Chapter VII Cotton Clothes

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

The drums sounded

The Kuhara shogunate gathered generals

In the shogunate, General Guo Ziyi sat in the center, and the generals sat on both sides

Guo Ziyi: I just received a secret report from the scouts that the Turks suddenly invaded the south, and this time it is a soldier from all over the country, and they will arrive in Jiuyuan tomorrow...

General of the Left Army: The Turkic Soldiers? My Jiuyuan troops are far inferior, so it is better to ask Chang'an for help as soon as possible...

As soon as he said this, the general of the left army was silent

The Turkic army will arrive tomorrow. At this time, it is too late to ask Chang'an for help.

General of the Right Army: It is better to close the city without fighting and wait for reinforcements

Guo Ziyi: When the army is not in reach, it is the best policy to close the city without fighting. But if there is no fighting, the Turkic army will go around to the rear to burn and loot...

The general of the right army was silent for a moment.

The Turks were tyrannical and unusual, killing people and razing towns to the ground...

If the Turkic iron cavalry bypassed Jiuyuan and went straight to the interior, not only would the people suffer a disaster, but also the court would investigate it afterwards, and the generals would not be able to escape the crime of not fighting.

Former army general: My Jiuyuan army has experienced a hundred battles, and in terms of combat power, it is not to lose to the Turkic cavalry, but the enemy is outnumbered, and I am afraid that the morale will be low...

Guo Ziyi groaned: Morale...

At this time, a sergeant came in: General Qiyu, the cotton clothes made in the palace have arrived.

Guo Ziyi had already known about the palace to make cotton clothes for the frontier, and he had already forgotten about it because of his busy military affairs.

In the afternoon of the next day, Guo Ziyi ordered the entire army of Jiuyuan to assemble, and after all the soldiers lined up, they found Guo Ziyi standing on the high platform

and a stranger, with a mountain of cotton clothes on the side. Looking at the two people on the stage and the cotton clothes next to them, the soldiers didn't know why.

Standing on the high platform with Guo Ziyi was the messenger transporting cotton clothes

Messenger: Brothers, the emperor thanked everyone for their hard work in guarding the frontier, and specially ordered the palace to make cotton clothes for everyone to keep out the cold. Brothers, although we are far away, the emperor is thinking about us all the time.

It must be known that Jiuyuan County is the border fortress of the Tang Dynasty, except for the senior generals, the rest of the people can not say that they can see the face of the sky, but they have never even been to Chang'an City. Moreover, in the bitter cold land, life is far more difficult than in the mainland. At this time, he received the cotton clothes made in the emperor's palace, and all the soldiers were moved, and knelt down together: Long live my emperor, long live long live, long live, long live!

The messenger sent someone to distribute the cotton clothes given by the palace to everyone.

All the soldiers put on the royal cotton clothes, and they were all beaming

Guo Ziyi: Brothers, is the cotton clothes given by the emperor warm?

All the soldiers were excited: warm!

Guo Ziyi: Brothers, the Turkic bandits are coming to invade us again. Let's look at the body, the emperor is still concerned about us, if we don't fight bravely to kill the enemy, how can we repay the grace of God?

The morale of the generals is like a rainbow: I am willing to follow the generals, fight bravely to kill the enemy, and repay the grace of God!

Guo Ziyi passed down the order: "All the soldiers will work hard to fight the thief, and after breaking the enemy, there will be a heavy reward." "Let's put on my armor, personally lead the three armies, and attack to meet the battle.

When the generals saw General Guo coming to the front enemy, their courage was greatly boosted, and they swore allegiance to the death. More than 100,000 soldiers and horses were divided into four divisions: the front army, the left army, the right army, and the middle army.

Wang Tuo pulled his bow and gun, followed behind Guo Ziyi, and served as his personal guard.

Suddenly, I saw a big dust in the distance in front of me, raising more than ten zhang high, like a yellow cloud surging on the ground.

Guo Ziyi pointed at his horsewhip and said, "The Turks are here." Before he finished speaking, he heard the horns of the left and right armies sounding at the same time. Wang Tuo looked far away, and saw that there were two other army horses in the east of the enemy, and two army horses in the west, which was a siege of five enemies and one enemy.

