The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

On the morning of No. 15 of the lunar calendar, in Zhishan Prison, Guo Nuan was lying on the hay shop at the moment, looking at the slanting sunlight from the window, it was dawn.

"Hehe, I didn't expect that we would go to Huangquan Road together today, quack," Guo Nuan twitched at the corner of his mouth and smiled, and Doma, who was next to him, was sitting on the edge of the bed and looked at Guo Nuan tenderly, with a soft and sweet expression, and fell into a coma for two days. After two days and two nights, Guo Nuan's fate was fatal, and he finally came back to life.

But seeing Guo Nuan's pale face and limp body, Doma felt extremely uncomfortable in her heart. As for what happened not long before the gallows, she also abandoned it. Death was not scary to her at all.

"Brother Guo, let's drink some water," Mirala wiped the dust on her face. She went to prison earlier than Guo Nuan and Doma and suffered a lot. At this moment, she brought a dilapidated earthenware bowl and filled it with water. He fed half a bowl of water to Guo Nuan, and then gave his father a few sips.

Guo Nuan looked at this innocent and innocent girl Mirala, and felt a sudden disaster, and now everyone was going to be imprisoned and executed, and he felt very guilty.

However, Guo Nuan was faintly thinking about a plan to survive, and Kang Wan's figure appeared in her mind, and she believed that she would never abandon her friends.

But Guo Nuan knew that at the time of the hanging ceremony at night, Zhishan City Square must be guarded by heavy soldiers, but Kang Wan and the others are strong in force, and there is little hope of robbing the execution ground to save people in the midst of thousands of troops. In vain to take a few more lives.

When Guo Nuan thought of this, he didn't really want Kang Wan and the others to go back to Zhishan City to save people after all their efforts were in vain.

Turning over slightly, she grinned her teeth in pain, Guo Nuan smiled wryly for a while, her body now has more than ten incisions, plus the previous scars, it is estimated that the whole body is not intact.

If we go back to Chang'an and Shengping, our daughter Guo Xiang and mother Wang get together, and seeing the injuries all over their bodies will make them sad.

Tsk tsk, but the crippled body will go to the west in a few hours, it doesn't matter if there are more or less scars all over the body.

The cell next to the prison is closed with flat noses. The day before yesterday, even when Guo Nuan was in a coma, he could vaguely hear a few words of flat noses crying. , but unlike ordinary nobles, they have not done any treacherous things, and now they are implicated and executed, which is really unlucky.

However, in the early morning of No.15, the next door was very clean. The flat nose moved its short, chubby body and nestled on the bed, covering itself with hay, staring straight and wide-eyed at the ceiling of the prison with a dead face. Say nothing.

At the same time, the Zhishan City Lord is in a hurry to prepare his own religious sacrificial ceremony. He said that the wedding he was going to hold in the arena finals, which is the anniversary of his enthronement, was messed up by Guo Nuan and the others.

On the surface it is a wedding, but in fact it means that the leader of the cult, Zhishan City Master, will hold a living sacrifice ceremony after canonizing Torma, a woman with the constitution of a saint, as a princess.

However, a Guo Nuan was inserted suddenly, which messed up the city lord's plan. The city lord was very angry about this, and he wanted to hold a sacrificial ceremony ahead of time.

It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, the religion of the Western Regions in the Middle Ages was extremely prosperous. Whether it was the common people or the upper-class nobles, they all believed in religious superstitions, so the Lord Zhishan obeyed the words of the great master of the country.

The national teacher said that Guo Nuan must be hanged with Doma, a woman with the physique of a saint, on No. 15 of the lunar calendar, and the city lord immediately believed this.

However, in the past few days of preparing for the hanging ceremony, the city lord received some bad news. According to reports from spies outside the city, a Tang heavy cavalry team of unknown origin was secretly stationed a hundred miles away from the city.

It is said that since the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Empire has fallen into a state of separatism, and the military forces of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions have shrunk rapidly. Now, the influence of the Tang people on the feudal states of the Western Regions has gradually decreased over the years.

Now Datang sent an army to the Western Regions, and it was close to Zhishan City. The city owner really couldn't figure out what these Datang people were thinking. Could it be an outpost army, planning to send a large army to make a comeback in the Western Regions in the near future, to promote The national prestige made all the tribal countries in the Western Regions surrender.

Although City Lord Zhishan couldn't figure out the intention of Guo Xi's cavalry, he was also very vigilant against the sudden external force.

Immediately, he sent soldiers from the surrounding towns of Zhishan back to the main city of Zhishan. At that time, the strength of the main city reached 5000. He didn't want anything to go wrong with the sacrifices in the past few days. He had enough confidence to do all this well Quite a lot.

As for Guo Yi's side, he was sharpening his sword and marching furiously. He was marching in a hurry in the desert. It was estimated that he would be able to reach the outskirts of Zhishan City in the afternoon. He waited for the night to fall and lay in ambush.

"Joining the army, we marched in ambush outside the city, waiting for Kang Wan and the others to respond, why didn't we take the initiative to attack?"

Fatty was leading the army at the vanguard at the moment, and he muttered dissatisfiedly, saying that Kang Wan's strategy the night before was to let the Datang army serve as an assist, and those Shule soldiers were responsible for breaking the city. Thinking about it afterwards, this was so anxious for Fatty Woolen cloth.

The fat man was worried that if Kang Wan and the others failed to rescue Guo Nuan and the others from Caicheng, everything would be in vain, and the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty who were responsible for dragging Zhishan's pursuers back were just doing useless work.

