In the winter of the third year of Dingding, the northwest recruited envoys, and the camp on all sides were all unified by Meng Ping, led a hundred battle armies and a Hengchong army, and arrived in Guazhou first, which officially opened the prelude to the Tang Empire after a lapse of a hundred years, and sent Wang Shi to the Tianshan Mountains again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It was a sunny day, the winter sun was shining, the west wind was fierce, and the dry and barren northwest land was like fog.

Thousands of armor soldiers came out of the sand and mist, there was a kind of artistic conception of wading through mountains and rivers to open the world, Cao Yijin saw the other party's strict queue, mighty armor blades, and felt the fierce aura emanating from the queue, and suddenly felt that his eyes lit up, and at the same time, his heart was also slightly awe-inspiring, and he hurriedly dressed his clothes and led everyone behind him to meet him.

Before long, Cao Yijin saw the other party's leading horseman, the freshly dressed angry horse was mighty and unmatched, and he was full of contempt, and he was about thirty years old.

"Cao Yijin, the envoy of the Guiyi Army, meet with the Northwest to recruit Meng Dashuai!" After more than ten steps, Cao Yijin saluted in front of the other party's horse.

The marching army had stopped, the dust on his feet and the wind and sand intersected, Meng Ping got off his horse, stepped forward quickly, and held up Cao Yijin's arms, "Cao Jie, this handsome man finally sees your true face!" ”

Cao Yijin couldn't help but glance at Meng Ping, the other party looked younger than he imagined, at such an age, he could lead 100,000 forbidden troops to Hexi and the Western Regions, he was really a man of heaven, but Cao Yijin knew that this commander of the three armies, who was only about thirty years old, had been in the army for more than ten years, and had many brilliant and miraculous achievements, which was definitely not explained by the word heaven.

Meng Ping was also looking at Cao Yijin, the Jiedu envoy who led the Guiyi Army to fight alone, was already gray-haired, but there was no doubt that his body was tough and his spirit was shining, and his eyes were especially bright, and he could see through people's hearts like thunder and lightning. Meng Ping remembered the past of the Guiyi Army, after Zhang Yichao revived the Guiyi Army, he was summoned by the imperial court to settle in the Central Plains, in fact, it was quite a quality Chang'an, the meaning of restricting Hexi, and then, the Guiyi Army fell into civil strife, and the magnates competed for the position of the envoy, and they fought against each other.

Since then, in the eastern and western encirclement of the Uighurs in Ganzhou and Xizhou, as well as the containment of the Tibetan ethnic groups, the situation of the Guiyi army has become extremely unfavorable, and the process of struggle is complicated, involving all kinds of power and tricks, and because of the chaos in the Central Plains, the Guiyi army has lost its solidarity and constraints, and there have been many dark things during this period: claiming to be the Son of Heaven and clinging to the Uighurs...... Regardless of these, after Cao Yijin took over the throne of the envoy, he sent several envoys to the Central Plains to rebuild the connection with the Central Plains Dynasty.

History is like this, there are few fierce ambitions, and there are many flies, and when most people are fighting for their own selfishness, or fighting for power and profit, or fighting for baht, it is a small number of people who are brave and loyal, abandoning their families and destroying their families to relieve difficulties, and supporting the backbone of this nation.

The white-haired Cao Yijin grabbed Meng Ping's arm, and before he said a few words, he was already in tears, Meng Ping was slightly surprised, and then he understood that he could also understand the pain and difficulty of the other party.

"The end of the day will look eastward, looking forward to the king for a long time, I thought that in this life, I will no longer be able to see the king to the west, I will return to the righteous army tens of thousands of soldiers, and countless Tang people in Sha and Gua Prefectures will be lonely ghosts...... Now seeing the arrival of the king's division, the peak of the soldiers is unprecedented, and I know that after a hundred years of bloody battles, I have finally been preserved, and the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains are bound to be for my Datangzhou County, and the last general will feel nostalgic, I really don't know how to speak...... It's not strange ...... handsome."

