Most of the people Yelu Pusuwan was close to, trusted, and in high positions were related to her.
And the one with the highest status among them is her husband's family.
For example, her husband Xiao Duolubu, her husband's younger brother Xiao Pu Guzhi Shali, and the two brothers' father, Yelu Dashi's close comrade-in-arms, and the king of the Sixth Academy of Western Liao Dynasty, Xiao Orila.
Speaking of which, she was able to become the Empress Dowager Chengtian as a woman and successfully rule the Western Liao Dynasty, thanks to the help of her husband's family, which gave her the support of the army.
Only in this way can we become the empress of Western Liao and the overlord of Central Asia, Ju'er Khan.
The person who led the army to attack the Khwarezm Kingdom this time was Xiao Orila. He served as the marshal of the military and horse capital and led the army to attack the disobedient Khwarezm Kingdom, which was trying to cause trouble.
At this time, his two sons were still in Hu Si'ur'er, existing as Yelu Pu Suwan's right-hand men.
The two have different views on the current situation.
Xiao Duolu does not advocate recalling the army that conquered the Khwarezm Kingdom before the army has gone far, that is, recalling their father, and then turning the troops to quickly rush to the aid of the Xizhou Uighurs. Don't let the Xizhou Uighurs be defeated by the Ming Dynasty. It's so ugly.
After all, Hu Siyu'er'er doesn't have many troops now. He has more than enough to protect himself and not enough to be enterprising.
Xiao Pugu did not see it that way. He took Yelu Dashi's battle against the Jin army as an example and believed that the threat from the Ming Dynasty was not that great.
“Back then, the gold thieves were so powerful that they would lose troops and generals when attacking the Liao Dynasty, so there was nothing to be afraid of. The late Emperor’s literary and military strategy allowed the gold thieves to return without success with only a small number of troops. It was nothing more than a personal expedition by the emperor and the journey to the desert for thousands of miles.
The morale will be high if the imperial commander personally conquers, and the thousands of miles of desert will make the Ming bandits' food routes difficult and unsustainable, so why should we worry about the Ming bandit army coming to attack? As long as you attack their food routes, the Ming thieves will naturally retreat in the face of difficulties, and you can recreate the mighty feats of the late emperor. "
Compared with Xiao Duolu's cautious attitude, Xiao Pugu Zhishali had somewhat radical views.
He used the case of Yelu Dashi to repel the invasion of the Jin Kingdom with a small victory and a large number, and suggested that Yelu Pu play a big one quickly and play a game as fast as his heartbeat.
By using small skills to achieve great success, you can gain greater prestige than Yelv Dashi, and no one can question Yelu Pu Suwan's status.
After all, the heroine of the world has made many people gossip.
After thinking about it for a while, Yelvpu felt more and more that Xiao Pu Guzhi Shali, the younger brother, was much bolder, younger, more imposing, and more handsome than his elder brother.
Over the years, she had increasingly felt that her husband was cowardly, cowardly, useless, and unworthy of her status as a king. Now that she saw it, it was indeed true.
After all, I am getting old and have no courage anymore.
Although what Xiao Pu Guzhi Shali said was a bit risky, it was indeed Yelu Dashi's strategy back then.
From the land of Hexi to Husi Or'er'er, it is a thousand miles away, thousands of miles of Gobi desert grassland, extremely difficult to cross, let alone a large army.
If the Uighur forces are casually mobilized to harass the logistics supply line and destabilize the attacker's logistics line, the main force of the army will never be able to overcome it.
Logistical problems could kill the Jin Army back then, and they can naturally kill the Ming Army now.
In this way, maybe only a small number of troops are really needed to solve this crisis?
Yelvpu Suwan was thinking over here, while the two brothers of the Xiao family were having a fierce quarrel over there.
The elder brother thinks that the younger brother is too adventurous and does not take the life and death of the country seriously. The younger brother thinks that the elder brother is too useless and has no courage at all. As the husband of Ju'er Khan, he is so timid. Wouldn't it make people laugh if he told it?
The relationship between the two brothers has never been good, mainly because their father favored the eldest son and was dissatisfied with the younger son.
