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Zhang Mai ordered Xue Fu and Li Yiyin to raise troops to the north, and let Han Deshu enter Yanyun, after the commander ordered to go out, it happened that Guo Wei entered to see, it turned out that the war in the east was slightly settled, Zhang Mai had some important matters to discuss with Guo Wei, and he was ordered to report to Qinzhou.

The two discussed the military and political affairs that had been arranged, Guo Wei pondered for a long time, and asked Han Deshu if he had been out, Zhang Mai said: "Not yet." ”

Guo Wei said: "Marshal, that Han Deshu is certainly a repeated person who came down from Hu Di, and Li Yiyin and Li Yixiu are not of my race, so it is difficult to say that there are no two hearts. Although his subordinates did not have a close relationship with General Xue, I heard that General Xue was a person of high righteousness, and a person of high righteousness had a good heart, and a good person was not good at using conspiracies to judge people. This time to the north, the marshal must have arrangements for the march and conquest, but those who are plotting and plotting in the tent also need to have their own people. In addition, Han Deshu also needs someone to clamp him down. ”

Zhang Mai groaned: "Xue Fu is a person who has gone through hardships, although his mind is mellow, but he will not mistake me for a big matter, but Han Deshu is on his side, what you said is also reasonable." It's just that if you want to enter Yanyun to act, it is best to be Yanyun's person, this is to go deep behind the enemy, you must be bold, and you must be familiar with changes, such a talent is not easy to choose, not to mention that it is not appropriate for important ministers to go behind enemy lines rashly. I don't have a candidate at hand. ”

Guo Wei said: "There are two subordinates. ”

Zhang Mai was surprised: "One is enough, you actually came up with two." ”

Guo Wei said: "One of them is the son of Zhi Congyuan and the nephew of Zhi Congshi. ”

At the beginning, Zhang Mai implemented the policy of immigration, allowing Zhe Congyuan to move 300,000 refugees from northern Jin Province to Shiluntai, and enhance the control power of the Han family there, but some of them still stayed, and Zhe Congyuan's son Zhe Delan was also among them.

People in this era got married early, and although Zhe De and Zhi Congyuan were uncles and nephews, they were only two years younger than Zhi Congyuan. Zhang Mai also heard that this young man has only come and gone for a short time, has not made any achievements, and is only a captain now, even this captain also has the grace of his father and brother, and he can't convince people with gold.

Zhang Mai hesitated a little and said: "This rebellion in northern Jin. The family lost a lot of men. Zhe Cong went thousands of miles away, and his younger brother was fighting on the front line, if I want to send Zhe De Yan to the unpredictable place of Yan Yun, it will be too harsh. ”

Guo Wei said with a smile: "The generations of martial artists of the Zhen family have always been proud of the horse leather shroud on the battlefield, and they are ashamed of the death of their families!" If the marshal hears this, he will only regard it as an insult! Zhe Deyan is brave and resolute, and he has changed his chances, and what is even more rare is that his family is originally from the north of Jin. Datong in the clouds is often moving around, the place is familiar, and it is the foundation of the family for hundreds of years, and the relationship with the local big family is very close, he goes there like a fish in water, why should the marshal worry? Moreover, during this period of time in our army, I can see that he admires Uncle Nai's established fame and prestige very much, and he is eager to make meritorious contributions. But now the most difficult battles are almost over, and it is difficult to stay in the south to get ahead. If he wants to establish a feats comparable to those from afar, he can only go to the clouds and the desert. If the marshal can give him this opportunity, he will serve his death! ”

Zhang Mai said: "In this case, then let him try it." Now that the Khitan has not been destroyed, if he really has the ability, he may not have a chance to drive his uncle. And what about one more person? ”

Guo Wei said: "It's a young man named Zhao Pu. He is not very old, but he is very resourceful and powerful, and he grew up in Youzhou, and he has been in our army for half a year, and I think he can be trusted. You can go and give Zhede a hand. Both of them happen to be by my side and ready to come out at any time. ”

Zhao Pu's name is very common, and Zhang Mai doesn't take it seriously, seeing that it was recommended by Guo Wei, he nodded and agreed.

After Guo Wei went out, he sent someone to summon the two of them, Zhe De was in his early twenties, but Zhao Pu was under twenty, Guo Wei said what had happened, and asked him if the two dared to go?

