July 25, 14th year of the Great Calendar (779).

Guo Ying led more than 100 people to ride out of Qingshi Ridge, cross the ancient city of Yinpan, and enter the boundary of Yuanzhou.

You Yi, in the army to choose Xiao Guo who is familiar with the mountains and rivers and springs, often with Feng, shop, Tuhe will hand over cards, day and night, outside the pavilion barrier, catch life and ask questions.

Strictly speaking, it is not a scout, but a patrol soldier who guards the safety of the city, the barracks, and the beacon, and the waiting horse is the real scout.

However, because of the mourning of the Northwest Pastoral Supervisor, the Dai Beilou Eunuch was destroyed during the Anshi Rebellion, and now the number of horses in the Tang Dynasty is no longer enough for the feudal town to organize a large number of cavalry troops, and it is the norm to use the rangers under his command as scouts in the northwest border town.

Most of the more than 100 cavalry led by Guo Ying were selected by Hao Ying and the three of them, led by Hao Ling, and the smaller half were the guards he brought from Chang'an, led by Li Feixun.

Of course, he doesn't have to come forward to investigate the enemy's situation, just assign one of the three game generals at will, but Guo Ying didn't want to sit still and give orders like a Confucian general, so he went out in person.

The reason is very simple, the soldiers in the army are all martial artists, and generals with martial spirit are also more likely to be accepted and recognized.

Although at this time, the civil and military families are not separated, and there are indeed many scribes who are in a town, but you see that in the late Tang Dynasty, there were several literati in the festival, and they were not all martial artists who licked blood on the tip of the knife?

Because most of the generals of the five dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty fought all the way up from the bottom, they didn't have any force, and they could only chant poems, who would serve you?

"It's cool ahead, right?"

Guo Ying rode his horse and walked in the middle of the team.

"Exactly!" Hao Jue's head was bowed.

"Splendid mountains and rivers, but unfortunately reduced to white land."

Guo Ying looked up to the sky and sighed: "I don't know what year and month it will be able to recover!" ”

Pingliang, since ancient times, is an important town that shields the three Qin and controls the five plains, and is the transportation and military key point of the Central Plains to the Western Regions and the eastern end of the northern route of the ancient Silk Road.

"The Unification of the Ming Dynasty" gives such an evaluation.

"The mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the Chinese ribbon is sashed. The water and soil are mixed in the west of the river, and the population is connected to the north. Outside Qiang Xia, the placket is cool in the west, and the throat is Lingwu. The left controls the five plains, and the right takes the Lan Hui. The yellow stream is in its north, and Kongtong blocks its south. It is important to control the west. Longshui circulation, around the river Wei. ”

Its military-strategic significance is self-evident.

If the tiger is calm and cool, half of the level is within the attack range, like the meat of the tiger's mouth; And if the army goes west and crosses Longshan, it can reach Longyou in two or three days, pointing at Lanzhou and shaking Hexi.

In addition, Pingliang is also known as the granary of Longdong, which has always been an important place for grain production and horse breeding in northwest Beijing before the Anshi Rebellion.

It can be said that this place is a treasure land, in Guo Ying's heart, it is the land of the Phi Island, which can be attacked, retreated and defended, if it is re-levied and sentenced to thousands of criminals, and ploughing and fighting, within three years, it can become a sharp blade, straight into the ribs of Tibet.

There are still hundreds of thousands of people in Hexi and Longyou, if they can recover one or two prefectures and counties, and then use them as the basis to train a new army, so as to control the enemy, the enemy will not be destroyed; Attacking the city with this, he will not conquer the city.

Why worry that Hexi can't be recovered, why worry about the siege of Anxi Northwest Courtyard?

Of course, the premise of all this is that the emperor and the ministers of the court and the central government are willing to make up their minds to add a town in Pingliang (referring to the military town, not the fang town).

Based on Guo Ying's judgment of Li Shi's "heavy vassal town and light damage to Tibet", it is difficult to reach the sky if this resolution is to be passed smoothly.

Fortunately, there are many henchmen of Yuan Zai in the middle of the court, and most of these people are deeply worried that Yuan Zai was killed in order to implement the policy of "recovering Yuanzhou, gradually opening up Longyou, and entering Anxi......

Now Pingliang is a white land, that is, idle fields, neither side has stationed troops here, and there are no households, it is not difficult to recover, the key is to see the attitude of the DPRK and China.

"Report ......"

Guo Ying was thinking about it, when a sudden shout came from a distance, and immediately, a horse galloped quickly.

"A few miles ahead, there are Tibetan soldiers and horses moving."

"How many?" Guo Ying grabbed the horse's head and asked in a deep voice.

"About 100 rides, it is estimated to be a hundred."

"Pig dog, good time." Hao Jue grinned, and then asked, "Can you see how many horses the other party has?" ”

"One man and one horse, most of them without armor."

"Most of these Tibetan tribesmen are attached to Tuyuhun, Nuthorn, and Dangxiang." Hao Yu snorted coldly, turned to Guo Ying and said: "These dogs, every autumn harvest season, go to our Jingzhou territory to burn fields and destroy grain, and kidnap farmers and sell them to the Tubo nobles. ”

"How?" Guo Ying glanced at Hao Yu lightly.

Hao Jue raised his chest and raised his head and said: "If it is Su Bi, Yang Tong cavalry, or elite archers and cheek scouts on the opposite side, then it is natural to have some consideration, and against these pigs and dogs, there is no need to pay attention to any art of war."

