Start: Datang Wanli a lonely city

Chapter 725
When Hu Biao and others woke up early this morning, they found that the sky above their heads was covered by a large dark cloud.

Although so far, there has been no rain or snow.

But the cool wind was chilling on people's bodies, and it was still a little painful when it blew on the face, but even so, it still didn't stop the people of Chang'an from watching the excitement with great enthusiasm.

After eight o'clock in the morning, when Hu Biao and his group appeared in their sight, loud cheers erupted outside the city immediately.

Amid such huge cheers, Hu Biao and a large group of people came under the high platform, about a mile away.

After arriving here, Deng Sanlang, Liu Yi and other entourages were stopped by the dead eunuch who announced the decree, and the magic army guarding them.

These idlers can no longer move forward.

On the contrary, among the accompanying personnel, Li Deyu, the son of the former prime minister, could continue to move forward if he immediately revealed his identity.

But after Li Deyu smiled slightly, he followed everyone's footsteps and stopped.

On the way along with Hu Biao and others, these envoys of the Anxi Army performed quite well, which was quite interesting.

But it is still far from enough for him to take the risk of offending Cui Shi of Qinghe and show his identity to stand together.

Everything depends on today, the final result of this special match between the monarch and his subjects.

Needless to say, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Li Deyu's mature and prudent thinking; it's just that everything that happened later was beyond his expectations.

Specifically, it is the two sides playing the right.

Whether it was ministers like Hu Biao or Li Chun, the current sage, there were scenes that he and many others did not expect...

In the following time, under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of eyes.

Hu Biao and a group of 32 people held high the big Tang Anxi Army banner full of holes, and continued to trot straight towards the high platform.

Seeing that the performance was about to begin, all the people around stopped their voices.

Even the sound of breathing between the mouth and nose was as light as possible.

Waiting to hear the news of the Western Regions, which has been isolated for decades, and the current situation of the Tang army in this match between the monarch and his ministers.

For a moment, in their ears, it seemed that there was only the sound of the broken flag fluttering in the wind.

In the end, it was only ten steps away from the edge of the high platform.

A group of soldiers in Mingguang armor finally formed a human wall and stopped their horses.

Seeing this, Hu Biao and others immediately knew that this was the other party's statement that they could no longer move forward, and they immediately pulled back their horses.

Without a weapon, Qi Qi got off his horse and fell to his knees, shouting:

"Under the command of the Anxi Protectorate of the Great Tang, all the officers and men of the Xuange Battalion of the Anxi Army pay respects to His Majesty the Emperor, and wish His Majesty a long and boundless life, and my country is prosperous and the people of the Tang Dynasty are safe~"

Just such a sentence, after it fell into the ears of the crowd of onlookers, it made them feel very, very embarrassing.

It was mainly because of this simple sentence that they determined what Xuan Ge Camp was.

According to the normal situation of the Tang Dynasty, this battalion head had at least 800 people in terms of number, but now there are only about [-] people left.

I thought of all the hardships these people had experienced on the way back from the thousands of miles that were chased and intercepted by foreign races.

I don't know how many men in Guanzhong in the crowd, while their eyes were red, while covering their eyes, they cursed out:
"This thief is also very strange. It is obvious that the vernal equinox has passed for a few days. How can there be such a big wind and sand, which just fascinates my eyes."

It's just that after a while, these tough-mouthed and soft-hearted guys will know that the situation that made them unable to hold back just happened.

In the sentence "The life of all the ministers", Hu Biao and others stood up straight from the ground.

Then Li Chun's voice sounded from the high platform, which officially kicked off the curtain for this duet.

The high platform where His Majesty the Emperor is located was appointed to have been carefully arranged by master craftsmen. It conforms to the principle of sound wave reflection and refraction, etc., and the sound can be transmitted far away:

More importantly, there is a Shence Army soldier with a loud voice not far away, repeating what His Majesty the Emperor said.

Relying on such a method, it can be regarded as allowing the onlookers to hear clearly what His Majesty the Emperor said during such a performance:
"My Great Tang is in the Anxi Protectorate, and my Great Tang Anxi Army is in the Western Regions. How is the current situation?"

Hearing that Li Chuncai got to the point right from the start, everyone onlookers were refreshed.

Because since the sixth year of Zhenyuan, that is, 29 years ago, they have never heard any news from the Western Regions.

Under the qi filling the dantian, Hu Biao used all his strength and skill, and for the first time he shouted out the situation that many people had asked about since he entered the customs, but he had never mentioned it.

It also made such a sentence right, and it deviated from everyone's original expectations from the very beginning:

"In the sixth year of Zhenyuan, the city of Khotan fell into the hands of the Tubo people. Zuo Pushe, Shangshu of the Tang Dynasty, and Shi Handong, commander of the Anxi Army, led [-] Anxi Army soldiers to defend the city, and most of them died in battle.

More than 200 people were captured, and it is said that they were sold to various places as slaves, and their lives were worse than death.

