Chapter 154 A surprise in Xiguan overnight【Please vote】
Xiguan Border Town.
It's already getting bright.
The prefect Zhang Jun's face was gloomy. He had been sitting quietly in his study all night, during which he only fell asleep briefly.
He was worried about the champion who had left seclusion and his troops.
Zhang Jun also took charge of the military in his early years and knew how important it is for a country to have good generals.
The champion Hou Mingming has extremely high qualifications and a promising future, but he is eager to make achievements and leads 300 men to escape. Maybe he has some trump cards, but if he makes a slight mistake, everything will be lost. A wise man will not do this.
"Prefect Zhang, do you have any news?" Zhang Qian, who had not slept well, came in from outside the door early in the morning and asked.
Zhang Jun shook his head: "I have sent out many scout teams. There are not many roads to the northwest. I can always find clues. I should have news back soon."
Zhang Qian sat aside and sighed to comfort himself: "Actually, there is no need to worry too much. I have personally experienced the speed of the champion's march. The two battles he fought against the Huns were also real and tough battles, and they cannot be fake."
"Where is the champion?"
While Xu Jia was speaking, he took out a leather scroll from his body, unfolded it, and placed it carefully on the low mat in front of Zhang Jun.
The Qiang people's village was burned down, which was obviously caused by external force.
Zhang Jun and Zhang Qian remained silent.
Li Yanqing sneered: "I hope he can come back..."
In one night, the ancient Qiang tribe was actually destroyed?
"Is there any other news?"
However, we have been at war with the Xiongnu all year round, and the ones we are most closely guarded against are always the Xiongnu, so we have scouts who have been keeping an eye on the Xiutu King's tribe closest to us in the Western Xiongnu. The news came back that the Xiutu King's tribe also has soldiers and horses in the past few days.
After leaving camp, the destination has not yet been determined.
They discovered that dozens of miles away from Xiguan, at the edge of our usual inspection area, there were corpses of ancient Qiang and Huns cavalry, and there were quite a few of them, and there had obviously been battles."
I didn't expect it to be like this. It's better to be famous than to meet... If the champion is not careful in using his troops, big problems will occur sooner or later.
Zhang Jun shook his head: "Though the people I sent out have not yet found any trace of the champion.
Li Yanqing's eyes became slightly sharp: "Master Dong is still too gentle. If it were me, I would have to reprimand him face to face.
Zhang Qian snorted: "The battle in which he defeated the Xiongnu royal court was widely rumored to be unrivaled in his bravery. I estimate that even if the situation outside Xiguan is mixed and the enemy is outnumbered, at least his return will not be a problem."
"No Han troops were found, and the largest number of casualties were the Qiang tribe. The scouts carefully identified them and found that some of the people wearing the uniforms of our Han troops were actually Qiang people, not our Han troops.
The ancient Qiang tribe was one of the most powerful tribes outside Xiguan.
Xu Jia glanced at Li Yanqing and didn't recognize him. Seeing him sitting there, he didn't dare to call him casually.
Li Yanqing also frowned deeply, trying to analyze the news brought back by the scouts.
"He was only six years old at that time. You said how lawless he was."
Zhang Qian said: "The champion Hou Xingjun is not as fast as ordinary people. It is also very concealed.
Xu Jia's eyes suddenly glowed with a strange brilliance, and he said: "The champion is still outside and commanding the troops and has not returned. I obey the order of the champion and come back to deliver what I captured last night. There are a lot of things, and I really can't carry them."
They often team up with the Xiongnu to invade the border. If you want to choose the Qiang tribe that has the deepest hatred and the most hateful hatred against the Han people, the Ancient Qiang tribe will definitely be among them.
It’s not that easy for my opponents to get him into a tight trap. I’m just worried that there are few others but they are eager to make meritorious deeds and put themselves in danger.”
"Explore again and find out the situation as soon as possible."
"Only when the scouts stood on the high ground where the ancient Qiang tribe was located, they discovered that there were other fires going to the northwest.
Zhang Jun was talking to Zhang Qian when another old voice came from outside the door.
Zhang Qian was a little frightened when he heard this: This old man is so bold. He was the champion of the dynasty, the husband-in-law of the princess, and a good general of the country. I don’t know how the champion in those days offended this old Li family.
"No, no trace of the Champion has been found, but a team of scouts who went out to investigate came back.
"Not really."
