Volume 1 Chapter 16 A Thousand Miles Attack Yanqi
In the territory of Yanqi, the servants are all in the governor's mansion. Although Yanqi does not produce candles, ordinary people often have to save on lamp oil, but the famous Dengzhou flower candles from the world are not only all over the halls and bedrooms of the Governor's Mansion, but also often burn this candle all night in toilets, kitchens, livestock pens and other places.
"Come, beauty, have another drink with General Ben." A middle-aged man wearing a fur hat and wearing a Changrong national costume, already full of wine and misty eyes, was hugging a young woman from the Western Regions who was wearing only obscene clothes on the upper body and a short tiger skin skirt on the bottom, regardless of the other party's begging for mercy, desperately pouring the wine in his pot into the other party's mouth. Although the sound of the announcement has already beaten the drum of the change, the inside and outside of the Governor's Mansion are still full of lights, singing and dancing, and beaming, and there is no difference from the daytime. A young singer was still playing the drums, and she was wearing a gorgeous floor-length dress woven from the finest silk from Huzhou County, Yunmeng Country, but only a pair of waves on her chest were covered, revealing her pink neck. Two thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls are still tirelessly dancing the "double branches" dance, only to see the two first hidden in a lotus-shaped prop, and then the petals of the lotus flower slowly bloomed, the girls hidden in the petals came out of the inside, and then danced against each other, the girl's hat was tied around the bell made of gold, whenever the two of them danced gracefully, the golden bell made a crisp sound, as if the pearl kept hitting in the jade plate, and as if the raindrops fell on the lotus leaf in the summer so pleasant.
At the wine table in the lobby, there were already all the lieutenants of Changrong Guozheng who were drunk and embarrassed. Among them, there were also some women wearing hufu, all of whom were lying on the precious carpet from the Western Great Qin.
This is the seat of the Changrong State to govern the countries of the Western Regions that are subject to themselves. It was not long before the Changrong Kingdom bid farewell to the stage of Ru Mao drinking blood, and there was still the custom of keeping slaves, not to look at the women in the lobby who were all luxuriously dressed and beautiful, but it was a pity that their identities were just slaves of the Changrong Kingdom, and they were just the objects of these captains' leisure time, with no personal freedom and no human dignity at all. The Changrong State implements a barbaric tax system for these small countries that are subservient to itself, and has been levied and extorted violently for a long time, forcing the good to become prostitutes, especially the four-grade servant Du Wei in the lobby, who is the brother of Helian Haotian of the Evil Department, who spends his days drinking and drinking, poor and extravagant, not only the countries in the Western Regions hate him to the core, even the Changrong Kingdom also has a lot of criticism about him, but he is forced by Helian Bobo's obscenity, plus for the sake of the huge wealth that Helian Haotian brings back to Changrong every year, the other seven departments also turn a blind eye, Let him be free.
The servant governor's mansion is divided into an outer city, an inner city, and a governor's mansion, each of which is heavily guarded. Since the Changrong Kingdom has been in full swing for more than 20 years, the countries of the Western Regions have never thought of rebelling against a giant compared to themselves, so these soldiers have no combat effectiveness at all except for the usual oppression of good people. The elite of the Changrong Kingdom is generally scattered and deployed in the key fortresses of the Western Regions and the surrounding borders of Yanqi, and when Helian Bo poured the troops of the whole Changrong country to attack the Yunmeng Kingdom, he also took away some of the elite soldiers.
Liu Changlin ordered Huang Zhong, the general on the left, to lead 3,000 men and horses as the forward, himself to lead 3,000 men and horses as the middle army, and ordered Zhao Dehan, the general on the right, to lead the rest of the 3,000 men and horses. On the road, the military horses eat the grass on the grassland directly when they are hungry, and the soldiers eat the cattle and sheep of the shepherds of Changrong directly when they are hungry, and they go directly to Yanqi all the way.
