The sun sets over the western mountains, and the sky is filled with red clouds.
Corpses littered the valley under Jinhao Pass, like a mountain of bones and a sea of blood. Burnt horses and trampled corpses were everywhere.
The bone stubble stuck out of the waist and abdomen, half of the head was missing, rolled to the ground, the eyes were shining a little, and the intestines were exposed in a pool outside the body and were still squirming slightly...
Even though Yang Jun had been on the battlefield for a long time and was used to seeing dead bodies, his scalp was numb from shock and he was anxious.
The strange thing is that the white-robed soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield and collecting the dead bodies all had expressionless and indifferent faces, as if they were moving pieces of rotten wood instead of dead people.
Yang Jun kept swallowing his saliva, suppressing the nausea in his chest: "Why are they... not afraid?"
Li Chengzhi thought for a while and whispered: "You must be used to it!"
Yang Jun's eyes bulged outward: How many people must he have killed before he could reach the level of "getting used to it"?
Um...wrong?
Li Chengzhi doesn’t seem to be afraid either.
But he has only led a few armies, and how many battles have he fought?
With random suspicions in his mind, Yang Jun urged his horse and followed Li Chengzhi into Guancheng.
Behind him were Li Liang and a group of Li family retainers, with two handsome flags spread out in the wind, making a hunting sound.
The former is "Marshal Li", and the latter is "Zuo Sima Yang"!
A big man who was seven feet tall and even stronger than the Yuan Dynasty led a dozen military generals to greet him at the city gate. Seeing Li Chengzhi and Yang Jun being surrounded by guards, these people all
He bowed down and said, "Welcome to the superior officials of the Heavenly Dynasty!"
Celestial Dynasty...what a long-lost name?
Yang Jun couldn't help but sigh, and carefully looked at the people in front of him.
The body is covered with leather armor, just like the tiger-patterned armor of a tiger rider. It is very light. But it is completely white without any traces of lines. I don’t know how it was made.
There are dozens of people, some old and some young, some tall and some short, some Chinese and some with beards. But most of them seem to be Han Chinese, and there are only two people with yellow hair and blue eyes.
It seemed that they were a little timid about their hometown. Except for the two Hu people, the rest of them had flushed faces and gleaming eyes. They looked at him and Li Chengzhi as if they were seeing relatives.
Yang Jun bowed solemnly, but Li Chengzhi just nodded slightly and didn't even say a word.
Li Song, Li Song, even if you are just putting on a show, why don't you find some new faces?
The two of them had tears in their eyes and mixed emotions when they saw me. Are you afraid that Yang Jun won't be able to tell?
What's more, you actually asked Huangfu to pretend to be the leader of the surviving tribe?
If the Fourth Camp Woye Town Cavalry were here, maybe someone would recognize him as the second shopkeeper of Zhencheng Neilu Water Trading Company...
Li Chengzhi no longer knew what to say. His eyes passed over the faces of Huangfu Rang, Li Zhang, Li Hui, Li Tong, Zhang Xingyi and others in turn. He gave a slight hum, then dismounted and walked into the city gate. p>
Yang Jun's face was full of surprise, he quickly followed up, and asked in a lower voice: "The army defeated Dou Ling in one fell swoop, which is considered a miracle. And with such a powerful force, it's too late to win over, so why do you put on such a bad face?" p>
Making a face?
Do you believe that if I dare to hand over my hand, they will kneel down on the spot?
"Is it possible that you still want me to kowtow and kneel in thanks?"
Li Chengzhi stared at Yang Jun, "It's true that the posthumous department has meritorious service, but I have already asked the imperial court for a reward and a title. I think the Queen Mother and the princes will happily agree. So the thanks have been thanked, so why bother to be false?"
Lest these people take advantage of it..."
Have you ever thanked a bird feather?
He knew clearly that what Li Chengzhi said was fallacious, but it was difficult for Yang Jun to expose it. He had no choice but to fall one step behind and raised his fist towards Huangfu Rang: "Don't be surprised, General, the Duke has always been... always majestic, so he is used to being strict in speech and smile..." Before Yang Jun could finish speaking, Huangfu Rang hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "The official's words are serious, how dare we, the humble people in the corner, be disrespectful to the county prince?"
