Cao Cao crosses Wu Dalang

Chapter 644
It is said that in the past, the first emperor swept Liuhe and divided the world into 36 counties, including the area around Lanzhou, that is, Longxi County.

In the second year of Yuanshou in the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing conquered the Xiongnu in the west and opened up four prefectures in Hexi, named Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang.

——For the above four counties, after thousands of years, we recite their names, and we can still see the grand scene of the vast sea of ​​yellow sand, the flags of the Han Dynasty flying high, the soldiers armor shining in the sun, and the iron cavalry brilliant. This ancestor's martial arts are also outstanding!

In the first year of Shiyuan, Emperor Han established Jincheng County, and in the sixth year of Shiyuan, it was promoted to Jincheng County.

In the third year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty, the county was changed to a state. Because there is Gaolan Mountain in the south of the city, it was called "Lanzhou", which is the origin of Lanzhou.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains fought and fought, and Tubo took the opportunity to cause chaos and occupied Lanzhou by force. Since then, it has not been owned by the Han family.

During the Renzong period of the Song Dynasty, Dangxiang rose up and defeated Tubo repeatedly. Li Yuanhao ruled Hexi, and Lanzhou was also acquired by Xixia.

More than forty years later, Emperor Shenzong forged ahead and fought hard to open the frontier. The Song army took advantage of the civil strife in Xixia and regained Lanzhou. Shun Chen, that is, once served as the magistrate of Lanzhou.

In the two generations of Shenzong and Zhezong, famous generals emerged in large numbers, and the martial arts of the Song Dynasty were at their peak:
Conquered Xixia three times, defeated Tubo, rejected Liao Kingdom in the north, and destroyed Qingtang in the west. Yellow-headed Uighurs bowed their heads and proclaimed their ministers, and Gaochang Uighurs shook their heads in fear. They opened up more than two thousand miles. Yu Wei established the Longyou Protectorate here.

A word of gossip here -

If in the original time and space, after the old official family bought the sixteen prefectures of Youyun, the theoretical land area would be more than three million square kilometers, and the prosperity of "martial arts" would really be a strong man who surpassed his ancestors. From this point of view, it is not difficult to understand that the old man Why do the officials like the saying of "Feng Heng Yu Da".

The book is back to normal.

However, this time Xixia and the Kingdom of Jin formed a good alliance and poured all the power of the whole country to attack the Song Dynasty. The main force of the country went to Yongxing Army Road to fight.

On Qinfeng Road, a partial division was sent to contact the large and small forces of Tubo, Uyghur, and Qiang, and together they formed a coalition of more than to Hu and Hu allied forces, and seized Xining, Lanzhou, Qinzhou and other places.

However, Xixia dispatched troops this time in a hurry, and was eager to take advantage of the time when the Song Dynasty was too busy to take care of themselves, and wantonly attacked the city, so the march was inevitably not thorough.

Looking at the Qinfeng and Yongxing armies, there are many prefectures and counties that have never been conquered, and there are also defeated Song armies, who went into the mountains for guerrilla attacks, or formed camps to defend themselves.

In short, the situation in the Northwest, it seems that the Western Xia is making great strides, and the Song Dynasty has lost countless lands. In fact, wherever the army passes by, there are endless wars, like stars, and it has already become a mess.

Originally, if there was no one in the Song Dynasty, the front line of Xixia was finished, and they would be wiped out one by one when they turned back. Given time, they would naturally have no worries.

But there is Lao Cao in Song Dynasty!

Lao Cao set off from Qinzhou, selected three thousand elites, and drove day and night. In less than three days, the journey of more than six hundred miles was already behind him.

And a few miles in front of him is Lanzhou, an important border town.

This prefecture is a military prefecture and has no counties. It has only one village and four forts under its jurisdiction. They are all called Kangu Village, Dongguan Fort, Agan Fort, Xiguan Fort, and Gongxin Fort.

