Chapter 367 The shadows are hard to disappear

The inner city gate of An Lushan Army, which had been longing for a long time, finally opened, but it brought them not hope, but death. Hundreds of Anxi cavalry rushed in and swept towards the stunned enemy. This was the most powerful cavalry in the Anxi army. They participated in the Thousand Mile Marine of Xiaobolu and participated in the Battle of Talas. They had been through the battlefield for a long time, and even the god of death crawled under their feet.

The war horses rushed forward and slammed, slashed with swords, stabbed spears, limbs flying, and heads rolled to the ground. A scream and wailing sound suddenly sounded in the urn.

In the narrow urn city, Anxi's horse control technology was fully utilized, and the difference in the huge combat power between the cavalry and infantry was also reflected at this moment. Although the army sent by An Lushan was also elite of Fan Yang's army, in front of the more powerful Anxi cavalry, An Lushan's army was obviously at a disadvantage and almost slaughtered one side.

The urn city was almost a hellish Asura field, with corpses everywhere and blood flowing into rivers. Sun Xiaozhe, who was close to the city wall, was shocked. Although he knew that the reinforcements of the Tang army had arrived, he had never seen such a powerful army, less than 300 cavalry, who could kill in the narrow urn city, killing his elite army terrible.

No matter what, he could not imagine that there was such an army in the Tang Dynasty. Who was this army? At this time, his pupils shrank violently. He saw a person, Li Qing'an, who was slowly driving in through the inner city gate. It turned out to be the Anxi Army!

At this time, his eyes suddenly filled with fear. Li Qing'an had already set his bow and arrows, and the sharp arrows were pointed coldly at him. Sun Xiaozhe was so scared that he was so scared that he hugged his head instinctively. The long arrow had appeared in front of him. With a "click!", an iron arrow shot through his chest. Sun Xiaozhe screamed and was nailed to death on the wall.

The main general died tragically, and An Lushan's army no longer had the desire to fight. They rolled and climbed down the mountain. After a moment, the urn escaped completely. With a loud bang, the outer city gate slowly closed.

The urn city was in a mess, with broken limbs and broken arms everywhere, and people's heads were everywhere, and blood had soaked the entire ground into red. The Anxi cavalry used spears to look at the corpses on the ground. Some injured and undead Fan Yang soldiers lay on the ground and groaned and begged for mercy, but were stabbed to death by the Anxi cavalry. They showed no mercy. A total of more than 800 Anlushan troops were killed.

The Tongguan Guards finally recovered. Only more than 1,400 people were left in the three thousand defenders, with more than half of them casualties. At this time, Wang Sili was helped by two soldiers. In addition to being hit by Sun Xiaozhe's cold arrow, he was also cut twice, but fortunately, he was not injured in the vital danger.

Wang Sili glanced at Sun Xiaozhe who was still stinged on the wall. His face was twisted and ferocious, and he died with his eyes open. He couldn't help but feel scared. He had heard of Li Qing'an's unparalleled magic arrows, but he didn't expect that he was so fierce.

Wang Sili pushed away the soldiers who helped him, knelt down for Li Qing'an, and said gratefully: "Fortunately, the general came in time, otherwise Tongguan would be unsecured, and I, Wang Sili, would become a sinner of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Qingan quickly helped him up and said with a smile: "General Wang resisted the army of An Lushan with three thousand weak brigades. I admire him. General Wang is worthy of being a famous general."

Wang Sili felt ashamed, but when he thought that An Lushan had actually attacked Tongguan, he was indignant and couldn't help but say angrily: "An Lushan's wolfish ambition is not enough to occupy Hedong, and he still has the idea of ​​Guanzhong. He really wants to rebel."

"He dared not rebel. He wanted to learn from Dong Zhuo's rebellion, control the emperor, and then control the world. If I guess correctly, this Niu and Horse Team is just his pioneer, and there should be his large team behind him."

Wang Sili couldn't help but be stunned and said with some concern: "I have all old and weak soldiers under my command, and more than half of them are injured and killed. The general doesn't have many soldiers. If An Lushan's team of troops attack, how should we deal with it?"

Li Qingan did not answer. He slowly walked to Sun Xiaozhe, pointed to the hideous corpse and smiled: "General Wang, do you know who this person is?"

Wang Sili shook her head, "I don't know, but this person is quite brave and should not be an unknown person."

