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The first year of Guangming, June.

Outside the North Sai, on the shore of Baishui Lake.

Shortly after the end of the tragic battle, countless corpses were scattered on the vast grassland. Stiff torsos tangle with each other, severed arms still clutching knives and guns. The still dry and cold blood soaked the dry land, staining a patch of weeds with a layer of blood red.

On a high post not far from the lake, more than a thousand fierce cavalrymen hugged a purple da, and the Khitan Yu Yue Yelu Shilu under the daqi looked at the battlefield, and the excitement in his heart was difficult to express in words.

Yelu Shilu is the son of the Khitan Shangren Yili Jin Yelu Yundeshi, and is currently the cousin of Yili Jianye Lu Pugu, and the family is the Shili family in the Khitan Seven Yelu, generations of Khitan nobles. A few years ago, the Shili family had a fierce conflict with the Yaoran family of the Khan family, and his father was assassinated by the Khan's son-in-law. In this struggle, the Yao Yuan family, who had inherited the throne of the Khan for generations, and the Shili family, who had held the Khitan military power for generations, became bigger and bigger, and finally the 20 parts of the Khitan split into two camps. In the Seven Yelus, the Shili clan fought against the other six Yelu, but in the end they won a complete victory, and the Khan line was defeated, and the Shili clan completely controlled the power of the Khitan.

After the victory of the Shili family, although on the surface he still supported the people of the Yaoran family as the Khitan Khan, in fact, this Khan no longer had half of his influence. The Shili family began to fully control the Khitan, and Pugu only left the Sumire, and not long ago, Pugu only suddenly became ill and was difficult to govern. He worshiped his cousin Yelu Shilu as Yu Yue.

Yu Yue. It is a Turkic Uighur language. It means wise, and it means to be respectful and wise. This newly established official position is located below the Khitan Yi Lijin and above the hundred officials. It is the acting head assistant when the Khitan Yi is out of the Sumire and cannot be the director, and there is no specific position, and the original meaning is 'big, so there is no product.' ’

In fact, the leader of the Khitan today is neither a khan. It's not Yi Lijin who is seriously ill, and of course it won't be Shi Lu, the head of the hundred officials on the surface, Yu Yue. In fact, the real power of the Khitan now is the father of Pugu who once served as the ninth Yili Sumire, and the uncle of Shilu, Yelu Tiera. However, Yelu Tiera is very old, and Yelu Shilu, Yu Yue, is the deputy head of state just in case.

Whether the Khitan is the Khan or the Yili Sumire, it is only hereditary in the clan, not directly inherited from father to son. It is hereditary in the clan, and then the elective system. At the end of the three-year term, the clan is elected by the public. In most cases, it is taken over by several prestigious branches. The same is true of the Yelu family, Yun Deshi took over the position of Yili Jin from his brother Yelu Ti Thorn, after he was assassinated, he was succeeded by the son of Yelu Tira, and now Pu Gu is only seriously ill, and the stab temporarily takes charge of affairs, but Yun Deshi's son Yelu Shilu has already begun to take up the post of Yue and lead the army to prepare for taking over the position of Yi Li Jin.

This time, the Khitan and the Qin clan launched a decisive battle, mobilized the entire army, almost all the soldiers, and recruited a total of 400,000 people to control the strings, in addition to allied with Mobei Murowei, the Xi tribe, the Tatars, the Heishui, the Uighurs and many other tribes, and at the same time fought against the Qin army on several battlefields.

Yelu Yanmu, another son of Yelu Yun Deshi, took office as the newly established king of the Northern Courtyard at this time, leading 100,000 Khitan cavalry and 100,000 Murowei and Black Water soldiers and horses to attack the Bohai Sea and confront the Qin Domain and the Bohai Alliance. In addition, Yelu Tira's other son, Yelu Even, as the new king of the Southern Courtyard, is leading 200,000 Khitan cavalry in the grasslands of the Huangshui and Tuhe River valleys, looking for 200,000 Qin troops who have penetrated deep into the grasslands for a decisive battle. The ninth Khitan Yi Lijian, the Khitan Emperor Yelu Tiera at this time, led 80,000 Khitan soldiers to sit in the Khitan Khan tent.

