Helian Xiaxia is the minor leader who guards the Seven Stars Post Beacon Tower. Leader, in the Central Plains, is only used to describe the leader, not an exact official position. However, in the Li army, it is the official title of a general, minor leader, full leader, leader.
, are formal official ranks. The small leader Helian Xia is in charge of eight soldiers. The eight soldiers are divided into four squads and wait on the three-foot-high beacon tower day and night.
The military post on the north side of Yinzhou has some frictions with the Tubo, Uighur, and Khitan people every year. The beacon tower sometimes plays a role, but the military post on the south side has more than ten people.
It has not been used once in a year. If any important thing remains calm for ten years, the person who implements it will inevitably feel slack. Helian Xiaxia, who is guarding the beacon tower, has already put this most important thing into consideration.
It became the easiest thing to do.
Helian Xia Tian is fifty-four years old this year. As a veteran with no merits, his promotion is extremely slow. He will be discharged and return to the field at the age of sixty. He is still just a small leader, and his only job is to patrol all day.
Looking at this beacon tower, although there is no oil or water, it is also very relaxing.
Last spring, his mother-in-law died of illness, and one of his daughters got married early, leaving old Helian alone. Occasionally, when he got sick, he had to ask those helpless auxiliary soldiers to help him make soup.
He had to live a bleak life without food. But now he felt that his life was moving forward, so that no matter who he met throughout the day, his face was full of smiles, and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were piled up when he smiled, because...
He picked up a wife.
Yesterday, a pair of fleeing siblings entered Qixingyi. When he saw the pair of siblings, some of his off-duty auxiliary soldiers were picking on the girl. Of the pair of siblings, the elder sister was very handsome and had a good figure.
He is tall, with charming eyebrows, and his younger brother has a tiger-like head and a thick head.
Helian Xia Tian stepped forward and asked about the reason, only to find out that the siblings were fighting at home with people from his tribe, and their father and brother were killed in the fight. The two siblings escaped from Hengshan overnight and arrived here. There are countless tribes in the Hengshan area, and each other
There were frequent vendettas and fights between them, and Helian Xia was naturally not surprised when he heard this.
Looking at these two siblings, Helian Xia Tian suddenly had an inexplicable thought. Seeing that they were a young girl and a half-year-old child, there was nothing to guard against. He Lian Xia Tian stopped the auxiliary who was teasing the girl.
, led them to their residence and settled down. The soldiers guarding the beacon tower were all surprised. Master Helian, who had always been timid and greedy, and loved to take advantage of small things, was actually showing kindness?
"It's nonsense, sir, when have I ever done any good deeds? You will go to hell if you do good deeds." Helian Xia Tian squatted in the yard and said with a smile. Next to him were two auxiliary soldiers who were not on duty, and the three of them were squatting there.
With the Dragon Gate Formation.
"It's deserted at home." Helian Xia sighed, turned to look at his house, and smiled brightly: "But these two siblings changed their lives as soon as they moved in, and they became popular immediately. Take a look, you two.
My little courtyard is so clean now, hey! The room is brighter, and when it’s time to eat, I don’t have to go to the restaurant opposite to grab a bite, I can have hot food as soon as I enter the room.”
"Oh..., let me tell you, boss, when did you become so kind? You are so smart. You accepted these siblings as your goddaughters and godsons. You will have people taking care of you inside and outside the house.
There is someone to take care of you even when you are old."
"That's nonsense, why should I accept my daughter as my adopted daughter? My own daughter has been married for more than two hundred miles, and she rarely comes back. She can't hope for it, so why should I accept her as my adopted daughter?"
Helian Xia Tian smiled even more happily: "You haven't seen how handsome that girl is. Although she is mute, her small appearance, that figure, and those watery peach blossom eyes, tsk tsk tsk, tsk tsk tsk, let people take a look, even the bones
Crispy..."
Helian Xiaxia smiled and narrowed his eyes: "These two siblings have nowhere to go, and now they are all relying on me. Master, I'm thinking about it. After a few days, we get to know each other well, and I will tell the woman that I will accept her as mine."
Filling the house, my mother-in-law has been dead for more than a year, and the house is really deserted without anyone in it."
