Love Affairs in Chang’an Chapter 466: Wolf’s emergence
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Qingrahara, gunpowder smoke filled the corpses all over the field, there were countless huge craters on the ground, and the knee-length snow was stained with blood. The huge Tubo army camp was on fire everywhere, and smoke billowed for dozens of miles. Teams of Tubo prisoners were escorted by Tang's soldiers and went outside the camp.
Hou Junji rode a horse and walked in the military camp, his face tense, his eyes as cold as ice. There was a group of prisoners by his side. He looked sideways and saw that some of them seemed to be Han, so he raised his hand and pointed his whip: "Bring those two people here."
The guards stepped forward and took the two Tubo prisoners who were suspected to be Han Chinese.
"Are you Han Chinese?" Hou Junji asked.
"Yes, we are captured Datang people. We were used by the Tubo as serfs to graze and plant. After fighting, we went to the barracks to feed horses as a fire-head army and serve the knights of the Kunlun cavalry. Every Kunlun cavalry, They are all served by slaves, and there are three or four more." One of them replied tremblingly in Chinese, indeed in an authentic Kansai accent.
Hou Junji squinted at them, his eyes pierced into their hearts like a blade. Judging carefully, the two of them didn't seem to be lying.
"Don't be afraid, I won't kill you. After being verified, you can prove that you are the Han Chinese who have been captive and abused, and you will be released back to your homeland to reunite with your loved ones." Hou Junji said.
"Thank you General, Thank you General!" The two Han slaves knelt on the snow, overjoyed, and kept kowtow.
"Get up. I am going to ask you, why are there only a few old and weak remnants and groom slaves left in the Luoyuan camp? Where is the main Kunlun cavalry of the Garqin Tomb?" Hou Junji asked.
"This... the villain is just a servant who feeds horses and boils water. I don’t know." One of them replied, "I only know that there was a big movement in the barracks about three days ago in the middle of the night. Most The men and horses turned to Jishi Mountain in the southwest. The general in charge asked us fire-headed horsemen to mount on horses before dawn the next day and ran around in the barracks with flags. In the middle of the night, they also held torches. Running back and forth did not exhaust us."
"Bluffing, secretly crossing Chen Cang!" Hearing this, Hou Junji had completely understood in his heart, and was completely cold.
The previous bad feelings and speculations have now been verified.
From the time Hou Junji was ordered to lead his army to guard Dafeichuan, the "wounded beast" Garqin Mausoleum has never stopped provoking and attacking Dafeichuan. Although the Tubo people suffered two defeats in a row, they still have the remaining army of 150,000 soldiers and horses. The main force of the Kunlun cavalry, the Garqin Tomb, still sits in the town. It is really difficult to contend with his 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses in Hou Junji's hands. So, in accordance with Qin Mubai's instructions, he strictly guarded the camp by defensive attack, and let time, cold and hunger kill the fighting spirit and strength of the Tubo people.
In the cold winter, it is difficult to transport grain and grass in the mountains due to heavy snow. In fact, not only the Tubo people, but the entire Lanzhou has been short of grain. According to Qin Mubai's pre-plan, when the ice and snow melted and the food road was clear, the front line was reduced to concentrate the troops, and then enough food and grass were raised to fight the Tubo head-on. Moreover, in the cold winter season, the Tang army's field combat ability will be greatly reduced, far inferior to the Tubo cavalry who are accustomed to the severe ice and snow.
For all these factors, the tactics of "defense instead of offense" were reasonable, and Hou Junji himself did not raise any objections at that time. Although he was earnest, he also recognized Qin Mubai's tactics.
But in the end, I made a mistake.
Garqin Mausoleum, which suffered heavy damage, looks like a wild beast that has been provoked to anger, and even braving the mighty cannons, sending troops to Dafeichuan, without exception. All were beaten back.
Such a crazy offensive seems to have fulfilled Qin Mubai's expectation-Golmud succeeded in a surprise attack, and the Tubo people had no food and everything, and they had to rush to take down Dafeichuan, otherwise they would really die in this severe winter. Unexpectedly, behind the crazy offensive, there is also a gloomy strategy-Garqin Mausoleum gave up his four to fifty thousand soldiers and horses with a broken arm to survive, so that half of them defended the village and half continued to provoke Dafeichuan to contain them. With the paralyzed Tang Jun; in the dark, he personally led the elite Kunlun cavalry of his department to detour to the southwest and climbed over the ice and snow mountain!
When Hou Junji discovered the fraud, it was too late. Although he immediately led the army to take the initiative, with the support of the Shenwu artillery, he defeated the remaining Tubo soldiers and horses in only half a day, and took the Qingluoyuan army village in one fell swoop, but the Galqin Mausoleum and his subordinates Nearly one hundred thousand Kunlun cavalry had disappeared.
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Hou Junji, almost expected the consequences. He personally came to the vicinity of Jishi Mountain, and indeed found traces of a large number of cavalry activities here. Looking up, there are boundless mountains and snow and dangerous peaks towering into the clouds.
