Chapter 5 five

The general and his cavalry finally reached the frontier. The border of the country is on the edge of the Dalu River. After crossing the Dalu River, there are hundreds of miles of snow-capped mountains with steep cliffs and dangerous peaks.In the flat valley of this mountain, people can occasionally see the centipede-shaped barbarian flag fluttering.The sound of Hujia under the Tubo soldiers will also come out of these valleys while being covered by the flying yellow sand in the downwind, so that the Han residents on the banks of the Dalu River will be very frightened and run up the hills one after another, watching from a distance, suspicious of Tubo The bottom soldiers came to attack again.

This is a small town.It is on Pingyang under an eagle-shaped peak.A stream of clear blue water zigzags out of the mountain, passes peacefully in front of this town, then turns west, bypasses a hill, and flows into the Dalu River.There are not many families in the town. If we want to say a number, let's say there are more than one hundred families.Every house faces the stream, beside which there are beautiful willows, tamarisks or locust trees.In this way, this small town constitutes a beautiful scenery in the west border that strangles the traffic arteries between the Tang Dynasty and the Southwest Man.

Since the reign of Zhenguan, when the Tang Dynasty communicated with Tubo, in the deep mountains and deep valleys, people and horses who come and go have naturally stepped on this road.The Shu people with a quicker mind built bamboo huts on this plain, and prepared some pasta with buttermilk, as a place for passing merchants.This kind of population multiplied, and the houses were gradually rebuilt into bricks and tiles. Up to now, this place has become a town that is not very calm, but it has a history of a hundred years.However, recently, Dazanpu of the Tubo Kingdom was lobbied by the envoys of Dangxiang, Dongnu, and Baigou, which aroused the ambition to invade the territory of the related Emperor Tang Dynasty.So, first of all, the borders of the Tang Dynasty were successively harassed by the Tubo soldiers.Because of the terrain, this town became the target of plundering by the Tubo soldiers who were suddenly advancing and retreating.

Because the border is unstable, and the Tang Dynasty's army is stationed in Chengdu, the residents of this town, all strong men, are warriors who can resist the enemy.Like Fanbing, they have also learned flying spears and various knife skills, because they know that this is the special skill that Fanbing uses to win, and these two martial arts are the only way to defeat those Fanbing who are coming like a whirlwind. OK.Sometimes, when a small group of Tubo soldiers or other barbarian and Qiang ambitious people, galloping fast horses, standing upright with spears with white feathers floating on the tip, when they charged straight from the opposite hill, all the people in the town All the samurai stood in formation, sitting high on their horses, waiting quietly on the hill bypassed by the stream.These Tubo soldiers have long been known as the warriors in this town, so after thinking about it for a while, if they feel that their strength is irresistible, even if they have rushed to the bottom of the hill, they will immediately turn their horses around and retreat. back.The town's samurai, who had won without a fight, laughed and went back to the town tavern to drink.But they know very well that the Qiang and barbarians are unwilling to admit defeat. If they retreat, they will definitely invite more troops to make a second attack. Therefore, after the warriors drink moderately, they will still be heavily armed They scattered everywhere to lie in ambush: on tree branches, in valleys, in crevices of rocks, in bushes or behind piles of bricks and tiles.Often on a moonlit night, a person will first see a cavalry coming straight from a distance, and then two cavalry, three cavalry, and four cavalry, and the brave Fanbing will have two or three hundred cavalry attacking.So, they whistled and warned each other, and then quietly shot one by one in a hidden place.However, those fan soldiers who only relied on their bravery could no longer find anyone who could shoot such bamboo arrows or flying spears, so they rushed over furiously, but in the end, only seven or eight cavalry were left and ran back in embarrassment.Therefore, Fanbing has a bit of a grudge against this town.Until recently, Tubo Di Zanpu had an official order to his subordinates to attack the border of the Tang Dynasty as much as possible, and the Tubo soldiers with tens of millions of people were watched all day long practicing on the Great Plains.Although there are 70 or 80 garrisons sent by the imperial court to defend the border in the town, and although there is a large beacon tower built on the eagle-shaped peak, what is the use of it?The garrison soldiers almost ran away when they heard the war, so it was useless; even if the Beacon Terrace held a huge beacon fire, because there were too many mountains in central Sichuan, even ten miles away, there might not be a ray of beacon fire.As a result, the residents of this town are a little bit in danger.They felt that if they could not resist the Fanbing this time, the life of the whole town would be over, and since the Fanbing had obtained the most important pass of this route, it would be easy for them to drive straight in and attack Chengdu.In order to save the fate of this town and the whole of Shu, or even the entire land of Tang Dynasty, the people in the town had to send urgent troops to Chengdu to ask for more troops to be stationed so that they can be protected at any time.