A few days later, Zhang Fei led the South Route Army to Guishan City, where he successfully met with Gao Lin. However, Tai Shici, who was part of the North Route Army, missed the appointment and did not arrive.
Zhang Fei surrendered to the Huaxia Kingdom seven years ago. Gao Fei treated Zhang Fei as favorably as before. He also reused Guan Yu's son Guan Ping and ordered Zhang Fei to recruit new soldiers alone. He named him the General of the Western Conquest and stayed in Luoyang.
Listen. It was not until this year that Gao Fei officially transferred Zhang Fei to the northwest to participate in the use of troops in the Western Regions, and asked him to lead an army of 100,000 people along the way. Pang Tong was asked to follow Zhang Fei and make plans sooner or later.
Zhang Fei went on his first expedition and was indeed lucky enough to live up to his command. He did not lose any soldiers along the way and did not lose a single soldier. As a result, the countries in the Western Regions such as Yucheng and Shule surrendered without a fight. Of course, this was also due to Pang Tong's strategy.
Guan Ping also made many contributions.
In the palace of King Dayuan in Guishan City, Gao Lin personally received Zhang Fei and held a banquet to entertain Zhang Fei warmly.
In terms of seniority, Gao Lin should call Zhang Fei his uncle, but after all, he is a member of the royal family and the general king of China, and his status is respected.
Therefore, as soon as Zhang Fei led Pang Tong and Guan Ping entered the hall, they first paid homage to Gao Lin.
In China, people with different surnames are not allowed to be kings. This has become a system. Meritorious people such as Jia Xu, Xun You, Guo Jia, Tian Feng, Guan Ning, and the top ten generals can only have the highest title of duke, and the duke is also a human being.
The highest title of minister, Huaxia Kingdom
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been only a few people who have been awarded the title of duke. There are only eight people named Jia Xu, Xun You, Guo Jia, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Gan Ning, Huang Zhong and Zhang Liao. Among them, only Jia Xu and Zhao Yun are first-class dukes.
They were granted the titles of Anguo Gong and Dingguo Gong respectively.
As the second son of Gao Fei, Gao Lin was the only one in China to be granted a royal title, so his status was particularly respected. Because Gao Fei's eldest son Gao Qi had been dealing with the relationship with Soochow in the southeast.
His achievements are not as fast as Gao Lin's, so he is only a second-class marquis for the time being, which is far different from the title of General King that Gao Lin was awarded.
However, whether it is Gao Qi or Gao Lin, the two have never met again since they separated when they were five years old. After so many years, the two brothers only communicate with each other through letters.
"General Zhang has worked hard all the way. I know that General Zhang likes to drink, so I specially prepared this fine wine from the Western Regions. I also hope that General Zhang can drink as much as he wants today." Gao Lin picked up the wine glass and was not polite to Zhang Fei,
The whole person is full of a kind of domineering. Although he is still young, he has already shown everything.
Zhang Fei was in his prime, with bright eyes. He picked up the wine bowl and said, "Thank you for the fine wine, Your Majesty. It's just that I have quit drinking for many years and it is inconvenient for me to drink again. However, I dare not deny it because of Your Majesty's face, so I can only do it reluctantly.
If you drink this bowl of wine, you can only drink this one bowl."
After Gao Lin heard Zhang Fei's words about quitting drinking, he became suspicious and asked: "General Zhang, are you kidding me? I heard that you are addicted to alcohol. Why are you telling me to quit drinking now?"
Already?"
Zhang Fei smiled bitterly and said: "To be honest, I have indeed given up drinking. I have not had a drop of wine in seven years. Everyone in my army knows this."
Gao Lin didn't believe it, so he immediately looked at Pang Tong and asked: "Commander Pang, is what General Zhang said true?"
Pang Tong said: "Everything is true. I have been following General Zhang. In the past month, General Zhang has indeed not touched a drop of wine."
"My uncle has indeed given up drinking for many years. The general will not dare to deceive the prince. Everyone in our army knows about this, even the emperor knows it." Guan Ping took a step forward and said with cupped fists.
Gao Lin said: "In that case, General Zhang will have tea instead of a bar, and I will not force you to do so. Eat more meat and drink less alcohol. Drinking too much alcohol will harm your health. After eating and drinking for a while, the general will go down and rest first."
, let’s rest and reorganize our troops and wait for the arrival of General Taishi and his army.”
Zhang Fei put down the wine bowl and picked up the wine bowl again. Seeing that although Gao Lin was young, he was very fair in dealing with things, so he drank the tea in one gulp. He thought secretly in his heart: "They say that the great general Wang is domineering.
, Arrogant, but in my opinion, although this guy is young, he is also prudent and mature, and may not be what the rumors say..."
As soon as Zhang Fei finished drinking tea, a man came in from outside the palace and said breathlessly: "Your Majesty, I have received a secret report from General Tiger Wings. Please take a look at it!"
The letter immediately appeared in Gao Lin's hand. Without even looking at it, Gao Lin handed the letter to Guo Jia beside him and said, "Read it."
Guo Jia immediately read aloud: "General Wang Qinqi, the last general led an army of 100,000 to attack Xianbei north. However, Xianbei had a large number of people, and the last general underestimated the enemy, so that the Xianbei people lured the enemy deep, and now they are besieged by the Xianbei people in Xianbei
In the hinterland, the last general's troops were severely damaged. I prayed to the general Wang to send troops to rescue immediately. The tiger-winged general Tai Shici personally wrote..."
