"The festival marshal raised the banner of righteousness, the side of the Qing monarch, and the heroes of the Quartet all gathered in Jingcong. Ashina Yang is a descendant of the Turkic royal family, and it is mostly expedient to submit to the Tang court. Today's festival marshal stirs up the world, he will not be willing to lie in wait, so he is willing to help the festival marshal. "Noble is the first to speak.

"Heir, do you think you can be trusted?"

"Jie Shuai, I don't know much about Ashina Yang, but looking at the current battle situation, Tongguan City is strong and strong, and it is difficult to break through; Hebei Prefecture and County are chaotic and the back road is unstable; The Gaoxiu Rock Department in Hedong retreated to Yunzhou, and it was difficult to do anything. If we don't find another way, the situation will only get harder. I am willing to lead more than 10,000 elite soldiers to Wuguan, adapt to the situation, and open the door to Chang'an for the marshal. Tian Chengsi proudly asked for battle.

"Jie Shuai, a certain wish to go together!" Tian Qianzhen likes to hang out with Tian Chenghei the most.

"Good!" An Lushan was overjoyed, moved his fat body and came to Tian Chenghei and said: "But I am more worried about the loss of the grain road in the rear, you have the strictest management of the army under a certain account, and you can take charge alone, and you can't do without you to pacify Hebei." The matter of Wuguan will be handled by Cui Qianyou and Ah Hao. ”

"Obey the orders of the commander!" Tian Chengsi leaned over to receive the order: "Tomorrow, I will lead the troops to the north, eradicate the ungrateful Yan brothers for the Jieshuai, and clear the thieves who hinder the connection between Youzhou and Luoyang!" ”

After the military discussion, Tian Qianzhen immediately sent several henchmen to Wuguan with the Anguo caravan to meet with Li Dingbang. After confirming that the Hezhong army was very sincere, Tian Qianzhen and Cui Qianyou gathered 15,000 soldiers and horses, prepared grain and grass, first marched east to Shaanzhou, and then marched day and night, quietly along the mountain road to the south, and set up camp in a valley dozens of miles north of Wuguan.

A few days later, Li Dingbang came in person with three or five tooth soldiers and explained in detail how he mixed a thousand Luoluo River into the grain transportation team to deceive the defenders of Lantian Pass. Tian Qianzhen originally thought that after passing the pass, he would attack from both sides and capture the pass. Who knew that Li Dingbang proposed that the assistance of the Hezhong Army was not gratuitous, and that Luohe must help him set foot on the Huazhou camp, otherwise everything would not be discussed.

Tian Qianzhen and Cui Qianyou didn't want the cooked duck to fly away, so they agreed to Li Dingbang's request after a little discussion. The two sides made a bloody alliance, and agreed that after the city of Huazhou was broken, they would do their own thing and not interfere with each other.

Tian Qianzhen sent a secret appointment to Luoyang, and the next day he received a noble reply: "Chang'an is in civil strife, and the prince and King Sheng are fighting, which is a godsend." The commander ordered the others to act cheaply and quickly clear the enemy. ”

After receiving An Lushan's order, Tian Qianzhen could be said to be living like a year, and he was eager to immediately enter Gyeonggi and capture Chang'an. But there was no movement in Wuguan City, and no further news came, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were suffocating in the valley. Cui Qianyou sent people to contact Li Dingbang several times to ask when he would do it, but the reply he received was: "Don't be impatient."

It wasn't until more than ten days later on the second day of the third month that Tian Qianzhen and Cui Qianyou finally looked forward to the signal to do it. Tian Qianzhen, who took the initiative to ask Ying, selected a thousand elites to dress up as grain transporters, and took the lead with Li Dingbang. Cui Qianyou took over Wuguan without blood, and followed with enough grain and grass and siege equipment.

When crossing the Lantian Pass, Tian Qianzhen felt that the Anxi soldiers guarding the pass seemed to be suspicious of the huge grain transportation team, but Li Dingbang was calm and unflustered, and Tian Qianzhen had to hope that he had already taken precautions.

