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19. Wish-fulfilling Stone Mountain

First, the great beacon towers in Qianfoshan rose flames, and then the temple towers of the ancient Kucha city Yilururulin were lit one after another to respond. In the twilight, the city that had been traveling for more than ten miles was surrounded by starry fires, which was spectacular.

The cavalry of the Tang army came from Puchang Sea Road. Yanqi, among the four towns, knew it first, and then Nishi City on the eastern border of Kucha. It quickly spread more than 700 towns, museums, beacons, villages, countless Han army stationed, Hu merchants, monks and indigenous people, all gathered in Yilulu City excitedly.

The next day, the Anxi governor Guo Xin held a grand welcoming ceremony for the local Tang army at Quli Daqingjing Temple, forty miles north of the city. The temple is adjacent to the Hinayana Thousand Buddha Cave in the west and Baishan in the north. A river (Kuche River) passes through it. Each of the Jiahe Rivers has a huge monk's pagoda, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people living.

King Bai Huan of Kucha, King Long Rulin of Yanqi sat on the throne in front of the temple, and the white-haired Guo Xin sat on the side.

Cai Fengyuan walked forward and paid homage to the two kings first.

Bai Huan asked at that time, I had a clan brother named Bai Xiaode. He went to the Central Plains Jingnan with Anxi, but he still survived?

The answer was that Bai Xiaode had been ill in Chang'an for the 14th year of Dali, and was posthumously awarded the title of Prince Taibao.

At this time, Bai Huan burst into tears and put his hands together to pray for his clan brothers.

Then Cai Fengyuan bowed to Guo Xin again.

Guo Xin was confused and ignorant. At this time, Cai saw that his eyes were blind.

At this time, Guo Xin's younger brother Guo Xin returned to Cai Fengyuan. After worshiping, Guo Xin brought out a vessel, "In the first year of Jianzhong, I took the Uighurs and went to Chang'an to ask for help from Anxi Beiting. When my uncle, King Fenyang, died, I was able to meet for the last time. The vessel contained the Tang soil from all over the country that I dug along the road, from Lingwu to Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Jingzhou, and Jingxi... Unexpectedly, I finally hoped for the king's army, so I used this Kucha soil to add a new one."

Cai Fengyuan also brought out a vessel and said that I started from Hehuang and cut down the soil in Gan, Su, Gua, Sha, Puhaichi, and Yanqi along the way.

"I'm sure to accept the land of Longyou and Hexi!" Guo Han paused his head, and then solemnly took over the earth bowl from Cai Fengyuan's hand.

"I'm sure to accept the soil of Anxibeiting!" Cai Fengyuan also paused his head and took Guo Shi's earthen bowl over.

Guo Xin waved his hand in the seat, his voice very old, "You said you are the son of Cai Xun, the sword and axe?"

"Yes." Cai Fengyuan stepped forward after saying that, and the blind Guo Xin shed tears, rubbing Cai Fengyuan's cheeks, hair and earlobes.

"At that time, your mother and son followed your uncle and entered the pass with the camp; and your father stayed here and insisted on fighting. At the beginning of the Yongtai year, the court issued an edict to let Anxi, Beiting and Hexi combine three into one, and be controlled by the Hexi Jiedushi Yang Zhilie. At that time, your father followed Yang Shuai and fought, and then..." At this point, Guo Xin's voice became quiet and sad.

Cai Fengyuan lowered his head at this time, and his tears flowed down quickly.

He finally found out that his father died in vain.

Anxi's brave general Cai Xun, his father, followed Yang Zhilie to fight all over the country, and was indomitable. He was eventually colluded with Xifan and Shatuo and was besieged with Yang Zhilie. Together with Yang Zhilie, he was killed in a place called Changquan in Beiting.

As dusk fell, the entire Daqingjing Temple was still in a carnival. The musicians and dancers in Kucha played cheerful music and spindled beautiful dances. Many veterans in the camp and the veterans of Anxi Town were filled with tears, holding their heads and drinking wine from each other. The monks kept adding wine from the temple cellar.

There is no need to pay attention to precepts in this kind of moment.

In the crowd, there was an old Anxi soldier from Liuzhen, who was gray-bearded and led a beautiful girl. He asked in a hoarse voice while walking: "Wulei Shou, is the team that went to Anxi camp back later? Brother Pang, are you back? When you left, you were still married to me. I have a daughter, but I can't wait for you and your son to come back. Now my daughter has a daughter again. Are you still with your children and grandchildren? Have you come back? Will you not forget the appointment before?"

He walked and walked, searched here and asked there in the crowd.

But there were jubilant people everywhere, and no one answered his questions.

In the end, the old man was still walking there, from Jialan to the temple pagoda by the river, "After Wulei Shou captured Wu Leshou, has the team who went to Anxi camp returned? Brother Pang, are you back..."

After the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Anxi sent Li Siye to lead 5,000 infantry and cavalry, and combined 7,000 Beiting soldiers, totaling 12,000 elite troops, entering the pass to quell the rebellion, and the voices erupted from the Central Plains;

Subsequently, Anxi general Ma Lin led another 3,000 elite troops as the second batch to enter the Jingnan area.

In the four towns, King Yuchide of Khotan, Bai Xiaode of Kucha and others also led their own troops to the siege for thousands of miles. When Yuchide set out from Khotan, the people of the country cried and stopped him and were reluctant to let him go. Yuchide left his daughter as hostage, and then he made a journey.

Thirty years have passed, and only hundreds of people have returned from this group of soldiers who left the camp.

The young man followed the general to challenge Hehuang,

When the head is white, I return to my hometown.

Hundreds of thousands of Han troops were scattered,

Blow alone to the setting sun.

As the sun sets, the sound of the Buddhist bell rang. Cai Fengyuan knelt in front of the Great Qingjing Temple, facing the north, which was where his father's life disappeared, and he solemnly kowtowed there, "Father, I will return to Xingyuan and tell my mother."

In the middle of Xia, Gao Yue used his pen to draw red circles in the four Anxi towns on the map of Shancheng, and then breathed a sigh of relief. He finally fulfilled this wish.

"Brother Fangzhai, take him, let's go to Jishi Mountain in Hezhou to take a look." At this moment, Gao Yue suddenly became interested.

Jishi Mountain lies across the Yellow River. Gao Yue stood on a cliff thousands of feet tall, looking at the magnificent and rushing river below. In the distance, there was a vast and abundant nine-curved grassland. He took out a silk painting from his sleeve. Coincidentally, the sun shines, and the mountains and rivers on the painting are so similar to Jishi Mountain, which is simply lifelike.

"Your greatest hope at the beginning was to build a city in Yuanzhou and move the border defense line, but you were frivolous and impatient, jealous of the talents and harmed the abilities. Not only did you fail to achieve success, but you lost your life. Now I have fulfilled your wish for you - the five prefectures of Hexi, Gan, Liang, Su, Hui, and Liangzhou, only Liangzhou is nominally the territory of Mudizamp, and the entire Longyou prefectures and counties were all restored, and Anxi Beiting has been mostly opened. The entire Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty have returned to their peak. This can comfort you." After Gao Yue finished telling, he threw the silk painting under the cliff. The wind in the valley carried it with it, floating like a white bird, and soon arrived at the entrance of the valley and disappeared in the rolling water.

At this time, Liu Deshi beside him shouted in surprise.

Gao Yue looked in the direction he pointed, but saw a gray-yellow and majestic colorful beast stretching its front paws, flapping something in the mountain stream.
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