Tian Hu's 10,000 people are not like many people who have participated in making horses before, they have been to Liao before, they are more familiar with the situation, and they have some confidence in their hearts.

These people, including the He brothers, knew nothing about the environment and situation of the Liao State, and they were as good as the countrymen who first entered Beijing, and only relied on their own experience and means of being robbers in the Great Song Dynasty, and with the strong enthusiasm for making horses and making a fortune that was instigated, they confidently scattered everywhere, and before they could figure out where they were, how to settle down, what the situation around them, and how to do it, they were swallowed up and taken away by the horse thieves of the Cangbei Army who were closely watched.

He Ding and He Le brothers are also Mongolian in the completely unfamiliar Liao country, and they see that the horses are still gathering in Mopan Mountain, but they are many times slower, and it is still difficult and inefficient to send horses to the country.

Tian Biao and Tian Bao listened to the report of his subordinates who sent Ma Lai, and concluded that the refugees had a sense of danger, were heavily guarded, resisted fiercely, and it was difficult to steal and raid and loot, and the Liao government also seemed to be vigilant, and dispatched a small army to strengthen the fight against horse thieves, and the combination of the two caused a large loss of manpower and a decline in the effect of looting.

They also knew that the Liao army in the interior of Yunzhou Prefecture was now mainly deployed to prevent refugees from changing, and neither the government nor the army had much strength to control other regions, nor did they dare to withdraw the army to deal with horse thieves.

The two of them felt that they still had fewer people, and their cavalry combat power was not as good as the Liao army, and it was not easy to deal with the refugee armies who were also good at riding and shooting, and they could not form an overwhelming advantage to win by fighting more and fighting less.

Sample. I don't believe it, you can't draw troops. I plundered with a large number of men, and the refugees and a few Liao troops who exterminated horse thieves were able to stop me from getting horses.

Tian Hu did not understand the specific situation in the north. It's just that I feel that the opportunity to get horses brought by the southward migration of refugees is too rare, and it is also very consistent with the development of the situation that a large number of cavalry are needed to scare away the Song army to speed up the expansion of territory.

As for the loss of manpower, what is it?

Once it will be successful, it will be withered, not to mention the emperor's hegemony.

In the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. With a large number of horses, there is everything to achieve hegemony, what Western Army, what powerful Marquis Wencheng is not a problem, no one can stop the front of the powerful cavalry, and no one can stop my Tian Hu from sweeping the world and ascending to the throne of God.

For this reason, no matter how great the sacrifice is, how many people die, it is worth it.

Have you ever seen an emperor since ancient times who really valued human life more than the throne and the country?

And who is not hardened and ruthless in his heart?

If a soldier dies, he can recruit and practice again. In the Great Song Dynasty, people have it, but there are no horses. Horses are much more important than human life.

In Tian Hu's heart, human life is just a mustard that can be used and a chess piece that can be manipulated. It is a necessary paving stone to the throne of the emperor.

He didn't have the regret and sadness for the loss of his subordinates' lives like Chao Gai, and he indifferently believed that what he had was the ruthlessness to achieve the emperor's hegemony and the grand strategy to do whatever it took to serve the country. Boundless arrogance and boldness.

Therefore, in order to seize this good opportunity to lay the foundation of the imperial industry, he was very hot-headed. With a pat on the head, the brothers He Ding and He Le, who returned for help, urgently dispatched 10,000 reserve riders from the army to the north again. And demanded that the horse must be obtained at all costs.

The border checkpoint is tight, it doesn't matter if the horse can't be sent back for a while, the border gate will relax sooner or later, there is always a chance. But getting a horse is not always a good opportunity.

You have to take your chances.

The horse must have taken advantage of the chaos to get it from the Khitan people first, hid it in the mountains and raised it to slowly move back. It doesn't matter if you lose manpower. It is important to distinguish between what is important and which is important.

