N-M Chapter 220 The city is full of gray hair, and the sword is not lost in death! Past and present live
Chapter 220 The city is full of gray hair, and the sword is not lost in death! Past and present live
At this moment, Lin Yan silently looked at the souls of those Great Tang generals with a rare moving expression!!
In the book of life and death at this time.
Most of the Tang generals' souls have already awakened.
They all knelt in front of Li Shimin.
Murderous, murderous.
But nonetheless.
However, there is still a very small part of the general soul, and the expression is still hideous.
One of the generals has a sword in one hand and a halberd in the other!!!
A hoarse roar of life and death.
That general soul, with white hair, seemed to have such gray hair when he died.
And besides that, behind the soul,
Apart from this very few general souls, there are tens of thousands of red souls roaring.
The souls of the tens of thousands of red souls are constantly changing, one time they are the old soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in armor, and the other time they are the heroic souls of a hundred years ago with swords and spears.
The souls of the two worlds are constantly switching.
They not only retain the memory of a hundred years ago, but also the memory of the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago.
It is for this reason.
It's getting harder and harder for them to wake up!
And the memories of Li Shimin's life and death book were mainly aimed at those former generals...
14 But the souls of nearly a hundred generals, many of them, did not belong to the same dynasty as Li Shimin.
Although they were also generals of the Tang Dynasty, they were not all in the Zhenguan period.
It's just that Li Shimin kept them all by his side.
At this moment, Li Shimin also noticed the still-awakened general's soul, sighed with a complicated expression, and then turned his head to look at Lin Yan.
"Looks like it's not over yet!"
"If you don't deal with these tens of thousands of Great Tang's red souls, you probably won't have a chance to deal with the remaining three million ghosts and ghosts."
"But next, these dozens of generals who have awakened will assist you!!!
Lin Yan also smiled with a complicated expression.
Then he raised his head and looked at the white-haired general wielding a long sword, a sword and a halberd in the distance, and the red soul around him, and spoke hoarsely.
"they are……"
Li Shimin squinted slightly...
"Probably more than 1,200 years ago, the Anshi Rebellion broke out! The elite frontier troops of the Duhufu of Anxi were transferred back to the Central Plains to suppress the rebellion. At that time, there were 22,000 people in the frontier area, and more than 20,000 people returned to Chang'an. !
"There are only a few thousand Tang soldiers left to fight against hundreds of thousands of enemy troops! This defense is 42 years!"
"Anxi and Beiting are the two major protectorates set up by the Tang Dynasty on the border!
"In seven hundred and sixty years, the Hexi Corridor was captured by the enemy! The connection between Anxi, Beiting and the imperial court was cut off! The two major protectorates are in charge of the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains..."
"It's the first year of Jianzhong! The Anxi Army sent troops to break through the siege and returned to Chang'an. Only then did the court know that the frontier soldiers were still hard at work, and the descendants of our descendants who were shocked, Tang Dezong dictated a reward!"
"All officers and soldiers have been promoted to seven levels in a row, but unfortunately, the weakened Tang Dynasty was unable to send reinforcements. From the second year of Jianzhong... Anxi area began to cast "Datang Jianzhong" money, expressed in this unique way Loyalty to the Tang Dynasty!"
"A few years later, Beiting Duhufu fell, and two thousand Beiting Tang soldiers were transferred to Xizhou City! Three years later, the only remaining cities of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions were Xizhou, Qiuci, and two cities!"
At the same time, Li Shimin's voice stopped, he raised his hand and pointed at one of the red souls!
"That Chihun is the veteran Guo Yuanzheng. He set out from Qiuci back then, carrying coins with "Datang Jianzhong" printed on it, and went to pay military salaries to his comrades in Xizhou!
"Quci is at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, 680 kilometers away from Xizhou..."
Then he, Li Shimin, pointed to another red soul!
"That red soul is called Lu Shishi! It belongs to the Xuanwei Army and is stationed in Yak City! He and Guo Yuanzheng went out of the city together in the year! The journey of the two to send the army's salaries can be described as extremely difficult! Guo Yuanzheng was also killed on the way! Only Lu Shishi remained. one person!"
"Lu Shishi, this guy... when he arrived at the Western Continent after untold hardships... only then did he realize that all the soldiers in the city were covered in white hair!"
"At this time, 42 years have passed since the Western Regions were isolated, and 18 years have passed since the North Court was captured!"
