Late Tang

(Thanks to the support of Duqi Xiaowei and Xiaobailouba, thank you!)

Rate Bin Mansion, Huazhou.

This is the city of Ussuriysk, which was later the Japanese, and the twin city of China, which was built on the banks of the Suifen River.Huazhou, which has just started to warm up, is still a world of ice and snow, and everyone in the city is hiding at home.In the city, there are [-] Mohe people stationed here, but they are not elite, just a group of old men and young men.Heli, the commander of thousands of cavalry, is an experienced veteran and an experienced hunter. He hunted bears, leopards, tigers and wolves far away when he was young, so he later became the best tribal warrior. .

Today's Bohai people used to be Mohe people, but they were still called Sumoshuimohe people at that time. Later, they fought for the Northern Dynasties of the Central Plains, Goguryeo, and the Khitan people, until they parted ways with the Khitan people and established Bohai by themselves. Gradually, they only called themselves Bohai people, and the Mohe people became the name of the Mohe people of the Heishui Tribal Alliance in the northeast.The Bohai people have been trying to conquer and unify all the Mohe people, but the Heishui tribe has been resisting.

Iron Hand Heri lost his left hand in a battle with Bo Haijun. At that time, he was already a commander of a thousand riders. That injury hit him hard, but in the end he pretended to be a He is only an iron hand, and has since retired. After all, he was already 50 years old at that time, and his grandson had already recorded his name in the tribal military register.

He never imagined that 15 years later, when he was 65 years old, he would still be asked by the tribal leader to lead the army.Although the five thousand soldiers handed over to him were basically old men like him, or young men like his great-grandson, he still put on the well-maintained armor in the end and brought his bow , set out on horseback. Fifteen years later, his original three-hundred-jin strong bow was replaced by a one-stone bow, but his experience is still rich and his mind is still clear.

All the way south, he didn't show any signs of oldness, instead he fought a few beautiful battles with his miscellaneous brand, old and weak, and beat Bo Haijun to the ground.Because of this, in the end Heli the Iron Hand was sent to Shibin Mansion with his 5000 troops, and in the end he was in charge of the far right wing of the right army of the coalition army alone.

The 65-year-old Iron Hand Heli, although his bow has become smaller, can still eat three catties of meat and two catties of wine for a meal.Even every few days, I can still play with a few girls from Bohai.However, since the day before yesterday, the brows of Heli the Iron Hand have not been relaxed.

In the past few days, he has always had a bad premonition, and his heart is full of worries. This is a kind of vigilance of a hunter.

The patrol that went out has not returned for a long time, and he sent another one out, but this new patrol, like the previous one, once stepped out of the city and entered the ice and snow, there was no news at all, as if frozen in outside.The Qianqi garrison in Jianzhou City sent the news on time yesterday.But there is no news from Vladivostok.According to the agreement, every ten days, the other two thousand-man teams in the Lead Bin Mansion will send people to deliver information to report safety.But now, there has been no news from Vladivostok for more than ten days.

And just yesterday, some people outside the city of Washington came to report that many Tang people appeared on the Amur Peninsula, and some even reported that many huge ships were seen on the sea near Vladivostok.At first, Iron Hand Old Hurley didn't believe it at all, but there were more and more reports like this, and there were already more than a dozen of them, which made him start to be suspicious.

Maybe the Qin army in Tokyo sent people to harass them.

However, he firmly does not believe in the saying that the Tang people are boundless and that ships occupy the coast.

As early as more than a year ago, most of the Qin people's naval fleet had withdrawn to the mainland. There was indeed a fleet in Tokyo, but it was armed with merchant ships from the Bohai Sea, and there were only about a hundred ships.They haven't left Longhe Port for more than a year, so how dare they come here suddenly at this time.It is even more impossible to say that it is the Tang people and the fleet of the Tang people.The ice on the sea is still just melting now, and if they appear here on the sea route of tens of thousands of hours, they will start to set off at least in the next year.He didn't believe that Qin Jun's fleet dared to take risks in such a season.

But as time passed, his own thoughts began to waver.

He has sent three more scouts, but still no news came back.Maybe Qin Jun really came.

In the middle of the night, the wind picked up, and then it snowed in a fluttering way, which made it difficult for people to walk.

Yang Shihou, the former vanguard of the ever-victorious legion and one of the thirteen imperial guards of the Qin King, watched the five thousand silent flying cavalry soldiers neatly lined up in the snow, like a group of statues carved from ice and snow.The cold wind whipped the white camouflage cloaks wrapped around them like flags waving.Each face was covered with a warm collar covering the head and neck, and then a leather hat with ear protectors was buckled on the outside, and a wolf head helmet was buckled on the outside, leaving only the mouth and nose exposed. , Exhaled hot white smoke.

In the faint light of the fire, clusters of snowflakes danced around them, and soon there was a thick layer of snow on their shoulders and white cloaks outside their hats, but no one patted them.

