Hanasaburo and Zhao Er rode slowly side by side, followed by thousands of troops and horses in good military appearance. What was surprising was that the Han soldiers who were supposed to die under the sabers of the Xixia cavalry now took great strides in high spirits.
They were walking. The man who spotted the Xixia cavalry for shooting wild dogs was sitting on horseback playing with a feathered arrow, laughing while looking at it.
The feathered arrows are real, but there are no iron arrowheads.
The second wave of more than a thousand infantrymen who blocked the Xixia cavalry walked at the end of the team. The soldiers joked and breathed to warm their frozen hands. But everyone had a smile of victory on their faces, which was better than eating.
It’s even more fun to celebrate Chinese New Year with dumplings.
Yes, they put on a big show. It was very big. Both sides used nearly 5,000 troops for the show. The final result was just to shoot to death thirty-eight unlucky Khitan warriors, although it was not a brilliant one.
Victory but with a proud smile on everyone's face.
Yes, these thirty-eight people were the first batch of Khitans to die at the hands of the Han army since the founding of the Northern Han Dynasty. The soldiers and horses under the Han Emperor Liu Ye, who had been calling himself emperor nephew since the founding of the Northern Han Dynasty, had always seen
When approached by Khitan warriors, they would stay far away and even salute respectfully.
After twenty years, the Han soldiers who had suppressed their grievances finally found a chance to vent their anger. The thirty-eight Khitan warriors were simply not enough to fill their teeth, but they felt a little unsatisfied in their hearts. Thirty-eight
It's too few. It would be better if it were 3,800, 38,000, or 380,000. It would be better to send troops to the north under the leadership of King Zhong, and kill those Khitan Tatars and wipe out their descendants.
After twenty years, I can finally vent my anger. Although no one can spend the New Year at home with their parents, wives and children, and today’s incident is destined not to be mentioned by anyone for a long time, but this does not hinder everyone.
They were happy in their hearts, because they knew that sooner or later, under the leadership of the prince, everyone would be able to kill the Khitan enemies openly and openly, and they would no longer have to do things in such a secretive manner.
Zhao Er turned around and ordered the cavalry behind him: "Blow the horn louder, our Lord Xiao can't run fast enough!"
The soldier laughed heartily, and then blew the horn with all his strength, as if there were two eggs stuffed in his bulging cheeks.
Zhao Er smiled and asked Hanasaburo: "Why don't you shoot two arrows for fun?"
Hanasaburo wrapped the cloak around his shoulders and said with a chuckle: "Forget it, there are just a few little grasshoppers, let's let the children shoot them for fun. If I want to shoot, I will shoot the Khitan general.
It’s true.”
Zhao Er nodded and said: "Don't worry, in my opinion, according to the prince's temperament, he will start a war with the Khitan people sooner or later. When the time comes, we will cooperate and fight to Youzhou in one go."
Hanasaburo looked around and said, "Don't talk nonsense!"
Zhao Er curled his lips carelessly: "What are you afraid of? The people around you are all the prince's cronies, and no one will betray the prince. If the prince doesn't plan to take action against the Liao Kingdom, why are the veterans who came back from Yuzhou this time
They all put on the clothes of the Jianxiong Army and stationed themselves in the north? Besides, with the national strength of our Han Dynasty, we can only support 50,000 to 60,000 men and horses at most, but why does the prince insist on keeping the number of men and horses at 150,000?"
Hanasaburo knew that what Zhao Er said was reasonable, and he also knew that the soldiers around him would never leak this incident. So he smiled and said, "You are the only one who is smart!"
Sighing, Hanasaburo said sadly: "Don't you know that raising 150,000 soldiers is like a big mountain pressing on the shoulders of the common people? But if we don't raise soldiers, who can guarantee that the Khitan's wolf cavalry will not go south again? Your Majesty once said
As I said, if we men really want to turn around and become strong, the common people will have to suffer for another three years."
