Chapter 97 Westward Journey (4)
"I win the world with my hands on horseback, and the whole world is mine, who dares to disobey? Now that I am sitting in the Central Plains, I ambush millions of corpses under one order, who dares not to be afraid? Then Qian Miao, the king of Wuyue, Li Maozhen, the king of Qi, and Gao Jichang of Jingnan, which one is not a hero in the world, but who is not rushing to surrender to me! A few grassland barbarians, no matter how much trouble they can make, what kind of waves can they toss, and flies are like, which is annoying to people! Yelu Abaoji is disrespectful to the old, and sooner or later I will take off the hat on his head! ”
Li Cunmiao muttered to himself, muttered, and fell silent, his tiger eyes, which had made people dare not look at directly, were muddy at this time, without the slightest look.
The main hall is empty and silent, and the pillars that need to be hugged by three people are like a straight sword, and the eyebrows are cold in Li Cunqing's murmuring, and the drapery is swaying in the candle flames, and the hall is as empty as a field. In this wilderness with which no one shared the scenery, Li Cunqiao sat quietly, he looked at his shadow, his eyes were fascinated and dazed, and he did not move for a long time.
The sound of da- It was a woman of extreme beauty, with a dignified face and a coquettish face, and a magnificent brocade dress with gold threads and jade edges, anyone who looked at it at a glance would know that this was the most noble woman in the world.
She is Li Cunmiao's concubine, the newly canonized queen of the Tang Empire, Liu.
Liu walked up to Li Cunmiao gently, picked up a cloak from the palace maid's hand, squatted on the ground and draped it for him, and said in a weak and boneless voice: "Your Majesty, forgive me at night, why are you sitting here alone?" Go back with your concubines and rest in peace. ”
Li Cunmiao didn't move or speak, he looked up at Liu blankly, his eyes were empty, as if he didn't see someone in front of him.
Queen Liu's face changed slightly, and she pushed Li Cunmiao several times in a row, but the other party didn't react, she couldn't help but be a little anxious, and a little faintly afraid, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty ......"
Liu called for a long time, Li Cunqiao came back from his trance, he looked at the overwhelmed Liu, didn't know what was happening, and smiled as always: "Queen, what's wrong with you, how do you look like this?" ”
Li Cunmiao returned to normal, but Liu seemed to have suffered a great grievance, she recovered from her fear, tears overflowed her eyes, and instantly became the appearance of pear blossoms with rain, looking at Li Cunmiao pitifully, she threw herself into Li Cunmiao's arms, and choked up: "Your Majesty, you can't scare the concubine like this, the concubine is so afraid, you can't stand the concubine's heart like this, the concubine is afraid that the concubine will go crazy!" ”
Liu's miserable appearance made Li Cunmiao's heart suddenly rise with great love, and he wiped away the tears on Liu's face, "I am the lord of the world, I don't let you go crazy, who can let you have something?" With me, you don't have to worry about anything! ”
Liu nodded heavily, revealing a smile that could melt everything, helped Li Congjing to stand up, and said in a greasy voice: "Your Majesty, it's cold here, can the concubine serve you and go back to rest?" ”
Li Cunmiao snorted and walked out of the hall with Liu.
Behind everyone, the picture that had just been photographed by Li Cunmiao with a little dust looked extremely lonely, and it was covered with dust again when it was invisible to the human eye.
What is the world, which enemy beauty in the world laughs at?
When she stepped out of the palace gate, Liu suddenly glanced back, the wide and majestic hall seemed to be as big as the whole country in her eyes, and she smiled.
She doesn't need to conquer the world, she only needs to conquer the person who conquered the world, and the world is in her pocket.
After the Khitan seized the two states of Feng and Sheng, and broke through the Tatar department, in order to control this place, they set up the Yingtian Army in the Hetao in the middle of the two. As the commander of the Khitan's western expedition, Yelu Enemy Lie personally took command and sat in the base camp of the Yingtian army, while strengthening the control of Feng, Sheng, Erzhou and Tatar departments, while the army raged along the Great Wall, there was a great opportunity to break through the defense line of the Great Wall and break into the hinterland of Yunzhou.
Sitting in Yunzhou is the envoy of the Tang Datong Festival, the jurisdiction of Yunzhou is not only the southeast of the Great Wall, but also the northwest of the outside of the 100 miles, which was originally under the jurisdiction of Yunzhou.
As the Khitan in addition to Yelu Abaoji and a few other people, the most powerful Yelu enemy, he fought all his life, countless battles, with Yelu Deguang, Yelu Bei, these descendants can not achieve rich experience in battle, especially commendable is that Yelu Enemy Lie is a well-educated man, with ordinary people unimaginable erudition, which makes his way of conquest more three-dimensional, difficult to deal with, on military and political talent, the entire Khitan country, except for the founding emperor Yelu Abaoji, no one can stand out.
It is precisely because of this that he is the Khitan North Courtyard Yi Lijian.
