Early autumn.

On the bank of the Xiliao River, the soldiers and horses are camped for more than ten miles.

The majestic horn sounded on the high watchtower, and the five thousand warriors from Kumoxi, the eight eight thousand warriors from the Khitan Eight Alliance, and the eight eight thousand warriors from the Xi tribe, plus the four thousand loyal soldiers brought by Luo Cheng, were 25,000 men and horses.

In the fierce wind, the red battle flag of the loyal army was unusually bright and conspicuous, and a white tiger appeared on the flag for the first time. Behind Luo Cheng, there is a double festival that makes double knots.

Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong led the loyal warriors, and the soldiers carried spears, iron armor, leggings, and stood beside their respective horses.

And the soldiers and horses of the three Khitan tribes of Xi Xi (xi) are also carrying swords and bows, leading war horses.

Autumn is high, horse fat.

This is a good time to send troops.

In the past, at this time on the grassland, they finally took advantage of the season to send troops, either raiding between tribes, or going south to fight the grass valley. But this year, all three were under the command of Luo Cheng, the commander of the Loyal Army, and went south together.

They will honor the king and fight against the Yuan clan who does not obey the king.

Luo Cheng's handsome tent.

Luo Cheng assigned a task, he took 8,000 Khitan people as the front army, 5,000 Xi troops as the left army, and 8,000 Xi troops as the right army, and then he led 4,000 loyal soldiers as the rear army.

Ben Shuai once again reiterated that the goal of this expedition against the Yuan clan was to capture the Fuyu River, and to take down more than 40 cities in the Fuyu River in one fell swoop. is still the same sentence, following Ben Shuai to fight, you will never suffer. After the capture of the Buyeo River, the city, land, and population will belong to me, and the rest of the money, grain, livestock, war horses, armor, and weapons, whoever takes it will belong to whomever it is, and I will never ask for it. ”

King Xi Yang Guoqing, Khitan King Yang Guozhong, and King Xi did not dare to slack off, and respectfully accepted Luo Cheng's order and arrows, and then stood on both sides.

The king of the Fei is the leader of the many tribes, and is also the head of the eight tribes of the current Xia tribe, the same as the Khitan, are the tribal alliance system, the original Xi people were attached to the Turks, did not dare to call the Khan, only called the Jin. Later, the Turks had weak control over the east, so they also called themselves Khan after meeting the emperor of the Central Plains.

However, what is a little surprising is that this multi-discriminate tribe is actually not the same clan as the Xia tribe, there are eight tribes of the Xia tribe, and these eight people are all yellow-headed and white-skinned, so they were called Bailu by the Central Plains earlier.

However, most of them are black-skinned people, so they are also called Chidi.

Xi and Xi are somewhat similar, because Xi people are also blonde and blue-eyed.

Chidi's many indiscriminate departments have become the head of the yellow-headed and white-skinned people, which is a bit complicated, but it is not uncommon. Just like Tuyuhun in the northwest, the Murong family of the Khan King moved from the northeast to the Xianbei Murong Department, and the main body of Tuyuhun is dominated by Qiang people and Di people.

Because the main body is mostly blonde, blue-eyed and white-skinned, they are also called Baibei, and they do belong to the Xianbei branch, and Xi and Khitan are also Xianbei branches, both from the Yuwen clan in Xianbei.

Strictly speaking, it should be regarded as a branch of the Tiele people, but for many years, they have lived together with the Xiabu, and they have long been a little indistinguishable from each other.

Big, red-haired and red-skinned, tall and burly, patted his chest and said to Luo Chengdao, "Daddy, but please rest assured, we will charge into battle for you and destroy the Yuan clan." ”

Originally, this Daddy was originally shouted by Luo Luo, but now the three Khan Kings are all calling Luo Cheng Daddy.

For tribes that are accustomed to respecting the strong, it is common to shout Daddy.

"Actually, you don't have to worry too much, in the south of Buyeo, I have built Tieling, Jinshan and other military town castles, stationed more than 10,000 elites, and at the same time, several other roads have also sent soldiers and horses to involve the Yuan clan, so this time we will be very easy to fight Fuyeo River, and we will have a big harvest."

Because Xi Qi and the two tribes went with Luo Cheng to fight the Turks before, they did get a lot of benefits afterwards, so they still believed in Luo Cheng's words.

After the alliance was pledged, the 25,000-strong army marched south.

In addition to the 25,000 soldiers, they were followed by a team of family members from the three divisions, driving herds of cattle and sheep behind, which were the military rations of their army.

A multi-day march all the way to the east.

The Liao River, which had been flowing eastward in front, turned south in front, and Buyeo City was one hundred and twenty miles away on the east bank of the river.

Luo Cheng ordered to camp here.

This is about the vicinity of Shuangliao in later generations, and it is about 300 miles away from the Tieling Military Town in the south.

The two armies had already encircled the Buyeo River in the north and south, and in the south, the soldiers and horses of Xincheng and Liaodong also came forward to threaten the Yuan clan, making it difficult for them to send a large army to reinforce Buyeo.

Although it is still 300 miles away from Tieling, the scouts of the two armies have already connected to each other, and the forward scouts have each gone forward more than 100 miles and successfully made contact.

At this time, Luo Chengcai learned a lot of important news, and during his time in the grassland, many news had seriously lagged behind.

"Li Jing betrayed your trust, Dashuai, he fled from Tieling Town, tried to go to Jianghuai by boat to inform, was personally captured by General Wang Junkuo in the Bohai Sea, and is now imprisoned in Liaodong City, waiting for your whereabouts."

"General Du Fuwei has officially raised the flag in Jiangnan, occupying most of the four counties of Danyang, Biling, Xuancheng and Wujun in Jiangnan, and there are about 30,000 soldiers and horses."

"And on the side of Mayi, Wang Rengong has always refused to surrender, General Wang Junkuo and Yingwei's brother planned a mutiny, Liu Wuzhou killed Wang Rengong, proclaimed himself the governor, and has controlled the three counties of Mayi, Loufu and Yanmen, and has mastered more than 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Mayi army."

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Listening to this news one after another, Luo Cheng quickly thought about the changes in the current situation in his mind.

The change was faster than he expected. Originally, Luo Cheng's plan was to advance step by step, not in a hurry to raise the flag first, the main thing was to contact the towns and unify the front, he estimated that the imperial court would not have such a quick response and so much determination.

Who would have expected that Jiangdu's actions were quite fast, forcing Du Fuwei to get up in advance, and Wang Rengong's non-cooperation also made them have to launch a mutiny there.

But the results are good.

In particular, although Wang Rengong did not cooperate, as soon as Wang Rengong died, Liu Wuzhou led more than 20,000 righteous troops according to the three counties and completely reversed.

"General Hou Mochen asked the marshal to rush back to Liaodong, and General Wang Junkuo has personally brought the King of Qi back to Liaodong City secretly from Pyongyang."

"General Hou Mochen said that everything is ready now, just wait for the commander to go back and give an order, and the soldiers of my loyal army will officially raise the flag and raise the army, and then everyone will enter the pass!"