Chapter 166: The tide of war turns, General Mask

Since Zhang patrolled Suiyang City, the equipment and armor battles have all captured the enemy. Whenever the soldiers retreated during the war, Zhang Xun always stood in front of the battle and said to the soldiers, "I will never leave this place, please go back and fight to the death for me and the enemy." ”

When the soldiers heard this, they did not dare to retreat, and they all fought to the death and defeated the rebels. Zhang Xun treats people with sincerity, has no hidden suspicions, responds to the enemy, constantly has strange schemes, orders are strict, rewards and punishments are trustworthy, and shares weal and woe with his subordinates, so his subordinates are all effective for him. When Zhang Hao, the envoy of Henan Jiedu, heard that Suiyang was in danger, the commander of the army traveled day and night, rushed to reinforcements, and also spread the message that the envoys of the neighboring Jiedu and the county (Note 1) were too guarded by Lu Qiuxiao, so that they would go together to relieve the siege and rescue the disaster. Lu Qiuxiao has always been arrogant, did not obey Zhang Hao's orders, and refused to send troops. By the time Zhang Hao arrived, Suiyang City had fallen for three days. Zhang Hao immediately summoned Lu Qiuxiao and killed him with a rod.

After the news came, the morale of the Tang army was greatly boosted, and the battles were extremely brave, and they were all victorious.

After An Qingxu learned of the situation, he immediately launched the Luoyang rebels, so that Yan Zhuang, the prime minister and the imperial historian, led the army, and joined forces with the rebel general Zhang Tongru to resist the official army, with a total of 150,000 cavalry.

On October 15 of the second year of Zhide, Wang Yu of Guangping led his troops to Quwo (Note 2). The Hui Khanate Ye Hu ordered his general Nose Shi Tu Pei Luo and others to lead troops to set up an ambush along Nanshan, and Guo Ziyi and others led their troops to meet the rebels at Xindian (Note 3), and the rebels lined up in the mountains, and Guo Ziyi led his troops to engage the rebels at the beginning of the battle. After the start of the battle, Guo Ziyi's troops were unfavorable, and the rebels took advantage of the victory to pursue and immediately rushed down the mountain.

The Uighur soldiers attacked the rear of the rebels from Nanshan and fired more than ten arrows in Huang Ai. The rebels exclaimed: "The Hui soldiers are coming!" The rebels were ambushed and routed on all fronts in an instant.

The Tang army and the Hui soldiers attacked on both sides, and the rebels were defeated, with casualties everywhere.

Yan Zhuang, Zhang Tongru and others abandoned Shaanxi County and fled eastward, Guangping Wang Yu and Guo Ziyi led their troops into Shaanxi, and Fugu Huaien and others divided their troops to pursue.

Yan Zhuang fled back to Luoyang first to tell An Qingxu. On October 16, An Qingxu led the remnants of the party to flee from Yuanmen, went to protect Hebei, and ordered Yan Zhuang to kill more than 30 people including Ge Shuhan and Cheng Qianli, who were captured by the imperial generals. Xu Yuan died in Yanshi.

What they didn't expect was that Qin Tianci and Gu Liang Naji had been waiting for Yan Zhuang in Luoyang City early. Finally, the day of the decisive battle has come.

Qin Tianci and Gu Liang Naji regretted that they couldn't come earlier, if they could have been one day earlier, they would have saved the lives of more than 30 famous generals of the Tang Army. It's just that Gu Liang Nayin is still in their hands, so they must be extremely careful.

Qin Tianci and Gu Liang Naji had tears in their eyes, looking at the corpses of these dead soldiers, and the bursts of blood flowed to their bodies one by one.

In this place of execution, the two of them looked at the blood all over the ground, their emotions were extremely complicated, Qin Tianci shouted, "Yan Zhuang thief! Get the hell out of here! ”

This place of execution is the inner location of the west gate of the eastern capital Luoyang City, and the name of this west gate is "Lijing Gate", and it is also the first important point for the Tang Dynasty army to prepare to attack Luoyang.

Yan Zhuang is to make an example of a hundred, if the Tang army dares to attack the city, the city will be broken and all the famous generals of the imperial army will be seen, and they will be afraid.