After Gao Lin heard this, he immediately frowned and shouted: "Wei Yan, you and General Partridge will lead an army of fifty thousand to stay here. If you encounter the Kushan Empire's army, you will clear the land and defend the city. The rest will
All troops should follow me and go to Xianbei to support General Huyi!"
"promise!"
As soon as the order was issued, Gao Lin left the main hall and led the generals to the school grounds to gather troops and horses and immediately set off for the expedition. As a result, Gao Lin, Zhang Fei and other troops totaling 150,000 all left Guishan City and headed towards Xianbei.
Shan Yuting left.
Except for Anita Partridge's 20,000 flying guards who were infantry, the Western Expedition Army's 280,000 were all cavalry, riding horses or camels. In the vast wilderness of the Western Regions, they were really walking as fast as flying.
, and each soldier carried his own rations and tied them near the saddle. In this way, the food and grass were broken into pieces, which reduced the worry of the food and grass being attacked by surprise, so the speed was very fast.
The strong winds are rolling over the yellow sand, and the scorching sun is scorching the earth. In this area of the Western Regions, controlling the water source is equivalent to controlling the lifeblood. Therefore, the Chinese army marches along the water source areas. Gao Lin has lived in the Western Regions for a long time, and he has a deep understanding of the terrain of the Western Regions.
He knew it very well. Three years ago, he rode a camel alone and traveled through the mountains of the Western Regions in ten months.
Shuishui. Although there will be some dangers on the road, there seems to be no difficulty that cannot be solved with his force. After returning from being a ranger for ten months, he personally drew a map and marked the water sources on it.
location, so during this Western Expedition, the Chinese Army never lacked water sources, and often focused its attacks on places with water sources.
Controlling the water source is equivalent to controlling the lifeblood, so some small countries in the Western Regions will have nothing to do after the Chinese army captures the water source and can only send envoys to surrender.
However, for big countries in the Western Region such as Dayuan, Shanshan, Qiuci, and Wusun, their capitals are built near water sources, and their military strength is sufficient to protect the water sources, so they can only force them to surrender by force. Therefore, Gao Along the way, Lin used Guo Jia's strategies to conquer many countries, and formally took military action against Shanshan, Qiuci, and Dawan, forcing these three countries to surrender by force.
In Beili, Tianshan Mountain, Taishi Ci led a remnant army of 60,000 to stand on a mountain pass. On the grassland outside the mountain pass, more than 200,000 Xianbei warriors shouted with mighty force and attacked every half an hour. The mountain pass became the Xianbei Taishi Ci and the Xianbei people fought for a long time here as the focus of human attack, and the rocks on the other side of the mountain pass were stained red with blood.
Taishi Ci stood on a large bluestone with a bandage on his arm. The blood had already stained the bandage. He held a telescope in his hand and looked at the densely packed Xianbei people in the distance. When he put down the telescope, he felt heavy Hou Cheng sighed, turned to Song Xian, and said: "It's all my fault for underestimating the enemy. I fell into the Xianbei people's trick and lured the enemy deep. Now that I am blocked here, I have killed more than 30,000 soldiers." , I feel sorry for them..."
Song Xiandao: "General, victory or defeat is a matter of military strategism. The Xianbei people have 700,000 to 800,000 people. The military strength is already strong. Our army of 100,000 is a little less. But as long as our army is still there and the general is still there, What's so rare about pacifying Xianbei? The letter asking for help has been sent out. I believe that when the general king sees it, he will definitely lead an army to rescue him. When the time comes, he and the general king will sweep Xianbei together, and they can turn defeat into victory. .”
Hou Cheng also hurriedly interjected: "General, General Song is right. We should persist now and wait for reinforcements. However, the general's injury should also be treated well, otherwise, I'm afraid there will be no Fortunately, General Wang led his troops to join the battle during the rescue!"
When Taishi Ci heard Song Xian and Hou Cheng's words, he felt deeply in his heart, and immediately shouted: "Taishi Xiang!"
Taishi Xiang is the eldest son of Taishi Ci. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. Now he has joined the army and is a junior commander in front of Taishi Ci's tent. However, everyone in the army knows that Taishi Xiang is Taishi Ci's son, so they respect Taishi Xiang very much.
"The last general is here!" Taishi Xiangchang is more similar to Taishi Ci. He also uses a spurge and has the true inheritance of Taishi Ci, so his martial arts is not weak.
"Immediately send an order to the front troops to guard the mountain pass and change positions every half hour. No matter how many people die, they must guard the mountain pass for me."
"promise!"
Tai Shixiang immediately went down to deliver the order, but he was thinking in his mind: "This is my first time to participate in the war. My father has not allowed me to fight. This is my chance to make a contribution."
Taishi Ci was helped back to change the dressing by Hou Cheng and Song Xian. Taishi Xiang came to the mountain pass and immediately conveyed the order. Then he saw that a general in the team guarding the mountain was dead. The soldiers were leaderless and immediately shouted: "From now on Get up, you are my subordinates, we must stick to this place, and we cannot let anyone break through here, do you understand?"
Everyone knew Tai Shixiang. Although Tai Shixiang was only a junior high school student, in private Taishi Ci's subordinates all respectfully addressed Tai Shixiang as Major General, so they all replied in unison: "Yes, Major General!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the Xianbei people began to attack the mountain. When Taishi Xiang saw it, he shouted loudly: "Brothers, show your courage and fight with them. Fire arrows!"