This wolf smoke would not burn out sooner or later, but it would burst into flames after everyone landed on the island. How could it not arouse people's suspicion?
Li Kuo ordered the entire army to stand by and wait for Xianyu Yucheng to lead the scout team to report back the message. This island was so unfamiliar that the young man had to be on the safe side!
Soon, a trace of black shadow was faintly seen among the rocks in the distance. The archers instinctively cocked their arrows and aimed at the black shadow jumping behind the boulder. As long as their captain gave the order, no matter who it was, they would
It can shoot all the people coming towards you!
"Wait!" Li Kuo waved his hand to stop his subordinate's recklessness.
The young man vaguely felt that the fireworks were very strange. Imagine that Longju Island is surrounded by the sea and there is no place to stay. If there were Tibetan soldiers on the island, even if they discovered the Tang army at the first time and set off the fireworks, there would be
Who rushes to help?
Then there is only one possibility left: they lit fireworks deliberately to attract their attention!
Apart from the Tubo people, who would live on this island, and who would be eager to attract his attention?
Li Kuo tapped his forehead and stared closely at the boulder ten feet away in front of the fine sand spread.
The person hiding behind the boulder must have known that someone had discovered him, so he poked out a wooden pole with the branches cut off, holding up a piece of brown rag and waving it incessantly.
Li Kuo saw him taking the initiative to show his kindness and took a few steps forward.
"General, be careful of fraud!" Dou Qing grabbed Li Kuo's sleeve and advised him.
"I'm fine, you don't have to follow me." The young man smiled brightly at Dou Qing and continued to move forward.
Dou Qing, however, could not follow him. He called a few soldiers and followed closely.
"Who is behind the stone? You might as well come out and see me." Li Kuo nodded, his voice full of friendliness.
The waving flagpole stopped in mid-air for a moment. After a long time, finally a middle-aged man with a dark face and wrapped in rags came out with trembling hands raised.
Li Kuo frowned and sighed: "Why is a strong man like this? Brother Dou quickly ordered someone to send him a robe."
Dou Qing waved his hand, and two soldiers walked forward holding a set of washed clothes.
Ever since the army took in the remnants of Cuihua, we no longer have to worry about washing our clothes. Those lovely and considerate girls will always wash our clothes in time. Thank you, they always carry a unique fragrance of women.
When the middle-aged man saw someone coming forward, he couldn't help but move back. His throat rolled for a long time and then he trembled: "Are you from the Tang Dynasty?"
Li Kuo smiled slightly and said: "We are not only Tang people, but also Tang troops!"
The middle-aged man seemed unable to believe what Li Kuo said, and asked again: "You, are you the Tang Army?"
Li Kuo saw that he was in a daze, as if he had suffered some kind of blow, so he was not in a hurry to ask him about his origins. He just said in a friendly voice: "You might as well put on some clean and neat clothes, and we can talk again."
The middle-aged man thought for a moment and nodded in acquiescence. He turned around and waved behind him. There were more than two to three hundred people slowly walking out from behind Stonehenge. They all looked like middle-aged men, only wearing the clothes wrapped around them.
The coarse cloth was full of holes, his dark cheeks were expressionless, and he looked at Tang Jun with dull eyes.
Li Kuo was shocked when hundreds of people who looked like refugees suddenly appeared. Why did so many ragged poor households suddenly appear on Longju Island? Besides, some of them could speak Tang dialect?
The middle-aged man swallowed and spat and said, "You are really the Tang Army. How come you suddenly came to Longju Island?"
"How dare you! How can you find out military information? How can a savage be so ignorant of etiquette!" Dou Qing saw that he did not know the depth of things and scolded him in anger.
Li Kuo waved his hand and said: "We are the Tang Army from Longyou. We originally wanted to return to Shenwei City by sea, but unexpectedly we encountered a storm. Fortunately we encountered this small island, otherwise we would all be dead."
Seeing his frankness, the middle-aged man inquired and asked, "Is that true?"
Li Kuo spread his hands and said, "There are no lies."
Hearing this, the middle-aged man could no longer suppress the emotions in his heart. He pulled the maroon rag in his hand and knelt down in the tunnel: "Does the general know this flag?"
At this time, Li Kuo had completely put aside his doubts about the middle-aged man. The young man took a square step and walked up to him, picked up the rag and began to look at it carefully. The brown-red dye had long faded in spots, and it was vaguely visible from above.
I saw a few black ink lines, but the handwriting was difficult to decipher.
"General, this is our military flag of Longyou!" The middle-aged man hugged Li Kuo's thigh and cried.
The young man stood there dumbly as if he had been struck by lightning, and for a moment he could not react to what the man said.
"You, you say it again?"
The middle-aged man wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes, gritted his teeth and poured out all the stories he had accumulated in his chest: "My name is Lin Feng. I was originally a Tang general of the Longyou Jishi Army. I have been ordered to be stationed in the fortress. Kaiyuan 2
In December of the 10th year, on an ordinary noon day, the north wind was blowing hard outside. As usual, everyone sat around the fort and warmed up by the fire. While everyone was chatting happily, a scout rushed into the fort and knelt on the ground.
, said that the Tubo people suddenly crossed the vast red mountains and attacked southward. At first, I thought they were just fighting the autumn wind for autumn crops, so I ordered people to burn all the crops in the nearby fields and closed the city gates. I thought the Tubo people had not come out.
