Chapter 3552 Xiao Guan
Although the soldiers guarding the straight pass are not elite, and many of them are already old, they were all veterans who accompanied His Majesty Li Er in his campaigns in the north and south. Although it is a bit difficult to go into battle to kill the enemy now, the experience is extremely rich. Under the command of Li Jing and Li Ji, they had fought successive battles with the Turks and even stormed into the tiger's den. Just from the sound of horse hooves, they could tell that this was a cavalry force of more than 20,000 people.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to create such an aura of landslides and earth-shattering!
But the problem is that most of the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong were mobilized to go to the Eastern Expedition. Although the Guanlong clan gathered more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Chang'an, most of them were infantry. They did not have much control over the army and they seriously lacked horses and could never gather them together. Such a large number of cavalry.
There seems to be only one answer, and that is that the Hu tribe outside the Great Wall invaded from the Hetao area and wanted to go straight to Chang'an while the Yellow River was frozen!
"Wow!" More than ten soldiers stood up and drew their swords. The team made a decisive decision at the moment: "Go and raise the beacon fire to warn Chang'an. The rest will follow me to fight!"
Even though they knew that the enemy had more than 20,000 cavalry, the galloping momentum was enough to instantly crush a few soldiers into powder, but no one from the team below was timid.
He knew he was going to die, but he had no fear at all.
Two people immediately got up, ran behind the house, and climbed up the snow-covered stone steps to the beacon tower, intending to light the beacon fire as a warning.
The rest of the team was rushing out of the house. Unexpectedly, as soon as they stepped out, countless cavalry rushed straight towards them. The first cavalryman held the reins with one hand and shouted: "The guards of the right camp are returning to the capital, and they are not allowed to set off beacon fire!"
More than a dozen veterans of the level were stunned when they heard this. In addition, all the cavalry in front of them were in Tang army uniforms. How could they look like Hu cavalry? I was immediately confused and didn't know what to do.
The cavalry in front of them did not stop, and the horses drove awkwardly to one side in front of more than ten veterans. The soldiers on the horses jumped off the horses and violently threw the veterans to the ground.
"Put down your weapons, disarm without killing!"
A team member yelled, pushed an old soldier to the ground, raised his head and said to the soldier behind him who had just jumped off the horse: "Charge to the beacon tower!"
"Here!"
More than a dozen Youtun guardsmen rushed up to the beacon tower without stopping. The two soldiers on the beacon tower had just set the beacon fire on fire.
"In the day, a beacon is raised, and at night, a fire is raised." Dry firewood mixed with tamarisk branches, reeds, weeds, etc. is placed below, and moist firewood is placed above. The dry firewood is ignited and roasted, and the wet firewood produces a large amount of smoke. Drifting in the wind, it can be seen for miles.
To produce a lot of smoke from wet firewood, you need a strong fire from dry firewood, so it takes a certain amount of time to light the beacon warning.
The firewood here had just been ignited, and the guards from Youtun over there had already rushed to the beacon tower, quickly subdued the two veterans and extinguished the beacon fire.
A few wisps of thin smoke were blown away by the howling north wind, disappearing in the blink of an eye...
Under the beacon tower, more than a dozen subdued checkpoint guards watched countless cavalry galloping past in front of them. The ice and snow on the ground trampled by the horses' hooves raised misty ice slag and snow foam. The entire army rushed forward like a fierce roar. The snow dragon!
This is Youtunwei!
Naturally, the checkpoint guards' military uniforms and flags fluttering in the wind, especially such a powerful and elite aura, cannot be faked.
But recently I have only heard of Hu cavalry heading north from Liangzhou to Mobei. Is there ever any news of Youtun Guards returning to Beijing?
However, the scene in front of them was real. No wonder the guards were shocked, because Chang'an was in revolt, and countless Guanlong troops besieged the imperial city in an attempt to depose the prince of the East Palace. However, Fang Jun, the general of the Youtun Guard, was the absolute leader of the East Palace. At this moment, it was originally The Youtun Guards, who should be in the Western Region, suddenly appeared outside Xiaoguan like a divine soldier. Even a fool would understand his purpose.
The Guanlong army is in big trouble...
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Fang Jun sent his troops to help Chang'an. The cavalry from Youtunwei, Anxi Army, and the Gar family met together. The number of troops was close to 30,000, all of which were elite cavalry. Heading north from Liangzhou, we crossed the Yellow River near Shatuo, plunged into the Long Mountains, and dashed all the way along the Ziwu Ridge Straight Road.
The scouts in front galloped forward, and all the checkpoints, fortresses, and beacon towers along the way were conquered before the army arrived. Among the more than ten beacon towers from the bank of the Yellow River to Xiao Pass, none of them successfully set off beacon warning. Thirty thousand people The army surged forward and suddenly appeared under Xiao Pass.
