Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1155 Great Injustice

Xiao Dilu's four or five thousand riders, and three thousand Bohai, Shiwei, and Han'er slaves, drove a large herd of cattle, sheep, chariots and horses, all the way eastward, with great momentum and great momentum.

How should I put it, with so many burdens, it is certain to run slowly.

And the morale of the slaves is not very good.You see, as we walked, some people deserted.

But Xiao Dilu didn't bother to care, anyway, these low-level slaves didn't know anything, and they weren't worth much.

The Xia army, with more than a thousand cavalry from Yang Hongxin's department as the vanguard, and [-] Han cavalry as the main force, also headed east all the way, pursuing closely.

Just running all the way, chasing all the way, the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and the situation is becoming more and more tense.

"Crazy! A bunch of lunatics!" Xiao Dilu got off his horse, panting heavily, and cursed angrily.

Although I have made a good sense of sacrifice, but ants are greedy for life, let alone humans?Before the last moment, Xiao Dilu still wanted to survive.

"It's not a prairie anymore, so fucking chase it!" Xiao Dilu grabbed the water bag, raised his neck and took a few mouthfuls.

The cold drinking water made him shiver.

It is frosty and cold in late autumn, and it rains and snows from time to time.Although it is not big, it still makes people shiver with cold, especially those desperadoes who have not been able to eat a hot meal for many days.

Xiao Dilu is very helpless now.

It has already entered the mountainous area, and there are vast mountainous areas nearby.Some road sections even require horses to walk. It is so difficult to walk. Why are you chasing after you? Are you afraid of death? The situation in the mountains is quite complicated, there are many river valleys, and there are many roads. What's more, it's easy to set up an ambush here.

Under such a situation, Xia Ren was still so persistent, which made Xiao Dilu sigh.

Of course—he also has difficulties, and he can't just walk away like an ordinary shepherd.

He wants to attract the attention of the enemy for Abaoji.

Based on this purpose, he was destined not to let his flag down and run away secretly along the way.Instead, he had to let the Xia people know his movements, and the more people who chased him, the better.

Now, the consequences are showing.

The Xia people spared no effort to chase after him.Along the way, the herdsmen, who were chased too hard, fled one after another.Under the leadership of chieftains and nobles, they rode hundreds of horses, carried about ten days' worth of fresh water, abandoned their cattle and sheep, and escaped through the mountain trails.

Today is the ninth day of September, the Double Ninth Festival, and there are only a few hundred people left by Xiao Dilu's side, and their morale is extremely low.

They are all core members of the Diela tribe, and they guard Abaoji's full guard of honor firmly, although everyone knows that Abaoji has long since fled to the flat pine forest.

They are all good men, so they want to be buried here?

After drinking the water, Xiao Dilu calmed down and climbed up a high slope, staring indifferently at Xia Bing who surrounded him from all directions.

"Yang Hongxin is here, why doesn't A Baoji come out to fight?" Dozens of riders galloped quickly from the valley, the leader holding a big horse, majestic and majestic.

Looking at this young general whose hair is not yet fully grown, Xiao Dilu suddenly feels sad.

Throughout the history books, when a country or power is on the rise, many talents will often emerge.Even a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy can become famous if he seizes the opportunity.

However, when the country is in a period of decline, these talents rarely emerge.Is it because people at that time were generally not good enough?Is it because you haven't met a talent who meets once in a hundred years or hundreds of years?uncertain.

Maybe it's just a lack of opportunity.

At the end of the dynasty, even if your talent and ability are far stronger than those of the amazingly talented generation at the founding of the country, you are doomed not to stand out in that world.Even if you are in your early years, it is difficult to achieve outstanding achievements and get high evaluations.

Yang Hongxin has caught up with the good time and got a chance.

But that's it, there's nothing more to say.The Khitan managed to achieve such a prosperous situation, so how could it be possible to turn back?

Enslaved by the Turks, he couldn't stand it and turned to the Tang people.The people of Tang pretended to seal a few officials, but when they attacked Goguryeo, they asked Khitan to supply sheep and horses to fight.

If it only stops here, it is not unbearable, after all, the Turks squeezed harder.But the people of Tang were good at intrigue and trickery, and they liked to cultivate second-ranked figures other than the khan, the governor, and the county king within the Khitan, so that the two powers could stand side by side and fight each other. It is much more insidious than the Turks.

After breaking away from the control of the Tang people and then surrendering to the Turks, the Turks were beaten far away by the Tang people to the Western Regions, and even the ancient Khitan Dahe Alliance also disintegrated and collapsed due to heavy casualties.

This was followed by more than a hundred years of slavery and oppression by the Uighurs.It was hard to wait until the Uighurs weakened, the remaining forces were beaten to ashes by the Tang Guofan town, the Khan disappeared, and the Khitan regained their freedom.

Now, they have developed rapidly in the vacant period of power in the grassland, and they can finally enslave other tribes. You want me to go back to the old days?

How is this possible!

Xiao Dilu asked someone to bring a thick and long mace, got on his horse, and said: "Why do you need Yi Li Jin to go out, I will meet you for a while."

As soon as the words fell, before Xiao Dilu had time to say a second sentence, the opposite side had already launched a violent charge.

