Datang: Ten Years of Proton, Leading an Army of Millions to Return

Such a sound.

The sky is filled with boiling water, and the world is steaming.

The excited people were heading north in groups.

Calling Dayan's name, calling out the voice of Emperor Dayan.

The entire Qingzhou was completely boiling!

And naturally.

This is the case in Pu County, and other counties are also pretty much the same.

…….….….….….
at the same time.

Qingzhou Pass.

This is the boundary between Qingzhou and the outside world.

Today, the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty at Qingzhou Pass continue to patrol and stand guard day after day.

Outside their customs, more Dayan and Turkic armies were gathering than before.

But they didn't care, because the people above said that neither Turk nor Great Yan would come in, and what should be done normally should be done now.

However... a sudden change occurred.

"Boom boom boom..."

The ground trembled.

"what sound?"

The Tang soldiers on the front line frowned slightly and raised their heads to look at the source of the sound.

This look was still frowning, but the next moment...a look of extreme horror and fear suddenly appeared.

In front of him, he saw a group of Turkic cavalry in black crows!
Countless, countless!
"The Turks! The Turks are coming!"

"Light up the wolf smoke, light it up quickly!!"

"......."

The entire Qingzhou Pass was full of panic and fear.

They hurried back and hurriedly lowered the checkpoint gate, thinking that the Turks were all cavalry, and the obstruction of this gate would allow them to adjust quickly.

However, the gate just fell, but for some reason it rose again.

"What's going on? How come the floodgates are raised again?"

"I don't know, there must be something wrong down there!"

"There is a traitor, damn it! Follow me like a gatehouse!"

"......."

There was a commander of the Tang Dynasty who led people like a gate room, but before he got there, a large number of Turkic cavalry had already entered the gate and started killing.

The Turks, who had prepared early, were still elite cavalry, and the Tang border defenders, who had rushed to fight and were not elite, were stronger and weaker, and their strength on paper was already biased.

Not to mention the raid status.

this day.

Qingzhou Pass was lost.

Following the Turkic troops approaching the Weishui River two years ago, this northern border gate of the Tang Empire was opened again.

And it’s still… Turkic!

………………………….
Yecheng.

This is the second large city of the Tang Dynasty after the Qingzhou Pass, and it links the two-way route to Chang'an and Youzhou. It is a battleground for military strategists.

The second day after the fall of Qingzhou Pass.

Just in the morning, an urgent notice was delivered to Yecheng, and it was handed to almost all the generals in the city.

After receiving the news, the Yecheng officials and generals all sat up in shock and horror. With a look of horror in their eyes, they read the letters they had just received, one by one, one by one.

"This!!!"

Li Dajun, the defender of Yecheng, who had lost an arm, gasped and looked inexplicably horrified. He hurriedly said goodbye to his wife, left the mansion, mounted his horse at the door, and rushed to the north gate of Yecheng as quickly as possible.

He ran quickly through the city, and people all over the street felt the strong wind blowing in their ears.

What's more, they didn't even know what happened, they just heard a gust of wind passing by.

In just two quarters of an hour, Li Dajun arrived at the North Gate of Ye City. From a distance, he saw an extremely familiar figure above the North Gate, one step faster than him, and had already arrived there.

"Is the news in the letter true? Are there really 10,000+ refugees and they are about to arrive in Yecheng?"

As soon as they entered the North City Gate and before anyone arrived, Li Dajun's voice came from afar.

There was an inexplicable sense of horror in the voice, and he came to the lieutenant's side in an instant.

Lieutenant General Li Haiying snorted and said in a deep voice: "General, it's true! Both Qingzhou Pass and Changsu City were lost, and we can be sure that the Turks will make a comeback again."

"Currently, the defenders of Changsu City are still resisting the Turkic attack. The generals there are fighting to the death for us to welcome the fleeing people into Yecheng and notify Chang'an."

"Qingzhou Pass and Changsu City were lost in just one day. Everything happened too fast!"

"General, do you know what this means?"

Li Dajun frowned slightly. The matter in this morning's letter was a major national event.

There was no reason for the scouts to reach Yecheng so slowly.

There is only one reason for the slowness.

