At night, the gray mist fills the vast land, which is west of Atami, where the primitive black pine forests are densely distributed along the shores of the lake, and Atami is named after the water temperature that is higher than that of the average lake and river, and it is already early winter, and the snow covers the earth, but it is difficult to see a trace of snow near Atami, and the climate is warm and humid, and there is a thick and humid fog in the black forest on winter nights.

Just in the forest, in the lingering fog, there are countless black shadows, just like the elves of the Black Forest night tour, they are naturally the four thousand Tang troops who rushed thousands of miles to break the leaves, after nearly half a month of hard marching, the Tang army arrived at the destination of their trip under the cover of the first snow, broken leaves.

At this moment, they are still about one hundred and fifty miles away from Broken Leaf City, and two scouts who are proficient in Turkic have gone to Broken Leaf City with the guide Turk three days ago, and three full days have passed, and there is still no news, it has reached the most critical moment, Guan Ying's heart is extremely nervous, his face can no longer see the laughter and scolding that has come all the way, his face is heavy, and his eyes are anxiously staring into the distance.

"General Guan, get some sleep!" Adjutant General Yan Yun walked over and patted him lightly on the shoulder, and comforted him with a smile: "It's not a big deal, it's really a vicious battle, I don't believe that the small Broken Leaf City can still have an army of 10,000 people?" ”

"I know there's no way to be in a hurry, but the stakes are high, how can I not be nervous?" Guan Ying sighed and said: "The governor doesn't consider my low qualifications, but asks me to do this thing that has a bearing on the overall situation, I'm afraid that if I don't think about it properly, it will be a big deal!" ”

Yan Yun didn't speak, although he also felt that it seemed a bit risky for the Governor to use Guan Ying to do this, but the Governor's decision was something that a small Governor could disobey, he was silent for a moment and then smiled: "General Guan, don't be presumptuous, the Governor asked you to complete this matter, there must be his considerations." General Guan just has to let it go, and we will do our best to help the general make this miraculous feat. ”

"The credit belongs to everyone. I'm not alone. Guan Ying glanced at him coldly. Stand up and run briskly out of the forest. He had seen a dark figure on horseback running towards him.

"Report to the General, the situation may not be good." Only one scout and guide Türk arrived, while the other was nowhere to be seen.

Guan Ying saw that his face was heavy, and his heart couldn't help but feel cold. Then he asked in a deep voice, "What happened?" What about Team Yang? ”

"The Great Cannibals are forcibly recruiting soldiers in various places, and Türk's leg wound has not healed and has been spared, and Team Yang is unfortunately being captured."

"Forced conscription?" Guan Ying was stunned, and he groaned. I guessed that the recruitment of the big cannibals was very likely to be related to the situation in Shule, if the big cannibals went to support Shule, would they take the back road of attacking the Tang army at the Tuoyun Mountain Pass? On the side of Ketuoyun Mountain Pass, it was impossible to repair a castle in just ten days, and Guan Ying suddenly realized that his mission was not just as simple as capturing Shattered Leaf City.

"Then you can detect the forces of the Shattered Leaf Land?" This is what Guan Ying is most concerned about.

The scout bowed and saluted, "The subordinates are incompetent, and the city of Broken Leaves is very chaotic now, and it is difficult to find out their specific strength. But the subordinates heard from others. Two armies came from the west, estimated at about 2,000 men. Together with the original defenders, his subordinates estimated that there were about four or five thousand people in the city at present. ”

Guan Ying paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, his brows furrowed tightly, what should I do? Do you really want to storm the city of broken leaves, broken leaves are not as good as the general earth city in the Western Regions, it is a military town built by the Tang army, the city walls are tall and strong, they have no siege equipment, close to thousands of cavalry is unable to take the city, and the opponent's troops are not less than them, not to mention the siege, I am afraid that even the grassland field battle will be a problem.

Or wait a few more days, when the big cannibal is gone? But they had already been delayed for five days, and they couldn't wait any longer, so Guan Ying couldn't think of what to do, so he called Yan Yun and several other middle-level officers to discuss countermeasures.