"It's really a hell! Are the Garqin Mausoleum and his Kunlun cavalry equipped with wings?" Hou Junji repeatedly cursed in his heart, "The mountains and the steep ice peaks, birds can't fly, cavalry How can it pass?"
The lieutenants around them were also aware of the seriousness of the problem, and whispered: "Jishi Mountain stretches for dozens of miles and is a natural military barrier. In the past, it was the watershed between Tubo and Tuyuhun. The soldiers of the Central Plains The horse can hit here, almost to the end. Now the Galqin Mausoleum crawls from here like a ghost, and then crosses a plateau and plain to the southeast, and goes deep into it for hundreds of miles, then directly face my Tang at Tuyuhun New states and counties have been established in the old place!"
"Garqin Mausoleum, I will definitely attack Taozhou!" Hou Junji frowned and said, "Because in Songzhou area, there are tens of thousands of troops led by Yuchi Jingde, commander of the Jiannan Road marching. Previously, there was also a battlefield. However, between the Songzhou Military Region and Taozhou, there is a plateau gully area of about tens of miles. Because the roads are rugged and the weather is bad, people are usually rare, and almost no one is dead. Yu. Since the Garqin Mausoleum can climb over Jishi Mountain, he will definitely choose such a place to escape Yuchi Jingde’s eyeliner and go straight into Taozhou!"
"If he were to take down Taozhou, it would be a bad thing!" The lieutenants on the left and right exclaimed, "Taozhou is one of the cities with the most convenient transportation on the western frontier defense line of the Tang Dynasty. , You can march in the north, south, east, and west, I'm afraid that he will go deep into Guanzhong to harm the Central Plains!
"Now I hope that General Yuchi can discover and sniper Garqin Mausoleum halfway!"
"Hope for a fart!" Hou Junji grunted annoyedly, and said, "Who would send soldiers and horses to guard the extremis plateau dozens of miles away when the mountains were covered by heavy snow and the sky was freezing. Patrol sentry? Yuchi Jingde is just a fierce commander who charges and can't do such delicate tasks. Besides, even if he finds out, he may not have time to save him! Since Garqin Mausoleum dares to go, he must do it well. It’s half way to prepare for an encounter. It’s strange to encounter Kunlun cavalry in such a place, and Yuchi Jingde’s tens of thousands of Sichuan and Sichuan infantrymen are not swallowed up!"
"That's not to say that the Garqin Mausoleum must have succeeded and captured Taozhou? Next, Xijiang and Central Plains still don't know how much poison they will suffer!" The left and right lieutenants all regretted and said, "I will wait. What a major negligence, actually let Garqin Ling slip under our nose!"
"He will come back again." Hou Junji gritted his teeth and said every word.
"Come back?" Everyone was surprised.
"Taozhou, extending in all directions. After the scourge of the Western Xinjiang for a while, the Garqin Mausoleum will never kill the Guanzhong. It is undoubtedly a hunt for death." Hou Junji said, "He did this to create chaos. Attracting and restraining my troops in the frontier of the Tang Dynasty, seeking a chance to escape for himself."
"Then why didn't he simply retreat from Qingrayuan to the plateau? The surprise attack on Taozhou, wouldn't it be unnecessary?"
"He wants revenge." Hou Junji closed his eyes slightly, looking at the white snow-capped mountains in front of him, and said in a deep voice, "The three-game losing streak of Magic Moon Valley, Dafeichuan and Golmud hurt his vitality. The loss of face is not just a military defeat, it is more likely to affect his status in Tubo, and shake the Tubo national policy that his fanatical main warrior has always advocated. If he retreats like this, he may retreat in the future. I can’t see him on the battlefield. You said, would he be willing to be a hero like him? In addition, he may have other conspiracies and tricks after taking down Taozhou. It should be more than just revenge."
Hearing these words of Hou Junji, the generals' hearts were crushed by a huge rock.
"General Hou, what should we do now?" asked left and right, "Qing Luoyuan has already been shot down, but we have almost nothing except for some prisoners of the old and weak remnants. How can we report such a major negligence to Qin Shao? Shuai confess?"
"This is no longer a matter of how to confess to'Marshal Qin'..." Hou Junji slowly spit out this sentence, saying the word'Marshal Qin' was extraordinarily important.
The generals' hearts are blocked-he is alluding, will the emperor ask sin in the future?
At this moment, Hou Junji's face gradually became gloomy, and there was a vague atmosphere of death. He thought in his heart, I was a man who had been left behind and had a heavy burden of humiliation. He finally managed to get out of his head to take control of the military to do a great deal, but he committed the most important military mistake of his life!
Hou, was already an emperor’s abandoned **** and a victim of court disputes. Had it not been for Qin Mubai’s bold and unreasonable use of me, Hou had either died of unknown old Liangzhou or was found an excuse to cut the grass and eradicate it. future trouble. Now everything is irretrievable. Because of my mistake, Qin Mubai will also be charged with improper deployment and improper employment, and Yuchi Jingde will also be implicated by me. The military forces have finally recovered and raised their heads above the court, and they will surely suffer a heavy blow because of Hou's mistake!
