Chapter 883: Pine Desert Tooth Banner
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On the tenth day of November, the north bank of the weak Luoshui, the Song Desert Tooth Banner, Rao Le City. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Yaolin rushed to Yaqi day and night and asked for help from Bulishea Ashinatar.
When Ashina Jar heard the news, he was very surprised, and it was completely unexpected. Anzhou is in turmoil, Ah Huizheng and the Xi Five Alliances are too busy to take care of themselves, and it is difficult to protect themselves, where can they still have the ability to attack the Khitan? Taking a step back, even if there is no chaos in Anzhou, but the Xi and Khitan have been defeated before, Ah Hui is losing troops and running out of supplies, and he is unable to attack the Khitan again in the short term.
Of course, there is still a possibility, if the Xi people get strong support, such as Middle Earth, give it a large number of grain and grass weapons, Ah Hui is very likely to take a risk, so that Middle Earth can borrow a knife to kill people, to raze and suppress, on the one hand, provoke a fight between the Donghu species, on the other hand, to attack and weaken the Turkic Khanate's control over the Northeast, killing two birds with one stone, killing multiple birds with one stone.
Thinking of this, Ashina Bilton suddenly had an ominous premonition.
Since the sudden change in Anzhou and the closure of the Songshan Pass, the connection between the Songdesert Tooth Banner and the Tooth Tent and the southeast Tooth Banner has been interrupted. The southwest of the Xia nationality is a flat pine forest, and the northwest is a continuous mountain (Daxing'an Mountains), which directly cuts off the connection between the northeast and the desert, so from the lightning plain to the ghost side, and then out of the pine mountain, this road is the only passage between the two tooth flags. After the contact was severed, Ashina was of course anxious, but winter was coming, and the snow was falling, and he had no better way, so he could only rely on the secret agents secretly deployed in Anzhou to make it difficult to transfer, so in the past nearly a month, Ashina Er only received two secret letters from his brother Ashina.
In the first secret letter, he told his younger brother that the Middle-earth rebels had entered Anzhou, but because he didn't know the true purpose of Middle-earth, he was worried that rashly sending troops to Anzhou would cause a war between the North and the South, so he sent a joint envoy to Middle-earth to find out the specific situation, and the side of the southeast Yaqi was very cautious, only maintaining a certain offensive to maintain the threat to Anzhou, so he specially warned his younger brother to be highly vigilant and prepare to attack Anzhou.
Not long ago, the second secret letter of Qi Jishe arrived, and the tooth tent made a decision on the changes in Anzhou, and if he was forced to make a compromise with Middle Earth, he could even give up the Xi people and give up Anzhou, but the overall situation in the northeast should be stable, and the two other tribes of the Khitan and Xia tribes could not afford to lose. In order to ensure the safety of both sides of the weak Luoshui River, he decided to send troops to Anzhou, capture the ghost side, and control Songshan Mountain, so as to prevent further chaos in the northeast of Middle-earth. For this reason, he suggested to his younger brother that he should take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the loss of Khitan strength to coerce and induce the Turks to consolidate and strengthen the control of the Turks over the Khitan.
From this, Bu Lishe estimated that when he saw the second secret letter of Qi Jishe, the army of the southeast Yaqi should have entered Anzhou, captured the ghost side, and completed the expected goal, so he sent people to Songshan to inquire about the news, but only today, he did not get a reply, but waited for the bad news of the remote department.
This problem is serious, the Xi people went north again to attack the Khitan, and killed the Shaolang River, surrounded the city of Wudan, and caught the Yao Yuan Department by surprise, what does this mean? It shows that the Yaolai Department closest to Songshan may have been defeated, and Luoma City may have fallen, and the Xi people turned to concentrate their forces on attacking the Yaolin Department, which was bound to win.
In short, if the expected goal of sending troops to Anzhou has been completed, it is impossible for him to support or condone the Xi people to attack the Khitan again, so there is only one reason why the Xi people attack the Khitan again, that is, the Middle Earth people have completely occupied Anzhou and take advantage of the victory to attack the north, and the five tribes of the Xi people who surrendered to the Middle Earth have become the vanguard of the Middle Earth sweeping the weak Luoshui on both sides of the river.
