On the 12th day of March in the first year of the Liang Dynasty, a fierce battle took place in Jiuquan, an important border town, between the defenders of the Liang Dynasty and a group of extremely vicious Hu people.

This group of Hu people is called the Hun people, Chen Mu has never heard of this people, and they look different from ordinary Hu people, they mostly have red and brown hair, yellow eyes, round faces, high cheekbones, and loose hair, as if they are a group of wild people.

The Hungarians are ferocious and tyrannical, perhaps the name is not transliterated, but more like a true portrayal of their national character.

Their armor and weapons don't seem to be systematic, more like they were grabbed somewhere else, but their own industry is very backward, and their means of fighting are relatively simple, so they can only build ladders, which is quite clumsy.

But they didn't want to die in battle, and they all had big shoulders and round waists, which also made the defenders of the Liang army suffer a lot.

Chen Mu looks very young, but in fact, he is a seasoned person, and when he suddenly encounters the enemy's main general, Baturu, he will not fight with his life, but first test the strength of the opponent.

After a few rounds of fighting, Chen Mu was happy in his heart, this young body was really not simple, whether it was strength or speed, he had the upper hand, with this advantage, Chen Mu, who was not very skilled in horseback riding, also dared to fight with Baturu for a long time.

However, Baturu is not easy to deal with, and the combat power on the five grades is obviously much faster than the previous generals who were hacked to death by Chen Mu. It is not an easy task to kill him with a knife.

Chen Mu and Baturu couldn't tell the difference for a while, but at this time, Zhang Cripple ran to direct the battle, and at this time he represented Chen Mu, not himself.

The lame man put the knife on Li Tonghai's neck and ordered Li Tonghai to remove the ladder.

Chen Mu has long said that Li Tonghai is a treacherous person, and this kind of person cannot be a hard bone.

Now the lame man's knife rests on his neck. He was immediately empty. waved his hand and motioned for everyone to follow the orders of the lame man.

The soldiers, who were originally hesitant, began to withdraw from the ladder.

Naturally, the enemy army would not watch the ladder be withdrawn, so they raised their swords and guns under the city and fought viciously.

"Zhang Han, you go to the south and remove those three ladders!"

The lame man ran to the north, and Zhang Han ran to the south.

The enemy troops in the south had already climbed to the top of the city, and the ladder under the city was unprotected.

When the enemy troops at the head of the city saw this, they panicked, because their rear road was gone.

The Liang army defending the city was also a little panicked when he saw it, and he couldn't understand what the reinforcements under the city were going to do.

There is no way out for either side.

On the city wall, the enemy army had only one Wupin general on top, leading one hundred and fifty men. And there are less than fifty people left around Kong Xiaoxian and Wu Dong. Liang Jun was passive.

Under the city, seventy Liang troops fought against about fifty enemy troops, and had a slight advantage.

However, the Liang army under the city was full of morale and had more strongmen. Soon after, the enemy forces under the city were defeated. But as long as the enemy commander Baturu does not withdraw, they will stubbornly hold on.

The two sides fought anxiously.

At this time, the focus of the battle fell on Chen Mu's body.

The enemy general Baturu's hinged door knife flew up and down, and there were many changes, on the other hand, Chen Mu was just some common slashing and assassination moves, and there were almost no changes. At the same time, his riding skills are not perfect, and it is difficult for Chen Mu to defeat Baturu.

Chen Muxin said: It will definitely not work to fight like this, and the city will not be able to hold on.

To remain unchanged is to lose, you can only win by risk, when the two horses are staggered, Chen Mu suddenly jumped on the horse's back, kicked his legs, and flew towards Baturu.

This move was something Baturu never expected, but he was knocked down by Chen Mu, and the two of them rolled off the horse together.

Chen Mu thought that he threw Baturu to the ground, and the two fought on the ground, but what he didn't expect was that Baturu was hooked by a stirrup and dragged by the horse for more than a kilometer.

At that moment, a cold arrow was fired.

Turning his head, he saw that it was a lame man, and he actually shot an arrow at the horse's buttocks, and the horse was in pain, neighed, and galloped out.

