The Khitan nobles have always had their own hearts, and the leaders of the eight tribes were afraid that after the Yelan Khan occupied Youzhou, they would make more contributions, and imitated the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to call the emperor but not the khan.

What's worse is that the position of Yelan Khan is chosen every three years.

Yelan Khan is in his third year, but he still wants to be re-elected.

Yelan Khan's cousin Ba Thorn was anxious to become a khan, and the leader of the Yelu tribe, a small tribe outside the eight tribes, was imitating the Tang people who began to smelt iron and teach the people to cast drums.

Sarah's younger brother Yelu Shulan also taught the people to grow mulberry hemp, learn to weave, build boards, and build cities. These people all have a good relationship with Yelan Khan's cousin Baspur, and they are all the backbone of supporting his cousin Baspur.

Yelan Khan was disdainful when he heard that Yun Deshi's children were beginning to develop, and he said, "When I pacify this Youzhou, I will kill the guy who likes to imitate the way of life of the Tang people." We, the Khitans, should have lived in tents, bent bows and shot horses. The father of Yelu Salar and Yelu Shulan, Yun Deshi, was fond of farming at the beginning, and was killed by the previous Khan Zhaogu. ”

Next to Yelan Khan, there was a concubine Irina from the Eastern Roman Empire, who said: "Our Rome was defeated by the Hun Empire, and then because of the settlement of them, the combat effectiveness immediately declined. ”

Irina was the righteous daughter of Basil I, the founder of the Macedonian dynasty of the Eastern Roman Empire, and she was fair-skinned and beautiful.

Because of the success of repelling the Arab attack, the Eastern Roman Emperor Basil I had a whimsical idea to choose the Macedonian beauty Irina as his daughter, and sent teachers from the Tang Dynasty and the Arab Abbasid Dynasty to teach Tang Mandarin and Arabic.

Basil I wanted to use the beauty trick to attack the declining Arab Empire with the Tang Dynasty.

A year later, at the age of sixteen, Irina and a small caravan crossed the already fragmented Arab Empire and reached Central Asia. Then, Irina went to the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, but she didn't expect to encounter the Huangchao Uprising, and they had to stay in Taiyuan City in Hedong.

Unexpectedly, Yelan Khan personally led the Khitan army to plunder Hedong and Daijun, and as a result, all the merchants in the Western Regions were driven out as spies.

Irina and her caravan were captured by Yelan Khan's troops, and when the Khitan Khan saw Irina, he was shocked. Because she likes to bathe, she obviously smells much better than Khitan women and Turkic and Uighur people.

Yelan Khan didn't have a deep hatred for the culture of the Central Plains, but he didn't want others to borrow the technology of the Tang Dynasty to make it bigger and threaten its rule.

It is precisely because of the various hearts of the Khitan nobles, coupled with their cruel plundering of the people of Youzhou, that Tang Zhangwei's attacks on the Khitan have been successful repeatedly.

When Tang Zhangwei learned that Tu Dongsu, the leader of the Xi people, was driving a Xi chariot and driving cattle and horses to transport military rations for the Khitans, he was determined to lead his army to annihilate the Xi people's army.

Tang Zhangwei led 9,000 elite soldiers, including 2,000 cavalry and 7,000 infantry, with a week's worth of food, and secretly approached the Xi people's barracks.

Xiren's car is powered by oxen, but it can't bear weight, but Xi's car is good at walking mountain roads. The border area of Youzhou is full of mountains, and the Yanshan Mountains block traffic everywhere.

When Tang Zhangwei's army approached the camp of the Xi leader Tu Dongsu, the Xi people were desperately trapped because they had been hurrying for days.

Tang Zhangwei led the army, lurked until midnight, and then eliminated 500 dead soldiers and rushed into the camp tent of the Xi people and set fire everywhere.

Many Xi people slept on top of the Xi car, and when they were awakened by the fire and smoke, they hurriedly wanted to leave.

Tang Zhangwei led the army to shoot many people who rushed out of the fire with bows and arrows, and the leader of the Xi people, Tu Dongsu, led a guard of more than 200 people to break out of the encirclement, but was killed by Wei Youji with an arrow.

Of the 20,000 Xi people, less than 100 escaped, of whom more than 10,000 were killed and more than 9,000 were captured.

After this battle, Tang Zhangwei obtained 3,000 horses, 3,000 cattle, 4,000 mules and donkeys, as well as countless grains and many horses that were burned to death.

