Chapter 635: Adventure
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The horn whimpered, the iron hoof thundered!
The Tatar cavalry and the cavalry of the national army of Datang Town galloped from all directions, and on the white snow, all the Tatar cavalry and Tang cavalry were wearing white cloaks, far away from the snow between heaven and earth.
It wasn't until they were close that countless snow powder splashed and hooves thundered that the people of King Xi's tooth tent discovered that this divine army had descended from the sky.
The tall Tang character banner appeared in the heaven and earth, hunting and fluttering in the wind and snow! Immediately behind the Tang character flag is Li Jing's handsome flag!
King Xi's tooth tent was in a mess, and this King of Xi people on the Tuhe Plain was panicked, frightened, screaming, and warling!
At this time, Xi Wang Tu Dong Su struggled to get up from the bed.
This old man, who has been in charge of the Xi clan for more than 30 years, is full of red light at this time, if it weren't for his thin body, he wouldn't be able to see that he had been bedridden for more than ten years before. However, the leaders of the Xi clan in the royal city all know that this is just a return to the light.
After panicking, fear, and anxiety about the suddenly arriving Tang army and Tatar cavalry, Tudong Su finally recognized the situation.
Xi has been reduced to a vassal of the Khitan, and has been split into East and West Xi, originally he was still thinking that maybe the brothers of Shi Se and Go could get back together before he died. But now, the arrival of Tang Qi made him finally understand that everything was just his wishful thinking.
Xi after his death. Eventually, it will be divided.
For his son Shi Se's decision to follow in the footsteps of the Khitan. Tu Dong Su also vaguely agreed in his heart. In his opinion. The Tang Dynasty had weakened, and for a hundred years it could not even control the three towns of Hebei. Over the years, the Khitan gradually rose to become the most powerful clan in Northeast China, surpassing Silla, Balhae and Goguryeo.
But now, Tang killed Li Jing into Liaodong, first took the Liaodong Peninsula, and defeated the Bohai Sea. Defeated Goguryeo again. Now that it is killing Liaoxi, the Khitan does not have the upper hand. Especially in the eyes, the Tang army actually killed all the way to King Xi's tooth tent, which finally made Tu Dongsu see clearly, if the Khitan is a wolf, then the Tang army is a tiger.
The tiger is out of the cage and unstoppable.
Xi is weakened after all, since this is already the case, then even if you want to find a master to rely on, you should find a stronger one.
Li Jing's strong rise in the Northeast. It's unstoppable.
Dangxiang, Tuyuhun, Anqing, Sage, Tiele and others have all followed Li Jing, and now the Tatars have also followed Li Jing's banner.
Mockery. Maybe it's time to abandon the Khitan and invest in Li Jing.
On the twentieth day of the first month of the fifth year of Qianfu, Li Jing led 10,000 elite soldiers of the Silver Spear Jie Army and the Jinjia Shengjie Army, plus 10,000 cavalry of the Yinshan Tatars, crossed the Yanshan Mountain Range, swept all the way, and killed the Xi Wang's tooth tent in the upper reaches of the Tuhe River.
In the heavy snow, the divine soldiers descended from the sky, and they were taken by surprise and caught Xi people off guard.
However, the Xi people did not fight back desperately as Li Jing expected, on the contrary, as soon as Li Jing arrived, a team of Xi people in the royal city came out of the city to meet, and Xi Wang Tu Dong Su was willing to surrender to Li Jing.
The Xi people didn't play any tricks, the gate on the earthen city wall of the royal city was wide open, and the king of Xi Tu Dong Su personally led his troops out of the city to surrender.
There are about 50,000 people in the city, including about 3,000 soldiers and horses, and nearly 10,000 young and strong herdsmen.
Under the order of King Xi, Qi disarmed and abandoned his weapons, opened the door and surrendered.
This result caught both the Tang army and the Tatar army, which were preparing for a big battle, a little unprepared.
However, Li Jing is still very happy about this result. King Xi's tooth tent is not a simple camp, but a city with a high earthen wall. If the whole people are mobilized, tens of thousands of defenders can be gathered to fight. This will be a difficult bone for Li Jing. But now, surrendering without a fight is naturally the best result.
In order to express the sincerity of surrender, Tudong Su announced to the Xi people and the Tang army that he would pass on the position of the great chief of Xi to Congzhu, and handed over Shi Se's Khitan wife to Li Jing.
Cow dung was burning in the fire pond, water was boiling in the stove on the fire, and the faint fragrance of mare's milk tea was wafting out with the heat.
Although there are earthen walls in the tent of King Xi, the inside of the wall is basically full of tents, and only in the center of the palace called King Xi is there a small inner city with earthen houses with mud walls. However, compared with the Central Plains, this Xi Palace's palace is indeed too simple, and it is even inferior to the mansions of ordinary people in Dengzhou.
Li Jing sat in the position that originally belonged to King Xi, and the leaders of the Xi people, such as King Xi Tu Dong Su and Yi Gu, lived on the side of Li Jing's seat.
Shi Se's wife had been released by Li Jing at this time, and took her daughter Yue Liduo to sit on the side and make tea for everyone.
Li Jing stared at this woman wearing leather armor and carrying a bow and sword with some interest, and when she first saw Li Jing, she also shouted that she wanted to die with Li Jing. Many people in the tent saw Li Jing looking at Yelu Qiuyan, and they all thought that Li Jing coveted this hot-tempered Khitan young woman.
