Thousands of mountains and birds fly away, and thousands of people disappear. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the prince's manor in the western suburbs, King Jianning retreated left and right, raised his glass to the snow, and said to himself: "The empty valley is blue, fresh and natural, it is really interesting, and it is by no means comparable to the likes of vulgar powder!" ”

In Chang'an City, when Cui Yuan walked into the house on the thin snow, he looked at the courtyard with a pile of silver and jade, and subconsciously pondered: "Condensation, the water is strong, it is the air of severe cold; Ying, the end of the He, the ear of the Ying is called Ying. Cui Ning...... Cui Ying...... Yes?! ”

"Quick, send someone back to Qingzhou and check the family tree!" The long-sealed family affairs suddenly rushed to Cui Yuan's heart like a surging tide.

"Alang, the gates are closed. Also, what exactly to look up in the genealogy. The housekeeper saw that Cui Yuan was irritable and reminded in a low voice.

"Forget it, you ordered someone to prepare horses and retinues, and you have your own arrangements." Cui Yuan's face returned to calm, and he had decided to let his son go back to Qingzhou.

When the housekeeper and servants retired, Cui Yuan muttered: "The ugliness of the family should not be publicized, if I am not mistaken, it is all a foolish thing made by the old man of the clan back then......"

The crows at dusk frighten the trees and snow, and the cold birds guard the ice pool.

In the midst of the snowstorm, a tired caravan suddenly appeared in the western suburbs outside Tingzhou City, and they had obviously been trekking for a long time, and were heading towards the lighted Xida Temple under the heavy snow.

There are many tall dromedaries and hussars in the queue, as well as more than a dozen four-horse carriages. The sides of the camels were covered with heavy cargo boxes, and the wagons were deeply rutted in the snow.

A bearded warrior in a white cotton robe sat on horseback, looking curiously at the majestic temple ahead, bewildered by its purpose.

"Abenny, this is just a Buddhist temple, what's there to see?" Mudea, who deliberately covered his left eye with a black cloth, scolded in a low voice.

"Damn the infidels, one day the Doge will lead us to burn all the pagan temples to the ground." Ebenny spat viciously.

"I don't think the Governor will agree with you." Mutaia said quietly.

"Why? Didn't the governor always say that the light of Allah would shine on all the peoples of the earth? ”

"In that case, why burn down Buddhist temples? Just destroy the clay wood carvings inside, and such a magnificent building can become a holy place for us to worship Allah. ”

"Or Commander Mutaia knows the governor's mind better." Albeni praised from the bottom of his heart.

"Shhhh We have gone deep into the Tang realm, the Tang people are very cunning, and many people are proficient in our language, so we must not be careless. Speaking of this, Mutai'a thought of Khudulu for no reason, and his heart ached faintly: "Also, don't forget that we are now a Umayyad caravan from Egypt, and we can't show our feet in a word or deed. ”

"Yes!" Centurion Ebeni nodded hurriedly, his gaze beyond the woods to the north of Saidaiji Temple, staring at the military village scattered with a few sparks in the distance, which was the goal of their trip.

After the Battle of Talas, the pondering Albeni was obsessed with studying the tactics and tactics of the Tang army, and suggested that Abu Muslim, who was eager for talent after the defeat, offer a bounty to recruit craftsmen to build heavy armor and bows and arrows, and train a chain of heavy cavalry and strong archers to fight against the Tang army, which brought great shame to the Khorasan cavalry.

Eager for revenge, Abu Muslim immediately took Abenni's advice and promoted him to the rank of centurion, where he was transferred to the Wuhu merchant to recruit craftsmen and forge armor.

In order to defeat the Tang army, Abu Muslim did not hesitate to increase the excesses and miscellaneous taxes to collect military expenses, and asked Mudea, who was in charge of the Wuhu merchants, to send many spies disguised as caravans, as far as Constantinople in the west and Chang'an in the east, or lured with money, or forcibly kidnapped, and finally recruited a group of skilled craftsmen.

The Don army was stationed in the river,

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) so that the black-clothed big eater will suffer the enemy, and the offensive will be converged. The Khorasan Army, which was responsible for guarding against the westward advance of the Hezhong Army, had a gap of more than three years to recuperate.

