readx; The spring of the grassland has come, the endless grassland is like a huge green carpet spread on the fertile land, all kinds of insects have awakened, busy weaving the vibrant spring color, snakes, rats, antelopes, deer and other grassland animals can be seen everywhere, groups of snow-white sheep are leisurely grazing on the grass, under the blue sky, the horses are galloping, the herdsmen are shouting loudly, chasing the horses, there is a loud cry in the tent, this is a newborn born in the spring. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is the grassland where the Uighur tent is located, and it is also one of the most abundant areas on the grassland, and then twenty miles to the south, you can see dense, endless tents, where more than 100,000 Uighur people live, and the golden-domed tent of Gele Khan is located in it.

Although the grassland is bright in spring, but the peaceful spring breeze does not seem to blow into the Golden Horde of the Hui Khan, the Golden Horde is still a harsh winter, the killing machine is overflowing, more than 20 high-level generals of the Hui and the chiefs of the tribes Ye Hu gathered together, they were full of anger, in the discussion of the war against the Tang Dynasty, last year was the most angry year of the Hui, in the west of the Hui, a large number of tribes were driven or slaughtered, their property was robbed, so that thousands of miles of grassland became a deserted and empty area, which violated the fundamental rights and interests of the nobles of the Hui tribes, Although the occupation and killing were the work of Qarlu and the other three tribes, the Hui people did not think so, and they regarded the three Western tribes as nothing more than the dogs of the Tang army, and the argument that the Tang army was behind the scenes became a one-sided consensus.

Clamor to fight against the Tang army in Beiting has become the highest high-pitched tone of the Hui tribes, but Gele Khan has always been silent, he does not seem to have much enthusiasm for the use of troops in Anxi, although the Great Food Caliph sent people to contact him at the end of last year, hoping to join forces with the Hui to deal with the Anxi Tang Army, but Gele Khan knows better than anyone else in his heart that the strength of the Hui is not superior, although the strength of the Hui tribes is slightly stronger than the three Western departments, but if the 200,000 Tang troops of Anxi participate in the war, the strength of the Hui is at a disadvantage, and he is not an opponent.

Of course, the big food invited him to attack Anxi, but he refused to do it first, Gele Khan was as cunning as a wolf on the steppe, and if he wanted to fight, he would fight first, and when Anxi was empty, he would do it again, although there was a lot of noise in the big tent, Gele Khan was unmoved, his eyes looked at the chief of the Fugu Department, Fugu Huaien, a few days ago, he had a deep talk with him, and told him very clearly that now the Hui Department is far from being the opponent of the Tang army in Anxi, and Fugu Huaien also participated in the Battle of Talas, and he knows that the Tang army has a very powerful secret weapon, If the Hui Ministry rashly moves troops to Anxi, the Hui Hui Department will inevitably invite annihilation.

He didn't want to use force against Anxi at all, but he also knew that the chieftains of the various tribes in the Great Tent were already extremely resentful of the three tribes of Anxi, and he had to take action to calm the anger between the various tribes, otherwise it would be difficult for him to control the steppe.

How to fight, Gele Khan knew in his heart, but he didn't want to say, so he gave Fugu Huaien a look, Fugu Huaien understood, stood up and coughed heavily, and said to everyone: "Everyone be quiet, please listen to me." ”

The big tent gradually quieted down, and everyone looked at Fugu Huaien, everyone knew that this Fugu Huaien had been a high-ranking official in the Tang Dynasty, and he was also very familiar with the situation in Anxi, so there might be something new in his suggestion.

Fugu Huai'en had an angry look on his face, and he said hatefully: "I led 15,000 Shuo troops to Anxi, and finally Li Qing'an seized military power, and he wanted to kill me. ”

"Well said!"

The generals in the big tent applauded one after another, and they all liked to listen to what Fugu Huaien said, and Fugu Huaien took off his hat and saluted everyone, and he continued: "But there are many ways to take revenge, one is to seize the city and plunder the wall, invincible, and slash the enemy without half of his own damage; One is to fight to the death, and in the end, although he killed the enemy, he also lost his children and wives; There is also a kind of revenge that has not been avenged, the body dies first, the enemy does not touch a single hair, but he falls first, and the enemy takes away his wife and daughter to enjoy a lifetime of happiness....."

