Hengzhou Luancheng is located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, Hebei Road and Hedong Road adjacent to the place, the north is connected with You, Dai, Shuo and other border towns, Nantong Tang Li family originated in Taiyuan, is the south to the north of the Zhuzhou soldiers and horses of the place of the ton, the territory of the terrain is gentle, the soil is fertile and the water is abundant, the traffic is very convenient. Luancheng has a long history, in the Spring and Autumn Period was the important place of Xianyu State, and later returned to the Jin Kingdom. During the Warring States period, it was the famous Zhongshan Kingdom, and it was returned to Zhao in the later period. Zhiguan County in the Western Han Dynasty was under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County, Zhao County in the Sui Dynasty, and Hengzhou in the Tang Dynasty. Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks have been in Koubian several times, and they are only 100 miles away from Luancheng in Hengzhou, so Luancheng has also become an important training place for soldiers and horses in the Tang Dynasty. Newly recruited soldiers and horses are often sent to the front line in batches to participate in battles after training in Luancheng. The Turkic stragglers also often crossed the border and harassed the local garrison in Hengzhou, making it impossible for the local garrison to defend itself.

When Jiang Chongwei, the general of the Hengzhou Thorn Shi Zhen Army, woke up from a nightmare, cold sweat seeped down his strong back. He jerked out the bull's ear knife that he had always accompanied him from under his pillow and swung it wildly in the air. The furious Assassins in his sleep did not appear in front of him, and the room was silent, without a sound. He exhaled heavily, involuntarily recalling the nightmare he had just had. Li Shimin finally didn't worry about him guarding Hengzhou, and countless assassins came from Chang'an City to kill him and surround him. He desperately rushed to kill, but he couldn't kill the encirclement, and watched as he was cut into pieces by dozens of strong men in black.

"Li Shimin doesn't dare to kill me blatantly, otherwise he will lose his trust in the world." Jiang Chongwei looked at the ox ear sharp knife in his hand in a daze, and thought quietly, "But he won't keep me, he definitely doesn't believe that I will be completely attached to him, because I am from Hebei." Jiang Chongwei leaned in front of the window, looking at the bright and flawless moon in the night sky, and his mind returned to the tragic battle in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties.

In front of the Tiger Prison Pass, there were 300,000 soldiers in Hebei, a hundred miles of joint ventures, hundreds of war drums, and the rumbling drums shook the heavens and the earth, and the thunderbolt-like sound should have shattered the liver and gallbladder of the Tang soldiers without fighting. However, Li Shimin's cavalry assault plunged the Hebei soldiers into the deepest nightmare. Li Shimin, who had only a few dozen followers, actually pierced through the middle of the Hebei army, cut the large array within a radius of several miles into two sections, and then covered up and killed him from behind.

Jiang Chongwei still remembers that the 5,000 cavalry he led galloped from the south of the formation to help the main formation, but he could only follow Li Shimin and the rest of the cavalry. By the time he understood that the battle was in chaos and the general trend had gone, the Tang soldiers and horses in all directions had already surrounded him. In front of a group of world-famous generals under Dou Jiande, Jiang Chongwei, who started from Wu Chang and accumulated merits in the past few years to become the fourth rank of Huaihua Zhonglang General, is just a small role that is not very inconspicuous. However, Duke Dou attaches great importance to him and hopes that he will one day become a general in his own right, so at every military meeting, he, a four-rank general, is still qualified to have a unique seat in the corner of the big tent. When he faced the thousands of troops of Tang Bing, his talent finally broke out of the cocoon. In the face of this encirclement on all sides, he led 5,000 cavalry to kill Li Shimin's main formation, forcing the generals who surrounded him on all sides to panic, hurriedly change their formation, and intercept him head-on. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he changed his formation, broke through the encirclement from the flank of Li Shimin's front, a relatively weak infantry formation, and forcibly brought the 5,000 soldiers out of the Tiger Prison alive. Along the way, he saw the corpses of Hebei soldiers lying on the ground in piles, many of them died in arms with the Tang generals, and some of them had their hands and feet cut off, but their mouths were still tightly biting a bloody nose. The men of Hebei are all heroes who stand up to the sky, and they will never surrender even if they die in battle.

