It is said that in the past year, the first emperor swept Liuhe, divided the world into 36 counties, and the area of Lanzhou, that is, Longxi County.

In the second year of the Han Yuan Dynasty, Huo went to the west to conquer the Xiongnu and opened up four counties in Hexi, called Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang.

——The above four counties, thousands of years later, my generation recited its name, it seems that we can still see the yellow sand and the sea, the Han banner is high, the armor is dazzling, the iron cavalry is brilliant, and the martial arts of this ancestor are also!

In the first year of the first century, the Han Emperor placed Jincheng County, and in the sixth year of the first century, it was promoted to Jincheng County.

Then to the Sui Dynasty three years of the emperor, changed the county to the state, because there is Gaolan Mountain in the south of the city, so it is called "Lanzhou", this is the origin of Lanzhou.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains fought and took care of themselves, and Tubo took the opportunity to make chaos and forcibly occupied Lanzhou, which was not owned by the Han family since then.

During the reign of Song Renzong, the party rose and repeatedly defeated Tibet, Li Yuanhao and the tiger were based in Hexi, and Lanzhou was also obtained by Western Xia.

More than 40 years later, Emperor Shenzong forged ahead and struggled to open the border, and the Song army took advantage of the civil strife in Western Xia to recover Lanzhou.

The two generations of Shenzong and Zhezong, there were many famous generals in the court, and the martial arts of the Great Song Dynasty were at their peak for a while:

Three expeditions to Western Xia, the great destruction of Tibet, the rejection of the Liao State in the north, the destruction of Qingtang in the west, and the yellow-headed Uighurs bowed their heads and proclaimed their ministers, and the Gaochang Uighurs shook their heads and were afraid, and opened up more than 2,000 miles of territory, until Zhao Ji's old official family ascended the throne, he still relied on the power of his father and brother, and established the Longyou Protectorate here.

Here's a word of gossip -

If in the original time and space, after the old official's family bought the sixteen states of Youyun, the theoretical land area is more than 3 million square kilometers, the prosperity of "martial arts", and the real strong man is the ancestor, from this point of view, it is not difficult to understand why the old official's family rejoices in the saying of "Fengheng Yuda".

Get back to business.

However, it is said that this time the Western Xia and the Jin State formed an alliance, and poured the strength of the whole country to attack the Song Dynasty, the main force in the country, and went to the Yongxing military road to fight.

On Qinfeng Road, he sent a partial division to contact the large and small forces of the Tubo, Uighur, and Qiang people, and gathered more than 60,000 or 70,000 Zhuhu coalition troops to seize Xining Prefecture, Lanzhou, Qinzhou and other places.

However, the Western Xia dispatched troops this time, which was also quite hasty, and was eager to take advantage of the Song Dynasty's time to take care of itself, and wantonly attacked the city, so the march was inevitably not thorough.

Looking at the two roads of Qinfeng and Yongxing Army, there are many prefectures and counties that have never been captured, and there are defeated Song troops who enter the mountains to guerrilla, or form villages to defend themselves.

In short, the situation in the northwest seems to be the great advance of the Western Xia and the countless losses of the Song Dynasty, but in fact, where the army passes, the beacon fire is endless, like a starry star, and it has already become a pot of porridge.

Originally, if there was no one in the Song Dynasty, after the Western Xia front was fought, they would be swept away one by one.

It's just that the big Song has Lao Cao!

Lao Cao set out from Qinzhou, selected 3,000 elites, drove day and night, less than three days, and more than 600 miles of road was already behind him.

A few miles in front of him is the border town of Lanzhou.

This state is a military state, and there is no county, and there are only one village and four forts under its jurisdiction, all of which are called Niche Valley Village, Dongguan Fort, Aganbao, Xiguan Fort, Gongxin Fort.

In the past year, the Song Dynasty captured Li Hao Lanzhou, made the first governor, because the Sui and Tang Dynasty ancient city was narrow and dilapidated, not conducive to the defense of Western Xia, so the request was extended to the north, the city wall reached the bank of the Yellow River, because there are big stones such as turtles on the riverside, also known as "Stone Turtle City".

