When the Turkic troops rushed through Fengxian County, they exposed their targets, and there was no need to sneak around, so they lit torches and rushed south along the road with great fanfare. Unexpectedly, not long after leaving, the front army shouted: "Stop!" 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? ”

"With Tang Bing, I can't get by." Someone from the former army answered.

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. It turned out that there was a Tang cavalry blocked in the middle of the road, which was already under the nose. The gang stood in the middle of the road in the dark before, and waited for the Turkic warriors to get closer before lighting the fire, and the two gangs almost collided directly.

Zhang Zhifu was in a hurry, and when he stepped forward, he saw 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. He couldn't help but say, "They seem to be waiting here for them." ”

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" was heard, and a heavy arrow hit the leading Tongotler impartially, and he fell off his horse. The attack of the Turkic cavalry immediately stopped, and the general rescued the horse with Otler and returned.

There was soon a shout from the opposite side, followed by the roar of horses' hooves and the roar of rows of iron horses. The Turkic generals saw that they were busy leading their troops to meet the battle, and they quickly 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, there is nothing to do." These days, Zhang Jialangjun has seen and conquered people's strategies, and after I leave, everyone will obey him......"

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!" ”

When the surrounding cavalry heard this, they also stepped forward one after another, shouting that they would go up to kill the generals, and the two sides were in a melee. This Turkic army was carefully selected by Mo Si, and its combat strength was not weak, and even if it was a long journey, it could immediately enter the horse battle without defeat. However, the Tang soldiers made it clear that they were hard to wear, and the soldiers and horses were arranged in a strict and orderly manner, and they were not so lightly washed away.

Zhang Zhifu looked at the back for a while, and said hurriedly: "If you continue to 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 from 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, and suddenly pulled out his saber as if he wanted to cut himself. His own soldiers hurried over and threw him off his horse and seized his weapon. The army knelt on the ground and persuaded: "The big thing has not been accomplished, and it is not yet over, why should Lang Jun look for shortcomings?" ”

"It's not over yet, it's just beginning." 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 mount them, and shouted at the troops to abandon their southward advances, and they all turned their horses and retreated. However, the Tang army on the post road did not give up and pursued closely, and the two armies fought while running, losing 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 they turned eastward, but when they saw that the people were running that way, they rushed eastward together.

After running for half the night, they suddenly saw more firelight in front of them, more than the stars in the sky, and the Turkic soldiers were suddenly frightened and did not dare to move forward. I don't know who said in Chinese: "It must be the people and horses of Hexi County, this place where the three Qin thoroughfares and the three auxiliary towns are important, 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 east, so they had to return to their horses and go west. After such a round trip, they 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 them were killed and wounded. The rest of the men finally made their way west after dark, and in a few moments it 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 are Tang soldiers all around, not to mention how to defeat, they have no place to escape. Several generals shouted: "This battle cannot 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 fluke mentality. It's like a wild boar being forced to a cliff by a hunter, and he doesn't always want to jump off the cliff by himself.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhifu had to take off his sword, jump off his horse, and want to commit suicide. There were some Tang Army soldiers around him, and they hugged him and persuaded him bitterly, Zhang Zhifu said: "I won't stop you from surrendering, 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 no choice but to let him go, and they all fell down on the road and wept bitterly. Zhang Zhifu looked unimpressed, turned the tip of the sword upside down to his left chest with a calm expression, tried it, took a deep breath and stabbed it with gritted teeth. His teeth clenched, and a muffled "uh......" came out of his throat, his eyes widened, and the veins on his face bulged. After a moment of tension, his body fell forward, and he fell to the ground and did not move, and a wisp of blood slowly flowed from under him. The Tang soldiers knelt in front of his corpse and knocked 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 and prepared to surrender. When the Tang army general led the army to approach, seeing this situation, he ordered the weapons to be confiscated, arrested everyone on the spot, and then sent someone to report to the Huaqing Palace.

…… 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 the pass, there must be a large number of internal thieves colluding, otherwise this is completely impossible." ”

Princess Taiping fully 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 generals' support for the enemy. Immediately send an order to send the imperial historian to the military camp to torture and find out the ins and outs of the whole thing. ”

The waiter listened to the matter and hurriedly answered the door, and went out to convey the will. In fact, now everyone guesses that the person who intends to rebel is Zhang Renyuan, because the place he is in charge of is to guard against the Turks, but Zhang Renyuan is a feudal official with a heavy army, and no one in the official staff of the Huaqing Palace is willing to rush to name names. Anyway, having captured nearly a thousand captives alive, it is easy to get an exact confession.

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

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

Yu Liben said: "It's all recruited, since it has fallen into our hands, there is no reason not to recruit, 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 writing two pages in small characters, the handwriting and calligraphy were elegant, and the person who recorded the confession was quite literate, and a vermilion handprint was pressed on each page. The things recorded in the confession were really trivial, and 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, and he was not interested in caring about those irrelevant things for the time being, so he only picked out the information about the assassination case.

The confession of the female assassin Baiyue completely illustrates Zhang Renyuan's relationship with the assassination and rebellion, which is almost the same as everyone speculated. 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 they need to be further ascertained to be true or false." ”

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." ”G