Give a certain fifty horsemen, and a certain custody will kill him. ”

"Vice General Hao is brave!" Guo Ying suddenly changed color when she heard this, and suddenly pressed the knife out of the sheath: "It's just that you think this will be the powerless scholar?" ”

Before he could finish speaking, he jumped out of his horse.

When Hao Ying heard this, he was shocked and ashamed, and when he saw Guo Ying's figure moving away, he hurriedly urged the horse to catch up.

In the film and television drama, Cao Cao once said, Yun Chang, I can feel the chill on your long knife for several miles, but the Tubo servant army on the opposite side does not have this terrifying perception, and when they found the Tang army rangers led by Guo Ying, there was no way to retreat.

Tubo here is leading the troops is Lequ Kan (100 households chief) Pu Re Gonglie, he is Yong Dongdai to support the background, with military merits step by step to do Le Qu Kan, knowing that there is still a glimmer of life, go will die, Pingliang is 200 miles away from the sand castle garrisoned by their own army, if the Tang army is chasing and killing, how to escape.

With a loud roar at the moment, he threw away the Gu Si knife in his hand, pulled out the big iron spear in the rope strap on his shoulder, and struggled to the east, stabbing at Guo Ying who was rushing in a clamping posture.

And the more than 20 Tibetan soldiers behind him saw the main general charging, and they also jumped on their horses to follow, shouting, waving the weapons in their hands, and joining the sequence of charging and killing.

However, those Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, and slave tribesmen, where did they have such courage, they came to capture the mouth, but they did not come to fight with the Tang army, so as soon as the battle began, they rushed to turn around and run.

With this escape, Puregunlie and his Tubo soldiers immediately fell into a situation of being attacked on their backs.

However, at this moment, Puregonglie didn't care about scolding the friendly army for turning into the wind, because in an instant, the two armies had already met each other in a short battle, and he also exchanged hands with Guo Ying.

The moment the lance and the spear collided, he felt an unstoppable force pass through the barrel of the spear to his arms, and his arms trembled slightly.

If it weren't for the fact that he had been in battle for a long time and knew some ways to unload his force, I am afraid that a reckless man who does not understand the skills would not even be able to hold the spear in his hand at this moment.

Who is this person?

Is it the general of the Don Army?

Such a thought suddenly flashed through Przegunlie's mind, but before this thought was finished, he saw that the Tang on the opposite side flipped his wrist and attacked again with a lance, and a cold glow came in an instant!

Although he was wearing almost life-size fish scale armor, he still didn't dare to slack off, he felt that if he was stabbed by that terrifying force, he was afraid that his sternum would break on the spot.

He hurriedly raised his gun to block, but the Tang general suddenly changed his move, and the long lance that stabbed out suddenly rose up, and immediately smashed down the top of Puregonglie's head, this powerful blow directly made him unavoidable, and he couldn't even fight with his life.

Because the lance is longer than the gun.

Purgegunlie had no choice but to raise his spear diagonally, gritting his teeth and flicking it hard, trying to swing the fatal blow away, but this idea was really a bit naïve......

"Khooth!"

After a loud bang, Purgegunlie felt that his right arm shook violently, and the spear in his hand flew out of his hand, and the Tang general's horse lance was unabated, and it slammed heavily on his left shoulder!

"Curry!"

A crisp sound came, and the shoulder blades of Puregunlie's entire left arm shattered instantly, half of his arm fell down softly, and the whole person fell off the horse with a cry of pain, and rolled to the ground in embarrassment.

And Guo Ying took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the horse caught up, and the lance in his hand pierced his waist and abdomen like a dragon out of a hole!

"Pss

The lance pierced through the armor, and blood splattered everywhere!

"Ahh

Prigergunlie let out a heart-rending scream and struggled to get to his feet, but in vain.

Immediately, Guo Ying picked up the corpse of Puregonglie with a long lance: "Kill them all, and leave no one." ”

And his brave performance of the enemy general also completely disintegrated the fighting spirit of the Tubo soldiers on the opposite side, but no one surrendered, and the Tubo military law was extremely strict, and the front team was often killed and the rear team was often killed in wartime.

In terms of the will to fight, it is definitely not inferior to the Tang Army.

However, it is only a battle of trapped beasts.

After the besieging Tang army rangers dispersed and Li Feixun led a volley of fire, the few remaining Tubo soldiers were also slaughtered, and their ears and braids were cut off by Tang soldiers in order to calculate military merits.

Hao Ying led his subordinates to chase him north, although he was not very old, he was also a veteran of the army for many years, and Guo Ying was not too worried about him.

And it is true that as Feng Heqing said, his person has the courage of ten thousand people, just now his two short spears flew up and down, as if entering a no-man's land, it did give Guo Ying a small shock.

Actually, what Guo Ying didn't know was.

In history, Hao Wei shook the West Tibet, and was crowned the king of Baoding County, he fought bravely and invincible, and the sound vibrated the court, and the means were fierce, so that the Tubo people were afraid of him like a god.

There are children crying in Tibet, and the name of the child is terrifying.

Even the later Tubo Zanpu De Songtsan ordered the whole country to reward those who were born with Hao Jue with equal gold.

This can be said to be the highest honor for a general.

Of course, Guo Ying doesn't know this, no wonder he has eyes and doesn't know gold and jade, there are too many famous generals in the Tang Dynasty, and Hao Ying is not very famous.