On the grassy hillside, Lu Ning stood expressionlessly looking at the distant valley, where dozens of Khitan herdsmen were killed on the bank of the river valley.

A dozen more women, maidens, and girls were led to this part of the valley early, each frightened like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and although they could not see what was going on in the valley, they clearly understood what was happening.

Here according to Yuzhou is only more than ten miles, just meet a small Khitan nomadic tribe, of course, not a small tribe, obviously a large family of several generations, dozens of people, raising thousands of cattle and sheep, is the Khitan herdsmen of the top family.

The Shenwu army immediately besieged it, and the emperor ordered that the mountain pastures here belong to Chengdewei and belong to the royal family.

The Khitan herdsmen immediately resisted, and then the men, including the children, were killed, leaving only the women and brought back to the unmarried men who were sent to the military as wives.

Looking at this scene from afar, Lu Ning sighed softly in his heart, but in this world, if you want to conquer the enemy, you can't completely ignore the rules of today, if you must act according to your own heart, I am afraid that it is the country of the Central Plains, and in the end it will leave countless hidden dangers, and your current benevolence is cruel to the future of the Chinese people.

Brother Yelu Jiu, who was sitting in front of the saddle, his face was as white as paper, and he thought of the faint words of Emperor Fang Cai Nanren in his ears, "I just follow the customs of the countryside, enter the prairie, and enter the land of white mountains and black waters, so I just follow some rules of your grassland barbarians." ”

I vaguely feel that what the current Nanren emperor is doing, it seems that in the so-called "Chengdewei", a powerful grassland tribe suddenly appeared, the rules of action are extremely barbaric, the same plundering livestock population culls the other party's men, and what is even more terrifying is that the rear of this powerful tribe has the support of the continuous strength of the Central Plains Dynasty.

In the distance, there is faint smoke rising, which is the direction of Yuzhou Nucheng.

Zhu Chongjun, the commander of the Shenwu Army, led most of the Shenwu Army, and should have successfully broken through the Tucheng of Yuzhou.

Yuzhou Touxia Nu City, but hundreds of Central Plains slave households, the defensive strength used to basically rely on the "family ding" of Yelu Jiuge's family, but now, it should be the "family ding" of the Khitan nobles who got the Yuzhou slave city, that is, the courage of their own small tribe.

The Khitan nobles who are still plotting the slave cities and nomadic pastures in the south of Zhongjing are obviously seriously asymmetrical in information, and they don't know what the southerners built Chengdewei for, and most of them still think that the Central Plains people's consistent strategy is to build the city only as a border defense.

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The Shenwu army returned with a full load, driving hundreds of Central Plains slave households, more than 2,000 people, thousands of horses, and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep to join the emperor.

At the same time, at each distance, several light horsemen were left behind as scouts, and the farthest scouts were twenty or thirty miles away, and they would return in turn.

At the same time, more than 300 Khitan soldiers and civilians were also captured, including the family of Yelu Fuqian, a child of the small clan of the Khitan Zhong Father's Clan, who had just become the new master of Yuzhou Nucheng.

When the raiding of the Khitan land encounters the resistance of the Khitan people and causes casualties, no matter which side is injured or injured, all the men of the immediate family members of the Khitan people who resist will be killed.

However, when the horse returned, Lu Ning felt that he would not participate in this kind of raid in the future, even in the name of the so-called Ningyuan general Wu Dingbang, it was better not to participate.

War is absolutely distorting of human nature, not to mention that in the era of cold weapon fighting, I am afraid that one day, I will watch too many scenes like this and become numb, which is not what I want.

"Great Emperor, the sin slave greets His Majesty the Great Emperor......"

As the team moved slowly, several soldiers rode their horses and carried a ragged Khitan middle-aged man.

was thrown in front of Lu Ningma, and he immediately kowtowed like pounding garlic.

His clothes were in tatters, his whole body was covered with mud, and his face was also scarred, but it could be vaguely seen that this Khitan man should be a beautiful man.

Brother Yelu didn't dare to ask all the way, and his heart was even more worried, at this moment, he exclaimed, the words of the Central Plains, the meaning of "uncle".

