Late Tang

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The first year of Guangming, June.

On behalf of the northern Great Wall, beside Baishuiluo Lake.

Not long after the tragic battle ended, countless corpses were densely covered in the vast grassland.The stiff torsos were entangled with each other, and the broken arms still held the knife and gun tightly.The still dry and cold blood soaked the dry land, staining a piece of weeds with a layer of blood red.

On a high hill not far from the lake, more than a thousand fierce cavalrymen were holding a large purple banner. Khitan Yu Yueyelushlu under the banner looked at the battlefield, and the excitement in his heart was hard to express in words.

Yelu Shilu is the son of Yili Jin Yeluyun Deshi, the previous Khitan official, and the cousin of the current Yili Jin Yelu Pu Guzhi. His family is the Shili family among the Khitan Qiyelu, generations of Khitan nobles.A few years ago, the Shili family had a fierce conflict with the Yaonian family of King Khan's lineage. His father was assassinated by King Khan's son-in-law, and finally the Shili family finally had internal strife among the King Khan's clan.In this struggle, the Yaonian family who had inherited the Khan throne for generations and the Shili family who had controlled the Khitan military power and inherited Ren Yilijin for generations became bigger and bigger, and finally the twenty Khitan tribes became two camps.Among the seven yelu, the Shili family fought against the other six yelu, but in the end they won a complete victory. The Khan's family was defeated, and the Shili family completely controlled the power of Khitan.

After the Shili Clan's victory, although on the surface the Yaonian family was still supported as the Khitan Khan, in fact, this Khan no longer has half the influence.After the Shili family began to take full control of Khitan, and Pugu only served as Yi Lijin, not long ago Pugu suddenly fell ill and couldn't manage the affairs, so he worshiped his cousin Yelv Shilu as Yuyue.

Yuyue, originally a Turkic Uyghur language, means a wise man, which means respectful and wise.This newly established official position is below Khitan Yili Jin and above all officials.It is the acting chief assistant when Khitan Yi Lijin is unable to be a director. He has no specific duties. The original meaning is "too big, so no quality." '

In fact, the current leader of the Khitan is neither Khan, nor the seriously ill Yi Lijin, and of course it is not Shilu, the superficial chief of officials, Yu Yue.In fact, the real power in Khitan now is Yelv Tiela, the father of Pu Guzhi who once held the position of Yili Jin nine times, and Shilu's uncle.However, Yelu Tiesa is old, and Yelu Shilu, Yu Yue, is also the deputy head of state just in case.

Regardless of whether it is the Khan position or the Yili Jin position in Khitan, they are only hereditary within the clan, not directly inherited from father to son.In most cases, they take turns among several prestigious branches.The same is true for the Yelu family. Yunde actually took over the position of Yili Jin from his brother Yelu Tieshi. After he was assassinated, he was succeeded by Yelu Tieshi's son. However, Yun Deshi's son, Yelv Shilu, has already taken office in Yuyue, leading the military and state affairs, and is preparing to take over Yili Jin's position.

This time the Khitan and the Qin Fan launched a decisive battle, mobilizing the soldiers of the whole clan, almost all the people. A total of 40 people who control strings were recruited. Many tribes such as Heishui and Uighur fought against the Qin army on several battlefields at the same time.

Another son of Yeluyun Deshi, Yelu Yanmu, took office as the newly established King of the North Court at this time. He led 20 Khitan cavalry and 20 Shiwei and Heishui soldiers into the Bohai Sea to confront the Qin Fan and Bohai Allied Forces.In addition, another son of Yelv Tiela, Yeluqisi, was the new king of the Southern Court, and he was leading [-] Khitan cavalry on the grasslands in the Huangshui and Tuhe valleys, looking for a decisive battle with the [-] Qin troops who had penetrated into the grasslands.The ninth Khitan Yili Jin, the Khitan Supreme Emperor Yelu Tiela at this time led [-] Khitan warriors to sit in the Khitan Khan Tent.

Khitan Yuyue Yelu Shilu and his younger brother Yelu Sara's and Pu Guzhi's younger brother Fu Guzhi led [-] Khitan warriors and contacted many tribes such as Qi, Xi, Tatar, Turks, and Uighurs inside and outside the Yin Mountains. A large army was gathered and went south.

Prepare to open up the third battlefield and support the battlefield outside the Great Wall.

In recent years, Li Ke used the North to fight against the Tang Dynasty twice, while Li Jing suddenly emerged, broke into Liaodong, and moved to Hebei.For a time, Liaodong outside the Guan, inside and outside the Great Wall, and the grasslands outside the Yanshan and Yinshan mountains were swaying and swaying, and the northern land outside the Central Plains was in chaos and completely lost order.

