1242. Meeting righteousness is the king's drink

At the confluence of the Huangshui and the Yellow River, the abundant water of the two rivers nurture this Huanghuang water area and nurture the abundant aquatic plants here.

And there is a small tributary of Huangshui, it is not obvious on the map, this small river is not big, it is easy to be ignored, the locals call it Niuxinchuan, and the slope on the side of Niuxinchuan is Niuxindui, and Niuxindui is about 300 miles northwest of Mantou Mountain.

From the west of Mantou Mountain to the middle of the Chishuiyuan and then to the southeast of the Niuxindui and Kushan, this line is a very flat valley, backed by the tall Lazhi Mountain, Tuyuhun people are also guarding along the Lazhi Mountain, each important mountain pass in the Lazhi Mountain is guarded by heavy troops, the southeast of the Niuxindui is the most important, because the Niuxindui is facing the Shanzhou of the Tang Dynasty, before the Tang army gathered in Shanzhou, but frightened the Tuyuhun people, busy is to send heavy troops, Tianzhu King is personally here to guard.

Tuyuhun was the most important thing to defend the cow heart pile facing Shanzhou, but he didn't expect Li Jing to be tough face to face with him, but divided his troops into several ways, first hitting Mantou Mountain, Chishuiyuan and Kushan on the left and right sides, and then several people and horses would join the Niu Xin pile, making the Tianzhu King of this Niu Xin pile a lone army.

Niuxindui north is the tall Lazhi Mountain, south is the turbulent Yellow River, now the northwest Mantou Mountain and Chishuiyuan have been captured by the Tang army, cut off the Niuxindui Tuguhun people's westward escape route, Li Jing's army directly approached Niuxindui.

And the real Li Jing has already known that Mantou Mountain has been occupied, and there is only Kushan in the southeast left, although there is no fluctuation on the face, but there is some worry in the bottom of his heart, although Li Daozong is a general, it stands to reason that there should be no problem in dealing with a Kushan, but no one can say anything about the war.

Just like before, he expected the foolproof party Xiang Qiang, but he was messed up by Li Daoyan and Fan Xing, and he was forced to rebel against Tuoba Chici, who had already been obedient.

Now Li Jing is playing a time difference, and the competition is the speed of message transmission.

Once it is known that Mantou Mountain and Chishuiyuan have been occupied by the Tang army, I am afraid that the old fox of Tianzhu King will flee immediately.

Therefore, on the one hand, Li Jinglian issued a military order and ordered all units to arrive at Niuxindui on time.

After capturing Mantou City, Li Daliang did not have time to rest the whole army, divided 10,000 troops, and handed over to the deputy general Qi Bi He Li to hold Mantou City, personally led Su Dingfang and the remaining nearly 20,000 horses, and rushed to the southeast Niuxindui.

And in the northeast of the Niuxindui, in the direction of Taozhou, the head of the Yanze Road March, Lizhou Thorn Shi Gao Yongsheng saw that the date was approaching, and he also rushed straight to the Niuxindui.

He was originally ordered to go to pacify the Taozhou Qiang Rebellion and solve this worry, lest there be a Taoqiang behind him who was making trouble when the front line was fighting against Tuyuhun.

Gao Yongsheng led 10,000 elite Tang troops, cooperating with the scattered thousands of soldiers in Taozhou, thinking that he could easily quell the Taoqiang Rebellion, but he didn't expect Gao Yongsheng, a veteran of the Qin Prince's Mansion, to hit a nail in Taozhou.

Tao Qiang adhered to the area of Baishi Mountain and Lotus Mountain, and did not engage the Tang army in life or death, so that Gao Yongsheng had nothing to do, and lost more than 2,000 troops under the strong attack, and finally had to be reprimanded by Li Jing, and it happened that Li Shimin added Li Pojun as the ambassador of pacification in the northwest, and led the army to quell the rebellion, and Li Jing ordered Gao Yongsheng to withdraw the army.

Lintan County, because there is a small pool five miles outside the north city wall of the county, the water is deep and green all year round, it is not able to look at the end, it is very clear, so it is renamed Lintan County.

As the seat of Taozhou, Lintan County is located in the northwest traffic artery, which was originally very lively, but the Taoqiang was scattered and plundered the suburban villages and towns a month ago, causing the people of Lintan to panic.

Dozens of miles south of the county seat, is the continuous mountain, Baishi Mountain, Lotus Mountain and Daling Mountain are among them, Taoqiang entrenched on Baishi Mountain was originally very docile before, although occasionally there are things that go down the mountain to cause harm, but it is only an example.

Now Taozhou Qiang is in turmoil, before the looting of the village are killed and robbed, and even attacked and killed Taozhou Thorn Shi Kong Changxiu, now Taozhou can be described as a comprehensive martial law, the wall is clear, the people outside the city have poured into the city for refuge, resulting in a time Lintan City firewood is burned out, food prices soared.

Gao Yongsheng led the army to come and forced Taoqiang back to Baishi Mountain, which made it better.

It's just that this morning, Gao Yongsheng led the army to withdraw, and for a while, the people of Taozhou were panicked again, for fear that those repeated Taoqiang people would rush out to loot and burn again.

Before Gao Yongsheng left, he repeatedly emphasized that the prince would lead the army to arrive soon, and it would not alleviate much panic, after all, no matter how powerful the prince was, far water could not save the fire.

However, the saying that there are many heroes in the northwest is not false, and there will always be people who come forward in times of crisis and chaos.

At this time, the people of Lintan pinned such a hope on a young man who was only twenty years old, he was Kong Zhengqing, the son of Kong Changxiu, the assassin of Taozhou, who was killed by Taoqiang.

Although Kong Changxiu's surname is Kong, but he has no half-penniish relationship with Kong Yingda, an important minister of the dynasty, Kong Yingda is an authentic descendant of Confucius, Kong Changxiu was born poor, but he did not live up to this "Kong", and studied Confucian classics such as "The Mean".

It's just that after Tao Qiang was bewitched and rebelled by Tugu Hun, Kong Changxiu, a Confucian scholar, went to persuade him to surrender whimsically, trying to persuade He Muzhi not to mess around with righteousness, but before he arrived at Baishi Mountain, he was killed by the red-eyed Qiang soldiers who had just left Lintan City.

At that time, Kong Zhengqing, the son of Kong Changxiu, was studying abroad.

Although Kong Changxiu is a little pedantic, believes in the golden mean, and is a bit of a good person, his son Kong Zhengqing is different from him.

Kong Zhengqing is chivalrous, has a ranger atmosphere, reckless and righteous, never leaves his body with a sword all the year round, and compares himself with Jing Ke and Zhuhai at every turn, and is also quite famous in the ranger circle of Gyeonggi and even Longyou Road.

At this time, in Lintan City, in a rather simple house, in the courtyard, the sound of shouting can be heard outside the wall, and the sound of laughter and talk, accompanied by the sound of dancing swords and singing, is not lively.

In the courtyard, dozens of men, large and small, were sitting or lying, some reclining on the ground, holding the wine jar in their arms, muttering words; Some leaned under the small trees, holding their swords and singing; Some people sat at the wine table and talked loudly, impassioned words, and scolded Fang Xuan; There are even a few people standing in the open space drunk and dancing with swords, a good scene of bohemianism, and the impassioned and hearty mood of "meeting righteousness for the king's drink, tying horses to high-rise buildings and weeping willows".