"The whole city is full of white hair, and if you die without losing your sword, how dare you forget the Tang Dynasty when you have been fighting alone for 50 years! A lonely city is full of white-haired soldiers! Born from the Han family, and died as Tang soldiers!
"At that time, Lu Shishi only shouted one sentence when facing the veterans of Xizhou..." The 9th Cavalry Team of Xuange Battalion of the Wuwei Army of the Tang Dynasty, all report!
"In the autumn of that year, the veterans of Xizhou who received the pay contacted the Uighur tribe to recover Beiting!"
"The war didn't end until six years later, and Yang Xigu, the last guardian of the North Court, died! There were only 160 Tang soldiers left from Xizhou... That's the last time for the Xizhou veterans to go out! 35
"You said...what is it that makes the juvenile boy become a gray-haired veteran! Why, a few bags of copper coins need to be guarded with life?"
"Actually, the answer has always been there, floating in the desert and starry sky, floating in the Central Plains of Daxia, in the snowy areas, above every inch of territory... In eight hundred and eighty years, Qiuci fell!"
"The Great Protector Guo Xin and all the soldiers died in battle! Another eight years have passed... The Western Continent has fallen! There is no Tang army at the border of the Western Regions! I wonder if there is still the "Datang Jianzhong" in the pockets of the soldiers who died in battle.
"And the soul of the general at the front is called Zhang Yichao..."
"Thousands of years later, these former Great Tang veterans died in battle for the Great Xia!
At this moment, Lin Yan was shocked in place... He was shocked beyond words!!!
At this moment, he suddenly understood...
Why is the Tang Dynasty so powerful???
From Li Shimin to Tang Xuanzong and Li Longji’s 100 years of founding, the Tang Dynasty waged wars in all directions at the same time, and continued to invest a large amount of national and military forces on the snowy plateau, the Gobi desert, the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, which are thousands of miles away from the Central Plains.
Confronted successively with Turkic, Xueyantuo, Tubo, Tuyuhun, Huihe, Tiele, Dashi, Tuqishi, Khitan, Xi, Goguryeo, Baekje, Nanzhao and other rivals one after another, and fought for hegemony. Shengsheng played the strongest empire in the entire world at that time.
It was a public fishing reel and social elite, who generally advocated the iron-blooded dynasty of "acquiring fame and fame since ancient times", "drunk in the battlefield and not laughing", "would rather be a centurion than a scholar!".
Even if Li Longji was arrogant and complacent in his later years, the "An-Shi Rebellion", which was inhumane and failed to suppress the rebellion, did end the Tang Dynasty's prosperity and greatly damaged the national strength. In just a few years, the number of households dropped sharply from 8.9 million households and 53 million people. To 1.9 million households, 17 million people!
The previous generations of Ming Junliang will expand the territory gained for a hundred years, but also lost most of the territory under the invasion of the Sifang Hu people.
However, after Tang Xianzong, Tang Wuzong, and Tang Xuanzong, many generations of Ming monarchs worked hard to rule, which lasted a hundred years of hard work, and the Tang Dynasty was still able to attack and destroy Huihe, defeat Tubo, and crippled Nanzhao, and eliminated the three major enemies from the battle for hegemony!
In one fell swoop, he regained a large area of Hexi and Longyou.
The heads of the last state minister of Tubo and the last khan of Huihe have become treasures of the Chang'an treasury. Nanzhao was beaten to the tragic situation of "women farming and young children serving as soldiers", and had to go to the emperor to seek peace.
However, the final territory of the late Tang Dynasty still surpassed the Song Dynasty's largest period of "buying Yanyun and taking Longyou", and it remained stable for decades.
Although it is certainly not as good as the invincible martial arts that dominated the middle and early Tang Dynasty, it is still the undisputed first power.
And it was none other than the one who created the... Nine Heavens opened the palace, all nations were dressed in robes and crowns, dazzled all nations, and the splendid Tang Dynasty that lasted for thousands of years was not someone else...
It is the ancestor of the people of Daxia today!!!
And why eighty years ago...
Such desperate times.
Daxia can carry it to the end...
Because the old soldier of the year, thousands of years later, returned to the human world.
Because some things are imprinted in the bones, in the blood.
Thousands of years have not changed!!!
Even a thousand years later.
There will still be people guarding this territory and civilization!!!
there will still be...
The city is full of gray hair, and he will not lose his sword in death. He has resisted alone for fifty years. How dare he forget the Tang Dynasty! A lonely city in a thousand miles is full of gray-haired soldiers! Life is from Daxia, and death is also a Tang soldier!