Chapter 63: Surprise Attack on Longxi (3)

The Uighur envoy was laughing all over the city, like a clay sculpture, heading north in a daze. The Uighur envoy was a genius of language. He went from Fengzhou to Lanzhou to the cold north wind. He cursed Hou Dayong viciously in the language he could think of, such as Uighur language, Central Plains, Tubo language, Sogdian language, etc., but no matter how viciously cursed, it drifted away in the wilderness with the north wind, pale and powerless, and could not change any fait accompli.

The Uighur envoy left the Zhou Dynasty from Qinzhou and walked about ten miles northward. When he arrived at the Wu Family Town, a team of about a hundred Uighur soldiers escorted two hundred horses, and happened to come to the Wu Family Town. These Uighur soldiers escorted two hundred horses that Gesa used to stabilize Hou Dayong.

"What? The white-headed general Gaihe died in battle, and Longxi was occupied by the Black Eagle Army?" The Uighur Captain who led the team to escort the horses was shocked when he heard the news from the Uighur envoy.

"After the Black Eagle Army occupied Longxi, it did not return to Fengzhou. Now it may be heading towards Lanzhou. Let's retreat quickly."

The escort officer was still a little hesitant: "I did not receive the order to withdraw and I would be dealt with by military law when I act without authorization."

"When General Gesa issued the order, Longxi had not been captured yet. If you know that the Black Eagle Army had captured Longxi and sent horses to Qinzhou, they would be dealt with by military law at that time." Envoy Gesa was extremely dissatisfied with the escort officer and said loudly.

The escort officer hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, let's go back after a while."

Envoy Geza rushed back to Lanzhou and said, "Don't rest, hurry up and walk back so that there will be more nights and dreams. Hou Dayong is a shameless person, and the soldiers under his command must be too. If they find some horses, the trouble will be great."

He was a military officer from the escort. He never looked down on civil servants. When he saw the envoy's embarrassing appearance, he looked down on him even more. He said without any discussion: "How could this be so coincidental? When everyone rests a stick of incense before walking back, I want to see if the Black Eagle Army has three heads and six arms."

The escort officer said to the soldiers beside him: "Send the order to rest, rest for a stick of incense, and then turn around and return to Lanzhou."

Before he finished speaking, the sound of horse hooves rumbling in the southeast and northwest directions at the same time, and the ground was trembling slightly with the sound of horse hooves.

The escort officer suddenly changed his face. He knew that most of the main forces of the Uighur army had gone to Lanzhou. There were no established Uighur cavalry in this area. He turned over and shouted: "Prepare to meet the enemy."

The Uighurs ran towards the war horses in a mess, but it was too late, and several black eagle army flags appeared in front of them.

Envoy Geza's face was pale. Looking at the Black Eagle Army who appeared in front of him like a devil, he sighed: "This horse cannot be saved."

The two Black Eagle cavalrymen, one left and one right, each surrounded the Uighur horses, and led the cavalry captains to Chen Meng and Tiechuanyuan. The Uighur army had only a hundred people, while the Black Eagle army had nearly a thousand people. The strength difference between the two sides was too great, so the Black Eagle army only surrounded the Uighur army and did not launch an attack immediately.

Chen Meng raised his war horse and came to the escort officer and the envoy Geza, and said, "What are you doing?" The bright knife tip almost touched the forehead of the escort officer.

The envoy Geza was confused. The Wu family town was in the territory of the Uighurs in Lanzhou. The Black Eagle Army of the Great Zhou came to the territory of the Uighurs with great power. He even asked the Uighur officials with confidence. He originally wanted to show the backbone of the Uighurs, but when he saw the fierce eyes of the Black Eagle Army and the blade with cold light, his scolding became an explanation. In the words of the Central Plains, he said: "I am the envoy of Geza, a different general in Lanzhou. I have met the governor from Fengzhou. Now I am preparing to return to Lanzhou. There is a saying among the Han people that when two armies fight, I am the envoy who comes to the army if they do not kill me."

When Envoy Geza said this, he saw the escort officer looking at him in surprise and contempt. He realized that he was too weak. So he raised his voice and said, "This is the small town of Wu family, the land of the Uighur Khanate. Why did your Great Zhou army come here and why did you come here?"

Chen Meng sneered twice and said, "Nothing is true. This town is a small town of Wujia. The town of Wujia is obviously a Han town. You Uighurs are here with so many horses, so it must be bad intentions."

