A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 77
Marching is dull and boring.

Every day three shifts to prepare meals and four shifts to leave camp and set off at Pingming, sixty miles a day can not be shaken, take a short rest every ten miles, eat dry food at thirty miles, and end the march and set up camp when the sun begins to slant westward in the afternoon.

Huaiyu and the others don't need to participate in camping and other activities every day, and the three training classes are also on track, and the days are repeated day by day.

When Huaiyu was able to almost recognize the faces of the people in the three hospital training classes, they finally arrived at their destination.

Dazhenguan, the gateway to the junction of Guanlong and Longguan, is also the only way to pass through the eastern section of the Silk Road.

A large Longdi mountain separates Longzhou in Guanzhong from Qinzhou in Longyou, and a Weishui River Valley separates Longshan from the Qinling Mountains to the north and south.

The Great Earthquake Pass has also become a battleground for military strategists.

"Longshan is a natural barrier in the central and western parts of Guan. Among all the fortresses, Xiaoguan and Longguan play a leading role. Now the Turks are invading aggressively. Li Jing is guarding Xiaoguan, and my brother-in-law Chai Shao is guarding Longguan. As long as these two passes are not broken, the Turks will enter." Not in Guanzhong."

Lu Huairang rode on a handsome Dawan horse, pointing at Longguan, very chic on paper.

In addition to keeping a diary, Ma Zhou has also been supplementing some military history recently. He punctured Concubine Lu mercilessly, "In the sixth year of Wude, it took only five months for the imperial court and the Turks to reach a peace agreement to return Mayi. The Turks invaded again, and the offensive lasted until August of the seventh year of Wude, and even became more and more fierce. At that time, His Majesty the Emperor agreed to burn Chang'an and move the capital to Xiangfan and Dengzhou.

However, the Turkic people besieged Yuanzhou several times, and their troops went straight to Yinpan, and finally broke through the defense line of Xiaoguan. In the end, His Royal Highness the current crown prince personally led Qin Shubao and other Baiqi Xuanjiaqi to bluff, scare off the Turks, and reached a withdrawal agreement with them. "

"However, although Jieli Tuli reached an agreement with the prince to withdraw troops at that time, he secretly sent troops to attack Qizhou in a detour. Fortunately, the governor of Qizhou at that time, Chai Shao's son-in-law, was prepared and defeated the Turkic army in Duyang Valley."

Ma Zhou looked at Longguan on his horse, "As long as you walk a few tens of miles southeast from Duyang Valley, you will come out of hilly and mountainous areas in all directions, and you will really enter the Guanzhong Plain where the Turkic cavalry enters the Guanzhong Plain. Jumping like a sea dragon, who can stop it?"

He told Lu Huairang so much, in fact, he meant that even a maniac scholar like himself had already seen through the Turkic people. The Tang Dynasty fought with the Turkic people. Talk about peace, or the Turks will tear up the agreement and commit another crime.

The abrupt peace agreement is not as good as a piece of paper in the eyes of the Turks.

And from the battle in the seventh year of Wude, it also fully shows that Datang's defense line in the northwest of Guanzhong is not stable. They were able to break through the Jinghe and Weihe valleys two years ago, and went all the way to Qizhou and Binzhou. The Turkic invading momentum was even stronger. Although there was still Chai Shao on the front line of Longguan and Li Jing on the front line of Xiaoguan, Ma Zhou believed that the court had made a mistake in its strategic judgment before. Killed on the Guanzhong Plain.

In the seventh year of Wude, Jieli later sent his uncle Ashina Simo into the court, and the imperial court sent Prime Minister Pei Ji, and the two negotiated a peace agreement. Although Jieli withdrew, he immediately sent troops to invade Suizhou in September. , Although they were repelled, they committed Ganzhou again in October.

The more severe invasions year after year have already shown that it is impossible to negotiate peace between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty.
One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, nor can one male and one female.

The change of Xuanwu Gate added many variables to this year's war. The strategic prediction in the early stage was wrong, and then coincided with the palace coup. Although Li Shimin is the king immediately, he needs time now.

