The cavalry of the Sui army immediately got on their horses, Luo Cheng led 3,000 cavalry to meet them, and the rest of the soldiers also stopped resting and entered the combat state one after another. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After a while, Luo Cheng sent someone back to report to Zhang Xuan, "Marshal Qiqi, it's not the army of Liang Shidu, it's the party cavalry, and their chief has come to ask to see the marshal!" ”

Duan Decao said with a smile: "The party people have always been attached to the Central Plains, and they surrendered to the Sui Dynasty after the failure of the attack on Huining County in the sixteenth and ninth years of the emperor's reign, and they have not fought with the Central Plains army again, they know the severity and should not be hostile." ”

It is Zhang Xuan's consistent principle not to let strange troops get close to his army accommodation, so Zhang Xuan nodded and said: "Let their army stay five miles away, and the leader can come!" ”

After a while, a group of cavalry escorted a young general galloping forward, holding a large white flag in one hand, this general was bare on the top of his head, only two small braids behind the ears on both sides, wearing fine scale armor, a huge bow on his back, burly and tall, looking no more than twenty-four or five years old, but giving people a sense of vicissitudes.

There were Sui cavalry to guide him, and soon the party general came to Zhang Xuan's side, he turned over and dismounted, handed over the giant bow and banner to the entourage, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and hugged his fist and said: "Dang Xiang Tuoba Chi Ci knocks to see His Royal Highness the King of Qi!" ”

Duan Decao whispered to Zhang Xuan on the side: "This person is the new chief of the Party Item's Tuoba Department!" ”

Zhang Xuan didn't expect Chief Tuoba to be so young, so he stepped forward and helped him up with a smile, "Chief Tuoba doesn't have to be polite, please get up!" ”

Tuoba Chici hugged his fists and saluted everyone again, he knew Duan Decao, and nodded with a smile, "General Duan, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Zhang Xuan secretly thought, this Tuoba chief is a person with a heart, and he actually knows that Duan Decao has surrendered to him, and it seems that he also has his own intention to go west.

Zhang Xuan said lightly: "This time we are going to conquer Liang Shidu, passing by here, I hope we will not disturb your women, children and old people." ”

"Your Royal Highness is serious, this grassland was given to us by the Son of Heaven of the Great Sui, His Royal Highness is the heir of the Great Sui, that is, the court to which our party is loyal, and Xiaomin specially led two thousand cavalry to help in the battle!"

Zhang Xuan also secretly admired that this party chief could speak, and said it magnificently, if he really wanted to be loyal to the Northern Sui, then why didn't he go to Zhongdu before, and now he captured the Hetao, subdued Duan Decao's army, and captured Diaoyin, Shuofang, Yanchuan and other counties.

However, Zhang Xuan can also understand that the party members are still very weak, living in the gap between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Turks outside the Saiwai, so that they have developed the habit of relying on the powerful people, and they will rely on whoever is strong, this is their way of self-preservation, and it is understandable that it is the Sui army that defeated the Turkic army, and he claims to be the people of the Great Sui, otherwise they may not come to serve.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xuan smiled and asked, "I don't know what official position you have now?" ”

"Xiaomin is still white, but Xiaomin's grandfather was named a general in the fourth year of the emperor, and was later inherited by Xiaomin's father, Xiaomin inherited his father's throne in the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, but he did not inherit his father's military position."

Zhang Xuan understood what he meant, pondered for a moment and said: "At present, there is no general position in Northern Sui, and the general is the highest military position, so let's do it!" I named you the general of Rongxi, gave you the title of Duke of Huaiyuan County, and allowed you to belong to the Northern Sui. ”

Tuoba Chi was overjoyed, knelt down and saluted: "Weichen thanks His Royal Highness King Qi for his kindness, and is willing to serve His Royal Highness King Qi." ”

Zhang Xuan said again: "I will allow you to lead the army to help the war, but I said it first, my military law is strict, you can restrain the soldiers for me, abide by the military order, and do not disturb the people and hurt the people, otherwise I will not be spared!" ”

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, that the party members have lived in this area for decades, live in harmony with the Han people, and will never destroy their homeland."

"Good! Go back to command the army and obey General Duan's dispatch. ”

"Obey!"

Tuoba Chici rode back on horseback, and Zhang Xuan said to Duan De: "Restrain them well, let them become a help to the Sui army, not a burden!" ”

Duan Decao nodded silently, "Humble duty understands!" ”

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Night fell quietly, the heat quickly subsided, and the chill crept in, beginning to invade the land.

The Northern Sui army also began to reorganize its military horses and continued to march in the direction of Huile County, at this time, Huile County was about one hundred and fifty miles away from them, and Zhang Xuan ordered the army to speed up the march.

After the army marched fifty miles to the west, the grasslands gradually disappeared, large fields of farmland appeared, and the outline of villages faintly appeared in the distance, and they had entered the agricultural area.

