Chapter 217: The Second Ghost Face Army of the Prairie
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After Yelu'an's army entered the Tang army's control area, his men and horses were divided into two parts, and the military doctor led by Chai Rong personally identified them, and all those who suffered from ghost face sores were isolated, in fact, there were only a few hundred people, and the rest of the men and horses were stationed according to Shi Ba's orders.
Tang Jun actually did not use any magic drugs for the patients with ghost face sores, mainly to provide them with a clean diet and more adequate care, although so, compared to the Khitan army's military discipline of killing the ghost face sores as soon as they found them, this kind of treatment is like heaven.
Yelu Anjun himself was seriously ill and was personally cared for by Chai Rong. Yelu Anyan was very strange to Chai Rong daring to contact him without scruples, and couldn't help asking: "General Chai, are you not afraid of death, or do you really have a god and Buddha to protect you?" β
Chai Rong knew that he was not an ordinary herdsman or cavalryman, and he was not pretentious in front of him, so he laughed and said: "Actually, I am not afraid of death, nor do I have gods and Buddhas to protect me, but we have already had a way to deal with this plague in the Central Plains, that is, to plant beans." This method has long been inherited in Jiannan Road (now Sichuan), but it is not widely spread, and after our marshal occupied Longxi, he tried in many ways, spent a lot of money to find a recipe in Jiannan, and then gradually promoted it among the military and civilians in Longxi. In fact, there is no Shinto in this benevolent government, but there are many foolish men and foolish women among the people, and it is passed on from one to another, and it becomes a marshal stealing medicine from heaven to benefit the world. β
After this rumor spread, Zhang Mai originally thought about refuting the rumor, but when the bean planting was first implemented, many people in the rural market were very resistant to this prevention method, so Zheng Wei went the opposite way and deliberately let the rumor spread, saying that the bean planting was a kind of talisman. They all believed that Zhang Mai was descended from heaven and regarded planting beans as a kind of spell, so everyone enthusiastically competed to plant beans first. Zhang Mai smiled bitterly at this matter, but he paid more attention to the result than the process. I let the rumors spread, not wanting this rumor to spread to Mobei.
Chai Rong said again: "All of our orphan army have planted beans, and when Baye said that this plague was so terrible, we were originally afraid, but after finding out that it was this epidemic, we were not afraid. β
Yelu'an said: "In that case, why didn't General Chai send a military doctor to plant beans for him?" β
Chai Rong said: "Originally, our army could keep this matter a secret, and it was a miracle. But General An Tuan is a wise general in Mobei, we don't want to deceive, in fact, planting beans can only be prevented, not cured. If you are sick, you can only take care of it as much as possible. First, to cut off the channels for the continued spread of the disease. The second is to provide symptomatic medicine to help the patient carry it through, but fortunately, suffering from this plague does not necessarily mean death, but the scars will definitely be left. In my opinion. General An is strong and strong, and as long as he recuperates with peace of mind, he will definitely recover. β
If he was secretive, he would have doubted the wisdom of Jerian, and then he spread it out and said it, looking frank and open. Instead, he was even more grateful.
In the Longxi region, where the level of knowledge was almost ignorant, Zhang Mai tried his best to popularize the principle of planting beans, and in the end, only a small number of people in the entire ruling area could accept it, and most of the people still believed that this bean was a sacred object stolen from the sky by Marshal Zhang, which could suppress the devil, and planting beans was a spell like eating rune water.
The knowledge level of the herdsmen in Mobei is even worse than that in Longxi. Tang Jun didn't deliberately hide the principle of planting beans, but most people can't understand immunization-based precautions. Still stubbornly believe that the ghost face sores are the devil, and only by receiving the divine beans from the living Buddha sent by the Heavenly Khan can this evil ghost be suppressed.
