Ling Yun had just finished his busy time in the White Tiger Hall, preparing to have a morning tea, and by the way, he looked through the new issue of the business newspaper published today, but he had already heard a rush of footsteps outside the hall, "Report." ”

"Come in."

It was Huang Shi who came in, he was the officer on duty at the foot of the White Tiger steps today, and he had previously received a task given to him by Yi Feng to take someone to read the list text. That is the list of promotion lists of officers at the battalion level, that is, the winners of the eighth-order generals from General Pi to General Koukou. Although only the list of team-level officers who were newly renamed Wuzhou Prefecture Soldiers was read out, there were still more than 1,000 people, including the team leader, deputy team leader, teaching leader, Yu Hou, and low-level Lie Cao to join the army, Sima, Record, Join the military, Cangdu, Shi, Peng, etc., adding up to more than 1,000 people. He separated from his men and went to a battalion to announce that although it was very hard to sing the list, he did not run in vain. As Yi Shuai's personal guards who came down to read out the promotion list, the new generals below were very flattering, and basically everyone gave some filial piety money. It's not much, and each person may only be ten or twenty yuan, but it can't stand the number of people, a battalion of two or three hundred promoted officers, this trip, when they come back, they will immediately come back with twenty or thirty catties, almost five or six thousand dollars. In fact, this is also a small benefit given to them by Lingyun, reporting a happy singing list, and receiving more than ten yuan is nothing, but he also has a rule that it cannot exceed twenty yuan, and he is not allowed to accept gold, silver, jewelry and other things. And even if the money is collected, it cannot be pocketed like this, but must be finally registered in the account, and then divided equally among the soldiers.

Yi Feng thought that Huang Shi came in to report the announcement, but unexpectedly, Huang Shi gasped and said, "Salt Lake City sent a messenger." There is an urgent letter to be handed over to the marshal. ”

"Where's the messenger?"

"Bring it right away."

Yellowstone exits, and moments later brings in a Salt Lake City messenger.

"Report to the commander, the mayor of Salt Lake City Tuoba asked the lowly to come and deliver the letter."

Yellowstone took the letter. Presented to Yi Feng's hands. The letter was opened, Ling Yun's face became worse and worse, and Tuoba Knife sent a letter to report that in recent times, several horse thief teams have appeared near Salt Lake City, and they often attack salt convoys in Salt Lake City on the way to snatch the dam salt. Although Salt Lake City repelled several horse thieves, it still suffered a lot of losses. Tuoba Knife asked the garrison of Salt Lake City to come out and capture some horse thieves. After the interrogation, important news was received that a very large cavalry was coming from the north, attacking the tribes along the way, and many of them were defeated. Forced to flee to the south. These tribal herders who fled south. Some people came to the edge of Huaihuang Town, and heard that the dam salt in Huaihuang Salt Lake City is now very valuable and hot, so they want to grab salt.

Hearing this news, Tuoba Knife couldn't sit still, if it was just a group of herdsmen who wanted to grab some salt, it wouldn't be a problem, but it was a big deal, just send additional patrols and convoy guards. But if there really is a large force of cavalry going south, it will be a big problem. He didn't dare to hide such a thing. Send someone to report it immediately.

"A large force of cavalry is heading south!" Ling Yun couldn't help frowning urgently, and he had a headache.

He's speculating. Who is here?

Now it is almost winter, and this time of year is the season when the steppe tribes go south to Koubian. However, under normal circumstances, herdsmen do not necessarily come to the south every year to rob, more often, at this time of year, the herdsmen begin to transfer, they according to their respective winter prepared forage situation, a large number of bulls and rams slaughtered and covered, and then leave cows, ewes and lambs, under normal circumstances, as long as the winter does not encounter a particularly large wind and snow white disaster, then their measures can make them safe through the cold winter, and wait until next year's spring, their hands of cows, ewes and lambs can grow up again. As long as they can get by, in fact, the herdsmen are not willing to risk going south to fight.

