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Chapter 323: Undercurrent (49)

"Sir, sir. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info hahaha, you are the king's Chen Yankai. After capturing Yanmen Pass, Wan Yanying, who had been suppressed for several days, was in a good mood and did not choose what to say.

Han Zhong was shocked and said, "Your Royal Highness, speak carefully!" ”

After Yan Yingna, he Han Zhong was frightened compared to Chen Yankai, the chief assistant of the Great Liao Empire under Wan Yan Shengcong, who was frightened. It's okay for him to finish Yan Ying and die, but he Han Zhong still wants to live for a few years, his wife and children are in Liao Kingdom, and Han Zhong can't think of anything rebellious.

has just suffered a loss in the He clan, and Han Zhong has more or less learned a lesson from his memory, and he will not be so ignorant. In the internal disputes of the high-level Daoists, Han Zhong understood that when he was involved in the internal disputes of the high-level, it was likely that the sacrifices were all of their so-called staff.

And the protagonist and leader of the internal struggle have no worries about their lives even if they fail, after all, there is a relationship at the level of blood, as long as the other party is not particularly cruel, they will not want your life, at most they will imprison you for life and restrict your freedom.

Therefore, Han Zhong is now sensitive to the internal struggles involved, and the internal struggles that touch the upper echelons of power are very sensitive.

Han Zhong has already died in this regard, Han Zhong doesn't want to die on this again, if he dies again, I'm afraid Han Zhong will not have a place to turn over in his life. He has already offended the He people to death, which is equivalent to cutting off his back road to Liaodong.

Liao State is now the only place where Han Zhong can live and take refuge, if the Liao State is buried again. Han Zhong really didn't have any place to go.

Without any suspense, the Liao army finally took Yanmen Pass.

The ancient city of Yanmen Pass eventually ended in its fall.

The original setting of Yanmen Pass began in the Warring States Period Zhao Wuling King, Zhao Wuling King carried out military reform, Hu Fu cavalry shooting, defeated the invasion of Lin Hu and Lou Fu, and established Yunzhong, Yanmen, and Daijun. The national power of Zhao was greatly enhanced, and Zhao rose to prominence in the late Warring States period, becoming the only military power among the six eastern states at the end of the Warring States period that had the strength to compete with the Qin state to the west. Later, Li Mu was ordered to stay in Yanmen to guard against the Xiongnu. In order to avoid the Xiongnu's attack on the border people of Zhao, the Xiongnu had no gain for several years, and the Zhao army was strong and strong, and was willing to fight for a war. "Break the Huns with more than 100,000 horsemen." For more than ten years after that, the Xiongnu did not dare to Kou Zhao. Later generations called Li Mu a "genius", and built the "Jingbian Temple" in Yanmen Pass, in order to commemorate his military exploits in defending the border and protecting the people. After Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he sent the general Meng Tian to lead 300,000 troops from Yanmen, "attack Hu in the north, and collect the land of Henan" (that is, today's Hetao area), drive the Xiongnu to the north of Yinshan, and build the Great Wall.

In the Western Han Dynasty, during the period of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu besieged Han Wangxin, Han Wangxin surrendered, and the Xiongnu led troops to the south and drove directly to Jinyang (Taiyuan).

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty succeeded to the throne, in the face of the continuous rampant southern invasion of the Huns, the Western Han court set out to counterattack. In the fifth year of Yuanguang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to renovate Yanmen Pass. The famous generals of the Han Dynasty, such as Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, and Li Guang, all galloped inside and outside the ancient fortress of Yanmen, defeated the Xiongnu many times, and made great contributions. Li Guang, the "ape-armed general", was too punctual in Daijun, Yanmen, and Yunzhong, and fought with the Xiongnu dozens of times, and was called "General Fei" by the Xiongnu.

During the reign of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, Wang Zhaojun was from Yanmen Pass and Qin. Since then, there has been a stable situation in this area of "the remote city is closed, the cattle and horses are wild, there is no dog barking police in the third world, and there is no battle in Li Shu". [

The title of Yanmen Pass began in the early Tang Dynasty. Because of the rise of the northern Turks, there were frequent internal crimes, and the Tang garrison was stationed in Yanmen Mountain, and the city was set up at the commanding heights of the Iron Wrapping Gate, and the soldiers defended it. The Book of Tang? The Geographical Chronicle describes here that "the east and west mountains are steep and steep, there is a road, circling and rugged, and the top is set up at the top, which is called the West Pass, and is also called the Yanmen Pass." ”

Since ancient times, Yanmen Pass has always been a very important pass, which plays a pivotal role in maintaining the stability of the Central Plains.

