Chapter Fifty-Six: Three Heroes and Five Tigers (II)
Tuoba Chaoguang held a large long axe in both hands, and spun it like flying. The Pinglu army did not dare to slack off the enemy, and two young generals in the Pinglu horse team galloped out of the horse, and both of them held Tuoba Chaoguang's big axe.
"Both of them are generals of the Pinglu Army. The warrior on the left is called Li Zhengji, whose real name is Huaiyu, is a native of Goguryeo, born in Yingzhou. Yin Ziqi said with a triumphant smile: "The young general on the right is called Li Huaixian, who is a native of Liucheng Hu, and his family has been a Khitan for generations, and he is responsible for guarding Yingzhou. The duo excelled at horseback archery. ”
Yin Ziqi's words were tantamount to boasting in the eyes of everyone, after all, the Pinglu Army was four to two. Wang Wujun and Zhang Xiaozhong fought against An Baozhen, while Li Huaixian and Li Zhengji jointly attacked Tuoba Chaoguang, whether it was Chang'an's dignitaries or royal relatives, they all looked down on the behavior of the Pinglu Army.
But many people ignore the fact that so far, whether it is An Baozhen and Tuoba Chaoguang of the Hexi Army or Wang Wujun, Zhang Xiaozhong, Li Zhengji and Li Huaixian of the Pinglu Army, the six of them are all border town Hu people. So far, no Han Chinese generals have appeared in the two towns. An Baozhen is an Anguo Hu person of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, Tuoba Chaoguang is a party member, Wang Wujun is a Khitan Nu Du tribe, Zhang Xiaozhong is a Xi Yi deactivated tribe, and the new Li Zhengji is a Goguryeo person, and Li Huaixian is a Liucheng Hu person who served the Khitan in the era.
The reality reflected here is that in Saibei and Hexi, where Zhuhu lived together, the proportion of Fan Hu in the composition of the lower-level officers of the Tang Emperor's ** team was already very high. In fact, the two towns of Pinglu and Fanyang in Hebei Province had deep exchanges with various Fan Hu tribes because of their proximity to the north, resulting in the inevitable integration of a large number of northern Hu people into the army from the beginning of their establishment. The same is true of the town of Hexi, an area where a large number of ethnic minority regimes were established during the Song Dynasty.
"The lineup of this Pinglu Army is really luxurious." Gu Yuanxi secretly sighed: "Wang Wujun, the festival envoy of the Chengde army, Zhang Xiaozhong, the festival envoy of Yiding Town, Li Huaixian, the festival envoy of Lu Longjun of Youzhou, and Li Zhengji, the festival envoy of Ziqing Town. Two bigwigs from the three towns of Heshuo came, three of the heads of the feudal towns of the "Rebellion of the Four Towns in Jianzhong", and the bigwigs of the feudal towns who seized one side after the Middle and Tang Dynasty were all seventy-seven, eighty-eight. ”
Wang Wujun and Zhang Xiaozhong are respectively the envoy of the Chengde Festival and the envoy of the Yiding Festival, and Li Huaixian is the envoy of the Youzhou Festival, and the envoy of the Youzhou Festival is the current Fanyang Festival Envoy, because Youzhou leads the Lu Longjun, also known as the Lulong Festival Envoy. And Li Zhengji is the envoy of the Ziqing Festival. Among them, the three towns of Chengde, Weibo and Lulong are also known as the "three towns of Heshuo", which are the three feudal towns with the strongest sense of secession and independence in the Tang Dynasty. During Li Zhengji's period, Ziqing Town had a vast territory of 15 prefectures and more than 100,000 soldiers, making it the most powerful feudal town in the world.
In the future, these people will all have troops to sit on one side and take charge of a corner of the big man. But in the eyes of the central aristocracy of the currently powerful Tang Empire, it is just a plaything that makes people laugh. In their opinion, watching the private fights of these border generals is no different from watching cockfights, dog fights and other acrobatic shows in the courtyard on weekdays, and the intensity is far inferior to the fierce beast fighting scenes in the royal zoo.
Only Gu Yuanxi in later generations saw the meaning behind these people.
