Raise your eyes to see the sun, but don't see Chang'an!

Hearing this, looking at the doll in front of him who was only thirteen years old, but holding a long soldier in a helmet and armor, the white-haired veteran burst into tears, and the same question appeared in almost everyone's heart.

Changan!

That is the greatest belief of all the Anxi troops who support the seat!

However, in fact, even Dadu Hu has no way to answer this question, why do you see the sun with your eyes and not see Chang'an!

Although it can boost morale, most of them can't change food, cloth, copper coins, and reinforcements......

And nearly fifty years of perseverance have exhausted the energy and physical strength of all Anxi veterans......

Although the general manager of Dadu Hu said that the reinforcements from Chang'an would come, the old lieutenant believed that all the Anxi veterans, including Dadu Hu, knew that the reinforcements from Chang'an would not come.

However, when Dadu Hu couldn't hold on anymore, the young man appeared.

At the age of sixteen, when he was severely wounded in the head and almost all of his robes were killed, he killed twelve Tubo cavalrymen in a row with a Mo knife, and forcibly scared dozens of young people from the Tubo cavalry away......

After the battle, he lost all his memories, but after losing his memories, the young man who woke up again injected new vitality into the Anxi army, which was already in its twilight years.

That is Guo Rong.

In fact, in the first three years of Guo Rong's stay in Qiuzi, Guo Rong did not make any efforts.

Words that have never been heard before, such as!

Knowledge that no one has ever known, the one under your feet is called the earth, the earth is round, and the sun is bigger than the earth!

One by one no one knows the skills, one sulfur, two nitrate, three charcoal, plus a little sugar Yin Wan!

A story that no one has ever heard, the one riding a white horse is not necessarily Taizong, it may also be Tang Seng!

Countless kinds of knowledge were spoken from Guo Rong's mouth, there were only 3,000 soldiers, no more than 20,000 people, no reinforcements, no food and grass, and a lonely city for thousands of miles......

Even if Guo Rong knows one sulfur, two nitrate, and three charcoal, it is a lonely city of Qiuzi, one has no sulfur, and the other has no nitrate, and as for charcoal, there is not even a tree within a radius of a hundred miles, so that the Tubo people need to mobilize and transport wood from hundreds of miles away to build siege equipment if they want to attack the city......

In the face of reality, everything seems so pale and powerless.

However, what Guo Rong didn't know was that everything he did was not useless, it was these inadvertent details.

Your name is unknown, but your deeds live on!

Guo Rong didn't know that his words helped the old soldiers of Qiuzi survive the most difficult period - faith was on the verge of collapse and the Tubo people were besieged for eighteen consecutive months.

In fact, hearing the words that came out of Guo Rong's mouth, Guo Xin and all the veterans of the Anxi Army had completely given up the idea of getting reinforcements from Chang'an.

The veterans of the Anxi Army have also set their mission as to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

The Tibetans withdrew, however, there were certain things that could not be resisted, such as age and the Uighurs.

Although they formed an alliance, neither Guo Xin nor the veterans of the Anxi army had ever believed in the Uighurs, but the support and materials behind the Uighurs were indeed the key to the Anxi army's ability to hold out in Qiuzi.

When Guo Xin and the Anxi pawns felt the attitude of the Uighurs towards them, and gradually developed the idea of annexation from support and use, they understood their fate, and I am afraid that this is the end of it.

Think about the scene of the young man who sent Guo Rong's leadership in the past, and then look at the city at this moment, those Tang elites who are in the prime of life, strong and strong, and do not squint, the old captain has a dreamy feeling.

The old lieutenant couldn't describe his feelings on the day the elite Tang army appeared outside Qiuzi City, but he could never forget the scene of that day.

It was a snowy day, and three thousand elite cavalrymen with one man and two horses appeared under the city of Qiuzi without warning.

Under normal circumstances, the cavalry besieges the city, the foot soldiers follow up, the baggage arrives, and when the cannon fodder arrives, it is the day when the Tubo people attack, and the veterans of the Anxi army know this very well.

Armor, bow, crossbow...... When the white-headed old soldier with snow on his head and body made all the preparations for battle as quickly as possible, but at this moment.

A huge "Tang" flag suddenly appeared in front of all the veterans, accompanied by the "Tang" flag, as well as the Chang'an sound of the word "round".

"We are from Datang, we are from Chang'an, we are ordered to come to reinforce Anxi and defend Qiuzi ......"

