It’s freezing cold and the ground is filled with thick fog.
Inside a low wall, several men with braided hair were drinking and having fun.
There were horses tied up in the yard. For some unknown reason, the horses were a little uneasy. A man with braided hair got up and calmed the horses for a while, but he still couldn't calm down the horses.
He cursed a few words in a low voice, then opened the wooden door and went out to check.
We were gone for a long time, and he was never seen back. There was no movement outside, and it was eerily calm.
The other people put down their wine bowls one after another, with expressions of surprise and uncertainty.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!” Several feather arrows struck, and the audience screamed in pain.
A man with braided hair suddenly jumped up from the ground and jumped into the house, followed by another person.
But the arrow flew too fast. As soon as he crossed the threshold, he was hit on the shoulder and staggered and fell in.
There were several people inside the house. When they heard the screams outside, they drew their bows and fired back.
But the attackers were very cunning, so they hid outside and shot arrows from time to time to prevent them from going out.
A tall man put on iron armor and kept saying something, as if he wanted to lead others to rush out together.
Several other people nodded repeatedly, and someone even found a wooden shield.
At this moment, there was only a "crash" noise, a huge hole was opened in the roof, and tiles and wood chips were scattered everywhere, making it difficult to open one's eyes.
Several more screams of pain were heard, and it turned out that someone was shooting an arrow downwards from the top. At such a close distance, the shot would go very deep into the flesh, even penetrating through the chest and abdomen.
There was a raging fire in the fodder house, and screams were heard from time to time. Everyone in the house was panicked and had no choice but to rush out.
As expected, there was another wave of arrows.
“Lequkan!” someone shouted.
"Hey, you're good to go!" A man wearing a turban, a walking bow on his waist, and a thick-backed machete in his hand got out of his way, and then slashed with the sword, and blood spurted out from the enemy's neck.
, fell to the ground helplessly.
“Wang Quan has killed the thief chieftain!” The crowd’s morale was greatly boosted, and the sound of bowstrings was heard continuously. Several people even jumped off the low wall, knocked the other two thieves to the ground, and tied them up tightly.
The reward for capturing someone alive is higher than beheading a head!
Wang Quan led the people forward quickly, and another person rushed out of the room, making a whooshing sound.
Wang Quan let go of the spear he was thrusting at him and brought the sword down with ease. The thief fell to the ground again.
"Watching the king commanding to kill the thief, I felt as if he was doing it with ease, as if the thief bumped into me on purpose." The battle soon ended. A man in a brown military uniform came forward, looked at the corpse lying on the ground, and said repeatedly
Praise.
"Captain Sun is joking." Wang Quan said angrily, slightly out of breath: "I've been active for so long, and I'm still out of breath. If ten years ago, a certain person would have put on heavy armor, he would have killed seven to seven in the group of Tubo thieves.
Come on. Time is not forgiving!"
"Leader of the team, Grandpa, another person was arrested from the bacon room and beheaded for eleven more levels. No one escaped." The person who spoke was very young, about sixteen or seventeen years old, and his accent was a bit strange, wasn't it?
Very standard.
“What’s your name, Grandpa? Ask Wang to command!” Wang Quan’s face dropped and he scolded.
"Obey, the king commands." Wang Jiao bowed his head and accepted the instruction.
"Today you climbed up to that hay house and set fire to it. You behaved in a manipulative and careless manner. If the thieves are calm, they only need to separate one or two people and shoot a few arrows. None of you boys will survive." Wang Quan's face was cold.
Shuang scolded: "When we were fighting with the thief in the fodder house, we were so close. He came with a spear and stabbed him. You also stabbed him with a spear? Did you forget to teach you how to throw the spear? When the battle comes, throw it out first to disturb the enemy, and then fight!"
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"Commander Wang, your son is very brave today, why should you criticize him harshly?" Captain Sun stepped forward and said with a smile: "When I went into battle for the first time, I was so flustered, my palms were sweating, and I couldn't hold my steps firmly. It must be my first time, sir.
It’s much better than it was back then, haha.”
"This is also for his own good." Wang Quan sighed: "I taught him so many things, and they all came to him from the battle formation. It would be really miserable. No one taught him, and everyone didn't understand. It all depended on enlightenment. Enlightenment was slow.
If you have bad luck, it means death. If you have bad luck, it means death."
Team Sun understood clearly. An army of economics usually has coaches at all levels, and many basic things can be learned directly. If the rebels in the uprising do not have official troops to join, or no local wealthy people to join, then what will they really do?
I don't even understand. All experience has to be learned from the dead. The price is too high.
“Let’s go, today we captured three people and beheaded them to the eleventh level. This outpost of the Tubo traitors is considered useless.” Captain Sun called on everyone to quickly count the loot and prepare to retreat.
“By the way, what does Lequkan mean?” Wang Quan suddenly asked.
“It means the leader of a hundred households in Tubo language.” Team leader Sun was also very envious as he spoke. Wang Quan was lucky enough to directly capture and kill the thieves.
Wang Quanda laughed when he heard this and said: "Now we have enough money to buy livestock, everything, and farm tools. In a few years, my second son will also have money to go to school."
