Chapter 305: Tacit Understanding

readx; Crossing the east of Jinshan is an endless grassland, a number of gentle hills are distributed on this vast plain, the meltwater of the high mountains forms a small river, meandering between the hills, it is late spring, the water is sufficient, the water flow is turbulent, a group of cattle and sheep graze leisurely by the river, this area is the territory of the ancient department of Hui, about 50,000 people of the ancient department of Baye, distributed in the vast land east of Jinshan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Tents were visible from afar, where the herdsmen lived a leisurely and peaceful life, and that morning, a black line appeared in the distance, and a mighty army appeared, and the herdsmen were terrified, they shouted loudly, beckoned to their families, and a group of herding dogs barked wildly and rushed forward.

Cui Qianyou immediately stared at the hundreds of tents in the distance, this is a small tribe of the ancient tribe of the Purbaye, the closest to the Golden Mountain, he turned around and ordered: "Abdina, leave it to you!" ”

Abdina drew his sword, pointed at the tent, and shouted, "Kill!" ”

The war horses galloped and burst out with murderous energy, and thousands of Tongluo cavalry drew their swords and swung their knives to kill the fleeing herdsmen.

....... The clan tent of the Baguno tribe is located 200 miles east of Jinshan, a large river flows through the grassland, where the pastures are abundant, and tens of thousands of people are gathered, and it is the headquarters of the Baguno tribe.

At this moment, the Bagu Ye Department was shrouded in an atmosphere of fear, the news that the three armies of Ge Lulu, Tongluo and Shatuo had crossed the Jinshan had reached here, in the big tent, the big chief of the Bagu Ye Department Ashina was like an ant on a hot pot, pacing back and forth in a hurry, he had received more than a dozen unfortunate news, where the enemy army passed, he killed all his people, and the old people, women and children did not let go, resulting in today's situation Ashina did not expect, after the last success, he was preparing to organize troops to provoke again, But he didn't expect the other party's revenge to be so quick and tragic, and what worried him even more was that the combination of the three tribes of Gelulu, Tongluo, and Shatuo formed a powerful force, which was far from being something he could deal with.

He had already asked Gele Khan for help, but it was difficult to quench his thirst from afar, and it would take at least ten days for the main force of the Hui army to arrive, but the enemy army was already imminent.

There is no latest news from the messengers, but Ashina knows that for the steppe cavalry, the journey of two hundred miles is only one day, and the enemy army will kill at any time, but his tens of thousands of tribes have not moved away so quickly, even if they move away, they will soon be caught up by the enemy army if they help the old and the young, and bring the flock, what should I do now?

Remorse and anxiety made Ashina's heart hang in his throat, and at this moment, there was a rapid sound of running outside the tent.

"Great Chief!"

It was the voice of the messenger, and the voice was so frightened that Ashina's heart almost stopped fleeing, and he vaguely guessed that bad news was coming.

"The enemy's vanguard is less than thirty miles from us."

"Dangchang!"

The long sword in Ashina's hand fell to the ground, he stood on the spot, it was too late, and after a while, he suddenly came to his senses, ran out of the tent like crazy, waved his arms and shouted loudly.

"Run! No tents or flocks, run for your life! ”

But the sheep and the tents are the life of the herdsmen, and none of them can let go of the property on which they depend, and none of them are willing to leave their belongings and flee for their lives.

Seeing that the crisis was imminent, Ashina had no choice but to order: "Blow the trumpet and prepare to fight!" ”

"Woo~" The horn sounded, this is the clarion call to gather the warriors of Bagu Yebe, and a group of cavalry rushed out of various tents, and a strong army was formed by the trickling stream, and 10,000 cavalry were ready to go.

In less than an hour, the combined vanguard appeared at the end of the grassland, the vanguard consisted of 6,000 cavalry, the vanguard was the prince of Qarluq, who was the assassin of Sihan, in this coalition battle, the Qarluq people poured out their pockets and provided 300,000 sheep for military rations, plus they were the most familiar with Jinshan, so they played an important role in this coalition operation, and even the vanguard army was also served by them.

Mou Zhu Sihan looked at the thousands of tents in the distance from a distance, Bagu Ye did not move away, which really surprised Mou Zhu Sihan, they Ge Lulu and Bagu Ye have been dealing with each other for decades, they know each other very well, the original army of Bagu Ye was more than 20,000 people, but after being severely damaged by the Beiting Army the year before last, the Bagu Ye army was only more than 10,000 people at most.

More than 10,000 people, who actually dared to compete with the 60,000 coalition troops, Mou Assassin Sihan sneered, he couldn't do anything, and the destruction of the Bagu Yebu was just around the corner.

"Slow down the march!"

Under the order of Mou Assassin Sihan, the five thousand forward army slowed down, they were still seven or eight miles away from the Baguye tribe tent, and the 10,000 Baguye army had already gone into battle, they marched in formation, and the enemy who had always attacked came to meet them.

"Stop!"

