Datang, Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, Dongxi Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

Since the eleventh year of Qianning, after the Dongxi King Tules chose to belong to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty set up the Dongxi Governor's Mansion in Dongxi, with Turus as the governor, and Meng Zhixiang relied on the military power in his hand to serve as the deputy governor and Sima of the Dongxi Governor's Mansion, and actually held the power of the Dongxi Governor's Mansion.

For Dongxi's internal affairs, the imperial court is not interested in interfering, the imperial court just needs an obedient Dongxi, and it doesn't matter who is the governor.

You must know that Dongxi is actually not honest, the Xi people are divided into Dongxi and Xixi, it is because Dongxi is close and thinks that it can be attached to the Khitan, and Xixi is opposed to being a vassal to the Khitan, so there is a split.

The reason why Dongxi chose to belong to the Tang Dynasty was nothing more than because of the ambitions of the Khitan and the fear that Meng Zhixiang would seize the throne.

In such a situation, Datang will naturally not pull the shelf.

Moreover, Meng Zhixiang is also honest and more knowledgeable, but he is more suitable to serve as the governor of Dongxi Prefecture.

In fact, according to the distance, it is more convenient for the Dongxi Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the Black Chezi Governor's Mansion to be controlled by the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, but in order to balance the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate, it is controlled by the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate.

Meng Zhixiang was originally from the Tang Dynasty, so when he governed the Dongxi Governor's Mansion, he basically copied the system of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the Xi people generally adopt Chinese surnames and use Chinese characters, so there is not much resistance to the implementation of these.

After the war in the tenth year of Qianning, Dongxi's strength decreased a lot, and it was only more than 30,000 accounts, which was the result of Meng Zhixiang's efforts to govern over the years.

For the sake of safety, Meng Zhixiang moved the residence of the Dongxi Governor's Mansion to the west of the Dongxi territory, which was about the vicinity of the later Keshiketeng Banner and Linxi County.

It's a mountainous area, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Meng Zhixiang asked people to build Dongxi City on the east side of the mountain range, which was near Linxi County in the later generations; On the west side of the mountain range, the city of Meng was built, that is, near the Keshiketeng banner.

Dongxi's territory is in the plains east of the mountain range and the mountains in the south, but unfortunately the plains are close to the Khitan, and the south has now become part of the Tang Luanzhou.

After the construction of Dongxi City and Mengcheng, Meng Zhixiang just wanted to take advantage of the geographical advantage to resist the Khitan, even if the Khitan army attacked, they would not be powerless to fight back.

Moreover, to the south is the Jizhou Governor's Mansion of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, to the west is the Heichezi Governor's Mansion ruled by the Bondage, and to the southwest is the Wuzhou Governor's Mansion and the Fuzhou Governor's Mansion, even if the Khitan is attacking in a big way, it is convenient for him to retreat.

After becoming the de facto ruler of the Dongxi Governor's Mansion, Meng Zhixiang killed all the sons of the Dongxi King Turus and married the daughter of the Heichezi Governor.

But this could not satisfy Meng Zhixiang's ambitions, and he had been thinking about how to take revenge on the Khitan and take the opportunity to grow.

As soon as the spring began in the fifteenth year of Qianning, he felt a little uneasy in his heart, because after the beginning of spring, he received reports from the tribes below that the Khitan cavalry entered the territory of Dongxi from time to time to plunder.

This does not bode well.

Of course, the bad news doesn't stop there.

"Dudu, something happened, the Khitans attacked one of our tribes of thousands of people yesterday, and everyone was killed!"

Early in the morning, Kang Yanxiao ran over and reported the news he had just gotten to Meng Zhixiang.

"What? Thousands of tribes were killed? What are the Khitans going to do? Go to war? Meng Zhixiang was a little angry.

Meng Zhixiang really said that the Khitans really planned to go to war.

In the next few days, Meng Zhixiang received news that several tribes had been attacked, and some tribes had even begun to migrate to Dongxi City.