The escort officer also understood the words of Zhongyuan. He defended himself: "I am the escort officer of the horse team. These horses were transported to Fengzhou according to the agreement between General Tu Shaodu and the Jiedushi of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Jiedushi knew about this."

Tie Chuanyuan heard them talking nonstop, interrupting the escort officer without hesitation, and said, "Since you were sent to Fengzhou, just hand over the horses to us. There is no need for you to send them far away. Now there is no time for you to do here, you can go back."

The escort officer was from a military general. When he heard this, he could no longer hold back. He ignored the huge gap in strength and drew out a scimitar and angrily scolded: "The Great Zhou army came to the Uighur territory and robbed Uighur military horses. It was really too much. He wanted a horse. Huh, ask me if I would agree with the scimitar in my hand?"

Tie Chuanyuan and Chen Meng looked at each other. The two were in agreement. At the same time, they raised their swords to attack the escort officer. Chen Meng raised his sword and grabbed the escort officer's throat. Tie Chuanyuan slashed at the escort officer's war horse with one knife. These two swords were as fast as lightning. In cooperation with tacit understanding, the escort officer had only time to block Chen Meng's attack, and could not stop Tie Chuanyuan from slashing towards the sword.

There were nearly a hundred Uighur soldiers in the escort team, and more than a dozen followed the escort officers. However, Chen Meng and Tie Chuanyuan fought as soon as they said they could fight, without any warning. When the Uighur soldiers reacted, the escort officers had already fallen heavily to the ground.

The Black Eagle Army soldiers raised the new waist knife - the Hou Family Knife, and forced the Uighur soldiers to go.

Seeing that there were too many Black Eagle soldiers, the Uighur envoy had to fight against the stone with eggs. He raised his hands and shouted anxiously: "Don't resist, give the horse to them."

Tiechuanyuan added: "Leave all the war horses you ride."

The Uighur envoy looked at the powerful Black Eagle cavalry, then looked at the escort officer who had climbed up from the ground and was extremely embarrassed. He hesitated for a while and said to the escort officer: "Stay the green mountains here, don't worry about the lack of firewood, let's dismount."

The escort official's nose, lips were all broken, his face was covered in blood, and he looked extremely pitiful. He knew that things had come to this point, and if he did not handle the matter as the Black Eagle Army said, he would definitely not be able to escape, so he ordered: "Everyone dismounted."

The Uighur soldiers got off their horses reluctantly.

The personal guard behind Chen Meng danced a few red flags. The Black Eagle Army slowly gave up a gap. The Uighur soldiers were full of anger. Under the blade of the Black Eagle Army, they could do nothing and came out of the gap one by one.

When the escort officer walked to the end, he said to Chen Meng: "I've handed over the horse to you. According to the previous agreement, this is a transaction. You should give us money or silk."

Chen Meng didn't care about this. He smiled and said, "The military commander of the Black Eagle Army is in Fengzhou City. You go and ask him for it, but I have no money."

The escort officer knew that asking for money from Chen Meng was like a scam with Hu, but he still couldn't help but tell Chen Meng about paying money. After Chen Meng smiled and refused, he followed the Uighur soldiers angrily.

After the Black Eagle Army captured Longxi, in order to prevent the Uighur army from counterattacking, Guo Jiong handed over the city defense of Longxi to Chen Renyi who arrived later. Chen Renyi came from the Zhengzhou army and was also a brave general. He performed extremely bravely in the battle to attack Qinzhou. After the Fengzhou War, Hou Dayong selected 2,500 younger soldiers from the 7,000 infantry troops stationed in various places to form a new army, with Chen Renyi as the commander-in-chief. Guo Jiong led the Black Eagle Army out of Longxi City and moved northwest. He prepared to block the reinforcements that the Lanzhou Uighur Army might have sent during the movement.

Chen Meng and Tiechuanyuan, who appeared in the Wu Family Town, were the vanguards of the Black Eagle Army. Chen Meng, the vanguard cavalry led by Tiechuanyuan, robbed Uighur horses in the Wu Family Town, and continued to advance, defeating small groups of Uighur troops several times, and at the farthest time he arrived at a village only twenty miles away from Lanzhou.