At the urging of Abu Muslim, the Khorasan chain of heavy cavalry had begun to form an army, and the bow and arrow skills had also improved by leaps and bounds. It's just that the Tang army's crossbow machine is too delicate and complex, and there are few Han craftsmen who came from the captivity, and the Khorasan army exhausted manpower and material resources to only make a few simple crossbow machines with a limited range, which could not achieve large-scale production at all.

What made Abu Muslim even more depressed was that the Beiting Army attached great importance to the evil fire that burned even when it met with water and the powerful stone thrower, and sent heavy troops to guard the military fortress that produced the evil fire and stone thrower.

The Wuhu Merchant lost hundreds of spies before and after, but it was only found out that the raw material of the evil fire was a kind of grease, and the structure of the North Courtyard Stone Throwing Machine had undergone earth-shaking changes. With such simple information alone, no matter how much Albeni coerced and enticed, it was impossible to force the craftsman to create something out of nothing and copy the Tang Army's evil fire and stone thrower.

A few months ago, the Hezhong Army and the Turgish Army, one south and one north, suddenly crossed the Wuhu River by two routes, like a raging wind invading Khorasan, which greatly angered Abu Muslim.

Invulnerability and rampage during a chain heavy charge come at the expense of mobility. As soon as the black-clothed food army led by Qiyad with a thousand heavy cavalry as the main force left Mulu City, the light cavalry of the Hezhong Army and the nomadic cavalry of the Tuqi Shi Department had already swept away the defenders on the west bank of the Wuhu River, and combined forces to defeat the Khorasan vanguard, which was dominated by light cavalry, and then crossed the river with the booty.

Qi Yad tried to cross the Wuhu River to take revenge on the army in the river, but he was greeted by a continuous army fortress. The black-clad Great Food Army tried to attack a fortress of the River Army, but the solid walls and sharp crossbows left the heavy cavalry helpless, and the archers of the Great Food Army were still powerless against the multitude of crossbows like flying locusts. The reinforcements from other military villages detoured behind the black-clothed food army and tried to outflank it. Seeing that the situation was not good, Ziyad immediately chose to retreat, and finally escaped.

After this defeat, the thunderous Abu Muslim strictly ordered Mutaia and Abeni to come up with sharp weapons against the Tang army as soon as possible. When Abeni was having a headache, Mudea asked him to disguise himself and go east.

The Hezhong army had a strong barrier, but it did not make it difficult for the caravan walking on the Silk Road, but the search for prohibited weapons was extremely strict. As a result, more than 100 people from Abenni and his entourage only took scimitars, passed through Sa Mojian, Tuozhi City, Julan City and Broken Leaf City, and crossed the mountain pass into Tingzhou.

When he reached the city of Topbranch, Ebenny looked at the city of Talas in the north, and his heart was like a knife; As he passed through Shattered Leaf City, Mudea had been silent and gloomy for days.

When he arrived in Tingzhou, the confused Abenni learned that Mutaia had received a message from the eyes of the Wuhu merchants in Tingzhou, saying that there was an opposition to Wang Zhengjian in the Beiting Army and wanted to cooperate with the Wuhu merchants to jointly destroy the Beiting Army's military fortress that refined evil fires and made stone throwers. The other party offered to share the recipe for the evil fire and the blueprints of the stone thrower.

"Mutaia, you are already a commander of a thousand, so why should you go into danger." After the caravan came to a halt in an open space on the west side of the temple that was large enough for the cavalry to gallop, Ebeni persuaded again.

"The Tang people have a saying that if you don't go deep into the tiger's nest, how can you catch the tiger cub. The governor is bound to win the evil fire and the stone-throwing machine, and as a subordinate, he naturally has to worry about it. Although there are a lot of people in Tingzhou, but above the centurion, I am the only one who has been to Tingzhou City and am familiar with the surrounding geography. What's more, I still have an account to settle with the Beiting Army. Mutaia remembered the shame of being under siege last time, and hatred was rife.