"No, Master Helian," an auxiliary soldier said with a smile: "Can this girl agree? Don't you take a look at how old you are and are you worthy of such a pretty girl?"
Helian Xiaxia said disapprovingly: "That's nonsense, sir, even though I'm a little older, I know how to love people, right? It's hard for them to find a place to stay, but they still have the heart to leave? Besides, they eat my food and live in it.
Mine, if you want to leave when the time comes, fine, we’ll do the math with capital and interest, hey, do the two sisters still have money?"
Helian Xiaxia sighed contentedly and murmured: "At that time, Master, I will feel comfortable. After inspecting the beacon tower in the snowy and cold weather, when I returned home, there were hot meals and tea, and there was a flower.
It’s so beautiful to think about a big girl who doesn’t wear her skin like a little white sheep and warms my bed. Hey, tell me, is it a good name for me? Winter is coming soon, but
My summer is here..."
Helian Xia Tian was thinking the right thing when he heard a horn sound in the distance. He Lian Xia Tian was startled for a moment, then stood up, raised his neck and shouted at the beacon tower: "What happened? Is there something wrong?"
What's going on?"
There was silence on the beacon tower, and Helian Xiaxia jumped to his feet and cursed: "You bastards, how can you be lazy and sleep during guard duty? If something serious happens, I will skin you."
A soldier next to him advised: "Mr. Helian, if someone really comes to the door in broad daylight, are all the city gatekeepers blind? The alarm should have been sounded long ago. Don't worry, I will climb up and take a look.
..." As he said that, he hurried to the escalator.
At this time, another series of short horn sounds were heard from the direction of the city gate. The horn sounds made people panic. Helian Xia Tian stumbled and shouted: "Damn it, something has really happened. Come on, hurry up and light up the smoke immediately."
, start immediately..."
As soon as he said this, the soldier next to him suddenly took a step forward, tilted his neck back suddenly, and a sharp arrow cluster was exposed at his throat. Helian Xia Tian's eyes suddenly bulged out, and he looked at his soldier uh-huh.
He screamed, stretched out his hand to touch his throat, and when he touched the tip of the arrow, he fell softly.
"Who...is it?" Helian Xiaxia asked in a trembling voice with cold hands and feet, hunched waist, but didn't even have the courage to look back. At this moment, he saw a person appear on the beacon tower, a tiger-headed man.
A sturdy young man, holding a bow and arrow in his hand, was looking coldly at the soldier climbing up.
Immediately afterwards, a hand quickly covered his mouth, and a sharp knife slit his throat. Then a female figure passed by him and ran towards the beacon tower.
Helian Xiaxia was lying on the ground, looking at the mute girl with surprised eyes. She was climbing the escalator and running up like an ape. She was really running. The three-foot-high beacon tower, she almost In a moment, he ran up and dodged in. His agility was breathtaking.
Helian Xia Tian was like a chicken with its throat cut open. His body twitched and spurted out large streams of blood. He knew he was about to die: "I... pretended to be a serious person for the first time in my life. ...haven't even touched her fingers. Serious people... really can't do it. Who is this... mute woman? A woman... It's serious to serve a man and give birth to children. What kind of man should I imitate? Fighting and killing, so what if you kill me, can you beat Yinzhou? It’s nonsense..."
The heads of each tribe came forward to toast one by one. Li Guangyan tasted briefly. After everyone had finished toasting, he smiled and said: "I just came here on a hunting trip and came to visit Mr. Suka on a whim. Tribe leaders, don't be too restrained. Come on, come on, everyone, please take a seat, don’t let my arrival disturb your mood, hehe..."
Li Guangyan stood high as the chairman and spoke arrogantly, as if he had become the master here. The real master, Su Ka, sat on the side seat, opposite Yang Hao. Ono Keer sat next to his father, looking very unhappy. , but in such an occasion, it is not his turn to speak at all.
Su Ka said with a smile on his face: "Master Li's visit today is the most important event in our village. Everything else has to be put aside first. Besides, we don't have anything important to do. We must have fun with you. Sir, please drink."
Yang Hao suddenly interjected: "Master Li, I heard that the Southern Tibetans are fighting with Master Li in Xiazhou, and the Northern Tubo is also uneasy now. How can you still have the leisure to hunt on the grassland at this critical moment?" ?”