That is, the carrier pigeons that carried the message before were intercepted! !

Li Dajun said coldly: "Is there an unknown force controlling all of this? They are intercepting our carrier pigeons in the country! And they are colluding with the Turks!"

Li Haiying nodded: "Yes, General, the Changsu City scout just told me that he was the 12th batch of scouts who rushed to Yecheng. It was him who also let us know about the huge disaster in the south."

"The scouts sent by the 12th batch passed the news to us..."

"This also shows that all the eleven scouts in front are dead! The power hidden by this unknown force is no small matter."

"This can be determined to be a more premeditated action than the last Weishui attack! Turks and the others are fully prepared!"

Li Haiying's voice was very deep.

"At this juncture, the empire is experiencing constant disasters and the Turks are moving south. This is really... extremely bad news."

Li Dajun laughed at himself, but took a deep breath and looked solemnly: "But this time! We will definitely not go back to the Weishui Incident!"

"This time, I am here! And I, the generals and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, will do their best to resist the enemy and give Chang'an time to react and summon all the troops!"

Li Haiying nodded: "Yes, General, we are here this time!" He said.

Even though they cheered each other up, the scene still had a depressing atmosphere. Then Li Haiying pointed his finger at the line between the sea and the sky outside the city.

"General, look over there, they are coming!"

Li Haiying was a little happy.

There, in a dark and dusty scene, there was a densely packed convoy of horses, as if they were boundless, and no one knew where the edge was.

On both sides of the team, there were a large number of Tang Army soldiers, and countless soldiers guarded the edge.

In the sky above the team, crows and birds were also circling and flying, as if there was a great terror behind them.

At the front of the team is the general from Changsu City!

The mighty team was so majestic that people who didn't know it thought it was a team attacking Yecheng.

but….
As the distant team continued to approach, both Li Dajun and Li Haiying could clearly see it.

This team was in such a mess. The soldiers of the Tang army had abandoned their helmets and armor, their mouths were dry, and their steps were staggering. The ordinary civilians were dragging their families with them, looking tired and malnourished.

Often a large group of people crowded on a carriage, and even more people crowded on the roof of the carriage.

Vaguely, with their extraordinary ears, they could even hear the clear and constant crying sound in the distance, and the deep sadness filled the air.

Li Dajun and Li Haiying's expressions instantly turned ugly.

"Changsu City was hit by a locust plague a week ago. It lasted for three days. All the stored food and the food still being planted were eaten away."

"The locust plague had just passed. The Turks invaded the whole country. They were defeated and fled. On the way to Yecheng, more than 2 people died and more than 1 soldiers died. Even...even the guard of Changsu City Li Zizai, the garrison general, also left command because he wanted to stop the Turks..."

"Died in battle..."

Li Haiying's voice became heavier and hoarse.

I couldn't help but read it and keep it in mind. The content in the letter had a slight depressing solemnity.

heard this,

Suddenly, Li Dajun's heart was filled with blood. The bloody figures, tens of thousands of people, were dead.

"These hateful Turkic dogs! Open the gates of Qingzhou Pass and Changsu City, hateful traitors!"

Li Dajun gritted his teeth with hatred, and his eyes almost burst into flames.

While Li Dajun and Li Haiying were talking, in the distance in front of the team, a horseback riding figure suddenly accelerated and broke away from the team in an instant.

Moving in their direction, the speed was extremely fast. In just a few dozen breaths, they crossed a distance of several hundred meters and appeared in front of Li Dajun and Li Haiying.

The visitor was wearing black armor, made of special materials, but it was in tatters at the moment.

His face was still a little scorched, obviously from being sunburned, and his lips were also chapped. The overall appearance was very embarrassing.

There was a hint of exhaustion in his eyes.

Seeing the two of them, the other party's voice was so excited that he could not contain himself and said: "Li...General Li, Deputy Li Haiying, I...I, I, I, we finally see you!!"

After saying that, a general who was guarding one side actually cried in front of the two of them, his voice was sad and painful, full of endless pain and despair.

The two looked at each other and saw the horror in each other's eyes.

You know, this is the early Tang Dynasty, and every general is not promoted by the results of the imperial examination. They all come from the battlefield and are experienced in hundreds of battles.

