In addition to asking Bianliang to surrender, what other countermeasures can be used against Li Wenge? ”

Tuoba Yi Yin looked at his most intelligent and experienced nephew with a little wistfulness, and despite all that, he was still a little disappointed. After all, Tuoba Guangxiu didn't give him a more clever idea than Chu Weiyan. Although asking Bianliang to surrender and reconciling with the Zhe family may become a killer weapon against Li Wenge in the future, at present, these two methods cannot effectively alleviate the dilemma faced by the Tuoba family.

"The head of the family, it's time to re-admit the three pheasant clans and return to Yinxia......

Tuoba Guangxiu's words immediately swept away Tuoba Yi Yin's disappointment, although this sentence was so unexpected to him, and even a little confused, but no matter what, this was a different suggestion from other clan generals.

"How?"

"It has been almost two months since the three pheasants were forced to rebel by Guo Yanqin in Gyeongju, but the court of Bianliang has never responded. The head of the family, although the pheasant clan is weak, occupies the main road from the south of Yanzhou to Ningju in the Central Plains. As long as we accept them, it is equivalent to having a trade route other than Yanzhou. Through this road, our leather, horses and livestock could be transported to Guanzhong through Gyeongju and Ningju, and the grain and weapons of the Han land could also be transported from the west road to Yanju and Youju. I have been thinking about this for almost a month, and as long as this road is opened, Li Wenge's plot to starve us to death will not succeed. Unless he took the risk of being suspicious of Bianliang to meddle in the affairs of Gyeongju, he could only watch Guo Yanqin release water on us......" Tuoba Guangxiu said with blazing eyes.

Tuoba Yiyin frowned, but his heart was quickly measuring the matter, but what he said was completely different: "Hundreds of years of grudges, I'm afraid it can't be solved so easily." Not to mention whether the pheasant family is so open-minded and reunited with us, it is the Yeli family's side, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to say that it is compatible. In addition, I am afraid that there will be discussions within our own family, although I am the head of the family, but to redivide the grassland, but also through those old men who only know how to eat, sleep, and hunt all day long......"

"The head of the house. At the moment of the great enemy, it is time for the Tuoba family to change the law! ”

Tuoba Guangxiu's words really stunned Tuoba Yiyin.

"Guangxiu ——!"

"Uncle, this is the situation. We can't move other families, so we can only use our own knives. If the situation develops, the strength of the Tuoba family will be reduced more and more weakly. Once the three families join forces, the old-fashioned lords of the clan are afraid that they will sell us who are in power for their own personal gain. After all, over the years, the family has taken their private soldiers under the control of the Jiedu Mansion, and they have long complained, but they don't dare to say it. They are no longer in charge.

Take this opportunity to get rid of these people and switch to the Han system. Give those who suffer the most slave freedmen status, only in this way can the family's crisis be saved. Otherwise, in the long run, even if Li Wenge can't destroy us, we will die out in a few years......" Tuoba Guangxiu's face was extremely calm at the moment, as if he was talking about something else.

"Originally, I wanted to wait until after occupying the so-called Hetao Sanshou Surrendered City. However, since the current family is already in such difficulty, the situation does not allow us to wait. Taking advantage of the extreme shortage of food, he eradicated the hidden dangers within the family in one fell swoop. The whole clan was rationed, and both the freemen and the slaves would support us. Although this matter may attract criticism from other tribes, as long as the main force of our army does not suffer excessive losses, these families may not dare to openly oppose us. While the strength is still there, this matter should be resolved as soon as possible! ”

Tuoba Yi Yin was silent, this matter is too big, even if Tuoba Guangxiu has already made the stakes clear, he is still a little hesitant, in the Pingxia Babu, although the reform of the ancestral system has been done quietly, but it has never been so blatant as Tuoba Guangxiu said. Tuoba Yi Yin knew that once he did this, he would become the public enemy of the nobles of the Tuoba clan, and there would be no room for maneuver between the pillars of these clans and himself.

