In the process of Wei Chigong's personal guards gathering, Wei Chigong and the soldier who came to report concisely introduced the cause of the rebellion.

learned that it was Liu San, a cheap father-in-law who was looking for a face, who killed the people's husband, which aroused the fierce resistance of the people's husband and caused a civil uprising. Wei Chigong said with a gloomy face: "Damn, damn it!" ”

The surrounding soldiers of the Tianxing Army lowered their heads, and they didn't dare to come out.

They didn't know who the person Wei Chigong was scolding, whether the people deserved to die or Liu San deserved to die.

It didn't take long for Tianxing Lieutenant Chi Gong's personal guards to gather more than 1,000 people. However, unexpectedly, Wei Chigong did not give the order to open for a long time, and the guards of the Tianxing Army listened attentively to the killing shouts from afar, and looked at Yu Chigong in confusion.

Wei Chigong did not give an order, and the reason was actually very simple. Wei Chi Gong official family. However, after the death of his father, Wei Chigong had a period of experience in making a living from iron. As a member of the lowest level, Wei Chigong is very aware of the temperament of these people, if they are not forced to make it unacceptable, they will definitely not take risks. Now this group of poor people will be forced to live, and the matter of the government forcing the people to rebel has appeared on him, which makes Wei Chigong have a very ridiculous feeling.

In fact, Wei Chigong was very sympathetic to Minfu. Of course, like countless hot-blooded young people, he has a chivalrous dream in his heart, hating corrupt officials and corrupt officials, punishing the strong and helping the weak, robbing the rich and helping the poor. Wei Chigong never imagined that one day he would stand on the opposite side of the weak. However, as the chief general of the Tianxing Army, it is Wei Chigong's duty to quell the rebellion.

Therefore, Wei Chigong stood outside the big tent, extremely entangled. At this moment, Liu Yuantao, the general of the front battalion of the Tianxing Army, Wu Lingzhao, the general of the left battalion, Zhang Zhonghai, the general of the rear battalion, and Zuo Siyuan, the general of the right battalion, all arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army.

Seeing that all the generals had arrived, Wei Chigong's head flashed with inspiration, and he finally thought of a way to get the best of both worlds.

Wei Chigong said: "Liu Yuantao in the front camp! ”

Liu Yuantao came out and clasped his fists and said: "The end will be!" ”

Wei Chigong said: "In order to prevent the Tang army from stealing the camp, the Erbu needs to be strictly guarded. ”

Liu Yuantao said: "The camp is in the people, and the camp is broken!" ”

Wei Chigong said again: "Zhang Zhonghai in the back camp, and left Heiyuan in the right camp!" ”

"The last general!"

"The two of you, each transfer 2,000 people, strengthen the defense of the left flank, and temporarily return to Wu Lingzhao to control it!"

Before Zhang Zhonghai and Zuo Siyuan received their orders, they saw Xun Xiang running in an extremely embarrassed manner, and at this time, his hair was spread out, and there was blood on his face. Seeing Wei Chigong, Xun Xiang seemed to have encountered a life-saving straw, and his tone was a little panicked: "General Wei Chi, quickly order the troops to pacify the chaotic army!" ”

Although Wei Chigong really wanted to take the horse lance in his hand and smash Xunxiang's face into flowers. However, Liu Wuzhou did have the grace of knowing him, and he really couldn't do it to let him betray Liu Wuzhou and Wei Chi Gong. Although Wei Chigong sympathizes with these people, he is an official, and those people have now become bandits, and it is natural for officials to be peaceful and bandits.

Wei Chigong said: "Looking for the deputy general, don't you feel that this rebellion came too suddenly? ”

Xunxiang was about to say: "Suddenly a fart, if it weren't for Liu San's waste ......" Xunxiang thought about it, if he was investigated, Liu San would certainly be damned, and he would also be guilty of not knowing people. So, Xun Xiang followed Wei Chi Gong's words and said, "What does General Wei Chi mean?" ”

Wei Chi Gong said: "The people suddenly made a mess, I think it was also the people's battalion mixed with the Tang army, the Tang army made a lot of tricks to bewitch the people, and the plan was not small, if they were allowed to take advantage of the chaos to burn my grain and grass, or equipment, our army would definitely suffer heavy losses!" ”

Xun Xiangxiang hurriedly pulled himself out of this popular uprising, and immediately echoed: "What General Wei Chi said is extremely true, and what he said is extremely ......."

