8. Yanzhi Mountain raises the flag
After saying that, Duan Zuo pointed at the east with his sword blade, "Xu Sheren forced us to leave our hometown in Shanzhou. First, we passed Guzang Mountain to guard the snow-capped mountains, then walked to the Chishui Army, and then walked almost three hundred miles before we arrived at Yanzhi Mountain."
Duan Zuo also used his sword to look to the west, "After passing Yanzhi Mountain, travel west along the Ruoshui River, and to the side of Qilian Mountain in Ganzhou, where we have to farm the foreign soldiers in the north and cultivate the farmland. However, after working hard for a year and a half, most of the income has to be taken away and supplied to the foreign soldiers to attack Dunhuang. We may not even be able to stutter, and we have to transport them 700 miles of grain to Guazhou. When we pass Guzang Mountain, there are more than a hundred dead people. If we go to Ganzhou, our bones will probably be scattered in foreign lands of Ruoshui and become ghosts in foreign lands. If we don't save ourselves, we will not be able to survive. Everyone will die, and they would rather die in great trouble."
"I hope the leader of the horse will follow!" At this time, thousands of Tang people shouted in unison, and many women started crying, but it was not crying timidly, but heroic crying. Even the weak, they had already made up their minds not to die in Ganzhou.
Hao Yan's wife held his children tightly and said to them, "Don't forget the hatred of your father being killed by Fanshen (at this time, Hao Yan's wife thought her husband was dead). Don't forget the shame of Fanshen not allowing us to pay tribute to your father."
The two children looked up and replied in a tender and crisp voice: "I dare not forget!"
At this time, Duan Zuo inserted his sword to the ground and pointed to the temple on the hillside.
The Tang people who recognized the words clearly saw that there were still several words "Han Cavalry General Huo" left on the plaque of the temple...
Duan Zuo immediately divided all the Tang people into deployment, and then asked his comrades to take one. Thousands of Tang people quickly and in an orderly manner drove livestock, carried farm tools, or pushed calf carts, and scattered into the peaks of Yanzhi Mountain. They chose flat places with water sources. Men cut wood and set up sheds to burn wasteland and tillage (they went to Ganzhou to farm and carried grain seeds); women and children picked edible wild vegetables and collected stones.
The entire Yanzhi Mountain stretches for dozens of miles, traversing the middle waist of the Hexi Corridor, and is also the throat of the Ganliang. Duan Zuo knew that the local Xifan military fort was about to send troops to capture and clear them.
Fortunately, Yanzhi had abundant mountains, rivers and grass, fertile land, salt and iron, and many dangerous places with mountain springs and mountain streams. Duan Zuo immediately chose to select strong men and told them that when there was no war, they would cultivate in the mountains, build turrets, train battle formations, forge weapons, and when there was any war, they would go out to protect the mountain village; while the women and children assisted the men and heard the alarm.
This Yanzhi mountain village officially erected a great banner for the Tang people and Han people in Helong area to save themselves and resist tyranny.
Of course, they don’t know yet that in the thousands of miles away Jiannan and Yunnan border, there were also ministers of the pillars of the Tang Dynasty who tried their best to save them.
"I'm sure to save the four towns of Anxi and Beiting!"
The Wuhou Temple in Liwu City, Gao Yue, who placed the command post here, secretly made up his mind and kept encouraging himself. When he heard the scouts report: "The two forests on the west road and the Fengpa East Barbarians noticed that a large number of foreign soldiers appeared in the valley on the other side of the Saigong River were coming here." He pointed his finger to the west side of Taideng City, "The Xifan garrison troops in Saigong and Lacheng can all be reinforced here to hide."
"The purpose of begging for hiding is now very clear, that is, to use Taideng City to stick to us, and then all the foreign soldiers come to help, waiting for an opportunity to attack inside and outside, and eat you and me." Wei Gao said, looking at the sand table map.
"Then let's take the lead and concentrate our forces to break through the gateway of the North Valley of Taideng City and Baosai City. Then turn around, block and even eat their reinforcements one by one, and then encircle and annihilate the Qizang and cover up!" Gao Yue finalized the plan to siege the city and attack the reinforcements.