Putting aside the personal achievements of these generals in the future, as a descendant of the Goguryeo tribe, Li Zhengji, the Goguryeo State behind him, from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, repeatedly challenged China and became a major problem for the Central Empire.
As early as 197 AD, Goguryeo had a large-scale war with the Gongsun regime, which had seized Liaodong at that time. A.D. 197, that is, the second year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This year, people only remember a series of wars that took place in Chinese mainland. In the Central Plains, Cao Cao conquered Wancheng Zhangxiu twice, and in the first battle, Cao Cao's lieutenant Dian Wei, his eldest son Cao Ang and nephew Cao Anmin all died in the chaos, and Cao Cao's guards were also lost. In Hebei, Cao Cao was intimidated by Yuan Shao's power and sent Kong Rong to worship Yuan Shao as a general on behalf of the imperial court, supervise Qingyou and the four states, and officially recognize Hebei as Yuan Shao's sphere of influence. In Huainan, Yuan Shu claimed that the emperor ascended the throne, and fought with Lu Bu and Cao Cao successively, and the soldiers were completely lost, and they have been in a state of collapse ever since. In Jiangdong, Sun Ce defeated Yan Baihu and Chen Yu. In Xuzhou, Liu Bei had Yang Feng tied up and killed during a banquet in Xiaopeicheng and took his soldiers for himself. In Guanzhong, Cao Cao sent Zhong Xuan to supervise the troops in Guanzhong, Han Sui, Ma Teng and others did not dare to confront the emperor, so they sent their sons to serve Xudu to show their obedience to the central government, and Guanzhong was able to temporarily settle down. A series of major events took place throughout 197 AD, but people tend to overlook the time when Gongsun Du of Liaodong defeated the army of the king of Goguryeo Mountain and forced him to move the capital.
Goguryeo, a remote regime that had been beaten during the Han Dynasty, Cao Wei, and Tuoba Northern Wei dynasties, became the henchmen of the Central Dynasty during the Sui and Tang empires. This led to more than ten Liaodong expeditions by Emperor Wen of Sui, Emperor Yang of Sui, Emperor Taizong of Tang, and Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty. Although Goguryeo had been destroyed at this time, the influence of the extinct country and nation represented by Li Zhengji could not be underestimated.
And An Bao is really an Anguo Hu people of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, Anguo is just a small country in Central Asia, but its ethnicity has a Yan Dynasty An Lushan who subverted the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Tuoba Chaoguang's Dangxiang clan independently founded the "Western Xia Kingdom" during the reign of Song Renzong. The Khitan clan behind Li Huaixian and Wang Wujun and the Xi clan behind Zhang Xiaozhong jointly constructed the famous "Great Liao Empire" in later generations. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Western Regions, West Asia, and Eastern Europe all used the Liao Dynasty (Khitan) as the representative title of China. In the ****** military books of Central and West Asia, gunpowder and firearms passed down from the Song Dynasty in China are also called "Khitan flowers" and "Khitan rockets". To this day, the Khitan is still used as the name of China in the language and writing of the Russian nation.
However, at this time, the Li Tang royal family was still in power, and the banner of the Tang Empire was fluttering in the territory of the Hu people in the four directions. This kind of foreign war will be more and more intense for more than ten years after Gao Xianzhi's expedition to the west next year. And the prestige of the central court of the empire was also at its peak. Therefore, this group of nobles at the top of the empire naturally regarded this group of border soldiers as mustard, just like the group of old nobles in the Colosseum in ancient Rome regarded the slave gladiators on the field as a toy for entertainment, and this group of Chang'an nobles seemed to be bored by the lack of fierceness of the battle.
"It's really boring, after fighting for so long, why doesn't anyone have some blood?" It was still Li Chenghong, the king of Guangwu County, who spoke, and I saw him keep touching his beard, sighing.
"Brother Lei, Brother Nan, what do you think, who will win in the two towns of Hexi Army and Pinglu Army?" Gu Yuanxi suddenly asked Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun.
