After the banquet was dispersed, Kutu said to Hebule: "Brother let the Shatuo Department stay in my realm today, for a long time, it will be a big trouble for my Tatar henchmen, people do not hurt the tiger, the tiger is harmful to people's hearts, brother must not guard against it." That Li Keyong was already a general who rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, and now our department is taking a great risk to contain him here. I borrowed food from him several times, but he was not satisfied, but kept recruiting troops and horses, and kept borrowing food from me. Now that the long winter is coming, there is no surplus food in our department. ”

Hebul frowned, "Li Guochang and his son are heroes in the desert and heroes in the Central Plains. Suffering from this hardship today, we should treat it favorably to repay the care of the Shatuo tribe at the beginning, and we must not be enemies, otherwise it will spread and make the world laugh. ”

"I know that my brother once worshipped Li Guochang, so Li Guochang can be regarded as a credible person. But this Li Ke is different, ruthless, but not a good person. I heard that Li Keyong had a batch of fine armor and weapons in his hands, and there were quite a few of them. At today's banquet, it was proposed that they take out some of the collateral in exchange for food, but what do you think of his reaction? He only wanted to borrow our food for nothing, and then use it to recruit soldiers and horses, and then equip him with good armor and weapons, but he refused to give it to us at all. I think he has to be guarded from taking over. ”

"Isn't that going to happen?" Hebula was still a little hesitant.

"Brother, we treat each other sincerely, but I am afraid that he will give birth to my Tatar heart. Think about how Tang Guo treated Shatuo Li Ke with father and son, but didn't they still kill officials and rebel in the end? Li Keyong is a white-eyed wolf, no matter how good he is, he can't raise it. There is a way that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and if you keep him here, I am afraid that sooner or later it will be a disaster. ”

Hebul was also said to be a little upset in his heart, "But now that we have taken his father and son here, how can we open our mouths and drive him away?" ”

Suddenly, he took a step forward. He said in Hebule's ear: "Big brother, do you remember the previous Tang envoy?" ”

"They're still there?" Hebuler exclaimed.

The envoy of the Tang people mentioned by Kutu. It is the secret spy of the Zhenguo Army's Xiao Cavalry Division. After Li Keyong escaped, Li Jing sent a secret spy deep into the desert to hunt down Li Keyong. However, he assassinated him twice, but he failed to succeed. Later, Li Ke used Mobei, the precautions were stricter, and the opportunity to make a move was more difficult. After the matter was reported to Li Jing, Li Jing ordered them to contact the Tatar Ministry, preparing to provoke the Tatars to attack Li Keyong.

However, the initial contact did not yield the desired results. Hebule directly rejected Li Jing's envoy. However, the envoy did not give up, and had been lobbying Kutu all this time, and now he finally said that he had moved Kutu, although Kutu was able to agree because the messenger promised him that he was willing to give him a good reward.

Kutu nodded.

"Didn't you hear that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty had pardoned Li Guochang and others?" Hebule had also inquired that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty had exempted the captured Li Guochang and others from their crimes, and although they were reduced and demoted, at least they were able to survive, and they also took up military positions and led the Shatuo Department to fight in Xichuan.

Although the Tang Emperor pardoned Li Guochang and others. But there is no explicit decree to pardon Li Keyong. Hu Tu immediately replied, "That Tang envoy is the envoy of Li Jing of the Zhenguo Army. ”

Hebul took a deep breath. Zhenguojun Li Jing's five words put a lot of pressure on him. Although he is far away from Yin Mountain, he still knows the name of Li Jing, a newly rising young general in Tang Guozhong.

"The messenger is in my tent, and how shall I call for it?"

Hebul pondered for a moment, and then nodded his head. He can not care too much about the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but Li Jing must be treated carefully. Li Jing is now serving as the commander of the Zhenguo Army, the commander of the Lulong Army, the commander of the Datong Army, and the protector of the Anton Dadu Protectorate. Dengzhou and Liaodong are far away from him, but Lu Long's army and Datong's army are only a mountain away from him, especially the Datong army, which is opposite him. And his other neighbor, Yu Xuan, who is the envoy of Zhenwu Festival, is Li Jing's teacher.

