Got into the plush sleeping bag and listened to the snoring around him, but Yelu Chengfeng couldn't sleep. He had been to Boxing, where the prosperity and wealth were far greater than he had imagined, and the Sivandan tribe, who had been as poor as their tribe in the past, had now all turned over. Especially when he saw Yelu Fengze in Boxing, he was even more ashamed of himself. Back then, the two of them fought with their bare butts and smeared cow feces on each other's bodies, but now, they are like a real nobleman who is high up, and he is like a lowly herdsman.

In the past few days, he followed Yelu Fengze's side, watching him decide the business of 100,000 million yuan of silver with a wave of his hand, watching him talk and laugh with those erudite Confucians, talking about the past and the present, and looking at the return home, the wives and concubines dressed in silk and satin surrounded him like stars holding the moon, and when they looked at the children with pink makeup and jade peck, they called his father in groups, and the envy in his heart was overflowing.

What Yelu Fengze can do, of course he can do.

He has the same noble blood as him, has a similar childhood, and what he can achieve today may not be impossible to achieve.

Sometimes, a casual choice can determine a person's rise and fall.

It didn't take long for the sleeping bag to warm up, and remembering that his father and his own people were still climbing the ice and snow, Yelu Chengfeng felt extremely uncomfortable.

Everything can be changed.

In the future, I and Siddhidharma will also live like this.

He was so worried that he fell asleep in a daze, and when he felt that he had just fallen asleep, he was woken up by a heavy slap, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Yeluqi staring at him with a pair of big eyes.

"Get up, it's about to be pulled."

Somewhat ashamed, he got out of his sleeping bag and saw that thousands of horsemen were already eating breakfast at this time. When I was in Goguryeo, I was extremely vigilant, and a little wind and grass could wake me up from my slumber, but in the past two months, my vigilance has obviously declined.

"Let's eat!" Yeluch stuffed an iron box into his hand, the temperature of the iron box was just right, it was obvious that it had been heated and cooled for a while, and when he opened the box, the cakes inside were already soaked.

"Thank you, uncle!" Yelu Chengfeng said with a red face.

"Eat, we have to go at least eighty to a hundred miles today." Jerichy laughed.

Yelu Chengfeng was stunned, "Uncle, where we are now, it's not so far from Tai'an?" ”

"We're not going to Tai'an!" Yeluqi laughed: "We are cavalry, where is Tai'an, there are 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the Tianping Army, shall we take the cavalry to attack the city?" Let's go to Feicheng. ”

"Take a detour to the rear of Tai'an and cut off their way back?" Yelu Chengfeng's eyes lit up: "But we only have 3,000 cavalry, is the number too small?" ”

"Let's eat first, and I'll talk to you about it later on the road!" Jerichy waved his hand and walked away.

When the sky was completely bright, 3,000 cavalry and 6,000 horses set off again.

Yeluqi and Yeluchengfeng walked side by side.

"A long time ago, I have always believed in the supremacy of force, there is no food to wrap up, to rob, there is no warm clothing, to rob, if you are not convinced, go up and do it, anyway, whoever has a fast knife, whose fist is hard, who has a reason, even if I hit my head again and again, I still haven't changed this." Jerichy said.

"Isn't it?" Yelu Chengfeng is strangely authentic. "Uncle, Li Ze and Li Xiang are now in power, isn't it just relying on his hard fists and fast knives? It is precisely because of this that Li Xiang was able to beat Zhang Zhongwu and flee in embarrassment, and put the festival towns one by one into his pocket? ”

"Then haven't you thought about why Li Xiang's knife is fast and why is his fist hard?"

Yelu Chengfeng was speechless.

"After so many years, I finally understood that force is only a last resort, used to make a final decision." Yeluqi said: "Before that, politics, economy, people's livelihood, etc., multi-pronged, by the time the army was dispatched, it was already only the last blow." So in front of Li Xiang, those enemies seemed to be so vulnerable. But with a different person, this is not the case at all. ”

"Uncle, I don't understand." Jerushi Chengfeng Dao.

"You'll get it slowly." Yeluqi smiled: "Just like our march to Tai'an this time, why do you dare to go around such a big circle to attack Feicheng with three thousand cavalry?" As you can see, we don't even have logistics, we don't even have reinforcements, and I only brought dry rations for a few days. ”

"I thought ......"

"Do you think we are still the same old as before, where we go, where we grab, and how to fight to feed the war?" Jerichy said.

"Yes."

"You're wrong." Yeluqi shook his head and said, "Tai'an is already a ripe fruit, and the army is dispatched just to complete the final blow and pick this fruit." Haven't you noticed why the army of the Tianping Army only cowered in the city and did not dare to go out of the city to meet us? ”

"In the field, they are vulnerable."