However, if there is a heavy snowstorm in the winter, or if there is a war on the grasslands, it is very likely that the winter will not last. In order to survive, many tribes will begin to flow south, plundering the Central Plains to survive the winter, grafting the crisis onto the Han people in the Central Plains, which is the habitual practice of the steppe people. It is not yet winter, and at this time there are large soldiers going south. Could it be that there was a tribal war among the Tiele tribes in the north, or was it the news that he didn't want to hear now, that Du Lan had begun to mobilize the Tiele tribe in Mobei to go south and prepare for a war with the Great Sui?

But whether it is the former or the latter, it will not be good news for Huaihuang.

The Tiele people in the north robbed the Xi people, the Khitan people, and the Xi people, even if they grabbed enough to go back, but those robbed tribes, they couldn't survive this winter, in order to survive, they would definitely come south to rob Huaifamine. Even if these tribes had already been attached to the Great Sui before, in order to survive, they would not sit idly by.

Of course, the most frightening thing is that these northern Tiele people robbed the Xi, Khitan, Xi and other tribes, and then drove the various tribes south to attack Huaihuang, and when Huaihuang and these tribes were defeated, they finally appeared and dealt a fatal blow to Huaihuang.

Yi Feng thought about it, and couldn't guess which possibility it would be, but it wouldn't be good news.

"Transmission reconnaissance group Zhang Chengjin will come to see you immediately!" Ling Yun's face was gloomy, and he immediately gave a loud order.

After waiting for the guards to leave, Ling Yun said to the messenger in Salt Lake City, "You rush back to Salt Lake City immediately, let the mayor of Tuoba strengthen his vigilance, and don't send salt to Huaihuang City in the near future." ”

After the Huaihuang army was changed to a state soldier, the original city garrison was also changed to a town soldier, and the city was renamed the town, and the city lord was renamed the mayor. and the town generals who command the town soldiers, the judges who manage the judicial prison proceedings, continue to jointly administer the affairs of the town. However, although the name has been changed, the town soldiers in various places are still the original soldiers, even if the training has not been stopped during this time, the town soldiers are originally second-line local garrison troops, lacking not only ordnance, but also lack enough excellent officers and well-trained soldiers, and the town soldiers in each city are only 500 people. In the face of the increasing number of tribal horse thieves who were coming, Ling Yun did not intend to let them bear the unnecessary casualties. It is enough to defend the city, and to deal with these intruding thieves, it is necessary for the state soldiers to come out.

However, the situation is unclear now, and Yi Feng can't take his soldiers to crash like headless flies.

Only by knowing the other can we survive a hundred battles.

Pressing matter. The most important thing is to find out the situation immediately. It is necessary not only to find out these horse thieves who came to grab salt, but also to find out what the horse thieves said about the cavalry from the north and south.

Three days later, Zhang Jinshu, the captain of the reconnaissance regiment and the general of Zhenyuan, said that he had returned to Huaihuang. At the same time, he also brought back more than 300 heads of salt thieves.

"It was the herdsmen of the Xia tribe who grabbed the salt, and not long ago, the Bayegu people went south from the north of the desert, and they raided several tribes of the Xia tribe, plundered a large number of livestock population, and then came all the way south." Zhang Jin said that he had recently been awarded the title of General Zhenyuan, and this time he was on a mission. He was also very attentive, not only did he break through several camps by some of the Xia tribes who fled south to rob herdsmen after they came out of the famine, but also won more than 300 heads. And he successfully probed the important information that Yi Feng needed. It is indeed the Tiele people who came, but they are not the soldiers and horses of the thirteen major tribes of the nine surnamed Tiele, but the Bayegu people among them. And this time, the people of Bano Guren acted alone, and there was no trace of it. They were ordered by the Eastern Turk Khan Dulan to go south.

Hear here. Ling Yun quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He is naturally no stranger to Ba Yegu, and he knows very well why they came. In the summer, the thousand horses of Ba Yegu were all folded in his hands.

