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Chapter 291 Do You Want To Fight?
When Li Chongjiu returned to Huaihuang Town with the captives of the Hunhe King's tribe, as well as countless horses, cattle and sheep, people from all ethnic groups in Huaihuang Town stopped all the work at hand and rushed forward look at this scene.

The clansmen of the Hunhe King's tribe all had their hands tied, and they walked to the city of Huaihuang Town dejectedly. They captured countless horses, cattle and sheep.Many Han horse dealers came forward to inquire about the price when they saw the precious Ujimqin horse. If such a war horse was sold to the Central Plains, it would be worth at least [-] guan.

When they heard that it was all intercepted by Li Chongjiu, the horse merchants showed envious expressions, saying that Li Chongjiu had made a fortune.

Except for the prisoners of war, horses, cattle and sheep, the last thing that the Fan people expected was that this time since the Khitan, even the Hunhe King of the Xi Clan was defeated by Li Chongjiu.The Khitan, Xi, and the two major clans on the eastern grassland have all been defeated by Li Chongjiu.Now on the entire grassland, besides Turks, who else is Li Chongjiu's opponent.

When the people of Shidexi heard that Li Chongjiu had defeated the royal tribe of Hunhe, they were all surprised and delighted.Among the five tribes of the Xi Clan, the tribe that humiliated the king has always been the leader. This time Li Chongjiu defeated it, which seemed to mean that the Shide tribe could replace it.

After the Khitan people expelled the Wuhou Qin Water Grassland, the Shide Xi people once existed in name only among the five tribes of the Xi clan.After that, they defected to Li Chongjiu to live, defeated the eight tribes of the Khitan, rescued the tribe from the Khitan, regained the old place, and completed the revival.

Now Li Chongjiu led the Shidexi people to defeat the Hunhe king tribe, the strongest of the five tribes of the Xi tribe, and in terms of record, it was another beautiful victory in the first battle.Now, no matter it is Shide Xi tribe, among the other three tribes of Xi tribe, there is also a saying that the leader of the alliance of the five tribes of Xi tribe is emphasized.

For a while, all the tribes in the grassland were afraid of the Shidexi tribe. If this continues, after humiliating the royal tribe, even the Shidexi people have a bit of blind confidence, thinking that they can challenge the Turkic hegemony in the eastern grassland.

The people of Shi Dexi tasted the taste of great prestige, but the elders of the Xi clan were even more servile. On the same day that Li Chongjiu went out to humiliate the king's tribe, the negotiating envoy of Luo Khan from the Turkic Department came to Huaihuang Town.

The elders of Shi Dexi went to Huaihuang Town together, almost kneeling down to welcome the Turkic envoy.The Turkic envoy was also very arrogant, conveying the meaning of Chuluo Khan.

Chuluo Khan asked Li Chongjiu to present two thousand armors, one thousand horse armors, and one hundred thousand cattle, sheep and horses as tribute to the Turks to express his submission.

Seeing this request, Li Chongjiu knew that he was dealing with Luo Khan, and there was no room for him to bargain.After the elder Shi Dexi heard this, he also begged Chu Luo Khan if he could reduce it by one or two at his discretion.

The emissary spoke harshly, but in the end, after receiving a lot of benefits from the elders of Shi Dexi, he finally showed a little kindness, and told the elders quietly that Shi Dexi had been too popular on the grassland for the past few years. Worried that Shi Dexi has the ambition to challenge the hegemony of the Turkic grasslands, as long as Shi Dexi shows obedience, anything can be discussed.

Therefore, the Turkic envoy decided to ask Li Chongjiu and the elders of the Xi clan to go to Tieshan to pay homage to Luo Khan.As long as Khan Longyan is happy, then nothing will happen.

After hearing this, Li Chongjiu sneered again and again. Even the elders of the Xi clan, who had always advocated peace, lacked courage at this time. Anyone could see that this might be a grand banquet set up by the Turks.

Go, at the banquet, everyone was worried that they would be killed for the Turks, and if they didn't go, they were worried that they would send troops to attack and destroy the Turks.

Although the elders of Shi Dexi did not want to conflict with the Turks, they took their own lives even more seriously.So the elders of Shi Dexi began to argue, trying their best to delay.

Li Chongjiu saw the meaning of the Turkic envoy, and immediately understood that a war with the Turkic was inevitable.I am not Liu Bang who can bow his knees and pretend to be garlic, and even if he is willing to be Liu Bang, Chu Luo Khan is definitely not a soft-hearted Xiang Yu who can let the enemy go.

Take your own life to this gamble with nine out of ten losers, hmph, that's why ghosts will go to this Hongmen banquet.

Since he didn't go, Li Chongjiu wouldn't even pay such a sky-high tribute.The equipment Li Chongjiu currently has in his hand, including war horses and tribal cattle and sheep, are all a bit of wealth accumulated through three years of hard work and given to the Turks. This is simply cutting meat to feed the tiger. when.

There will never be an end to satisfying the ambitions of the Turkic people, so instead of keeping a low profile, it is better to draw a sword.

Li Chongjiu gritted his teeth involuntarily.At present, Li Chongjiu convened all the generals to discuss the chances of winning the war with the Turks next year.

Li Chongjiu's generals, when they heard that Li Chongjiu was going to fight the Turkic people, the reaction of the generals was completely dumbfounded.

