Tarigu smiled and said, "Don't worry, Young Master Jiang. When the Yan army marched, Dayi Lijin had already decided to abandon the Yazhang, so Anlu Mountain only took away an empty camp."
Jiang Shuo asked doubtfully: "We abandoned all the administrative offices as soon as the war started. Aren't we afraid that the people's sentiment will change?"
Tali Ancient Road: "The Khitan people were originally nomadic herdsmen. The so-called Yazhang of the Songmo Governor's Mansion is just a camp on the north bank of the weak river suitable for long-term settlement. Back then, Li Guozhe killed Wa Khan Qu Lie and set up a camp on his own. Because of sweat and unpopularity, he hid in the tooth tent of the Governor's Mansion in Songmo all day long. In the end, Dayi Li Jin easily killed the whole family. Although the tooth tent was located with abundant water and grass, there was no danger to defend it. If Dayi Li Jindao meets the enemy in Yazhang, the enemy will be strong and we will be defeated. It is better to scatter 100,000 Khitan men into the thousands of miles of pine desert, making Anlushan's army unable to attack. When autumn comes and winter comes, The weather was freezing and the Yan army was short of food and grass, so they had no choice but to retreat."
Jiang Shuo remembered that Pei Luo, a powerful warrior, once said that the northerners were not good at building cities. It seemed that the Khitans were also the same. Since there was no wall to defend the Yazhang, it was indeed a feasible way to break the army into pieces and escape into the vast pine forest. He praised the plan and said, "Nirvana Dayi Li Jin has a foresighted plan, I admire you."
Dugu Xiang sneered and said: "Brother Shuo, how much do you admire him? The Khitan people can escape into the mountains and forests, but the Yan army can't? Didn't you see that they were ambushed by Yiluohe today? I heard that Anlu Shanshou There are eight thousand people under the Yiluohe River. After excluding the thousand people who stayed in Fanyang and led by An Qingxu, the remaining six thousand people may have followed Anlu Mountain to Songmo." An Qingxu's men originally had two thousand people at the Yiluohe River. , but Shuo Fang's army and Jiang Shuo killed many people twice. It was thought that there were less than two thousand people, so Xiang'er said that he had "a thousand or so people" under his command.
Ta Ligu said: "So what? Xiren Yaoluohe is a warrior, are we Khitans cowards? If they are equal in number, I am not afraid of them."
Xiang'er smiled and said, "If all of Yiluohe were divided into a hundred-man team like this to ambush, how would you deal with it?"
Taligu couldn't help but was speechless for a moment. The Khitan people were divided into eight tribes. The so-called one hundred thousand men refer to men who can serve as soldiers. The larger tribes have ten to twenty thousand soldiers, and the smaller tribes have several thousand. For example, the Tulubu tribe under the jurisdiction of Taligu The second battalion has less than 10,000 soldiers, and Hang Han's sudden attack unit is the smallest, with 3,000 soldiers. The total number of people was much more than that of Yiluohe. However, in order to prevent the large number of troops from being discovered by the Yan army, Nieli ordered the eight warriors to divide into small groups of less than a hundred people. In this way, any small group would encounter such a situation today. The Yiluohe ambush troops were afraid that they would not be able to escape the fate of being annihilated.
Dugu Xiang said: "Nie Li is smart, and the Yan army is not stupid. An Lushan's two great advisers, Yan Zhuang, are well-versed in the affairs of the Han people in the south, and Gao Bujie is well aware of the various ethnic groups in the north. Looking at today's battle, I'm afraid it's not Gao Buwei gave An Lushan advice and asked the Yiluohe warriors to form a team of a hundred people and set up an ambush in the mountain. Dayi Lijin asked you to go into the mountain to be hunters, but he didn't expect that the prey turned out to be a hunter."
At this moment, the night in the mountains was as cold as water, but Taligu's back was already soaked with cold sweat, and he said: "This Xiang'er girl has profound thoughts, no less than Li Zhu'er."