But the Turkic people didn't want to give him this respite, they just wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rob.

Lu Huairang was confident, but he didn't know where this confidence came from. Maybe it was because Chai Shao was his brother-in-law, and he was so good at fighting. He was able to defeat the Turks last time, so naturally he could do it this time.

However, Huaiyu was restless and uneasy, because history clearly recorded that the Turkic people went to Chang'an, which shows that Chai Shao failed.

Although history also shows that Li Shimin rode the Wei Bridge six times to form an alliance with Jieli, and finally reached an alliance with him on a white horse, allowing Jieli to retreat, and soon Li Shimin avenged this revenge. A few years later, Li Jingxue attacked the Turkic Khan camp at night , directly wiped out the Eastern Turkic Khan Court, and even Queen Yang Guangxiao who fled to Turkic was brought back to the Central Plains by him.

Unofficial History even recorded that Empress Xiao in her 50s had a year-end relationship with Li Shimin in her 30s.

If he is still in Chang'an City now, Huaiyu only needs to pay more attention to the movements of the Turks and withdraw Sanyuan Longqiao's family back to Chang'an City in time.

But now he was going down Longguan, and he was about to cross Longguan and go to Qinzhou in Longyou.

Chai Shao is currently in Qinzhou.

The Turks are also in Qinwei.

It's like a journey to the death.

In fact, Huaiyu hoped that the hospital battalion would stay in Longguan, and it would be better if the reinforcements from Chang’an would also stay in Longguan. He felt that going to Qinzhou would fail. No matter what the reason was, Chai Shao did not stop the Turkic army in history, so it is better to simply Guard at Longguan.

It's a pity that he didn't have the right to speak when he joined the army as a junior, and he didn't even dare to say such things at this time. He was afraid that he would be hacked by Uncle Dou Guo for the crime of shaking the morale of the army.

And right now, from Concubine Lu who likes to talk about wars on paper, to Liu Lancheng who is warlike, and Niu Jinda who has been looking for Turkic people recently, each of these guys is like a chicken blood, wishing not to see Turkic people, even if they are afraid of Turkic people.

Even though Ma Zhou, a scholar, studied the history of the Turkic invasion, he became more determined to go to the battlefield to fight the Turkic people.

It seems that in the eyes of these people, fighting will never fail, let alone death.

Longguan.

They are not the only reinforcements.

Before they arrived, many soldiers and horses had been gathered from the west of Beijing, Longnan and other places. There were soldiers from the Weifu, township soldiers from prefectures and counties, and the children of local powerful landlords. In order to defend the village, countless The man carried the food on his back, gathered in Qin Long with a spear and a knife, and rushed to the battlefield.

After resting overnight in Longguan, Dou Yun ordered the whole army to continue westward the next day.

Only this time, instead of marching lightly, one-third of the soldiers were required to wear armor and sharpen. The whole army marched more carefully and vigilantly, and even the Tangqi was sent to the 24th route.

The soldiers were divided into three groups, and each group marched for an hour in armor, and then changed to another group to ensure that one-third of the soldiers were always ready to fight and could fight at any time.

Concubine Lu even put on the hedging rope armor directly, and put on the rhinoceros leather helmet and rhinoceros leather vest on the outside, and his trilogy were all in high spirits. These guys not only boasted a lot, but also Their vigilance and ability to escape are also very good. It is estimated that they will be able to break through (escape) if there is a real fight.

"After passing Longguan, you may encounter an enemy at any time, so put on your armor quickly." Lu Huaima didn't think there was anything wrong with his behavior, and persuaded Huaiyu to put on armor, and even gave Huaiyu's mount two pairs of vests, "Shoot people Shoot the horse first. The mount is very important on the battlefield. Once you lose the mount, you will be in danger. Although this vest is not as good as the armor of the heavy cavalry, it can also increase a lot of defense than the mount. Generally, you are not afraid of swords and arrows. Hurry up. Put them all on."