Before he finished speaking, the big tent was scolded, "This is a fool's doing!" Is this still called revenge? It's just a shame on the face of the steppe warriors, and the first way is what a man does. ”

The big tent was noisy and chaotic, these Hui generals were all shouting and scolding, Fugu Huaien and Gele Khan glanced at each other, Gele Khan nodded approvingly, Fugu Huaien guided well, Fugu Huaien smiled proudly, and when the big tent was a little calmer, he continued to say loudly: "But if we go to fight Anxi now, then we are the third kind of revenge, not only Anxi can't get in, but let the Tang Army and the other three eat us." ”

The big tent was quiet for a moment, everyone looked at each other, and there was a look of suspicion on their faces, and the chief of the Batu Solid Tribe, Ge Qiluo, asked, "What is the basis for what you say?" ”

"Basis?" Fugu Huaien sneered and replied, "Do you know how many troops the Anxi Tang Army has? Let me tell you, at least 200,000, but not more, because 200,000 is the upper limit of the Tang Dynasty's permission for Anxi to have troops, in fact, last year, the Central Plains migrated 100,000 households from all over the country to Anxi, according to each household to send one soldier, that is 100,000 new troops, and the troops of the countries in the Western Regions are not counted, if you add up, I estimate that at least 3560,000, and how many troops do we have? ”

No one in the big tent spoke, but Ge Qiluo, the chief of the Batu Gu Division, said: "Each of our Hui warriors can be ten at a time, even if there are many of them, what are they afraid of?" Can those Han Chinese compare with us cavalry? Can we attack right away? ”

"Yes! Our Hui cavalry is invincible in the world, and each of our warriors has grown up on horseback since childhood, which is comparable to those Han farmers who use hoes to farm the land? ”

The Hui generals of the Great Tent responded to Ge Qiluo's point of view, and the words of Fugu Huai'en that increased the prestige of others and destroyed their own courage made everyone dislike.

"What a fearlessness is the ignorant!"

Fugu Huaien shook his head and said, "You should all know about the Great Food Army!" The strong team that swept through the river back then, were they still defeated by Li Qingan in the end? Even the river is lost, and there is also the Anxi Mo Sword Army, you should be no stranger! Now there are 6,000 people, if you don't even know the Modao Army, then you should be familiar with the three parts of Gelulu, Tongluo, and Shatuo! They also grew up on horseback, drank the same milk and ate the same meat as you, they added up to more than 40,000 people, and the Igas also secretly colluded with them, and even the Tang Army did not need to send troops, even these four departments can compete with us, you say, if you start a war against Anxi, what will be the third result? ”

All the generals were silent, although they were still angry in their hearts, but they also had to admit that Fugu Huaien had a point, they were indeed not the opponents of the Anxi army, there was silence in the big tent, everyone was angry, and the anger in their hearts was difficult to extinguish, they were really killed too hard in winter, and they couldn't swallow this breath anyway.

At this time, when the time came, he stood up and said, "All right! Let me say a few words. ”

Fugu Huaien sat down, his task was completed, he and Gele Khan had reached a consensus, Anxi they couldn't afford to provoke, but in order to calm the anger, they had to show something, the reason why Fugu Huaien did this was because Ge Shuhan secretly wrote a letter to him, hoping that he could persuade Ge Le Khan to put proper pressure on the Tang Dynasty, and Ge Shuhan would be grateful, Fu Gu Huaien and Ge Shuhan's personal relationship was very good, from a personal point of view, Fu Gu Huaien was willing to help Ge Shuhan with this favor, not to mention that Ge Shuhan was the envoy of the two major festivals of Longyou and Hexi, Fugu Huaien also had to consider leaving a way back for himself, so he tried his best to persuade Gele Khan, and it happened that at this time Da Shi sent a messenger, Fu Gu Huaien pointed out that it was better to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, let the Anxi army and Da Shi fight, it is best to fight and lose, and finally the cranes and mussels will fight, and the fishermen will benefit.

It was this strategy that persuaded Gele Khan, he finally adopted the advice of Fugu Huaien, sent troops to Shuo, Gele Khan also knew that Shuofang's troops were not much, a stone fort city battle, an Absi rebellion made Shuo Fang's vitality greatly damaged, although the Tang Dynasty will make up the troops, but it will not be so fast, now Shuo Fang has only 30,000 troops at most, and Longyou's army is mainly stationed in Hehuang, it can be said that Guanlong is empty, if you put pressure on Guanlong, maybe it can get miraculous results, Gele Khan remembered the humiliation he suffered when he sent an envoy to Chang'an last year, He couldn't swallow this bad breath either.