Bayegu is a large tribe in Mobei Tiele, with more than 60,000 tents and 10,000 soldiers. This is a large tribe with a population of hundreds of thousands, and there are 10,000 warriors. But even if it is such a large tribe, the whole army of a thousand soldiers is buried in Huaihuang. It is also an unbearable and unacceptable defeat for them. The reason why it took so long for Baye Gu to send troops south to retaliate was because Huaihuang was far away from Mobei. The news is troublesome to pass back and forth, and secondly, even if the Bayegu people know the news and want to send troops, it is not just a matter of saying it, especially from Mobei to fight the famine. Seeing that winter was about to begin, the Bayegu people finally recruited the soldiers of Bayegu and led the troops after arranging the affairs.

"How many people are going south?" Ling Yun asked, there are 10,000 soldiers in Baye, but 1,000 have died. It is impossible for all of the remaining 9,000 to come south.

"The news I found out is that there are 3,000 cavalry!" Zhang Jin replied, "However, after the Bayegu people went south, they first attacked the Xia tribe, where they captured a large number of livestock and population, and now each Bayegu cavalry is equipped with three auxiliary soldiers of the Xia tribe, and there are also three slave logistics soldiers. "Compared to Bayegu, the Xia tribe is much weaker, their population is about tens of thousands, but they are very scattered, not as well as Bayegu their tribe is well-organized, and the warriors are fierce. The Bayegu people adopted the traditional way of fighting of the herdsmen tribes on this expedition, and they did not carry any baggage, but adopted the tactics of nourishing the war with war and feeding the enemy. Huaihuang Town was too far away from Mobei, so they directly attacked the Fei tribe, and organized the defeated Xia warriors into auxiliary soldiers, and then organized the ordinary men of the Xia tribe into slave logistics soldiers who transported forage, livestock and booty. Wherever they went, they grabbed it, and although bloody and barbaric, it was extremely effective. The law of the jungle makes them have no need to worry about thousands of miles of fronts and no logistical pressure. Even after the advent of prisoners of war and slaves, their numbers grew.

Three thousand soldiers of the Wild Solid Army, a war soldier with three auxiliary soldiers, one to guard the camp, two dozen grass valleys, these auxiliary soldiers are also the warriors of the Xia tribe or young and strong, when necessary, they can even be directly thrown on the battlefield, so that the Wild Gu people have not yet reached Huaihuang, their soldiers and horses have now reached more than 12,000, not counting their slave soldiers.

Ling Yun had already seen the combat methods of the Bayegu people, and the previous thousand Bayegu people did that, they attacked the Xi people, and used the Xi prisoners of war as auxiliary cannon fodder. That time, if it weren't for the fact that these Baye Gu people were too light on the enemy, and he had hundreds of elite guards from Yang Guang in his hands, plus hundreds of private soldiers of the Gao family, he was really tough, and Ling Yun might not have beaten these Baye Gu people at that time. Even if they have been beaten, it will be difficult to wipe them out, and if the wind is not good, they are likely to run away.

But despite this, Ling Yun still breathed a sigh of relief.

There was only one Bayegu who came, and it was only 3,000 Bayegu cavalry.

He estimated that when these Bayegu people came, they must not have known that Huaihuang was now the Wuzhou Governor's Mansion of the Great Sui. Although Bayegu is one of the thirteen tribes of Tiele, and it is a large tribe of hundreds of thousands of people in Mobei, they are really compared to the Great Sui, they are just ants in front of elephants. And even if Yi Feng does not use the soldiers and horses of the Great Sui, with the soldiers and horses of Wuzhou now, he is not afraid of pulling out the wild and solidifying the people.

However, it is still a little troublesome for the Baye Gu people to come, which will greatly affect the Huaihuang Border City, which is currently in full swing. War together, what kind of business do you do. Moreover, it really fought. Huaihuang's losses must be more than that. Ling Yun rubbed his temples, this battle can't be fought in Huaihuang, but if he jumps out of Huaihuang to fight, Ling Yun has another concern, that is, Du Lan's reaction. In case the Turks raided the house, it was even more troublesome. After all, Huai Huang lives outside the Saiwai. To the west and to the north, are Turkic.

Ling Yun actually didn't want to fight, and it cost money to fight. Although said. Ling Yun felt that in fact, although it costs money to fight, as long as you can win the battle, there is always a profit to be made in the end. But now this season. Huaihuang Border City is the most prosperous time, at this time to fight, even if the war is won, the little loot captured is really not worth mentioning compared to the lost business in the border market.