But Tang Jun did not deliberately refute the rumors, and in his correspondence with Zhang Mai, Chai Rong learned that there is a thing in the world called mental healing - as long as the patient believes that Buddhism can help him, this psychological power can really help him. People's spiritual power is sometimes inexplicably strong, and with the cooperation of certain conditions, it can even make the terminal disease that cannot be cured by medicine disappear invisibly, and if this spiritual power has a religious factor, the effect will be even more obvious.
Before the Living Buddha came, the worst moment of Yelu An's sword had passed, he was no longer afraid since Chai Rong got the principle of ghost sores from Chai Rong, and after he had the confidence to fight the disease, his illness healed faster.
But staying in the sick camp, his heart was full of hesitation.
It seems that he can't die, although there will be scars on his face, but for a person like him, having an ugly face is insignificant. But after dying, what should be the future path? A person like Yelu'an, once he has survived the catastrophe, will think very long about the futureβnot only for himself, but also for his subordinates, and even for his children and grandchildren.
Return to the Khitan? But from the night he betrayed Jerodzac, Jeremian knew that he could not go back. What's more, now that the Tang Army and the Khitan are at war, he was able to get through the difficulties with the protection of the Tang Army, and he betrayed as soon as the difficulties passed, Yelu An couldn't do such a thing, even if he wanted to do it, he had to consider the reaction of his subordinates who were already deeply grateful to the Tang Army.
So will it be attached to the Tang Army?
He and his subordinates were taken in by the Tang Army at the most difficult time, and even if it was out of gratitude, it was morally appropriate to do so. But after all, he is a Khitan, in the Tiance regime dominated by the Han people, can he really integrate into it? What's more, now that Hu and Han are at war, no matter how tolerant Shi Ba is to himself, it is impossible not to let himself fight, and if he joins the Tang army, he will face each other. If Yelu'an really reversed the knife edge and killed the Khitans for the Han people, he couldn't do it.
It's okay to live, but what should you do if you can live?
This is not just the fate of one person, but also the fate of the thousands of soldiers who followed him! And among these people, there are even some of the elites of the Khitan elite - the leather room army!
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The sun is about to set over the prairie.
The bell rang, and a Buddhist car slowly approached, looking at the sick camp.
"The Living Buddha is here! The Living Buddha is here! β
Countless patients seem to have seen the light of day in the darkness.
Although they have been taken care of by the Tang Army, it is inevitable that there are still patients who can't resist and die of illness these days. And most of the rest of the people have actually survived the most dangerous period, but the Ghost Face King has not left his body for a day. They will not be at ease.
And now, they all know that the Living Buddha holds the divine bean stolen from the sky by the Heavenly Khan, and can suppress the devil. Even those who have recovered from the disease, because of the scarring and make a face like a devil, in the herdsmen's cognition, this is still still an evil spirit, discriminated against, if they do not get the blessing of the living Buddha to ward off evil spirits, their second half of their lives will still be in the grassland herdsmen's discrimination desolate time.
Ghost sores, which had not been a large-scale outbreak in history, spread like a spark due to the intensive contact between the sick and the disabled due to the war.
The legend of the ghosts of the living Buddha town also spread quickly throughout the grassland desert with the help of the great fear of the herdsmen in Mobei for the ghost face sores.
Countless herders and their families who had suffered from ghost sores rushed hundreds of miles to ask for help. And when they heard the news, more of them were herdsmen who were not sick, but hoped to get a "magic bean" for themselves and their descendants.
When the car of the Living Buddha of Zivehua approached, there were actually only more than 1,000 people in the patient area, and they saw the Buddha car crawling on the ground one after another, and outside the camp. There are also tens of thousands of herdsmen crawling in the two roads. In the bell of the Buddha, stick to the ground to welcome the living Buddha.
"Bow to Amitabha Buddha ......"
The monks guarding the Buddha chariot chanted the Buddha together, and a strong religious atmosphere shrouded this grassland.
An old monk stepped down from the Buddha cart when he walked down. The people in front of him are all the people of Mobei. The old monk, led by a young monk, approached the camp.
