Chapter 280 Outside Khotan Town
Yutian Town, one of the four towns in Anxi, is also the town closest to the Tubo border. Every time the Tang Dynasty and Tubo conflicts, it starts here, so there are also the main army of the four towns in Anxi. Sometimes, the combined forces of the other three towns are not as strong as this town.
It was getting late, and Ni Ni Niizhan walked out of his barracks. Although he looked like a Persian, when the soldiers who came and went to see him, they stopped to salute him and respectfully called him General Li. Compared with Ni Ni Niizhan's Persian name, he preferred to call him Li Fuguo.
As the sun sets, the sky is covered with red clouds, as if it is dyed with a layer of blood. The military camp is located outside the town of Yutian, and not far from the barracks is a Gobi Desert. Whenever the wind blows, the yellow sand in the sky is pressing like dark clouds. If you don’t cover your mouth and nose in time, sand alone can suffocate people to death.
The strong wind that had been blowing for two days finally stopped. The whole sky seemed to be washed by yellow sand. The sky was blue, dotted with clouds dyed golden by the sunset, and it looked like a beautiful painting.
Li Fuguo stepped out of the barracks and nodded to the soldiers who greeted him along the way. He was recently popular in the barracks, and almost everyone could say that he knew him. No one dared to laugh at his Persian identity anymore. After all, everything in the army speaks based on their strength, and others respect him on the battlefield was won by him.
"General, your injuries have not healed yet, so why not go back and rest. We can do these things!" At this time, a Persian man who looked like a captain came over and looked at Li Fu's national highway with concern.
"It's okay, a mere minor injury is nothing. Are all the things ready?" Li Fuguo waved his hand.
"The things are all ready, and the brothers are here, so you can set off at any time!" The Persian man nodded and said.
The big man was named He Yu, who looked very Persian, but if you look closely, you will find that his face was flat and his eye sockets were relatively shallow, and he looked a bit like a Han Chinese. In fact, like Caesar, he was a mixed-race child of Han and Persians, but his mother was born with a low-brow and was taken as a concubine by a merchant named He. After he was born, he was also disliked by his father, so he was named He Yu, which was the extra person in the family.
"Then let's go. It's almost dark. You can't let your brothers wait for a long time!" Li Fuguo immediately ordered, and He Yu nodded immediately, then took Li Fuguo's war horse with his own hands and helped him get on the horse.
Some time ago, Pei Xingjian led a large army to fight against the Tubo people's army. Although the Tubo people lost their food and supplies and their morale had long been disintegrated, they had the advantage in military strength after all, and their actual military strength was still more than 100,000. You should know that this is a 100,000 army, not 100,000 pigs, and even 100,000 pigs, it is not easy to destroy them.
In this decisive battle, Li Fuguo led his Persian cavalry to break into the central army of Tubo like a sharp blade, beheading many Tubo noble generals, and almost captured the commander of the Tubo army. It can be said that he became famous in one battle, which is also the main reason why Pei Xingjian listed his contributions behind Wang Fangyi.
However, although this battle made Li Fuguo famous, it also seriously injured his vitality. More than 600 people died in the three thousand cavalry he had accumulated under his command, and everyone was injured. Even he was stabbed by someone himself. Fortunately, his armor was excellent, so that the other party could only stab the gun in half. However, even so, he had to rest for several days before getting out of bed.
Li Fuguo led his cavalry to the west of the military camp. This was a small valley that could block the strong winds on the Gobi Desert. However, because the terrain was small, it was not conducive to the army's garrison, so it has now been opened up into a cemetery to bury the fallen soldiers.
Li Fuguo and his friends also dismounted when they came outside the valley, as if they were afraid of disturbing the souls of the soldiers in the valley. The soldiers behind them carried the sacrifices they brought. Today they were here to pay tribute to the Persian cavalry who died in battle some time ago. You should know that many of them followed Li Fuguo from Chang'an, but now they are forever lying here and never have the chance to set foot on the land of Persia again.
Walking along the path of the cemetery, there are graves around it. Although it is called a cemetery, it is actually very simple. It is basically a small pile of stones and a simple wooden tombstone. Some of the tombstones don't even have a word on it, because when some of the corpses were picked up from the battlefield, they were no longer recognizable, and of course they didn't know their names.
Finally, Li Fuguo and his friends came to the innermost corner of a cemetery, where more than 600 Persian cavalry who had died in battle were buried. These people were all his confidants whom he had worked hard to train, but some even followed him to travel all over the Western Regions and saved his life on the battlefield. But now they are separated by heaven and man forever, and they can only live in Li Fuguo's memory.
"Give me a sacrifice!" Li Fuguo looked at the more than 600 tombs in front of him, and then ordered in a deep voice, and tears were also filled with the corners of his eyes.
He Yu and others immediately presented the offerings they brought, including wine and meat. When they went to war together, Li Fuguo promised them to drink victorious wine with them after the war. Now he has come to fulfill his original promise.
As the worship began, He Yu and others also showed sad expressions, and many people even had tears in their eyes, because there were more than 600 people sleeping underground, including their brothers and friends. They had drunk and bragged together before the war, but these people could no longer accompany them to fight the enemy.
"General, aren't we going to restore the country? Why do we have to let our brothers fight for the Tang Dynasty?" At this moment, someone suddenly took two steps forward, reached out and wiped the tears from his face with his sleeve and asked.
"Rareless!" He Yu saw that someone dared to question Li Fuguo's decision, and immediately stepped forward and scolded him angrily.
He Yu had a very high prestige among the people. Seeing him getting angry, the person who stood up was frightened and immediately retreated, but his face was a little dissatisfied. The other people around him looked at each other one by one, but they didn't dare to say anything.
Chapter completed!