Guo Jiong led the main cavalry and infantry of the 4,000 Black Diao Army. After leaving Longxi, he advanced all the way northwest. The Black Diao Army's strategic goal of advancing west was to attack Uighur reinforcements and firmly control Longxi. However, the Lanzhou Uighur Army was weaker than expected. The Black Diao Army set out from Longxi and was unstoppable, and did not encounter the Uighur army effectively blocking it. By accident, the Black Diao Army approached Lanzhou.

At this time, the main force of the Lanzhou Uighur Army was still confronting the Renyu army in southern Liangzhou. The Lanzhou Uighur Army had only 4,000. They knew that the Black Eagle Army had suffered great consequences and could not stand in Lanzhou City.

The Black Eagle Army arrived at the suburbs of Lanzhou for only 5,000 people. There were no heavy weapons to siege and no rear combat. Therefore, Guo Jiong did not launch any siege. After sweeping the small Uighur troops outside Lanzhou, he calmly retreated back to the Great Zhou territory.

Gaihe died in battle, Longxi fell, and the Black Eagle Army's troops rushed to Lanzhou City. These three news hit Gesa like thunder, making Gesa dizzy. Based on Gesa's past temper, he must immediately send troops to Fengzhou and fight to the death with Hou Dayong. However, the pressure on Renyu's army was getting stronger and stronger, and he had no strength to divide his troops to fight against the Black Eagle Army.

After nearly two months of bloody battles, Ge Sa finally realized that war is not only a battle of courage, but also a battle of strength. The Lanzhou Uighur Army was severely damaged by the Wei River bank and it is difficult to recover in the short term. The Lanzhou Uighur Army with its brave and fearless fighting spirit is easy to win a battle, but it is even more difficult to win a war.

After understanding this truth, Ge Sa decided to withdraw his troops and return to Lanzhou.

Two months are just a short moment for people who are in normal circumstances, and for people with sharp changes in their environment, identity, etc., their psychology, thoughts, etc. often cause unexpected changes.

When Geza was the general of the magical arrow, he was roaming the battlefield, aroused his grudges, lived a free and easy life, and his love with Asi was as rich as honey, and his mellow fragrance. When he was the first to be a former general in Lanzhou, he won battles in a row, and he had the heroic spirit of "the hero in the world, who else can I do the same". The hero is a red flower, and his close lover is a green leaf. At this time, Geza often missed Asi who was missing.

But the situation changed rapidly. With less than two months since Gesa became the Lanzhou Uighur, the Lanzhou Uighurs were surrounded by enemies and had reached the end of their lives. Gesa was under the halo of glory, and he was as calm as ever, but in fact he had already had a sudden heart. Whenever Gesa was alone, he often thought of Tu Shaodu. This old man who committed suicide on the bank of Weishui was alone in the cracks, supporting the Lanzhou Uighurs in the cracks. It was not easy for more than 20 years.

After making up his mind to withdraw the troops, Geza red eyes and summoned the envoy of Keli, the king of Yalongjue A, Tubo, again.

The Yalong Jue'a tribe in Tubo in Qinghai and the Uighur Khanate bordered the Ganzhou Uighur Khanate. There were frequent frictions between the two sides. King Keli of Yalong Jue'a took advantage of the fierce battle between Khan Renyu and the Uighur Uighur Guess in Liangzhou, and sent an envoy to propose to Gesa, hoping to marry his daughter Zhuoma to Gesa. This was a political marriage, and King Yalong Jue'a king intended to use marriage to win a reliable and powerful ally for the tribe. In this way, the Uighur Khan Renyu's army did not dare to easily attack the Yalong Jue'a tribe.

When the envoy of Keli came, the situation had not deteriorated so quickly. Geza politely declined the marriage. At this time, Geza also urgently needed a reliable ally, so he agreed to the marriage. There was only one premise, that is, King Keli of Yalongjue A, Tubo, wanted to send troops from Qinghai to attack Renyu's army in the side so that the Geza army could retreat to Lanzhou smoothly.

Keli, the leader of the Yalong Jue'a tribe, came from the Tubo royal family. In 846 AD, after the Tubo Damozanpu was killed, the Tubo Kingdom split into four regimes. One was in Ali, that is, the King of Ali; one was in the Later Tibet. That is, the King of Yaze; one was in the Former Tibet, that is, the King of Lhasa; and the other was in Shannan, that is, the King of Yalong Jue'a. Among them, the King of Ali and the King of Lhasa were relatively powerful.