Only then did Meng Zhixiang realize that the Khitans had made a big move.

"Report!"

"Governor Qiyu, the Khitans are killing in a big way, and it is expected to exceed 50,000 cavalry."

The hurried voice resounded through the Dongxi Governor's Mansion, and when he heard the news, Meng Zhixiang couldn't sit still.

"Fifty thousand cavalry? Can you see clearly? Meng Zhixiang hurriedly got up and asked.

"It's true, maybe even more than that, before we got close, the Khitans sent hundreds of cavalry to chase and kill us...

"It seems that the Khitans are really not good." Meng Zhixiang was a little anxious, and walked around the house, "Send someone to the Black Chezi Governor's Mansion immediately, no, I will send someone to Luanzhou, Wuzhou and Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate to report the news, just say that the Khitan is coming."

Dongxi alone is unable to support it, and he hopes for reinforcements. ”

"Governor, are you making a big fuss?" Kang Yanxiao was a little puzzled, "We have a city, and even if the Khitans have 50,000 cavalry, they may not be able to capture Dongxi City." ”

"You don't know, after many years, the Khitans are coming back again, and it will definitely not be only 50,000 cavalry, and this governor suspects that this is just a vanguard force." Meng Zhixiang said in a deep voice.

"There are 50,000 in the vanguard? Wouldn't that be the main force more? Could it be that the Khitan is going to invade the Tang Dynasty? Kang Yanxiao swallowed his saliva and said.

"It's hard to say, if the Khitan vanguard army has 50,000, then it is very likely to target the Tang Dynasty. But why don't you attack Yingzhou and Luanzhou, but attack my Dongxi? Meng Zhixiang was a little puzzled.

"Governor, what now?" Kang Yanxiao hesitated.

"Send someone to report the news immediately, and order the relocation of the surrounding ministries, and complete the relocation of grain, cattle and sheep to Mengcheng, and hoard as many supplies there as possible." Meng Zhixiang commanded.

"The Governor thinks Dongxi City can't hold it?" Kang Yanxiao was a little surprised.

"Plan both ways, just in case."

Meng Zhixiang explained.

Kang Yanxiao didn't say anything, just followed Meng Zhixiang's instructions.

However, Meng Zhixiang did not guess wrong, these 50,000 people were indeed the vanguard of the Khitans.

In fact, the Khitan army dispatched this time reached 400,000 people, of which only 300,000 were in the headquarters, 50,000 were sent by Shulu and Shatuo, and 50,000 were sent by other tribes.

However, these 400,000 people were not together, among them, Yelu Haolu led 100,000 cavalry to attack Yingzhou and contain the strength of the Tang Army's Andong Protectorate, while Yelu Abaoji took Li Siyuan, his own brothers, and the other seven Khitan armies, a total of 300,000 cavalry, and planned to 'borrow' Dongxi to rob the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty.

These 300,000 cavalry seem to be huge, but in fact, there are only tens of thousands of cavalry in armor, and the others are ordinary leather armor, not even armor, and the weapons in their hands are even more varied.

"Made, the Khitans are crazy!"

Seeing the Khitan cavalry that appeared outside Dongxi City, Meng Zhixiang didn't make any other moves except for taking a sharp breath.

"It's more than 50,000, right?" Kang Yanxiao also swallowed his saliva.

"What fifty thousand? There are at least 200,000 of them, and the Khitans are going to invade the Tang Dynasty on a large scale. You're going to invade, go to Yingzhou! ”

Meng Zhixiang scolded.

But he also knows why the Khitans don't go to Yingzhou.

Go to Yingzhou, you have to pull out the cities one by one, and the strength of the Anton Protectorate is not weak, and the Khitans are not good at attacking cities, even if there are two or three hundred thousand cavalry, they are helpless to take those strong cities.

But now the Khitans are borrowing the Dongxi Governor's Mansion, and their purpose is definitely not to protect the Andong Governor's Mansion, but it is very likely to be Daibei and other places.

He bet that Li Siyuan and An Chongzhi must be among them.