Zhao Er nodded: "I know that, in three years, as long as we can persist, the prince will definitely take us to the prancing horses and wild swallows to hunt the grasslands. I believe that the prince has this ability, and will eventually let the people live a prosperous life.
.No one will starve to death again, and no one will be bullied by outsiders anymore. I firmly believe that the red war flag of the Han Dynasty will eventually fly throughout the world, whether it is the Khitan people, the Shiwei people, the Dangxiang people, and the Uighurs will all fly in the red
The war flag is trembling!"
Hanasaburo was so excited by his few words that he couldn't help but start to imagine that the prince would lead them to conquer the world. But he knew that he could only think about it now. The national strength of the Northern Han Dynasty was not enough to protect itself, let alone send troops to attack
Prince Bei once said that the current strategy is to show weakness and surrender, and then cause trouble to the two hungry wolves, Xixia and Khitan, from behind.
Thinking of the prince's clever plan this time, Hanasaburo's lips curved into a beautiful arc.
After gathering the "broken troops" along the road, Hanasaburo's team grew stronger and stronger. Not a single one of the three thousand people to greet Daliao's imperial envoy was missing. There were only thirty-eight lonely wild ghosts whose ancestors came from the grassland on the roadside.
.Perhaps they realized when they died that they had been trapped. Unfortunately, there is no difference between being a sensible person and being a confused person.
About 20 miles north of Taiyuan City, the team stopped to rest for a while. Hanasaburo clasped his fists and said he was offended to Zhao Er. The latter showed a look of resignation on his face, which made Hanasaburo feel disgusted. So he twitched.
Knife, use the big man's standard horizontal knife to give Zhao Er a hard "teaching lesson", and cut him off one by one. Soon Zhao Er became "in pieces"
Seeing that his majestic general uniform was torn to pieces by Hanasaburo, Zhao Er said harshly: "If I had known that we would lose money, we would have to change! I changed into new clothes when I went out to welcome the "Angel of Heaven"
, couldn’t you be gentler?”
Hanasaburo said while cutting: "Take it easy? You got an advantage and you still behave! In order to protect the angels of the kingdom, you fought bloody battles and killed more than a hundred enemies. Even your armor was cut off by the knife. How much credit do you think this is?"
Zhao Er grinned and said: "If you are envious, let's change now. Later you will have to splash me with black pig's blood. I won't be able to freeze into ice pimples when I return to Taiyuan City? Besides, the black pig's blood smells bad."
The smell, let alone splashing on your body, just smells disgusting."
Hanasaburo ignored him, took off a leather bag from the horse and looked at it, then raised it over Zhao Er's head and started to fall down. After a while, Zhao Er completely turned into a bloody gourd. He arranged his costume.
, Zhao Er got on the horse with the "help" of Huasanlang, and then lay dying on the horse and let his soldiers lead the horse away. Huasanlang ordered people to display the bright red battle flag of the Northern Han Dynasty, and then pretended to return to Taiyuan City
.
At this time, Lord Xiao Luan, the angel of heaven, was wrapped in a quilt and shivering in the palace of Taiyuan Prefecture. Out of apology, Emperor Xiao came to comfort him in person. However, no matter what Emperor Xiao said, Xiao was still trapped in an abyss of fear.
Luan Du just nodded blankly. Emperor Xiao comforted him a few words, but seeing that Xiao Luan couldn't listen, he went back to Chengxian Palace.
Liu Ling wore a prince's regular clothes. The dark blue clothes were embroidered with a golden dragon with teeth and claws, which made him look very handsome and majestic. Liu Ling sat in the room and watched Xiao Luanqiu trembling on the bed. His face
His expression was very solemn, and seemed to be mixed with strong anger. The little eunuch waiting next to him looked at the expression on the prince's face, and then looked at the angel from the Kingdom of Heaven huddled in the corner of the bed. He was so frightened that he did not even dare to express his anger.
Time passed like this minute by minute, Liu Ling didn't say anything, just watched Xiao Luan's face getting more and more ugly. After a long rest and wrapped in a thick quilt, he felt cold from the inside to the outside.
