The Sui army advanced all the way and smashed Bayancheng, an important town in the south of the Khitan Department. King Yuanzhi of the Khitan Khan hurriedly summoned the tribal leaders to discuss: "Now that the Sui army is approaching Bayan, although the Great Han of Chuluo has promised to send troops, I expect it will be difficult to reach within half a month. There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Sui army, and my Khitan tribes only have 30,000 warriors, if they can resist it. ”

The leaders of the tribes were silent for a while, and then the Khan Yelu Xie of the Dadan Department suddenly got up and said: "Great Khan, the small city of Bayan must not be able to hold it, the Sui army is overwhelming, and if Bayan is broken, it will definitely be divided into the Khitan tribes that surround me, and then we will be unable to escape." Seeing him say this, Yuanzhi raised a slight frown and asked, "Hearing you say this, do you have any ideas?" Yelu Xie nodded and said, "Yes, I think we should abandon all the cities here, retreat to the other side of the Kara River to defend Panlong Valley, and wait for reinforcements from Luo Dahan." ”

"No, how can the city we built with great difficulty be given to the Sui army!" More than half of the clan leaders were opposed, and Motoji had always been indecisive, so he couldn't make up his mind for a while. Yelu Xie covered his left chest and bowed deeply to everyone, "Everyone, can you resist the Sui army with your strength?" They all looked at each other, and they all bowed their heads and said nothing. Yelu Xie then continued: "Since you can't resist it, won't these cities fall into the hands of the Sui army sooner or later?" ”

These words touched the hearts of everyone, and indeed, no one was sure that they could resist the Sui army. Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Yuanzhi made a ruthless decision and said: "Just do what Yelu said, and order all the departments to bring cattle and sheep and grain to Panlong Valley and wait for Turkic reinforcements!" ”

The Sui army approached Bayan City, but found that the entire city was empty, so they hurriedly reported to Lin Nan. Lin Nan spread out the map and looked at it with the generals, Li Jing was suddenly taken aback and said: "It's not good, Yuanzhi wants to run!" The crowd was in an uproar. Lin Nan also discovered Yuanzhi's intention, and nodded to the place of Panlong Valley and said: "It seems that he wants to rely on the geographical advantage to defend and wait for reinforcements from Chuluo." Qin Yi didn't know what the location was, so he snorted and said, "Wait for the minister to lead the army into the valley and capture him." ”

Lin Nan didn't reply to him, thought for a while, and said: "Decree that the whole army march quickly, and be sure to occupy the Khitan departments before dark." "Yes!" The generals took the orders and left.

At the foot of Mount Umeng. The company camp is dozens of miles. The night is getting dark, and the lights in the village are bright. Lin Nanduan sat in the big tent of the Chinese army, and the generals were lined up on both sides, all with serious expressions. The Khitan cities were empty, with neither people nor food, and although the Sui army was stationed in these cities, it also dispersed its strength.

"Your Majesty, the army of Chuluo can arrive in less than half a month, if you are not sure to take the Khitan. The only way to do this is to quickly return to the same state. Otherwise, the enemy will be attacked on the back and the outcome will be unpredictable. After Li Jing finished speaking, Lin Nan nodded and said: "Order the three armies to burn down all the Khitan departments and city houses, and then return to the army to the foot of Wumeng Mountain." "Yes." Gao Dehong took the order, and Fan Bodang raised his eyebrows and asked, "Does the emperor have to raise a large army into the valley to fight with the Khitan?" ”

Lin Nan shook his head and said, "I'm not that stupid, this Panlong Valley is dozens of miles long, and the mountains on both sides are rich in vegetation and trees. If our army rushes forward, it can only be a living handle for the Khitans. With only 3,000 archers, they were able to kill a single piece of our army. ”

Fan Bodang couldn't think of a good plan after hearing this, and then Hou Junji suddenly said: "Can you bypass Wumeng Mountain?" Li Jing shook his head and said, "This is absolutely impossible. The crowd was puzzled. Lin Nan pressed the Art of War with his left hand, and he couldn't think of any decent way to look at the map with his eyes, so he was annoyed, and suddenly got up and said, "Pharmacist, Junji, you two will go with me to inspect the terrain." "Yes!" The two were ordered to follow Lin Nan out of the Chinese military tent. Hurry to the other side of the Kara River.