Zhe Deyan said in ecstasy: "This is something that cannot be sought!" How dare you not dare! I only hate not being able to return to Tang as soon as possible, so that my uncle will be beautiful! These days, I have only fought a few dozen miscellaneous fish and rotten shrimps, so if I go on like this, when will I be able to catch up with my uncle? Thank you, General, for recommending me! Go to Yanyun here, if De Yan is not successful, he will not return to the south! ”

Guo Wei asked Zhao Pu again, and Zhao Pu said: "As Captain Zhen said, men in troubled times should be like this." At the beginning, Zhao Dejun messed with my swallow thistle, forcing my father to lead the clan to move south, first to Changshan, and then to Luoyang, and for several years I was panicked. Later, Shi Jingjiao ordered troops again, and I was conscripted to serve in the Western Capital. Now, if you can be ordered to enter Yanyun and benefit Sangzi, you are willing to do your best. ”

Guo Wei was overjoyed and said: "The two of you have such determination, so you live up to my recommendation to the marshal, go!" If this is a success, the merit is immeasurable! ”

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Eilechuan, under the Yin Mountain.

Xue Fu led an army of 30,000 and set up a tent. It is said that there are 30,000 troops, but in fact there are only 12,000 combat troops, including 3,000 cavalry regiments, 2,000 horse infantry, and 2,000 horse auxiliaries.

Among the three thousand sweat and blood cavalry regiments, the elite core is the Mingguang armor sweat and blood hundred horses, which is the strongest heavy cavalry elite in the entire Tiance army, gathering the most elite blacksmiths under the Tiance regime to create a hundred pairs of light and thin new Mingguang armor, with purebred sweat and blood horses, when charging in the short term, although it is a heavy cavalry, it has the degree of more ordinary light cavalry! This Mingguang armor sweat and blood hundred horses lost more than 30 people in the just-concluded battle on the Huanma Heights, and the death of these more than 30 people was like the death of thirty siblings for Xue Fu!

After the war, Xue Fuxun replenished the number of meritorious soldiers and lieutenant generals who died in the sweat and blood cavalry regiment for the rest of the battle, and it was still the number of 100 cavalry. On the periphery of the Mingguang Jia's sweat and blood hundred horses, there are more than 2,000 light cavalry soldiers, all wearing extended precision forged horizontal knives, straddle the improved hybrid sweat and blood horses, the armor is not as good and sharp as the hundred horses, but it is lighter, so as to ensure that its degree is not under the Mingguang Jia's sweat and blood hundred horses.

This force, which is close to 3,000 men, is the most mobile cavalry force in the entire Tiance Tang Army—and perhaps even in the world.

But this is too expensive troops, so its periphery needs to have 2,000 horse-matched infantry and 2,000 horse-matched auxiliaries to fight together, which together form a generalized sweat and blood cavalry regiment - without the cooperation of these 4,000 people, once it falls into a certain situation, the narrow sweat and blood cavalry regiment will be tortured to death at any time.

Xue Fu's troops, plus the 5,000 people who poured out of the party's cavalry, totaled 12,000 people.

In addition to the combat team, there were 18,000 people. But it's all in the logistics department. Among them, 10,000 are armed farmers and herdsmen with the old auxiliary soldiers as the core, of which 4,000 are refugees who fled from the Guanzhong prefectures in this war, most of them are hard-working peasants, who can do farm work, and the remaining 6,000 are recruited by Tiance. Living farmers or herdsmen, individual lì people, good at all kinds of rough and heavy work, and have been trained for a period of time, enough to deal with all kinds of changes on the battlefield, really forced to the extreme, these people can also take up arms and fight - because the weapons equipped by the Tiance army for them are okay, their combat effectiveness is not necessarily worse than the mixed herdsmen temporarily gathered by the Khitan in Mobei. Some of them have experienced the baptism of war and can become a source of soldiers for elite troops at any time.

And eight thousand. It is Li Yiyin's clansmen, who play a similar role to these 10,000 armed farmers and herdsmen.

The role of these 18,000 men is not to gather the number of troops, but to provide a sustainable logistics. This time, Zhang Mai ordered Xue Fu to go north to echo Yang Yi, and gave him countless cattle, sheep and horses obtained from the pursuit of the Khitan. Horses carried grain, cattle and sheep rushed to graze, and then for the following year, Lianglan stopped providing supplies.