It was Yelu Guozhen who was brought, he heard a slightly familiar woman exclaim, calling his uncle, he looked up secretly in shock, and immediately saw Yelu Jiuge, who was riding with the Emperor of the Central Plains, was stunned for a while.

Lu Ning smiled and said, "Go talk to your uncle." Gently grabbed Yelu Jiuge's small waist and put her off the horse.

Seeing his uncle's stunned gaze, Yelu Jiu's pretty face was hot, and in embarrassment, he hurriedly walked to his uncle's side and asked him how he was, but where was he hurt? Is it hard to be locked up in prison? What happened to the cousins, cousins, cousins and cousins who didn't participate in the Southern Expedition? Wait a minute.

The farmers are all walking, walking very slowly.

Yelu Guozhen and Yelu Jiuge also walked beside the team, in fact, there is no need to ask, Yelu Guozhen also knows that her little niece has been occupied by the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, but it seems that she is still very loved, and her own family who was imprisoned in prison was called by the Nanren Army, but it was also considered to be a certain courtesy, at least the female dependents of her own clan were not hairy by the Nanren Army, and other Khitan women with good looks and low status, these are inevitable, his family, but the prisoners under the steps.

At first, he was still puzzled, and he didn't know what was going on, but now, he has come to understand.

Yelu Guozhen was overjoyed in his heart, speaking of which, when the southerners broke through the slave city of Yuzhou and entered the prison, in addition to the initial fear of being slaughtered by these southerners, he was a little surprised to see that he was just driving the population to return to the south, at least, he would not be sent to Beijing immediately to punish the crime, looking at Yelu Fuqian's posture, he was eager to put himself to death.

Now, seeing his niece Yelu Jiuge, who is close to his father and daughter, able to serve the Nanren Emperor, Yelu Guozhen is overjoyed.

chatting and chatting, listening to Yelu Jiu Brother take the initiative to talk about what happened to her husband's family, his eyes were red.

Yelu Guozhen hurriedly said: "Brother Jiu, there have been great changes in decades, you and I are like ants and can't help ourselves, you don't have to think about it, now, since the Holy Son of Heaven is very kind to you, you should treat the Holy Son of Heaven wholeheartedly." ”

Brother Yelu Jiu was stunned, he never thought that his uncle would say such a thing.

After all, there are no southerners eavesdropping on the side.

"Brother Jiu, wait a minute!"

Yelu Guozhen looked at the Nanren Emperor who was surrounded by several horsemen not far in front of him, so he ran a few steps quickly, but soon, he was rushed by the male cavalry and blocked dozens of steps away.

"Let him come!" Lu Ning saw this scene and beckoned.

The southerner cavalry in front of him dodged the road, and Yelu Guozhen immediately knelt in front of Lu Ning's horse, kowtowed: "Your Majesty the Holy Son of Heaven, the Guozhen clan, from now on to serve the Holy Son of Heaven, in addition, the national treasure department is a family friend, and several departments are dissatisfied with Yelu Gongsage, and Guozhen is willing to repair the book, persuade them, and help the Holy Son of Heaven." ”

Oh? Lu Ning glanced at Yelu Guozhen with interest, splitting the Khitan tribe was originally a matter of his own planning, but if it was said that he would support one or several to rule the Northern Regions, it would be extremely cautious, and to achieve a balanced and obedient posture to the Central Plains, it would take a very clever operation, otherwise, a strong enemy would be supported in minutes.

As for now, it is still a little far to think about these, the Khitan people are not really afraid of the Central Plains, the battle of Youzhou, and the kings of the tribes entrenched in the Eastern Regions of the Northern Regions think that Yelu Gangsage is mediocre and incompetent, and they will not feel that the Central Plains Dynasty has anything to provoke.

Speaking of which, once the internal relations of the Khitan are straightened out and the various ministries join forces to attack, if they want Chengdewei to stand tall, they really make the Khitan tribes have to admit that its existence outside the fortress and the land within a radius of hundreds of miles are the territory of Chengdewei Huangzhuang, which can only be achieved through blood and fire.

In the real sense, outside the Saiwai, completely defeat the Khitans, so that the south of the desert, the north of the desert, the east of Liaobei and the north of Liao, all tribes no longer dare to despise the Central Plains.