"This person is Sun Xiaozhe, the general under An Lushan, and he ranks third in martial arts."

"It turns out it was him. No wonder he is so strong. Although he ranks third, he can't stop the general's arrow."

Li Qingan shook his head gently and said, "If I really fight with him one-on-one on the battlefield, I am far from his opponent, but I don't want to compete with him in martial arts, but he dies under my hands. General Wang, do you understand what I mean?"

After thinking for a while, Wang Sili suddenly understood what Li Qing'an meant. He was not fighting head-on with An Lushan. They had Tongguan natural barriers as their basis. What would it matter if his troops came in no matter how many of them came.

Thinking of this, Wang Sili felt cheerful. He clasped his fists to Li Qing'an and said, "The crown prince has an order to obey the command of the general. From now on, I will be the deputy general of the general, and everything will be decided by the general."

Li Qing'an likes Wang Sili very much. This is a rare talent. He thought of recruiting. But when he changed his mind, he thought that this person was loyal to Li Yu. If he did it too obvious, it would probably make Li Yu suspicious. He restrained the impulse to recruit this person and smiled faintly and said, "I am just here to support Tongguan by the order of the crown prince. After defeating An Lushan, I will return to Anxi. In the future, the important task of guarding Tongguan will fall on General Wang."

Wang Sili sighed and said, "An Lushan occupied Hedong and his ambitions were revealed. I was only worried that the court would not be able to control him, but more of it was to accommodate him. At that time, we generals below would not have to suffer much cowardice. Especially when we intercepted An Lushan to Beijing this time, he would definitely hate me to the core. He only hoped that the court would not use me to serve as a sacrificial cook for An Lushan. I was very worried that this possibility would be possible."

After saying that, Wang Sili's eyes became worried. He walked to the battlement and looked north. He felt extremely upset. He suddenly waved his arms and shouted, "The world is so great, isn't there no place for me, Wang Sili?"

Li Qing'an looked at his back. He could feel the pain of this Tang army general. It was a kind of dissatisfaction with the weakness of the court and concern about the future of the Tang Dynasty.

He slowly walked behind him and said word by word: "If there really is one day, General Wang might as well come to Anxi, and my Anxi door will always be open to you."

Wang Sili suddenly turned around and stared at Li Qing'an's gaze tightly. From Li Qing'an's gaze, he saw a trace of sincerity and a worry for him. He couldn't help but feel extremely moved. He nodded silently and said in a deep voice: "I hope one day, I can fly across Guanshan and go to Anxi to make achievements!"

Li Qingan patted his shoulder heavily, stared into his eyes and said, "I believe that there will be that day!"

Li Qing'an's prediction was completely correct. In the afternoon, an An Lushan army of about 30,000 people arrived at Tongguan. According to noble strategies, An Qingxu should first lead 6,000 people to control Chang'an first. Then the Hebei army entered Guanzhong. However, An Lushan made a small modification, and An Qingxu led a cattle and horse team to seize Tongguan first, and then the army entered Guanzhong. No matter how it was modified, the results of the two strategies were the same. An Lushan's army controlled Chang'an and Guanzhong, and used the emperor to command the princes to achieve An Lushan's hegemony.

But An Lushan and Gao Shang did not expect that Li Qing'an led 3,000 cavalry to arrive in Chang'an first and saw through their conspiracy, so they were unable to seize Tongguan and failed. However, An Lushan did not know that his plan had failed. He felt a little sick halfway, so he stayed in Wenxi County, Jiangzhou for a while to recuperate, and ordered Shi Siming to lead 30,000 reinforcements to Guanzhong first.

Thirty thousand troops were stationed on a low hillside about five miles away from Tongguan. It was far away from Tongguan. Not far away was the vast Yellow River, winding and circling eastward.

In the camp, Shi Siming looked coldly at An Qingxu who was determined to take responsibility. Shi Siming was An Lushan's right-hand man and had a very high position in the Hebei army. He followed An Lushan from a small border vendor to control Fan Yang's army step by step. He was the most senior veteran, An Qingxu's uncle. Although An Qingxu was An Lushan's son, he still did not dare to be arrogant in front of Shi Siming. Under the strict military discipline, Shi Siming could kill him.

So An Qingxu was quite nervous. He knew that the consequences of not taking Tongguan would make his father's plan fail.