"Commander Wang..." Captain Sun hesitated for a moment and saw the sergeants leading the Tibetan horses, so he took the time to ask: "Why don't you sell that armor to me? The Thief Chief is about the same size as me. Just right."
"This matter is not urgent. We will discuss it later when we get back." Wang Quan quickly peeled off the clothes and armor from the Tibetan "Lequkan", his movements were surprisingly skillful.
After a while, a group of people piled firewood inside and outside the sentry shop, lit a fire, and left in a hurry.
"Captain Sun, I have something unclear." On the way back, Wang Quan rode alongside Captain Sun and asked: "When Shang Yanxin returned to China, didn't he go to Xianhe, Wei, Min, Lan, Hui and other states? How come this place is still under Tubo rule?"
"Commander Wang, it is natural that Shang Yanxin has returned home. However, he has troops and territory. He is an envoy to Heweidu and is equivalent to a vassal town. How can the imperial orders reach all the states?" Captain Sun replied: "The Prince of Gaojun was so bold that he sent troops to seize Fenglin Pass. However, after Shang Yanxin died, the Tubo tribes rebelled again, so they had to withdraw. Jinhe, Wei, Min, Tao, Lan and other prefectures There are Tubo tribes entrenched here, and it is these tribes that the commander-in-chief wants to attack."
“Is this the case with Fu Fuling from Minzhou?”
"Of course." Leader Sun replied: "The Fufuling clan controls Min and Weizhou. It's not clear how big they are. In short, the Tubo people are nomadic, and their jurisdictions are not necessarily divided according to the territory of the country. Can you tell me the general location?”
“Then what is the origin of the Luma tribe we attacked?”
“The vassal tribe of Fufuling clan.” Captain Sun said.
The two of them walked and talked, and soon returned to the pasture of the Bai family in Huizhou.
The superiors set up many villages near the Zuli River. In addition to the pardoned prisoners from Chao, there were also Qianchao households recruited from the four counties of Yinzhou, and Wang Quan was one of them.
He originally rented land from a military farm in Kaiguang County, and his life was getting along well. When he heard that he could get a hectare of land for free in Huizhou, he was immediately moved. He understood what the commander meant, wasn't it just to immigrate to the border? Others Afraid, but he is not afraid! The blade of the knife has been licking blood for so many years, who is afraid of whom?
The greedy and aggressive elements in Wang Quan's blood were aroused, so he took the initiative to apply for the army. He took his wife and two children with him and traveled a long distance to Huizhou, where he was placed in the upper reaches of the Zuli River.
There were seventy or eighty households who came with him, and they were unified into one li. Because of his rich experience and reputation, Wang Quan was appointed as the village commander of the Tu Tuan.
The Dingyuan Army also sent a small number of guidance personnel here. For example, in today's sneak attack on the Tubo outpost, a team leader and three sergeants participated.
The reason why they were so rude to this tribe was also very simple. The Changqu tribe who had fled westward came back again. Their in-laws from Minzhou, Fu Fuling, agreed that they could continue to graze on the grasslands in the Min and Wei areas.
After the Bai family learned the news, they immediately reported it. The relationship between Huizhou and the Fu Fuling family deteriorated again. They took the money but broke their promise and did not do anything. As expected, the Fan people are still Fan people!
Therefore, since last month, the tribes and settlement villages in Huizhou and the Tang Dynasty have sent people south from time to time to attack the Tubo tribes, demolish the outposts, and rob cattle and sheep. Today's action is one of them.
After the group returned to the camp, they saw that there were several times more people here than usual, and there were even nearly a thousand cavalry. Sun and Wang looked at each other. Is this a high official coming?
The two men gave instructions to everyone to restrain themselves and not be too lawless. Then they took the prisoners and entered the camp after repeated inspections.
“Oh, the general who captured the living was so brave that he actually captured three Tibetan thieves and came back?” As soon as they entered the camp, they met a general who was fully clothed.
There were many soldiers surrounding the general. At this time, someone shouted: "General Yang, the envoy of the Xinquan Army, is here. Why don't you come to see him?"
“Meet Yang Jun Envoy.” Everyone saluted.
"A certain person was entrusted by the commander to lead 4,000 Xinquan troops south to Huizhou in order to conquer Tubo." Yang Yue looked at the crowd and said pleasantly: "He who can kill Tubo people is a good man. Not only does he not need to salute, but he also
There’s a reward!”
Wang Quan was overjoyed when he heard this. Now he was excited when he heard the word "reward", so he shouted: "Yang Jun made rewards and punishments clear, and he has the style of a famous general."
Yang Yue pointed at Wang Quan with a smile and said: "Bring the prisoner here, I will interrogate him personally."
Three prisoners were brought up quickly. They were all dressed in Tibetan attire, with their hair braided, and their hair could not be more pure.
“General, please spare my life, I have mercy on you.”
An aide in Yang Yue's tent who knew Tubo was about to step forward to ask, when someone among the prisoners suddenly shouted, and what he said was actually the Mandarin of the Tang Dynasty.
Wang Quan was about to leave, and his eyes nearly popped out when he saw this. Are they Han or Tibetan?