The next day, the Turkic army gathered on the Great Gobi rose up, and the troops advanced more than ten miles south in the direction of Yunzhou, and stopped again at a place near the mountains and rivers. Then, they cut down trees and raised furnaces to strike iron, and began to build an ancestral hall.

Following the ancient customs of the Turks, whenever a heavy military activity is launched, it is necessary to go to the ancestral hall to worship. In fact, the army of the Tang Dynasty also has such a custom, before the expedition to worship the gods of heaven and earth and the rain master Fengbo, generally presided over by the Son of Heaven, and the ceremony will also award the axe to the general.

However, the sacrifices of the Turks are different from those of the Tang Dynasty, they want to sacrifice the wolf totem that symbolizes the spirit, the god of war that symbolizes victory, and the god of war who symbolizes bravery.

Of course, the first two are fixed, only the last human god of war has different candidates in different eras. Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's several. Sometimes it was a warrior of the Turkic tribe, but it was also a famous general of a foreign tribe.

The Turks are a people who respect warriors quite a lot, as long as they are warriors who are famous in the world, they will bow and worship, even if this person is an enemy of the Turkic people. In their view, bravery knows no borders and transcends ethnicity, life and death, and history.

Today, the Turks will worship only one human god of war.

The white-robed god of war who is famous in the annals of history - Xue Li, Xue Rengui!

In that year, Xue Rengui joined the army as a civilian and served as a pawn, and accompanied Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, to Goguryeo. When he landed on the battlefield of Goguryeo, Xue Rengui wore a white robe and single-handedly slaughtered into the enemy's army, taking the rank of general among the millions of troops, and the magic arrow in his hand killed many fierce generals of the enemy army, and single-handedly disrupted the formation of the enemy's tens of thousands of troops, helping the Tang army to win a great victory. Since then, Xue Rengui has become famous in a battle, and Tang Taizong announced him to the front of the emperor to personally commend him.

Since then, Xue Rengui has completed the gorgeous transformation from a cloth pawn to a tiger general. Every time he goes on an expedition, Xue Rengui will wear white clothes and white robes. The "White-robed God of War" is famous all over the world, which makes the aliens tremble!

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Three days later, Yunzhou.

Xue Shao and Xue Rengui, an old man and a young man, presided over a public sacrifice in the Yunzhou Governor's Mansion to commemorate the soldiers and people who died in Yunzhou. All officers and men of the army participated.

If the open space is large, there are countless spiritual seats. The tragic aura made the sky of Yunzhou change color, and the angry roar shook the entire city.

The strong hatred comes from the deep love in the hearts of men for their compatriots in their home and country. There is no need for superfluous words to agitate, all the soldiers present have seen all kinds of miserable scenes in Yunzhou City. The fall of Yunzhou has become the biggest pain in the hearts of every Tang Army soldier. Killing the enemy and taking revenge has become their greatest wish.

Xue Rengui has always been stingy with words, and he did not make many statements when presiding over the public sacrifice, so he asked Xue Shao to say a few more words to boost morale.

Xue Shao didn't make much preparation, and after walking on the altar, he played on the spot, and with the real tragedy and anger in his chest, he said to the soldiers of the whole army-

"The duty of a soldier is to protect the territory and the people. The fall of the city, the sacrifice of the robes, the destruction of the homeland, and the killing of the people are our greatest shame! ”

"Seeing the tragic situation in Yunzhou in front of me, I think that all the soldiers present have no reason to live, and they all deserve to die!"

As soon as the scene opened, Xue Shao released such a heavy bomb, which stunned everyone present, including Xue Rengui.

Xue Shao looked at everyone in the field with an unusually strict sù, and said loudly: "You heard it right, we all deserve to die!" ”

"But not from grief, not from nostalgia and grief!"

"It's not that you die of insensitivity, it's not that you die of getting by!"

"We will take up our swords and guns and die like true warriors!"

"Only in this way can we live up to Li Wenji's incarnation of beacon fire and honor the country with his body!"

"Only in this way can we live up to the thousands of heroic souls above the clouds and look down on us!"

Everyone looked overhead, the sky was cloudy, dark and gloomy. It was as if there were really thousands of souls floating in it, quietly watching the 50,000 Tang Army soldiers present.

The whole audience turned into silence and solemnity, and the wind howled by, fanning the flames of war in the hearts of every soldier to the extreme.

"My robes—"

Xue Shao took a deep breath and slowly pulled out his sword, "Who wants to fight the Turks to the death with me, and recommend Yunzhou with blood?" ”

"I-!!"

"Fight to the death against the Turks, blood recommend Yunzhou!"

Thousands of responses, stormy waves!!

The entire Yunzhou city is like the collapse of Mount Tai, like thunder falling from the sky!

Xue Rengui sat in the back seat without moving, his face was tense and his expression was stern, but he muttered a sentence in his mouth, "Good one, my brothers in robe!" ”

This is not only a public sacrifice, but also a great oath before the expedition.

For Xue Shao's ability to boost morale, Xue Rengui, who has never been good at this way (or has no intention of doing this), is absolutely admired. It is absolutely not possible for one person to make thousands of people hate the same enemy with just a few words. That can only prove that he has the same ideals and ambitions in his heart as most soldiers, and has the same feelings and feelings.

Isn't it the ability that a commander should possess when he supports all the people in unison?