Guo Ziyi's face changed color, and he ordered: "Formation!" "The Chinese army Sima rode out and passed down the order, and when he boarded, the front army, the left army, and the right army all turned back, and the antlers were planted all around, and there were cavalry stationed in the front and back, left and right, and tens of thousands of archers were hidden behind the shields, and the bowstrings were tightened, just waiting for the arrows.

But the sound of drums and horns was heard incessantly, and groups of Turkic cavalry surrounded them, forming a formation in all directions. Wang Tuo looked around, but he saw all the enemy troops in the field, and there was no end in sight.

The horn sounded in the middle of the Turkic array, and the intention of killing came to the face.

Guo Ziyi shouted: "Drumming! Hundreds of leather drums in the Jiuyuan Army also sounded.

Suddenly, the horns in the Turkic array stopped, and tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry shouted to shake the heavens and the earth, raising their swords to kill.

Seeing the Turkic advance approaching, Guo Ziyi waved the flag downward, the drum beat in the Jiuyuan army stopped, tens of thousands of feather arrows were shot, and the Turkic forwards fell to the ground one after another. But the Turkic cavalry followed one after another, swarming forward, rushing forward and firing arrows at the Jiuyuan army.

Guo Ziyi was calm, standing on a high place, holding a long knife, giving orders and commands. When the soldiers of Jiuyuan saw the general personally supervising the battle, they shouted: "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief! Kill the thief! The Turkic cavalry heard the sound of "killing thieves", and looked up to see Guo Ziyi's red robe and gold armor, commanding in the sky with feather arrows, without fear, majestic and majestic like a god. The Turks could not help but be angry, and the offensive slowed down. Guo Ziyi saw a good opportunity and immediately ordered the cavalry of the left army to outflank him.

When the generals of the left army heard Guo Ziyi's order, 30,000 cavalry outflanked him from the side. When the Turkic cavalry hesitated, the Jiuyuan army horses had already rushed in. The Turkic cavalry was suddenly in disarray and retreated. The war drums were beaten in the Jiuyuan army, and the sound was like thunder, and the morale of the Jiuyuan army was greatly boosted, and they rushed to kill bravely. When the Turkic cavalry engaged, they were immediately defeated. The Jiuyuan military horse chased forward and killed, and the momentum was very sharp.

Wang Tuo was overjoyed and shouted, "General, this time we have won a big victory!" ”

Suddenly, the horn sounded, the main Turkic force arrived, the Turkic vanguard turned back and fought, and in an instant, feathers, arrows and spears flew in the air, the sound of killing shook the sky, and flesh and blood flew sideways.

Although the Jiuyuan Army is brave, after all, there is a huge disparity in numbers, and although it has not been defeated for a while, it is gradually declining.

Wang Tuo turned around and saw Guo Ziyi's brows furrowed, knowing that he was not sure about this battle.

Wang Tuo looked back at the battlefield and saw a Turkic wolf's head battle flag on a dirt hill in the Turkic array in the distance, one of his subordinates riding a tall horse and luxuriously dressed, and dozens of sergeants holding iron shields in front of him.

Wang Tuo knew that this person should be the Turkic commander, so he turned back to Guo Ziyi and said: General, the battle situation is not good for us, and the last general will rush to kill for a while.

Guo Ziyi knows that he is skilled: be more careful

Wangto turned under the horse's belly, hid himself under the horse, hooked his feet on the horse's back, and poked his fingers into the horse's belly, and the horse rushed out. When the Turkic sergeant saw an empty horse galloping out, there was no rider on the horse's back, only that the horse was running away with a broken rein, which was very common, and no one paid attention to it. But soon the Turkic sergeant saw someone under the horse's belly and shouted.

At this time, Wang Tuo had already rushed to a place two hundred paces away from the Turkic commander, Wang Tuo drew his strong bow under the belly of the horse, and fired an arrow at the Turkic commander. The Turkic commander's side raised his shield and blocked the arrows. Wangto galloped his horse and fired a series of arrows, the first arrow knocked down the guard, and the second shot straight into the chest of the Turkic commander.

The boss was quick-eyed, and his whip was swung and struck at the arrow. This technique of whipping arrows was originally his specialty, but he didn't want Wang Tuo's strength to be abnormal, although the horsewhip hit the shaft of the arrow, but only the feather arrow was slightly tilted, and with a poof, it was inserted into his left shoulder. The Turkic boss shouted, "Ahhh "I fell on the saddle in pain.

