Chapter 407. Raiding like fire
Zambu frowned, and then said fiercely: "It's just 20,000 war horses, since they dare to make the first move, I will kill them and wipe them out!" Hmph, that's no wonder I'm here! Looking at Duo Sang, he ordered: "You stay here for me, and I will lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to support Rouwolf Mountain!" "Zanbutai and the others received a report from before the loss of Rouwolf Mountain, so Zanbutai and the others didn't know that Rouwolf Mountain had actually been captured by the Yanyun Army.
Duo Sang said with some concern: "Although there are only 20,000 war horses, we can't be careless!" Zanbutai waved his hand, "I garrison Rouwolf Mountain with twice the strength, and it is impossible for the Yanyun army to break through!" No matter how powerful Yan Yunjun is, he is not an immortal! ”
Immediately, Zambutai rushed to the military camp, gathered 20,000 soldiers and horses, left Zhuoluo City, crossed the Luo River, and advanced to the Xishou Baotai Military Division in the east!
Unbeknownst to him, less than fifty miles away from the Luoluo River, there were defeated soldiers in front of him, all of whom were cavalry. Zanbuta was astonished and immediately ordered the defeated soldiers to be stopped and brought over. When the defeated soldiers saw Zambuthai, they knelt down and saluted: "Meet the general!" Immediately, an officer hurriedly said: "General, run away, Yanyun Cavalry is about to arrive!" The other defeated soldiers nodded their heads, all looking anxious.
Duo Sang couldn't help but be very annoyed when he heard the officer say that he wanted him to flee quickly, and then heard him say that Yan Yunjun was about to arrive, but he was shocked and said in disbelief: "What are you talking nonsense, how can Yan Yunjun appear here!" Then he remembered something and asked urgently, "You are Hanon's subordinates, why did you appear here?" What happened to Soft Wolf Mountain? ”
The officer looked frightened and said, "Soft Wolf Mountain has fallen!" ”
When Zambutai heard this, he changed color, and his heart became flustered and at a loss. Zambu came back to his senses and shouted angrily: "You are talking nonsense! Yan Yunjun is not an immortal, how could he capture Rouwolf Mountain so quickly! Then he frowned, looked up and down at the defeated soldiers in front of him, and said suspiciously: "Are you spies sent by Yanyun Army to disturb the hearts of our army!" As soon as these words came out, the soldiers around him immediately changed color, everyone held the handle of the scimitar, their eyes stared at those defeated soldiers, their expressions were very unkind, and those defeated soldiers were startled when they heard this, they shook their hands one after another, and scrambled to say that they were not spies, but Zamputai felt more and more that they were Yan Yun's spies, his eyes narrowed, and he shouted: "Come on, arrest them all for me!" ”
All the soldiers responded to the promise, rushed up, and arrested those defeated soldiers, everyone had a bad breath for Yan Yun in their hearts, and as soon as they caught them, they punched and kicked together, and they were ruthless, but these defeated soldiers were speechless, and they were beaten by their own people.
"What's that?" Someone suddenly pointed into the distance and shouted.
The Tibetan soldiers looked in the direction of his finger, and the Tibetan soldiers who were beating people stopped their violence and turned their heads to look into the distance. I saw a black line appear in the sky, and then the black line expanded rapidly, as if it had turned into a black torrent, and at the same time, there was a faint thunderous sound. The Tibetan soldiers were also experienced in battle, and immediately realized that it was the scene and sound of the cavalry rushing in, and they couldn't help but be surprised, because they only had a few thousand horsemen on the side of Rouwolf Mountain, and it was impossible for them to have such a scale and momentum.
Zanbuta's heart suddenly moved, his face changed, he realized that he was wrong to blame these defeated soldiers, they were indeed defeated soldiers, not Yan Yun's spies, what they just said was true! Zanbutai still didn't understand how the Rouwolf Mountain Military Village could be lost so quickly, but at this time, the situation was urgent, and he couldn't allow him to think about it, so he shouted loudly: "The whole army is arrayed, ready to fight!" When all the soldiers came back to their senses, they all realized the seriousness of the situation, and they couldn't help but get nervous and hurriedly lined up.
