Chapter 636: All or Nothing

The tent was very quiet, the process of meeting the new chief had ended, and the following was the highlight of the day, how to deal with the aggressive offensive of the Song army.

If Feituo was not wiped out before the tribe, maybe everyone would still have the confidence to fight with the Song army, but Feituo was easily wiped out by the Song army, and everyone understood that this Song army was not a box army, but an extremely strong army, and they were not opponents at all.

Ye Lisheng glanced at everyone and said slowly: "I still advocate ending this crisis through negotiation, and everyone has also seen that in addition to the five major tribes, the Song army of the other eight small tribes will not touch any of them, which shows that Li Yanqing is not here to destroy the underworld, but to take revenge, this is our own fault, and we can't blame others, let's consider each other's three conditions!" ”

At this time, Nan Liguang, the leader of the Nanli Tribe, exchanged colors with the other two, and said: "We can return the population and property, but the compensation and war horses are too unreasonable, we are already poor, where is the money to compensate?" Besides, we didn't abuse the plundered population much, that is, let them work and raise sheep, as for some of the women who were broken, we can compensate a little sheep, but not too much, or we can't afford it. ”

Nan Lichun, the leader of the Mustang Department next to him, also said: "The old leader is right, in fact, they have killed thousands of people, which can completely offset the compensation!" ”

Ye Li Sheng secretly sneered in his heart, these three people had already unified their caliber before they came, and they still wanted Ye Li to be evildoers, so they hid behind their backs.

"Three leaders, of course I don't want to compensate, the black party is already poor, how can I have the money to compensate, but the problem is that the other party is holding a knife against our neck, either we will also draw a knife and fight with the other party, or we will honestly accept the other party's conditions, there is really no money, I can only take sheepskins and medicinal materials to resist, the other party also agrees, at most you can bargain on the price, there is really no other way, anyway, the Yeli Ministry is ready to accept this plan."

Ye Lisheng's implication is that you will do it yourself? Now he simply doesn't mention the black party, each tribe goes to negotiate by itself, he finds that the three tribes are not convinced by themselves at all, and now they are forced to come to themselves, and they really solve the crisis for them, I am afraid that they will turn their faces again, and Ye Lisheng also intends to take this opportunity to clean up the three tribes.

Ye Lisheng proposed that each tribe solve it by itself, how could the three leaders accept it, and the three of them quarreled with Ye Lisheng and left angrily.

At this time, Yeli Yuanli came over and said: "These three people don't agree to compensation, but they want to compensate in the name of the black party, so that the compensation money will be passed on to us, and they are very shrewd!" ”

Ye Lisheng snorted coldly, "I will clean up the I pulled by myself, so I won't pay attention to them!" ”

Speaking of this, Ye Li Sheng turned back to Ye Li Yuanli and said, "Is it okay?" ”

Ye Lisheng was ready to use the property of the Ye Lifeng tribe to compensate the Song army, but Ye Lifeng was in trouble, and no matter how dissatisfied the people of his tribe were, there was nothing they could do.

"I've calculated, Ye Lifeng has 300,000 pieces of good old sheepskins over there, which are worth about 200,000 taels of silver according to the market price of the Song Dynasty, and the compensation is almost enough, but what about the war horse?"

Ye Lisheng groaned and said: "He wants to leave all the war horses, probably because he wants to completely disarm our force, not all of them are greedy for horses, but you go to talk to him and leave us a thousand horses for grazing, as a condition, I can send my son to Jingzhao Mansion to study." ”

"I see, I'll go!"

"Wait a minute!"

Ye Li Sheng stopped Ye Li Yuanli, he hesitated for a long time and said: "Fourth uncle, I want to redeem all the women and children he captured, what do you think?" ”

Yeli Yuanli's eyes widened, and he suddenly slapped his thigh, "This is an opportunity!" I didn't think that our Yeli Department was going to grow. ”

Ye Lisheng smiled faintly, the population has always been the biggest interest of the black party, even if it is a woman, the Ye Li Department can occupy the position of chief for a long time, isn't it a large population? Ye Lisheng has both the boldness and courage of the party members and the shrewdness of the Han people, and he has long found that it is a rare opportunity to redeem the women and children from Li Yanqing.

"This matter should be implemented quickly, it is best that the other party can make a little price, and the fourth uncle will grasp it himself."

"I know, I won't let the chief down!"

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Yeli Yuanli left in a hurry, Yeli Sheng still felt extremely pressured, he knew that the reason why the three tribes dared to throw their hands in front of him must have a second plan, the first plan was to let the Yeli Ministry act as the wronged leader, when the Yeli Ministry refused to accept their plan, their second plan would inevitably be launched, and they were more inclined to use the second plan, that is, a decisive battle with the Song army.

Ye Lisheng was both expecting and worrying in his heart, he hoped that Song Jun could teach those three tribes a hard lesson, and he was worried that Song Jun would teach a lesson too hard and destroy the three tribes, and the black party would be greatly damaged.

The reason why the three tribes of Nanli, Mustang and Qijie decided to fight a decisive battle with the Song army was also because they had a certain amount of confidence, although the three tribes suffered heavy setbacks in Dunzhou, they searched the box and scraped the bottom, and still made up 5,000 cavalry, which was commanded by Nanli Guang, who was known as the second warrior of the black party.

