Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 394 Li Yiyin's Predicament
"Hiss!" Yelu Deguang gasped, all the leaders, generals and ministers in the tent were also shocked.

There are millions of people, more than [-] armored soldiers, and heavy armored bears and tigers. This sounds a lot like their Great Khitan Kingdom!

When did Hexi become such a powerful force?
"But the Guiyi Army that wiped out the Uighurs in Ganzhou the year before last?"

Yelu Deguang suddenly remembered that last year his mother Yingtian Empress Dowager Shuluping's birthday, Xizhou Uighur envoys came to celebrate her birthday, saying that the Guiyi Army annexed Ganzhou Uighurs and had the ambition to unify the Western Regions.

At that time, Xizhou Uyghur's words were exaggerated, and they also revealed that they wanted the Great Khitan to support them.

But Yelu De only devoted all his energy to the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and sent those Uighur envoys away without any pain.

Now it seems that we must pay attention to Hexi. Yelude just had a hunch that this Hexi Guiyi Army has a strong semi-nomadic and semi-settled attribute, which is a bit at odds with his Great Khitan Kingdom!
"Your Majesty! Children who are ignorant may not necessarily know the inside story.

As far as I can see, although Longyou in Hexi is a vast area, it is sparsely populated. The Gamo, Dangxiang, Shatuo, and Uyghur tribes stand side by side.

That great king has only established the country for three or two years, so he may not be able to unify it. It may be bragging to have [-] armor. "

Zhao Yanshou came out, bowed his hands and said, who Zhang Zhao is, of course Zhao Yanshou knows.

Because in these years, the connection between his wife Princess Yan and Princess Yongle in Hexi has never been broken.

Zhao Yanshou, like Murong Nobunaga, both married the daughter of Emperor Mingzong of the former Tang Dynasty, and both of them were Shi Jingtang's brother-in-law.

Now that Zhao Yanshou came out and said so, it was the way of the Zhao family's father and son's survival.

Zhao Kuangzan exaggerated Zhang Zhao's military power to scare the Khitan monarchs and officials from retaliating immediately, and sold benefits to Zhang Zhao.

He, Zhao Yanshou, came out and revealed that he knew the truth of Hexi. On the one hand, he patched up Zhao Kuangzan's exaggerated words, and on the other hand, he made Yelu Deguang believe in his ability to know the truth of the Southern Dynasty.

Sure enough, seeing that Zhao's father and son knew Hexi's reality, Yelude felt that he was right.

"Yan Wang is capable and talented. Please collect more details about Hexi's fictitious inquiries."

"If King Yan's words are correct, Your Majesty, a few months ago, the tribes near the German army reported that there was a conflict between Hexi soldiers and Xiang Li's family of the Dingnan Army of the Southern Dynasty.

Could it be that the Hexi soldiers captured Xiazhou City and annexed the Dingnan Army so quickly?
If its soldiers and horses are so strong, they can use thousands of soldiers to ambush us when they annex the Dingnan army, it must be not small!
Such a powerful enemy is not destroyed, and I am afraid that the western frontier will not be peaceful. It is better to abandon Yunzhou first, return to Huazhou, and wait until the coming year to concentrate the army before making plans. "

Hearing that the Hexi Guiyi Army was not weak, Yelupod, who had thought that Yelude Guangwei Yunzhou had been operating continuously and dragged on until winter, proposed the matter of retreating first.

But all the chiefs and generals of the Khitan tribes were impatient with the bitter cold of camping in winter, and they all agreed.

"Your Majesty!"

There was a loud cry, and everyone looked for the sound, it was Tiancheng Army's Jiedu envoy, Situ Han Kuangye.

If Zhao Yanshou is still a Han, then Han Kuangye's Han family is the Khitan among the Han.

Han Kuangye's father, Han Zhigu, was captured by the elder brother of Shuluping, the Empress Dowager Ying.

When Shuluping married Yelu Abaoji, Han Zhigu followed Shuluping to Yelu Abaoji as a dowry, and was gradually reused thereafter.

