In early May, although the land of Guanzhong is already late in spring, the north wind is strong west of Qinghai.
The cold wind slid across his cheeks, squeezing like a dull knife cutting flesh. Outside the important city of Fuqi City on the west coast of Qinghai (Note 1), a team of cavalrymen with about fifty people ran past the dense forest like lightning. These cavalrymen were rushing to lightning.
It was obviously the sentinels of the Tang army, and they belonged to the Tongwu Camp of the Helong Army. This unit set off from Shanzhou, passed through the Heyuan Army, and the Xuanwei Army arrived at the city of Anren Army. After crossing the Aiai Chiling, they were ignorant.
Unconsciously, he walked around the Tubo people, investigated military information on the west bank of Qinghai, and drew topographic maps.
The leading general was only sixteen or seventeen years old, with a handsome appearance, holding a silver horse spear in his hand and carrying a black horned hard bow. He was Xian Yucheng, the powerful general under Li Kuo, the commander of Guoyi, the Tongwu Camp.
Before the reorganization of the Zhuque Camp, he served as the captain of the sentry. It can be said that he has great experience in the arrangement of the traveling sentry. He has experience in the time to hide and when to check in the spots. He will never let the Tubo people easily discover their whereabouts.
The focus of their investigation this time was Fuqi City, which was a strong city for the Tubo people. With a steady stream of food, cattle and sheep would be sent by slaves and family members to Moliyi through Dafeichuan to replenish Chi, thereby replenishing Chi.
The Tubo garrison of the Ling generation. If this grain and grass transportation chain is composed of Fuqi City, Dafeichuan, Moliyi, and Chiling, this Fuqi City is the head of the transportation chain. As long as this one is pulled out
Nails, the food and weed supply system of the Tubo people will fall into chaos instantly.
Xian Yucheng clenched his fists and looked into the distance with a cold look. But how can we pull out this nail? After several days of investigation, the young man found that although Fuqi City was a small military fort, there were about
A garrison of 1,500 people. Although most of these people are Tuyuhun people with slightly less combat effectiveness, Li Duwei only has more than 600 brothers in his hands. How can he conquer such a strong city?
Suddenly, Xian Yucheng saw a stone fort not far from the west of Fuqi City, and a glimmer flashed in his eyes. The Tubo people had heavy troops in Datong Valley, and dozens of fortresses were set up on the horse road from Fuqi City.
Used as a whistle-detecting checkpoint. The number of people stationed in these whistle-detached forts is not large, often only two or three hundred. The closest middle of these trestle is the bluestone fort in front of you. If you can seize this bluestone
The fort, the war is on fire again, will the Tubo people go out of the city to help?
Thinking of this, Xian Yucheng couldn't wait to beat the horse and whip it, and ran towards the Tongwu Camp station on the west bank of Qinghai.
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Next to a dense forest on the west bank of Qinghai, Li Kuo, the commander of Guoyi of Tongwu Camp, was holding a topographic map brought back by Xian Yu Yucheng. This is the topographic map of Fuqi City. It took the brothers a whole week to get around.
The scenery is drawn and completed. From a fortress to a small level, Xian Yuyu ordered people to draw it out with charcoal pen. The most eye-catching thing is that he drew a circle on the Bluestone Fort.
Li Kuo's heart couldn't help but move.
"Yucheng, thank you for your hard work this time." Li Kuo patted Xian Yucheng's arm and said with a smile.
Xian Yucheng did not dare to take credit and hurriedly said, "This is all right, and my subordinates did this for the sake of the Tang Dynasty."
Li Kuo waved his hand and said, "I see you circled the bluestone fort with a charcoal pen. Do you want to get this accompanying fort first?"
Xian Yucheng hugged and said, "I was ordered to investigate the military situation and found that this bluestone fort was stuck between Datong Valley and Fuqi City. If this bridgehead can be seized, the Tubo people will be drawn out of the city to help each other.
, Fuqicheng is the one in our army's pocket."
Li Kuo shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This is of course, but even if we seize the Bluestone Fort and ignite the beacon, the defenders of Fuqi City will come to help, will the garrisons of Datong Valley come to help?"
Xian Yucheng's face turned red instantly, and he lowered his head in shame: "I didn't think of this, I..."
Li Kuo patted his shoulder and said, "You have done a good job, we can think of other ways."
At this time, Li Sheng, the fire chief who had just returned to Li Kuo, flashed out and said, "Master Duwei, I have a plan to cleverly lead out the defenders in Fuqi City without disturbing the garrison in Datong Valley!"
Although Li Sheng had just entered the Tongwu Camp, he won the admiration of all the soldiers with his good arrows and resourcefulness. Hearing that he had a brilliant plan, Li Kuo was overjoyed and waved his hand: "Brother Li has any plan, so he might as well listen.
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Li Sheng rushed to the northwest side and pointed: "Although there are 30,000 troops in Datong Valley, they are a hundred miles away from Fuqi City. Even when the beacon fire was on fire, they sent cavalry to help each other, and by the time the army arrived, they were already
It has been more than half a day. Therefore, if I were the general of the Datong Valley garrison, as long as I saw that the beacon did not ignite in Fuqi City, I would not send troops rashly."