He said this, but in his heart he almost scolded Li Song to death.
Having said that Lang Jun will definitely not be happy, you insist on letting Li Zhang and others come to see him right now, you see?
Complaining in his heart, Huangfu took two quick steps and welcomed Li Chengzhi and Yang Jun into the Guan Yamen.
Leader Dou must have been discussing matters here these days, so the yamen is quite clean, but the smell of mutton is a bit strong.
Li Chengzhi didn't care, he took off his cloak and sat behind the case with a golden sword.
Looking at the Li family's retainers filing in, he narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Everyone, please leave!"
Li Zhang barely stepped over the threshold with his front foot, and was stunned for a moment. His face was full of astonishment. He could neither advance nor retreat.
Huangfu Rang's heart tightened and he quickly scolded: "Why don't you back down?"
Everyone responded in succession and retreated obediently. Only Huangfu Jean remained in the hall, with a look of sincerity and fear on his face, as if he had committed a serious crime.
Yang Jun's face was full of strange expressions. He looked at Huangfu Rang, then at Li Chengzhi. Then at Huangfu Rang, then at Li Chengzhi.
Why do you think that when the leader of the relics met Li Chengzhi, he was more frightened than the ministers when they met the emperor?
"What's your last name?" Li Chengzhi asked leisurely.
Huangfu Rang quickly lowered his head: "Mr. Bing, my surname is Mu, Mu Zirang!"
Li Chengzhi narrowly missed a mouthful of old blood from spraying onto Huangfu Rang's face.
Good guy, why don’t you tell me Huangfu Rang’s real name?
With a thought in his heart, Li Chengzhi said solemnly: "Where is the list of applicants?"
Huangfu Rang took out a booklet from his arms and presented it.
After just one glance, the corners of Li Chengzhi's mouth couldn't stop twitching.
Mu Zifeng, Mu Zishi, Mu Zizhang...
It would be better not to change the surname and just give the surname Li, at least like the Wuzhi Li family, pretending to be the descendant of Li Ling who surrendered to the Huns during the Han Dynasty.
Or, for example, the Han surnames such as the Long family and the Gao family among the Hus in the Western Regions are said to be that the family fled westward when Emperor Taiwu plundered Hexi, and now they have moved back.
Jia has five or six thousand riders, and the household should have at least three or four thousand tents. Let alone the same surname, why is it so uncommon?
How many lies do I need to make up to give you a foothold?
He narrowly avoided throwing the booklet into Huangfu Rang's face.
Yang Jun was about to come up and take a look, but Li Chengzhi turned over his hand and said coldly: "You just write some names on the book, how can I report it to the court, and how should the court reward you?
I have rewritten it, and I will write it immediately: who killed so many enemies, who captured so many enemies, who conquered the first city of Manchester, who captured and killed the first of the twelve tribes, etc. It must be detailed..."
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"Yes, yes, yes..."
Huangfu nodded like a chicken eating rice. Sweat appeared on his forehead and his waist seemed to be bent. He stepped backwards out of the Yamen hall.
No matter how late he was, he could tell that Li Chengzhi was really angry...
Yang Jun was as curious as a cat scratching his heart: "Since this Mu Zirang is a relic of Liangzhou, it must be the first time he sees you, but why is he so afraid?"
"Do you think it's me he's afraid of? What he's afraid of is the thunder that day... Otherwise, do you think Dou Ling can be defeated so quickly just by relying on the fire horse formation?"
"Thunder, what kind of thunder..."
Just after asking, Yang Jun suddenly thought of how Li Chengzhi captured Woye Town with more than a hundred retainers, and also thought of Li Liang and the hundreds of Li retainers who had left the city all night last night, but had just appeared out of nowhere like thieves.
……
Is that so?
"What exactly is this thunder?"
"I can't explain it to you in one or two sentences, but don't worry, you will see it sooner or later!"
Yang Jun's eyes widened: "Is it Jizi's rhetoric again?"
"How could it be?"
Li Chengzhi smiled awkwardly: Change the flour this time!