Tian Bao, Tian Biao, He Ding, He Le, these people are all bullies among bullies, and they are cruel among the murderous, how can they be people who regret the lives of others?

For the sake of their goals, they don't care how many people die, and they don't have the concept of cherishing human life in their minds.

With Tian Hu's order, they mobilized these 10,000 people to be greedy and courageous, and quickly spread out, wanting to exchange human lives for horses, but most of them were confused on the way to the hiding cottage and were skillfully watched by the Cangbei army and horse thieves, and they were swallowed up by various means.

Tian Bao Tian Biao saw that the effect of getting horses was not as ideal as hoped, and the manpower seemed to be disappearing rapidly in large numbers, so he hurriedly asked his brother for help again, emphasizing that the Khitan refugees from the north were more ferocious and difficult to deal with than the local nomadic tribes in Yunzhou, and the horses were not too easy to grab, and they must form a superior force with more manpower to achieve their goals.

Tian Hu had doubts in his heart this time.

With so many manpower, it is not enough to deal with refugees and a small number of Khitan troops?

Xuan Zhenzi, Fang Xuedu and other staff officers also felt that something seemed wrong, but they didn't know about the Khitan, they couldn't figure out the situation, and they couldn't say why, and it was when the army rushed to the state to occupy the Song Dynasty, they had no experience at the beginning of the cracking, and they couldn't take the time to go to the north to check, but they began to persuade Tian Hu to think carefully.

But when Tian Hu was hot-headed, how could he listen to the advice, and felt that what his brother said was good.

The Khitan people in Yunzhou were influenced by the honest Bajiao Han people who farmed the land, and they had long lost their bloodiness and bravery, and the environment they were in was not as dangerous and harsh as the northern Liao, so they did not have to fight with foreign savages as often as the northern Khitans, and their combat effectiveness was naturally not as fierce and strong as the northerners.

The refugees in the north are more difficult to deal with than the people of Yunzhou, and it is right that the horses are difficult to rob.

It's a rare opportunity. When things are done halfway, we can't give up halfway, and we can't fall short because of the lack of follow-up strength due to cherishing manpower.

He gritted his teeth, tried to draw out all the soldiers who could ride horses in the whole army, and reluctantly scraped together 5,000 for He Ding and He Le to bring again, and explained that these were all the manpower, and the rest of the soldiers could not ride horses, and it was useless to send them, so he asked the brothers to use their brains more, and not blindly fight with refugees and cause a large number of casualties.

After these 5,000 people were scattered, they were taken away with their heads covered and their heads covered on a strange foreign journey.

In the anxious and expectant waiting of Tian Biao, Tian Leopard, He Le and He Ding, a large group of "Khitan Army" suddenly touched Mopan Mountain and attacked the hidden cottage at night.

Two spies under Zhu Wu of the Qingzhou Army killed two Tian Hubing who went out to investigate the news. Disguise yourself as these two soldiers and blend into the cottage. Waiting for the opportunity to put chronic sweat medicine in the diet. The elite of the Thousand Fields Tiger Army left behind in the village ate and drank, and fell asleep after a few hours at night.

The disguised Khitan army entered easily. Snatched all the loot that had been stored here, cleaned up the horses left behind by the crime, and quickly evacuated with the unconscious captives.

Tian Biao, Tian Leopard, He Le, and He Ding are four people with high skills, and they are habitual criminals in the green forest, good at escaping and saving their lives, committing crimes in a strange foreign country, and have been guarding against the sudden arrival of this day, preparing a secret way to escape in advance, and eating and drinking are made by cronies alone. He was not hit by the sweat medicine and escaped in this raid.

They were in a hurry, in the heartache and blood-soaked losses, afraid that their faces had been exposed and would be wanted by the Liao State, they did not dare to stay in Yunzhou, where there was no reliable place to hide, and they did not care about contacting their subordinates scattered everywhere, and directly absconded back to China overnight.