Besides, although Datang's heavy cavalry is small in number, one heavy cavalry is built with the military pay of ten infantrymen. Although one heavy cavalry can defeat ten infantrymen, I dare not say, but fifty heavy cavalry form a cavalry squad , Against [-] infantry in an open area, there must be no suspense to defeat the infantry.

Thinking about the close to [-] heavy cavalry, the combat power of the infantry would be [-], the fat man took it for granted.

"Hehe, that's right, if you fight in formation on the open ground, [-] heavy cavalry may still defeat [-] infantry, but Kang Wan's arrangement is justified. Fatty, the city is not the wilderness, it is full of intricate streets. In the laneway, the maneuverability and impact of the military horse are greatly reduced."

Guo Yan smiled slightly, stroked a small black beard on his chin and explained, the fat man immediately closed his dissatisfied mouth, saying that when people are in a hurry, they lose their basic judgment, and sometimes the simplest questions are ignored, the fat man It was indeed a good lesson.

"Da Biao, isn't he also in a hurry to rescue the young master himself," Ah Fu said after driving the camel after finally catching up with him.

But Ah Fu was also uneasy. After sunset, it was time for the execution of the young master, and he silently prayed for the success of this battle.

Since the last time I met the Della caravan in a Turkic tribe, the grandfather and grandson of Della provided useful information to Guo Min. I didn’t expect that Guo Nuan was indeed still in Zhishan City, but considering that the Dara caravan was composed of civilians , Guo Yan felt that his own army didn't need to trouble them, so he said goodbye to them after thanking them.

Speaking of which, Della was very happy to meet Guo Nuan. Before he left, he said that if Guo Zhi finds Guo Nuan and returns to Chang'an, Della will bring the caravan to Chang'an to get together with him if he has a chance.

It's a pity that Ah Fu secretly thought that the businessman in Della may not know that his young master Guo Nuan has indeed been found, but it is really unknown whether he can be sent back to Chang'an safely.

As for the movement on Kang Wan's side, she is currently deploying in the desert under the scorching sun. In the northwest area of ​​the outskirts of Zhishan City, she is robbing Guo Nuan and their retreat. There is a dry lake three miles away on the southwest side. The land is covered with endless weeds. She hopes that a small group of infantry will lure the pursuers into the weeds that are as high as a person, and set fire to the wilderness. It is estimated that some of the pursuers will be wiped out.

At the same time, after 26 miles, there is a dangerous pass in the desert. This is a windy valley. There are winds and dust everywhere on weekdays. If you are unlucky, you will encounter quicksand. , Even the carriage will sink into it, unable to pull it out, and will be buried in the quicksand cave after a few quarters of an hour.

She made a secret mark on the quicksand in the dangerous narrow wind valley. Once the enemy army was lured to this area, she would make the army into small groups and trap the enemy army in the quicksand.

However, whether this strategy can be realized depends on whether Guo Nuan and the others can be rescued by entering the city as quickly as possible. If Le's army escaped outside the city by chance, there were only remnants and defeated generals left, so the tactic of encircling and attacking with Guo Min would not be able to implement it.

"All advance, set off towards Zhishan City, and wait for the order to attack at dusk," Kang Wan signaled to the left and right captains to issue orders to hundreds of teams.

At this moment, Mie Nu also had a sword on her back, she was covered in iron-scale armor, glowing with metallic light, and she was fierce and majestic. Kang Wan looked at this girl, who usually looked like a money lover, but now she was full of energy, serious and mighty, what a female lieutenant , Kang Wan nodded secretly, and soon, more than 7000 Shule soldiers marched towards Zhishan City.

On this day, Zhishan City stopped all commercial activities. Many caravans from afar arrived at the gate of Zhishan City and found the gate closed tightly. They couldn't help feeling very strange.

Moreover, there are countless archers and soldiers standing on the city wall, holding bows and arrows, and sternly shouting back at the caravans that are about to enter the city, saying that the city lord has ordered that today there will be a sacrificial ceremony and festival for the whole people of the Supreme Good Kingdom, and business will not be accepted for the time being. trading.

People who don't know will think that just as the soldiers said, how could they know that the city lord was worried that the small group of heavy cavalry from the Tang Dynasty would make trouble when he sacrificed.

Guo Nuan, a native of Tang Dynasty, said that City Lord Zhishan became interested in Guo Nuan when he won three consecutive victories in Guo Nuan's arena. For a while, he wanted to recruit Guo Nuan into his palace fighting group.

Since you want to enter the palace, there is a custom of finding out the details, but the Zhishan City Lord sent people to collect very little information on Guo Nuan, but there are Zhishan spies from Datang who said that Guo Ziyi, the general of the Shuofang Military Region bordering the Western Regions, and Guo Ziyi This gladiator surnamed Guo is somewhat similar, and according to secret sources, it is said that half a year ago, one of Guo Ziyi's six sons served in Xuezang of the military region, and later disappeared. Guo Ziyi was angry and sent troops to search the border area.

At that time, Zhishan City felt that what the spies said was a little nonsense, and he couldn't even imagine that this gladiator who worked hard to survive in his own city would be the son of the chief of the Shuofang Military Region of the Tang Dynasty.

But when he saw that Guo Nuan was about to execute Guo Nuan, who was about to assassinate him, a cavalry of the Tang Dynasty appeared out of thin air. Could it be that the Lord Bao Zhishan was thinking too much... Maybe this gladiator is the same as this big Tang military commander? What does the governor have to do with it? Both have the surname Guo, so misunderstandings are normal.