Volume Four, The Year of the Curtain, Chapter 153: The Enemies of Chang'an City
The three northern counties of the Tang Dynasty were shrouded in a bloody storm, and this was the real main battlefield.
The Golden Horde cavalry who came south from the wasteland and the Tang Dynasty cavalry were fighting non-stop in the originally fertile wilderness. The battlefield stretched for hundreds of miles. Fighting took place every moment, and people died every moment.
On the battlefield, the priests of the Golden Tent and the practitioners of the Tang Army kept taking action. The aura of the heaven and earth shook uneasily. Countless heavy cavalry charged at the risk of their own lives. The wilderness had already been painted blood red.
In the Congling area, the Western Army of the Tang Dynasty commanded by General Shu Cheng finally defeated the Yuelun Kingdom army on the plateau and won a decisive victory after sacrificing the lives of more than 20,000 soldiers.
Because of the long distance, especially the problem of supplying grain, grass and baggage, the Western Army of the Tang Dynasty did not return to support the three northern counties. Instead, they chose to enter Congling, braving the increasingly severe cold weather, and directly attack the Yuelun Kingdom.
The Eastern Frontier of the Tang Dynasty, which had not seen a war for many years, was also in a state of blood and fire. Tens of thousands of prairie cavalry were raging in the wilderness. Eight hundred brave cavalry led tens of thousands of volunteers and the remnants of the Northeastern Frontier Army who had returned from the Yan Kingdom.
The most brutal resistance, and gradually reversed the extremely passive situation.
Fighting on the mainland was able to get strong support from the temporary government and the Tang people. In addition, the Tang army was able to reverse the situation so quickly in eastern Xinjiang. The more important reason was that the grassland cavalry lacked command at this time. Prince Longqing had already
He got rid of these subordinates many days ago.
Long Qing did not leave the battlefield alone. He took away nearly a thousand of the most elite temple cavalry, as well as more than two thousand elite Zuozhang Royal Court cavalry who were absolutely loyal to him.
The world-wide campaign to conquer the Tang Dynasty has begun for some time. The pure autumn is gradually passing, and the winter wind is gradually picking up. The fertile fields of the Tang Dynasty are frozen and dry. Every time the hoofs of horses step over, there will be huge smoke and dust. More than 3,000 cavalrymen
, running on the wilderness in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it looks like a yellow dragon from a distance.
Continuously running at high speed without sleep. These cavalrymen were already extremely exhausted. Even Long Qing felt that he could no longer hold on anymore, but he never issued an order to take a temporary rest.
The main force of the Tang Dynasty had been mobilized, and the central counties, except for the Xiang army with average combat effectiveness, had no defensive force and could not intercept this cavalry at all.
At this time, Long Qing and his cavalry were approaching Chang'an City. Of course, he could not rest because he knew that Chang'an City was about to be opened. And this majestic city was undefended.
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The official roads around Chang'an City are covered with dust and footprints, and many abandoned luggage can be seen. These are the traces left by refugees from surrounding areas.
What makes people feel fortunate or admirable is that with the joint efforts of the Tang Dynasty’s government and the public, nearly one million refugees who fled the war were brought into the city in just two days, and not a single dead body was seen on the road.
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The grain and grass shipped from various states and counties had entered the city much earlier. The surrounding counties and villages had completely given up, and the walls were cleared. All city gates had been closed, leaving only the south gate opposite Suzaku Avenue for people to enter and exit.
There were only a few pedestrians outside the city gate, and the few soldiers watched vigilantly in all directions outside the city. Chang'an City was ready for battle, and they were full of confidence.
The national borders have been broken, but the mountains and rivers are still there.
Both the Tang court and the people in the city thought that the enemy they were about to face should be the Xiling Temple army heading north from Qingxia. No one thought that Prince Longqing was advancing with the cavalry on the official road to the east.
No one knows who the real enemy of Chang'an City is.
So they didn't understand why the imperial court never closed the south gate, and why at such a critical juncture, so many manpower and material resources were mobilized to carry those huge rocks outside the south gate.
Only the empress in the academy and the palace knew the real reason - the Jingshen Formation was damaged. Today, Chang'an City can resist various armies, but there is no way to resist the real enemy.
The enemy that put Chang'an City in danger was not the cavalry of the Golden Tent, not Long Qing and his cavalry, or the mighty temple army in the south, but just one person.
A very terrible person.
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A naive girl stood outside the south gate, looking at the huge rocks in the wilderness, feeling the familiar smell, her twin ponytails swaying gently in the cold wind, feeling a little nostalgic for those days.
Ning Que stood behind her, his expression haggard due to overthinking, and he finally became more relaxed. Although the blockage of the Jingshen Formation still had not improved, with this block of barriers, it would become much more difficult to enter the city.
The girl was naturally the academy's third senior sister Yu Lian. She did not allow herself to be immersed in this sentiment for any longer and said calmly: "We still have to repair Chang'an City after all."
Ning Que said: "Still not working?"
Yu Lian said: "After the teacher left the world, there are only four people in this world who can be called extraordinary. Two of them don't care about worldly affairs. They preach the Dharma and follow the soil. So the people who can threaten Chang'an City are
There is only the viewer, and this block of barriers can at most stop him for a while, but how can it stop him for the rest of his life?"
Mo Shanshan frowned slightly when he heard this, looking a little worried.
Ning Que had never seen the legendary master of Zhishou Temple. He thought that his elder brother had dragged this person away for several days. He didn't realize how powerful that person was. He couldn't help but frown slightly when he heard this.
