Although the soldiers guarding the straight pass are not elite, and many of them are already old, they were all veterans who accompanied His Majesty Li Er in his campaigns in the north and south. Although it is a bit difficult to go into battle to kill the enemy now, they are extremely experienced. Once in Li Jing,
Li Ji's men fought against the Turks one after another and even went straight to the tiger's den. Just from the sound of horse hooves, they could tell that this was a cavalry force of more than 20,000 people.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to create such an aura of landslides and earth-shattering!
But the problem is that most of the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong were mobilized for the Eastern Expedition. Although the Guanlong clan gathered more than 100,000 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 and could never gather them together.
Such a large number of cavalry.
There seems to be only one answer, and that is that the Hu tribe outside the Great Wall invaded from the Hetao area and took advantage of the ice-covered Yellow River to reach Chang'an!
"Wow!" More than ten soldiers stood up and drew their swords. The team made a decisive decision: "Go and raise the beacon fire to warn Chang'an. The rest will follow me to fight!"
Even though they knew that the enemy had more than 20,000 cavalry, the momentum of the galloping was enough to instantly crush a few soldiers into powder, but no one below the team was timid.
Knowing that he will die, he has no fear at all.
Two people immediately got up, ran behind the house, and climbed up the snow-covered stone steps to the beacon tower, intending to light the beacon fire as a warning.
The rest of the team was rushing out of the house. Unexpectedly, as soon as they stepped out, countless cavalry rushed straight towards them. The first cavalryman held the reins with one hand and shouted: "The guards of the right camp are returning to the capital and are not allowed to set off beacon fire!"
More than a dozen veterans of the pass were stunned when they heard this. In addition, all the cavalry in front of them were in Tang army uniforms. How could they look like barbarian cavalry? They were immediately confused on the spot, not knowing what to do.
The cavalry in front of them did not stop. The horses drove awkwardly to one side in front of more than ten old soldiers. The soldiers on the horses jumped off the horses and violently threw the old soldiers to the ground.
"Put down your weapons, disarm and do not kill!"
A team member yelled, pushed an old soldier to the ground, raised his head and said to the soldier behind him who had just jumped off the horse: "Charge to the beacon tower!"
"Here!"
More than a dozen Youtun guardsmen rushed up to the beacon tower without stopping. Two soldiers on the beacon tower had just set the beacon fire on fire.
"In the daytime, a beacon is raised, and at night, a fire is raised." Dry firewood mixed with tamarisk branches, reeds, weeds, etc. is placed below, and wet firewood is placed above. The dry firewood is ignited and roasted, and the wet firewood produces a large amount of smoke.
Drifting in the wind, it can be seen for miles.
To produce a lot of smoke from moist firewood, you need a strong fire from dry firewood, so it takes a certain amount of time to light a beacon fire warning.
The firewood here had just been ignited, and the guards from Youtun over there had already rushed to the beacon tower, quickly subdued the two veterans and extinguished the beacon fire.
A few wisps of thin smoke were blown away by the howling north wind, disappearing in the blink of an eye...
Under the beacon tower, more than a dozen subdued checkpoint guards watched countless cavalry galloping past in front of them. The ice and snow on the ground were trampled by the horses' hooves, raising misty ice slag and snow foam. The entire army rushed forward like a ferocious roar.
The snow dragon!
This is Youtunwei!
Naturally, the checkpoint guards' military uniforms and the flags fluttering in the wind, especially such a powerful and elite aura, cannot be faked.
But recently I have only heard of Hu cavalry heading north from Liangzhou to Mobei. Is there any news of Youtun Guards returning to Beijing?
However, the scene in front of them was real. No wonder the guards were shocked, because Chang'an was in revolt, and countless Guanlong troops besieged the imperial city in an attempt to depose the prince of the East Palace. However, Fang Jun, the general of the Youtun Guard, was the absolute leader of the East Palace. At this moment, it was originally
The Youtun Guards, who should be in the Western Region, suddenly appeared outside Xiaoguan like a divine soldier. Even a fool could understand his purpose.
The Guanlong army is in big trouble...
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Fang Jun sent his troops to the reinforcements of Chang'an, the Youtun Guards, the Anxi Army, and the Gar family's cavalry. The force was close to 30,000, all of which were elite cavalry. He went north from Liangzhou, crossed the Yellow River near Shatuo, and plunged into the Longshan Mountains.
, racing along the Ziwu Ridge Straight Road.
The scouts in front galloped forward, and all the checkpoints, fortresses, and beacon towers along the way were conquered before the army arrived. Among the more than ten beacon towers from the bank of the Yellow River to Xiao Pass, none of them successfully set off beacon warning. Thirty thousand people
The army surged forward and suddenly appeared under Xiao Pass.