Li Guangyan smiled and said authentically: "I, the Li family, have lived in the northwest border for more than a hundred years. I have worked hard for more than a hundred years and have a deep foundation. Who can shake it? Yinzhou has abundant soldiers and good food, and the city has high walls and thick walls. If there is a slight movement in Northern Tubo, I will send troops outside. , to show his power, Xiaoxiao immediately stopped and stopped making any moves. What's the point of being such a clown?"
Yang Hao smiled and said: "The birds of prey are about to strike, and they fly low and fold their wings; the beasts are about to fight, and the ears fall down. Soldiers are really deceitful. I am afraid that the Tubo people will resort to suspicious tactics. Although your Excellency has a good army and sufficient food, If you are brave and good at fighting, if you are taken advantage of by the enemy, you will inevitably..."
"Haha, if someone wants to engage in some conspiracy under my nose, Li Guangyan, he is seeking his own destruction. If he dares to come, I will punish him whether he comes back or not. Yinzhou City is as solid as a rock, and foreign enemies are not enough. I'm afraid, but no matter how strong the city wall is, if my own people are there to tear down the bricks and dig corners, it will inevitably collapse. Therefore... what I care about is internal trouble. If anyone with my Li family is half-hearted and eats the inside and outside... hum... "
Yang Hao glanced at the uneasy leaders with a smile and said: "Master Li, you are serious. You and I are both citizens of the Song Dynasty. We each have our own jurisdiction and pastoral care. How can we say that the people in the Song Dynasty will oppose me?" You are in trouble in Yinzhou. Speaking of which, Lord Li is guarding Yinzhou, and the Qiang people in Hengshan are not under your jurisdiction, right?"
Li Guangyan sneered slightly, glanced slightly, and looked at the leaders who were listening to him. He picked up a small silver knife and carefully cut off a piece of mutton, dipped it in some salt foam and put it in his mouth. Then he said with a deep smile: "Mr. Yang, the northwest is different from the Central Plains. Did you know that ten years ago, when Yong'an Army Jiedu Zhe Decu went to Kaifeng to pay homage to the official family, the official family personally promised him: "Afterwards, the descendants will be the prefects and state affairs. You can use your subordinates, eat what you rent, inherit the land hereditary, and govern its people. In fact, the Li family of Xiazhou and the Yang family of Linzhou are the same. Within the jurisdiction of my Li family, you can recruit yourself. Soldiers raise their own military pay and taxes, and even... decide to use troops abroad on their own!"
He used a very strong accent in the last sentence, and some of the leaders immediately started whispering to each other. Li Guangyan seemed not to have seen him, but said proudly: "To put it bluntly, with such power, I, the Li family, are actually equivalent to a vassal king.
If the official family trusts the favor so much, we, the Li family, will naturally be loyal to the imperial court from generation to generation, and will always control the Western Fan for the official family. If we want stability in the northwest, there must be no internal troubles."
He leaned down, pinched his fingers slightly, and said with a sneer: "We, the Qiang tribe, will cut the corpse into pieces when dealing with the tribesmen who try to rip off the inside and outside. If any tribe dares to collude with outsiders and plot evil behind my back, Li Guangyan, then I, Li Guangyan, will let me."
His tribe will be expelled from now on!"
It was quiet in the big tent, and the tribe leaders held their breaths. It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop on the ground. Not only were the tribe leaders' expressions ugly, but even the fake smile on Su Ka's face could not be held back. Yang
Hao laughed suddenly and said: "Master Li is indeed a general who commands the army. He is so majestic and evil. It is good to be prepared for danger in times of peace, but are you a little unfounded? I saw all the tribes living and working in peace and contentment along the way.
Living in harmony, it can be seen that Li Jiedu is fair and strict, and his ministers are well behaved. I don't think anyone will collude with the Tibetans, Uighurs, or Khitans to do harm to our Song Dynasty, right?"
Li Guangyan repeatedly emphasized the Li family, while Yang Hao insisted on the slogan of the Song Dynasty. As soon as he said that he lived and worked in peace and contentment and lived in harmony, the faces of all the ministers were a little embarrassed. Not long ago, the Yeli family also gathered with Dangxiang Qi family.