Sure enough, despite a slight pause, the river still passed smoothly and stepped into Gyeonggi. When they reached the western outskirts of Huazhou City, there were already thousands of cavalry waiting here. Li Dingbang led hundreds of soldiers and horses in the river to drive the carriage full of bows, crossbows, and shields through layers of checkpoints, and led the way into the city.

When the fighting in the city started, Tian Qianzhen took the lead in breaking into Huazhou and directly attacked King Sheng's camp. Before leaving, he had already discussed with Cui Qianyou, although the surprise attack on the Huazhou camp would take a little more risk, but if it could plunge the Tang court into chaos and trigger internal fighting in Chang'an, the benefits of the commander's plan outweighed the disadvantages, and it was a good deal.

Li Dingbang's skill and the combat strength of the army in the river made Tian Qianzhen impressed, and he rushed to the gate of the camp after falling into the river, and King Sheng's stunned head had been picked on the bamboo pole.

The Pinglu soldiers stationed in the camp suddenly lost their fighting spirit and scattered as birds and beasts. When he led the river to chase the north, Tian Qianzhen met the lost and depressed Shi Chaoyi, and remembered the love with Shi Siming, so Tian Qianzhen let him go.

The other group of cavalry was not interested in attacking the camp of King Sheng, and as soon as they entered the city, they killed the Gao Xianzhi garrison across the street from the camp, but they encountered the desperate resistance of the Anxiya soldiers and never succeeded.

Tian Qianzhen tried to take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, but once again encountered the fierce general Anxi who showed his might in the northern city of Heyang. Dragged River tried to fight more and less, encircled and annihilated the enemy general, but he expected that he would rise and fall with his sword, and after killing more than ten Dragged River soldiers, he could still retreat.

The Anxi soldiers relied on the twists and turns of the fang-walled mansion to force the horses and horses to fight on foot, turning the entire garrison into a merciless turning millstone, and hundreds of elite soldiers would be swallowed by it, grinding into a bloody wreckage.

When the Luoluo River pursued and killed the Pinglu Ya soldiers, the casualties were very small, and the Anxi Ya soldiers were hard to fight but lost more than 100 people, and the casualties of the other cavalry were far above the Luoluo River. Tian Qianzhen believed that the Anxi soldiers would also suffer heavy casualties, but Gao Xianzhi's handsome banner always stood tall, and the remaining officers and soldiers of the Anxi Army were still like crazy tigers and had no intention of retreating.

"King Sheng is dead, and it is useless to continue to gnaw at the Anxi army." Tian Qianzhen didn't want to waste time for Gao Xianzhi anymore, so he made a quick decision and set fire to the Huazhou camp and then went south to Lantian to join Cui Qianyou. And when he evacuated, he found that Li Dingbang and the Hezhong Army had long since disappeared.

"I didn't expect Li Dingbang to be a sincere person." Tian Qianzhen has always been wary of the black eating black of the Hezhong army, but he didn't expect the other party to keep his promise. The road from Huazhou to Lantian was quite smooth, and when it reached the five miles of Lantian Guanxi, Tian Qianzhen ordered his men to light the fire, and Cui Qianyou led the army to launch a fierce attack. When the defenders were tired of dealing with the east, they suddenly attacked, broke through the pass in one fell swoop, and killed the defending general Xi Yuanqing.

After the two armies converged, they galloped westward non-stop, Tian Qianzhen thought that it would be a thoroughfare all the way after that, but who knew that Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, who had suffered heavy losses in Huazhou, had already led the remnants of the army into Lantian County, choking the choke point and stumbling on the pace of the advance of the Luoluo River.

Cui Qianyou had never suffered a loss under the Anxi army, and he thought that Gao Xianzhi's command was just some newly defeated soldiers, and he was not brave enough to speak; The small walls of Lantian County are low, and it is difficult to resist the army. Therefore, Cui Qianyou took advantage of the unstable foothold of the Gao'an Western Army, and the elite of the whole army was exhausted, planning to swallow Lantian County in one go, and annihilate the Gaoxianzhi Department without leaving any trouble.

Tian Qianzhen was ordered to take Luoluohe and 7,000 cavalry to surround the entire county town from afar, cut off internal and external communication, and wait for an opportunity to move. Cui Qianyou sent 2,000 crossbowmen to suppress the defenders at the head of the city, and he personally led 2,000 sword and shield soldiers and 2,000 pikemen, carrying simple ladders to climb the city and serve as the backbone of the siege.