When Bu Lishe made this inference, the other two important officials at the decision-making level of the Yaqi Banner, Tutun Ashinazharan and Dagan Ashdetegul, both looked grim and felt very troubled.
Is the inference of Bu Lishi valid? If it is established, how will the Songdesert Tooth Banner respond?
The Song Desert Tooth Banner was established for a relatively short time, and the reason for its establishment is also related to Middle-earth. More than ten years ago, the Turkic Khanate was divided and declined, and the control of the desert tent over the Donghu tribes declined rapidly, especially the Khitan, because of the alliance with Goguryeo, growing stronger and stronger, and the Xi and Xia tribes formed a strong momentum, arrogant and ambitious, not only frequently invaded the western part of Liaoning, but also disdained the declining suzerain, the Turkic Khanate. At the beginning of the Holy Lord's accession to the throne, the Han King Yang Liang rebelled, the northern Xinjiang was chaotic, the Khitan and Goguryeo joined forces to invade Liaoxi, Wei Yunqi patrolled the border, aiming at the Khitan, so he ran to the Turks to borrow troops. At this moment, the Turks just wanted to consolidate and strengthen their control over the Donghu tribes, and Middle-earth wanted to stabilize the borders. The Turks dispatched more than 20,000 people to control the strings, cooperated with Wei Yunqi tacitly, and used a false way to defeat the Khitan, which caught the Khitan by surprise and hit the Khitan hard.
The two forces joined forces to make an example of the chickens and monkeys, and the Donghu tribes were of course afraid and feared like tigers, so the Turks easily strengthened their control over the Donghu tribes, and most importantly, the Turks took the opportunity to establish the Songmo Tooth Banner and stationed their troops in the northeast. This move is of great significance, the establishment of a tooth banner in the northeast, the stationing of troops, not only strengthened the control of the Donghu tribes, but also declared their sovereignty politically and militarily, which is equivalent to telling other kingdoms, especially Middle Earth, that the northeast is the territory of the Turkic Khanate, and the three tribes of the Donghu are the other tribes of the Turkic Khanate, all of which have masters, so they should no longer covet them.
Therefore, the blow to the Khitan nine years ago seemed to have achieved its goal in Middle Earth, and Wei Yunqi also made a big show and made meritorious achievements, but in fact, the advantages were taken advantage of by the Turks, and the real benefits were quietly pocketed by the Turks. The political situation of the Holy Lord at that time was very bad, and the internal worries were greater than the external troubles, Wei Yunqi was able to win the maximum benefits at the lowest cost, and it was not easy to skillfully use the razing to alleviate the external troubles and stabilize the border situation, even if the Turks took the opportunity to take advantage of it, it was helpless.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Song Desert Tooth Banner, there were tens of thousands of garrisons, which cost a lot, although the grain and grass were solved by the Donghu Tribe, but the key was that the Turkic control string was stationed outside the border all the year round, far away from the homeland and tribe, which would produce all kinds of problems, so after the situation in the northeast gradually stabilized, the number of garrisons in the Tooth Banner also declined rapidly, at least or even only more than 3,000 control strings remained, which also played a deterrent role. Qimin Khan died, Shibi Khan succeeded to the throne, the power struggle of the tooth tent was fierce, and the radical main battle faction had the upper hand, in this situation, Ashina and Ashina Duer, who held a conservative position of the main peace, were "sent" by his brother Shibi Khan to the southeast of the moraine and the Songdesert Tooth Banner far from the center of power, and with the arrival of these two magnates and their supporters, the military strength of the two tooth banners was also rapidly strengthened, especially the Song Desert Tooth Banner, the number of Turkic control strings more than doubled, reaching the scale of more than 6,000 horsemen, It's just that among the many tooth flags to which the tooth tent belongs, the Songmo Tooth Banner is the weakest one.
