As the sun set, there was nothing to do outside the city.

For Lao Luo, this kind of experience is commonplace. Orderly encampment, digging pits, erecting car bases, collecting floating balloons, cooking dinner, cavalry patrols, scouts, garrisons, and military police patrols...... All the steps are not much different from when they were in Bishkek. Although there are only 100,000 people, they have a calm mentality and pattern.

For the people in the city of Huizhou, the main general went out of the city to negotiate, and there was no enemy attacking the city, although there was no definite news coming, but at least there was no longer any worry that the enemy would attack the city soon. People who have been war-torn have their own way of surviving their lives, but chaos is inevitable for a while.

For Wei Mu Yihei, the long conversation with his son-in-law made him understand the situation he had to face - this way of obeying the strong on the grassland was easier for him to accept than dealing with the scribes of the Zhao and Song dynasties, but the troubles that followed also followed, could the clansmen in Xiazhou or even Shizhou (1), Hongzhou (2) and Munashan Military Town in the north (3) accept it? This must be an inescapable problem.

For Li Deming, he finally saw his own people, although his father-in-law who supported him in the past has a very bad attitude now, but at least he is still on his side, anyway, according to the words of the Han people, there is no big deal except death, and after ascending to the position of Jiedu envoy, he knows that he is in that position and looks at the scenery, but it is not comfortable. Not to mention the huge pressure brought by Zhao Song and Northern Liao, the things that happened from time to time within the clan and some grassland tribes gave him a headache.

Of course, can you really give up the glory of being the leader of one side? Li Deming is not 100% willing, but the situation is stronger than people, and until now he can't see the details of the army led by Luo someone, but he knows that if he gives him 100,000 troops to attack again, he may not even have the courage to send troops.

Now it seems that he has succumbed to someone Luo, and it is difficult to say what will happen in the future, so he can only wait and see.

In the final analysis, as long as Luo can treat the party clan fairly and follow Luo, he will not lack glory and wealth, and he will also have an explanation for his clansmen.

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As the sky got dark, Li Deming ended his conversation with his father-in-law, Wei Mu Yihei, and returned to the tent prepared for him in the camp to eat and rest.

As for what he talked about with Wei Muyihei, whether he leaked any secrets, and whether he would unite with the rest of the party nobles to make any moves, Lao Luo was not even interested in asking, not to mention others, as if the general of the party had really become his own person.

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Late at night, the daytime panic in the city of Huizhou gradually subsided. Because the weather was getting cooler, a bonfire was lit on the city wall every few dozen paces away to provide the soldiers on guard duty to keep warm at night.

Wei Mu Yihei was silent in the hall used to watch the enemy's deliberations in the main city tower, and there was also a fire with a huge copper basin in front of him, and next to him were his two sons and his two Han staff, several of whom were also silent.

The people of the Wei Mu Department are still prosperous, with a total of more than 18,000 people in the clan, and more than 7,000 men who can fight, which is considered a relatively powerful tribe within the entire party.

There are hundreds of thousands of people in the vast soup, there are scouts in the front, forwards, car bases in the middle, and cavalry in the back, and there are too many things that I don't understand, the kind of big ball floating in the air that is very scary, the car floating on the ground one foot high, everything does not feel like a migratory steppe tribe, but more like a complete army, no, stronger than the average army.

In the words of the scouts, the troops of Emperor Zhao and Song did not have such a terrifying momentum at first sight.

If it weren't for a few scouts desperately approaching and seeing the presence of women, children and old people in that team, who would have believed that such a luxurious and fierce team was an immigrant returning to his homeland?

Oh, the words fierce and extravagant are the original words of the scout, fierce does not need to be explained, extravagant because no one walked on two legs when the team was marching!

Lots of horses, camels, cattle and sheep, and sturdy-looking four-wheeled carts!

With the exception of a few camels with packages on their backs, most of the other horses were flight attendants, and this extravagant team could even have at least three horses per person, nay, maybe four!

If the original words from the scout overwhelmed everyone in the hall, all the news that Wei Mu Yihei had obtained from the meeting outside the city made him even more confused.

Because of the relationship of time, Li Deming and Wei Mu Yihei didn't talk much, but it was enough for Wei Mu Yihei to understand that this is an invincible centaur, and their internal unity is absolutely unified, no one has any dissenting opinions, such a centaur will be stationed in the north of him in the future, it is a big stone hanging overhead, I don't know when it will fall down!

Wei Mu Yihei was a little unwilling, the rules on the grassland are always the strong who have the final say, and if the knife is in the hands of others, his fate cannot be controlled, but he knows very well that he is likely to not be able to change anything, so he is so entangled.

Manpower is sometimes poor, this is a sentence that Han people occasionally say, and he only now deeply understands it.

Looking up and looking around, the eldest son Wei Muqingde and the youngest son Wei Mushanxi were waiting for their father to speak, and the staffmen Zhang Kan and Wang Kuang, two Han people, were usually calm and calm, but now they looked at it but their brows were also frowned.

"Zhang Kan, do you have a way to get out of this crisis?" Wei Mushan couldn't bear this silence anymore and asked.

Zhang Kan was a scholar who failed many times in the Zhao and Song dynasties, and belonged to the same clan as Zhang Zhi (zhi) in Xiazhou, and Wang Kuang was a native of Pingtao (4), whose ancestors were officials in the Northern Han Dynasty. Although the two belong to the same staff, Zhang Kan is more important than scheming, and Wang Kuang is good at people's livelihood, so the only person Wei Mu Yihei can ask is Zhang Kan.

