Chapter 64: Fear
An Lushan, who was a thief, was soaked with cold sweat at this time.
Not only him, but the three hundred Hebei cavalry troops under his command, including the two hundred who had been domineering before, were also forced by the power of this Thousand Flying Dragon Forbidden Army at this time, and they were so shocked that they almost didn't dare to breathe.
They feel that their worldview has been subverted, doesn't it mean that the forbidden army in Chang'an is all wine bags and rice bags, and they are useless? If that's the case, then what's going on with this Wyvern Forbidden Army?
Seeing this team of flying dragon forbidden troops coming over with great momentum, they were scared and timid, although they were not as sweaty and heavy as An Lushan, who was a thief, but they were also frightened, and their legs trembled.
The ancient armies, especially the Hu barbarian army, relied on bravery to fight, and the discipline was far behind.
These barbarian beast soldiers, who grew up in an extremely harsh environment since childhood, pursued the law of jungle beasts, and fought and killed, so they naturally started fighting, and they had a fierce and barbaric blood. In many cases, it is indeed possible to defeat one against ten, one against hundred, and invincible.
Take the barbarian beast soldiers under the command of An Lushan as an example, in another time and space, when An Lushan's cavalry rebelled against Xingyang, they just beat a drum, and thousands of cavalry rode their horses to the bottom of the Xingyang city wall, which frightened the defenders on the city head, and they fell from under the city wall (falling like rain), and Xingyang broke without attacking.
Later, An Lushan fought with the army composed of merchants and servants recruited by Feng Changqing in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and it was also a succession of battles, so that Feng Changqing had no power to fight back. It can be said that these brave but undisciplined Hebei Hu soldiers fought a good battle, and their combat effectiveness was indeed boundless.
But these same soldiers were defeated again and again by the temporary army composed of officials, soldiers, tolerances, and civilians under Zhang Xun, who numbered less than 10,000, and tens of thousands of troops were killed again and again by thousands of raiding defenders and fled.
And this time in August, An Lushan went out to fight against the Khitan, but was almost wiped out by the Khitan and Xi armies whose numbers were far less than their own, killing no more than 100 enemies and losing nearly 60,000 themselves.
For no other reason, they fought for meritorious service or plunder, for profit. Use this as motivation to boost morale, maintain morale with killing and blood, and if the opponent's morale is lower than theirs, they will fight more smoothly and move forward; If the morale of the opponent is much higher than theirs, they will immediately lose the spirit of war, and their morale will plummet.
To put it bluntly, they can't be considered an army at all, at best they are a gang of organized bandits attracted by interests and linked by interests!
Now this group of robbers who were recruited by An Lushan to march into the army were shocked by the quasi-modern army trained by Xiao Qubing with strict military discipline, and they did not dare to move.
In an instant, the first two cavalry armies of 500 men each had crossed the Hebei cavalry army of An Lushan from the left and right flanks, the front team slowed down, the rear team quickly followed, and then the formation became tighter and tighter. In the blink of an eye, on their flanks, five walls of fifty horsemen were laid out in the form of horses head to tail.
After a brief military order, he turned his horse's head to face the direction of the Hebei Army in the middle, and then took off his riding bow and mounted the arrow at the same time. Immediately, two teams of 250 cavalry stood still at the same time. Immediately, the knight had no expression on his face, just staring at the big fat man who was the most conspicuous in the group.
Five hundred people are like one person, this neat and uniform action, as if there is a kind of magical magic, shocked the more than 300 Hebei troops, including An Lushan, were stunned, and they didn't even dare to breathe, and their minds were even more blank.
An Lushan, who was a thief, was even more frightened and trembling all over, if it weren't for the white-clothed swordsman Zhang Xiancheng by his side, he would almost have to slide off the warhorse.
At the same time, the five hundred cavalry in the middle had also pressed over at this time, and stopped at the place of a stone's throw, and their movements were also uniform, except for two brief military orders, these five hundred people were also silent and solemn. But the momentum of the mighty and slaughtering was even more terrifying than that of the two-wing cavalry, after all, the two sides were looking at each other face to face.
Before An Lushan, Yan Zhuang, Gao Shang, Zhang Xiancheng and other leaders could react, more than 300 Hebei cavalry troops under their command took the lead in reacting, some were so frightened that their weapons were taken off, some were so frightened that they fell off their horses, and some were so frightened that they turned into wooden people......
It was so good that they didn't die, and there were more than a dozen people who were nervous enough to pull their bows and arrows before, and they were so frightened that they loosened their bowstrings, and more than a dozen feathered arrows shot crookedly towards the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army in front. In this case, these feather arrows naturally did not have much strength and accuracy, and most of them fell to the ground a foot or two away from the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army.