When Dou Gong was beheaded by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty on the streets of Chang'an, Jiang Chongwei, who had returned to his hometown to farm, was the first to rush to the streets, killed the officials of the Tang Dynasty, led more than a dozen henchmen, killed more than 100 Tang soldiers, and occupied the county seat in response to Liu Heida's uprising. Since the beginning of the army, Dou Gong has always been benevolent and righteous, those who surrender do not kill, for the clear government, once released the Tang Dynasty emperor's uncle Li Shentong and the Tang Dynasty eldest princess, and the generals of the Tang Dynasty are very preferential. However, all this benevolent act was only exchanged for a night of Chang'an's soul, just because the Tang Emperor Li Yuan liked to watch the captured leader of the rebel army beheaded in Chang'an City. Jiang Chongwei only had in his heart: hate, hate, hate.

Liu Heida is a scoundrel, his lazy, idle early life Jiang Chongwei has long known. However, he also knows that Liu Heida is a hot-blooded man who values righteousness and recklessness. In order to repay Dou Gong's kindness, he angrily raised troops, contacted Hebei heroes, mobilized Hebei heroes, fought to kill officials, and raised troops to rebel. The soldier died for his confidant, and since Liu Heida threw away his life for Dou Gong, then he Jiang Chongwei would not hesitate to sacrifice everything for Liu Heida. This is the love of Hebei men.

The Tang Dynasty had already won the world, and the Hebei Righteous Army was fighting against the entire Central Plains with the power of a province, and no one thought about survival. Perhaps the most terrible fight with their lives, Luo Yi, Luo Shixin, Xue Wanche, Xue Wanjun, Li Shentong, Li Daoxuan, these famous generals were all killed or surrendered under the hands of the Hebei Righteous Army, and the Tang soldiers were defeated like a tide. It was the most desperate and happiest day. Looking at those Tang generals who bullied the people of Hebei, such as Qin Wutong and Zheng Shanguo, and others fled in a hurry, Jiang Chongwei felt a burst of joy in his heart. Jiang Chongwei still led his 5,000 cavalry, assaulting tens of thousands of Tang soldiers in the ice and snow, beating them to the ground. The athletes under his command climbed the ice and snow, raided for thousands of miles, and experienced any difficult environment, and even the Tang generals who fought with him raised their fingers to this team and secretly praised it. Li Shimin, in the end, used the sinister trick of breaking the embankment and releasing water to defeat the Hebei army. broke the embankment and released the water, disregarding the lives of tens of millions of people, just for a complete victory in a decisive battle. Jiang Chongwei knew that his Hebei army would never be able to resort to such a vicious plan to harm the people of Hebei, so Li Shimin still vainly claimed to love the people like a son.

If Liu Heida dies on the battlefield, maybe Jiang Chongwei will follow him to Huangquan with him, and the 5,000 soldiers will also be wiped out. However, Liu Heida was sold to the Tang Dynasty by his own person Zhuge Deweisheng. From that day on, Jiang Chongwei vowed that he must take revenge for Dou Gong and Liu Shuai by stabbing Zhuge Dewei with his hands and Li Yuan and Li Shimin with his hands on his hands.

He led the remaining 3,000 soldiers to surrender to Tang. From the first time he saw Li Shimin, he believed that Li Shimin had already seen his mind. However, this eloquent and strategic Tang Emperor did not kill him, but appointed him as the assassin of Hengzhou, a serious military attache from the second grade, responsible for training the Tang recruits assembled in Hengzhou. The 3,000 soldiers were also allocated to him, because they only obeyed the dispatch of Jiang Chongwei, a famous general in Hebei.

Three years have passed, and batches of recruits from the Tang Dynasty have come from the state like flowing water, and then from here to the border towns and states such as You, Dai, and Shuo. Jiang Chongwei carefully performed his duties and trained batches of elite soldiers for Datang. However, the day when his dream of revenge will come true is getting farther and farther away day by day.

"Perhaps, my time is almost up." Looking at the bright moon gradually moving west, Jiang Chongwei only felt a heavy and cold murderous aura surrounding him layer after layer.

