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Surrounded by four mountains, there is a city built by the mountain, high in the east and low in the west. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Taozhou City.

Zhang Chao, dressed in leather armor, stood at the foot of the hillside, holding a telescope to look at the city. While looking, Zhang Chao compared it with the map he had drawn. After being appointed as the governor of Taozhou and the assassin of Taozhou, Zhang Chao found an opportunity to find a map of the Longxi area from the tablet.

Fortunately, although there is no Internet, it is a downloaded electronic map, which also has a topographic map. Zhang Chao spent some effort to draw it in sheepskin, which was not as accurate as the electronic map, but it was also thousands of times better than the map that Li Shimin gave him.

Zhang Chao only needs to replace some of the place names on his map with the Tang Dynasty place names on the map given to him by Li Shimin. For thousands of years, the topography has not changed, although the names of places have changed.

Mountains, hills, river valleys, ravines.

These millennia of unchanging terrain have left the area almost unchanged in terms of the cities inhabited, the land cultivated, and the routes traveled.

From Longxi City in Weizhou to Lintan County, the seat of governance in Taozhou, the straight-line distance is only more than 200 miles. However, there are many mountains and ravines in Longxi, and the route has to follow the river valley. To reach Lintan in the southwest of Longxi, you must first advance northwest along the Wei River, reach the source of the Wei River, and then go northwest along the valley to the Tao River.

Then turn back along the Taohe valley to the south, go south to Minzhou between Weizhou and Taozhou, and then go west, along the winding valley and ditch, and finally reach Taozhou, the border of the Tang Dynasty.

Along the way, Zhang Chao estimated that the distance of 200 miles in a straight line, but he walked in a huge Z-shape, first to the northwest, then to the southeast, and then to the west. In addition, those river valleys were also winding, and he walked at least 800 miles away.

Eight hundred miles, Zhang Chao and his entourage walked for half a month.

Cui Yi rode his horse and galloped over, rolling and dismounting in front of Zhang Chao's horse.

"Qiyu Governor, no trace of the Tuyuhun people was found near Taozhou City, and the last general will send people into Taozhou City to investigate, according to the people in the city, the Tuyuhun people have evacuated Taozhou ten days ago and went to Henan."

This result was expected by Zhang Chao, but he was still very cautious along the way. The scouts came out in all directions, marching cautiously, he was in the shadow of Tuyuhun, so he was also very afraid of Tuyuhun yin him.

Half a month ago, Xu Jingzong entered the Tuyuhun camp to negotiate peace. With a three-inch tongue, he successfully made Murong Fuyun, the Great Khan of Tuyuhun, agree to negotiate and withdraw from the army.

Murong Fuyun specially asked who the general surnamed Zhang was who led the troops to help.

"That's a new celebrity in my dynasty, Zhang Chao and Zhang Wenyuan, both civil and military, a famous person who comes out once in three hundred years. once entered the rebel lair alone in Hebei, persuaded several rebel generals to defect with one mouth, and successfully captured the fortified city guarded by 50,000 rebels. ”

"It's so amazing, which famous family is he?"

"No, Zhang Sanlang has been practicing penance with the hidden monk Sanzang since he was a child, and he was born half a year ago. He followed the monks for many years, learned countless skills, knew his medical skills, and once healed thousands of seriously wounded soldiers of the Tang Army, and through his hands, all those wounded soldiers survived. He is also proficient in the classics of Confucianism, writing books and teachings, and cultivating historical scriptures, which is respected by the great Confucian scholars of the world. ”

"Along the river city, General Manager Zhang completely annihilated 3,000 people in Feng Siming, but he didn't lose a single bit!"

"My Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, I personally named Zhang Sanlang as a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, a scholar of the Chongwen Pavilion, the owner of the Chongwen Pavilion, the prince of the horse, the founder of Wu'an County, and now he is still the governor of Longyou Dao!"

