Chapter 172: Knives and Tears
More and more Khitans gathered in the mountain, and He Zhe was busy greeting other Khitan tribes. Yun Hao suddenly got up to look at the nature of Qingyan Temple, and see what the temple with the peak of incense in later generations looked like in the early years of the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, Qingyan Temple was just a very small temple, and it could not meet the basic requirements of the temple. Entering the mountain gate is the Daxiong Treasure Palace, what the Heavenly King Palace, the Pilu Palace, the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion and so on are all omitted. There are a few thatched huts behind the Daxiong Treasure Hall, even if it is the abbot's office and dormitory. It is so simple that it is outrageous, and there is no way to see the prosperity of incense after a thousand years.
The monks in the temple have vegetable faces, and the futons they meditate on under their buttocks are shabby. In the entire Daxiong Treasure Hall, only a few oil lamps were lit, and Yun Hao couldn't even see the statue clearly in the dark. However, the Sanskrit sound of chanting is like the wind that penetrates into the ears.
The bells on the corners of the cornices jingle with the sound of the wind. A gust of mountain wind blew, and the bell resonated with the Sanskrit sound Songtao, which actually had a transcendent beauty.
Seeing Yun Hao visiting with a few minions, none of the monks got up. There was no confusion in the sound of the wooden fish, and the yellow-faced abbot did not even raise his closed eyelids.
Yun Hao bowed, he was sure that these monks were true cultivators. Far from being the kind of monks like Shenxiu and Huineng who hold a huge amount of money in the downtown area. For these people who have no desire and no desire to cultivate in the bitter cold land, Yun Hao feels that he should give enough respect. It is really a sin to disturb their purification.
Although he had a lot of military experience, Yun Hao still misjudged. The Koreans were very calm and did not move for three days. This made Yun Hao a little uneasy, and the time to prepare was about sufficient, which meant that the attack was more intense.
Yiwulu Mountain is not a deep mountain and old forest like the Great Xing'an Mountains, it is just some hills on the plain. In a short period of time, 20,000 or 30,000 Khitan people have been gathered, and there is a sense of occupying the mountain as the king.
The women and children were arranged by Yun Hao to migrate to the Tang Dynasty, and three days was enough time to run all the way to Shanhaiguan. As long as they reach the border of Hebei, no matter how bold the Goryeo people are, they will not dare to chase after them. I thought about sending someone to contact Qu Tutong, but Yun Hao held back deeply. Luo Yi is in Zhuozhou, the old nest, as Li Jiancheng exists in Hebei to confront Qu Tutong. Don't bother the old man, there are only 20,000 or 30,000 Koreans left and right. The Khitans gathered around Yiwulu Mountain have exceeded 20,000.
He Zhe carefully selected 9,000 people, and the Khitan people were originally a people on horseback. Theoretically, every adult man is a warrior. They laid countless traps in the forest, and if the Goryeo people dared to enter the mountains, they would surely die an ugly death.
The Koreans did not let the Khitans wait too long, and on the fifth day, the Tanma ran back with two feathered arrows stuck in his back. The news brought back almost made He Zhe faint, and the Goryeo gathered an army of 80,000. It's already pressed like a mountain!
Before the horse could breathe, the black line on the horizon could already be seen. Yun Hao miscalculated, and there were more than Khitans in Liaodong under the control of the Koreans. The Tatars, the Murowei, and the Bohai people and a small number of Turkic tribes were all subject to the command of the Goryeo.
The reason why Gao Huizhen waited for so many days was to concentrate the strength of each tribe. uproot the Khitan people who dare to rebel against themselves and make a baby for the rest of the ethnic minorities.
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"Haven't the oil and gunpowder bombs arrived yet?" Also facing the army, the situation in front of Li Er was even more terrifying. The Goryeo had only scraped together an army of 80,000, while the Turks had united with the Tuyuhun, Uighurs, and Tiele and Zhaowu to make an army of 200,000.
In line with the simple idea of grabbing money, food, and women, the 200,000 army decided to unite to come to Datang to make a windfall. Anyway, in the winter in the Western Regions, you can't graze or grow grain, and you are idle. People have no foreign wealth and no wealth, and horses have no weeds and no fertilizer. Seeing that the Tang Dynasty has become rich over the years, the poor grassland people remembered the scenery of the Wuhu Chaos again.
