Chapter Seventy-Five: The World Is in Turmoil
In this way, it was more than half an hour of fighting, and countless Tubo soldiers had already surrounded the Jokhang Temple. Xuanqi www.biquge.info was not in a hurry, and while fighting, he retreated towards a wall. After getting to the wall, Xuan Qi attacked fiercely and forced back the three holy monks, and he took the opportunity to jump onto the wall.
On the streets outside the wall, there were Tubo soldiers everywhere, and in the shouting, someone had already discovered Xuanqi. With a roar, countless sharp arrows shot towards Xuan Qi. Xuan Qi didn't wait for the sharp arrow to die, he had already jumped into the group of Tubo soldiers on the street, and actually stepped on the top of the Tubo soldiers, heading towards the roof of the opposite house.
As a result, the bows and arrows of the Tubo soldiers lost their effect, and the streets were less than two or three zhang wide, and Xuan Qi had jumped on the roof of the opposite side of the house. On the roof, Xuan Qi did not hesitate at all, and rushed forward, and there was a sound of sharp arrows falling behind him.
After Xuan Qi jumped on the roof of the third house, the three holy monks who were chasing behind him went up to the roof and chased down from afar. Xuan Qi's feet got faster and faster, and soon disappeared into the city. The city wall several zhang high couldn't stop Xuanqi at all, and the Tubo soldiers on the city wall looked at a figure in amazement, like a god descending to earth, flying down the city wall in the night and disappearing.
Xuan Qi went out of the city to the south, and according to the previous agreement, he found Kunzan and his party in the mountains more than ten miles away. It wasn't until dawn that Xuan Qi lifted the sealed meridians for Kunzan and Sanji. After the discussion of the group, Kunzan and Sanchi decided to go to Nagqu, because Naqu had always been the base camp for supporting Kunzan. The group turned north, and finally arrived at Namtso after a dozen days, and hid on the island of Rondo in the lake, plotting the follow-up.
At this time, Xuanqi, who temporarily followed Kunzan and Sanji to the north, received several bad news and had to leave Tubo and go north instead. It turned out that just after the beginning of spring in the north, the 80,000 rebels in the northwest, who had fled to the Xiongnu, marched west along the Gobi and began to encroach on the countries of the Western Regions. Although the countries of the Western Regions have vast land, they all have a small number of people, and they cannot stop the 80,000 troops of the rebels in the northwest, and the twenty-four countries have been annexed to the six countries, and the front of the army is already approaching the Tianshan Mountains.
The Xiongnu in the north also sent 200,000 troops all the way south to confront the army of the Celestial Empire along the line of Sufang, Yanmen, and Datong. At the same time, the Bohai and Silla in the northeast jointly dispatched 25 troops, which were already approaching Liaodong.
In the territory of the Celestial Empire, Li Min, the king of Hong, rebelled, with an army of 100,000 troops, and the front of the army approached Hubei; Li Chun, the king of Yu, rebelled, and the army of 150,000 had already passed Luoyang; Li Ding, the king of Yue, rebelled and supported 70,000 troops; and Li Han, the king of Wu, rebelled and supported 50,000 troops. And the reason for all this is because the new emperor Li Zhe suddenly issued a holy decree to withdraw the military power of Li Hao, the king of Jin.
All of a sudden, the land of the Celestial Empire was full of wolf smoke, and the anti-kings everywhere, in addition to controlling their own fiefdoms, had begun to attack the capital. Xuanqi was very strange, so many princes rebelled at the same time, and the Xuanmen disciples he had sent to monitor before did not know the news in advance. Xuan Qi was also very puzzled, and he didn't know why Li Zhe suddenly issued such a holy decree, which caused the kings to oppose him. And whether the rest of the princes who have not yet rebelled will also join the ranks of rebellion is even more of a headache.