Xu Jingzong boasted that Zhang Chao was amazing, what one person entered the city of 50,000 rebels, and persuaded the enemy to turn against him, take the city, and capture the leader of the rebels. He led his troops to meet the 3,000 Qiang army of Xifeng Siming on the way, and annihilated 3,000 people, but he did not lose a single thing.

Murong Fuyun was really skeptical.

mistakenly thought that Zhang Chao was really a civil and military all-rounder, and thought that he brought 20,000 elite Tang troops.

Murong Fuyun agreed to negotiate, and Li Shimin then sent Shi Tangjian, the governor of Tiance Prefecture, to personally go out, and after a few days of talking, the Tuyuhun people happened to get the latest news that the Turks had been defeated by the Tang army on all three fronts, and had negotiated peace with the Tang army. As soon as he heard the news, Murong Fuyun also hurriedly got off the donkey and made peace with Tang Jun.

The terms of the peace negotiation were not even too difficult, and Tuyuhun withdrew from the Tang Realm.

As for the property looted by the captured population of the Tuyuhun people, the Tuyuhun people did not give up, but they did not want to forcibly occupy the territory of the Tang army, and hurriedly reached an agreement, and the Tuyuhun people retreated.

Li Shimin then appointed Xu Jingzong to inspect the history of Minzhou and Zhang Liang to inspect the governor. Li Shousu inspected the history of the Fangzhou thorn, Hou Jun set the inspection of the school and the governor of Fangzhou, while the governor of Taozhou and the governor appointed Zhang Chao, the prince-party, to inspect the school at the same time.

Li Shimin asked Tang Jian to inspect the history of Weizhou Thorn, and Zhang Gongjin to inspect the school governor.

In this Tuyuhun invasion, Fangzhou Thorn Shi fled, and Tao, Min, and Weizhou Thorn Shi were killed in battle.

Zhang Chao didn't expect that Li Shimin asked him to inspect the governor of Taozhou and the history of assassination. He is not interested in being the governor of a border state, just after the war, who knows if this border is safe. But Li Shimin asked Zhang Chao to take office, and he used the request, and in the end, Zhang Chao had to be ordered to be in danger.

Fortunately, Li Shimin did not let Zhang Chao take office alone, but gave him two armies of soldiers and horses to garrison Taozhou. In addition to Zhang Chao's right rear army, Li Shimin gave Zhang Chao a left rear army.

Both armies were fully established, with 2,600 men each, for a total of 5,200 men. Li Shimin gave Zhang Chao 3,700 soldiers, which is equivalent to the standard configuration of the two armies.

There are 20 cavalry teams, 10 crossbowmen, 12 archers, 16 jumping teams, and 16 odd soldiers.

In addition, there were 1,500 auxiliaries, selected from among the recruits of the original Right Rear Army.

The armament was also sufficient, the cavalry had two horses, crossbowmen and archers, each with two crossbows, and each had a hundred arrows. The Jumpers are also equipped with iron armor, the Odd Soldiers are equipped with leather armor, and the Jumpers all have horizontal swords and shields. There are even two teams of jumping soldiers who are Mo Dao Team, a double-edged broadsword with a height of one person, and each Mo Dao hand is an iron tower-like man, the original Tianzi Yuan from the elite of the forbidden army.

Li Shimin has made a bloody investment, and he has only one task for Zhang Chao, to guard Taozhou, and not to let Tuyuhun enter and exit at will, just like visiting his own backyard.

Ma Zhou is Zhang Chao's long history, Cen Wenwen is Zhang Chao's Sima, and Sun Fujia is a record of joining the army. B-speed Lone Shenqing and Pi Lou Wuche divided the two armies.

