On the night when Zuo Sanxiang pulled out the camp, the soldiers from the Fengxiang Army did not escape, and the government soldiers in Yongzhou did not flee, but the 1,000 people recruited by Zuo Sanxiang himself ran away more than 100.

In peacetime, it is either handled by the supervising army or by the marching Sima.

But Sima Guo Meng, who marched in the Western Army, was sent back to the capital to ask for the guilt, and the emperor made an exception in order not to tie the hands and feet of the Zuo Sanxiang.

"These people are not strong-willed, it is good to escape, lest the two armies escape in front of the formation, but if they are not punished, I am afraid that some people will follow suit!" Yang Xiyan, who has rarely spoken in the army, gave advice to Zuo Sanxiang.

Zuo Sanxiang sighed, "In the vast desert, it is not easy to hunt them down, these deserters can only be handed over to the heavens and the Loulan people to clean up!" ”

"The soldiers have run away, they will not run, the commander and the captain are still there, and the army is not strictly governed, they must be punished! That's all I have to say about joining the army, it's up to the adults to decide whether to use it or not! ”

The hundreds of people who happened to run were all in MCA's team, and MCA was the only few cronies of the left three ministers.

Dealing with MCA, his own henchmen were damaged. In the end, the third minister of the left still convened everyone to discuss on a high ground and disposed of MCA in front of everyone.

The result of the disposition was to march with MCA in flail to set an example, and everyone felt that they were not convinced, and they had to be disposed of with at least 50 canes, or even worse.

Zuo Sanxiang cut off a strand of his hair, "I know, everyone is not convinced, MCA is not strict in governing the army, and he should have been beheaded, but now is the time to employ people, MCA has led people to explore the way to be a pioneer many times, so I arbitrarily let him march with a flail, and wait until the fairy village will be punished." If he can't make meritorious contributions, when we lay down the wheel, I will behead him with my own hands! ”

Everyone calmed down a little, but then until they entered the fairy village, there were still about 300 people running.

The terrain of the fairy village is quite dangerous, the west side is a cliff, and there is only a two-foot-wide stone staircase that is artificially carved out to lead to the road under the cliff.

On the north and south sides are bare stone mountains, and there is no road, and to the east the terrain is slightly gentle, and there is a river that winds for dozens of miles to the east and disappears.

There were eighty-three people in the stockade, one captain, one vice-captain, thirty archers, eight crossbowmen, thirty cavalrymen, and the remaining thirteen were men.

The captain has a scar on the left and right sides of his face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his name is Fu Dingyuan.

The vice-captain is very skinny, known as the Sky Monkey, because he can climb the cliff wantonly to get this name, but no one remembers his real name.

Seeing the banner of the Western Army from afar, Fu Dingyuan rushed over with thirty cavalry in heavy armor and shouted.

Zuo Sanxiang stopped the army in formation and was about to give the order to release arrows, Hao Guang hurriedly waved his hand, "It's your own people, your own people!" That's Fu Dingyuan, the owner of the village! ”

Seeing Fu Dingyuan rushing closer and closer, Hao Guang took off his helmet and waved, "Old Fu, it's me, I'm Hao Guang, General Zhengxi has brought people here, hurry up and get off the horse!" ”

Fu Dingyuan didn't use all his strength to hold on to the reins, then let go of it, and finally stopped after five repetitions.

The third minister on the left pointed to these thirty-one people and asked Hao Guang, "This is the most elite heavy armored cavalry in the Metropolitan Protectorate!" ”

"It's not a secret, Fu Dingyuan's thirty horsemen are indeed elite, but the most elite is the guards of the Dadu Guard, but they are not easy to dispatch!"

Zuo Sanxiang gritted his teeth, "It's a pity, a bunch of elites failed to expand their territory, but they stayed to take care of the home!" Anyway, they're coming! ”

Fu Dingyuan led the horse and walked closer, and hugged his fist and saluted, "General Zhengxi, Commander Hao, forgive me for waiting for the armor on my body, I can't make a big salute!" ”

Zuo Sanxiang turned over and dismounted and touched Fu Dingyuan's armor and looked up and down, this is a long strip of iron and animal skin mixed with two crotch armor, two one-inch thick iron plates are tied to the chest, and the belt around the waist of the abdomen falls, there seems to be something inside, which is very different from the Western Army.

