The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 334 Thunderbolt Like the Wind, across the Mountains and Ravines

In the first year of Tongzheng, on the seventh day of November, it was cloudy.

It’s only 20 days before the New Year’s Eve. Fighting at this time is repulsive to many people, especially the turmoil in the Central Plains and the stability of Shu. Many people complain about the emperor’s violent actions. The scholars in Shu have a strong personality. It's better to call friends and friends to gather in the yamen to oppose sending troops, and ask the governor to report to the emperor to negotiate peace with Chang'an temporarily, and not discuss sending troops until the end of the year.

These scholars were strong and carried weapons. After being dismissed, they seemed to attack the government, so that the matter became stalemate.

"Military and state affairs, how can you allow me to talk nonsense, the enemy will come to the door of the house, and they will have sex. If you are tolerated, will you ask me to sacrifice the Kingdom of Shu next time?"

Theoretically, the governor came forward and talked about the matter with the few scholars in custody, so as to calm the situation. After the people were released, the troubled scholars should thank them and disperse, and spread a good name. However, after a few words, those in the city On the contrary, more scholars gathered. Finally, Shu Emperor Wang Jian sent a group of scholars from the Gongyuan to mix in, and the trend of verbal criticism began to change for a while.

Speaking of the approaching New Year's Eve, King Yong of Chang'an, who wanted to be the emperor, used the land of Shu to increase his achievements. The people in the city were filled with righteous indignation, and they gathered and shouted that the emperor should drive away the Yong soldiers from the north.

In the process of changing the wind direction in Chengdu, Jianzhou, Puzhou, and Hanzhou, on the afternoon of the seventh day of the lunar new year, [-] soldiers and horses after the reorganization of Suizhou went north first, passed Rongzhou, and rescued Bazhou, which was facing the enemy.

There are many mountains and hills in Shu. In the gloomy weather, the outline of the mountains in the distance looks silent and solemn. On the winding official road at the foot of the mountain, groups of soldiers and horses from Shu are marching fast. After spending a lot of time, most of the soldiers walked silently on the roads in the countryside and mountains, and occasionally heard orders, so they just took a rest in place and ate some dry food.

This 3-person team was led by Wang Zongkan, one of Wang Jian's adopted sons, and a general who had led the army for many years. After the food and grass went for a while, the location of the camp was arranged, and a commander was stationed.

After resting, the general Li Yuanqiu watched the envoys leave, watched groups of troops pass by the gate of the camp, turned around and ordered the camp to be expanded. He was relatively strict as a general, and he was even more strict with the soldiers and generals under his command. The soldiers were tied to the wooden pillars of the gate and punished with whips, and everyone feared him.

Right now, he didn't pay back the bill, and asked his soldiers to take the map drawn by the scouts, observe the nearby terrain, circle the dangerous places with a wide view, and send soldiers to cut down trees to build hidden sentries.

At this time, it was already noon, and the main force of traffic had already left the border of Rongzhou. The craftsmen and soldiers felling trees on the mountain were shaving off the branches, cutting off the wooden pillars and pulling them to the hill. Among the busy figures, someone wiped off the sweat on their faces. Hearing the rumbling sound vaguely, he subconsciously looked up to the outside of the hill.

Hundreds of black shadows rode across the fields.

"cavalry?"

Looking down from the hill, the field of vision is not clear, and the cavalry who came running approached the foot of the hill, and just now they could clearly see the armor and clothes on the opponent's body. The next moment, the warning horn sounded——

woo~~
Woohoo! !
In the camp built against the mountain, Li Yuanqiu, who was talking to the left and right, frowned and raised his face.

The horn of warning is still sounding.

He mumbled his lips, but before he could speak, a warning horn sounded anxiously from the other direction. He drew out the horizontal knife at his waist and shouted at the soldiers and laborers who were still busy carrying food and fodder in the camp: "Enemy attack!" , take up your weapons and form an array—"

Rumbling--

Several iron riders undulated and galloped forward, like a torrent rushing towards the foot of the mountain, and the horseshoes splashed the dirt and gravel. The leader was a burly and dark general, holding a big gun, staring out of the camp and paying attention to the Shu who was forming an formation. Jun, raised his arm, pointed the gun sideways to the sky.

"Prepare!"

Xia Luqi is no longer the small school of the Xuanwu Army. He is now in his thirties. He has been trained by Li Cunxiao for ten years. Yang Huaixiong and other generals in Chang'an are also difficult to fight fifty times.

Most of the cavalry behind him are recruits, but they come from the Longyou Dangxiang tribe, and the backbone is the elite cavalry of the original Longxiang Army. The experience is passed on to the recruits, who have been training for several years and have already held their breath and want to check their abilities.

boom boom-

Countless horseshoes were tumbling wildly, and the speed was getting faster and faster. Shaluqi put down the big gun and clamped it under his armpit, and his feet also tightened the horse's belly at a closer and closer distance.

Staring at the continuously enlarged and clear vision, he could even see the panicked faces of Shu soldiers. His eyes were like tigers devouring people, he gritted his teeth, then opened them suddenly, and shouted: "Kill!"

