On the city of Suzhou, Zhang Xuanni shot an arrow tied with a silk book to the outside of the city, which was a letter to Kang Dashuai. In his letter, he made a generous statement, expressed his intentions, and agreed on a date and time for the dedication of the city.

Zhang Xuanzhi held a reception in Liuxi to entertain middle-level and above cadres, surrounded by hundreds of sword and axe men (soldiers who enforce military law). It seems inaccurate to say that it is a "Hongmen Banquet", Xiang Yu did not kill a person at the Hongmen Banquet and did not shed a drop of blood. And this cocktail party-

After three rounds of fine wine, the beautiful women's warbler song and dance have also been appreciated for a round, and everyone present is full of interest and unfinished. Suddenly, with a "bang", Zhang Xuanni smashed the wine glass in his hand violently, and the ambush soldiers around him suddenly came out, pressing Liu Jing, Zhang Ru, Zhang Xingshi and others to the ground, and chopped them on the spot.

Looking at the stunned and uneasy eyes of everyone, Zhang Xuanni started his ideological work: "Comrades, Pang Xuntou has been shot into the village, and his henchmen here have been eliminated, we should recognize the situation, abandon the darkness and turn to the light, when will we not return to the imperial court at this time?" ”

"Everything is arranged by General Zhang!" The bandits said in a sonorous, loud voice that had never been seen before.

On this day, the spring was infinitely good, and Kang Chengxun led the army into Suzhou City in a steady stream.

The front of the commander-in-chief department is heavily guarded, with three steps and one post, and five steps and one sentry. Zhang Xuanzhi led the generals to walk into the door slowly with their upper bodies naked (including the meaning of guilt and guilt), and after saluting in front of President Kang, he said something heartfelt: "We have not come to our senses early since we surrendered to the thieves, and we have been enemies of the government army for a long time, which is really a crime that deserves death!" We ask to lead the old troops to attack Fuli and Xuzhou, and make meritorious atonements, if the commander can be trusted. Just give us this chance. ”

Kang Chengxun politely sat them down, and then said, "The peaceful liberation of Suzhou City." We are here today because of you! There is no reason why you can't believe it. ”

The commander-in-chief's trust made Zhang Xuanzhi feel relieved. He immediately revealed his planned plan of "deceiving the army and robbing the army". Mr. Kang was overjoyed when he heard this: "I didn't expect you to have two more brushes than me, do a good job!" Then I will ask for merit for you before the Son of Heaven. ”

Zhang Xuanzhi stood up and said loudly: "Serve the people!" ”

At dawn, Zhang Xuanni piled thousands of bundles of dry firewood in the city of Suzhou, set fire to it like a city collapsed, and then took hundreds of veteran cavalry soldiers to the north to Fuli. Fuli is a cottage, only a few dozen miles away from Suzhou City. The next day, Mr. Kang received a battle report from the front line: Fu Li had been broken, and Zhang Xuanni led more than 10,000 troops to continue north, pointing directly at Xuzhou.

Two or three days later. Mr. Kang received another front-line battle report, which was a letter written by Zhang Xuanni to Mr. Kang-

Dashuai Junjian:

The city of Xuzhou has been occupied by our king's division, and the last general's handover trial has the merit of opening the door to accept the king's division. The thieves Pang Juzhi, Xu Ji, and Li Zhi have been given heads, have these three heads been sent to the camp? Please be explicit.

Zhang Xuanzhi presented

Kang Chengxun asked the correspondent to pass the word: These three heads are not of sufficient grade, so bury them on the spot.

After that, he immediately convened a meeting of cadres above the division level, and decided to lead his troops to ride 80,000 steps, "It is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining bravery!" "Mr. Kang's spirit today is very good, with a full helmet and armor. He said: "The current situation is a big good, not a small good. The cities occupied by the rebels have all been recovered, except for Haozhou. According to reliable intelligence. Pang Xun and his 20,000 remnants were heading towards Songzhou (present-day Shangqiu, Henan). Now I order General Zhu Xie to lead his 3,000 Shatuo soldiers as the vanguard, pursue Pang Bandits, and set off early tomorrow morning, and the main force of this commander will arrive later. ”

Zhu Xie stood from his seat and raised his hand: "Yes!" ”

Then. There are generals under General Kang's ledger who are not convinced: "Dashuai, why are they always in the front?" Could it be that our Han army is only worthy of playing soy sauce? ”

Kang Chengxun was stunned at the time, not knowing how to answer. Oh, yes! Such merit is not in vain.

