Late Tang

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The [-] troops of the eight towns and three tribes who triumphantly put down the Shatuo rebellion in Daibei, escorted [-] Shatuo prisoners of war and marched slowly all the way, extremely majestic.The Black Banner Army in front was already approaching the imperial city, and the last Zhen[***] Konghe and Pengri Army had just passed Mingde Gate.

Li Guochang, Li Jinzhong, and Li Youjin were imprisoned in iron cages at the forefront of the three thousand Shatuo prisoners of war.Looking at the contemptuous and mocking eyes of countless Chang'an people on both sides of Zhuque Street, Li Guochang felt regretful.At the beginning, he went out with the Tang army again and again, and then returned victoriously, and entered Suzaku Avenue as a victorious army.I remember that the last time I entered Chang'an was to put down the Pangxun Rebellion in Xuzhou six years ago. After that triumphant entry to Beijing, the first emperor decreed that his country's surname was Li, and that he was given the name of Guochang, and that he was included in the lineage of King Wei. , and directly became a member of the royal family of the Li family, and named him as the defense envoy of Datong. The mansion bestowed by the emperor.

Six years passed by in a flash, and he never thought that he would actually come back in a prison car.Behind him are his clan brothers Li Youjin and Li Jinzhong, his sons Li Kexiu, Li Kerou, Li Kezhang, and his adopted son Cunzhang.Suddenly, two lines of old tears flowed down Li Guochang's face with disheveled hair, regretting the past.

The Black Banner Army who was walking in front knew that the envoy Gao Shunli suddenly saw a Baize flag approaching, and couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Things went a bit out of the original plan. Bai Ze is a mythical beast in ancient legends. It is said that the Yellow Emperor once saw Bai Ze on the seashore. This animal can talk and understand everything in the world. The image is drawn.People of later generations used it as the pattern of the chapter clothes and flags.

The appearance of the Baize flag means the appearance of the emperor's son of heaven.

There are two sides of the Baize flag in the big drive, each of which is held by the flag bearer on the horse. Each flag bearer has a guide in front of it, and there are guards on the left and right sides.

Gao Shunli had no choice but to stop. At this time, another Bai Ze flag appeared with another majestic flag bearer.

Behind the two Baize flags, there is the royal Jinwu Guard, led by the left and right generals of the Jinwu Guard. Some of the soldiers of the guard are holding long spears, some are wearing iron armor, and some are carrying horizontal knives and bows and arrows on their waists.The bows carried by these soldiers are all packed in bow bags made of tiger skin, called tiger scorpions, and the arrows are packed in quivers called Hulu, which are carried around their waists.

The Jinwu guards marched in two rows on the left and right. Walking in the middle of the two rows of guards was a red bird flag, and then twelve dragon flags. There are two cavalry leaders in front of a dragon flag, and two cavalry guards behind it.

After the Longqi, there are 6 kinds of vehicles, which are the guide car for determining the direction, the Ligu car for recording the mileage, the Bailu car, the Luanqi car and the Pixuan car.Each chariot was driven by four horses, each had fourteen drivers, and a craftsman accompanied the chariot.

Behind these vehicles is an advocacy band of the guard of honor, because it walks in the front of the guard of honor, so it is called the front advocacy.The band is composed of percussion instruments and wind instruments, and traditionally advocates the band that belongs to the army.

In the front part, there are b drums, cymbal drums, festival drums, big drums, snare drums, and Yubao drums. Jia and other wind instruments.The musicians advocating in the front are all riding in a horizontal line on horseback to play.

Immediately following the front section are two censors riding side by side. Zuo Shiyi Wang Zou, who took office on the first day, has been promoted to censor because of his outspokenness and courage, riding side by side with another colleague.

Behind them is the yellow banner that symbolizes imperial power.Next is Taishi Ling, an official in charge of astronomy and calendar. He leads two observation instrument carts managed by the Taishi Bureau. The copper bird is called Xiangfeng copper bird, which is specially used to measure the wind direction.The other vehicle is the Xinglo vehicle, which is equipped with timekeeping instruments such as copper bowls and engraved leaks. It is a mobile timekeeping station.In addition to the driver, each instrument car was accompanied by technicians from the Taishi Bureau, and officials such as Si Chen and Ke Lousheng were accompanying the car.

The next ones are the Qi and Jiqian teams.The Qi and Jiqian teams were divided into left and right teams, with 140 people in each team, led by Wuwei Guoyi on the left and right, riding on both sides of the brigade respectively.

In the center of the 钑 and halberd ranks are one pair of five-color embroidered streamers and flags, and twelve pairs of golden festivals.The gold section is a black lacquered rod with a disc on the top, surrounded by red silk whisks, eight layers from top to bottom, and covered with a yellow bag embroidered with dragon patterns.There are two sets of Gouhan banners, Han on the left and Gouhan on the right, running side by side.A pair of Suzaku flags.There is a green dragon building on the left and a white animal building on the right. The building is a kind of flag decorated with feathers. The white animal building is the white tiger building.

Behind a guide umbrella are 88 Wuwei soldiers. The 88 soldiers are divided into two teams, 44 on the left and 44 on the right.This is the end of the front team of Qi and Ji.

Following the qi and halberd teams are the left and right guard generals, and behind the two generals are 24 royal horses and two AMTD Fengyu, who are officials in charge of the emperor's chariots and horses.

