Lin Zhenyuan admired this little Khitan man who knew current affairs very much. He nodded and asked him, "What's your name?"
When Wu Laoliu was about to translate it, he didn't expect that the short man actually spoke the Chen dialect himself: "Reporting to your lord, the little man Yelu Abao, although he follows his mother's Khitan surname, his father is actually a native of Chen. !”
If Zhou Yi were here at this moment, he would definitely be very interested in this little boy's name.
Because his name is one word different in pronunciation from the name of Yelu Abaoji, the founding emperor of the Liao Kingdom in the previous life.
When the Xiongnu and Khitan plundered the population of Chen State, they not only robbed women, but also robbed men to work as laborers on the grasslands. The father of his son An Pinggui was one of the Chen people who was robbed to Khitan.
Lin Zhenyuan and Wu Laoliu looked at An Pinggui carefully: "Okay, okay, Yelu Abao, how old are you and what are your specialties?"
"The little man is fourteen years old this year. He is good at riding horses, knows some veterinary skills, and can treat horses!"
Zhou Yi had previously reminded Lin Zhenyuan that he must bring some veterinarians with him during the expedition. Although Lin Zhenyuan had brought some soldiers who were proficient in veterinary medicine with the army, he still incorporated them into the veterinary team.
Some smart people also imitated Yelu Abao and came to Lin Zhenyuan's mighty army first to prevent others from snatching them again. After half an hour, all ten thousand horses were seized by the stronger Khitan soldiers.
Holding Mo Dao, Lin Zhenyuan, who was extremely powerful, immediately distributed to everyone the paper armor used by Zhou Yi, as well as the scimitar weapons they used when they surrendered.
After these people were assembled, Lin Zhenyuan said to the Khitan surrendered soldiers: "Respecting the decree of General Zhou Yi, you will accompany me to attack the hinterland of the Xiongnu. After the war, you can be released back home. If you wish to stay with me, I will do it." Guards can enjoy the same treatment as Chen soldiers."
Many Khitan people wearing paper armor and holding scimitars that were once issued by their own tribe, looked at the majestic black light mountain armor and long sharp Mo Dao of the mighty guards opposite, and their hearts suddenly became alive.
And when these Khitan soldiers had a delicious meal of braised beef noodles, many of them became more determined to join the Zhouyi Weiwei if they were still alive after this battle.
After a full meal, Lin Zhenyuan ordered his men to carry seven days' worth of food and head towards the northern Xiongnu grassland. As for after these 7 days, Lin Zhenyuan had no plans to ask Zhou Yi to transport grain to the rear, because he planned to implement the strategic policy of providing grain to the enemy.
At the same time, Zhouyi had ordered 20,000 light cavalry and 60,000 infantry, and recruited 300,000 civilians from Yongzhou to escort the logistics supplies.
If this was done in other places, it would be basically impossible to recruit so many civilians to ensure logistics. But now in Yongzhou, Zhou Yi's words are more effective than the emperor's imperial edict.
After all, Zhou Yi really helped the people of Yongzhou live a life without going hungry.
Now that the Xiongnu invaded the border again, although they did not attack from the border of Yongzhou, the people of Yongzhou who had read few books also understood the truth of death and coldness, so they spontaneously joined the army transporting grain.
Zhou Yi was not stingy either, and distributed paper armor and spears to all 300,000 people as a precaution.
Not to mention, because everyone in Yongzhou is martial, Zhouyi's 300,000 civilians holding spears and wearing paper armor are far superior to the 50,000 troops in Bingzhou, both in terms of spirit and equipment.
Others have 100,000 young people and 100,000 soldiers, while Zhou Yi has 300,000 civilians and 300,000 soldiers.
However, if the battle situation on the front line is okay, Zhou Yi still doesn't want these honest farmers to go into battle to kill the enemy.
The fact that there were only 50,000 remnants of troops in Bingzhou was reported to Emperor Li Xuanji by Wang Dachui.
