readx; The long-awaited inner city gate of the An Lushan army was finally opened, but it brought them not hope, but death, hundreds of Anxi cavalry swarmed in, swept towards the stunned enemy army, this is the strongest cavalry in the Anxi army, participated in the 10,000-mile march of Xiao Bolu, participated in the battle of Talas, they have been on the battlefield for a long time, and even death is prostrate at their feet. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The war horses were furious, rushing forward and slamming, slashing with swords, stabbing with spears, flying limbs, rolling heads to the ground, and a scream and wail suddenly resounded in the urn city.

In the small urn city, Anxi's horse control technology was brought into full play, and the difference between the huge combat effectiveness of cavalry and infantry was also reflected at this moment, although the army sent by An Lushan was also the elite of the Fanyang army, but in front of the stronger Anxi cavalry, An Lushan's army was obviously at a disadvantage, almost one-sided slaughter.

The urn city has almost become a hell of Shura field, there are corpses everywhere, blood is flowing like a river, Sun Xiaozhe, who is close to the city wall, was taken aback, although he knew that the reinforcements of the Tang army had arrived, but he had never seen such a strong army, less than three hundred cavalry, in the narrow urn city, they could kill all over the place, and killed their elite army miserably.

He didn't dare to imagine that Datang still had such an army, what kind of people was this army, at this time, his pupils contracted violently, and he saw a person, Li Qing'an, who was slowly driving in from the inner city gate, it turned out to be the Anxi army!

At this time, his eyes were suddenly full of fear, Li Qingan had already opened his bow and arrows, and the sharp arrows were aimed at him coldly, Sun Xiaozhe was so frightened that his soul was scattered, he instinctively hugged his head, and the long arrow had appeared in front of his eyes, 'Click! With a bang, an iron arrow pierced his chest, and Sun Xiaozhe screamed and was nailed to the wall alive.

The main general died tragically, An Lushan's army no longer had the heart to fight, they even rolled and crawled down the mountain to run, in a moment, the urn city fled completely, there was a loud bang, and the outer city gate was slowly closed.

The urn city is in a mess, there are severed limbs and broken arms everywhere, human heads can be seen everywhere, the blood has soaked the entire ground into red, the Anxi cavalry looked at the corpses on the ground with their spears, some wounded and not dead Fanyang soldiers lay on the ground and moaned and begged for mercy, but they were stabbed to death by the Anxi cavalry with a spear, without mercy, a total of more than 800 An Lushan troops were killed.

The defenders of Tongguan finally came to their senses, and there were only more than 1,400 people left in the 3,000 defenders, and more than half of the casualties were killed.

Wang Sili glanced at Sun Xiaozhe, who was still nailed to the wall, his face was distorted and hideous, and he couldn't help but be secretly frightened, he had heard of Li Qing'an's unparalleled arrows, but he didn't expect it to be fierce.

Wang Sili pushed away the soldiers who helped him, knelt down for Li Qing'an, and said gratefully: "Fortunately, the general came in time, otherwise Tongguan will not be guaranteed, and I, Wang Sili, will become a sinner in the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Qingan hurriedly helped him up and said with a smile: "General Wang with 3,000 weak brigades actually resisted An Lushan's army of 6,000 tigers and wolves, which makes me admire, General Wang is worthy of being a famous general." ”

Wang Sili was ashamed in his heart, but when he thought that An Lushan actually attacked Tongguan, he was indignant in his heart, and couldn't help but say angrily: "An Lushan wolf is ambitious, it is not enough to occupy Hedong, he even fights the idea of Guanzhong, he really wants to rebel." ”

"He didn't dare to rebel, he wanted to learn from Dong Zhuo to enter Beijing, control the saint, and then control the world, if I guessed correctly, this cattle and horse team is just his vanguard, and there should be his brigade behind."

Wang Sili couldn't help but be stunned, and said with some worry: "My subordinates are all old and weak soldiers, and more than half of them are killed or wounded, and there are not many soldiers led by the general, if An Lushan's brigade attacks, how should we deal with it?" ”

Li Qingan didn't answer, he slowly walked up to Sun Xiaozhe, pointed to the hideous corpse and smiled: "General Wang, do you know who this person is?" ”

Wang Sili shook his head, "I don't know, but this person is quite brave, and he shouldn't be an unknown person." ”

"This person is Sun Xiaozhe, the general under An Lushan, who ranks third in force."

