Chapter 200 Swinging Longyou

Huijun, at the beginning of the year, most of the city had been demolished and the population had withered. Wei Yan simply demolished all the two surrounding counties and used their walls to rebuild Huijun. At the same time, the population of the county was also moved into the city. Soon it returned to its original appearance, the city walls became taller and stronger, and the population gradually increased. Now, this place has become a cross-throat road to prevent Zhang Huan from advancing eastward and Duan Xiushi from going south. After Wei Yan led his army southward, Huijun still had 15,000 heavy troops stationed. Huijun commander Wang Guangmao, who was also a veteran who had followed the Wei family for many years.

Starting from the night of the winter solstice, a violent blizzard began to sweep across the Helong land. The strong wind was accompanied by snowflakes and whistled in the air. Every household closed its doors and windows, and pedestrians outside the city disappeared.

But Wang Guangmao, the commander of Hui County, did not dare to take it lightly. Before leaving, Wei Yan issued a strict order to him, beware of the sneak attacks of Zhang Huan in Hexi. Like others, Wang Guangmao's ears were filled with news that the Dangxiang people were in trouble with Hexi. He kept asking for help from Zhang Huan, a messenger who came across the river to ask for help. He was bored.

Fortunately, since the Yellow River was unable to sail, the messenger from Hexi has not come again, and he has become purified.

That morning, the snow was getting smaller. Wang Guangmao was arranging to clear the snow in the city. Suddenly, he received an emergency report from the Yellow River sentry tower, saying that he had found signs of someone crossing the river on the Yellow River.

Wang Guangmao was shocked. The Yellow River was already frozen. What if the Western Army of Hehe came to fight? He immediately ordered the deputy general to guard the city, but he took a thousand people to the Yellow River in person to observe the situation.

Like the other side, Huijun also built several sentry towers by the Yellow River to monitor the situation in the west. When Wang Guangmao arrived by the Yellow River, hundreds of guards were already on guard. The sky was gray and there were still fine snowflakes floating.

"What happened?" In the hazy snow light, Wang Guangmao saw countless people in ragged clothes supporting and walking on the ice, but his defenders could not stop him. He felt a little angry.

"Report to the general, my subordinates have gone to interrogate, and some Dangxiang people fled from Hexi." The captain of the Shuita Tower came to report.

"Dangxiang people?" Wang Guangmao was puzzled. Didn't Dangxiang people fight with Zhang Huan in Hexi? Why are they back? Could it be that they were defeated by Zhang Huan?

Just as he was thinking, several soldiers brought one person over, Wang Guangmao recognized him at a glance, as Tuoba Wanli, the son of Tuoba Xi, the former son of Prince Dangxiang.

Tuoba Wanli stepped forward and bowed to Wang Guangmao in panic and said, "See General Wang!"

Wang Guangmao smiled disdainfully and said, "I heard that you didn't start a war with Zhang Huan in Hexi? Why did you become so embarrassed again?"

"Oh! It's a long story." Tuoba Wanli sighed, "We are just trying to live a quiet life. Tuoba Qianli and others are causing trouble, which has implicated us. Now the fight is fierce. The magistrate Luo County of Huixi County is a good person. He can't bear to kill us, so he gave us a gift to leave the country."

Seeing Tuoba Wanli's nose, his face was swollen and his clothes were torn, and he couldn't help laughing, "What kind of gifts are given to him? It's obvious that he was driven out."

Wang Guangmao also slowly felt relieved. He understood Tuoba Wanli, a young man who was pampered and had no ambitions.

"Then where are you going now?"

Tuoba Wanli quickly bowed and said, "We, ten thousand people, are preparing to return to Yinchuan County. It is now afternoon. I want to ask the general to let us rest in Hui County for one night."

Tuoba Wanli secretly glanced at his face and said, "If it doesn't work, we will go north to Lingwu County." After that, he bowed and left.

Seeing that most of the people of Dangxiang were young and strong, there were many beautiful women, Wang Guangmao suddenly felt malicious in his heart. How could he let these fat sheep go easily? Wang Guangmao took two steps and stepped forward to pull Tuoba Wanli and smiled: "It's okay, I'm not wrong. It's getting late now. For the sake of old friends, I allow you to go to Huijun to rest overnight."

"Then I'll disturb General Wang."

Tuoba Wanli gave a gift and hurriedly went to greet the tribe members. Wang Guangmao stared at Tuoba Wanli's back and called a lieutenant and said, "Take five hundred brothers with them, I'll go back and arrange it."

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There are dozens of miles from the Yellow River to Huijun City. The sky is getting darker. On the way about twenty miles away from Huijun, Wang Guangmao had already set up five thousand soldiers to lay out the net of heaven and earth, just waiting for the Dangxiang people to enter the bag.