Since then, the imperial court has been strengthened and repaired several times, to the reign of the old official, it has become a scale, the city wall on the back of the river, all are made of bricks, more than three zhang high, and the following is the rolling torrent.

The remaining three sides of the earth city wall, also have more than two zhang high, the four forts from the west and east around each other, just like the four legs of the turtle, echo each other.

As for the niche valley village, still in the southeast of the city sixty miles outside the cloud mountain, this mountain is the first mountain on the right side of Longlong, seven or eight hundred zhang high, the village is a canyon on three sides, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the old Cao kills Ben Lanzhou, is passing under this village.

At the beginning, the intention of establishing this village was that if Lanzhou was lost, the defenders could retreat here to wait for reinforcements.

However, when the Western Xia really attacked, the elite of the Western Army were all drawn into the pass, and the soldiers and horses were left behind, and they were about to collapse at the first touch, where was anyone willing to defend this?

As for the soldiers and horses of Zhuhu, they didn't bother to come here to eat and drink, so they gave up this natural risk.

Even the turtle-footed four castles are now unattended, which makes Lao Cao take a big advantage.

In the south of Lanzhou, Gaolan Mountain is like a high wall, stretches along the Yellow River, wraps Lanzhou inside, the mountain is high and difficult to climb, only the east side of the canyon can march, so Lao Cao is everywhere, it is the east of the city.

It was noon, Lao Cao was ten miles outside the city, leading the army to hide behind a low mountain, looking at the closed city gate, his face was full of unhappiness: "This group of summer dogs is really courageless, the battle line has been pushed to Tongguan and Luliang, and the city gate is closed during the day." ”

After rolling his eyes and coming up with a plan, he called Shi Qian and Shi Bao, two generals, to lead twenty good hands, all pretending to be merchants, and ordered Hua Rong to lead thirty or fifty people, pretending to be the Song army that had been defeated before, plundering the merchants, chasing Shi Qian and others, in order to lure the defenders into battle.

Shi Qian and the others changed their common leather jackets in the northwest, wrapped some stones and wooden stakes in the wrapping skins, and carried them on horses as goods, and each hid short instruments in their bodies.

Hua Rong's department smeared the armor and war horses with dust and mud, as if they had been adrift in the field for a long time, revealing such an embarrassment.

Everyone dressed up properly, Shi Qian and the others came out first, made some frightened feelings, shouted and screamed, and galloped wildly.

Hua Rong waited for him to go farther, and also led the army out, shouting and chasing closely.

The two teams chased and fled, and soon arrived at the city of Lanzhou, Hua Rong released arrows from time to time, and every time he shot a few arrows, one person fell off his horse-

In fact, they are all empty strings, and the people who fall off their horses are also soldiers with superb riding skills.

Seeing this, Zhuhu guarded the soldiers and horses in the city, and while ringing the bell to warn, he shouted in the city: "What person? Quickly stop talking. ”

Shi Qian was able to recognize the Xiangtan of Zhufang, and immediately straightened his tongue and talked about the Northwest Township: "Brother, I am a guest in business, and when I meet a group of hungry and crazy Song Jun, if you are willing to save me, I will reward my brother with five hundred taels of silver." ”

When the city guards heard this, they were shocked.

Looking around, sure enough, I saw that Shi Qian and his companions were immediately, and the packages were heavy and hard, and the horses couldn't run fast, obviously either gold bricks or silver nuggets!

I couldn't help but be ecstatic: Yesterday the blind man said that I had a blood and light disaster, and I kicked a few times before I was willing to tell the truth. This old man is lazy, and the next time he meets him, he will kick him harder, and only tell him to spit out the truth.

looked at Hua Rong and the others, all of them were covered in dust, their clothes and armor were shabby, and they nodded secretly: Needless to say, this defeated Song army who didn't know where to kill had no way out, so they had to rob the business and travel to get by. He must be mad with hunger, otherwise how dare he chase me down to the city? But don't you take the credit into my hands? After taking these heads, it is better to sell them to the Tangut people.