Some people proposed to send some people to take the opportunity to seize the city gate when they mixed into the city, and then the army came to respond, but there were also people who objected, and if the number was small, they would be immediately captured, and if the number was large, there would be no chance to get close to the city gateFirst-hair.||

Someone also suggested that since Da Shi was conscripting, he would simply pretend to be young and be captured by them, and then wait for the opportunity to act, but Yan Yun immediately objected, he pointed out that generally the captured young man would not have any freedom, and would only be strictly guarded to prevent escape, and finally be used as a meat shield to put into the battlefield when the big army was fighting.

There are different opinions, everyone has never been able to come up with a unified opinion, Guan Ying has been silent, it should be said that everyone's various methods are actually the same starting point, that is, to use the big cannibal to know the arrival of their own army, surprise troops to seize the city, but the problem is that the degree of feasibility is not big enough, the big cannibal is not an idiot, and there is no army of more than 1,000 people can not take the city gate.

How can there be a way to get an army of a thousand men close to the city without being suspicious of the enemy?

At this time, the guide Türk came over to say goodbye to Guan Ying, "General Guan, thank you for saving your life, but I can't rest assured that my family is going back to He Hunting City, I wish you a smooth victory in taking down the broken leaves." ”

"Wait!" Guan Ying's mind was like lightning, a thought flashed through him, and he immediately asked him, "What other cities are there around here?" ”

Turk replied respectfully: "Actually, there are many small cities near Atami, and we are afraid that you will be discovered, so we all choose the remote road and deliberately avoid these cities, such as the Hunting City, the Frozen City, and the Yezhi City in the south, and the General Peiluo City one hundred and thirty miles to the west, and the nearest place to us should be the Yezhi City, which is less than twenty miles to the south. ”

"Is there a garrison of big cannibals in these small towns? If there is a garrison, then how many? ”

"There are garrisons, but it's impossible to say how many." Türk scratched his head, "In the past, there were usually one or two hundred people, and at most there were a thousand people, but now that the Great Food Army has gathered Broken Leaves, I think it should not be less." ”

Guan Ying already had a bold plan in his heart, he looked up at the night, and immediately smiled at everyone: "Wouldn't it be nice to have friends come from afar?" I guess the Great Cannibal of Broken Leaves should welcome his army! ”

Half an hour later, the four thousand Tang troops quietly set off, and they galloped along the edge of the forest, under the cover of the night fog, towards Yezhi City. The land around Atami is fertile. The climate was warm and humid that year. The Tang army brought with them many advanced agricultural techniques when they were tuntian near the broken leaves. As a result, agriculture in this area is relatively developed. It is also relatively densely populated, with many small towns scattered, and one of the smaller ones is Hajijo, which is located at the entrance of the Shiba River into Atami, and has more than 1,000 inhabitants. Most of them make a living from farming.

At this moment, there are about 500 people in the Dashi garrison in the Diye Branch, and they are stationed in the city. It is rammed with clay, two zhang high, more than 500 steps in length and width, and its role is mainly to defend against the invasion of wild beasts in the forest, so there is neither a city tower nor a soldier patrolling on the city wall, but only a high platform is built at each of the four corners of the city wall, which acts as a patrol post.

The edge of the forest. Guan Ying looked at Ye Zhicheng, which was three hundred steps away. They had already scouted around, and all the Great Food Eaters were inside the city. Moreover, there is only one gate in this city, and dozens of butter torches are lit at the city gate, which illuminates the city gate.

In the dreary darkness of the night, more than a dozen soldiers dressed as civilians drove hundreds of horses towards the city, and on each horse hung a Tang soldier, and when they were less than a hundred paces away from the city, they were discovered by the patrol on the high platform, and someone in the dark shouted: "Stop, who are you?" ”

Speaking in Turkic, it seemed that the soldiers were locals, and one of the Tang soldiers also replied in a loud voice in Turkic: "We are horse merchants, coming from Bahan, the forest is not safe, and we want to go into the city for the night." ”

"Do you have a pass?"