The various measures taken by Yelu Enemy Lie to capture and garrison the Hetao were carefully looked at by a person, and he was Qin Shide, the envoy of the Datong Festival of the Tang Dynasty. The two are close at hand, only the Great Wall is separated, and if Yelu Enemy Lie sneezes, Qin Shide can be spat on his face.
To be able to make a festival for a town and guard the frontier for the Tang Dynasty, Qin Shide is not an ordinary person, in fact, although Qin Shide was born recklessly, he is well versed in the way of using soldiers, and he has rarely failed in his career. Although separated by the veil of the Great Wall, Qin Shide has long been dissatisfied with the various provocations of Yelu and the enemy, and often has the heart to fight back.
And Yelu's enemy martyrs plundered the Yunzhou jurisdiction north of the Great Wall, which finally completely angered Qin Shide, and he led his troops to leave Yunzhou City and drive to the Great Wall, wanting to give Yelu enemy martyrs a color.
In the feudal towns, the Jiedu envoys decide on their own military and political affairs, such as recruitment, reduction, training, building military equipment, and a certain degree of conquest, in civil affairs, the Jiedu envoy has the right to personnel and has the power to directly appoint officials within the jurisdiction, if the monarch is strong, the power may be slightly restricted, once the monarch is weak or does not strengthen control, the Jiedu envoy is a prince.
Even if Yelu Enemy Lie did not invade the land of Yunzhou, if Qin Shide was resolute, he could still lead his troops to attack - but it is easy to say that he won, but it is thankless to lose it. Qin Shide is like this, and so is Li Congjing. In the absence of an edict from the imperial court, Li Congjing left the feudal town without permission and led the army west into the Caohetao, nominally speaking, although he was jealous and guilty, but as long as he was not plotting against him and his actions were not too ugly, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, who would offend the princes of one side for no reason? And who has the right to accuse him of not?
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The Great Wall has beacon towers facing each other, this solid is well known, and in fact, in the place where the terrain is wide and located in the main traffic artery, there are also Xiongguan and checkpoints on the Great Wall, after all, the Great Wall inside and outside also needs to communicate and contact, not to mention the common people, businessmen come and go, that is, the officials and troops of the Central Plains Dynasty also need to have a passage into the grassland. After all, the Great Wall is a "city wall", a barrier for military defense, not a fig leaf for closing the country off.
The northwest of Yunzhou leads directly to the abundance of the Hetao, the victory of the two states, the Hetao is a plain, the Great Wall here has a border pass, called Sangqing Pass, in the arrangement of troops along the Great Wall of Yunzhou, here is undoubtedly the main point, so there is a small military camp, there are hundreds of border troops stationed in the tun.
After Qin Shi got here, he did not rashly send troops to the Khitan army outside the pass, but sent a large number of rangers to find out the whereabouts of the Khitan army in the old way. How many Khitan troops were sent to Yunzhou by Yelu Enemy Lie, what was the configuration of the infantry and cavalry, whether they were divided into several roads or gathered in one place, what their combat goals were, and even the equipment and elite level of these Khitan troops, Qin Shide asked the experienced scouts under his command to find out.
Stationed at the border for a long time, he is also a veteran general in the army, not to mention that Qin Shide himself is a good general, and there is no shortage of elite soldiers under his command. The so-called elite soldiers and fierce generals are not just able to charge into battle, but more importantly, the coordination and cooperation of various arms, such as whether the scouts are experienced and clever enough, whether the trappers are enough to sacrifice themselves and forget their deaths, which generals are good at attacking, and which generals are good at defending.
For several days, Qin Shide, who rushed to Sangkan Pass, remained still.
Until all the scattered rangers returned, or all those who could return, Qin Shide discussed with the generals and formulated a battle plan, and then ordered troops on the battlefield in the barracks under the Sangjia Pass.
Qin Shide is now over fifty years old, but his sharp aura is still piercing, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a man who has been killed, and his whole body seems to be bubbling with blood, ready to kill at any time. Of course, it is to direct others to kill.
Qin Shi has to fight his way out of the blood and fire to get out of his current status, unlike many vulgar men who come out of the bottom and become arrogant and lascivious after becoming rich, although he is also coarse, he is not disdainful. Born in a farming family, his only hobby was farming. He often said to people that Lao Tzu wanted to farm when he was a child but didn't have to, and the rebels destroyed my field, destroyed my grain, and ruined my home, leaving me with no way to live, and there was only one cheap life left that I didn't know when it would be gone.