"Back to His Royal Highness the King of Qin, Master Sheng Yan and his people have already set off from Chang'an ten days ago. If all goes well, it should arrive within ten days. If you miss the deadline, you should be killed! Niu Jinda had a dark face and reported to Li Eryu.
"Put Xue Wanche down!" On the wooden shelf at the door of the tent, there was a bloody guy. If you don't know, no one can see that this is Xue Wanche Xue Second Master who can walk sideways in Chang'an City!
The two soldiers carried Xue Wanche to the tent and kicked his knee hard, and Xue Wanche immediately fell to his knees.
"Xue Wanche, you know what the crime of missing the grain delivery is. Can you be convinced to hit you today? Li Er said with a dark face.
"Your Highness's subordinates are merciful, Xue is grateful!" Although Xue Wanche said soft words, his body was standing like a javelin. The unruly and unruly bones make the generals in the military tent hate their teeth.
Losing the grain and grass is a crime of killing the head, and Li Er let Xue Wanche go. This guy is still stinky and hard, and Yu Chigong feels that this guy needs to be re-educated. The big foot that flew up kicked Xue Wanche upside down and flew out with one kick. Everyone saw Xue Wanche in the air, spurting out a mouthful of old blood.
"Jingde, stop!" Li Eryi stretched out his hand, stopped Yu Chigong, who rushed up to continue beating Xue Wanche.
"Huh! If anyone else misses, I hope Your Highness will be treated the same! The corners of Xue Wanche's mouth were bleeding, and he didn't forget to return the mouth when he lay on the ground.
"Smack!" The jade bi that Li played with was broken into several pieces, and the broken jade bi pierced the palm of his hand. The red blood came out in an instant, and the silence in the big tent was silent. As long as Li Er said a word, Xue Wanche would immediately be chopped up and fed to the dogs.
"Your Highness!" Du Ruhui has followed Li Er for many years, and he knows Li Er's character in the end. A whispered reminder from the side, this person can't be killed, at least not now.
"Drag it off!" Li Er took a deep breath, and with an order, a guard dragged Xue Wanche, who had already fainted, away.
"Qin Qiong, you take someone to pick up Master Sheng Yan. All units strictly guard their own defense areas and are not allowed to go into battle at will. Li Er put down the next sentence, and the generals said that they had withdrawn.
"Your Highness! The last general went to the end of the house, he violated the military order in front, and he was not afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would have something to say. Wei Chigong's eyes shot a seeping light, and Xue Wanche dared to roar at the military tent. He couldn't wait to smash Xue Wanche's head now!
"No, Jingde! This battle was extremely dangerous, and the Northwest War was actually not a war, but a war of money and grain. We resisted the Turkic coalition army in Qinzhou, in fact, the heaviest burden was logistics supply. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince raised funds in many ways, so that we have our military rations. It is not easy for Xue Wanche to be able to escort a lot of grain and grass here. Let go of Xue Wanche, just give His Royal Highness the Crown Prince a few thin noodles! Li Er sighed, and the Tang Dynasty was established. The inside of the treasury is not thick, and after years of fighting, it can already starve to death mice.
Now the Turks and 200,000 people from the northwestern tribes are attacking on a large scale, and Li Jiancheng is also raising money in many ways to get together the military rations that the army needs for a month. Fang Xuanling, who urged grain and grass, came back and said that people might starve to death in the spring pass this year.
Thinking about the tense relationship between himself and Li Jiancheng, this big brother can still work so hard in this matter. was already for the sake of the Li family, Li Er didn't believe that no one had given Li Jiancheng the idea to starve him to death in Qinzhou. Compared with Li Jiancheng's generosity, Xue Wanche's rudeness is really nothing.
The only hope now is that Sheng Yanshi will rush to Qinzhou as soon as possible, and the newly formed Zuo Wuwei under his command is equipped with the most elite firearms in the Tang Dynasty. The hope of this battle was entirely counting on him. There is only one month of food and grass, and if you can't defeat the Turkic coalition army within a month, you can wait to starve to death or be hacked to death by the Turks in this desolate northwest!
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When the Goryeo people began to attack the mountain, Yun Hao knew that this was a battle without suspense. The Khitans were brave, but the Murwei, the Ya, Bohai, and Silla were no worse than them. They are all nomadic tribes who fight with the sky and the earth, and they begin to bleed sheep at an age when they can hold on. Killing, which has melted into their blood, is almost instinctive.
