Chapter 24 Confession

The Turkic soldiers exposed their targets when they rushed past Fengxian County, and there was no need to sneak. They lit up the torches and lit up the road with great fanfare and rushed southward.

Unexpectedly, just after leaving for a while, the front army shouted: Stop!There is a situation ahead!

The troops had to stop their horses and stop advancing.

He shouted with Otler: What's the matter?

There are Tang soldiers, but I can't get through.Someone in front of the army responded.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the post road not far away flashing with more and more torches.

It turned out that there was a stream of Tang army cavalry blocking in the middle of the road, which was already under the nose.

The group of people stood in the dark and did not move. They ignited the fire when the Turkic soldiers approached. The two gangs almost collided directly.

Zhang Zhifu was very anxious and immediately looked forward and saw that the firelight was continuous in the night. The Tang army team opposite was neatly prepared for combat, so they could rush over immediately.

He couldn't help but say: They seemed to be waiting here for the men.

He said to Otler: When we meet on a narrow road, we can only rush over!

Only in this way... Zhang Zhifu also agreed to kill directly this time. There was no way. If he couldn't rush to Huaqing Palace quickly, he would be finished by wandering around outside for a while.

kill!He led the way with Otler and rushed forward.

Unexpectedly, a moment later, he heard a thud of a string, and a heavy arrow shot straight into the lead of Tong Otler, who was knocked down.

The attack of the Turkic cavalry immediately stopped, and the general rescued the horse and took off the horse and returned.

There was a quick shout from the other side, followed by the roar of horse hooves, and rows of iron cavalry roared.When the Turkic generals saw that they were busy leading their troops to fight, they quickly started to kill the generals.

Zhang Zhifu did not come forward to fight with his weapons. As soon as he saw his brother Otler fall, he hurriedly rode his horse over to find out the truth. When he came up, he felt cold...

Although Tong Otler was wearing heavy armor, he was shot by a heavy arrow from a giant crossbow. The iron armor had penetrated into his chest. What's the point of Tong Otler?

When he saw Zhang Zhifu, he grabbed his hand and said: God doesn’t help me, there is nothing I can do.These days, the Zhang family’s husband has been impressed by his knowledge and strategies. After I left, all the generals obeyed it...

Zhang Zhifu's face looked very ugly, but seeing that the progress ahead was not good, he was just frustrated and thought to himself: What else can he make a strategy now?

All the generals looked at Zhang Zhifu and were waiting for him to come up with a clever plan. Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhifu just shouted: Kill the enemy with all your might and rush over!

After hearing this, the cavalry around them rode forward one after another, shouting to kill the generals and go up, fighting in a melee between the two sides.

This Turkic soldier was selected by Mochu. Its combat power is indeed not weak. Even if he was tired from a long distance, he could immediately join the horse battle without losing.

However, the Tang soldiers were clearly exhausted and the troops were strictly rotated and rotated, and they were not easily dispersed.

Zhang Zhifu looked behind for a while and said anxiously: If you continue to fight like this until dawn, you may not be able to decide the outcome. At that time, there will probably be tens of thousands of people around you.

A Turkic general suggested: It is better to bypass this path and attack the Huaqing Palace in a roundabout way.

Zhang Zhifu sighed to the sky, and suddenly drew out his sword and seemed to be trying to commit suicide.

The personal soldiers rushed over and threw him off and seized his weapons.

The soldiers knelt down and advised: The big thing has not been completed and it is not yet over. Why should you find a shortcoming?

The big thing has not yet ended and has just begun.Zhang Zhifu looked back at the north and sighed, but our surprise attack was over.

Seeing that he was so negative, the Turkic generals led his horse to let him get on the horse, and shouted that the troops would give up the southward advance, and turned their horses to retreat and fled.

But the Tang army on the post road did not give up and chased each other. The two armies ran and fought, and the battles cost many miles.

Continue to go north and return to Fengxian County. The Turkic cavalry had encountered a garrison in a state of combat readiness before, but the Fengxian Tang soldiers did not pursue them and let them escape from the battlefield by chance. Didn’t they bump into it when they returned?

Moreover, Fengxian went north to Suyi, which was a major town in the checkpoint...

Obviously there is no way out to run directly north.

At this time, the Turkic general and Otler were dead. Zhang Zhifu looked like he was waiting for death, which meant that he could not rely on it. The army had no leader and had no individual to come up with a strategy, so he could only gather together and run around.

No one knew how it turned east. Anyway, everyone saw that people were running there, so they rushed east together.

After running around in the middle of the night, I suddenly saw more fires everywhere in front of me than the stars in the sky. The Turkic soldiers were shocked and dared not move forward.

I don’t know who said in Chinese: It must be the people of Hexi County. This is a thoroughfare of the Three Qins and an important town of Sanfu. At least thousands of cavalry can be dispatched at any time. In the past, they were sent to death...

The troops did not dare to continue rushing eastward even after they died, so they had to go back to their horses and go westward.

After going back and forth, they were bitten by the Weinan army of the Tang Dynasty, who had pursued them at first. They had to fight and more than half of them died and injured.