With a wave of his hand, the army stopped its pace, he looked coldly at the Bagu Ye army stepping forward, with a cold smile in his eyes, the Bagu Ye army was already five miles away from their camp, at this moment, a high-pitched and loud horn sound came from the north, and the brigade and Luo cavalry suddenly appeared on the low hill less than two miles away from the camp.

Abdina waved his sword and shouted viciously: "Kill! ”

Tens of thousands of cavalry swept away like a torrent of collapsing embankments, sweeping away the terrified herdsmen, old and young.

Ashina, the chief of Baguye here, was so frightened that he suddenly realized that he had been tricked, the enemy's cavalry had rushed into the rear camp, and the cries of old men and children, the screams of women being humiliated, and the screams of all kinds of being killed came and went.

The army of Bagu Yebu was in chaos, the young young men saw their wives and children and parents being slaughtered, they screamed like wild beasts, staring at the blood-red eyes and desperately rushing back, Ashina could no longer control the army, more than 10,000 troops collapsed in an instant, he knew that the general trend had gone, turned around and fled.

Seeing that the opportunity was coming, he turned around and shouted: "The cattle and sheep women are at your disposal, and those who take Ashina's head will be rewarded with 2,000 sheep!" ”

Five thousand Qarlu cavalry suddenly launched, they shouted to kill the sky, and rushed towards the collapsed Bagu Ye army, at this time, remembering the sound of horns on all sides, the Shatuo Division, the Gelulu Division, and the Tang Army surrounded from all sides, and the Bagu Ye Division had no way to escape.

The coalition army wantonly killed, the heads of people on the grassland rolled, the corpses were scattered for dozens of miles, the young and strong were killed in the screams, the women were humiliated, the old people and children were not spared, this battle was bloody, miserable, most of the men were killed.

When the battle had subsided, a group of disheveled young women, weeping and being pulled out by ropes, numbered more than 4,000 people, and they became spoils of war along with hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, and the steppe tribes regarded women as their property, which was necessary for them to reproduce the population, and they would not stay with the children who grew up and were sensible, they would become a source of hatred.

At this time, a group of cavalrymen led a large group of men, women, and children to Cui Qianyou's horse, and reported: "General Cui, this is the nobles of Baguye and their families, a total of three hundred and fifty-two people. ”

Cui Qianyou glanced at them and said coldly: "Don't leave any of them, kill them all!" ”

Seeing that there were many young women with Peugeot in it, he stepped forward and said with a smile: "General Cui, why don't you reward me with the women inside." ”

Cui Qianyou's horsewhip pointed at thousands of women in the distance and said: "Women over there, how much you want, I will give you as much, but noble women can't, they will become troubles, come and kill them all!" ”

As soon as he gave the order, a large group of soldiers drew their swords and rushed forward to slash, only to hear a cry and scream, and in a moment there was silence, and all the nobles' children were killed without leaving a corner.

Cui Qianyou saw that he was sorry to assassinate Montenegro, so he said: "Assassinate the Great Chief, if you want to be a grassland eagle, don't be like a rooster, obsessed with a few women, if you destroy the Hui Khan, I will reward you with all the wives and concubines of the Hui Khan." ”

plotting to assassinate Black Mountain, he said: "I have written down the words of the general!" ”

Cui Qianyou saw that the battle to annihilate the Bagu Yebu had achieved a complete victory, so he ordered left and right: "Release the pigeon letter and report to the general!" ”

Two soldiers opened the pigeon cage, and several pigeons fluttered into the sky, circled the sky twice, and flew in a southwesterly direction.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Cui Qianyou distributed the spoils, and all the departments sent people to send women, cattle and sheep and other booty to the rear, and the army temporarily rested for a few days.

Three days later, the army rose up and continued its march to the east.

.......... After the outbreak of the battle against Hui, Li Qing'an had already left Beiting and returned to Qiuzi, although the main force attacking Huisu was Gelulu, Tongluo and Shatuo, but after all, the Tang army also sent 6,000 troops, and the Tang army was the leader of this campaign.

To a certain extent, Li Qingan is suspected of overstepping his authority, what Li Longji promised at the beginning was that he had the right to deal with the Great Food Campaign, and did not include Hui Hui, of course, he can be said to be Hui Hui attacked Beiting first, or it can be said that Hui Hui colluded with Da Shi, or Hui Hui and Tubo colluded, in short, he could find enough excuses, as for whether his excuse could be accepted by Li Longji, the key was in the report of Bian Lingcheng of the prison army.

Bian Lingcheng has been in Anxi for nearly eight years, and he is very familiar with Anxi, he has experienced Fumeng Lingcha, Gao Xianzhi, Li Qing'an and other three festival envoys, speaking of which he is still a more reasonable person, he is not too hated in Anxi, and he did not easily report to Li Longji, and privately reported the misdeeds of the festival envoys, of course, this is related to Bian Lingcheng's certain ** satisfaction.