The Kara River was almost dry, and the shallowest point was barely past the horses' hooves. At the foot of Wumeng Mountain on the opposite side, the terrain is undulating, the forest leaves are quite lush, but the birdsong is extinct. It's unusually quiet. At this time, a few figures suddenly came out of the night, and Lin Nan hurriedly ordered the two to dismount and crouch on the opposite bank to observe carefully.

Under the cover of the night, the few people who came out didn't notice Lin Nan and them at all, but because it was too dark, Lin Nan couldn't see who these people were.

I saw a total of three people coming out, each carrying a package. They took out bowls, steamed buns, and other things from the package, and placed an incense burner, and lit three pillars of incense in it. At the end of the day, a man untied the package, which seemed to contain a bull's head.

The three of them didn't see it too clearly, but Li Jing had already guessed their intentions, and whispered to Lin Nan: "They should be here to worship the river god, so as to bless the wind and rain in the coming year." Only then did Lin Nan remember that the Khitan Department had also suffered from a severe drought this year, and not a drop of rain had fallen for five consecutive months. At this time, he vaguely saw the fire from the incense burning on the other side, and suddenly exclaimed: "There is! ”

"What people!" As soon as he shouted, the few people on the other side didn't even want sacrifices, and hurriedly fled into the valley. Li Jing and Hou Junji looked at Lin Nan blankly and asked, "What did the emperor say?" Lin Nan smiled and said, "There is a way." "Oh?" As soon as the eyes of the two lit up, Lin Nan ordered to beat the horse and return to the camp.

"Burning the mountain?" In the Chinese military tent, the generals were surprised by Lin Nan's bold proposal.

"Wumeng Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, how can it burn to the Khitan hidden place for a while." Li Jing didn't know much about this strategy.

Lin Nan smiled proudly: "If you can't finish burning, burn slowly, it hasn't rained here for five months, and now it's the least rainy season of the year here, I don't think it will rain in a few months." If it doesn't rain, what will the Khitans do to extinguish the fire? As long as we cut down trees and pile grass to block the mouth of the valley, more than 100,000 Khitan people will be roasted if they are not burned to death. Even if it can't burn the Khitan hiding place in fifteen days, will the Turkic army use the people of the Kara River to extinguish the fire when they come? I'm afraid it's useless to drain the river. ”

"But the Khitan people are just like that......," Li Jing said this, and he shuddered.

"Then it's no wonder that I should use extraordinary means in extraordinary times." Lin Nan's eyes were cold and ruthless when he said this, and all the generals shuddered.

The mountains of Wumeng are full of thorns and hay, and many trees have died because of the lack of rain for a long time. Therefore, as soon as the Sui army set fire, only an hour later, the entire mountain that rushed towards the Sui army was already full of fire, and the whole was a sea of fire. The smoke was so thick that it almost obscured the sky and the sun, and even the Sui army, which had retreated thirty miles on the other side, felt hot and dry, and all of them undressed to take advantage of the cold.

However, Lin Nan did not order the Panlong Valley to be sealed. He also personally led 10,000 troops on the other side of the bank to look at the valley mouth with great interest, waiting for the "lucky ones" to escape from it. Naturally, these people had to endure unbearable temperatures, and almost all the soldiers were barely able to support themselves by soaking in the river.

The mind is calm and naturally cool, Lin Nan is admiring the fire as if he is admiring a work of art, he is also hot, but he doesn't think about it. In his eyes there was only fire, dead people, screams......

The Khitan people didn't feel the heat a few days ago, but they saw the thick smoke in the sky, and they didn't know what was going on. By the time they found out that the fire was coming at them, it was too late.

"Big man, you have to think of a way, otherwise we will all be burned here!" A group of people are noisy and shouting in the big tent of the Chinese army, which is really called ants on the hot pot.

"Alright. Don't make any noise, isn't the fire burning yet! Yuan Zhi roared, but he also knew in his heart that he would be buried in the fire in less than twenty days.

All the Khitans knelt on the ground and prayed to the heavens for rain as soon as possible, but the heavens liked to watch the excitement of others the most, and the more you let it rain, the more he played tricks on you. It's sunny every day, and it doesn't rain. The temperature is getting hotter and hotter.

