"Hiss!" Yelu Deguang gasped, and the leaders, generals, and ministers in the tent were also shocked.
There are millions of people under this rule, more than 50,000 people with armor, and heavily armored bear and tiger warriors. This sounds very much like their Great Khitan Kingdom!
When did Hexi have such a powerful force?
"But that Guiyi army that destroyed the Ganzhou Uighurs the year before last?"
Yelu Deguang suddenly remembered that last year his mother, the Empress Dowager Yingtian, celebrated Luping's birthday. Uighur envoys from Xizhou came to congratulate her, saying that the Uighurs in Ganzhou had been annexed by the Guiyi Army and had the ambition to unify the Western Regions.
At that time, the Xizhou Uighurs' words were very exaggerated, and they also revealed that they wanted the Khitan to support them.
But Yelu Deguang focused all his energy on the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture, and sent away the Uighur envoys without any pain.
Now it seems that we must pay attention to Hexi. Yelu Deguang intuitively felt that this Hexi rebel army vaguely showed a strong semi-nomadic and semi-sedentary attribute, which was a bit inconsistent with his Great Khitan Kingdom!
"Your Majesty! Ignorant children may not know the inside story.
From what I can see, although Longyou in Hexi Province is vast, it is sparsely populated, with the Amo, Dangxiang, Shatuo and Uighur tribes coexisting.
That King Zhang had only been in power for three or two years, so he might not be able to unify the country. He might be bragging with fifty thousand soldiers. "
Zhao Yanshou came out of the queue, bowed and raised his hands and said, "Of course he, Zhao Yanshou, knows who Zhang Zhao is."
Because in these years, the connection between his wife, Princess Yan, and Princess Yongle in Hexi has not been broken.
Zhao Yanshou and Murong Nobunaga were both married to the daughter of Emperor Mingzong of the former Tang Dynasty, and both of them were brothers-in-law of Shi Jingtang.
At this moment, Zhao Yanshou came out and said this, which was the way for the Zhao family and his son to survive.
Zhao Kuangzan exaggerated Zhang Zhao's military power, frightened the Khitan monarchs and ministers from taking revenge immediately, and offered benefits to Zhang Zhao.
Zhao Yanshou came out and revealed that he knew the truth and falsehood of Hexi. On the one hand, he patched up Zhao Kuangzan's exaggerated words, and on the other hand, Yelu Deguang trusted him even more, as he knew the truth and falsehood of the Southern Dynasty.
Sure enough, when Yelu Deguang saw that the Zhao family and his son knew what was true and false in Hexi, he immediately felt that he had seen the right person.
"King Yan is really talented. Please collect more details about the truth and falsehoods in Hexi."
"If what King Yan said is true, Your Majesty, in the past few months, tribes near the Tiande Army reported that there was a conflict between the Hexi soldiers and the Xiang Li family of the Southern Dynasty's Dingnan Army.
Could it be that the Hexi soldiers captured Xiazhou City and annexed the Dingnan Army so quickly?
If their troops and horses are so strong, and they can ambush us with thousands of soldiers when they are annexing the Nanyang Army, their power will be huge!
If such a powerful enemy is not destroyed, the western frontier will be unrest, so it is better to abandon Yunzhou first, retreat to Huanzhou, and wait until the next year to concentrate the troops before making plans. "
Upon hearing that the strength of the Hexi Guiyi Army was not weak, I felt that Yelv Deguang's continuous maneuvers around Yunzhou, which lasted until the winter, and Yelv Pode, as usual, proposed to withdraw the army first.
The leaders and generals of the Khitan tribes were impatient with the bitter cold of camping in winter, so they all spoke in agreement.
"Your Majesty, no!"
A loud shout came, and everyone looked for it and saw that it was Situ Han Kuangye, the military envoy of Tiancheng Army.
If Zhao Yanshou is still a Han, then the Han family where Han Kuangye lives is a Khitan among Han people.
Han Kuangye's father, Han Zhigu, was captured by the elder brother of Empress Dowager Yingtian, Shu Luping.
