Chapter 633: The Tiger Descends the Mountain

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Li Jing waited for two days, and finally waited for the Yinshan Tatar Alliance's black car Murowei chieftain Kutu.

"Chief Wei of the black car room Kutu, knock on the king of Andong County!" A face with a cold red face is on the back of a tiger, a beard on his face, and his long hair is knotted behind his back, but when facing Li Jing, his eyes are respectful and cautious.

"Please come all the way to the dusty general, I really have something to ask for, thank you for your hard work." Li Jing smiled at Kutu. Although the Yinshan Tatar Alliance has millions of people, it is also because of the attachment of the Tang Dynasty in the early years, and the Tang Dynasty assigned the Yinshan area to them for grazing, so that it can develop and grow so incidentally. Compared with the Tang Dynasty, this loose tribal alliance is not strong, with the Tang Dynasty's Zhenwu, Datong and Youzhou armies in the south, Xi and Khitan in the east, and Tiele and other tribes in the north, each of which is stronger than them.

Even Li Keyong, who they had taken in before, was now already luring wolves into the house, mainly anti-guest, recruiting and attracting a large number of Uighurs and other small tribes, and in turn constantly harassing the Yinshan Murowei, they were unprepared and miserable. This time, I came here in the hope of looking for Li Jing's help. He knew that although Li Keyong was fierce, he was not Li Jing's opponent. Whether it is the Datong Army or the Lu Long Army, or even the Zhenwu Army and the Tiande Army, they all have an intricate relationship with Li Jing, as long as Li Jing is willing to take action, they don't have to worry about Li Keyong's attack. Besides, they are now being attacked and harassed by Li Jingke, and a large reason is also caused by Li Jing sending people to deal with Li Keyong in the first place.

Li Jing knew very well the reason for the sudden picture. Yinshan Tatar Union. It is dominated by the two major tribes of Usugu and Heichezi. The leader of Wusugu is also the chief of the alliance, Hebule was awarded the title of the Tang Dynasty's Zhengsanpin Shanghuaihua General, and the Heichezi chieftain Hutu was awarded the title of the Tang Dynasty's Zhongsanpin Shanggui General De. The Huaihua General and the Naturalization General are both martial ranks specially granted by the imperial court to those Huyi leaders who returned to the interior, which are equivalent to the positions of the champion general and the Yunlu general.

Li Jing asked Zhao Jiang to bring a bottle of good Wuliangye, personally poured a cup for Hu Tu, and handed it to him. said with a smile: "It's not a secret, this king is going to kill directly along the Luanshui River Valley to King Xi's tooth tent." Then take the road straight into Liucheng, Liaoxi, and the White Wolf City. But this road is really not easy to walk, I heard that you know this road? ”

Kutu nodded, and on the way here, he heard General Tang say this. He did know about this valley road, but this road was very difficult, and he didn't expect that Li Jing would actually take this road. Unexpectedly, Li Jing actually wanted to send troops to point directly at King Xi's tooth tent.

"You help me show me the way and help me defeat Xi and Khitan, then after the war, I will unite the Tiande Army, the Zhenwu Army, the Datong Army, and the Lu Long Army to attack Yinshan Mountain. Kill Li Keyong. Moreover, you can choose to stay in Yinshan when the time comes. You can also choose to move to Liaoxi, or Xidi. Li Jing smiled and threw an extremely tempting chip. The land of Xi is extremely rich in water and grass.

Hearing Li Jing's assurance, Hu Tu was extremely excited, Li Jing's current strength can be said to stabilize the East China Sea, with his guarantee, there is no need to worry about Li Ke anymore.

"There is indeed a passage in the Luanshui River Valley, but this road is a roadless road, and many places are not passable by cars and horses, especially in the current ice and snow weather, which is even more difficult to travel. It is at least 400 miles away from going out of the valley before reaching the flatlands. ”

Is there a way back? No! "Give up the extra baggage and travel lightly!" Jing Xiang made a suggestion to Li Jing again. Each person brought only ten days' dry rations, and threw away everything except horses and weapons! Break the cauldron and fight against the water.

