Followed by Han Qi and Niu Er, Xu Huai came out of the military camp on horseback. After a while, he saw a group of cavalry galloping towards the East Street; the horse's hooves trampled the stone street rapidly like dense and dull spring thunder.
Echoes in the streets and alleys.
What happened last night, it's hard to imagine that Ge Boyi would take the initiative to inform the Supervisor of the Military Envoy if something happened. Xu Huai walked near Nanyu Lane and saw many soldiers wearing armor and swords in the streets.
Search the house.
Seeing Xu Wuqi and Zhou Jing coming from the alley, Xu Huai asked in a low voice: "What's going on?"
Xu Wuqi said: "Yesterday, thirty-one people were killed in Nuanxianglou on the street, most of them were Tibetan people. After the incident spread in the city, the Tibetan people were afraid, and many Tibetan people wanted to escape from the city. However, Ge
Boyi had ordered early in the morning to intensify the search for Khitan spies, and the four cities had banned Tibetan people from entering and exiting. There had just been news that there was some trouble in the North City. Two Tibetan people refused to obey the control, and tried to break through the north gate with a knife and leave the city.
Three or four city gate defenders were wounded before they were killed. Judging from the situation, Ge Boyi directly dispatched more soldiers and horses from the personal barracks to directly strengthen the search of the city - we have already withdrawn all the manpower from the outpost house.
return."
Ge Boxiong's soldiers want to conduct a carpet search throughout the city, and it is difficult to miss the few sentry houses they have in the city. Even if they arrange the manpower in these few sentry houses, they are not afraid of being treated as Khitan spies, but as a foreigner
It is hard to explain why people living in the city neither seek refuge with relatives or friends nor earn a legitimate living.
Faced with this situation, Xu Wuqi, Zhou Jing and the others could only withdraw their manpower to Nanyu Lane Puyuan.
At this time, a group of armored soldiers passed behind them.
At that time, the Forbidden Army Attaché did not have epaulettes, breast badges and other distinguishing titles, but Xu Huai not only wore the Forbidden Army Attaché robe, but also wore a scorpion armor under the robe, and the saddle was also hung with long spears, throwing spears, big bows and other weapons.
, at first glance, he is an awesome character.
This team of armored soldiers saluted uprightly before passing by Xu Huai.
Due to historical reasons, Lanzhou has been inhabited by both Han and Han people since the Han and Tang Dynasties.
If the garrison in Lanzhou is not included, the proportion of Tibetan residents among local households is slightly higher than that of Han residents.
The Khitan bribed Tibetan people from Lam Dai and other places as spies, while Dai Viet bribed Han people from Yingsuo and other places as spies to spy on information. This has been a routine operation of both sides for hundreds of years.
Whenever there is a war or tense situation, it is not surprising that Lanzhou and other places tighten their control over the Tibetan people.
However, today, the entry and exit of the Tibetan people are directly prohibited, and searches in the city are also more strictly prohibited. It is difficult to imagine that it has nothing to do with what happened last night.
Xu Huai thought that when he just left the barracks, he saw a group of cavalry heading towards East Street, and asked Xu Wuqi: "I just came out of the barracks and saw a group of cavalry heading towards East Street, over there at Sujin Tower."
What happened?"
Xu Wuqi said: "We just left there two sticks of incense, but at that time two teams of armored soldiers came to search. We had weapons and several crossbows in the sentry house to deal with urgently, so we did not stay there longer -
—However, the Khitans should have evacuated from the secret room in Sujin Tower by now, right?"
"It doesn't look like it," Xu Huai said. "The cavalry team I met had all the divine arm crossbows loaded with arrows."
Whether it is a bow or a crossbow, bowstrings are fragile items.
If it is not used for a long time, you may even need to take off the bow string and store it properly.
The divine arm crossbow was loaded with arrows, indicating that this cavalry team left the barracks and rushed to engage in battle.