Xiao Pu Guzhi Shali's taunting made Xiao Duolu extremely unhappy. He angrily accused Xiao Pu Gu Zhi Shali of disrespecting his brother, and then directly asked Yelu Pusuwan to lead troops to fight against the Ming army.
How Yelu Pu Suwan felt dissatisfied with her husband now, and felt that he was really unworthy to be Ju'er Khan's husband. Faced with his request for a fight, she ignored him with contempt.
"I am somewhat uneasy about leaving important national affairs in your hands. Let's leave them to your brother. He is more of a warrior than you. I believe he can definitely defeat the invasion of Ming thieves."
Xiao Duolu's face turned red with anger and he couldn't say a word.
Xiao Pugu Shali looked proudly at his brother's defeat, and felt extremely happy.
Yelvpu soon decided to hand over the task of fighting against the Ming army to Xiaopu Guzhishali, and decided that the war against the Khwarezm Kingdom could not be stopped. The great Liao Kingdom would fight on two fronts.
She wanted to see how the Ming army could continue to advance despite many difficulties and obstacles. She did not believe that the Ming army could do what neither Jin nor Yelu Dashi had accomplished back then.
Should it be said or not, anyone who knows that there once was an emperor named Liu Che in the Central Plains will know that the Central Plains Dynasty had the ability to conquer her area from Guanzhong more than a thousand years ago.
It's just that the country in the area she was in at that time was called Dawan, not Xiliao yet.
Driven by various emotions, Yelvpu Suwan did not choose to recall the army that was conquering the Khwarezm Kingdom. Instead, he chose to continue to organize about 20,000 cavalry and handed them over to Xiaopu Guzhishali and let him lead this army. Cooperate with the Uighurs to launch a counterattack against the Ming army.
This war is not about frontal confrontation, but about a sneak attack.
This was a tactic the two of them worked out together.
Then Xiao Pu Guzhi Shali led his troops to attack with full confidence, marching all the way from Husi On'er'er to the direction of Gaochang City, preparing to unite with the local Uighur army to harass the Ming army.
In order to ensure nothing went wrong, he also ordered the army of the Eastern Karakhan Kingdom in the Hunbasheng area to act with him to jointly fight against the Ming army.
But when he marched into the Quxian area, he saw a group of terrified Uighur refugees and defeated soldiers.
Through conversations with this group of people, I heard that the Ming army had already broken through Gaochang City, killed the younger brother of the Xizhou Uighur King, and captured more than 300 Xizhou Uighur dignitaries. Where did it go?
Now the entire Xizhou Uighur territory is in chaos. The Ming army is killing them and winning.
"How could it be? Don't you have a lot of soldiers and horses? Don't you have a lot of cavalry? Are they all useless?! How could you lose? How could you lose so fast?!"
Xiao Pugu couldn't hold his nerve any longer. In a fit of rage, he grabbed a defeated Uighur soldier and gave him a beating.
The defeated soldier couldn't stand it any longer. He cried and told the story of the strength of the Ming army and their miserable experiences.
The Ming army had terrible cavalry, very sophisticated armor, and very powerful swords.
Their weapons could not cut through the Ming army's armor, but the Ming army's steel knives could easily split through their protection. They could not kill the Ming army's cavalry, but the Ming army's cavalry could easily defeat them.
In the Battle of Gaochang, the Uighur king of Xizhou gathered 30,000 cavalry and 10,000 Ming army cavalry to fight, but the result was a complete defeat.
Their most elite group of warriors made a desperate attack on the Ming army's cavalry, but were completely wiped out by the Ming army's counterattack. In the end, the entire army was annihilated.
The corpses piled up into mountains, and the blood flowed into rivers. The Ming army cavalry pursued them tirelessly, chasing them until they had no way to go to the sky or to the ground.
There were more than ten people who escaped with the defeated soldier, but under the pursuit of the Ming army, he was the only one who finally managed to escape to Quxian.
"Run! We are no match for the Ming people! They are not human beings! They are demons in the sky! They are evil spirits who come to seek life! Run! If you don't run, it will be too late!!"