Sure enough, when it comes to thunder, Yang Jun has no time to take care of the Liangzhou relics.
Li Chengzhi also knew clearly that he rebelled against Gaoche and moved to the West Sea, with thirty thousand households, six thousand or seven thousand armored cavalry, etc. Yang Jun, Yuan Zhi and others believed at most one or two sentences out of ten. More
I don’t even believe a sentence or two.
But what else can be done?
It is true that Li Song is too impatient. The huge Du Lun tribe can be destroyed at a moment's notice, and the city of Manchester, which has stood for hundreds of years, can be destroyed at a moment's notice. It is just child's play. It is quite good for Li Chengzhi to make up such an excuse in a hurry.
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For the current plan, we can only let Yang Jun, Luo Jian and others try not to have contact with the white-armored soldiers. As soon as the reward from the imperial court arrives, it will become a settled fact, let alone rebel from Gao Che, say that they are from Gao Che.
In the royal court of Rouran, no one dared to doubt what was revealed in the sweat tent of the ugly slave of Yu Jiulu.
There is no need to worry in the court. At this time, they should have received their first two urgent reports. They have just learned that Yuan Yi’s life and death are not known, the fertile fields will be in chaos, and Dou Ling wants to invade the south.
Be it the Queen Mother or all the princes in the court, I am afraid that half of them were scared out of their wits. At this moment, a savior appears from the sky, who cares about your origin?
Not to mention that Li Chengzhi just asked for an order to confine his remains to the north of Yinshan Mountain. Even if he asked for a seal in the Hetao area south of Shanshan, the imperial court might agree.
Not for anything else, just to temporarily contain the six towns.
It’s true that Li Chengzhi’s words were too vicious. He said there would be chaos in the six towns, but the chaos really broke out in the six towns?
Moreover, Li Chengzhi also sent a secret message to Gao Zhao and Yuan Jia. Having these two people as internal agents should give Li Song and others a chance to breathe.
Thinking secretly, Li Chengzhi told Yang Jun: "When Mu Zirang sends the list, you will write a memorial and send it to the capital eight hundred miles away, so that the Queen Mother and the princes can temporarily relax..." It is indeed time to send an urgent letter to report this wonderful achievement to the imperial court.
Yang Jun could already imagine how excited the Queen Mother and the ministers would be after receiving the good news, and how high Li Chengzhi's reputation should be?
Of course, there are also people who are afraid.
It is true that Li Chengzhi is too weird, as if he can pinch and pinch...
After pondering for a while, he asked again: "If we don't wait for another day, after Yuan Zhi and Luo Jian withdraw their troops, will this victory be included in it?"
"No need!"
Li Chengzhi waved his hand calmly, "Twelve Du Lun tribes have been destroyed, and Touman City has been captured. What a huge gain? No less than one or two thousand heads..."
What is one or two thousand heads worth?
What if Dou Ling is also killed?
Although he hopes so, Yang Jun also knows that there is little hope. After all, Dou Ling is the leader of a group and is protected by the Affiliated Army who is not inferior to the Tiger Cavalry, so there is no risk of escaping into Langshan.
Of course, if you want to be greedy for merit, just cut off the head of a Hu chieftain and send it to the capital, and say that it is the leader of the Du Lun tribe, Dou Ling. The court will be suspicious and will not investigate further.
But with Li Chengzhi's nature, he definitely doesn't want to do this... What a pity!
Thinking like this, Yang Jun responded, and immediately summoned the clerk and prepared paper and ink.
But before Mo Du melted away, he suddenly heard a commotion outside the city, as if soldiers were shouting "Wan Sheng" or something like that.
Yang Jun's heart moved, and just as he was about to get up to greet him, a fast horse rushed into the city like an arrow from its string, and did not stop until it reached the Yamen steps.
Yuan Chen was covered in dirt, his black armor had long turned white, and his face seemed to be covered with a layer of mud. All he could see was his two dripping eyes and two mud ditches formed by tears.
There was also the dazzling white teeth that reached to the ears with a grin: "Commander, the man from Yuanxian County has captured Dou Ling!"
