Li Yanzhao slept on the top of the city tower until the fourth or fifth watch. When he woke up, there was a hint of fish belly white on the horizon. He quickly stood up and stretched. Standing on top of the castle tower, he looked into the distance. The daylight on the horizon is gradually expanding, and the sky covered by darkness is gradually fading at a speed visible to the naked eye. I don't know how long it took, but a little bit of the sun appeared on the horizon, and little by little the sun grew larger, and soon the distant horizon was rendered into a dazzling orange-red.

In the camp of the rebels outside the city, curling smoke had risen. The soldiers and soldiers in the camp who had surrendered were laughing and fetching water and rice, and everyone was busy with a new day's life, and their expressions were full of hope for the future.

The rebellion was put down, and the land returned to its former tranquility. Li Yanzhao looked at the hopeful surrendering troops outside the city, and his heart was also full of ambition. He has set a solid foot in this era that did not belong to him. A unique mark that belongs to him, a man from 1,700 years later. Standing on the city tower and enjoying the beautiful scenery of the sunrise, he suddenly felt that this rising sun was a true portrayal of himself.

Li Yanzhao was in a rare good mood, so he walked around the city wall. The beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers outside the city is reflected in his eyes. After experiencing these things, he gradually lost the confusion he had at the beginning, and from time to time he had the feelings of pointing out the country and inspiring words. Maybe the self in the previous life is not the real self. Living in the current troubled times, achieving a foundation through the ages, and going down in history, is the way to live your true self! Maybe a few years later, he will retire after his success, or ask a few former comrades-in-arms, or some literati and writers, in the peaceful and prosperous era that he participated in the establishment of "looking back at China, thousands of years of changes." Talking about the past and the present, how many joys and sorrows. "It's also my long-cherished wish.

Thinking about it, Li Yanzhao's gaze couldn't help but freeze when he looked out of the city. In the northwest direction outside the city, there are several horsemen, heading straight for Changning County in the wilderness. When the horses came closer, Li Yanzhao took a closer look and saw that the horses were all carrying flags and one-color official and military sleeve armor.

Seeing this, Li Yanzhao hurriedly ran to the top of the West Gate Tower. Looking at the direction from which the riders came, most of them went to the west gate first.

As soon as they stood on the top of the West Gate Tower, they soon rushed to the bottom of the West Gate. The first man riding the general's armor said to the top of the city tower: "I am the forward inspector and the subordinate of the Song Dynasty, and I am here to help on the order of the state pastor, please open the city gate quickly." ”

Li Yanzhao bowed his hand on the top of the city tower and said, "Please wait a while, the villain will open the door immediately." With that, he ran down the tower in three steps and two steps, and opened the gate with two guards.

Together with the tooth goalkeeper at the head, a total of five horsemen entered the city. Li Yanzhao stepped forward to inspect Kanhe, and then under the questioning of the leading tooth keeper, he pointed out the location of the county government for him. The general led his four subordinates all the way to the county office.

About half an hour later. Li Yanzhao stood on the city tower, watching Ren County Commander nod and lead the Naya goalkeeper and several of his followers to get on their horses and leave the city. Ren County Commander and Naya Keeper rode forward, and several retinues in iron armor followed. The crowd rode out unhurriedly, but it was not long before it was two miles away.

Li Yanzhao saw that the six horsemen gradually turned into several small black dots that were almost invisible, and went straight to the mountains in the northwest direction, until they were completely submerged by the verdant mountains over there. Li Yanzhao sat back on the city tower. Staring at the mountains to the northwest, he was silently in a daze.

I don't know how long it took, in the mountains and valleys under the green cover, a large army with a clear banner and a strict staff. The light of the rising sun shone brightly on the iron armor worn by every soldier in the army, reflecting a dazzling light. Li Yanzhao watched as the army slowly approached the county seat of Changning. I couldn't help but sigh suddenly, and there were two lines of poetry on my mouth: Shuo Qi spreads the golden watch, and the cold light shines on the iron clothes.

