Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3555 Xiao Guan
Although the soldiers guarding the Zhidao checkpoint are not elite, and many of them are already old, they are all old soldiers who accompanied His Majesty Li Er in the northern and southern expeditions.Although it is a bit embarrassing to go into battle to kill the enemy now, but the experience is extremely rich.They once fought the Turkic people repeatedly under the command of Li Jing and Li Ji, and even went straight to the tiger's den. Just from the sound of horseshoes, they can tell that this is a cavalry force of more than 2 people.

Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to create such an aura of landslides and ground cracks!
But the problem is that most of the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong were dispatched to march east. Although the Guanlongmen faction gathered more than [-] soldiers and horses to besiege Chang'an, most of them were infantry. They did not have much control over the army and they were seriously short of horses. Such a number of cavalry.

There seems to be only one answer, and that is that the Hu people outside the Great Wall invaded from the Hetao area and intended to reach Chang'an while the Yellow River was frozen!

"Wow!" More than a dozen soldiers all got up and drew their horizontal sabers. The team made a decisive decision: "Go, two people raise the beacon to warn Chang'an, and the rest will follow me to fight!"

Even though they knew that the enemy had more than [-] cavalry, and the momentum of galloping and galloping was enough to crush a few soldiers into powder in an instant, no one from the front of the team was timid.

Knowing that he must die, he has no fear.

Immediately, two people got up, flew to the back of the house, climbed up the snow-covered stone steps to the beacon tower, intending to light the beacon as a warning.

The rest of them were rushing out of the house with the team, but just as they stepped out, countless cavalry rushed straight in front of them. The first cavalry held the reins with one hand and shouted: "The right guard returns to the capital, don't set off the beacon fire!"

More than a dozen veterans at the checkpoint were stunned when they heard this, and these cavalry in front of them were all in Tang army uniforms, so how could they look like half horsemen?Immediately stunned on the spot, not knowing what to do.

The cavalry in front of them didn't stop, and the horses passed in front of more than a dozen old soldiers. The soldiers immediately jumped off the horses and threw the old soldiers to the ground.

"Put down your weapons, disarm and don't kill!"

A team was roaring, pinned an old soldier to the ground, raised his head and said to the soldier behind him who had just jumped off his horse: "Rush to the beacon tower!"

"Here!"

More than a dozen Youtun guards kept walking and rushed to the beacon tower in a swarm.The two soldiers on the beacon tower just ignited the beacon fire.

"Raise the beacon during the day, and raise the fire at night." Dry firewood mixed with red willow branches, reeds, weeds, etc. is placed on the bottom, and wet firewood is placed on the top. When the dry firewood is ignited and baked, a lot of smoke will be produced. Above the swaying wind, it can be seen for miles.

To produce a large amount of smoke from wet firewood, the fire of dry firewood needs to be quite large, so it takes a certain amount of time to light a beacon as a warning.

The firewood had just been ignited here, and the guards from the right village had rushed to the beacon tower, quickly subdued the two old soldiers, and extinguished the beacon fire.

A few wisps of thin smoke were blown away by the howling north wind, and there was no trace in the blink of an eye...

Under the beacon tower, more than a dozen subdued checkpoint guards watched countless cavalry gallop past in front of their eyes. The ice and snow trampled by the horseshoes on the ground raised misty ice slag and snow foam, and the whole army rushed like a ferocious roar. Xuelong!

This is Youtunwei!
The guards at the checkpoint naturally made the military uniforms of the right guards and the banners waving in the wind, especially the aggressive and elite aura, absolutely impossible to pretend.

But recently, I only heard that Hu cavalry went north from Liangzhou to Mobei. Has there ever been news of You Tunwei returning to Beijing?
But the scene in front of us is real, no wonder the guards were shocked, because Chang'an was making a coup, countless Guanlong troops besieged the imperial city to dethrone the prince of the East Palace, and Fang Jun, the Great General of Youtunwei, was the absolute team member of the East Palace. You Tunwei, who should be in the Western Regions, suddenly appeared outside Xiaoguan like a magic soldier, even a fool would understand the purpose.

The Guanlong army is in big trouble...

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Fang Jun dispatched his troops to assist Chang'an, and the cavalry from Youtunwei, Anxi Army, and Gar family gathered together, with a strength of nearly [-], all elite cavalry.From Liangzhou to the north, cross the Yellow River near Shatuo, plunge into Longshan Mountain, and rush all the way along the Ziwuling Straight Road.

The scouts in front galloped on horseback, and all the checkpoints, forts, and beacon towers along the way were conquered before the army arrived. From the bank of the Yellow River to the more than ten beacon towers under Xiaoguan, none of them successfully set off a beacon to warn. The army rushed forward and suddenly appeared under Xiao Guan.