"Returning to Dong Weng, Kan thinks that the king is good at forbearance, there must be a plan in his heart, don't say it at this time, maybe it can't be said, Dong Weng might as well follow his mind, contact and discuss with the people of the big royal clan and the Yeli Wuzang tribes, and after the other party settles down, Diao buys people's hearts, and then divides and strikes it, then today's worries are gone!" Zhang Kan is only about thirty years old, and he speaks quite confidently with the short hair on his chin.

This Zhang Kan is a high-minded and arrogant person, if he talks about the mind, no one is convinced, and his fellow Zhang Zhi has a similar fate, they are all defeated in the Zhao and Song Dynasty, the difference is that Zhang Zhi arrived in Yinxia three years earlier than him, and as soon as he came, he was valued by Li Jiqian, and he could only defect to the Wei Mu family, the largest family within the party.

His passage can be said to play up the strengths and avoid the weaknesses, conceptualizing and clarifying a strategic process, although it is somewhat general, but it is full of calculations.

"Well, that's great!" Wei Mu Yihei listened to Zhang Kan's words, and his heart was a little relieved, but he only said a perfunctory sentence, and then asked another staff member, "Wang Kuang, what do you think?" ”

It's not that what Zhang Kan said is unreasonable, on the contrary, what this scheming scholar said has his own truth, but it will inevitably take a long time to implement, and it is necessary to unify the power of the Yeli Department, especially the latter is not Wei Mu Yihei's liking, but this veteran is deep in mind and will not show it.

Although Wang Kuang is also a literati, he is completely different from Zhang Kan, who has fine skin and tender meat, he was born in Pingtao, he is rough and big, his face is full of wind and sharpness like the people of Hexi, and he speaks in a rough voice and has a martial arts style, "Dong Weng doesn't have to be anxious, just listen to what Dong Weng said, a certain family has a little income, at least within half a year, this person is not a threat to Dong Weng...... Moreover, a certain family felt that it was not impossible for the king to take refuge in the general surnamed Naluo. ”

Wei Mu Yihe raised his eyebrows, "How do you say this?" ”

"Dong Weng said before that the general surnamed Naluo was willing to exchange a thousand stones of refined salt for the small city of Lingzhou, which means that the other party is not a bully and is willing to abide by the rules of the transaction." Wang Kuang spoke without the humility of a scholar, and his analysis was more practical than Zhang Kan's scheming.

"If the other party is just lying and cheating, they don't want to follow the rules after they settle down......" Wei Muyihei frowned and said a few words, and then stopped talking.

Wang Kuang continued: "Dong Weng is reasonable, but it is almost impossible, there are tens of thousands of generals surnamed Luo, if they attack the city immediately after arriving today, what can they do?" It may be difficult for the capital to resist such a soldier! ”

Wei Mu Yihei nodded in approval, a team that 100,000 elite soldiers can't stop, how can he stop it with only a few thousand people and horses in this Huizhou City?

"Listening to Dong Weng's description of Luo Kaixian, although he is not masked, a certain family dares to assert that this person is proud and confident, and must disdain to break the trust of others. It is a blessing for such a luxurious person to be a neighbor of Dong Weng! Speaking of this, as if his thoughts were getting clearer and clearer, Wang Kuang's brown eyes became very bright.

"Luckily?" Because he was entangled in the strength of Luo Kai's ancestors, Wei Mu Yihei was very sensitive to this kind of words.

"Truly a blessing!" Wang Kuang did not change his words because of Wei Mu Yihei's somewhat annoyed expression, but continued after confirming it: "This matter is like a private household, ordinary people often do not want their neighbor to be a poor household, because it is more difficult for poor people to have integrity, or to be forced by poverty to take risks, but rich and self-sustaining neighbors (5) are not, in order to ensure the peace of the house, one party will be maintained, and it is the proper duty to help friendly neighbors. ”

Wei Mu Yihei's anger disappeared, "It's good to be rich and self-controlled, but if you can't be self-controlled, what's the matter?" ”

"Then according to what Brother Zhongchuan said, you can do it!" Wang Kuang asserted.

"Well, that's what you two say! Qingde is responsible for guarding the city, and Shan Xi will take 100 guards to Xiazhou tomorrow to meet your sister, and ask her to arrange for people to pick up your brother-in-law in Lingzhou! "Zhongchuan is Zhang Kan's cousin, Wei Mu Yihei is just not used to being called like this, but he understands it, so that the words of the two people are combined, Wei Mubu can indeed advance and retreat freely, and he can also breathe a sigh of relief, arrange someone to go to Xiazhou to report the news, and recruit someone to protect his son-in-law Li Deming.

"Obey, Father!" Wei Muqingde and Wei Mushan, who had always been observing, saluted respectfully.

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(1) Shizhou, there are many Shizhou in history, which refers to Lishi District of Luliang City in the middle of Luliang Mountain, Shanxi, which was once an ancient city in the mountains. A thousand years ago, it was a city node that held the main east-west road.

(2) Hongzhou, not Hongzhou in Nanchang, Jiangxi, but refers to Wuqi County, Shanxi Province today, named by the Dingyan Army thousands of years ago, and the Song people later rebuilt the city as Dingbian City and the garrison was Dingbian Army.

(3) Muna Mountain, also known as Wula Mountain, belongs to the Yinshan Mountain Range, located in the west of Baotou City today, and was the border node between the Dingyan Army and the Northern Liao a thousand years ago.

(4) Pingtao, now Pingyao County, Shanxi.

(5) Self-sustaining, holding, and restraint. Self-sufficiency, self-restraint.

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