"Yes! Yes! ”

In a moment, a basket of books was hung from the high platform, "Put the pass inside!" ”

A yellow and clear gold book was put into the basket of books, and the basket quickly pulled upwards, and soon disappeared into the night, and the soldiers on it suddenly fell silent. \\\Starting\\\

"Master Jun, let's make it convenient! We'll leave at dawn, and we'll be thankful. ”

After a while, the big iron door creaked open, and someone inside complained, "You can't open the door at night, hurry up, don't bother me." ”

"Good! Good! Good! Let's hurry. Tang Jun was perfunctory, Sen Leng's horizontal knife had been quietly withdrawn, the door opened, and two excited and greedy faces were revealed under the firelight, "One ingot of gold is not enough, give another ingot." ”

However, what they saw was no longer the golden book of Huang Chengcheng, but dozens of snow-bright long knives, the blades flashed, two heads fell to the ground, the Tang army quickly rushed into the city gate, the torches at the city gate were suddenly extinguished, and in the darkness, they saw a group of figures quietly pouring into the city gate.

On the night of two days later, the same thing happened in General Peiluo City one hundred and thirty miles away, and on October 12 of the first year of Yong'an, the Tang army was less than twenty miles away from Broken Leaf City after annihilating more than 500 Great Food Troops in General Peiluo City.

Broken Leaf City is the farthest fortified border city in the western region of the Chinese dynasties, in the first year of Tang Gaozong's dew, after the Tang pacification ambassador Pei Xingjian pacified the rebellion of the governor of Ashina, Duzhi and others, the deputy ambassador, the protector of Anxi established the Broken Leaf Town next to the Broken Leaf River to replace Yanqi, so from this time on, the four towns of Anxi are the Broken Leaf Turtle in Khotan.

It was not until the seventh year of Kaiyuan that the ten Khans of the Western Turks invited to live in Broken Leaf City, and Tang Jiahui, the envoy of the Four Towns Festival, suggested that Yanqi Town replace Broken Leaf Town, and Broken Leaf Town gradually lost its glorious status, and finally after the Battle of Talas in the eighth year of Tianbao, Broken Leaf Town was finally annihilated under the rolling iron hooves of the Great Eater Cavalry.

From Atami to the west, there are several huge mountain ranges running east-west, and the water supply between the mountains is abundant, the terrain is flat, and the climate is also very pleasant, and it has been the place where the Hu people of various countries have lived since ancient times.

Broken Leaf City is located in the Broken Leaf River Valley, the valley is about 400 miles long, the most wide is 160 miles, and the Broken Leaf River with sufficient water crosses it.

Among the countless small cities in the Atami Basin, the Broken Leaf City is undoubtedly standing out, it is the Tang Army of the year modeled on the Chang'an City and built, the circumference of the city is full of fifty miles at the longest, but with the passage of time, the area of the Broken Leaf City is also shrinking, the current Broken Leaf City is rebuilt during the Tianbao period, the circumference of the city is still more than 20 li, in this huge city, there are more than 100,000 residents, most of them are Western Turks and Qarluqs, and there are also some Han descendants.

Since Shatterleaf Castle was the central city of the Atami Valley, its garrison was generally maintained at more than 8,000 men, but due to the fierce battle between the Great Eclipse Army and the Tibetan army in Tocharo, most of its troops had been transferred south. Now it's around 3,000, but just a few days ago. The garrisons of the countries along the Yaozhi River received an order from the Prince of the Great Food, Agush. Ordered them to urgently support Shule. In this way, the 1,000 garrisons of Ashibulai City and Julan City to the west of Shattered Leaf City rushed to Broken Leaf City to concentrate, preparing to go south to support Shule.

At dusk that day, a large army of more than 1,000 people came from the east, led by the Tang general Guan Ying. After they completely annihilated the Great Food Garrison in Yezhi City and General Pei Luo's City, they got more than 1,000 sets of Great Food Army Costumes, and captured a general as a cover and drove towards Broken Leaf City.

Although Guan Ying already knew that Shattered Leaf City was not as small as he thought. But when he actually saw the city, he was still stunned and excited by its incomparably magnificent momentum, and at sunset, Shattered Leaf City was bathed in golden light, like the legendary City of Temples, in this land full of exotic atmospheres, Broken Leaf City was one of the outliers. It completely maintains the style of Datang. The castle tower with carved cornices and corners, and the towering city wall made of hundreds of thousands of bluestones. A sudden out of the ground horse face, wide moat, high pull suspension bridge, this is an easy to defend and difficult to attack the city, in the siege weapons are generally backward, cavalry-based Western Regions or big food, to capture this city, it is tantamount to more difficult than ascending to the sky.