"The soldiers have worked hard, I am the third minister of the left of the general of Zhengxi, this time I am assigned by His Majesty the Emperor to recover Luntai with you!"

Fu Dingyuan was stunned for a moment, and then raised his right arm: "I am willing to be sent by General Zhengxi to recover Luntai!" ”

Fu Dingyuan's voice was very loud, and when he shouted, first thirty heavily armored cavalry raised their hands and shouted, and then the Western Army also shouted.

Zuo Sanxiang smiled and nodded, "Captain Fu, I'll come from afar, in your opinion, do you want to set up camp here, or go straight to the enemy's place in one go?" ”

"I'm a captain, where do I dare to meddle in the affairs of these thousands of troops, this"

"Old man, it's okay for General Zhengxi to speak bluntly here!"

Fu Dingyuan turned his head and pointed to the fairy village with the flag, "General Zhengxi, on this fairy village, it can only accommodate my team." The army could only camp on the spot, but to attack the enemy, it had to go down from the cliff steps to the west of the fairy village, which was the reason why our army failed to conquer the lost territory to the west. Not only can the enemy not come up to this fairy village, but it is also difficult for our army to go down, so the two sides are facing each other in this fairy village! ”

"I see! It's okay, you take me up to see it first, Wang Xiaoming! Wang Xiaokuang! Ma Hua, you and the other three of you will follow me to the fairy village to check, and the rest of the people will listen to Liu Jingchuan, Wang Xiaozhun, and Zu Nayan's orders to camp on the spot! ”

Zuo Sanxiang gave an order, Wang Xiaoming and the three of them stepped forward from behind, and Liu Jingchuan and others beckoned the army to camp.

On the fairy village, Fu Dingyuan led everyone to walk back and forth in the village a few times, and Zuo Sanxiang could only shake his head and sigh, "Could it be that our army can only stop here?" How did the Han army pass hundreds of years ago? ”

Wang Xiaokuang said casually, "The terrain here is actually not high, and it is only a hundred zhang, so it's a big deal to learn Deng Ai wrapped in a blanket and roll down!" Life and death are life, wealth is in the sky! ”

"General Wang, there are stones underneath, I'm afraid it won't work," Fu Dingyuan reminded

"Tell me to say, anyway, there is no recruitment, it really can't work, so the infantry will touch down in the middle of the night to fight, put the horses down from the stockade, and count as many horses as you can live!"

"Looking at the situation on the stone steps on our side on the other side, it is clear that I am afraid that halfway through the enemy's archery team will come! It's not advisable! ”

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, could it be that the Han army flew down in the first place? By the way, this road must have been dug by the Han army hundreds of years ago! ”

Zuo Sanxiang squinted at the crowd and said, thinking in his mind that when there was no road, he either fell by a rope or made a detour, but there was not even a tree on the top of this village, and there was no boulder that could fix the rope, so it didn't look like a rope had fallen.

While the crowd was talking, the man came out from a short distance ahead, "How did that man get out of the ground?" ”

"The generals don't know, this fairy village is so windy that sometimes even people will roll up! So we dug a lot of holes to store supplies for everyone to rest! ”

Zuo Sanxiang's eyes lit up, "Captain Fu, when the wind is strong, will the enemy troops below come out?" ”

"Don't dare to go out, everyone is the same! Could it be that General Zhengxi wants to go down when there is a strong wind? ”

"Don't worry, let me ask you, what is the direction of the wind when the wind is strong? Was it a sudden gale, or was it a slow wind? ”

"I can't tell which direction the wind is, half to the west, half to the east, very strange! There was a precursor, first a breeze, then dust, then stones and other things! ”

"Will there be strong winds in the next few days?"