Some people couldn't bear it anymore and ran out along the valley mouth, and only a few dozen of the 500 people escaped from inside. was shot into a hedgehog by the Sui army's arrows.

It's been five days, and it's not so hot on the Sui army's side, because the trees and hay on the entire side have burned out, leaving only piles of black and slimy dry ash. On the Khitan side, the temperature is getting higher and higher, and they almost can't breathe, and they are not praying to the heavens. Instead, there was civil strife.

"Dahan, what should I do now!" In the big tent of the Khitan Khan, everyone was no longer so polite. Yuan Zhi clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "I didn't expect Yang Yu to be so inhumane, and he actually wanted to burn more than 100,000 of my Khitan tribesmen here." ”

"It's better to send someone out of the valley to surrender now." The leaders shouted in unison. It's almost coercive. Yuanzhi was in a dilemma, he knew that he would definitely die if he surrendered, but if he didn't surrender, he would be roasted into a suckling pig, and suddenly a crisp and pleasant voice came from outside the tent.

"Father Khan, let me go!"

The Great Tent of the Khan King was suddenly silent, and the silence was hard to believe. A young girl walked in, wearing a crimson narrow-sleeved round-necked knee-length coat, phoenix wing boots under her feet, and also decorated with snowflake cloud shoulders, black man gauze hand cages, and jasper belts, and the whole body did not show any skin. Only the delicate and lovely face is exposed, and a pair of big eyes like water seem to penetrate the bottom of the heart, like a holy princess, people dare not look at it.

"Cher, where are you going?" Motoji asked in surprise, his eyes widening.

The girl took out a letter from her bosom, with a goose feather on it, and said lightly: "I want to negotiate with the Great Sui Emperor to save my Khitan hundreds of thousands of people." ”

"No, the people who escaped from Lu were all shot to death by the Sui Dynasty outside, how can you go to danger! Moreover, the Han people are cunning and treacherous, and the emperor of the Sui Dynasty is cruel and ferocious, how can they accept our surrender. After Yuanzhi finished speaking anxiously, he didn't expect the khans of the various ministries to suddenly shout in unison: "Let her go!" ”

The girl quietly tucked the letter into her bosom, speaking without a trace of expression.

"Father Khan, don't talk about it, listen to everyone. Now only I can save the Khitan by negotiating. ”

"No, even if we are all burned to death, we will never let you go!" Yuanzhi was not at all indecisive in this matter, but the khans of the other tribes all said in unison: "Great Khan, now only the princess can save the whole clan!" ”

"No, this thing will definitely not work!" Motoji's tone shocked all the tribal leaders.

At this time, the girl saw that Yuanzhi did not allow it, and suddenly took out a small jade statue from her arms, the statue was very strange, and the face of the fairy on it was extremely vicious, and Zhang had six hands, and each hand held a weapon. He was barefoot, and under his feet was a fierce green wolf.

"I command you in the name of the sword slave, the head of the gods." The girl held the idol high above her head.

"Huh?" All the people in the tent knelt on the ground, crossed their hands around their chests, and their heads bowed very low, doing the greatest etiquette of the Khitan people.

The girl's face suddenly became very grim, and she glanced around, then crossed her hands over her shoulders and bowed to the front of the tent and said, "Sword slave god, please give me luck and strength, let me save the entire Khitan clan." ”

Everyone followed the girl and said it again. Only then did he slowly stand up, with tears in his eyes, and only then did he say, "Daughter, since you have already ordered us in the name of the Sword Slave God, then I can't stop it anymore." I only hope that the great god of sword slaves will bless you with a safe return. ”

"Father, please select a hundred of the most loyal warriors of my Khitan clan to rush out of Panlong Valley with me." Although Motoji loves this daughter very much. But the girl doesn't seem to have any feelings for her father, as if this woman has never had feelings, and her face is always so calm.

"Yes." Motoji agreed to come out of the tent like a slave, and the girl took the idol into her arms and closed her eyes gently. Everyone stood respectfully on both sides, and there was silence in the big tent.

