Walking on the rough road, Tuoba Guang's already weak body was even more unbearable, and it was almost necessary for two soldiers on both sides to drive to barely continue walking. For a patient, riding a horse for three days and three nights in a row and then doing more strenuous mountaineering is really a great test of personal quality and willpower---- which is really a great test of personal quality and willpower. If it weren't for his fierce loyalty to his family and tribe, Tuoba Guang wouldn't have worked so hard even if the sky fell.

It is really stronger than people, and at this critical moment when the fate of the Pingxia tribe is hanging by a thread, it is no longer possible to act slowly and calmly.

It is not surprising that Li Wenge's line was located in the mountainous area of the southwest, and although the Tuoba family had reached the point of exhaustion, the possibility of poor rats devouring cats still existed. Nearly 3,000 cavalry still maintained a full combat strength, and Li Wenge's caution in this situation was quite normal.

Now the situation in Xiazhou is extremely chaotic, Tongwan City has been destroyed, tens of thousands of tribal wanderers are homeless and displaced, the security cavalry regiment of the Eighth Route Army moves north and south within a radius of 100 miles east of the Hongliu River to monitor the main force of the Tuoba cavalry, and more than 1,000 people of the combined cavalry of the two families in the north are deployed along the west of Tongwan City and south of the Wuding River.

Tuoba Guang and Tuoba Yi Yin didn't know that there were still regimental training troops under Jinghai in the Qiwu Mountains to the west, but only in terms of the current situation. The Tuoba family has no chance of turning defeat into victory.

Tuoba Guang originally thought that it would take a long time for him to convince the head of the family, after all, the glory and achievements of his ancestors could not be thrown away. Looking at the sleepy eyes of the brothers in the tooth tent, he was even more pessimistic about this.

However, Tuoba Yi Yin just listened calmly to him, and the reason for surrender was dismissed. In a flat tone, he asked him three questions, and signed his name on the demotion form he had drafted.

Calm to calm, Tuoba Guang could see that Mo Ningling's hands were trembling when he signed the Han name of "Minister Li Yiyin".

Although this table is only a thin piece of silk, it has a thousand weights......

The Dingyan army that had been dominant for a while in the northwest grassland was over, with tens of thousands of troops and thousands of elite soldiers. The overlord of the northwest, who has a tradition of all the people being soldiers, just bowed down to a thin man who had only been in the ascendancy for two years......

What an unspeakable shame......

The blindfold was removed in front of him, and Tuoba Guang was stunned to find that he was already in a simplely furnished tent, and in front of him, three Han generals wearing mountain armor sat side by side, and in the center sat a square-faced man about thirty years old, with a pair of small eyes shining and a short beard stubble on his chin. Sitting on the left was a young man of only seventeen or eighteen years old, with delicate facial features and a faint murderous aura on his face. Although the person sitting on the right side is dressed as a general, his eyebrows, nose and mouth reveal his alien identity.

Tuoba Guang noticed that all three of them were wearing crimson robes under their armor, and each had a yellow five-pointed star embroidered on the cuffs.

With a slight understanding of the military system of the Eighth Route Army, he immediately understood that in front of him were the three generals of the Eighth Route Army with the rank of guerrilla general, and in Yanzhou, this was probably the current senior military rank second only to Li Wenge. **J Starter**

The man in the center didn't get up, glanced at him lightly, and said slowly: "It's time to snub the king." In the Eighth Route Army, the guerrilla general Wei Xun, the commander of the capital supervision army, and the general Li Da, who was appointed by the Eighth Route Army, are waiting for the envoy here! ”

He waved his hand and introduced: "These two are the guerrilla general Zhi Yuqing of the Eighth Route Army, the commander of the Du Yu Hou, and the guerrilla general of the Eighth Route Army, the Quan Zhi Cavalry, and the guerrilla general of the Eighth Route Army. ”

At the mention of Thin Seal Minda, Tuoba Light's pupils shrank slightly. Then he looked like he was as usual.

He slowly glanced at everyone present and asked, "I am under the seal of the King of Longxi, and I ask to see the King of Xihe, the Duke of Zhiling, or General Li!" Please pass on the rules! ”

When Wei Xun heard this, he smiled faintly and turned his head to look at Zhe Yuqing.