Of course, for him, this reform has obvious benefits. The future head of the house will no longer depend on the tribal council, but will be appointed by himself.

However, Tuoba Yi Yin knew that if he did not have enough military strength, his own designation could be overthrown at any time.

At present, the army is in the hands of his own cronies and nephews, which is a reliable guarantee.

Once the change is successful, the family's efficiency and response will increase exponentially, not to mention the other things, in the matter of accepting the three pheasant clans to return to Pingxia, the Tuoba family, who controls the northern region of Youzhou and the former Yanzhou, can achieve their goal with little effort.

As long as the Pheasant Clan is willing to let go of their grudge with the Tuoba family, this rebellious primitive tribe will not only become the guardian of the Yinxia trade route, but will likely become a powerful pawn against the Yeli family in the future.

Tuoba Guangxiu's strategies, although they all seem to be sinister and clumsy tricks, have all smashed on the key points. Tuoba Yiyin began to feel relieved that no matter what, he didn't come in vain today. Although these strategies have not been able to solve the current crisis immediately, they have given him a glimmer of hope. at

In this dead end, it is very important to be able to see such a glimmer of light

"Uncle, we must prevent Li Wenge from attacking the three clans in Gyeongju in advance, so the harassment and use of troops in front of Luzi Pass cannot be stopped, and the big battles cannot be fought, but there must be some small battles, with only one purpose, to restrain the attention of Li Wenge and the Zhe family, so that they will not be able to make a move against Gyeongju in a short time. Meantime...... Just take the opportunity to drive the old guys sitting high in the elders' meeting to the front line...... "Tuoba Guangxiu has already proposed a specific cleansing method.

As long as these elders die on the front line, the Shogunate of the Dingyan Army will not completely turn against the clan, and the matter of further restructuring will be relatively easy, Tuoba Yi Yin understands that those noble children who are pampered all day long will never dare to go against the powerful Shogunate, and even their fathers have no play, and these young generations who are used to being high are naturally even more impossible.

"There is one more move, although I haven't figured it out yet, but Uncle might as well do it first. To deal with people like Li Wenge, we can't just think from the positive. That's not a guy who's willing to play against us in the open. My fear is that at this moment it is too late for us to send troops to Gyeongju. It would be the best time to do it before Li Wenge came back from Bianliang. It's a pity that at that time, we had just eaten the fine seal family, and the aftermath was not yet secure, so it was really not a good time to send troops......"

Tuoba Guangxiu's thoughts today were extremely clear, which made Tuoba Yiyin extremely pleased, and he looked at this nephew gently and said, "What kind of chess, how to move." You name it. I have always been the most convinced of your proposition. ”

"Reconcile with the new master of the Feng family in Lingzhou, buy horses and skins for them, and exchange them for food and materials. You can even form an alliance with them to deal with Li Wenge in Yanzhou. I have paid attention to the news from Bianliang in the past few months, after the battle last autumn, the Zhou lord Ming edict rewarded the old Zhejia and Li Wenge, and even Li Bin and the civil officials of Yanzhou paid homage to the envoy, but did not mention Feng Qilang of Lingzhou. The head of the family, Feng Jiye's father and the Zhou master are close friends. With such a friendship, Feng Jiye's post-employment position has not been corrected so far. There is no title and title, the old Feng Hui was the king of Chen Liujun when he was alive, and he was posthumously crowned the king of Wei after his death, no matter how he calculated, Feng Jiye inherited the position of a Chen Guogong is stable. However, there has been no movement so far, and the matter is clear, and Lord Zhou is extremely dissatisfied with Feng Jiye's killing of his brother and slaughtering the old. Because Lingzhou is remote, I didn't pay attention to him for a while. When Lord Zhou freed his hand, he was afraid that Feng Jiye would not even be able to sit firmly in the seat left by Jiedu......"

Tuoba Yiyin's eyes were shining, and he already understood what Tuoba Guang meant.