The Khitan Yuyue Yelu and his younger brother Jerusara and Pugu's younger brother Ganggu led 20,000 Khitan warriors to contact many tribes such as the Xi, Xi, Tatar, Turkic, and Uighur tribes inside and outside the Yin Mountains, and raised a large army to go south.

Prepare to open up the third battlefield to support the battlefield outside the Seychelles.

In recent years, Li Keyong has used the north to oppose the Tang Dynasty twice, while Li Jing has sprung up, breaking into Liaodong and moving to Hebei. For a time, Liaodong outside the Guan, inside and outside the Great Wall, Yanshan, Yinshan and Saiwai grasslands, the boards were fluttering, bloody and rainy, and the northern land outside the Central Plains was chaotic and completely lost order.

The Shatuo, Goguryeo, Jin, Uighur, Tatar, Tiele, Tuyuhun, and Dangxiang tribes were either defeated and exterminated by Li Jing, or attached to the imperial court, or forced to submit to Li Jing. Li Jing's attitude towards the Hu people has always been tough, if he submits to Li Jing, the most reluctant tribe will inevitably be broken up and relocated to all parts of the Qin Domain, and the ordinary tribal people are better, but for those tribal leaders and nobles, this is tantamount to depriving them of the right to be high. All the ethnic groups in northern Xinjiang were very frightened and resentful of this, and this time Li Keyong sent envoys to the Khitan and asked them to go south.

The leaders of the various Khitan tribes agreed with this, and the Khitan envoys rushed to the various tribes to persuade the various ethnic groups to send troops to the south, and the leaders of the various ethnic groups in northern Xinjiang came to vote one after another, and tens of thousands of people had gathered in a blink of an eye. Soon after, the Khitan granted Yelu Shilu as Yu Yue, Yelu Sara as the tart horse tamarin, and Yelu Ganggu as the vanguard, commanding 20,000 Khitan cavalry, plus 40,000 Khitan auxiliaries, and 140,000 warriors and auxiliaries of various tribes, almost poured out of the grassland, and 200,000 people marched south.

Yelu Shilu went south this time, at the beginning it was divided into two parts, one was the old and weak 80,000 horses of each tribe going south, in fact, this was just a smoke bomb of Yelu Shilu, the real army went south as many as 200,000, even if he got rid of those old and weak women, his soldiers reached 40,000, and there were 80,000 auxiliary soldiers.

Yelu Shilu waved his troops south, so that the old and weak of the tribes were in front, scattered and invisible, and as soon as they crossed the Yin Mountain, they began to scatter and plunder everywhere. He himself led 120,000 horses, but gathered around the grassland lake Baishuiluo, hidden outside the Great Wall, and set up an ambush and waited.

Li Siyuan's department, which was guarding the cowhide pass on the Qingpo Road on the border of Yunzhou in Datong, went out to meet the enemy, but the old and weak of the tribes collapsed at the touch of a button, and Li Siyuan's soldiers and horses chased and killed all the way. The tribe was defeated and fled, Li Siyuan's army pursued all the way to the outside of the Saiwai, and as a result, it fell into the net of Yelu Shilu on the edge of Baishuiluo, 40,000 tribes rushed to kill, 80,000 auxiliaries intercepted, and Li Siyuan's troops collapsed in just one day.

Now. At the side of Jerusherus. It brings together the Khitan ethnic group. Including 40,000 elite warriors of various ethnic groups including Tatars, Xi, Xia, Goguryeo, Uighurs, Turks, Tieler, etc., 80,000 auxiliary soldiers, and strong generals gathered under their commands, they only needed to take advantage of the victory to go south, which was enough to go down to Datong with one drum and directly threaten Yanjing, the center of the Qin domain.