But there is such a coincidence, among them, there is a stone and six buckets of foot bow in someone's hand, although when the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army pressed over, the bowstring was loosened a lot, but it was still eighty percent full.
And he was not frightened, but when he saw others shooting arrows, he subconsciously let go of the bowstring. Then the arrow landed right in the abdomen of a Wyvern Forbidden Army, penetrating the gap between the two armor pieces and entering the flesh by an inch.
The soldier who was hit by the arrow was in pain, and his face showed a painful expression, but he still clearly remembered Xiao Quai's words, and he didn't move.
The people on An Lushan's side were frightened, and among them, they were the most astute and noble, and the most eager. Yan Zhuang had already made a decision at this time, if the other party really came to arrest An Lushan, he would immediately betray An Lushan. But he is a rigorous person, yes or no, you still need to ask before you can make a decision.
Yan Zhuang stepped out of the crowd and asked loudly, "Who are the generals?" What is it? How dare you set up troops to block the way of the envoy of the Three Towns and the King of Dongping County? ”
As if they hadn't heard him speak, the Thousand Flying Dragon Forbidden Army remained motionless, their eyes staring directly at An Lushan, the big fat man in the middle. At the same time, he heard two long neighs from the front of the five hundred flying dragoons, and rode out of the front of the battle.
The two of them, one twenty years old and the other sixteen years old, were both handsome and extraordinary, and they both rode two white horses. The twenty-year-old man, with a white horse under his crotch, was even more high, a horse's head higher than all the horses, and his appearance was even more strange and vicious, leading the young man next to him to drive towards them.
An Lushan, Yan Zhuang, and Gao Shang all instantly had a name in their hearts - Xiao Quai, Zhang Xiancheng's face turned blue all of a sudden, his heart shook, and he regretted it indescribably.
At the beginning, he missed three hits, and he continued to shoot and let Xiao Qubing go, but he didn't expect Xiao Qubing to grow so fast, and he had far surpassed himself. Now facing Xiao Qu's illness, seeing his indomitable momentum and seeing the world as nothing makes Zhang Xiancheng feel scared!
Xiao Quzhi did not answer Yan Zhuang's words, but took Li Qi and drove his horse to a place ten zhang away from An Lushan, his eyes were like electricity, and his eyes were like substance, and his eyes shot at An Lushan, and a roar like thunder rolled across the sky: "Bold An Lushan, do you want to rebel?" ”
An Lushan's face was pale, and he shook violently, and he was about to slide off the horse, so frightened that he was almost scared to faint, in the moment just now, he clearly felt that Xiao Qu's illness was not hidden, and the killing intent was extremely strong.
An Lushan understands Xiao Quai's strength, and knows it clearly, as long as Xiao Qubing is willing, he is afraid that there will be no obstacle to kill himself.
At this moment, Xiao Qubing really moved his murderous intent, and in the face of this culprit who caused the greatest destruction in Chinese history, Xiao Qubing really wanted to stab him to death with one shot immediately!
In Xiao Quzhi's view, the Anshi Rebellion was not only a turning point for the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline, but also a turning point in Chinese history from strong to weak.
Before the Anshi Rebellion, the spirit of our Chinese Chinese nation was high-spirited, and people were self-confident and bold, pioneering and enterprising, and tolerant of the world.
At that time, Huaxia opened the door to the country and had an all-inclusive mind, because they were confident and proud from the bottom of their hearts, and they believed that they were the strongest.
And they were not satisfied, until the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, even if the emperor was already extremely deaf at that time, even if the traitorous ministers in the court were in charge of the troubled country, but the entire Tang Dynasty was still expanding, and the eyes of the whole of China were looking outward.
After the Anshi Rebellion, Datang instantly turned from prosperity to decline, and fell directly into the abyss from the apex. And for various reasons, the Tang Dynasty did not completely quell the Anshi Rebellion, but compromised with these Hebei barbarians who were in rebellion.
Since then, China has lost the land of Hebei for more than 600 years, and then experienced the Huangchao Rebellion, and the five generations of feudal towns attacked each other and poisoned the world, although later the Zhao and Song dynasties established and unified the Central Plains. But the Chinese nation no longer has the same mind as the Tang Dynasty.
Not only is there no mind for the world and the mind to tolerate everything, but also because of overkill, the Han family's sons and daughters are still martial and heroic.
If the temperament of the Tang people is high-spirited and magnificent, then after the Tang Dynasty, the temperament of the Chinese people is narrow and timid. The pioneering and enterprising, high-spirited and fierce spirit is gone, and the confident and inclusive mind is difficult to find. Those who are vain and self-effeminate, worship foreigners, and have low self-esteem and cowardice abound.
