Hearing Yuan Tongzhi's request, Mahayana and Niang. Ding Aizeng was silent.

The earliest Buddhism in the Western Regions was the Hinayana that prevailed in the Qiuzi country, which was characterized by strict practice and a well-organized Sangha community, but it had a serious conflict with the royal rule, after all, no royal family liked the excessive expansion of religious power, so during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a wave of "Han Buddhism Huichuan" - Mahayana Buddhism to purify all sentient beings, which began to be welcomed by the countries of the Western Regions.

Later, the Western Tibetan forces occupied this place, and were also greatly influenced by Han Zen Buddhism, Ma Chongying, Shang Jiezan and other Helong Da Treatise were its followers, so Yuan Tongzhi asked the "Mahayana monk" Mahayana to save Shazhou from the fire.

But Shazhou is the target that the god Zampu is bent on attacking, and if the siege steps are delayed, I am afraid that it will provoke Zampu to surrender.

At this moment, always sitting on the futon behind him, the delicate and thin Prince Mu Di spoke: "The Buddhist temple and Jialan may not be worth saving, after all, they are just a bubble. But how innocent are the people of Dunhuang? If you don't save it, how can you practice the Dharma in the world from now on......"

Hearing Prince Mu Di's words, the two monks were moved to clasp their hands, and then promised Yuan Tongzhi that the monks of Wenshu Temple were willing to go to Shazhou to stop the killing and burning.

Soon on the streets of Shanzhou City, Duan Zuo carried a horizontal knife and other Han officials, counting the Tang people who were going to Ganzhou Yingtian, and many people who were gathered knew that this time it was likely that their wives would be separated and their families would be destroyed, and the cry was shaking the entire city.

At the same time, Prince Mu Di pursed his thin lips, wrapped himself in ochre-red monk's robes, and straddled a camel. Ding Ai Zeng rode a donkey, and then Nuqiong came out of the house next to the Manjusri Monastery, carrying heavy luggage, and walked towards Mu Di.

"Nuqiong, it's a long way to Ganzhou here, you are a woman, you don't need to follow me." Mu Di turned back and shouted to Nuqiong.

But Nuqiong didn't listen at all, and stubbornly followed behind Mu Di.

The camel bell rang, out of the front of Shanzhou City, filled with the boundless wasteland, in the desert wind and dust, Prince Mu Di's eyes stared ahead, very firm.

And the traveler Yuan Tongzhi looked back at the city head of Shanzhou, and further east, and muttered in his heart: "I have to make meritorious contributions before I have the capital to take the opportunity to return to my hometown, and I can only help the soldiers and civilians of Shazhou in this way." ”

Shazhou Dunhuang, originally it can go to Yizhou through Yumen Pass, can also go west out of Yangguan, cross the vast sand sea, to the four towns of Anxi, but then Yumen Pass migrated to Guazhou (now Jiuquan, Gansu), but the status of Dunhuang has not declined, its road to the Western Regions is still prosperous, the caravan from the west also needs to provide water, food and lodging in the oasis of Dunhuang City when crossing the big sand sea, and then through the narrow Hexi corridor, to the more east of the Tang soil.

It is not a day or two for Xibo to covet Dunhuang, but after the Anshi Rebellion, Xifan's strategic route to Hexi and Longyou is "first east and then west", first seize the Longyou states, and then capture the Liang, Gansu, Su, and Gua prefectures in Hexi in turn, and at the same time continue to besiege Yiting, so Shazhou has become the last stronghold of Tangjia Hexi.

During the Great Calendar year, Xifan occupied almost all of Helong, and repeatedly launched offensives against Shazhou.

Shazhou Thorn History and Hexi Observation Jie Du envoy is Zhou Ding, after holding on for more than ten years, because of the hopelessness of returning to the reinforcements, once wanted to destroy the city and flee eastward, was killed by the soldiers and horses who advocated continuing to defend the city Yan Dynasty, this is the end of the twelfth year of the calendar, when Gao Yue was still in Chang'an City to prepare for the next year's spring.

