The journey north is far and the battle south is hard.

The flags are like birds' wings, and the armors are like fish scales.

The cold water hurts the horse, and the sad wind kills people.

The heart understands the sun, and the dark dust of thousands of miles away.

"Fighting South"

Tang Dynasty: Yang Jiong

——I am the dividing line—

In the southeast of Chang'an City, Wusong Station near Hengba Guandu.

"You said a large number of Taiping thieves suddenly emerged from Lantian Valley?"

Zhu Xieyisheng, who was being secretly criticized by Cui An, also looked at the Anqing clan leader who had been defeated from Lantian City and led the remnants to retreat, Shi Jingcun, the governor of the Nine Palaces, and his group:

"That's true. The situation that had been struggling in Lantian City before was just an illusion created by the thief army. From beginning to end, there were only a group of thief soldiers in garments, and even those in armor. I'm afraid that this was not the great plan that had been planned for a long time!"

Shi Jingcun, who threw away his helmet while running away while his gray hair was spread on his shoulders and stuck to his cheeks with sweat, also said in a heavy tone:

"As a result, when the men relaxed for a while, they were killed by many armored thieves overnight and broke through the camp. There were also a large number of people and horses from Lantian Valley who were fighting in turn to fight. In addition, countless firearms roared and burned, making the animals and horses disturbed and difficult to ride and gather together."

"My army then fought in the camp until dawn, but in the end he was still unable to resist the entrusted responsibility and had to turn around separately..."

"In this case, I'm afraid that the Sagate tribe in Dachang Pass would be fine. Nieji, when was the last time the Sagate tribe contacted the formation?"

Zhu Xieyisheng no longer continued to hold him accountable, but instead locked his thick eyebrows again.

"It was just four o'clock in the afternoon two days ago. Please transfer a batch of pack animals to ship them to ship them."

The general Shatuo, named Nie-tie Chicken, bowed and replied:

"not good!"

At this time, Zhu Xieyisheng did not need to speak. As one of the few Tang people in his subordinates, the only secretary among the generals who dressed in a hip-sanpu head, the man Gaiyu, who was deeply trusted by Zhu Xieyisheng, shouted out first:

"If there is something unexpected and unknown to the Saggi tribe, I am afraid that the crisis in the south of Chang'an City will also be the subject of the plan for the headquarters."

"So, Tuoba Sigong is incredible to go there."

Zhu Xieyi Sheng said with awe-inspiring eyes:

"Not only can I go, I also need to send someone to contact me to show my knowledge..."

Gai Yu continued to say seriously:

"Then our army's Yanba River quickly headed north to the east Yiyingpan, and then we were at peace with the troops and horses in Shangjing City."

"It's very good... Just as you say, you will stand up and keep your selves!"

Zhu Xieyi Sheng made a quick decision without hesitation:

"Subordinate is here."

On the spot, Zuodua, who was born in a powerful tyrant in the border town, Kang Junli, and Yierdua, gave Li Cunzhang one after another.

"Let you two lead the target and alternately choose the next best army and police. Don't try to attack the thief and the few, try your best to delay the enemy's situation first."

Zhu Xieyi Sheng ordered loudly:

"Get orders,"

Kang Junli, who was narrow-faced and Li Cunzhang, also agreed loudly. However, when they received the order to go out to prepare for orders to gather people, they received a small message from Zhu Xieyi Holy Office:

"Advancement\My Lord has a word. After a little entanglement with the bandit army, he can lead his troops westward and make a convergence with the Dangxiang army of Tuoba (Sigong) who stayed behind..."

As for the troops led by Li Kejie, who had been sent to Chang'an City to investigate and respond, waiting for help, the troops led by Li Kexiu, who was waiting for help, seemed to have been forgotten by everyone at once.

Since Zhu Xieyisheng did not take the initiative to mention the provisional military discussion, no one would talk too much after the military discussion. After all, under some intentional or unintentional arrangement, this partial army also gathered most of the relatives and old relatives of Li Youjin, the former governor of Weizhou and the commander of Shatuo's tribe.

In addition, under the command of Li Kerang, deputy envoy of the Datong Army in the south of the city, as the united sons of Weizhou (fiscated soldiers) and the commander of the tent guards of the tribes of Shatuo, it can be said that most of the old teams of Li Youjin, who once led the tribes of the three surnames of Shatuo, lived together.

The corresponding relationship can only be understood but not expressed in words. After all, although Li Youjin has made great contributions to protecting Zhu Xie’s tribes, he has also made great efforts to deal with and contributed to the return of Zhu Xie and his son.

However, after Zhu Xie Chixin held the tribe's power and handed over all the conquests to Zhu Xie Yi Sheng; as time went by and the situation gradually changed, things inevitably changed.

Especially during the conquest of the government army, the young and strong sects in the tribe headed by Zhu Xieyisheng inevitably rose and completely grasped the military power. The old-school tribe leaders also had different degrees of differentiation.

