It is the coldest period of the year, even the warm and humid Guanzhong Plain, which is sprinkled into ice at this moment. The snow on the ground is still there, but there is not much of it, and it is in the form of snow powder. When the wind blows, the snow powder immediately flutters all over the sky, and it is also beautiful to be illuminated by the warm winter sun.

At this moment, in the northeast of Lishan, where Huayin County and Jingzhao County intersect, as far as the eye can see, it is such a dreamlike beauty like a fairy tale. In the midst of the beautiful scenery, a group of knights came from east to west.

There are about 300 knights in this team, and the mounts under the crotch are all high-shouldered and broad-backed Liaodong high-headed horses, dressed in different ways, some wearing armor, more wearing leather clothes, and some leather clothes are draped in Han brocade robes.

The most conspicuous part of the procession was that the knights wore a mink hat on their heads, and a white mink tail with a gray brim was thick and long, and it jumped again and again with the gallop of the horses; The first two poles of the team rolled in the wind, and the hunting banner and the two poles showed that one of the people in this team was a festival envoy on the side of the festival.

Immediately, the knights were also different, there were Han families, Turks and Sogdian Zahu, but more of them were Xi and Khitans, all of them looked rough and fierce, and they looked extremely fierce, and several leaders looked even more arrogant and complacent.

Regardless of the question, it can be known that this team of men and horses is the subordinate army of the party who made the envoy to the court to report on his work, but this team of men and horses does not have the slightest trace of the slaughter that the army should have, and the formation is scattered, not to mention, all the knights are even more proud to ride on the horse, loudly using all kinds of nonsense or talking or laughing, noisy and shouting, and a bloody smell of Hudi comes to the face.

In the center of this team of men and horses is a tall and white fat man, riding on an extremely divine Liaodong horse. The most interesting thing is that other war horses are all saddles, but this stout, tall and unusual Liaodong horse has two saddles, one is a sitting person, and a small saddle is placed on the rider's huge belly.

This big fat man with a huge belly is the envoy of the three towns of Pinglu, Fanyang, and Hedong in the Tang Dynasty, the envoy of Hebei Interview, the Imperial Doctor, and Wang An Lushan of Dongping County.

Every year in December, An Lushan would enter the pilgrimage to see the emperor, and this time it was the same, even if he had just fought a great defeat in the first month of this year, and the 60,000 troops on the expedition were almost completely wiped out, but the enemies killed were negligible.

Such a shameful fiasco according to the law is punishable by serious crimes, dismissal at the least, and imprisonment at the worst. But An Lushan is not worried about this at all, there is only one person he has been thinking about recently, that is, Xiao Quai, who spoiled his good things in the river, but he couldn't get rid of it.

Speaking of this Xiao Qu's illness, it made An Lushan feel a headache. Hundreds of snaketooth elites who killed him in the river, and together with that Gao Xianzhi, they cleared out his snaketooth forces and horse bandits controlled by snaketooth in the entire Western Regions and the river.

It is roughly estimated that more than thirty percent of the good hands of the snake tooth have been killed so far, and even one deputy commander has died at the hands of Xiao Quai. In addition to these, the loss of money was even greater, and the property that was robbed by the horse bandits was finally returned to the Anxi army.

Moreover, the Anxi army seemed to deliberately go against them, and the legitimate caravans under his control were also investigated quite strictly, and they found reasons to detain the caravans, which caused An Lushan's income to drop greatly in the past six months.

In addition to these visible losses in strength and interests, there are two other points that make An Lushan feel unbearable. One is because An Lushan has always claimed to be the incarnation of the Great Light God (not made up by the author, the historian Rong Xinjiang has done in-depth research on this), and often personally presided over Zoroastrian sacrifice activities, making himself the religious leader of the Hu people, and using the identity of the 'incarnation of the Great Light God' to call on the local Hu people.

It is precisely because of this identity that he has won the support of the entire Zoroastrian followers before, and has used it to hook up the countries of the river. But who would have thought that because of Xiao Qu's illness, he was suddenly regarded as Suoshyan by the Zoroastrian people west of the Green Ridge, and now they not only no longer believe that they are the embodiment of the Great Light, but take the initiative to draw a line with themselves, and even become enemies.

The other is that he An Lushan can achieve such a high position today, and it is certainly a factor that he can control the northeast frontier, but the most important reason is that he can win the favor of Emperor Li Longji and the noble concubine Niangniang, and can please them.

But now that Xiao Qu's illness seems to be at this point, and he is also compared. The most annoying thing is that he recognized the concubine as his godmother, but Xiao Qu was sick but recognized the concubine as his godsister.

In this way, wouldn't he lose a generation when he saw him, and he was really angry!

But he didn't have a way to get sick with Na Xiao, the assassination method didn't work, and he couldn't slander him, and even Li Linfu and Wang Jie, who he feared the most, didn't fight him...... Can you just watch him get stronger day by day, and then embarrass himself?

Along the way, all An Lushan thought about was this matter, and he had no clue, and when he thought of a headache, he couldn't help but complain about the righteous brother Zhang Xiancheng next to him, who killed him with a sword at the beginning, and now there is nothing to do?