At the forefront of the crawling were hundreds of recovered patients, scarred from acne as if possessed by evil spirits. Despite being healed, no one but the orphans have been near them these days. They are like seedlings in a great drought, longing for the Dharma to help them ward off their bad luck, but they are still worried about itβwill the living Buddha also dislike them like ordinary herdsmen?
The old monk walked all the way into the camp. The first thing that caught his eye was hundreds of extremely ugly ghost-faced herdsmen, who knelt at the front, and the herdsmen who were not sick behind were unwilling to be with them, lest the ghost-faced king on their bodies scurry into him, so a large open space was naturally separated between the ghost-faced herdsmen and ordinary herdsmen.
Hundreds of people were almost trembling as the living Buddha stepped out of the car. The ghost-faced herdsman at the front trembled like a mustard in the wind, lest the Living Buddha step over and disdain him.
Right in front of the first ghost-faced herdsman. The old monk's feet stopped, and for the ghost-faced herdsman at the front, this moment seemed to have stood still, and it seemed like thousands of years had passed. Suddenly, a hand pressed on the top of his head and said, "Amitabha." No disaster, no disaster. β
The Living Buddha did not dislike himself!
The Living Buddha did not dislike himself!
I have been blessed by the Dharma!
I have been blessed by the Dharma!
With this Buddha horn, the herdsman suddenly felt as if a force was pouring from above his head, and one moment he was wandering at the gate of hell, and this moment he suddenly returned to the world!
Almost uncontrollably, he broke out and cried.
The old monk walked over step by step, did not dislike all the ghost-faced herdsmen, and blessed them one by one, and all the people who were touched by the old monk were moved to tears!
The bell on the Buddha car has a certain rhythm, the spirit flag is moving, touching the heartstrings, and the roof mirror reflects the sunlight, scattered behind the old monk, like the Buddha's light scattered.
The herdsmen who came to ask for beans in the back all crawled forward, all of them looked up in anticipation, and many of them even screamed in their throats, and at this moment, all the herdsmen thought that they were in the midst of a miracle.
The old monk walked over step by step, and his Buddha name was seeping into everyone's heart.
There are more than 100 people in the entire ward who have not knelt down, these people are people with wider vision and higher intelligence among the Mobei knights, they don't believe in the legend of the living Buddha and the demon, the leader of more than 100 people is Yelu'an, and behind him are standing a few guards - these generals are either suffering from ghost sores, but there are also a few who sacrificed their lives to enter the camp to accompany Yelu'an.
Yelu'an watched the old monk come step by step, although he respected the living Buddha and was not afraid of the plague with a ghost's face, and thought that he couldn't be too rude to this living Buddha, and was about to bow down and salute - in Yelu'an's opinion, such etiquette was enough, and he wanted him to prostrate like a herdsman, Yelu'an thought that he was not so ignorant.
But suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the young monk next to the old monk. The look is so familiar!
This face is all too familiar! It was so familiar that Yelu Anyan couldn't believe that this person had been ordained!
But one of the guards behind Yelu'an exclaimed in a low voice: "The king...... Rajah! How could the prince become a monk! β
In the exclamation of his subordinates, Yelu'an believed that he was not mistaken!
Suddenly seeing the old master, Yeluan first rubbed his eyes, and was about to rush out despite his illness. I was about to ask Yelu Ruan why he became a monk, but before he rushed out, he suddenly looked at the old monk again, why was his face so familiar!
Yes, of course, Jeluam also recognized Jelube! However, they never expected that the Khitan human emperor would come back, and in this form!
Jerry stopped suddenly, and his brain turned a thousand times in a few steps!
The human king, Jelube, became a monk. That's right, he became a monk!
Not only did he become a monk, but he also became a living Buddha!
Yelu Nguyen is also a monk! Yelu Ruan is good for wine and meat, and so beautiful. Good killing - how could he be a monk!
But he became a monk. It's an incredible thing.
However, after seeing Yelubei again, Yeluan understood that if there is another person in this world who can transform Yelubei, it is only the human king! Only this living Buddha. to be able to temper his prince.