Cao Yijin knelt on the ground facing the east, raised his head and shouted: "The last general will be a lifetime, fighting Shazhou, hundreds of battles of all sizes, and the trilogy Erlang died and made up, made up and died, I don't know how many...... As a minister of the Tang Dynasty, the last general hung alone outside the country, killing the enemy for my Tang Dynasty, but he had never set foot in the Central Plains, never seen Luoyang in person, never faced His Majesty, I don't know what the Huanghuang God looks like, and I have not seen the eloquent and eloquent Emperor Tianyan...... However, now I see the prosperity of the king, the minister knows the height of the wall of the god capital, the prosperity of the palace buildings, and the majesty of His Majesty the emperor...... Minister, Cao Yijin, here to worship Your Majesty, long live our emperor, ten thousand years of the Tang Dynasty! ”

Behind Cao Yijin, dozens of Guiyi officers and generals all bowed to the ground and shouted: "I am here to worship Your Majesty, long live my emperor, ten thousand years of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

After that, hundreds of soldiers of the Guiyi Army bowed down and shouted in unison: "Long live my emperor, ten thousand years of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

Seeing the Guiyi Army in front of him bow down one after another, looking at these Tang faces that were no different from himself, Meng Ping's hands trembled slightly, and his heart fluctuated like stormy waves, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

In this land with countless legends of loyalty and martyrs, and countless blood of the Han and Tang Dynasties, Meng Ping has never felt that the blood of the Tang Dynasty flowing on his body is so hot.

In the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, there was a strong army in Hexi, and there were countless protectors in the Western Regions, which was the apex of the strength of the Tang Empire. However, overnight, the Kaiyuan building collapsed, the Anshi rebellion in the Central Plains, the royal family in order to quell the thieves, urgently recalled the border army guarding Hexi and the Western Regions, and the thieves of Tubo took advantage of the situation to attack Hexi, and the troops of the country invaded Hexi.

When Guo Ziyi fought to quell the rebellion, and was suspected of seizing power by the royal family, his nephew Guo Xin was in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, while fighting with his comrades who were alone and lonely, fighting bloody battles with thieves of all ethnic groups, and constantly sending secret envoy teams to travel through the enemy territory and contact the imperial court to the east.

When the first Western Regions secret envoy arrived in Chang'an, it was the third year of the Great Calendar of Daizong, and five years had passed since the first batch of Western Regions secret envoys set off! At that time, I heard that the soldiers of the Western Regions were still defending the capital and protecting the mansion, fighting with ten times and a hundred times the enemy. However, under the circumstances at that time, Daizong was unable to send reinforcements, so he had to send secret envoys again to comfort the soldiers of the Western Regions. But even if it is a secret envoy, most of them have never been heard from.

When Guo Xin and others waited for the imperial court to come, it was the sixth year of the Great Calendar, which was the ninth year that they fought with a crippled army and never retreated. However, the envoy only brought condolences, and there was not a single soldier, and the soldiers of the Anxi Protectorate, after crying bitterly in front of the voice of the mother country, had to meet the enemy alone.

Nine years have passed, the soldiers have fought bloodily, another nine years have passed, the soldiers of the Anxi Protectorate are still fighting bloody, and another nine years have passed, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are still fighting bloody, and it has been another nine years...... Beiting fell, Tianshan fell, Xizhou fell, the vast Western Regions thousands of miles, surrounded by countless foreign soldiers and horses in Tibet and Uighurs, Guo Xin's Anxi Protectorate eventually became an isolated island......

In the fifth year of Dezong Zhenyuan, Wukong, a monk commonly known as Che Fengchao, returned from Tianzhu, passed through the Western Regions, saw the bloody battle of the soldiers of the Anxi Protectorate to defend the frontier, and was deeply shocked, and preached Buddhism in the four towns of Anxi, and overtook the dead for two years and three months.