Some people began to feel that he was too weak and difficult to take on great responsibilities, while others felt that his daily performance and methods of daily life were too Tang Ren and a little humble, and he had completely lost his true identity from Sha Tuo Jianer in the other side of the desert.

The so-called "bearing humiliation and heavy burdens" of leading his troops to surrender and protect the remnants of the tribe are far less than those of the old deeds and momentary graces of the remnants of the tribe, just like going out of the Great Wall alone for several years, gathering together and creating a Zhu Xieyi Sheng who followed the army, which is even more dazzling and heroic.

Although Li Youjin has always shown obedience and cooperation in everything, as the general of Zhu Xie's transitional period after the death of Chixin, the popularity and influence he possesses are inevitably reflected directly or indirectly through the meticulous trivial matters of collision and conflict between various new and old factions.

In addition, this time, after he was seriously injured in the conflict in front of Lantian Pass shortly after his first battle, the tendency of the people among the Shatuo tribe changed subtly. Therefore, according to the survival philosophy circulating on the grassland, a wolf with a front head whose minions were completely removed is the best and most reassuring ending, allowing it to survive.

After all, the path to growth and rise of any ethnic group has its corresponding sacrifice and a stepping stone for sacrifice.

——I am the dividing line of stepping stone—

In the south of Chang'an City, Li Kerang, deputy envoy of the Datong Army, was also fighting hard for his survival. The Guihun tribes, which formed the main part of the Datong Army, had already collapsed with the leading Helian clan taking the lead in fleeing; as for the Tatar coalition forces from various tribes north of Yinshan, they even went their separate ways when they saw that the situation was not good.

After all, most of the men under his command had low morale and fighting spirit, and they simply pulled them over to make up for the chaotic troops who were pretending to be feints. So in the end, those who gathered around him and were able to rush out in an organization were only more than a thousand tent guards in the Weizhou Tuanlianhe who had abandoned the baggage and flag guards;

However, his bad luck and disaster were not due to this. After several attempts to break through the enemy's formation that he had been constantly encountering unexpectedly, he was defeated and repelled. Only then did he wake up and turn eastward and walk along the city wall, and at this time there were only more than a hundred cavalry left beside him.

At this time, the luck that seemed to have come late finally favored him. The thieves appeared one after another in the battlefield in the south of the city, and then rushed into Chang'an City one after another, causing the increasingly fierce fireworks and fierce fighting, but temporarily ignored such a small fish that escaped the net that was running against the moat.

However, when he went through hardships to bypass the long outer wall of Chang'an, he came to Yanxing's gate in the southeast section of the city and shouted loudly, wanting to obtain assistance and support from the government troops stationed there; but because he lost any object that could indicate his identity, he was set up by the city without saying anything, and more than a dozen cavalrymen died on the spot and followed him in person.

Li Kerang couldn't help but flee north with hatred. He ran along Chunming Gate and Tonghua Gate to outside Taihe Gate east of Daming Palace on Longshouyuan. However, no defender was willing to accept and accommodate survivors like them to seek refuge in the city, and would not inform him of Cui Xianggong; on the contrary, these mounts were exhausted to death by half.

Finally, Li Keran could only take the last dozen riders to escape with his lament and howling one after another; because in his memory, some of the Shatuo herds were grazing in the long-lost royal stables there.

Compared with Li Kerang, who finally escaped, the Fengcheng Army envoy Li Kexiu, who led his troops to support and support, crashed into the Taiping Army's formation in the south of the city; and crashed into the Taiping Army's formation in the south of the city. In these encounters, the Shatuo army originally relied on the vassal cavalry that was originally rushing like the wind and shooting far and near, and also easily dispersed and dispersed under the roar of a large number of equipment guns and cannons in the preset camp of the Taiping Army.

These nomadic cavalry with only leather armor and leather robes and small skin shields could not stop the lead projected by gunpowder from penetrating through; their hands were tied with horn bows and bids and they had not reached enough range, so they were not sure, so they were beaten by people and horses from afar and blood was splattered all over the ground;

The mounts under their crotch were more shocked and frightened by unprecedented flames and roars. Instead, they rushed up one after another, and they all jumped up, and they were all scrambling to scatter, or they rushed to avoid them and collided in succession, and rolled into a ball. However, they could no longer maintain and form any decent impact.

Therefore, after he personally led his troops to rush left and right several times, Li Kexiu couldn't help but find that most of his troops had become perfect teams. Because their mounts and pack animals were either frightened and fled, or had to be voluntarily given up and slaughtered, so as not to become factors that disrupt and shake their own positions.

However, the Shatuo flag and the white copper flying bird flag that he held high in the air became magnets in this turbulent battlefield. No matter how hard he fought and broke through, he could not get rid of the thief army that was constantly scrambling to surround him from all directions; he finally surrounded him in the ruins of the Shaoling original name Langguan Town.
Chapter completed!