Qin Shide, who was wearing Mingguang armor and carrying a horizontal knife, stood on the platform, looked at the thousands of Datong troops in front of him, was silent for a while, and said slowly in his thick voice: "The old team that taught Lao Tzu how to play with others and not be killed by others is telling me that if others rob your fields and grain, you can also go and rob other people's fields and grains, and if you grab them, you will make money, and if you can't grab them, you won't lose money, anyway, you won't be able to live without land and food!" The old team is right, but God doesn't fulfill him, so he hasn't been able to make many achievements, but the kid who was taught by him to grab the field and grab the grain now has endless fields and endless food! ”
"Lao Tzu wanted to share some of him, but he was not blessed and died early. There is no way, Lao Tzu can only burn more paper money for him every year, so that he can afford to buy fields, grow grain, fill his stomach, and eat meat. ”
"Lao Tzu can only do this for the old team. But now it's different, those Khitan thieves who don't know whether they are alive or dead, have come to seize our fields and our grain, so that we have no land to plant and no food to eat! ”
"Lao Tzu is a rough man, he doesn't understand any big truths, and he doesn't like to listen to people nag me about serving the country with loyalty, but Lao Tzu knows that if there is no land and no food, then we will starve to death!"
"If someone wants us to starve to death, can we agree? No! ”
"Can we sit idly by and wait for the enemy to line up in front of us? No! ”
"So what are we going to do?"
"I didn't say it, play with them!"
On this day, the 5,000 Datong Army, under the personal leadership of Qin Shide, went out of the Sangqian Pass, mightily, and took the initiative to show the horizontal knife in his hand to the Khitan army that was ravaging the northwest of Yunzhou!
The mountains and rivers in the Guanai are beautiful, the wind and the sun are beautiful, and the desert outside the plug is lonely and wolf-smoky.
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Hetao, the place where the base camp of the Ying Heavenly Army is located.
Since the westward expedition with troops, after successively capturing Fengzhou and Shengzhou, and defeating the Tatar tribal chieftains, Yelu Enemy Lie has returned to the West Building to report to Yelu Abaoji once, and did not stay long, then received Abaoji's order, re-seated in the Yingtian army, and prepared to continue the westward expedition while digesting the results.
Previously, the Khitan soldiers had once far beyond Feng and Sheng, arrived at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and even fought with the Xizhou Uighurs and Tibetans, but recently, the Tatar chieftain who had previously expressed his submission to the Khitan rebelled, and when the war on the Khitan Western Front was tight, he took the opportunity to put forward a series of requirements to Yelu Abaoji only to pay tribute and not be a vassal, and made many restrictive actions to the Khitan army that borrowed the west expedition.
The road to conquering the enemy and establishing hegemony has never been smooth sailing or achieved overnight.
After reading the military report in his hand, Yelu Enemy Lie threw it on the desk, snorted coldly, and a look of disdain appeared on his majestic and upright face, at this moment, the elegant color on his body faded, and the killing spirit was fully revealed, "I didn't go to knock on the pass, looking for Qin Shide's trouble, it was already to give him face, this old man didn't know whether he was alive or dead, he ran to Sangjia Pass to order troops, and even sent a large number of rangers to go deep into Feng and Sheng, this old man is tired of being crooked, and he can't find death?" ”
In front of Yelu Enemy Lie, there stood respectfully a Khitan man who was only in his thirties, looking at his bright and gorgeous clothes, his identity should be extraordinary, "Father, you don't need to be angry, Qin Shide is just a little ant in front of you, he broke into your field of vision and made you unhappy, you don't need to do it yourself, the child will clean him up for you!" Now that he has come to die, why is it so difficult for us to dig a grave for him with some effort? ”
When this young man spoke, his expression showed a faint, but extremely obvious pride. Yelu was crowned king because of his military exploits, so the man called him king.
"You're right, if a person wants to die, the immortal heaven can't help it, since our opponent is so eager to see Hades, let's dig a grave for him." Yelu Dilie agreed with the idea of the person in front of him, and even looked a little satisfied, "Pheasant, in this case, you will take your seven younger brothers and go to meet this Qin Shide for a while, and settle this ant for your father." ”
Yelu's enemy was both civil and military, and he was prominent in the Khitan Kingdom for a while, and few people could reach the limelight, but he had no heirs. So he was very infatuated with Han culture, imitated the atmosphere of the Central Plains, and accepted eight righteous sons. The young man who was called "Pheasant" by Yelu Enemy Lie was his first righteous son, Yelu Pheasant.
Yelu Pheasant said: "Cleaning up Qin Shide, this old horseman, why do you need my eight brothers to go together?" The child and the fifth and sixth brothers can go. ”
Yelu Enemy Lie did not agree to Yelu Pheasant's request, he shook his head and said: "Although Qin Shide is a rough horseman, but after all, he has been on the battlefield for a long time, and the Datong Army under his command can also be called elite, which should not be underestimated. ”
Yelu Pheasant knew that he could express his thoughts in front of Yelu Enemy Lie, but he must not go against Yelu Enemy Lie's wishes, so he didn't insist anymore, and respectfully should be, "In this case, let all the younger brothers experience it, and accumulate some experience in fighting Han generals, so that he can serve his father, Wang Ma, and drink the Yellow River!" ”
Yelu Lie laughed, followed the example of the Central Plains, stroked his beard and nodded: "That's right." ”