Yelu Qiuyan is less than thirty years old, and although she has already given birth to a child, she has a grassland flavor that is completely different from that of a woman in the Central Plains.
However, Li Jing is not coveting her beauty, Li Jing is just curious about her identity.
She is the daughter of Yelu Yun Deshi, his daughter Yue Liduo, who is historically married to the third son of her third brother, Abaoji. And Abaoji is the famous Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji in history. Yue Liduo is also the famous queen Shu Luping, the queen mother who broke her wrist to bury Abaoji after Abaoji's death, and then became the regent.
Yue Liduo was just a little girl, and at this time, she was a little nervous and scared to hide behind her mother, holding the corner of her mother's skirt.
Yelu Qiuyan squatted on the ground to make tea, but it was very simple to put the tea leaves into the stove and boil them with milk.
Feeling Li Jing's gaze, she would occasionally glare back at Li Jing. After the tea was boiled, she poured the tea into the cup and handed a cup to Li Jing. Li Jing put the fishy milk tea aside and let the heat rise.
"From here, along the Tuhe River all the way to the north, you can go directly to the prairie on the south bank of Huangshui. There, the Diera are at war with the Khan of Hind, and if we suddenly kill them in the back, we will definitely catch them off guard. Tu Dong Su said: "Honorable county king, our Xi clan is willing to gather tribal warriors and kill the Khitans by surprise. ”
Although Tu Dong Su has been bedridden for many years, he has always been the king of Xi. Since he changed the court and voted for Li Jing instead of Shekhitan, then he will no longer have both ends of the head. He even abandoned his son Shi Se, who had been cultivated for many years, for the sake of the Xi family, what else was there to be reluctant to. He took the initiative to propose to attack the Khitan, also to show Li Jing his determination to return.
Li Jing looked at the information provided by the Xi people, and on a parchment scroll, it marked the territory and population of the Khitan tribes that the Xi people had mastered.
Regarding King Xi's proposal to ask for war, Li Jing did not immediately agree. Although he believed that King Xi was sincerely attached, and he also understood that he wanted to accept the name, but the current situation. When King Xi summoned the warriors of all departments, I was afraid that the Khitan would also know the news.
What's more, the goal of Li Jing's trip is neither to destroy Xi nor to copy the Khitan lair.
Li Jing is a person with a clear goal, and his goal is the battlefield in western Liaoning.
Steadily and steadily solve the enemy in Liaoxi, and take Liaoxi is the most important thing at the moment.
Although it is said that the Xi people surrendered without a fight, and were willing to help Li Jing copy the back road of the Khitan, this temptation is indeed not small. But there is also a lot of risk in it, if they don't go to the battlefield in Liaoxi, then the war in Liaoxi will be difficult to resolve for a long time. Moreover, in the current weather, it is really risky to brave the heavy snow and march hundreds of miles to fight the Khitan.
After pondering for a long time, Li Jing said to Tu Dong Su: "King Xi is so well aware of righteousness, this king is really grateful." But for now, our first priority is to take Liaoxi. To annihilate the Khitans in Liaoxi, the help of King Xi is still needed in this regard. After all, Shi Se also led 10,000 Xi people in Dushan. I hope that King Xi will persuade Shi Se to lead his army to join him, after all, it is the shore to turn back. ”
Li Jing asked King Xi to gather all the young men in the tooth tent with a total of 10,000 horsemen to follow the Tang army to Dushan, and at the same time, he also asked King Xi to send a message to Quzhu, asking him to gather all the tribes of Xi, and then go to Dushan to converge.
Bringing these people with him, firstly, is to increase the momentum, and secondly, Li Jing is also to prevent ridicule from repeating and making small movements behind his back.
In the big tent, King Xi has already retreated with the rest of Xi people.
Hebule got up and said to Li Jing: "King Jun, I think that sending troops to the Khitans at this time has a great chance of taking them by surprise. If the king of the county believes that he is below, he is willing to lead the cavalry of his headquarters to Huangshui. ”
The Tatars were very active in this operation.
Li Jing likes their positivity, but also knows that they will not work for nothing. If you are willing to work so hard, the more you will naturally want to get.
He smiled at Hebule, "If the general insists, then the king is willing to give the general this opportunity." ”
"Don't worry, the king of the county, we will definitely give the people of Diera a good look!" Hebul said loudly.
After Hebule left, Zhou Dewei said: "The Tatars went to the Khitan, but I am afraid that things will not go so smoothly. The Khitan are not Xi people, and now that the Khitan is in a civil war, they must be very well guarded. ”
Jing Xiang smiled: "So what, this is the Tatars themselves are going to go." For us, if the Tatars succeeded, they could inflict heavy losses on the Diera. If they are defeated, it doesn't matter. ”
"The road is chosen by them, and they naturally have to bear the consequences." Li Jing chuckled, "The Tatars are not small in their ambitions, so it's okay to let them go deep into the Khitan, and they can contain part of the Khitan forces." Let them suffer a little loss, and they will only follow us more obediently in the future. ”
No matter what the foreign race is, Li Jing is on guard against them. For the time being, they can be trusted, but Li Jing will never really believe them. Racial barriers cannot be easily ignored.
Li Jing took a sip of tea, his brows furrowed, this tea really doesn't look good, and it tastes even more unpleasant.
"Have a good rest today and set off tomorrow morning at dawn. There are still 300 miles to go! (To be continued......)