Lu Sanlang was very fast because he knew very well that catching such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity involves a lot of luck, and it is often fleeting.
According to Yaoluo Ge Jingyi, after being defeated by Lu Sanlang, he gathered all the way, and finally followed him to Woludo with more than a thousand troops.
Among them, six to seven hundred of the stronger ones were directly absorbed by Dusage, leaving only three to four hundred old and weak ones.
These days, Du Sage trusted Yao Luo Ge Jingyi more, and his aunt blew the pillow wind, so Du Sage allocated three hundred accounts to Yao Luo Ge Jingyi and asked him to station in the west.
This actually means letting Yaoluo Ge Jingyi serve as a sentry. With this function, Yaoluo Ge Jingyi can conceal the information about his disappearance for no more than five days. If it exceeds five days, someone will report it to Du Sage.
And these five days are the key opportunity for Lu Sanlang to lead his people to completely defeat him, and even capture Du Sage.
So he immediately sent out ten teams, or one hundred people, of messengers to the west and south. Go and notify Bai Congxin to the west and whether they can encounter the army heading out of the fortress in the south.
After doing this, Lu Sanlang began to deceive Yu Lizi and Batuke mother and son.
If he tells this mother and son now about westward migration, Xia Jun Yimin, and feudal countries, he will definitely be regarded as a liar by this mother and son who have not seen much.
To deceive such people, you can only speak a little higher than what they know. If you say something that is beyond their knowledge, it will most likely lead to bad things.
Lu Sanlang knew this well, and he first revealed his identity.
He, Lu Sanlang, was not a small Tang officer with only two or three hundred cavalry under his command, but a commander in command of an army of thousands of people. This was proved by the fact that he was beaten and fled in embarrassment.
Secondly, he is not a marginal Tang officer, but a member of the Great Zhou Dynasty's Eastern Returned Ministers Faction, which is equivalent to the Khan's bodyguards on the grassland.
Even in a relatively isolated grassland, the news that Sage Zhang from the Great Zhou Dynasty returned eastward with ten thousand people was still a sensational event, and both Yu Lizi and her son had heard of it.
And Lu Sanlang did not lie, but Yu Lizi and her son could never imagine what kind of pig Lu Sanlang was in the Donggui Sect.
After showing his extraordinary status, the next step is to draw a pie, and this pie is right in front of him.
Lu Sanlang promised that as long as Yulizi mother and son took a thousand tents of the Xizubu tribe to obey his orders, he could ask the emperor for the opportunity to let them go nomadic in the Great Lakes Basin.
This pasture in the Great Lakes Basin belongs to no one else. It is the place where the unlucky Yao Luo Ge Jingyi originally grazed his cattle.
Since Yaoluo Ge Jingyi said he was willing to go to Liangzhou and become the head of Guizhou, wouldn't his pasture be used to reward meritorious officials?
Yaoluo Ge Jingyi, who was fighting for his life, also promised that as long as Lu Sanlang could help him contact Yaoluo Ge Jingcun, also known as Cao Yansi, he could help the Xizubu tribe relocate to the Great Lakes Basin, and he could also help them recruit Yaoluo who originally belonged to Yaoluo. Ge Jingyi's herdsmen.
There are more than 1,000 tents and 7,000 herdsmen. This scale is actually not small on the grassland. Many times the leaders on the grassland say that they have tens of thousands of tents, but in fact they only have six or seven thousand tents.
Although the Great Lakes Basin is slightly barren than the west of Yanran Mountain where the Western Zubu tribe is now nomadic, it is large enough and has sufficient water resources.
More importantly, there are no powerful tribes there.
Unlike Yanran Mountain, large tribes with tens of thousands of tents, such as the Beizhu Bu Tribe, the Dali Mi Tribe, and the Yefu Tribe, are all around.
Xi Zubu can barely survive here, but in the Great Lakes Basin, the living space will undoubtedly be much larger.
Yu Lizi looked at Lu Sanlang. She was quite satisfied with this man and fell in love with him at first sight.
What should I say about Lu Sanlang? He is average in appearance, but he has a rebellious and fierce look like an eagle watching a wolf.
This was very unpopular in the Central Plains, and since he had a history of betraying his own people, he was even less popular.
But on the grassland, this kind of guy who looks like a ruthless person is reassuring!
In addition, Lu Sanlang is four or five years younger than Yulizi, is physically stronger, and is not weak in strength. He has no heirs or parents, especially the fact that he has no heirs, which makes Yulizi, who has a sixteen-year-old son, even more embarrassed. Satisfied.
"Sanlang, are you really willing to marry a slave?"
"Hahaha! Yu Niang is still lying, a certain Lu Sanlang will recognize you in this life."