Feng Jiye killed his biological brother Manmen, and killed three old ministers and old generals left by his father in a row. Spending such a big price but only getting a knot, no matter what, it can't be willing. The more Lord Zhou lit him up on the issue of rectifying and adding officials to the knighthood, the more serious his dissatisfaction and panic would be. Like Li Wenge, in order to have the capital to confront the imperial court in the future, it is imperative to recruit troops and expand the military strength. The Lingzhou Dishuo Fang Army was originally the first strong domain in Guanzhong, with nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, and now such a behemoth has suffered a great loss of vitality after almost a year of internal friction and fighting, and the remaining troops at this moment are only seventy percent at most.

Lingzhou implements the system of arresting soldiers, and most of the soldiers are taken captive by the people, and they are tattooed on the face or neck to make a mark according to the old practice of Zhu Liang, just like the party people treat slaves. Once these soldiers fled, they would be quickly captured by the local officials and civilians because of the marks on their faces. Shuofang Jiedu Prefecture treated deserters with extreme cruelty, and few deserters who were captured survived. In addition, Shuofang has low treatment in the army, and at some levels, there are even the rules of the early Tang Dynasty soldiers, and when a person is a soldier, his armor and weapons must be produced by his family; These people did not have the same glory as the soldiers of the early Tang Dynasty, and they could not get enough land and rewards because of their military exploits, so they often caused the tragedy of the bankruptcy of the whole family when a husband joined the army.

Although such a military system effectively reduces the difficulty of raising soldiers, it cannot take into account military discipline; More importantly, after the Eighth Route Army in Yanzhou began to implement the law of fugitive slaves, a large number of Lingzhou soldiers who were filled into the camp with tattoos fled to Yanzhou.

With this festival, between Feng Jiye and Li Wenge, even if there was no contradiction before, there is a contradiction now.

Yanzhou sheltered the Lingzhou deserters, and Li Wenge was promoted to the Eighth Route Army's Jiedu to make the right Xiaowei general, but the children of Feng Jiye's family are still behind the Jiedu. If this Feng Qilang has no opinion on Li Wenge, I'm afraid no one will believe it.

In this situation, maybe Feng Jiye may really be able to form an alliance with the Xia Ministry.

Even if it's highly unlikely, it's worth a try.

Tuoba Yi Yin let out a long sigh, today's trip was not in vain.

……

In the eastern part of Luoyuan County, in the southwest corner of Baiyu Mountain, there is a town called Malingzhai, which is a small town where Hu and Han people live together, and the city is busy on weekdays, and there are endless caravans. Eighteen miles north of Malingzhai, there is a small col with a radius of more than 100 li, in this col, there lives a tribe with a total population of more than 2,000 tents, which is the tribe of the cattle killing tribe in Gyeongju second only to the pheasant tribe.

The cattle killing clan and the pheasant clan have a feud, since the beginning of the year the pheasant clan pulled the flag to rebel and cover up

Later, the Cattle Killing Tribes mobilized their tribes, brought the armor, weapons and horses of the whole tribe and deployed them near the mountain pass in the northwest of the tribe to prevent the pheasant tribe from sneaking up on their tribe.

Fortunately, more than two months have passed, and the pheasant tribe has not come to attack the tribes that plundered and killed the cattle tribe.

On this day, the atmosphere of peace was shattered, and a scout sentry mounted on the top of the hill returned to the tent. An elite cavalry of two hundred men suddenly approached the Slaughtering Cattle Tribe from the southeast along Luoshui.

The big chief of the Cattle Killing Clan, Killing Niu Luji, was shocked when he heard this, and the elite warriors of the tribe were all sent to the northwest mountain pass, but unexpectedly, the enemy actually made a detour and approached the tribe from the rear along the Luoshui River Valley. There was a great chaos among the tribes, and the primitive herdsmen drove their cattle, sheep and livestock to the northwest in a panic, and the cattle killer sent three people in a row to give an order, ordering his son to kill the cattle and lead the cavalry of the northwest mountain pass to help.