At this time, the most important infantry of the Khitan people, the Zhangwu Army, was trained by Han Zhigu for the Khitan people.

Han Zhigu's eleven sons were all senior officials in the Khitan Kingdom, especially the third son, Han Kuangsi, who was young and handsome, and was rumored to be the face of the Empress Dowager Yingtian Shuluping.

In history, Han Kuangye had a son named Han Derang, who was a super heavyweight.

Han De asked this person to roll on the same bed with Empress Xiao Chuo when Liao Jingzong was still there. After Liao Jingzong died, he and Xiao Chuo openly dated each other.

Xiao Chuo asked his son Liao Shengzong to call him Ji's father. Even after Xiao Chuo's death, Liao Shengzong treated Han Derang as his father.

When Han Derang fell ill, Liao Shengzong and the queen served soup and medicine in person like a son and daughter-in-law.

It's outrageous!
at this time.

Yelu Deguang didn't want to retreat at first, so he immediately asked, "What's Han Situ's opinion?"

Han Kuangye knelt down on the ground and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty came to Yunzhou in person with the honor of ten thousand chariots, if you don't go down to Yunzhou City, will it not damage your majesty's power?
Moreover, according to what King Yan said, all the clans in Hexi stand side by side, the situation is complicated and the land is sparsely populated. Regardless of money, food, soldiers and horses, I can't imagine why the Hexi soldiers can just fight against the Dingnan army and send a large army to threaten our court. ?

With the bravery of my Great Khitan Heavenly Soldiers, Your Majesty can stabilize Yinxiayousui four prefectures in a few months, can you still send a large army to Yunzhou? "

Yelude made some calculations, then nodded hesitantly, "If I send out an army of various tribes, it will not be difficult to defeat the Difficult Army with [-] people.

But it is not easy to stabilize the four prefectures of Yinxia, ​​Yousui. As for sending another [-] armored soldiers to go out, it is necessary to raise soldiers from all over the country, and it is only necessary to get [-] soldiers. "

"As Your Majesty said, our Great Khitan Kingdom governs 5 million people and possesses tens of thousands of soldiers from the heavens. It may be possible to obtain it just now. The people of Hexi are only more than [-] million, and the country has only been established for a few years. How can we do it?
In Yichen's view, Zhang Zhao of Hexi seized the four prefectures of Yinxia, ​​Yousui, and he must have raised his troops when the Lord of Jin put down the rebellion and had no time to look around.

And His Majesty is the father of the Jin Lord in the Southern Dynasty, and his power is so powerful in all directions. If the Jin Lord pleads with His Majesty, asking to kill these traitors, His Majesty will definitely agree.

Therefore, I believe that Zhang Zhao in Hexi is afraid of His Majesty's might, so it is better to strike first and prevent me from going west.

Among the four thousand armored soldiers, there may be only one or two thousand elite soldiers, and the rest may be soldiers from Fuzhou Zhejia, it's just a bluff. "

Yelu Deguang was overjoyed when he heard the words, "That's right, what Situ said is great, if I retreat today, I have fallen into the trick of the Hexi people. With the honor of Wancheng, I was threatened and left, what face do I have?
I intend to mobilize [-] soldiers from various tribes and station them in Jingbian Army to Wuzhou City to guard against Hexi soldiers.

The Right Pishi Army guards between Yunzhou and Wuzhou City. When Yunzhou City is captured, I will definitely hunt with Zhang Zhao in Hexi, and will hunt in the four prefectures of Yinxia and Yousui! "

Han Kuangye's remarks actually had a lot of flaws. He said that Zhang Zhao was bluffing, but is it also bluffing to defeat the [-] Pishi army?
And this is just a guess from Han Kuangye himself. Although he guessed some of it correctly, it cannot be used as evidence after all.

But Yelu Deguang was not willing to retreat at all, once he heard what Han Kuangye said, he immediately used it to silence everyone.