Shatuo, Goguryeo, Mohe, Uighur, Tatar, Tiele, Tuyuhun, Dangxiang and other ministries were either defeated by Li Jing and exterminated, or attached to the imperial court, or were forced to submit to Li Jing.Li Jing's attitude towards the Hu people has always been tough. If he surrenders to Li Jing, the tribe will inevitably be dismantled and moved to various parts of the Qin Dynasty. their superior rights.All ethnic groups in northern Xinjiang were terrified and resentful about this. This time Li Keyong sent envoys to Khitan to invite them to go south.

The leaders of all the Khitan tribes agreed with this, and the Khitan envoys rushed to the various tribes to persuade all the tribes to send troops to the south. The leaders of all the tribes in the northern Xinjiang came to vote one after another, and tens of thousands of people gathered in a blink of an eye.Not long after, the Khitan granted Yelu Shilu Yuyue, Yelu Sara the Tarma Tamarin Shali, and Yelu Fu Gu only as the vanguard, commanding 14 Khitan cavalry, 20 Khitan auxiliary soldiers, and [-] tribes Soldiers and auxiliary soldiers almost poured out of the grassland, and [-] people marched southward.

Yelu Shilu's southward march this time was divided into two groups at the beginning. One was 8 old and weak men from each tribe who went south. In fact, this was just a smoke bomb for Yelu Shilu. The real southward army was as many as 20. Woman, his soldiers have also reached 4, and there are [-] auxiliary soldiers.

Yelu Shilu sent his troops southward, so that the old and weak of the tribes were scattered and invisible, and they began to scatter and loot everywhere as soon as they crossed the Yin Mountain.He himself led 12 horses, but gathered around Baishuiluo, a large grassland hidden outside the Great Wall, and set up an ambush to wait.

Li Siyuan's troops guarding the Niupi Pass at Qingpodao on the border of Yunzhou in Datong went out to fight against the enemy, but the old and weak of the various tribes collapsed at the touch of a touch, and Li Siyuan's troops chased and killed them all the way.The tribe fled in defeat, and Li Siyuan's army pursued all the way to the outside of the Great Wall, but fell into Yelushilu's territory at the edge of Baishuiluo, [-] tribal iron cavalry rushed to kill, [-] auxiliary soldiers intercepted, and Li Siyuan's army collapsed within a day.

At this moment, beside Yelu Shilu, there are [-] elite fighters, [-] auxiliary soldiers, strong soldiers and fierce generals, who are mainly Khitan, including Tatar, Xi, Yu, Goguryeo, Uighur, Turkic, Tiele and other ethnic groups. Yunji's subordinates only need to take advantage of the victory and go south, and they can go down to Datong in one go, directly threatening Yanjing, the center of Qin Fan.

At this time, the Qin army probably thought that they were really greedy for money this time, so they responded to Li Keyong's invitation to go south to plunder. They would never have imagined that this time their elite went south, they would catch Li Jing by surprise.Let's look at all the northern Xinjiang warriors who can ride strong horses and draw strong bows. How can those weak Han people resist?

At this time, Li Jing's elite is in the northeast, in the land of Daibei, who can defeat his grassland cavalry?

At this moment, those who followed Yelu Shilu like the stars and the moon were all the leaders and nobles of the Khitan clan.

The first tall man on the left is the brother of Yelu Shilu, the son of Yeluyun Deshi, and the son of Yelusa. He is currently the Khitan Tarma Tamarin Shali, and he is the guard officer of the new guard army of the Shili family, which is equivalent to the head of the Shence Army. Chief.I only heard Sarah's loud voice: "Our ancestors fought unyieldingly against the Tang people and were never conquered. Now these Tang people want to annex us, treat our people like the Goguryeo people, occupy our grassland, and usurp us. The people like cattle and sheep were driven to the Central Plains to farm and pay taxes for them! Why should the noble Khitan nobles be subject to the despicable Tang people? Why should the brave warriors be cows and horses for the cowards? Now we use sharp punish these Tang people with a scimitar, cut off their heads as a sacrifice to the sun god, and the god will bless us!"

"God bless you!" A childish voice echoed loudly behind Yeluzara.This man was wearing a warrior robe and his hair was loose. He was no more than five feet tall, but he was Yelu Abaoji, the son of Yelu Sala. , not only can ride a strong horse, but also can draw a bow of one stone, and can shoot down the wild geese in the sky.This time he went south, he was stalking and insisted on coming, Yelu Sala originally didn't allow it, but Yelu Shilu liked this nephew very much, and finally allowed him to come with him.Not only that, Yelu Shilu also incorporated Abaobao into the guard of Sala's Tarma Hu Guard.All the way south, Abaoji performed very well, and he didn't show the slightest bit of embarrassment because of the hardship of the long-distance march.All the people in the army like this most loyal guard, and call him Xiaoshali, which means Xiaolangjun.

A Baoji is only ten years old, but he speaks like an adult: "Yu Yue, we are willing to follow your horseshoe prints and kill them in Yanjing City, the king of the Tang Dynasty. We will plunder their treasures with swords, enjoy their women, and kill them." their farms as pastures, and their men as slaves!"

As soon as this remark came out, the generals burst into laughter.