The north wind was blowing snowflakes, covering their heads and faces. The warriors on both sides did not use bows and arrows, but a melee fight between hardcore men.

Nearly two thousand knights surged down, fighting fiercely in the narrow valleys and valleys.

Yes, tragic, not intense, because the winner was decided almost instantly.

The Khitan soldiers were already at a disadvantage in numbers, and their melee strength was not as good as that of the Xia people. They were quickly broken up, and then they were chasing death and north.

When Yang Hongxin and Xiao Dilu passed by each other, they directly swept him off the horse with one lance. At this time, the horse turned around and knocked him to the ground with another lance.

"Tie it up, take it back and ask for credit!" He was not in a good mood, and when he hit it with some force, Xiao Dilu's forehead was covered with blood.

No matter how stupid Yang Hongxin was, he knew that A Baoji was no longer here, and there was a high probability that he would be tricked.

After ten days of chasing after eating and sleeping in the open, what is the strength of chasing?

A Baoji is too shameless, he finds a dead ghost to escape.If you catch him in the future, you must ask, are you ashamed?

"The overall situation has been decided." Yang Hongxin sighed softly as he fell to the ground.

On the nearby hillside, there are more than a hundred people fighting, that is the last embers of Khitan.

The complex mountainous terrain is conducive to the cavalry archers who gallop and shoot, but not to the melee cavalry who rely on brave charges to break through the enemy.But Khitan has only so few people, and it will be a matter of time before they are wiped out.

Later, we need to allocate some manpower to search around, maybe we can seize a large amount of supplies and cattle and sheep.

Since leaving Yuyi Town to the east and chasing "Abaoji" all the way, they have seized about 16 cattle, sheep, horses and camels, and hundreds of vehicles.

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On September [-]th, the division of the East Road Army.

They chased as far as Gu'an County, and captured tens of thousands of cattle and sheep. Seeing that the enemy had disappeared and the weather was getting worse, they stopped advancing and returned to Rouzhou.

More than ten thousand Fan soldiers who went north from Yuyi Town came back earlier than them.

Tuoba Jin, the supervisor of Xianyou Palace, looked at the cattle, sheep and captives all over the ground, feeling relieved.

This battle was too difficult for them.

I think that when I was in Huangshui back then, I never encountered such a powerful enemy as Khitan.Occasionally, Tubo and Qiang rebelled, sweeping tens of thousands of people, and the main force against the enemy was also the heavenly soldiers of the Central Plains, and these tribal soldiers were just fighting.

But this time, they really faced the enemy's main force.

It took two months to fight, and it was extremely difficult, and every time I think about it, I am embarrassed.

Yuyi Town, Xianyou Palace, Sanquan, the three old neighbors, it seems that the Tuoba clan is the best and the most tenacious.

Zangcai Wang's family didn't have a city wall, but they retreated in a timely manner, and they worked harder when fighting head-on. Their performance can be said to be quite satisfactory, not particularly good, but not bad.

When King Xi went to Zhu, it was miserable. The city was attacked, and a large number of people, cattle, sheep, and goods were lost.How awesome it is usually, how embarrassing it is now.

Tuoba Jin was waiting to see his joke.

After quietly climbing onto the dark and severely damaged city wall, Tuoba Jin glanced at the north again.

The cold wind howled, like this chilling battlefield, making people fearful.

Tuoba Jin knew that from now on, there would be no enemies roaring south from the north, and there would be nothing to fear.

After the Khitan battle, neither the morale of the army nor the public opinion among the tribes had the soil to support their continued westward and southward march.

Sometimes, there is only one chance.

Sometimes, there will always be one or two iconic events that indicate some kind of turning point.

The Battle of Rouzhou, the Battle of Xinghe, and the Battle of Dugumen, these series of battles have already broken the hearts of the Khitan people.Unless they completely annexed the Bohai Kingdom and made Shiwei, Tatar, and Heishui Mohe in the north completely surrender, it would be possible to regroup and accumulate the confidence to go south again.

But will Daxia give them such an opportunity?

At the most difficult time of the battle, a courier risked his life and rushed into the Xianyou Palace. It was reported that the Anton Mansion had repeatedly defeated the Khitan and expanded hundreds of miles of land.From then on, Tuoba Jin knew that the Khitan people were finished.

East and West are attacking, and they have no chance of coming back.The only suspense is how long it can last.

And just when the Silver Spear Army chased the enemy all the way and returned with a full load, the [-] cavalry led by Shi Shucong, the commander of Guanbei Road, also marched eastward all the way, even the Keqing Saijun, Niupiguan, Tiancheng Army, and Huai'an County. , Daning Town.

Most of the soldiers and horses in this area were transferred away by Shi Shanyou and Li Siyuan, so it was very empty.Shi Shucong just led the state soldiers and the Tibetans, and conquered many strongholds, and then he was repelled by Li Cunxiao at the foot of Wende County in Yizhou, which stopped his relaxed "armed march".

After seeing that it was impossible to continue eastward to pick up bargains, he left Zhang Quanen to guard Daning and Han Congxun to guard Niupi Pass. Two big groups.

If tens of thousands of them can be wiped out, the situation in Daibei will be settled.

Only now did Li Keyong discover that he was the biggest wronged seed.

(End of this chapter)