Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 687
While talking, Zhan Xiongwu quickly helped Kou Zhun up, and Kou Zhun stopped being pretentious, so he stood up.More than 7000 people behind him have already cried and thanked Kou Zhun, and that kind of gratitude is all from the heart. After all, being rescued from the gate of hell, this profound feeling is hard to ignore even for the most ruthless person.

Kou Zhun returned the gift to more than 7000 people like a young adult, and raised his voice and said: "Don't worry, everyone, now that the Shanshen Village has been destroyed, I will ask the prince for a piece of land for you to help you rebuild your homeland and house your children." Life."

The captives were both surprised and happy when they heard this. They thought it was a blessing from heaven that Kou Zhun rescued them, but they didn't expect that this noble young man would help them build their own homeland.For a while, they had another commotion for a while, and then they knelt down to Kou Zhun again, worshiping Kou Zhun, chanting words, some spoke Chinese, and some spoke Qiang language, although Kou Zhun couldn't understand what they were saying , but also know the meaning of thanks, praise, blessing.

Kou Zhun returned the gift meticulously again, asked everyone to stand up and prepare, and then whispered to Zhan Xiongwu: "General Zhan, there are many tribes, large and small, scattered all over the Hengshan Mountains, far and near. Dealing with them is a temporary solution, not a root cause. What the teacher wants is real people, not just superficial submission. So what you and I do today is extremely important, and what the younger generation will do next is also something that the teacher values ​​very much matter."

Zhan Xiongwu is a pure warrior and general, and he has a vague understanding of what Kou Zhun said, but the specific reasons are not very clear.However, he knows one thing, a thing that has been proved by facts——all the things that Xiangfu Wang Yechen looks for, none of them are wrong so far.

Therefore, Zhan Xiong Wu said solemnly: "I understand, Mr. Kou, if you need something, please don't be polite."

Speaking of this, Kou Zhun suddenly found that more than 2000 of the 5000 captives were obviously different in mental state from the other [-]. They were all ragged and pale, like a group of refugees.

Seeing him staring at those people, Zhan Xiongwu explained: "These people are not pure Shanshenzhai people, they are captives brought back when other tribes fought against Shanshenzhai, and became slaves of Dongyang people. hard labor."

"Oh?" Kou Zhun's eyes moved slightly, thoughtfully.

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Zhang Dawei was originally a battalion commander in the imperial army of the capital of the Great Song Dynasty. Later, Han Hu joined the Huaxia Weifu with [-] imperial troops, and Zhang Dawei was one of the low-level officers.Later, because of his outstanding ability, when Ye Chen carried out the big reform of Huaxia Weifu, he was promoted to be the envoy of the Special Investigation Department of the Huaxia Weifu Intelligence Department. .And was once bought by Zhao Pu to act as Zhao Pu's secret son in the Huaxia Weifu, but in the end he was convinced by Ye Chen's personal charm and confessed to Ye Chen, thus gaining Ye Chen's attention.This time, Ye Chen selected the guard of the eight states, and Zhang Dawei stood out from more than a dozen envoys of the Huaxia Weifu to become the guard of Yanzhou.

In the past two months, Zhang Dawei led the 1 subordinates of the Special Investigation Department under his original command, and led the [-] troops assigned to him. The training was extremely strict. In addition, more than half of the Huaxia Guards of the Special Investigation Department were Huaxia Jin. Wei, who was brought by Ye Chen himself to participate in the brilliant record of a thousand cavalrymen breaking [-] people in the Southern Tang Dynasty. His personal force and ability experience is one or two better than ordinary Huaxia Wei. The two thousand cavalrymen trained strictly by them , as one can imagine.

Zhang Dawei held a horse-killing knife, wrapped in a blue armor, and stood under the sun, exuding a chilling hostility towards the three armies.

"The Gedo tribe of Tubo actually killed more than 100 officials of the salt department and labor labor for salt mining, and robbed the salt well. The prince was furious, and he would have been ordered to punish him!"

"Here!" The voice of the three armies was ordered, and even the eagle in the nine heavens fluttered away.

Two thousand Qingjia cavalry left Yanzhou City in a mighty manner, one man and three horses, and galloped towards Geduobu at an extremely fast speed.

The horses galloped wildly on the grassland Gobi. Every half an hour, the knights flew up and down on the horses, jumping from the back of one horse to the back of the other. The horses kept walking. Two hours later, The army had already left Yanzhou City eighty miles away.

Zhang Dawei didn't think it was difficult to kill Tubo Geduoluo. The only thing he had to worry about was that the tribe would run away.Because the settlement situation of Tubo tribes and Qiang Shanshen villages are different.

If you can't do a surprise attack and the opponent flees, it is too difficult to catch some wandering shepherds on the vast Gobi grassland.

According to the plan, in another half an hour, the army will arrive at the Geduo tribe. Zhang Dawei is going to divide his troops here, one will raid the Geduo tribe, and the other will be on guard outside to kill those who slip through the net.