The war in Xiazhou was fierce, and in a place like Hengshan where the three areas were ignored and the three areas were in charge, the Qiang tribes became even more chaotic.
As soon as Xiazhou went to war with Fuzhou and Linzhou, they would help one side today and the other side tomorrow, and the enemy and sometimes friends would fight like crazy. If Xiazhou had a truce with Fuzhou and Linzhou, all tribes in Hengshan would be affected.
You come to sneak attack me today, and I attack you tomorrow. In short, there is no rest all year round. In such a situation, how can we talk about living in harmony and living in peace and contentment. Li Guangyan's words were clearly a warning to the ministries not to interact with Luling
They were too close, but as soon as Yang Hao said these overtly complimentary and covertly derogatory words, even they felt a little uncomfortable.
But Li Guangyan showed no signs of embarrassment. He chuckled and said, "The men on my grassland have straightforward temperaments, and there are cases where swordsmen and swordsmen meet each other even if they don't agree with each other. But these are all disputes of will. The steel sword is returned to its sheath and wrapped in a knife."
Even if the wound is covered, we are still brothers and there will be no discord. After all, we have the same ancestors and are one family. Even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected. But if anyone colludes with outsiders, there will be no room for maneuver.
Yes, I, Li Guangyan, don’t rub sand in my eyes.”
Yang Hao smiled and said: "I am able to gather all the ministers here today, talk, laugh and drink fine wine. It is precisely because there are heroes like Mr. Li guarding Yinzhou and acting as our northwest barrier to resist foreign enemies. Mr. Li is afraid of internal troubles.
, it is reasonable. But... Tubo or Uighur, they all keep an eye on our northwest. Now that trouble has arisen in the south of Tubo, they see an opportunity to take advantage of it, and there is no guarantee that they will not take the opportunity to launch an attack. As the leader of Yinzhou, Mr. Li,
Being far away from the center, could it be that the pearl of wisdom is in your possession?"
Li Guangyan raised his eyebrows slightly and retorted with a smile: "Our Yinzhou strong barriers are impenetrable. Master Yang, who do you think can break them?"
Namuhan has broken the city.
Qixing Post is the first post on the outskirts of Yinzhou. Although the situation in the north of Yinzhou is tense now, there has been no fighting on the southern front for a long time. The garrison has lost its basic vigilance. They boldly commit crimes and enter the city under false names. It is not possible to deceive the city gate and march in directly.
Difficult. What really worries people is the beacon tower. Once the signal is sent out from the beacon tower, the plan for the other stations will have to be abandoned.
They came with light cavalry and had neither baggage nor siege equipment. The only option was to fight quickly. Yinzhou would not give them time to forcefully attack the military posts. At the same time, they could only successfully win the first battle.
Only by preventing the news from getting publicized can we successfully cut off the next few military posts, create an impossible miracle, and severely damage Yinzhou.
If Qixing Post is so slack, the following military towns will only become more and more slack. The vigilance and inspection of the people and horses who have passed through the previous posts will become more and more formal, and even have no formality. Tigers raised in cages since childhood
, can't even fight a cow. The garrison troops at various stations, who are addicted to comfort, will not be a fearsome force on the grassland.
Therefore, Yang Hao put a lot of effort into this Seven Star Post. To be on the safe side, he first sent Mu Yu and Bi Su, who were very good at maneuvering and maneuvering, to disguise themselves as siblings and rush to the Seven Star Post to look for opportunities to approach the beacon tower.
, and asked Mukui to lead more than a dozen sharp archers and bring the waistband that he had captured to break through the barrier in disguise. The target was still the beacon tower. The purpose of taking out this pair of insurance was to ensure that there would not be a blaze of smoke on the beacon tower.
Mukui and other dozen people who entered the city first occupied the tables near the windows of teahouses and wine shops around the beacon tower. The others were patrolling outside the fence of the camp, seemingly looking for a place to relieve themselves. If it weren't for Bisu and Mu Yu
Once they have entered the barracks, they must fire arrows from all directions at the same time, using their superb shooting skills to kill the garrison soldiers on the beacon tower, and then quickly approach to prevent anyone from climbing up again, and at the same time send a signal to the rear team to break the city.
