Xiao Han looked up and looked at the dilapidated city wall of Yumen Pass.
I saw that on the earth-yellow city wall that was eroded by wind and sand, more than a dozen black dots could be vaguely seen hanging from the head of the city, and it was swaying slightly with the blowing hot wind.
Because the distance was too far, even with Xiao Han's eyesight, he could not see clearly what the black spots were. He had to take out his telescope from his arms, lengthen it, and continue to look at the wall.
Although this telescope is a little blurry, at least it can allow Xiao Han to see clearly what is hanging on the wall!
That's a human!
They are more than a dozen foreigners wearing wide double-breasted cloth robes, cloth scarves on their heads, and burly figures!
"This is a Tuyuhun man! He must have been caught by Cheng Yaojin and hung here!"
Although Xiao Han had never had any contact with Tuyuhun people, he still recognized the identities of these people at a glance!
Moreover, thinking of Cheng Yaojin's front army, who had been here a few days ago, Xiao Han also guessed that this must be done by Cheng Yaojin!
According to the information he had at hand, although the Tuguhun people broke through Yumen Pass, they did not stay here for a long time because they were afraid that the Tang Dynasty would return to help.
After breaking the pass, they only looted all the supplies inside the pass and merchants who had no time to withdraw, and then quickly left the place.
Then the people who were hanging on the city wall should be the travelers that Cheng Yaojin caught here, or the scattered thieves who heard that there were advantages and came to Yumen Pass to search for them.
But no matter who they are, if they meet Cheng Yaojin, they can only be considered bad luck! I still pray to be more careful in my next life and be far away from this Demon King of the World.
Since you have arrived at Yumen Pass, then the next step is naturally to enter.
And this small Yumen Pass City suddenly rushed into the army and immediately became particularly crowded. There were tents everywhere on the streets, and I wish I could not even have a place to walk.
After Xiao Han entered the pass, he was found by Liu Hongji's personal soldiers and told him to go to the Central Army.
Xiao Han guessed that this should be Liu Hongji's plan for the army's next action, so he did not delay. Soon, he followed the personal soldiers and came to a house temporarily as the Central Army's tent.
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This house is not big, not only this house is not big, but there are not big houses in the entire Yumen Pass. Even the city lord's mansion where the guardian general lives in Guancheng only has an extra yard.
When talking about the guards of the city, Xiao Han couldn't help but remember that when he came to Yumen Pass last time, Lu Jin, who was known as the ghost-sading confrontation, was guarding this place.
However, later I heard that Lu Jin received the transfer order and went to another place to replace the people here, Guo Huai.
Han doesn’t know about Guo Huai, Xiao, but he has heard of it! He is also a brave man!
In the battle report about Yumen Pass, it is recorded in detail that the guard general was broken in the city gate and his subordinates were seriously injured. Even if he faced a hundred times his enemy, he still fought bloody battles and would never surrender.
In the end, Guo Huai died in battle, but after his death, he still had his eyes wide open and stood firm. The people of Tuguhun were afraid of their bravery and did not dare to move their bodies!
After the Tuyuhun people withdrew, there were merchants who were hiding in the city and survived to bury Guo Huai. They actually took out more than a pound of arrows from all over his body, and countless other knife and gunshot wounds were
!
The merchants lamented that Guo Huai was brave and cremated his body and placed it in the city lord's mansion, and erected a monument to commemorate it.
This is also the reason why neither Cheng Yaojin nor Liu Hongji set up the Central Army's tent in the City Lord's Mansion.
Following the personal soldiers, Xiao Han entered the house.
Here, Liu Hongji was listening to a person who looked like a captain to report the situation nearby.
When Xiao Han came in, Liu Hongji was not surprised. He waved his hand and asked Xiao Han to sit down. He continued to listen carefully to the captain's report, and from time to time, he would ask a few questions in the middle.
"You said General Cheng's team went north and went to Nanhu?"
When he heard that Cheng Yaojin's army did not rush to Yangguan Shazhou in the south, but instead went to Nanhu in the northwest, Liu Hongji frowned.
"Yes!"
The man who looked like a captain licked his chapped lips and bowed and replied: "General Cheng left us behind, just to inform General Liu!"
"Why did he suddenly rush there?" Liu Hongji thought carefully for a moment, but still didn't understand Cheng Yaojin's intention very much.
Logically speaking, Tuyuhun is southwest of Yangguan, and the army wants to settle the score with them, so naturally they have to go southwest!
But Cheng Yaojin actually ran to the northwest? Could this old man get lost? No distinction between the north and the south?
Of course, it is absolutely impossible to get lost!
Even if Lao Cheng is lost, there must be thousands of people in his army who are lost, right? There must be something strange about this matter!
Sure enough, the next time I heard the captain explain: "Reply to General Liu, the reason why we General Cheng went to Nanhu was because we received the latest news from Yizhou City, saying that someone saw Tuyuhun's team wandering near Nanhu
haunt!"
"Tuyuhun's team appeared in Nanhu?"
Hearing this sentence, not only Liu Hongji frowned, but also Xiao Han, who was listening quietly, exclaimed lightly.
Xiao Han has seen this map of the Western Regions countless times, so he naturally knows that the so-called Nanhu Lake is not the famous Jiaxing Nanhu Lake in later generations, but the Nanhu Lake near Yizhou.
As the name suggests, the reason why Nanhu is called Nanhu is because there is a large natural lake nearby.
Moreover, the water in this lake is all snow water flowing from the melting glaciers in the distance, so the water quality is excellent. The Nanhu Hami melon, which is famous overseas, comes from here.
It is precisely because of the existence of this big lake that the water and grass here are abundant and become a place for competition among the nearby nomadic peoples!
In the past, when the Western Turks were present, they often occupied this place to grazle and raise horses, rest the tribes, and even moved the tents to the royal tent several times!
Later, the Western Turks were destroyed by Li Jing, and this place was targeted by other nomadic peoples of all sizes. In order to compete for grazing territory, these nomadic people fought hard at all!
But the problem is that although Tuyuhun is also a nomadic people, it is far away from Nanhu Lake. No matter how you look at it, it is completely inseparable. How could you lead your army to Nanhu Lake suddenly?
"Can they be the people who attacked Yizhou and Dianhe City last time and didn't give up and didn't leave? This is not right. It's been several months, how could they still stay here and not leave?"
Thinking in his heart, Xiao Han asked again: "Did those people say how many Tuguhun people have seen?"
"Not many!"
The captain Zheng pointed to the head and replied: "It is said that there must be at least more than a thousand people!"
"More than a thousand people? Could it be that they really attacked Yizhou and Dianhe City?"