Chapter 69 Alone in a Foreign Land as a Stranger, Where is Home and Family (4)
Waiting for others to knock on the door, naturally there is only the share of being beaten. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
All I can think about is how to survive the calamity in front of me.
Walking out of the door with a knife and gun can only be to hit others.
What I thought about in my heart was naturally how to improve my strength so that I could win battles.
If it is not strong, it will become weak, and the way to survive is always the law of the jungle.
The strong is the pass of the strong, and the weak is the epitaph of the weak.
The six kingdoms of Shandong were all destroyed by the Qin State, why are there still people who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality fantasizing about peace?
The great controversy in the world has never stopped.
"The peace of the Tang Dynasty does not depend on benevolence, righteousness and morality, but on the powerful Datang Forbidden Army." Li Congjing touched the fifth girl's little head, and her smile was gentle like the autumn sun outside the window, "Everyone says that if you fight the country and then guard the country, if you don't guard the country, I will always fight the country." β
"Lord of Tigers and Wolves!" The fifth girl knelt beside her, poured tea for Li Congjing, and quipped with her small nose.
"The king of tigers and wolves, the king of success, the king of the fallen country, how many dynasties have come through like this?" Li Congjing handed the tea bowl to his mouth, blew the hot air, and made a slight move, "I would rather that the kings of my Tang Dynasty and later will be the kings of tigers and wolves, rather than gradually degenerate into the kings of the established and the dead!" β
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The evening sunset slowly sank into the mountains, with a sense of urgency, just like a wanderer returning home from a long journey, anxious to knock on the familiar firewood, the evening breeze blew down from the hills, already with a cold feeling that went straight to the bone marrow, Wu Sheng involuntarily tightened his collar, looked left and right on the horseback, and the front and back were Uighur warriors marching with their heads down, from their cold mountain and cold stone expressions, it was difficult to guess what they were thinking at the moment.
"If you can't make it today, let's camp here." The old tribal chief in front of him sent back the order of Shangfeng, with a little helplessness, "I wanted to rush to Ganzhou City at night, but there are too many Tang army rangers in this field, and it is dangerous to march at night." β
The Uighur warriors around him stopped, and the experienced people surveyed the camping grounds, shouting and began to assign tasks, and the warriors dismounted one after another, and the crowd gradually dispersed, and those who had not been assigned the task unpacked their pack horses and prepared to set up tents, while others looked up with water bladders and took a few glances at the surrounding terrain.
This is a mountain col, the surrounding trees are sparse, bare rocks can be seen everywhere, the mountain wind sways the fallen branches, the slight whirring sound is not like crying, but similar to the whispers of relatives in the ear, Wu Sheng has a little headache for no reason, especially when he hears the call of the sheep behind the team, he always feels restless.
"Wu Lang, are you okay?" Seeing Wu Sheng's pale face, the Uighur warriors who were familiar with each other leaned over and asked with concern.
Wu Sheng shook his head and didn't look directly into the other party's eyes, "It's okay, it's probably because the west wind is too cold." β
He led his horse through the noisy crowd and walked to the back of the group with his head slightly bowed. Tie up the horse, climb a few steps down the hillside, and sit on a raised rock. Looking at the thousands of Uighur warriors who were busy in front of the mountain, Wu Sheng wanted to breathe a sigh of relief to drive away the fatigue of the day, but he couldn't breathe this breath.
Coming out of the tribe, the original hundred-person squad merged with other teams, and the marching army column became much larger, which also made it much more difficult for Wu Sheng to carry out his plan.
Staring at the sunset that gradually fell to the top of the mountain in the distance, the golden glow in front of the mountain was covered by shadows inch by inch, Wu Sheng's heart seemed to rise a cloud, he simply lay down on the hillside, wanting to close his eyes and rest for a while, but as soon as his eyelids were closed, the tragic scenes of the battle in the past kept passing in front of him, and the sound of Jin Ge Iron Horse seemed to echo in his ears, so that he had to reopen his bloodshot eyes.
This place is not far from Ganzhou City, according to the footsteps of the army, it is inevitable to arrive tomorrow, but after arriving there, Wu Sheng is really not sure what he can do among the thousands of troops. Maybe it was the right choice to find an opportunity to slip away and sneak back to the Tang camp quietly, but Wu Sheng was unwilling, in the past, he and his comrades fought bloody battles in Lingzhou for several months, and countless siblings fell one after another, because the Hexi thieves and the Xiazhou rebels provoked trouble, if they couldn't make them pay the price this time, Wu Sheng felt shameless to face those prisoners who tried to escape and couldn't escape, and were brutally killed.
