Chastity Layman

  Chapter 998 Thousands of troops avoid white robes

  The source of water in Huang.

The Xianbei Yifu people who have nomadic here for generations called this mountain Yifu Mountain, and it is said that before the Xianbei people came, there were many names here, including a name given by the Han immigrants when Wang Mang opened the West Sea, Ziyang Mountain.

  Ziyang Mountain is the name given to the west source of Huangshui by the Han immigrants at that time, and there is another east source called Qingyang Ridge.

Qiang people, Han people, Huns, Xianbei people, Tuyuhun people, this beautiful valley has been pulled out one after another, but they are all passing by in a hurry, and they have left one name after another. Words and languages ​​gave beautiful names to the beautiful mountains and rivers they admired, and then most of them were forgotten in the long river of history, flowing eastward with the twists and turns of the Nahuang River.

  Under the low and undulating Yifu Mountain, the vast **** beach where Huangshui flows through in summer, it is also difficult to find the clear river water at this time, and the eel fish swimming freely in the sparkling waves.

In summer, these beach hemp will bloom beautiful flowers, the ones with yellow flowers are called Jinlumei, and the ones with white flowers are called Yinlumei. .

  Tanma and loach are gone, and the originally clear and lively Huangshui is also covered with thick ice.

  Dancing in the sky above Tanma in summer, the ethereal larks are gone, and the bouncing deer are gone.

  Thousands of mountains and birds fly away, and thousands of paths and people disappear.

  It was snowing heavily for many days in a row.

  The Huangshui river beach, which was originally full of beach hemp, is now covered with thick snow.

  In such a quiet valley, on this river beach, it should be as quiet as cold, and it will not wake up and become lively until the spring of the next year.

  But in this early morning, when the sky was still dark and gray, when the sky was still covered with heavy snow, a team came uninvited, and they broke the sleeping valley.

  The river valley from the west source of Huangshui is like a curved sickle, stretching eastward, hidden in the snow-capped mountains.

  The governor of Diezhou, the envoy of the Zhenxi Army, and the vanguard officer of the Qinghai Road recruiting camp, Xi Junmai looked back from time to time on his horse. In the center of his vanguard cavalry team was Crown Prince Chengqian.

  The crown prince did what he said, not only followed the former army cavalry, but even insisted on following the 5,000 pioneers bought by Mr. Xi, from Haiyan Castle to here, a total of 200 miles.

   Galloping all day and night, everyone brought a pair of horses, and changed horses to rest from time to time along the way, but the people never stopped. When I was thirsty, I took out the water bag I had been clutching from my arms and drank two sips of ice water. When I was hungry, I grabbed the meat floss and stuffed it into my mouth, and then chewed a piece of cheese.

  Even urinating and defecating has to be done directly on horseback with the help of superb riding skills.

  The heavy snow slowed down their speed, but it couldn't change their determination.

  The night shrouded their way forward, and they walked with torches.

   Running all the way along the Huangshui River Valley, walking in the mountains and rivers, and walking on snow.

  Xi Junmai originally thought that the prince was only passionate for a while, and he might be too chilled by the cold wind not long after he set off.

   But ten miles, twenty miles, hundreds of miles, all the way to here.

Two hundred miles, a day and a night of rapid travel, a general like him felt a little overwhelmed, his whole body seemed to be frozen stiff, his toes and ears felt numb, his face was cracked, and his lips were even more stripped. Bloody mouth.

  Walking in the snow for a long time, my eyes hurt so much and I kept crying.

  The beard and eyebrows have long been covered with stubble.

  The iron armor on his body is even more chilling. Even though there is a sweater and leather jacket inside and a burqa outside, he still feels like an iceman.

  Looking back, the prince was still maintaining a good posture on the horse. He survived all the way without stopping to rest for a while, which greatly changed his impression of the prince.

  The battle is about to begin, and Xi Junmai rides to the prince's horse.

   "Your Highness, Tangqi came to report, and Tuyuhun is indeed in the valley inside. The mountains and valleys are full of tents, cattle, horses and sheep. There are at least 40,000 to 50,000 people."