Nan Li Guang was about forty years old, tall and burly, his arms were extremely strong, and he made a long-handled copper hammer weighing fifty pounds, and he was the first warrior of the Black Party twenty years ago, until he was defeated by Ye Lifeng ten years ago, and he was relegated to second place.

The Nanli tribe is the second largest tribe in the black party, when Ye Lisheng and Ye Lifeng were not there, Nan Liguang was of course the leader of the three families, he did not recognize Ye Lisheng's chieftain status, to a large extent, he looked down on Ye Lisheng's polite temperament, he was still used to succumbing to the strong, such as the old chief Ye Li Plain and Ye Li Feng, this kind of strong man respect has been deeply ingrained in his character.

Nan Liguang had received the news that the main force of the Song army had been found thirty miles away, and he pulled the 5,000 troops to Baiguyuan, a large area of low and flat pastures, which was very suitable for cavalry combat.

Li Yanqing's army set out again after resting for two days, and as long as the black party did not give in for a day, he would not stop the campaign for a day until he completely conquered them with iron and blood.

The team walked slowly on the endless Loess Plateau, the Loess Plateau in the Northern Song Dynasty was still green, and there were large grasslands at the foot of the mountains and on both sides of the river, which fed the nomadic peoples of Heidangxiang and Qiang.

In the distance is the majestic Maling, the mountain range is hundreds of miles long, and there is a large area of pasture grass within dozens of miles at the foot of the mountain, which is the territory of the black party.

The team entered Baigu Plain, which is a low and gentle hill with a radius of tens of miles, and the highest hill is only a few zhang, the biggest feature of this terrain is that it is complete, there are no ravines and ravines elsewhere, just like a thin layer of soil sprinkled on a flat boulder, dotted with patches of forests of different sizes, and even a grassland with a width of more than ten miles in the north.

At this time, a scout rushed to Han Shizhong and bowed down to report, "Commander Han, the enemy cavalry has been found twenty miles to the north!" ”

Han Shizhong's eyes narrowed suddenly, he was really said by the system, and the black party still wanted to take a chance.

"How many troops?"

"About five thousand cavalry!"

Although he won four battles in a row, Han Shizhong didn't dare to be careless at all, he hurriedly turned around and wanted to run to the Chinese army.

After a while, Han Shizhong rushed to Li Yanqing, hugged his fists and said: "Commander, the enemy cavalry was found twenty miles ahead, about 5,000 people!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "It seems that Yeli Yuanli has won!" ”

Just yesterday, Yeli Yuanli came to negotiate with the Yeli Ministry, and basically reached an agreement, on the ransom, Yeli Yuanli made a suggestion, he was willing to provide detailed information about the Nanli Sanbu, in exchange for the Song army's concessions on the ransom, Li Yanqing immediately agreed to this condition, if the information is detailed, he can reduce the price by half.

Yeli Yuanli thinks that the other party can only make up 5,000 cavalry at most, and the cavalry is uneven, but the other party has an ironclad cavalry of more than 1,000 people, which is the biggest aid given by the Xixia people to the black party.

In order to buy off the Nanli Army, Ye Lifeng gave them these thousand pairs of ironclad equipment, forming a thousand-man ironclad cavalry, which was personally commanded by Nanli Guang, and it was this ironclad cavalry that broke the front army of the 20,000 Xiang Army a few months ago, resulting in the annihilation of the 20,000 Xiang Army.

Li Yanqing had fought with the Western Xia army, and he knew that the strongest army in the Western Xia was the Iron Harrier, and from the description of Yeli Yuanli, this elite ironclad cavalry should be half an iron harrier, that is, the war horse did not have iron armor, and the armor of the cavalry was already the same as the iron harrier.

This ironclad cavalry of more than 1,000 people should be the capital of Nanlibu who wants to fight to the death with him.

Li Yanqing looked at the surrounding terrain and said to Han Shizhong: "It seems that the other party just wants to fight us to the death on this flat land." ”

"Commander, let's study the specific tactics first!"

Li Yanqing nodded, and shouted: "The army is resting on the spot, and all the partial generals are coming!" ”

The specific battle plan is to be carried out by the partial generals, and all partial generals must participate in tactical consultations.

Everyone found a flat stone as a table to surround the city, and Li Yanqing took more than a dozen stones, large and small, to demonstrate to everyone.

"If we only value 1,000 ironclad cavalry and think that the other 4,000 cavalry are paper paste, then we will pay a heavy price, and underestimating the enemy has always been the first reason for defeat."

Although Li Yanqing got all the information provided by Yeli Yuanli, he didn't believe it very much, he had already discovered that this person was cunning, so when he said that the other 4,000 cavalry were good and bad, Li Yanqing felt that his words were insincere, or misleading, the good and the bad did not mean that the combat effectiveness was not strong, and being able to defeat 20,000 soldiers showed that they were still well-trained.

Li Yanqing pointed to a big stone and said: "This is their ironclad cavalry, generally the bow and crossbow can't penetrate their armor, you must use the divine arm crossbow!" ”

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