Yanmen Pass General Luo Tengda's hair was scattered, looking at the inscription on Yanmen Pass under Yanmen Pass. Recall everything that happened in the past history of this pass. Everything related to this Xiongguan, Luo Tengda not only burst into tears. How much he wanted to defend the Yanmen Pass, but unfortunately the Yanmen Pass eventually fell.

Luo Tengda has been in Yanmen Pass for so long, and Luo Tengda has already regarded Yanmen Pass as his home. Now that he has lost Yanmen Pass, Luo Tengda is no different from the feeling of losing his home and ruining his family.

Yanmen Pass has a special meaning for Luo Tengda, losing Yanmen Pass, Luo Tengda feels that there is nothing left in his heart. The Yanmen Gate is gone, what is left of my Luo Tengda?

Nothing! Nothing!

Luo Tengda, the northern man who was tempered like iron on weekdays, couldn't bear it anymore at this time, and looked at the smoke billowing Yanmen Pass, and shouted bitter cold. In the firelight, Luo Tengda could still vaguely see the Liao army wielding butcher knives and slaughtering the people of the defenders in Yanmen Pass.

Luo Tengda clenched his fists tightly, and could only watch as the Liao army slaughtered one after another Yanmen Pass soldiers and civilians. As a general of Yanmen Pass, Luo Tengda was unable to protect them or save them at this moment.

Luo Tengda felt that he was too much of a wretch, and he was really a wretch.

Luo Tengda slapped himself hard, it was his negligence, his carelessness, and his incompetence that he didn't keep the Yanmen Pass!

"Yanmen Pass is lost, I, Luo Tengda, as a Yanmen counselor, am ashamed of the people of Yanmen Pass!" Luo Tengda raised his head to the sky and howled, his long scattered hair fluttering in the bleak north wind.

"General!" Luo Tengda's younger brother Luo Tengfa grabbed Luo Tengda and said, "The loss of Yanmen Pass is not all responsible for the general!"

Luo Tengda looked at Luo Tengfa with empty eyes, smiled bitterly, and said: "I am the guard of Yanmen Pass, Yanmen Pass is lost, the blame is no longer mine, who will be responsible?" I know you are all kind-hearted, but don't comfort me, a mistake is a mistake, Yanmen Pass was lost in my Luo Tengda's hands after all. ”

Luo Tengda turned around and looked at the Yanmen Pass defenders who broke out with him.

When the Liao army attacked Yanmen Pass from the side road, Luo Tengda already knew that it was over, and he regretted that he was too confident and ignored this side road that led to the tragedy.

However, there is a reason why Luo Tengda did not set up troops to guard this side road. One is because Yanmen Pass is so close, and it is very convenient to take Yanmen Pass, in this case, no one will choose to take this road except for those who do head-killing or shady business will choose to take this road, this dangerous road is too dangerous.

Of course, there is another objective reason that led to Luo Tengda's failure to set up troops to garrison on this side road: Luo Tengfa's defenders at Yanmen Pass were seriously insufficient, and it was very difficult to deal with the attack of the Liao army head-on, so he barely held Yanmen Pass. If the troops are divided and deviated, the front of Yanmen Pass is likely to be unable to withstand the attack of the Liao army.

After discovering that the Liao army found this side road that had been flooded by barren grass, Luo Tengda had already understood that the general trend had gone, and gathered the defenders in Yanmen Pass to break through Yanmen Pass, and was surrounded and suppressed by the Liao army on the other hand. The matter has come to this point, and one can escape, and the Yanmen Pass has been lost. It is not worth the sacrifice to continue to shed blood in Yanmen Pass.

Luo Tengfa didn't want or bear to follow his brothers who followed him to suppress bandits, and died needlessly in Yanmen Pass. I chose to highlight the encirclement.

If you want to break through the encirclement, naturally someone will be responsible for breaking the siege, and the people who delay the Liao army's breakthrough will gain valuable time.

The defenders of Yanmen Pass who remained in Yanmen Pass were naturally in the former, responsible for breaking off the rear, responsible for sacrificing, and buying precious time for their comrades to break through. Even so, in the end, he successfully followed Luo Tengfa to break out of the siege, and the number of defenders at Yanmen Pass was only more than 200 people.

In the huge Yanmen Pass, there are only more than 200 people who can come out alive in the end.