He knelt on the ground and tried his best to defend himself: "Deputy Commander, although I am the main general of the Niu and Horse Team, letting Sun Xiaozhe play the striker is the command of the commander. We have only two generals. If he is the striker, then I must conquer the rear, otherwise we will all compete for merit and no one will escort the back. This is a taboo for military strategists. Therefore, the defeat of Tongguan is completely Sun Xiaozhe's responsibility. When I get the news, the striker has been driven out of Tongguan and Sun Xiaozhe died in Guanzhong. Please ask the deputy commander to observe clearly."

Shi Siming restrained his anger and snorted coldly: "The vanguard is good for Sun Xiaozhe, but it is you who arranged the troops in the battle. Why did you want to let three hundred slow bulls be in front? It was useless to spend time. If the cavalry team was in front, there would be more troops entering. Can Wang Sili's three thousand weak brigades still resist it? They would not be defeated at all. How can you explain this?"

An Qingxu didn't have time to report the complete situation to Shi Siming, so Shi Siming didn't know the reinforcements had arrived, and he thought that the Niu and Horse Team was defeated by three thousand weak brigades, which made him extremely dissatisfied.

An Qingxu quickly explained: "Deputy Commander, we were not defeated by Wang Sili's weak brigade. On the contrary, when we were about to succeed, their reinforcements arrived. They were extremely fierce. Only three hundred cavalry killed us and fled in a bloody way.

"Who is it!" Shi Siming slapped the table heavily and said angrily: "What reinforcements are so arrogant? These six thousand troops are elite soldiers selected by Shuai An himself. Can't even resist them 300? Do you think, who has such strength?"

Shi Siming didn't believe An Qingxu's words. At this time, an undetectable mockery flashed in An Qingxu's eyes. He slowly said: "This deputy commander should be more familiar to me than me. He is Li Qing'an of Anxi."

"What!" Shi Siming stood up, slowly he sat down again. It was Li Qing'an. He seemed to be stunned. At this moment, there seemed to be the arrow flying in the air with the sound of drums in front of him.

After a while, his voice became a little hoarse, and he asked, "How could he be, how could he appear in Chang'an? He should be in Anxi."

"The deputy commander should be in Youzhou, so why did he appear in Tongguan again?" An Qingxu's tone was already filled with sarcasm.

At this time, Shi Siming had no intention of distinguishing An Qingxu's tone. He felt a mess in his heart and waved his hand and said, "Go! I will report this to the Grand Marshal."

An Qingxu retreated with relief, the tent was empty, and the personal soldiers also retreated. Shi Siming was extremely upset. He walked slowly to the tent with his hands behind his back and stared at the majestic city five miles away. He couldn't help but think of the past that made him unable to look back on. He wanted to forget, but the past that was deeper and deeper in his heart. This became a nightmare for his life. Li Qing'an, the person he never wanted to see again in his life, was now on Tongguan, becoming a roadblock that he could not bypass.

"Li Qing'an, why are enemies so narrow?" Shi Siming murmured.

In the middle of the night, An Lushan's reply arrived. In the letter, he scolded An Qingxu for being incompetent and ordered Shi Siming to take down Tongguan within three days. If he couldn't take down, he would come to see him.

At the fourth update, An Lushan's 10,000 troops quietly left the camp and touched Tongguan. They wanted to try the possibility of a night attack. The night was dark and there was no finger on the dark mountain road. The army was fumbled upward on the Yangchan Mountain Road. At this moment, a soldier wanted to move a tree of wood across the mountain road. Unexpectedly, this was the alarm mechanism buried by the Tang army on the mountain road. With a loud rumbling sound, a large stone weighing more than a hundred kilograms rolled down from the hillside, and immediately smashed five or six soldiers. The shrill screams broke through the dark night.

Suddenly, drums were heard in Tongguan, and a torch was lit up, illuminating the night sky, and the sound of bowstrings came one after another, and arrows were like locusts. Within a moment, more than half of the hundreds of soldiers were crowded with steps were killed or injured, and the remaining more than a hundred people rolled and crawled down the mountain to escape.

Immediately afterwards, two huge rocks as big as millstones rolled down from the city and smashed them to the black Hebei army along the sheep-intestine path. A scream suddenly came from the mountain path, and nearly a hundred people were knocked over by these two huge rocks, making them bloody and bloody.