I beg for hiding and covering up. Do you know that there is also a brave but not scheming General Zhang in the future who died in such a mountain called Meng Liangkou?
On May 27, the area between the banks of the Saigong River and Liuqiang Town, two tribes, the two tribes of Fengpa, had a total of 6,000 Eastern Barbarians. Under the leadership of their respective ghost masters, they arrived here from Guqing Military City. Xu Ji, the general manager of the Three Tribes of the East Barbarians, and some of the three Fengyi Army Yuhou, and the camp was equipped by Wei Gao to teach the Eastern Barbarians how to fight:
Your position is to surround Liuqiang Town inside and block the foreign soldiers from Saigong, Lacheng and other places who came to reinforce the hiding hiding. When the Dingwu Army of Gaoqihou arrived, they cooperated with them to capture Liuqiang Town.
Liuqiang Town is located between Sai Gongchuan and Beigu, and is also the traffic throat of Taideng City. It is also the "old Baosai City" that Gao Yue must seize first.
Under the guidance of Xu Ji, the Dongman Yizong, carried the chopped thick bamboos under the old Baosai city to the side of the Sai Kung River bank, and sharpened them into a seven-foot-high barrier. It was known as the "Bamboo City" and firmly occupied the important places to enter and exit.
There were nearly 10,000 Western-French reinforcements in Lacheng, Saigon. Seeing the strict bamboo city in the east, I had to choose to set up a Xiaying Fort at the high platform in the north of Saigon River, and across the river from Liuqiang Town.
At the same time, Xie Facheng's Dongchuan soldiers from the Tang army's middle route had eliminated several Xifan Fortresses and approached the Hulangshan Village on the northeast side of Taideng City. Liu Chaocai, the supervisor of Wu Deng Dongman on the east route, also occupied important places in Pagua Ridge and began to build camps, which were mutually supportive with Xie Facheng.
At this time, I was afraid to hide the enemy several times and failed to make a counterattack. Seeing that the Tang army's advance base was as solid as a rock, Xichuan and Dongchuan crossbowmen were almost rushing to the point where the Western foreign soldiers could not move. So I asked Ma Dingde: "Saigong, the reinforcements in Lacheng were blocked outside Liuqiang Town, and Liuqiang Town was gradually surrounded by various Tang troops. What if?"
"Liuqiang Town is the throat. If this place falls, then the soldiers and horses of Saigon and Lacheng will not be able to come to support him. On the contrary, if this place is held, the Tang army will not be able to enter Taideng City at all, and the flanks and food routes will also be threatened. Please give me a strong army to reinforce Liu Qiang, break the encirclement of the Tang army, and bring in the reinforcements of Saigon and Lacheng." Ma Dingde volunteered.
Quiting Zangzang and blocked him, he promised to give Ma Dingde two thousand elite soldiers, and asked him to take his tribe with his tribe to take the Beigu Mountain Trail to reinforce Liuqiang Town.
"Shenchuan, Huichuan, why haven't the reinforcements from the past tribute arrived yet?" At this time, Qizangzang blocked the reinforcements in the south and then paid attention to the reinforcements in the south.
Before he finished speaking, several cage officials looked pale and hurried into the palace and told Qi Zang to cover up the shocking news:
"The King of Yunnan Barbarians has rebelled!"
"What?" Qizang's eyes, which were covered in confusion, became dizzy and black.
Yi Mouxun sent troops very quickly this time. When Lu Qiran, the nearest Huichuan defense envoy, was about to be prepared to enter the city by the northern aid platform, the Nanzhao army attacked the city, like a divine weapon descending from the sky, and was so scared that Lu Qiran could only shrink and defend the city.
This back stab of Yi Mouxun was completely fatal to Yunling and Jiannan. Yi Mouxun asked the Qingping official Zheng Hui to besiege Hui to 10,000 troops to siege Hui, and then asked Duan Gupu to 10,000 troops to occupy the Lujin Ferry to block the Xifan Shenchuan and Jianchuan’s reinforcements to prevent them from approaching. Then Yi Mouxun himself and Zheng Zhi led the remaining 20,000 troops to bypass the Huichuan circumference without fighting, attacked Jingkou, Qianglang and other strongholds, and rolled towards the south road of Dengtaicheng.
Chapter completed!