Chapter 465: Xu rode a horse and wore a sword to meet him
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The 34,000 troops of the eight towns and three tribes who pacified the rebellion of Beishatuo and triumphed, carried 3,000 Shatuo prisoners of war all the way slowly forward, which was extremely majestic. The Black Flag Army in front was already approaching the Imperial City, and the second army of the Zhenguo Army, which was in the rear, had just passed through the Mingde Gate.
Li Guochang, Li Quanzhong, and Li Youjin, three brothers, were imprisoned in an iron cage at this time, at the forefront of the three thousand Shatuo prisoners of war. Looking at the contemptuous and mocking eyes of countless Chang'an people on both sides of Suzaku Street, Li Guochang was full of remorse. I think that at the beginning, he went out with the Tang Army again and again, and then triumphed, and also entered Suzaku Street as a triumphant army. I remember the last time I entered Chang'an, or six years ago to pacify the Xuzhou Pang Xun Rebellion, that time after the triumphant entry into Beijing, the first emperor issued an order, gave him the surname Li, gave the name Guochang, and included in the lineage of the king of Wei, not only became the minister with the surname of the emperor, but also directly became a member of the Li royal family, and crowned him as the defense envoy of Datong, Zhu Xie clan in Chang'an East City next to the Qinren Fang, there is a set of early Zhu Xie Zhiyi returned to the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xianzong personally gave the mansion.
Six years passed, and he never imagined that he would come back again in a prison car. Behind him, there are also his brothers Li Youjin and Li Quanzhong, as well as his sons Li Kexiu, Li Kerou, Li Kezhang, and his son Keyong's righteous son Cunzhang. Suddenly, two lines of old tears slipped down Li Guochang's face, regretting that he shouldn't have done it in the first place.
The Black Flag Army who was walking in front knew that Gao Shunli suddenly saw a Bai Zeqi coming, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
Things are a little out of the original plan, Bai Ze is a kind of mythical beast in ancient legends. It is said that the Yellow Emperor once saw Bai Ze on the seashore. This animal can speak. Knowing everything in the world, the Yellow Emperor let people depict the image of Bai Ze. Later generations used it as a pattern for uniforms and flags.
The appearance of Bai Zeqi means that the emperor's son of heaven has appeared.
There are two banners of Bai Ze in the big car, which are held by the standard-bearer on a horse, and there are guides in front of each flag-bearer, and there are guards on the left and right sides.
Gao Shunli had to stop, and at this time, another Bai Ze flag appeared by another majestic standard-bearer.
Behind the two Bai Ze flags, the royal Jinwu guards appeared. The team was led by the left and right generals of the Jinwuwei himself, and some of the soldiers of the guard held long lances in their hands, some wore iron armor, and some carried horizontal swords and bows and arrows at their waists. The bows carried by these soldiers were carried in bow bags sewn from tiger skins, called tiger dogs, and arrows were carried around their waists in quivers called hulu.
The Jinwu Guards marched in two columns, left and right, and walking in the middle of the two columns was a Suzaku Flag, and then twelve dragon flags, and the Jinwu soldiers holding the dragon flags wore military uniforms. The robe was draped over the robe, and there were two horse guides in front of each dragon flag. There were two cavalry guards in the back.
After the dragon flag, there are 6 types of vehicles, namely the guide car that determines the direction, the Jili drum car that records the mileage, the Egret car, the Luan flag car and the Pixuan car. Each chariot was driven by four horses, each with fourteen drivers, and a craftsman accompanying the chariot.
Behind these vehicles is a drum band of the honor guard, which is called front drumming because it walks at the front of the honor guard. The band is composed of percussion instruments and wind instruments, and the drumming traditionally belongs to the bands in the army.
In the front part of the drum, there are 67 drums, cymbals, knots, drums, large drums, small drums, and feather drums, as well as gongs such as golden cymbals, horns called long sounds, and wind instruments such as flutes, flutes, flutes, flutes, and flutes. The musicians in the front stage are marching in a horizontal line on horseback.