At this time, the Qin army was afraid that they would only think that they were really just greedy for money by the tribes this time in response to Li Keyong's invitation to go south to plunder, and they would never have thought of it. This time, their elite went south, and they wanted to catch Li Jing off guard. Let's look at the warriors of Northern Xinjiang who can ride fierce horses and shoot strong bows, where can those weak Han people resist?

Li Jing's elite at this time is all in the northeast, the land of the north, who can beat his grassland iron cavalry?

At this moment, the people who followed Yelu Shilu's side like the stars and the moon were all the leaders and nobles of the Khitan clan.

The tall man in the first place on the left is the brother of Yelu Shilu, the son of Jeruyun Deshi, the son of Jerusah, and the current Khitan tart horse tamarin. It is the guard officer of the newly built guard of the Shili family, which is equivalent to the chief general of the Shence Army. I only heard Zara's voice in a loud voice: "Our ancestors fought against the Tang people unyieldingly. Never conquered. Now these Tang people want to annex us, treat our people like Goguryeo, occupy our grasslands, and drive our people to the Central Plains like cattle and sheep to farm and pay taxes for them! Why should the noble Khitan nobles be subject to the lowly Tang people? Why should a brave warrior be a cow or a horse for a coward? Now we punish these Tang people with sharp scimitars and sacrifice them to the sun god by cutting off their heads, and the gods will bless us! ”

"God bless!" Behind Jeruzala, a childish voice echoed in a loud voice. This man was dressed diagonally in a warrior's robe, his hair was flowing freely, and he was no more than five feet tall, but he was the son of Jeruzara, Yelu Abaoji, who had just turned ten years old at this time, but he had already grown a tiger's head and a tiger's brain, far stronger than children of the same age, and could not only ride a fierce horse, but also draw a bow with a stone, and shoot down geese in the sky. This time he went south, and he had to come with him, but Jeruzara did not allow it, but Jeruzarus liked this nephew very much, and finally allowed him to come with him. Not only that, but Jerusherus also incorporated Abaobao into the guard of Zara's tart horse guard. All the way south, Abaoji performed very well, and did not show any difficulty because of the hardships of the long-distance march. Everyone in the army likes this most heartfelt guard, calling him Xiao Shali, which means Xiao Langjun.

Abaoji is only ten years old, but he speaks like an adult: "Yu Yue, we are willing to follow your horseshoe prints and kill the Tang king's Yanjing City, we will plunder their treasures with our swords, feast on their women, turn their farmland into pasture, and use their men as slaves!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the outstanding generals burst into laughter.

Yelu Shilu looked up to the sky and smiled: "That's right, if the husband is in the world, he wants to be the eagle that soars in the sky, how can he be the lamb on the grassland?" Ten years ago, Li Jing was just a self-cultivated scholar, but now he is also a king. Thinking that we Khitan, we are all brave, how can we be willing to be suppressed by the Tang people for hundreds of years? Now we have 400,000 Khitan warriors with armor, all of whom are far stronger than the Tang people. It's time for us to defeat those Tang people, unify the north, achieve more brilliant deeds than our ancestors, and establish our own Khitan dynasty on the rich land of the Han people! ”

With that, Jerusheru shook the reins in the frenzied cheers of the generals, and rode forward, and the generals followed.

Behind them, tens of thousands of fierce northern Hu people converged into a mighty torrent, galloping forward, unstoppable.

Yinshan, a mountain range that separates Huayi, has always been the natural boundary of Hanhu. Although when the Central Plains Dynasty was strong, it also had the power to control the outside of the town, but the land north of Yinshan has always been difficult to be truly controlled by the Central Plains Dynasty. More often, the Central Plains Dynasty shrank the continuous line of control to the Datong line further south of Yinshan, built the Great Wall to guard the border, and used the outside of the Great Wall and inside Yinshan as a military buffer zone. If the Han family is strong, this area is controlled by the Han people, and the Central Plains is chaotic, so this area is mostly controlled by the Hu people.