In the past, Li Hao, general of the Song Dynasty, captured Lanzhou and became the first magistrate. Because the old city of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was small and dilapidated, it was not conducive to defending Xixia. Turtle City".

Since then, the imperial court has strengthened and repaired it several times, and by the time the old officials were in power, it had become a large-scale building. The city walls along the back of the river were all made of bricks, more than three feet high, and there were billowing torrents below.

The other three sides of the earth-built city wall are also more than two feet high. The four castles surround and guard each other from the west and the east, just like the four legs of a turtle, echoing each other.

As for the Kangu Village, it is still in Qiyun Mountain, sixty miles southeast of the city. This mountain is the No. 1 mountain in Longyou, seven to eight hundred feet high. The village is surrounded by valleys, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Pass by under this village.

The purpose of establishing this stronghold at the beginning was that if Lanzhou was lost, the defenders could retreat here to wait for reinforcements. .
However, when Xixia really attacked, the elite of the Western Army were all transferred into the pass, and the soldiers and horses stayed behind, and they would be defeated at the first touch. How could anyone be willing to stand here to defend?
As for the Hu soldiers and horses, they didn't bother to come here to eat the wind and drink the dew, so they just abandoned this natural danger.

Even the tortoise-like four castles are now unattended, and Lao Cao has taken advantage of them.

In the south of Lanzhou, Gaolan Mountain is like a high wall, stretching along the Yellow River, enveloping Lanzhou.

It was noon, and Lao Cao led his army ten miles outside the city to hide behind a low mountain. He looked at the closed city gate with a displeasure on his face: "This group of summer dogs really have no guts. They have pushed the battle line to Tongguan and Luliang. Shut the city gates in broad daylight."

His eyes rolled around, and he came up with a plan, so he called two generals Shi Qian and Shi Bao to lead 50 masters, all pretending to be merchants, and Hua Rong led people, pretending to be the defeated Song army , plundered merchants, chased Shi Qian and others, and lured the defenders to fight.

The brothers took the order and immediately made their own preparations. Shi Qian and the others all changed into leather jackets common in Northwest China, and wrapped some stones and wooden stakes in the fur skin, and carried them on the horse as goods.

Huarong's troops covered their armored horses with dust and mud, as if wandering in the wild for a long time, revealing such a kind of embarrassment.

Everyone dressed up properly, Shi Qian and others went out first, made some frightened expressions, yelled, and galloped wildly.

Huarong waited for him to go farther, and led the army out, yelling and chasing him closely.

The two teams chased and fled, and arrived at the city of Lanzhou not long after. Huarong shot arrows from time to time, and every time he shot a few arrows, one person fell off the horse——

In fact, they are all empty strings, people who fell off their horses, and they are also soldiers with superb riding skills.

There were soldiers and horses staying in the city. Seeing this situation, they rang the bell as a warning and shouted loudly on the city: "Who is it? Stop talking quickly."

Shi Qiansu was able to understand Zhufang Township Talks, so he immediately straightened his tongue and talked about Northwest Township Talks: "Brother, I am a business guest, and I met a group of hungry and crazy Song soldiers. If you are willing to save me, I will reward you with 500 taels of silver." elder brother."

When the city guard heard it, he was moved.

Looking around, I saw that Shiqian and his companions were on their way, each and every package was so heavy and hard that the horse couldn't run fast, obviously it was either gold bricks or silver nuggets!
Can't help but be ecstatic: Yesterday the blind man said that I had a bloody disaster, and kicked me a few times before he was willing to tell the truth. The way is that I must have a windfall in the near future. Could it be fulfilled here?This old man is tired and lazy, next time he is kicked harder, just tell him to tell the truth.

He also looked at Huarong and the others, all dressed in dust and shabby clothes, and nodded secretly: Needless to say, the Song army who was defeated somewhere had nowhere to go, so they had to rob merchants to survive.He must be crazy from hunger, otherwise how dare he chase me down to my city?But didn't you put the credit in my hands?After taking these heads, it is better to sell them to Xixia people.