Huaiyu was persuaded by Chen Xing, Zhao Xin and the others to put on chain mail, and also put on vests for the two war horses Yezhaobai and Wuyun Taxue. Even Huaiyu's two dogs, Lu Huairang actually planned to get rid of them. Two vests.

When they arrived at Longguan, they graduated from the camp medical school. Hundreds of students went to the camps and brigades to take on the heavy responsibility of saving lives and healing the wounded. For the past half month, they studied medicine for two hours a day and made medicine for one hour. When they left, the medicine box that Huaiyu gave everyone was full, and the medicine gourds that were prepared in addition contained many hemostatic and disinfectant medicines.

Three apricot trees, a gourd, and silver needles, this is the logo of the hospital camp designed by Huaiyu, and it is also the latest logo of the military doctors. The scissors, pliers, gauze, suture needles and mulberry skin, the hemostatic and pain-relieving disinfectant in the gourd, a group of barefoot military doctors and nurses in the Tang camp were born.

There are 600 people in the camp medical school, and now there are 100 people left. These will be the team of the field hospital, and the number is not enough. Huaiyu went to find Uncle Dou Guo. 500 people will be added, and the training can be continued when there is time.

"General Chai has just defeated Tuyuhun and Dangxiang coalition forces in Minzhou. Dangxiang and other ministries have paid tribute, and Tuyuhun King Fuyun has sent envoys to seek peace. This victory was hard-won, but it was also timely. Finally, the foreign aid from Turks was cut off first. It also allows us to deal with the Turks with peace of mind." Uncle Dou Guo told Huaiyu that Chai Shao had won the battle.

Chai Shao seemed to be the nemesis of the Tuyuhun people. He had defeated the Tuyuhun people several times before, and he defeated them again this time.

However, Chai Shaojun's military operation was dangerous this time, and he was also injured a lot.

A few years ago, when Chai Shao was in charge of the Tuyuhun people, he was once besieged by the Tuyuhun people. Chai Shao staged a beauty trick and an empty city trick for them, and played a trick on the Tuyuhun people.This time Chai Shao fought against the Tuyuhun people again, those Tuyuhun people thought that Chai Shao was repeating his old tricks, and they were very angry. An elite army was mobilized to ambush, and the crying fathers and mothers who killed the Tuyuhun people were mobilized, especially the Dangxiang tribes who had invaded and captured the border states of Fangsong in the Tang Dynasty before, suffered the most this time, and knelt down and begged for mercy.

Chai Shao won a complete victory, but it was also a tough battle, and the Tang army on the front line suffered a lot of casualties.

"General Chai knew we were here, and he also heard about your hospital camp. He specially asked us to meet up in Qinzhou. The Turkic army will arrive at any time,"

Chai Shao succeeded in defeating Tuyuhun first, but the Turkic people rushed to Qinlong like a tide. Chai Shao was under great pressure and urgently needed reinforcements, as well as military doctors like Huaiyu and medicine.

"I'll give you another 500 people. I hope your field hospital can really play a role and save more lives."

Huaiyu felt a rush of chills.

A soldier came into the account and handed Dou Yun a sealed bamboo tube. He checked the seal and opened it to read the letter.

"The situation has changed. General Chai has already fought against the Turkic forward, so we need to reinforce immediately."

"I want to take the cavalry first, and you go together." Dou Yun's expression was solemn, and he estimated that the situation was not optimistic.

"Okay, shall I bring the hospital battalion with me?"

"Choose a few assistants and bring them with you. This time, we have to march quickly."

Chai Shao's letter was sent from Fuqiang City in Qinzhou, which is 360 miles away from Longguan, and even if it is fast, it will take two days, and at least a two-horse transfer is required.

Time waits for no one, Dou Yun immediately summoned Liu Lancheng, Niu Jinda, and Si Xue and other major generals, and conveyed the order of the general manager Chai Shao. Dou Yun will lead Si Xue, Huaiyu, Lu Huairang and other fast horses first, and then Liu Lancheng and Liu Jinda will lead [-] cavalry keep up.

The rest of the infantry and the supply civilians followed closely behind.