Seeing the "Tang" flag waving under Qiuzi City, and hearing the familiar and unfamiliar Chang'an sound, all the Anxi pawns made the same reaction at the same time:

They are rubbing their eyes, they are repeatedly plucking their ears, they can't believe what they see, they can't believe what they hear, they are afraid that in the next second, the "Tang" flag in front of them will disappear......

Yes, the old soldiers did not dream, and these people were not the vanguard of the Uighur siege army, they were the Tang army from Chang'an, they were selected from the 100,000 Shence army, the most elite 3,000 Shence army.

In the past, how far the team of young men led by Guo Rong could go could only depend on their lives, but Guo Xin and the old men really didn't expect that Guo Rong really went to Chang'an and really brought them reinforcements from Chang'an.

The veterans of the Anxi Army did not know the origin of the Shence Army, but after confirming that the people under the city were really from the Tang Dynasty and the reinforcements from Chang'an, these white-haired veterans who were over half a hundred years old burst into tears and cried bitterly on their backs.

Originally, they thought that Datang had forgotten their existence.

Originally, they thought that they would never see reinforcements from Chang'an.

Originally, they thought that they could only see the sun when they looked up in this life, but they could not see Chang'an.

Three thousand people may not be too much, this is the first time in fifty years since the Anshi Rebellion and the eastward transfer of the main forces of the Anxi and Beiting armies to the east, that reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty have come to Qiuzi and Anxi, which means that the Tang Dynasty has not forgotten them!

At this moment, they know that their own efforts together and all perseverance are valuable, maybe no one will know, and they will become a brick and tile that will recast the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

With the revival of the Tang Dynasty, their exploits will live forever!

For the repeated verification of the Guizi Anxi Army, instead of opening the door to greet it, the Shence Army, which was exhausted after a real six-month arduous journey, was more or less complaining.

Starting from Chang'an, from Fengzhou, through the desert, into Mobei, from Mobei to the west through the desert, Gobi, and grassland, evaded the tense Uighur forces of the two sides, crossed the territory of the Qarluqs, broke through the barrier of the Tubo army, crossed the Tianshan Mountains, and went south along the ancient river road, and it took them a full six months to finally arrive at the city of Qiuci.

Although they had been rebellious, no one knew what kind of suffering they had gone through except themselves.

However, but everything was checked and completed, when the gates of the city of Qiuzi were opened:

When they saw the pulsatilla in their eyes, they were moved!

Seeing the white-haired pawns crying all over the city, they were ashamed!

Seeing the little dolls scattered among the white-haired old men who were only twelve or thirteen years old, but wearing helmets and armor, holding sharp blades and sticking to the lonely city, with green faces but resolute expressions, their hearts were like knives!

Seeing the old soldiers who were over half a hundred years old, with all white beards, old faces, and skinny bones, but still wearing stubbornness, iron bones, unswerving, and guarding the lonely city, they knew that they were wrong.

Looking at the dilapidated lonely city in front of them, they remembered the five-character poem that came out of Guo Rong's mouth before they set out on the expedition.

The city is full of gray hair, and he doesn't lose his knife when he dies.

After 50 years of independent resistance, how dare you forget Datang.

A lonely city for thousands of miles, full of white-haired soldiers.

He was born in the Han family, and he died in the Tang Dynasty.

The grid is really bad, and the battle is not neat at all, but at this moment they can read these white-haired soldiers of Anxi.

There are no reinforcements outside, no food and grass inside, strong enemies are around, and evil friends are neighbors......

In this case, they held out for fifty years!

That's not five years, not ten years, it's fifty years!

How many more fifty years can there be in life!

There are clouds in poetry, fifteen from the army, eighty from the beginning, and they ......

They left their lives in Qiuzi, they left their lives in the Western Regions, and they used their lives to stick to the last glory of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions.

In the face of these loyalty and perseverance forged over the past fifty years, everything that I have experienced in these past rebellions is not worth mentioning.

In fact, until now, the old lieutenant even thinks that he is still dreaming, and Guo Xin and the three thousand white-haired soldiers also have this feeling of dreaming.

Compared with ordinary veterans of the Anxi Army, most of the Anxi Metropolitan Protector Guo Xin and the only remaining military academies in the Anxi Army can see more things.

Dezong sent people to "travel a long way" to the Western Regions, and dictated a reward: All officers and soldiers and generals will be promoted to seven levels in a row!

However, the Anxi soldiers who have been boiled from youth to middle age, do they really want this honor? Of course, glory is wanted, but what they want more is the reinforcements of the Tang Dynasty!

And the reinforcements of the Tang Dynasty, Dezong can't give it!