Xue Rengui pondered this, and sighed secretly in his heart: The old man has been away from the dynasty for many years, and there are many talents in the Tang Dynasty. It seems that the old man is really old, and it is time to abdicate and make way for Xian......

The fall of Yunzhou is a burden that cannot be borne by a general, a national shame that the Tang Dynasty, a heavenly kingdom, cannot bear, and a lingering shadow and tragedy in the hearts of every Tang army soldier.

Therefore, when the scouts came to report that the Turkic troops stationed in the Great Gobi had not retreated, but had advanced towards Yunzhou, Xue Shao and Xue Rengui unanimously decided to send their troops to meet them.

This war is pure war. There is no interference from the personal position of politicians, and there is no consideration of the interests of those in power.

The 50,000 Tang troops who "deserve to die" poured all their hatred and spirit into the weapons in their hands, and all of them united in hatred of the enemy, just for the blood of the soldiers rushing in the veins, and for the pain and hatred in the chest that was difficult to quell!

"Young Marshal Xue, the old man asks you to lead the troops and horses of your headquarters to stay in Yunzhou in preparation for the aftermath and aftermath." Xue Rengui said very earnestly, "The military of Hebei is all on the old man. The young marshal came to the aid thousands of miles away, and he had already done his duty. In this battle, the old man must go it alone. Please also make it a success! ”

Xue Shao took a deep breath and said, "Old general, Xue Shao understands your intentions. But if he misses this battle, Xue Shao will regret it for the rest of his life. Please let me go with you alone, I promise you not to go to the battlefield, but only to beat the drums in the rear. ”

"No!" Xue Rengui refused, not allowing for the slightest discussion.

"Please." Xue Shao looked at Xue Rengui's eyes seriously, "Xue Shao, in the name of an ordinary soldier, beg you, willing to ask the old general, to allow me to witness this battle with my own eyes!" ”

"......" Xue Rengui forced his eyes to look at Xue Shao, and the essence of his eyes burst out.

Xue Shao looked at him without shying away from it, extremely sincere.

"Please!"

Xue Rengui shouted and turned around and left, walking in a hurry.

Xue Shao took a deep breath and said loudly: "Zhang Renyuan, you come to stay in Yunzhou on my behalf to prepare for the aftermath!" ”

"Yes......" Zhang Ren smiled bitterly after agreeing to the promise, miserable, I missed this battle!

50,000 Tang troops, the division went out of Yunzhou and advanced to the Turkic army.

Xue Shao set off with thirty subordinates, all of whom were incorporated into the drum and band battle of the commander of the Chinese army, and accompanied him all the way.

Xue Rengui was determined not to let Xue Shao participate in the war. Xue Shao didn't blindly insist, he just didn't want to miss this big battle, this battle for the blood of soldiers, a big war!

As soon as the army set off, Guo An led the scouts to report in person, saying that after the Turks moved ten miles, they began to build ancestral halls to worship the gods, preparing for a decisive battle with the Tang army.

"This is the best, but it saves the old man the effort of finding the enemy and chasing him!" Xue Rengui was arrogant.

Guo An glanced at Xue Rengui and said solemnly: "Old general, the young general also heard that one of the gods sacrificed by the Turks is you, the old general!" ”

"Oh?" Xue Rengui couldn't help but sigh in surprise, and then laughed out loud, "Turkic child, you must have thought that the old man was long gone in the world and turned into dry bones!" ”

"I'm afraid so." Guo An replied, "The young general caught the tongue of a Turkic scout, and under questioning, he learned that this group of Turkic soldiers and horses was the elite of the attached Khan, known as the wolf horseman. Their commander is Ashina Mosi, who is the brother of the Turkic pseudo-khan Gu Dulu, who is extremely brave and good at fighting, and has always respected the old general the most, and regards the old general as the god of war in the world. But he claimed to the army under his command that Xue Rengui stationed in Hebei was fake, and the real Xue Rengui had already died of illness in Xiangzhou and was no longer in the world. ”

"Interesting!" Xue Rengui stroked his hair and smiled, and said no more.

Xue Shao also smiled and said, "Presumably, the silence is just to appease the soldiers and stabilize the morale of the army." In fact, there is not only one person on the grassland who is silently in awe of the old general. Since the old general's three arrows fixed the Tianshan Mountain, the grassland people have always regarded the old general as the supreme god of war for decades. When I accompanied Pei Gong on the Northern Expedition a few days ago, I went deep into Mobei, and in many places I saw the ancestral halls built by various tribes of the grassland for the old generals, and the sacrifices at four o'clock were never interrupted. Whenever they went on an expedition, the Turks would definitely go to the ancestral hall of the old general to pay their respects. ”

"I didn't expect that the old man would become the god of war in the eyes of other races!" Xue Rengui smiled slightly, "And no matter how they sacrifice and talk nonsense, the old man is only here to avenge the killing of the enemy - the old man is a general of the Tang Dynasty, when he is alive, and he is also dead!" ”

The army marched on. In order to preserve the body, the pace of the march was not too fast.

The scouts reported again, and after the Turks had finished their sacrifices, they also raised their camps and marched south. The other side has obviously detected the movement of our army, and is steadily advancing with a drum of agitation, putting on a posture of fighting to the death. And the slogan they shouted was ridiculous - "Destroy Tang Shi and capture Xue Shao alive!" ”

Hearing this, Xue Rengui looked up at the handsome flag with the word "Xue" fluttering above his head with a smile, and said: "Turkic child, do you really think that the old man is dead?!" ”