Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 844 All the way to the west (please subscribe!)

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Yue Fei and others followed the example of the ancients who climbed Langjuxu Mountain to worship the sky, and engraved stones to record their merits, and declared to the world: From now on, Mobei will be the territory of our Dazhong.

Not only that, in accordance with Li Yan's order, the people of Beining City (Li Yan changed the name of Ketun City) will continue to explore north to increase the land area of ​​Dazhong.

After regaining Mobei, Yue Fei and others faced two choices—one was to go east, and then destroy the Mongolian, Kelie, Naiman, and Wanggu tribes, and attack the Dajin Kingdom to pacify the Northeast for Dazhong.The other is to go west, to calm down the northwest for Dazhong.

Before Yue Fei led his troops into the grassland, Li Yan had a heart-to-heart talk with Yue Fei.

Because Mobei is too remote and far away, and there is only one-way connection with Dazhong (currently, carrier pigeons can only fly back to Yanjing from Mobei, and Yanjing’s carrier pigeons cannot fly to Mobei), plus , Mobei is full of unknowns, so Li Yan dare not set too high goals for Yue Fei and the others. Therefore, Li Yan's order to Yue Fei is only: take down Kedun City and recover Mobei.

As for the next order, Li Yan didn't give it - Li Yan handed over the choice of the next step to Yue Fei.

Of course, it's not that Li Yan didn't give Yue Fei any advice.

Li Yan handed the memorial to him by Xu Guanzhong and Yelu Dashi to Yue Fei for him to read.

Xu Guanzhong proposed in the memorial: Once Yue Fei regained Mobei, he could move his army eastward, and then choose to attack the Kret tribe centered on the upper reaches of the Orkhon River, and Mongolia, which rose in the middle and upper reaches of the Onon River and the Kherlen River. The tribe occupied the Naiman tribe in the area from the Altai Mountains to the Hang'ai Mountains, but the Wanggu tribe in the Monan area near the Yinshan Mountains. The ultimate goal was to cooperate with Liu Qi and Wu Lin to destroy the Dajin Kingdom.

And Yelu Dashi's suggestion is that after Yue Fei and the others regained Mobei, they should take the hundreds of thousands of war horses from Kedun City to march westward to restore the territory in the northwest during the Han and Tang Dynasties. As for the northeast region, it can be completely handed over to Liu Kai Dealing with Wu Lin, the big deal, Dazhong can also send strong troops from the country to recover the Northeast. Yelu Dashi also explained his reasons: "Since the fall of the Liao Dynasty, the Northwest has become a leaderless state. Chaos, if this chaotic situation continues for a long time, there will be heroes to rule the Northwest Region. By then, the Northwest Region will become a serious problem for Dazhong. Therefore, it is better for Dazhong to recover the Northwest Region. To solve the worries from the Northwest region, and to conquer the remote Northwest region, a large number of war horses must be supported, otherwise the problem of supplies will not be solved at all. Dazhong is not rich in war horses, and it can even be said that there is a shortage of war horses. This time Yue Fei and the others brought The 20 livestock that went there can be said to have taken out all the reserves of Dazhong over the years, and also transferred a lot of war horses from various armies. Therefore, if the hundreds of thousands of war horses in Ketun City are brought back, it will definitely After being divided by the Chinese army, it is impossible to gather so many war horses to recover the Northwest Region, otherwise Dazhong may never be able to recover the Northwest Region."

In fact, Yelu Dashi repeatedly applied to Li Yan for him to recover the Northwest Region, and he was even willing to keep his whole family in Yanjing as hostages.

But Li Yan, who had made up his mind not to let the tiger go back to the mountain, rejected Yelu Dashi's request on the grounds that the grassland strategy department could not do without Yelu Dashi.

In the end, Yelu Dashi saw that Li Yan would never let him go to the grassland, so he could only submit a very detailed Northwest strategy to Li Yan, and then sadly returned to the grassland strategy department to continue to use those grassland kingdoms and tribes. The contradictions divide them.

Yue Fei called Wang De, Ma Kuo and others together to discuss the next step, and told Wang De, Ma Kuo and others about Xu Guanzhong and Yelu Dashi's proposal.

Wait for Yue Fei to finish speaking.

Wang De was the first to express his opinion: "It is not because Wang De dared to fight against the big tribes such as the Mongolian, Kelei, Naiman, and Wanggu tribes, and did not dare to cut gold, but going east, our expeditionary force can only be Assists, you can only follow the Northeast Army to drink soup, only go west, our expeditionary army can become the main attack, and, I read ancient history, the most regrettable thing is that the Tang Army lost to the Dashi Army in the Battle of Talas, now there are Opportunity to make up for this regret, I would rather die on the battlefield in the northwest!"