Compared with the unprecedented reward in the Dezong era, this time Emperor Taishang Li Yu and Emperor Li Chun did not mention a word of reward, but they sent the elite of the three thousand Tang elites.

This team, called the Shence Army, was all young and middle-aged between 20 and 25 years old, and they were physically strong, skilled in battle, brave in battle, experienced, skilled in archers and horses, and strict in military discipline.

The officers of the Shence Army who led the team clearly said that they had participated in the rebellion and were deeply sinful, and they came to Qiuzi and Anxi to guard the border and atone for their sins.

Guo Xin knows that this is true, but no matter what era such a soldier and horse is, it is the elite of the elite and the trump card of the trump card.

Guo Xin believes that even if the Anxi army in his hands is young, it is definitely not the opponent of this army of soldiers and horses, 3,000 people against 3,000 people, his Anxi army will be absolutely annihilated, and the other party can at least 40% remain.

Moreover, when this support army arrived, it also brought news about Datang, and of course Guo Rong was indispensable.

The rebellion of the eunuchs was suppressed and played a central role, leading thousands of miscellaneous soldiers to resist the attack of tens of thousands of elites, and it was Guo Rong who was called "Little Guozi" in their mouth who held the Xingqing Palace.

……

Xungui was cleaned up......

Guo Rong got married......

Guo Rong organized and trained a new army......

Guo Rong became the number one celebrity in front of the Emperor......

……

And the last news they knew before they set off made Guo Xin and the Anxi army extremely excited.

When they set out on the expedition, there was an unprecedented battle between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo in Longxi, Longnan, and Jiannan, and the combined number of soldiers and horses on both sides would probably exceed 600,000.

In a corner of the war, Guo Rong led the newly formed Changying Army to win a complete victory in Jingyuan, recovering Xiaoguan and Longxi, completely stabilizing the Longshan defense line and making Guanzhong as stable as Mount Tai.

The Shence army did not bring more news, but with the understanding of Guo Rong's character, if it was possible, with the advantage, Guo Rong would likely lead the army to raid Longnan.

Although he knew that Guo Rong would not be able to penetrate Hexi and return to Anxi with just one soldier and horse, this still brought infinite hope to Guo Xin and the Anxi soldiers in the entire Qiuzi City.

In this context, the Emperor Taishang tried his best to send the three thousand elite Shence troops to Qiuzi, and the implicit meaning was enough to make Guo Xin excited.

As for the Shence Army's claim to have come to atone for their sins, Guo Xin didn't care.

People are not sages, who can be without fault, know mistakes can be changed, and good is great, not to mention that what we have to do now is to stick to Qiuzi.

As the last nail of Datang in the Western Regions, he is nailed to the Western Regions, as long as it is his task to keep Datang's bottom line, he will not care who comes, even if it is a demon, he doesn't mind.

The most important thing is that with these 3,000 elites, Qiuzi can hold on for another twenty years, twenty years, Guo Xin believes that twenty years can definitely revive Datang, even if he can't see it, although he has no regrets in death.

In the face of the 3,000 reinforcements who entered Qiuzi, under the will of acting cheaply, Guo Xin directly incorporated the 3,000 Shence Army into the Anxi Army, and taught them by the veterans of the Anxi Army, so that these new elites could understand as soon as possible what a lonely city was.

At this moment, in the face of the child soldiers who had just picked up arms and became a member of the Anxi Army, the old lieutenant smiled.

"Stinky boy, don't worry, Chang'an is not far away, maybe I can't see it, but when you grow up, you will definitely be able to see Chang'an!"

"Oh, when I'm older," the white-haired old lieutenant was in his memory, when the child soldier next to him suddenly spoke.

"Captain, look!"

The voice of the child soldier woke up the old lieutenant in his memory, and the old lieutenant looked into the distance following the gaze of the child soldier, and a caravan gradually entered the eyes of the old lieutenant.

Caravan, this thing is too familiar to the old captain, as the main line of the Silk Road, the caravan is really not too much, however, when the old captain saw the banner at the front of the entire caravan, he was directly stunned.

"Captain, isn't that a Tang character!"

Hearing what the child soldier said was the same as what he had seen, a strange excitement rose in the old captain's heart again.

If I am not mistaken, this should be the first time in the past 20 years that someone has walked on this caravan on the silk trade road in Hexi under the banner of Datang.

Without any hesitation, the old lieutenant immediately put away his memories, and his eyes became sharp again.

"Zhao Chuanxue!"

"In!"

"Take a team of cavalry out of the city, check carefully, see who they are, where they come from, where they are going, and why are they flying the banner of my Datang?"