Zhi Yuqing said: "In Xia Nai, the grandson of the king of Xihe, the ancestor is old, unwell, and recuperating in Suizhou. \\ Mr.'s seal. You can forward it under it! ”

Tuoba Guang was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "What about General Li?" ”

Wei Xun raised his head. He replied with a smile: "The general ordered to receive the envoys of the Tuoba family at the inferior level, he is an old man who is a minister of the Qin Dynasty, and he is busy with government affairs, and he has already returned to Yanzhou......"

Wei Xun and Zhi Yuqing actually arrived only one day earlier than Tuoba Guang, and they also came with the Eighth Route Army Jiedu Mansion Pedestrian Ginseng Military Han Wei.

After the armies of the east and west roads met, they had formed a joint encirclement of the Tuoba family in Xiazhou, and the fall of the Dingyan army was already an irreversible end.

However, after looking down at the intelligence letter sent by Jing Hai from the mountains, Wei Xun and Zhi Yuqing's faces were gloomy.

"The bastard of the Feng family has come to pick peaches!"

Li Wenge said such a sentence with an expressionless face. The temperature of the atmosphere in the big tent suddenly dropped, and the joy of defeating the Dingyan army and occupying Yinxia was suddenly replaced by anxiety about the future.

Jing Hai's intelligence only wrote one sentence: Enemy No. 2 appeared near Area 74, about 2,000,000 people.

The use of Arabic numerals for intelligence communication was a discipline of the Northern Expedition, and all strategic-level intelligence involving numbers was replaced by Arabic numerals, and the locations involved were marked with the Yanzhou version of the latitude and longitude numbers, which was conducive to the secrecy of intelligence. For example, at this moment, Wei Xun, the leader of the supervision army who was powerful in the Eighth Route Army, was confused in the face of such an intelligence letter, as the supreme commander of the supervision army, he only knew that the "No. 2 enemy" represented Feng Jiye, the seventh son of the old Feng Hui's family. But Area 34 is not clear.

Shen Chen was very clear about the confusion of this old partner, and explained in a low voice: "No. 2 refers to the Feng family in Lingzhou, and No. 34 refers to Baichi County!" ”

Wei Xun is also an old military after all. Shen Chen's explanation immediately understood.

Baichi County is located in the north of Yanzhou, at the same latitude as Tongwancheng in Xiazhou, across the Qiwu Mountains.

Han Wei frowned, he had no concept of the military field, and for a while he didn't understand what those crooked symbols meant. But one thing he understands is that Baichi is the largest salt pond in the northwest region, and once this place is occupied by the Feng family, the green salt transported from the northwest to the outside of the customs will be interrupted again. Last time, Ye Ji's family rebelled. It was only to block the salt passage of the green salt, but this time the Feng family directly moved the knife against the origin of the green salt.

Li Wenge looked at the generals under his command, and he was a little worried that these Qiu Ba people would not be able to figure out the significance of this matter for a while, so he deliberately said that the matter was as if Feng Jiye had come to take advantage of the fire to rob and snatch the fruits of victory.

In fact, the top and bottom of Yanzhou have long regarded the salt of Yanzhou as a bag, which must not be touched by other forces, otherwise it would be too cost-effective to spend so many resources on the Northern Expedition just to get a piece of land with grass.

What's more, this place in Lingzhou is really of too important significance in Li Wenge's future strategy!

The Feng family in Lingzhou. Sooner or later, he would have to turn his face, but no one thought that this Feng Jiye would give face so much, and he immediately gave a pillow when he wanted to doze off.

Li Wenge sat on the Hu bed and clapped his hands gently: "Tell me your opinion!" ”

"The cavalry of the Feng family, I heard that there are more than a thousand people, not to be underestimated!" Han Wei stared at the slowly unfolding map of mountains and rivers in Zhi Yuqing's hand and said.

Shen Chen didn't speak, he took a straw stick in his hand and slowly paddled on the ground.

"The war in Xiazhou must be ended quickly!" Zhi Yuqing raised his head and said excitedly, "If the general is interested in Lingzhou, the lower official is willing to lead a force to meet this Feng Qilang." ”

Li Wenge looked at him and smiled. But there was no answer.

Wei Xun glanced at Yuqing and said, "I thought that the adults should end the war in Xiazhou as soon as possible and return to Yanzhou!" ”

Most of the people were stunned, only Han Wei and Shen Chen did not react. It seems that he has long known that Wei Xun will have this discussion.