"Count the days, there will be a strong wind in five days at most, but I don't know where it blows"

Zuo Sanxiang looked at the others, "Everyone, how about we bet, bet on the wind blowing west!" In the past few days, all the sergeants have dug up and carried the earth to the top of the stockade, and once the wind rises to the west, the sand will be swept into the castle of the enemy army below, and when the wind stops, they will not be able to get out for a while! We can send both men and horses down!" ”

"What if the wind blows east? Didn't that work for a few days in vain, and it cost the physical strength of the army? ”

"That sounds so unreliable!"

"It's unreliable, it's also a way, if you are completely sure, you won't send us here, the reason why we are here is because someone needs to dare to gamble and dare to try!"

Fu Dingyuan looked at the fortress a few miles below the cliff, "I think I can gamble, because there is no other way!" This matter is not solved in our hands, and I don't know how long it will be delayed! ”

There was no other way, and the generals had to follow the risky plan of the left three ministers.

However, as for the stacking of sand, the left three ministers followed everyone's advice, piling half of it on the top of the stockade, leaving half of it in the hole in the ground.

Ji people have their own heavenly appearance, four days later, the wind rose, blowing to the west.

The five fortresses below where the army of the Wet Poison were stationed were all swept up in the sand.

After the wind stopped, the expeditionary army descended the stone steps to the bottom of the cliff, and the wet poison man in the distance immediately blew the horn when he saw the dense team of ants on the opposite stone wall.

However, the damp poisoners must first clear the waist-deep sand in front of the fortress before they can attack.

Not only did the people of the Western Army go down, but the horses of the Western Army were also lowered with ropes.

The stored sand bag came in handy this time, used to fix the rope, and the left three ministers looked at the generals, "Sure enough, it was three stinkers who beat Zhuge Liang, you can't fight, it's not that you don't have resourcefulness, it's just a matter of willingness!" It seems that the great work of recovering Luntai is up to you."

Wang Xiaoming looked at the people and horses under the cliff and sighed, "Alas, on the thief road of the general of Zhengxi, we just want to go home early, this credit is not extravagant!" ”

"It's time for us to go down too, and the enemy forces in the distance are starting to move!"

By the time the Wet Poison Man and the people in their respective forts had cleared a way, the Western Army had gathered more than a thousand people, including a hundred cavalry, at the bottom of the cliff.

However, there were 800 cavalry and at least 3,000 foot soldiers from the five fortresses of the Wet Poison Man.

The leader of the Western Army was Ma Hua and Fu Dingyuan, and Ma Hua had long held back his stomach to atone for his crimes.

Fu Dingyuan also wanted to know if his thirty heavy armored cavalry could defeat the enemy's cavalry.

However, some people began to fight timidly in the Western Army, and the cavalry coming from the opposite side was about to catch up with the number of the Western Army, not to mention the infantry behind the cavalry.

Originally, Fu Dingyuan led the heavy cavalry to attack the enemy first, but Ma Hua's head was hot, and he waved a long knife and left.

The hundred cavalry brought out by Ma Hua himself followed closely behind, forming a long snake formation and rushing over.

Seeing that the enemy was actually charging brainlessly, the wet poison people on the opposite side also rushed to the cavalry of MCA, wanting to encircle and annihilate them in one fell swoop.

Fu Dingyuan was anxious, because the wet poison cavalry on the opposite side was also a heavily armored cavalry, and the hundred people of Ma Hua were only lightly armored cavalry, wasn't this a death.

Zuo Sanxiang and others who were still on the top of the village also saw Ma Hua's unauthorized attack, and everyone was shocked, Zuo Sanxiang waved his sweaty hand, "Don't worry, Ma Hua will definitely be able to break the enemy!" ”

Fu Dingyuan decided to attack to rescue MCA, at least do his best to make the remaining Western Expeditionary Army line up in a shield formation, and not be wiped out.

Fu Dingyuan attacked less than half a mile, and found that the formation of the wet poison people began to be chaotic, and in order to seize the first opportunity, the wet poison people only cared about intercepting the team surrounding MCA, and several gaps appeared in the original dense formation at once.

At this time, MCA's long snake formation also suddenly turned and went straight to the right flank of the wet poison man, MCA's team was fast, and the heavy armored cavalry of the wet poison man couldn't catch up, but it was too late to change the formation at this time.