Xiao Luan gradually felt the warmth. The little eunuch was clever and handed over the twice-heated ginger soup. Xiao Luan took it and poured it in with his head tilted up his neck. As the warmth flowed down, his face also recovered.
A little angry.
Snapped!
"unacceptable!"
Just when Xiao Luan had regained some consciousness, Liu Ling slammed the table and stood up. His face turned pale with anger, and his body was trembling slightly with excitement.
"It's too much! Party members like the Li family are becoming more and more courageous, and they dare to commit crimes blatantly in our territory! Not only did they frighten Lord Xiao, the angel of the Kingdom of Heaven, but they also seriously injured Zhao Er, the general under my command! This king is so
Let’s go and see His Majesty and ask for troops to be sent to Xixia!”
After saying that, Liu Ling turned around and walked out.
Shocked by Liu Ling's loud shouts, Xiao Luan completely recovered his consciousness. Listening to the words of the handsome man in front of him, he guessed that this heroic young man should be the famous Han loyal king Liu Ling. He heard that
The royal family surnamed Liu in the Northern Han Dynasty is actually the descendant of the Xiongnu, and the current grassland peoples have more or less Xiongnu blood. The Khitan people originally respected heroes, and Liu Ling has a long-standing reputation, coupled with a little blood relationship,
When Xiao Luan first saw Liu Ling, he felt that this person was like a member of his own race.
In fact, he was just frightened by the Xixia cavalry and had random thoughts. The royal family of the Northern Han Dynasty with the surname Liu has nothing to do with the Huns surnamed Liu during the Five Husties.
Han people, as for the far-fetched association of them with the Xiongnu surname Liu, that was a story made up by Liu Ye, the founding emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty, just to please the Khitans.
"Is this His Highness Prince Zhong?"
Xiao Luan tightened the quilt, her body trembled slightly and said: "Excuse me for being rude and not getting out of bed to pay tribute to the prince."
Hearing someone talking behind him, Liu Ling, who was about to walk out of the room, raised a smile, then quickly hid the smile, turned around with a concerned expression on his face and said, "Master Xiao, are you awake?
Very good!"
He quickly walked a few steps to the bedside, looked at Xiao Luan carefully and said: "Master Xiao is frightened. I really didn't expect that the Xixia people would blatantly dare to do evil in our Han Dynasty. I would have known that there would be such a large-scale attack."
A group of cavalry is lurking in the territory. I will send more people to pick you up no matter what. Don’t be angry, Mr. Xiao. I will go to see your majesty right now, and then I will mobilize all the men and horses of my big man to go west to conquer Xixia and avenge Mr. Xiao!
"
Xiao Luan saw that Liu Ling's expression did not seem to be hypocritical, and knew that this was a bellicose prince, so he persuaded him: "Your Majesty, please calm down. The expedition to the west needs to be considered in the long run."
Liu Ling said in surprise: "Why, Master Xiao, are you planning to endure this bad breath?"
Xiao Luan smiled bitterly and said: "Of course you can't, but I see that the party's cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and it is no less generous than our Daliao cavalry. Moreover, Xixia has millions of troops, so the prince must not act rashly."
Liu Ling said angrily: "That little boy named Weixiao bullies people too much. If he just tolerates it, won't he be laughed at? After Mr. Xiao returns, he will report it to His Majesty the Emperor of the Liao Dynasty. He will use all the Liao cavalry. I will lead the Han Dynasty ten
Thousands of warriors are fighting against the summer together with Your Majesty, our two families will definitely make that tall and famous Xiaoxiao tremble with fear!"
Xiao Luan sighed and thought to himself that the Han loyal king Wentao was very resourceful in martial arts, but it turned out that he was just a reckless warrior.
PS: I started typing after get off work at 7pm, and it took nearly five hours to type out the two chapters of today’s updates. I don’t know what happened, but my cervical spine hurts so much. Sorry, there are only two updates today. (To be continued)
