

This is a careerist who annexed two powers and started to dream of the Spring and Autumn Period.

(End of this chapter)