Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 367
Bianjing Palace!

Luo Youdu breathed a sigh of relief after receiving a letter from Wu Desi, confirming that Li Chuyun was safe.

This plan couldn't keep up with the changes, so he arrested Jia Shi and directly attacked and killed Wu Zhe's tribe, annexed the second tribe, confirmed his hegemony, and cleared up the muddy waters in Liangzhou.

The original plan to fish in troubled waters naturally couldn't be carried out.

The plan to divide the situation in Liangzhou from the inside was even more difficult. Fortunately, Li Chuyun was alert enough to respond to all changes without change, and stabilized his position.

Which step he can take next depends on his own performance...

In half a year, as long as it lasts for half a year, and this year's autumn harvest is handed in, you can fight for Lianglong in the west, and first recover the homeland of the Western Han family.

Luo Youdu kept the secret letter and picked up the notebook on the case table.

After reviewing two copies, I got a report from the Privy Council.

"On June 420, fight against Khitan rangers in Dongsheng, defeat them, and kill [-] enemies."

A very short sentence made the corners of Luo Youdu's mouth slightly curl up.

This is the fourth time this month!

Luo Youdu was sure that he remembered correctly, in less than a month, Fugu fought four times with Khitan, and also fought three battles with Dingnan Army.

It seems that the advantage of regaining the former places of the Northern Han Dynasty and Yanyou has begun to appear.

Salt, iron, and tea, these three materials are the most urgently needed materials of Khitan.

It happened that the Dingnan army relied on Hengshan, which was rich in salt, iron and tea.

Khitan did not rely on the supplies of the Dingnan Army before.

Because there is sea salt from the Jingu area of ​​Youdu Prefecture, iron from the Northern Han Dynasty, and tea smuggled from the Central Plains.

However, with the loss of Yan Youdi and the demise of the Northern Han Dynasty, there was a serious shortage of iron and tea supplies in Datong Cloud.

Salt is fine so far.

There is a land rich in salt in Khitan, and among the craftsmen they plundered from the Central Plains, there are talents who are good at making salt.

Guangji Lake in the Northeast is a salt lake, as well as Huiming Lake and Tanshan Salt Lake. The salt produced is self-sufficient and there is no problem.

It’s just that most of the salt-producing areas are gathered in the Northeast. If the Yunzhong region in the west wants to get salt from the Northeast, the shipping cost is astronomical.

Khitan was able to maintain the demand for edible salt in Datong Prefecture, but it was consumed along the way, and the price was doomed not to be cheap.

If the material such as salt is expensive and the common people cannot afford it, even if it is not noisy, they will suffer from schizophrenia.

All the people of Khitan are soldiers, and the common people are suffering from schizophrenia, so why fight?

Therefore, Datong Mansion currently has a great demand for the salt, iron, and tea of ​​the Dingnan Army.

After offending Luo Youdu, Li Yiyin completely turned to Khitan.

In fact, Li Yiyin has been doing business with Khitan secretly. A warlord like him will only follow his interests and will not be loyal to anyone.

Now it's just putting everything on the bright side.

"In this way, the pressure on Fugu will be great."

Luo Youdu pondered for a moment.

Originally, the trade between the Dingnan army and the Khitan was through the Northern Han Dynasty, from Linzhou to the east, and after arriving in Taiyuan, it went north to Yanmenguan in Daizhou and went straight to Yunzhou in Datong.

There are many mountains and streams along the way, safety is the most important thing, and there are official roads along the way.

Now we can only go around Fugu along the edge of the desert, and make a circle to transport the goods to Datong Cloud.

But obviously it is impossible to pass through Zhejiafu Valley comfortably.

Not to mention the order given by Luo Youdu, just cutting off the road between Fugu and the Central Plains was enough to make Fugu bear a grudge.

In the past, when family members mobilized troops, they had to plan carefully, fearing that the spring plowing and autumn harvest would be delayed.

Now with the financial and material support of the Central Plains, Zhejia's movement of mobilizing troops is also unrestrained.

As for the Dingnan Army's siege, it is called a strict, national and family hatred, and the Dingnan Army will be stared at to death.

The Dingnan army and Khitan were forced to speak hard.

Datong sent rangers to invade the Fuzhou border many times, and the Zhe family was able to stay alone, relying on knowing the time and doing things.

If you can fight, fight, if you can't fight, withdraw.

After two or three months, I fought more than ten battles, but I didn't suffer much.

But this situation has to be maintained, and now is the beginning...

After thinking about it for a while, he made a review on the memorial and ordered people to send a batch of the latest fierce fire oil tanks developed by the imperial court.

The fierce fire oil tank existed 40 years ago. "Wuyue Beishi" records that in the fifth year of Houliang Zhenming, a flamethrower that used iron cylinders to emit kerosene appeared in the battle between Houliang and Hou Tang.

The heat dissipation of this iron cylinder is obviously not as good as that of the copper cylinder. At Luo Youdu's request, the flamethrower was changed to copper, and some details were also improved. It is more powerful and sprays farther.

It is useless against the highly mobile Khitan cavalry, but it has a miraculous effect against the infantry of the Dingnan Army.

Luo Youdu took another memorial, opened it, and couldn't help being amused, the content of the memorial was actually to persuade him to issue an imperial edict to draft a female, and continue to be the heir of the emperor.

"It's good to be an emperor!"

Luo Youdu thought for a while, and Zhu approved a sentence: "No, the imperial court has made a new decision, don't disturb the people!"

He put the memorial aside, thought for a while, took it again, and added a sentence: "I have my own conclusion about the matter of accepting the concubine."

Luo Youdu leaned back and leaned on the couch, the image of folding Saihua appeared in his mind.

He could feel that the little girl was also interested in him.