"You're wrong again." Yeluqi said: "The Tianping Army is not as vulnerable as you imagined, Cao Xuan is not incompetent, although he was wiped out by us in the battle of Luzhou, but after being released, Cao Xuan's re-formed Tianping Army is only stronger than before. In the city of Tai'an, 10,000 Tianping troops and 10,000 other auxiliary soldiers were gathered, including 5,000 cavalry. ”

"Then why don't they go out of the city to fight us and prefer to be so passive?" Yelu Chengfeng said puzzledly: "Their generals stationed in Tai'an are too wasteful? ”

"They can't get out of town!" Yeluqi smiled: "Tai'an was originally owned by Pinglu, and was later taken by Zhu Youzhen, so do you know who was the one who pacified Tai'an for Zhu Youzhen in a short period of time, resettled more than 100,000 displaced people, and turned Tai'an into Zhu Youzhen's base camp for development in the south in a year?" ”

Yelu Chengfeng froze.

"This person's name is Xu Xiang, and he is one of the best graduates of the first phase of Wuwei Academy." "He was sent to Tai'an a few years ago. ”

In fact, when he first learned about this, Yeluch himself was also stunned. For Datang, this is the key to reversing the situation in the south, and for Zhu Youzhen, it is a fatal blow. In the end, Zhu Youyu launched the Chang'an Mutiny, killed his own Laozi and ascended the throne as emperor, which caused internal strife among the Zhu brothers, which was even more unpredictable.

And now, Yelu Chengfeng also opened his mouth wide in surprise.

"At that time, Xu Xiang was the prefect of Tai'an." Yeluqi said with emotion: "Then can you imagine how many of his own people Xu Xiang arranged in Tai'an in that year?" The one he did in Tai'an was all the one that Li Xiang did in the North. Villages and towns, townships and townships, are naturally our allies. I didn't need logistics, I only brought three days' food, because I could get the supplies I wanted in Tai'an anytime, anywhere, and someone had already prepared them for us. ”

Jerichie patted his leather bag and said, "Tomorrow, we will each receive three large cakes." ”

"No wonder they don't dare to go out of town? Are there our people in the city? ”

"Nature." Yeluqi said lightly: "Although our power in the city is not as big as in the countryside, it is really a lot. In addition to the 10,000 Tianping troops in Tai'an City, among the remaining 10,000 people, there are quite a lot of Tai'an locals, including many people who have emigrated from Pinglu, they can't tell who is our people, but they can't leave the help of these people, what do you say they can do? The army is in the city, it can still be suppressed and threatened, once they leave the city, outside the city, they can't get help, once the city is repeated, what will they do? It's freezing this day, this city, I'm afraid that I won't be able to go back if I leave. ”

"Since this is so difficult, why doesn't this Cao Xuan simply give up Tai'an and withdraw to the balance?" Yelu Chengfeng was puzzled: "Isn't it more difficult to hang on the ground like this?" ”

"Because of the suddenness of the incident, Cao Xuan had no choice, originally in his imagination, once we launched an attack on Tianping, Xuanwu, Zhongwu, and Luoyang could all support him, even if it was Gonghai, they could also launch an attack on Pinglu to contain our army, he never thought that we hadn't fought yet, they themselves did it first. Zhu Youzhen gathered the army of Xuanwu, Luoyang and other places to attack Zhu Youyu in Chang'an, and he became a loner and needed to deal with our attack alone. Therefore, Tai'an can't give up so quickly, even if it's just a lonely Tai'an City, he has to hold on to the end to buy him enough time. Whether he decides to fight to the death with us in the scales, or conserves his strength and abandons the scales, he needs time to prepare. ”

"It turns out that Tai'an is an outcast!"

"We know, and Cao Xuan knows, but Tai'an's Tianping Army doesn't necessarily know." Yeluqi smiled and said: "Therefore, we took a detour to take Feicheng, and Li De went around to take Qufu, all in order to cut off Tai'an's retreat, when we complete the attack on these two places, General Liu's main force will also arrive in Tai'an, at this time, it is doubtful how much combat power Tai'an still has." ”

"I see."

"Next, our two cavalry will go straight to Dongping, and join forces with Tian Ping of the Right Jin Wuwei to attack Dongping, here, but Cao Xuan's nest, if Cao Xuan can be blocked in Dongping, it will be a great joy."

"This is going to overturn a festival town, is it as simple as that?"

"You can see the simplicity, in fact, we have been planning for several years, as I told you earlier, when the army is dispatched, the overall situation is almost finalized." Yeluqi smiled: "Of course, this last blow, and the most important blow, if the battle is lost, of course everything can be reversed, but it has come to this point, if we lose again, then we can collectively find a piece of tofu and kill it." ”