These two people are Li Shimin's personal guard brigade commanders, two strong-looking Hu men with a tiger's back. A person surnamed Yisugu, a Qihu person, lived near the Yellow River in Daibei back then, and took the local Yellow River crossing Yisugu as his surname. Another surname is also surnamed Lou, is a Xianbei person, at the same time he is also a part of Tuyuhun, the tribal name is Pi Lou, originally lived in Mantou Mountain, Qinghai, with the name of the tribe, the surname was changed to Lou when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the surname was changed to Pi when the Western Qin and Southern Liang.

The Pi Lou Wuche family has been attached to the Central Plains Dynasty for more than 100 years, except for the surname with Hu Wei, the others are no different from the Han people.

"Are the Tuyuhun people gone?" Zhang Chao raised his eyebrows, "It seems that they also know that the Turkic army has lost and negotiated peace." ”

"These mongrels run fast, otherwise wait for the imperial army to come and teach them to die without a place to be buried." Pi Lou Wuche scolded hatefully, Zhang Chao always felt a little strange when he heard a Tuyuhun person scolding the Tuyuhun mongrel. But think about it, when squeezing the bus, the most dissatisfied with those who are still desperately squeezing into the bus is always the previous one, which is not surprising.

This is somewhat similar to the fact that the poor who look down on the most are always poor, and the people who look down on China the most are always Chinese.

"Enter the city!"

Now that the Tuyuhun people are gone, Zhang Chao is also relieved, and finally avoids a big battle. Although there are more than 3,000 soldiers, Zhang Chao really doesn't think he has much capital.

Close to Lintao City, Zhang Chao found that this was a very large city.

Ma Zhou introduced this city to Zhang Chao next to him, "This city was first built in the fifth year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and it was built by Fu Lianchou, the 11th and 14th Legends of Tuyuhun, and was originally called Honghe City. After several reinforcements and expansions, it has the current scale. ”

Lintao City is near Taoshui, very close to Taoshui, Taoshui turns west in Minzhou, the source has been near the Yellow River, close to the stone mountain.

It is precisely because of this Tao River that the Qiang people and Tuyuhun people often enter Longxi along the Tao River.

Taozhou Lintan is located in the key point of "controlling Fanrong in the west, covering Huanglong in the east", "receiving Shengfan in the south, and reaching Shiling in the north", but also due to war, reclamation and other reasons, so that here is the Hu and Han multi-ethnic mixed settlements.

Lintao City has also become an important bridgehead, the focus of many parties, Lintao City, which has a history of nearly 150 years, is now very tall and strong.

The building is surrounded by four mountains.

There are big stone mountain, triangular stone mountain, phoenix mountain and so on in the north of the city, there are Yandun Mountain in the southwest of the city, Renshou Mountain and Leizu Mountain in the southeast, and Honghua Mountain in the south, these are the remaining veins of the west-leaning mountain.

The city is built on the mountain, high in the northeast and low in the southwest.

The Nanmen River goes around the city from west to east, and there is Taoshui in the south.

"The circumference of Lintao City is eight miles, and there are two thousand and fifty pheasants."

Zhang Chao looked at the city and was also amazed by its grandeur.

The three walls of the southeast and west are straight, and the northeast, north and northwest are built along the ridge, winding on several peaks of Donglong Mountain.

There are also beacon towers at the top of each peak.

The whole city is majestic, like a giant dragon coiling.

At that time, the king of Tuyuhun built a city here, and after 150 years of long-term reinforcement and expansion of the Hu and Han sides, which changed hands continuously, it had this scale.

Originally, Zhang Chao thought that the Tuyuhun people would not give up if they captured the city this time. But it seems that the defeat of the Turks by the Tang army made Murong Fuyun, the Great Khan of Tuyuhun, a little frightened, and even gave up such a dangerous city on the border.

"This is the main way to enter Henan, and to defend this city is to guard the gate of Longxi in the Tang Dynasty!"

Zhang Chao nodded at Ma Zhou's words.

Before coming, Li Shimin said to him, "Taozhou, the gateway to the west, defend the city and choke its throat!" ”

I still owe sixteen more! (To be continued.) )