Tang Zhangwei ordered the captives and the nearby people to bury the corpses to prevent the outbreak of the epidemic, and at the same time let the people marry your dead war horses and divide them, cook them in a cauldron, and use them as meat.

Since then, Xi people have felt chills when they hear Tang Zhangwei's prestige.

The Khitan nobles were not only not sad about the defeat of the servant army Xi people, but on the contrary, they were secretly happy, and even Yelan Khan said: "Under the pretense of the Tang rebel Huang Kui's hand to exterminate the Xi people, it is really a matter of killing two birds with one stone." ”

Yelan Khan's cousin, Bazi, had a staff member under his tent who fiercely commanded Yelu Shiru. This man had the courage of all men, and he was the brother of Jerazalah.

Jerusara had a son named Abaoji, who was nine years old, but he was already able to shoot rats with a bow. At this time, Abaoji served as a servant for the leader Spur.

Ba Thorn led an army of 10,000, and because Tang Zhangwei set fire to the pasture near Yanshan Mountain in Youzhou, many Khitan war horses starved to death.

This war, because of the appearance of Tang Zhangwei, led to a scene of parity.

The Khitan nobleman Ba Thorn has long coveted the Eastern Roman beauty Irina, and even more so for the position of the Great Khan.

Seeing the defeat of the Xi people, the Khitan army and Huang Kuo's troops and horses became a stalemate.

The Khitan nobleman Ba Spur's mind moved, and he sent someone to get in touch with Tang Zhangwei, and since then, the battles between the two sides have only been fake stories and shows.

Tang Zhangwei took advantage of this rare peace and trained a cavalry team of up to 5,000 people.

From the 9,000 Xi people captured, he selected 3,000 elite soldiers, and the remaining 6,000 people exchanged 3,000 Xi chariots and 3,000 war horses. After that, he released all these taunts.

In order not to make Huang Kui suspicious, Tang Zhangwei gave Huang Kui 3,000 good horses.

At the same time, 3,000 Xi cavalry were also handed over to Huang Kui.

Everyone was puzzled, and they said, "Why don't General Tang take Youzhou by himself to get the three towns of Heshuo." ”

Tang Zhangwei said with a smile: "The destiny has not yet arrived!" At this time, Tang Zhangwei already had 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry, and these 10,000 people were all strong troops.

Huang Kuo ordered Tang Zhangwei to break through the Khitan camp as soon as possible, and Tang Zhangwei sent a secret agreement with the Khitan nobleman Ba Spur, agreeing that the two would become brothers and help him ascend to the throne of the Khitan Khan.

That night, Huang Kuoqin led 4,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry under Youzhou City to launch a fierce attack on the large camp of Khitan Yelan Khan.

Yelan Khan ordered his cousin Baspur to lead an army to rescue him, but Baspur sat back and watched the success or failure.

Yelan Khan led his army to rush out of the camp at the risk of death, but was stopped by Tang Zhangwei's 5,000 infantry.

When Yelan Khan finally rushed out, he was ambushed by Tang Zhangwei's 5,000 iron cavalry.

Yelan Khan only escaped with more than 300 horsemen, and he went straight to the steppe outside the Saiwai.

Unexpectedly, the 300 cavalry were stopped by 2,000 elite soldiers led by Jerush.

Yelan Khan was furious and said, "What do you mean? ”

Of the two thousand elite soldiers, 500 were members of the Jerubu tribe, and the rest were members of the headquarters of the Baspurs.

Jerushruth said, "We are here to slay the thieves for the new Khan. After speaking, the Khitan Yong shot Yelu Shilu's arrow.

Three hundred cavalrymen fell from their horses, and more than 100 cavalrymen risked their lives to cover Yelan Khan's escape to the east of the river.

Eventually, Yelan Khan escaped.

However, the Eastern Roman concubines of Yelan Khan were captured by Huang Yu's subordinates.

For a time, Yelan Khan did not know what to do.

Without waiting for everyone's recommendation, Ba Thorn recognized himself as Khan, and led the remnants of 40,000 Khitan troops to plunder and retreat in a hurry.

According to Huang Kui's order, Tang Zhangwei built siege equipment and prepared to attack Youzhou City.

At this time, the news came that Li Ke in Hedong was using troops to rescue Li Keju.