Chapter 178: Before the Battle
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After the winter, Qingzhou does not know whether it is too close to the perennially hot Western Regions, although it has snowed a few times, the grass is still green, and the climate is far from cold, forming an extremely strange scene.
The further this goes to the West, the more obvious it becomes.
The army of the Tang Dynasty stabilized the situation of Longyan City and attacked the two surrounding cities.
This time there was no siege, no shouting, the gate had already been opened, and the flattering chivalrous generals were eager to kneel on the ground and lick General Xu Qing's toes.
Of course, Xu Qing doesn't need this kind of person to kneel and lick, after the army enters the city, the soldiers of the chivalrous army are quite comfortable, and the generals have one who suffers less.
However, this crime is worth it, Sheng Jing has already sent news, except for a few people at the top of the army, it has not affected the official ladder below, but they have to be strictly interrogated, if it is confirmed that their innocence is only deceived by others, they will not be punished.
The crime of the chivalrous army in the past is called rebellion, even if it is a raid on the house, it is reasonable, and the magnanimity of the Tang Dynasty has been praised by the people of Qingzhou.
In fact, in the eyes of the real top-level figures of the Tang Dynasty, they no longer care about the so-called chivalrous army, they care about the results of the dialogue between the second prince Tang Qinian and the king of the border army, Shao Donghua.
For this reason, there was a fierce quarrel in the court, and in the end, Tang Yinlong's decision was beyond everyone's expectations, and he did not appoint any officials to help the second prince Tang Qinian.
I don't know if it's out of trust in Tang Qinian's ability, or if he doesn't have any confidence in the king of the border army for a long time.
There are three border passes in Qingzhou, namely Jiamu Pass and Shiqu Pass. Lingguan.
Among them, Shao Donghua, the king of the border army, lived in the middle of Jiamuguan all the year round, and his courtyard was not luxurious. But extremely spacious.
Today, he rarely sat on a solid wooden chair in the atrium without playing with an eagle and closed his eyes.
Shao Wuwu came to the uncle's side with a nervous expression, and his face could not hide his nervousness, so that the excessive sweat flowed on the pimples on his cheeks and there was a rustling pain.
"The end of the chivalrous army?"
"Yes. β
"How's Shengjing doing?"
His Majesty didn't make any moves, it seems that he trusts the second prince Tang Qinian very much. β
The burly Shao Donghua moved his body, propped up his chin with his hand, and said a little lazily: "Tang Qinian is indeed trustworthy, he beats the drum well." β
Shao Wuwu did not speak. Because he knew that the uncle was qualified to guide the country, but he didn't, he changed the topic and said, "Where is Nanzhou?"
"Don't worry about the border gate in Nanzhou, just let it be there. β
"What about the winter festival?"
"We can't let the Qingzhou border army be embarrassed, let the sons and daughters come out to greet them. β
Shao Wuwu's heart was extremely cold, Tang Qinian came to the border pass, if Shao Donghua didn't go to greet him in person, it would already be regarded as an expression of attitude. And listening to his current words, not only will he not go out to greet him, but he will also put on a big battle, which is undoubtedly a demonstration to the Tang Dynasty.
Shao Donghua raised his tiger eyes, looked at Shao Wuwu's trembling appearance, and asked, "Is Yudao back?"
"The young master has returned. β
"Is Shao Rong back?"
"On the way. β
"Sue sΓΉ Shaorong. You don't have to come back, go directly to the Holy See of the Western Regions to practice your hands. β
Shao Wuwu nodded, but he still couldn't help asking, "Winter Festival?"
"That's how the Winter Festival goes. β
Hearing the categorical answer, Shao Wuwu nodded heavily. Then he quickly retreated.
After Shao Donghua saw Shao Wuwu leave, he narrowed his eyes and looked at the furnishings in the hall. He laughed at himself at first, and finally locked his gaze on a white tiger skin.
The tiger skin hangs in the center of the hall, black and white, and the shape of the tiger head still exists, and the method of cutting the skin is a miracle.
This white tiger skin was given to him by the emperor back then, and he was once proud.
Maybe everyone in the world knows that the gentleman who played the sword smashed the wall of Wanlei with a mustard in his hand, and the barefoot monk broke the mountain into a Yonghe with one finger, but there must be someone in the world who remembers that Shao Donghua once resisted the death gate of ten thousand catties until there was no more enemy in that city!
The tiger skin was draped over his burly body by the emperor himself after that battle.
But he was still young at that time, and now he wants to come to the emperor to put on a tiger skin for him, which is very complicated.
Shao Donghua was a general of the Great Zhou Dynasty, followed many famous generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty when he was young, and later took refuge in the Tang Dynasty, swept the world with dust all the way, and never showed mercy to the old people of the Zhou Dynasty.
This may be an important reason why he can become one of the six kings, but it must also be an important reason for the emperor's suspicion.
After the death of the first emperor, he left a posthumous photo, and the world sighed that the emperor was wise and treated the old ministers who laid down the country, but he didn't know that Shao Donghua had received the secret decree of the first emperor.
The content of that secret decree was to let Shao Donghua return to Beijing to recuperate in his old age, and when Shao Donghua decided not to go back, he actually began to prepare.
After Tang Yinlong ascended the throne, he seemed to be completely unaware of this.
But how could he not know that the three passes in Qingzhou, the three passes in Nanzhou, almost the strongest soldiers and horses in the world are in Shao Donghua's hands, in Shao Donghua's opinion, Tang Yinlong is just jealous.
Since you are jealous of me, then I will be the one who makes everyone jealous.