When the generals in the big tent saw that the khan had spoken, they all stopped talking, quietly waiting for the khan to make a final decision, and Gele Khan said slowly: "I know that everyone has suffered losses this winter, and we have to get it back, not to ask Anxi to ask for it, but to ask the Tang Emperor to ask for it, the dog bit us, of course we have to ask the master for treatment fees, do you say?" ”

When the Khan compared Anthy to a dog, they all laughed and said, "That's right! The dog runs fast, and we can't catch up, so we go to the owner. ”

Ah Q's spiritual victory made their depressed mood better again, and Gele Khan snorted coldly: "Last winter, the Anxi army bullied us in every way, and I sent an envoy to Chang'an to ask for an explanation, but our envoy was humiliated by the Tang court, which made me understand a truth, you can't get any explanation by begging for mercy, if you want to get an explanation, you only need to rely on a knife!" Rely on our iron cavalry to ask for it, listen to my orders, and all the troops immediately reorganize their troops, and march to Helan Mountain in ten days! ”

The war machine of the Hui tribes started, they were all soldiers, the men put on leather armor, picked up swords and guns, the cavalry of various tribes and teams gathered in the Hui Ya tent from all directions, ten days later, Gele Khan gathered 80,000 troops, and slaughtered to the Tang Dynasty, for a time, the border of the Tang Dynasty was in flames, and the alarm flew to the Shuofang Jiedu Embassy.

．．．．．．．．． The Tang Dynasty did not rely on the Great Wall to defend against the northern minorities like other dynasties in history, the Tang Dynasty did not rebuild the Great Wall, mainly relying on the west, middle and east of the Yin Mountains to defend against the Northern Hu invasion, in fact, in the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin personally led the army to attack the Turks in the north, the Tang Dynasty was founded for more than a hundred years, it was never a passive defense of the Northern Hu, but relied on its own strong cavalry to take the initiative to conquest, but in the Middle Tang Dynasty, the national strength was weakened, and the enemy was on all sides, coupled with the land annexation became serious, resulting in the corruption of the military system, The Tang Dynasty no longer had the prestige of the founding of the state.

According to the division of the Jiedu envoys, the defense against the southern invasion of the northern nomads is mainly by the Fanyang Jiedu Mansion in the east and the Shuofang Jiedu Mansion in the middle, as well as the Beiting Jiedu Mansion in the west.

At present, Shuo Fang Jiedu envoy is An Sishun, originally had 70,000 troops, but the battle of Shibao City borrowed 30,000 troops, and never returned, plus last year Absi led his troops to flee west, so that Shuo Fang's vitality was greatly injured, although it has been recruiting troops, but the strength has always been seriously insufficient, there are only 36,000 people at present, but this little soldier, since last year, it has been divided by Li Longji's imperial art, he named his son Bianwang Li Yu as the deputy envoy of the capital protection of the capital and Shuofang Jiedu, sitting in Jiuyuan, the Jiuyuan and the Hengsai army, The army of Yan Ran and the army of Xishou Chengcheng totaled 15,000 people, all of which were under the command of Li Xu, and Li Yu himself also sat in Jiuyuan, preparing to take An Sishun's army again when the time was ripe.

When the Hui army crossed the Yin Mountain, the various castles on the border immediately lit the beacon fire, due to the huge strength of the Hui army, the Hengsai army, the West Surrender City and the Yanran City were broken by the Hui army, the defenders retreated in panic, in mid-March, the Hui army crossed the Yellow River in the south of the West Surrender City, occupied the Hetao, plundered, and continued to advance to Jiuyuan City, but at this time, the Hui Hui slowed down the pace of attack, their hinterland was empty, Gele Khan did not dare to go too deep, he wanted to prevent Li Qing'an from taking the opportunity to advance eastward, and was also afraid that An Lushan would send troops from Fanyang.

In fact, Gele Khan's real purpose was to extort a sum of money from the Tang Dynasty to make up for his losses last winter, and to really attack the Tang Dynasty, he did not have the courage and strength to do so.

Jiuyuan is today's Baotou, is the first big city in the north of the Saibei, there are more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the city, the city wall is thick, strong and abnormal, Li Xu, the king of Bian, who sits in Jiuyuan, is the son of Wu Xianyi, and is also the youngest son of Li Longji, only eighteen years old this year, he has lived in the deep palace since he was a child, grew up in the fat powder pile, he is good at writing and hating martial arts, although he is not a gentleman, but he is also a weak scholar, he learned the news that the Hui army crossed the Yellow River, Li Hui was frightened and panicked, and he was ready to abandon the city and flee.

Jiuyuan City has been in chaos, the streets and alleys are panicked people, they bring their wives and children, carrying the property that can be taken away, the rich people are driving the carriage, crying, shouting, the street is chaotic, at this time, all kinds of gossip is flying all over the sky, saying that Hui Gele Khan led an army of 300,000 to the south, to wash the blood of Guanzhong Longyou, and there is news that the king of Bian has abandoned them and escaped, the people are even more chaotic, even the soldiers are panicked, and have no intention of defending the city.

