"Longtou has been cut off, and Hu rode into Liangzhou City at night. The Han family fought to the death everywhere, and once there was no place in Longxi. Drive the people on my side to the middle of the hu, scatter the cattle and sheep to eat the corn. Last year, China adopted a descendant, and now he is learning Hu in felt. Who can make Li Qingche more and charge Liangzhou belongs to the Han family. ”

The Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Yi's poem "Longtou Xing" is about what the author saw and heard in Hexi after Zhang Yichao led the righteous army to return to the Tang Dynasty. The tragic fate of hundreds of thousands of Han family children in Hexi fell into the hands of the Hu people. Since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang army and Tibet have been fighting in Qinghai and Hexi for many years, and I don't know how many soldiers on both sides are buried in this land.

Since the Anshi Rebellion, the Hexi Corridor on the Silk Road fell into the hands of the Tibetans, during which the famous general Li Sheng led the troops to recover the land of Hexi for a short time, but with the decline of the Tang Dynasty, the land of Hexi was isolated from the Central Plains for a long time. However, hundreds of thousands of Han troops and Han people stranded in Hexi survived tenaciously, and the Guiyi Army was established by Zhang Yichao of Shazhou, and the Yunzhou Army stationed in Liangzhou also established the Liangzhou Military Government, which fought against the Tibetan and Hui regimes in the troubled times.

In the early spring of the fifth year of the Later Tang Dynasty (931 AD), the mountains in the north of Weizhou were still cold, and the residual snow on the slopes of the back sun had not yet melted, but the dry grass on both sides of the river valley had already emerged with dots of green. The Yehuling mountain road south of Xiaoguan is rugged, the loess is flying, and a cavalry team follows the mountain road and rushes westward.

This small group of cavalry was a bit special, their uniforms were very inconsistent, some were dressed in the standard uniforms of the Tang Dynasty border army, and some were dressed as Tibetan warriors. In the middle of the procession, on a pure white tall horse, sat a Tibetan military general in his forties, with a curly beard and a brave face. Next to this general, there is a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe, with a white face and no beard, which always gives people a very awkward feeling.

Behind this Tibetan general, there were also about twenty knights, about a dozen people dressed in strong uniforms, following behind the civil official, it was obvious that they were the civil official's guards, and the other dozen or so were Tibetan cavalry.

As the sky grew dark, the group climbed over the ridge and stopped in front of a dilapidated mountain temple full of dead branches and leaves. At the beginning, a man in a Tang-style military uniform looked up, and the ravines around him were criss-crossed, and he could no longer distinguish the road in the distance. He beckoned the team to stop, and he led four riders to the front to survey the road.

The people behind followed, and a young officer who was waiting turned over and dismounted in front of the Tibetan general and the white-faced scribe, clasped his fists and said: "General Gongre, Lord Wang, there are no people in this area, we missed the stay, and there don't seem to be any villages and towns nearby. General Tuoba has already led people to the front to explore the way, shall we cook for the time being, and then rush overnight or will we camp here on the spot? ”

The Tibetan general named Gongre looked into the distance, and then ordered: "Dismount, and live in it tonight!" What he said was Chinese with a strong Hexi accent.

The civil official surnamed Wang sat on a horse, carrying a sword wrapped in yellow silk on his back, and looked at the empty and dilapidated mountain temple, the temple had long been cut off incense, and a corner of the hall collapsed, revealing a few broken beams and pillars, and the doors and windows of the walls were long gone, "This...... Can this live? He spoke, his voice sharp, and it turned out to be a eunuch.

General Gongre frowned, when is the time of his heart, this eunuch is still poor and exquisite, but he doesn't want to offend him too much, so he has to persuade him with good words: "Barren mountains and mountains, adults can only be wronged." Come on, hurry up and clean up the room and put my bearskin mattress on Lord Wang! He said as he ordered his men to make a fire and cook.

Everyone jumped off their horses, and each of them went their separate ways, and several guards took out the water, dried meat, and other food they carried from their bags on horseback, and began to make a fire, and set up a shelf to roast the dried meat on the fire.

More than a dozen guards lit torches and went into the temple to clean up and clean up the place, and suddenly, someone in the west side hall exclaimed: "Mom! Then several people ran out of it. One of them was a little flustered, and almost bumped into Gongre who was walking towards him. Gongre's face darkened: "What are you doing, what's going on?" ”

"General, a corpse was found inside, and it looks like it hasn't been dead for long."

"Special milk * milk*, everyone is doing a living licking blood on the knife edge, thinking that after this battle, the corpses will pile up like a mountain, and the blood will flow like a river. You haven't fought for more than ten years, and a dead corpse scares you to death like this, a bunch of waste! Gong Re glared at these guards and scolded, the Han army in Liangzhou City was still less bloody than the Tibetan soldiers.

Gongre followed his men into the West Side Hall, and sure enough, he saw a corpse in front of the broken stone case, the corpse had been torn to pieces by some wild beast, the stumps and legs were scattered all over the ground, only the head was still intact, and there was a hat on the ground, which seemed to be not an ordinary outcast, but like a passing merchant.

The remnants of flesh and entrails on the ground were blurred and black, but there was no rancid smell, and it seemed that the man had only been dead for two or three days.

"Isn't it just a dead corpse, someone came, dragged him outside the temple, and threw it far away! Clear the place quickly. Bunnies, I haven't seen blood or whatever! Gongge looked at it twice, and then ordered his men to clean up the corpse.

Gongre came out of the temple and saw that General Tuoba who was exploring the road in front of him just now also came back, "I'm afraid there is no one in the vicinity for dozens of miles, so everyone has to spend the night here tonight." "This general's name is Tuoba Ye, and he is a general under Sun Chao, the successor of Liangzhou of the Han Army in Hexi, and he was ordered to go to Luodu to make a pilgrimage to the Later Tang Emperor with the general Gongre under Pan Jialuo, the leader of the Six Valleys of Tibet.

These people are from Liangzhou, in the west corridor of the Longyou River.

At that time, the Central Plains was in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties period, and there were many wars, and no one had time to take care of the Han people stranded in Hexi. The people of Hexi finally looked forward to the establishment of the Later Tang Dynasty, and finally had the opportunity to seek refuge with the Central Plains Dynasty.

Longyou Hexi has been isolated from the Central Plains for a long time, and the Hu and Han forces are mixed, and the current power of the Later Tang Kingdom is far less than that of the Tang Dynasty, and the hand of the Son of Heaven can not reach Hexi.

This time, Pan Jialuo, the leader of Hexi Tibet, and Sun Chao, the commander of the Han army, sent people to Luoyang with the caravan to make a pilgrimage to the Son of Heaven, which made Li Siyuan, the current prison country, very happy, not only rewarded a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, but also canonized the Tibetan leader Pan Jialuo as the envoy of the Hexi Festival, and Sun Chao left Sun Chao as the assassin of Liangzhou after the Tianping Army of Liangzhou. This group of people this trip to Luoyang can be said to be full of returns, although the journey is hard, but they are all promoted to the third level, and have received a lot of rewards, naturally when they return are elated.

To the surprise of this group of people, the Tang Dynasty was actually divided into two imperial courts, and most of the land in this pass was under the jurisdiction of Jinyang. It's just that the Han people in Hexi have always served the Central Plains Imperial Court as Zhengshuo, and they still followed the caravan to Luoyang for the Hajj according to their original ideas.