Behind a green dragon banner and a white beast banner, marched the officials who worked beside the emperor, including Taiwan officials and admonition officials.There are general officials, servants of the censor, censor Zhongcheng, left and right to pick up relics, left and right to make up for the que, living clerk, living squire, admonishing the doctor, giving things, Huangmen servant, Zhongshu servant, left and right Sanqi often waits, waits, and orders.These officials are in groups of two, riding side by side in the queue on horseback, Tongshi Sheren and Living Lang walk.Soldiers from the left and right guard marched on both sides of these officials.

After this grand ceremonial drive, the Black Banner Army in front could already see the emperor's vehicle at this time.

Walking in front of a series of vehicles is a team of guards led by the generals of the left and right guards. These guards wear squad swords and hold ritual knives in their hands. Neither the squad swords nor the ritual knives are real swords and real knives, but wooden ones. They are mainly used for ceremonial guards. .

Emperor Li Xuan is riding on a jade car today, which is a vehicle with extremely luxurious decoration. This kind of luxury is to show the dignity and status of the emperor.The drivers are blue horses, they have a very beautiful name called "Canglong". These horses wear gold crowns and gold ornaments on their heads, as well as the tail feathers of mountain pheasants.

The drivers driving Yuren are all ministers in purple robes, and the main driver is the third rank of the imperial servant, one of the nine ministers of the imperial court. He leads 41 drivers.

The emperor sat on the jade 辂, accompanied by General Qianniuwei.

Qianniuwei is the personal guard of the emperor, named for wearing a Qianniu knife.

The name of Qianniu Knife comes from the story of Pao Ding Jie Niu in "Zhuangzi". The Pao Ding divided beef for 19 years and cut thousands of cattle, but the knife in his hand is still as sharp as it has just been sharpened. , Later, people called sharp knives as Qianniu knives.

The Qianniu knife is the emperor's self-defense weapon. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty has 24 Qianniu swords on the left and right sides as personal guards.These [-] Qianniu Beishen are all selected from the children of high-ranking officials of the royal family. They are young, strong, beautiful, and strong in martial arts. Being selected as Qianniu Beishen indicates that this person will have a good future.

The general Qianniu who accompanied the emperor on the jade scorpion was the leader of Qianniuwei. General Qianniuwei was not an ordinary general.In the Tang Dynasty, all generals had to take off their weapons and put them outside the palace before entering the emperor's palace. If they forgot to take off their sabers and entered the palace, it would be a death penalty.

And if a minister can get the honor of going to the temple with sword shoes, it is basically the same as Jia Jiuxi, which means that he is about to replace the current emperor.

General Qianniuwei is the only person who can appear in front of the emperor with a knife. The position of General Qianniuwei is extremely honorable.

On both sides of the Yuren chariot are escorted by the left and right generals, and next to the Yuren are the five battles known as the five battles of worship, pro, honor, Yi, and Sanshou.These are all the children of the emperor's relatives, as well as the children of the ministers, and they are either relatives or expensive.Some of them rode horses with bare hands, and some rode armored horses with batons and horizontal knives.

There is still an endless stream of guards of honor behind the jade scorpion, including other vehicles and chariots of the emperor's motorcade, various banners, umbrella covers, round fans, square fans, and drums at the rear, which can be said to be too numerous to enumerate.

At the end of the guard of honor is the phalanx of the royal guards, including Xiaowei, Wuwei, Weiwei, and leading guards. The square towns of each guard are composed of cavalry, a total of 24 teams.The soldiers of these 24 teams held different flags, and there were 24 kinds of flags in total.

There is still an endless stream of guards of honor behind the jade scorpion, including other vehicles and chariots of the emperor's convoy, various banners, umbrella covers, round fans, square fans, and advocacy at the rear.

At the end of the guard of honor is the phalanx of the royal guards, including Xiaowei, Wuwei, Weiwei, and leading guards. The square towns of each guard are composed of cavalry, a total of 24 teams.The soldiers of these 24 teams held different flags, and there were 24 kinds of flags in total.

Gao Shunli was shocked by the fact that the emperor's guard of honor was the most grand, and that the emperor didn't wait at the Zhuque gate, but came over by himself.He hurriedly sent someone to report to the back, at this time the team behind had stopped because the front had stopped.

When Li Jing heard that the Son of Heaven was coming, he hurriedly rode forward with Zheng Congyu and other generals from the Eight Towns and Three Divisions. When they were in front of the car, Li Jing and the others picked up their swords and untied their swords. He said: "Your Majesty has ordered that the sword worn by Li Zhenguo was given by His Majesty himself, and you can come to him on horseback with the sword!"

After hearing this, all the generals including Zheng Congxuan, Yu Juan and Cui Anqian couldn't help turning their heads to look at Li Jing.

Although Li Jing felt that this was a bit too high-profile, and he felt like he was more handsome than forests, but since it was the order of the emperor, he had no choice but to ride forward with his sword on horseback.The other generals walked on foot, but Li Jing rode his horse with his sword alone, and he couldn't help but stand out among the horses. Countless people, officials and soldiers of the forbidden army saw this scene, and no one was shocked.

Tian Lingzi, who was standing next to Tianzi Yuren, saw Li Jing coming on horseback, his eyes twitched, but only for a moment, he smiled again, and greeted Li Jing like a blooming chrysanthemum. (To be continued.)