When the old monk walked in front of Yelu An, when Yelu Anyan blurted out to be called "the king of the people", Zanhua blurted out: "Bow to Amitabha Buddha ......"
A light word of the Buddha's name made Yelu'an shake suddenly, suddenly he understood a lot of things, and suddenly he saw another path he was about to embark on.
The old monk not only has the spiritual salvation that the ghost-faced herdsmen of the middle and lower classes of Mobei need. He has more of the political direction that Yelu An, who represents the middle and upper classes of Mobei!
The old monk is like a street lamp, and the place where he is is the road that Yelu'an needs! Yelu Anjun understands very well that the appeal represented by the three words of the human emperor and king is not comparable to Yelu Ruan!
He was no longer confused.
To belong to the Tang Army, it is impossible for Yelu Anjun to be free of psychological barriers. But if it is attached to the human emperor, there is no such problem at all. As for the agreement between the Human Emperor and Zhang Mai, it was not something he needed to worry about.
asked him to reverse the knife edge and kill the Khitan for Zhang Mai. Jeream couldn't do it. But if you want to fight against Yelu Deguang for Yelubei, Yelu'an is not afraid to let the entire Linhuang Mansion bleed!
Almost suddenly, Yeluan knelt down, knelt at the feet of the living Buddha, touched his feet with the top of his head, and he took refuge.
All the people who were still standing in the camp knelt down together, faced the old monk, and shouted in Khitan with Yelu'an: "Bow down...... Amitabha! Bow down, Zanhua Living Buddha! β
Zanhua stretched out his hand, rubbed the top for Yelu'an, and said softly: "Bow to Amitabha!" May I be Mobei, no disasters and no difficulties, and may I Khitan, no disasters and no difficulties. May thousands of ethnic groups be free from disasters and difficulties! Bow to Amitabha Buddha ......"
Thousands of unspoken things are all in a single Buddha name.
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I don't know if it was due to psychological reasons, but after the arrival of the living Buddha's car, the epidemic patients in the ward recovered quickly, and the ghost-faced herdsmen who had recovered from their illnesses also felt that they had the blessings of Buddhism and no longer had low self-esteem, and most of them took refuge in Buddhism on the spot. As for the herdsmen who are not sick and famous, they have also received the sacred beans given by the living Buddha one by one.
At the same time, a new army appeared, and this army was centered on hundreds of ghost-faced cavalry who had recovered from illness, and they took refuge with the name of Buddha, with Zanhua as their refuge, and Yelu'an as their leader, and became the left front of Shiba's army.
At the same time, Shi Jian and Murong Yang's follow-up armies also arrived, Shi Ba took over the Longxiang Iron Armor Army, and Shi Jian became his lieutenant. After joining forces with Shi Ba, they became the Chinese army, and the conspicuous Buddha chariot was held in the center of the whole array.
Chai Rong's department is still the forward forward, Ba Ye is the right forward, and the Ghost Face Army is the left forward. Murong Yang was the rear army.
The Buddha chariot erected a very high Buddha flag, calling the soul of the entire desert grassland. The Buddha chariot is moving forward, and the army is also moving forward! But the Buddha chariot and the army were not, but went directly to the upper reaches of the Ulugu River, the city of Woluduo, where the palace of the Great King of Zhubu was located.
Woluduo City is also known as the ancient Hui City, in this era of Mobei has a special political significance, that was the Khitan founding emperor Yelu Abaoji west expedition to the Hui Hui, there are countless Mobei generals of the graves, Woluduo City and located in the east of the hundreds of miles of Zhenzhou, constitute the most important central area of Mobei in this era.
The turning of the Buddha car caused an unprecedented huge shock in the grassland desert!
The lower classes of the steppe. They are full of expectations and admiration for the living Buddha who can suppress demons.
And the upper forces of the steppe, the tribal chiefs who control the steppe organization, have heard such news-
Zanhua Living Buddha is the king of people!
