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Abaoji held the scimitar silver wolf's head knife hanging from his waist, and said with a wry smile: "At the beginning, Li Jing attacked Liaodong from Shandong Fuhai, but it didn't take long to take Liaodong and Liaoxi. I remember that in the face of the attack of the Qin army at that time, didn't many people in the tribe say that the bitter cold of Liaodong would directly knock the Qin army down? ”

When Yelu Iwamu was about to try to answer his nephew's question, another cavalryman appeared in the thick fog, and he shouted at them on his horse: "Yu Yue, Shali, please go to the palace of the Chinese army marshal immediately." ”

"What's the matter?"

The Khitan wolf rider who reported the news shook his head, and the wolf scalp helmet on his head immediately shook with it.

"Yi Lijin urgently summoned the generals to discuss the matter, and there was a big trouble."

"What's going on?"

"The Qin people, the Qin people have increased their troops again. The news we have just received is that the Qin people have sent a large number of additional troops and horses to our northwest, and it is said that there are more than 100,000 people, and there may be 200,000 horses. ”

Abaoji secretly took a breath, feeling a wave of horror in his heart, what he was most worried about finally appeared.

Led by Yelu Iwaki, Abaoji and the knight followed his horse and galloped across the vast white mist-shrouded plain.

Marshal of the Left Coalition Army of the Tribal Alliance, the de facto first person of the Khitan today, and the father of the current Khitan Khan, is now the tenth Khitan Yili Jian, Yelu Tiera, who is sixty-four years old this year. He has a black beard, his eyes are still sharp, and he is full of the confident military general style that can boast of serving as the tenth military commander of the Khitan. He grows tall and big-headed horses. Tiger's back. At the age of twelve, he officially joined the tribal army and followed his father into battle. Capture nine enemy heads in the first battle. At the age of thirteen. In a big battle with the Murwei people, he led his team of 100 people, broke straight into the middle army of the Murwei army, beheaded the generals and captured the flag, and won the unanimous praise and commendation of the Khitan tribes, and at the age of fifteen, he was officially promoted to the commander of a thousand commanders, and at the age of eighteen. has become one of the rare dozen commanders in the Khitan army. As early as thirty years ago, he once commanded a Khitan coalition army of 100,000.

This former Khitan warrior is now living in a big house made of ice and snow in the Yan Mansion, and in the cold winter, living in a house made of ice and snow is actually much warmer than in those wooden houses that are ventilated everywhere. However, at this time, the number one warrior in the hearts of the Khitan people was solemn, and Abaoji even keenly noticed that his uncle's hand was trembling slightly.

A strong man in full cloth was standing on one side, he was the son of his uncle's grandfather, Tirah, Jeruopus. The king of the Khitan Southern Courtyard. This is also a new official position established after the Khitan ended several chaos in recent years, and it is Yi Lijin's two deputies. The king of the northern court was in charge of the Khitan tribal army, while the king of the southern court was in charge of the army of slaves, prisoners of war and mercenaries of other tribes under the Khitan tribes, and also led the affairs of the tribe. The power was so great that it was now held by the Tiera family, which was held by his two sons.

Yelu Evensi is not only the king of the Southern Courtyard, but also one of the twenty-four captains of the Khitan today. According to the old rules, the Khitan twenty tribes, each tribe has a 10,000 commander, generally served by the tribe's Yili Jin, who commanded the tribe's soldiers and horses in wartime. As the most powerful Dierabu, they have five places for ten thousand commanders, except for one who is served by the Great Dielie Mansion Yili Sumire and the Diela Bu Yili Sumire, there are four more. Yelu Couples is the youngest of the four great captains of the Diera Division, and there are originally three more, namely Yelu Shiru, Jelu Sathorn, and Jelu Gu. Now these three positions are held by Yelu Wansi and Yelu Iwamu, and there is still one vacancy, and it is said that Yelu Tiera intends to choose between Jelu Abaoji, the son of Jerustar, and Yelu Slip, the son of Jelu Sharu. Whether it is Brother Hua or Abaoji, if they can be elected as the captain, they will become the youngest captains in the history of the Khitan.

Yelu is the commander of ten thousand horses, and he is also the commander of ten thousand horses. Under his command are 10,000 Dierabu cavalry, the real Khitan iron cavalry. The steppe tribes have always been heavy cavalry and light infantry, in addition to the general cavalry, are auxiliaries, and the most rearly are infantry. In the Khitan, not all cavalry, there were also infantry. The infantry, on the other hand, was basically made up of slaves, prisoners of war, and other tribesmen.

