A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 913: The Sword-wielding General at the Bridge, Qiao Huan, the King of Xuanyi

"Uh-huh!!!"

The Huanshui River, in the Qi County section, passes through a bridge. After crossing the bridge, you will arrive at Fuli County. Further north is the Xuzhou seat, Pengcheng.

The bridge deck, originally built with stone slabs, had now broken into two.

To the south, there was a sea of ​​blood and corpses. Densely packed corpses were floating on the water. Judging from their clothes, they must be the elite of the rebel army.

Zhuxie Chixin reined in his horse, turned around and reached the bridge head, but was blocked by several strong warriors.

"It's okay, let General Zhuxie come in."

The warrior moved sideways to allow Zhuxie Chixin to pass, and then saw a middle-aged warrior sitting on the bridge, with his clothes taken off, and two soldiers on his left and right were bandaging his wounds.

On the right hand side was a long sword, which was the Mo Dao.

"The Strange Sword General?"

The middle-aged warrior grinned and said, "It's a Mo Dao, not a Mo Dao."

After sending away the soldiers who were bandaging his wounds, the middle-aged warrior stood up and clasped his fists, saying, "Li Yan, the commander of the left wing of the Xuanwu Army, Mo Dao Du."

Zhuxie Chixin, who was now gray-haired, laughed heartily and said, "Shuozhou Governor, Deputy Northern Army Envoy, Zhuxie Chixin of the Shatuo tribe."

Zhu Xie looked at Li Yan's wounds with a sincere heart and praised him: "What a brave man."

Li Yan didn't care: "General, that's great. I'm just a lieutenant in the Xuanwu Army. There are many who are better than me."

"I have heard that among all the garrisons in the Central Plains, only Xuanwu Army and Wei Bo Army have many brave warriors. Why is that?"

Li Yan blinked his eyes and said without blushing: "Maybe there are many warriors in Yanzhao and Bian Song."

Nodding, Zhu Xie Chixin returned to the point and said, "Your army has made great contributions in capturing the bandit leader Pang Xun in this battle. Since you are under Lord Yi's army, I will naturally report your achievements truthfully."

Zhuxie Chixin did not lie. If it were not for Li Yan's army of a hundred men who blocked the crazy attack of a thousand men led by Pang Xun, by the time Zhuxie Chixin arrived, Pang Xun might have crossed the river and escaped, making it difficult to capture him.

"Thank you, General."

Waving his hand, Zhuxie Chixin got back on his horse, reined in his horse, and said, "I believe we will meet again."

"Send the order, return to the camp."

Upon hearing Zhuye Chixin's order, the Shatuo cavalry mounted their horses and left.

They discarded most of the scattered spoils and only took away the gold, silver, jewelry and Pang Xun's head that were easy to carry.

"Captain."

Watching the cavalry go away without any reluctance, the soldiers behind Li Yan looked at each other, hoping that he would give them some advice.

Turning back to look at his brothers, Li Yan laughed and said:
"What are you waiting for? Now that Pang Xun is dead, the war is over. We have plenty of time to clean up the battlefield. If you don't pick up the treasures on the ground, it will be a bargain for those people in Qi County."

"Thank you, Captain."

After receiving accurate orders, this group of veterans who had just returned from the battlefield began to clean up the battlefield with a smile on their faces, cleaning every corpse thoroughly, and then buried them in accordance with their conscience.

An hour later, at the south end of Tongqiao, there was no corpse on the ground except patches of land stained red with blood.

September 10th
As Zhu Ye Chi Xin arrived at the expeditionary army's camp in Pengcheng with Pang Xun's head, the uprising that swept across the north and south of the Huai River and lasted for one year and two months was officially declared a failure.

But although the large-scale uprising was quelled, the small-scale uprisings in secret continued.

However, this small uprising that did not leave the county was obviously not taken seriously by the court. So Emperor Li Yu arranged for some generals to stay in the local area to continue to suppress the remaining bandits, and then sent all the vassal states mobilized from various places back after rewarding them for their merits.