Before Kelan City, there were 3,000 elite Tianxiong troops and a considerable number of Xiang troops stationed there. Ge Boyi led another 3,000 soldiers to garrison the day before yesterday. In addition, soldiers from the Tianxiong army were coming north along the Fen River from outside the city.
, go to Ningwucheng to assemble.
At this time, it can be said that Kelan City is under the complete control of Tianxiong Army.
What happened that required the elite soldiers and cavalry around Ge Boyi to be so nervous and vigilant?
Xu Wuqi also noticed that something was strange and said, "Let's go to Dongda Street and have a look!"
The entrance to East Main Street has been blocked by a team of soldiers, prohibiting people from entering and exiting at will.
Xu Huai, Han Qi, and Niu Er were upgraded from the Xiang Army to the Forbidden Army from the moment they were transferred to the Supervisory Army Envoy.
The armor and weapons were also replaced according to the standards of the Forbidden Army.
The general blockade was ineffective against them. Xu Wuqi and Zhou Jing were naturally not afraid of being blocked when they were walking with them. But when they turned into East Street, Xu Huai saw from a distance that there were two to three hundred armored soldiers surrounding Sujin Tower.
There were many crossbowmen shooting arrows at Sujin Tower from both sides, and arrows were shot from Sujin Tower from time to time.
The entrance and exit of East Street has been blocked. Many people are stranded here and residents of shops are unable to go out. However, the Han people in Kelan City are not worried about being disturbed. At this time, they are standing on the street with great interest to watch the excitement; but there are many Tibetan people.
The people could only panic and look out from the cracks in the door to see the situation, fearing that they would be implicated.
"What happened in the front?"
Xu Huai waved to a middle-aged man standing on the street watching the commotion and called him over to ask about the situation.
"Master Jiang, your news is not as well-informed as the common people!" the middle-aged man said cheerfully.
"What nonsense? We just came here, how could we know what the hell is going on here!" Xu Huai glared at him and urged him to speak quickly.
"In front of the two sticks of incense, two teams of military officers went into East Street to search for Khitan spies. Unexpectedly, there was really a big fish hidden in Sujin Tower. Dozens of strong Tibetan thieves suddenly came out of it and killed them in the blink of an eye.
After killing and wounding dozens of military masters, they all retreated to Sujin Tower." The middle-aged man did not feel the fear of the war clouds hanging over his head at all. On the contrary, he was very excited and said, "The reaction of the garrison was unexpected.
Yes, we quickly mobilized three to four hundred troops to surround Sujin Tower and attack. They also blocked East Street and we were not allowed to leave. If this Tibetan thief really deserves to be killed, it would be best to kill them all.
All bare…”
Sujin Tower is located higher, and Xu Huai is sitting on horseback. Although the distance is far, he can still see the situation clearly - the more than two hundred armored soldiers are led by Ge Yu himself, not only controlling
He lived in the streets in front and behind Sujin Tower, and occupied the shops on the left and right, and used crossbows to block Sujin Tower.
Probably because they were worried about the dry weather, they did not attack with fire. Instead, they used swords, shields and soldiers to attack from inside the building. Dozens of corpses were already placed on the stone street in front of the building, including the Imperial Army and the Tibetan people who resisted stubbornly.
They couldn't see many people resisting in the building, but as corpses were dragged out one after another, most of them were people dressed as peasants, and even the wounded soldiers of the imperial army were able to withdraw in time, indicating that the defense inside was being
Disintegrate step by step.
"Chen Zixiao is on the opposite side!" Zhou Jing's sharp eyes recognized Chen Zixiao riding a horse, parked on the stone street southwest of Sujin Tower.
Although Chen Zixiao's face couldn't be seen clearly from a distance, there shouldn't be any panic, and you could even see Chen Zixiao nodding in this direction.
"Do they intend to provoke the imperial army to kill and plunder the peasants even more recklessly?"
At this time, Xu Wuqi no longer suspected that Chen Zixiao was a Khitan spy and said in surprise.
Two sticks of incense before he and Zhou Jing took away the men and some hidden weapons directly from the nearby sentry house.