Dou Qing raised his eyebrows disdainfully and said, "We know what you said, but even if we successfully seize Fuqi City, who can guarantee that the defenders of Datong Valley will not get news? When the army arrives, we will do it.
Can you keep these six hundred people?"
Li Sheng ignored Dou Qing's provocation, took a charcoal pen and circled a circle on the west side of Fuqi City, and said to Li Kuo: "Fuqi City is not as strong and tall as the Central Plains city. Even if it is attacked, if there are not enough garrison troops.
, it is also difficult to keep it. But we don’t have to keep it.”
When Li Kuo saw the black circle on the west side of Fuqi City, his eyes suddenly lit up and said happily: "Brother Li is saying that as long as we go to the city to set a fire to burn the granary of Fuqi City, we will make great contributions?"
Li Sheng nodded gently: "Yes, the food and grass used by the Tubo garrisons of Chiling were transported from Fuqi City. If we burn the granary, the Tubo people must transport food from Jiuqu Generation, and the defenders of Chiling Generation
Food and grass will inevitably be tight!
Li Kuo secretly praised in his heart. Everyone just fell into a misunderstanding, that is, how to defend after seizing the city. But for such a granary-style important town, burning off its food and grass was undoubtedly the greatest help to the Tang army in Longyou.
But how to break through the Bluestone Fort? If there are too few people going, it is difficult to be sure to quickly take down the sentry fort; if there are too many people going, it will definitely attract the attention of the defenders in Fuqi City. Li Kuo thought for a moment,
Suddenly a bold idea popped up in my mind.
"I remember when I was guarding the Great Wall Castle, I captured a Tubo commander alive. If we use the excuse of changing defense to open the city gate, what do you think?"
While guarding the Great Wall Castle, Li Kuo captured a Tubo officer alive. He thought he was of some use, so he was not in a hurry to execute him. He went to the hinterland of Tubo to investigate the terrain and took him by his side as a guide. Unexpectedly, he was sent at this time.
It's very useful!
"Do you want us to pretend to be the garrison troops in Fuqi City and go to change defense?" Dou Qing patted his head and said happily.
"But how to get this clothing?" Li Sheng frowned and raised his concerns.
"I know there is a tribe next to Fuqi City that is grazing. I believe I should get what we want from them!" Xian Yucheng's mind flashed with inspiration and said with joy.
"In this way, the Tubo people are afraid they will beat their chests and stamp their feet!" Everyone laughed loudly.
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On a grassland twenty miles away from the west of Fuqi City, the grass finally broke through the ground and emerged after a cold winter.
There is a small Tubo tribe here. They are herders from the Wuhai generation. They were ordered by His Majesty Zanpu and nomadly all the way to this. There are a total of fifty tents on the grassland. According to the living habits of the Tubo people, each tent is entreated.
There were about five people living in the tribe. In this way, there were about two hundred and fifty people. Most of them were women and children, and men and slaves were sent to Dafeichuan to build a city, except for a few elderly people in the tribe.
There was no more man outside the Tuyuhun sergeant who was left behind.
The sky gradually darkened, and the sunset dyed the sky red.
A Tuyuhun supervisor waved his whip and thrust hard at a Han female slave. In an instant, the female slave's clothes were cracked by the whip, and a bright red blood mark appeared on her spine.
"Ah!" The female slave shouted loudly and fell heavily to the ground.
"If you dare to be lazy, you will be slaughtered and thrown to Datong Valley to feed the wolf. Go and cut the grass and send it to the sheep pen!" The Tuyuhun supervisor whipped the female slave again and spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm.
In his opinion, these Tang slaves were the lowest people, and they could not even be called slaves. Although the Tuyuhun people destroyed their country, they were considered the second in Tubo, and they were ranked alongside the Qiang people.
People are slaves who violated military rules and laws. Although they were slaves, they had the opportunity to become second people by making meritorious service, and these Tang slaves would always have to bear it. (Note 1)
The female slave's face turned pale, and beads of sweat as big as beans slid down her cheeks. She couldn't fall down, as falling down meant death. The female slave got up with difficulty and walked towards the sheep pen.
The female slave's name is Cuihua. Like many compatriots, she was a farmer of Linzhao and lived a peaceful and stable life. However, when the Tubo barbarians invaded the east, they killed his man, and the children burned up all her home.
.These beasts captured her to Tubo, humiliated and ravaged her in every way and demoted her to the lowest female slave and distributed it to this tribe. Here she was whipped and tortured by her hostess during the day, and at night she had to endure the endless lust of the male host - desire
, It's really worse than death.
But she can't die! Her heart is full of hatred, she wants to take revenge. Even if she dies, she will take a Tubo person to take the blame!
"Rumbling, rumble." The earth under her feet suddenly began to tremble, and Cuihua was shocked. Could it be that she was weak enough to have hallucinations?
She straightened her back with difficulty, raised her head and looked east, but saw two dazzling big words printed under the bloody setting sun - Datang!
Note 1: Fuqi City: an important Tubo town on the shore of Qinghai Lake, the former capital of Tuyuhun.
Note 2: Tubo generals were divided into four levels. Tubo people were first-class, Tuyuhun and Qiang people were second-class. Those who violated military rules and regulations were demoted to slaves were third-class, and those who were plundered were fourth-class.
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ps: Is this chapter very touching? We are about to explode!