Wanyan Zongbi thought about it, and said to Wanyan Hulazy: "What you said is right, I decided to kill back, seize the important land of Wuchuan, go south by the way, seize Yunzhou, and completely expel Li Jing's forces from the grassland." ”

Compared with Wanyan Hu's laziness, Wanyan Zongbi's mind is greater, what he wants is to seize the important land of Yunzhou, form the situation of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Khitans at the beginning, and the two sides are entangled with each other in order to suppress the rise of the Central Plains.

"This is a good decision, although Li Jing has some soldiers and horses in the north, most of the troops are in the grassland, and now that we have destroyed Brother Xiao Wei, there are not many soldiers and horses left, and it is very difficult to hold Wuchuan, as for Yunzhou, most of them are Khitans, Yelu Dashi was stationed here back then, whether he can capture Yunzhou, it depends on the will of God." Wan Yan was a little lazy and a little unconfident.

"If you don't try, how do you know?" Wanyan Zongbi smiled and said to the guards beside him: "Go to the Son of Heaven, I will annihilate Brother Xiao Wei, kill 100,000 enemies, and prepare for three days, then raise troops to march west, defeat Chen Ren, capture Wuchuan, and then go south to capture Yunzhou." ”

"Yes." After the pro-soldiers got the order, they hurriedly led a group of people to look for Yan Sheng.

"Although we have eliminated nearly 100,000 enemies, our own losses are not small, and there are only tens of thousands of people left, almost all of them are wounded, and we don't know if we can capture Wuchuan!" Wan Yan Hula's face was gloomy, and he said: "It's all Brother Xiao Wei, knowing that it is a mortal situation, and he actually led the army to resist, which will cause us such a big loss." ”

Wanyan Zongbi's heart is dripping blood, there are not many Jin people, these years, although the Jin army has increased, but most of them are exhausted and fishing, Wan Yan Sheng ordered people to search between the deep mountains and black waters, and almost all the Jurchens were found, so that the number of Jurchens increased, so that the strength of the Jurchens increased in a short period of time. However, the number of Jurchens is absolutely impossible to compare with that of the Han Chinese, and 200,000 elite soldiers is already a very good number. In this expedition, most of the soldiers and horses of Wanyan Sheng or Wanyan Zongbi were a few tribes such as Khitan and Xi. After Yan Zongbi's battle, he lost tens of thousands of troops, including many Jinren, and in the end, although he defeated Brother Xiao Wei, he himself also lost a lot.

"Although there are losses, as long as we seize the entire grassland and defeat more Khitans, we will have more soldiers and horses, these steppe people are like this, they worship the strong, they used to think that the Tang army was very powerful, so they followed the Tang army, now we are the most powerful, they can only submit to us." Wanyan Zongbi said with confidence.

"That's very good." Wan Yan Yu lazily turned the horse's head and ordered someone to clean up the battlefield without mentioning it.

Jiutai Beach, when Xiao Shangren arrived, it was already night, the armor on his body was crooked, his face was full of dust, and his expression was tired, but it did not prevent him from breaking into the camp, and when he saw Chen Ren, he couldn't help but kneel on the ground and cry bitterly.

"But General Xiao doesn't want to return?" Chen Ren asked with a hint of luck.

"When the last general returns, the Jin people have already formed a siege of my father, in fact, when Yan Zongbi retreated, an army had already detoured to the rear of my father, and it could threaten my father's back road at any time, even if my father retreated, I am afraid that there will be no food and grass, and he will not be able to withdraw at all." Master Xiao shook his head and said: "The last general saw that he couldn't do anything, on the one hand, he sent someone to inform his father, and on the other hand, he came back to report to the general, and asked the general to prepare early." ”

Chen Ren suddenly felt like a thunderbolt hitting his head, and he didn't know how for a while, the 100,000 army was actually defeated, how many men and horses did he only have in his hands, and how could 20,000 people deal with Yan Zongbi's attack. Wuchuan behind him, and even Yunzhou. Chen Ren suddenly broke out in a cold sweat on his head.

"General, it's not a pity for the Xiao family to die, but the more important thing at the moment is to boost the morale of the army, gather the soldiers and horses, and prepare for the next step. It's a battle, it's a retreat. Please also ask the general to make a decision as soon as possible. "Master Xiao is still very mature, and he knows that he must not mess up at this time.

"General, please." Chen Ren also sensed the crisis of the situation, and quickly helped Xiao Shangren up, and said: "Now that the situation is in crisis, it is better for you and me to be in the same boat through thick and thin and deal with the difficulties in front of us together." Once General Xiao is defeated, Wanyan Zongbi's next step must be to deal with us, defeat us, and capture Wuchuan and even Yunzhou will fall into the hands of the Jin people, and we will have no chance to gain a foothold on the grassland, and even the 100,000 troops with General Boyan will be defeated. "Brother Xiao Wei's army was defeated, and the chain reaction was very terrifying, as a deputy general, Chen Ren felt a lot of pressure on himself, so he could only discuss with Xiao Shangren.

"The last general thinks that General Xiao Weige may have been defeated at this moment, but General Xiao Weige will definitely give the Jin people a deathly blow, and the losses of the Jin people are also very heavy, according to the combat effectiveness of our Tang army, even if it is calculated intentionally, only sixty or seventy thousand people can survive in the end." Master Xiao walked to the map and said: "Now there are still 20,000 people in the camp of Jiutaitan, and there is a lot of grain and grass. Wuchuan also has 20,000 soldiers and horses, if you recruit the heroes around you, you can barely get 30,000 troops to garrison Wuchuan, and the general leads 20,000 troops to retreat to Yunzhou, recruit Yunzhou young and strong, and you can get some men and horses, you and I can also add up to 50,000 or 60,000 horses, with Wuchuan and Yunzhou to form a horn trend, maybe you can resist the attack of the Jin people, and then send people to find General Boyan, ask General Boyan to go west, maybe you can keep the grassland of Wuchuan and Yunzhou. ”

Chen Ren nodded when he heard this, and said: "It's autumn now, after holding on for a while, winter will come, and the Jin people will definitely retreat, and at that time, you can get some respite." At this time, we can order all the tribes of the steppe to march westward together, but the simple thing is that General Gao Chong has pacified the Uighurs, and our back road can be guaranteed. ”

Xiao Shangren didn't speak when he heard it, his face was even more worried, his eyebrows were wrinkled, although the grassland was favored by the Tang Dynasty, but the grassland people were very real, those tribes were all mothers with milk, whoever had a big fist would listen to whom, in the past, they naturally obeyed Datang, but now that Datang is defeated, whether these people will obey Datang's orders, Xiao Shangren is not sure. However, at the moment, the two have no choice at all.

"Since this is the case, we will quickly withdraw from Jiutaitan, take away all the grain and grass, burn the fire that cannot be taken away, and definitely not leave a grain of grain for the Jin people." Chen Ren didn't notice the expression on Xiao Shangren's face, but said coldly. He was still thinking about how to play this battle.