readx; 30,000 Youzhou iron horsemen galloped in the dark, like wolves on the grassland chasing their prey, the figures swayed, galloping like lightning, the yellow dust rolled, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the heavens and the earth, as if the earth was overturned. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There has always been a saying in the army of the Tang Dynasty, called 'East Iron Cavalry, West Mo Knife', which refers to the two strongest armies of the Tang Empire, the West Mo Knife refers to the Anxi Mo Knife Army, and the East Iron Cavalry refers to the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, that is, the most elite cavalry in the Fanyang Army.

The reason why these two armies can be claimed to be the first in the world is that they are inseparable from the region in which they are located, Anxiduo Caucasian Hu people, most of these Hu people are tall and strong, suitable for using long-armed Mo knives, while Fan Yang is attached to a large number of northern nomads, these nomads have grown up on horseback since childhood, and their equestrian skills are excellent, and the best riders can be selected from them to form Youzhou Iron Cavalry.

Youzhou Iron Cavalry was originally 20,000 people, but after several years of expansion in An Lushan, it has now reached 60,000 people, and his two fierce generals Shi Siming and Cai Xide each led 30,000.

Today's killing of Jingcheng is the 30,000 Youzhou iron cavalry commanded by Shi Siming, they set off from Youzhou, galloping for hundreds of miles, and ten miles ahead is Tumen Pass.

Shi Siming galloped all the way to the front, in the night, he tried his best to look ahead, halfway he already knew that there was a group of rebels going to Jingcheng, he accelerated his speed, he must intercept this group of rebels, in Shi Siming's opinion, these farmers who fled from Hebei are traitors.

Shi Siming's eyes were full of murderous intent, no matter what the reason was, those who betrayed them deserved death, he waved his sword and shouted viciously: "Speed up, catch up with the traitors and kill them!" ”

The 30,000 cavalry quickened their speed and swooped towards Tumen Pass like a lightning speed.....

Outside the Tumen Pass, tens of thousands of immigrants are still flocking into the pass, no one realizes that the god of death is approaching them step by step, the Jiang clan and the Mu clan are very coincidentally crowded together, they are hostile to each other, but no one dares to make trouble anymore, Yan Zhenqing has already entered the customs first to take care of the immigrants in front, and Yan Gaoqing and Changshi Yuan Luqian are working with the officials to maintain order at the city gate.

"Yan Taishou! Yuan Changshi! Someone was calling them, the voice was quite anxious, Yan Gaoqing looked up, and saw that Yu Fang, the captain at the head of the city, was waving to him, his eyes were full of panic.

Yan Gaoqing is very familiar with this lieutenant Yu Fang, he has always had a relaxed smile on his face, and his tone is also cynical, and now he is not only anxious, but also has a look of fear in his eyes, which makes Yan Gaoqing stunned, so he said to Yuan Luqian: "You continue to take care of the immigrants, I'll take a look!" ”

He urged his horse forward, came to the city wall, raised his head and smiled: "Captain Yu, what's wrong?" ”

"Yan Taishou, Shi Siming's army has been killed, it will be there soon, you and Yuan Changshi enter the customs quickly, otherwise it will be too late."

Yu Fang's voice was very low, lest the surrounding people hear it, but Yan Gaoqing was taken aback, he turned his head sharply and looked into the distance, and at the moment of turning around, the yellow dust suddenly rolled out of the distance a few miles away, and the murderous aura rose into the air, Yu Fang exclaimed, "They, they are coming!" ”

This voice could not be suppressed, many people heard it, and the people who were queuing up to enter the customs looked back together, only to see small black dots in the moonlight a few miles away.

Everyone was stunned, and there was silence for a moment, and there was a sudden chaos in front of the Tumen Gate, and people rushed to the gate, "Escape!" An Lushan is here. ”

Hysterical screams of fear, crowding, shoving, trampling...... The cry of the child and the screams of the old man made the door chaotic before closing, and Yuan Luqian, the chief historian, tried his best to maintain order, "Don't mess up, you don't want things, people go first!" ”

His voice was hoarse, but it had no effect, a crowd came, his horses were overturned, Yuan Luqian was overturned to the ground, his forehead was hitting a stone, and suddenly blood flowed for a long time, and he fainted.