How could you not want to? Lu Sanlang laughed heartily.
"But I have to let Buktu change his surname to Han, and give it the surname Lu. How about calling him Lu from now on?"
This was Lu Sanlang's only request, because he knew that he would probably not be able to have any descendants.
Because if his health were normal, he, Lu Sanlang, would have dealt with a lot of women over the years, but no one had ever given him a boy and a half girl.
Picking up a son for nothing now, as long as he is willing to be named Lu and inherit the incense of Lu Sanlang, is better than just raising a son from outside, not to mention a dowry as big as 7,000 herdsmen.
When the time comes, Lu Sanlang will go to the Central Plains to recruit hundreds of bandits and bandits who can't survive in the Han area. Let's go west together to conquer several Huangtou Yi tribes and become a king with 50,000 or even 100,000 people. How happy and happy !
Yu Lizi gritted her teeth, the man in front of her was so suitable for her, she bet! Just follow him and fight hard against Dusage, who always wants to annex the Xizubu tribe and once wanted to marry her by force.
As a result, a magical scene appeared. The women of the Xizubu tribe began to prepare for a simple wedding, while almost all the men were mobilized and were preparing for a big battle.
Lu Sanlang took Baktu and others to start calculations in the big tent. With the information of Yaoluo Ge Jingyi, Lu Sanlang quickly figured out the internal situation of Dusage entrenched in Yanran Mountain.
At present, the three tribes of Beizu Bubu under the control of Dusage have about 35,000 tents and about 220,000 people.
But these people are scattered on the large grasslands from Yanran Mountain to Langjuxu Mountain, and there are even nomadic ones as far away as near Beihai.
Therefore, the headquarters of Dusage is the main body of the three divination tribes blocked by the North - the Kele tribe.
If I, Saint Zhang, were here, I would sigh that the world line has ended.
Wang Han, the Khan of the Kele tribe, was the adoptive father of the fierce Temujin. Without Wang Han's early support, Temujin would have been killed by the beggar.
More than a hundred years later, the Kelei Tribe was a very important tribe in Mongolia and was once the most promising overlord to unify the grasslands.
Historically, the Kelei tribe also believed in Nestorianism. Therefore, some people think that Elder John in Christian legend is Jurhan Yelu Dashi, and some people think that it is Wang Han of the Kelei tribe.
Now, the Klei tribe has just begun to rise and is far from reaching its peak. Therefore, the entire tribe has more than 15,000 tents, and at least 10,000 cavalry can be provided for Dusage to dispatch at any time.
At the same time, the chief of Merqi, Hulu Bashu, who went south to meet with Dusage, also brought 3,000 cavalry.
Although Khulu Badu encouraged Du Sage's son to fight against the evil Gusi, he hoped that by supporting Du Sage to take up the banner of resistance to the Six Methods Sect, Du Sage would take the initiative to push Wu Gu. Part of the pasture north of the mountain was given to him, so he hasn't left yet.
In addition, Dusage can also give nominal orders to the Dalimi tribe and the Yehugu tribe.
These two tribes are also nomadic in the Yanran Mountain area. The former has about 11,000 tents and can produce at least 8,000 riders, while the latter has 14,000 to 5,000 tents and can produce about 10,000 riders.
In other words, if there is a sudden attack, Dusage can gather about 10,000 riders in one day, and 17,000 or 8,000 riders in two days.
It will be dangerous if it lasts more than three days. He can pull out at least 40,000 riders. After more than five days of extreme mobilization, he will not be less than 60,000 riders.
After settling the accounts, Lu Sanlang groaned and fell into Yu Lizi's arms.
"Now it depends on whether the imperial army in the west and south is faster or not.
Within five days, Dusage will find that Yaoluo Ge Jingyi is no longer here. He will definitely be vigilant. At this time, it is time to summon his own cavalry to guard against danger and investigate everywhere. Once he discovers something is wrong, he can recruit 40,000 to 50,000 cavalry within three days. "
Yu Lizi didn't know the strength of Zhou's army, so she said: "If Dusage really summons 40,000 knights, it will be very dangerous.
And this is just a large tribe. If Dusage gave up his cattle and sheep, he could probably recruit tens of thousands more rangers. "
The wandering cavalry in Yu Lizi's mouth are those small nomadic tribes cavalry that are not included in the major tribes and the gangs that gather in various places to be horse thieves.
There are many people like this on the grassland. When they have nothing to do, they often run hundreds of miles to help others fight in exchange for rewards.
Lu Sanlang took a breath, "It doesn't matter even if Du Sa Ge recruits 50,000 cavalry. As long as the imperial court's 10,000 elite cavalry arrive, or even the most elite ones are mobilized, it is likely that only 5,000 cavalry will be needed to defeat Du Sa Ge." Ge was defeated.