"It turned out to be him, no wonder he was so strong, but although he ranked third, he couldn't stop the general's arrow."

Li Qingan shook his head lightly and said: "If I really fight with him one-on-one on the battlefield, I am far from his opponent, but I don't want to fight with him in martial arts, but he will die under my hands just the same, General Wang, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Wang Sili thought about it for a while, and suddenly understood what Li Qing'an meant, and it was not a frontal battle with An Lushan, they had Tongguan natural danger as a basis, so what did it matter if he had more soldiers.

Thinking of this, Wang Sili's heart was cheerful, and he clasped his fists and saluted Li Qing'an: "The prince has an order to obey the command of the general, from now on, I will be the deputy general of the general, and everything will be decided by the general." ”

Li Qing'an likes Wang Sili very much, this is a rare talent, he had the intention of recruiting in his heart, but after a thought, he thought that this person was loyal to Li Yu, if he did it too obviously, I was afraid that Li Yu would be suspicious, so he restrained the urge to recruit this person, and said with a faint smile: "I am just on the order of the prince to support Tongguan, and after defeating An Lushan, I will return to Anxi, and the responsibility of guarding Tongguan in the future will have to fall on General Wang." ”

Wang Sili sighed and said: "An Lushan occupied Hedong, his ambitions were revealed, I was only worried that the imperial court was unable to restrain him, and it was more accommodating, at that time, we the generals below didn't know how much they had to suffer, especially this time they intercepted An Lushan into Beijing, he must hate me to the bone, I just hope that the court will not take me to make sacrifices for An Lushan, I am very worried that there will be this possibility." ”

After speaking, Wang Sili's eyes became worried, he walked to the battlements, looked to the north, he was extremely distressed in his heart, he suddenly waved his arms and shouted: "The world is so big, is there no place for my Wang Sili?" ”

Li Qing'an looked at his back, and he could feel the pain of this Tang army general, which was a kind of dissatisfaction with the weakness of the imperial court and worry about the future of the Tang Dynasty.

He slowly walked behind him and said word by word: "If there is really that day, General Wang might as well come to Anxi, and the door of my Anxi will always be open for you." ”

Wang Sili turned his head sharply, staring at Li Qing'an's gaze tightly, from Li Qing'an's gaze, he saw a trace of sincerity, saw a kind of worry about him, he couldn't help but be extremely moved in his heart, nodded silently, and said in a deep voice: "I hope that one day, I can also fly across Guanshan and go to Anxi to make contributions!" ”

Li Qingan patted him on the shoulder, stared into his eyes and said, "I believe that there will be that day!" ”

．．．．．．．．． Li Qing'an's prediction was completely correct, in the afternoon, an army of about 30,000 people arrived at Tongguan, according to the noble strategy, should first be An Qingxu led 6,000 people to control Chang'an, and then the Hebei army entered Guanzhong, but An Lushan made a small modification, changed to An Qingxu led the cattle and horses to seize Tongguan first, and then the army entered Guanzhong, no matter how to modify, the result of the two plans is the same, An Lushan's army controlled Chang'an and Guanzhong, coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and achieved An Lushan's hegemony.

But An Lushan and Gao Shang did not expect that Li Qing'an actually led 3,000 cavalry to Chang'an first, and saw through their conspiracy, so that they failed to capture Tongguan, and the success was lost, but at this moment An Lushan did not know that his strategy had failed, and he was a little sick halfway, so he temporarily stayed in Wenxi County, Jiangzhou to recuperate, and ordered Shi Siming to lead 30,000 reinforcements into the pass first.

The 30,000-strong army was stationed on a gentle hillside about five miles away from Tongguan, far away from Tongguan, and not far away was the mighty Yellow River, winding and circling eastward.

Shi Siming in the camp blushed, and looked coldly at An Qingxu, who was resolutely unwilling to take responsibility, Shi Siming is An Lushan's right-hand man, and his status in the Hebei Army is extremely high, and he also followed An Lushan by a border trader, step by step to control the Fan Yang Army and the Ping Lu Army, it can be said that the most senior veteran, is An Qingxu's uncle, although An Qingxu is An Lushan's son, but in front of Shi Siming, he still does not dare to be arrogant, under strict military discipline, Shi Siming can kill him.

Therefore, An Qingxu was quite uneasy in his heart, he knew that the consequences of not taking Tongguan would make his father's plan fall short.