As for how they swept away Tian Hu's enthusiasm and hope, they had to bear what kind of anger Tian Hu had. Let's not talk about this.

The tide of refugees has not yet ended, and the Cangbei Song army and horse thieves in Yunzhou Mansion have begun to gradually and quietly evacuate in batches.

Han Shizhong took Wang Sheng, Sun Xian, Li Xing and other Qingzhou military generals, commanded 3,000 men and horses, and pretended to be a Khitan tribe army heading south to take advantage of the chaos in Yunzhou Mansion to rush to Taihang Mountain. found the nest of the Cui family of Yanzhi that Zhao Yue had mastered before, and the raid eradicated the remnants of the Cui family hiding here in one fell swoop, and basically annihilated the rebel forces that gathered under the Cui family. Millions of dollars were confiscated and taken away, and a large amount of grain and cloth accumulated here were distributed to the local Han people who were not lightly harmed by this gang of traitors. Interspersed from the Song-Liao border returned to Cheongju.

The other horse thief armies transferred the cottages from west to east, and arrived at the base of Yanshan Mansion. Batches sneaked back to Cangbei directly.

The 3,000 horse thieves stationed in Yanshan Mansion also quickly withdrew after smuggling back to China in batches the accumulated horses, money, and materials.

This time, the Cangbei Fourth Army got back a large number of Khitan weapons, money, materials and horses, as well as many young women looted by Khitan horse thieves, rewarded or compassionate the soldiers who went out on the expedition, and sent all of them to the coast of Jizhou and transferred to Jeju Island.

Anyway, Goryeo is going to be annexed, and there will be a place for horses, and these horses are temporarily squeezed on the crowded island.

In the name of transferring Cangzhou to the care of Zhao Zhuang, the families of the fallen soldiers were also coaxed on board the ship and transferred to various places in South Asia for resettlement, and in a similar name, they quietly began the planned plan of gradually transferring the families of the Qingzhou army.

Zhao Gonglian has started from He Guan, who is the most familiar and has the most friendship, and one by one the reliable generals and officials in the other three armies in Cangbei under his command have been brought into the Cangzhao system, and the families of these people have been transferred to live on Bay Island to prevent accidents in the imperial court incident, and also to prevent them from being betrayed.

Let's talk about Erlong Mountain.

Chao Gai was hot-headed and ambitious at this time, and he didn't know that the people he sent to the north to get horses no longer belonged to him, but when he saw that most of the horses brought back by Liu Tang were thin and heartbroken, he shouted and ordered that he must be well fed and cared for.

Liu Tang and Zheng Tianshou led people to Qingzhou again to pick up horses.

This time, Song Wan was also gone, only the little brother who reported the news and one of Li Zhong's henchmen stayed at the inn.

There were more than 500 horses, and most of them were emaciated by hunger due to the southward migration, and Liu Tangbu hurriedly sent them back, and then hurried back.

This time, there were more than a thousand thin horses, and Liu Tangbu had a surplus of two horses, and he changed on the road, and he also saved the tired thin horses, so that the results that Brother Erlongshan exchanged for his life were lost, and King Chao Tianwang was heartbroken when he saw it.

When Liu Tang and Zheng Tianshou returned happily again, what they saw in the inn were only two or three hundred thin horses with arrow wounds and other wounds.

The two of them were shocked, realizing that they were afraid that something big would happen, so they hurriedly entered the inn and saw the two little brothers who came out to greet them.

finally saw Gongsun Sheng and Li Zhong, who presided over the horses, but the ten thousand people who went north from Erlong Mountain were only left with two leaders and two younger brothers.

Gongsun Sheng was lying on the bed, his face was yellow, his breath was not strong, he was not lightly ill, his face was ashamed and painful, and his spirit was not high.

Li Zhong had difficulty moving, his leg was injured, and his expression was haggard and sad.

They, along with Zhou Tong, Du Qian, and Song Wan, all participated in the actions of the horse thieves of the Cangbei Army. Among the war horses obtained by Erlongshan is their hard work.

