Chapter 408 Confession

When the Turkic soldiers rushed through Fengxian County, they exposed their targets, and there was no need to sneak, so they lit torches and ran south along the road with great fanfare. There is a situation ahead! The armies had to rein in their horses one after another and stop advancing

With Otler shouted: "What's the matter? ”

"There are Tang soldiers, but I can't get by," someone from the former army responded

As soon as the words fell, I saw the fire flickering on the post road not far away, and there were more and more torches, and there was a Tang cavalry blocked in the middle of the road, which was already under the nose, and the gang of people stood in the dark in the middle of the road before they moved, and waited for the Turkic soldiers to approach before igniting the fire, and the two groups of people almost collided directly together

Zhang Zhifu was in a hurry, and he stepped forward to take a look, only to see that the firelight was continuous in the night, and the Tang army on the opposite side was in a neat state of combat readiness, and he could rush over immediately, and he couldn't help but say: "They seem to be waiting here for the people."

Said to Otler: "When you meet on a narrow road, you can only rush to the past!" ”

"Only like this......" Zhang Zhifu also agreed to kill directly this time, there is no way, if you can't rush to Huaqing Palace quickly, everything will be over after going around outside for a while

"Kill!" With Otler, he took the lead and rushed with a knife

Unexpectedly, a moment later, a "bang" sound was heard, and a heavy arrow hit the leading Tongotler impartially, and the attack of the Turkic cavalry immediately stopped, and the general rescued Tongotler and pulled the horse back

There was soon a shout on the opposite side, followed by the roar of horses' hooves, and rows of iron horsemen roared towards them, and the Turkic generals saw that they were busy leading their troops to meet the battle, and soon killed the generals

Zhang Zhifu did not carry a weapon to fight, he just saw that Tongotler had fallen off the horse, so he hurriedly rode his horse over to find out, and when he came up, his heart was suddenly cold...... Although Tong Otler was wearing heavy armor, he was shot by a heavy arrow from a giant crossbow, and the force penetrated the iron armor into his chest, what else did he have to live with Hitler?

Seeing Zhang Zhifu, Tong Otler grabbed his hand and said: "God doesn't help me, I have no choice but to convince people about Zhang Jialangjun's knowledge and strategy these days, and everyone will obey him after I leave......"

Zhang Zhifu's face was very ugly, but seeing that the progress ahead was unfavorable, he was frustrated again just now, and said in his heart: How can I strategize now?

All the generals looked at Zhang Zhifu, waiting for him to come up with a clever plan, but Zhang Zhifu only shouted: "Fight to kill the enemy and rush over!" ”

The surrounding cavalry also stepped forward one after another, shouting to kill the general, the two sides of the melee a regiment of Turkic soldiers is silently carefully selected and strong, sure enough, the combat power is not weak, Rao is long-distance fatigue can also immediately enter the horse battle without defeat, but the Tang soldiers are easy to wait for the hard attrition, the soldiers and horses are arranged in a strict and orderly rotation, and they are not so light yì were scattered

Zhang Zhifu looked at the back for a while, and said hurriedly: "If you fight like this until dawn, you may not be able to tell the winner, and I am afraid that tens of thousands of horses will come around on all sides at that time."

A Turkic general said: "It's better to bypass this road and attack the Huaqing Palace in a roundabout way"

Zhang Zhifu looked up to the sky and sighed, suddenly pulled out his sword, and as if he was about to cut himself, his own soldiers hurriedly pounced, threw him off the horse, and snatched his weapon, and the soldiers knelt on the ground and persuaded: "The big thing has not been completed, and it is not yet over, why does Lang Jun want to find a short?" ”

"The big thing is not over yet, it has just begun" Zhang Zhifu glanced back at the north and sighed, "But our surprise attack is over"

When the Turkic generals saw that he was so passive, they brought their horses over and let him get on their horses, and shouted at them to give up the southward march without permission, and they turned their horses and retreated, but the Tang army on the post road did not give up and pursued closely, and the two armies fought while running, and lost many horses and horses in the battle

Continue north and return to Fengxian County, the Turkic cavalry has encountered a garrison in a state of combat readiness before, but the Fengxian Tang soldiers did not pursue them before and let them get away from the battlefield, isn't it just that they are colliding with it when they go back at this time? And to the north of Fengxian is Suyi, which is an important checkpoint town...... Obviously, there is no way out by running directly north

At this time, the Turkic general and Otler were dead, Zhang Zhifu looked like he was waiting for death, and he couldn't be relied on, and the army had no leader and no one came up with a strategy, so he could only gather a group of people and run around, no one knew how to turn east, anyway, everyone saw that people were running that way, so they rushed east together

After running for half the night, he suddenly saw the firelight all over the ground in front of him, more than the stars in the sky, and the Turkic soldiers were suddenly startled and did not dare to patrol forward, and I don't know who said in Chinese: "It must be the people and horses of Hexi County, this place of Sanqin thoroughfare and Sanfu town, there are at least thousands of cavalry that can be dispatched at any time, and they used to ......be sent to death."