Although it was snow and ice, Wang Guangmao couldn't help but burst into desire when he thought that the young and beautiful Dangxiang women would be his own tonight.

"General, here we come!" A soldier pointed ahead.

Wang Guangmao looked at it in a concentrated manner and saw a large black shadow moving towards the snow two miles away. Wang Guangmao began to rub his hands. He said with a low life: "Send the order and prepare to take action."

After a while, it seemed that the large black shadow began to move north, and it was very fast, "No! They were going to escape."

Wang Guangmao knew that his person had been discovered by the other party, so he decisively ordered, "Strike!"

"Woo~!" The low horn sound suddenly sounded, and the wildness of the five thousand Longyou soldiers was aroused by the horn sound. They ran forward like a group of evil wolf, and snow splashed everywhere, and there was no formation. They shouted wildly, as if they were no longer Dangxiang people in front of them, but fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

Five hundred steps.

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Three hundred steps.

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As they got closer, they had even heard the shouts of the Dangxiang people.

But at this moment, many soldiers rushing in front suddenly stopped. They had already seen clearly that there were women in front of them, all of whom were wearing Dangxiangmen uniforms, holding weapons in their hands, waiting for them with grin.

Not only that, a cavalry suddenly rushed out behind them, and snow splashed in front of them like a waterfall. They held up their swords, shouted loudly from their mouths, and rushed into the Longyou Army in an instant, killing them like a destruction, rushing the Longyou Army into pieces.

Wang Guangmao was shocked. Before he could order a formation, a tall and strong Dayuan horse rushed to him. He was immediately a young general. He was less than twenty years old, eight feet tall, with wide shoulders and round waist, especially his arms were extremely long, with silver helmets and silver armor, with cold light flashing in his eyes and showing his sharpness.

He held a large iron spear in his hand, and a cold light flashed, and the tip of the spear hit his heart. Wang Guangmao was so scared that his heart was about to stop. He turned back, dodged the tip of the spear, and fled, but after only two steps, he felt a powerful force pulling himself backwards, and his body was already rising in the air.

Then he fell heavily to the ground. Several soldiers held him tightly, pulled him to the young general, and put several horizontal knives on his neck.

At this time, a low voice rang in his ears: "The governor has an order. If General Wang surrenders, he will still be appointed as the governor of Hui County, otherwise he will be sent to Kaiyang County."

Wang Guangmao couldn't believe his ears. He looked at the young officer incredibly, "What are you?"

"You think you are Dangxiang people, and tell you that there have never been any Dangxiang people who have caused trouble. Now in front of you is the Xiliang Army. I am Wang Siyu, the governor of Liangzhou."

Wang Guangmao's brain buzzed, and he finally understood that the general had fallen into the trap.

"I'll ask you, will you not give up or not!"

Wang Guangmao looked at his subordinates who had completely collapsed and ran around the snow field. He wanted to surrender, but he felt sorry for Wei Yan and his heart was in chaos.

"How is it, has he surrendered?" A rough voice came from the night. A bearded general rushed towards him. He pointed at Wang Guangmao with a knife and said sternly: "I just dismantled the Hexi general of your Hui County, Li Hengqiu, tell you that the governor did not want the Tang army to kill each other, so he gave you a way out. Otherwise, if you change your military uniform, we can still trick the meeting to the Xicheng Gate."

Wang Guangmao was shocked and couldn't help but sigh: "Please show mercy to your subordinates, I will surrender."

That night, all 15,000 defenders stationed in Hui County surrendered to the Xiliang army and were taken to Huixi Fort to reorganize. Li Hengqiu led 3,000 people into Hui County, while the young general Wang Siyu led 5,000 cavalrymen to pretend to be Dangxiang people and rushed south. They seemed to be an extremely sharp dagger, penetrated straight into the heart of the Wei family: Kaiyang County

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In Kaiyang County, the Wei family's lobby was silent. Dozens of Wei family members gathered together, and everyone's eyes were staring at Wei Du.

Wei Du sat in front of the desk table blankly. He looked at the two letters on the desk table blankly. One was a pigeon letter, which was sent from Hexi early in the morning, saying that the Dangxiang people were defeated by Zhang Huan and fled eastward and might cross the Yellow River. The other was a 800-li fast letter, which had just been sent from Huijun. It was written by Li Guangmao, saying that tens of thousands of Dangxiang people had surrounded Huijun and requested assistance.

Wei Du was cautious in his work. To put it bluntly, he was timid. He had never encountered such a situation before. Wei Er didn't tell him what to do if such a thing happened? In front of everyone, he seemed to have a deep look and was considering the problem. In fact, his heart was in a mess and his mind was blank.