Yang Tianxiong didn't feel cold in his heart, but felt that his blood was boiling with an indescribable impassioned, hot and surging, so excited that he almost shed tears.This time they will be a decisive battle against the barbarians, and this battle will kick off the decisive battle.As a disciple of the King of Qin, he aspires to seal the country and be promoted to the head of the army like Liu Xun and Li Cunxiao.And this time is an opportunity, as King Qin said, the grievances and grievances between them and the Hu people in the past ten years must be settled this time.From now on, no barbarians can threaten them in the entire Northeast, and the entire Northeast will be completely brought under their rule.

This is not the Jimi Prefecture and County of the Tang Dynasty, but a thorough expansion of the territory, bringing the entire Northeast China under the control of the Central Plains for the first time. From then on, history will forever record this day.

The Han and Tang dynasties pioneered and managed the Western Regions, but they failed in the end. There is only one Hexi Corridor leading to the Western Regions. On the left is the Tubo Plateau, and on the right is the prairie. However, the Tubo Plateau and prairie are difficult to conquer. Therefore, the Western Regions It can only be an enclave.But the Northeast is different. The vast sea is countless passages, and after the Khitan, Xi, and Tatars are broken, the Qin army can push them all the way to the mountain passes on the plateau beyond the Great Wall.Immigrants, road construction, and city building, this place has completely belonged to the Qin army since then.More importantly, although the Northeast is cold, it has fertile black land and a huge plain beyond Hebei and Shandong. It is a big granary. As long as there are people, it can be developed.

But now, their flying cavalry army will be the pioneers of this territory.They will be the pioneers of the Great Qin Empire in the future!

"Let's go!" Yang Tianxiong shouted.

When the ten cavalry battalions heard the order, they moved and turned almost in unison, got on their horses, followed the white double-winged flying horse flags, and rode one after another into the snowy night.

The road from Amur to Huazhou is not difficult, because this is one of the Metuo Lake Plains in the southwest of the Sanjiang Plain. Several outlet rivers of the Suifen River and the Metuo River have been rushing to the sea, forming a flat plain. , going north, the huge Metuo River and its north, is a larger plain.This huge plain was later known as the Great Northern Wilderness.Even at this time, the Meituo Lake Plain is also the agricultural and grain-producing area of ​​Bohai State, and it is directly connected to the port of Vladivostok, so it is a flat road along the Suifen River.At this time of season, the flying cavalry army can even walk directly on the flatter river ice.

Their goal is Huazhou. The location of Huazhou is very special. It is not built on a flat plain, but just built on the mountain pass on the plain south of the Meituo River leading to the impact plain of the Haikou River, which happens to be blocked by the Suifen River. on the tunnel.It's a bit of an aura that one man is in charge of the gate and ten thousand husbands can't open it.

If Qin Jun wants to go to Bozhou, this is the only way to go.

When they trekked hard against the wind and snow to the front of the mountain and could vaguely see the flickering lights of the fortress at the mountain pass, the exhausted soldiers of the Flying Cavalry suddenly regained their energy one by one.

"Quick, get off the horse!"

The mountain pass is like a Great Wall, separating the southern plain of Meituo Lake from the downstream river impact plain.The people of Bohai had already built Guancheng on the mountain pass, and built fortresses and archery towers on both sides to guard the mountain pass.The cavalry has no advantage here. If you want to take down Huazhou City, which is [-] miles north of the mountain pass, you must first take down this military pass.

In the bitter cold wind, one by one the cavalry began to dismount. They were all wearing white camouflage cloaks. After dismounting, they almost blended with the snow.Everyone was silent and silent, holding their swords and guns tightly.

There are still a few miles away from Guancheng, and the road began to become narrow. The flying cavalry soldiers began to form a battle group of three and march forward quietly in a triangle.

One battalion after another began to dismount and advance, Yang Shihou said in a low voice: "Keep quiet, touch quietly, don't expose, the wolf cubs don't know that we have come, this is an excellent opportunity, we must not alarm the enemy. "

On the southward road from Jianzhou to Huazhou in Leading Binfu, a cavalry was also galloping through the night. They were Heli the Iron Hand and the [-] cavalry he brought with him.In the end, he still came to Huazhou with his troops. He was really restless in Jianzhou, and he couldn't rest assured if he didn't come here in person.If the Qin army really appeared, the peninsula would have been lost long ago, and with only a thousand people in Huazhou, even if they guarded the extremely dangerous pass, it would be difficult to stop the enemy.

I would rather take a trip in vain than take risks.The Guancheng in Huazhou is the most dangerous pass in the entire Shibin Mansion. Once the Qin army really comes and breaks through there, there will be nothing to fight behind.He couldn't take this risk, as a shrewd hunter and an excellent general, he knew it very well. (To be continued.)