The black war horse jumped over the rock under his feet, and in mid-air, the big gun swished down, piercing the terrified Shu soldier's chest, instantly piercing through the person and hanging the gun head to the back, and the moment it penetrated the two of them, Xia Luqi drew his saber and slashed back, splitting a rushing Shu soldier under his horse.

Leaping the horse, stabbing, and drawing the knife in one go, the guards who followed him rushed up in a blink of an eye, and swept the nearest Shu soldiers under their iron hooves.At this time, the half-formed Shu army set up a forest of guns to meet them regardless of the formation. Half of the 1-man camp was firmly guarded inside. The rushing cavalry, the horses covered with crash armor, with the spearheads pierced on them, crashed into the crowd with one after another scratches——

Just like the sound of the tide hitting the reef, the sound spread from left to right, and the high-speed charging horses crashed into the crowd, falling forward and rolling over the people's bodies. The coming war horses smashed their bones, and more cavalry nearby rushed into the crowd, abandoned their spears, drew out their steel knives and slashed frantically left and right, and then pierced through from the other side.

"kill--"

Shaluqi rushed to the forefront, and by the time he arrived, he had already landed in the middle, surrounded by fighting figures, after the two of them were swept away by the swung gun, there were no enemy figures around.

"Break into the camp and set it on fire!"

He pointed out that he went to the grain camp of the Shu army. As a vanguard, he did not open roads across the mountains and build bridges when encountering waters like in ordinary army battles. Instead, he was instructed by Li Siyuan to go to the front and wait. , but it also has the advantage that it is not easy to be discovered. By taking advantage of the mountains and forests to squat first, the opponent's grain team has already been under his nose, but he still waits until Wang Zongkan's large army leaves before he makes a move.

When the sound of hysteria sounded, the cavalry of the Yong Army dismounted one after another. The camp has a hillside, which is not suitable for charging up on horses. Fleeing and dying, they looked at the remaining enemies in the camp, showing fanaticism.

Following Shaluqi's roar, more than 8000 people shouted in unison: "Kill!"

Over there, Li Yuanqiu stared dumbfounded at the dismounted cavalry, who was escorted by dozens of personal soldiers and retreated towards the gate. He was about to close the gate, but arrows and crossbow arrows had already been shot over. Immediately he was nailed to the ground, and the soldiers on the arrow tower were also shot down by arrows.

Xia Luqi put on the steel saber, held up a small round shield under the cover of arrows and crossbows in the rear, and rushed forward, raised his hand to block an arrow flying from the camp, and rushed towards the half-closed gate. With great force, the two Shu soldiers behind the door were knocked backwards, and his iron helmet also fell off at the same time, with his hair in a mess, he slashed with his backhand towards the other person who was rushing to attack, which was a steel knife.

Then, shaking his messy hair, he yelled frantically at the cavalry under his command who rushed up: "Light it up—"

A flame lit up among the crowd that was spreading up, and several iron bumps dragging the flame were thrown high over the shaft gate and fell into the dense formation of the camp.

"what?"

"I hit someone." "The enemy threw a stone?"

The sound of chattering was heard at the moment when the formation of the Shu army sounded, and the iron bumps that fell in front of the people's feet burned out. Fireworks soared into the sky, and the man who was recently thrown half a meter fell to the ground, one leg was gone below the knee, and the robes around him were covered in blood and covered with iron plates.

Sudden loud noises, flames, screams of people, the formation was suddenly turbulent, and the cavalrymen of the Yong army also followed Xia Luqi at this time and rushed in desperately, like a tiger descending a mountain, they rushed in directly. Already startled by the loud noise, the soldiers clashed for more than a dozen breaths, the formation suddenly collapsed, and the soldiers in front ran back crying, colliding with their companions, causing even greater confusion.

"Military law team!!"

Li Yuanqiu held a knife and urged the military law team to go up. When he cut down a rout soldier who had fled back from the front, the chaos had already spread, and there were several loud noises as the formation on the other side exploded. , the enemy general holding a steel knife, his eyes are red and he looks grinning.

"You can't leave!"

The opponent chopped off the Shu soldiers who were running around with a knife, stepped on the ground full of flesh and blood, and walked slowly
The Shu soldiers who broke up outside the camp saved their lives for the time being, and ran away to hide. Looking in the direction of their own grain camp, there were people running out screaming and covered in blood. No matter what, the camp had been smashed through. Not long after, The flames ignited in the camp, and the enemy general carried his general's head on his horse, and led the vicious cavalry away.

The news was quickly passed on, and it was sent to Chengdu by ferry and fast horse on the second day afternoon. The group of scholars who were clamoring to 'let the enemies from Chang'an go back in embarrassment' shut their mouths obediently in good time.

"What stick did Wang Zongkan hit—"

The old man in the palace took a picture of the letter on the dragon case. He still trusted his adopted sons. However, in the next few days, more news came over like a nightmare.

But before that, he killed several ministers who persuaded him to cancel the personal conquest, and ordered soldiers and horses to prepare to drive the invading enemy personally.

(End of this chapter)