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Although Fangu City is just a small border town in the northwest of the Great Sui Dynasty, no more than three and a half miles long and only three miles wide to see the edge at a glance, there is no doubt that this small town is built extremely sturdy. This is the most outpost on the northwest border, and the wolf-ru Mountains that cross the opposite side is the territory of the Mandu Banner of the Mongolian Yuan Empire.

On the other side of the Wolf Rushan Mountains, there is an equally strong Nirvana City.

Nirvana City is a stone city, as strong as a natural mountain.

Fan Gu is not a stone city, but it is afraid it is even better than Nirvana City. This small city was built under the supervision of Yuwen Zhongshu, the Minister of Works of the Great Sui Dynasty at that time. It is said that the construction technology is the same as the construction of Chang'an City, the capital of the Great Sui Dynasty. When the spies of the Mongolian Yuan Empire saw this small city where the earth wall was first built and then bricks were piled outside, they even laughed. Decades later, the Mongolian Yuan people realized how naive and ridiculous their original ridicule were.

Strong.

As strong as a whole piece of the hardest diamond.

In the seventh year of Jianye of the Great Sui Dynasty, when the previous emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty was reigned, a small but far-reaching war broke out between the Mongolian Yuan Empire and the Great Sui Dynasty. That time, the 40,000 wolf riders of the Mongolian Yuan Empire passed through the Wolf Rushan Mountains and took Fan Gu directly. At that time, there were only 800 border troops in Fan Gu City, and the nearest reinforcements were the Left Guards in Jibei County 450 miles away. Most of the Left Guards were heavily armored infantry, which obviously could not be rushed in within a short day.

In that battle, 40,000 wolf cavalry dismounted, and used hundreds of stone-throwing carts to bomb Fan Gucheng in turn. Hundreds of kilograms of huge rocks transported from Langru Mountain fell heavily, and they stripped off all the two layers of blue bricks wrapped outside Fan Gucheng's wall. The border troops on the city wall were suppressed so that they could not lift their heads up and could only hide behind the walls.

Mandu Lang, the head of the Mandu Banner of the Mongol Empire who led the troops at that time, laughed and said, "There is no need to attack the city. Just smash it like this and you can collapse the broken earth city within one day. At that time, the wolf will ride a horse into the city and kill all the people in the city."

What is shocking is that after a day of bombardment, Fan Gucheng was like a boiled egg, with the eggshell smashed into pieces, revealing the pitiful egg white inside. But no one expected that they thought they were fragile and completely wrong. The next scene surprised the Mengyuan Empire, which had all the chins all over the floor.

The seemingly fragile earth wall actually stands like a mountain!

A heavy huge rock hit a few hundred kilograms, and only a white seal could be made on the earthen wall. After the first day, a wall of Fan Gucheng was neatly stripped of the blue bricks. However, the earthen wall that looked fragile was actually as solid as a whole rock. The stone hit it on it and did not even leave a crack.

The Mandu wolf was furious and ordered the stone-throwing cart to continue attacking the next day. It took another whole day, and the team that transported stones from the Wolf Rushan Mountains could no longer provide them. Unfortunately, the walls of Fangu City, which seemed to be able to blow down with a gust of wind, were still standing proudly.

The extremely furious Mandu wolf ordered the siege, and tens of thousands of wolf cavalry who had taken off their horses to attack. This was the first time that the people of the Mongol Empire had attacked the Han people's city since the founding of the Great Sui Kingdom. The war between the founding emperor of the Great Sui Kingdom and the Mongol Empire broke the myth of invincibility on the plains. So this time, the little Fan Gu let the soldiers of the Mongol Empire know what indestructible means.

The combat power of the wolf rider on the step and the wolf rider on the horse is completely incomparable.

The wolf knight soldiers in leather armor rushed forward clumsyly carrying temporary ladders, and did not know how to avoid or resist the feather arrows shot down from the city wall. What scared them the most was the powerful heavy crossbow installed on the city wall. The heavy crossbow with its calf thickness was shot down like the rage of thunder, which could tear a strong grassland war horse into two pieces.

