The fourth year of Tianbao was the golden age of the Great Tang.
On the drill ground at the border, dozens of condemned prisoners stood side by side. In front of them stood a row of soldiers fully armored and armed. A general stood on a wooden platform on the side of the team. His armor was covered in sand and traces of sword slashes. His face was filled with anxiety and fatigue.
This row of death row prisoners had iron shackles on their hands and feet. There were Han and Hu among them, and they all had different appearances. One of them was dressed the strangest. His hair was only an inch long, and the clothes he wore were green in color. Moreover, it was not a long robe with wide sleeves, but a tight fitting style with pants and a shirt separated!
To be precise, it was a jungle camouflage uniform. The person in camouflage was called Guo Ziyi, a sergeant major in the Somalia Foreign Legion's Peacekeepers Special Task Force.
Guo Ziyi's last mission was to rescue a hostage in a temple in the dense forest of northern Myanmar. Seeing that the kidnappers were about to kill the hostages, Guo Ziyi, who was lurking at the side, pulled the trigger of the sniper rifle in her hand.
The bullet accurately penetrated the kidnapper's head. The bullet and the splattering blood and brain matter hit a statue at the same time. The statue's eyes shot out a dazzling blue light, so dazzling that Guo Ziyi could not open her eyes. The ground shook violently.
When Guo Ziyi opened his eyes again, he found that his body was falling and then smashed into someone. Guo Ziyi was fine, but the man's head fell to the ground. Then, he was run over by the wheels of a grain cart and died.
A group of soldiers wearing ancient Chinese armor and holding swords and spears immediately appeared around Guo Ziyi. The person who was crushed to death under Guo Ziyi was also dressed in the same clothes. The soldiers captured him without any explanation and took away all the equipment he had on him.
The following procedure was very simple. Guo Ziyi was sent to death row for the crime of assassinating a military lieutenant. From his conversation with his fellow prisoners, he learned that he had actually arrived at Yanzhou, the border town of the Western Regions in the fourth year of Tianbao of the Great Tang.
Guo Ziyi's original name was Guo Ziyi. She had been a military fan since she was young. After finishing university in China, she went to Somalia to study. Then, after many rounds of screening, she joined the world-famous Somalia Foreign Legion. In Somalia, he changed his name to the same name as the famous generals of ancient China. He had studied the ancient history of China very well. Tianbao was the year title of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Longji. From the second year of Tianbao, the year was changed to Zai. From then on, it would be the third year of Tianbao and the fourth year of Tianbao.
Guo Ziyi knew that she had transmigrated and was very unlucky. After transmigrating, she became a prisoner on death row.
Looking at the soldiers in front of him, Guo Ziyi guessed that they were going to execute the prisoners. As a soldier who had survived a hail of bullets, Guo Ziyi was not afraid of death. She was just unwilling to die like this. The prosperous Tang Empire was a legendary and dream-like existence for every Chinese. Since he had transmigrated here, he would be beheaded before he could even see the shadow of the Tang Empire. Guo Ziyi was the only child in the family. When she thought of her parents, she felt a little uncomfortable.
The general standing on the wooden platform pulled out his saber and shouted in a hoarse voice,""Attack!"
Guo Ziyi closed her eyes.
After a while, the knife was not on the neck of the machete, and Guo Ziyi's pair was lifted up.
With a clatter, the shackles on his hands were released. Guo Ziyi was shocked. When he opened his eyes, he saw a soldier squatting down to untie the shackles on his feet.
Guo Ziyi turned her head and saw that the other prisoners were the same. Their faces were full of surprise.
"You guys are lucky. Yanzhou is currently surrounded by the Turks, and you are all on death row. The higher-ups have decreed that those who have made meritorious contributions in killing the enemy and survived will be spared the death penalty!”The general's hoarse voice sounded again.
There was a commotion among the prisoners. Some shouted in surprise, some sighed, and some cried.
It was very simple. Some of these prisoners were murderers and robbers. They had martial arts skills. They could avoid death if they went into battle to kill the enemy. This undoubtedly gave them a chance to live. Some of the prisoners were convicted of smuggling and other crimes, and they didn't know martial arts at all. If they were sent into battle against the vicious Wolf Turkic cavalry, they would undoubtedly die, and it would be even more painful.
Guo Ziyi stood there quietly. She shook her shoulders and smiled. Her chance had come. Perhaps he would really become a famous general in history, Guo Ziyi.
A Tang Dynasty soldier walked over and handed Guo Ziyi a long saber. This was a typical long-handled Mo saber from the Tang Dynasty. It was heavy and was specially used to deal with Turkic cavalry. It was also known as the Zhanmadao. In the past, Guo Ziyi had only seen the design in books. This time, he finally saw the real thing.
Guo Ziyi touched the Mo Saber and sighed in his heart. There were still bloodstains on the blade, and there were also cracks on the blade. It was not left behind by a Tang soldier who had died. No one knew how many Turkic soldiers this Mo Sword had killed.
At the frontier fortress of the Tang Empire, a blood-stained saber was seen. Guo Ziyi's chest was filled with a different kind of emotion.
Guo Ziyi and the group of prisoners were escorted to the city gate by the soldiers.
On the way, a prisoner sighed and said,""I heard from the prison head that the Turkic Shuoye Khagan has sent fifty thousand soldiers to invade. Yanzhou is now an isolated city, and in the past few days, the Turkic army has been attacking the city, resulting in many casualties. I heard that there are less than two thousand soldiers left in the city.”
"You can't put it that way. Although we committed a capital crime, we are still citizens of the Great Tang and ghosts of the Great Tang. It's better to die on the battlefield for the country than to be beheaded by our own people!”A bearded man said as he stroked the Mo Saber in his hand.
"Aiyo, I didn't think that a robber like you would be so loyal to the Great Tang!”
"I came to the Great Tang to do some deep (living) business. I just (went) out of seclusion with some goods.(Who) knew that you would pull me to behead? Now, I have to die for your Great Tang.”a Sogdian Hu said in broken Mandarin, shaking his head.
"Bring some private goods? Are you planning to sell these hundreds of horses to the Turks? Earning the Great Tang's money and poaching the Great Tang's people, it would be strange if I didn't kill you, you bastard!”the bandit cursed.
Guo Ziyi felt strange. Yanzhou was located in the Western Regions of the Great Tang, so it should be dealing with the Western Turks. But the history books clearly stated that the Western Turks had been wiped out by Great General Su Dingfang when Li Longji's grandfather, Tang Gaozong, ruled over them. How could there still be such a large Turkic army invading at this time? Who was this Shuoye Khagan? Where did these fifty thousand Turkic soldiers come from?
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