Yelu Shilu looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "That's right, a man should be an eagle soaring in the sky, how can he be a lamb on the grassland? Ten years ago, Li Jing was just a self-studying Scholars are now kings. Thinking about us Khitan, we are all brave in terms of speaking, how can we be willing to be suppressed by the Tang people for hundreds of years? Now we Khitan have 40 people who control strings and lead armor, and they are far stronger than the Tang people Warrior. It's time, let us defeat those Tang people, unify the north, achieve more brilliant achievements than our ancestors, and establish our own powerful Khitan dynasty on the rich land of the Han people!"

After finishing speaking, Yelu Shilu shook the reins lightly amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the generals, and galloped forward, and the generals followed suit one after another.

Behind them, tens of thousands of fierce northern barbarians merged into a mighty torrent, galloping forward, unstoppable.

Yinshan, a mountain range that separates Huayi from Yi, has always been the natural boundary between Han and Hu.Although the Central Plains Dynasty was strong and strong, it also used to control the outside of the Great Wall, but the land north of Yinshan Mountain has always been difficult to be truly controlled by the Central Plains Dynasty.More often, the Central Plains Dynasty shrunk the continuous control line to the Datong line further south of Yinshan Mountain, and built the Great Wall to guard the border. Outside the Great Wall and inside Yinshan Mountain, it was more of a military buffer zone.If the Han family is strong, this area is controlled by the Han people; if the Central Plains is chaotic, this area is mostly controlled by the Hu people.

For many years, this area has always been managed by the Shatuo people on behalf of the Li and Tang courts.After many years of prestige, Shatuo people's prestige in this area even far exceeds that of the imperial court.

Zhang Zimian led his army into Daibei, led troops into Shuozhou, and defended the north of Yunzhou with Li Siyuan, leaving only [-] Qin troops and [-] auxiliary troops stationed in Yunzhou.

Yunzhou, Datong, is already the provincial capital of the newly established Qin Fan Shanxi Province.Datong is the largest basin in the whole of Hedong. Surrounded by high mountains on all sides, it connects Hebei and enters and exits beyond the Great Wall. It has been a strategically important place for military strategists since ancient times.At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang fought with the Xiongnu. As a result, he underestimated the enemy and pursued him, but he was besieged by the Xiongnu army at Baideng Mountain here.In recent decades, this frontier land has also changed its owner several times.In the early years, Li Guochang granted Yunzhou due to his meritorious service, and later Li Ke was appointed as the guard of Yunzhong, where he raised troops against the Tang Dynasty.After the failure of the first rebellion against the Tang Dynasty, the land was finally taken over by Mihaiwan Sag, who originally belonged to the three tribes of Shatuo. Instead, he was defeated by Li Siyuan, and Datong fell into Li Siyuan's hands.

Whether it is the imperial court or the three generations of Li Guochang, Li Keyong, Li Siyuan, and Mi Haiwan, after they occupied Datong, they all repaired Datong repeatedly. Today, the city of Datong is more than three feet high, and it can accommodate four horses in parallel. Lined up, it can be called a frontier fortress.

On this day, Tan Ma rode over in the twilight and brought the bad news that Li Siyuan's [-] Shatuo Army was defeated outside the Great Wall.

Gao Si, the general of the Qin army stationed in Yunzhou, was shocked after hearing the news, and hurriedly reported to Marshal Zhang Zimian of Zhengxi in Shuozhou to the south, and sent people to Hebei to report to King Zheng of Qin, who was driving at the military capital. Jing reported.At the same time, Gao Siji ignited the beacon fire, preparing for battle against the enemy!

Li Jing, who was in the military capital, was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly recruited the team in the military capital to discuss countermeasures.

In the camp of the military capital, almost all the main officials of the various ministries of the Yanjing Center are here at this time.Li Jing originally moved the army to the capital, and was originally prepared just in case.But I didn't expect that it would really come to this point.

Li Jing was sitting in the main seat, nearly thirty years old, with an elegant and calm demeanor in every gesture, and looked more and more mature.However, Li Jing's mental state was not very good at this time. Under the bright candlelight, Li Jing frowned and his eyes were full of worry.

He stretched out his hand and gently pressed his temple, sighing in distress.What he is most worried about, he will come.Li Siyuan's 8 Shatuo soldiers and 20 auxiliary soldiers were defeated outside the Great Wall. This news is really too shocking.As the news of Li Siyuan's defeat came back, a more serious situation was before us. The Hu people who went south were not 20 mobs, but 20 coalition forces of various ethnic groups, mainly Khitan elites.Li Siyuan was defeated, the northern gate of Daibei had been opened, and the land of Yunzhou was only 3 Qin soldiers plus [-] auxiliary soldiers. How could they resist [-] Hu people going south?In case Yunzhou can't stop the [-] Hu people going south, then the [-] horses of Zhang Zimian who are in Shuozhou at this time may be made dumplings! (To be continued.)