Ten thousand cavalry commanders, the entire Khitan, there are only eight.

Yelu thought of a king of the Southern Courtyard, and his subordinates were mainly tribal soldiers except for the Khitan, but he was a captain of ten thousand horsemen. It can be seen that this person is not simple, in fact, he is also the youngest Khitan 10,000 cavalry commander in the past 100 years, as early as ten years ago, he held the important position of 10,000 cavalry commander at the age of twenty-five, and has been commanding the most elite cavalry of the Khitan Diera Division.

"Even, is your information reliable?"

Ten Ren Yili Sumire's lips trembled slightly, and her two hands pressed on the table were also trembling.

"50,000 new soldiers and horses, as well as 100,000 people, have been gathering in Buyeo since the autumn, and now, they are suddenly moving north, moving closer to the Qin army in the direction of Da'an, where Nanshui and Shumoshui converge." Yelu said with a flat expression.

"50,000 new soldiers and horses, 100,000 people." Abaoji's face became more and more ugly, and his head shook slightly, in such a season, the Qin army suddenly added so many soldiers and horses to Da'an in their rear, and they braved the bad weather to send troops, and they were already able to fully reveal their intentions. They will secure the defense of Da'an, and they will trap them.

"Sumire!" Abaoji stepped forward and spoke loudly. "The last general thinks that we should break through immediately, and that we must disperse our troops and horses, preferably small troops of about a thousand men to break through the siege. The Qin people have completely blocked our rear passage, even if we can survive this winter, there is still a spring and a summer, and we can't wait for the best time next autumn. In the current situation, it is completely impossible to defeat the Qin army in the Bohai Sea. We should prepare as soon as possible, since we can't defeat them, then we should retreat as soon as possible, retreat now, although it is risky, but the Qin people cannot stop us all, although there will be some losses, and the losses may be not small, but it is definitely better than staying here until the mountains and rivers are exhausted next year, and the Qin army will not miss a pot. ”

Yeluther glared at Abaoji with some dissatisfaction. The saddle in his hand snapped on the ground.

"Sip only. You were heroic in the Battle of Daibei. The prestige is far away, why, now that I am possessed by the ghost of a coward, I have heard the words "retreat early" in your mouth, and the war has not yet begun. Let's and Qin Jun, it's too early to say who wins and who loses. "His cousin. Brother Yelu sneered at Abao. Brother Hua is eighteen this year, six years older than Abaoji, he is also very brave, but compared to Abaoji, who once made a big name in the Battle of Daibei, there is a gap between him, and age has become his weakness. At present, the two are competing for the position of the last captain, so he is more and more at odds with this little brother.

"It's not cowardice that I made such a suggestion."

Yelu Huage refused to let him go, "The warrior does not dare to fight." Single-mindedly thinking about retreat, this is not cowardice. Is this still brave? ”

"Yi Lijin, please think about it carefully, our tribal army is indeed very strong, but in the nine battles in the autumn, we fought with them, and in the end, we paid more than 100,000 casualties. And now, the Qin army is still replenishing troops, but we have no soldiers to replenish. Among the remaining hundreds of thousands, there are less than 200,000 strong soldiers who can fight, and all kinds of materials are getting fewer and fewer. Our retreat at this time is not cowardice, but judgment of the moment. It's like a fist, when the fist is exhausted, the smart thing to do is to immediately retract the fist, so that the punch will be powerful again. Let's retreat to our own territory, rebuild our strength, and fight the Qin army again in the future. The distance is the best defense. To deal with the attack of the Central Plains, our greatest weapon is that the enemy advances and retreats, and when they are alone and deep, and the food and grass are gone, then we will besiege them like wolves, pursue them, and annihilate them, which is our strong point. You must not give up your long-term and play positional warfare and attrition war with the Qin people here. The last battle of the Central Plains Daibei was a lesson from the past! ”

Yelu Abaoji ignored Yelu Huage, but Yelu Huage was not willing to let him go at all, and continued with a very hurtful mocking smile, "Si Li, when did your mouth become sharper than your bow and knife, I see that you said so much, it was simply during the Battle of Daibei that you were beaten by the Qin people. ”