Guan Ying knew that his decision was right, if he didn't have to calculate, his northern expedition could only end in failure, at this time, he was still about three miles away from Broken Leaf City, and the sky was already dark.

At this time, there was a sudden yellow dust in the distance, and it was a large team of cannibals who came to inspect the situation, and when they got closer, the officer in front shouted disdainfully: "How did you come to Broken Leaf City?" ”

There are four kinds of army of the Great Food, the first is the Caliph's Guard, which is the elite of the Great Food Army, with 100,000 people, stationed in Baghdad; The second type is called the Benzong Army, which is also composed of the Great Cannibal Army, with a slightly inferior combat power to the Guards, about 200,000 people, commanded by the major governors, and is the main force of the Great Food Campaign, among the 50,000 Great Food Army in Shule, 30,000 people are the Benzong Army; The third type is called the local army, which is composed of people from all over the world who are not cannibals, but believe in Islam, such as the 5,000 people who are now stationed in Broken Leaf City, which is the local army; The fourth type is called the slave army, they are composed of people from all countries who have been conquered by the Great Food, and do not believe in Islam, this kind of soldiers have the lowest status, they are generally stationed in small towns, and when they fight, they are the first to rush to the front, and the first people to be sent to death, and the small towns of Atami are all slave soldiers, and they are also the worst equipped and treated.

Therefore, it is extremely normal for the sentinels who came to inspect the situation to look at them with contempt. When Guan Ying saw the other party's question, his heart immediately became nervous, and he used a dagger against the back of the captured general of the Great Food Army, and threatened in a low voice: "Don't forget, your wife and children are still in my hands, if you dare to have the slightest dissent, I will not only kill you, but also your entire family." ”

The captured general was the garrison chief of Yezhicheng, he was a local Turk, and he could only be a low-level petty officer, he did not dare to disobey, and immediately said to the general of the patrol post: "We have obtained thousands of war horses, specially sent them, and are willing to obey the dispatch." ”

As he spoke, he pointed behind him, and when the general saw that thousands of horses were far behind, he was overjoyed, and he did not carefully inspect the situation of these slave troops, but only said: "Drive the horses into the city quickly." Then he turned his horse's head and led the patrol cavalry to the city.

Guan Ying's heart was slightly relieved, and he immediately ordered the soldiers to speed up and gallop towards Shattered Leaf City.

The distance of several miles passed in a moment, and at this time the Tang army was less than three hundred steps away from the east city gate, the drawbridge was slowly lowered, and the city gate was also rumbling open, and hundreds of soldiers guarding the city gate were either standing on the city wall or crowded at the city gate, scrambling to look at the horses behind.

Several Tang soldiers were just about to rush forward, but Guan Ying immediately stopped them in a low voice, "Don't worry, let some of the war horses go in first." ”

The soldiers immediately dodged a way, letting more than a thousand horses walk in front, and just like that, a thousand cavalry mixed with two large groups of war horses slowly walked towards the city gate.

The war horse entered the city cave, and the soldiers of the big food came forward to choose, but many people shouted, Guan Ying was stunned, and immediately asked the officers around him: "What are they shouting?" ”

"They're asking, why are these horses gelding? Obviously they are all military horses. ”

The sweat on Guan Ying's back suddenly fell, this was his negligence, he actually forgot the difference between ordinary horses and military horses, his mind turned quickly, and he immediately said to the officer: "You tell them that this is the war horse of the Qarluq." ”

"Good! I say. The officer suddenly stepped forward. But he pointed behind him and shouted wildly: "They are Tang Jun!" They are the Don Army! ”

The situation changed drastically, and Guan Ying saw that the matter had been exposed. He yelled. Drawing knives rushed to the drawbridge. A knife cut the officer's head more than a foot away, and the Tang troops behind roared angrily, drew their swords and rushed onto the drawbridge, killing the big food army guarding the city gate like a raging storm, and in a moment they cut more than a dozen people in the outermost area into pulp.

The Great Food Army has already reacted. Many people pushed desperately to close the city gate, but the city cave was crowded with war horses, and it was impossible to close the gate at all.

The arrows of the Tang army were like a rain. Dozens of Great Food Army were shot to death in an instant, and at this time, a lagging Tang Army lit a smoke bomb and threw it out, and suddenly billowing smoke rose up, which was a kind of Tang Army's gunpowder bomb, which was dedicated to reporting to the distance.