"The general had already made preparations before the war when the Liao army entered Datong, and expected that the Liao army would very likely start from Yanmen Pass after occupying Datong, and the general also realized that the defenders of Yanmen Pass were constantly being transferred by the Shanxi government to the interior of Shanxi to suppress bandits and suppress the rogues." Luo Tengfa is Luo Tengda's elder brother, and he is naturally very close to Luo Tengda on weekdays, and Luo Tengda is clear about the measures taken by Luo Tengda before the war! "The general wrote to inform the prefectures and counties in Shanxi that the weak garrison of Yanmen Pass may not be able to stop the attack of the huge number of iron cavalry of the Liao army! And bluntly said in the letter, if you don't increase the number of troops at Yanmen Pass! Yanmen Pass is in danger, Shanxi is in danger! ”

Theoretically speaking, Yanmen Pass is the gateway to Shanxi, and there is no reason why such an important pass will be so empty, and the imperial court will not deploy such a small number of troops at such an important pass. In fact, the imperial court attached great importance to the defense of Yanmen Pass in Shanxi, and the troops deployed in Yanmen Pass in Shanxi were very abundant.

When Luo Tengda and the Liao army were fighting, the defenders of Yanmen Pass were only less than thirty percent of the original! It is no wonder that Luo Tengfa would say that Yanmen Pass is empty.

Since there were less than 30% of the original troops left in Yanmen Pass before the war, where did about 70% of the troops in Yanmen Pass go? So many living people can't grow wings and fly away, right?

Luo Tengda managed Yanmen Pass properly, and Luo Tengda's Yanmen Pass was the strongest military force in Shanxi. Therefore, when there was nothing to do at Yanmen Pass, Luo Tengda's most frequent thing was to lead the soldiers of Yanmen Pass into the pass to exterminate the bandits.

Originally, garrisoning Yanmen Pass to prevent foreign invasion was Luo Tengda's main business, and suppressing bandits was just Luo Tengda's sideline. Luo Tengda belongs to the establishment of the border army, and the border army, as the name suggests, is the army stationed on the border of the frontier. Guarding the frontier is the duty of the frontier.

At that time, Luo Tengda was put before the horse by the local officials in Shanxi, and there was only one bandit in Shanxi. The first thing that came to mind of these officials and men in Shanxi was Luo Tengda and Luo Tengda's Yanmen Pass soldiers. He also demanded that Luo Tengda's Yanmen Pass soldiers immediately go to the interior to exterminate the bandits.

The town army in the interior of Shanxi collapsed to the point that even the bandits could not take care of themselves, so once something happened in Shanxi, the eyes of all officials in Shanxi were aimed at Luo Tengda's Yanmen Pass soldiers.

Luo Tengda is a martial artist, and he always has to bow his head in front of the literati in the Great Zhao Martial Arts, not to mention that Luo Tengda is still a martial artist from a civilian background without any background. In the face of the unreasonable demands of these civil officials, even if Luo Tengda resisted, it was only in vain.

Luo Tengda is a humble warrior, in the face of the powerful civilian and official forces, all he can choose is to bow his head, and there is no other option for Luo Tengfa to choose. Without their own choice, this is the greatest sorrow of the martial artists of this era, and the martial artists are always lower than the civilian officials.

Even if Luo Tengda worked hard to recognize words and improve his cultural literacy, he became a rare person among the martial artists who was coarse and literate. The civil officials in Shanxi still looked down on him because Luo Tengda was from a humble background.

Later, the local officials in Shanxi even developed to the absurd point of directly keeping Luo Tengda's Yanmen Pass soldiers directly. The excuse given by the local officials in Shanxi is also absurd, that the soldiers of Yanmen Pass are directly stationed in the place, and it also saves the trouble of hastily dispatching troops from Yanmen Pass every time a bandit rises up.

"Every time, every merit goes to them, and what about us? Nothing! The meritorious ones were the soldiers of my Yanmen Pass, and in the end, our soldiers of Yanmen Pass got nothing! Luo Tengda's brother Luo Tengfa has long held back his resentment against the local officials in Shanxi!

Luo Tengda was still not angry, and continued, counting the various crimes of local officials in Shanxi.

"What about after you have made a contribution? Our soldiers at Yanmen Pass are disabled, and they can't even get a pension when they die in battle, and the bounty that they peeled off their heads is all fucking swallowed by these beasts! The more Luo Tengfa spoke, the more excited he became, and almost the whole person jumped up, "General! Junior! Don't you know how miserable the families of those wounded and disabled brothers and the families of the dead are?! As a general of Yanmen Pass, shouldn't you stand up and speak for the brothers? ”

Luo Tengda smiled helplessly, although his younger brother knew him, he didn't know him completely. Luo Tengda said: "Does it work? I told them all these things, the local officials in Shanxi went down to the county order, up to the governor of Shanxi, and no one paid attention to me. In exchange, it was only more squeezed out by Shanxi officials. If it weren't for the fact that I, Luo Tengda, would still be of a little use to them, I'm afraid I, Luo Tengda, the guard of Yanmen, wouldn't be able to do it. ”

According to the system of the Great Zhao, the civil officials of the Great Zhao Pinyi above the fifth rank include the fifth rank, and the military attachés above the third rank include the third rank. There is the power to directly report to the center. Luo Tengfa's official position is Sanpin Stand, which is just above the critical point.

