Chapter Seventy-Three: The Feast

The northern geese fly south, and the geese constantly change their formation, wanting to go to the far south.

Li Chang took an old servant to stand under this blue sky, which was full of flames but high autumn, and faced the ironclad cavalry of Western Xia with his hands behind his back, and stood still. His big red robe made him much more majestic, and after being an official for many years, he knew what kind of posture and movements he could use to reveal his majesty to the extreme.

"Come to the Great Song Dynasty, I didn't hide the false Pang and abandoned you!" Li Chang looked at the geese in the blue sky, and said softly to the leader of the six tribes of Yuanzhai who was slowly approaching him, as if he was inviting an old friend who had not seen him for a long time into his house for a drink.

The old barbarian head patriarch Ni Zhehu jumped off his war horse and walked to Li Chang's side and said, "How come here, a total of more than 300,000 people!" ”

"Yun Shuai has some food in his hand, as long as he saves some, it is not difficult to survive this winter, and next year, you raise horses, we will collect them, you raise cattle, we will collect them, you raise sheep, we will collect them, we will collect them when you roll felt, we will collect them when you pick herbs, as long as you have any harvest, we will collect them, whether you want tea, or grain, or linen cloth, cotton, as long as you bring it up, we will be satisfied.

Your people are still your people, the patriarch is still the patriarch, nothing will change! ”

"What does Song Guo want us to do?" Ni Zhehu's old face twitched and asked, Everyone knows that Song Guo has given such good conditions, it is impossible not to ask for something in return.

Li Chang's eyes looked in front of the six clan chiefs of Yuanzhai one by one and said: "Put down your bows and arrows, take off your armor, the land of Qingtang and Helan Mountain do not need you to have force, if you have to keep your own samurai, the samurai only have the path to join the Great Song army, otherwise." Anyone with a two-foot knife will be killed! ”

Ni Zhehu was not surprised by this request, since he learned that the army that had not hidden Pang had left the Blue Mountains and burned the pontoon bridge. He understood that the six departments of Yuanzhai had reached the time of life and death.

"Is this Yun Zheng's opinion?" Ni Zhehu took out a knife and stuck it in the dirt in front of him, and asked Li Chang in a low voice.

"No, Yun Zheng's opinion is to kill you all on the edge of the Yellow River. Vacate a large area of grassland for the border people of the Great Song Dynasty to settle in, and within a few years, there will be a large number of Song people who can graze and raise horses on the grassland, so that this land can really be regarded as the Great Song Dynasty. Li Chang tried his best to slow down his speech, and almost word by word expressed Yun Zheng's meaning.

Ni Zhehu kicked the moist loess on the ground with his foot and said quietly: "This is the law of the grassland, I didn't expect Yun Zheng, a Song person, to be more familiar with the law of the grassland than us, you can see it." You are a civil official, I heard that the civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty have always regarded themselves as gentlemen, so you can't say anything like raping women and beheading children who are taller than wheels, right?

Song people, tell me who are you, why can you make such a decision on behalf of the supreme commander of the Song army, and still do not consider his extremely correct opinion at all? ”

Li Chang took out the seal letter from his arms, and the old servant hurriedly spread a piece of linen cloth on the ground, and Li Chang put a fine Shoushan stone seal on the linen cloth and said: "This is the seal of the Tianzhang Pavilion servant, which shows that my identity is very noble!" ”

Li Chang took out another seal made of jade and put it on the linen cloth and continued: "This is the seal letter in the imperial history. It proves that I am a high-ranking official of the Great Song Dynasty, not a small official pretending. ”

Li Chang finally took out a piece of the imperial court's appointment decree and put it on the sackcloth and whispered: "This is the document that His Majesty of the Great Song Dynasty personally appointed me to control the soldiers and horses of the 14th Route of Jingxi, which shows that I am the number two person in this Great Song army." And not subject to the moderation of the manager. ”

Ni Zhehu took the seal letter and looked at it very carefully and seriously, and finally put down the seal and the will, raised his head and said with tears: "We can't understand it!" ”

As soon as this sentence came out, not only did the other five patriarchs burst into tears, Li Chang's eyes couldn't help but turn red, and he tried to turn around to calm his emotions, and then turned his head to Ni Zhehu and said: "It seems that your six tribes of Yuanzhai are indeed not in the official ranks of the Western Xia people, and the official positions of the Western Xia are not much different from those of the Great Song Dynasty, and now you patriarchs can't understand my seal." This only means that you have been away from this world for too long.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, take your time. I will not go to your army if I remain in your army, but I will be with you. You give all the food in the army to your trusted subordinates now, and let him take the grain back to migrate his tribe, and you must go back before you hide it, otherwise what awaits your family will be the butcher's knife of the Tangut people. ”

Ni Zhehu heard Li Chang say this, grabbed his arm and said, "Are you willing to let some of us go back?" ”

Li Chang smiled: "Of course, if you don't go back, how can some people protect women and children from coming to Qingtang?" ”

Ni Zhehu wiped the tears on his face and turned around and yelled: "Ning Huhu, go back with the vulture immediately, tell SΓΉ Dazhema, we can't live in Jishi Mountain, let him take the whole clan to Qingtang for the winter." ”

Li Chang watched a bald man run out of the military formation and knelt in front of Ni Zhehu and said a long list of Western Xia dialects, although Li Chang didn't understand, but he now has a strong confidence in Yun Zheng, since letting some of the Western Xia people go back is the result of Yun Zheng and those generals' careful consideration, there is no need to doubt that the young man has given him a great shock again and again, Li Chang firmly believes that there is no harm in doing so.