"Forget your child, forget your child!" He began to call out loudly.

Outside of Luancheng, there have been a lot of strong and ferocious rogues recently. No one knows where they came from, where they are going, or whether they are Hu or Han. It is only known that they exclusively kill the scout teams of various ethnic groups who enter and exit Luancheng and patrol between various towns. I heard that there are also similar rogues in other border cities, and they are either in groups of three or five, or hundreds of people, and they are out of nowhere, and the teams surrounding and suppressing them in various states and prefectures are either empty or annihilated.

These elusive rogues touched Jiang Chongwei's nerves that he had been overburdened by fear for many years, and he took it for granted that these were the men and horses sent by Li Shimin to assassinate him. Yes, as long as he kills him, Li Shimin can logically recruit the 3,000 soldiers who swore allegiance to him, so what is he waiting for. Jiang Chongwei these days, every three hours, he has to send scouts to find out the movements of the rogue. These scouts are often either killed or wounded. Of course, his life-like 3,000 soldiers were reluctant to move, so this heavy work was sent to the 4,000 Tang recruits who had just trained here. In the past few days, because of the frequent dispatch of scouts, these 4,000 recruits have been reduced by more than 100 people.

In the early morning of this day, several commanders of the new barracks had just buried the bodies of more than a dozen scouts who had died in the line of duty yesterday, and Jiang Chongwei ordered his righteous son, the champion of the new science and martial arts of the Tang Dynasty, to return to Zhonglang to forget Jiang to enter the command, and the sound of the command began to echo in the night sky again. Those Tang recruits who couldn't sleep all night poked their heads out of the camp tent one after another, with a look of despair in their eyes.

"The last general, Jiang Wang, see Lord Thorn Shi." Jiang Forget said aloud outside Lord Thorn's bedroom. He is a tall and strong Shandong man, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a steel needle-like sideburns and beard, which makes his square face full of majesty. His arms are strong and powerful, his shoulders and back are extremely broad, his waist is thin and his legs are long, and his whole body exudes inexhaustible energy. There was a peculiar scar on the left side of his face that covered the entire face, as if the left side of his face had been ripped off by a sharp blade, making his face even more vicious and ferocious.

Seeing Jiang Forget coming in, Jiang Chongwei's face showed a hint of comfort: "Forget Er, this is not a military tent, and this is not the time for military discussions, you don't have to be so formal, sit."

Jiang Wang's eyes showed a hint of admiration, nodded, and found a chair to sit down.

Jiang Chongwei gasped and asked, "What is the situation of those chestnut refugees outside Antji City?"

Jiang Wangshen said in a deep voice: "There are 40,000 refugees, and there are countless livestock and grass and property. It's just a long journey, overworked, and many people fall ill. I have sent them into the city to seek medical treatment. It's a miracle that they've been able to reach Luancheng safely these days, and the child always feels that something is wrong."

Jiang Chongwei nodded and said fiercely, "I know why, I know. Hehe, they're not here to rob, they're coming for me." He grabbed Jiang Wang's hand and said, "Forget Er, send me another twenty scouts, I want them to patrol the outside, report the clothing, appearance, origin and armament of these rogues, and if they neglect it, they will be beheaded immediately."

"Father, these rogues are numerous and vigilant, and it is difficult to survive sporadic scouts, and these recruits are poorly trained, so it is very difficult to fight them. We need to send good soldiers to destroy them, and I ask you to send 500 soldiers out of the city to destroy them." Jiang Forget hurriedly said.

"No, no, no. You must not send my Hebei hometown, absolutely not. Let the recruits go, let them go through the experience. Go quickly." Jiang Chongwei gasped violently, softening his rapid and unsettling tone, and continued, "Unless you're sure it's a Turkic straggler."

"Yes, Father." Jiang Wang sighed secretly and said in a deep voice, "So, how to resettle those refugees from outside the city, does the righteous father have a proposal?"

"I have sent a fast horse to report the situation here to Chang'an, and if there is no accident, according to the usual practice, we should accept the refugees and move them to Daishuo Erzhou, where there are special camps for them to live temporarily." Jiang Chongwei sighed and said, "Okay, don't pay attention to these refugees, send out a scout horse immediately, go quickly."