Zhang Dawei handed a command arrow to the deputy general Zhou Yu (formerly an envoy of the Huaxia Weifu's Security Department) and said: "I will personally lead [-] soldiers and horses to carry out a surprise attack. Zhou Yu! You lead [-] soldiers and horses to intercept In the direction where Gedo's department may escape. Responsible for peripheral strangulation, and make sure not to let a single enemy escape."

Zhou Yu knelt down on one knee and took the command arrow, shouting 'No' loudly.

"The key to this battle lies in speed and suddenness. Only in this way can the prince's military orders be fulfilled while reducing casualties."

"Rest for half an hour now, and then split up"

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The big sun with fireworks finally slanted westward slowly. Zhang Dawei gave an order, and the cavalrymen who were resting immediately got up, rectified their equipment, remounted their horses, and divided them into two routes. Zhang Dawei and Zhou Yu took them and continued to gallop north.

After resting for half an hour, both people and horses were much more energetic, and the earth galloped back under the hooves of the horses.

The Gobi is desolate, and the original Chi wax statue.

There is a slow hillside under the foothills. This is the south side of the foothills. It is sunny, and there are half-protruded mountain depressions on the left and right. It can block the cold wind in winter. In addition, the thick camel felt and cattle felt are enough for the herdsmen to resist. The severe cold of this winter.

A gully spring pours down from the hillside, and on the right side of the spring is a sparse forest, where the shepherds can cut wood for fire and draw water.There are about 220 felt tents, which can be regarded as a medium-sized Tibetan tribe in the territory of Bazhou under Ye Chen's rule.

In front of the felt tent, Tashi Dorje was wearing a robe that was taken off the Han people when he robbed the salt well a few days ago, and he was slaughtering a sheep in front of the tent. Flying up and down, the sheepskin has been completely peeled off.Today is his son's full moon, and he wants to invite relatives and friends to drink and celebrate in the evening, so he needs to prepare in advance.

There was a big pot next to it, and his wife was squatting by the stove, filling the bottom with firewood, and the water in the pot was already boiling.

At this moment, there were bursts of shrill horn sounds of "Woo... woo..." in the distance.

This was the sound of the Gedo Ministry's alarm. Tashi Dorje was startled, and hurriedly took two steps forward, threw the whole sheep into the boiling water, and rushed towards the tied horse not far away.The horse hadn't put on the saddle, but the sound of the horn became more and more urgent. Obviously, the enemy's situation was very urgent and he couldn't care less. Tashi Dorje took the longbow from the saddle on the ground and hung it on his shoulder, and took another Hu Jian slanted his shoulders, and leaped onto the horse's back.

His mother-in-law, who had just conceived, called out in a hurry: "Tashi Dorje, I want to come back alive."

Tashi Dorji turned around and shouted: "Don't worry about me, you hurry up and find a place to hide the child first, the trumpet sounds very urgent, there must be a strong enemy coming to attack."

At the same time that Tashi Dorje got on his horse, other men in the yurts also came out with weapons. Whether they were young, middle-aged or old, even thirteen or fourteen-year-olds, they all wore fat and bulky leather robes. Or the robes snatched or exchanged from the Han people, but they mounted their horses with their bows neatly, and quickly gathered towards the front.

The alarm on the hilltops on both sides. The horn is still blowing, and it is getting more and more urgent. Immediately afterwards, five horses galloped from the vast Gobi grassland, waving their weapons in the distance, shouting something loudly.

"It's Tsering Wangdui them." Zhaxi Duoji looked at them with his hands on the awning, and suddenly called out.

Tsering Wangdui is the guard ranger of the Gedo tribe today. Seeing him running back with four other rangers lifelessly, the soldiers of the Gedo tribe tightened their hearts. With their long sabers out, a hastily assembled team of nearly a thousand cavalrymen quickly formed a wedge formation and went forward to meet them.

"Let's go, let's go. The Yanzhou Han army is coming!" Tashi Dorje rushed to the front, and he had heard Tsering Wangdui's cry clearly. He was just startled when he heard horseshoes thundering, and a large group of cavalry suddenly appeared at the mountain pass , rolling in, gold and iron horses, murderous.

Immediately afterwards, the sunlight in the sky suddenly dimmed, and countless arrow feathers shot up into the night, flying towards them overwhelmingly.

"Cering Wangdui, hiding under the belly of the horse in the stirrup!"

The opponent was still an arrow away, and when he fired an arrow at this time, they couldn't hit them at all. Tashi Dorje didn't even bother to pick up the bow, and put his hands around his mouth, only loudly warning Tsering Wangdui who was within the range of the shot.But then he was horrified to find that the sharp arrows of those iron cavalry broke through the range he knew, and the overwhelming sharp arrows shot at them, the arrows rushed like rain, and he could even clearly hear the arrows that pierced through the air. the wind.How did they know that the special arrows prepared by the new strong bow developed by Huaxia Weifu Weapons Department, with the same strength, have a much longer range than ordinary strong bows.

All the knights in Gedobu looked at the sky in horror like Tashi Dorji. Countless arrows were reflected in their pupils, getting closer and closer, until the entire pupils were completely covered by the sharp force like rain. covered by arrows...

(End of this chapter)