In the face of the current scale of more than 10,000 people in Bayo, if Lingyun wants to fight, he will definitely pull the Huaihuang army out to fight. If the Wuzhou Army is dispatched, there will be nearly 20,000 people in several battalions. Sending troops for a month is less than 300,000 yuan. At least 200,000 stone of grain and grass, thousands of mules and horses, 500,000 or 600,000 arrows, and a group of people had to be requisitioned for a cannon and 10,000 taels of gold.

But you can't stop fighting, let alone put the enemy under the city to fight. Although there are a large number of castles in Huaihuang City, if you put enemies in, it is more passive.

Ling Yun thought about it, this battle had to be fought whether he wanted it or not, and it had to be fought outside the wilderness, and it had to be resolved quickly.

It's just that it's really hard to achieve such a goal.

Gao Jiati, the general of Zhengbei, said, "It's better to ask for help from the Youzhou Governor's Mansion and the Bingzhou Governor's Mansion, and let the imperial court send troops." ”

Ling Yun shook his head together with Wei Zheng, Gao Bo, Pei Zeng and the others, and the few people present knew very well that although they were about to change to the Wuzhou Governor's Mansion now. But since the imperial court is completely letting go and has not interfered in the Wuzhou Mansion in the slightest, then now that they are in trouble, the imperial court will never send troops to help them block the wind and rain. Excluding the influence of the rumor that Yi Feng is the emperor's grandson, the original intention of the imperial court to set up the Wuzhou Governor's Mansion was originally to recruit hundreds of thousands of people on the border and make them available to the imperial court, becoming a barrier outside the Great Wall of the imperial court. Especially now, the imperial court has just been defeated in the eastern expedition, and now it is making full preparations, and the imperial court will definitely have a war with the Turks next year. In this case, a Tiele tribe came to invade Huaifamine, as long as Huaihuang has not been destroyed, or even as long as the Tiele people have not invaded the Great Wall, then the imperial court will probably not care about these at this time, so as to affect the entire military dispatch plan of the imperial court.

When the imperial court dispatched troops, it was a mobilization of two or three hundred thousand troops, and hundreds of thousands of people, and it was a comprehensive arrangement and unified action on a front of several thousand miles in the entire north. It is impossible to move at will, because of one corner and affect the whole layout.

"Maybe we can cooperate with Xi and Khitan to resist the wild solid." Lingyun proposes a building yì. Last time, the Bayegu people harmed the Xi people once, many Xi tribes who moved from the Xi realm to the Huaihuang territory were wiped out by the Bayegu people, losing thousands of people, for the Xi people, this is also a big loss, the Xi people and the Khitan, the Xianbei Donghu brothers, like the grass on the wall, swayed between the Central Plains and the grassland and even Goguryeo to survive, barely maintaining an independent position, but the strength has not been strong. Up to now, the Ahui Alliance of the five tribes of the Xi Nationality and the Khitan Ten Tribal Alliance are only a superficial tribal alliance, not even a real king. There is no master-slave hierarchy at all, let alone a unified organizational structure. Because of this, these two clans have a combined population of nearly one million until now, but they are very loose, and the last time they pulled out a thousand cavalry, they wiped out thousands of Xi people, and the Xi people have not responded.

In the early years of the Khitan, there was an eight-part alliance, but unfortunately it was defeated by Rouran, Turkic, Northern Qi and Goguryeo successively, and the tribes were broken and scattered, and at the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, the Khitans asked to be attached and moved to the border, but Yang Jian did not want to offend the Turks at that time, but handed over these Khitans to the Turks to deal with, which is really a tragedy. Fortunately, Xi and Khitan still have a good vision, and since the establishment of the Sui, they have been closely following the Great Sui, and they have lived a few days of stability over the years. But in peacetime, they were not less bullied by various tribes, and the last battle of Liaodong was not caused by Goguryeo wanting the Khitans to submit to Goguryeo, but the Khitans refused, and then they were chased to the city of Yingzhou.