   Chengqian wanted to laugh, but his face was frozen stiff, and when he opened his mouth, several new openings were formed on his lips, and blood came out.

   "Hiss, mother, it's finally blocked."

   "Do you want to wait for the cavalry of the next few generals to arrive?"

  Chengqian looked ahead, the Tuyuhun people hadn't noticed their arrival yet, and they might never have imagined that someone would send troops to attack at such a time.

  That Murong Cheng thought that he, Li Chengqian, really only knew how to love beauty and love to shoot and hunt, but he didn't know the seriousness.

   "Don't wait, we have so many people coming, we can't hide our whereabouts, they will find us immediately, we can't give them time to react, let's go in first."

   "But we only have five thousand riders."

In fact, there are no more than 5,000 riders. The forwards have 5,000 riders. They galloped day and night, and suffered a lot of frostbite. Some people were unlucky and got stuck in the snow and injured horses or people. Hundreds of people were lost on the road. .

   "Isn't five thousand riders enough? When you followed Wei Gong to conquer the party, you didn't cringe so much, did you?"

   "Then please wait here, Your Highness, Gao Dudu and others, and the ministers will lead the troops to enter."

   "No, I'm with you."

   "Your Highness, absolutely not."

  Marching is one thing, but when it comes to fighting, especially this kind of light cavalry raid into the enemy camp, it is extremely dangerous. When the time comes, the sword will have no eyes, and the arrow will not think you are the prince, so avoid it.

  If the people of Tuyuhun knew that it was the prince of the Tang Dynasty, they would probably desperately attack him.

   "Needless to say, I ran against the wind and snow all day and night, my **** was frozen, my mouth was split so many times, and I suffered such a great crime, how could I stop at the door?"

   "Stop talking nonsense, let's get in!"

  Xi Junmai and Chengqian looked at each other for a long time.

   "Remember when the sages went to the east and west, when did they not go to the front line, or even charge forward?"

   This made Xi Junmai unable to refute, and everyone moved out of the emperor.

   "Please be careful, Your Highness."

   Although Chengqian's hands and feet were cold at this time, he felt hot all over his body, as if there was a raging fire burning in his chest.

"When I was three years old, I fell asleep listening to stories about the battles of saints. When I was eight years old, I witnessed the **** battle of Chang'an Xuanwu Gate. From the age of nine, Qin Lang taught me the art of war. At the age of eleven, I began to practice attack and defense on horseback. At the age of 10, I was already able to hold on under the hands of generals such as Su Dingfang and Cheng Yaojin, and even occasionally won a small victory."

   "For today, I have prepared countless days and nights."

  He slowly raised his black lacquered dragon swallowing horse with frozen and stiff hands, and pointed forward with a firm gaze.

"I'm afraid Murong Cheng is still sleeping soundly with his arms around the Xianbei girls. In such a cold and heavy snow day, he must be sleeping soundly by the stove in the big tent. I never expected that I would come to find him." he."

   "Follow me, go!"

   Chengqian is very conceited.

  He firmly believes that the Tuyuhun people were deceived by his previous strategy.

  At this time, these Tuyuhun people hiding in the valley were not prepared at all. He arrived in the heavy snow and night, and with a single charge, he was able to break through the Tuyuhun people's camp, and even went straight to the camp of the Chinese army, capturing Murong Cheng alive.

  Capturing the Khan of a country alive, even if he is a hypocrite who kills the king and stands on his own, is still very impressive.

   Chengqian smiled.

   Hiss!

   Lips are torn and painful.

  Xi Junmai watched the prince ride his horse forward, and cried out inwardly, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and gallop back to the front of the team to lead the charge.

  His bodyguards couldn't help asking him from behind, "His Highness really wants to charge?"

   "Didn't you already see that our Highness is like a young tiger who just came down the mountain at this time, he is not afraid of anything, the whole world may not pay attention to him, and no one can persuade him."

   "What if?"

   "There is no chance, no chance is allowed, you bring your own soldiers to protect His Highness."

   "But what about you, the governor?"

   "Me? I'm looking for Murong Cheng. Without your personal soldiers, there are thousands of troops."