Qin Tianci's roar made three people walk out of the observation pavilion above the city wall of Lijingmen. In front was a majestic general wearing a suit of armor with a bronze mask like Shura on his face, and the two in the back were Yan Zhuang and Gu Liang Nayin. And Gu Liang Nayin was tied up with ropes all over her body, and a cotton cloth was stuffed in her mouth to prevent her from talking and biting her tongue to commit suicide.

Yan Zhuang said, "Bold and fanatical, I don't know whether I know how to live or dare to run here to be presumptuous." ”

Gu Liang Naji roared, "Okay, you are solemn, hurry up and let my sister go, what is coming at me." ”

Yan Zhuang heard Gu Liang Najib's roar and said with a smile, "Hahaha...... You are the young owner of Wanhualou, Guliang Naji? ”

Qin Tianci took out the Divine Soldier Chongyun Sword from behind his back, pointed at Yan Zhuang and shouted loudly, "Old thief, don't talk nonsense, come down quickly and die!" ”

Yan Zhuang hurriedly grabbed Gu Liang Nayin's neck with his hand and said loudly, "Which of you dares to come up?" I'll strangle her when she comes up! ”

The two of them didn't dare to move downstairs, but Yan Zhuang saw that the effect was very good, and continued to shout, "Throw away the weapons in your hands......"

Qin Tianci and Gu Liang Naji looked at each other, and then stared at the top of the Lijing Gate.

Yan Zhuang exerted a little harder, and Gu Liang Nayin looked very uncomfortable, and his face turned red. Gu Liang Naji said busily, "Stop......" said as he took the lead in throwing another Chongyun Sword at his feet, and then kicked it away a few feet away.

Qin Tianci saw that the eldest brother threw away the weapon, and he also threw it hard, throwing the Chongyun sword in his hand next to the position where the eldest brother threw the sword.

At this time, the general in front of Yan Zhuang jumped down from the city tower and jumped directly in front of Qin Tianci and Gu Liang Naji more than ten steps away. With such a high city tower and such a long distance, Qin Tianci and Gu Liang Naji were also shocked, this person is not an ordinary person.

The masked general said, "Let's go up together." ”

This person is so arrogant, but, why is the voice so familiar? Gu Liang Najib looked at the masked general with a very skeptical eye.

Obviously, the general was very angry by Gu Liang Najib, and pointed at him with his finger and said, "If you don't do it, then Lao Tzu will do it!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the general raised his fist and came.

It stands to reason that ordinary generals are experts in leading troops to fight, and they have their own set of commanding troops. The number of sets of knives, guns and sticks is completely different from that used by martial arts masters on the rivers and lakes. In the army, the emphasis is on killing the enemy to win, and it is best to be able to assassinate the enemy with one blow, and some methods are needed to save physical strength as much as possible. So, although the moves are simple and straightforward, they are very direct and brutal.

But the moves of people in the martial arts are different, and the martial arts routines pay attention to strengthening the body, which is a way to improve one's external boxing skills and internal cultivation. There are very few such simple and brutal moves, in other words, this kind of simple move will be cracked cleanly against people in the martial arts.

It was a move with different uses, if it was a simple martial arts competition, Qin Tianci and Gu Liang Naji really didn't take the general to heart. But this Shura-shaped bronze mask general knows that he is not an ordinary general when he puts it in the ability to fall from the sky, and this move is obviously the number of people in the martial arts, and he is not practicing killing skills on the battlefield, but martial arts boxing on the rivers and lakes.

Gu Liang Naji saw that the punch suddenly made by the general was mixed with a lot of internal force, and immediately understood that this person was a martial arts master, and in the blink of an eye, he launched a fist to dissolve the general's blow. This general is indeed not simple, although the first punch of this one was defused by Gu Liang Najib, he immediately turned his fist into a claw while being dissolved, clasped Gu Liang Najib's right hand, and let Gu Liang Naji pull away. At the same time, the right hand paw towards Gu Liang Najib's face, Gu Liang Najib deviated to the right, just dodging. But the general tore down with the trend, and Gu Liang Naji hurriedly made his left hand resist.

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Note 1: Qian County: Bo County, Anhui Province

Note 2: Quwo: east side of Lingbao, Henan

Note 3: New store: west side of Shaanxi County, Henan