The guard general of Xiaoguan is Li Lingkui, the king of Lu, from the Li Tang clan.
Li Lingkui was having a meal in the military camp detached from the pass. He heard that the scouts came to report that tens of thousands of cavalry were coming from the north. They arrived at the pass after burning incense. He was so frightened that he knocked over the dishes with a shaking hand and a bowl of hot food. All the porridge was spilled on his crotch. Fortunately, the clothes were heavy in winter and did not hurt the vital parts, otherwise the key parts would have been burned to the point of peeling off the skin...
While putting on his armor, Li Lingkui quickly walked out of the barracks with his soldiers, followed the stone steps to the gate of the pass, and asked urgently: "Why did tens of thousands of cavalry suddenly come? Could it be that the Mobei Hu people detoured to Hetao to cross the Yellow River, hoping to Invading Guanzhong? ”
His thoughts were almost the same as those of the previous guards at the beacon tower, and he did not think of the Youtun Guards at all.
After all, although the world has been at peace and all barbarians have surrendered in recent years, the Hu tribe in Mobei invaded the pass many times. The most famous one was that Jieli Khan led an army of more than 100,000 people to the city of Chang'an and confronted His Majesty Li Er on the Weishui River. The two sides of the Taiwan Strait forced His Majesty Li Er to sign the "Weihe River Alliance". It would be reasonable if the Hu people took advantage of the Chang'an mutiny and moved in to take advantage.
As he walked into the gate building, opened the window on the north side and looked out, he said angrily: "Are all the Hanhai Protectorate a bunch of idiots? Two days ago, they went to Beijing to report that Xue Yantuo wanted to rebel, but today they let it go Tens of thousands of Hu people went straight to Guanzhong? This is simply unreasonable!”
The scout hurriedly said: "Your Majesty Mingjian, it is not the Mobei Hu tribe, but the Youtun Guards..."
"What?!"
Li Lingkui was startled, and just as he was about to ask again, he heard a thunderous sound of horse hooves rolling in from far to near. In front of the pass, at the end of the pass between two mountain ridges, countless cavalrymen came galloping with ice and snow foam, and the flags of the right guard were fluttering in the wind and snow, majestic and murderous!
Li Lingkui's eyes almost popped out, and he couldn't speak clearly: "This, this, this... isn't this Youtun Guard in the Western Region? Why did it suddenly appear here?"
After saying that, I understood.
The stupid Xue Yantuo rebelled, and the stupid Huqi from the Western Regions rushed to Mobei to quell the rebellion! It was basically the smoke released by Fang Jun to cover up his whereabouts heading straight towards Guanzhong!
Seeing countless cavalry pouring into the pass like a tide, Li Lingkui fought between the two groups and sighed: "Now those guys in Guanlong are in big trouble!"
The surging movement of the Youtun Guards was earth-shattering, and the entire pass was shaken. The guards swarmed to the city pass, bows and arrows drawn, swords unsheathed, and they stared eagerly at the Youtun Guards gathered at the foot of the pass. However, the densely packed cavalry troops nearby and the steady stream of cavalry troops in the distance made the guards look pale and worried.
It’s not that we are timid, there are simply too many enemies...
A group of generals poured into the city tower, and when they saw Li Lingkui, they all stepped forward: "Your Majesty, capture the thief first. Capture the king first. You can kill the enemy general with a crossbow on the city head, leaving him leaderless and his troops will collapse!"
"Mother!"
Li Lingkui stepped forward and kicked the captain to the ground. He still couldn't understand his hatred. He went up and kicked him a few times, and cursed angrily: "You think I didn't die quickly enough, right? Go and see how many people are under the city." There are tens of thousands of cavalry! Our garrison company has three thousand. No, they can annihilate this Xiao Guan with a swarm! Mother! Fang Jun still has some relationship with me, maybe he can spare my life. Didn't you force Fang Jun to kill Youtunwei General like this? Are you going to do surgery on me?”
The lieutenant's nose was bruised and his face was swollen after being kicked by him, and he did not dare to say anything.
These generals were all Li Lingkui's confidants. When they saw their prince behaving like this, they knew what he was thinking. They hurriedly stepped forward and said: "The Youtun Guards are powerful and invincible!"
Take a look at these murderous cavalry under the city. They are all elites in a hundred battles. Once they launch an attack on the city, they can defeat Xiao Pass in an instant.
Another person said: "The Youtun Guards returned to Guanzhong without anyone noticing, and they must be heading towards Guanlong. Why should we act like villains in vain? We might as well let go of the city gates and let them pass!"
But some people expressed concern: "What if Youtunwei arrests us when we pass the border?"
Li Lingkui touched the beard on his chin and said thoughtfully: "I'm not afraid of that. Although his right guard is arrogant, even if he doesn't care about his status as the prince, he still has to care about some kinship, right? The second brother-in-law of the second room, but He is still my brother!" (End of Chapter)