The army went north from Baidao and crossed the entire Yinshan Mountains. Suddenly, the sky and the earth were vast.
Heavy snowflakes like goose feathers were falling from the eastern sky. The north wind was not strong, and a snowfield was in sight.
When the Youtun Guard army left the capital, they all had one person and two horses. In the battle of Baidaokou, Xue Yantuo's entire army was wiped out. Countless horse baggage was confiscated. The number of war horses was greatly supplemented. Fang Jun led 10,000 elites as the vanguard, with one person and three people.
Horse, Sturm und Drang.
Gao Kan followed closely behind him with his army's baggage.
The sky and the earth are vast, clouds appear in an instant, and snowflakes are as big as mats.
The war horses around him were galloping through the snow, and the sound of their hooves was drowned in the snow, leaving only a dull rumble.
Fang Jun galloped on his horse, and snowflakes hit him. Instead of feeling cold, he felt blood rushing in his chest, his whole body was hot, and his ambition was soaring!
When you were born in the peaceful years of later generations, how could you ever have such great ambitions and high spirits?
As long as we have to resist the barbarians, sweep the caves with thunder, and always wrap the corpses in horse leather, and bury the bones in the northern border, so what?
The ambition is to eat the meat of Huns when they are hungry, and they are laughing and talking about drinking the blood of Huns when they are thirsty!
Send the army northward and attack Dragon City.
Men should be like this!
The snowflakes are getting bigger and bigger, and the cold wind is getting biter.
Through the wind and snow, a fortified city stands faintly in the wilderness in front of you. Its figure is majestic and stands tall in the sky. Over there is Wuchuan Town!
The first fortified city in Northern Xinjiang, which is blocking the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, only needs to be captured. In the vast and vast moraine of Northern Xinjiang, there is no other city that can stop the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty. They gallop all the way north and attack Yudujun Mountain.
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This fortified city built by the Xianbei people was once one of the six towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty, helping the Northern Wei Dynasty resist the invasion of the northern Turks. However, after the decline of the Northern Wei Dynasty, all the Xianbei people withdrew to the south of the Yin Mountains, relying on the Chile River.
Relying on the natural moat of Yinshan Mountain, it was able to barely resist the Turks' southward invasion.
Wuchuan and other six towns all fell under the control of the Turks.
The forces of the Six Towns at that time gradually evolved into the Guanlong aristocratic group, and Wuchuan Town, as a key pass guarding the Yinshan Pass, was successively regarded by the Turks and Xueyantuo people as a key point blocking the Tang army from moving north.
In their eyes, Wuchuan Town is the first fortified city in Mobei, as solid as a rock and as solid as gold!
Even when Dadu led his army across the Baidao and headed south to the Chile River, there were still 20,000 Xue Yantuo soldiers who had been trained by the Han and were good at defending the city. No matter what the situation, they would stick to the city and tightly control the mountain passes.
Datang had any chance to make a fool of himself!
However, this city, which the Tiele people regarded as "never likely to fall", was no different from a pig shed or a chicken coop in Fang Jun's eyes.
"Keep moving forward without stopping. After arriving at Wuchuan Town, we will attack the city immediately without taking any rest. Within an hour, we will break into the city!"
On top of the war horse, Fang Jun issued an order.
The wind and snow gradually howled, covering up the dull sound of horse hooves, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish, and orders were conveyed down layer by layer.
All the soldiers cheered up and braced themselves, waiting for the coming first battle that no Tang army had ever set foot on Northern Xinjiang since Wei Gong Li Jing raided Yinshan Mountain!
As long as we win this battle and capture Wuchuan Town, it will be an incredible military achievement!
In Fang Jun's opinion, there has never been a city in this world that cannot be conquered.
An hour?
That would have to be the first attack on the city since the formation of the Youtun Guard army, so there must be a fault-tolerant situation...
*****
In Feng Shui, there is a term called "where the king's energy gathers" or "where the dragon's veins are located", which means that the Ksitigarbha's wind and energy are extremely "prosperous", and the land has outstanding people. The talents they produce are the pillars of the country, even emperors and generals.
Mutually.
Wuchuan Town is such a place where "the king's spirit gathers".
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, in order to protect Pingcheng, the capital, a series of military towns were established along the Great Wall, of which six were the most important, namely: Wuchuan Town, Woye Town, Huaishuo Town, Fuming Town, and Rouhuang Town, collectively known as the Northern Six Towns.
The town was later called the "Six Towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty" or the "Six Towns of Xianbei".
These six towns were important military towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty to resist the invasion of northern peoples. Most of the generals guarding them were noble relatives of the Tuoba family and virtuous ministers of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
In the 17th year of Taihe, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital from Pingcheng to Luoyang.
The southward shift of the political center caused the status of the six towns in the north to decline rapidly. At the same time, the control of the Northern Wei Dynasty over the six towns quickly weakened. After the central government's control over the six towns in the north weakened, the generals in the six towns began to prepare for action.