The sword slave is the legendary god of death in the Khitan tribe, ranking first among the gods. And this girl's name is Nalan Xue, and her mother Nalan Yue is the widow of the royal family of the former Northern Wei Dynasty, after the death of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Nalan clan fled to Liaodong and lived with the local Khitans. Nalan Yue had a child a year after marrying Yuanzhi, but unfortunately died in childbirth. Originally, there was nothing surprising about this, but when Motoji took over the child, he found that she was holding the statue of the sword slave in her hand.

What happened next was even more strange, Yuanzhi's three sons died one after another, but Nalan Xue was unharmed. When Nalan Xue reached the age of fifteen, she was more beautiful than the immortals, and all the Khitan men were not moved when they saw her. Many people even came out of evil intentions to rape her. But these people all died mysteriously immediately after breaking into her big tent, and then she married three men one after another. But they all died violently on their wedding night.

So many strange things happened to her, and the sword slave is a god who controls life and death, so the Khitan tribe soon had a rumor that Nalan Xue is the messenger of the sword slave and the incarnation of the god, and if anyone thinks about her or marries her, she will be cursed by the god and die immediately.

Since then, no man has dared to propose to marry Nalan Xue. Not even the man who was close to her. But Yuanzhi liked her mother very much back then, so he put all his love for her mother on her.

But Nalan Xue's personality can really be associated with death since then, she seems to have suddenly lost her emotions and desires, and there is no expression on her face anymore.

In front of the hot valley mouth, Motoji led a dry khan to respectfully send Nalan Xue away. There was a nervous look on everyone's faces. Except for Genji, the rest of the people actually think the same. They were thinking that if Lin Nan had a lust for her, then he would definitely die, and as soon as the emperor died, the Sui army would inevitably retreat.

A hundred Khitan warriors escorted her into the deep valley, and the expressions on their faces were as if they had walked into the abyss of hell.

The fire borrowed the wind, the wind helped the fire, and the narrow Panlong Valley was filled with smoke, but fortunately, the valley was unusually humid, although the fire was in the sky, but it did not dry the valley. Therefore the fires were all by the valleys, but there was no fire in the valleys.

However, the rolling heat wave around it is still scorching; The billowing smoke choked their tears.

Then! Suddenly, a burned old pine tree rolled down from the mountain, and several warriors escorted Nalan Xue and ran away, but the people behind were blocked, and some of them had sparks burning on their bodies, and they rolled on the ground in pain.

At this moment, Nalan Xue still couldn't see any expression on her face, although she was soaked with sweat all over, she looked more like a beauty she had just bathed, and it was moving.

At this time, Lin Nan was sitting on the opposite bank enjoying the scenery of the burning sky, and suddenly four or five Khitan warriors ran out, but unfortunately they were shot into porcupines by arrows without even saying a word. The people behind saw that they couldn't rush out, so they could only shout: "Listen, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, our Great Khan has sent Her Royal Highness the princess to negotiate with you, don't let go of the arrows!" ”

"Negotiations?" Lin Nan Ha Lu Ha smiled, stood up and took a few steps forward, Ge He shouted at Taniguchi: "Why do I want to negotiate with you for Lu, wouldn't it be better if they were all burned to death?" ”

Several warriors looked back at Nalan Xue, not knowing what to do. At this time, Nalan Xue suddenly let go of her voice and shouted: "As long as you are a man, you must be interested in negotiating." ”

"Oh?" Lin Nan was slightly startled when he heard such a moving and pleasant voice, and when he heard her words again, he became even more curious, and hurriedly ordered: "Don't guard against arrows, let them come out." ”

A few warriors trembling didn't dare to go out of the valley first, Nalan Xue suddenly picked up a few people and rushed out of the valley first, Lin Nan had already waded across the shore at this time, and he was really surprised to see Nalan Xue's appearance.

I saw that her little face was blackened by the smoke. But she couldn't hide the touching beauty, and Lin Nan, who saw it, was distracted, stepped forward to support her and said, "You are the princess of Khitan?" Nalan Xue had no expression on her face, and said lightly: "Your Majesty the Emperor, please allow me to bathe and change clothes." ”

"Okay, come on, take the Khitan princess to bathe and change clothes." After Lin Nan finished the order, he smiled at Nalan Xue and said, "I'm waiting for you in the middle military tent." ”

Gao Dehong came over and took Nalan Xue and more than two dozen Khitan warriors to the North Tent. Lin Nan saw her figure in the distance, and his face suddenly sank. Then he left 500 crossbowmen to hold the valley, and he himself came with his retinue to run to the Chinese army.