Xuan Qiyi didn't care too much about it, thinking of his mother Xia Xuejing, his wife Xia Lingshuang, and his son Qingqing, because he accompanied Xia Chongxiao to send Xia Xingyun's ashes back to Tianshan, it was very likely that he was still in Tianshan at the moment, and he was anxious. At this moment, Xuan Qicai doesn't care about any national affairs, only the safety of his family is what he values most.
Xuanqi rode all the way, directly through the northern part of Tibet, and entered the Tarim Basin. Heading north along the edge of the Tarim Basin, we finally reached the foot of the Tien Shan Mountains at the end of May.
Xuan Qi didn't dare to slack off, went up to the Tianshan Mountain overnight, and rushed to the Blue Flame Valley. The situation in front of him made Xuan Qi couldn't help but be stunned, only to see that the entire Blue Flame Valley had become a scorched earth, and the Northwest rebels really did not let go of the Blue Flame Valley, and had already razed the Blue Flame Valley to the ground. Xuan Qi quickly searched back and forth in the valley, but there was not a single corpse, and there was no trace of a fight.
Seeing such a scene, Xuan Qi secretly thought that the Blue Flame Valley should have all withdrawn from the Tianshan Mountains before the rebels came, but now he didn't know where it was. Xuan Qi relaxed slightly, and immediately went down the Tianshan Mountain and secretly infiltrated the City Lord's Mansion in Korla City. At this time, when the rebels attacked the city, the city lord had already opened the city and surrendered. The rebels did not bother the people of the city much, and still let the original city lord manage the city of Korla.
When the city lord saw Xuan Qi, although he was a little stunned, he was still quite enthusiastic, and answered all of Xuan Qi's questions one by one. Sure enough, before the rebels arrived, Xia Chongxiao had already taken all the disciples of the Blue Flame Valley of the Tianshan Mountains down the Tianshan Mountains and headed east. As for where the group has gone now, the city lord of Korla does not know.
After Xuan Qi left the City Lord's Mansion, he ate something casually in the city, prepared dry food and water, and went out of the city to the east. At this time, half of the countries in the Western Regions fell into the hands of the rebels, and the rebels grew from 80,000 to 150,000. Xuanqi went east all the way, but saw that the road was depressed and there were almost no pedestrians.
When I arrived at Jiayu Pass, I saw that the city gate was closed, and the city gate where people came and went in the past was empty. When the guards on the gate saw Xuan Qi approaching the city gate, they immediately shouted to stop, telling Xuan Qi to leave quickly and not pass by. Xuan Qi saw that although the officers and soldiers in the city were disrespectful, they strictly implemented the orders of the guards, but they were not annoyed, and immediately said their identity loudly to the city.
When the officers and soldiers guarding the city heard the identity of Xuan Qi, they were immediately startled, and they didn't dare to confirm it for a while, so they had to shout loudly towards the city gate. The city gate officer in the city gate tower heard the shouting, scolded and walked out, and when he heard the officers and soldiers explain the situation, he was also startled, but he didn't know Xuan Qi, and immediately hurriedly shouted at Xuan Qi outside the city, asking Xuan Qi to wait a while, and went to invite the guard of Jiayu Pass.
Xuan Qi knew that this was the duty of the city gate official, so he sat quietly on the horse and waited. Soon after, a head was exposed on the city wall, but it was the guard of Jiayuguan. This person Xuan Qi knew, it was a partial general named Xiong Hanqing when he led the army to quell the rebellion in the northwest, but now he has been promoted to the guard general of Jiayu Pass.
Xiong Hanqing saw Xuan Qi's appearance, and immediately shouted for the officers and soldiers to open the city gate, and he ran down the city wall on his feet and went to greet Xuan Qi in person. When the two met, there was a greeting for a while, and Xuan Qi followed Xiong Hanqing straight into the general's mansion. On the way, Xuan Qi asked if Xia Chongxiao and his party had passed through Jiayu Pass, Xiong Hanqing said that Xia Chongxiao and his party of more than 100 people had already left Jiayu Pass ten days ago and went east, and Xuan Qi was completely relieved.