The guard of Xiaoguan is Li Tang's clan, Li Lingkui, King of Lu.

Li Lingkui was eating in a military camp that had been devolved from the pass, when he heard a report from a scout that tens of thousands of cavalry had come from the north, and they arrived at the pass after burning a stick of incense. The porridge spilled all over the crotch.Fortunately, the clothes are heavy in winter, and no vital parts are hurt, otherwise the key parts would have been scalded to peel off their skin...

While putting on his armor, Li Lingkui walked out of the barracks with his own soldiers, climbed the stone steps to the pass gate, and asked anxiously: "Why did tens of thousands of cavalry suddenly come? Could it be that the Mobei Hu people crossed the Yellow River by detouring Hetao and wanted to Into the Kou Guanzhong?"

His thoughts were almost the same as those guards of the Beacon Tower before, and he didn't think of You Tunwei at all.

After all, although the world has been peaceful and the four barbarians have surrendered in recent years, the Hu tribe in Mobei invaded Guanzhong many times. The most famous one is that Jieli Khan led an army of more than [-] to the city of Chang'an, and confronted His Majesty Li Er in the Weishui River On both sides of the strait, His Majesty Li Er was forced to sign the "Wei River Alliance". It would be reasonable and reasonable if the Hu people took advantage of the Chang'an mutiny to drive straight in and want to gain some advantage.

As he walked into the entrance building, he came to the north side and opened the window to look out. He said angrily, "Are all the idiots in the Hanhai Protectorate's Mansion? Two days ago, he went to Beijing to report that Xue Yantuo wanted to rebel, so let's let it go today." Tens of thousands of Hu people went straight to Guanzhong? It is simply unreasonable!"

The scout hurriedly said: "My lord Mingjian, it's not the Hu tribe in Mobei, but the Youtunwei..."

"what?!"

Li Lingkui was startled, and was about to ask again, when he heard the thunderous sound of horseshoes coming from far and near.In front of the pass, at the end of the pass between the two mountain ridges, countless cavalrymen galloped across the ice and snow, and the banner of the right guard was flying and fluttering in the snow, majestic and murderous!
Li Lingkui's eyeballs almost popped out, and he couldn't speak fluently: "This, this... Isn't this You Tunwei in the Western Regions, why did it suddenly appear here?"

After speaking, I understand.

The fart Xue Yantuo rebelled, and the fart Hu Qi from the Western Regions rushed to Mobei to quell the rebellion!It was simply the smoke released by Fang Jun to cover up his whereabouts as he went straight to Guanzhong!
Seeing countless cavalry rushing towards the pass, Li Lingkui fought with each other, and sighed: "The guys in Guanlong are in big trouble now!"

The surging movement of the Right Tunwei was earth-shattering, and the entire pass was shaken. The guards flocked to the city gate, drew their bows and arrows and drew their knives horizontally, staring at the right Tunwei gathered under the pass.It's just that the densely packed nearby and continuous cavalry troops in the distance made the guards look pale and worried.

It's not that we are timid, there are too many enemies...

A group of generals and schools rushed into the tower, and when they saw Li Lingkui, they stepped forward one after another: "My lord, capture the king first before capturing the thief, and you can kill the enemy general with a crossbow on the top of the city, making them leaderless, and their soldiers will be defeated!"

"Mother!"

Li Lingkui stepped forward and kicked the captain who was speaking to the ground. He still couldn't understand his hatred. He went up and kicked a few times, and said angrily: "You think I didn't die fast enough, right? Go and see how many people are there in the city. There are tens of thousands of cavalry! Our guards don’t even have [-] soldiers, and Xiao Guan can be wiped out with a swarm! Mother! That Fang Jun still has some relationship with Lao Tzu, maybe he can spare Lao Tzu’s life, you Isn't it forcing Fang Jun to take the knife on me by shooting and killing the general of Youtunwei?"

The captain's nose was bruised and his face was swollen from being kicked by him, and he dared not say more.

These generals are all Li Lingkui's confidantes, seeing his lord's attitude, he knew his intentions, hurried forward and said: "The Right Guards are powerful and invincible!"

Take a look at the murderous cavalry below the city, they are all elites in all battles, once they launch an attack on the city, they can conquer Xiaoguan in an instant.

Another person said: "You Tunwei returned to Guanzhong without anyone noticing this time, he must be heading for Guanlong, why should we be villains in vain? Why don't we let go of the city gate and let it pass!"

However, some people expressed concern: "What if Youtunwei arrests us by the way when we pass through the border, what should we do?"

Li Lingkui stroked the beard on his chin, and pondered: "I'm not afraid. Although he is arrogant, even if he doesn't care about his status as the prince, he still has some kind of kinship, right? Fang Er's brother-in-law, can you?" He's still the king's own brother!"

(End of this chapter)