"Counting the affairs of Gyeongju, the adults have not been in Yanzhou for three months, and if they are connected to Beijing to report on their work, the adults have not even been in Yanzhou for a total of one month in the past six months! Yanzhou, after all, is the foundation of adults, and if you leave for too long, Xia Guan is afraid that someone will have a different heart! Wei Xun did not shy away from saying.

Li Wenge was stunned: "If there is no basis, don't talk nonsense!" ”

Wei Xun shook his head: "My lord." Xia Guan is not talking nonsense. This kind of thing is not uncommon between feudal towns! After all, Lee Sang-gong is nominally the old lord of the adult. He is also the person with the highest official rank in Yanzhou at the moment, and most of the civil officials listen to him in moderation. This Northern Expedition, the elite of the army, the old brothers in the team all followed, once there is a change in Yanzhou, the lower officials are worried that Brother Zhou will not be able to cope with it! ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at Zhi Yuqing, and said with a solemn face: "The Dingyan army has collapsed, the situation in the northwest is about to change, and at this time, the general must sit in Yanzhou." ”

This is too clear, the Dingyan army has collapsed, more than 6,000 people from the two coalition armies of Zheyang and Yang are stationed on the ground in Yinxia, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army has to deal with the imminent military threat from Lingzhou, if Li Wenge goes to Yanzhou at this moment, once Zhecongruan and Yang Xin join forces to attack, Yanzhou does not even have a backbone that can take the idea.

Zhi Yuqing's face suddenly became ugly, he suddenly stood up straight, and said loudly: "When Brother Wei said this, he was suspicious of me." I am willing to lead the two battalions of the family headquarters, ask the general to allocate another battalion, three battalions of men, if you can't beat the Feng family back, be willing to be a military lawyer! ”

Li Wenge smiled bitterly, rubbed his face, and waved his hand at Zhe Yuqing: "Don't listen to his nonsense, he has been supervising the army for a long time, and everyone is suspicious!" ”

Wei Xun looked at Zhe Yuqing and said lightly: "I'm not suspicious of you, I'm telling the truth!" As an adult, you must always think more to live up to the trust of adults! ”

Han Wei didn't speak, as a columnist, he didn't think what Wei Xun said was excessive, but he wouldn't be as straightforward as Wei Xun. Literati are different from martial artists, and there is always a need to be reserved.

Li Wenge raised his head and looked at everyone: "Now I'll sort out a few things. Let's talk about it! ”

He thought for a while: "The first thing is that Tuoba Yi's nephew asks to surrender, this is the news brought by Qiren, what do you think of this matter?" To accept or not to accept? Accept the vernacular. What to do with these 3,000 Pingxia soldiers? Can we digest the words in one gulp? Will killing them all have a bad effect? If we don't kill, will our forces be able to accommodate so many prisoners of war? ”

He was the first to set his eyes on the fine seal Minda: "The fine seal, you say it first!" ”

Xifeng Minda was stunned, he glanced at Li Wenge in surprise, rolled his eyes and said, "You don't want to kill people yourself, why do you have to say it through my mouth?" Rely on me. All of them are killed, the province is scared, and it will cost a lot of food to feed people! ”

Li Wenge was stunned, but he didn't smile, he said with a solemn face: "Fine, you have to think clearly, I'm not pretending to be benevolent and righteous for you to discuss." If the army had decided on a strategy to kill all these 3,000 people, I would not have **** public opinion. These 3,000 people are not ordinary women and children, they have a lot of blood debts on their hands, and they are not unjust to kill. Some military discipline in our Eighth Route Army. There is no prohibition on killing or injuring prisoners. They are not civilians, they are prisoners of war! ”

Xi Feng glanced at him in surprise: "You're not afraid of ruining your reputation?" ”

Li Wenge said with a smile: "Reputation is a fart, I can burn down Tongwan City with one fire, and I am afraid that my reputation will be ruined?" In the past, I didn't want to kill people, first, Shen Chen was right, it was one thing to let the soldiers kill the enemy in battle, and it was another thing to let them slaughter civilian women and children who had no room to fight back. Second, the physical strength of the soldiers is precious. I don't want them to spend their physical strength in such useless places. Killing ten civilians is not as useful as killing one warrior! But now none of the 3,000 people in front of him are civilians, as long as this group of people is killed, the party members will have no combat power to speak of in 20 years! ”

"I disagree!" Wei Xun objected bluntly.