Zhu Xie looked at the tiles on the roof with a heartfelt heart, and said casually: "Fighting depends on strength. I'm afraid that the person who can steal my job so far hasn't been born yet, right? ”

Keyong also attended the meeting and couldn't help but interject: "It's not impossible not to use soy sauce if you want to." Let's learn from each other, and have the ability! It's called fair play, how? ”

The unconvinced general saw that it was a child who spoke, and he was even more unconvinced: "Wowhaha, learn from you little kid, do you think you are undefeated in the East, like?" ”

Ke used the fire, rushed up and smashed it with his fist, but was stopped by his father.

Mr. Kang waved his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, and said, "Obey the order!" Then he said the great truth that "unity is strength".

Pang Xun, who was heading all the way to the west, led 20,000 horses and horses to the place of Shishan, and the news of the fall of Xuzhou, the death of his father in battle, and the capture of his sons came. After relieving himself, he still has to face the reality, and now there are only two ways in front of him: one is to fight desperately; The second is to surrender to the government forces.

The idea of surrender was vetoed only in a flash in his mind, and there was still a gap of hope for war, as long as Songzhou could be taken, with Songzhou's strategic position, it was not impossible to turn the tables. I can't keep the head on my neck. The head is not a scar the size of a bowl, I'm afraid that if the current emperor Li Yan is a Zhu Youzhen-style character, this Ling Chi, where, where, how can I stand it? In fact, Pang Xun's concerns were completely unnecessary, and the Tang generation had never performed torture such as Ling Chi.

After making up his mind, Pang Xun led the army out of Shishan Mountain, and everywhere he passed, "burned and plundered". With a posture of playing with his life and the determination to die, he captured the southern city of Songzhou. Zheng Chuchong, the assassin of the history, desperately held on to the northern city, and Pang Xun was overwhelmed and anxious for a long time. I thought: If I continue to consume like this, when the officials and soldiers outflank me from behind, I will become the mutton shabu in other people's hot pots. Now the only way to do this is to implement the second set of operational plans, which is to attack Maozhou in the south. Judging from Kang Chengxun's cautious character, he probably also understands the truth of "don't chase after the poor" in Sun Tzu's Art of War, right?

Thinking of this, he decisively set fire to Nancheng, and led his troops to cross the Bianshui River to the south, but unfortunately, he met the Shatuo army that followed him halfway, and the bandits rushed to flee for their lives. Pang Xun completely lost his temper and ran all the way east along the water. When I got to a place called Twin Stacks, I found it to be a perfect place to fight a war of annihilation.

More than a thousand years later, in 1948. More than 120,000 people of the 12th Corps of the Kuomintang Army, equipped with all-American equipment, were also wiped out here. About a dozen miles east from Shuangduiji is Qi County, and the bridges erected on both sides of the river have been damaged by government troops. Pang Xun was dumbfounded. He looked at the surging river in front of him and listened to the rumbling of horses' hooves from behind. Subconsciously, the desperate and terrible Shatuo Army caught up again, only to feel that every nerve around his body was filled with the fear of death......

The history books only have a few words about this battle: "Nearly 10,000 thieves were killed, the rest were drowned, and thousands of people were killed." "Here, no one fights with their backs, and no Jedi fights back; Here, the phrase "put to death and come back to life" is just an empty phrase.

As for Pang Xun himself, his body was found a few days later. Gone beyond recognition. Was he killed, or was he drowned? It is not written in the history books, in short, it is dead, and the experience is clear. What to do with Pang Xun's head, and whether to bring it back to Chang'an? Kang Dashuai couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he convened a special meeting of all the staff, and finally buried it on the spot with the minority obeying the majority.

At this point, the Pang Xun Rebellion, which lasted for one year and two months, has completely subsided.

A few days later, the envoys from Chang'an arrived. The edict and commendation order of the Tang Dynasty were read. The edict ordered the troops of each feudal town who participated in the suppression of bandits to return to their original places; Ordered Kang Chengxun, Zhu Xie Chixin father and son and Zhang Xuanni and others to enter Beijing to face the saint.

The 3,000 Shatuo army embarked on the journey back to the north, and the sound of horses' hooves beat the cheerful rhythm of "De, De, De," and the military song was loud along the way:

Shoot the foothills of the Yin Mountains,

Shepherding sheep by the Yellow River.

The ancestral home moved to the north.

My heart is to Chang'an.

Dai Bei Dai Bei,

Give me a homeland, Khan.

Crazy crazy,

Serve the Empire and fight for it.

We are the invincible Flying Tigers-

Freedom than birds.

Fiercer than a wolf!

Under the same blue sky,

We are the people of the Tang Dynasty!