Lin Nan also bathed and changed clothes before coming to the big tent of the Chinese army, the civil and military generals stood left and right, Lin Nan shook off his robe and sat in front of the tent just waiting for the arrival of the beauty.

About half an hour later, I heard a report from outside the tent: "The Khitan envoy Nalan Xue has arrived!" ”

This shout, it couldn't help but be Lin Nan, and the civil and military officials also looked out of the tent. I saw a beautiful woman walk in, wearing a snow-white narrow-sleeved round-neck knee-length coat that was extremely holy. Wearing a fox fur cape, purple gold boots under his feet, a round phoenix crown on his head, and a pearl pendant hanging around the crown.

The shallow exposed cicada sideburns are as thin as wings, and the ears are equipped with white jade and delicate phoenix gold earrings, and the necklace of the spirit bead on the neck is triangular and shiny, similar to the color of the blue snow cloud shoulders. A pair of slender jade hands wore a white light mesh manzale hand cage, and the sparkling sparkle on the ribbon was phosphorescent.

These precious accessories alone are already eye-catching. Coupled with a peerless face, I am afraid that a man will be moved.

The two green daisy eyebrows are marked with embroidery. The bright eyes flowed in anticipation, and the red lips were slightly closed. A flawless face, faintly red because of the heat that Shicai experienced in the valley. She slowly leaned into Lin Nan as she looked at the lotus step, and she could smell a rich and fragrant aroma in the entire tent. This aroma does not come from some kind of external powder, but from a natural body odor. Since ancient times, it seems that only Xi Shi is a beautiful woman who exudes fragrance all over her body, but Nalan Xue's body fragrance seems to be superior.

"The Khitan envoy Nalan Xue sees His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty." The beauty has her hands on her shoulders. Take a deep bow. The generals in the entire tent actually stayed there, although they were not womanizers, but they had never seen a woman with such a look, even more beautiful than a fairy.

Lin Nan could only barely hold back his heart, and said with a sigh: "Your Great Khan sent you to negotiate." It's also ingenious. ”

The beauty had no expression on her face, took out the letter from her arms and handed it to Lin Nandao: "The Khitan small department offended Tianwei, and I hope that His Majesty will be lenient and forgive his sins and rescue more than 100,000 Khitan people." ”

Lin Nan knew that she was going to say this, but she didn't even read the letter, so she ordered: "You all go down, I have something to talk about with the Khitan envoys." ”

"Yes!" The generals did not say anything, but they understood, and they withdrew from the tent one by one, and even the soldiers in front of the tent also withdrew.

"I heard you're Genji's daughter?" Lin Nan looked at her and asked.

"Yes."

"Then why don't you have the surname Yuan?" Lin Nan asked a little strangely.

"I take my mother's last name."

Seeing her expressionless appearance, Lin Nan suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and beckoned her: "Come here, let me take a look." ”

When Nalan Xue heard this, she was neither shy nor debauched, but said lightly: "Your Majesty first rescued my Khitan people, and Nalan Xue is willing to serve for life." ”

After hearing this, Lin Nan laughed twice and said, "If you come over and serve me now, I may ask someone to let go of Gukou." Nalan Xue didn't think about it, looked up at him and asked, "Your Majesty will not regret your Majesty's golden words?" Lin Nanen said with a sigh: "You have no jokes." ”

Nalan Xue took two steps forward, knelt lightly on her knees, raised her head and asked, "How does Your Majesty tell me to serve?" Seeing that he was so obedient, Lin Nan stretched out his hand and pulled her and said, "Come to my arms, I will teach you." Nalan Xue listened, she didn't look embarrassed at all, she got up and slowly snuggled in Lin Nan's arms, and the jade pendant on the crown made a jingling sound on the earrings.

"You really don't know how to serve me?" Lin Nan put his lips over and kissed the slightly warm skin on her face, and asked gently.