The soldiers of Changning County on duty on the city wall were surprised when they heard the verses chanted by the cavalry of the Guangwu Army beside them. Although they don't know much about those two poems, the meaning conveyed in them, combined with the Guzang counterinsurgency army slowly marching in the distance in front of them, also makes the surrounding county soldiers understand a majestic artistic conception.

It is a kind of battle-hardened and downplay of life and death. The bright armor and the sound of the golden drum in the cold wind all give people endless imagination. Li Yanzhao read the poems for a long time, and then suddenly remembered that he actually looked at the scene in front of him and inadvertently took the sentences in the later "Mulan Ci", and couldn't help but feel a little flustered. Hurriedly stopped, ignoring the strange looks of the Changning County soldiers on duty on the city tower beside him, and watched the army slowly open up.

Before the army, the first general rode on a fat and strong yellow horse, wearing the armor of a general, a spear on the horse, and a bow and quiver on his back. However, Li Yanzhao looked at his appearance and figure, and saw that his height was obviously short among the generally tall and strong northerners. However, this person sat firmly on the horse's back, and between the anticipation, he suddenly became majestic, which made people look at it and be intimidating.

This person was followed by the tooth keeper who had come to knock on the city before, and Ren County Commander was also on a horse, walking with his left and right. Obviously, this person has an extraordinary status. Li Yanzhao thought that maybe it was what the Yamen general said when he knocked on the city, the main general who led this Guzang to come to the reinforcement army, and the forward supervised Song Pei.

The army slowly approached the county seat of Changning, but it had no intention of stopping. The first general, however, ordered the army to speed up. When the sergeants heard this, they followed the order, quickly adjusted their direction, bypassed the county seat of Changning, and continued to advance. The infantry is in front, the cavalry is in the center, and the baggage is in the rear. The formation was neat and orderly, Li Yanzhao looked at the strict military ranks, and couldn't help nodding secretly.

After most of that army bypassed the county seat of Changning, it actually went straight to the camp of thieves in the west of the county seat of Changning. Li Yanzhao then walked along the city wall, following the footsteps of the army, and soon detoured to the west gate of the county seat. Li Yanzhao saw the army marching slowly, and the people in the thief camp outside the city saw a large number of soldiers, and all the soldiers were wearing iron armor, slowly marching slowly. His face was full of surprise. However, the army did not have time to pay attention to them, and only divided into three divisions, and went to the nearby logging and fortification. Many sergeants were busy for nearly two hours, and the three wooden camps were already erected outside the west gate. The three camps, watchtowers, horse rejection trenches, etc., are readily available, and the finished glyphs are distributed, which is faintly a corner, and the camp of the thief is sandwiched in the middle. In this way, the thieves are on three sides of the counterinsurgency army of Gu Zanglai, and on the other side is the county seat of Changning.

As a result, the thieves were surrounded on all sides, like caged birds trapped, unable to fly out with wings.

The thieves and their leaders were reluctant to face such a scene. However, nothing can be done. The army of Guzang came to help with 20,000 people. And it can be seen that they are all the elite of Liangzhou. The commander of the army is also the forward supervisor and Song Pei. Although the juniors of the new generation are not familiar with this person, his fierce name has long been registered in the hearts of the older people of these tribes.

Thinking back to the second year of Yongxing nearly twenty years ago, Ruo Luoba, the leader of the same Xianbei tribe, was able to launch a rebellion. That battle was much bigger than this one, and if Robert could lead more than 100,000 people from various tribes to invade Liangzhou. While attacking in a big way, he swept his troops in all directions, and soon killed the city of Guzang, the seat of Liangzhou Governor. At that time, it was this forward who supervised Song Pei, and led only a few thousand people to go down with one drum, kill Ruo Luo Banong, and capture more than 100,000 people. Since then, Song Pei's murderous name has been widely known among the Xianbei tribe. Although I don't know how he defeated tens of thousands of people in that battle, and killed Ruo Robineng, but this old incident of twenty years ago is tantamount to a legend in the hearts of everyone today.