These tribal leaders and generals were looking forward to his retreat and the loss of Yelu Deguang's prestige. They were happy to see it, but they didn't want Yelu Deguang's authority to grow and reduce their power.

Several tribal leaders wanted to persuade them again, but seeing Yelu Deguang's cold face, they hesitated for a while, and did not dare to speak again.

. . . .

In Shengzhou, after the snow had cooled down a bit, four people including Zhe Dejian and Murong Nobunaga led thousands of soldiers and horses, and rushed to Fuzhou without looking back.

What if you don't look back?Is it possible to go to the city of Yunzhou to force an anal Yelu Deguang's [-] troops?

Don't be kidding, let's not say that the logistics can't keep up in heavy snow, just keep up, just these 4000 people, as long as they dispatch [-] leather troops, they will be finished.

Perhaps it took less than [-] Pishi troops, but they were able to defeat the [-] Zuo Pishi Fengsheng army this time because they calculated with their minds.

It was the Khitan people who regarded them as grassland tribes with weak combat effectiveness, and they suffered a big defeat if they made a mistake in their response.

On weekdays, even if the [-] leather warriors could not defeat their [-] iron cavalry, self-protection would definitely not be a big problem.

Moreover, when Zhang Zhao sent them here, it was not the most important task to fight the Khitan people, the important thing was to prevent the Khitan people from easily obtaining Yunzhou.

So while leading the army back to Fuzhou, Zhe Dejian sent his younger brother Zhe Deyuan to Yunzhou as an envoy.

Zhede is willing to go here, and has two tasks. One is that Zhe's family has lived in Yunzhou for a long time, and they are well-known in Yunzhou City, and they have countless relatives and friends.

Zhe De wished that if he could enter Yunzhou City, it would mean that someone in the west was leading an army to deal with Khitan, and it would definitely boost the morale of the army and people in the city, so that they would not sacrifice the city easily.

The second thing is to visit Yelu Deguang, who captured hundreds of captured Pishi soldiers by the Hun River.

If the captives were taken to Yunzhou City under the pretext of releasing these Khitan soldiers and horses, they would immediately punish them for overthrowing the Khitan people.

The image that King Zhang wanted to be famous and a loyal minister and righteous man will be erected in no time.

As for irritating the Khitan people and abandoning Yunzhou to fight Zhang Zhao, they don't have to worry about it for the time being, because the Khitan people will most likely come to Fuzhou first.

Ignore the nail of Fuzhou, and cross the Mu Us Sandy Land to Xiazhou.

If Yelu Deguang really dared to do this, then Zhang Zhao might as well incarnate as Li Jiqian and deal with Khitan, the Northern Song Dynasty, or Yelu Deguang might have a big fall.

. . . . .

In Xiazhou, Zhang Zhao has been besieging the city for almost three months. Three months ago, Li Yi smiled and waited for the soldiers of the Guiyi Army to freeze to death, and then was forced to withdraw.

But now, he doesn't know if the Guiyi army was frozen to death or not, and the people in his Xiazhou city are about to freeze to death.

The reason is very strange, so strange that Li Yiyin has never considered this issue before.

That is the firewood for cooking and heating, which is probably not enough. He has stored enough food for half a year, but now he is almost unable to cook them.

Ten days ago, in Xiazhou City, the furniture had already been demolished and burned. Five days ago, some people were already burning door panels, and the cooking turned into dozens of families cooking together to save firewood.

After today, many people may have burned the door panels. If they want to eat cooked food, they have to spend a lot of money to find someone who has firewood to cook with, and even the wood in the saddle has been split and burned.

Many people have already looked at the gates, beams and pillars of his Dingnan Army Jiedu Office, their eyes are shining.

Even Li Yiyin's family is now starting to cook meals for ten days at a time, and then eat cold meals without turning on the fire.

When the cold wind blows in winter, more quilts are added to keep warm, and wives and concubines sleep together.

There is enough food, but there is no cooking, what the hell is this?

(End of this chapter)