After a while, those cavalry came not far away and stopped, and sure enough, it was Yanyun War Cavalry! Nearly 20,000 war cavalry lined up there, as quiet as a forest, but containing infinite murderous aura, like a volcano that was accumulating energy and would erupt at any time. The Tubo army pursed their lips tightly, staring at the Yanyun army in front of them with wide eyes, their formation has been arranged, shield bearers, pikemen are outside, and crossbowmen are inside, just waiting for Yanyun to charge the battle!
Suddenly, Yan Yunjun moved, and Zanbu Tai's expression moved, and he shouted loudly: "Ready!" "The shield-bearer holds the shield in his hand, the pikeman holds the spear in his hand, the archer bends his bow and mounts his arrows, and the crossbowman winds his arrows and prepares them to fire.
However, the Yanyun War Cavalry did not rush towards the Tubo army, but bypassed from one side and rushed straight to the west.
Zambuta's face changed, and he exclaimed, "Not good! They're going to raid the city of Zolo! "Although there are still nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses in Zhuoluo City, but the soldiers and horses there are defenseless, Yan Yunjun suddenly appeared, there is a great possibility to break into the city in one fell swoop, if Zhuoluo City is lost, then the situation will be serious.
Zambu was so panicked that he immediately couldn't care about the formation, and led the army to chase after Yanyun's war horse. Yanyun cavalry ran wildly in front, Tubo soldiers chased behind, more than 2,000 cavalry ran in front, infantry ran behind, chaotic, and the gap between infantry cavalry was rapidly widened.
At this moment, the Yanyun War Horseman, who was running wildly in front, suddenly turned his head and rushed towards him, with iron hooves and smoke and dust. Seeing this, Zambu was shocked, and he suddenly realized that he had made a big mistake! However, it has come to this point, and it is impossible to re-array, so we can only meet it head-on!
In the blink of an eye, the two sides slammed into each other, and in an instant, the shouts and screams and the sound of weapons and slashing sounded into one, only to see the Tubo cavalry turn over on their backs, and the battle situation showed a one-sided scene at the beginning, in the flying cold light, the Tubo cavalry suffered heavy casualties! How could the Tubo cavalry be the opponent of the Yanyun War Cavalry, not to mention that the vanguard of these Yanyun War Cavalry was still the most elite Xuanjia Army in the Yanyun Army, and when the Tubo Cavalry met the Xuanjia Army, it was like encountering a tiger and wolf's deer and sheep, and there was no room for resistance at all, as if they were slaughtered, they were killed one by one and fell in a pool of blood!
In an instant. The two thousand Tubo cavalry were killed by the Yanyun cavalry, suffered heavy casualties, and were unable to form an army. Yan Yun's war cavalry did not make any stops, and continued to rush towards the Tubo infantry army in one go. The Tubo infantry army was originally going to catch up to help their own cavalry besiege Yanyun cavalry, but suddenly saw their own cavalry scattered, and the torrent of Yanyun war cavalry rushed head-on, and in a panic, they wanted to line up to resist, but where was the time!
I only heard a loud rumbling sound, and the surging iron hooves crashed into the middle of the Tubo infantry army, like a surge in a wheat field, and the Tubo infantry army fell one after another, not to mention resisting the charge of Yanyun's war horse, it was like a ball bottle hit by a bowling ball, and they fell to the ground one after another; Yanyun war cavalry was indomitable, iron hooves trampled, war horses collided, spears picked up enemies, horizontal knives raised blood rain, and the red-eyed Yanyun war cavalry was already killed, blood boiling, roaring like thunder.
In the blink of an eye, Yanyun cavalry swept past from the Tubo infantry army, only to see corpses all over the battlefield, and the Tubo soldiers who escaped the catastrophe were like frightened birds.
Zhan Jin Guole turned his horse's head and galloped back, and Yanyun Zhan Cavalry also followed the gallop back, and once again rushed towards the Tubo infantry army. When the Tibetan soldiers who had been killed to the point of losing their souls saw this scene, they were so frightened that they threw away their armor and ran in all directions, as if the scene had exploded.