In the third year of Xianzong Yuanhe, that is, the forty-fifth year of Guo Xin's bloody battle in the Western Regions, the Tubo army besieged the isolated city of Qiuzi and launched the final battle against the Anxi Protectorate. When it was, a lonely city was full of white-haired soldiers! Guo Xin, the protector of Anxi and the king of Wuwei County, and all the Tang soldiers of his subordinates, went through bloody battles and died in the city.

Guo Xin and his subordinates, a messenger from afar, thousands of miles to Anxi, they were alone, bloody to the last person, they practiced their bloody nature and tragedy as the Tang Dynasty: I wish to serve the country with this length, why should I be born in Yumen Pass!

Meng Ping helped Cao Yijin up, he looked at the soldiers of the Guiyi Army behind the other party, looked at this land west of the river, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

From Xue Rengui's three arrows to the Tianshan Mountain, to Wang Xuance's single-handedly annihilation of a country, from Guo Xin's bloody battle until he died in the lonely city, from Zhang Yichao's revival of the Guiyi Army to collect the land of the 11 states, from Cao Yijin to carry the banner of the Guiyi Army and send Luoyang several times, to now he Meng Ping led 100,000 forbidden troops to the west...... The glory and helplessness of the Tang Dynasty, the passion and tragedy of the Tang people, are vividly interpreted in the land of Hexi and the Western Regions.

Meng Ping suddenly felt lucky, glad that he came, glad that he came with the Tang Forbidden Army, and glad that he came late, but it was not too late.

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From Shazhou to the north, it is Yizhou, the west of Yizhou is Xizhou, the west of Xizhou is the Tianshan Mountains, and there is a famous turtle at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, which is where the former Anxi Protectorate is located.

After Meng Ping joined Cao Yijin, he personally led the vanguard army to Shazhou to station, and after the midwinter of the third year of Dingding passed, the 80,000 forbidden troops who intended to conquer the west of Yumen Pass were to march west to the border of sand and melon land one after another.

In the spring of the fourth year of Dingding, Meng Ping led the generals of the forbidden army, together with the generals of the Guiyi Army led by Cao Yijin, left Shazhou City, passed Dunhuang, and went to Yangguan to inspect the enemy's situation.

"Between the Hecang Peak in the north and the Shanque Peak in the south, there are Xinghu Lake, Beiyanchi, Shilize, Dajingze and other places, and we will use troops to attack the Uighurs in Xizhou, and we must first capture Yizhou." When looking west at Yangguan, Cao Yijin said to General Meng Ping that he was familiar with the surrounding terrain and how to choose the route of the march, he and the Guiyi army were ready-made guides, "From Yangguan to the north, from Yumen Pass to the northwest, there are all options." ”

Meng Ping is not ignorant of the terrain here, the military intelligence department has already arrived here, the information has been summarized, and the military map has also been drawn, he is not very worried about these, at this time he listened to Cao Yijin's words, he said: "With the Guiyi Army and the Military Intelligence Department as a guide, the army does not have to worry about the wrong route, I don't know how much the Guiyi Army can send troops?" ”

Cao Yijin showed the attitude of the old man, and said uncompromisingly: "The soldiers of the Guiyi Army can go west out of Yangguan!" ”

In the autumn and winter of last year, the Uighurs of Xizhou invaded the east, the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, after getting the news that the forbidden army was marching westward and Gansu was broken, they shrank back, but Rao was so, the Guiyi army had only experienced a big war, at this time there was not much rest, Cao Yijin had such an attitude, Meng Ping was nostalgic, and then said: "That is the case, the armor, bows, crossbows, and blades carried by the forbidden army, the Guiyi army can move as much as they want, this time out of Yangguan, the three armies must work together to level the Uighurs in one fell swoop, and reproduce the glory of the Anxi Protectorate!" ”

Cao Yijin was overjoyed, and all the generals of the Guiyi Army were shocked, and they clenched their fists and said excitedly: "Obey the commander's order!" ”