For many years, this line area has been managed by the Shatuo people on behalf of the Li Tang court. For many years, the prestige of the Shatuo people in this area even far exceeds that of the imperial court.

Zhang Zimian waved his army into the north of Dai, led troops into Shuozhou, and guarded the north of Yunzhou with Li Siyuan, leaving only 10,000 Qin troops and 10,000 auxiliaries in Yunzhou.

Yunzhou, Datong, is already the provincial capital of Shanxi Province, which has just been established. Datong is the largest basin area in the whole Hedong, surrounded by lofty mountains and mountains on all sides, connecting Hebei, entering and exiting the fortress, and it has been a strategic place for soldiers to fight for since ancient times. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Gaozu Liu Bang fought with the Xiongnu, but the enemy pursued him, but he was besieged by the Xiongnu army in Baishan Mountain. In recent decades, this border land has also undergone several changes. In the early years, Li Guochang sealed Yunzhou because of his merits, and later Li Ke used Ren Yunzhong to guard and defend it, and raised troops here to oppose the Tang Dynasty. After the failure of the first anti-Tang Dynasty, this territory was taken over by Sage Mi Haiwan, who originally belonged to the three tribes of Shatuo, but it didn't take long for Li Keyong to oppose the Tang Dynasty again, and Mi Haiwan and others sent troops to Yanmen, but they were defeated by Li Siyuan's counterattack, and Datong fell into the hands of Li Siyuan.

Whether it is the imperial court or Li Guochang, Li Keyong, Li Siyuan three generations and Mi Haiwan, after they occupy Datong, they have repeatedly repaired Datong, to now Datong City is more than three zhang high, wide can accommodate four horses in parallel, arrow tower corner tower horse face wall platform is lined up, can be called the border plug Xiongcheng.

On this day, Tanma rode in the twilight and brought the bad news of the defeat of Li Siyuan's 30,000 Shatuo army outside the Great Wall.

Gao Siji, the general of the Qin army stationed in Yunzhou, was taken aback after hearing the news, and hurriedly reported to Zhang Zimian, the marshal of Zhengxi in Shuozhou in the south, and sent people to Hebei to report to Li Jing, the king of Qin, who was driving the military capital pass. At the same time, Gao Siji lit the beacon fire and prepared to meet the enemy!

Li Jing, who was in the Jundu Pass, was taken aback when he heard the news, and hurriedly summoned the team in the Jundu Pass to discuss countermeasures.

In the camp of the military capital, almost all the main officials of the various ministries and offices in the center of Yanjing were here at this time. Li Jing originally moved to the military capital, originally to prepare just in case. But I didn't expect that it would really come to this point.

Li Jing sat on the main seat, nearly thirty years old, with an elegant and calm bearing, more and more mature and atmospheric. However, at this time, Li Jing's mental state was not very good, under the bright candlelight, Li Jing's brows were furrowed, and his eyes were full of worry.

He reached out and pressed lightly on his temple, sighing in annoyance. What he fears the most, he will come. Li Siyuan's 30,000 Shatuo soldiers and 50,000 auxiliaries were defeated outside the Great Wall, and this news was too shocking. As the news of Li Siyuan's defeat came back, an even more grim situation was in front of him, the Hu people who went south were not 80,000 of the rabble, but 200,000 of the allied troops of various ethnic groups who came prepared, mainly the Khitan elite. Li Siyuan was defeated, the northern gateway of Daibei has been opened, and the land of Yunzhou is only 10,000 Qin soldiers and 10,000 auxiliaries, how can they resist the 200,000 Hu people going south? In case Yunzhou can't stop the 200,000 Hu people going south, then the 30,000 horses of Zhang Zimian who is in Shuozhou at this time will probably be wrapped in dumplings! (To be continued......)