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Chapter 248 Differentiation of Turks
The torches were brightly lit around Fanshi City, and on the hillside where Li Chongjiu was located, pine lights were lit everywhere.

Wearing an armored forehead rest, galloping forward, with three human heads hanging on the horse's head, when he saw Li Chongjiu, he showed off his skills and said: "Khan, Liu Wuzhou has more than 1 troops, and more than 2 cavalry for me. Chasing and killing for dozens of miles is already a disastrous defeat!"
Er Tuo had just finished speaking, and Yinghe Fu also led the army back.He immediately came to the mountain and said angrily when he saw Li Chongjiu: "Khan, I have something important to report to you alone!"

Li Chongjiu said: "Here are all confidantes, just speak up!"

Yinghefu's chest rose and fell, and after drinking a bag of water, he said: "Cavalry Khan, General Yuchilang, led the army to chase Liu Wuzhou's army headquarters, and when he was about to take Liu Wuzhou's head, he was intercepted by Song Jingang However, General Yuchilang ordered his subordinates not to pursue him, and Liu Wuzhou fled into Yanmen City."

The faces of the left and right generals changed slightly upon hearing this.Many of them knew the reason, Song Jingang was Yu Chigong's old master, and he was released by Yu Chigong, obviously because of private interests.

Soon after, all the forwards and generals returned.Under the hillside, captured horses, equipment, money and food were piled up, and the prisoners of Liu Jun who were escorted passed by the hillside one by one.

"General Yuchi Lang, what is your explanation for letting Liu Wuzhou go?" Wang Mahan immediately asked Yuchi Gong who was the latest to return to the army.

Yuchi Gong clasped his fists and said to Li Chongjiu: "The general is not showing favoritism. Song Jingang originally led his army to Fanshi County to deliver food. The general saw that his army was rigorous, and the general chased his troops for more than 50 miles. The people were exhausted. He lacked horses, so he did not pursue him without authorization."

"Who doesn't know that Yuchi Lang will be so brave that if he says he came because of Song Jingang's relief, he will shrink back, I don't believe it!" Yinghe Fu said loudly.

Yuchi Gong listened to Ying Hofer questioning him, his black face darkened immediately, and he shouted: "If you believe in someone, if you don't believe it, then someone won't talk to you!"

Yinghefu was also furious, and wanted to draw his sword at the moment, but the generals on the left and right stopped him and said, "If you have something to say, what's the point of arguing!"

"Enough!" Li Chongjiu threw the whip to the ground, and all the generals stepped forward to apologize.

Li Chongjiu said: "Whether General Yuchilang has dereliction of duty, before there is no evidence, don't make rash judgments. Now who can tell me, what are the achievements of each?"

When the generals heard that Yu Chigong released Liu Wuzhou privately, they immediately pressed the matter. All parties reported that in the next battle in Fanshi County, although Liu Wuzhou fled into Yanmen City, he was not defeated. More than 1 troops were beheaded. There are more than 300 levels, but there are more than [-] prisoners, including many generals. Liu Wuzhou's army has lost at least half of its strength.

Moreover, when Liu Wu was defeated on Monday, General Yan Yelie led the army to Wutai County. The defenders on the city heard that Liu Wuzhou had been defeated. In the dark night, there were not many people, so they also surrendered in anticipation.Yan Yelie took down the city of more than 5000 soldiers and civilians in Wutai County for Li Chongjiu without any effort.Li Chongjiu was overjoyed, and when discussing meritorious service, he listed Yan Ye as the first meritorious service.

After a night of pursuit, the sky is now bright.

Liu Wu and Zhou's army had all retreated under the city of Fanshi County. Li Chongjiu led the generals to a thousand paces away from the east gate of Fanshi County, and an army of [-] troops was also deployed under the city.But at this time the gate of the city was half opened, and several riders came out on horseback.Li Chongjiu saw the leader, dressed in a white cloth robe, rode his horse and came to Li Chongjiu. It was Chen Xiaoyi, the governor of Yanmen County, and the general after that was Hu Benlang, Wang Zhibian.

In the past when Chen Xiaoyi was in Yanmen County, Wang Zhibian was Li Chongjiu's superior.Li Chongjiu stepped forward to salute and said: "Chen Juncheng, Wang Lang will not see you for a long time."

Seeing that Li Chongjiu didn't maintain his identity, Wang Zhibian nodded slightly and was about to speak.Chen Xiaoyi waved his sleeves and said loudly: "Li Chongjiu leads an army under the city, is he going to attack the city?"

"Bold, you are also calling my prefect's name at will!" Wang Mahan was the first to reprimand.

Chen Xiaoyi snorted coldly and said: "What kind of prefect, but a self-appointed one, in my eyes, like Liu Wuzhou, he is just a traitor."

Wang Mahan said angrily: "When you were prosperous, the county city was about to be destroyed. If the eunuch hadn't come to help, it would have been destroyed by now. There is a shortage of food in the city, and the eunuch ordered people to send food again to relieve the hunger of the people. Now you are fine. Turn your face and deny anyone, pick up the bowl to eat meat, put down the chopsticks and scold your mother. I have never seen such a shameless loyal court official."

Chen Xiaoyi couldn't refute for a while, Li Chongjiu said immediately: "Chen Juncheng, it doesn't matter what you think of me, I also admit that I am a traitor and a traitor, but Fanshi County was besieged, you sent someone for help, but did the court ever send a soldier? The pawns came to help, and now I am helping the city, but you say I am not, what is the reason for that?"

Chen Xiaoyi sneered and said: "If you weren't greedy for the land of Fanshi County, why come to the rescue. Now you are strong and strong, and if you want to enter this city, I have nothing to say. Then step on my corpse! People are here , if you want to kill, kill, I will keep the chastity for the court, and I will die without regret!"