Located in the north of Jiuyuan City, the Bianwang Mansion has been closed in the door, but the back door has opened a crack, Li Yu disguised himself as a civilian, under the escort of dozens of guards, slipped out of the back door, ready to escape from the south gate, at this moment, more than a dozen cavalry in the distance galloped over, blocking Li Xu's retreat, led by a veteran who was nearly sixty years old, he is the Jiuyuan Taishou envoy Guo Ziyi, he is also the right soldier and horse envoy of Shuo Fang Jiedu, Jiuyuan soldiers and horses were originally commanded by him, Li Yu was seized of military power after his arrival, the current situation is critical, Guo Ziyi can not care about the suspicion of committing a crime, rushed to stop Li Xu's escape.

He stepped forward, gave Li Yu a deep salute, and said hurriedly: "Your Highness must not leave, Your Highness will definitely lose if you leave." ”

At this time, Li Yu was so frightened that he had no master, and he begged with a crying voice: "Old general, the 300,000 army of Hui is coming, and we only have 15,000 people, how can we resist it, if I stay, I will definitely die, the old general let me go!" ”

Guo Ziyi shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, don't listen to those rumors, I have specially confirmed with General Yue who surrendered to the city in the west that the Hui army is only seventy or eighty thousand at most, and I dare to assert that they dare not really invade the Tang Dynasty in the south, Your Highness, please relax." ”

Li Yu's panicked heart calmed down slightly, and he hurriedly asked, "How does the old general know that the Hui people are not really invading the Tang Dynasty in the south?" ”

Guo Ziyi smiled slightly: "It's very simple, if Hui Fu goes all out to attack Tang, his rear will inevitably be empty, aren't they afraid that Li Qing'an will copy their lair from the west?" I only saw that the Hui army had slowed down the pace of attack, and I knew that they actually had no intention of attacking Tang, so please don't panic Your Highness. ”

Li Yu listened to his analysis and reasoned, and also breathed a long sigh of relief, Guo Ziyi persuaded while the iron was hot: "We have 150,000 soldiers and civilians in Jiuyuan City, sufficient food, and a strong city, as long as the army and the people are united, they can completely defend it, and the Hui people are only good at field warfare, and they are never good at siege warfare, and it is easy to hold Jiuyuan." ”

Li Yu was finally persuaded, he took off his robe, and said with some shame: "It's me who lost my temper, thank you to the old general for persuading me, otherwise I really can't explain to my father, I'm not good at defending the city, everything is left to the old general." ”

Guo Ziyi said with a smile: "Your Highness is too humble, and His Highness is still in charge of defending the city, I just assist His Highness, give His Highness ideas, and run errands for His Highness, that's all." ”

Li Yu was secretly grateful, and he said happily: "Then please ask the old general for advice, what should I do now?" ”

"Now we need to stabilize the morale of the army and stabilize the hearts of the people, please go to the city tower."

．．．．．．．． The Tang army did not open the city gate, the street was chaotic, tens of thousands of people crowded at the south gate, begging and scolding, at this time, the drum rumbling on the city tower, the drum sounded like thunder, shook the chaos under the city, only to see a large group of people and horses surrounded by a silver helmet and silver armor of Bianwang Li Xuan appeared at the head of the city, the people under the city saw that Bianwang did not flee, many people burned hope in their hearts, they slowly calmed down, looked up at the young prince and the old general Guo Ziyi behind him.

Li Yu said loudly: "There are less than 50,000 Hui troops in the Hui army, and they have no siege weapons, so why attack Jiuyuan?" There are more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in my city, the food is sufficient, the soldiers are brave, and they can resist defending the city for a year. ”

His voice was high-pitched, and it spread far away, and many young and strong men who were crowded at the door lowered their heads in shame, Li Yu saw that everyone was willing to listen to him, his confidence increased greatly, and he shouted: "If the Hui people can't take the city, they will go around the city, you can run barefoot for your life, can you outrun the iron cavalry of the Hui Hui?" Leaving the city can only be sent to death, leaving those who resist to live, and those who abandon the city and flee for their lives to die, you follow me and stick to the city! ”

"Hold the city!"

The soldiers brandished their swords and guns and shouted loudly, the momentum was like a rainbow, and the people under the city were gradually infected, and they raised their arms and shouted: "Hold the city!" ”

"Hold the city!"

The gate outside Jiuyuan City was slammed shut, and more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians began the battle to defend the city under the deployment of Guo Ziyi.

(To be continued)