The last rays of the sunset fell on his face, Wu Sheng stretched out his hand to block his eyes, looking at the golden light flowing through his fingers, he silently said in his heart: In the name of righteousness, do despicable things.
In a trance, he saw such a picture: in the figure of the Tang Dynasty's iron armor, the warriors of the tribe fell one after another in the blood and fire, and the Uighurs, who were familiar with him and often took out their private wine to invite him to drink, struggled on the ground and hugged his legs, and asked him why with resentful eyes. Behind the black smoke and the figure, Yueduo's thin figure in tattered clothes walked over step by step, her green eyes staring at him like a wolf, and she raised the ugly black dagger in her hand firmly and slowly. However, before the dagger in the girl's hand fell, as soon as the Tang army rode behind her, the cold light swept an arc, her head flew high, and I don't know where it fell, only the headless corpse gushing from the blood fountain fell stiffly in front of him, and the black dagger smashed on his feet.
Wu Sheng murmured unconsciously: "Don't blame me, we are enemies, and we have always been." β
In the name of the most affectionate righteousness in the world, do the most ruthless and despicable things in the world.
Wu Sheng sat up suddenly, his waist straight, and his eyes were like steel. He thought that perhaps he should abscond out of the camp tonight, contact the king outside the city of Ganzhou, and then lead the king to wipe out the Uighurs.
He suddenly stood up, and was about to do something, but suddenly there was a blackness in front of him, and he couldn't sit back again.
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The moon is dark and the wind is high.
Wu Sheng tiptoed out of the tent, the light in the camp was not strong, the patrol soldiers just walked over a team, he tightened his collar, alertly got into the cold wind, and walked outside the camp according to the pre-planned route. On the way, he accidentally ran into an acquaintance, and he prevaricated on the grounds of going to the toilet, and the other party had no reason to be suspicious.
It is not difficult to climb over the camp wall, in order to avoid the sentry on the corner tower, Wu Sheng still waited for a long time to wait for a good time, because of the relationship between left and right, there are inevitably some errors in the movements of hands and feet, and the wooden stake has cut through the clothes, Wu Sheng didn't care, just turned around to confirm whether there were broken steps left.
Out of the camp, Wu Sheng went around in a big circle in the mountains and forests behind the camp. Naturally, he could not choose to go from the former camp, there were too many sentry posts there, and although it was much more difficult to walk on the mountain road, it was much safer. Because of the hurry to travel, it is inevitable to be cut by the thorns of the forest, and even the face and hands are gradually more bloodstained, before going out of the mountain, I don't know how many times I fell, there are too many painful places around the body, but I don't feel much anymore, fortunately, I didn't get to the foot, but I was lucky.
From the camp to Ganzhou City, there is only one main road, Wu Sheng does not have to worry about going wrong, and there are very few activities of the two armies of the ranger scouts at night, otherwise once they meet, let alone make a false mistake with the other party, it is likely that they will be killed without even having a chance to speak, even if they meet the Tang Army rangers, the other party will not give him special treatment.
Running along the avenue, Wu Sheng was extremely vigilant along the way, once he heard the sound of horses' hooves, he dodged, and waited for the other party to pass before continuing to hurry, so tossed several times, with agility and a bit of luck, Wu Sheng finally arrived outside Ganzhou City.
The place where the two armies fought was at night, and there were also a large number of soldiers and soldiers, and no one dared to be careless at this moment, and there were many terrible ranger sentry posts, and the boundaries between the two sides were clear, the Uighurs controlled the west of the city, and the Tang army controlled the east of the city, each with its own sphere of influence. Wu Sheng was already so tired that he couldn't breathe, and he not only ran around but also worried about being afraid all the way, even if he had been in the border army for a long time, he couldn't bear it.
When sneaking, Wu Sheng was most worried about encountering the sentry who was also sneaking, he didn't know the code words of the two armies and the rangers tonight, once the two met, he had almost no chance of survival, and the other party would not give him a chance to explain, but would immediately kill him.
In the process of approaching the border camp of the Tang army, Wu Sheng was discovered by the Tang army sentry sentry. At this time, he did not sneak like a thief, but walked swaggeringly, which was probably the reason why the Tang Army rangers did not shoot him immediately when they surrounded him. However, the Uighur clothes on his body still brought him a lot of trouble, and looking at the short crossbows aimed at him, Wu Sheng's palms broke out a lot of sweat, but fortunately, he spoke Chinese fluently and helped him get through the most dangerous moment.