What I am most worried about now is that Dusage feels something is not right, and the imperial reinforcements cannot be fully arrived within ten days. If Dusage retreats to Beihai and Yuyuerhai, then my great contribution will be lost. . "
. . . .
Yang Jiye held his beloved brown BMW with his left hand, and put a spear on the ground with his right hand to increase his grip.
Li Cunhui divided the 5,000 cavalry into two armies, the front and rear. Zhang Yuanhui's 400 uniformed cavalry and Wang Shenqi's 600 heavily armored cavalry were placed in the rear army. The 4,000 hussars wearing only one ring armor were placed in the front army. .
In the former army, Yang Jiye and Pan Mei were the first and second vanguards, leading a thousand cavalry to clear roads through mountains and build bridges over water.
Tanhan Mountain and Nanshan Mountain are both remnants of the Altai Mountains. The two mountain ranges are basically connected, inaccessible and semi-desert.
There is snow at the top, but there is gravel at the bottom. Although there is basically no need to build a bridge, the road is very difficult to walk.
Moreover, when passing through mountains with few roads, people have a greater advantage than horses.
This resulted in the soldiers having to carry the armor and large amounts of food and supplies that should have been carried by the war horses on their backs, which greatly slowed down their advance.
After climbing over a series of mountain ridges, we finally walked out of the range of Tuanhan Mountain and Nanshan Mountain, and then there was another high mountain stretching from east to west, with no end at a glance.
Pan Mei took out the map and looked at it again, and then said to Yang Jiye: "Commander, this should be Dongjunji Mountain. After climbing over this mountain, the terrain will be much flatter.
The northeastern part of this mountain is where Junji Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty was located in the past. There may be small tribes nearby. As long as they can be caught, they can lead the way from Longle River to the old site of Anbei Protectorate. "
Historically, Pan Mei was seized of power by the prison guard Wang Qian and others, and Yang Jiye was tricked to death at the entrance of Chenjiagu. She was also vilified as the treacherous official Pan Renmei, and she was infamy for thousands of years.
But in this time and space, Pan Mei doesn't dare to trick me, Commander Yang.
Because Yang Jiye has become one of Zhang Shengren's seven adopted sons and has been raised in the palace since he was a child. Together with the little black bear Zhang Liechao, they are regarded as Wang Zhongsi and even Huo Qubing of the new dynasty.
After the collapse of the Hedong Group, Pan Mei was not introduced to Zhang Yan until Guo Wei took the initiative to bow down. Although she was also highly regarded, she was far from comparable to Yang Jiye.
Yang Jiye breathed a long sigh of relief. He climbed over Tanhan Mountain and Nanshan Mountain, which meant that the most difficult journey was over.
Once here, you can pass between Dongjunji Mountain and Fuyangju Mountain to find a guide near the old city of Junjizhou in the Tang Dynasty.
Yang Jiye looked back and saw that among his thousand people as pioneers, only more than seven hundred people could reach this point.
Due to the steep mountain road, many people and horses fell and were injured. They could not walk, and other people had to be left to take care of them. It can be said that it was extremely difficult.
"Let's find a place leeward and fetch some water. We haven't had a bite of hot food for several days. We need to get something hot to eat today so we can continue on our way."
Yang Jiye clearly felt that although they were the elite among the elite, their march through deserts and mountains without stopping for several days had greatly reduced the morale of the soldiers, and now they had to take a rest.
So, the hundreds of riders who had just crossed Nanshan began to collect firewood and water, preparing to take a short rest.
Pan Mei personally took down a large bag from the horse. The bag contained pieces of tea bricks and hardened Uighur beans.
The so-called Uighur beans are peas, which are easy to preserve after being dried. After being soaked, they can be used as vegetables to make soup. At the same time, the war horses can also eat some, so Zhang Zhoujun has a lot of dried peas.
In order to bring as much weapons and fodder for war horses as possible, Pan Mei and the others brought very little food. When they saw Pan Mei carrying her bags, the soldiers immediately gathered around and licked their lips.
Pan Mei poured a few tea bricks into the large pot, then put in a large amount of dried peas, and used a short knife to cut a few large pieces of air-dried mutton into the pot.
Finally, under the eager eyes of the soldiers, he picked out large chunks of suet from a jar and put them in.
At this point, a pot of delicious broth with enough oil, salt, and green vegetables is ready to be cooked.
After walking on bad roads for several days and eating dry pancakes for several days, the soldiers took out the white-flour steamed pancakes that they couldn't bear to eat randomly and began to bake them on the fire, waiting for the hot soup to have a delicious meal.