Another ten years have passed, and the Yan Dynasty climbed the tower, looking at the three sides of the Western Tibetan battle array like dark clouds under it, and the endless blockade line camps and trenches, and couldn't help laughing, and said to the officials around him: "Xiaofan is declining!" My Shazhou in a desperate situation, standing for nearly 30 years, in the past, when Xiaofan came to attack, there were still 50,000 to 100,000 soldiers and horses, and now look at it, only 20,000 or 30,000 ears, I heard that my Tang family has taken all the passes of Longshan, retake Long, Yuan and other places, which shows that Xiaofan is now declining! ”

"Yan Kaifu, however, there are less than two or three thousand people in Dunhuang City, please choose the dead to go out of the city of Shouchangyangguan in the west of the city, and gallop to Anxi Town to ask for reinforcements." The soldiers and horses around Yan Chao and the Marquis of Yu all pleaded.

Yan Chao nodded, and then sighed in a deep voice and said, the military strength of the four towns of Anxi is also stretched, let's see if Guo Xin can send a team of 1,000 people here, as long as there are 1,000 reinforcements, I will have the determination to defend Dunhuang City for at least half a year!

Soon in Shouchang, several Dunhuang soldiers rode camels, carrying water bladders and quivers, from the city that was surrounded on three sides, in a beacon that had long been collapsed and deserted, these soldiers looked at the sky if there were a few traces of clouds, and then did not look back, resolutely rushed into the vast and boundless desert: they had to walk a long way, and then divided into two roads in the crossbow branch city, all the way to the northwest to reach Qiuzi, all the way to the west, until Khotan.

As for the crossbow city, could it be that there are already Western Tibetan rangers waiting for work there, ready to hunt them down? That's not something they can think about.

This mission to save the last city in Hexi is on their shoulders, and they will rest until death!

In Xingyuan Mansion, Gao Yue also said goodbye to his family for the last time before making the expedition.

Gao Yue in the backyard remembered something, so he said to Yun He: "Previously, Zheng Wenming asked his servant Liu Jinglai to ask me for something, if there is a young girl named Xue Tao after I go on the expedition, you can place her in the women's school as a scholar." ”

Hearing this, Yun He frowned slightly, "Brother-in-law, are you going to take concubines again?" ”

Gao Yue hurriedly defended and said, how could it be possible? In the clouds and your heart, am I the kind of person who takes advantage of people's danger?

"How could it be! I heard that this Xue Hongdu wanted to recommend himself to the pillow before, and you are a concubine in brother-in-law, but now it is good, brother-in-law is kind and kind, and he will directly send the other party to our hearts. "The clouds and the unforgiving.

Gao Yue thought to himself that the normal explanation at this time would definitely not satisfy Yun He, so it could only be like this:

At this time, Gao Yue put his hands on Yun He's fragrant shoulders, and said seriously, "Yun He must not say nonsense, this Xue Hongdu has actually agreed to be Zheng Qi's concubine, and he has nothing to do with me, but Zheng Qi is now in Yunnan as an envoy, so he is entrusted to Xingyuan to take care of it." ”

Yun He stared at himself slightly, and then said, "Okay, I'll believe my brother-in-law this time." Then her tone became soft, pinching her clothes, and her eyes were red, "You go to Bai Yushan to be careful, and the sisters and children at home will be taken care of by me and Zhihui." ”

At the military camp in the north of Xingyuan Prefecture, the generals of the Dingwu Army, dressed in light blue thin cotton clothes, wore different numbers of bronze medals on their arms according to different classes, wore trousers and leggings, and wrapped their heads in crimson clothes, carrying rolled up cotton bedding and armor behind their backs, and tied fire sickles, daggers, horizontal knives, pottery bowls and other miscellaneous things on their belts, holding vehicles carrying weapons, and driving west quickly and quickly.

Under the banner of the flying teeth, Gao Yue reined in his war horse and suddenly said to the generals beside him: "Go to Xingzhou Luoyang first, and then don't take Chencang Road, change to Jianmen Road!" ”

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