At present, the entire south of Yinshan is Li Jing's people, and even Qibi, Helian, Sage, and Anqing Zhuhu are almost Li Jing's subordinates. Once Li Jing is really provoked, in case Li Jing sends troops out of the fortress, I am afraid that it will be a disaster.

The messenger disguised as Kutu's own soldier soon arrived, and the two sides saluted.

"I don't know what Li Dashuai means?" Hebul asked.

The envoy smiled, "The handsome asked me to say hello to Mo Helu on his behalf." Dedicate Li Keyong's head to the marshal, and the marshal is willing to give 100,000 yuan! Li Ke's sons, wives, generals, brothers, etc., each have 3,000 yuan, whether they are dead or alive. The rest of the Shatuo soldiers, each alive ten times, dead five times, women, dependents, children, etc., whether dead or alive, each two times. ”

Hebula just calculated in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a little dry throat and a violent heartbeat. If you can use Li Ke to catch it all, you can exchange it for at least three or four hundred thousand yuan, even for Hebula, this is also a huge amount of money.

"If I kill Li Keyong for Li Dashuai, I will ask for 500,000 yuan, and this money will have to be exchanged for salt, tea, cloth, and ironware." At this time, Hebul couldn't care about the relationship with Li Guochang back then.

"No problem, of course, you have to kill Li Keyong and exterminate the department. The credit of my handsome family is all over the world, don't worry. As for the money of my handsome, it is the richest in Dengzhou, and you don't have to worry about this. ”

"After the matter is completed, I hope that Li Dashuai will enter the imperial court and help me seek the position of governor of Yinshan." Hebul made another request.

"As long as Li Keyong's head is sent to Dengzhou, Li Dashuai will naturally meet your requirements." The messenger readily agreed, without even hesitation.

Hebule's breathing was a little heavy, and he clenched his fists and said in a low voice: "Okay, a word is a certainty!" ”

"A word is a certainty, and I will wait for Mo He's good news in the future!" With that, the messenger departed.

Hu Tu smiled: "Li Guochang is just a brave man, and although he is saving his life now, he is no longer worried." Only this Li Keyong is brave, fierce and abnormal. I heard that three women have recently come to Eilechuan, who are extremely beautiful, and many people tried to beat them before, but they all lost their meals. I inquired clearly, these three women were originally famous killers in Chang'an. It's better to send someone to ask these three people to make a move, kill Li Keyong first, and then directly send troops to destroy the Shatuo people. ”

Hebula shook his head, "If you can rely on the assassins to kill Li Keyong, Li Jing himself will have already made a move." I guess they've already used it. And failed. In my opinion. First of all, I temporarily agreed to Li Ke borrowing grain. Then wait until the weather clears. Ask him to hunt, and when he is hunting, he secretly sets up ambushes and takes the opportunity to kill him. ”

"The amount is small, not a gentleman, non-toxic and not a husband. It was Li Keyong who was disrespectful to us first, and my brother didn't hesitate anymore. ”

After pondering for a long time, he finally made up his mind.

On the second day, it rained and the sky cleared.

Hebul sent someone to spread the word to Li Keyong. Tell him that he can borrow some food from Shatuo first, and wait the rest for some time, and then ask him to hunt with him tomorrow.

Li Ke used Zhaokang Junli, Li Siyuan, Li Sien and Liu to discuss.

"In the words of the Tutu at the banquet yesterday, there was no room for me to wait, and there was a meaning to drive away Shatuo, and it was expected that he would have the heart to seek me. Yesterday I refused to borrow food, and I was embarrassed. Today, he suddenly agreed to borrow grain, and invited me to hunt together tomorrow, for fear that it would be deceitful, so I had to guard against it. Liu had already known what had happened at the banquet yesterday. So he was worried.