Arguably. At this time, what Xue Fu led was a mobile war tribe. They are in the following year. The most arduous expedition will be carried out, and the reason for choosing this special form of march is not only in response to the special geographical environment of the south and north of the desert, but also to reduce the burden on the rear as much as possible.

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Xue Fu chased the tail of the Khitan people all the way to the foot of this Yin Mountain, where the aboriginal herdsmen had long since fled in despair. The Khitan soldiers and horses turned to the east, and the two sides fought a tentative battle, and the Khitans continued to retreat east without being overly entangled, and Xue Fu did not mean to kill them all.

The north wind is getting more and more severe, and it will go deeper in this harsh weather. If you are not careful, accidents can happen at any time. That's why he decided to spend the winter here.

He couldn't sustain himself for a year on the back of cattle and horses, and he had to keep his cattle and sheep – the food for the whole army for the coming year.

The towering Yin Mountain blocked the north wind, Li Yiyin helped pick a shelter at the southern foot of the mountain, sentry rode out, occupied various strongholds, distributed cattle and sheep, and formed temporary pastures, a large tribe of 30,000 people with thousands of elites, enough to deter such a land as Elechuan.

Gradually, there were small tribes of indigenous herdsmen who were reluctant to flee from their homes and clinged to Xue Fu, who allowed them to settle on the periphery after screening, and these herdsmen would also be the source of guides for the army.

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This piece of anointed land, north of Yin Mountain, south of the Yellow River, to the east can enter the sixteen states of Yanyun in the Khitan people just designated as Xijing Datong Mansion, or through the Datong Mansion, or skim the north of Datong Mansion and then to the northeast, 1,500 miles can go straight to the heart of the Khitan people - Huangshui Basin! According to the latest information, Yang Yi's forward has approached the upper reaches of Huangshui, and if he gets there, Xue Fu will be able to join forces with Yang Yi.

However, before that, you still need to go through 1,500 miles of wild land, the vast desert, and you can't just go through it if you want to go over. This time, the reason why the Khitan still couldn't suppress the local forces deployed by Zhang Mai in Lianglan and Qinxi with the strength of the country was because of the tyranny of distance. Now that he is here, the host and guest are transposed, Xue Fu's actions must be doubly careful, and if he is not careful, he will be wiped out in the sea of sand and grass at any time!

Fortunately, Yang Yi's surprise attack made the Khitan lose its prestige in Mobei, and the Mobei tribes who respect the strong may turn away from the Khitan at any time, this general trend is the biggest advantage of the current Tiance Datang! Otherwise, if you rely on a frontal attack, the Khitan retreats, and rely on the natural dangers of the desert, it will be difficult for the Han family to achieve a comprehensive victory even if they exhaust the national strength of the Central Plains.

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When Han Deshu and Zhe Deyan Zhao Pu walked into Xue Fu's big tent, snow was falling outside, and the snow water carried various nutrients that could moisten the soil, and the low temperature could also kill diseases and insects, in Lianglan, such a snow should be regarded as an auspicious luck for the coming year, here, just feel the cold, and in Huanglong City, two thousand miles north, General Ying Yang, who was stationed there, didn't know what it felt.

When Han Deshu saw Zhang Mai for the first time, he could still maintain a certain degree of self-confidence and self-esteem, at that time, the Tiance Tang army was in the predicament of a three-way encirclement, and Han Deshu, who thought that he was from the "Great Khitan Kingdom" and was the son of the Khitan mastermind, couldn't help but be a little reserved in his heart, but the great victory in Mobei made his kneecaps completely soft in front of Tiance Datang, and when he looked at Xue Fu at this time, the corners of his mouth were unconsciously flattering.

"General Xue saw the move, is it for the sake of entering Datong Mansion?"

Before sunrise. Zhang Mai deliberately took the time to see him for half an hour, in the past, Han Deshu would think that it was normal for Zhang Mai to see him, but now Zhang Mai can still spare half an hour to give himself, Han Deshu feels flattered.

Zhang Mai's meaning is very clear: let Han Deshu enter the Yanyun area, what to do Zhang Mai ignored, he just sued Han Deshu. In the future, how much credit Han Deshu has made, he will reward him for his meritorious deeds. As for the resources given to Han Deshu, it was only two guards and ten taels of gold.