The Human Emperor is back!
The human emperor has returned to the desert!
The Buddha car moves forward step by step, day by day. New tribes would come to worship and offer cattle and sheep.
One by one, the chiefs took refuge, and thousands of herders were lost.
Of course, there are also those who are not convinced by the human emperor, but at this moment, except for the two armies of Yelu Chacha and Zhenzhou, no one dares to face the enemy head-on. Where the Tang wind blows, where the Buddha's horn sounds, a qiΔ peaceful!
The news spread: the Living Buddha of Zanhua will be blessed by all the refuge chiefs of the desert on the second day of his arrival in the city of Woludo.
Mobei is different from the Central Plains, and the ruling center here is not to see the famous city of the royal capital. Rather, it depends on whose hands the power is in its hands, and to whom the tribes worship.
The division of Mobei is not a territorial division, but a division of people's hearts.
A new center is taking shape!
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Zhenju finally panicked.
The appearance of Yelubei made Yelu Chaci and Xiao Han panic.
The heyday of Mobei. The number of string controllers can reach 300,000! The overall armament of the Mobei cavalry may not be comparable to that of the Tang Army. But they are familiar with the geography and adapt to the climate here, and they can take war as a life, and they can fight while grazing cattle on the spot for supplies. The superiority of local operations is more than enough to offset the gap in weapons.
However, because the main force of Mobei was transferred to the south, the forces remaining in Mobei now could hardly show their superiority under the pressure of the Tang army.
In order to counteract the vigor of the Tang army, Xiao Han and Yelu Cha even made plans to retreat 8,000 miles.
The Tang Army wants the steppe? Give it to them! Want the desert? Give it to them! Want to recruit the state? Give it to them! Want to Worudo City? Give it to them! If you want to even give it to Zhenzhou!
The Khitans were not afraid of the Tang army coming to attack, and they were not even afraid of losing their land, in Mobei. It doesn't matter what a city like this is. You can abandon it for a thousand miles, and you can sweep it back when you turn your head! As long as you keep something that can fight, you are not afraid of these outsiders at all.
As long as the temporary retreat of the space is used, when the cold winter comes, the Han people will have to withdraw from Mobei!
It is precisely on this basis that Yelu Chachel and Xiao Han have the confidence to be invincible. They didn't even complain to Jerod because of this!
But now, this qiΔ has changed!
Whether it's Jerodzachel or Xiao Han. Their hearts are trembling! Yelubei appeared in this guise, completely disrupting their previous layout!
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After fighting a battle in the Handala River valley and showing the Tang army's combat effectiveness at close range in front of the Mobei herdsmen, Shi Ba no longer sought to fight the Khitan.
Jerodzachel's army was waiting for him in front, but he ignored it, he just protected Zanda and drove in the direction of the city of Worudo.
According to the current itinerary, they will arrive in twenty days.
Twenty days!
Now this news has spread all over the desert, spread throughout the entire Khitan army, and the news of Yelubei's appearance has even shaken some of the cavalry under Yelucha's control. Within ten days, two tribes had stolen away from Jerodach's camp and headed for the city of Urudoh!
The two tribes together are only a few hundred people, but this is already a direct rebellion! So how many people have wavered in their will? Will the troops, who waver with such will, still have combat effectiveness in the face of the Don Army?
Suddenly Jerodzachel lost his faith.
If Zanhua is really allowed to arrive at Woluduo City, the Tang army does not even need to attack the city, as long as the desert tribes accept Zanhua's Moding on the banks of the Ulugu River, a new type of regime will appear.
After the death of Yelu Abaoji, the queen of the land, Shu Luping, killed dozens of heroes in a row, and only then did she reluctantly suppress the forces that supported Yelu Bei, and Yelu Deguang could take the throne. Although the influence of Yelu Bei has been declining over the years with the consolidation of Yeludeguang's position, after the combination of the human emperor and the living Buddha, there has been a qualitative change again, and the reactionary emotions that had been forcibly suppressed in the past are surging.