Wang Tuoyu's arrow arrived again, this time closer, and an arrow pierced through his left flank and through his chest. The Turkic commander shook his body and slipped off his horse.

The commander fell from his horse with an arrow, and everyone in the Turkic array shouted, and hundreds of feathered arrows were shot at the horse where Wang Tuo was hiding, and in an instant, the horse was hit by more than 200 feathered arrows and turned into a hedgehog horse.

Wang Tuo rolled a few times underground, slipped under the mount of an officer, and began a small and soft effort, and then got under the belly of this horse to the other, and rolled and then under the other. The officers and soldiers could not release their arrows, so they stabbed them with spears. But Wang Tuo drilled in the east and rolled in the west, all of which were working hard under the horse's belly. The Turkic sergeant is in a mess, you push me, you kill each other, but where can you stab him?

At this time, the Turkic commander had been lifted up by the guards, and dozens of shields were guarding the commander's side, like an iron screen.

Wang Tuo rushed to the bottom of the dirt mountain where the Turkic commander was, and swished three arrows in succession, shooting at the boss.

The guards had seen the commander hit by an arrow before, and they were already prepared, and more than 30 people each raised their shields and blocked in front of the commander in dense layers, only to hear three ringing sounds, and the three arrows all fell on the shield. More than thirty shields cover each other, and it is difficult to shoot the guards, let alone the boss.

Wang Tuo was already deep behind enemy lines at this time, with an iron bucket-like shield array on the dirt mountain in front of him, and thousands of soldiers waving swords chasing after him, and he was in a desperate situation.

In desperation, Wang Tuo threw down the bow and arrow in his hand, pulled out the iron wedge at his waist, roared loudly, jumped up, jumped forward from the dozens of shields, and when the lifting qi had fallen, he kicked on the shield of one person again, jumped over again, and finally landed in front of the Turkic commander. The guards around the coach were shocked and rushed up. There is a way that one husband is desperate, ten thousand people are invincible, Wang Tuo's hand of the iron shovel one after another, and in an instant, the earth and mountains are full of corpses...

On the dirt mountain, Wang Tuo interrupted the wolf-headed battle flag of the Turks, and raised the head of the Turkic commander high with his left hand...

When the Turkic cavalry saw that the battle flag had fallen and the head of their own commander had been cut off, they couldn't help but feel in turmoil, and Guo Ziyi took advantage of the situation to wave his army to cover up the killing...

The Turkic army was repulsed, and the commander was killed on the spot, and he was unable to go south for more than ten years.

When the news came back to Jiuyuan City, there was a sudden jubilation, and everyone began to prepare wine and food. Preparing for tonight's celebration feast, the city was full of joy.

After returning to the camp, Wang Tuo was about to freshen up, and when he took off his armor, he saw that the royal cotton clothes he was wearing under the armor were very damaged. The royal cotton clothes are not trivial, and Wang Tuo is ready to take off the cotton clothes and put them away properly, and find a tailor to weave them tomorrow. When Wang Tuo took off his cotton clothes, a piece of cloth fell out of the cotton clothes, and Wang Tuo picked up this cloth and found that there was a poem written on it:

The battlefield is a soldier, and the cold is like sleep

The robes are hand-made, and I know who is behind

Pay attention to adding more lines, and be more affectionate

This life has passed, and the relationship after reuniting is born

When Wang Tuo read the poem, he found that the handwriting was a little familiar, and if he looked closely, it was Li Huan's handwriting!

Wang Tuo was suddenly struck by lightning and trembled, could it be that his thoughts really moved the heavens, so that he could get the news of Li Huan again?

Look at the poem again: This life has passed, and the relationship after reuniting is born

Maybe this is a sign from God that he and Li Huan have no chance in this life, so they can only wait for the next life...

Wang Tuo couldn't help but burst into tears...

At the celebration banquet in the evening, General Guo Ziyi found tears in Wang Tuo's eyes and asked why. Because the cotton clothes were given by the palace, Wang Tuo didn't dare to hide it, but because he didn't know what Li Huan had to do with the palace now, he didn't dare to mention her name, but just reported the discovery of the poem to General Guo.