Sun Wanrong led the army to entangle with the Zhou army forces in the Youzhou area, and after learning the news of Li Qianzhong's death, he immediately reined in the offensive and led the army to retreat westward. As soon as he was halfway there, Sun Wanrong received the bad news that Yingzhou City had been attacked. In a hurry, he let the large army follow, and he himself led the elite cavalry to gallop back.

Seeing that he was about to arrive at Yingzhou City, at this time Yingzhou City suddenly burst into flames, and he could see it from ten miles away, so you can imagine how big the fire is.

Sun Wanrong's brows furrowed, and a haze flashed in his eyes.

He hurried back, only to get the ruins of Yingzhou City, plus countless corpses of Khitans and Great Zhou people.

Mo Si was ruthless enough, before he withdrew the army, he carried out a screening and massacre, but all the old and weak who could not be taken away were killed.

The only thing that made Sun Wanrong feel fortunate was that he had listened to Mr. Wang's advice and moved himself, the families of the chieftains and generals, and most of the Khitan tribesmen to the vicinity of Xincheng, leaving only Li Quanzhong's family and a few Khitan tribesmen in the city.

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Luoyang City, Sifang Pavilion.

After reading the letter sent by the Khan of Mur, Tun Desire Valley silently burned the letter and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Regarding how to deal with the relationship with the Khitans, Tunyugu and Ashide Yuanzhen have different views. In the course of the-for-tat confrontation between the two of them, the Murch Khan finally vetoed the Valley of Lust and adopted Ashide Yuanzhen's suggestion.

For Mo Si's true thoughts, Tun Desire Valley knows it well.

On the one hand, Mo Si believed that there could only be one overlord on the grassland, and he did not want to see the rise of the Khitans. On the other hand, Mo Si wants to use this matter to suppress Mo Jianlian, who made Mo Jianlian the son-in-law of Tun Desire Valley.

Mo Jianlian is the eldest son of the Khan of Gu Lu, when Mo Si took over the position of Gu Lu Khan, Mo Jianlian was still young, in order to stabilize the overall situation, he established Mo Jianlian as the king of Zuoxian, this is just a measure of rights.

As Mur's position became more secure, he had to consider who would succeed the Khan in the future.

In Mo Si's opinion, his eldest son Tong's son should be the best candidate to succeed the Khan. But the prestige of the Turks is very high, far from being comparable with Russia, and there is a great tendency to replace it, and Mo Si must use the power in his hands to help build momentum with Russia.

Mo Jianlian and Tun Desire Valley's son-in-law are natural allies, and of course Tun Desire Valley must go all out to support his son-in-law to ascend to the throne. Therefore, it is reasonable for Mo Si to suppress Mo Jianlian by vetoing Lust Valley's suggestion.

What Tunyu Valley didn't expect was that Mo Si would send him to Da Zhou to negotiate, which was another Mu Si plan to kill two birds with one stone. If this matter is messed up, Mo Si can use this to ask for guilt and suppress Mo Jianlian again. Besides, negotiating with Da Zhou is not a matter of one or two days, and letting Tun Desire Valley stay in Luoyang all the time can cut off the connection between Mo Jianlian and Tun Desire Valley, and further isolate Mo Jianlian.

Although he saw through Mo Si's attempt, there was no good way for Lust Valley to deal with it. The only thing that can be done is to complete negotiations with Da Zhou and return to the Turks as soon as possible. In this way, Mo Si could not ask for sin, and he could continue to help Mo Jianlian.

The idea is good, but the operation is very difficult.

Tunyugu was sent by Mo Si to Luoyang to negotiate with Wu Zetian, and put forward a series of opinions: Mo Si asked to be the son of Empress Wu, and proposed to Da Zhou for his daughter, and at the same time asked Da Zhou to return the Turks

Household. In exchange, the Turks were willing to lead their people to crusade against the Khitan.

The real purpose of Mo Si's initiative to propose marriage this time was to try to induce the Great Zhou to betray the Turkic subordination that had previously defected to the imperial court, so as to not only increase the number of Turkic slaves and expand their power, but also to make the Great Zhou bear the notoriety of unbelief and injustice, and be ashamed of all the vassals, so that the Turks could better win the hearts and minds of the surrounding tribes, so as to obtain the sincere approval of these participating tribes after seizing the suzerainty of the original Great Zhou by force.

To put it bluntly, Heqin is a scam at all. As for sending troops to fight against the Khitan, it was just a trick of silently slugging the grass and beating the rabbit.

Mo Si has coveted the Songmo Mansion of the Great Zhou Dynasty for a long time, and has long had the intention of going east to control the Khitan tribes, and is also confident that he will take away this rich pasture from the hands of the Great Zhou, but he is worried that the forcible seizure will cause the Khitan people to resist and resent, so he has not used troops. Because of this, Mo Si sent Tun Desire Valley to Song Desert to try his best to provoke the relationship between the Khitan and the Great Zhou. Now, the Khitan has risen against the Zhou as they wished, which is a good opportunity for the Turks to benefit the fishermen.

For this strange kindness of the Turks, Wu Zetian and Di Renjie and other monarchs and ministers were very vigilant, and if they had been in the past, they would have rejected it categorically. However, now that the Great Zhou army had just been defeated by the Khitans, and although the situation had not deteriorated to the point where it was uncontrollable, the Turkic proposal also had an irresistible temptation. Based on this, Wu Zetian decided to stabilize the Tunyu Valley first, and let the Tunyu Valley temporarily live in the Sifang Pavilion. Everything depends on the final result of Wang Xiaojie's conquest of the Khitans before he can make the next step.

