Chapter 754 The legacy of the past and the new era
Author: Middle-aged paper tiger
Chapter 754 The legacy of the past and the new era
Zhao Zaili was really unlucky. Who would have thought that in this small fort along the river, there would be an old Wei Boya soldier.
To be precise, the old blind man and Zhao Zaili had a dispute.
In the past, when Wei Boya's troops rebelled against Li Cunxu, Zhao Zaili wanted to run over the wall, but Huangfuhui, the tooth general, found him, grabbed his heels and pulled him off the wall, forcing them to rebel together. The old blind man stood beside Huangfu
Hui's side.
The old blind man not only knew Zhao Zaili, but also knew the group of Wei Boya soldiers whom Zhao Zaili had taken as his confidants.
These Wei Bo silver guns who wanted to seize the border and burn down the Baimadu pontoon were all left behind. No matter how secretive they were, they were still recognized by the old blind man at once.
As the smoke from the fort along the river rose, dozens of Huazhou Central Guardsmen guarding the Baimadu pontoon immediately, under the command of the team leader, dragged over the various prepared resistance horses, lit the smoke, and at the same time,
A large number of traveling merchants were evacuated from the ferry.
The smoke spread very quickly. Within a quarter of an hour at most, the big bell at the Point Military Platform in the Huazhou Zhongwei Camp in the east of Huazhou City began to ring loudly.
Kangjiabao (pu) is the closest village to Yanhebao, and it is also the most bullied village nearby.
Because this is not a village where the Kang family of the Han people live, but a village where the Kang family of the Sogdians live, and it is somewhat related to Kang Fu, who was kind to Zhang Yan.
If a modern person saw this village at this time, he would be stunned.
Because most of the women coming and going in this village are blond and blue-eyed, but they wear very Chinese-style coats and skirts and speak fluent Huaxian dialect.
How can I say this costume? It looked quite strange in later generations, but in the Tang Dynasty and even the Five Dynasties, it seemed so appropriate.
At this moment, after seeing the smoke from the fort along the river, the elder of the Kang family fort, who was also the clan leader of the Kang family, immediately picked up a gong and started to sound it, while he was beating it, he was shouting, "Kill the thief!"
!Kill the thief!"
Upon hearing the sound of gongs and roaring, the strong men of the Kang family jumped out of their respective huts like wild boars, many of them holding inferior spears and various farm tools in their hands.
After a while, the sound of horse hoofbeats sounded, and several strong men from the Kang family with blond hair and high noses ran over with their horses, holding high-quality spears and bows and arrows in their hands.
The patriarch was trembling all over and grabbed the hands of the strongest man among them.
"My son, there is smoke in Yanhe Fort. There must be thieves attacking Yanhe Fort. Our opportunity has come."
Don't get me wrong, this old man with a barbarian appearance is not trying to rebel, but he is keenly aware that the Kang family's opportunity has come.
Before this, Kangjiabao was quite bullied among the villages managed by the Yanhebao Inspection Department.
They, Kangjiapu, never showed any bravery in the Long March. When they took turns to join the Yi Cong, they were always squeezed out by other villagers.
Often it is not their turn during the slack season, and it is always the Kang family who are deprived of their strength during the busy season.
The main reason why they are bullied is because of their appearance.
After I, Zhang Shengren, returned to China with great righteousness and held high the banner of the nation, the status of the Han people rose sharply. It was inevitable that the status of the Hu people, or in other words, the status of people with Hu people's appearance began to decline, and it declined very quickly.
This is inevitable, because I, Zhang Shengren, have quite a few Hans with questionable ethnic backgrounds under my command, and in order to hedge against others questioning their ethnic origins, the best way is to once again promote the status of the Han people.
Because the people coming from the Helong area have a huge advantage, that is, the appearance of the Tubo, Qiang, Dangxiang and others is very similar to that of the Han people.
So after they elevated the status of the Han people, they then tried their best to promote the Han people's appearance characteristics, in order to create a custom of judging a nation based only on their appearance.
But in this way, these yellow-headed Sogdians, who have long been Chineseized and can speak Chinese more fluently than the people in the Helong area, are in serious trouble.
And if you look deeper, this trend actually started after the rise of Li Keyong's line.
Because Shatuo Zhuxie's family also has dark hair and fair skin, and their appearance is not much different from that of the Han people. They also have the same needs as the Helong people today.
Therefore, in the later Tang Dynasty, there were real Shatuo people (referring to the Shatuo people with Han Chinese appearance) and false Shatuo people (referring to the yellow-headed Sogdian and other races from the Western Regions).
Under such a climate, if the people in Kangjiabao want to turn around, there is only one way to go, and that is to have a few more Long March warriors in the fort, and even be selected into the Forbidden Army, the personal army, and it is the turn of Banshang Yisong.
Time is not occupied by others.
Because the only thing that could eliminate the disadvantage of appearance in Zhang Yi's dynasty was military merit. Military merit meant status.
After the status rises, the surrounding Han-looking families will not resist marriage with their Kang family, so that after a few generations, they will not be so conspicuous.
Now that Yanhe Fort was attacked by thieves, it was their best opportunity. The patriarch grabbed his son Yasuzaburo's hand and immediately began to give instructions.
"Fifth Lang, Sixth Lang, Nine Lang, and Fourteenth Lang are following Sanlang. The five of you have horses. You must kill the thief very aggressively.