Followed by the front is the two side by side riding side by side in the palace servant royal history, the first day of the appointment of the left widow Wang Zou because of his outspokenness, has now been promoted to the palace servant imperial history, and another colleague riding side by side.
Behind them is the Yellow Banner, which symbolizes imperial power. Next is the official in charge of the astronomical calendar, Tai Shi Ling, he led two observation instrument cars under the management of the Taishi Bureau, one is the Xiangfeng car, a copper bird on the car changes direction with the direction of the wind, this copper bird is called the Xiangfeng copper bird, which is specially used to determine the direction of the wind. The other vehicle is a leaky car, which is equipped with a copper bowl and other timing instruments, and is a mobile time station. In addition to the drivers, each instrument car is accompanied by technical personnel from the Taishi Bureau, and the leaky car is followed by officials such as Si Chen and Ke Leaksheng.
Next on the march were the front teams of the Halberd and Halberd. The front team of the iron and halberd was divided into the left team and the right team, each team of 140 people, led by the left and right Wuwei Guoyi, riding on both sides of the brigade.
In the center of the team of iron and halberd is a pair of five-color embroidered flags and twelve pairs of gold festivals. The gold knots are black lacquer rods with a disc at the top, surrounded by a red silk whisk, with a total of eight layers from top to bottom, and covered by a yellow bag embroidered with a dragon pattern. There are two pairs of Han flags, Han on the left and Lu on the right, side by side. A pair of Suzaku flags. The left green dragon building, the right white beast building each a pair, the building is a kind of flag decorated with feathers, the white beast building is the white tiger building, the Tang Dynasty avoided the tiger word, so it was changed to the white beast.
Behind a guide umbrella are eighty-eight soldiers of the armed guards, and the eighty-eight soldiers are divided into two teams, forty-four on the left and forty-four on the right. This is the end of the vanillium and halberd front team.
Immediately in front of the armium and halberd were one general on the left and right guards, and behind the two generals were twenty-four imperial horses and two swindlemen who were officials in charge of the emperor's chariots and horses.
Behind a blue dragon banner and a white beast banner, marched those officials who worked beside the emperor, including Taiwanese officials and counselors. There are general affairs and people, serving the imperial history, the imperial history of the middle of the Cheng, the left and right pick-ups, the left and right to fill the que, the living room, the living house, the counselor, the doctor, the matter, the Yellow Gate waiter, the middle book waiter, the left and right scattered riding attendants, the waiter, the book order. These officials walked in groups of two, side by side, on horseback and on the left and right, and the messengers and the housekeepers walked. These officers were flanked by soldiers of the left and right guards.
After this solemn ceremonial drive, at this time, the Black Flag Army in front could already see the emperor's vehicle.
Walking in front of a series of vehicles was a procession of guards led by the generals of the left and right guards, who wore banjian and held ceremonial swords, and neither the banjian nor the ceremonial sword were real swords. Rather, it is wooden. It is mainly used for ceremonial guards.
Emperor Li Yi rode on the jade chariot today. This is an extremely richly decorated vehicle, this luxury is to show the dignity and status of the Son of Heaven, it is even to the point of cumbersomeness, even each pendant has a deep meaning. They were driven by blue horses, which had a very nice name called "Canglong", and these horses wore gold crowns and gilt ornaments on their heads, and the tail feathers of pheasants.
The chauffeurs who drove the jade chariots were all ministers in purple robes, and the main driver was the Taifu Qing of the Third Grade, one of the nine kings of the imperial court. He led forty-one drivers.
The emperor sat on the jade chariot, accompanied by a general of Qianniuwei.
Qianniuwei was the emperor's personal bodyguard, named because he wore a Qianniu sword.