Even if the emperor's magnanimity once again forgave me and someone, can Changsun Wuji let me go? What a chance to kill people! ——If Taozhou is lost, Western Xinjiang and the inland will suffer huge losses. How many heads will it take to quell public opinion and public anger for such evil results? But Qin Mubai was a rare hero, a great red man, and a young general trained by the emperor in recent years. Although Yuchi Jingde was implicated, he was not responsible. In addition, he was one of the four great heroes of Kaiyuan and was trusted by the emperor. , Now it is the mainstay of the limelight... Even if these two people are punished, the emperor will never kill them severely, at best, they will be punished without pain!
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After thinking for a long time, Hou Jun couldn't help but closed his eyes and sighed long.
"This time, Hou Mou is bound to die, and there will be no day to turn back!"
"General Hou, what did you say?" Without hearing the left and right, he asked.
"It's nothing." Hou Junji rationalized his thoughts and restored his expression, and said, "The Tubo soldiers who have just been captured in Qingluoyuan don't have to bring back to Dafeichuan-on the spot, all executed!"
"Huh? General Hou is going to kill the prisoners?" All the generals were surprised, "Or...all?"
Hou Junji squinted his eyes, looked up at the sky, and said: "Choose the Han slaves among them, give them some food, and let them run away by themselves!"
At this moment, he said in his heart: "This is also the last good thing I have done in this life!"
"But General Hou, my Datang military law is strict, and it is not allowed to kill prisoners indiscriminately! When he left, the marshal did not also solemnly warn the general..."
"Heavenly sins, Hou Mou must bear it!" Hou Junji shouted.
"Twenty to thirty thousand people!"
"Dare to disobey this general's order, and cut it now!" Hou Junji drew his sword.
The left and right lieutenants dared not say any more, and had to accept the promise to retreat to execute the military order.
A cold wind swept across, blowing the battle robe on Hou Jun's body into a flurry of dance and covering his chest and face. He stretched out his hand to shook his shirt and hugged him behind him, his eyes were full of hostility, like a lone wolf who had been hungry for a long time, facing the sheep——
"The Tubo prisoners in Dafeichuan will be taken out in ten batches, and all of them will be killed! Do not leave one!"
"Yes..." The generals were all chilling, but looking at the sharp blade in his hand, they did not dare to say anything.
"Go ahead!" Hou Jun set his sword into its sheath, and waved his hand with his back to the generals. "At this time tomorrow, all 50,000 or 60,000 prisoners will be killed! Time is tight!"
There was a sudden jump in the hearts of the generals, looking at each other secretly: Time is tight? What is he rushing to do?
But no one dared to ask, although Hou Junji was very good at leading troops and was especially good at training, and he was able to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. He often took the lead in killing the enemy in large and small battles, plus the rewards and punishments above. He is already quite good among soldiers. Prestige; but in terms of disposition, Hou Junji is a very lonely, arrogant and uncomfortable person, and he must be cold and ruthless in his words. The generals were really afraid to ask a few more questions, and he turned his face and ruthlessly cut it on the spot. Up.
But when I thought that about 50,000 or 60,000 Tubo captives were about to be executed, all the generals felt chilly! ——At the beginning of the founding of Datang, such a thing really hadn’t happened! Hou Junji, this is trying to risk the world, doesn't he want to live? Even if the Tubo people did not desperately seek revenge from him, the Tang court might not let him go!
All the generals are gone, Hou Junji is still standing alone at the foot of Jishi Mountain, and even the envoys and guards who are holding the flag are ten steps away from him.
"Death is death, but Hou has nothing to worry about!" Hou Junji took a deep breath, grinned coldly at the corner of his mouth, and muttered to himself, "Before, Hou always lived in the shadow of the emperor. Under grace and kindness, he always considered reason, law and sentiment, but he was hesitant and fearful and finally lost to the eldest grandson Wuji. After that, Hou Mou admired Qin Mubai's loyalty and generosity, and obeyed his five bodies, compared to the emperor. It's too late!—Today, Hou must be himself! Do something that I always wanted to do before, but couldn't, dare to do, and couldn't bear to do!"
"If you are not afraid of death, what else is there to fear!"
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty! What I will do next may make you regret that you didn't hurt the killer and killed Hou Junji! ——You are a wise man and Qianxiu must have lost it. !"
"Sorry, Qin Mubai! Hou once planned that he would no longer trust anyone in his life, except for you. But now, Hou will do something sorry for you too! But don't worry, In any case, Hou will not kill you! In addition, maybe Hou will do good things with a bad intention, and it can also lay some groundwork and create some convenience for you, and it can be regarded as repaying your loyalty and generosity! If you can't figure it out, you can't get enough Think of it as raising a white-eyed wolf!"
"Wolf, after all, it's not a dog!" Hou Junji couldn't help grinning indifferently. "This is the nature of nature, you should have thought of it, right?"