Fu Dingyuan raised his long knife and led his thirty horsemen straight to the left flank of the wet poison man, and the target was the leader of the wet poison man on the left flank.

The damp poison people fired arrows at the rushing Western Army team, but MCA's team had already rushed into the right flank of the damp poison people, and a round of arrows and the damp poison people also put down a lot.

And Fu Dingyuan's heavy armored cavalry charged against the rain of arrows, and many arrows only hung on the messy strips of animal skin cloth wrapped around their bodies.

The effect of archery quickly wore off, and it was not until the two swords collided that they knew their true weight.

Originally, Fu Dingyuan thought that the wet poison man was well-equipped, and the Western Army needed at least three people to fight a wet poison man, who knew that after Fu Dingyuan hit the left and right block, he found that in addition to being well-equipped, the combat power of the wet poison man was a mess.

The leader of the damp poison man on the left flank soon died under Fu Dingyuan's long knife, and Fu Dingyuan did not entangle, and quickly rushed towards the Chinese army of the damp poison man.

The remaining men and horses of the Western Expeditionary Army, who were originally preparing to defend, also rushed towards the position of the wet poison people.

Although MCA said that he was brave and good at fighting, he couldn't stand the dampness and poison, and soon only thirteen horsemen were left to be surrounded.

Seeing that Ma Hua was about to be trapped to death, the remaining cavalry in the Western Army rushed towards the place where Ma Hua was.

In this rush, the damp poison people completely lost their morale, and directly abandoned MCA and fled westward.

The battle outside the fortress ended with the rout of the damp poisoners, and the expeditionary army began to take over five fortresses.

The field battle was fought too smoothly, so that when entering the city, the Western Army swaggered and swallowed it slowly, and was almost beaten out.

The residents in the fortress picked up swords and wooden sticks to resist desperately, and Fu Dingyuan defeated the Fugui Fort

Several times more people were killed in the city than outside.

Ma Hua and the others also killed until they were red-eyed, if it wasn't for Zuo Sanxiang coming in time, the residents of the five fortresses would have died in battle.

"Those who descend will not be killed! Stop resisting, everyone! Those who lay down their arms are not to blame! ”

A few residents who were forced into a corner threw away the scimitars in their hands, and Zuo Ahu, a personal soldier of the third phase on the left, immediately pointed a yellow flag back, "Stand behind me, and go to line up outside the fort!" ”

It took less than half an hour for the army to defeat the poisonous people, and it took nearly a day to pacify the five fortresses and catch everyone from the roofs of the caves.

For the old, weak, women and children, they were all put home on the spot, and the young and middle-aged were temporarily taken care of by the Western Army.

"You are also from the Central Plains like us, why do you have to fight to the death? The damp poison people have escaped, what are you still fighting? Zuo Sanxiang was very puzzled

The inhabitants finally figured things out, and the damp poison man was just living in the fort and preparing to go north.

The actual control of the fortress is in the hands of the locals, and the wet poisoners can give up and flee, and they have nowhere to run.

In addition, the news that a demon king came from the east and swept the camp of the Loulan people and the fire dragon people already knew about it, so where did they dare to surrender.

"Demon King, this is the name given to me by the Western Regions, okay, pass the order, from today onwards, weave a banner of the Demon King and erect it, so that those who are not subject to the jurisdiction of Daliang will know that Daliang has a Demon King!"

Everyone asked Zuo Sanxiang stupidly, "General, no one has ever seen the Demon King, is it possible to write the word Demon King on this flag?" ”

"yes, you can't draw the general on the flag."

Zuo Sanxiang also regretted it a little, but the words had already been spoken, so he waved his hand, "It's not simple, draw a wolf head out, and then add a horn and a sheep's beard, and the eyes are fierce, isn't it?" ”

Since that day, this nondescript flag has been erected.

The left three phases stood at the highest point of Fugui Fort and looked back at the fairy village, and then understood why it was called the fairy village.

From below, the stone steps of the fairy village just outline the figure of a woman, and the group of long stone houses on the top of the village resemble the braids of the fairy.

"It's a pity that there is no civil official here, otherwise I can write a poem!"

