The east road of the river is covered with snow, and the city of Taiyuan is covered with ice.
In the first month of the second year of Zhide, the news of spring has not yet arrived, and it is still cold in the northern capital.
Taiyuan County, guarded by General Li Guangbi, was attacked by Jizhou rebels Gao Xiuyan, Shi Siming, Niu Tingjie, and Cai Xide, a total of 100,000 soldiers, from the north, east, and south, and stormed with force.
At that time, the food and grass in the city was already unsustainable. Li Guangbi led 5,000 elite soldiers under his command, as well as reinforcements from various states and counties to train troops, and gathered less than 10,000 people. He dug the city, threw bricks and stones, set traps, bowed and shot arrows, and
The 100,000 thieves who committed the crime fought hard.
The Mangshan regiment from Luoyang trained troops. When they first arrived in Taiyuan, they only did menial work of digging and moving soil. However, as the battle to defend the city became more intense, within a few days, they were equipped with weapons and began to go up and down the city walls.
He fought hand-to-hand with the Jizhou bandit soldiers who came to attack the city, holding bows and shooting at each other.
As the leader of the Mangshan regiment training, Guan Dashi, together with Yang Sanlang, Niu Chong and others, gradually stood out in these days of hard fighting, attracting the attention of General Li Guangbi, then Taiyuan Yin Wangjin and others.
Especially in the plan to pretend to surrender to Shi Siming, Guan Dashi and Yang Sanlang personally led the Mangshan regiment to train troops. Together with the city guards who had been miners, they risked nine deaths and dug tunnels overnight under the camp of the bandit general Shi Siming.
, and support it with standing timber.
When General Li Guangbi "as promised" ordered General Pi to lead his troops out of the city and feint to surrender, the bandit general Shi Siming was overjoyed and led his soldiers out of the camp to meet him. At this time, Guan Dashi, Yang Sanlang and others pulled down all the neutral trees in the tunnel, causing the camp behind Shi Siming to suddenly
After the collapse, the morale of the army was in chaos for a while, and there were no plans for casualties. General Pi, who pretended to surrender, took advantage of the situation to attack Shi Siming's camp and captured the heads of more than 10,000 thieves, forcing Shi Siming to turn around and retreat. This powerfully shocked the rebels' fierce arrogance.
A few days later, a piece of news came from Luoyang, like a bolt from the blue: Emperor An Lushan of Yan Dynasty was disemboweled and gutted by his eunuch Li Zhuer, and died tragically in Luoyang Palace. His son An Qingxu had proclaimed himself emperor and ordered Shi Siming to return home.
Guard Boling and Fan Yang to avoid being cut off by the army; and ordered the bandit general Cai Xide and others to continue to besiege Taiyuan City.
Although the rebels were surrounded on three sides, the morale of the army was already unstable. At this time, General Li Guangbi decisively recruited and trained the death squads. Guan Dashi, Yang Sanlang and others were among them. The death squads were ready to leave the city and recruit the thief general Cai Xide.
The whole army was completely defeated.
Chen Gu, the leader of the regiment training, and others who came from Hanoi County still carried the bricks and stones obtained from the demolished houses in the city to the city wall in bamboo baskets for the purpose of throwing stones by trebuchets; they then carried the rescued wounded to the city wall.
Return to the city for treatment.
Unexpectedly, Cai Xide and other thieves saw that Taiyuan City could not be captured for a long time, so they cut down the mountains to collect materials and built several chariots. This chariot has a large wooden frame, four wheels at the bottom, and a roof like a roof, covered with raw cowhide.
It can withstand the attack of flying rocks and arrows. The car can accommodate ten people, and the soldiers hide in it. With both feet touching the ground and pushing forward with all their strength, they can reach the city directly, break down the doors and climb the walls, and there will be no disadvantage.
General Li Guangbi saw several vehicles coming like turtles and turtles. The bricks and stones thrown from the city wall hit the vehicle and were all bounced away. He immediately shouted loudly: "Suicide squad! Follow me out of the city to meet the enemy!"
Get rid of these turtles!"
Guan Dashi and others came out for several months and saw the rebels burning, killing and looting everywhere. The people they passed through were devastated. They often thought of the tragic situation in Yangliuzhuang, so they were determined to die. They wanted to trade their lives for lives and kill more people.
A thief.
At this time, when they heard General Li Guangbi's order, everyone's eyes were blood red, like wolves and tigers! In groups of three, they formed a "pinzi" formation and attacked the cavalry.