Although the Bingzhou prefect and the Bingzhou military envoy were relatives of Queen Nangong, Li Xuanji was so angry that he sent the queen to the cold palace after learning that they had eaten the wages of hundreds of thousands of soldiers over the years.
As for the Bingzhou prefect and the Bingzhou military envoy, Li Xuanji ordered the Yi tribe to join.
There are three ways to describe the three clans: one is father, son, and grandson; the other is father’s clan, mother’s clan, and wife’s clan; and the third is parents, brothers, and wives.
Since population is also a valuable asset, the Yi tribe of Chen State is the first one.
As for the women in their families, they were all taken into the female household and served as official prostitutes.
As for Queen Nangong, who was still charming at the age of thirty, she was directly thrown into the cold palace.
Li Xuanji was so angry that no one in the court dared to touch his bad luck. The imperial concubine Li Wanji kept calming the emperor with her green and green hands, and comforted him again, saying: "Your Majesty, don't you still have General Li?" With Dashuai Zhou!"
"They were able to withstand the Xiongnu and Khitan coalition forces of 400,000 people with just one county. This time, with each of them leading 50,000 soldiers, they will definitely be able to solve your Majesty's problems!"
The idiot-like Shangshu of the Ministry of War also echoed Li Wanji's words and said: "What the empress said will help the world, and your Majesty has a keen eye. He spotted the talents of General Li and Zhou Tanhua at a glance. I think they will definitely be able to defeat the Huns for your Majesty." Give me Da Chen a piece of Hai Yan He Qing."
The other civil and military ministers in the court also flattered each other, but Wu Changgong, the commander-in-chief of the fifth military camp, remained silent and was not optimistic about this battle.
In his opinion, Yongzhou Zhouyi's 50,000 horses had only been trained for one year, and they had to travel far to aid Qing and Youzhou. The number of soldiers and horses is not large, and if the troops are divided, they will be easily surrounded and annihilated by the Xiongnu, Qiang, and Di tribes.
As for the 50,000 troops commanded by Bingzhou's 'Li Feiyu', Wu Changgong was even less optimistic.
In Wu Changgong's view, Li Feiyu was just a mediocre general who relied on personal force.
He may be able to rely on his superb force and lead a team of troops to kill the opponent by surprise, but facing the 300,000 elite soldiers led by the Xiongnu Chanyu himself, he may not be able to save the day.
What Wu Changgong didn't know was that Li Feiyu, whom he despised, was leading fifty thousand Bingzhou soldiers for military training at the moment.
According to Wu Zi’s Art of War: Victory is achieved through military control, not through numbers.
This was related to Wang Dachui's life, so he stationed troops in the capital of Bingzhou and trained the 50,000 troops day and night. Even if the entire Qingzhou fell, Wang Dachui remained unmoved.
Until one day, a man who looked like the little husband in Doraemon brought a large amount of equipment and luggage to Wang Dachui from the land of Yongzhou.
Under the introduction of Zhao Tiezhu, Yang Xiu met Wang Dachui who was training soldiers. Wang Dachui's first reaction when he saw the coming person was that he almost called "Xiaofu".
This was the first time Wang Dachui met Yang Xiu. Previously, Yang Xiu had been arranged by Zhou Yi to go to other state capitals to do business. Now when he came back to visit Zhou Yi, he encountered the Huns' invasion again.
In order to protect Yang Xiu and his own money bag, Zhou Yi asked Yang Xiu to stay away from the four states of Qing, You, Bing and Yong as soon as possible.
Zhao Tiezhu introduced to Wang Dachui: "General Wang, this is the Marshal's confidant Yang Xiuyang Guoyang. He brought us a large amount of military supplies from Yongzhou!"
Before Yang Xiu came to Bingzhou, Zhou Yi had confessed to himself that Wang Dachui was his brother, and he must respect Wang Dachui as he did Zhou Yi.
"General Wang, this time my lord has asked me to send you some military supplies, and I have also brought you a message asking you to organize your troops and horses from now on, and send troops north to join forces with Wuwei Guards in Yongding City, the capital of Youzhou."