This is a pitiful amount of money, but Han Deshu has no complaints. Because of Zhang Mai's personal reception and promise, he is equivalent to getting the biggest endorsement in the world, which is the biggest capital at the moment!

Because the battle between the Tiance army and Shi Jin had just ended, the fighting between the two sides was extinguished, and the road was not passed, so Han Deshu went north to enter Xue Fu's army. Then prepare to enter Datong Mansion again.

"The army will not necessarily enter Datong Mansion." Xue Fu said ambiguously.

He didn't trust Han Deshu, this person didn't have the foundation of being trusted by the generals of the Tang Army, and Zhang Mai's letter to him didn't say how to cooperate with him. As for Zhe Deran, although he is Zhe Congyuan's nephew, his qualifications are too shallow. Xue Fu didn't want to reveal the true direction of any army, so as not to leak and delay the military aircraft.

"So do you need to cooperate with your subordinates?" Han Deshu asked again.

"How can you cooperate?" Xue Fu looked at Han Deshu, his face still faint. The man was beaten by the marshal. He carried ten taels of gold on his body, and two guards from Yan Yun. In addition, he has nothing, and he wants to beat him to Datong Mansion, and give him two horses at most, what kind of cooperation can such a person provide for the army?

"Money, food, intelligence, or guides, Deshu can manage to do it."

"Money and food, you don't need it for the time being." Xue Fu said: "Intelligence and guidance." If you can provide it, I will consider it. ”

"Then General Xue really doesn't want to enter Datong Mansion?" Han Deshu persuaded: "Shi Jingjiao kneels down to cut the land, and Datong Mansion is newly returned to Khitan." The hearts of the people still belong to Han. If the king enters the country at this time, the people will definitely eat pot pulp to welcome the king! ”

Xue Fu was noncommittal. "You and act according to the marshal's orders, as for the military affairs, I have my own opinions." ”

Han Deshu knew that Xue Fu didn't trust him, he was young after all, and he couldn't be happy and angry, so his expression was a little gloomy and he retreated.

Zhe Deyan wanted to stay and speak, Xue Fu waved his hand and said, "Let's go and do something." He was not given a chance to speak. Zhe De also retreated a little depressedly.

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After the three of them left, Li Yiyin said: "What Han Deshu said just now is reasonable, why didn't the general adopt it?" ”

Xue Fu said: "At this time, if we enter Datong, we will have a great chance of recovering Yunzhong and even Yanjing. But before I came, the marshal had warned me not to be tempted by this short-term profit. ”

"Why?"

"The marshal thinks: Although Yanyun has newly returned to the Khitan, but for a long time at the junction of Huayi, Hu and Han are mixed, An Lushan chaos and my Tang Dynasty is here to cause trouble, the nearest traitors are the Khitan plotters, such as Han Zhigu and Han Yanhui, are also Yan people, but it can be seen that the concept of Huayi in the local people has been weaker, and the clan pattern is far less pure than the Central Plains. The purpose of our trip must be clear, that is, to join the Yingyang Army as soon as possible, and take advantage of the chaos of the Khitan to fight him for a catastrophe! As for the three of them entering Yanyun, I just hope that they can stir up the troubled waters, so that the Yanyun garrison cannot come to harass my flank. ”

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Li Yiyin listened to Xue Fu's words, and even said that the marshal was far-sighted and difficult for people to reach. After he withdrew, in the absence of a third person, Li Yixiu said: "Brother, do you think the marshal's plot can succeed?" ”

Li Yiyin muttered: "We haven't personally learned how powerful the Eagle Yang Army is, but it must be extremely powerful to conquer Mobei." ”

"We don't know how powerful Yingyang is, but Khitan is a country of hundreds of thousands of multipliers!" Li Yiyin said: "Relying on our ten thousand men and horses, what effect can this have on the war of annihilation of a country of ten thousand times?" ”

Li Yiyin said: "Our number is not many, but we are approaching step by step, once we get in touch with the Eagle Yang Army coming down from the north, we can create a big momentum of encirclement and joint attack between the north and the south." The already unstable peripheral tribes of the Khitan will further fall apart under this momentum, and the Yingyang army can also get the news of the central place and the army's morale will be stable. Therefore, the key to this battle is to be fast. To surround the Khitan before it packs up the hearts of the people and the army, the second is to be undefeated - it is not necessary to have a big victory, but to keep this team from being broken by the Khitan. ”