After throwing away the other supplies, Li Jing only had ten days of supplies left.

Ten days to march four hundred miles, if it is said to be an ordinary situation, having two horses is naturally not a problem. But now it is definitely not easy to walk a bird path and beast road, open a road through the mountains, and walk 400 miles, or in such a cold season of rain and snow.

But now, Li Jing has no way out.

Kutu led the way with the Tatars, and Li Wei led the scout battalion to reconnoiter around, and the engineer battalion opened the road in the mountains, built bridges when encountering water, cut thorns and thorns, and walked as he went.

This road was ten times more difficult than Li Jing expected, and the army walked among the wild grass and rocks in the ice and snow, and all the way they walked on the towering ground on both sides of the dangerous shore. And they had to cross the icy river, going north and south, east and west. There are no people on the road except for birds and beasts.

If it weren't for Kutu's confident assertion that the road that had been opened up along the way was the passage, many generals would have begun to suspect that Kutu had colluded with the Khitans and came to lead the Zhenguo army around in circles in this barren mountain range.

On the march in such bad conditions, there were constantly people in the army who were sick, people who fell behind, people who fell off cliffs, and people who fell into the water

Sick to death, falling to death, drowning, attrition, one by one elite soldiers did not die on the battlefield, but died in this poor mountain and bad water, Li Jing's heart was extremely painful, but he could only face like iron, gritted his teeth and led the army all the way forward.

Snowflakes fly!

Large chunks of flying snow fell leisurely from the sky, clinging to the cloaks and faces of the marching soldiers, slowly turning into white vapor, and before long, it would freeze and solidify on the robes and armor.

Fortunately, Li Jing had been preparing for this dispatch for a long time, and all the soldiers wore cotton jackets wrapped in cotton wool, cotton gloves, and large fur with waterproof hoods. Moreover, the army carries canned food, fish and other high-protein foods that can replenish calories.

The army marched in such a severe cold, but the soldiers froze to death because of the cold, but few of them were frostbitten. This situation was envied by the Tatars such as Kutu, who wore leather robes, but the leather robes were not as heavy as the cotton jackets, and they were not as warm as the cotton jackets. Li Jing rewarded each of the Tatars with a set, which made them happy. Zhilu said that this is made of white folded cloth, which is even rarer.

It has been fifteen days since Lulongsai came out of the fortress, and after walking among the mountains for half a month, people are going crazy.

The supplies have almost run out, and even the warhorses have lost hundreds.

According to the plan, it should have walked out of the Luanshui River Valley today. But now. But they were still walking in the mountains. Li Jing's face couldn't help but be full of worry. If you go in the wrong direction in such a mountain, you will have to drill a ravine for several days if you don't get it right.

The weather was gloomy and gloomy, and it was already snowing in a blink of an eye, seeing that it was about to get dark, Li Jing sighed secretly, the team had to stop for the night. In such a mountain, walking in the dark is looking for death. No matter how anxious Li Jing is. I don't dare to walk at night.

Just as he was about to give the order to stop the march, a sudden flash of fire appeared in the distance, and then suddenly more and more torches appeared in the distance.

The orange-red torches were a little dazzling under the gray sky, and Li Jing was in a trance.

Suddenly, there was a burst of cheers in the distance.

Hearing this, cheers began to be heard in the team, and everyone understood what had happened.

At this moment, Li Jing was a little stunned.

"County King, come out, we're out!!" Levi galloped on. Shouting loudly and full of excitement.

It's really coming to this moment. Li Jing's heart was very calm.

After half a month, I finally came out.