Ni Zhehu kicked over the bald man and said to Li Changshi: "Three thousand, we only need to send three thousand soldiers back." ”

Li Chang smiled and said: "Since I believe in you, I simply believe in the end, 3,000 people have no way to cope with the hardships and hardships along the way, I thought that going back to 8,000 soldiers is an insurance number." ”

Ni Zhehu looked at Li Chang and didn't speak for a long time, and suddenly knelt in front of Li Chang and said: "If the general is in trouble, Ni Zhehu will definitely serve the general and die forever!" ”

Li Chang smiled and said: "Wrong, you only have one object of allegiance in the future, that is, our Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, send someone back quickly, we still have a lot of things to do, your people are coming over, we must circle a large piece of suitable pasture for them to live, what kind of herdsman is a herdsman without a pasture." ”

Ni Zhehu never dreamed that the people of the Song Kingdom would treat him so favorably, and almost thought that he was dreaming, although the pasture under Helan Mountain was good, it was not a place to stay for a long time. If he can regain the pasture land in Qingtang, it will be a blessing from heaven for his people.

The Great Song gave them far more than they asked for.

Ni Zhehu got up from the ground and personally sent his son Ning Huhu to take away all the military rations with the selected tribe. Under the guidance of a group of Song troops carrying red flags, they ran wildly along the Yellow River. Separated from the battlefield, without any obstacles, as long as they left the Blue Mountain, they were in front of the endless Gobi Desert, and there was no obstacle to keep the 8,000 most elite cavalry.

Ni Zhehu and the rest of the patriarchs naturally stood behind Li Chang and regarded themselves as subordinates, seeing this scene, the corners of Li Chang's mouth turned up slightly, and he had to sigh Yun Zheng's wisdom again.

Damn, I haven't figured out this gift-giving knowledge after studying it all my life. Yun Zheng, a person in his twenties, has studied the mentality of these people thoroughly, as long as there is a place to give gifts in the future, he will definitely give big gifts like this, only if the gift is given at one time beyond the highest expectation of the recipient, things will be done well, mother, this is much stronger than sprinkling gifts again and again. This gift-giving is also a science of great wisdom!

When the more than 30,000 Xixia cavalry learned that they now needed to rob the pasture for their clansmen and themselves, this kind of thing that would be beneficial to their own family, immediately aroused their endless fighting spirit, and even the wounded cavalry gritted their teeth and stepped back on their horses. After chewing a few mouthfuls of the grain sent by the Song people, one by one they couldn't wait to rush towards the Blue Mountain battlefield fiercely with the military marquis brought by Li Chang, snatching the pasture for themselves. Shepherds generally don't care about casualties.

Yun Zheng stood on a high slope and looked down at the battlefield at his feet, the flag representing Dong Yu's identity had been thrown at his feet, and a tattered corpse was also lying at his feet, which had been covered with flies.

Dong Yu was killed by blind medicine, if a guilty person wants to no longer be tortured by guilt, the only way is to kill the person who makes him feel guilty, once he says the famous "I'm sorry", it means that he is ready to continue to be sorry for you, Dong Yu's personal guards of more than 3,000 people are all wiped out in the opponent's mentality.

Blind medicine shouted "sorry" and slashed Dong Yu's corpse, if it wasn't for Long Tieqiao to stop him deadly. Dong Yu's corpse will be chopped into meat sauce by him raw!

After killing Dong Yu, who was only protected by personal guards, Blind Medicine took his team, which was originally used to defend Yun Zheng, into the team that encircled and suppressed Qingyi and the Ghost Chapter. This guy, who has always been timid in combat, is actually charging into battle in person this time. Seeing Jiang Zhe, he frowned and asked Yun Zheng: "Junhou, this person can't stay, if the brothers become comrades-in-arms with this guy in the future, I always feel that the cold air on the back of the neck is not a thing." ”

Yun Zheng blinked his eyes and glanced at Dong Yu and said to Jiang Zhe: "I don't like this kind of miscellaneous either, you are worried that someone will be an arrow in your back, and I am also worried about becoming Dong Yu's second, now this guy is doing a good job, use it first, you see, the crazy Jiebiao has been repelled by him, and ordered Wu Jie to continue to press the battle line forward, compress the activity territory of the Qingtang people, and suppress it to the edge of the Yellow River." This saves effort. ”

Jiang Zhe nodded and said, "That means that once we suppress these more than 50,000 people to the river, I can let the trebuchet launch an indiscriminate attack?" ”

Yun Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "Remember not to blow up the Qingyi Ghost Chapter, I promised to let him go once, this matter can't be sloppy!" ”

Jiang Zhe said unceremoniously: "I don't dare to guarantee this, we only have less than 40,000 people, and the number of people in the family exceeds 50,000, and if you are not careful, you will let the Qingtang people escape, so I will not deliberately give this military order."

You see, the Qingyi Ghost Chapter is impacting the mouth of the valley guarded by Lang Tan and Sun Dazhi like a huge wave, our manpower is too small, and it is very difficult to eat all the Tangut people, even if there is gunpowder, these people are all red-eyed, and no one cares about life and death. ”

Yun Zheng said with a smile: "We are about to have 30,000 reinforcements, calculate the time, it should be ...... coming" (to be continued)

PS: Chapter 2, the title of the previous chapter is called Seduction-Confusion, and it is harmonized.