Xiang'er couldn't help but raise her head proudly, but Jiang Shuo knew that Xiang'er could never say these words. His grandfather, Dugu Wen, must have told her. Dugu Wen and Gao Buwei knew each other very well and had already seen through Gao Buwei at a glance. It was not a dangerous strategy, but he did not bother to explain it to the Khitan people, so he asked Xiang'er to copy the cat and the tiger, and relayed it to the Khitan people. When Xiang'er saw that he had indeed suppressed Tarigu, he couldn't help but feel complacent and winked at Jiang Shuo, feeling very proud.
Hang Han didn't understand Chinese and didn't know what they were talking about. Seeing that Taligu was helpless, he couldn't help asking him anxiously in Khitan. Taligu told Hang Han what Xiang'er had just said, and Hang Han was also very nervous and anxious. Dilian asked Taligu several questions, but Taligu just shook his head and said there was nothing he could do. Hang Han pointed at Dugu Xiang again. Taligu came to his senses, crossed his hands and saluted Xiang'er and said, "Sister Xiang'er, are you there?" The solution?"
Dugu Wen didn't tell Xiang'er about this solution. Xiang'er couldn't answer but didn't panic. He put his hands behind his back and pretended to be mature: "This... the mountain people have their own clever tricks. There are many people here and they can't tell. You guys can't tell." Quickly take Brother Shuo and I to see Li Huaixiu and Nie Li, and we will have a discussion by then."
Tarigu rubbed his hands and wondered: "This is difficult. The tribes have long been scattered among the thousands of miles of pine desert, but where can I find the Khan and Dayi Li Jin?"
Jiang Shuo said: "Brother Taligu, you haven't made any arrangements yet.
Is there any way to network? There must be a date to get together. Do you want to hide in the mountains and be a savage for the rest of your life? "
Tali Ancient Road said: "There is an appointment, but it is still far away. When we parted, the Khan ordered the eight tribes to gather in Bailing on the fifth day of November."
Jiang Shuo asked: "Where is Bailing? Is it far away?
The ancient Ta Li said: "It's not far, it's not far, it's six or seven hundred miles to the north."
Dugu Xiang stuck out his tongue and said, "Isn't it still six or seven hundred miles away?"
Tali Ancient Road: "What Xiang'er girls don't know is that the Northland is not like the Han region, where one post is thirty miles away or one county is one hundred miles away. You may not see a single family even if you walk for hundreds of miles on the Linhai Grassland. Therefore, it is said that six Seven hundred miles is not that far." Taligu had just heard what Dugu Xiang said that was insightful, so he spoke to her respectfully. He then said to Jiang Shuo: "But it's not June yet, and the date is still far away. But there’s still more than five months left.”
Jiang Shuo said, "Brother Taligu, why don't we go slowly north together and look for them as we go? If we encounter an ambush by Yiluohe again, we can take care of each other."
Taligu clapped his hands and said, "That's great. With Young Master Jiang here, I won't be afraid if we encounter Yiluohe again. I will make sure they never come back!" He then said to Hang Han in Khitan language. Hang Han cheered loudly. Although Jiang Shuo didn't understand Khitan, he could guess that he agreed. Hang Han jabbered for a long time, but Jiang Shuo couldn't guess what it meant.
Tali Ancient Road: "Each Khitan tribe will carve special marks on the trees in the mountains. Each tribe's symbols are different. They can not only express who carved it, but also express various information such as time, whereabouts, etc., but only the members of the tribe can recognize it. Yes. Hang Hanben is also said by Khan to lead the Chu Te tribe, so he knows the signs of the Chu Te tribe. He can identify the symbols along the way. He should be able to find the people of the Chu Te tribe soon. If he finds the Chu Te tribe, he can Found news from Khan."
Jiang Shuo and Xiang'er said together, "That's great."
