Chapter 152: The road ahead is confused

Having been in contact with Mahasu, Lin Feng knows that Mahasu is scheming, cunning and cunning, although he is a Donghu person, he knows how to cultivate obscurity, and he does not have the boldness and atmosphere of Donghu people.

Moreover, among the many prisoners, the Mahasu tribe had the largest number, excluding the old and weak women and children, there were 70,000 cavalry alone, which was a large force.

If the matter is not handled well, it will not only cause a backlash and resistance from the Mahasu tribe, but also cause a very bad impact among the Donghu captives, so that the more than 100,000 Donghu people who have been captured will have a gap. The next treatment of Donghu captives will cause damage that is difficult to heal!

Regardless of the 70,000 cavalry under Mahasu's hands, or the captured Donghu cavalry, whether it was co-opted and divided, or suppressed with iron and blood, Lin Feng made up his mind to take this cavalry into his own hands.

The combat effectiveness of the Donghu people is naturally self-evident, if it weren't for the encounter between the blade warriors and the group of tigers and wolves under Hou Mingfeng's hands, the Donghu people would not have been defeated so badly and so quickly.

Lin Feng always believed that the defeat of the Donghu people in the three counties of Hunhe was so fast and completely related to Tafeng's operational command and the letters he later wrote based on Tafeng's handwriting.

Today, these Donghu people fall into their own hands, if they are trained a little by Hou Mingfeng, Feng Shihu, or Zhang Yu, their combat effectiveness is no less than that of Hou Mingfeng, Zhang Yu's troops.

So, from now on, he must find a way to control this force in his hands.

"Old Hou, you don't have to worry about Mahasu's affairs, straighten out military affairs, and be ready to arrange for the army to return to the south at any time!" Lin Feng instructed, it has been too long since he came out, and his life and death were uncertain before, so it is not clear what the queen and others will be worried about?

After thinking for a while, he continued: "General Feng, you lead the army, leave the leaders of the Donghu tribes, and escort the Donghu captives south!" ”

"Yes!" Feng Shihu arched his hand.

"Master Ji, you can leave for Beijing, send the news back to the court, and start to move the people in the Bishan area by the way, this matter must have a detailed plan before the year, and it will be implemented immediately at the beginning of spring, and try not to affect the spring ploughing next year."

"Yes! Weichen immediately packed up and set off for Beijing! ”

In the vast grassland, the cold wind was bleak, an endless procession, hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children and Donghu prisoners, under the surveillance of tens of thousands of troops, began to migrate to the south with difficulty in the cold wind, everyone's face was full of panic, diffuse and helpless.

No one knows where they are going, what the future holds, where the road lies ahead, whether the old life will still exist.

However, these people fully understand that they are now captives, without free bodies, without the warm life of the past.

Captive, a name without dignity and full of irony.

From the moment the team began to migrate, many people who could not accept the status of captives began to plan an escape, hoping that among hundreds of thousands of people, they would be able to fish in troubled waters and take advantage of the opportunity to escape.

It's a pity that the more than 100,000 cavalry who went south next to him were definitely not vegetarians, these people were able to defeat the Donghu cavalry on the battlefield, not to mention, now facing unarmed prisoners, if they wanted to escape, they were simply asking for hardship.

Some captives escaped, but were captured alive by the cavalry next to them, and unceremoniously thrown into the procession, neither rebuke nor punish, except for the distribution of food, when his portion was a little less.

Many of the captives realized that there was no way out of escape, otherwise the rations would be reduced, and they would not be hungry, and that it was a long way from Youzhou to Xiapi, and it was unknown whether they would be able to reach Youzhou alive without enough food.

The captives over there were migrating southward, and in order to deter the leaders of the tribes, before Feng Shihu escorted the captives back to China, Lin Feng specially asked the leaders of the tribes to see off the tribesmen, and this naturally included Mahasu.

Lin Feng didn't mean anything else about this move, so he wanted to tell those Donghu people who were stubborn and refused to lower their heads very bluntly, those who obeyed me prospered and those who disobeyed me died, and if they didn't cooperate with Donghu's actions, there would be endless suffering.

I am also telling the tribal leaders that your clansmen and the teams they relied on in the past are all going south, and next, you are all the commanders of the light poles, what to do, I hope you can make a clear choice.

Feng Shihu left with the captives, and Lin Feng returned to the camp, and immediately sent people to arrange a banquet and invite the leaders of various tribes to participate, preparing for a friendly exchange.

Seeing the clansmen moving south, all the cavalry under their command were sent to the south, these tribal leaders are not fools, how can they not guess what Lin Feng meant, relocate the clansmen, remove your military powers, and next, I am afraid that they will attack the leaders of the tribes.

Perhaps, he will choose to surrender, it depends on what everyone does.

"Mahasu, what are your plans?"

On the way to the big tent to attend the banquet, the tribal leaders who had previously disdained Mahasu gathered around him, hoping that he could give everyone some guidance.

Although Mahasu is a traitor, although in the eyes of the leaders of the Donghu tribes, he is a scum, a heinous man.