He knelt on the ground and tried his best to defend himself: "Deputy marshal, although I am the main general of the Niu Ma team, but let Sun Xiaozhe play the striker is the order of the marshal, we have a total of two generals, he is the striker, then I must be the rear, otherwise we will all fight for merit, no one is in charge of the back road, it is a taboo for the soldiers, so, the defeat of Tongguan is completely the responsibility of Sun Xiaozhe, and when I get the news, the striker has been driven out of Tongguan, Sun Xiaozhe died in the pass, please the deputy marshal Mingcha." ”

Shi Siming restrained the anger in his heart, and snorted coldly: "It's good for Sun Xiaozhe to be the forward, but it's you who is arranging the troops for battle, why do you want to let the three hundred slow cattle in front, it wastes time in vain, if the cavalry team is in front, there will be more troops going in, can Wang Sili's three thousand weak brigades still be able to resist?" There will be no defeat at all, how can you explain this. ”

An Qingxu didn't have time to report the complete situation to Shi Siming, because Shi Siming didn't know that the reinforcements were coming, and he thought that the Niu Ma team was defeated by 3,000 weak brigades, which made him extremely dissatisfied.

An Qingxu hurriedly explained: "Deputy marshal, we were not defeated by Wang Sili's weak brigade, on the contrary, we were about to succeed, but their reinforcements arrived, and they were extremely ferocious, and only three hundred cavalry killed us in a river of blood, and fled in defeat." ”

"Who is it?" Shi Siming slapped the table heavily and said angrily: "What reinforcements are so arrogant, these six thousand troops are elite soldiers personally selected by An Shuai, and even the three hundred of them can't withstand it?" You say, who will have such strength? ”

Shi Siming didn't believe An Qingxu's words, and at this time, an imperceptible mockery flashed in An Qingxu's eyes, and he said slowly: "This person's deputy marshal should be more familiar than me, he is Li Qing'an of Anxi." ”

"What!" Shi Siming stood up suddenly, and slowly he sat down again, it turned out to be Li Qing'an, he seemed to be stunned, at this moment, there seemed to be another pot arrow flying in the air in front of his eyes.

After a while, his voice became a little hoarse, and he asked, "How come, how can he appear in Chang'an?" He should be in Anthy. ”

"The deputy marshal should also be in Youzhou, so why will he appear in Tongguan?" An Qingxu's tone already had a hint of mockery that could not be concealed.

At this time, Shi Siming no longer had the heart to discern An Qingxu's tone, his heart was in a mess, and he waved his hand and said, "You go!" I will report this to the commander. ”

An Qingxu retreated with relief, the big tent was empty, and the soldiers also retreated, Shi Siming's heart was extremely disturbed, he slowly walked to the front of the big tent with his hands behind his back, staring at the Xiongcheng five miles away, he couldn't help but think of the past that made him unbearable, he wanted to forget, but he carved more and more deep in his heart of the past, this became the nightmare of his life, Li Qing'an, this person he never wanted to see again in his life, at this moment on Tongguan, became a roadblock that he couldn't bypass.

"Li Qingan, why is the enemy so narrow?" Shi Siming muttered in a low voice.

．．．．．．．．． In the middle of the night, An Lushan's reply arrived, in which he scolded An Qingxu for being incompetent, and ordered Shi Siming to take Tongguan within three days, and if he couldn't take it, he would come to see him.

At the fourth watch, the 10,000 troops of An Lushan quietly left the camp and touched Tongguan, they wanted to try the possibility of a night attack, the night was dark, the black mountain road could not see the five fingers, the army groped for the upward climb on the sheep intestine mountain road, at this moment, a soldier wanted to move away from a tree of wood across the mountain road, but this was actually the alarm organ buried by the Tang army on the mountain road, with a loud rumbling sound, a large stone weighing more than 100 catties rolled down from the hillside, and suddenly smashed over five or six soldiers, The terrible screams shattered the dark night.

Tongguan suddenly drums sounded, a torch was lit, hunting illuminated the night sky, the sound of bowstrings came and went, arrows were like flying locusts, within a moment, more than half of the hundreds of soldiers crowded within a hundred steps were killed and wounded, and the remaining more than 100 people crawled down the mountain and fled.

Immediately afterwards, two boulders the size of a grinding disc rolled and threw down from the city one after another, and smashed them along the sheep intestine path to the black and oppressive Hebei army, and suddenly there was a scream on the mountain road, and nearly 100 people were smashed over by these two boulders, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

The soldiers shuddered, shouted in unison, turned around and fled to the foot of the mountain, and the soldiers behind were driven to run together, and in a moment, the soldiers on the mountain road fled without a single left, leaving behind the corpses on the ground.