Seeing this scene, Zhan Jin frowned, but did not let the cavalry chase and kill in all directions, but rushed straight to the west. The fleeing Tubo soldiers couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw those terrible Yanyun war horses rolling westward and chasing and killing them in the future, only to feel that they had just come back from the ghost gate; But Zanbutai looked at the back of Yanyun's war horse with a pale face, and muttered, "It's over!" It's all over! "Come back to your senses, quickly gather the remnants of the army and rush towards Zhuoluo City, hoping that it will be too late.
Dare to hurry slowly, and keep praying to the Buddha in his heart, praying that Duo Sang found Yan Yunjun in time and resisted Yan Yunjun.
In the evening, we finally arrived at the east bank of the Karagawa River. I saw the wolf smoke billowing in Zhuoluo City on the west bank! The hearts of the Tibetan soldiers couldn't help but sink to the bottom, panicked and didn't know what to do. Zanbu didn't dare to stay here, and quickly led the remnants of his army to defeat the general, crossed the Luo River from the upstream, and fled to the west, along the way met a lot of their own soldiers who escaped from Zhuoluo City, and only after asking did they know that the defenders in Zhuoluo City were defenseless, and were rushed into the city by Yanyun War Cavalry, and the defenders hurriedly counterattacked, but were destroyed by the Xuanjia Army, and the 20,000 defenders were defeated and scattered, and they escaped from the city one after another. After defeating the Tubo defenders, those tiger-wolf-like Yanyun war cavalry left one to occupy Zhuoluo City, while Zhan Jin led the main force to continue to rush forward.
Zampo no longer has the slightest idea of wanting to compete with Yan Yunjun, he just wants to flee back to China quickly, lead the remnants of the defeated army to run towards the Great Snow Mountain, all the grass and trees along the way, and pray in his heart: Buddha bless, Yan Yunjun must not go to the Great Snow Mountain! Buddha bless, Yan Yunjun must not go to the Snow Mountain!
The gaze turned to Xiliang Mansion. In the hall of the Xiliang Mansion Governor's Office, Li Tongren was warmly entertained as an envoy of Yanyun, singing and dancing in the middle of the hall, the table was full of wine and delicacies, all the party nobles and officials were all accompanying the wine, and everyone nodded with a smile on their faces, for fear of offending the distinguished envoy who represented the king of Yan.
After three rounds of drinking, Li Tongren put down his wine glass and said straight to the point: "This envoy is here to convey the kindness of King Yan!" King Yan said that the party and the Han people are all descendants of Yan and Huang, and King Yan will treat everyone equally, and there will be no prejudice! If everyone submits to King Yan, they will only live better! ”
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be moved, and to be honest, for all the people here, they didn't care so much about who rules them, but about whether they could continue to enjoy the glory and wealth they had already obtained. Yu Daochong put down his wine glass and smiled slightly, "King Yan is really as open-minded as the sea!" Looking at Li Tongren, "I just want to know, if we defect to King Yan, will we continue to enjoy the privileges enjoyed by our people?" ”
As soon as these words came out, the scene immediately became silent, and the eyes of all the members of the royal family and the nobles were fixed on Li Tongren. The dancing girls felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and the dance became a little unnatural, so they stopped dancing and consciously retreated, and the sound of music involuntarily turned silent.
Li Tongren smiled slightly, glanced at Dao Chong, and said, "If you are loyal to King Yan, you can naturally enjoy the same treatment as the people of Yanyun. As for the privileges you currently enjoy, as long as they are not contrary to the laws of Yanyun, they will be protected, and there is no problem! ”
The crowd whispered. A young nobleman couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean by that?" What does it mean not to violate the law of Yanyun, which ones do not violate the law of Yanyun, and which ones do not violate it? If it is violated, what is the king of Yan going to do, is he going to deprive us of our power? Everyone agreed, and a middle-aged nobleman said: "It's better for adults to explain these questions clearly, otherwise everyone has no bottom in their hearts!" ”
Dao Chong looked at Li Tongren and said with a smile: "Lord Li, you see that everyone is so concerned about these issues, please explain it in detail to Lord Li." ”
Li Tongren glanced at everyone with a smile and said, "I was going to explain it too, but I didn't expect everyone to be so anxious!" After a pause, he continued: "As I said just now, you can keep any rights that do not violate Yanyun's laws. These non-violating rights include the safety and dignity of your life and property and that of your family, and if anyone violates them, King Yan and his subordinate bureaucracy and Yanyun soldiers will seek justice for you; The property you own, no matter how small, is your own, your personal property, including gold, silver, jewelry, money deposits, etc. ”
The above is the right to be protected by the law of Yanyun. According to the law of Yanyun, no one is allowed to keep slaves, and the slave relationship formed due to debts must be resolved by legal means, and if the debtor is unable to repay the money, then he will be sentenced to punishment as punishment, but he cannot pay the debt. ......" When everyone heard this, there was a buzz of discussion, and most of them frowned, obviously very dissatisfied with this article.