When there are more garrisons in Yaqi, the burden on the Donghu other departments will be heavy, and they will have to regularly hand over a certain amount of military supplies such as livestock and forage, so the contradictions and conflicts between the Yaqi and other departments will be fierce. At this moment, the Xi Ahui has risen, and the five-tribe alliance of the Xi tribe is backed by Middle Earth and is strong; At the same time, the Khitan Dahe Tara also rose, and the Khitan Eight Divisions Alliance joined hands with Goguryeo, and its strength was also very strong. Both of these divisions have to grow and develop, both are ambitious, and both want to control their own destiny, and of course they are getting farther and farther away from the tooth flag. It happened that Middle-earth launched an eastward expedition to attack Goguryeo, as an ally of Goguryeo, the Khitan was also hit and fell into the dilemma of being isolated and helpless, which gave the Song Moya Banner and the Xi people the opportunity to attack the Khitan, one wanted to kill the chickens and monkeys, strengthen the control of the Donghu Other, and the other wanted to attack and weaken the Khitan and strengthen themselves, so the two sides hit it off, one secretly supported and pulled the bias, and the other tried their best to attack the Khitan.
The Song Desert Tooth Banner got its wish, the two tigers fought for both defeats, and saw that the purpose of controlling and strangling the "two tigers" was achieved, who expected the praying mantis to catch cicadas, and the yellow finch was behind, the people of Middle-earth suddenly killed and ate the Xi people in one bite, and now they are out of Songshan in the north, taking advantage of the victory to attack, to eat the Khitan, and directly pushed the Song Desert Tooth Banner to a desperate situation with no way out.
"There is no way back." Tutun Ashinazalan sighed, "If we passively defend, stick to the north bank of the weak Luoshui, and allow the Middle Earth to unite with the Xi people to hit the Khitan hard, and do not rescue and fulfill the promise, then even if the Khitan does not die, its remnants will not be used by us." Once the vast land on the south bank of the weak Luoshui is controlled by Middle-earth, and the army presses the border, we will be passive, the strength of the Tooth Banner is limited, and the tribes of the Xia tribe will inevitably be shaken under the panic, if they defect, the big thing will go, the Tooth Banner will fall, the Tooth Tent will lose control of the Northeast Tribe, and the interests of the Great Khanate will suffer serious losses. ”
Bu Li set Ashina Er's twenties, it was the age of boiling blood and blood, and the sudden pressure not only did not make him nervous and timid, but instead mustered up his infinite fighting spirit.
"Why should we retreat? The enemy has already killed the weak Luoshui, has endangered the security of the Tooth Banner, our other departments have fallen into the danger of annihilation, and the sudden deterioration of the situation in the northeast has seriously damaged the interests of our Great Khanate, how can we retreat? The enemy is fierce and aggressive, and wants to drive us out of the Northeast, and wants to take the Northeast from us, where can we retreat? Only in one battle, only by defeating the enemy, can we hold the northeast, and after the arrival of reinforcements from the desert, we can turn defense into attack, recapture Anzhou, and rebuild the Xi tribe. ”
As soon as these words came out, the decision of the tooth banner was formed, and Tutun Ashina Zaran and Dagan Ashdetegul both expressed their support, but now they don't know the other side, they don't know the latest development of the situation in Anzhou, they don't know whether there are a large number of Middle-earth troops behind the Xi people's control of the strings, and they don't know the life and death of the Khitan Yaolai department, as well as whether the Ambush Department and the Diera Department in the east of Tuosu Chenshui have responded to the sudden situation, etc., in short, although the tooth banner is determined to take the initiative to meet the enemy, it can't rush to battle, and it still needs to make some preparations and find out some news. Strive to have a comprehensive and correct judgment of the current situation and ensure that nothing goes wrong.
"If our inference is correct, Qi Jishe lost the battle on the battlefield of Anzhou, the southeast Yaqi can no longer pose a threat to Anzhou in the short term, and Anzhou is no longer in danger of being attacked by the enemy, then Zhongtu can concentrate on attacking northward, and it will be difficult to stop Zhongtu and Xi people jointly sending troops to attack the Khitan."
As the military staff officer of the Tooth Banner, Dagan Ashdetegul immediately conducted a detailed analysis and deduction of the situation on both sides of Anzhou and the weak Luoshui River on the basis of the available information, and finally came to the conclusion that "if Middle-earth wants to achieve the target of attack in the shortest possible time, there is no better way than to defeat us as quickly as possible." The defeat of the Yaqi, or even the annihilation of the whole army, will definitely give a great deterrent to the Khitan and the Xia tribes, and the various tribes tremble and surrender one after another, the northeast changes hands, and Middle-earth will be conquered at the lowest cost. ”
Buli set his face like frost, and the killing machine was revealed.
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