The monk opposite was Che Fengchao, a native of Yunyang, Jingyang. He was originally a Confucian scholar and official from the Tang Dynasty. Later, he sent the envoy of the tribute to the Kingdom of Qibin (now Peshawar, Pakistan) who came to pay tribute with the delegation of the Xuanzong Dynasty. However, after arriving at the destination, he stayed in Gandhara due to illness. He vowed to convert to Buddhism if he recovered. Then the illness was cured and became a monk, with the Dharma name "Dharma Realm". He traveled to Gandhara, Tianzhu and other places to study Buddhism. He was proficient in Sanskrit, but he missed his hometown more and more. After getting the consent, he crossed the Palacio Mountains and prepared to return to the Tang family. When he arrived in the Western Regions, he saw that the Buddhist teachings of Kucha were prosperous, so he translated the Buddhist scriptures he brought back into Chinese in the Lotus Temple. As a result, he stayed in Kucha and Dunhuang for thirty years. When he suddenly woke up, he realized the changes in the world. Longyou, Hexi had lost all foreign countries and his wish to return to his hometown became slim.

"I also want to go back to my hometown!" Outside the camp, Yuan Tongzhi stood quietly in front of the Dharma Realm, lowered his head, and burst into tears.

Maybe when you return to your hometown, things have changed, and the world has changed a lot, and it may even be buried under the endless quicksand and water, but your hometown is always the hometown!

The monk from the Dharma Realm held Yuan's hand tightly and said only one word, "Drag."

Then the two understood and had no communication.

In Ma Chongying's camp, it soon became the "stage" of the Dharma Realm and Mahayana. Both of them were great monks. When talking about the essence of Buddhism, they were full of splendor, and in the end they felt like they met too late. I wanted to invite you to the Lotus Temple in Kucha. You wanted to invite me to the Manshu Temple in Shanzhou - Moudi, Yuan Tongzhi, Niang, Ding'ezeng, and many generals in the Xifan camp, all of whom listened carefully around.

Once he talks about opening the city, the Dharma Realm will cleverly delay or lead the topic, and this ability is simply familiar to him.

This delayed the situation over and over again for five days, and finally the monk from the Dharma Realm agreed to surrender. However, he asked Ma Chongying to give another five days to ask Yan Chao to raise all the money, silk, rice and wine to beg for life. Then the Dharma Realm left Ma Chongying's camp and returned to Dunhuang City.

As a result, in the past few days, Yan Chao had commanded the whole city to repair the damaged city walls and towers, and then climbed the city to point at the Xifan people who came to "accept" and cursed: "I am a dignified Yan Kaifu in Taiyuan. How could I kneel down and surrender to the foreign dogs? The foreign dogs can fight!"

Ma Chongying was furious and knew that he had fallen into a trap. In a hurry, he commanded the army to climb the city and attack. The Tang family army and people in Dunhuang City shared the same hatred for the enemy. In addition, the city walls were solid, and they repelled the enemy's repeated attacks.

"I just had a dream..." After the bloody battle, Yan Chao, who was extremely tired, woke up and sat at the top of the city, looking at the clouds in the distance, and said to the soldiers who were renovating their bows around him, "I dreamed that the reinforcements from Anxi and Beiting have arrived, and the former camps in Hexi and Longyou have also been back, Doulu Army, Chishui Army, Weirong Army, Shenwu Army... They are all wearing brand new armor, raising bright battle flags, riding various horses, and coming to Dunhuang overwhelming..." After saying that, Yan Chao touched the stubble on his chin and looked at the vast desert. Where was the scene in the dream? At this time, he raised his face, remembered his two sons who died in battle, and tried not to let tears flow down his cheeks.

The most difficult thing in difficult times is not the courage to persevere, but how to fight against deep and cold despair.

"Yan Kaifu, Yan Kaifu..." At this time, several guards looked at the west side of the city with incredible expressions.

When Yan Chaoxunsheng came to the battlement here, he suddenly thought he had seen the "mirage" in the desert.

I saw that in the flat and vast sea of ​​sand on both sides of the raised Sanwei Ridge, the sunlight was in the "couple" in the center of the clouds, and it shone straight down, making Yanchao a bright golden yellow. However, the transpiration and deformation of the summer heat quickly reflected the silver light as the size of a bean, like fish scales. In the end, more and more, more and more, the battle flag was raised on the horizon, accompanied by the sound of marching drums. The light was reflected by the soldiers' armor, and the battle flag was their rigorous pace...

"The soldiers from the four towns of Anxi are here to save Dunhuang!"

This is not a dream. Three thousand soldiers in Anxi carried water bags and followed the river in the desert. Six or seven out of ten carrying animals died on the journey, but they still completed their majestic march and finally arrived in the west of Dunhuang City, passed through Yumen Pass, passed through Yang Pass, and finally passed through Sanwei Ridge and came straight towards the city.

Because the west of Dunhuang is full of deserts, Xifan cannot camp here, and he will not believe that the Tang army in Anxi can cross the vast sea of ​​sand to reinforce Dunhuang. Therefore, these Anxi soldiers did not receive any obstacles, so they entered the city with the joy and response of the city soldiers.

The Yan Chao and the Anxi towns guards were filled with tears, hugging each other tightly and pressing their shoulders, cheering and thrilling.

In front of the seven sieves under the city, Ma Chongying looked back fiercely, looking at Mou Di, Damn Ding'ezeng, who was also surprised, thinking that it was all these monks who ruined the great event of seizing Shazhou. Now, Dunhuang City not only has the city defense consolidated and completed, but also received three thousand reinforcements. How difficult is it to capture it?

Behind it, Han people in Guazhou, Suzhou, Ganzhou, Liangzhou and other places rioted and rebelled, went up the mountains to form villages, and plundered the fields and granaries of Xifan. The supplies of this army were no longer supported.

Under the dazzling sunshine, Shule guards who came to help made Luyang stand majestic on the head of Dunhuang City, pulled his bow and shot three whistle arrows at the besieged camp of Xifan, and then shouted with full energy:

"The ambassador of Xibeiting in Tang Jia'an, Wuting, will soon lead the Uighur cavalry and the Tang soldiers in Beiting, and break through Yumen Pass to come here. If you don't take advantage of this moment, you can still survive the life. Otherwise, if the heavenly soldiers fly here, you will definitely ask you to wait for the chickens and dogs to stay!"

Ma Chongying roared, drew his sword and slashed the seven-sled cannon rack several times, then lowered his head and cursed loudly, "It's a pity, it's abomination! Withdraw the siege, burn the camp, and go back to Ganzhou and Liangzhou..."

Under the Dunhuang City of Shazhou, 30,000 Western foreign soldiers were dejected. Amid the cheers and insults of the defenders on the city, they rode on war horses, carried weapons, rolled up the dome tent, then ignited the camp and ignited the siege equipment. The raging fire surrounded the three sides of Dunhuang City without extinguishing it, and then retreated.

When he arrived at the east salt pond in Dunhuang, the traveler Yuan Tongzhi was suddenly dragged off by several foreign soldiers. Before he could speak up, his nose and cheeks were punched hard. Blood splashed out at that time, and his black clothes were also torn off roughly. Yuan Tongzhi's neck was pressed down hard and he knelt on the grass beside the salt pond.

"This Han monk colluded with the monk from the Dharma Realm in Dunhuang and deceived and sold off the army!" Ma Chongying jumped off the horse's back and drew out the sword. "He is a traitor, so I asked me to kill him with my own hands."

"I don't, I don't." Yuan Tongzhi struggled and cried, his nose bleeding, and he bleeded in the sand under his knees.
Chapter completed!