The others each held weapons and sticks and drove the thieves towards Sanlang and the others. Even if they killed the thieves, they had to give their heads to Sanlang.
As long as Sanlang becomes a warrior of the Long March, and even accumulates merit and goes to Huazhou Zhongwei to become an official, our Kang family will be turned around."
Kozaburo also bowed to the hundreds of family members around him, "Dear clan members, Kozaburo won't say too much. As long as a certain family's meritorious service goes up, in the future, if a family has a brave young man, I will push him up like today."
, strengthen my Kang family."
Hearing that the elders and Kang Sanlang and his son had expressed their opinions in this way, the clan members nodded in agreement and crossed their arms in unison. The elderly, children, and healthy women all looked at Kang Sanlang.
"I am willing to kill the enemy with Sanlang. The future of the Kang family depends on Sanlang!"
Amid the roar, the clan leader took the old, weak, women and children and began to run towards the temple on the mountain, where they could barely hold on to avoid the thieves.
The rest of the people followed Kang Sanlang's horse in a mighty manner, and went to the Yanhe Fort together.
And not only in Kangjiabao, but also in the entire township under the jurisdiction of Yanhebao, young men and women continued to gather.
This is the advantage of equalizing land, everyone has a constant output, and everyone has the intention to make achievements.
In addition to them, all the inspection departments who saw the smoke immediately began to mobilize their men and soldiers.
The walls of the fort along the river were stained red with blood. The people who came to attack were none other than the three to four hundred men recruited by Zhao Zaili and Liu Jixun, the former military envoys of Hebei Province in the Later Jin Dynasty.
Half of them are parts controlled by the two people, and the other half are the silver guns they recruited from all over.
Before the decisive battle between Zhang Zhi and Liu Zhiyuan in Hebei, a large number of Weizhou Ya soldiers, the remnants of the Yinqiang Xiaojie capital, chose to follow Liu Zhiyuan.
Although Liu Zhiyuan seemed to be weaker at the time, Liu Zhiyuan followed the conventional gameplay that had been established for two hundred years, while Zhang Yan chose the chariot and horse to end the situation of the Wufu separatism.
Therefore, many tooth soldiers with a vicious temperament that could not be changed chose to join Liu Zhiyuan.
When Liu Zhiyuan was defeated in Xingzhou, many of these people ran to the mountains to hide, and they were already at the end of their rope.
But later, in order to restore production and life in Hebei as soon as possible, Zhang Zhi chose to break Wubao to release the population, free the slaves controlled by the wealthy families, and recruit the people who had hidden in the mountains, forests and swamps to come out to cultivate and equalize the land.
During this great liberation of hundreds of thousands of people, the imperial court really did not have that many qualified officials to investigate them one by one, so these people took the opportunity to hide until they were recruited by Zhao Zaili and others.
These remnants of the Hebei Ya soldiers in the past are still very effective in fighting, Wei Boy Ya soldiers! As many years as the Tang Dynasty was in chaos, they became fierce for many years, and they could even determine the outcome of the Liang-Jin war.
Although they are dying now, more than a hundred people in this fort along the river can't resist it. There can be no more than twenty people in the fort. Especially in this kind of small-scale battle, silver spears are better at it.
But as soon as the fight started, the situation began to change, because Zhao Zaili and others failed to successfully capture the Yanhe Fort and had actually failed.
Their strategy was to take advantage of the chaos to cross the Yellow River, burn the pontoon bridge at Baimadu, and then go south to the Songzhou area to respond to the Xuzhou Wuning army heading north.
It is thousands of miles from Huazhou to Shangqiu Mansion in Songzhou, which requires them not to make too much noise.
Especially the burning of the Baimadu Floating Bridge cannot be completed in a short time. Once someone is alert, it will be difficult to burn it.
The first and most critical step in this plan is to quietly capture the Yanhe Fort, and then use the name of the Yanhe Fort Inspection Department to deceive the Huazhou team at the head of the Baimadu Floating Bridge.
Zhongwei Guards Army.
But now, the smoke has been ignited, and soon soldiers from Huazhou Zhongwei and several nearby inspection departments will arrive.
Therefore, when these people attacked the Yanhe Fort, they had to pay attention to the movements everywhere. Several people were killed in advance, and their morale was extremely low.
On the Yanhebao side, Zhang Xingjian is a native of Longyu Shazhou, and he will not be timid even if he is chopped into minced meat.
The rest of the Long Marchers were brave and brave. These overt and covert benefits can buy their lives, no! It should be said that they can buy the lives of their whole family.
Therefore, one side was half-hearted and fearful, while the other side was resisting desperately. The morale of both sides was not on the same level at the beginning.
Inspection Zhang's horizontal knife has turned into a jagged shape, his arms are so sore that he can no longer pull the bow, and the armor on his body is full of arrow shafts, making him look like a hedgehog.
Counting the old blind man, six of the nine Long March warriors had been killed in the battle, and all the others were injured.
After hundreds of rounds of Yi Cong, at least twenty or thirty people were gone. There were no more than fifty people who were still with Zhang Xunjian. The rest did not know whether they ran away or were suppressed to other places.
But although they were few in number, they guarded the Wolf Smoke Tower with firm determination. Even if they were resisting based on instinct, no one backed down.
Zhao Zaili was not a resolute person, and he was already 68 years old. The longer the battle dragged on, the more panicked he became.
Seeing that three to four hundred of them stormed an inspection fort like Yanhe Fort and were unable to capture it for half an hour, I immediately felt like retreating.