Fan Yangjun has dominated the northeastern border for many years, and has always boasted of being an elite soldier, and does not take the rest of the border army in his eyes. The soldiers who followed Cui Qianyou and Tian Qianzhen were all tiger and wolf warriors who were conceited and brave, and their morale was very high. Cui Qianyou originally thought that he could break through the door and capture the flag with a single charge, and the remnants of Huazhou, who could be the backbone of the Anxi Army, burst out with endless courage inspired by the handsome flag full of holes. Relying on the low city wall, they used all their strength to smash feather arrows, crossbow arrows, and rolling wood and stones at the Fan Yang army who were attacking the city.

Fan Yang's army rained down arrows, trying to sweep away the defenders at the head of the city, while the Anxi army dismantled the door panel as a giant shield and counterattacked condescendingly; Countless times Fan Yang's soldiers and horses have climbed the city wall, and victory seems to be within reach, but again and again they have been driven down the city by the exhausted but desperate Anxi army; Occasionally, the city gates were breached, and the river was greeted by countless thistles, horse pits, and low-lying walls built improvised by demolished houses...... Fan Yang's army gradually compressed the opponent's front, but it was never able to dissipate the resistance of the remnants of Huazhou's army, and every inch of Fan Yang's army took a long time and lost many soldiers. The fierceness of the battle between the two sides and the fierce competition made the heaven and earth lose color and the stars and moon.

The moon moves and the stars turn, and the wind blows the flag.

"The Anxi Army is a hard nut to crack!" Cui Qianyou, who had not been able to attack for a long time, considered giving up the siege and luring the Anxi army out of the city to fight. But as soon as the momentum of the siege slowed down slightly, a deafening cry was heard from inside the city: "The rebels are tired, reinforcements are coming, hold the city, and fight bravely to kill the enemy!" ”

"The plan to lure the enemy was discovered before it was launched, Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing are worthy of being famous generals on the same level as the festival marshal." Cui Qianyou had a headache: "If you abandon Lantian County, the second general of Gao Feng will definitely lead the light cavalry to follow behind, and choose the opportunity to harass and sneak attack our army, which will ruin my plan!" ”

"It seems that we can only send troops and horses back to Lantian Pass to transport the counterweight stone cannon and completely destroy Lantian City. Otherwise, once the Tang court reacted and dispatched nearby garrisons to come, it would be difficult for our army alone to resist tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Gyeonggi. Tian Qianzhen knew that the soldiers were fast: "Fortunately, King Sheng is dead, the Tang court is in chaos, and there is still a little effort at the moment." ”

"I thought that after passing the Lantian Pass, I would be able to ride the river, and I didn't need to carry a heavy stone cannon, but who knew that a Gao Xianzhi appeared out of thin air......" After sending two thousand light horsemen back to escort the stone cannon, Cui Qianyou spat fiercely, but before he finished complaining, there was a sharp sound from the north, which was the signal of Fan Yang's scout.

"Where did the soldiers and horses come from?" Tian Qianzhen slapped his horse forward, and with the help of the starry sky and the light of the lights, he saw a fluttering daqi from a distance from the northern horizon, and behind the military flag waving in the wind, the heavily armored iron horses lined up in a sharp array were like a monstrous wave, leading thousands of light horsemen to rush wildly.

"The spearmen are in formation, the archers are shooting at will, the river is following a certain attack, and the light cavalry outflanks the enemy!" The enemy cavalry was still thousands of steps away, but the fierce murderous aura had already rushed to his face, which made Tian Qian really vigilant and hurriedly tried his best to deal with it.

But before Tian Qianzhen arrived, clusters of flames ignited in the north of the city, disturbing Fan Yang's spearmen who were hurriedly arrayed. Under the light of the fierce flames, the heavy cavalry of 200 men and horses in armor and cast like iron, led by the famous sword wielding killing god, easily pierced through the uneven gun formation, and slaughtered the ranks of archers without stopping. Thousands of light horsemen followed by galloped along the passage carved by the heavy cavalry, expanding their success.