Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 529 Ye Chen's Questions

Hu Sanguang interfaced: "The subordinates think Master Huang's words are reasonable, presumably when Tuoba Zhenli got the news, someone had set off from Xiazhou in advance to inform the Tuoba tribe, although the Tuoba clan lost to Li Guangrui in Xiazhou , but got the news in advance, and fled to the depths of Hengshan early, on the vast grassland next door. After Li Guangrui led [-] cavalry to wipe out the other six Dangxiang tribes one by one, it might be difficult to find the Tuoba family. Therefore, before the Dangxiang people withdrew their troops, The other six departments of the party should be really anxious to go back, but the Tuoba clan might not have the idea of ​​attracting the adults out."

Ye Chen thought for a while, and felt that what Huang Louping and Hu Sanguang said was reasonable. He nodded and said, "I see. I said that when the Dangxiang people retreated from Ten Mile Fort, the other six departments seemed a little flustered, but only The people of the Tuoba Clan are busy and not chaotic, and their morale is still there. It turned out that they wanted to lure me to take the bait."

"Zhenli, are you really sure?" In front of Tuoba Zhenli, more than a dozen clan chiefs and elders asked. They are powerful figures in the Tuoba clan. The position of the patriarch is unstable.

Even Tuoba Zhenli, who is the patriarch, had to endure his temper and explain to them: "Don't worry, everyone, when I left the tribe two days ago, I expected that Li Guangrui from Xiazhou might take advantage of the situation, so I made an appointment in advance. We sent spies to Xiazhou, and the clan has already arranged for a temporary relocation, so you don’t have to worry about the tribe. On the contrary, we sacrificed a total of 3000 warriors this time. If nothing happens, it will have a great impact on the morale of the army. It's unimaginable. What's more, the previous attack on Shilibao was not what our party warriors were good at, and it has been proven that only [-] people from the Song Army chased them up. We have a total of [-] people. Now it is a field battle. Who have you been afraid of? Don’t you uncles still worry that we will lose to the Han Chinese in the field battle of [-] vs. [-]? The most important thing is that I have already negotiated with the emissary of the Holy Church and signed a new contract. As long as we kill that Song The imperial envoy of the country, they doubled the support we said before, and helped us build the city within a year."

No one would admit their own incompetence, not to mention the support from the Holy Church was too tempting for them. After secretly exchanging a few glances, all the elders agreed with Tuoba Zhenli's decision.An old man exhorted Tuoba Zhenli: "Zhenli, we must win this time, our Tuoba clan depends on you in the future!"

Tuoba nodded sincerely, but his eyes were full of coldness.

There is a river in Yandi Valley, which is a tributary of the Yellow River, extending from the valley to the Yinchuan area of ​​Ningxia in later generations.However, the source of this river comes from a mountain peak in the valley, so there is no river channel at the northwest exit of Yandi Valley where Tuoba Zhenli is located.This allows the two parties preparing to fight to have a large enough battlefield space.

The party members didn't turn around and rushed over, but they were worried that Ye Chen would turn around and run away with others, so he listened to the suggestion of the envoy from the holy hall, and set up a camp at the valley entrance on the other side of Emperor Yan. , a shoddy camp that looks like it's going to break through.But before the camp, it was the Dangxiang army that had already lined up.

Ye Chen looked at the party members who were posing a mile away, and clearly felt the gap in the number of the two sides.The two sides faced each other with a distance of more than one mile. Compared with the army of more than [-] around the Dangxiang People's Congress, the [-] cavalry on Ye Chen's side seemed much weaker.

Ye Chen was not afraid of an enemy army that was nearly twice as large as himself, but at this time he had no intention of fighting recklessly with the five thousand Tuoba cavalry.

At this time, he also generally knew what Tuoba Zhenli's plan was, but he still had some doubts about one thing—according to the information obtained by Huang Louping's command of the West Mansion, Li Guangrui from Xiazhou was in the three years. The rise was actually the result of the Holy Church's strong support behind it, and this time the Seventh Department of the Party would rather completely offend the Song court than send troops into the country to surround and kill him. This matter was clearly controlled by the Holy Church behind the scenes.But seeing that Shilibao was about to be destroyed, Li Guangrui of Xiazhou sent troops to Hengshan to attack the old nest of the Seventh Department of the Party.

Ye Chen believed that Huang Louping brought the information and judgments obtained by the West Mansion, so he could only infer that it was the same as what he had guessed years ago——as Yufeng's power in the holy hall was repeatedly defeated by Ye Chen. Heavy damage, especially after Ye Chen and Wuyue King Qian Zhiyin teamed up in the south of the Yangtze River to attack the temple Yufeng's source of wealth, Jiangnan Bank and Jiangnan Commercial Bank, and after the temple was severely damaged by force in the south of the Yangtze River, Yufeng suffered heavy losses, and the internal forces of the temple were compared. After a big change, some problems gradually appeared as he expected. This is why Cui Xi appeared in front of him on behalf of the Second Elder and Third Elder of the Holy Church.