It turned out that there were more than 1000 Xixia soldiers stationed in the city, more than Tubo soldiers, and more than miscellaneous Hus.

As for this person, he is a miscellaneous Hu who was born as a horse bandit. He has just been recruited by Xixia, and he has several hundred companions who can fight.

The leader of the horse bandit was making some calculations when he suddenly saw a few Tubo soldiers looking around and ran down the city quickly.

I was startled in my heart: Forget it, these bastards must have gone to inform, and if they attracted those Tibetan wild dogs, wouldn't they share my food?

Fortunately, most of the gates of this city were his staff, and he immediately asked people to open the gate, and he led two or three hundred companions down to the city, aggressively trying to make a fortune.

When they hurried out of the city gate, they saw Shi Qian and others, who were overtaken and surrounded by Hua Rong's troops.

Shi Qian and others begged for forgiveness, and they all got off their horses and knelt down tremblingly. Those Song soldiers smiled all over their faces, and took all the horses full of packages into their hands.

The leader of the horse bandit was very anxious when he saw it, and shouted: "Go up, don't let this Song thief rob me of my money."

Hundreds of horse bandits roared out, and the Song soldiers fled eastward one after another. Shi Qian and others took the opportunity to get up and fled to the gate of the city, but they were stopped by the guards.

Shi Qian cried and wiped away his tears, begging to let himself and others enter the city, and begging the soldiers to help him recover his belongings.

But Hua Rong, seeing the defenders leaving the city, was about to flee on horseback, but after a closer look, there were only more than two hundred people, so he couldn't help frowning secretly.

He thought in his heart: How can there be only these people in such a city?It must be that the army did not come out in time.That's all, I'll kill him for a while and hook his army into the trap!

This is truly daring!Hua Rong made up his mind, deliberately made some anger on his face, and cursed: "You wait for the dog, you are bullying too much, the masters are looking for some food, what hinders you? Come and bully each other! I will kill you all today. "

After saying that, he pulled up the horse and shot with his bow. A set of arrows shot seven people off their horses.

Huarong's skill of connecting arrows is the roost in the country, why is it only a mere seven consecutive arrows?

But he was afraid that showing his abilities would be too amazing, and it would not be beautiful to scare off the defenders.

The leader of the horse bandit was taken aback, and shouted: "Ah, he is a sharpshooter! Brothers, hurry up and kill him, he will lose his way if he gets close."

In the bitter cold place in the northwest, various ethnic groups live together, and the folk customs have always been tough. A brick falling from the roof can kill eight swordsmen. For these people who eat with knives on horseback, the intrigue is extremely serious.
Therefore, few of those who can survive take their lives seriously, and they are much more vigorous than their counterparts in the Central Plains.

Seeing that Huarong's arrow skills are good, they all speeded up their horses. Those with shields covered their faces, and those without shields hid in stirrups and hung them on the side of the horse. Many people even took out their bows and arrows and shot them, whistle Constantly, it is like a pack of wolves hunting. If ordinary people hear it, they will be scared to death.

Instead of being surprised, Hua Rong was overjoyed, and laughed loudly: "It's so brave, it's fun to kill."

Immediately galloped the horse, swayed left and right to avoid the incoming arrows, and fired arrows incessantly. After a while, he overturned more than ten people, all of them were good players who dared to confront him.

After all, there were a lot of horse bandits, so they took the opportunity to catch up to them. The leader had a ferocious face, he sat up straight suddenly, drew his sword and slashed, his moves were sharp and urgent.

A good Hua Rong, knocked on the horse's belly, dodged it lightly, put away the bow calmly, took off the gun from the winning hook, swished a few shots in a row, just like a dragon going out to sea, really turning over like a python, killing the bandit leader dazzled .