In fact, Mutaia still has something to hide from Abeni. In the past three years, Mutaia privately mobilized the power of the Wuhu merchants to pay close attention to the movements in Talas and Tingzhou. It was learned that the Turgish tribe was growing stronger

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page), there is gradually a sign of restoring the glory of the past, although Mutaia is worried about the battle with Kudulu again, but secretly happy for his "old friend".

As for Tingzhou, Mutaia was deeply frightened. In the past few years, not only has the Beiting Army become more and more powerful, but the entire land of Tingzhou has also changed with each passing day, which continues to shock people. Spacious and nimble carriages, dazzling new breeds, beautifully minted gold and silver coins, endless cotton fields, and well-trained dart masters...... All sorts of new things are emerging one after another, so that Mutai'a, who is in charge of intelligence spying, is overwhelmed.

Some of the changes Mutaia couldn't see clearly or study for a while, but he firmly believed that it was these new changes that made Beiting vigorous and vibrant. Mutaia was convinced that if he did not stop it in advance, the Beiting army would eventually destroy Khorasan completely. Therefore, after learning that there was a rift within the Beiting Army, Mu Taia did not hesitate to choose to rush to Tingzhou in person.

"If the confrontation with the Beiting Army is a test given to me by Allah, no matter how difficult the road is, I will walk to the end until I return my life to Allah." Mu Tai'a made up his mind that he must do his best to make trouble in Tingzhou and cut off the road of Beiting's soaring sky with blood and fire.

"Who is the other person? Is it reliable? Albenny asked in a low voice.

"The news from the eyeliner, the other party may be the deputy governor of the Beiting Army behind him." Mu Tai'a couldn't say the awkwardly pronounced official position of "deputy capital protector": "Wang Zhengjian has a noble background and deep roots, and the deputy governor wants to take the throne, so he has to choose to cooperate with us." Of course, the Tang people are cunning and can't be fully trusted, so I brought you here to let you identify the authenticity of the recipes and drawings. ”

"Heretics love infighting! With the Evil Fire and the Trebuch, our army will be able to take Damascus. As soon as Albeni finished laughing, he suddenly realized that it was actually Da Shi and not Da Tang who were currently in the civil war, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

"It may not be that easy, as far as I know, after Anicee returned home, the Umayyad family was also training soldiers and horses, and sent people to infiltrate Constantinople many times in an attempt to steal the recipe for the evil fire." Mutaia was not blindly optimistic, and he knew more about the dynamics of the Umayyad family.

In the Battle of Talas, the combat power of the Beiting Army that surpassed the times greatly shocked all parties involved. After the battle, the forces of all parties who had witnessed the fierce oil fire, the counterweight stone throwing machine and the power of the chain horse imitated the weapons and tactics of the Beiting Army, but the Tang Dynasty did not care about it......

Albeni was about to speak, when he saw a mess of snowflakes in front of him, and a feathered arrow flew past the tip of his nose.

"Enemy attack?" As soon as Abenni's hand rested on the hilt of his sword, Mude'a grabbed his arm.

"Don't panic, there's a letter on the shaft!" Mutaia picked up the long arrow, untied the silk silk that was tightly bound, and saw that the front side wrote in the big food language: "On November 20, the defense will be changed, the garrison will be lax, and it can be attacked." On the reverse side is a detailed topographical map of the military village.

"It's true that the defense is so tight." Ebenny said happily.

"May Allah bless this trip!" Mutaia prayed to himself, and he remained vigilant.

On the side of the kiss in the main hall of Saidaiji Temple, Duan Dara, dressed in a white da, confirmed that the big food caravan on the polo field had received the letter and drifted away.

Half an hour later, in a house in the southern city of Tingzhou, Pei Cheng waved Duan Daluo to retreat, and said with a smile: "Characters from all walks of life have arrived, this year's Winter Solstice Dynasty will be really exciting!" ”

The bleak twilight wind, the winter snow.

Snowflakes fell on the icy earth, as if to erase all traces of everyone's walk. But the difficulty and confusion of the trek, the pain and helplessness of the decision, cannot be easily eliminated from the heart path. And a true warrior, once he draws his sword, is resolute and will never stop chasing because of setbacks or pain.

(End of chapter)

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