In the 11th year of Zhenyuan, Suiye City fell to the hands of Tubo and Turkic people. General Zhonglang of the Tang Dynasty and Captain Liu Ping of the Anxi Army led 900 people to fight desperately after the city was broken, and no one was spared.

In the 18th year of Zhenyuan, Shule City fell, with [-] defenders, and only a hundred of them escaped. So far, of the four towns of Anxi Duhufu, only one city of Kucha remained.

In the autumn of the third year of Yuanhe, Shang Qixin'er, the commander of the Tubo people, led tens of thousands of troops from the Tubo headquarters, and together with more than 20 Hu people's coalition forces, claimed to have [-] troops to attack the city of Kucha.

From Guo Shuai down in the city, there are only a few thousand soldiers and horses capable of fighting.

Most of them are over 70 years old, seventy-seven-year-old, gray-haired veterans.

During this battle, the Tubo people relied on their huge forces to attack the city from all sides of the city wall; our Anxi army held on desperately, and the corpses of all the Tubo people and Hu people, after filling up the moat, were still piled up more than three feet high .

Helplessly, the opponent's offensive is like a tidal wave. Our soldiers in Anxi are exhausted and are about to be defeated.

Before the city was about to be broken, Guo Shuai ordered me to wait for the Xuange battalion to break out with a copy of his handwriting and the family letters of all the veterans in the army.

Let us be sure to bring it back to Datang and send it to His Majesty and related personnel.

After hiding for two or three months, I killed another carbine and returned to Qiuci City; it was only then that I learned that Guo Shuai died in battle, his head was made into alcohol by Shang Qixin'er, and his bones were hung in Qiuci city ​​head.

A group of old soldiers in the army also died in battle, and their heads were hung on the top of the city.

It was useless for me to wait, so I had to cremate the bones and heads and bring them back to Datang; along the way, the officers and colleagues died in battle, leaving only me and a group of ordinary soldiers. "

Having said that, Hu Biao fell to his knees again.

From his arms, he took out the handwriting written by Guo Xin in the past, held it up high, and then walked on his knees all the way to the high platform.

Walking on his knees, like a cuckoo weeping blood, he first recited a plagiarized poem:

"A city full of white hair, never throwing away the Mo Dao, resisting alone for [-] years, how dare you forget the Tang Dynasty; a lonely city thousands of miles away, full of white-haired soldiers, born as Han family, dead as Tang soldiers."

Then, he yelled out again:
"I beg Your Majesty, the imperial court, to be the masters of our Anxi army, and to recover from the hands of the Tubo people and all the barbarians~"

When he finished shouting this sentence, Hu Biao was already kneeling all the way to the ladder to the high platform.

At this time, a young eunuch rushed up to meet him right here, wanting to take such a handwritten letter, and passed it on to the emperor Li Chun.

Originally, Hu Biao had no idea about such a transfer.

It's just that this guy was reciting poems and asking His Majesty the Emperor to make decisions for them in the Anxi Army, and his emotions suddenly rose.

When the eunuch's urine smell, which seemed to have accumulated over the years, reached his nostrils, he immediately changed his mind.

Because he instinctively didn't want Guo Shuai's fatal handwriting before his death to be tainted by this eunuch.

Regardless of this year, the eunuch group is almost covering the sky with one hand, and it is definitely not a good thing to offend them.

After a smooth push, the eunuch fell to the ground in a state of embarrassment like a wooden stake.

After falling to the ground, the eunuch's face suddenly changed, and he was about to get angry immediately.

However, at such a time, Li Chun, His Majesty the Emperor, a group of civil and military officials, and more than [-] people outside the city.

He had already reacted one by one from the shocking emotions brought about by Hu Biao's words.

Under the grief in his heart, the emperor Li Chun immediately slumped on the ground and burst into tears; while crying, he loosened his hair, not caring about his image at all.

It was only a moment late, and all the civil and military officials also covered their faces and burst into tears.

And this kind of crying, as if it had an astonishing contagious power, spread completely.

For a time, in the vast area outside the Kaiyuan Gate, there were such crying sounds, which could be heard clearly even tens of miles away.

Including Li Deyu, his nose was sore and his eyes were red for no reason, and he started crying right there.

At this moment, he forgot all family interests and personal future responsibilities, and only had a simple identity: Tangren.

It seems that even God can't bear to see such a scene, and after a while, tiny snowflakes fluttered down from the sky
In such an environment, the eunuch finally gritted his teeth and endured it...

******
In such a scene with tens of thousands of people, Qi Qi began to cry bitterly, but it lasted for a long time before subsiding.

During the period, even the current emperor Li Chun, after reading the handwritten letter of Guo Xin's death, directly passed out from crying, but Hu Biao was a little frightened.

correct!At the moment when Li Chun fainted from crying.