"Take it back." The words of the Tang Army's sentry cavalry fell in Wu Sheng's ears, which was tantamount to the sound of heaven.
"A certain surname Wu Mingsheng, a subordinate of General Chai Kehong of the Shuofang Army, followed General Liu Renzhen to rescue General Gao Shensi a few months ago, but was trapped by the Uighurs on the way, wounded and captured...... This time, he came to the aid of Ganzhou with the Uighur army, and today he was 50 miles away...... Please take a certain person to meet the general, and a certain person can lead the way for the army and defeat the thief army that comes to help! Wu Sheng didn't know how many times he said these words, from meeting the sentry outside the camp to being taken into the barracks and thrown into the tent, his mouth never stopped opening and closing.
Yet no one paid any attention to him.
The Tang soldiers brought him back, and it seemed that they had simply captured a prisoner who was suspected of being a Tang person, and they did not hope to get anything special from him.
Wu Sheng knew that this was normal, he was neither a Tang Army sentry nor a Tang Army sentry, nor a very high rank lieutenant colonel, he was just an ordinary soldier - a few months ago. has no identity and is soft-spoken, the low-level soldiers can't control him, and those who are qualified to take care of this matter are not interested in caring about him, and the Tang Army soldiers didn't kill him with a knife when they saw him, which was already his luck. The lieutenant general should have interrogated him as an enemy soldier to see what his intentions wereβbut the Tang army apparently had no interest in that. Even if Wu Sheng is a meticulous work of the enemy, as long as he is imprisoned in the camp, he will not be able to make any moves, if Wu Sheng is not a meticulous work, he is really a prisoner of the Tang army who escaped, and there will be no generals who have leisure to pay attention to him during the war, and it is possible to verify his identity after the war, and then find an opportunity to bring him back to Lingzhou - at most.
Wu Sheng was not the only one in the tent, there were other people who were caught by the Tang army sentry agents, Wu Sheng begged the Tang army soldiers who were guarding him, and even did not hesitate to be alarmist, hoping to see the general, but no one was willing to pass on the word for him.
The military exploits of thousands of people, no one cares.
Wu Sheng asked to see the Shuo Fangjun generals, Chai Kehong and Liu Renzhen, but was told that Shuo Fangjun had not come at all - even if they came, it was almost impossible for Chai Kehong and Liu Renzhen to know him as a person, let alone have the leisure to come to see him as an ordinary soldier.
In this way, Wu Sheng stayed in the military camp for a long time until the army conquered Ganzhou.
Then after a long time, Wu Sheng learned that the army had captured Suzhou.
Then, Wang Shi began to pacify the place.
The Uighurs of Ganzhou officially became the people under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and Wu Sheng's military exploits were completely out of possibility - Ganzhou had no enemies, and if there were no enemies, how could there be military exploits?
Later, Wu Sheng returned to Lingzhou with the team.
In Lingzhou, after twists and turns, Wu Sheng proved his identity.
He returned to his hometown and was reunited with his family.
I went to Lingwu County again and met Yu Niang.
Married to Yu Niang, and since then has lived an ordinary life.
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When Wu Sheng came back to his senses, the sunset happened to completely sink into the western mountains.
The cold spread like a tide from the soles of his feet, reaching the top of his head and completely drowning him. Wu Sheng felt difficult to breathe, and he also felt weak, as if his heartbeat had become weak, and he was about to die.
He knew that even if he wanted to make meritorious contributions, Wang Shi would not give him this opportunity, he was an ordinary pawn, even if he went to Wang Shi's camp, no one would want to pay attention to him, and the army would not take any action for him, an unknown person, and his best fate was to set up a place in the army to accommodate the Shuofang soldiers and civilians who had been captured to Hexi before, and he occupied an ordinary position in this place.
However, Wu Sheng knew better that it was impossible for him to enter the camp of the king division, before that, fifty miles away, the quagmire of fighting outside Ganzhou City was enough for him to be killed a hundred and ten times by the sentry cavalry of the two armies without questioning.
"Meritorious? Not available. Get back? Not available. Wu Sheng muttered in a low voice, fiercer than he imagined, this is the real reality, the cold reality.
"The country is always so big, and the individual is always so small...... War always sweeps the world, and individuals always go with the flow......" Wu Sheng buried his head between his knees, unwilling to see anyone or anything again.