Shao Donghua tore off the black and white tiger skin, threw it on the quaint floor, and laughed, laughing extremely madly.
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The winter festival in Qingzhou is not only a unique festival activity for the border army, even ordinary people's homes will also carry out ceremonies to pray for a stable day and the safety of their children.
In the final analysis, it is because Qingzhou is too poor, just looking at the current weather, snow in the sky, grass on the ground, it is very strange to know that this land is really not suitable for farming.
Grazing is even more unrealistic, because except for the plain, which occupies only one-fifth of Qingzhou, the terrain of other areas is best described as strange.
Therefore, Qingzhou has a sense of fear of winter since ancient times, and naturally formed the superstitious activity of winter festival.
The Qingzhou border army is definitely one of the people who live a comfortable life in Qingzhou, but because of habits, the winter festival has actually become the second largest festival in Qingzhou after the New Year, and it is naturally necessary to treat it ceremoniously.
When Tang Qinian led an army of 50,000 to set off. The lively preparations in the three border gates of Qingzhou have been quietly held.
It's just that someone with a heart will soon appear, and it seems that this year's winter festival is extremely grand. It's not a leap year, and I can't help but feel inexplicable.
Leap years have fewer days than normal years, so people think that the winter is naturally shorter, and the winter festival in the natural leap year is grander.
But this year is not a leap year, but far from the leap year specifications.
The 40,000 border troops from Shiquguan and Lingguan rushed to Jiamu Pass after preparations, but they were ordered to camp in a military state.
A few generals suddenly broke out in a cold sweat when they heard this order, because they also had their eyes and ears. I know what Qingzhou has been giving birth to these days.
But no one dared to stand up and question Shao Donghua.
Because Shao Donghua has ruled here for thirty years, he has never treated the generals badly.
In this way, 40,000 border troops were stationed outside Jiamu Pass, waiting for the start of the winter festival.
On the day of the winter festival, the sky ushered in snow again, and the tenacious weeds finally seemed to be unable to withstand the continuous decline in temperature, and began to turn yellow and dry up.
A cold wind blows from the plains. Blowing on the shiny armor of the border soldiers who solemnly attended the winter festival could not reveal a trace of chill.
The Qingzhou border army has always been trained by Shao Donghua himself, and he trained the army with heavy discipline.
Therefore, even though there were 60,000 people standing in a square formation outside Jiamu Pass, they could not hear the slightest noise, and could only hear the sound of 'whoosh, whoosh'.
Silence is sometimes solemnity.
The majestic Jiamuguan city wall is full of border soldiers standing in the wind, but full of energy. They silently looked at their ant-like comrades under the city wall, and felt very comfortable and enjoyed this solemnity.
As a result, the image in front of you seems to be still, and when viewed from a bird's eye view, it is terrifying.
This is the discipline of the Qingzhou border army!
Under the city walls. It was the altar of the sacrifice, and at this time, countless Qingzhou generals wore heavy armor and began to shuttle back and forth. Sacrificing to the heavens is a kind of sincerity.
It wasn't until there was thunder in the distance that the atmosphere in Jiamu Pass began to become strange.
People who live and grow up in the border army, no one can not hear the sound of horses' hooves.
Even if the hooves of horses are too numerous and uniform, and they thunder like thunder on the earth, people know that they are horses' hooves.
But they remained unmoved, just breathing a little faster.
A black line rose in the east of Jiamuguan, and as the degree gradually increased, the black line began to spread rapidly under the high slope of the plain, like a tide.
The Tang Dynasty Iron Rider is here!
The Qingzhou border army was still unmoved, because such a picture was not enough to shock them, and the only thing they had to do now was still to obey orders, even if the iron cavalry ran over them, as long as the superiors did not speak, they would not move like a bell, and let the waves crash on the shore.
In the end, the tide did not ruthlessly drown the border army, in fact, the number of the Tang Dynasty army brought by Tang Qinian was only half of the Qingzhou border army standing on the plain now.
The position where the Tang Dynasty army stopped was also very ingenious, but it was only a hundred zhang away from the range of the most long-range weapons at the border pass.
is like a reenactment under Longyan City, Tang Qinian is dressed in gorgeous clothes, and he walks out of the team under the advance of Luan Yu, accompanied by Zhang Xiaodao and Chen Yuxiang.
Luan Yu only walked a few dozen feet before stopping.
The indifferent Qingzhou border army did not react in the slightest, and did not seem to care about the army of the Tang Dynasty behind them, and did not pay attention to the noble second prince of the Tang Dynasty.
This scene fell in the eyes of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and they did not start to be angry like under the Dragon's Eye City, but their emotions were complicated to the extreme.
Tang Qinian sat silently in the middle of the luanyu and did not speak.
It's just that after seeing that the altar in the distance is full of all kinds of sumptuous offerings, he shows a heavy look.
His father wanted him to come to the Qingzhou border army to talk, but now it seems that the king of the border army does not want to talk at all.
Zhang Xiaodao rode the old green ox and looked at the solemn border scenery, disgust in his heart, and his eyes showed disdain.
What he hated was the man named Shao Donghua, and what he despised was the inaction of the Qingzhou border army after the Xia Army uprising.
Such an army does not belong to the army of the Tang Dynasty, so what is the use of it?
While Zhang Xiaodao was thinking like this, Tang Qinian was also thinking like this, but looking at the Qingzhou border army that completely ignored the Tang Dynasty iron cavalry on the plain, did they dare to enter it?
Presumably, even Wang Luohan will drown in the sea of people!
But at this time, Zhang Xiaodao said: "Your Highness, I want to go in and have a look." β