Many important court officials in purple robes, scarlet robes, and goldfish bags hanging from their waists also cried and fainted one after another; the surrounding personnel also jumped up a little bit.

After pinching someone for a while, he woke up leisurely, looking a little too sad.

It's just that among them, how many people are pretending, it's really embarrassing to be specific.

In the end, after tossing back and forth for more than half an hour in the above scene, the crying outside the city gradually subsided.

His eyes were red and swollen from crying, and Li Chun, who was like a bun, calmed down a bit, and finally showed the level that an emperor should have.

Talk!Before that, because he didn't know An Xijun and Guo Shuai, it was Li Chun who had already encountered misfortune.

The original plan and performance are definitely not like this; so now, the performance that seems to have just started is definitely not going to go on.

However, while he was slumped on the ground, sobbing continuously, his mind was also spinning rapidly.

After the sobbing completely stopped, a brand new case emerged in my mind.

Struggling to stand up, he waved his hand to stop some court ladies behind him from coming forward, planning to arrange the bun on his head;

Then, facing Hu Biao, whose knees had already become numb after kneeling in front of him for so long, he started to support him.

He said in his mouth: "Ai Qing, please get up quickly~"

After supporting Hu Biao with his own hands, he pondered for a while before saying:
"The Tubo people and the barbarians from the Western Regions dared to treat my Tang soldiers like this, and they thought they couldn't let it go; it's just that this is a big matter, and we need to plan carefully before making a plan.

You waited thousands of miles from the Western Regions to return, and you also suffered a lot of hardships along the way. Now that you have successfully returned to the Tang Dynasty, I, the Tang Dynasty, did not say that I treat the heroes poorly.

And to rest for a while, the imperial court will naturally have rewards and new errands. "

After hearing Li Chun's mouth, such a kind words like Tai Chi, all kinds of polite words are sincere, but there is no real content.

All of a sudden, Hu Biao secretly said something bad in his heart.

What the hell!Li Chun, Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty, was still crying so sadly just now, but when it was time to express his opinion, there was no real benefit at all.

But without waiting for him to continue speaking, use words to provoke His Majesty the Emperor.

The words from Li Chun's mouth made Hu Biao no longer care about these things: "Sergeant Hu, although you don't have much official position, you are still a hero of my Tang Dynasty, and let me remove your armor with my own hands. ..."

Talk!In the feudal dynasties, for a warrior, what could be a greater honor than the emperor personally disarming him?
It is estimated that only Huo Qubing, the kind of thing that seals wolves and lives in Xuxu, can be slightly overwhelmed.

If Hu Biao wasn't a modern person, facing such a huge honor, he might think that his ancestral grave is smoking, and he would faint from excitement, right?
Even Hu Biao, as a modern person, was a little moved at this moment.

In the following time, an eunuch came up with a brocade robe made of gold thread in his hand.

It's just that Li Chun didn't need the help of the maids and guards around him, just as he promised, he helped Hu Biao start removing his armor with his own hands.

It's just that after taking off the coat and taking off the armor a little bit, Hu Biao's shoulder was exposed, and a big scar was revealed at the position below the left shoulder.

After seeing this scarred wound, it still looks scary.

The light in Li Chun's eyes suddenly flashed, and he immediately stopped the action of removing the armor from his hands, and asked solemnly:
"Sergeant Hu, how did this wound come about? Is it still painful?"

Without even thinking about it, Hu Biao opened his mouth and said:
"Your Majesty, don't worry, this is an arrow shot by a Hu general when he was fighting with Hu people outside Yiwu City that day.

That General Hu's arrow was extremely vicious, with a barb on it, and when he pulled out the arrow, he took off a piece of the boss's flesh, and the wound was a bit bigger.

But after a few months, the wound is now alright.

Besides, there is no reason not to be injured in fighting on the battlefield, not to mention that I, Hu Biao, have many wounds on my body; none of the people in the camp has wounds all over their bodies. "

Hearing this, Li Chun's face changed, and he said: "Strong, strong, Sergeant Hu really deserves to be the strong man of the Tang Dynasty.

It's not as good as this, in front of all the civil and military officials of the imperial court and many people in Chang'an City today.

Let me and you count the wounds on Sergeant Hu's body one by one. How about I toast you with a glass of wine for each wound? "

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Hu Biao to agree, he already ordered a sentence: "Come here, serve the wine."

Immediately, the two were dressed in Tang palace costumes, that is, like in the movie "The City is Full of Big Girls", they used an embroidered bustier to draw out the beautiful maids with white snow.

Holding wine glasses and imperial wine respectively, they walked to the side of the eunuch who was originally wearing a brocade robe.

And poured a full glass of royal wine into an exquisite golden cup.

It was also at this moment that Hu Biao suddenly reacted: What the hell!The emperor is also acting...

　PS: What the hell, the writing is getting slower and slower. I originally wanted to pay off a chapter today, but it turned out that the normal ones have been written until now.

　　Those debts, take your time, we are not bad debts...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)