It turned out that the soldiers and horses stationed in this city were more than 300 Western Xia soldiers, more than 1,000 Tibetan soldiers, and more than 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers.

As for this person, he is a miscellaneous man born as a horse bandit, who has just been recruited by Western Xia, and has hundreds of partners under his command who can fight.

The leader of the horse bandits was thinking about himself, when he suddenly saw a few Tibetan soldiers looking at him and running down the city quickly.

I was suddenly shocked in my heart: That's it, these dogs must have gone to tell the truth, and attracted those Tibetan wild dogs, wouldn't it be a share of my food?

Fortunately, at this city gate, most of his men were manpower, and he immediately let people open the door, and he led two or three hundred companions down to the city, and he was about to make a windfall.

When I hurried out of the city gate, I saw Shi Qian and others, and they were chased and surrounded by Hua Rong's department.

Shi Qian and others were full of forgiveness, they all trembled and dismounted and knelt down, and those Song soldiers smiled and took all the horses full of packages into their hands.

The leader of the horse bandits was anxious when he saw it, and shouted: "Kill it, don't be robbed of my money by this Song thief." ”

Hundreds of horse bandits roared out, and the Song army fled eastward, Shi Qian and others took the opportunity to get up and fled to the city gate, but were stopped by the guards at the gate.

Shi Qian cried and wiped his tears, begged him and others to enter the city, and begged the soldiers to be merciful and recover his property for him.

But said that Hua Rong, seeing the defenders out of the city, was going to return to the horse and flee, but after a closer look, there were only more than 200 people, and he couldn't help frowning.

He said in his heart: How can there be only these people and horses in such a city? It will be before the army can be killed. That's it, I'll kill him for a while, and hook his army into the way!

This is truly the audacity of the artist! Hua Rong thought about it, deliberately made some anger on his face, and scolded: "You wait for Hu Dog, you deceive people too much, what is in your way when you find some food?" Then they will deceive each other! Only now you will die one by one. ”

After that, he grabbed the war horse, opened the bow and shot, a set of arrows, and shot seven people off their horses.

Hua Rong's ability to connect arrows is dominant, why is it only a mere seven consecutive beads?

But he was afraid that revealing his skills would be too amazing, and he would scare off the defenders, but it was not beautiful.

The leader of the horse bandits was taken aback and exclaimed, "Ah, it's a marksman!" The brethren are quick to kill, and when they get close to him, they will be out of order. ”

In the bitter cold land of the northwest, all ethnic groups live together, the folk customs have always been fierce, a brick falls from the roof, and eight swordsmen can be stoned to death.

Therefore, few of these people who can live take their lives seriously, and they are much more violent than their counterparts in the Central Plains.

Seeing that Hua Rong's archery is powerful, he sped up the speed of the horse, and the one with the shield covered his face, and the one without the shield hid in the stirrup and hung it on the side of the horse's body, and many people took out the bow and arrow and shot it, and the whistle in the mouth continued, like a wolf pack hunting, if ordinary people heard it, they were scared and half dead.

Hua Rong was not surprised, and laughed: "It's so daring, it's fun to kill." ”

Immediately galloped on horseback, swaying left and right to avoid the arrows, while firing endless arrows, and after a short time, he shot over more than ten people, all of whom dared to shoot with him.

After all, there were many horse bandits, and they took the opportunity to chase closer, and the leader was full of ferocity, and suddenly sat up straight, drew his sword and slashed, and his moves were fierce and urgent.

A good Hua Rong, knocked the horse's belly, gently avoided it, put away the bow in a hurry, took off the gun on the victory hook, and shot a few shots in a row, just like a dragon going out to sea, really like a python turning over, killing the bandit leader dazzling.