After the Anshi Rebellion, the eyes of the entire China gradually changed from looking outward to looking inward. The so-called nest is horizontal, infighting and expert, this is what he is talking about. But a thousand years ago, we weren't like that! From the poems of the Tang Dynasty and from the records of history, we see a majestic and magnificent Tang Dynasty.
Tracing back to the source, the culprit of all these changes is the dead fat man An Lushan in front of him. And what's even more annoying is that if An Lushan is a capable and admirable hero or hero, it would be fine, but this guy is a sinister and cunning, obscene and incompetent villain!
Although this An Lushan did stabilize the northeastern frontier on the surface, it did not rely on strength to fight with a knife and a shot, but divided and collapsed, coerced and lured - recruiting the soldiers of An Qidan and Xi, and in turn fighting those who were unwilling to accept Zhao'an.
Most of the heads he dedicated to Li Longji were to entertain the Khitan and Xi people to drink, put anesthetics in the wine, and cut off people's heads in a coma to make meritorious contributions.
is such a small man, but by bribing court officials, coupled with Li Linfu's selfish psychology, coupled with Li Longji's stupidity, he became prosperous in the Tang Dynasty, and he rose to the top, and became the first military general to serve the king.
He seems to be a natural demon star who troubles the Tang Dynasty, because of the reason, the Hebei army of Fan Yang and Pinglu has gradually changed from the majority of Han people to the majority of Hu people.
Originally, the two ethnic groups of Khitan and Xi had been defeated by Wang Zhongsi, a famous general who was not born in the Tang Dynasty (200,000 Khitan, Xi's army was wiped out by Wang Zhongsi's army of 100,000) and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. However, in order to obtain military merits, An Lushan forced the two tribes to rebel, causing Khitan and Xi to kill and rebel against the princess.
For such a sinister and treacherous national thief, villain, Xiao Qubing despised and hated him, and once thought of finding a way to get close to him as soon as they met, and directly shocked him to death with dark energy, but after thinking about it, Xiao Qubing changed his mind, the reason was this group of barbarian beast soldiers under his command!
It was easy to kill An Lushan, but it was difficult for these barbarian beast soldiers under his command to do it!
Others don't know the harm of these beast soldiers, but Xiao Quai's illness couldn't be clearer, in another time and space, the Anshi Rebellion almost slaughtered the Han people in Hebei, and looted and slaughtered cities everywhere in Henan and Guannei, causing chaos for half the world.
After the Anshi Rebellion, they firmly occupied the land of Hebei, nominally surrendered to the actual territory, and almost killed the local Han people.
An Lushan is dead, and Shi Siming, without Shi Siming, there are other Hu generals, these people are more powerful than An Lushan in leading troops to fight, killing An Lushan gave them an excuse to immediately rebel, but their side was not ready for anything......
Let An Lushan, the dog thief, live for a few more years, and wait until he has real strength, and then take this kid to the knife, and at the same time, completely solve the tumor of the Hu people in Hebei who are not accustomed to education and barbarian beasts for the Tang Dynasty, for Huaxia, and for all the residents of this continent.
However, even if he had already made up his mind in his heart, Xiao Quzhi was not ready to let An Lushan go easily. An Lushan can't be killed, it doesn't mean that these people under him can't be killed. Xiao Quzhi decided to kill people and beat them well.
After shouting angrily, Xiao Quzhi did not wait for An Lushan to answer, lightly knocked the belly of the little white dragon horse, accelerated again, and galloped to the front of the Hebei cavalry, grazing their front horizontally galloping, the big gun was like electricity, and more than ten shots were stabbed out in the blink of an eye.
It wasn't until Xiao Qubing quickly swept in front of them and galloped out more than ten feet away that the ten people who had been shot in the throat began to fall off the horse crookedly with their necks covered.
At this time, Xiao Qubing had already hung the big gun on the victory hook, took out the heaven-shaking bow, and shot arrows in a row, killing the remaining few Hebei barbarians who had shot arrows at the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army that the big gun had not pierced just now, including the general of the Hebei Army who was wearing an officer's uniform and holding a stone and six-inch bow.
"Wu Lingxun!" Gao Shang gritted his teeth and shouted, looking at Xiao Quai's illness with red eyes.
The general of the Hebei Army who was shot to death by Xiao Qubing was a partial general of An Lushan, named Wu Lingxun, and he was very good with Gao Shang, and he also married his sons and daughters. Now seeing his in-laws and friends killed, how can Gao Shang not be angry.
Xiao Quzhi took a circle, turned back, stood ten zhang away in front of them with a big gun in his hand again, glared back calmly with an innocent face, and then turned to An Lushan, and shouted again: "An Lushan, do you want to rebel? ”