Baturu was dragged to the ground, and the horse ran away for a long time, leaving a long trail of blood on the ground.

This man is dead.

As soon as Baturu died, the enemy troops under the city panicked.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the defeat was irretrievable.

At this time, the enemy troops who had already climbed the city wall, seeing that the general trend had gone, jumped down from the high wall. It's very violent.

Although the Hungarians were tall and strong, jumping down like this was enough for them to drink a pot, some fell to their deaths, some broke their legs, and some of them were numb and couldn't run fast.

At this moment, a rain of arrows flew from above.

The enemy troops fell to the ground one after another.

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"The enemy is gone!"

"Hahahaha!"

Kong Xiaoxian raised his hands above his head: "Heaven bless!" I, Kong Xiaoxian, finally hold on! ”

Looking at the city, he pointed at Chen Mu and shouted, "Chen Mu! I'm going to promote you! No one can stop it! I wrote to Da Sima and asked Da Sima to personally promote him, I will see who dares to stop Da Sima! Hahaha! ”

The great Sima Tang Qiong is the patriarch of the Tang clan, the first rank of the dynasty, one of the three princes of the Liang Dynasty, and he is also the general of the Shence Army, the crown prince and the prince, and one of the four ministers.

Emperor Tianci has just ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Chen has listened to the government, orphans and widows are in power, and the royal family is unstable.

On the contrary, the power of the gate valve is becoming more and more powerful.

The Tianci Emperor was originally a product of the balance of power, and the sudden death of the former crown prince triggered a bloody palace fight.

This happened when the first emperor was dying, the emperor was already dazed and unable to speak, and the new crown prince had not yet been chosen, and the battle for the throne entered a white heat.

Empress Tang, the mother of the main palace supported by the Tang family, saw that the prince was dead, and wanted to get the emperor's illegitimate son back, recognized the Empress Dowager Tang as her mother, and then became the crown prince to inherit the throne. As a result, it was strongly criticized by the two major gate valves of the Meng family and the Ximen family, and the two gate valves were ready to support the prince Zhao Yu to ascend the throne. But with the support of the Tang family's gate valve, Queen Tang made a decisive move and drowned the prince Zhao Yu, so she had to set up that illegitimate child. As a result, a fierce battle was ensued, and the Tang Empress was hacked to death with a knife in the chaos. Seeing this scene, the dying emperor was angry to death.

The crown prince has not yet been chosen, the emperor died, and the government and the opposition were shaken. Zhao Tong, the minister of Gu Ming, the great pillar of the country, and the general of the Xuanjia army, led the troops to block the thirteen gates of Luoyang, claiming that the doors were not allowed to be opened until the new emperor ascended the throne.

The Tang clan paid the price of blood to make the illegitimate son the emperor, and at this time, the two major families of the Meng family and the Ximen family were also looking for the illegitimate son, and they had to kill him.

As a result, the illegitimate child disappeared and disappeared.

The capable prince will either die or flee.

But the country cannot be without a king for a day. Under the coordination of Zhao Tong of the Great Pillar Kingdom, the three major lords agreed to the enthronement of the most inconspicuous prince in Liping, who was only thirteen years old, Zhao Chong, the king of Hongnong.

And Zhao Chong's mother, Chen Guiren, turned into the Empress Dowager Chen, and listened to the government. Empress Dowager Chen has no background in gate valves. Zhao Tong is the only support of Empress Dowager Chen. Between them are aunts and cousins.

The funny thing is that the mother of the illegitimate child turned out to be the sister of Empress Chen. It is said that the illegitimate child looked seven points similar to the emperor, and he was handsome and handsome, but no one who had seen the first emperor would suspect that this child was born to the first emperor.

Now, through the mother of the illegitimate child, the Tang family has contacted the Queen Mother, hoping to unite with the Queen Mother. Empress Dowager Chen, at the suggestion of Zhao Tong, won the matter. In this way, the royal family cooperated with the Tang clan, and the Meng clan cooperated with the Simon clan, basically forming a balance of power.

And Kong Xiaoxian's backstage is the Tang Gate Valve.