At this moment, there is no one in the desert who has the appeal to compete with the living Buddha of Zanhua!
Yelu Cha is not good, and Xiao Han is certainly not good! They can only fight as agents of Jerod's light.
If you want to break the myth of the living Buddha of Zanhua, you can only rely on military means!
"There's only one way." Yelu Chacha's wise man Yelu Enemy hunted: "Only before the Tang army arrives in Woluduo City, the monk who pretends to be the human emperor can be killed!" β
"That man, the king...... Is it really fake? And Jerodzachel said the fierce general, Gunsagah.
"Of course it's fake!" Yelu said in a loud voice: "That's just Zhang Mai's trick!" β
He lowered his head, not convinced by Jerod's predator.
In fact, in the face of Yelu Ruan's hair loss and Yelu An's refuge, Yelu Enemy Hunt and others all knew in their hearts that the Zanhua Living Buddha was not fake. But their mouths refused to admit it.
"This monk must be killed as much as possible! Otherwise, even if this monk fails to unify the desert, the northern tribes of the desert will also be divided. β
Religious power is terrifying, and religious power alone is fragile. But what about when religious power is combined with military power?
It's tricky!
Yelu Chacha looked in the direction of Worudo City, and he clearly saw that there was a circular trap around Zanhua!
"That's the trap that Zhang Mai laid thousands of miles away in the south?"
The muscles of Jerodza's cheek throbbed.
"Don't forget jΓ¬," Yelucha said, "Hu cavalry is good at attacking, Han is good at defending!" β
These eight words are also one of the reasons why Yelu Chaci thought that the Khitan could win!
Han Shi is good at defending, but Zhang Mai drives the good guards, going thousands of miles away to attack the enemy who is not leaving, and attacking the enemy's length with his own shortcomings, which is called a defeat in the art of war!
But now, if Jerodzachel goes to attack, then the offensive and defensive forces will be easy!
The advantages of the Khitan will be further dissipated, and the war will be taken by the Don Army!
But if they don't attack, then they can only sit back and watch the Living Buddha of Zanhua go to Woluduo City and expand his political influence step by step - who knows what kind of chain reaction will be caused if this continues!
"My subordinates also know about this." Yelu said: "But we have already lost a defeat in the Handala River Valley, and this defeat has spread all over Mobei. If we don't fight, the tribes will think we are cowardly! If the opponent is Zhang Mai, we are not afraid of temporary retreat, but if the opponent is the human emperor, then we have to fight! β
Jerodzachel was silent, and began to count his troops.
Yelu Hunting seemed to see through the mind of the main general, and said: "Just relying on our army, it may not be enough, but if the troops of Zhenzhou Xiao and Ma are also thrown in, it is still enough to launch a siege!" What's more, we wouldn't have rushed over so directly to fight the Tang Army! β
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In Zhenzhou, Xiao Han, Yelu Deguang's agent in Mobei, was holding a glass of wine, his eyes were empty, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Next to him, Yelu Lihu was sneering.
"Are you going to just sit like this and let my boss take the top of the roof for the tribes in Woludo City?" Yelu Lihu sneered: "Although half of the elite in Mobei was taken away by the second child, these elite dads are still in Mobei, even if their dads are gone, their wives and wives are still there!" β
Ignorance is the hotbed of religion, and women in areas of ignorance, especially religion, are the best soil, and the soil is especially fertile for older women!
Yelu Li laughed and said: "If these people's wives and wives have already accepted my boss's Moding, what do you say these southbound cavalry will do when they come back?" Haha, haha, the boss's trick is really clever. β
Laughing and laughing, Yelu Lihu couldn't laugh anymore. He hated Jerod Light, but he didn't necessarily like Jerod Be.
"Twenty days...... Twenty days ......"
Xiao Han muttered.
He also already understands that Mobei's offensive and defensive situation has changed!
Twenty days, this is Zhang Mai's ultimatum.
The ultimatum of the decisive battle!
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