Li Tongren looked at the expressions of the crowd and continued: "In addition, about the land," all the nobles stopped talking and looked at him with great concern. Li Tongren said: "The nobles no longer enjoy the agricultural tax incentives like before, and those who own 50 to 100 acres of land pay the same taxes as the people, that is, 10 taxes 1, 100 acres to 300 acres of land, 5 taxes 1, 300 acres to 500 acres, 4 taxes 1, 500 acres to 1,000 acres of three taxes and 1, 1,000 acres or more, two taxes and 1! "Most of these Western Xia nobles present have no less than 1,000 acres of grain fields and a large number of pastures under their previous names, according to Yan Yun's system, they all have to pay two taxes and one, which means that half of the year's income will be handed over to Yan Yun, which they can't accept at all.
There was a buzz of discussion at the scene, many people were sad, and many people showed anger. Li Tongren had a lot of time to spare, and he didn't seem to care much about the attitude of these nobles.
A nobleman said angrily: "King Yan is undoubtedly the same as a robber in doing this, since ancient times, I have never heard of the truth of two taxes and one tax!" Could it be that the nobles under the rule of King Yan are all two taxes and one tax? I don't believe it! How can King Yan do this, how can we be convinced, and how can this country be peaceful? All the nobles echoed each other, and they were all very excited.
Li Tongren waited for them to quiet down, glanced at them, and said lightly: "Under the rule of King Yan, the whole place is naturally the same. King Yan treats everyone equally, how can there be a reason to favor one over the other? When the nobles heard this, they couldn't help but be speechless, but they were still very unhappy in their hearts, and they only listened to Li Tongren continue: "The original nobles in the Central Plains, the Dashi clan, basically have no land, most of them have turned to business, and a considerable number of their families are richer than before. In fact, King Yan did this, not to get along with the nobles, but to force everyone to change the previous way of survival that relied on land and pastures, and to let everyone change from relying on land to relying on business. Why are you so attached to the land? Don't you see the big businessmen in Yanjing City today, Jia Jinche, thousands of cars, and thousands of mansions? Why don't you take out the land, or give it to the king of Yan, or sell it, and instead focus on business, so that you will immediately find a wider and richer world, why cling to those lands? ”
A few nobles felt that what Li Tongren said was reasonable, and they couldn't help but be a little moved, but the vast majority of the nobles didn't listen to Li Tongren's words, and only felt that Li Tongren cleverly said something for Yang Peng, that Yang Peng was a more vicious guy than the legendary Dong Zhuo, and he wanted to seize the land and pastures on which he relied to maintain his aristocratic status. The scene was silent, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.
Dao Chong frowned and said, "In this case, we can't accept it!" As he spoke, he looked at Li Tongren's face, wanting to see what kind of expression he revealed. Who knew that Li Tongren didn't care very much, and said with a smile: "How to choose, that's your business, naturally no one can force you!" Although the words were not forced, everyone felt a heavy pressure.
Dao Chong pondered for a moment and said, "If King Yan can remove the policy on land and slaves, we can still consider it!" The nobles nodded their heads in agreement.
Li Tongren smiled, shook his head and said, "This is impossible!" As I said earlier, King Yan treats everyone equally, which not only means that King Yan will not look down on any population, but also means that King Yan will not give privileges to anyone! ”
The nobles were disappointed, and a young nobleman shouted: "In this case, we can only fight with Yanyun to the end!" Many of the young nobles cried out in agreement, and for a moment the crowd was excited.