At this moment, he heard a sentry in front of him hurrying towards him, and after more than a hundred paces, he shouted: "Enemy attack!" Lord Wang, there is a large group of heavily armed men and horses in front! ”

Hearing this, a group of more than 300 people was immediately shocked, everyone stopped talking and laughing, and while holding their weapons in their hands, they all looked at An Lushan in the middle. I wondered in my heart, this is the hinterland of Guanzhong, where is the enemy?

An Lushan was also so shocked that half of the three souls and six spirits were lost, and his heart was pounding violently. Yesterday, I also received a decree from Emperor Li Longji at the post station, saying that someone would greet him today, how could there be an enemy attack?

How can there be bandits in the hinterland of this pass, and the enemy attack can only be the official army, could it be that his plot to rebel was exposed, and the emperor sent someone to arrest him? Thinking of this, An Lushan was suddenly so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and instantly wet several layers of clothes.

On the contrary, Yan Zhuang, the first army division beside him, was very calm, and asked the sentry who reported the news loudly: "Does the enemy army have a banner, has it been shouted, how many people are there?" ”

The sentinel was stunned, and replied: "It is the banner of the Wyvern soldiers, it seems that there are about a thousand people, divided into four teams, I shouted to them, but no one answered, and the formation of the army was directly pressed towards our side, and when we were close, the first row of cavalry drew their bows and mounted their arrows and prepared to shoot, but fortunately I ran fast!" ”

"How far away are they?"

"When I saw them, they were in Hongmen, six miles away, but now I am afraid that the distance is less than three miles."

Yan Zhuang took a deep breath, and his face turned pale. If you don't greet you, you will directly lead troops to press over, is it really something to arrest An Lushan?

Among the more than 300 people, those who knew that An Lushan was preparing to rebel were Yan Zhuang, noble, and An Lushan's righteous brother Zhang Xiancheng. Could it really be that the matter has been revealed? Yan Zhuang frowned, already thinking about how to get rid of his guilt and make meritorious contributions.

However, An Lushan's first advisor was noble and extremely loyal to An Lushan, he leaned into An Lushan's ear and whispered: "Lord Wang, it's useless to think about it now, you might as well prepare for the battle and wait and see what happens." There is no such information sent out in our palace, so it can be seen that His Majesty should still trust the prince. ”

An Lushan was a little at this time, and ordered two hundred Luohe and other generals and guards to prepare for the battle, while he was trembling and ready to run away at any time.

Zhang Xiancheng, the white-clothed swordsman, also clenched the sword in his hand slightly nervously. He is a master of art and courage, and he is not afraid of falling into the enemy's ranks, but if he wants to protect An Lushan from danger, it will be very troublesome.

There are more than 300 soldiers and colonels under the command of An Lushan, and they still don't know that An Lushan is already plotting to rebel, but when they heard that it was the official army, they calmed down.

Many of them have come to Chang'an many times and seen the armed forces of the Chang'an Forbidden Army, and they are very disdainful in their hearts, and secretly said in their hearts, don't say that it is a thousand soldiers and horses, just the waste of the Chang'an Forbidden Army, the army that has not fought for decades, and another two thousand is not enough to impact it once.

But they soon thought wrong, and when they looked far away, they saw that in the western sky, facing the light of the sun, a wave of people composed of cavalry had appeared, row after row of blood-red helmets were waving in the wind, and the red dragon banner was hunting and dancing above the head of this cavalry.

These cavalry troops lined up in a neat line, and they had already opened up their arrays, and in an instant, they had completed the transformation from columns to horizontal formations. In the smoke and snow dust that the cavalry rolled up in the sky, a cold light shimmered in the light of the sun, and it was their spears and spear tips that gleamed.

The cavalry on the opposite side ran faster and faster, but the formation was not chaotic at all, only a military horn sounded in the distance, and the cavalry of more than 200 people on the left and right flanks immediately raised the speed to the highest, and turned to outflank the two wings on their side.

Immediately afterwards, the two cavalry teams in the middle sounded another trumpet, and the two generals came out of the crowd, and hundreds of knights moved at the same time, pulling out the riding bow in the bow bag with their left hand, and pulling out the feather arrow from Hulu with their right hand, and the arrow was wound.

The earth began to tremble violently, and the sound of thunderous horses' hooves seemed to ring in everyone's ears, like a hammer hitting everyone's heart!

At this time, it can already be seen that the cavalry on the opposite side is a row of five, the formation is square, and the knights on the horses are also extremely strong, sitting upright in the saddle, even if they are running at full speed, the formation is not chaotic at all.

The whole cavalry was like the waves of the sea, and it was like an endless rush towards them. It seemed that even if there was a high mountain in front of them, they could sweep one of them down, as if there was nothing in the whole world that could stand in front of them.

More than 300 Hebei cavalry troops, including An Lushan and Zhang Xiancheng, were shocked for a while, and their faces were as white as dirt and their mouths were dry. The Flying Dragon Forbidden Army was overwhelming, and the other party obviously only had about a thousand soldiers and horses, but the sense of oppression given to everyone by that indomitable power was better than tens of thousands of military horses.

When did the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army become like this, and the army was neat and strong? This momentum is far inferior even to these border troops who have been fighting and fighting all year round!