Huang Zhong led 3,000 soldiers to attack the fortress connected to the east of Yanqi and Changrong after dusk, and killed all the Changrong soldiers stationed in the fortress, occupying the eastern fortress of Yanqi. Then the three armies converged, and Liu Changlin ordered the soldiers and war horses to rest for a while, eat a full meal, and at the same time organize their weapons and equipment.
At the beginning of the child's time, Liu Changlin left 500 soldiers to garrison the Yanqi fortress at the bridge pass to prevent the reinforcements of the Changrong State from coming. Then he led his troops to continue to set off, and the generals asked about the direction of the trip, and Liu Changlin said: "Capture Helian Haotian alive."
At this time, it was the end of July, under the influence of the southeast wind, the sky suddenly rained heavily, the road was muddy, and it was difficult for people and horses to walk, and the road west of the Yongguan was a road that the soldiers had never walked, and everyone thought that they would die for this trip, but they were afraid of Liu Changlin's military order like a mountain, and they did not dare to disobey. Because it was covered by the sound of rain at night, coupled with Liu Changlin's order to prohibit the noise of the army, the 10,000 troops marched along the road in the wilderness and no one knew. The soldiers of Changrong who defended the city were silent because of the rainy night, so they relaxed their vigilance, and were sitting or lying on the ground with their weapons leaning against the city wall to sleep, and before they could resist, they were all killed.
The two led the troops to kill the soldiers defending the city, and immediately opened the city gate to welcome Liu Changlin and the three armies into the city. The three armies hurried to the inner city, which was also undefended due to heavy rain, and the officers and soldiers defending the city were all cut down in their sleep.
At the beginning of the day, Helian Haotian was still lingering with Hu Ji, when suddenly a soldier broke into the lobby and reported that an enemy was coming. Helian Haotian didn't wake up from the wine, and he didn't mind at all: "I have been here for three years, and I have never heard of any small countries such as Yueshi, Loulan, Cheshi, and Wusun daring to covet my position as the captain of Changrong's servants." So regardless of it, he still hugged the beauty and sought pleasure arbitrarily.
Liu Changlin led his troops all the way to the lobby of the servant Duwei's mansion, and captured Helian Haotian and more than 30 generals of Changrong State in the hall.
The next day, while interrogating Helian Haotian and others, Liu Changlin issued a proclamation, inviting all the small countries in the Western Regions ruled by the Changrong State, as long as they are willing to break away from the control of the Changrong State and are willing to make friends with the Yunmeng Kingdom, they can send envoys to retrieve the tribute they have just supplied to the Changrong Kingdom this year, as well as the local exotic flowers and treasures.
When the countries of the Western Regions heard that Helian Haotian, the servant who had always been arrogant and domineering in Yanqi, had been captured alive and taken alive, and that the company commander Rongguo's servant and servant Duwei's mansion had been occupied, they were all overjoyed, and they all applauded, and immediately sent a team of envoys to meet Liu Changlin and others, and the farthest small country also arrived in Yanqi in only three days. At the banquet, after Liu Changlin complained about the crimes of the Changrong State in the Western Regions, he concluded a peace treaty in the name of Yunmeng and the envoys sent by these small countries in the Western Regions, and told them that the Changrong Kingdom had been defeated and infighting, and those who were willing to help him eradicate the remaining thieves of the Changrong Kingdom could raise troops to fight together.
In the past 20 years, the small countries in the Western Regions have been deeply harmed by the Changrong State, although they bent their knees and became vassals, but in their hearts they all gritted their teeth with hatred for the Changrong State, so Liu Changlin got the food, soldiers, weapons and horses provided by Shanshan, Wusun and Yueshi Kingdom, Qiuzi, Khotan and other countries without hesitation, under the guidance of Helian Haotian, Liu Changlin led more than 17,000 horses of the allied army to Longcheng (also known as Maocheng, referring to the Xiongnu Sacrifice to Heaven Holy Land, which is the political center of the Xiongnu) without hesitation.