As for the mutual calculations within the temple this time, Ye Chen guessed that it was mostly a competition between the powers represented by the great elder Yufeng of the temple and the forces represented by the second and third elders.As for showing favor to him, Ye Chen also thought about it, but Ye Chen quickly overthrew it directly.In order to show his favor, Cui Xi, the Second Elder and the Third Elder of the Holy Church can use Ye Chen as a basket to keep the eggs of the Holy Church if there is a big change one day, so that they can allow Cui Xi to kill Mr. It is also possible to kill some people for him at Murong Yanzhao's mansion in Gyeongju, but he will definitely not please him at such a large scale price, at least the church has not yet reached that point.Of course, there may be reasons why Cui Xi believes that Ye Chen will never die in Ten Mile Fort.

"Now is not the time to fight desperately with the party members. Find a way to scare Tuoba away." Ye Chen frowned and thought, his eyes lit up when he thought of a way.

"Lianjicheng, you lead people to scatter around and wipe out all the party spies within a mile. No one can spy on our army." Ye Chen said.

After Lian Jicheng took the order, he led more than 40 killers and sneaked away in all directions, and soon there were screams from some Tibetan places around.

Then Ye Chen called Wei Qingyuan, the Commander of the Shipingzhai Army who was at the rear of the army, and asked him to lead 500 people to find some branches, and later gallop back and forth with horses dragging the branches, stirring up dust and smoke, pretending to be an army marching The appearance made Tuoba Zhenli mistakenly think that there was a large army to support him, so he retreated and left.

This method may not be successful in normal times, but at this time Tuoba Zhenli also knows that when the Northwest Frontier Army of Gyeongju comes to help at any time, it is very easy to scare the opponent away. After all, it has been two days since Shilibao was besieged. The army should also come.

After a while, Lian Jicheng had brought someone back with him, and he was carrying a survivor in his twenties. Judging from his clothes and appearance, he didn't look like an ordinary party spy. This person was caught by Lian Jicheng. I don't know what secret technique the latter uses, it looks like a dead dog.Next to him, Deng Chongxuan fought against the Dangxiang people all the year round, and he knew the Dangxiang people quite well. After seeing this person's appearance, he said in a timely manner: "My lord, this person is a nobleman among the Dangxiang people, and he should have some status in the Tuoba clan."

Ye Chen nodded and looked at Lian Jicheng.Lian Jicheng usually cherishes his words like gold, but he has always been extremely prudent and thoughtful in his actions. There must be a reason for what he does. Since he left alive and brought it here on purpose, there must be a reason for it.

Sure enough, Lian Jicheng threw this person on the ground casually, and said to Ye Chen: "My lord, this person has already been tortured by his subordinates. This person is the grandson of Tuoba Mingyi, the patriarch of the Tuoba clan. The subordinates think that this time, your lord Going deep into the hinterland of the party's power, if there is an internal response, it will be extremely beneficial to what you want to do, and it will be extremely beneficial to your safety, so I deliberately kept this person alive and brought him here."

Ye Chen's eyes lit up when he heard the words, Lian Jicheng knew that he could use Gu worms to control people's private affairs, so although he hadn't finished speaking, he already understood what Lian Jicheng meant.

Ye Chen nodded slightly, expressing his admiration and affirmation for Lian Jicheng's move, without saying a word, he dismounted directly and walked to the prisoner, with his back to Deng Chongxuan, and patted the latter casually, invisible to others Looking at the angle, a black zerg the size of an ant has already got into this person's nostril.

"Really, why haven't Gelu and the others come back?" An old party member asked Tuoba Zhenli while looking south.The direction he cast his gaze was the position where Ye Chen's army was at the entrance of Yandi Valley.The clothes worn by the old party member were shining with the luster of silk, and his serious tone to Tuoba showed that his identity was different.

"Don't worry about them. Gelu has always been smart and brave. The team of spies he leads is only to inquire about the military situation and will not approach the Song army. Even if the spies sent by the Song army find out, they can return early." Tuoba Zhenli He was perfunctory, but his casual tone showed that he was not very worried about the safety of the spies.In fact, what he said is true under normal circumstances. The spies are selected from the army to be the smartest and most powerful. The spies of the party members are better than the spies of the Song army. When the two sides meet, it will be the Song army's spies who will suffer, so he really doesn't have to worry.

However, he didn't know that Ye Chen didn't even send out the spies of the Huaxia Weifu to be on the safe side, but the assassins of the Assassination Department. gap.

"I heard that Xiangfu County King of the Song Kingdom is not simple. What if something happens?" The old party member said in a rambling voice, "I only have such a grandson."

In the Dangxiang tribe, the patriarch is not the only one. There are elders who will restrain the patriarch. Therefore, Tuoba Zhenlitong has been able to turn a deaf ear to these nonsense after dealing with the elders for many years.

(End of this chapter)