When Shuluping married Yelu Abaoji, Han Zhigu followed Shuluping to Yelu Abaoji as a dowry, and he gradually became more important after that.
At this time, the most important infantry force among the Khitans, the Zhangwu Army, was trained by Han Zhigu for the Khitans.
Han Zhigu's eleven sons are all high-ranking officials in the Khitan Kingdom, especially the third son, Han Kuangsi, who is young and handsome and is rumored to be the face of Empress Dowager Yingtian, Shu Luping.
In history, Han Kuangye had a son named Han Derang, who was considered a super heavyweight.
Han Derang rolled into the same bed with Queen Xiao Chuo when Liao Jingzong was still there. After Liao Jingzong's death, he openly dated Xiao Chuo.
Xiao Chuo asked his son Liao Shengzong to call him Ji's father. Even after Xiao Chuo's death, Liao Shengzong treated Han Derang as his father.
When Handerang fell ill, Liao Shengzong and the queen personally offered decoctions like sons and daughter-in-law.
It’s really outrageous!
at this time.
Yelu Deguang didn't want to retreat in the first place. Hearing this, he immediately asked, "What is Han Situ's opinion?"
Han Kuangye knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty came to Yunzhou in person with the dignity of ten thousand chariots. If you don't leave Yunzhou City, wouldn't it be a great loss to your majesty's divine power?"
Moreover, according to what King Yan said, all the tribes in Hexi are coexisting. The situation is complicated and the land is vast and sparsely populated. Regardless of money, food, troops, and horses, I cannot imagine how the Hexi soldiers can fight against the Dingnan army and send a large army to threaten our court. ?
With the bravery of our great Khitan heavenly soldiers, Your Majesty can pacify the four states of Yinxia, Yousui and Yunzhou in just a few months. Can you still send a large army to Yunzhou? "
Yelu Deguang calculated for a while and nodded hesitantly, "If I recruit a large army from all clans, it will not be difficult to defeat the Nanyang Army with 50,000 people.
"First Evolution"
But it is not easy to stabilize the four states of Yinxia, Yousui and Sui. As for sending another four thousand soldiers out, we must mobilize the entire country's troops and get one hundred thousand. "
"As your Majesty said, we, the Great Khitan Kingdom, can govern five million people and have tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers. We can only get it. However, the people in Hexi only have more than two million people and the country can only be established in a few years. How can we do it?
In my opinion, Zhang Zhao in Hexi captured the four prefectures of Yinxia, Yousui, and He must have taken advantage of the fact that the Lord of Jin had put down the rebellion and had no time to go west, so he raised his troops.
As the father of the Jin ruler of the Southern Dynasties, Your Majesty is powerful and powerful. If the Jin ruler appeals to Your Majesty to get rid of these traitors, Your Majesty will definitely agree.
Therefore, I think that Zhang Zhao in Hexi is afraid of His Majesty's power, so he wants to strike first to prevent me from advancing westward.
Of the four thousand soldiers, it is impossible to say that there are only one or two thousand elite soldiers, and the rest may be soldiers from Fuzhou and Zhejia, just a bluff. "
Yelv Deguang was overjoyed when he heard this, "Yes, Situ said it was a great good thing. If I retreat today, I have fallen into the trick of the people from Hexi. With the dignity of ten thousand chariots, I am intimidated and run away. How can I save my face?"
I intend to mobilize 10,000 soldiers from various tribes and station the Jingbian army in the Wuzhou City area to guard against the Hexi soldiers.
The Youpishi Army is on guard between Yunzhou and Wuzhou City. When Yunzhou City is captured, I will definitely join forces with Zhang Zhao in Hexi Province and hunt in the four states of Yinxia, Yousui! "
Han Kuangye's statement actually had many flaws. He called Zhang Zhao a bluff, but being able to defeat three thousand Pishi troops is also called a bluff?
And this is just a guess from Han Kuangye himself. Although some of his guesses were correct, they cannot be used as evidence after all.
However, Yelv Deguang was not willing to retreat. As soon as he heard what Han Kuangye said, he immediately used it to silence everyone.