Two hundred enemy cavalry was not much. But the tribe did not have enough troops to defend at the moment, and it would take at least two and a half hours from sending messengers to their own cavalry to reinforce them, which was enough time for the enemy to trample the entire tribe's tooth tent and turn one person on his back.

After all, killing Niu Luji is not a doll without incident. After sending the third herald's slave, he personally gathered less than a hundred young warriors who had not yet reached adulthood, gathered all the remaining armor and weapons of the tribe, and walked on foot when there were not enough horses. Finally, within two quarters of an hour, a contingent of eighty-three men was put in order, and the enemy from the southeast direction rushed forward.

Before leaving, Lao Duji whipped away his wife's hand that was holding the reins of his horse. He roared, "Tell Sima that I am waiting for him to avenge me by his side......"

Of the eighty-three men, only thirty-nine had horses. There were only twelve of these horses, and the rest were still young men, just like the teenagers of the clan who were still between the ages of twelve or thirteen but already had a little fearless look on their faces.

The small team didn't go far before they lined up on the west bank of Luoshui.

More than 80 people lined up the ground military formation, so naturally they couldn't talk about the momentum. But for now, that's the only thing he can do.

The children are still young. However, the twelve wolf riders beside him should still be able to withstand a burst of killing. As long as you can keep the enemy here for an hour, you can win a little chance for your people to escape, and buy a little time for your son Sima to lead the elite warriors of the Earth Clan back to the division. Killing the cow was satisfied.

Warriors on the steppe are born to fight, this is their duty and their vocation!

Although hundreds of years have passed, bearing a criminal family name with punitive connotations, Niu Kill still believes that neither he nor his own son should be cowardly in the face of the impending disaster, and his own family, the blood of his ancestors flowing in his veins does not allow him to have the slightest cowardice in the face of the crisis of extermination.

The wolf rider who was spying on the enemy's situation in front galloped back, reined in his horse in front of Niu Duji, and shouted: "Burke, the enemy's march has become very slow, their horses are very good, all covered with armor, and they also carry six yellow flags and two red flags, not like the cavalry of the pheasant family, but like the horse team of the Han people......"

The Han Chinese horse team?

Killing the cow was overjoyed for a while.

The return of the wolf riding on the horse is very detailed, judging from the six apricot yellow flags and two red flags, it really does not look like the cavalry of the cattle slaughterer. Moreover, if the two hundred people are all wearing armor, the entire Cattle Killing Clan may not be able to gather two hundred pairs of armor.

"Keyi,You will say sinicization,Follow me to see what is going on!"

Ox Killer called out to the only warrior in the wolf rider who could speak Chinese, and Pegasus headed southeast.

……

The fine seal Minda was taken aback, and the silver ornament in the middle of the helmet on the head of the Niu Killing Ox clearly indicated the identity of this person, and it turned out to be the patriarch of the Niu Killing Family who came in person.

Under the threat of crossbow arrows from dozens of cavalry of the Eighth Route Army, Niu Duji and Keyi jumped off their horses, threw away their weapons, and strode forward, waving their hands as they walked, to show that they were not hostile.

Xifeng Mindace immediately stepped forward and asked in a slightly awkward Cow Killing Clan's language, "The Silver Wolf Patriarch of the Grassland, what made you leave your people and come here?" ”

Niu Duji looked at this Han cavalry general with a rough face, and was slightly surprised.

There are also Han people who know the language of killing cattle, and it seems that these Han people are much smarter and kinder than the Han officials in Gyeongju.

He turned around and explained a few words to Keyi, who immediately stepped forward, knelt down on one knee, and said in Guanzhong Chinese dialect with four tones: "Shangguan from Middle Earth, on behalf of all the brave and hospitable clansmen of the grassland, my family Berke warmly welcomes your arrival, and we will entertain our friends from afar with the fattest lamb and the most mellow wine......

Before he could speak, a thin Han officer behind him wearing a purple robe lined with mountain armor and a thin face snorted softly in surprise, and involuntarily rode out of the ranks, asking in surprise, "Burke?" Are you the Ashina royal family? ”