Thinking about the pair of melons, I can't help feeling a little thirsty.

Why not?

Luo Youdu thought for a while and decided to discuss with Fu Qing'er after handling the government affairs.

Fu Qing'er is the empress, the lord of the harem who is the mother of the world. It is a basic respect for the empress to ask for her opinion on the matter of accepting a concubine.

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July eleventh, night!
Tuoba Tuhai licked his lips, looked back at the long line of grain trucks and exhausted soldiers behind him, and breathed a sigh of relief: When this batch of salt and tea arrives safely, it should be of great help to King Xia .

King Xia is Li Yiyin.

Because of the strength of the Central Plains, Li Yiyin has been restrained and dare not become king.

Now that the pot is broken, the Khitan canonized him as the King of Xia.

Li Yiyin also accepted it, calling himself the King of Khitan Xia.

In fact, compared to Khitan's predicament, Ding Difficulty is the most difficult one.

No matter how difficult Khitan is, the foundation is still there, and it is still the overlord of the north.Sitting in the northeast to Sakhalin Island, north to the Selenge River and Shilka River in the central part of Mobei, and west to the Altai Mountains, the territory spans thousands of miles.

It's just that Yanyou and Beihan were suddenly lost, and it couldn't work in a short period of time.

With Khitan's national power and size, no matter how difficult the problem is, it can be overcome.

Difficult but different, Luo Youdu imposed a complete blockade on him.

Originally, most of the five prefectures in Dingnan were covered with yellow sand, and the land was sparsely populated. Except for salt, iron, and tea, other necessities of life could not be self-sufficient.

They simply don't have the extra national power to deal with the Central Plains' sanctions, and can only rely on the support of Khitan.

The two parties signed many treaties, and Khitan took good care of this new recruit.

But feng shui took turns, but the Fugu Zhe family was on their trade line and they suffered a lot.

Tuoba Tuhai was born in the Dangxiang Qiang family, and he already felt that the family was dissatisfied with Li Yiyin.

Faced with the sanctions imposed by the Central Plains, the powerful families in the Dangxiang and Qiang states also suffered heavy losses and complained repeatedly.

Before, because Li Yiyin was able to satisfy their interests, they praised Li Yiyin to the sky.

Now because of Li Yiyin's mistakes, he has suffered heavy losses, and naturally the wind has turned around. He feels that Li Yiyin is incompetent and offended Zhongyuan's father.

Tuoba Tuhai was young, in his early twenties, full of passion.

He couldn't understand the ethos in the clan that they could only share wealth and honor but not share adversity, so he volunteered to take up this task to solve Li Yiyin's worries and problems.

In response to Fugu intercepting them many times along the way, this time he marched cautiously from the desert, using the desert to avoid Zhejia's scouts, and transported supplies to Datong Yunzhou.

Sure enough, the journey went smoothly, bypassing the boundary of Fuzhou and leaving the desert smoothly.

He planned to travel overnight and enter the territory of Khitan Qinghe Army as soon as possible.

Suddenly, Tuoba Tuhai found that he sat down on his horse and stopped moving forward, looking ahead warily.

Over there is the undulating hills of Quyechuan, where he is going to replenish water.

He squinted his eyes and looked carefully, it seemed that in the shadow of layers of hills, something was rapidly approaching.

The sharp and clear sound of breaking through the air hit, and Tuoba Tuhai was shocked instantly, and shouted loudly with all his strength: "Quick, quick, hide!"

After a round of vigorous shooting, the torches of the material army were all extinguished.

In the darkness of night, they are moving targets.

An atmosphere of darkness and despair enveloped the battlefield.

Tuoba Tuhai had already got under the salt cart, and now he could only hear the sound of "噗" and "噗" at his side.

Surroundings are either the sound of arrows landing or screams and horse neighing, thick blood pervades the battlefield.

"Connect all the supply vehicles together..."

Tuoba Tuhai whispered command.

At this moment, the fire was lit again, but this time they were not the ones who lit it.

Countless torches came from the sky, and then there were some bottles and cans.

"boom!"

The flames seemed to explode and spread wildly to the surroundings.

Tuoba Tuhai scrambled and crawled away from the sea of ​​flames, panting violently, the tension and scorching heat made him sweat profusely...

Looking at the soldiers howling in the sea of ​​flames, Tuoba Tuhai burst into tears, what is this battle about!

The sound of horseshoes stamping on the ground can be heard again...

The opponent had already circled around the sea of ​​flames and attacked and killed them, the group of escaped soldiers.

Tuoba Tuhai's eyes turned red in an instant, and he yelled: "I am Tuoba Tuhai, the commander of King Xia's subordinates, so I know how to shoot arrows and set fire, so I have the guts to come over and fight this with me..."

He was waving a big knife in his hand, and before he could say anything, he flew up.

Zhe Saihua directly accelerated her horse and ran into him. The powerful explosive force of the steed directly broke his ribs, pierced his internal organs, and died on the spot.

The soldiers of this wave of Dingnan Army had just walked out of the desert, and they were physically exhausted. When they encountered this kind of attack, they had no strength to fight back, and they were killed in pieces.

Zhe Dejian looked at the supplies in the sea of ​​fire, felt distressed, and was directing the rescue, said: "This battle is too extravagant."

Zhe Saihua was dissatisfied and said: "Where is it extravagant, Your Majesty is benevolent, and specially ordered not to worry about supplies. Every soldier in the imperial court is more expensive than money and property. Use fire oil when you need it."

Zhe De said with a smile: "Dad is getting old, and he has never fought the battle of wealth in this life. It is out of date, out of date..."

Zhe Saihua smiled and said: "Daddy, your daughter is doing well!"

Zhe Dejian sighed slightly, and said: "Don't worry, your name will definitely be written in the battle report..."

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