"Kill!" The Tang army drove the war horses and rushed into the city. Fight with hundreds of Great Food Eaters rushing down from the city. At this moment, the drastic change at the East Gate has spread throughout the city. The Great Food Army came from all directions, and everywhere there were groups of Great Food Eaters in black armor running through the streets.

The enemy army at the east gate soon increased to more than 1,000 people, they were armed with short spears and javelins, and launched a fierce attack on the Tang army again and again, the javelins were thrown intensively, and there were constantly war horses and soldiers who were stabbed by flying spears, or screamed or screamed, fell to the ground and died, and the blood flowed into a river, but the Tang army's counterattack was even sharper, they used the bows and arrows of the Tang Dynasty, and shot the dense arrow rain to the enemy group in a row, and the sound of wailing continued to sound in the enemy group, and the enemy troops fell one by one.

But with the passage of time, more and more of the big food army rushed to the east gate, more than 2,000 people have gathered, they have given up the Tang army's long-distance combat, using the advantage of troops to swarm the Tang army, the two armies are short of each other, and start an extremely cruel white-edged battle, more than 3,000 people are crowded in a narrow city hole, the knife light flashes, the flesh and blood fly, a Tang army was cut to the ground, he is not dead, screaming and squirming on the ground, and then was dismembered into dozens of pieces by the knife.

The head of a big cannibal soldier was split in half, and his brain was splashed, and the face of the Tang army was all over his body, this was a suffocating battle for the city gate, the corpses were piled up all over the ground, many people were not killed, but trampled to death, suffocated to death, both armies were crazy, they rushed desperately to kill, leaving their lives behind.

At this time, the reinforcements of the Tang army have appeared several miles away, the black cavalry is overwhelming this side, the sound of horses' hooves shakes the earth, but the Tang army at the city gate is already at a disadvantage, most of the dead and wounded, the big food army has arrived more than 4,000 people, they are like a huge wave of the sea, wave after wave will push the Tang army out of the city, the city gate has begun to close, and the most terrible thing is that the suspension bridge has also begun to creak up.

Guan Ying was seriously injured and covered in blood, but as if he was crazy, he screamed and led a dozen soldiers to desperately cut the locks on the suspension bridge, and with a loud bang, the locks on the suspension bridge broke the wood, the sawdust flew wildly, and the huge iron chain flew up like a giant snake, smashing the two Tang soldiers off the moat.

"General! Shing mun. A Tang soldier shouted desperately, as soon as Guan Ying turned around, his heart seemed to have fallen into the abyss, the city gate was less than three feet gap, hundreds of Tang soldiers desperately resisted, but the city gate was still closing inch by inch.

Guan Ying suddenly thought of something, he frantically searched among the dead horses on the ground, and he found it, it was a twenty-pound iron box, which was filled with gunpowder, which was originally intended to be used to bomb the city gate.

The iron gate made an unusually piercing sliding sound, and a Tang soldier fell down screaming, one of his legs was forced into two sections by the iron gate, and the other section was swept into the city, and the gap in the gate was only more than a foot away, although the cavalry of the Tang army also killed three hundred steps away, but it was too late anyway.

Guan Ying's trembling hands finally lit the fuse, but he no longer had the strength to throw the powder box into it with his arms, he held the powder box tightly in his arms, and smiled miserably, "Fuck, Lao Shu hasn't married a wife yet!" ”

Suddenly, with a wild roar, he unleashed the last of his potential, jumped onto the mountain of corpses, and leaped into the city gate through a gap only a foot wide.

With an earth-shattering bang, the city gate slammed slam slam shut, but it bounced violently, the city gate was wide open, and the city gate hole was full of smoke and fire, but it was so silent.

"Kill!" More than 3,000 Tang cavalry swept like a violent wind, and they rushed onto the drawbridge and slaughtered into Shattered Leaf City.

On October 12 of the first year of Yong'an, the former Broken Leaf Military Town of Datang was recaptured by 4,000 warriors after more than 30 years of absence.

(Silent mourning for our bloody Tang warriors)

I wrote this chapter for eight hours, until two o'clock in the evening, hoping that you would support it with a monthly pass.