The lobby was silent for a quarter of an hour, but Wei Du still said nothing, but his face became paler and paler. Everyone couldn't help but look at each other, not knowing what mysterious the temporary leader of the Wei family was doing.

At this time, a middle-aged man came out with a sneer. His name was Wei Ping, who was Wei Yan's brother and the former governor of Kaiyang County. His government affairs were not good in recent years. In April, Wei Yan asked the court to be transferred to the governor of Yan'an County. This time he came back to ask for food, and happened to encounter the crisis in Hui County.

Wei Ping is Wei Er's younger brother. He is the direct son of the Wei family. His family status is much higher than Wei Du. He has always been resentful about Wei Du's replacement of him as the governor of Kaiyang County. He had been watching coldly just now. Seeing that Wei Du was unsure of his mind, he sneered and stood up, "In my opinion, Wang Guangmao should be dismissed from his post and investigated!"

Wei Pinghuan glanced at everyone and said, "He has 15,000 troops there, and has high walls and strong cities to defend, but he can't stand tens of thousands of Dangxiang nomads. He also wants to ask for help. Wouldn't this make people laugh out loud!"

Although Wei Du was not good at military affairs, he was a veteran in official struggles. When he saw Wei Ping being the leader, he immediately woke up and said coldly: "Wang Guangmao is a veteran of the Wei family. How could he not know that Kaiyang County does not have many troops? Of course, the problem is very serious when he asks for help like this. We must have difficulties that we don't know. Fourth brother, you shouldn't say that."

Wei Ping snorted and said disdainfully: "Third Brother Yi is going to send troops to rescue the county! Did the eldest brother explain this when he left?"

Wei Du also said tit-for-tat: "Although he did not explain this way, he gave me the right to stop the opportunity, so of course I can make the decision."

Just as the two were arguing, suddenly there were rapid and heavy footsteps outside. A servant ran in. He held a volume of documents and shouted: "San Master, something is not good! Hui County has been compromised by Dangxiang people. General Wang has no idea of ​​his life and death. A five thousand Dangxiang cavalry is coming to Kaiyang County, less than two hundred miles."

"What!" Wei Du stood up and sat down dejectedly.

Not only him, the news seemed like a bolt from the blue, shocking everyone in the lobby. Even Wei Ping, who had just fought with Wei Du, was so scared that his face turned pale. He immediately thought that the Uighurs also captured Kaiyang County in this way the year before yesterday, and his two daughters were killed in that war.

"Come!" Wei Ping was the first to react. He yelled repeatedly, "Immediately use a pigeon letter to ask the court for help. Dangxiang people take advantage of the situation and ask the Prime Minister Cui to send troops to help immediately!"

Several servants ran out to release the pigeons quickly, but Wei Du did not object. This decision was correct. At this critical moment, he abandoned the disagreement between the two. He immediately stood up and comforted everyone and said, "Don't panic, we have 20,000 elite Longyou Army soldiers in Kaiyang County, and 5,000 people can't do anything to us."

"This is not necessarily the case. If these five thousand people are just pioneers and the large group of people are behind, even Huijun cannot be defended." Wei Ping seemed to be talking to everyone, and also seemed to be talking to himself.

"What about the Fourth Brother Is?" Wei Du asked for his opinion.

Wei Ping lowered his head and thought for a while, and said decisively: "Now the force is everything, and the five thousand troops from Jincheng County should be transferred immediately."

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from a corner of the lobby, "The five thousand troops in Jincheng County must not be tuned!"

Everyone looked back and saw a young man standing in the corner. Many people didn't know him. He was Wei Deqing, who had a very low status in the Wei family. This time, Wei Yan did not take him away, but kept him to lead his troops to protect the Wei family. If it weren't for this relationship, he would not be qualified to stand in the lobby.

But Wei Ping knew him. During the last Uighur Rebellion, he saved his life. Wei Ping said gently: "Deqing, don't interrupt without authorization, go and do it!"

"Wait a minute!" Wei Du also knew Wei Deqing. The eldest brother told him that this son was quite talented. He called Wei Deqing and asked him, "Why do you say that the five thousand troops in Jincheng County cannot be transferred?"

Wei Deqing was listening from beginning to end. He felt something was wrong when the Dangxiang people attacked Hui County Prince Guangmao for help. Since the Dangxiang people were defeated by Zhang Huan, they had no morale and siege weapons to attack Hui County, and they even conquered it. Wouldn't Wang Guangmao become an idiot? Wei Deqing suddenly came to an amazing conclusion. Could this be what Zhang Huan did? Everything was a huge conspiracy, but he also knew that no one would believe this conclusion, but would drive him out of the lobby.
To be continued...