Wei Chigong no longer paid attention to the search for the appearance, and ordered Zhang Zhonghai of the rear camp and Zuo Siyuan of the right battalion: "Zhang Zhonghai of the rear camp and Zuo Siyuan of the right battalion!" ”

"The last general!"

"The two of you strictly guard against the granary and grass storehouse, if there is a bad pool, come and see you!"

"Yes!"

Wei Chigong not only ordered the troops to defend strictly, but also improvised code words and passwords, and finally delayed the time of a pillar of incense. Wei Chigong sighed secretly in his heart: "There is only so much that this general can do, if you run to Mianshan if you know each other, you may be able to escape with your life!" ”

Ma Sanbao's move this time was very different from the peasant uprisings in history. Although Ma Sanbao's preparation time is short, the soldiers who followed Ma Sanbao and the Women's Army were all the original leaders of the Guanzhong Righteous Army. They have a wealth of experience in how to demagogue, and how to coerce the people.

Ma Sanbao led these dozens of soldiers of the Women's Army to infiltrate the Minfu camp, and they have been hiding all the time, just waiting for an opportunity to do something. When Liu San repeatedly robbed the women of the Minfu camp for the Turkic people to enjoy the silver (harmony), Ma Sanbao had to wait for this public grievance to accumulate to a certain extent, and finally the public grievance broke out.

At the right time, in the right place, Ma Sanbao began to move. Ma Sanbao took the lead in the old department of the Women's Army as the backbone, organized the strongest part of the people, and got more than 800 death squads. So Ma Sanbao led the 800 death squads to launch a fierce attack on the Tianxing army guarding the people.

In a very short period of time, the more than 300 Tianxing troops guarding the Minfu camp were annihilated. In the battle, Ma Sanbao showed a tenacious and fierce fighting style, which not only deterred the soldiers of the Tianxing Army, but also gave great confidence to the people.

Unlike the ordinary rebel troops, Ma Sanbao did not lead this rabble, who did not even have a single wooden stick, to attack the granaries and forage warehouses of the defenders of the Tianxing Army.

Instead, more than a dozen civilian battalions outside the Tianxing Army camp were continuously eliminated.

When Wei Chigong led the personal guards to arrive at the Minfu camp that took the lead in the incident, Ma Sanbao had already enveloped tens of thousands of people. Although Wei Chigong's personal guard team only has 1,000 soldiers, it can face the tens of thousands of people led by Ma Sanbao who don't even have a wooden stick. Basically, there is no problem of fighting, if it is suppressed, Wei Chigong can be said to be able to defeat all these more than 10,000 people with only one rapid charge.

However, Ma Sanbao was not interested in dueling with Wei Chi Gong at all, and he had already led the people into the endless mountains.

Looking at the rebels who finally led more than 800 rebels who were basically touching their weapons, Wei Chigong did not order an attack, but nodded at Ma Sanbao and said secretly: "What a smart person!" ”

Then he rushed to the foot of Mianshan and found that tens of thousands of rebels had all fled to the depths of Mianshan. ”

Wei Chigong said lightly: "If General Ben leads the army to exterminate the rebels, the camp is empty, and the Tang army takes advantage of it, can you afford to be offended?" ”

Xun Xiang was speechless for a while, he didn't think that the Tang Army was powerless to counterattack at this time, but as Wei Chigong said, if the Tang Army took a risk, he really couldn't afford to be guilty.

……

At the northeast turn of the Yellow River to the south, there is a small hill that is no more than ten zhang high and no more than 2,000 steps in circumference. Chen Yingzema stood on this small hill, looking at the Tumochuan River (today's Hohhot Plain) to the north of the Yellow River, and said with emotion: "I am afraid that everyone thinks that this general will take advantage of the momentum of victory, enter the summer and turn to attack Gyeongju, and take the Liang division capital in one fell swoop." They never imagined that General Ben would appear here! ”

Liu Tong carefully looked at this inconspicuous small mound and said: "General, this is located at the mouth of the valley of Yinshan Mountain, if we build a city here, if the Turks rush out of the Yinshan Mountain, they must first hit their heads under this city and break the blood flow, even if they can't completely block the Turks' troops, but they can also win precious time for the rear!" ”

Chen Ying suddenly realized that he originally felt that this place was very familiar. After Liu Tong's reminder, I understood. Isn't this the city of the East that Zhang Ren was willing to build here in the second year of Jinglong (702 AD).

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "There's no need!" “

Liu Tong and Xu Jingzong were extremely puzzled and said, "What does the general mean?" “

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