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Now that Bi Su and Mu Yu have successfully infiltrated, how many garrison soldiers are there on the beacon tower? They can detect accurate information. If they take action to ensure it, Mu En and others have completely become substitutes. When the Seven Star Post City Gate uploads
When the urgent alarm sounded, Mu Yu had already succeeded and sent the signal.
As soon as they heard the horn sound, Mu En and others suddenly moved. Sitting in the teahouse, the big man in the wine shop suddenly jumped up as if there was a spring under his buttocks, and ran towards the beacon tower opposite. He was patrolling around
Several big men standing by the fence outside the beacon tower pulled out their waist knives, howled and rushed over. They opened the fence with their swords and crashed in. Like a mad cow with its head and tail on fire, it rushed towards the beacon tower crazily.
At the same time, more than two hundred horsemen who had entered the city were like a torrent sweeping along the avenue and rushing towards the military camp of the garrison guards. Along the way, people shouted and horses neighed, the sound of hoofbeats was like thunder, and the roar was deafening.
Attack.
The owner of "Shili Xiang Baozi Shop" was dumbfounded. After more than two hundred people riding fast horses passed by his door like the wind, he pondered over the language of the shouts of those big men, and then he suddenly got over it and turned around to go to the shop.
The waiter yelled crazily: "They are Tubo people, they are Tubo people, for God's sake, the Tubo people have bypassed Yinzhou to attack Qixing Post. Get to the door quickly, get to the door quickly, you are still waiting for death."
Woolen cloth……"
The entire Qixing Post has been plunged into chaos. People are running all over the streets, vendors have their doors and windows closed, and Qiang robe warriors are rushing into the city on big horses everywhere. They are rampaging in the small Seven Star Post, killing people, setting fires, and using steel knives.
They cut down anyone they saw, stabbed them with their spears, and arrows flew everywhere. The defenders of Qixingyi ran around the city like headless flies, completely losing their command, and were devoured by the cavalry that rushed into the city.
The enemies who attacked Qixing Post were dressed in Qiang costumes. When they gave orders to burn down houses and massacre soldiers, they spoke in Tubo. At a critical moment, the language a person blurts out instinctively is of course the language he is most familiar with.
What's more, now that they have broken through the barrier, there is no need for them to continue to hide their identities. Listening to their authentic Tubo dialect, these are located in the area where various ethnic groups in the northwest live together. Even if they can't speak it, they can still hear it. Everyone knows it.
: The Tubo people are coming! They bypassed Yinzhou City and its outlying military towns where the heavy troops gathered, and launched an attack on the heart of Yinzhou. The north and south Tibetans finally joined forces!
There were only a dozen soldiers guarding the city gate. Ma Kun already knew that there were still one or two hundred people coming back, so when he saw their team coming from a distance, he did not raise his alert at all. Not only did he not order the door to be closed as a warning,
, after finding out the opponent's identity, he opened the city to release the people, and also asked people to open both city gates, and blasted away the people who were about to enter the city to make way for the intruders.
The group of people were walking slowly, and when they were still more than a hundred steps away from the city gate, they suddenly started running wildly. Ma Kun was surprised and wanted to stop, but Namuhan, who was in the lead, dragged him with a big sword and cut off his head.
The poor big skull fell to the ground and rolled around like a ball kicked by a group of horses.
These two hundred people swept into the city like a gust of wind. After the guards at the top of the city hurriedly blew their trumpets to warn them, they poured into the streets and alleys of Qixingyi like a torrent. They did not deal with the guards at the top of the city at all.
They blew the horns in vain to warn the guards and beacon towers throughout the city.
Immediately, a large cloud of smoke covered the sky and the sun, and countless people and horses were rolling in from the billowing smoke, covering the sky and the earth, boundlessly. The guard at the city head was blowing with his cheeks puffed up, causing his facial features to become bloodshot, and all the blue veins on his forehead were visible.
He tensed up, and when he saw this situation, he couldn't help but lose his mind. He was so shocked that the horn in his hand fell to the bottom of the city: It's over, Qixing Post...it's really over!