At this time, Duan Decao urged him to step forward, pointed to an abrupt mountain peak in front of him and said to Zhang Xuan: "Dashuai, in front is Canglong Fort, which is the east gate of Huile County, the location is very important, there will inevitably be the army of Liang Shidu stationed, where it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is a plan to seize Yitian Fort." ”

Zhang Xuan stared at the mountain peaks in the distance for a moment and asked, "What is General Duan's good plan?" ”

Duan Decao whispered a few words to Zhang Xuan, and Zhang Xuan smiled: "Will they believe it?" ”

Duan Decao said with a smile: "The humble officials know the main generals there very well, and they will definitely believe it." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded and instructed his soldiers: "Go and ask General Tuoba to come and see me!" ”

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Although this area is an impact plain, but occasionally there will be a few high mountains, standing alone on the plain, Huilong Mountain is such a big mountain, the radius is only ten miles, about 100 zhang high, the big trees on the mountain are towering, the forest is luxuriant, several streams gurgle down from the mountain, the scenery is extremely beautiful.

There is a military city in the middle of the mountainside of Huilong Mountain, there are about 2,000 garrisons, it was originally called Huilong Town, there are more than 100 families living in it, there are dozens of shops of all sizes in it, but it was transformed into a military city by Liang Shidu, repaired high walls on three sides, and renamed Canglong Fort again, and Xuanwu Town in the north, Zhuque Town in the south together constitute the three peripheral fortresses of Huile County.

The master of Canglong Fort is one of the four tigers under the account of Liang Shidu, named Xin Fang'er, who is burly and tall, rude in appearance, and has the courage of ten thousand people to make an eighty-pound mace iron rod.

Xin Fang'er is a native of Hexi Hu, he has been strong and powerful since he was a child, and was later recruited into the Turkic Jinshan Palace, trained in the Jinshan Palace, and finally joined the black warriors and became Liang Shidu's subordinates, he followed Liang Shidu for more than ten years, was loyal to Liang Shidu, won the trust of Liang Shidu, and was ordered to guard Canglong Fort.

At the fifth watch, Xin Fang'er was woken up by his own soldiers in his deep sleep, and he was extremely unhappy and shouted: "What is the matter? ”

"General, the chief of the Tuoba Department is here and wants to go to the city to spend the night!"

"What is he here for?"

"It seems that the king wants to buy horses, and he has brought a large herd of war horses."

Xin Fang'er sat up and turned her anger into joy and said, "I'll take a look!" ”

Xin Fang'er grew up in the Hexi grassland since he was a child, and he loves horses, he knows that the war horses raised by the party are very famous, known as the party horses, and they are especially good at surviving in the Gobi Desert.

At this time, it was not yet five watches, and at the deepest time of the night, dozens of torches were illuminated in front of the gate of the castle as high as two feet, and more than 300 soldiers on duty stood on the head of the city and looked down.

I saw more than 100 cavalrymen standing in front of the gate, all of them with shaved heads, wearing leather armor, and murderous.

Among them was the leader of the party, Tuoba Chici, dressed in fine scale armor and with a large bow on his back. =

Behind them was a large herd of black pressed horses, there were thousands of them, but what was a little strange was that each of them had a saddle.

At this time, Xin Fang'er walked up to the wall and laughed loudly: "When did Chief Tuoba become a night owl?" ”

Tuoba Chi said angrily: "If you don't go at night, when will you go, if you have the ability, you can run ten miles during the day to see!" ”

Xin Fang'er laughed and said, "I'm just joking, I don't know where the chief is going?" ”

"You King Liang want to buy a war horse, and you want me to give me a saddle, you are insatiable, for the sake of the previous friendship, we will run this trip."

Xin Fang'er knew that the king had bought a lot of war horses from the party members in the past, and he saw that the war horses below were strong and strong, and his limbs were strong, he was immediately tempted, and ordered: "Open the door and let them in!" ”

The heavy gate creaked open, Tuoba Chi asked his subordinates to give way, and more than a thousand war horses behind him swarmed into the city gate, and suddenly a soldier shouted: "General, there are still people hidden under the horses!" ”

Xin Fang'er was stunned for a moment, he also found that there were still people hidden under the belly of the war horse, just now the war horse was behind, they couldn't see clearly, and now that the war horse entered the city, they could see it very clearly.

"What's going on?" Xin Fang'er yelled.

At this moment, the cavalry of the Sui army, who was hiding under the belly of the war horse, jumped up and sat firmly on the war horse.

Raise their crossbows and shoot at the soldiers at the head of the city, a rain of arrows shoots out, the soldiers defending the city fell down with arrows one after another, screams were everywhere, there was chaos in front of the gate, and hundreds of Sui cavalry took the opportunity to rush into the castle.

Xin Fang'er had already understood, this was the Sui army's sneak attack on Canglong Fort, he was furious in his heart, rushed down the city and turned over his horse, and rushed with a mace in his hand.

At this time, a general came to him, a white horse and a silver spear, heroic and majestic, like a god descending from heaven, it was the general Luo Cheng. (To be continued.) )