   "With our thousands of riders, can we really break through and defeat the Tuyuhun people? They have tens of thousands?"

   "Do you remember a sentence that Duke Wei often said before? War is not about numbers. When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. Besides, we have the advantage of numbers in this battle."

  The leader of the guard team hurriedly said, "But the cavalry of the former army is still behind, and the infantry is estimated to take half a day to arrive. We only have less than 5,000 now."

   "There are 50,000 enemies! No, if you add their family members in this valley, the old and the weak, there are more than 100,000."

   "Five thousand against one hundred thousand, us?"

"Hahaha, I'm talking about our 5,000 cavalry, which is obviously a numerical advantage. One of my Tang's elite iron cavalry counts as ten. Five thousand cavalry's elite vanguard can be counted as 50,000 cavalry. Although there are 100,000 Tuyuhun people, the real Soldiers can't make up 50,000, so don't we just have a numerical advantage?"

  The leader of the personal army is speechless, and really wants to say, general, you just said that the little tiger who had just come down from the mountain was defiant, why are you crazier than His Royal Highness?

  One hundred thousand Tuyuhun people, don't you think they should be five thousand Tangqi?

  You look down on the Tuyuhun people too much. Three or five of them together should be able to equal one Tang Qi, no matter what, they have an advantage in numbers.

  Xi Jun bought the horse and raised the horse to speed up.

  The horse charged forward, stirring up countless snow powder, which splashed all over the sky.

  Dawn.

   On the valley beach at the source of Huangshui, Murong Cheng was indeed still sleeping, and he was sleeping soundly.

  In order to hide his whereabouts, Murong Cheng dispersed his soldiers and horses to sneak here early, and then strictly prohibited everyone from going out of the valley privately, and only sent a very small number of scouts to go out quietly to inquire about the departure of the Tang army.

In the past few months, he has been staring at Tang Jun, and the every move of the Great Tang Prince and Hou Junji is under his watchful eyes. At first he was very vigilant, but after the news he received, He also relaxed his vigilance more and more, and even started to slack off.

  When the heavy snow fell and covered the valley, he hadn't received any news from the outside for several days, but he didn't care at all. With such a heavy snow, the mountains and roads were closed, and it was normal for the news to be a few days late.

  With such heavy snowfall, it is estimated that the prince of the Tang Dynasty is in a dilemma, and he is still sending people to look for his army everywhere like headless chickens, but he doesn't know that he is hiding under their noses.

  It was cold and snowy, and the 100,000 Tang troops were in the small Haiyan Fort. They might not even be able to eat, the horse grass was gone, and they were hungry and cold.

Murong Cheng had already anticipated the map more than once, when Li Chengqian and Hou Junji couldn't stand it anymore and began to withdraw his troops, he would lead the troops out halfway, chase them down, and kill them all without leaving any behind. At that time, he will capture Li Chengqian, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and goug out his heart and liver to sacrifice to his father Khan.

  In the tent, Murong Cheng smiled triumphantly in his sleep. He led thousands of troops all the way to Chang'an. The horses galloped, the banners covered the sun, and the wheels rolled.

  The horseshoes struck the ground, shaking the heavens and the earth.

   Then, he woke up.

  Woke up by the sound of horseshoes, "What's going on?"

   "Khan, it's not good, Tang Qi came here?"

   "What? Where did Tang Qi come from?"

   "Thousands of troops and horses, the Tang prince Li Chengqian led the Tang cavalry in person, please get on the horse quickly and avoid the edge!"

  Murong Cheng suddenly slapped himself hard.

   "This must be a dream."

   "I must have had a nightmare, I haven't woken up yet..."

  Several Tuyuhun soldiers looked at Da Khan's inexplicable appearance, thinking that he was frightened, and looked at each other. He directly wrapped the red fruit in a blanket, carried it out of the tent, hugged his mount, and fled in a hurry.

  In the distance, Tang Qi rushed all the way to see him and they escaped from the tent, shouting.

   "Murong Cheng wants to run, stop him for me, don't let him run away!"

   "Tuyuhun is defeated, kill him!"

   "Murong Cheng wants to escape, chase after him!"

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  (end of this chapter)