Yang Jun was stunned, two flushes appeared on his face, and he swayed as if he was drunk.
"Seriously?"
Can this be false?
Yuan Jingxiao's eyebrows and facial features were squeezed into a ball, and the dirt on his face fell down: "The county man ordered me to go ahead and escort Dou Ling here. Can Sima verify his identity?"
"Bring it up yet..."
Even Li Chengzhi was a little surprised: if he died, he wouldn't be so surprised, such as being shot to death by random arrows, falling off his horse, or being trampled to death by a horse.
But Yuan Zhi actually caught Dou Ling alive?
This difficulty is not ordinary...
"How did you catch it?"
"When Hu Qi's entire army was dispatched, General Yuan Xi, the county's male commander, led a brigade to attack. The rest of the troops stayed still, hoping to find out the movements of most of the enemy's cavalry, and then follow them to attack... But after Hu Qi ran out of the valley, they were defeated.
Divided into two groups, holding high the Dou Linglong flag and attaching the military bugle flag all the way, they headed straight to the west, as if they were going to escape into Langshan Mountain.
The other group dispersed into a formation of crow soldiers on the spot, either in a group of a hundred cavalry, or in a group of three or five cavalry, seeming to want to take a circuitous route to the south... Seeing that the soldiers defeated in the south were all half-armored, without any miscellaneous armor, and they were all horse soldiers.
Zhuang, a man from Yuanxian County immediately concluded that the troops that retreated to the south should be the vassal army. Dou Ling must also be in this group, intending to join forces with Yuchi and other troops who returned from the north. The enemies fleeing to the west were actually suspected soldiers.
Plan...
Then the county man ordered us to disperse into a sparse formation to pursue the enemy, and urgently ordered Murong Liang and He Ba to turn west and south, abandoning the Hu cavalry who were fleeing west, and intercepted the defeated enemy in the south. Finally, they forced them to infiltrate Luo Dudu.
They were deployed in the infantry formation fifty miles away... until more than half of them were killed or injured, and seeing that there was no hope of breaking out, Dou led his troops and surrendered...
Because Yuchi and other tribes captured from the south were about to arrive, and they were worried about Governor Luo's formation on the southern branch of Dumu, the men of Yuan County went ahead to report the good news to the commander, and ordered the four battalions of town cavalry and tiger cavalry to gather in the north of Sanfeng County.
, I want to fight to the death with the remaining enemies..."
No wonder Yuan Zhi was so lucky. It turned out that Dou Ling was afraid of death and surrendered?
When Yuan Jian was reporting, several soldiers brought in a sack and shook out the Dou collar tied like rice dumplings.
Knowing that Yuan Zhi was a good person, Li Chengzhi did not doubt him at all, but Yang Jun was a little worried and called Li Liang in a serious manner and brought several prisoners over.
Li Song, who was hiding among the retainers, was even more worried. He escaped from Yang Jun and told Li Liang a few words. Soon, a large group of twenty or thirty people came, including several women and others.
Childish.
When a group of generals and a few women shouted "Khan" (Khan, Xianbei, Rouran and other tribes collectively refer to the tribal leader, not the special name of the highest Khan), Yang Jun didn't feel anything. When those childish people
When he cried "aβaγa (Amo, referring to father)", Yang Jun's eyes nearly popped out.
Rouran originated from Xianbei, and the common language is Xianbei dialect. It has only been a few years since the Yuan and Wei Dynasties were Sinicized. How could Yang Jun not hear it?
Good guy, Li Chengzhi actually brought Dou Ling’s family to his knees?
Even Li Chengzhi couldn't help but laugh: Li Song defeated Du Lun's twelve tribes in a row, and even captured Touman City. Now Yuan Zhi captured Dou Ling alive again. This battle can be called a complete victory, and all his achievements were completed in one battle. p>
All the prisoners were taken away, and all the other people dispersed. Li Chengzhi asked Yuan Chen to remove the rag from Dou's collar.
"Dou Ling?"
"It's Dou!"
Dou Ling replied in a neither humble nor overbearing tone, and looked at Yang Jun and then at Li Chengzhi who was sitting at the top: "White Cavalry in the West Sea?"