"The Turks couldn't attack Xiaoguan. They tried to get through Qinzhou Road to Chang'an. Qinzhou must not lose!"

Qinzhou Road is also the middle line of the Silk Road, from Liangzhou to Lanzhou, Linzhou, Weizhou, Qinzhou, and then through Longguan to Longzhou, Qizhou, and finally to Chang'an.

Qinzhou also has a small road leading directly to Huizhou.

In May, the Turkic army had gone south from Lingwu and attacked Huizhou. A group of troops from Huizhou went straight to Qinzhou, and even went deep into the area of ​​Longzhou. After being repelled by Chai Shao, they turned to Lanzhou Afterwards, Wei and Lin were plundered, and the Tuyuhun people of the Jielimu clan cooperated in plundering Min and Tao, and the whole Longyou was corrupted.

Although Chai Shao drove the Turkic cavalry out of the Qin and Longzhou states, he had to mobilize troops to defeat the Tuyuhun people first, which made him unable to drive the Turkic people out from Wei, Lin, and Lan. Wang's inaction in defending Liangzhou made Chai Shao miss the best time.

Now more and more Turkic cavalry are coming down the line of Huilianglan, Lanwei is now full of Turkic troops, and Chai Shao can only guard the line of Qinzhou.

On Qinzhou Road, the main road from Liangzhou to Chang'an, Qinzhou is a key node. In Liang, Lan, and Wei states, the Tang army can only retreat to the city and dare not go out to fight against the Turks. Chai Shao, the general manager, is temporarily unable to take the initiative to find In order to fight, he had to retreat to Qinzhou temporarily to avoid the edge and intercept it with the help of terrain.

Huaiyu always felt that there seemed to be something wrong, but she couldn't figure it out.

The information he now knows is that the Turkic army went all the way south from Hetao, and fought with Li Jing at Xiashi, Lingwu. .

Then the Turks knocked on Xiaoguan and couldn't go, so they turned to Huizhou, divided their troops and raided, and attacked Liangzhou all the way. Li Youliang defended the city and dared not go out. They began to plunder everywhere in Lan, Lin, and Wei, and no general in Longyou dared to fight.

The Turks also recruited Qinghai Tuyuhun to invade the border prefectures of Longnan in the Tang Dynasty, and Longyou was attached to the tribes of Shu and Qiang in the Tang Dynasty, and they were even ready to move.

Fortunately, Chai Shao defeated Tuyuhun first, and even guarded Qinlong's gate.

But it seems that the Turks are going to break through the gap from Chai Shao. On the contrary, Li Jing in the north seems to be afraid of the Turks. Behind Li Jing are Li Yi of Jingzhou and Zhang Jin of Binzhou, who respectively rule the Tianjie and Tianji armies. .To the north of Li Jing, there are Li Daozong of Lingzhou and Li Youliang of Liangzhou.

No matter how you look at it, Chai Shao is that soft-hearted person. Most of the 5 horses assigned to him by Li Shimin were divided and trapped in the city by the breakouts. One, can it really stop 10,000+ Turkic cavalry?

Qinzhou seems to be a dead place.

But he seems to have a sixth sense telling him that things shouldn't be so simple, he can see that the Qinzhou Road is the weakest line, Turkic people can't see it, Li Shimin can't see it?

Is it?

In history, the Turkic people did not break through from the Qinzhou Road to enter the Guanzhong?
Where did it come from, let alone break through from Li Jing's Xiaoguan?

With a somewhat tangled heart, Huaiyu took Ma Zhou, Wu Junwei, Chen Xing, and Zhao Xin, four of them, three riders each, and together with Lu Huairang, followed Dou Yun and embarked on a journey to Fuqiang City in Qinzhou.

A group of more than a hundred riders, fast horses with whips, and non-stop gallops, compared with the ease of riding sixty miles for three hours a day, it is a world of difference.

Soon after they left.

One of the military caravans in the military camp, the jade-faced gentleman who often wears a white robe and eight-faced sword, also chased out of the camp with nine riders.

All the way west!
(End of this chapter)