What happened to them during their rout to Yecheng that could make a general who was accustomed to seeing life and death despair to such an extent? !
A man can't shed tears lightly, let alone the general who was the backbone of the Tang Dynasty, the decision-maker who suppressed one party and put down all turmoil.

In an instant, the two of them felt a terrifying and terrifying feeling.

"Don't get excited yet. What happened? Why did the general and I not receive the message until now?" Li Haiying's heartbeat accelerated and he quickly comforted the other party.

"The people are all dead, all dead!!"

When the other party said this, there was fear in his eyes, and his voice trembled slightly: "I am the guard general of Qingzhou Pass. The Turks came over early yesterday morning. We didn't know it. Someone also gave them a level card, and we were caught off guard. All died in battle, all died in battle.”

"The next step is to escape. We rush to Changsu City, because many people were hungry before, and they are even hungrier after not eating all day yesterday. We ourselves are like locusts. The trees, grass, and flowers on the road can all be eaten. We ate all the food.”

"There is no way, there are too many refugees. On the day I arrived in Yecheng, hundreds of people starved to death almost every minute. After I finished my work and slept, I woke up and didn't know what I had just gathered. Many of the remaining soldiers have died.”

As he spoke, he cried sadly again.

"Those...those locusts are hateful! The Turks are even more hateful. I don't know why, but the Turks suddenly went crazy and raided us like crazy. They also knew where we hid the food, and they destroyed everything as soon as they opened it."

"The Turkic cavalry... are boundless, as if they are all Turkic cavalry from all directions, pouring out endlessly, and the ground is shaken open by their pressure."

The general's frightened pupils were shrinking, and his breathing was trembling. It was as if he had seen the extremely terrifying scene, and his body could not help but tremble.

"There are too many, there are too many Turkic cavalry. Obviously Qingzhou Pass is our most important pass. There are countless Tang troops stationed in it. All kinds of elite weapons and war horses are all supplied first, and our northern Xinjiang resources are tilted. Key points.”

"However, it only took less than a day for the Turks to cross the border. The soldiers resisted with all their might. Their arrows were all gone, and there was nothing they could do to stop them from continuing southward."

"Too many people died along the way. Many were killed by Turks, and even more died of starvation."

"This time, the Turks seized the opportunity of the locusts. They are serious. They... they are going to destroy the Tang Dynasty!"

"Damn! Damn Turks!!!"

As he spoke, tears started to flow from the corners of this man's eyes, his head was tightly clenched, and his eyes were filled with overwhelming hatred.

Witnessing with my own eyes the Turks breaking into a city where tens of millions of people depended on for survival, and wreaking havoc on it, this was simply a massacre, a mass extermination of the Han people!
This is sworn hatred!
"General Li, I also gathered a group of soldiers who fled back from the front line. They said that they saw a ravaged village on the road with hundreds of corpses."

"They... they were all common people, but they were all disemboweled and brutally killed by the Turks!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!"

He roared in pain: "General Li, Deputy General Li Haiying, do you know that after the Turks killed them, they actually stacked up Arhats, one after another, piled them up into a hill of more than ten meters. They were crying and Die unwillingly!"

“There… there…”

As he spoke, he suddenly choked up even more.

"There are still children there, they are no higher than the knees, no more than the knees!!"

"My future newborn in the Tang Dynasty was actually killed by a Turkic dog out of despair!"

When he finished speaking, both Li Dajun and Li Haiying opened their eyes in shock, and an indescribable anger brewed in their hearts and was about to explode.

Their faces instantly became ferocious, their internal organs were trembling, and they breathed in and out frantically.

Suddenly, Li Dajun roared: "Turks, Jieli Khan, evil beasts, a group of evil beasts!!"

Their voices were heard far away, and the soldiers at the city gate were shocked.

Listening to the general's heartbreaking story, some soldiers dropped their weapons from their hands and didn't even know it, so they just stood there in a daze.

Some soldiers, like Li Dajun and Li Haiying, became completely furious, their teeth creaked and they were trembling. They were not afraid, but angry, extremely angry!

(End of this chapter)