The two officials hurriedly stepped forward to support him and shouted to Yan Gaoqing: "Yan Taishou, Yuan Changshi is injured. ”

At this time, Yan Gaoqing's heart was on fire, he couldn't take care of Yuan Luqian anymore, so he said to the two officials, "You quickly carry Yuan Changshi into the pass, and I'll go to the back to take a look." ”

He rode his horse to the end of the team, the two officials had no choice but to carry Yuan Luqian, galloping towards the city, at this time the rest of the city gate has been completely opened, hundreds of defenders also out of the city to help the people, remove the grocery ox cart, pick up the children, support the elderly, just let people into the city, the speed of letting people into the customs accelerated.

Yan Gaoqing galloped all the way, ran towards the end of the team, crossed a low post, he suddenly reined in the war horse, and closed his eyes in pain.

Shi Siming's cavalry has been covered into the ranks of immigrants, the cry is shocking, the screams are full of wilderness, the immigrants were killed to the ground, limbs are broken, blood flows like rivers, dead bodies are everywhere, the people are frightened, frightened, they ran to the wilderness from the official road, scattered and fled, but Shi Siming's cavalry did not let go of anyone, they chased and slashed, the white-haired old man kowtowed to them and begged for his life, but was cut off by a knife, the pregnant woman ran not fast, and was pierced through the body by the cavalry with a spear from the back, Nail to the ground with the fetus in the womb.

The children were held in the arms of their grandmothers and hacked to death with knives, and the man in the ox cart was so grieved and angry that he stepped forward to fight hard, but he was stabbed to death by the side of the ox cart, his eyes wide in anger, and he did not look at him.

Shi Siming brandished his war knife and looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, "Those who obey me live, and those who betray me die!" ”

"Kill! Kill everyone, and judge the merit by the head. ”

The poor people immigrated west with hope, but were ruthlessly killed by An Lushan's army, the killing lasted for more than half an hour, when Yan Gaoqing fled into the Tumen Pass with the last little girl, the city gate finally closed slowly, Youzhou Iron Horse was blocked by the immigrants' discarded belongings, it was difficult to storm the city gate, but at this time, nearly 4,000 families outside the Tumen Pass had been destroyed, more than 25,000 people were killed, the blood and pungent in front of the Tumen Pass, the corpses piled up, and became a hell slaughterhouse.

Shi Siming's cavalry did not bring siege weapons, it was difficult to attack, he saw that the goal had been achieved, so he rushed to the front of the pass with a war horse, and shouted: "Tell Yan Taishou to come out to see me!" ”

Yan Gaoqing stood at the head of the city, he stared at Shi Siming with angry eyes, pointed at him and scolded: "Shi Siming, you kill innocents indiscriminately, the sky will not spare you, you will die sooner or later and there is no place to die!" ”

"Humph!"

Shi Siming snorted heavily and said: "Yan Gaoqing, I don't quarrel with you, I only warn you, don't overdo it, from now on, one more person will defect, I will kill one person, ten people will defect, I will kill ten people, those who flee from the state, I will slaughter the whole state!" ”

He waved his hand and ordered: "Withdraw!" ”

30,000 cavalry turned away, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, a moment away, disappeared into the night, the night breeze was blowing on the pass, everyone looked at the tragic scene outside the pass with great grief and indignation, I don't know how long later, the gate of Tumen Pass opened again, thousands of people ran out of the pass, crying to find their relatives who were killed.

Yu Fang slammed his fist on the battlements, he felt extremely remorseful for his incompetence, at this time Yan Gaoqing stepped forward and said to him: "The general only has five hundred people, how can it be the opponent of Shi Thief's tens of thousands of cavalry, the general has done his best, after all, most of the people have fled into the pass, and now the top priority is to inform Guo Dashuai and let him know about the massacre that happened in Jing Cheng, I am very worried that Shi Siming will go south to kill again." ”

Yu Fang nodded and said, "I know, I'll send a letter!" ”

He turned around and went down to the city, Yan Gaoqing looked back at the Shura slaughterhouse in the distance, his eyes showed a look of determination, he must return to Zhending County immediately, to continue to organize immigrants, Shi Siming's brutal killing further aroused his determination to organize the people to flee Hebei.