The front out of the valley is the plain, that is, the Luanping County of the later generations, from here has been on the Pinggang Road, not far to the east is the Chengde of the later generations, to the east to Pingquan, has arrived at the Lulong Road with better road conditions. The situation of Lulong Road is better than that of Hiraoka Road. Especially after arriving in Chengde, it is already a plain area to the north. Not only is the road better, but it is already the backyard of the Xi people, there are Xi tribes living along the Laoha River, Li Jing only needs to go north along the river, not only the road is easy to walk, but also can be replenished on the spot along the way, and you can kill all the way to the Xi King's sweat tent.

"King of the county, there is also good news, the Yinshan Tatar Usugu Department Hebul has arrived with 10,000 Tatar cavalry, and it is at the bottom of the mountain."

After Hu Tu arrived at Li Jing's camp and accepted the task of leading the way, he asked Li Jing to send a letter back to Yinshan to deliver a letter to Hebule, and asked him to lead the cavalry of the tribe to respond. Li Jing knew the meaning of Lu Dao Hutu, he was showing his mind to Li Jing, participating in the battle, and he was also sneaking up on King Xi's tooth tent behind his back, as long as he walked out, this was an inevitable victory. The Tatars joined, in fact, to share the cake.

However, Li Jing accepted this very happily, and with more strength, he would naturally be able to make the troops in his hands stronger and more powerful against Xi people.

Hearing that Hebule had arrived from Yinshan so quickly, Li Jing couldn't help but show a happy expression.

From Pingluan, then to Chengde, then to Pingquan, then to Pinggang, and then to Ningcheng, where King Xi's tooth tent is located. The road will be smooth, but from now on, the battle will also begin.

Li Jing led the army out of the mountain pass, not far from the bottom of the mountain, where there was a Xi tribe that lived for the winter, about a thousand tents.

But at this time, this winter land has been miserable.

Under the twilight sky, the snow was still falling, but the camp was already stained red with blood.

"There were about 5,000 Xi men, and Hebul led 10,000 Tatar knights to kill them all. It is said that they came all the way from Yin Mountain, and this is the ninth tribe they slaughtered! Levi reported to Coco Li.

Hebul's actions were very cruel, in order to avoid leaking the news, along the way, every tribe he encountered was directly raided and slaughtered by him, and he didn't even ask for valuable slaves.

The corners of Li Jing's eyes twitched a few times, but he didn't blame this ally. While it's a bit brutal, that's what war is. Even in some ways, Li Jing has to praise him for doing a good job and not leaking news.

A bald man in a wolf's helmet wrapped in a bearskin robe greeted him with a group of Tatars, with a hammer in his arms and a thick-backed machete on his back. The whole person, with blood stains on the blood that has not dried, is like a butcher.

The silver wolf roared out from behind Li Jing's horse, the green wolf eyes stared fiercely at Hebule, and the nose wrinkled vigilantly under the long fur, and let out a low roar.

The first time he saw a wolf as big as a horse, Hebule's face couldn't help but change, and he subconsciously went to hold the short handle of the double-edged battle axe on his waist, but when he saw the slight smile of the cow green man on the tall horse behind the silver wolf, he immediately realized that this wolf was the wolf of Li Jing, the king of Anton County, and a somewhat honest smile appeared on his face at the moment, and he smiled in a rough voice: "Yinshan Tatar Usu Guhebul is here to welcome the king of Anton County!" ”

Li Jing immediately looked at Hebula and already saw that this person had a shrewdness that he didn't have on the surface. smiled at the moment, jumped off the horse, drank the silver wolf back, stepped forward, helped the kneeling Hebul, helped him pat the snowflakes on his body, and said with a smile: "General Huaihua, I have been looking up for a long time." This king is also grateful to General Huaihua for leading the Tatar warriors to help! ”

"This is what the last general should do, the last general has prepared supplies for the army of the county king, and the camp has prepared hot water and hot meals." Hebul said with a smile.

Li Jing nodded, holding Hebul and Kutu's arms, "Let's go, let's drink three cups first!" (To be continued......)