The soldiers were trembling with fear, shouted in unison, turned around and fled to the foot of the mountain. The soldiers behind were led and fled together. After a while, the soldiers on the mountain road fled and left behind the bodies all over the ground.

The sky gradually became brighter, and a red sun swelled, reflecting the inside and outside of Tongguan. At this time, Shi Siming led his horse onto the path surrounded by a team of personal soldiers. They waved the flags and signaled the soldiers in the city not to shoot arrows. Shi Siming had no choice but to retrieve Sun Xiaozhe's body. Sun Xiaozhe was An Lushan's beloved general and married An Lushan's niece. Retrieving Sun Xiaozhe's body was also one of An Lushan's orders.

Shi Siming knew very well how difficult it was to seize Tongguan. Tongguan was in a dangerous terrain. One man was at the pass, and tens of thousands of men could not open. In addition, the Anxi Army was extremely brave, and Wang Sili was good at defending the city and was known as the world's number one defender. If he wanted to take Tongguan, he would almost dream in daylight. Being able to get Sun Xiaozhe's body back was also an explanation.

Of course, he could also send others to negotiate with Li Qing'an, but Shi Siming had an unknown secret in his heart. He wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to have a face-to-face conversation with Li Qing'an to test the impact of Li Qing'an on him. He hoped to get rid of the shadow in his heart.

Thousands of crossbows on the city were pointed coldly at him. Shi Siming stood on a large protruding rock a hundred steps away, put his hands together and shouted to the city, "Please come out and answer."

At this time, several soldiers on the top of the city dodge. Li Qing'an walked to the battlement with a pair of bows and arrows. He smiled at Shi Siming and said, "It turns out that he is an old friend. Are you safe when General Shi?"

"General, I think everyone is misunderstanding. When my general heard that Guanzhong was empty, he was afraid that Guanzhong would be attacked by evil people and injured the crown prince, so he decided to go to Beijing to protect his troops. Unexpectedly, it caused a misunderstanding and hurt the soldiers, which was heartbreaking!"

"Since it's a misunderstanding, General Shi can take his troops back. With me in Guanzhong, An Shuai doesn't need to worry anymore. He should take good care of himself!"

The two of them were talking and answering each other on the city. Tens of thousands of soldiers from both armies were looking at them. There was a silence on the mountains, and they were only heard of the two of them talking hypocritical and politely.

Shi Siming gritted his teeth and said, "As long as the general returns Sun Xiaozhe's body to me, I will withdraw my troops immediately. This is my only condition."

Li Qingan sneered coldly: "Why didn't General Shi say that I was disgusted with that smelly skin, so I ordered someone to feed him to the dog. I'm sorry, it's gone."

"Li Qing'an! You are bold."

Shi Siming was furious and pointed at Li Qing'an and cursed: "General Sun Xiaozhe is a famous general in Hebei. How dare you humiliate him like this? Aren't you afraid of God's punishment?"

Li Qingan suddenly pulled out the bow and arrow, aimed the tip of the arrow at Shi Siming and said, "A bad general is just a traitor. Shi Siming, do you still have the courage to speak in front of me?"

Shi Siming's heart seemed to fall into the abyss. He stared blankly at Li Qing'an's arrow. The past came like a tide. The arrow, Li Qing'an's arrow, the terror of the last arrow, and a sense of unforgettable fear instantly swallowed Shi Siming.

"No! No! Li Qing'an, don't cum."

Li Qingan sneered and shot out an arrow, hitting Shi Siming's helmet, shooting the helmet more than ten feet away. At this moment, Shi Siming turned into a clay sculpture, motionless. His eyes were blank, with a gray unique to death. He suddenly shouted, "I'm going to die!"

Shi Siming jumped off the big rock desperately and ran to the foot of the mountain. The rope tied to his hair was hung off by the branches, his military uniform was cut, and one military boot was also dropped. He ignored it. He only had a word in his mind, "Escape!" The farther away from Li Qing'an, the better.

In front of tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides, Shi Siming was just a madman, with his hair disheveled, barefoot, waving his arms randomly, and stumbled towards the foot of the mountain. The soldiers on both sides were in a big uproar. Shi Siming was also a famous general in Hebei after all, and was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Jiedushi Fanyang. Did he become so unbearable in front of Li Qing'an?
Chapter completed!