Taligu said to Jiang Shuo: "Young Master, we will camp here today. The traps set by Yiluohe must be dispersed. Since we have destroyed this hundred-man team, there should be no others in this area tonight." Yan Jun, it is safest to rest here."
Jiang Shuo nodded in agreement, and went back with Xiang'er to bring the horses in the distance, but the green horse that Dugu Wen was riding was missing. Presumably, he had come back and led the green horse away.
When the two came back, they saw that the Khitan people were also setting up tents. All the war horses under Tarigu had been slaughtered by the Yiluohe warriors, but Hang Han's sudden force brought a large number of horses, and each warrior had two more horses. When they have three war horses, they can allocate some of them to Tarigu for use. The Khitans tie the horses in the outer circle. If there is an attack at night, the frightened horses will also serve as a warning.
They also picked up dead branches and set up a bonfire to build a simple camp. The Khitans were nomadic people and carried everything on horseback. They took out blankets, wine bottles, and dry food and spread them out, and the camp immediately became lively. .
Taligu invited Jiang Shuo and Dugu Xiang to sit with him. Xiang'er was happy and excited when she saw that they were going to sleep here. She said, "I have my own blanket, Brother Shuo, let's sit on our own blankets." Then he took off the purple velvet blanket from her back and spread it on the ground.
Taligu saw it and praised it: "Miss Xiang'er, this is a treasure of yours, how can you use it to pave the floor?"
Dugu Xiang asked curiously: "Isn't the blanket just for sitting on? I can't sit on this purple velvet blanket?"
Taligu realized that he was being abrupt, and hurriedly said: "My sister has extraordinary experience. She must be a descendant of a large family in the Central Plains. She sits naturally, naturally. I apologize for being abrupt."
It turns out that purple velvet is hard to come by and extremely precious. There is no such precious blanket in the entire eight tribes of Khitan. There is a gray and white velvet mixed blanket in Li Huaixiu's tent. It was also left by Khan Wa. Treasure. But compared to Xiang'er's purple velvet blanket, it's much worse. Such precious blankets are usually used for decoration in tents and are not really used for sitting. People who sleep in the wild like today will not take them out and use them.
The previous owner of the purple velvet rug, Guli Peiluo, was classified as the Huihe Khan and the co-owner of Northern Xinjiang. He was much more powerful than the little Khitan, so he really used this purple velvet rug to sit on. He gave it to Xiang'er, who naturally used it to sit and lie down on, not knowing what was wrong with it.
All the Khitan warriors also met Xiang
Er and Jiang Shuo sat down on purple velvet blankets. They couldn't help but be stunned by their generosity. They also respected them more and more. They offered wine and dry food one after another. Jiang Shuo saw that the wine was not Huihe milk wine, but milk wine. It is ordinary turbid wine, and of course there is no preserved fruit made from precious fruits such as dried sycamores. However, the dried fruits and meat strips seem to be not much different from those used by Guli Pero and the other three people that day, but they are slightly more refined. There is just a difference.
Everyone sat around the bonfire, and some Khitan men took out musical instruments such as flutes, clappers, drums, and vertical harps, and started playing high-pitched and sad music from the North. Although it was simple, it also had a unique flavor. When the music was played to the fullest, Hang Han Suddenly he stood up, waved his hands and kicked his feet and danced on the spot. All the Khitan warriors, whether they were Ta Ligu or Hang Han's men, also stood up and danced together, and some even sang loudly.
Seeing everyone suddenly dancing around like they were possessed, Xiang'er couldn't help but feel a little scared and said, "Brother Shuo, why are these Khitan people suddenly crazy? Are there monsters in the woods?"
Tari Gu smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, sister, they are performing a "worship dance" ceremony. First, they are thanking you for saving us, and second, they are welcoming Young Master Jiang to travel with us." "
Jiang Shuo laughed and said, "I only heard that the dignitaries in Chang'an and Luoyang love to perform the "worship dance". It is a ritual passed down from the Turks. I didn't expect that the Khitan people were the same." "
