Chapter 1000 Thousand Miles 1 Lonely City Full of White-Haired Soldiers

"The Last Transfer in Tang Mobei"? What's this? Shen Long turned on his mobile phone and searched, and found that this was actually a hot advertisement nowadays. What the hell is this? Are there still so many people following the advertisement? Shen Long found this ad with doubts and watched it carefully. After watching it, he was also moved by this ad.

This 16-minute advertisement tells such a story: In 755 AD, Anlu Mountain launched a rebellion, and the Anshi Rebellion broke out; The elite Wan'an Western Army was sent to the Central Plains, and only a few thousand people guarded the Western Regions.

At that time, Turpan coveted the Western Regions for a long time. Taking advantage of the withdrawal of the Tang Dynasty's frontier defense forces and internal chaos, he sent troops to capture the Gansu area where the Tang Dynasty connected the Western Regions, and cut off the only connection between the Western Regions and the Central Plains. In 766 AD, thousands of lone troops began to guard the Western Regions alone. Looking to the east is Chang'an, looking to the west is Tang soil, and the enemy army is in the middle. This is the situation of the Anxi army at that time.

In 781 A.D., the second year of Jianzhong, the secret envoy of the Western Regions contacted Chang'an. Only then did the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty know that the Western Regions had not been lost, and the soldiers were still guarding the border of the Tang Dynasty. It happened nine years later, in 790 A.D., when Khotan, one of the four towns in Anxi, fell, and the remnant soldiers fled from the city and became refugees.

Guo Yuanzheng, who was in charge of transporting military expenses, fainted after being attacked. When he woke up, he found Lu Shishi who had come to throw money. Lu Shishi was a remnant soldier who had escaped from Khotan. The two went to Xizhou, the destination of the trip, with military expenses.

Although they were carrying several bags of money, these two hungry veterans only chose to ask the shop owner for a bowl of water when faced with the delicious wine and barbecue in the wine shop. On the way, they met a businessman from Datang, and the businessman asked They, but our Tang army is coming back? The two were speechless, and the businessman could only regretfully put down the food and water and left.

They encountered strong winds in the desert, flying sand and dust, covering the sky and the sun, and the only horse used to carry the money died. They chose to carry the money to Xizhou City, even if they had to climb over it, because these are The military expenses given to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were isolated and helpless under the siege of the enemy but still persevered, "Military orders are like mountains, and there is no shortage of pennies."

They encountered bandits blocking the way. Although there were only two veterans in the area, they were all elites of the Tang Dynasty. They finally defeated the bandits, but Guo Yuanzheng fell down; Impressed, he continued to climb towards Xizhou City step by step with the money, and finally sent the money to the garrison of Xizhou City.

Lu Shishi led his horse out of the city gate, and suddenly remembered Tang Jun's loud and clear military song: "In the Qin Dynasty, the bright moon passed in the Han Dynasty, and the people who marched thousands of miles have not yet returned. But let the flying generals of Dragon City stay, and don't teach Huma to go to Yinshan Mountain", "Qinghai Changyun dark snow mountain, the lonely city looks at Yumen Pass in the distance. The yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles. If you don't break Loulan, you will never return it."

Damn, it's obviously just an advertisement, why do I get sand in my eyes! Shen Long wiped his eyes, and then started to replay the commercial. After watching it three times in a row, he let out a long sigh. In the history of the Chinese nation, how many such moving and proud stories are there.

On the land where the story took place, Shen Long had heard two stories similar to this advertisement: the story of thirteen soldiers returning to Yumen, and the story of Zhang Yichao returning to the rebel army.

In 74 A.D., the Eastern Han Dynasty re-established the Protectorate of the Western Regions, and appointed Geng Gong and Guan Chong as the captains of Wuji; the following year, the Northern Huns Shanyu sent 20,000 elite troops to attack Cheshi, killed the queen of Cheshi, and turned to attack the garrison. Geng Gong stationed hundreds of people and surrounded the city

At this time, Emperor Han Ming passed away and had no time to send troops, and rescue troops could not arrive.

Che Shiguo betrayed the Han Dynasty again, and joined forces with the Xiongnu to attack Geng Gong. The Han soldiers ran out of food and fell into trouble. They boiled armor and crossbows to eat their tendons and leather, refused the Huns' surrender, and stood firm in the city. It was not until Emperor Zhang succeeded that they sent troops to defeat the Huns. , when the reinforcements came to Geng Gong to defend the city, there were only 26 people left in the city, and when they returned to Yumen Pass with the Han army, there were only 13 Han soldiers left.

Someone in later generations created an oil painting "Thirteen Soldiers Returning to Yumen" based on this theme. In the oil painting, the thirteen soldiers were dressed in rags and looked haggard, but there was a sense of determination in their eyes.

The plot of Lu Shishi sending a letter home in the advertisement is derived from the allusion of "Thirteen Generals Returning to Yumen". It is said that one of the thirteen soldiers also took on the same mission as him, the veteran of the Han Dynasty who survived to the end , I spent the rest of my life sending letters home to my comrades-in-arms. By the time of this person’s grandchildren, all 757 letters had been sent.

Geng Gong and the thirteen soldiers were lucky, because the Great Han was still strong at that time, and they could still send a large army to rescue them and regain their lost ground; Guo Xin, Guo Yuanzheng and others were unlucky, because the Great Tang was still weak at that time There was no way to rescue them. Eighteen years after Lu Shishi sent the money to Kucha City, Anxi Town finally fell.

However, the descendants of the Tang army living in the Western Regions did not forget the Tang Dynasty. Forty-one years later, Zhang Yichao dispersed his family wealth and led the people of all ethnic groups in Shazhou to revolt, expelling Tubo who was entrenched in the Hexi area. Sha, Liang and other states and counties have opened up more than 4,000 miles of territory.

They also sent envoys to Chang'an to convey the news of the restoration of the sandbar. The envoys to Chang'an brought back praise and awards from the Tang Empire, which greatly boosted the morale of Zhang Yichao's rebel army.

In the fifth year of Dazhong (851 A.D.), Zhang Yichao led his army to launch a large-scale military offensive against Tubo. The decadent rule of Tubo in Hexi immediately collapsed. In August of this year, Zhang Yichao's army had recovered all the prefectures and counties in the Hexi Corridor except Liangzhou, and Hexi finally returned to the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

In August, Zhang Yichao sent a large-scale courier team to Chang'an for the second time, carrying 11 states in Hexi (Guazhou, Shazhou, Yizhou, Xizhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, Lanzhou, Shanzhou, Hezhou, Minzhou and Kuozhou) were registered in Chang'an successfully.

"In the Qin Dynasty, the moon is bright and the Han Dynasty is the pass, and the people of the Long March have not yet returned. But the flying generals of the dragon city are here, and the horses are not taught to go to the Yinshan Mountains." Loulan will never return it."

Shen Long sang these two military songs at the end of the commercial. The tunes of these two songs were not in the style of the Tang Dynasty, but it did not affect Shen Long's immersion in this history at all.

At the end of the song, Shen Long's verse became "a lonely city with thousands of miles, full of white-haired soldiers". This poem is dedicated to these soldiers guarding the lonely city.

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