After Wang De finished speaking, Ma Kuo said: "We have regained the surrounding military states and dozens of tribes. If we go west, they can act as our guides. Moreover, they will definitely lend us troops. I would like to borrow three or five. Wan Fanbing should not be a problem, and, according to the rules of the grassland, they will bring their own horses. The northwest region has a vast area, but the population is relatively sparse. We have these 10,000+ elites, and we should be able to sweep the northwest. The only problem is the issue of food and grass. "

Sun Ge said: "The food in Beining City is enough for us to supply. Six to 70 horses and camels bring three to four million stones of grain and grass. It is not a problem. Moreover, we can also send a message to the imperial court and ask the Longyou area to supply us once. .”

Li Yanguang said: "We should not be able to count on the supplies from Longyou. Xixia will not let us get the supplies from Longyou area smoothly, because Xixia is most afraid of us unifying the northwest. In that case, Xixia will Surrounded by our Dazhong and become a country within a country, once we reach that point, our Dazhong will definitely destroy Xixia and complete the unification of the territory. Therefore, I dare say that Xixia will do everything possible to prevent us from recovering the Northwest Region. Maybe Xixia will send troops to prevent us from recovering the Northwest."

Chief of Staff Fang Xuedu said firmly: "Xixia will never dare to send troops to stop us. This will give us an excuse to attack Xixia. However, General Li is also right. We should rely on Longyou's supplies. No more, as long as Xixia dispatches troops to disguise themselves as bandits, they can prevent the luggage from leaving Longyou."

Sun Ge heard the words and said, "If we don't get supplies from Longyou, then we can't guarantee enough food, after all, the journey is too far away."

Li Yanguang heard the words, and said: "My opinion is exactly the opposite of Mr. Sun's. I think our grain and grass are enough for us to conquer the Northwest."

Sun Ge said calmly, "I would like to hear the details."

Li Yanguang said: "We brought nearly 60 war horses plus Beining City's war horses, and we brought more than 8 camels plus Beining City's camels. These war horses and camels can carry dozens of grains. This food is enough for us to eat for more than half a year. In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep in Beining City, and we can also bring them together as military rations. If it is not enough, we can also harvest grass."

The so-called grass valley is to rob and plunder.

From the perspective of grassland people, in fact, from the perspective of many troops in the Central Plains, this is normal.

but--

Li Yanguang also knows that the military discipline of the Chinese army is strict, and it is not allowed to steal the things of the common people, but Marshal Yue's military discipline is even stricter, and if he takes a penny from the common people, he will lose his head.

Therefore, Li Yanguang immediately added: "Of course, hunting grassland is only a last resort. We bring so much food and grass, and those cattle and sheep can still reproduce. If it is not possible, we can eat war horses. There should be some embarrassment along the way." The tribes that obey our Dazhong rule, seize their food, war horses, cattle and sheep, and they can also supplement us with food and grass."

Yue Fei was very disgusted with Li Yanguang's proposal to hit grass valley.

But when it comes to fighting, Yue Fei is not a dead-headed person. He knows that fighting Caogu is not the only way out if he has to.

Therefore, Yue Fei did not blame Li Yanguang, but continued to listen to other people's speeches.

In the end, the overwhelming majority favored going west.

in fact--

Yue Fei also wanted to go west.

Sealing a wolf as a residence is much easier than Yue Fei imagined, and there is no challenge at all. Therefore, for Yue Fei, this is not a great honor.

Therefore, Yue Fei wanted to have higher achievements.

Seeing that everyone was in favor of going west, Yue Fei didn't talk nonsense, and directly set the strategy of "going west all the way".

This strategy must be good, so Ma Kuo came forward and borrowed troops from the governors of various military states and the leaders of the tribes.

On behalf of the imperial court, Ma Kuo promised these military prefects and tribal leaders that whoever borrows more soldiers from their expeditionary army will be rewarded more by the imperial court. Moreover, they don't have to wait for Yue Fei and the others to triumph, they can directly take Ma Kuo to them. According to the proof, go to Yanjing to receive the reward.

Li Yan, who is not short of money, has always been generous in his moves. At least, in the eyes of the poor grassland people, every time Li Yan makes a move, he is very generous.

The point is, Li Yan and Dazhong's reputation is very good, and what they have said is rarely not fulfilled.

Therefore, these military prefects and tribal leaders lent troops to Yue Fei and the others one after another, and some even personally led troops to march westward with the expeditionary army.

According to the last statistics, they lent a total of more than 4 horses to the expeditionary force.

Yue Fei selected [-] cavalry and [-] civilian husbands from the defenders of Beining City.

Tietong four years autumn.

Yue Fei left Li Xu and Fang Xue with 14 Han cavalry and [-] Fan cavalry to garrison Beining City, and then marched westward with [-] troops and [-] civilians...

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(End of this chapter)