The remaining men finally rushed west while it was dark. After a while, it was almost dawn.

Once the east was white, the light lit up very quickly. After walking for a while, the Turkic soldiers saw that people and horses were shaking everywhere in front of them, and thousands of soldiers and horses surrounded them on a large scale.

There were Tang soldiers everywhere, and they had no place to escape, not to mention how they defeated them.Several generals shouted: This battle cannot be fought, I can only surrender!

Zhang Zhifu said: Surrender is also death.

The Turkic general said: Didn’t you surrender to the Khan after being surrounded by the Tang army and wait for General Zhang to rescue?

Zhang Zhifu said angrily: The premise of this method is to take down the Huaqing Palace, but now it has failed before even reaching the place. Will Princess Taiping and Xue let go of the people who want to kill them?

Everyone was silent. Although they felt that his words were reasonable, they were surrounded by enemies and had no way out and planned to surrender. At least everyone was lucky.

Just like a wild boar being forced to a cliff by a hunter, he always doesn't want to jump off the cliff by himself.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhifu had to take off his sword, jumped off his horse, and wanted to commit suicide.

There were some Tang army soldiers around him, and they hugged him and persuaded him. Zhang Zhifu said: I won’t stop you from surrendering, but I can’t live to fall into the hands of the Taiping Party, otherwise they will torture them in every way to take a word from me. It would be better to take that step.

After saying that, the soldiers had to let him go, and all fell on the road and cried bitterly.

Zhang Zhifu looked distracted, and calmly turned the tip of the sword over to his left chest. He tried it, took a deep breath and gritted his teeth and stabbed it hard.

His teeth clattered and came out of his throat. Uh... with a muffled scream, his eyes widened, and the veins on his face bulged.

After tensing like this for a while, his body leaned forward and stopped moving to the ground. A wisp of blood slowly flowed out from under him.

The Tang soldiers knelt in front of his body and knocked their foreheads to the ground, feeling indescribable despair.

The troops came down from the horse one after another. Seeing that the Tang army on the opposite side were getting closer, they threw their weapons to the ground and prepared to surrender.

When the Tang army generals led their troops to approach, they ordered the confiscation of weapons when they saw this situation, captured everyone on the spot, and sent someone to report to Huaqing Palace.

……

Princess Taiping and Xue Chongxun of Huaqing Palace learned the exact news, and then they felt completely relieved.

Xue Chongxun immediately asserted: If the Turkic soldiers crossed the deep defense line in the north, they would inevitably collude with a large number of internal thieves, otherwise this would be completely impossible.

Princess Taiping fully agreed without thinking: Tiaocheng said that the Turkic soldiers captured were all wearing Tang army armor, which is the evidence for the border generals to support the enemy.He immediately sent an order to send the censor to the military camp to interrogate and find out the whole story.

After hearing this, the servant standing beside him responded and went out to convey his order.

In fact, everyone now guessed that the person who intended to rebel was Zhang Renyuan, because the place he was in charge of was to guard against the Turks. However, Zhang Renyuan was a rank-in official with heavy troops. No one of the officials and aides in the Huaqing Palace was willing to rush to name the name for a while.

Anyway, if you capture nearly a thousand prisoners alive, you can easily get a definite confession.

At this time, Yu Liben walked in from outside the hall, presented a piece of paper with both hands, and said: Your Highness, you have received a confession from the assassin who was captured alive last night.

The girl's eyes flashed through Xue Chongxun's mind. When he met him last night, he was deeply impressed by the young, determined and murderous eyes.

He couldn't help but say: She just called me in one night?

Yu Liben said: I've made all the moves. Since it's in our hands, there's no reason to not make any moves. She told her everything she knew, only to regret that she knew too little.

Yu Liben said this in a straightforward tone, but Xue Chongxun could easily think of what inhuman treatment the girl had encountered last night. People can only imagine the cruelty of similar types, and can do anything they can think of.

Princess Taiping took the confession and looked at it for a while, then handed it to Xue Chongxun.

Xue Chongxun opened it and saw two pages of paper in small characters with fly heads. His handwriting was elegant and his confession was quite cultural. He pressed a vermilion handprint on each page.

The confession records are really trivial. Xue Chongxun even saw the name of Zhou Bin, the criminal justice official recommended by Yuwen Xiao, mentioned in it, but it describes another thing. He is not interested in taking care of those irrelevant things for the time being, and only picks information about the assassination case.

The confession of the female assassin Baiyue fully demonstrates the relationship between Zhang Renyuan and the assassination case, and is almost correct from everyone's speculation.

Xue Chongxun said: Leaving a hundred months for a life can be used as a certification of Zhang Renyuan in the future, and other matters she confessed need to be further determined by the court officials.

Yu Liben said hurriedly: Yes.

Princess Taiping said: Zhang Renyuan is brave enough to cause such a troublesome thing. It seems that we can't take a break in the Huaqing Palace. Tomorrow, Chongxun will go back to Chang'an with me.