Guo Zhen was originally going to be sent by Wu Zetian to negotiate in Tubo, because of the arrival of Tun Desire Valley, and he was sent by Wu Zetian to accompany Tun Desire Valley every day, which made him depressed.

Regarding the plans of the Great Zhou Imperial Court, Tun Desire Valley felt like a mirror in his heart, except for traveling around the mountains and rivers accompanied by Guo Zhen every day, he could only wait patiently and could not do anything.

The news of the Turkic sneak attack on Yingzhou City and the death of Li Quanzhong sent by Mo Si did not help the overall negotiation between Tunyugu and Da Zhou, as long as Wang Xiaojie did not go on the expedition for a day, he could only wait.

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In the blink of an eye, February is coming, and the whole New Year is a day for the people. Although it has entered February, the atmosphere of the New Year does not seem to have completely dissipated.

At the end of the year, those who want to earn a living or take on the responsibility of supporting their families will have to start working hard, and some will go out to carry out the plans they have made. The wanderer had already said goodbye to his relatives and friends, and had packed up and was ready to hit the road.

Among other things, the bags that accompany them to a foreign country must contain the advice of their elderly parents and the attachment of young children to them.

Compared with parting, reunion is always short-lived, in fact, life is always between reunion and parting.

Wang Xiaojie and the soldiers of the conquest army led by him were among these ranks to say goodbye to their relatives. A few months ago, the imperial court sent a large army to say goodbye to their families like these soldiers, but many of them never returned.

In addition to Yulin and government soldiers, many of the sergeants who went out this time were recruited from the civilian population.

Wu Zetianxia edicted to recruit soldiers to conscript the Khitan, and at first she gave this errand to Wu Sansi. Wu Sansi spent a lot of effort, but as a result, not many people applied. And Ji Ji is different, because of Lu Xiaoxian's mention

Wake up, he made sufficient preparations before Wu Zetian's edict, so when he recruited in the name of Li Xian, it only took three days to recruit 50,000 people.

Knowing such a result, Wu Zetian sighed and was silent. Although Wu Zetian did not show his intentions, Di Renjie and Ji Ji could see that the current situation was very favorable to Li Xian's return. The two of them couldn't help but admire, and sure enough, everything was in Lu Xiaoxian's calculations.

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Just when Wang Xiaojie raised his troops and marched to Yingzhou, the Khitan also completed the transfer of power smoothly, and Sun Wanrong unsurprisingly succeeded to the position of the supreme khan of the Khitan.

It stands to reason that after Li Quanzhong's death, the position of khan should be succeeded by Li Yanhuo. But Li is not Li Quanzhong after all, and he is not Sun Wanrong's opponent at all.

Li Shenhuo and Li Kaigu escaped from Yingzhou City in disarray, not only did they not save Li Qianzhong's body, but even Li Jianzhong's family members were taken away by the Turks. It stands to reason that this is to be punished. Sun Wanrong had just become a khan, and in order to show his generosity, he did not embarrass Li and Li Kaigu. Li was already guilty, how could he be qualified to compete with Sun Wanrong for the position of Khan.

Although the two were exonerated from death, Sun Wanrong did not let them go easily. With this reason, Sun Wanrong took over Li Kaigu's military power, and Li Kaigu's troops were handed over to He Axiao to take charge.

For the safety of Li Yanhuo, Li Kaigu could only swallow his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and endured this breath.

Then Sun Wanrong issued another order: send He Axiao and other troops to lead troops to attack Jizhou again.

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Su Honghui's rear military camp tent was continuous, winding for several miles, and the main force of tens of thousands of troops was camped here.

Just after the hour, the strict police drum horn began to move, the marquis led the patrol camp soldiers, built flags, set up trumpet heads, set up more shops, loud sitting and cheering one after another, the tired army finally had a place to rest and recuperate, sufficient supplies can not only make the soldiers' physical strength recover quickly, but also make them re-energized and high-spirited.

Zhang Shuo and Yang Si were in the barracks at this time, and the two stood outside their military tents, looking at the scene in front of them, and couldn't help nodding secretly.

The Tang Army's discipline of camping is recorded in accordance with the "Li Jing's Art of War": When marching troops go out, soldiers must not waste clothing and money, and they are widely eaten. and shall not go near Tian Miao and the camp in the city, but shall go ten miles away from the city. If you want to enter the city at a market price, the battalion secretary and half an official are allowed, and you are not allowed to enter the city, and you will be free from drunkenness and fighting, stealing and adultery, and you will not damage the fields and seedlings, which can be said to be very strict.

The Great Zhou army originated from the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang army was generally not allowed to enter the city when they were camped, so Su Honghui never stationed in the city on this road.

By observing Zhang Shuo and Yang Si, it can be seen that Su Honghui is still relatively strict in governing the army, and it can be seen that the combat effectiveness of the rear army is not weak. What's more, the forward troops led by Wang Xiaojie are the elite of the elite, and the front and rear army should be in a decent manner, which makes them somewhat confident in the upcoming battle with the Khitan.

However, Lu Xiaoxian's words to warn the two at parting had a huge shadow in their hearts. If it were someone else, maybe they could ignore it, but this is what Lu Xiaoxian said, so they can't ignore it.

Judging from Zhang's experience over the past few days, as long as it is Lu Xiaoxian's prediction, there is nothing that cannot be fulfilled.