They plundered food and retreated when supplies were insufficient. But who would have known, who would have known, that they would not attack Jishi's army at all, but would go straight towards Dahua County." (Note 1)
Lin Feng's voice became colder and colder, and his eyes were full of hatred: "There are dense crowds of people. There are Tubo barbarians everywhere in the mouth of the col, at the foot of the mountain, and in the crevices of the rocks! The brothers watched the Tubo people walking past them but did not dare to
Let's fire an arrow. It's not that we are cowards, it's just that the Tibetans have a large number of people. The front army alone has 50,000 people. The brothers are trying to kill a few thousand barbarians at most, but they will not have any impact on the situation of the battle.
.However, Dahua County in Kuozhou is empty of military defenses, and the Tubo people have spent a lot of money. If no one is left to inform Gai Shuai as soon as possible, sooner or later the Tubo people will take it away!" (Note 2)
Lin Feng wiped away his tears and said: "We hurriedly lit the beacon fire to ask for help, but from Bayan Mountain to Shanzhou we seemed to have seen a ghost! The smoke was billowing straight into the sky, but no one came to reinforce us! I heard that at that time, Gai Shuai
, Gai Shuai was busy presenting a song to His Majesty, and didn’t even notice that a beacon was lit in front of Shanzhou City!” (Note 3)
Lin Feng's eyes were red and he was crying repeatedly.
Oh my God, this man, no, these poor people in ragged clothes are actually the soldiers of Longyou of the Tang Dynasty!
What made them become like this? Who abandoned them? Who? Who!
Li Kuo felt like a huge stone was stuck in his heart, making him unbearably depressed.
"What happened next? Did we defend Kuozhou later?" Although Li Kuo had seen the answer in Lin Feng's eyes, he was still hoping for a miracle.
"Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans stepped through, and not a single blade of grass grew. As soon as the army arrived, a fierce attack surrounded Dahua County. At that time, how could the county's defenders with less than 800 resist the powerful Tibetan offensive? December 2
On the 18th, the city was broken and the Tibetan barbarians massacred the city..."
The young man's heart thumped, and the golden holy tower in his heart collapsed instantly.
Massacre the city?
The sudden appearance of this unfamiliar word in his ears was so constricting and terrifying that the young man did not want to believe everything he heard. Isn't the Tang Dynasty invincible? Isn't the Tang Dynasty invincible by all nations? All along, the young man's
In my heart, I feel proud to be a great Tang son. His country has given him such a strong sense of security and such a strong sense of pride, which is unmatched by other nations!
At least in Chang'an City, he saw that both the green-eyed and red-haired Persians and the short Fusang people would look at him with envy; whether it was the Li Te people who were good at business and calculation, or the unruly Turks
They all lamented the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.
Could it be that all this is a lie?
Otherwise, why would Kuozhou City be breached? Otherwise, why would a fortified frontier city be slaughtered in an instant without leaving any chickens or dogs behind?
"We lost to our own people!"
Lin Feng bit his lip tightly and gave the boy the answer.
"As soon as Dahua County was broken, the whole Kuozhou was opened wide. The Tibetans swarmed over like locusts. All the men were killed and all the women were raped. It was only then that Gai Shuai woke up from a dream and hurriedly announced his power.
, the Baishui generation of defenders rushed to Shibao City. The Tibetan people's goal was of course Shibao City. They devoted all their efforts to fight this battle, and they naturally wanted to capture this bridgehead. The Huangshui was stained with blood, and corpses were piled up.
Like a mountain, the brothers are working hard but can't wait for a reinforcement! The brothers are fighting on the front line, but the commander is quietly listening to the song in the city! What the hell is this world!"
Lin Feng spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm and lamented.
Yeah, what the hell kind of world is this?
We have defeated ourselves! Lin Feng's words kept echoing in his ears, and the young man felt a faint pain in his heart.
In the music and songs of the three thousand worlds, in the splendor of the twelve capitals.
It turns out that from beginning to end, everyone from emperors and ministers to ordinary people like me has been living in a great spring and autumn dream that they don't want to wake up from!
Note 1: In June of the 29th year of Kaiyuan (741), the Tubo army dispatched 400,000 troops, entered Changning Bridge in the west, passed the Heyuan Military Station (now Xining, Qinghai), and launched a large-scale attack on the Anren Army. Then the Tubo army attacked Shibao
City (today's southwest of Huangyuan, Qinghai) launched an attack. Shibao City was originally an easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack place, but because Gai Jiayun relaxed his vigilance, it was easily captured by the Tibetan army.
Note 3: After Gai Jiayun took office, in order to please Tang Xuanzong, he dedicated the famous "Ganzhou Daqu" ("Yizhou Song") to Tang Xuanzong. "Eight Sounds of Ganzhou" is a short section of it.
Gai Jiayun: A famous general in the Kaiyuan period, but he was very arrogant.
ps: This loss caused the Tang Dynasty to change its strategy against Tibet from offensive to comprehensive defense, which was extremely passive. It was not until the Battle of Shibao City in the eighth year of Tianbao that it was slightly moved back. However, the Anshi Rebellion...
So we have to change, we have to change this state of existence! Come on together!
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