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The bloody killing did deter many timid peasants who were afraid of death, and many peasants who were ready to emigrate gave up the idea of going west, and picked up hoes again to farm for An Lushan, but the southern states and counties accelerated their escape, and many people did not go to Hexi, but turned to Dezhou to cross the Yellow River, went south to Henan Province, and fled to Jianghuai and Jiangnan with their families.

At this time, Guo Ziyi's 100,000 troops entered Xiangzhou in an all-round way, and forced Weizhou, and the 50,000 Cai Xide troops stationed in Weizhou under the pretext of training troops saw that it was no longer realistic to cross the river to support Xu Shuyi, so they sent people to report to An Lushan, and An Lushan immediately approved Cai Xide's plan to abandon support Xu Shuyi, and the army withdrew to Youzhou.

With the retreat of Cai Xide's army to the north, Huazhou completely lost support, Li Qing'an's army began to march to Huazhou, while Li Guangbi and Li Sheng copied from the south and southwest, cutting off the possibility of Xu Shuyi south to Jianghuai Li Lan, Xu Shuyi saw that the general trend had gone, so he formally surrendered to Li Qing'an, so far, the entire Henan Province was occupied by the Anxi army.

With the passage of time, the situation in the whole world gradually began to become clearer, south of the Huai River, Li Heng's army withdrew to Yiling, Xiazhou, that is, today's Yichang, Hubei, and continued to maintain a coercive posture against Xiangyang, and Yangzhou Li Lan also made an important move, abandoning Yangzhou, withdrawing Wu Wangfu and his 100,000 troops to the south of the Yangtze River, and re-establishing the palace in Changzhou, and the hostile sides in the south temporarily maintained a balanced situation.

On the one hand, he achieved the purpose of deterrence, and the number and scale of immigrants were greatly reduced, on the other hand, he was not ready for war, and the army promised by some tribes of the main Xi and Turkic tribes was not yet fully in place, so he did not want Guo Ziyi to formally confront him for the time being, and he was stepping up preparations for the final war.

Guo Ziyi, in accordance with Li Qing'an's strategic unified deployment, stationed 100,000 troops in Xiangzhou, and began to use a coercive means to evacuate the people of Xiang, Wei, Bo, Wei, Bei, and Wei to Hedong and Henan Provinces.

At this time, Li Qing'an asked the political affairs hall to appoint Guo Ziyi's deputy general Cheng Qianli as the envoy of the Xiangwei Festival and the deputy marshal of the North Route Army, and led 50,000 troops to defend Xiangzhou and Weizhou, while Guo Ziyi retreated to Hedong, together with Lei Wanchun's 20,000 troops, a total of 100,000 troops stationed in Hedong, and began to start converting tens of thousands of militia regiments in Hedong into a formal army.

At the same time, Li Guangbi was crowned as the envoy of Henan Province and the marshal of the Middle Route Army, and Li Sheng was the deputy envoy of the section and the deputy marshal of the Middle Route Army, commanding 130,000 troops to guard Henan Province.

At this time, Anxi's second batch of elite troops totaling 80,000 people and 40,000 cavalry in Hexi arrived in Guanzhong under the leadership of Li Siye, the deputy envoy of Anxi Jiedu, and Li Fei Shouyu, the deputy envoy of Hexi Jiedu, plus the army of Henan Province, so far, the army in the hands of Li Qing'an has reached 400,000 people, and then Guo Ziyi's 130,000 army, the imperial army totaled more than 500,000, which is the same as An Lushan's army.

The two sides continued to confront each other, and both sides were also accelerating preparations for war at the same time, which was a silence full of murderous intentions, and the clouds of the war gradually began to gather over the Tang Dynasty.

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(To be continued)