Yeluther stared at the young commander of the guards and sighed, "Shali, do you know how bad the weather is outside in Langdao now?" In such seasonal weather, not to mention retreating, it is to march calmly, and countless people have to freeze to death along the way. Now you want us to abandon this camp that is sheltered from the wind and rain, and we have to disperse our soldiers and horses into countless small teams and break through under the siege of hundreds of thousands of Qin people? There are interceptions in front, pursuers in the back, and then fog and snow, cold winds and cold, do you know how thick the snow is outside the road now? In some places, as soon as the horse stepped on it, it went directly over the horse's belly. In such a season, if we retreat, without the Qin people chasing and intercepting us, most of us ourselves would have to freeze to death. Shari, you must know that our coalition army is not all soldiers, but there are still many women, children, old and weak, and wounded soldiers. Do you know what it means to withdraw now, can I make this decision? ”

What it means Yelu Abaoji is very clear, it means that in the end, only more than one-third of them can withdraw to the north, which means that they can evacuate the Bohai Sea with 200,000 people at most. Even if all the soldiers who evacuate and those who are left behind are old and weak, this is a huge loss for the tribe. Moreover, in the face of the Qin army, which had already intercepted the two main routes, it was still a question whether they could withdraw a third of their men.

But Abaoji felt that he should go, even if he could only withdraw 100,000 soldiers, it was worth the risk. At this time, the strong man broke his wrist, it was better than everyone being killed by the Qin people here. If you go now, you will have a chance to take revenge in the future, and if you don't go now, they will not even have a chance to take revenge.

"Grandfather, I think Sili is too alarmist. We still have the supplies now, and they have not reached the point of running out of food, besides, even if we really reach the day when the food is exhausted, we will still have millions of Bohai people under our hands, and it will be enough to kill them as military rations at that time. Let's go with the Qin army, even if we want to leave, we have to wait until next autumn. We are afraid of attrition, aren't the Qin army afraid, they are not less than us, and the southern barbarians are not adapted to the cold of the Bohai Sea, just fight hard. Besides, Li Jing transferred the main force to the Bohai Sea, will his hometown in the Central Plains be safe? I heard that the Yellow Nest in the Central Plains has been exterminated, and now that Li Ke has occupied the Central Plains with that group of people, and their alliance has more than 20 feudal towns, Li Jing is afraid that he wants to withdraw his troops earlier than us. Let's see who can't hold it now, anyway, we don't have to worry about the rear, so we will follow Qin Jun and wait for Li Jing's backyard to catch fire. At that time, it will be Li Jing who will retreat, and the entire Bohai Sea will be ours, and even, maybe Liaodong and Liaoxi outside the border will also be occupied. ”

Yelu Huago's words are exactly the thoughts that many tribal generals such as Tira still have in their hearts. It was very difficult for the tribal army to fight Li Jing alone. But they are still looking forward to the changes in the Central Plains, looking forward to the fire in Li Jing's backyard, and the situation will be different in that era.

Withdrawing now, the losses are too great, which is tantamount to directly admitting defeat, and it is a complete defeat. But if you persist, although there is little hope, there is indeed a glimmer of hope. The Khitan and the coalition forces are now difficult to ride tigers, and they are like gamblers who have lost red-eyed, and they will never leave the table without losing the last chip.

Jerodethel drew his scimitar, and everyone was startled.

However, his knife did not cut at anyone, but directly handed the knife to Yelu Huago.

"I now grant you the position of the twenty-fourth captain of the Khitan, and with this knife, this is the golden wolf's head scimitar of the captain, and it is also the proof of your captain!"

Brother Yelu stepped forward with a knife in surprise, and was already a little overwhelmed with excitement. Yelu Abaoji stood on the side, didn't say anything, he looked at the boots on his feet, but his heart was sour, in fact, he cared very much, he really wanted to win the position of captain of ten thousand people.

Although he knew very well that the position of the captain was not all based on strength, he and Brother Hua were only qualified to compete for this because of their father's status in the clan. But seeing Brother Hua, a brave and resourceless guy, win this position, he still has a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart.

In the regret of missing the captain, a deep worry rose in his heart.

It's too dangerous for everyone to sit back and wait for the enemy to get into trouble. How can you pin the future hopes of the Khitan on the hands of Li Jing's enemies?

This feeling of not being able to grasp his fate made him sigh in his heart! (To be continued......)