After thousands of casualties, the wolf cavalry finally approached the city wall, then clumsyly erected the ladder and climbed up clumsyly. They drove the horses like arms to use their fingers, but this kind of battle was undoubtedly a nightmare for them. The wolf cavalry, who had been comfortable for too many years, had long forgotten that their ancestors had been invincible on the Central Plains.

Six days, from the beginning to the end of the war, Mandu Wolf left more than 4,000 corpses outside Fangu City and retreated in a panic. Whenever Yu Sheng mentioned this battle, he would beat his chest and stamp his feet and point at Fangu's direction and curse. The reason why they retreated was because the elite soldiers of the Sui Zuo Gu guards who were hundreds of miles away finally arrived.

This battle made Fan Gucheng a well-known place in the world.

This battle made the world know that the city of the Great Sui Dynasty was indestructible.

This battle also made Li Lun, the general of the Left Guard, famous all over the world. The reason was very simple. At that time, those who rushed to Fangucheng to rescue the border troops were only Li Lun and the 900 Cavalry Battalions under his command. After using 900 cavalry and thousands of flags, Li Lun frightened the Mandu wolf, who had tens of thousands of people, and fled back to the west of the Wolf Rushan Mountains, and did not dare to look back all the way.

Most of the Zuo Guards were heavily armored infantry, so it was impossible to arrive in time. Li Lun had no other way, so he could only pretend to be a 100,000 army. Speaking of which, this was also the helplessness of the border army of the Great Sui Dynasty. The Zuo Guards had only 50,000 army, but only 900 cavalry were gathered. The Great Sui Dynasty lacked war horses, which shows that.

After this war, Yang Yun, the Emperor Jianye of the Great Sui Dynasty, announced that all the border troops of Fangucheng would be promoted to the lieutenant, and each person would be rewarded with 30 acres of land without paying taxes to the government. The residents of Fangucheng would not have to pay taxes for ten years, and they allocated 50,000 taels of silver from the Ministry of Revenue to repair houses for the people, rewarding loyalty and courage.

General Li Lun of the Left Guard was promoted from county to state duke, and the founding of the Ministry of Publicity was the same as the three corps.

During that battle, there was a young man next to Li Lun who had never left. Even though he knew that he might be surrounded by tens of thousands of elite cavalry in the Mongol Empire, he still did not escape when he was in his teens. This young man was Li Lun's eldest son, and later inherited his identity as Duke of Tang, and now he is also the General of the Right Guard Li Yuanshan who is also the northwest barrier of the Great Sui Dynasty.

The Right Guard was also stationed in Jibei County, but was not in Jibei County and the county governed Jibei City.

The 50,000 elite combat soldiers of the Right Guard were stationed at Woxian Mountain, 60 miles away from Jibei City.

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"Mr. Tang is so polite. Our family has been in the imperial capital for the first time. If there is any inconsiderity, please forgive me. You know, if the people below didn't annoy Your Majesty, how could His Majesty let the adults of Dali Temple and the Ministry of War go out to Beijing to investigate? We came over and saw it all the way, and our family also knew that the brothers of the border army worked hard, so we just walked around and said, so Mr. Tang was relieved."

The person who spoke was a eunuch wearing a light blue official uniform from the sixth grade. He was thirty-five or six years old. His face was covered with a thick layer of white powder. But his lips were not known to be particularly bright and looked disgusting. Although this eunuch was only from the sixth grade, what he should know is... Once the eunuch had a grade on his body, it only means that he was a favored person in the palace.

The eunuch's official uniform is different from all officials. It is blue. The higher the grade, the darker the color. Moreover, there is no patch on the chest, and you cannot wear a beam crown. The people in the Great Inner Guards wear flying fish clothes. The patch on the chest is a strange beast recorded in the Shanhai Jing. Flying fish is about a meter long, with a dragon's head, cicada wings, and fish tail.

This eunuch is Wu Peisheng, the eunuch in the imperial study. He is really a popular figure in the palace. This time, according to the order of Emperor Yang Yi of the Sui Dynasty, he inspected Hebei, Hexi, Shanbei and Shandong with officials from the Ministry of War. Jibei County belongs to Shandong Road, which is also the last stop of this inspection.