As soon as Chen Xiaoyi said this, everyone looked at each other. Killing Chen Xiaoyi was nothing, but he was charged with treason, so Li Chongjiu and Liu Wuzhou were the same.However, many people don't care about it. Anyway, Li Chongjiu has come to Li Chongjiu's step, and now he is self-reliant, and self-reliance and rebellion are only one step away.Anyway, you can't laugh at a hundred steps at fifty steps.

Seeing the faces of the generals, Li Chongjiu wanted to kill Chen Xiaoyi and enter the city.But Wen Yanbo shook his head slightly at Li Chongjiu.Li Chongjiu asked, "What did Wen Sima say?"

Wen Yanbo said in a low voice: "Prefect, Chen Xiaoyi can fight against Liu Wuzhou's army for half a year with an isolated city, which is enough for him to win the hearts of the people in the city. If I kill him, it will show my injustice and fulfill his reputation of loyalty."
Ying Yanglang said to Zhao Quanting indifferently: "Wen Sima's words are wrong. In troubled times, what does the word loyalty mean?"

Wen Yanbo shook his head and said: "In troubled times, people's hearts are deviant. Some people trample on the word loyalty, but there are also people who follow the way of loyalty. This is not the best example. There are many people like Chen Xiaoyi in this world. .”

Li Chongjiu nodded, and immediately rode his horse forward and said: "Mr. Chen admires the imperial court's ambition to die, so I won't enter this city."

Chen Xiaoyi said in surprise: "Li Chongjiu, are you really willing not to enter the city?"

Li Chongjiu said with a smile: "This city is still guarded by Jun Chen and General Wang Lang. I don't need to raise the flag of Li, but the flag of the Sui Dynasty, but I need to station 500 generals. This is the minimum requirement, if not , my subordinates will not agree, how about Chen Junshou?"

Wang Zhibian said aside: "It's okay, after half a year of siege, more than half of the defenders of the city were killed or injured, and the defense is insufficient. These [-] soldiers can be garrisoned to guard against Liu Wuzhou."

Hearing what Wang Zhibian said, Chen Xiaoyi glared at the other party angrily, looked at Li Chongjiu, and said with a flick of his sleeve: "This is the case, so what's the point, anyway, I swear to the death to defend this city for the court."

After finishing speaking, Chen Xiaoyi covered his sleeves and wept.

Seeing that Chen Xiaoyi agreed to his conditions, Li Chongjiu nodded. Li Yuan's rebellion is imminent, and it has been less than a year since Sui Guozuo, so he doesn't have to worry about how long Chen Xiaoyi will be loyal to the court.According to the history books, Chen Xiaoyi broke through the city and was killed by his subordinates. Now he saved his life and saved the city, but he didn't receive even a word of thanks.

However, this time the troops were dispatched, and it can be said that the harvest was quite fruitful, with five counties and two counties in the prosperous time, so that three of the five Yanmen counties were in their hands, and successfully curbed Liu Wuzhou's eastward advance, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.So Li Chongjiu strengthened the Wutai, the garrison of the second county of Lingqiu, and added Gao Chu as the general of Huyalang, who was in charge of the defense of Yanmen County. The five hundred soldiers in Qiu County were also commanded by Gao Chu.

Then Li Chongjiu led his army back to Huaihuang Town, and disbanded his Fan Army.At the same time, Li Chongjiu knew that the battle with Liu Wuzhou in Yanmen must be known to the Turks.Right now, the Turkic people are busy fighting for the position of Khan, and have no time to pay attention to themselves. Once the position of Khan is decided, Li Chongjiu, as the largest force on the grassland that does not submit to the Turks, will inevitably be attacked by the Turks.Li Chongjiu is now facing the attack of the Turkic Khanate with 40 cavalry, even though the current power has increased several times compared to two years ago, it is still impossible to compete for the time being.
Since the front is irresistible, we must find allies.Li Chongjiu remembered that in history, Li Tang was able to defeat the Turks because of the once-in-a-thousand-year snowfall on the grasslands, and more than half of the Turkic cattle and sheep froze to death.The second is to unite the Xue Yantuo tribe in Mobei, the Huihe tribe, and the Turli Khan in the Eastern Turks to oppose Xieli together.

In Turkic, Tuli means east, and the so-called Tuli Khan is the little khan who is in charge of the eastern tribes.There were several Tuli Khans in Turkic history, but it was the son of Sibi Khan named Ashina Shibobi who Li Tang instigated rebellion against.

The succession of the Turkic Khan can be inherited from brother to brother, or from father to son.Now Shibi is seriously ill, but Ashina Shibobi is still too young, so he is not qualified to compete with his uncles for the Turkic Khan.And when he grows up, his uncle also has his own son, so Ashina Shibobi can only be a small khan, and loses the qualifications of a great khan, how can he not harbor resentment.

As for the Xue Yantuo tribe and the Huihe tribe, both are located in Mobei.Among them, Yi Nan, the leader of the Xue Yantuo tribe, has 10 tents under his command. He can be called the strongest tribe in Mobei, second only to the Turks. In the battle of Turkic horse mane mountain, Huihe defeated [-] Turkic horses with [-] people.

At present, the Turks have moved the Khan court from Yudujin Mountain in Mobei to Tieshan in the Yinshan Mountains in the south of Mobei. As a result, the Turks' ruling power in Mobei has dropped significantly.It's a good time for these two to rise. ,

After discussing with Etuo, Yinghefu, Shi Defeng and others, Li Chongjiu decided to send two caravans to Mobei to support them with ironware, salt, food, etc., and let them start to oppose the Turks.At the same time, trusted Turkic businessmen were also sent to communicate with Ashina Shibobi in an attempt to divide the Turks.

(End of this chapter)