The Ali kingdom expanded westward and ruled the Ladakh area. The power of the Lhasa kingdom reached Kangdi. The Yalong Jue Ai kingdom later entered the Qinghai area. The descendants of the four-class families further split, and the Ali kingdom was divided into three parts: Mengyu, Xiangxiong and Buran; the Lhasa kingdom was divided into Chongboba, Jiangjiaowa, Labolangba, Zhiba, Yetangba, Lugba, Zangba, etc. Although the Yalong Jue Ai kingdom was small, it did not split again after entering the Qinghai Lake area. Instead, the power was larger than that of the Ali kingdom.

Keli was an ambitious leader of Tubo. It was his dream to rebuild the powerful Tubo Khanate. However, Yalong Juea lived by the Qinghai Lake, with Uighurs to the north, Dali, Shu and Zhou to the southwest respectively, and Yalong Juea tribes had too little living space.

After receiving the promise from Gesadi, Keli sent 5,000 Tubo soldiers to Khan Renyu without hesitation and rushed to Renyu's tent.

Khan Renyu defeated the Dangxiang army and was about to concentrate his strength to attack the Uighur army in Lanzhou. The Tubo people in Yalongjue suddenly sent troops, and the exhausted Renyu army had to divide the troops into two lines again. Gesa took the opportunity to withdraw his troops and return to Lanzhou. After Li reached his goal, he also withdrew his troops back to Qinghai.

At this point, starting from November of the second year of Xiande, a melee occurred in Qinzhou, Lanzhou, Liangzhou and Longxi, involving the Uighurs, Dangxiang, Tubo and the Great Zhou Dynasty. The curtain came to an end in February of the third year of Xiande. Tens of thousands of warriors shed their blood. Except for Longxi's change of masters, everything was restored to its original state.

On March 3, the sun began to appear in the northern land protruding its head. Plants were freed from the constraints of the cold winter and began to grow freely. And animals were in a hurry to find a spouse.

The Uighur Lanzhou couple Gesa and Keli's daughter Zhuoma held a grand wedding in Lanzhou City. Lanzhou City was very lively because of the marriage of hero Gesa and noble Zhuoma. The heavenly marriage made countless boys and girls in Lanzhou City imagined a lot.

After the news reached Fengzhou, Tu Shaodu's daughter Asi lost her value, and her imprisonment in Fengzhou courtyard ended immediately.

Asi was locked up in a small courtyard, and four maids took care of her life. Wuhai was old enough and was a housekeeper, so he was allowed to live in the same courtyard with Asi. The other young Uighurs were not so lucky and were all locked up in a cell in Fengzhou.

During the two months of detention, she didn't care about her, and no one even came to interrogate her. Except for the sergeant guarding the gate at the door, Asi seemed to be forgotten in the small courtyard of Fengzhou. Asi sat in the yard every day and did nothing, except watching the clouds flying around in the sky, she missed her father and Geza, but her father left forever. Therefore, every time someone opened the gate, she fantasized about Geza holding the beautiful star grass and taking herself out of this lifeless yard.

However, every day, the ugly maid who came in on time was the one who was responsible for delivering vegetables. She often had various acne on her face. Observing the growth process of the acne on her face became something that Asi was very interested.

On March 5, the sun came out on time and shone the yard vigorously.

Asi chatted with Wu Hai in the yard without saying a word. A middle-aged man who had never seen before walked into the yard calmly and said to Asi indifferently: "You can leave." Then he turned around and walked out of the yard.

Asi and Wu Hai stared blankly at the middle-aged man's back as he left, but did not realize what was going on for a while. Wu Hai looked at the open courtyard gate and suddenly shouted: "There are no soldiers outside the gate." Asi and Wu Hai tried to step out of the courtyard gate, but no one stopped them. There were people coming and going on the street. Several young men passed by the small courtyard and saw Asi's pretty gate. They quickly peeked at Asi, and then turned their heads embarrassedly.

Asi and Wu Hai walked out of the yard like sleepwalking. After standing in the street for a while, they finally realized that they were free.

Wu Hai, who was free, revitalized as a butler. He quickly found the Uighur merchants and carried out the signs of Tu Shaodu and Geza. With the flashing eyes of the Uighur merchants, he raised enough money.
Chapter completed!