The two sides are not fighting, but nakedly executing each other's executions. You slash me, and I'll return you with a sword. They all fought for their lives, and they had 80,000 people, while the Khitans only had 9,000 people. If this continues, it is estimated that the Khitans will be wiped out before it gets dark.
The black deer was wearing an extremely ill-fitting armor, and it was too difficult to find one of the Koreans who was similar to him. The helmet of the smaller one has long been unknown, and the tight armor is covered with blood and brains, black-red blood and gray-white brains, as if there is another layer of armor on the outside of the armor.
The mace in his hand was almost **, and the sharp spikes were covered with the flesh and blood of the enemy. Many of the spikes had been smashed and deformed, and the gaps between the flesh spikes were filled with human flesh.
When the mace shatters the head of an enemy again, the Black Deer has to abandon his beloved weapon. The copper hoop on it was smashed, and the sturdy hardwood sticks shattered into strips that could be used as chopping wood. Splitting wood can't kill anyone, and the black deer drew his scimitar and joined the battle group again.
The bright blade is very eye-catching, and the powerful knife often splits the opponent in half with a knife. As a result, in just half an hour, Black Deer's knife could be used as a saw. Whenever the knife was pulled on the bone, there was the sound of a saw sawing through the bone.
The scimitars of the Goryeo people are not the sabers of the Yun family, and their smelting skills are not yet up to the level of the Yun family. When the scimitar slashed into the enemy's body again, the black deer never managed to pull it out.
The red-eyed Black Deer pulled out his unraveling knife, the only thing on him that could be called a weapon. The long arm grabbed the enemy's hand with the knife, and the untieth knife in his hand stabbed him in the stomach. As soon as he stirred and pulled, the man's stomach was pulled out of a big opening, and the weak intestines gushed out with a "whew".
As soon as the waist and ribs were cold, Heilu felt as if all his strength had been drained. stabbed him with a knife in his backhand, only to find that his opponent was looking at him fiercely. The hand holding the knife fell to the ground with his arm, and the blood from the wound was like a fountain.
"Wow......!" The black deer let out a bear-like roar and reached out to grab the excited opponent. Let the knife be stabbed into the stomach, and the head will be smashed on the opponent's head. The hard head slammed the other party's face with a hammer. When the black deer fell, his opponent also fell limply to the ground. Two eyeballs were shaken out, one drooping out of its socket, and the other was nowhere to be found.
He Zhe saw that all this happened more than a dozen steps away, but he couldn't save his brother in a short distance. He could only slash frantically, and then change the knife when it was curled. Until the blood of the enemy stained his eyes red, he still fought fiercely.
Yun Hao didn't participate in the battle, this kind of face-to-face fighting is really not what he is good at. He stood at the back of the line, shooting at the waves of enemies with improvised bolts.
The crossbow arrows are far less powerful than the Tang crossbow arrows, and they can still shoot through the enemy's armor at close range. As for the accuracy, it is really not a problem, and in the dense crowd, it is much more difficult to miss than to shoot.
"Come here!" Yun Hao, who was trying to shoot the last crossbow arrow, was suddenly pulled by someone, and Helan looked at him with a bloody knife in his hand.
"What for?" Yun Hao was puzzled, this was not the time to fall in love.
The warm lips kissed Yun Hao's lips heavily, and then left. The dog brought over a horse, and Helan pointed to the war horse and said, "This is what I left for you, let's go!" You don't have to die here, this is a battle of the Khitans. After saying that, I wanted to turn around and run to the battlefield.
The hand was grabbed by Yun Hao, "Let's go!" ”
Helan struggled hard, but did not break free. The knife in his hand immediately came to his neck, "If you don't go, death will be shown to you." ”
Yun Hao had no doubt that she really wanted to commit suicide, and the sharp knife cut a cut in her pink neck. Crimson blood flowed down the blade!
"Get on the horse and go!" Helan's tone was unusually firm, and her hand tightened again, and her mouth widened.
Tears blurred his eyes for a moment, and Yun Hao stepped on the war horse and stretched out his hand to pull the dog up.
"Take care of my clan!" Helan was carrying a knife in her hand, and her eyes were full of tears.