The army did not dare to continue to rush to the east, so they had to return to the horse to the west, and were bitten by the Weinan army of the Tang Dynasty who pursued them at first, and they had to fight hard, and more than half of the dead and wounded were scattered, and the rest of the men and horses finally broke through to the west while it was dark, and after a while, the sky was almost dawn

As soon as the east turned white, the light brightened very quickly, and the Turkic soldiers walked for a while, only to see that the front was full of people and horses shaking, and thousands of soldiers and horses surrounded them in a large area

There were Tang soldiers all around, not to mention how to defeat, and if they wanted to escape, a few generals shouted: "This battle can't be fought, only surrender!" ”

Zhang Zhifu said: "Surrender is also death"

The Turkic general said: "Didn't you tell the Khan that after being surrounded by the Tang army, he surrendered and waited for General Manager Zhang's rescue?" ”

Zhang Zhifu said angrily: "The premise of this method is to take the Huaqing Palace, but now it has failed without even reaching the place, Princess Taiping and the Xue family will let go of the people who want to put them to death?" ”

Everyone was silent, although they felt that he was reasonable, but now they were embattled and had no way out, and they still planned to surrender if they had no choice, at least everyone had a bit of a fluke mentality, just like a wild boar being forced to the cliff by a hunter, and they always didn't want to jump off the cliff by themselves

Seeing this, Zhang Zhifu had to take off his sword, jumped off the horse, and wanted to commit suicide, and there were some Tang Army soldiers around him, and hugged him and persuaded him bitterly, Zhang Zhifu said: "If you want to surrender, I will not stop you, but I can't fall into the hands of the Taiping Party alive, otherwise they will torture me in every possible way to get words out of my mouth, and it is better to take that step."

After that, the soldiers had to let him go, and they all fell down on the road crying bitterly, Zhang Zhifu looked disappreciative, turned the tip of the sword upside down to his left chest, tried it, took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, stabbed down, his teeth were clenched, and a muffled cry came out of his throat, "Uh......" A muffled scream, his eyes widened, the green tendons on his face bulged up, so tense for a while, his body fell forward, and he fell to the ground and didn't move, A wisp of blood slowly flowed out from under his body, and the Tang soldiers knelt in front of his corpse, slamming their foreheads to the ground, unspeakably desperate

The troops got off their horses one after another, and when they saw that the Tang army on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, they threw their weapons to the ground, ready to surrender, and waited for the Tang army generals to lead the army to approach

…… After Princess Taiping and Xue Chongxun of Huaqing Palace learned the exact news, they were completely relieved Xue Chongxun immediately asserted: "The Turkic soldiers crossed the thousand-mile deep defense line in the north and entered Guanzhong, there must be a large number of internal thieves colluding, otherwise this is completely impossible."

Princess Taiping completely agreed without thinking: "The Turkic soldiers who were captured by the Emperor were all wearing Tang army clothes and armor, which is the evidence of the border general's knowledge of the enemy, and immediately sent the imperial historian to the military camp to torture and find out the ins and outs of the whole thing."

In fact, now everyone guessed that the person who intended to rebel was Zhang Renyuan, because the place he was in charge of was to guard against the Turks, but Zhang Renyuan was a feudal official with heavy troops, and no one in the staff of the Huaqing Palace was willing to rush to name and name them for a while, anyway, he captured nearly a thousand captives alive, and it was easy to get an accurate confession

At this time, Yu Liben walked in from outside the hall, presented a piece of paper with both hands, and said, "Your Highness, I have obtained a confession from the assassin who was captured alive last night."

Xue Chongxun's mind flashed the eyes of the girl, and in the few moments he faced him last night, he was very impressed by those young and decisive murderous eyes, and he couldn't help but say, "She recruited it just one night?" ”

Yu Liben said: "It's all tricked, since it's in our hands, there is no reason not to move, she told everything she knew, and she only hated herself for knowing too little."

Yu Liben said this in a flat and straightforward tone, but Xue Chongxun easily thought of what kind of inhuman treatment the girl suffered last night, and the cruelty of people to the same kind can only be imagined, as long as they can think of a way, they can use it

Princess Taiping took the confession and looked at it for a while, and then handed it to Xue Chongxun Xue Chongxun spread it out and took a look, densely wrote two pages in small characters, the handwriting and calligraphy were elegant, and the person who recorded the confession was quite literate, and the things recorded by a vermilion handprint confession were pressed on each page was really trivial, Xue Chongxun even saw that the name of Zhou Bin, the criminal law official recommended by Yu Wenxiao, was mentioned in it, but it was another thing, he was not interested in caring about those irrelevant things for the time being, only picking out information about the assassination case

The confession of the female assassin Baiyue completely explained the relationship between Zhang Renyuan and the assassination and rebellion case, and it was almost the same as everyone speculated, and Xue Chongxun said: "Temporarily leaving Baiyue's life can be used as a certification for Zhang Renyuan to be punished in the future, and at the same time, other things she confessed are related to court officials, and the truth needs to be further ascertained."

Yu Liben hurriedly said: "Yes"

Princess Taiping said: "Zhang Renyuan has the audacity to stab such a troublesome thing, it seems that we can't be idle in Huaqing Palace, and Chongxun will go back to Chang'an with me tomorrow." Q