They form cliques and sects with each other, and compete with each other for power and profit, forming warlords of their own.
In this case, war is about to break out.
In the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Guangzheng of the Northern Wei Dynasty, an uprising first broke out in Woye Town. The war quickly spread, and the six towns in the north soon fell into the chaos of warlord separatism.
The war brought disaster to the people, but it also had a benefit, that is, the survival of the fittest! During this war, Yuwentai from Wuchuan Town and Gao Huan from Huairou Town gradually emerged and became the two most powerful separatist forces, quickly dominating the political situation of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Gao Huan and Yu Wentai are both heroes in the world, attacking each other, but neither can do anything to the other.
In the third year of Yongxi reign of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowu secretly fled to Guanzhong and attached himself to Yuwentai. Gao Huan established Yuan Shanjian as emperor, which was the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
The next year, Yuwentai poisoned Emperor Xiaowu and established Yuan Baoju as emperor, which was the Western Wei Dynasty.
The tyrannical Northern Wei Dynasty was divided into two separate regimes, the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty, by Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai...
There was a general named Yang Zhong under Yuwentai. He was burly, brave in battle, farsighted, and very strategic. He made great achievements in the war with the Eastern Wei Dynasty. He was deeply appreciated by Yuwentai and gradually became the most important general under Yuwentai.
The general was later named "Sui Duke" and "Sui". Does it sound familiar?
Yes, this man is Yang Jian's father.
Yu Wentai was a far-sighted politician and military strategist.
It can be said that the Sui Dynasty was able to unify the country entirely because of him.
Yuwentai established a brand new military system in the Western Wei Dynasty, the government military system...
That's right, the founder of the Tang Dynasty's invincible army system, which was so powerful in the world, was Yu Wentai.
At the top of the military system, there were eight generals of the Zhuguo Kingdom, known as the "Eight Pillar Kingdoms". At that time, these eight Zhuguo generals were: Yu Wentai, Yuan Xin, Li Hu, Li Bi, Dugu Xin, Zhao Gui, and Yu Jin
, Hou Mo Chen Chong.
Li Hu is Li Yuan's grandfather, and one of Duguxin's daughters married Yang Jian... After Yuwentai's death, the Yuwen family replaced the Tuoba family of the Western Wei Dynasty and established the Northern Zhou Dynasty. After Gao Huan's death in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, his son Gao Yang usurped the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.
He established the Northern Qi Dynasty, but was later destroyed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty. In the end, Yang Jian replaced Yu Wenyan, usurped the Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty, and unified the world.
The world is changing, capable people and strangers emerge in endlessly, and these heroes who come out of Wuchuan Town are stronger than the last. Yu Wentai created the military system to lay a solid foundation for hegemony in the world. Yang Jian usurped the Zhou Dynasty and established the Sui Dynasty to unify the country. Then Li Yuan and Li Shimin
This father and son established the Tang Dynasty and ushered in the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty.
Wuchuan Town is the place where the Guanlong nobles arose and the roots of the Sui and Tang dynasties. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the place where "the king's spirit gathers".
*****
Wuchuan Town.
On the high city wall, the guard Qi Bike pressed his sword on his waist and stared into the distance.
The snowflakes are like a mat, the north wind is howling, and the towering Yinshan Mountain in the distance is only a sparse outline.
The vast wilderness of wind and snow was filled with a strange sense of tranquility. The tranquility contained in this extreme hustle and bustle made Qibi Kele's heart full of uneasiness.
Da Dushu led tens of thousands of troops across the Baidao to Monan. Except for the non-stop message delivery for the first month, there has been no news for several days.
Tens of thousands of troops seemed to have disappeared...
The scouts heading to Monan have been setting off for three days. If nothing unexpected happens, they will be able to return this evening. Only then will we know what happened to the Monan army and why they cut off contact.
Qibi Kele was worried.
He knows how to be generous. His temperament is irritable, his ambition is great but his talent is sparse. If he is a bit meaner, he can be described as a loser.
Even with the help of Tumozhi and Tumidu, Qibi Kele still could not rest assured.
The Tang Dynasty is like a fierce tiger. When all his attention is on Goguryeo in the east, Xue Yantuo can bar his teeth behind him and take the opportunity to ask for some benefits. But if he really thinks that the tiger of the Tang Dynasty is completely contained by Goguryeo, Xue Yantuo
You can do whatever you want, but you will definitely suffer the tiger's backlash.
Will Dadu Shi understand this truth?
Qibinke Le doesn’t think so…
Looking up again at the southern mountains amid the wind and snow, Qibinkel planned to go down to the city and return to his residence, drink two kilograms of fine wine brought by merchants from the Southern Tang Dynasty, and wait for news from the scouts.
However, just as he turned around and was about to walk down the city wall, he suddenly felt a tremor under his feet.
Without any warning, the entire city wall began to tremble slightly...