Li Yixiu lowered his voice and said, "However, if Tiance really destroys the Khitan like this, will it really be good for our party?" ”

Li Yiyin was slightly taken aback, suppressed his mouth and said, "You are crazy!" Say something like that! ”

Li Yixiu lowered his voice even lower: "Khitan and Tiance and Shi Jin are divided into three worlds. Only then can we have room to maneuver and maneuver in the middle, if Tiance really destroys the Khitan, how can Shi Jin survive alone at that time? As soon as Shi Jin is destroyed, Tiance Datang will really dominate the sea. The Han people have a saying: The birds are good and the bow is hidden, and the cunning rabbit is cooked by the dead lackey! At that time, what Marshal Zhang wants to do with our party and family, we have no room for resistance! ”

Li Yiyin pondered: "The marshal's character...... It shouldn't be so ......."

"Marshal Zhang is indeed benevolent and righteous, I don't deny this, but ......" Li Yixiu said: "Brother." Do we really want to put the lives of all the men and women of the clan on the whim of Marshal Zhang? ”

Li Yiyin closed his eyes, was silent for a long time, and finally sighed: "I know what you mean, but there is nothing we can do now." According to the strategy of advancing northward this time, our army only needs to protect itself and advance northward, without actively forgetting to fight for its life. We're a little negative. It won't hurt the big picture, it's really bad. Unless you get in the way, but then you can't hide it from the discerning. Don't forget, there are still more than 100,000 old and weak women and children in our party who are still in Taonan! ”

Li Yixiu said hatefully: "Zhang Mai Mo has even calculated this!" ”

Li Yiyin said: "I don't know if he counts, but in short, we can't act rashly this time." Not only should we not act rashly, but instead of being passive and perfunctory, we should be more active in fighting. Leave behind the achievements of the war for future changes. After all, looking at the current situation, the possibility of Tiance Datang dominating the world is very high, and we had better take advantage of the trend and urge camels against the wind and sand. Nothing good to end with. ”

Li Yixiu nodded and said: "As long as my brother understands in his heart, I will be relieved, I am just afraid that my brother will really be bewitched by Zhang Mai's coaxing slogan, and take our party to be a pawn across the river, then it is not worth it." ”

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Zhe Deran, Han Deshu and Zhao Pu came out of the tent in different moods, Zhao Pu didn't feel anything, Han Deshu was a little discouraged, but Zhe Delan was indignant, and hummed: "I look down on people!" ”

In fact, Xue Fu is not unreasonable to him, but he is a local tyrant family in northern Jinbei, with strong self-esteem, but Zhao Pu can always be subservient to others, and said lightly: "We have not made meritorious deeds, why should people look up to us?" ”

Zhi Deyan snorted again and asked Han Deshu, "Master Han, what are your plans?" ”

Han Deshu was with them along the way, and his heart was not with them, so he said: "Let's first collect some guides for General Xue, what do you two think?" ”

Zhe Deyan said with a grin: "I will do such a small thing as collecting a guide, Han Gongzi still think about how to do a big thing, this is the ladder for the three of us to become famous!" ”

Han Deshu said: "What's the big deal?" ”

Zhe Deyan said: "Try to get things done, and restore the clouds!" ”

Han Deshu was taken aback and shouted: "If General Xue forces Datong Mansion, and we have an incident in the city, there is still something to be done." But relying on the three of us to restore Datong Mansion, is that a joke? ”

Zhede looked at him and said: "If it is just echoed in the city, a little spy can do it, what a great deal!" Only if you can do what you can't and play a battle that you can't even think of, that is a miracle! ”

Han Deshu said: "Then what are the plans of the captain Zhe?" ”

Zhi Deyan said: "Guide, I'll look for it, I'll be responsible for the incident, Han Gongzi's side, please help find out the truth of the Khitan, and plan for money and food." ”

Han Deshu said: "If it's just like this, Han Mou will dare to take it, but we are now behind enemy lines, please let me know in advance if you have any plans for Captain Zhe, don't act recklessly!" ”

"Don't worry." Zhe Deyan said: "On the ground of the north of Jin, the person who can help me has not yet been born!" ”

Three people and six horses, all the way to change horses, left the Elechuan, in the wind and snow into the territory of Datong Mansion, the border intersection has been Khitan soldiers checked, Zhede did not say a big word, he can ride a horse at the age of five, at the age of ten he had been alone on a horse away from home hundreds of miles, west to the south quicksand, east to Wutai, south to Taiyuan, north to the Great Wall, a radius of 600 miles of ground is his old travel place.