When he arrived in Jibei County, the first thing he did was not to go to the city but to visit Li Yuanshan first. As the eunuch of the imperial study room, he naturally knew the weight of the General of the Right Guard in His Majesty's heart. Therefore, he said the words he had just shown goodwill. Along the way, except for being humble and polite in front of the governors of various ranks, he had never been so polite in front of the third-rank county magistrate.

"What did Eunuch Wu say?"

Li Yuanshan is thirty-three years old, the age of a man who is calm and mature. He is of medium size, about 1.7 meters tall, not quite burly. Compared with the fierce generals in the army, he looks a little less fierce and looks a little thin. Especially compared with the seven tigers of the right guard behind him, he looks even more ordinary. The seven tiger generals are all tough people.

Because he wanted to accept the order, he specially wore a first-rank duke's court robes today, wearing a beam crown. The court robes were dark purple and a qilin embroidered on his chest. The Liang crown of the Duke's Liang crown has eight beams, the same specifications as the princes and princes. This is the highest number among ministers, because the number nine is not something that everyone can use. First-rank officials have seven beams on the beam crown, second-rank six beams, and fifth-rank three beams. Liang crowns are not allowed to wear Liang crowns under the fifth-rank.

The clothing of the Great Sui military generals and civil officials is also different. The biggest difference is the patch on the chest on the front of the official uniform. All military generals are beasts, while all civil officials are birds. The first to fourth rank are purple robes, the fifth to seventh rank are green robes, and the eighth and ninth rank are green robes. Since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, there have been no first-rank official, and the sixteen guards are all third-rank generals. In more than a hundred years, no military generals of the third rank or above appeared.

But the Duke of the Kingdom was the first-class, so Li Yuan wore an eight-liang crown on his head, a purple robe, and a qilin embroidered with patches on his chest. The second-class general painted a lion, and the third-class tiger.

The first rank of civil servants, also has purple official uniforms, seven-liang crowns, and cranes embroidered with a zither on their chest. The second rank is the golden pheasant and the third rank is the peacock.

Li Yuanshan was a Duke of the Kingdom, so he could wear the Eight-Ray Crown and the court robes embroidered with a Qilin patch. This is the rule of the court and cannot be messed up at all. If it is messed up, there is a suspicion of rebellion.

He looked at Wu Peisheng and smiled, "Since Eunuch Wu came to investigate strictly according to His Majesty's order, I will naturally cooperate. Whether it is money, grain, number of people, treasury, weapons, horses, these accounts will be prepared. If Eunuch Wu wants to take a look, I will send someone to send them later."

"Duke Tang performed his duties conscientiously, and our family admired him."

Wu Peisheng smiled, and the white powder on his face fell down: "Since Mr. Tang is so serious, if we refuse, we will inevitably be slack. Your Majesty asks, it is not easy for us to handle the job. However... the matter of the matter of the check is that it is an official of Dali Temple and the Ministry of War, so our family will just follow it."

Li Yuanshan looked back and the dozen Dali Temple and the officials from the Ministry of War followed behind nodded. His eyes deliberately stayed on the faces of the three of them for a while, and the three of them were almost shaking slightly at the same time.

"This time, Dali Temple sent three law enforcement officers with more than shattered mirrors, and they were really attentive. I heard... The Ministry of War also sent a talisman master who had been shattered for many years, why didn't he come together?"

"Where did Mr. Tang get the news..."

Wu Peisheng smiled and said with a plea: "The Ministry of War only sent five civil servants, all of whom are good at mathematics and science. They just want to check the accounts. Where is the talisman master with a broken mirror? We have a list of the officials who came to inspect this time. If Mr. Tang doesn't believe it, you can take a look. The Ministry of War has only sent one Yuanwailang and four of them to work, and there is no talisman master."

He lowered his voice and smiled and said, "Duke Tang doesn't know, Master Fu is all treasures."

Li Yuanshan was slightly stunned, then laughed: "Indeed, there are not many talismans in the Great Sui army. If you check the accounts and send a talisman to the talisman, then talismans will be too worthless."

Wu Peisheng laughed, not knowing why he was so happy.

"please!"

Li Yuanshan made a gesture.
Chapter completed!