Zhao Chuanxue, who received the order, just turned around and was immediately stopped.

"Forget it, don't ask, just do a routine inspection, if there is no problem, let them enter the city, and I will ask in person after entering the city."

"Obey!"

The old lieutenant's order was given, and the sturdy military academy beside him, about thirty years old, was immediately ordered to leave, and in less than half an hour, the gate of Qiuzi was opened, and a group of heavily armed cavalry rushed out of the gate and headed straight for the caravan.

Standing on top of the city and looking at the cavalry rushing out of the city gate, the old lieutenant was deeply relieved.

The current Anxi army was not a year ago, and before the arrival of these 3,000 elites, in order to prevent the Tubo or Uighurs from pretending to pose a threat to Qiuzi, even if it was a caravan, it would not go out of the city to inspect so aggressively.

And now, with 3,000 elites in the prime of life joining, the Anxi army is now very confident.

Anxi veteran, the elite of the gods, and after adding a small number of baby soldiers, the strength of the Qiuzi defenders has skyrocketed from less than 3,000 to more than 6,000, and they are no longer afraid of hand-to-hand combat.

Moreover, the three thousand elite gods brought more than six thousand war horses to Qiuzi, and the number of war horses made all the Anxi veterans, including Guo Xin, extremely hot.

However, everyone knew very well that the small city of Qiuzi could not afford to raise a full 6,000 war horses, which was enough to consume the small stock of grain since the Uighur Civil War in a short period of time.

After careful calculation, the replenished Anxi army kept a thousand horses in the best condition, and the rest were traded through the incoming caravans in exchange for food and various supplies that were in short supply.

For the replenished Anxi Army, a thousand cavalry is enough, enough to become the killer weapon of the Anxi Army now.

Heavy infantry, crossbowmen, Mo sword formation, plus light cavalry and more than 100 mounted cavalry, if the Tubo people dare to come now, there is no need for Guo Xin to order, and the old man dares to say that the Tubo people can come and go.

It's a pity that since the arrival of reinforcements last year, the Tibetans have never come to attack again.

It's just that the reason is very clear to the old lieutenant, although the Shence army did not bring a follow-up battle report at the beginning, but the civil strife in Tubo, the great victory of the Tang army in Longxi and Longnan, and the news of the unequal treaty forced to sign in Tubo were unknowingly transmitted to Qiuzi by the caravan.

The side effect of this news was that more and more caravans passed through the isolated city of Qiuci, and these caravans became more and more respectful and restrained, and Qiuci finally relied on the Uighurs through these caravans.

The current Tubo people simply do not have the ability and capital to besiege themselves.

With the arrival of the cavalry after leaving the city, this caravan of no small scale honestly stopped on the official road about two miles away from Qiuzi City.

The cavalry leaving the city began to carry out the inspection, and when it was determined that there were no prohibited items, Zhao Chuanxue sent people back to Qiuci and informed the old lieutenant of the situation, and then the caravan was allowed to enter the city.

As the caravan entered the city, the old lieutenant, who had been on duty for the day, left the city.

However, he was disappointed when he saw the leader of the caravan.

The "Tang" banner may be true, but the leader of the caravan led by him is a guy with fair skin, blue eyes, slightly fat, and slightly frosty sideburns, which is obviously the characteristic of the surname Zhaowu Jiu.

Seeing that this person was from the surname Zhaowu Jiu, the old lieutenant also lost interest in asking.

These guys surnamed Zhaowu Jiu have always admired Datang, and now Datang is strong, and hanging a Datang flag is also in line with their style.

As for the caravan, there are many people with obvious Tang characteristics, and the old lieutenant is not surprised, after all, Hexi has fallen and is forced to wander, and there are too many Tang people running around.

However, just as the old lieutenant was about to leave, the guy from Zhaowu Jiu, who seemed to be the leader of the caravan, saw the old lieutenant's outfit and took the initiative to get to the old lieutenant's side.

To tell the truth, the old lieutenant was disgusted with these greedy guys with the surname Zhaowujiu.

However, it is precisely because of these greedy guys that he and the Anxi army can survive in this land in the Western Regions, otherwise the Anxi army may not be able to hold on to it with the support of the unreliable Uighurs.

So the old lieutenant didn't turn around and leave directly, but waited quietly in place, and then he heard the other party say in a standard Chang'an accent.

"This general, in Xia Andaxian, led a caravan from Chang'an, I wonder if I have a chance to visit Daduhu?"

"You want to see Daduhu? What do you want to say, you can tell me. I can convey the Metropolitan Protector! ”