Li Tongren laughed, everyone was flustered by his laughter, and the shouting immediately fell silent, and the scene became silent. Li Tongren glanced at the nobles and said mockingly: "Don't you think it's ridiculous to threaten King Yan and Yan Yunjun with this set?" Before, the territory of Western Xia was complete, with more than 600,000 armor, but it was destroyed by Yanyun, tigers and wolves, and most of them were wiped out, occupying most of the rivers and mountains! What capital do you still have to compete with Yanyun now? If the Yanyun army really comes, how long can you live? Everyone couldn't help but change color, everyone was silent, even the few young nobles who didn't know the height of the sky were silent.
Li Tongren turned his head to look at Dao Chong, and said impatiently: "What I just said is the attitude of King Yan, there is no room for bargaining!" Whether you agree or not, give me a clear attitude so that I can go back to my life! "Dao Chong is in a dilemma, agree, unwilling to give up the many privileges of being a nobleman, and all the nobles present obviously will not accept it, don't agree, but I am afraid that Yan Yun will really be angry and the army will be pressurized, although it is inferred that the Yanyun army is short of food and grass, and it is difficult to march again in a short time, but when the Yan Yun army always has enough food and grass, at that time, the Yan Yun army will be overwhelmed, but how is it good!
Hurried footsteps suddenly came from the door, and everyone couldn't help but look towards the door, only to see a person who looked like a general rushing in with a panicked face. Coming to the middle of the main hall, he knelt down towards the road and said: "King, the Jisang wolf smoke in the southeast direction suddenly appeared, I don't know why!" "After retreating to Xiliang Mansion, he was authoritative and self-respecting, so he canonized himself as the king of Xiliang in the name of the emperor, and was in charge of military and political affairs.
Everyone present was very surprised when they heard the general's words, and the general Wei Ming Xiu Ge frowned and said, "Could it be that the Tubo people have come to attack us?" "Brother Hugh, the general of the Black Mountain Weifu Army Division of Western Xia, originally garrisoned the Ula Sea region, but under the attack of Yanyun's army, he lost his division and fled alone. On the same day, a group of remnants of their army retreated to Hue Fort, seeing that Yan Yun's army was huge and unstoppable, they fled from Hue Fort, but due to repeated losses and land, they did not dare to go south to Xingqing Mansion, but fled to the military division of Baima Qiang Town. Later, he fled to Xiliang Mansion along the oasis corridor through the military division of Baimaqiang Town, until he fled to Xiliang Mansion by Dao Chong and others, and he was canonized as the general of Xiliang Mansion. Brother Hugh swore allegiance to Dai De and became the most relied on general under Dao Chong.
After listening to Brother Hugh's words, everyone thought that it was the Tubo people who came to commit it, and they couldn't help but be angry, everyone was eager to try, shouting angrily, not at all like when they heard Yan Yunjun's name just now.
Dao Chong said coldly: "If the Tubo people dare to invade, we will let them go and have no return!" "He actually wanted to say just now: 'Since the Tibetans have broken their covenant and broken their promises, then don't blame us for being polite!' But when the words came to his lips, he suddenly thought that Yanyun's envoy Li Tongren was here, 'breaking the covenant' or something, didn't he mean that he had reached some secret agreement with Tubo? Such words could not be heard by him, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble, so when the words came to his lips, he quickly changed to another way.
Turning his head to Brother Hugh, he said, "General, you immediately go down to arrange the city defense, and at the same time send scouts to investigate the situation, and then send messengers to the side of the Great Snow Mountain to inquire about the situation." Brother Hugh said yes and ran down.
Dao Chong said to Li Tongren apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I didn't expect such an emergency to happen!" Li Tongren smiled slightly, and said indifferently: "It's nothing." Then he nodded his head towards the road and said: "Since the prime minister has something important to do, I won't bother the prime minister and leave." He still called Hu Dao Chong the prime minister, obviously unwilling to recognize the title of the self-proclaimed king of Xiliang.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.