Xi and Khitan are close to the Central Plains, occupy very good pastures, and develop well, but after all, there is no unified organization, and they are too loose, which makes them far from those tribes who have been fighting in Mobei and Liaodong all year round.

This time, the Xia tribe was stabbed with chrysanthemums by the Baye Gu people, just because the Xia tribe is actually similar to the Khitan and Xi tribes. In front of wild wolves like Bayegu, they are really too tame. Ba Yegu robbed the Xi people last time, and since he has robbed the Xi clan this time, he will definitely rob the Khitan and Xi on the road next. Ling Yun wondered if he was in the name of the head of Sui, he sent people to unite the Xi and Khitan departments, let them send troops, and come with him to kill the Bayegu people who went south.

As far as Ling Yun knows, although the Khitan at this time is not as fierce as the Tang Wu Zetian defeated hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Tang Dynasty several times, the ten Khitan divisions, the total number of soldiers and horses is said to be more than 40,000, and the five divisions of the Xi tribe are said to have more than 30,000 soldiers. Although these warriors were not standing soldiers, they were merely wartime conscripted herdsmen. But the herdsmen are born warriors, and the combined fifteen tribes of these two tribes are 70,000 troops. Even if there are 10,000 or 20,000 tribal soldiers and horses participating in the war, and if they are used well, they can burst the chrysanthemums of the wild people at a critical time.

However, the current Xi and Khitan are very weak, and it is really difficult to say whether they dare to send troops to fight the Tiele people. Tiele is a strong tribe of the grassland, since the Xiongnu, the Tiele people have been the second millennium on the grassland, the Huns, the Rouran people, the Turkic people, these kings of the grassland were once weaker than Tiele, but almost all of them stepped on the Tiele people and finally ascended to the throne of the grassland. Even now, among the Turkic Khanate, the Ashina tribe is actually not too strong, and the Tiele people are the most numerous and powerful tribes in the Turkic Khanate, from east to west, there are Tiele tribes everywhere. Just like Bayegu, in the eyes of the Xia, Xi, Khitan, Murowei and other tribes in the east, it is an extremely fierce and powerful tribe, but among the Tiele tribes, it can only be ranked behind. Hui Hui, Xue Yantuo, servant bones, etc., are far stronger than Bayegu.

"Maybe we should wait." Gao Bo tapped lightly on the table, "Baye Gu people are extremely domineering, they have robbed Xi, and they will definitely rob Khitan and Xi next." If we ask to contact the Khitan and Xi people now, maybe they won't agree to join forces. But if we wait, after the Bayogu people have robbed them, and they have a deep pain, then we send people again, not to ask them to help us, but to send troops to help them drive away the robbers, and then they will be grateful. Naturally, they themselves will have to go into battle! ”

Gao Bo's words are very reasonable, it is better for you to be a strong person than someone to beg you, and when the other party is anxious, and then appear and help, the other party will definitely be very happy. For the same thing, if the order of things is reversed, the result will be completely different.

"Well, I think Gao Bo's words are very reasonable, so let's suspend the envoys sent to the two clans." Ling Yun nodded, "However, from now on, we have to be ready for war. When the time comes, immediately send troops. ”

"Good!" Pei Zeng and others agreed with Yi Feng's decision. If you can win the support of Xi and Khitan, it will naturally be excellent. Of course, although I know that the imperial court may not send troops to help, I still have to cry when I should cry.

Ling Yun consulted with everyone again and decided to immediately report to Chang'an, saying that the Turks had invaded Koubian and asked the imperial court to send troops to support, and also asked the imperial court to provide food, arrows and other war materials. The former didn't expect the imperial court to really send troops, but he cried and cried, hoping to get some support such as food and arrows, and he didn't want to ask for it in vain, as long as the imperial court was willing to buy a way.

"In addition, write a letter asking for help to the governors of You, Ping, Xuan, Ying, Wu, Dai, and the prefectures." As for this, it's really just a scene.

With Ling Yun's decisions one after another, one messenger after another rushed to the road with letters one after another! (To be continued......)