Zhou Tong, Du Qian, and Song Wansan will leave afterwards, and now they are in the Luzhi Shenying camp on Jeju Island.

Gongsun Sheng is really sick.

He was a careful and righteous man. The rapid change of identity made him feel complicated, coupled with the tense struggle in the harsh environment of Liao, he was physically and mentally exhausted, and he came back sick.

Liu Tang asked anxiously: "Brother Gongsun, Brother Li, you don't matter, right?" ”

This is heartwarming, regardless of success or failure, care about people first. Liu Tang is really a good brother who takes the lead in righteousness.

Gongsun Sheng looked at Liu Tang, smiled bitterly, and sighed weakly: "The brothers are all finished. It's all to blame for the poor road being carried away by smoothness and eagerness, and arrogantly making a wrong command......"

It turned out that Erlongshan had sufficient manpower, and it was extremely smooth to get horses, but the Liao government noticed the abnormality, and the border passes were tightly sealed and the inspection of the loopholes was strengthened, and sending the horses back became a problem.

The Erlongshan people got enough horses, but Gongsun Shengjian could not send them back, and he was afraid that he would stay in the mountains of Liaoguo for a long time, so he decided to take advantage of the chaos caused by the refugee influx and concentrate his forces to forcibly storm the border pass, break through the blockade, and rush back to the country.

Unexpectedly, in the process of gathering men and horses, the brothers were constantly being recognized by the vigilant government to see through the identity of the pseudo-Khitans, were hunted down, because of the lack of horsemanship, they were killed, and the six or seven thousand men and horses gathered together were surrounded and intercepted by the pursuing army and the border army when they stormed the border pass. Liao's cavalry is too powerful. The people and horses of Erlongshan desperately attacked, but their strength was not good, and they were killed and injured and fell off the horse.

Gongsun Sheng and Li Zhong, who took the lead in attacking the border pass, with the help of the Qingzhou border army who were alert to the Liao army's killing and went out of the pass to respond, fled back to the country with a poor little brother and wounded horse, but these brothers were also desperately chased by the Liao army and shot the next arrow, and they were seriously injured and died.

Brother Song Wan wanted to fight hard to bring more brothers back, afraid that he would not be able to escape the catastrophe, but unfortunately his treasure knife was lost to the Liao army, so he turned around to answer the brothers behind and handed over the treasure knife to a younger brother, and told him that if he did not come back, he would transfer the treasure knife to his good brother Liu Tang, and let Brother Liu Tang use this treasure knife to kill more of the dead for him.

Li Zhong said, handing a simple knife to Liu Tang, which woke Liu Tang and Zheng Tianshou from extreme shock.

Liu Tang took the knife in his hand, and at a glance, he knew that the knife was indeed Song Wan's.

In the past, when he was in the cottage, he and Du Qian and Song Wan drank together all day to learn knife skills, and they were very familiar with their knives. Although the two swords are both simple knives, the shape is slightly different. Liu Tang can tell the difference, and he is also very envious that the two of them can have such a treasure sword.

But the master who fought for the two of them at the beginning could no longer be found, and the two had the heart to help each other, but they couldn't help Liu Tang realize his wish for the sword, and they didn't want to achieve it in this way of death today.

Liu Tang recalled the past, and the iron-beaten man couldn't help but stroke the knife and cry, and screamed bitterly: "Brother Du Qian, Brother Song Wan, who else will have the patience to accompany me to drink and practice the knife in the future?" ”

Crying, hatred and anger arose, and when he got up, he immediately ran to the border to kill the Liao thief to avenge his brother.

Li Zhong hurriedly stopped.

You went to provoke the Liao army at this time, just looking for death.

"Brothers, put away sorrow, and suppress hatred and anger for a while. Where there is life, there is hope. Sooner or later, this revenge will be avenged. ”

All persuaded. (To be continued.) )