Luo Tengfa has the right to write a note to the heat stroke, but Luo Tengfa writes every note, and the result is the same, and in the end, the stone sinks into the sea, and the bird has no news.

What's the use of writing more of this, this court is a court controlled by civil officials, and the right to speak in this court lies in civil officials, not military people! No matter how hard Luo Tengfa tried, everything he did was in vain.

All his struggles were in vain, and Luo Teng found that he was even disheartened and had lost confidence in the imperial court.

"Don't you want to hear it? I'll tell you all. Luo Tengda smiled miserably, "Do you know that I asked the magistrate in Shanxi to transfer back our troops scattered to the local area in Yanmen Pass to strengthen the defense force of Yanmen Pass in case something happens to Yanmen Pass, how did they reply to me?" There are no soldiers to adjust in the place! The Liao army will not invade Yanmen Pass! The Liao army is lone and deep, if it encounters those who enter the Yanmen Pass, the Liao army will know the difficulty and retreat on its own! ”

Luo Tengda carried the reply letters that he had read over and over again under the oil lamp that night, which made his heart twist. At that time, Luo Tengda was more and more disheartened the more he looked at it. None of the local officials in Shanxi promised to strengthen the defense of Yanmen Pass! None of them gave Yanmen Guan substantial help!

Therefore, it is not too much to say that the biggest responsibility for the loss of Yanmen Pass lies with the magistrates of Shanxi! The troops of Yanmen Pass were originally dug up by local officials in Shanxi and finally hollowed out. In the end, Yanmen Pass was dug to less than 30% of the original strength!

The local officials in Shanxi are digging not only the corners of Yanmen and Yanmen Pass, but also their own graves, and digging the corners of Yanmen Pass is tantamount to digging their own graves!

The biggest problem facing Luo Tengda now is how to settle himself and the more than 200 soldiers who came out of Yanmen Pass with him.

"You all go, Yanmen Pass is lost, such a big matter is investigated, I can't escape death. You've been with me for so long, there's no need to follow me to death now. I, Luo Tengda, am ashamed of you and all the fathers and villagers in Yanmen Pass. Luo Tengda bowed deeply to his soldiers and clenched his fists, which was the final farewell.

"General, if I don't leave, I will follow the general, even if I die, I will follow the general!" A Yanmen Pass soldier said.

Luo Tengda does not drink the blood of soldiers and can be considerate of the soldiers, so the cohesion of the soldiers at Yanmen Pass is very strong, and they are willing to die for Luo Tengda. Luo Tengda was born in an ordinary military family. Treat the soldiers below and never put up any shelf. Therefore, among the soldiers at Yanmen Pass, Luo Tengda was very popular with the military.

There was a Yanmen Pass soldier who stood up and was willing to follow Luo Tengfa even if he died, and there was no complaint, and soon, more than 200 Yanmen Pass soldiers all stood up and expressed their willingness to follow Luo Tengda.

Luo Tengda sighed and said helplessly: "Why do you bother, why do you have to follow me Luo Tengfa to die, I, Luo Tengfa, am a guilty person, it's not a pity to die, you follow me, it's not worth it." ”

"General! Watch out for someone! A soldier at Yanmen Pass was alert, he heard the sound of horses' hooves around him, and it was terrible to hear the sound of horses' hooves at this time, and the Liao army left them with a sign image of the Liao army's iron hooves.

Out of nowhere, a flying horse appeared in front of Luo Tengfa, Luo Tengfa was a little embarrassed, and such an embarrassed appearance was seen by others.

"Dare to ask which one is Luo Tengda, General Luo?" The flying horse rode a snorting out-of-mouth steed, which did not look inferior to the horses of the Liao army. The other party can ride such a horse, it must not be an ordinary person.

"It's down there." Luo Tengda clenched his fists and asked, "Dare to ask who is under your feet?" I don't know what to do with Luo Tengda? ”

The flying rider hurriedly dismounted, walked in front of Luo Tengda and said, "General Luo's villain is rude, my young master has invited General Luo to the front to talk about it!" (To be continued.) )