"Uh......" Lei Wanchun was stunned when he heard this, and then stared at the field and pondered for a long time before he said slowly: "It should be said that it is not compatible." In this case, except for Tuoba Chaoguang's man, the strength of the Na'an doll of the Hexi Army and the four little dolls of the Pinglu Army are similar. And Wang Wujun's little doll suffered the loss of the stubble and the weapon was too short at the beginning, otherwise his strength would be on par with An Baozhen. ”
Nan Jiyun pointed to the field and said: "You see that this An Baozhen is now running while fighting, obviously under the attack of Wang Wujun and Zhang Xiaozhong, he can't hold it anymore." ”
"What about Tuoba Chaoguang?" Gu Yuanxi watched Tuoba Chaoguang's big axe on the field not fall behind under the siege of Li Zhengji and Li Huaixian, and asked: "So, Tuoba Chaoguang's martial arts are the strongest among the six?" ”
"That's nature." Lei Wanchun laughed dumbly when he heard this: "Don't you look at it, Tuoba Chaoguang's man is forty years old and in the prime of life. In terms of strength and combat experience, can it be compared to the other four little dolls? Those dolls are actually extraordinary in martial arts, but they are still young, their strength is insufficient, and they lack experience in facing the enemy, so even if the four little guys of the Pinglu Army go together, I am afraid that Tuoba Chaoguang can compete with them. ”
Sure enough, Tuoba Chaoguang saw that An Baozhen had fallen into the wind, so he slapped his horse and went to intercept Zhang Xiaozhong, who wanted to catch up, so a big axe withstood Zhang Xiaozhong, Li Huaixian and Li Zhengji's three iron spears respectively, and the more fierce the battle, the more vigorous the fighting spirit.
Yin Ziqi, the chief general of the Pinglu Army here, saw that none of the four generals could defeat the two generals in Hexi, although he knew that the victory or defeat of the battle did not depend on quantity, and he also knew that Tuoba Chaoguang of the Hexi Army on the opposite side had a great advantage in age, but he was still ashamed. At this time, he didn't care about bullying less, he whispered a few words to a military general next to him, and then a full-armor military general in the Pinglu army rode out on horseback, clenching a seven-foot Mo knife with both hands, giving people a powerful aura as soon as he appeared.
Mo knife, a type of long-handled knife in the Tang Dynasty of China. Appeared in the Sui Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and was an extremely common and popular weapon in the Tang Dynasty. The shape of the Mo knife is diverse, and the styles of the various feudal towns in the world are not the same. And the Mo knife of such a military general of the Pinglu Army is a kind of Mo knife similar to a three-pointed and two-edged knife.
"This person Li Zhongchen, formerly known as Dong Qin, is from Jixian County, Youzhou. When he was a teenager, he served in the army in Youzhou, and successively served under the account of General Xue Chuyu, Zhang Shouqi, and General An Lushan, the three Jiedu envoys of Fanyang. Yin Ziqi said smugly.
"Finally, a Han Chinese general has appeared." Gu Yuanxi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Okay." Huaixi Jiedu envoy Li Zhongchen also arrived, except for Tian Chenghe, who represented Wei Bo, the personnel of several major feudal towns were basically gathered. ”
Li Zhongchen looked to be thirty years old, a strange knife scorching in the sun, and his face looked very unruly.
"The Pinglu Army is out of a lot now." The young king of Hue, Li Yu, clapped his hands and laughed: "Even their vanguard envoys have been dispatched, and there is a good show to watch now." I look at Li Zhongchen, and I will definitely be able to make us see some blood. ”
A few people next to him actually nodded in agreement when they heard his heartless. Gu Yuanxi couldn't help but smack his tongue.
"Li Zhongchen, you are the vanguard of the Pinglu Army, I am the vanguard of the Hexi Army, let everyone present see whether it is your Pinglu Army's vanguard who is capable, or our Hexi Army's vanguard who is strong!" An Chongzhang, who was previously dissuaded by Xin Yunjing, finally couldn't help but pat his horse, and the weapon in his hand was the "rich and handsome" in the weapon, marking the horse lance from a noble family of military merit.
An Chongzhang, who was equipped with a cavalry, brandished the weapon of the king of soldiers, the "horse lance", and roared towards the sky with extremely rich equipment and a very stylish way, and galloped straight to Li Zhongchen.
(In the next chapter, the princess arrives, the female number one appears, and the protagonist has an affair)