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Chapter 183
The eight tribes of Khitan are Xiwandan, A Dahe, Gu Fufu, Yu Yuling, Rilian, Pilier, Chi Liushou, Yuzhenhou, and Dahe Tuoluo are the eight khans.With thousands to tens of thousands of able-bodied men in each of the eight Khitan tribes, it is not a lie to mobilize a maximum of [-] yuan, and even if you discount it at the moment, there are more than [-] yuan.

Not long after, the news that countless Khitan cavalry appeared in the north of Yuyi Town covering the sky and covering the sun spread to everyone's ears.Shi De, Xi Bu, and the elders of the tribe were like ants on a hot pot, spinning around anxiously.Forehead, Ying Hefu also looked scorched, but he was more worried about the safety of Yuyi Town than Li Chongjiu.To the people of Shidexi, Yuyi Town is not just a city, but to them, it is also a nail deeply wedged into Wuhou Qinshui.From Yuyi Town to their hometown of grazing for generations, it can be reached within two days. As long as they occupy this place, the herdsmen from the former Shidexi tribe by the Wuhou Qin River will continue to come here.Once Yuyi Town is lost, there will be no city to protect the clansmen for Cheng Jin, and once the Khitans come, they will have nowhere to go on the vast grassland.

"What are our chances of winning?" Deyun asked Li Chongjiu softly.

Li Chongjiu looked at Shi Deyun's clear eyes, smiled and patted the back of her hand.

Shi Deyun was a little relieved, opened her eyes wide and said: "Ah Mu said, our Shi Dexi Department, even if we fight to the last one soldier, we will not abandon this place. This Yuyi Town is our Shi Dexi The only chance for the revival of the Ministry."

Shi Deyun's small face was full of determination, Li Chongjiu said: "Of course, a big war is coming soon, the danger in this city is serious, you should follow your clansmen and retreat to the southern valley, where it is safer. "

"Don't go!" Shi Deyun shook his head resolutely, and said, "Where you are, I will be there."

Li Chongjiu narrowed his eyes and said with a smile, "Naughty."

Shi Deyun said angrily at the side: "I don't know what about the girl from the Han family you like. Didn't she just accompany you to assassinate Shibi Khan once? And today the Khitan army is besieging the city with a hundred thousand troops. I will do the same with you." You are here, I will not lose to her at all."

Li Chongjiu's eyes flickered, and he said with a smile: "It turns out that this is what you've been caring about all this time, you're just jealous."

Shi Deyun heard Li Chongjiu hum and said, "I'm not jealous."

Li Chongjiu smiled and said nothing more.And three miles ahead, the smoke from the Alpine Fort suddenly appeared and ignited high up. "Khitan people," Shi Deyun grabbed Li Chongjiu's shoulder and said with a startled face, "Khitan people came so fast, I thought they would arrive tomorrow."

Li Chongjiu's complexion sank until three days ago when he heard the news that Khitan's 3000 troops had dispatched troops.Li Chongjiu gave up Jiulian Fort, and instead sent [-] people to rush to repair Gaoshan Fort for three consecutive days. Finally, the city wall was repaired to a height of more than two feet, and more than four-fifths of the entire project was completed. It temporarily became the frontier of Dahong City. in front.

Today, these 3000 people have been withdrawn, leaving Shi Defeng and [-] Xi troops stationed in the Gaoshan Fort.Right now, in Gaoshan Fort, three beacons of smoke were issued to warn Dahong City, indicating that there are extremely large numbers of Khitan troops in front.Because of the limited vision, Li Chongjiu saw a black line stretching across the grassland in the distance.Undoubtedly, as a frontier mountain castle, Shi Defeng is more visually shocking.

"It's nothing to look at, it's just the striker of the Khitan people."

That being said, the vanguard alone has such a strong force. If the army gathers together, what kind of scale will it be? The scene of the battle, but today he has to face a hundred thousand Khitan cavalry, how is this life and death?
"The prefect humiliated the royal family and refused to send reinforcements to us!" Ying Hefu felt a little embarrassed when he saw Li Chongjiu.The King of Hunhe is the most powerful of the five tribes of the Xi Clan, and Qijin, the King of Hunhe, is also vaguely known as Xiren Khan. If he is willing to come forward to organize, he may not be able to unite the five tribes of the Xi Clan. Work together to fight against the encroachment of the Khitan people to the west.

"However, Mu Kunxi sent a thousand cavalry to help us. They are all very good men." Speaking of this, Wang Mahan has a bright face, and Mu Kunxi's tribe is Li Hu's sworn brother brother.Of course, Qijin was willing to be sworn brothers with Li Hu back then, because when Li's bodyguard went to Mu Kunxi's department for sale, it happened that Qijin's wife fell ill.After Dr. Xue saved his life, he wandered around and married again, and Tengjin thanked Li Hu for his life-saving grace, so he became sworn brothers with him.Over the years, Li Hu and the others have been out of the fortress, and have also consciously traded with the Mukunxi tribe, allowing them to obtain a large amount of cloth and tea from the Central Plains. Therefore, in recent years, the power of the Mukunxi tribe among the five tribes of the Xi clan has grown considerably. It's just that they are temporarily inferior to the king's tribe of humiliating He.Now knowing that Khitan is powerful, although the Mukunxi tribe dare not mobilize with all their strength, they are willing to dispatch a thousand cavalry to reinforce Yuyi Town, which shows the kindness of Qijin.