Although the movement of the Tibetan people in Kelan City was restricted at this time and they were not so free, if there really was a spy hiding in Sujin Tower, it would not be difficult to move and hide.
However, instead of moving and hiding from Sujin Tower, the Khitan spies even took the initiative to attack and kill the generals searching the streets, attracting a large number of imperial troops to besiege Sujin Tower.
At this time, when he saw Chen Zixiao standing aside calmly and watching Ge Boyi's grandson Ge Yu leading his own soldiers to storm Sujin Tower, Xu Wuqi could only think that all this was done intentionally by Chen Zixiao and others.
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Xu Huai frowned.
What happened in Sujin Tower made Ge Yu, who led his troops to besiege Nuanxiang Tower last night, famous, and Wang Zhen, Wang Fan, Zhu Hang and others could no longer use yesterday's incident to criticize the Duke of Lu.
Four years later, a catastrophic disaster will strike. Thousands of the emperor's relatives and ministers will be captured by the Red Husbands and headed north. At this time, none of the high-ranking princes, concubines, and pretentious heirs of nobles know what will happen to them.
To live in humiliation or to die in humiliation.
How could Xu Huai put the bullshit prince in his eyes?
The most important thing in front of him was that Xu Huai vaguely saw that the Northern Expedition to Yanhui would be frustrated!
There are too many problems with the Dai Viet Ban Xiang Army from top to bottom, but the Khitan's rule over Xijing Road and the Khitan troops stationed on Xijing Road are not much better.
At least this should not be the direct reason for the setback of the Northern Expedition against Yan.
Everything that happened in Sujin Tower has already confirmed the rationality and necessity of the Tianxiong Army's wanton search of the enemy. It will only prompt the Tianxiong Army to further intensify the search of the peasants in Kelan and other cities. If there is even a little resistance, it will be inevitable.
Will kill no matter what.
The Forbidden Army included a large number of refugees and thieves. It is difficult to imagine that the large-scale searches of refugees in Zhucheng would not be accompanied by looting and other acts.
Even this behavior was condoned to a certain extent as compensation for the meager military pay, the low status of the Imperial Guard generals, and to stimulate the generals' fighting spirit and morale before the war.
More severe searches and more wanton looting will inevitably arouse more resistance, which will intensify all kinds of repression and repression.
As a border state, Lanzhou, Kelan, Loufan, Langu, and Ningwu counties together only have 14,000 to 5,000 households, which is far inferior to Huaiyuan. The number of young Tibetan people is about 10,000. At this time
Even if everyone stood up and resisted, it wouldn't be a problem.
Lanzhou will soon gather 50,000 to 60,000 forbidden troops and horses to suppress the rebellion of one to two thousand or even three to five thousand Tibetan people. There will be no pressure at all.
Even the generals and officials of the Western Route Army were happy to see the success.
Before the northern expedition against Yan, clearing the hidden dangers in the territory in advance can be converted into military merit. What's not to like?
In the eyes of generals who longed for military honors, especially since these military honors were so easily available, what was kindness? What was the harmonious coexistence of Tibetan and Han people?
Everything that is happening in Sujin Tower is enough to show that those who are not from our race must have different minds. Whoever dares to stand up and say a few words about tolerance and harmony will not be beaten by the generals of Tianxiong Army.
, the spittle can also kill someone.
Xu Huai was not thinking about the issue of tolerance or intolerance at this time, nor did he think there would be any problems in Lanzhou, but what about the hundreds of thousands of troops from the east and west entering the Khitan territory?
The Khitan people's problem in Xijing Road is even more serious than that in Dai Viet. The garrison, which is mainly composed of Han people, does not have much combat effectiveness or will to resist. However, Chen Zixiao and the Khitan people infiltrated into Lanzhou's spies and took advantage of it at this time.
What will happen if the Vietnamese imperial army massacres and plunders the Tibetan people in the border states to encourage hundreds of thousands of Tibetan people in Xijing Road and the Khitan people to share the same hatred with the Yan army in the northern expedition?