At this time, I saw that there were people checking at the intersection, and I picked up the path in advance, and even avoided all the checks, where to rest, where to take food, all knew everything. The Khitan had just taken over the clouds, and the control of the local area had not yet reached a very strict level. In Zhe Deran's opinion, this is a tattered fishing net and a rotten sieve, and it is impossible to keep him at all.

A few days later, the trio crossed the site of the Great Wall and arrived on the outskirts of Yunzhou.

Outside the city, he found an old acquaintance Orion, who knew the origin of Zhederan, and knew that his family had gone west to Tang, and he didn't want to meet Zhederen here, and he was horrified, and Zhede didn't say much, but only said that he was passing by, and asked for a day or two before leaving: "You can rest assured, it will not drag you down." ”

The Orion is also a righteous person, and said: "I was favored by the son back then, but I am afraid that I will not be able to repay it, and the son lives in a villain's house, even if it lives for a year, it is okay, I am afraid that the son will meet someone he knows and break the origin, then it will be a bad thing." ”

Zhe De said with a smile: "Even if you meet it, you are not afraid, if an acquaintance dares to tell the truth, then it is not a friend, and then you will have to eat my Zhe De Fen!" ”

Asked about the recent situation in Yunzhou, the Orion said: "Although there has been no major incident in Yunzhou recently, but a few months ago the Khitan people passed through here to fight the heavenly policy, and not long ago they lost their armor and ran back, and then fled back to the north, and now many people are coaxing the world to change again, and the Khitan people are afraid that they will not be able to stand in Yunzhou." But some people say that the Khitan people's hometown has also been copied, if that is the case, the sky in Yunzhou is really going to change. ”

Zhe De smiled and said, "That's, that's!" ”

After resting at night, Zhe De fell asleep and snored loudly after a while, but Han Deshu kept an eye on it, secretly monitoring whether the hunter had any changes. Zhao Pu pretended to be asleep, but he was paying attention to Han Deshu's movements.

When he woke up the next day, among the three, only Zhi Delan was in the best spirit, and the other two couldn't sleep enough. Zhe Deyan said: "Yunzhou is just around the corner, your connections are in the city, my connections are outside the city, you and I will act separately." ”

After Han Deshu and Zhe Delan agreed on the method of contact, he left and entered the city, Zhao Pu pointed to his back and said, "This guy has no different intentions!" ”

Zhe Deyan said disdainfully: "Which of the scholars in Yandi has no dissenting intentions? In Hu they think about Han, in Han they think about Hu, it has always been like this. ”

Zhao Pu is also a Yan person, his face was a little red when he heard this, and he smiled: "Fortunately, I didn't read any books." ”

Zhe De laughed, and Zhao Pu said, "Where are we going next?" ”

"Go find Tuyuhun first." Zhe De said: "Then contact Shuo Xiwu Fort, Wutai Twenty-six Villages, now the Han family is booming, if you can say that they can drive Hu to stand on their own, it will be a big thing!" ”

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Over there, Han Deshu entered Yunzhou City, he is the second generation of the largest official among the Han people in the Khitan, and he has a clear understanding of various military and political arrangements in the Khitan. Han Kuangsi's father, Han Zhigu, is another big traitor in the Khitan high-level, and is called "Erhan" together with Han Yanhui, but Han Zhigu is dead, and his family's reputation is far inferior to Han Yanhui.

Han Deshu and Han Kuangsi were both Hanchen in the Khitan territory, and they naturally had close contacts with each other, so they came to the door without saying a word.

Han Kuangsi's subordinates recognized Han Deshu and didn't dare to stop him, Han Deshu went straight into the inner hall, Han Kuangsi suddenly saw him, and exclaimed: "Brother Daoshan!" You...... How are you here! (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!)