The identity is as expensive as Zhang Qian, and he has also been wandering in the grassland for more than ten years, and his identity is as expensive as Su Wu, and he can only shepherd sheep on the grassland, not to mention Wu Sheng, who is "nameless and unpointed".
Many times, the dilemma often drives people crazy, but what is worse than this is that there is no qualification to choose at all, so you can only be a duckweed and accept the arrangement of fate in the wind and rain.
Wu Sheng, who had a golden iron horse and a fierce ambition in his heart, realized for the first time the insignificance and helplessness of a person at this time.
But that's just the beginning. Just when Wu Sheng felt that his heart sank to the bottom, from a distance that he didn't know how far, there was a loud bang, like thousands of thunders smashing to the ground in an instant, he raised his head in amazement, followed the sound and looked at the side of the mountain, and saw that the dim sky there, suddenly burst out of the morning sun and sunset like a red light, reflecting half of the sky, approaching, it was the sound of the sea tide like the sand field, which sounded loudly there, as if even the sky was about to break through, and even the mountains were about to collapse.
"What's going on?"
The tremendous movement attracted everyone's attention, and the thousands of Uighur warriors encamped in front of the mountain all stopped what they were doing and looked at the other side of the mountain together, their faces full of shock and doubt.
Wu Sheng stood up on the hillside and held his forehead to look into the distance, although he was destined to see nothing.
The other side was in the direction of Ganzhou City, and there seemed to be only one possibility for such a big movement, his heart couldn't help but beat faster, and one hand was clenched into a fist.
Wu Sheng was not alone in realizing what might have happened, and the army quickly responded, and another group of rangers were urgently sent to camp and rushed to Ganzhou City to check the situation. Soon, a military order was handed down, and everyone was to be prepared for battle, except for the construction of the camp as soon as possible.
The sudden state of emergency made all the soldiers look solemn, and Wu Sheng was bowing his head in contemplation, when the Uighur warriors who knew him came over and solemnly told him: "Follow me later, if something happens, you can't get lost, otherwise you won't even be able to go back!" β
In fact, no one can go back.
In the middle of the night, the ground suddenly shook and the movement became louder and louder, and the fear of the night and the unknown battle situation made everyone uneasy, and the torches in the camp were connected into pieces, and the flames were burning in the night wind.
The rangers returned first, bringing back news that made the Uighur warriors desperate: the Tang army had broken through Ganzhou, and Yaoluo Ge Diyin and others had led their troops to flee.
- Listening to the movement, the remnants of Yao Luo Ge Di Yin should be rushing to this side, and the Tang army is pursuing.
The battle situation in Ganzhou City was not seen with their own eyes, but the movements in the evening were heard clearly, and the heavily fortified city had fallen, and it was conceivable that the Tang army was powerful, and now that Yao Luo Ge Diyin was about to flee, it was impossible for the Uighur warriors to have the intention of counterattacking.
Retreat, retreat without hesitation.
No one wanted to turn the tide, no one even wanted to pick up the medicine Luo Ge Diyin, everyone just wanted to escape from here before the Tang army chased after them.
The desolate night was shattered by a hasty retreat.
Wu Sheng was coerced by the surging flow of people, so he had to run with everyone. Looking at the panicked warriors, looking at the sea of torches dancing under the moonlit night, listening to the Uighur words one after another, and listening to the panicked neighing horses and footsteps, Wu Sheng had a feeling of not knowing when and where he was alive for no reason.
He wanted to go home.
In the midst of the chaos, he had no choice.
Surrounded by the crowded torrent, running along the avenue, Wu Sheng's ears heard the sound of battle becoming clearer and clearer. The panicked escape was never faster than the neat and orderly pursuit, and the Tang army behind them was getting closer and closer, and after dawn, the remnants of the Tang army's previous medicine Luo Ge Di Yin began to impact their originally neat queue.
This army, which had never experienced a battle, was irreversibly defeated. There is no order in the defeated army, throwing away the armor just to run faster, you push and shove each other to trample on each other just to cut down the obstacles, and scatter to get out of the terror...... The truth can only be that the rout is more complete.
The whole day passed, and the pursuit of the Don army did not stop.
It seems impossible, but it really happens.
The only possibility is that the elite cavalry pursued by the Tang army has long been prepared and is advancing alternately with each other.
The rout army could only go straight to Suzhou.
Wu Sheng, who almost died in the chaos, still didn't know what was waiting for them in Suzhou.