The sky gradually brightened, a round of red spurted out, reflecting the red inside and outside Tongguan, at this time, Shi Siming led the horse on the trail surrounded by a team of pro-soldiers, they waved flags, signaling the soldiers in the city not to release arrows, Shi Siming was helpless, he had to ask for Sun Xiaozhe's body, Sun Xiaozhe is An Lushan's favorite general, married An Lushan's niece, and it is also one of An Lushan's orders to ask for Sun Xiaozhe's body.

Shi Siming knows very well the difficulty of taking Tongguan, the terrain of Tongguan is dangerous, one man is the pass, ten thousand people are not open, plus the Anxi army is extremely brave, Wang Sili is good at defending the city, known as the world's first guard, if you want to take Tongguan, it is almost a dream in vain, and it can be regarded as an explanation to be able to get back Sun Xiaozhe's body.

Of course, he can also send other people to negotiate with Li Qingan, but Shi Siming has an unknown secret in his heart, he wants to use this opportunity to talk face-to-face with Li Qing'an to test Li Qingan's influence on him, and he hopes to get rid of the shadow in his heart.

Thousands of crossbows in the city were coldly aimed at him, Shi Siming stood on a protruding boulder a hundred steps away, and shouted to the city with his hands together: "Please make the general come out to answer." ”

At this time, several soldiers at the head of the city dodged away, and Li Qingan walked to the battlements with a pair of bows and arrows, and he smiled at Shi Siming: "It turned out to be an old man, is General Shi okay?" ”

"General, I think everyone is misunderstood, my marshal heard that Guanzhong was empty, he was afraid that Guanzhong would be attacked by gangsters and hurt the crown prince, so he decided to enter Beijing to escort him, but he didn't expect it to lead to a misunderstanding, hurting the soldiers, which is sad!"

"Since it's a misunderstanding, then General Shi can take the troops back, with me escorting him in Guanzhong, there is no need for An Shuai to worry about it anymore, he should take care of himself!"

The two of them were talking and answering each other in the city, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the two armies were looking at them, and there was no sound on the mountains, only listening to the two of them greeting each other hypocritically and politely.

Shi Siming stubbornly said: "As long as the general returns Sun Xiaozhe's body to me, I will withdraw the army immediately, this is my only condition." ”

Li Qingan sneered: "Why didn't General Shi say it earlier, I saw that stinky skin bag and I was disgusting, so I ordered someone to feed him to the dog, I'm sorry, it's gone." ”

"Li Qing'an! You are bold. ”

Shi Siming was furious, pointed at Li Qing'an and scolded: "General Sun Xiaozhe is a famous general in Hebei, you dare to humiliate him like this, aren't you afraid of God's punishment?" ”

Li Qing'an pulled out his bow and arrow suddenly, and the tip of the arrow was aimed at Shi Siming and said: "Bullshit famous general, just a traitor, Shi Siming, do you still have the courage to speak in front of me?" ”

Shi Siming's heart seemed to fall into the abyss, he looked at Li Qing'an's arrow blankly, the past came like a tide, the arrow, Li Qing'an's arrow, the last arrow was terrible, and an unforgettable sense of fear instantly swallowed Shi Siming.

"Nope! No! Li Qingan, don't. ”

Li Qingan sneered, and shot an arrow, hitting Shi Siming's helmet, shooting the helmet more than a foot away, Shi Siming turned into a clay sculpture at this moment, not moving, his two eyes were blank, glowing with a kind of gray unique to death, he suddenly shouted, "I'm going to die!" ”

Shi Siming jumped off the boulder desperately, and ran to the foot of the mountain, the rope that tied his hair was hung up by a branch, the military uniform was torn, and a military boot was also dropped, he didn't care about it completely, there was only one word in his mind, 'Run!' 'The farther away from Li Qing'an, the better.

In front of the eyes of tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides, Shi Siming was a madman, cloaked, barefoot, waving his arms indiscriminately, stumbling towards the foot of the mountain, the soldiers on both sides were in an uproar, Shi Siming is also a famous general in Hebei, the deputy envoy of Fan Yang Jiedu, in front of Li Qingan, has it become so unbearable?

Li Qingan looked at his back, shook his head contemptuously, and said to himself: "Shi Siming, you don't want to get rid of my shadow in this life." ”

(To be continued)