In terms of merit, Zhuya Chixin was promoted to the Jiedushi of Zhenwu Army for his great contribution in this battle and the achievement of capturing the bandit leader Pang Xun, and was also appointed as the Grand Protector of Shanyu, and he remained the commander of the three Shatuo armies (on behalf of the northern army).

In order to win over the Shatuo tribe as much as possible, Li Yi personally gave them the surname "Li" and the name "Guochang" to prepare for their nationality.

As Li Yan, a major of the Xuanwu Army, belonged to the Xuanwu Town, the court was not in a position to directly commend him for his merits. Instead, the court only granted him a lot of wealth and promoted his rank to the fifth-rank Flying Cavalry Captain.

The Xuanwu Military Office promoted him to the position of Modao Commander-in-Chief due to his merits. The former commander-in-chief Wang En was transferred to be the military commander of the Xuanyi Army and stationed in Haozhou.

That’s right, because of the heavy defense pressure, in order to protect the canal tribute route, the imperial court had to hand over Bozhou to Xuanwu Town for garrison.

In this way, the Xuanwu Army's defense zone included the three states of Bianzhou, Songzhou, and Haozhou.

The 10,000-strong Xuanwu Army of our headquarters cooperated with the Ning'an Guard to garrison Bianzhou.

The Xuan De Army and the Xuan Ren Army, each with 10,000 men, cooperated with the Anlin Guard to garrison Songzhou.

The newly established Xuanyi Army cooperated with the newly established Qiaohuan Guard, with a total of 10,000 people, to garrison Haozhou.

In this way, Xuanwu Town had 40,000 soldiers.

With the pacification of Jianghuai, various vassal states led their troops to leave, but the Shatuo tribe remained.

In Bianzhou City, Zhuxie Chixin, who changed his name to Li Guochang, walked in the prosperous city with only a few cavalrymen and the military commander Bai Zhusheng leading horses.

The 3,000 troops under his command all camped 20 miles away from Bianzhou City to avoid misunderstandings by the Xuanwu Army.

"General Bai, although Pang Xun is dead, the remaining Wu Jiong is still holding on in Haozhou City. The court will transfer us back now, okay?"

Looking at the small vendors along the road, there was no sign of war at all, Li Guochang asked in a daze.

You have to know that the Pang Xun Rebellion was separated from Bianzhou by Songzhou, and the cavalry only needed one or two days to rush here from Xuzhou.

Although Bai Zhusheng was a scholar, he was also a soldier and had lived in the Shatuo tribe for a long time. It was rare for him to see such a prosperous scene, and he was obviously intoxicated by the peaceful atmosphere before him.

"General Jie is worrying too much. Let's not talk about how long Wu Jiong can hold out in this isolated city. The Xuanwu Army is strong and powerful. The Zhoujin vassal states have also been thinking about it in recent years, but they have won every battle."

"Even powerful vassals like Wei Bo had to regard them as rivals, and the imperial court was extremely cautious about using Xuanwu Town, fearing that it would force them to rebel."

"How dare any villain come here to touch the tiger's whiskers?"

Listening to Bai Zhusheng's words, Li Guochang said sincerely:

"Looking at the prosperity of Bianzhou City, we can see how rich the Central Plains is."

"I used to think that Taiyuan City was big enough, but now that I see it, I realize that it is just like looking at the world from a well."

Bai Zhusheng looked back at Li Guochang, who was filled with emotion, and said, "But all this is built on the protection of the Xuanwu Army. If the Xuanwu Army hadn't deterred the scoundrels again, how could there be the prosperous Bianzhou today?"

Li Guochang agreed: "It should be so."

Then another horse said: "This is all thanks to the Bai family. If it weren't for the dedication of the Bai family, I'm afraid Bianzhou would be like Luoyang today, extremely depressed."

"Haha." Bai Zhusheng could not deny it and said, "Even so, a talented person like General Jie is also indispensable."

As he was speaking, Bai Zhusheng looked at the mansion in front of him that looked like a royal palace and said:

"We have arrived. This is where Lord Liang is, and it is also the Xuanwu Army Headquarters."

(End of this chapter)