We are the people of the Tang Dynasty!

One morning in November of the 11th year of Tang Yizong Xiantong (870). In the early winter, the northern land is already cold. On the national highway leading to Chang'an, there is a contingent of about dozens of officers and soldiers galloping from east to west. This is the triumphant return of the bandit commander-in-chief Kang Chengxun and his staff, as well as Zhu Xie Chixin father and son, Zhang Xuanzhi and others. Escorted by a team of guards, they came here from Huaibei for the purpose of entering Beijing by order.

In front, the outline of Chang'an City has been faintly visible, and gradually approaching, the city wall is majestic and tall. There were very few soldiers standing at the battlements, and only a few red flags embroidered with the word "Tang" fluttered in the morning breeze. This is the capital, and the first impression is four words: lax armament!

After a while, the group came to the city gate, which is located at the southeast end of Chang'an City, and is called "Yanxing Gate". There were many pedestrians coming in and out, and there were a few guards standing at the gates of the city. They were dressed in luxurious Mingguang armor and wore horizontal knives around their waists, the sheaths and handles of which were beautifully carved, like handicrafts inlaid with countless precious stones, reflecting a dazzling light in the sun. A knife is a good knife, and armor is good armor! But what about their owners? One by one, they were lazy and yawned from time to time.

When they saw Commander Kang and all the commanders coming to him, they neither stood upright nor saluted, as if they had not seen it. Kang Chengxun and his staff didn't care, they were used to it for a long time. But Zhu Xie's father and son couldn't get used to it, took a look at them, and thought: What kind of soldiers are these?

After entering the city gate was a T-junction, and they followed the straight road until they went west. This is a twenty or thirty meters wide street, lined with green shade, dense flowers and trees can not cover the overlapping cornices and tiles, red walls and red doors. Every mile there is an intersection, crossed by main roads and side roads. The pavement is all paved with large bluestone, and the horse's hooves make a crisp and pleasant sound when they step on it.

Zhu Xie and his son came to Chang'an City for the first time, and they felt that everything here was extraordinarily fresh, just like Grandma Liu in "Dream of Red Mansions" when she first entered the Grand View Garden, looking around and dizzying.

The road they walked on was one of the main roads in Chang'an, and there was not a single shop on either side, it was all fenced. The main roads of Chang'an are basically like this, so some people take it for granted that all the streets in Chang'an City have no shops, inns, beauty salons, stations and other service industries.

It would be a mistake to think so, but if you look at the two sides of the main road, there is a street more than ten meters wide every other section. There are more than 100 workshops in Chang'an, which are not only residential areas, but also various service industries and handicraft workshops. It's bustling and bustling inside. In short, there are a lot of public facilities that a city must have. If it is true, as some people say, you have to go to the East or West Market dozens of miles away to buy things, then how can the more than one million people in Chang'an City live?

It is not allowed to set up stalls on the main road to do business, otherwise, the punishment of the urban management team members will not be light. No, a team of police uncles came in front of them, they were dressed in military uniforms, but the guy in their hands was not among the eighteen weapons, it was an uncharged baton. After all, public order is to deal with internal contradictions among the people, isn't it?

The central government of the Tang Dynasty has always been very strict in the management of Chang'an's urban environment, because it is related to the international influence of the Tang Dynasty. A large proportion of the pedestrians coming and going on the streets are foreigners from all over the world and Hu people from the country's most confined areas. For example, there are Turks and Uighurs riding horses; A Japanese student with two knives stuck in his belt and a white cloth tied to his forehead; There are Silla people who wear felt hats and carry Korean ginseng and kimchi on their shoulders; There are Hu merchants from the Western Regions holding camels and carrying jewels on them; European Muslim with a turban covering his face and crossing his chest with his fingers as he walks......

They were really eye-opening, and at this moment he felt not only fun, but also the unique openness and inclusiveness of Datang. The group walked for about ten miles, and what appeared in front of them was a 150-meter-wide avenue, which was an avenue that Zhu Xie and his son had never seen in their lives. Extremely rare even today, more than a thousand years later, the name of this avenue is Suzaku Street.

The group turned right and walked along Suzaku Street towards the Imperial City.

What will soon come into view is the majestic and resplendent royal palace complex, the political center of the empire. It was the most fun day he had and the day that touched his mind the most! Chang'an is a microcosm of the whole country, and Datang is a country worth loving with his life - at that time, his consciousness was unconscious, but it was not accidental. Because he has been familiar with "Spring and Autumn" since he was a child, the word "loyalty" has already taken root in his young heart! (To be continued......)