The name of the Qianniu knife is taken from the story of Ku Ding unraveling the cow in the "Zhuangzi", the Ku Ding divided the beef for 19 years, and the cattle were cut by thousands of heads, and the knife in his hand was still like just sharpened, and later people called the sharp knife Qianniu Dao.
The Qianniu knife is a weapon used by the emperor for self-defense, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty has twelve Qianniu guards on the left and right, each wearing the Qianniu knife as personal guards. These twenty-four Qianniu Beishen were all selected from the children of high-ranking officials of the royal family, and they were young and strong, and their faces were beautiful. The martial arts are strong, and being able to be selected for the Qianniu Reserve indicates that this person will have a good future.
General Qianniu, who accompanied the emperor on the jade chariot, was the leader of Qianniuwei. General Qianniuwei is not an ordinary general, they are straddling the Qianniu sword by the emperor's side. In the Tang Dynasty, all the generals must untie their weapons and put them outside the palace before entering the emperor's palace, and if they forget to take off their sabers and enter the palace, it is a capital crime.
And if a minister can get the glory of the sword in the palace, it is basically the same as Jia Jiuxi, which means that he is about to replace the current emperor.
General Qianniuwei is the only person who can appear in front of the emperor with a sword, and the position of General Qianniuwei is extremely glorious.
On both sides of the jade chariot, there are the left and right guard generals to escort the companions, and close to the jade chariot are the five battles known as the five battles of worship, pro-battle, honor, yi, and sanshou. These are all the children of the emperor's relatives and ministers, and they are either relatives or nobles. Some of them rode with their bare hands, while others rode armoured horses, armed with swords and swords.
Behind the jade chariot is still an endless stream of honor guards, including other vehicles and chariots of the emperor's convoy, all kinds of flags, umbrella covers, group fans, square fans, and rear propaganda, which can be said to be too numerous to mention.
The tail of the guard of honor is the phalanx of the royal guards, there are Xiaowei, Wuwei, Weiwei, leading guards, etc., and the square town of each guard is composed of horse teams, a total of 24 teams. The soldiers of these twenty-four teams carried different flags, and there were twenty-four flags in total.
Behind the jade chariot is still an endless stream of honor guards, including other vehicles and chariots of the emperor's convoy, all kinds of flags, umbrella covers, group fans, square fans, rear propaganda, and the list is endless.
The tail of the guard of honor is the phalanx of the royal guards, there are Xiaowei, Wuwei, Weiwei, leading guards, etc., and the square town of each guard is composed of horse teams, a total of 24 teams. The soldiers of these twenty-four teams carried different flags, and there were twenty-four flags in total.
The entire honor guard of the Son of Heaven actually used the most solemn one, which shocked Gao Shunli, and the Son of Heaven actually didn't wait at the Suzaku Gate, but actually came over by himself. He hurriedly sent someone to report to the rear, and at this time, the team behind had to stop advancing because the front had stopped.
Li Jing heard that the Son of Heaven was coming, and hurriedly stepped forward with Zheng Congyan and other generals of the three departments of the eight towns, and when they arrived at the front of the car, Li Jing and the others picked up their swords and unstabbed their swords, and the general Qianniuwei who collected the weapon suddenly smiled and said to him: "Your Majesty has an order, the sword worn by Li Zhenguo is a gift from Your Majesty, and you can ride a horse and wear a sword!" ”
Hearing this, Zheng Congyan, Yu Xuan, Cui Anqian and other generals couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Li Jing.
Although Li Jing felt that this was a bit too high-profile, and he had the feeling that Mu Xiu was in the forest, since it was the order of the Son of Heaven, he had to ride a horse and a sword forward according to the order. The other generals all walked on foot, but Li Jing was the only one who fought with a sword and rode a horse, and couldn't help but stand out from the crowd.
Tian Lingzi, who was standing next to Tianzi Yu, saw Li Jing riding a horse, and the corners of his eyes twitched, but it was only for a moment, and he smiled again, and a face greeted Li Jing like a blooming chrysanthemum. (To be continued......)