Chapter 206: Answer
Suo Debo ripped off his jacket with one hand, and breathed in a big gulp of air, although he learned to bow and horse, this time it was the first time to fight with people, seeing Feng Bo riding over, all of them were Han, and immediately knelt on the ground, and thanked: "The grace of all the adults to save their lives, the small people are unforgettable." He asked in a low voice: "Everyone, but are you a good man under Lord Zhang of Shazhou?" Because the dispatch of troops from Lanzhou has not yet been announced, Feng Bo and the others are noncommittal, Feng Bo said in a deep voice: "We were ordered to rescue the Han people in Hexi, your lady jumped into the river, and she is still fainting, you go and take a look, save her." With that, he handed the crying baby into Sodebo's hands.
Suo Debo was shocked when he heard this, and before he could breathe, he stumbled to Luo Wan'er, who was temporarily unconscious, and didn't care about coaxing the crying child, while following Feng Bo's instructions, he put Luo Wan'er on his knees and forced her to spit out the river water that she drank into her lungs. After several induced vomiting, Luo Wan'er coughed a few times before choking the river water with mud and sand in her mind, and her first reaction was to feel the dagger she carried and slash it at her neck. Sodebo screamed, snatched the dagger from his hand, and cried out, "Damn you, we are saved." Saved!" Luo Wan'er also slowly opened her eyes, saw her husband's face, and said in a low voice: "Am I not dreaming?" Suo Debo said: "No, these military masters saved us." After speaking, she helped Luo Wan'er to get up.
Feng Bo stopped the husband and wife from kowtowing again to thank him, the child's crying turned out to be caused by hunger and thirst, and Luo Wan'er blushed and hid to the side to feed. Feng Bo said to Suo Debo: "Do you know the way to cross the Hulu River to Yumen Pass?" Suo Debo nodded and said: "The villain hunts in his spare time, and he has to go to the city every year to sell the prey to the military masters. Feng Bo nodded and said with a smile: "No wonder there is a good archery." He had just examined the corpses of the two Uighur soldiers shot to death by Sodebo, both of whom had been shot in the throat, and said, "I will go to the rescue of other households, and there are four women over there, so he will take them to Yumen Pass for refuge." Suo Debo nodded yes, remembered something, and said: "My lord, the woman who was shot to death would rather die than make a meat shield for the Hu people, otherwise, Xiaomin's life is in danger, and Xiaomin wants to take her body to the other side of the Hulu River for burial, which is a place for Han people." β
Feng Bo was greatly appreciative when he saw that he was ungrateful, and nodded: "Such a righteous woman should give her a tomb to live in." It is best to know the name, and after a thousand years, people will respect my Chinese righteous people. Seeing that her body was also ragged and torn apart by the violent Uighurs, and that she could no longer hide herself, Luo Wan'er wept as she took out a good piece of clothing from her bag and hid it on her, and distributed clothes to the other sisters. All the women had to get out of the disaster, and they couldn't help sobbing secretly.
Feng Bo frowned and looked at all this, he had a heavy responsibility, he couldn't wait for these Han people to cross the river safely, so he turned on his horse, hugged his fists and said to Suo Debo: "You take some women across the river, I'll wait here and leave." With his legs in his belly, the horse neighed a few paces, and several hussars followed closely behind him. Suo Debo had just woken up at this time and had not yet asked for the name of the savior, and called out from afar: "What is the name of the military master? β
Feng Bo only sighed slightly when he heard this, and did not answer, while urging the horse forward, he said secretly: "Just wait for the commander to make the army arrive, not only on the other side of the Hulu River, but also the Han people in the west of the river can live and work in peace and contentment." The nine hussars rode behind him, whistlering as they spread out their formation, spreading out a large net of search in the distance.
Looking down from the 70 zhang high Nancheng Tower of Yumen Pass, the Hulu River beach within a radius of 100 miles is full of sparks, all of which are spontaneous refugees, or the Han people of Hexi who were taken over by the cavalry of Yumen Pass to cross the river. Although the Uighurs in Ganzhou were fierce and arrogant, they were afraid of the Guiyi army's century-old power and did not dare to survive the Hulu River invasion in the middle of the night, so the Han army at Yumen Pass only escorted these Han people to the river, and then left them to go to Guancheng on their own. These dots were the torches lit by the Hermes-Epitek who finally felt a little safe and steady, and if they were on the south bank of the Hulu River, they would never dare to raise a fire at night, and it was better to stumble and rush at night than to be spotted by the Uighurs. Little by little, sparks were slowly gathering from the other side of the distant river towards the castle.
Huai Tang, the city leader, sighed: "Since the first Han Dynasty, the Han people have reclaimed Hexi, and hundreds of generations have passed on the torch, leaving this little seed, if it were not for Lord Wu to send troops to help, I am afraid that it will be destroyed in this military disaster." He turned his head to Xin Gu and said: "This time I have returned to the Falcon, and the whole clan of the Zhang clan in Hexi should serve Lord Wu as the lord, expel the Tartars, and rejuvenate my China." Xin Gu was clumsy, only nodded comfortingly, Gu Tan smiled and said: "Captain Zhang and I are like brothers, how can the boss divide each other." β
Zhang Huaitang was nearly fifty years old at this time, because of all the hard work, his beard was pale, and his face was older than that of ordinary officials and nobles, but he forced himself to wear an iron armor, and stood on the head of the city late at night, not only urging the soldiers to rescue the Han people in Hexi, but also preventing the Uighurs from taking advantage of the chaos to seize the city, in the past few days, nearly 7,000 Han people have been rescued, Yumen Pass is really a military fortress, not an ordinary city, the inner space is narrow, the Han people can only sleep on the street in the city, all of them are broken and killed, after twists and turns, the appearance is haggard, and it is pitiful to look at. Zhang Huaitang had ordered the city to boil gruel every day, and according to the Lanzhou system, the Han people were assigned to the sergeants to manage, so that all the people could be converted into military power, and the other was to firmly control these people through the sergeants to prevent the Uighurs from working in detail.
Xin Gu looked at the vast mountains on both sides of Yumen Pass, and secretly calculated the time when the Lanzhou headquarters would come to help, Wu Yingying surrounded Wei to save Zhao Zhice, he already knew that the key was that Yumen Pass could attract the Ganzhou Uighurs to continuously increase troops in front of the pass through resolute resistance and even provocation, and the hussar battalion and Shazhou cavalry were very elite, and they could attack several times, and it was best to slaughter a few Uighur nobles to anger the Ganzhou Uighur Khan. This vast group of mountains seemed to be covered by black clouds, and when the Lanzhou army broke through the Ganzhou Uighurs, it was a great river and mountain.
In the continuous mountains as far as Xingu can see, there are countless Han people who go into the mountains to avoid the military disaster, they dare not raise a fire at night, some live on the trunk of a tree, some live in a cave, and they are hungry in this early summer night, not only to worry about the invasion of wild beasts, but also to worry about the Uighurs entering the mountains to search and kill, the only hope is that when they wake up from a nightmare at midnight, they look at the Yumen Pass from afar, and the lanterns and torches of the city tower are bright, showing that the city is not lost, and the hope of the Han people in Hexi is still there, this lonely city, just like a candle in the wind, although it is weak, but it lights up and inspires these scattered and fleeing Han people, persevering, and livingγ