"Haha, General Zhengxi said the previous paragraph casually, and it won't be bad, why do you need a civilian official to come? If a literati can go all the way here, they will no longer be civil officials! Wang Xiaoming agreed

"I'm really not good at writing poetry, it's better like this, let's do it alone! It's a lot of fun! Well, the fairy has fallen to the dust! Haha, that's it! ”

"The mighty man is victorious again! Hahahaha, I'm the first" Wang Xiaoming continued with the second sentence

"Lamb shank nibbling at night!" Ma Hua took the third sentence, which caused everyone to laugh

"No way!" Liu Jingchuan deliberately said this, and Ma Hua immediately grabbed him and refused to let him go

"Everyone, don't I deserve to eat a leg of lamb today?"

"Hahahaha, who knows if the sheep you will be gnawing on at night will be a sheep with only two legs! This one really doesn't work! ”

Zuo Sanxiang looked at everyone and knew that they were all panicked along the way, "Brothers, what Liu Liangguan said is right, you must control yourself, you can eat as much meat as you like tonight, and you can drink wine." But if anyone breaks into a private house and becomes a traitor, no matter how many military exploits he makes, Zuo will not be spared! ”

The young and middle-aged people who had been temporarily detained signed and pledged to pledge that they would no longer be enemies of the Western Army and were sent home one after another. However, there are still a few people who refuse to cooperate, and they are still clamoring for the Western Army to go back.

Many generals suggested that these people be killed, but Zuo Sanxiang sternly refused: "They are just people, there must be a reason for refusing to submit to obedience, they can't be careless of human life, or continue to take care of them, and they must not be abused!" ”

The third prime minister on the left allowed his generals to drink, but he didn't drink a drop of alcohol, but took his own soldiers to the old man in the fortress to ask about the wet poisoner.

Defeating thousands of damp poison cavalry so easily, Zuo Sanxiang suspected that the damp poison man deliberately showed weakness to lure the enemy deeper.

"I heard that the Wet Poison Country is a big country with a territory of thousands of miles, why did it defeat our army in a battle this time? Do you old people know what the real combat power of this wet poison country is? My subordinates are too underestimated, and I always think it's not a good thing! ”

Several old men laughed, "General, that wet poison man is just the opposite of you, they came to live with us, saying that the wet poison country is the first in the world, and they want to fight another 10,000 miles to the north." ”

Zuo Sanxiang was even more puzzled, "A few hundred miles to the east, there is a rich Gaochang City, even if the detour is less than 800 miles, why bother to fight another 10,000 miles to the north?" ”

"Haha, the general doesn't know, the places where this wet poison country is fought are places where even iron tools can't be beaten, and the wooden sticks and bronze that hit people with iron swords are of course invincible. And the girders also have iron weapons, where do they dare to take the initiative? ”

"Old man, in this big country with a size of thousands of miles, it is not difficult to send hundreds of thousands of people over, I think we still have to strengthen the city defense and build five forts into one city!" The third prime minister on the left deliberately built the city here as a base for the recovery of Luntai, and wanted to explore the thoughts of the locals.

"It is precisely because they are thousands of miles away that there are not so many large armies, and it is said that there are four emperors in this wet poison country, two positive and two deputy, and each of the four is in charge of one side. Under the emperor, there were also a lot of princes and princes, and each of them was in charge of several cities. This time we are here is the army of King Wuhe under the Eastern Vice-Emperor. ”

Zuo Sanxiang shook his head, "There are four emperors in one country, and there are such big and small princes and marquis, it's strange that there is no chaos." As soon as a few old people said this, they felt at ease! ”

"However, Daliang is too far away from us, I don't know that the general will be able to recover the old land of the Han Dynasty for a few months this time, if you retreat eastward, please bring us with you!" Fallen leaves have to return to the roots! ”

The left three-phase heart of this speech is as uncomfortable as being pricked by a needle, even if it is a big man who is known as a strong man, he can only keep the wheel for a few decades.

And the current national strength of Daliang is actually not as good as that of the Han Dynasty hundreds of years ago, and it is not easy to maintain a military presence in the Luntai area for a long time.

The third prime minister on the left originally wanted to lay down the wheel platform and collect the supplies before retreating eastward.