The senior military attachés in the Luancheng recruit camp had already gathered, and Jiang forgot that he didn't need to summon everyone after entering the tent, but just ordered his subordinates to light the lamps and wait. Seeing him come in, a partial general immediately said, "General Jiang, is Lord Assassin Shi going to send another twenty probe horses?"

Jiang Forget nodded, and said in a loud voice, "Who is on duty tonight?"

The general's face turned angry, and he said, "All the scouts on duty have already died in their duties. In the past few days, I have only selected capable soldiers from the barracks to go on patrol, but I have also returned one out of ten, and there have been many casualties. There are a large number of rogues and they are proficient in the art of ambushing and stealing, and if the assassin still insists on sending sporadic scouts, within a few days, there will be no more people available in this new barracks."

His words were agreed by all the generals in the tent, and everyone looked at Jiang Forget with burning eyes.

Jiang forgot and said quietly, "Call those surviving soldiers here, I have something to ask them."

The general did not understand his intentions, so he rushed out of the tent with a sigh of relief, and in a moment brought the man into the tent. Some of the soldiers who escaped from the rogue were wounded in the arm, some were wounded in the waist and legs, and one was hit by three arrows in the buttocks, which took a large piece of flesh and skin, and was carried into the tent. Seeing the miserable appearance of these soldiers, all the soldiers were indignant.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Jiang Wangshen asked in a deep voice, "What were they wearing when you and Liukou encountered?"

One of the soldiers whispered, "We have all told Lord Thorn Shi about this, they are dressed in black and pants, and their faces are covered in black scarves, and they are silent, and they can't tell who they are. But he didn't believe us, and thought we were derelict and lazy, and deliberately deceived him."

Jiang Wu nodded, and suddenly asked, "Before you met them, did you see a harrier eagle flying through the sky?"

Hearing this, a soldier suddenly remembered and hurriedly said, "Yes, there is indeed a big gray eagle passing overhead, and it is very terrible."

Jiang Wang's eyebrows raised, he raised his hand to brush his beard, and asked, "Did you hear a whistle when you were fighting with the rogue?"

"Whistle?" Suddenly, the soldiers said in unison, "Yes, there is a whistle."

Jiang Wu nodded and said, "The Turkic people's usual skills. Hunt for enemies in the air with a harrier eagle, then summon your companions with a whistle. They are Turkic."

When the partial general heard this, he hurriedly said, "General Jiang, it seems that you can't jump to conclusions based on two points."

Jiang Forget smiled, for some reason, this smile made his hideous face suddenly become very soft and attractive, only to hear him say, "It's not important at all." He suddenly raised his voice and said to the general who had been fighting against him, "General Liu, please find twenty clever soldiers here at once." The general surnamed Liu didn't know what Jiang Wang's idea was at all, but he had a confidence in being willing to serve from the bottom of his heart, and strode out of the tent.

After a while, twenty new Datang recruits were added to the account. These people trembled and turned pale one by one, because they all thought that maybe this time they would send themselves out to inspect and investigate, and they would be more and less lucky.

Jiang Forget looked at them, shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "Listen, I want you to go out from the north of the city, go around the city, and return from the south of the city, and then, you report to Lord Assassin Shi, and say that the Liukou are all wearing Hu clothes, wearing fur on their shoulders, with pheasant feathers on their heads, holding sabers in their hands, with braided hair, and harrier eagles, there are more than 300 people in total. Did you hear that?"

Hearing this, General Liu was taken aback and said, "General Jiang, you let them lie to Lord Assassin? It's going to be beheaded." Jiang Forget smiled calmly and said, "If something happens, I will take full responsibility. Please don't worry. I hope you can get a good night's sleep tonight." He turned to the twenty soldiers and said, "Do you understand?" Those soldiers were overjoyed and overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted, "Understood, thank you General Jiang."

Jiang Wanghan nodded with a smile, walked out of the camp tent, turned over and got on his horse, and secretly planned to gather five hundred soldiers early tomorrow, and when his father-in-law gave an order, he could go out of the city to suppress the Kou.