The garrison in the city no longer retreated into the city, and each led his troops to follow closely behind him. They came out from the north, east, and south gates to fight with the rebels. In an instant, the ground outside the city was all bare, and the suburbs were filled with blood. It was really like this.
The Shura field is paved with fragments of body parts!
The fighting lasted from afternoon to dusk.
General Li Guangbi rode a green horse, holding a silver spear that penetrated the armor, and rushed to the front with his bodyguards. His physical strength seemed to be endless, and he killed until all the spear tassels were scattered, and the blood penetrated the golden armor. Looking around, there were corpses everywhere, all in Jizhou
The tragic scene of the corpses of the thieves lying next to each other. Occasionally, I saw a few suicide squad soldiers in armor, but they were all with their limbs mutilated and their internal organs shattered. There was no intact remains!
Guan Dashi, Yang Sanlang, and Niu Chong were originally a group. By the end of the battle, Niu Chong had been washed away and disappeared. Only Guan Dashi and Yang Sanlang were left, with their backs against each other, fighting against the incoming people.
The Jizhou bandit soldiers fought to the death while continuing to advance eastward.
The two of them didn't know it at first, but they were gradually approaching Cai Xide's camp after a lot of running and killing. The more thieves killed, the more they killed, and the number of knife wounds and arrow wounds on their bodies also increased. At first, they were grinning in pain, but by the end they were already dead.
My eyes were red from the killing, all the wounds on my body were numb, and I could no longer feel the pain. Instead, my whole body was filled with a strange excitement!
The long sword that Yang Sanlang brought with him when he left the city was broken midway when he was attacking the chariot. At this time, what he was swinging in his hand was just a casually snatched horizontal sword. However, his fighting spirit was fierce and the sword was fierce.
Many thieves have become dead souls under his sword. Therefore, those who besieged him did not dare to get too close. Most of them wanted to wear down his strength and want to kill him.
Yang Sanlang kept using his sword, but suddenly he turned his head and gasped like a cow: "Brother Dashi! Do you still remember the year before last... the four of us brothers went hunting in the mountains... and met the pair of leopards?"
Guan Dashi waved the snake spear, and his fingers were numb. In fact, he had already run out of energy, and he was only holding on with a fierce thought. At this time, he gasped and replied: "Brother Sanlang, how did you think of talking about this? If you can go back alive,
, Brother, when he has time, he will accompany you to find the leopard..."
Yang Sanlang, however, was minding his own business and continued: "I don't know if those two leopards are brothers or husband and wife... We were surrounded by a few of us at that time and had no way to escape, so we suddenly got quick wits... and pounced on you head first.
This caused the three of us to rush to the rescue, but the person on the other end turned around and took the opportunity to escape into the dense forest, without a trace..."
A look of nostalgia appeared on Guan Dashi's face: "That's right! That leopard is actually more cunning than a fox... If you three hadn't come with a hatchet at that time, I, Guan Dashi, would have been choked by his leopard!"
Only then did Yang Sanlang sigh: "Beasts are like this, how can humans be embarrassed! The situation between the two of us today is so similar to that of the two leopards... Brother Dashi, Sanlang is begging you, please do it!"
Guan Dashi had already guessed what he was thinking, and said angrily: "Brother Sanlang! What do you want to do?! We are friends for eight times... we want to live together! If we want to die, we will die together! Don't say nonsense..."
"Brother Dashi! Hiss——"
Yang Sanlang immediately became anxious and rushed to interrupt Guan Dashi's words. However, he was unexpectedly hit by a stray arrow in his left arm. The corner of his mouth twitched in pain, but he still endured the pain and continued,
"Brother Dashi! Let's go out with General Li to fight today. Even if we die, it's worth it! But my Qiuniang girl is still waiting for us in the village! One of us must go back alive, so that she can know that Mangshan regiment training
No coward! I would rather be a straight grass than a dodder!
Brother Dashi, you have had prestige since you were born, and all our brothers have obeyed you since we were young. And now, when it comes to all affairs in the village, you are indispensable to Guan Dashi to maintain the final say. So I, Yang Sanlang, must learn from that flower.
Leopard, lure these thieves away and open up a way to survive..."
"Brother Saburo!!"
After hearing this, Guan Dashi roared, only to see that Yang Sanlang turned from defense to attack, and took the initiative to kill a group of thieves without hesitation!