The bandit leader danced wildly with his knife and shouted: "This is a good player, brothers, kill him!" Just as he was about to take the opportunity to retreat, Hua Rong twisted the gun, and the cold light flashed, and the bandit leader felt a chill in his heart. The energy in his body leaked out like water, and when he stared blankly at Huarong, he had already rushed into the crowd.

Everyone in the world knows Huarong's name as "Little Li Guang", but they ignore that gun. How many strong opponents has he fought since he was born?Why did you lose a little bit of prestige?
Only close brothers know that the word "Silver Gunner" is just a waste of fame?

Lao Cao personally led the army to make a surprise attack, and ran for more than li in two or three days. In this city of Lanzhou, he was determined to win.

Now the key to success or failure lies in whether he can attract the main force in the city as he wishes. Huarong knows that he has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, so how can he relax a bit?
I saw General Hua, who was always elegant and smiling on weekdays, seemed to be Tie Xiuluo who had returned from the Nine Nethers. When it reaches the extreme, it is also extremely beautiful, and besides being extremely beautiful, it is also extremely fierce!

However, those horse bandits, Qiang and Hu, were also vicious. Seeing that the leader was dead, they became more and more desperate, with sabers, spears, flying hammers and big axes in their hands, they fought with all their strength from all sides.

Seeing that he was attacking so fiercely, Hua Rong didn't budge a single step. With more force in his hand, the spear turned into dozens of sticks, blocking his attack with one shot, and then roared, the spear was like The dike exploded like a torrent, in all directions, and stabbed more than ten people off their horses. For a while, they were surrounded by unowned horses.

Without waiting for the bandits to drive away the horses, Hua Rong put the gun across the saddle, and took the bow and arrow in his hand like lightning, but listen——

Da Da Da Da Da Da Da... A series of violent sounds, eleven horse bandits all got off their horses. When the companions looked at it, it was either the forehead or the throat, and the long arrows penetrated several inches.

You must know that in the northwest, there are many famous archers, and it is not uncommon for them to be able to shoot seven or eight consecutive balls. Therefore, the bandits have seen Huarong's seven consecutive balls before, and they still charged bravely.

But this hand of eleven balls in a row is really shocking!Even these horse bandits have never taken their own lives seriously. At this moment, seeing such a gun and such an arrow, they have to be terrified!

This is not because the horse bandits lack courage, but as creatures in the world, it comes from the fear of death in the bone marrow.

It's like animals facing those top predators.

Hua Rong retracted his bow, endured the soreness in his arms, raised his gun and drove away the empty-saddle horse, and tried his best to kill again. The horse bandits broke into pieces and fled with a cry.

Shi Qian and Shi Bao were almost dumbstruck in front of the city gate——

Didn't brother teach him to lure the enemy to feign defeat?
How did he feel that he could kill through this city by himself?

Fortunately, at this time, horseshoes shook the ground, and more than a thousand troops, wearing various armors and leather robes, galloped out of the gate of Lanzhou City.

Lanzhou defenders have dispatched most of them so far.

When Huarong saw it, he gave a long laugh and shouted loudly: "Hugou is nothing more than that!"

He rode his horse and turned around to leave.

The defenders, seeing his ability and corpses all over the ground, didn't dare to chase him for a while.

But a Xixia warrior said angrily: "One person comes here to play wild, if he escapes, I will be laughed to death! Besides, how much energy can he spare in such a fierce fight? Follow me!"

The group of Hu Dawu roared in unison, chasing after him like a tide.

Later generations have a poem, Shan Praises Huarong's hand in this good kill——

The magic arrow of Lianzhu is unmatched, and there is no king Shunchen in the world anymore.

Gong Man shot Li Guangying, and Zhao Yunhun suddenly appeared when the gun came out.

The general's heroic wind overwhelms the dragon and the tiger, and the strong man kills the ghosts and gods.

Is there anyone who can be like a king in order to repay his friends and despise life and death?

(End of this chapter)