These tribal leaders and generals hoped that he would retreat and Yelv Deguang's prestige would be damaged. They were happy to see it, but they did not want Yelv Deguang's growing authority to diminish their power.
Several tribal leaders wanted to persuade him again, but when they saw Yelu Deguang's cold expression, they hesitated and did not dare to say anything further.
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In Shengzhou, after the snow subsided a little, four people including Zhe Deku and Murong Nobunaga led thousands of soldiers and horses and rushed to Fuzhou without looking back.
What else can I do if I don’t look back? Do you want to go to Yunzhou City to anally assault Yelv Deguang's 50,000-strong army?
Don't be kidding, not to mention that the logistics can't keep up in the heavy snow, but if they can keep up, with these four thousand people, as long as they send out ten thousand Pishi troops, they will be finished.
Perhaps less than 10,000 Pishi troops were needed. They were able to defeat the 3,000 Zuo Pishi Feng Holy Army this time. That was because their intentions were calculated but not their intentions.
It was the Khitans who regarded them as a grassland tribe with weak fighting ability and made mistakes in their response, which led to their defeat.
On a normal day, even if the 3,000 Pishi troops could not defeat their 4,000 cavalry, there would definitely not be much of a problem in protecting themselves.
Moreover, Zhang Zhao sent them here. Fighting against the Khitans was not the most important task. The important thing was to prevent the Khitans from easily gaining Yunzhou.
Therefore, while leading his army back to Fuzhou, Zhe Deyi sent his younger brother Zhe Deyuan to Yunzhou as an envoy.
Zhe De wanted to go here because he had two tasks. First, the Zhe family had lived in Yunzhou for a long time. They had great prestige in Yunzhou city and had countless relatives and friends.
If Zhe Deyuan can enter Yunzhou City, it means that someone in the west is leading an army to deal with the Khitan, which will definitely boost the morale of the soldiers and people in the city, so that they will not surrender the city easily.
The second thing was to go to see Yelu Deguang. They captured hundreds of captured Pishi troops by the Hun River.
If the prisoners were brought to Yunzhou City under the pretext of releasing these Khitan soldiers and horses, they would immediately be punished for overthrowing the Khitan people.
The image of a loyal minister and righteous man that King Zhang wanted to be known and established will be established in no time.
As for irritating the Khitans so much that they abandoned Yunzhou to fight Zhang Zhao, they don't have to worry about it for the time being, because if the Khitans are coming, they will most likely come to Fuzhou first.
Ignoring the thorn in Fuzhou, they even crossed the Mu Us Sandy Land to go to Xiazhou.
If Yelu Deguang really dared to do this, then Zhang Zhao might as well transform into Li Jiqian and fight with the Khitan in the Northern Song Dynasty. Yelu Deguang might be in trouble.
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It has been almost three months since Zhang Zhao besieged Xiazhou. Three months ago, Li Yi smiled and waited for countless Guiyi soldiers to freeze to death before being forced to withdraw.
But now, he didn't know whether the Guiyi Army had frozen to death or not, and the people in his Xiazhou City were about to freeze to death.
The reason was very strange, so strange that Li Yiyin had never considered this issue before.
That is the firewood for cooking and heating, which may not be enough. He has stored enough food for half a year, but now he is almost unable to cook it.
Ten days ago, furniture had been demolished and burned in Xiazhou City. Five days ago, some families were burning door panels. Dozens of families were cooking together to save firewood.
After today, many people's door panels have been burned. If they want to eat cooked food, in addition to spending a lot of money to find someone with firewood to cook with, even the wood in the saddle has been cracked and burned.
Many people have looked at the gates, beams and pillars of his Dingnan Army Jiedu Office, with their eyes shining.
Even the Li Yiyin family has begun to cook meals for ten days at a time, and then eat cold meals without turning on the fire.
When the cold wind blows in winter, extra bedding is added to keep warm, and wives and concubines huddle together to sleep.
There is enough food, but there is no cooking. What kind of life is this?