Bian Lingcheng is a eunuch, and the physiological characteristics of eunuchs doom them to have no career and family pursuits of normal people, they only have a special hobby for property, including Gao Lishi, who has served Li Longji for decades and has become one of the top billions of people in the Tang Dynasty.

Bian Lingcheng is the same, his obsession with money has reached the point of no return, he has been in Anxi for eight years, even he himself does not know how much money he has collected, he has a huge mansion in Qiuzi, the year before last Li Qing'an sent a thousand soldiers to dig a huge underground warehouse under his house, all of which are paved with bluestone, which are filled with all kinds of gold and silver treasures of Bian Lingcheng, he doesn't even know how to transport them back to the Central Plains, and once Li Longji knows, his treasures will definitely be deprived, he is just a palace slave, Whoever is entitled to wealth, all his wealth is the property of his master.

What's more important is that Bian Lingcheng's backstage Gao Lishi has fallen, and the powerful Yu Chaoen has a very bad relationship with him, when he and Yu Chaoen competed for the right to come to Anxi to supervise the army, he defeated Yu Chaoen by a disgraceful means, the eunuchs are all people who hold grudges, if Yu Chaoen knew that he had so much money, would he let him go?

And since Gao Lishi was demoted, Li Longji's report on these prisoners of them has been far less important than before, in the past, when he sent a letter, there would definitely be a reply, but now there is no reply, according to the people in the palace, Yu Chaoen did not get this power, Li Longji abandoned the government, and only asked them after thinking of their report, and usually ignored it at all.

In other words, he is about to become a redundant person, and he may be dismissed at any time, even if he is not abolished, once Yu Chaoen grasps the management of the supervising army, then his good words for Bian Lingcheng will come to an end, which makes Bian Lingcheng have a sense of precariousness, which makes him value money even more.

Maybe it's the role of the money sent by Li Qing'an, Bian Lingcheng and Li Qing'an have formed a tacit understanding, and now Bian Lingcheng basically won't leave Qiuzi City, all the battles that took place in Anxi, he sent his men to complete, and then he summarized and reported to Li Longji, these reports are basically in favor of Li Qing'an, especially two months ago, the Tubo army showed signs of moving troops to Xiaobolu, he actually had no reliable basis, and he also listened to the report of the Anxi army scouts and sent a text message to Li Longji, this is a tacit understanding, He knew that Li Qing'an needed this report.

So when Li Qingan came to find him today, he knew that he needed to tacitly understand with Li Qingan again and report to Li Longji.

However, this time is a little different from before, the reason is that three days ago, King Li Cong of Qing also came to Anxi to take up his post, and he was also in Qiuzi City, which more or less made Bian Lingcheng feel a little embarrassed.

In Bian Lingcheng's study, Li Qingan was talking with him at night, and the arrival of King Qing, from a certain point of view, threatened the interests of the two of them and brought the two of them to the same front.

"General, Hui Hui is different from Tubo and Great Food, Hui Hui and the Tang Dynasty have always been friends, once they know that the Tang Army also sent troops to attack Hui Hui, they will inevitably complain to the court, and the court's doubts will come soon, I feel that the general has not handled this matter well, the general should not send troops, only send a dozen generals to serve as the chief general, so that the Hui will not be able to catch any handle, no matter how they sue, it will basically not affect the general."

Li Qingan also sighed slightly: "I don't want to do this, but if there is no Tang Army involved, the three troops of Tongluo and them may not be the opponents of the Hui people, and I am also worried!" ”

Speaking of this, Li Qingan took out a letter from his arms, handed it to Bian Lingcheng and said with a smile: "This is evidence of the collusion between Tubo and the Hui, my border army caught their spies and obtained it, and handed this letter to the imperial court, and then explained that it was the Huifu people who provoked it first, I think this can explain why I want to use troops against the Hui, this is actually for the smooth progress of the Tubo Campaign, so it can be regarded as part of the Tubo Campaign." ”

Bian Lingcheng opened the letter and looked at it, the letter to the Tubo Great Treatise Shang Xi Dongzan to the Hui Hui letter, it was written in the Tubo and Hui Hui script, and there was Shang Xi Dongzan's seal below, Bian Lingcheng was a little suspicious, he suspected that the letter was forged by Li Qing'an, but even if it was forged, the Hui people were difficult to argue, after all, they crossed the border and started first, Bian Lingcheng thought about it and smiled: "With this letter, we can explain to the Holy Lord, the general is actually not attacking the Hui, but teaching the Bagu Yebu who crossed the border and provoked, That's why the general will send troops to fight together, and the general thinks it's good to report to the saint like this? ”

Li Qing'an also thought for a while and said: "The supervising army might as well add another sentence, our main purpose is to prevent the Hui Baba Guye Department from taking advantage of the Anxi Army and the Tubo Campaign to make trouble and affect the overall situation of the Tubo Campaign, so we sent troops to the east of Jinshan to establish the Jinshan defensive line." ”

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(To be continued)