Li Siyuan agreed, "I think it was a reception banquet before. This time I am afraid that it is a Hongmen banquet, tomorrow I will bring 300 fine horses to ride around, which can ensure that the spring is worry-free. ‘

Kang Junli shook his head, "You must not lead troops to go, if you bring troops to escort you, I am afraid that Lianhe Bule will not be enough to defend me." It's better to just pretend to be sick and let one of us participate in the hunt on our behalf. ”

Liu said: "If the Tatars really have the intention of murder, then it is not advisable to stay here for a long time, so they simply leave tonight and leave at night, saying that there is an urgent matter in the ministry and they need to return early." ”

When Li Keyong was in a dilemma, the guards suddenly came to report, and someone asked to see him.

brought people forward, but it was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy with a dirty name. This man, however, was recognized by Li Keyong, who was a Uighur. His father, Zhang Junzheng, defected to the Tatars in his early years, and now he is a general. In the early years, Li Keyong and Zhang Junzheng competed in archery together, and the two had some friendship.

"What's the urgency of the dirty?"

Zhang Yanluo gasped and said: "The general is leaving quickly, I, Aye, overheard that Hebul and Kutu are plotting to take the opportunity to murder the general when they hunt tomorrow." They have already made a deal with Li Dashuai of the Tang State, to take your head and give it to him, and exchange the lives of the Shatuo people for 500,000 yuan in money and the position of governor of Yinshan. ”

Li Keyong was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked Zhang Yanluo. He immediately ordered Li Siyuan to immediately escort Liu and the others first, and then took Kang Junli and others to abandon the camp and leave.

"No way!" There was a sudden objection from the tent, but it was Liu who spoke up. "Husband, the Tatars must have made a deal with Li Jing, and if they flee at this time, even if they flee now, once the Tatars transfer troops to come, it will not work. In this case, it is better to simply strike first. ”

"First strike?" Li Keyong was stunned for a moment.

"It's just the people and horses of Hebul headquarters, 5,000 tents, tens of thousands of people, and only a few thousand soldiers and horses. We have a thousand horsemen, and it is not impossible to defeat them with such a sudden attack. ”

Li Ke used this moment to calm down and think about it, and it was true. If this battle can be won, it will be of great benefit to them to capture Hebule, Kutu and others. Even if they can't catch the two, they can capture a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, grain and grass, and even get a lot of population and troops to replenish it.

In the middle of the night, Li Ke led a thousand Shatuo elite horsemen, suddenly attacked, and attacked the Tatar camp. The Tatars did not expect at all that the Shatuo people would actually make the first move. Quan Bule originally intended to do it tomorrow, so in order to prevent the grass from startling the snake, the camp did not strengthen its precautions, and everything was as usual. Who knew that Li Keyong was the first to strike.

Li Keyong, Li Siyuan, Kang Junli, Li Cunzhang, Li Sien, Liu Shi, etc. were all dressed in armor, and a thousand men and horses fought fiercely and directly took the Chinese army. The Tatars were in chaos, and Hebule, Kutu, etc., could not resist it, and fled in defeat.

Hebul and Kutu fled with only a few hundred men and horses, and Li Ke led his troops to charge in the middle of the night, and by dawn, as many as two more than 1,000 Tatar soldiers abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and more than 20,000 were captured, and a large number of grain, grass and equipment were captured.

After the war, the battlefield was cleaned, and a soldier came to report, and Zhang Junzheng came to vote. Li Keyong was overjoyed, but saw that Zhang Junzheng had lost his armor and had fallen to the ground unconscious with seven arrows in his body. When the military doctor woke up, he was about to die. Zhang Junzheng took Zhang's dirty hand and said to Li Keyong: "Hebul found out that I leaked the secret, killed my whole family, and only this son can survive under his knees, and now he is entrusted to the public, and he will take revenge on this son in the future." After saying that, he died in anger, Li Ke buried Zhang Junzheng with a thick burial, accepted Zhang Dirt as his adopted son, and changed his name to Li Cunxin.

Li Keyong returned to the Shatuo camp with the booty and prisoners of war, and in order to prevent the Tatars from retaliating, he retreated all the way to the foot of Yin Mountain, set up camp, and prepared for defense with all his might! (To be continued......)