However, now that things are about to burn their eyebrows, many people have to abandon their prejudices about Mahasu and hope to put some ink in his mouth.

After all, with a large number of captives going south, the situation of the tribal leaders has changed dramatically, and Mahasu defected to Emperor Yan prematurely, and his status is naturally not comparable to the leaders of the tribes.

If Emperor Yan planned to deal with them, Mahasu must have been able to get the tone in advance, understand the trend of the matter, and Emperor Yan's thoughts.

Looking at the flattering tribal leaders around him, Mahatsu enjoyed it very much, but unfortunately he couldn't do anything about it.

Emperor Yan's thoughts are not something that he, a foreign minister, can guess, and now the Mahasu tribe is also a mud bodhisattva crossing the river and it is difficult to protect itself, he himself does not know where to go, how can he give guidance to the leaders of the tribes?

He couldn't guess Lin Feng's attitude towards him, and according to his original intention, he wanted to stay in the Xiapi base camp, but Lin Feng forcibly asked Feng Shihu to move his clansmen to the side, and the only thing he had to rely on at the moment was 70,000 cavalry.

But if he thought that he could turn the tide of the war with 70,000 cavalry, he was very wrong, Feng Shihu led the army south, but there were still blade soldiers on the Donghu grassland, and Zhang Yu's troops, and the 100,000 people under the command of Dingguo Hou, his 70,000 troops were not enough at all.

Witnessing Emperor Yan's methods, Mahasu thoroughly understood that according to the current situation, it was impossible for the Donghu people to have the opportunity to stay in the three counties of Hunhe.

Including his plan to stay in the base camp of Xiapi, is it also possible that it will fail?

On the other hand, these brainless tribal leaders asked him in broad daylight, even if he really had a good way in his heart, did he dare to say it conclusively, if he was a little careless and the matter was not handled properly, he might not give everyone guidance, but instead caused trouble and troubled himself, but offended Emperor Yan, how could he have to compensate for the loss.

So, this will, he won't say anything, I'm afraid it's the right choice.

"Everyone, Emperor Yan is eloquent and strategic, there must be a proper arrangement for everyone, this is not whether everyone took the initiative to surrender before, or was forced to be helpless, desperate, surrendered Emperor Yan to live, in the past few days, Emperor Yan didn't abuse everyone, said that it was a prisoner, in addition to disarming the armor, didn't it also give everyone freedom? So what Emperor Yan thinks, I don't know, but Lao Ma is here to advise everyone, those who know the times are Junjie, and good birds choose trees to rest, and I hope you will make the right choice. Mahasu said to the tribal leaders who had been high in the past, and now the tiger had fallen to Pingyang.

Mahasujue's own words are all this, whether the tribal leaders can understand it or not has nothing to do with him, after all, each fate is in their own hands, and no one can give the other a choice.

How can these tribal leaders not understand what Mahasu means, the key to the problem is that compared with Donghu, no matter the national strength or military strength or land area, it is not at the same level at all, Yan is like a foal who has just stepped on the grassland, and Donghu is a war horse galloping on the battlefield, and the two are not the same at all.

Today everyone was defeated and captured by the Yan Kingdom. If you secretly take refuge in Yan State today, and the future will be long, once the Donghu royal family relaxes and the army goes south, aren't they looking for death if they abandon Donghu and are loyal to Yan State?

From ancient times to the present, betrayers rarely have a good end, especially in Donghu, the betrayer ends even worse, worse, in front of Mahasu suggestion, it does point out the way out for everyone, but unfortunately, this matter is not perfect, on the contrary, it will leave serious hidden dangers, unless the comprehensive strength of Donghu is declining, it is difficult to match Yan Guo, and they will not be entangled.

Of course, some people are worried that Donghu will retaliate in the future, but others do not think so.

All along, the Donghu royal family has relied on itself as the big tribe of Donghu, has the power to deploy various tribes, and has always liked to bully and suppress other tribes, the former Mahasu family, and then the western Saute family, these two tribes, both have become a big tribe competing with the Donghu royal family, but unfortunately they were all purged by the Donghu royal family and reduced to a second-rate tribe.

And they are far away in the three counties of Hunhe, and they can't avoid the royal family's suppression and bullying, the tribes produce a lot of food every year, but all of them can be coerced by the Donghu royal family, cheap or even free to the Donghu royal family, many interests are deprived by the royal family, with the royal army to go out, the royal army picks the remaining spoils, it is theirs.

Many tribes, who dare not speak out, have now been captured by the Yan State, and it seems that it is a good opportunity to escape from the control of the Donghu royal family.

"Mahasu, can you say a few good words to Emperor Yan for me, I am willing to sincerely join the Yan Kingdom." The leader of the tribe named Barka, when he was still a few steps away from the Great Horde, seemed to have made up his mind.

"Yes, yes, I, Zat, am also willing to serve Emperor Yan." And humane.

Mahasu didn't respond, and walked directly into the big tent, he was in a dilemma, and he still had the heart to worry about others.