Nalan Xue sighed, then grabbed Lin Nan's hand and put it on his chest and whispered, "Is that so?" Lin Nan, who was so obedient, was confused for a while, and he found that although this woman looked like a fairy, her face was like wood, and there was no expression at all. This made him feel very bored, and mistakenly thought that Nalan Xue was forced to be helpless to tempt her with beauty, so she had no expression.

Come to think of this. Lin Nan wanted to deliberately tease her and make her change her expressionless face.

"That's not enough." Lin Nan said as he slowly unbuttoned her neckline, and a palm slowly slipped down her neckline into her coat. His hand slid down to the sliding as he observed Nalan Xue, only to find that she was still expressionless, not even a slight change in her breath.

"This little girl can really bear it." Lin Nan's hand had reached her bandeau breast. The bandeau of Khitan women is relatively wide, not as tight as that of Han people. So Lin Nan easily wore it in. This stimulation is not small for a woman, but what he never expected was that Nalan Xue's face did not even have a slight rhythm, her eyes looked at the front blankly, and Mu Yan's appearance was very strange.

Lin Nan thought that she looked down on herself, and immediately slapped her in the face, but Nalan Xue was still the same as just now, and there was no change in the slightest.

Lin Nan was suddenly furious, pushed her down in front and shouted, "Do I make you look down on you?" In your eyes, you're really a woman, aren't you? ”

Nalan Xue knelt down in front of him. Still said quietly: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, Nalan Xue has never thought so. If His Majesty wanted my body just now, then please forgive Nalan Xue for not understanding His Majesty's intentions, now I understand. ”

Lin Nan was even more furious when he heard her words, grabbed Nalan Xue and glared at her and shouted, "I don't want your body, I told you to laugh at me!" ”

Nalan Xue knelt on the ground with her head down, still the same as just now, and said quietly: "I'm sorry Your Majesty." I'm not going to laugh. Lin Nan turned his head to look at her, and his anger subsided a lot in a while. This woman is so strange, there seems to be something distressing vaguely, as if she has seen through the red dust.

"Forget it, here's coming." Lin Nan sighed and shouted outside the tent, and the two soldiers hurriedly entered. "Take the Khitan envoy down to take care of her, and don't let her move around at will. and do not slacken. After Lin Nan finished speaking, the two of them agreed to take Nalan Xue down. As soon as the three of them came out, Li Jing walked in.

"Come, pharmacist." Lin Nan beckoned him over, and Li Jing saluted before saying, "Your Majesty." There are more than 100,000 Khitan tribes, and if all of them are burned to death in the valley, I am afraid that everyone in Fanbang will be in danger, and it is inevitable that they will not have different hearts. Lin Nan nodded and said, "I didn't have the intention of burning them to death, I just wanted to deter them." Now that Motoji has relented, he can evacuate Taniguchi's men and horses and let them out. ”

Li Jing was overjoyed, and arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty is magnanimous, I will go to pass the order." "Slow!" Lin Nan suddenly grabbed him and said: "There are still tens of thousands of warriors in the Khitan, if they take revenge with hatred, it will be difficult for our army to be in a hurry." Therefore when you send out to give proclamation, tell them to cast all their weapons into the valley, and when they come out, divide them into seven or eight parts, and take care of them. ”

Li Jing listened carefully and promised: "The emperor can rest assured, the ministers have their own measure." Lin Nan patted him with a smile and said, "The pharmacist is doing things, and I have always been at ease." After listening to this, Li Jing thanked him again and again, and then turned around and left the account.

More than 100,000 Khitan tribes left the valley in batches, but thousands of people were still killed in the fire, and all their weapons were thrown inside. And among the dead was the leader of a tribe, which made the Khitans hateful. But after they came out, they were guarded separately in eight batches, and Yuanzhi was taken to see Lin Nan.

Lin Nan sat in the big tent, the generals around him stood with their heads held high, and the Sui army outside the tent was full of spirit and heroic spirit. However, after all, Yuan Zhi is a great khan, and he is also a person who has seen some of the world, so when he sees this scene, he can still be calm.