After winning the battle, Kong Xiaoxian got a little carried away, turned his head to look at Wu Dong, the overseer with a bloody face, Kong Xiaoxian snorted lightly and strode down the city.

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Chen Mu's troops entered the city and delivered supplies to Kong Xiaoxian. Kong Xiao first took Chen Mu's hand and went to the house to talk.

At this time, Li Tonghai, the captain of the left guard, led his people to the door of the command post and shouted loudly.

"Come on, come on, divide the cake!"

The soldiers gathered, Li Tonghai's eyes swept through the crowd, and suddenly scolded: "Alas, that stinky and shameless one, you don't have your share, get out of the way for me!" ”

When the grain was distributed, one of Wu Jianjun's servants mixed in the crowd, but was recognized by Li Tonghai and driven out.

The result was a quarrel.

Soon after, Zhu Meng, the captain of the prison guard, ran over and scolded Li Tonghai. But after scolding for a long time, Li Tonghai refused to give him a piece of Hu Cake, and Zhu Meng left dejectedly.

Li Tonghai cooked a pot of sticky noodle soup, handed it out to the soldiers, and then ran to the prison tent with a bowl, eating cakes while drinking porridge, and chewing two bites of dried meat by the way.

Wu Dong, the overseer, had a cold face and looked at everything in front of him. He hadn't eaten for a day, even though the pot was still boiling wheat bran.

At this time, Captain Kong Xiaoxian walked over with Chen Mu.

At this time, the temporary appointment of Chen Mu had automatically disappeared after the end of the mission.

Chen Mu became a big-headed soldier again.

Kong Xiaoxian sat down with a smile: "Wu Jianjun, it is said that we are all from Luoyang, and we have crossed the heavy pass in order to expel the Tartars. We serve the Liang Dynasty and keep peace for the Chinese people. You and I should be comrades-in-arms who share weal and woe, not enemies who are incompatible. When he was in Luoyang, the so-called struggle between the gate valves and the entanglement between the gate valves and the royal family should be put aside in this distant border pass. After all, we are comrades-in-arms, not enemies. ”

As he spoke, Chen Mu handed a bag of Hu Biscuits to Wu Dong.

Wu Dong didn't answer.

Chen Mu put the Hu cake directly on the table beside Wu Dong.

Wu Dong's face softened slightly: "Captain Kong Du is right, in the face of foreign aggression, the three major lords are never ambiguous, and even have many cooperation experiences. The reason why my Great Liang Dynasty has been able to stand for 200 years is due to the contribution of the three major gates. You and I were originally to protect the peace of the people, so we sacrificed our lives to fight against the Hungarians. In Jiuquan East City, you and I fought side by side, which is really a good memory. ”

Kong Xiaoxian nodded: "In this battle, Chen Mu performed heroically, killed the enemy's thousand-commander Baturu, and his meritorious service was not small, I want to promote him to become a captain, I don't know if Wu Jianjun agrees?" ”

Wu Dong was slightly ashamed: "Chen Mu's performance was beyond my expectations, and it is amazing to have made such a great achievement." ”

In the "chatting" between the commander and the supervising army, the little soldier Chen Mu turned into the fourth lieutenant in the seventh regiment. Since the three battalions of the Seventh Regiment already had a captain, Kong Xiao first arranged for Chen Mu to take the position of deputy governor Liang at the level of captain.

But even so, Chen Mu at this time was still a temporary appointment, because when he reached the rank of captain, he needed to be approved by the brigade, division, and military department, and the brigade and division were all factions of the Tang clan, and Kong Xiaoxian could handle it. Only wait for the approval of the Ministry of War, and officially issue the captain's waist card. However, for a long time, as long as the appointment was agreed to by both the commander and the supervising army, the military department would not reject it. Therefore, Chen Mu, the captain, has basically been implemented.

The big-headed soldier Chen Mu turned into a lieutenant Chen Du.

The young man was a little overjoyed, ran to Zhang Cripple's side, pinched his waist and patted the cripple on the shoulder: "Old ghost, you are very good, continue to behave, and in the future, Captain Pontur will arrange a centurion for you to be a centurion." ”

Zhang Cripple rolled his eyes in anger.