Yang Jiye finished arranging the vigilant sentries, grabbed a handful of soybeans fried with salt from his pocket and brought them to the mouth of the war horse. The sentry on the top of the mountain suddenly raised a red pennant to indicate that someone was approaching.
In an instant, before he could give an order, the soldiers quickly threw away the steamed cakes in their hands and immediately assembled in units of ten people per fire.
Four soldiers helped the chief of fire and the deputy of fire put on their armor. One of the other two archers stepped on the horse and became the horse archer. The other directly raised the bow to occupy a favorable position and became the foot archer.
In just a few breaths, the fire chief and the fire mate put on their armors. They cooperated with the horse archers and infantry archers. Under the call of the leader, the twenty most elite people in the team formed a combat team.
At this time, the soldiers behind began to armor each other, leaving only one person to lead the horses to the designated position to prevent the horses from being frightened and running around.
A total of half a cup of tea would not take more than three minutes. The more than 700 people under Yang Jiye immediately completed their preparations for combat.
At this time, the sentinels in the distance raised a tender green flag symbolizing safety.
Yang Jiye was extremely satisfied with the performance of his soldiers. They were able to complete combat preparations in half a cup of tea. It cannot be said that it has never been done before or since. It is also extremely rare.
At least this shows that no one can attack such a powerful army at present.
"Commander, the Qinglong flag is up three and down three, someone of our own is coming!" The flag soldiers beside Yang Jiye immediately started reading the flag.
"One of our own people?" Yang Jiye muttered twice, how could he have his own people at this time?
Then he looked at Pan Mei nervously, "Damn it, it couldn't be General Bai and Huang Yang'er who have already raided the fortune tellers and taken away our credit!"
Pan Mei's face turned pale. It would be too uncomfortable if this were to happen. "Commander, if General Bai and the others have defeated the fortune-tellers, then let's continue heading north to drink horses in the vast sea!"
fine! When the arrivals approached, Yang Jiye and Pan Mei realized that they were not the messengers of Bai Congxin and Huang Yingda, but people sent by Lu Sanlang. Under the guidance of the herdsmen of Xizubu, they quickly reached the vicinity of Dongjunji Mountain.
"Lu Sanlang is going to make a great contribution now!" Yang Jiye's voice was trembling, while Pan Mei quickly took out the battle map, and officers from the surrounding teams and above immediately gathered around.
Pan Mei looked at the map for a long time, then suddenly pointed to the east where Ye Fu's headquarters was, took a deep breath and said: "It has been three days since the messenger came out, maybe Du Sage has already made preparations.
Commander, we only have 700 cavalry. If we go to attack the Klei tribe, we might just scare the enemy away.
They have tens of thousands of people and more than 100,000 people riding on them. If they want to leave, we can't stop them. It's better to leave them to Duke Su's main force to fight.
We then headed east, using the Zubu herdsmen from the west as our guide, and attacked the Yefufu tribe first. The Yefugua tribe was unprepared and would surely be defeated in a single battle. "
Yang Jiye had beads of sweat on his forehead. Pan Mei didn't finish her words, but he knew what Pan Mei meant.
The tribe of Yeshu was in the far south. They were not loyal supporters of Dusage, but were wavering.
If they raided Yefufu now, killed the stubborn resisters in his tribe, and lured them with huge profits, they might be able to drive this tribe away, and then they would have auxiliary troops.
If 700 cavalry can be used to carry 2,000 Yechu cavalry to the north, they can entangle the Bu Kelie tribe in Dusage's north, preventing them from easily escaping.
Hundreds of pairs of eyes were looking at Yang Jiye. Whether he should go to reinforce Lu Sanlang or follow Pan Mei's advice and go beat him up, he must have his big head to make the decision.
If anything happens, he is the adopted son of a saint! If your head is big enough, you can take on two or three blames no problem.
Yang Jiye looked regretfully at the steamed cake he threw to the ground and grinned.
"If you want to shave your head, you have to set off immediately. It's a pity that we didn't even have time to take a bite of hot food."
A burst of warm cheers broke out from all the soldiers. Yang Guizhong, a fool, laughed loudly and said: "If you eat the hot soup cakes here, you will have to eat other people's cold shit on the battlefield! Commander, please give the order. !”
"Okay!" Yang Jiye shouted, "Ten of the Dingzi camp's flying horses are left to inform Duke Su of the military situation here, and thirty of them are left behind to carry the baggage and move slowly.
The rest are waiting for one person and three horses, with only one day's rations, heading east, let's go fight against Ye Fu Gua! "
Amidst the cheers that shook the sky, the soldiers dipped the steamed cakes stuck with dust into the broth pot that had not yet boiled, dipped a little warm soup into their mouths, and wolfed them down. Hundreds of riders did not look back. Go east!
(End of chapter)