Yu Lian said: "Now that the Shocking God Formation is broken, if it hadn't been for Senior Brother to control us with our lives, all of us would have been killed by the Temple Master at this time, and this war would have ended long ago."
Ning Que said: "Senior Brother and Senior Sister, you have also broken through the fifth level."
Yu Lian said: "The five realms are just a threshold. Breaking through the five realms does not mean that you are absolutely powerful. Just like although I have broken through the five realms, I may not be able to defeat Liu Bai, but the master of the temple is different."
Ning Que asked: "What's the difference?"
Yu Lian said: "Do you know who is the youngest practitioner to break through the five realms in recorded history?"
Mo Shanshan thought for a while and asked, "My sworn brother?"
Yu Lian said: "Elder brother has been separated for three days, but he was no longer young at that time. In terms of age, the founder of our Ming sect and the Great Priest Guangming six hundred years ago were all ahead of him."
Ning Que thought of a possibility, but said nothing.
Yu Lian said: "The youngest practitioner to break through the five realms, his surname is Chen."
Ning Que looked at the stones in front of the south gate that were still wet with lake water, and was shocked and speechless.
"So Chen Pipi was the first to enter the realm of knowing his destiny. I'm not surprised by this."
Yu Lian said: "Because his surname is Chen, he is the son of the temple master."
Ning Que was silent for a moment and then asked: "What kind of person is the master of the temple?"
Yu Lian said: "The temple master was just an ordinary Taoist in a certain Taoist temple in the Song Dynasty. He had no talent for cultivating Taoism at all. He had never even entered the Xiling Temple, so he gave himself the most ordinary name."
The Song Dynasty is a small country on the bank of the East China Sea. There is nothing commendable in terms of history, culture and military affairs, but there have been many celebrities and great figures here.
The Great Priest Guangming from thousands of years ago came from the Song Kingdom, Wei Guangming came from the Song Kingdom, and Master Liansheng came from the Song Kingdom. Even the small town where the second senior brother lived in his childhood should be considered within the Song Dynasty.
Only then did Ning Que find out. It turned out that the master of Zhishou Temple was also from the Song Dynasty, and it turned out that he had a very strange name.
"Chen...if he is so amazing, why..."
"There is no fame. It even makes people feel ordinary? Such an extraordinary person can give people such an ordinary feeling. This is the scariest thing about Chen."
Yu Lian said: "As for the objective reasons. In addition to the mystery and unknowability of Zhishou Guan, Chen has been silent in these years. The main reason is that the history of these decades is somewhat different."
Ning Que asked: "What is the difference between the history of these years and the countless years in the past?"
Yu Lian said: "The biggest difference between the history of these years and the annals of history is that the academy began to join the WTO."
In the back of the academy, she is the only one who is not called Junior Uncle, but Mr. Ke, because she is the leader of the Demon Sect, and after all, the Demon Sect was destroyed after Ke Haoran.
Mo Shanshan said softly: "After my trip to the wilderness that year, I asked the teacher. Only then did the teacher know that Master Liansheng was still alive, so he told me some stories from back then, saying that the master of the temple had fought with Mr. Ke."
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Yu Lian said: "In the battle between Mr. Ke and the master of the temple, there were no bystanders, except the teacher. No one in the world now knows what happened at that time. They only know that Mr. Ke won in the end."
"Afterwards, all the Taoist masters and powerful men came out. They ambushed Mr. Ke in the wilderness. Mr. Ke killed him with all his heart. He broke through several obstacles and refused to take it back. So he drew his sword and flew towards the sky, whereupon he was killed by Haotian."
"Because of this incident, the teacher was extremely sad and angry, so he went to the Xiling Divine Kingdom. He went to Peach Mountain and cut off all the peach blossoms, killing countless powerful Taoists. The temple master invited the leader of the Xuankong Temple to join forces, but they also failed miserably."
Yu Lian said: "The academy has entered the world, so the master of the temple has no name."
Ning Que understood what his senior sister said.
As the youngest person to break through the five realms, Chen is undoubtedly qualified to leave his name in the history of spiritual practice. However, because there are two more names in the history of these years, he lacks any brilliance.
A person is a master.
A man named Ke Haoran.
But from the side, this also shows how powerful Chen is.
Because he lost to his junior uncle and his teacher, but he did not die.
He was forced to wander on the South China Sea, but he did not die after all.
Maybe the teacher cherishes his talent, or maybe the teacher really can't kill him.
No matter which one it is, it proves his strength.
The little uncle has passed away long ago, and the teacher has also left this world.
No one in the world can be the opponent of the viewer.
That person's brilliance, which has been suppressed for many years, will bloom most wildly.
The enemy Chang'an City will face is such a person.
People knew he was coming, but they didn't know when he would come.
Ning Que felt that his shoulders became a little heavy.
His gaze crossed the jagged boulders and landed in the woods beside the official road.
Winter has entered Chang'an City, the grass and trees are not deep, and the wind and snow are approaching.
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(Don’t laugh, everyone. A man’s self-esteem is always easy to make jokes at inappropriate moments. I had a hard time writing today. I hope it gets better soon. It seems that the cervical spine is still affected. Oh, this
The reason for taking a leave of absence is very positive... I hope this battle can be written correctly as well.
If I have more energy, I will lie down more and hope that I can work hard to write faster. I am really sorry and apologize to everyone again, because this is a failure of self-management.) {PiaoTian Literature www.PiaoTian.com thanks all book friends for their support,