Yinghefu first said: "Khan, the Turks are not opponents like the Khitan and Huge kings. Once they go to war, they will have 30 cavalry to mobilize. It is not easy to gather [-] soldiers from our towns. .In a battle, the chances of winning are very small.”

As the head of the general of the Xi family, Yinghe Fu first expressed his disapproval.After Yinghe Fu said a word, of course a series of Fanjun generals shook their heads together.They have been in the grassland for a long time, of course they know the strength of the Turks.

Li Chongjiu narrowed his eyes. For him now, it was not a question of whether to fight, but whether he could beat it.

On the same side, Wen Yanbo was deeply aware of Li Chongjiu's current situation. After Chu Luo Khan proposed this condition, even he completely extinguished his desire to negotiate with the Turkic people.

His suggestion to Li Chongjiu is that what the elders of the Xi clan want and what to give them, soldiers, horses, money and food, cattle, sheep and horses, are all in Li Chongjiu's own hands now.As long as you hold it tightly, the Turks won't be able to take a single hair away.

Negotiations are left to them to fool the Turkic people, and when they really can't talk, they simply turn against the Turkic people. Now they can delay for a moment.

Li Chongjiu also agrees, those who are afraid of death will always die, the Turkic people will realize sooner or later that their own Huaihuang Town will definitely be their enemy in the future.So there must be a battle.Therefore, if you are timid and afraid to fight the Turks now, you will be discouraged sooner or later.

But since the war started, he had to choose his default time and place. Of course, the later the war started, the better it would be for Li Chongjiu.

At this time, Wang Mahan said: "My lord, right now we have Luo Yi and Gao Kaidao, two thieves who are pulling their hind legs behind Zhuojun. What if we take advantage of the fire to loot, but if we guard against them, then we will not have enough troops to fight the Turks, and we will definitely lose.”

Although Wang Mahan was a Hun, what he said was absolutely correct. Li Chongjiu did not want to hastily start a war with the Turks under the constraints of Luo Yi, Gao Kaidao, Khitan, and Hunhe Kings.Therefore, as Wen Yanbo said, the war must be postponed until next autumn. Li Chongjiu has to deal with several opponents before autumn, and then go back to the decisive battle with the Turks. Only in this way can he have a chance of winning.

This is not impossible, because in spring and summer, the grassland ministries do not like to fight at this time. Only autumn, or even winter, is the time when each other is willing to use troops.

Here, Ertuo said: "It is not impossible to fight the Turks. We captured Zhuojun this time and took so many sharp weapons for defending the city. We can strengthen Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town. As long as we can It may not be impossible to defend these two cities and fight back when the Turks are exhausted. Just as we defeated the Khitans back then, I will defeat the Turks today.”

At this time, Ji Chuan sneered and said, "You take it for granted, who told you that the Turks will definitely attack Huaihuang Town. The Turks are not Khitans. The Turks can use the first army to contain us outside the Huaihuang and Yuyi towns, and then send The main force and Liu Wuzhou crossed the Feihukou from Yanmen and entered through the Great Wall. At that time, our heavy troops gathered outside the Great Wall, but Shanggu, Yanmen, and even Zhuojun were all captured by the Turks. We abandoned the strong city and were on the way back to help Surrounded by Turkic people? Or continue to stay outside the Great Wall and watch the hinterland be slaughtered?"

Hearing what Ji Chuan said, the expressions of everyone who had originally had illusions changed. When they first fought with the Khitans, Li Chongjiu was only Huaihuang, the second town of Yuyi, and it was easy to defend.Although there are a large number of troops now, the territory is also expanding. The Turkic 30 cavalry, running left and right, can avoid a decisive battle with Li Chongjiu under the city, but make full use of the mobility of the cavalry, divide the troops, and avoid the truth.

The Turks are not Khitans. The Khans of the Turks are all masters of strategy. They will not be unscrupulous because they have an army of 30, and feel that they will crush Li Chongjiu casually.Even if the Turks think that fighting 30 against [-] is absolutely winnable, they will not adopt this tactic.

Playing the expected defensive counterattack with the Han people is tantamount to using one's own weaknesses to attack the opponent's strengths.The Turks are really good at this kind of coming and going like the wind, making full use of the mobility of the cavalry to completely defeat their opponents with a strategic advantage.

This is the most terrifying enemy, possessing absolute strength, but never underestimating the opponent because of this.

After Ji Chuan finished speaking, he disregarded the glaring glaring at him from the generals, and immediately opened his mouth, and continued to alarmistly said: "It is better to expect the sows to climb trees than to expect the Turks to make mistakes and fall into our trap like the Khitans. Ambassador, I think that if we go to war, our only chance is to give up all the strongholds outside the Great Wall, such as Huaihuang, Yuyi Second Town, and even Yanmen. We must be prepared to give up. Then we must gather troops to defend along the Great Wall .”

"Now that we have Zhuojun, it's not the time when we only relied on Huaihuang and Yuyi. We can afford to lose it. Liu Bei took the land of Shu back then and refused to let Jingzhou, so Guan Yu came into being. Lose, the defeat of Yiling."

After Ji Chuan finished speaking, he was unanimously opposed by all the generals of the Xi clan. They cursed in front of the hall, this is an act of ceding territory without a fight.

Ji Chuan rolled his bull's eyes and acted like a barbarian, I disdain you for being reasonable, which enraged Er Tuo and the others even more, several generals of the Fan Army almost waved their fists, and were about to step forward to beat them.

(End of this chapter)