"Besides, some Xi people and some Shiwei people also joined our army. They all have enmity with the Khitan people. In particular, Bai Yu, like the Xi people, fought many times with the Khitan people and forged a long time ago. Many of them are friends we have made from selling goods in the grassland for many years. When they heard that the Khitans were coming, they sent their own warriors to support them without saying a word, so there are also a thousand people."

Li Chongjiu nodded. With two thousand reinforcements, it was not much, but it was only after his father and son had managed the grassland for five years and spread their contacts widely that they could help.The Ru Shide Xi tribe asked for help from the most humiliating He royal tribe of the Xi tribe, hoping that the other party would come forward to rescue them on the basis of the same clan, but under the strength of the Khitan, any affection for the same clan is just asking for shame.

"With two thousand troops, our army has a lot of confidence." Wang Mahan waved his fist, showing a bit of arrogance.Shi De, Xi Tujin, Ertuo, and Ying Hofer all breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news, but the worry on their faces did not decrease much.

Li Chongjiu said: "How about Huaihuang Town? Do the Turks plan to invade together with the Khitan people?"

Wang Mahan said with a smile: "I haven't found it yet. I heard that the Turkic Shibi Khan has not recovered from his arrow wound for a year, and he can't even ride a horse. Now his younger brothers and sons are busy competing for the Khan position, so I have no time to look south to the Central Plains."

"This is a good thing, but once the position of the Turkic Khan is determined, it will inevitably invade the south. We should not take Huaihuang Town lightly now. The two thousand reinforcements are deployed to the east of Huaihuang Town to be vigilant against the Turks." Li Chongjiu said. speak.

"Then what about Yuyi Town?" Hearing that Li Chongjiu had transferred the reinforcements to Huaihuang Town, Qi Jin, a girl from Shidexi Department, said anxiously.

Li Chongjiu turned to look at the crowd present, and asked back: "Do you think the Khitan's one hundred thousand army is coming, how should we fight?"

After saying a word, everyone was silent.Li Chongjiu said: "If it is a field battle? With our 10 army against [-] horses, there is no hope of victory. Now we can only rely on the city to hold on and fight decisively under the city."

Hearing what Li Chongjiu said, everyone nodded.Li Chongjiu continued: "Now there are only two cities in Yuyi Town, Dahong City and Gaoshanbao. The people defend the two cities, and wait for the Khitans to be blocked under the fortified city, and then counterattack."

"This is the strategy of defending first and then attacking." Inhofer nodded.

After hearing the news that the Khitan army was about to besiege the city at night, all the Xibu cavalry withdrew. This time Shide Xibu made the biggest mobilization, dispatching 6000 people. Except for 500 people who followed Li Chongjiu to defend the city, the other four Thousands of five hundred cavalry were deployed in the west of the city.In Yuyi Town, there are 1000 Xi troops stationed in Gaoshan Fort, and except for a regiment of soldiers and [-] troops in Dahong City, the rest are [-] Xi troops from Etuo.Wang Mahan led four regiments of cavalry out of the city and quietly stationed in the valley east of the city. Of course, dozens of miles away, there was also a garrison of [-] troops in Huaihuang Town, and [-] reinforcements from various ethnic groups. The total strength of all troops was [-].

Before the war came, all the formations in the city had been completed.In the early morning of the next day, the main lineup of the Khitan Army appeared outside Dahong City, almost beyond sight.After observing for a long time, Li Chongjiu and Er Tuo believed that although the Khitan's claim of [-] soldiers was an imaginary number, they still had [-] to [-] troops.

Khitan Khan's white horse and green ox banner were erected a few miles to the east of Dahong City and Gaoshanbao. Now Khitan Khan wants to use this place as the tooth tent.Looking around from the top of the city, there are Khitan people with hairy hair, wearing big earrings and wearing animal skins obliquely.Reminiscent of hundreds of years later, when this nation reached its peak, its ruling territory even surpassed that of the Northern Song Dynasty. Later Russians even regarded Khitan as Chinese, and even the pronunciation of China in Russian today is still the word Khitan.

However, the Khitan bandits hundreds of years later have not yet separated from the clan and tribe. The so-called Khan is actually the leader of the alliance elected by the eight tribes.They don't have a formal military organization, they just rely on the calls of Yili Jin from various ministries, and further down, they form an army composed of clans composed of blood relatives. There are no generals and lieutenants in the leadership, and only a few highly respected members of the tribe issue orders. head man.As for the Khitan people, they wore roughly sewn animal skins, and held hunting bows made of ox horns twisted into strings from rattan skin.Except for a few people holding swords made of meteoric iron, most people still hold bones and maces worthy of the name.

Although the equipment is poor and the organization is messy, the barbarism and bravery of the uncivilized people are enough to make up for all this, not to mention that the Khitans are an army of "one hundred thousand"

(End of this chapter)