Not to mention nowadays. There were only 6,000 thieves and they were unarmed. Song Pei led 20,000 Liangzhou elites. Therefore, despite all the dissatisfaction, people cannot afford to have strange thoughts at all. The thieves sat in the camp, quietly watching the Liangzhou army in the next few camps to strengthen the camp, in and out. There was already a slight numbness and listlessness on their faces.

Now, these people are so numb that they are concerned only about how the state pastor will settle them after the surrender. After all, this rebellion of the thieves is true, although everyone has the merit of killing the thief chieftain and recovering the orphan. However, at this time, in the face of the strict battle of 20,000 Liangzhou elites, everyone was a little uneasy in their hearts.

In fact, the Liangzhou general who came to the aid this time, the forward supervised Song Pei, and he didn't know that the rebellion had been put down so quickly. When he sent his subordinate Yamen general Suo Mo to Changning County to investigate the situation, he instructed that if the thief army had fallen into Changning, he would return quickly, and prepare to make the army camp several miles away from the city, build siege equipment, and prepare to attack the city. Who knew that when Suo Mill arrived in Changning, he saw that the Liangzhou flag was still on the head of the city, and the four gates in the city were still closed. I didn't see a thief army, after approaching, I saw that the defenders of the city were also Liangzhou soldiers, so I put my mind at ease, entered the city, and saw the county commander in the city to know that on the eve of the arrival of the counterinsurgency army, the rebellion had been put down under Changning County.

After learning the news, Song Pei was also surprised. The magistrate of Changning County, who came to greet the army, inquired in detail about the process of counterinsurgency. Ren County ordered what he knew, including holding the dependents of the thief army hostage, and later attacked the heart of the city and persuaded him to surrender, so that the thief camp was in chaos under the city, the thief army was merged, and the thief chief was given the head. He talked about the reinforcement general in front of him. When Song Pei heard the news, he was not less surprised. When he learned that all these arrangements were only the idea of a small chief among the cavalry soldiers who came to the aid of Guangwu County, he was even more surprised. sighed again and again: "In the second year of Yongxing, a certain person was ordered to lead the troops to quell the thieves. At that time, a certain led only a few thousand people, and fought several battles with the thief army Ruo Luoba. After a hard battle, he was able to defeat Roba Neng and capture tens of thousands of his subordinates. Now looking at this son, he has a degree of behavior and wisdom, and he has not lost the wind of a certain year! ”

Then Song Pei looked up at the sky, but there was already a look of emotion in his eyes.

However, at this time, Li Yanzhao looked at the thief camp outside the city under the siege of the Liangzhou army, but he already had an inexplicable thought in his heart.

If the envoy in Guzang City, the Liangzhou Governor's Office, is embarrassed to settle these thieves, it is better to persuade the prince of the prefecture to express his feelings and place this tribe in Guangwu. This makes Guangwu County add another strong army! Whether it is to protect the territory and the people in the future, or to go out on an expedition, having such a nomadic light cavalry in hand will undoubtedly add another arm. Make yourself more likely to win.

However, Li Yanzhao was not at ease with the loyalty of these nomads. Many lessons from history lie ahead. Whether it is the Xiongnu during the Han Dynasty, or the current Wuhu, as well as the Rouran, Turkic, Tibetan, Uighur, Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongolian in later generations. In the process of dealing with these nomadic peoples, the agrarian civilization of the Central Plains regime has always had vivid examples of rebellion, which is nothing more than the period when the Central Plains was strong, and all the surrounding lands were annexed, all of them were extremely humble. And if the Central Plains suffers from civil strife, the national strength will be weakened, and it will not be able to raise a strong army to subdue the Quartet. These nomads will undoubtedly rebel again in an instant, led by a few careerists. This makes the already erosive situation of the Central Plains regime even more difficult to clean up.

Gotta find a way to keep them firmly in your hands...... Li Yanzhao thought with a headache.