The leader of the bandits danced with a knife and shouted: "This is a good hand, the brothers fought him to the death!" Just as he was about to take the opportunity to retreat, Hua Rong twisted the gun, and with a bang, the cold light flashed, and the bandit leader only felt a cold heart, and the strength of his body leaked like water.

The world knows the name of Hua Rong "Xiao Li Guang", but ignores that gun, since he was born, how many strong opponents have he fought? How could you ever fold a little bit of majesty?

Only close brothers know that the word "silver gunner" is a waste of fame?

Lao Cao personally led the army to attack, and ran for more than 600 miles in two or three days.

Now the key to success or failure lies in whether he can lead out the main force in the city as he wishes, Hua Rong knows that he has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, how can he relax a little?

I saw this flower general, who is always elegant and smiling on weekdays, as if he was incarnated as an iron Shura who returned from the Nine Shadows, and a spear was made, but when I saw Zhou's body up and down, it was full of gun shadows, such as fluttering snow, like dancing pear blossoms, not only to the extreme, but also to the extreme, fast and beautiful, but also fierce to the extreme!

However, those horse bandits and Qianghu were also fierce, and when they saw that the leader was dead, they became more and more desperate, and they fought with all their strength with sabers, spears, flying hammers, and big axes in their hands.

Hua Rong saw that he attacked so fiercely, he didn't let a step at all, and with the strength in his hand, this gun was picked and hooked, as if it turned into dozens, and he blocked his attack with one shot, and then roared, and the gun exploded like a crack embankment, in all directions, stabbing more than ten people to dismount, for a while, there were no master war horses around him, and the rest of the bandits were frightened, and it was difficult to get close to him for a while.

Without waiting for the bandits to drive away the horses, Hua Rong put the gun across the saddle and took the bow and arrow in his hand like lightning, but listen-

Torrential ...... A series of violent sounds, eleven horse bandits, all dismounted, and when the companions looked at it, it was either the forehead or the throat, and the long arrow went several inches deep.

You must know that in the northwest, there are many famous archers, and it is not uncommon to be able to shoot seven or eight consecutive beads, so the bandits have seen Hua Rong's seven consecutive beads before, and they still rush to kill.

But this hand of eleven beads is really shocking! It is these horse bandits who have never taken their lives seriously, and at this moment, they have to be terrified when they see him with such guns and arrows!

It's not that the bandits lack of courage, but that as creatures of the world, the fear of death comes from the marrow of their bones.

It's like an animal facing such an apex predator.

Hua Rong retracted his bow, endured the soreness of his arm, snatched away the empty saddle war horse, and fought hard to kill again, the horse bandits screamed, and fled in pieces.

Shi Qian, Shi Bao, almost stunned in front of the city gate-

Didn't my brother teach him to lure the enemy into defeat?

How did he feel that he could kill this city alone?

Fortunately, at this time, the horse's hooves shook the ground, and in the Lanzhou city gate, more than 1,000 troops, wearing various colors of armor and leather robes, galloped out.

The defenders of Lanzhou have been dispatched for the most part so far.

When Hua Rong saw it, he laughed and shouted: "Hu Gou is nothing more than that!" ”

Riding the horse turned and walked away.

Those defenders, seeing his skills, and seeing the corpses all over the ground, did not dare to chase for a while.

But it was a Western Xia general who said angrily: "One person will come to spread wild, if he eats him and escapes, I will be laughed to death!" Besides, how much strength can he have left for such a fierce fight? All chase with me! ”

The group of Hu came to their senses, roared in unison, and chased after them like a tide.

Later generations have a poem, and Shan praises the good killing in the hands of Huarong—

Lianzhu Divine Arrow has been peerless, and there is no Wang Shunchen in the world.

The bow is full of Li Guangying, and the gun is full of Zhao Yun's soul.

The general is heroic and suppresses the dragon and tiger, and the strong man kills the ghost and god.

In order to repay the knowledge of life and death, who can be like a king?

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