When Zhang Jun saw Xu Jia from a distance, he had a feeling. Xu Jia seemed to be slightly different from before, but he couldn't tell exactly what it was.
Zhang Jun, Zhang Qian and Li Yanqing looked at each other.
The scouts investigated along the road and learned that every fire point was a Qiang tribe, extending all the way to the northwest. So far, four Qiang tribes, large and small, have been found, burned cleanly by fire, and the tribes were completely destroyed..."
"This is……"
The person who came in was Li Yanqing, the uncle of the current patriarch of the Li family in Longxi and a great scholar of the time.
"I received news from Chang'an. I learned that when Huo Qubing was in Chang'an, he also took the silk books inherited from my Li family into the military mansion. I want to see who gave him the courage to take away the items inherited from my Li family.
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Zhang Jun immediately ordered Xu Jia to come and see him.
"Where is the Champion? Why did you come back first?"
Li Yanqing's old but not cloudy eyes narrowed slightly: "With his character, if he encounters a truly strong enemy, he will be defeated once and all his previous pride will be stripped away... and he will be useless from now on!"
"He was able to defeat the Huns twice, all with a strong spirit. He may be a bit brave, but because he got a little advantage, he thinks he is a military saint?"
"Are you saying that even if the situation is dire, he can break through and come back?" Zhang Jun said.
Li Yanqing knocked on the ground with his crutch, sat down and continued:
"It's a lesson for him to leave Xiguan without permission. It's a pity that the soldiers he took out will be in trouble with him.
"Is it the champion who set fire to the Qiang camp?"
The reason why the Li family in Longxi is so prominent is that their family is flourishing and their invisible influence is everywhere.
Later, when Liu Che was older, he taught the clan children in Chang'an for a long time.
But the Xiongnu and the Western Qiang also have the art of marching. This is why the Qiang people can come and go like the wind. If they are trapped in a tight siege, it will not be so easy to escape."
Only the hatred against these foreigners is deep and deep!
Several people in the room kept asking questions.
The two of them looked at the door and saw a tall, thin old man wearing a brown brocade robe and Hanfu, walking slowly in with a cane in hand.
Where did the external force come from that was so fierce that it burned down the whole camp and destroyed many Qiang villages in one night?
Champion?
But with only a few hundred soldiers, even if he had hidden methods, could he defeat the ancient Qiang and other tribes that had been causing trouble to the Western Qiang for many years?
"I heard that he was coming to Xiguan... I drove over overnight. I knew that he would lose his temper and would go out arrogantly. As expected, I figured it out."
"What did the champion do last night?"
A quarter of an hour later, Xu Jia arrived at the mansion where Zhang Jun was located.
Zhang Jun said solemnly: "I thought before that our Han Dynasty had General Wei and the champion Hou Hengkong was born. In a few years, the champion Hou would truly grow up and become more proficient in military affairs. Our Han army would
There is hope that the border troubles will be completely eliminated.
"The champion didn't respect his teachers when he was a child. He had a perverse personality and said he didn't want to learn ancient methods. How could he be so unreasonable? Can he be higher than the sages and saints of the past generations?"
Zhang Jun, Zhang Qian, and Li Yanqing on the side also looked over: "Is this a marching map?"
In the past three years, I have encountered Xiongnu and Qiang people on the border so many times that I can no longer remember. How many of my teammates in the same team died in battles with Qiang people and Xiongnu soldiers. My memory has gradually become blurred. I dare not say more.
think.
The scout's face looked happy when he first started speaking, and he wanted to laugh out loud. After saying a few words, his voice became a little deeper.
Back then, I just said a few words to him, but he secretly dug a trap at the door of the classroom and even disguised himself, so he was able to hide it from me.
Zhang Jun said: "The champion Hou Bing is quick, I have heard about it.
"You do think highly of him. When he was young, I knew that he would hardly achieve great success in the future."
At least there are three or four thousand troops. I have issued an order to prevent the Xiongnu and Qiang people from coming to break through the pass."
Before he finished speaking, soldiers came in from outside in a hurry.
In the northwest corner of the Han territory, the Xiongnu, Qiang and Di tribes often colluded and separated their troops in order to disrupt the Han army's judgment and facilitate its actions.
Because the border army of more than 100 people who followed Huo Qubing on the expedition came back under the leadership of Colonel Xu Jia.
To be continued...