Li Wenge turned his head to look at him in surprise: "What is the reason? ”

"Xiazhou was already in the pocket of our army. Killing these 3,000 people will make a blood feud, unless we kill all the Pingxia tribes. Otherwise, in ten or twenty years, we should not want to occupy this land steadily. There's no compromise in doing so. The Tuoba family was willing to surrender entirely because of the good reputation of adults who do not love to kill and practice benevolence. Otherwise, in a real battle, even if it is a one-to-three exchange rate, our army will have to kill and wound thousands of robes to destroy these enemy troops. A good reputation is not useless, it can at least make the enemy less worried when it comes time to surrender! Wei Xun's tone was not high, but his tone was extremely resolute.

Li Wenge raised his eyes to look at Han Wei. Han smiled: "Killing prisoners is ominous. The general was a feudal town and won the battle. He should have been a prisoner to the imperial court! ”

Li Wenge's eyes lit up, and the corners of his mouth smiled very crisply: "It's still Qiren who is smart, and he is in the same place with me!" ”

Such explicit self-praise is really not something that a cheeky person can't do, but fortunately, these people in the venue have long been surprised, and it is the first time that Yu Qing has seen it, and he is a little uncomfortable. He was pondering the meaning of Han Wei's words, and Li Wenge had already raised his head: "General Zhe, the matter of sacrificing prisoners is going to be bothered to fold the Linggong!" ”

"Ah----?h Zhi Yuqing was stunned for a moment, raised his head and looked at Li Wenge, not understanding what he meant!

Li Wenge didn't give him a chance to breathe and think about it, and said directly: "I'm going to meet with Zhi Linggong recently. Discuss the division of the results, the general idea is that the four states of Yinxia are divided equally between the three of us, Suizhou of Yinzhou, divided equally by the two families of Zheyang, and Youzhou of Xiazhou belongs to my Eighth Route Army. My surname Li is a person who speaks of credit, and the two families of Zheyang pay tribute, and the two families of Zheyang take care of it themselves. Then there is that after Tuoba Yi Yin surrendered, the whole army was disarmed, except for some special people, most of them were handed over to the Duke of Zhiling to escort Bianliang to the imperial court to offer prisoners......"

Zhi Yuqing's eyes widened, and he became more and more surprised, as a military successor cultivated by the Zhi family, he has a talent in military affairs that ordinary people can't reach, but this kind of political transaction of sitting on the ground and sharing the spoils is not what he is good at.

After Li Wenge finished talking about this matter, he was relaxed, and said with a smile: "Now let's talk about the second thing, after winning the battle, the reward of the imperial court will not come for a while, but the merits in our army must be rewarded, just before you come, I have signed a commendation and promotion order, Shen Chen, Wei Xun, Zhe Yuqing, Xi Feng Minda, Lu Xun and Brother Zhou, all of them were honored as lieutenants of light cars, Shen Chen, Wei Xun, Zhe Yuqing, and Xi Feng Minda were promoted to guerrilla generals, and they were promoted from the rank of Wupin!" Lieutenant Lu Xun Jin Zhaowu, Captain Jing Hai and Shi Jin Zhenwei, and the rest of the officers below the seventh rank shall all be drafted and submitted to me for approval by the Department of Military Supervision and the Department of Yu Hou......"

The four people who were named all stood up and saluted with flat chests, and the most surprising of them was the fine seal Minda, this party harrier never thought that he was actually promoted to general by Li Wenge, and Shen Chen and Wei Xun were alongside.

Shen Wei and the others looked calm, and they did not show any dissatisfaction at all because the outsider Zhen Yuqing and the party item of Xifeng Minda were actually at the same level as themselves.

Li Wenge waved his hand and ordered them to sit down, and said, "Lingzhou should not be underestimated, I must solve this big problem before I can return to Yanzhou with peace of mind!" ”

"No way!"

Li Wenge turned his head in astonishment, this time it was not Wei Xun who resolutely opposed it, but the civil official Han Wei.

"The situation in Yanzhou is still stable, Li Xianggong and Qin Zijian are both trustworthy people!" Li Wenge explained, "In the short term, there is no danger of mutiny or coup d'état in Yanzhou!" ”

"It's not Yanzhou!" Han Wei shook his head slowly, his two eyes were firmly fixed on Li Wenge, and he said word by word: "Before leaving, I got the Jingzhong Line report---- Concubine De was ......."