Looking at Motoji's embarrassed appearance when he entered the account, his sideburns were burned. Lin Nan couldn't help but sneer: "It turns out that this is the sassy and heroic appearance of the Khitan Great Khan?" After hearing a burst of laughter, Yuanzhi's face was pale, the green tendons on his forehead stood up, and his fists made a loud sound, obviously angry.

Lin Nan saw that he could bear the burden of humiliation after suffering such humiliation, and secretly praised him as a character, but at the same time, he also felt that this person could not be kept. So he said coldly: "Yuan Da Khan is now obedient, what else is there to say?" ”

Yuan Zhi snorted coldly, raised his head and said: "The Great Sui Emperor is rich in the Dead Sea, but he used this despicable means to trap my Khitan people in the valley, it is really difficult to be called a hero, and Yuan Zhi is difficult to convince." ”

Seeing him say this, Lin Nan got up and walked over, staring at him with sharp eyes and said, "The Khitan has always surrendered to my Great Sui, and now you are uniting with the Turks and wanting to be unfavorable to my Great Sui, are you a hero?" Moreover, you and your people fled far away into the valley, waiting for Turkic reinforcements to arrive and attack inside and outside. Is it what the hero is for? ”

Yuan Zhi saw that he was breaking his mind, so he simply asked loudly: "Then what is the reason why your Great Sui is rich in the world, but you let me pay tribute every year?" ”

Lin Nan sneered and said, "Since your clan has surrendered to my Great Sui, my Sui naturally wants to protect you and others." Since you have been protected by my Great Sui, you naturally have to pay the reward. Could it be that my Great Sui is just going to raise you for nothing, and raise tigers under your eyelids? So what use do I want you to have? It's better to punish them all. ”

"You!" Yuan Zhi gritted his teeth angrily, but Lin Nan was too lazy to pay attention to him and ordered him to be taken down.

Seeing that Yuanzhi was out of the account, Li Jing immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, this person must not stay." Lin Nan couldn't know what to say, but when he thought of that woman again, he couldn't help but take a deep breath. Women and the country, which one is important? He doesn't know the way, and I'm afraid the kings of the past don't know the way.

"Forget it. Let's bring Yuanzhi back to Luoyang first. Lin Nan shook his head helplessly. Gao Dehong understood his thoughts best, and whispered to Li Jing: "That beauty is Yuanzhi's daughter." Li Jing suddenly realized, and then he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, there is an elder in the Khitan Department named Yelu Longji, this person is timid and afraid, it is better to appoint him as the leader of the tribe, and he will have no objection." ”

"Okay, just do as you say." Lin Nan was troubled. Li Jing's suggestion was very reasonable, so he naturally agreed. Suddenly, a soldier hurriedly reported it to the account. He was sweating profusely on his forehead, and he gasped for breath before he said: "Your Majesty, the 150,000 Turkic army is less than 500 miles away from here. ”

"What!" Lin Nan didn't expect the Turks to come so quickly, and he was dumbfounded. All the generals were also panicked, only Li Jing stabilized his expression and said, "Your Majesty." The Turks are menacing, and it is better to withdraw troops from Tongzhou quickly. ”

Lin Nan closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then said slowly: "If our army withdraws now, the Khitan tribes will inevitably be slaughtered by them even if they do not return to the Turks. Moreover, my Great Sui is known as hundreds of thousands of soldiers. If you see the Turks and leave, where is the prestige of the country? ”

Gao Dehong suddenly debuted: "Your Majesty, the Turkic iron cavalry is extremely brave, one can be ten, I'm afraid our army will be difficult to resist." The generals all agreed with his words when they heard it, but Hou Junji said disdainfully: "What kind of Turkic iron cavalry, the minister is willing to beg the division of a brigade to break it." ”

Lin Nan's face was heavy, he looked at the map, and suddenly got up and greeted: "Pharmacist, Dehong, Junji, the three of you will go with me to check the terrain." The three agreed to go with them.

Running for dozens of miles, Lin Nan chose a higher place, looking at the endless grassland in front of him, under the clear sky, the distance was green and beautiful. But Lin Nan's mood did not improve because of the good weather, but took a breath of cold air and said: "With such a terrain, if our army fights with the Turkic iron cavalry, it really has no chance of winning. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is a good policy to withdraw to Tongzhou Xu Tu early." Lin Nan was already beating more and more when he looked at it, and when he told Gao Dehong on the side, he was in a worse mood, so he turned around and left.