The general guarding Xiaoguan is Li Lingkui, the king of Lu, from the Li Tang clan.
Li Lingkui was having a meal in the military camp detached from the pass. He heard that the scouts came to report that tens of thousands of cavalry were coming from the north. After burning incense, they arrived at the pass. He was so frightened that he knocked over the dishes with a tremble of his hand and a bowl of hot food.
The porridge was all sprinkled on the crotch. Fortunately, the clothes were heavy in winter and did not hurt the vital parts. Otherwise, the key parts would have been burned to the point of peeling off the skin...
While putting on his armor, Li Lingkui quickly walked out of the barracks with his soldiers, followed the stone steps to the gate of the pass, and asked urgently: "Why did tens of thousands of cavalry suddenly arrive? Could it be that the Mobei Hu people detoured to Hetao to cross the Yellow River, hoping to
Invading Guanzhong?"
His thoughts were almost the same as those of the previous beacon tower guards, and he did not think of the Youtun Guards at all.
After all, although the world has been at peace in recent years and all barbarians have surrendered, the Hu tribe in Mobei invaded the pass many times. The most famous one was that Jieli Khan led an army of more than 100,000 to the city of Chang'an and confronted His Majesty Li Er at the Weishui River.
The two sides of the Taiwan Strait forced His Majesty Li Er to sign the "Weihe River Alliance". It would be reasonable if the Hu people now took advantage of the Chang'an mutiny and marched straight in to take advantage.
As he walked into the gate building, opened the window on the north side and looked out, he said angrily: "Are all the Hanhai Protectorate a bunch of idiots? Two days ago, they went to Beijing to report that Xue Yantuo wanted to rebel, but today they let it go
Tens of thousands of Hu people went straight to Guanzhong? This is simply unreasonable!"
The scout hurriedly said: "Your Majesty Mingjian, it is not the Mobei Hu tribe, but the Youtun Guards..."
"What?!"
Li Lingkui was startled, and just as he was about to ask again, he heard a thunderous sound of horse hooves rolling in from far to near. In front of the pass, at the end of the pass between two mountain ridges, countless cavalry swept across the ice.
Zhaxuemo came galloping forward, and the flags of the Youtun Guards fluttered in the wind and snow, majestic and murderous!
Li Lingkui's eyes almost popped out, and he couldn't speak clearly: "This, this, this... isn't this Youtun Guard in the Western Region? Why did it suddenly appear here?"
After I finished speaking, I understood.
The stupid Xue Yantuo rebelled, and the stupid Huqi from the Western Regions rushed to Mobei to quell the rebellion! It was basically the smoke released by Fang Jun to cover up his whereabouts heading straight towards Guanzhong!
Seeing countless cavalry rushing towards the pass like a tide, Li Lingkui fought with each other and sighed: "Now those guys in Guanlong are in big trouble!"
The surging movement of the Youtun Guards was earth-shattering, and the entire pass was shaken. The guards swarmed to the city pass, bows and arrows drawn, swords unsheathed, and they stared eagerly at the Youtun Guards gathered at the pass. It was only close by.
The densely packed and continuous cavalry troops in the distance made the guards look pale and worried.
It's not that we are timid, it's because there are too many enemies...
A group of generals rushed into the city tower, and when they saw Li Lingkui, they all stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, capture the thief first and capture the king first. We can use crossbows on the city head to kill the enemy generals, leaving them leaderless and their troops will be defeated!"
"Mom!"
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 him a few times, and cursed angrily: "You think I didn't die quickly enough, right? Go and see how many people are under the city."
There are tens of thousands of cavalry! We don’t even have three thousand guards. If they swarm up, they can annihilate Xiaoguan! Mother! That Fang Jun has some relationship with me, maybe he can spare my life, you
If you shoot the general of Youtun Guard like this, wouldn't you force Fang Jun to take action on me?"
The captain was kicked so hard that his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he was too embarrassed to say anything.
These generals were all Li Lingkui's confidants. When they saw their prince acting like this, they knew what he was thinking. They hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The Youtun Guards are powerful and invincible!"
Take a look at these murderous cavalry under the city. They are all elites in a hundred battles. Once they launch an attack on the city, they can defeat Xiao Pass in an instant.
Another person said: "The Youtun Guards returned to Guanzhong without anyone noticing, and they must be heading towards Guanlong. Why should we act like villains in vain? We might as well let go of the city gates and let them pass!"
But some people expressed concern: "What if the Youtun Guards arrest us when they pass the border?"
Li Lingkui touched the beard on his chin and said thoughtfully: "I'm not afraid of that. Although his right guard is arrogant, even if he doesn't care about his status as the prince, he still has to have some kinship, right? The second brother-in-law of the second room, but