A rebel leader who looked like a gang leader was caught off guard and was bullied in front of him by Yang Sanlang. He slashed his forehead with a knife. Suddenly, the black gourd opened wide and splashed with blood raining all over the sky. Seeing that the leader was killed, the surrounding rebels were also aroused.
They roared and surrounded Yang Sanlang, leaving Guan Dashi aside instead.
"Brother Dashi! Get out quickly!!!"
A thunderous roar erupted from the crowd surrounded by thieves! But while Yang Sanlang was swinging his sword, he looked at Guan Dashi and was still stunned on the spot, and immediately roared hysterically.
With tears in his eyes, Guan Dashu turned around and walked away, but not in the direction of Taiyuan County. Instead, like other surviving death squad soldiers, he ran towards General Li Guangbi and Qing Ni Ma. After all, escaping from battle is a serious crime.
If they bump into the supervisors, they will be killed on the spot.
At this moment, a figure covered in blood rushed out from the tight siege! A series of bloody footprints were quickly stepped on behind him, and he shouted towards Guan Dashi: "Brother Dashi! They have crossbows..."
The "bloody man" was none other than Yang Sanlang. Before he could finish speaking, he jumped with all his strength and immediately threw Guan Dashi down and covered him under him.
"Puff! Puff puff..."
The crossbow arrows broke through the armor plates that had been scattered for a long time, easily penetrated the robes, and penetrated into the bones and flesh, making an uncomfortable sound continuously. The sound of the crossbow arrows ruthlessly interrupted Yang Sanlang's last words. But with a dense
The movements vividly expressed that word, cruelly and directly!
After a muffled sound, the bandit soldiers were like a flock of sheep scattered in fright. They lost all their courage and fighting spirit. They turned around and ran southeast, fighting and fleeing.
Guan Dashi climbed up from the ground and carried Yang Sanlang, who was all sticky and unsure of his life or death, on his back. A lot of blood poured in from the back of his neck, and the warm touch made him feel like he had fallen into an ice cellar. He didn't know if it was blood or tears on his face.
, mixed together, soaked the cheeks, and was blown by the cold wind, and actually condensed into thin ice!
There were still stray arrows flying towards him, most of them hit Yang Sanlang, and a few grazed his calf... With each hit, his heart sank a little, wondering if Yang Sanlang on his back could hold on until he returned to the city in triumph.
I don’t know how long I walked, but my mind started to get confused, but I heard the sound of horse hoofbeats stopped a few feet away, and General Li Guangbi’s sonorous voice came from afar, which actually seemed a bit dreamy: "Quick! Help the two heroes back...
…”
He didn't hear the rest of the words clearly and had already passed out.
The lights are silent and the room is full of silence.
After Guan Dashi said this, his front was already covered with tears, and the sobs rolling in his throat from time to time were difficult to reconcile with his usual heroic and open-mindedness. Yang Chaoxi, Guan Lin'er, and Niu Pang'er, three people who knew him well,
The juniors were also greatly shocked.
Yang Zhaoxi was silent for a moment, and then continued: "Guan Lizheng, I believe that you and my father have a deep friendship, but a person's true nature is often revealed most during life and death. Are these old things you mentioned still relevant?
Is there anyone else who can provide evidence?"
Guan Dashi waved his sleeves and rubbed his eyes, his emotions gradually recovered, and his voice was low: "Those who have no evidence... At that time, there were shouts of killing from all directions, and corpses were everywhere! Even if there were lucky people, they only cared about killing thieves to save their lives. Who would care about this...
...General Li may know some truth, but he died of illness ten years ago in Xuzhou... The things Shibo said today, even Niu Chong, Wang Guanjie, and Hou Ji, are lucky to be alive, but they have never experienced these things.
see.
Brother Sanlang died, and Shibo was also an accomplice. Later, Shibo often thought, if he had not turned around and left at that time, but killed the enemy side by side with Brother Sanlang...it would be useless to even die!"
Yang Chaoxi's eyes were red: "There is no one to prove it! No matter how extravagant your words are and make people moved, they are just one-sided words!"
After saying that, he took two steps closer, placed the Shadow Bearing Sword on Guan Dashi's shoulder, and said in a cold voice, "Let me ask you again, there are rumors in the village that you covet my mother's appearance, and you instigated a woman to negotiate for you.
,Is this possible?!
Chen Gu said that he had accidentally overheard my father's last words that day, saying that you had fallen in love with my mother a long time ago, but it was just because of your face that you couldn't win her love. So he took advantage of the opportunity of killing the enemy and framed my father's death.