Gao Dehong saw Zhang Lang turn around with a gloomy face, and followed behind without saying a word.

Li Jia also silently returned to the Chinese army Dazhai and thought hard about countermeasures.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, everyone's faces were heavy. After half a sound, Lin Nan took the lead in breaking the heavy atmosphere in the tent and said, "Do you think you should withdraw your troops back to Tongzhou?" ”

Gao Dehong followed the line and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, I just received the news of Tanma, and the Turkic general Zhi Sili led the army to come in the starry night, and it seems that he wants to intercept our army between our withdrawals. ”

"No wonder they came so fast." As soon as Lin Nan shot the previous case, all the generals were all in the same place.

At this time, Li Jing suddenly took out a map and spread it out on Lin Nan's case. And the generals gathered around. Li Jing said calmly: "This is a rough military map of this place. ”

Lin Nan asked in surprise, "Pharmacist, where did you get it?" ”

Li Jing sighed twice and said, "In the hands of Yuan Zhi, I don't know if it is useful to the lord." Lin Nan praised: "The pharmacist's mind is really meticulous, this picture must be useful." ”

Everyone nodded at the same time, and Lin Nan looked at the map with satisfaction. Li Jing pointed to a small red dot in the middle of the map and said, "This is Chahar, where the emperor's army is staying." Then he pointed to the map and said: "This place is surrounded by grasslands, and there is no barrier to rely on, and the Turkic army is in a hurry to march in, precisely because it is difficult for our army to resist his iron cavalry charge." ”

Lin Nan frowned greatly when he heard this, indeed, if he wanted to fight with the Turkic cavalry on the grassland with the same amount of infantry, even if his army was twice as large as the Turkic army, it would be difficult to ensure victory, not to mention that now the Turks had the upper hand.

"Your Majesty, the matter is urgent and indecisive, and the Turks will be approaching in less than a day, and it will be too late to regret it." Gao Dehong reminded again. Who knew that at this time, a report from the horse suddenly came into the account and said: "Your Majesty, the army of Zhisi Sili suddenly set up camp, and it is not possible to stop the army." ”

"What!" After hearing this, Lin Nan suddenly stood up suddenly. Li Jing thought for a moment and said: "I have heard for a long time that this obsessive Sili is Zhuge Liang in the Turkic army, and he is very cautious. It seems that he knows the news that the Khitan has surrendered to my Great Sui, and he feels that now there is no internal and external attack, and he doesn't know the truth of our army, so he doesn't dare to rush into the army. ”

Lin Nan suddenly turned his face and said with a smile: "Since he doesn't know the truth of our army, that is to say, he really thinks that our army has hundreds of thousands of horses, so he doesn't dare to trade in." If our army withdraws now, it will show weakness. Speaking of this, he suddenly snorted coldly and ordered: "The generals will listen to the order!" ”

"In!"

"Order the three armies, set off on the starry night, and march into Sili Dazhai!"

"This!" The generals were all taken aback when they heard this, only Li Jing was like an initiation, and said: "Clever plan, what a wonderful plan for the emperor!" ”

The generals were still puzzled, and Li Jing explained: "Zhisi led the army to come in the starry night, originally to save the danger of the Khitan. Now that the Khitan has surrendered, the morale of our army is winning, and the Turks have traveled a long way, but they are already at the end of their crossbows when they arrive here. If our army suddenly marches in at this time, Zhisi Li must have expected that our army will have hundreds of thousands. It is already a mistake to fight the arrogant soldiers with the army, and it is even more unreasonable to fight the strong with a few blows, and it will not be so stupid to think about it, I expect him to know that our army is coming, and it will inevitably withdraw in the starry night. ”

Lin Nan also swept away the gloom in his heart at this time, and laughed loudly: "He insisted on being cautious, so he expected that others would not dare to make dangerous moves, but this time I was afraid that he would lead the fifteenth army back and forth in vain." ”

The generals also woke up, and Gao Dehong stroked his palms and smiled: "I just don't know how many good Turkic horses will be tired to death." ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of laughter in the tent. (To be continued.) )