Chapter 294: To Fight or Not to Fight

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When Li Chongjiu returned to Huaihuang Town with the captives of the humiliating royal tribe, as well as countless war horses, cattle and sheep, the people of all ethnic groups in Huaihuang Town stopped what they were doing and rushed forward to see this scene.

The clansmen of the Humiliated King tribe were all tied with their hands tied, and they walked to the city of Huaihuang Town in despair, and there were countless war horses, cattle and sheep that were captured. When many Han horse merchants saw the precious Wuzhumuqin horse, they all stepped forward to ask for the price, and if such a war horse was sold to the Central Plains, it was worth at least 50 yuan.

When they heard that this was all intercepted by Li Chongjiu, the horse merchants all showed a look of envy and said that Li Chongjiu had made a fortune.

In addition to prisoners of war, war horses, cattle and sheep, what the people did not expect the most was that this time, since the Khitan, even the humiliating royal forces of the Xi people were defeated under Li Chongjiu's hands. The Khitan, the Xi people, and the two major clans on the eastern grassland have all been defeated by Li Chongjiu. Now on the entire steppe, in addition to the Turks, who else is Li Chongjiu's opponent.

And when the people of Murod Xi heard that Li Chongjiu had defeated the humiliating king, they were all surprised and delighted. Among the five tribes of the Xi people, it has always been insulting the king's department, and this time Li Chongjiu defeated him, which seems to mean that the Murod department can be replaced.

After the Khitans were expelled from the Wuhou Qinshui grassland, the Xi people once existed in name only among the five tribes of the Xi people. After that, they defected to Li Chongjiu, defeated the Khitan Eight Divisions, rescued the clansmen from the Khitans, recovered their hometown, and completed the revival.

Now Li Chongjiu led the Xi people to defeat the strongest humiliation of the five tribes of the Xi people, and in terms of combat performance, it was a beautiful victory. Now whether it is the Xi tribe of the Murde tribe or the other three tribes of the Xi tribe, there is also a statement that the leader of the five tribes of the Xi tribe alliance is recalled.

For a while, all the tribes of the steppe were afraid of the Murde Xi tribe, and if this continued, after the humiliation of the royal department, even the Murde Xi people were a little blindly confident, thinking that they could challenge the hegemony of the Turks in the eastern steppe.

On the same day that Li Chongjiu set out to humiliate the Su Wang, the negotiation envoy of Luo Khan of the Turkic Department came to Huaihuang Town.

The elders of the Mur Dexi went to Huaihuang Town together, almost kneeling to greet the Turkic envoys. The Turkic envoys were also very arrogant, conveying the meaning of the Churo Khan.

Chuluo Khan asked Li Chongjiu to offer 2,000 armors, 1,000 horse armors, and 100,000 cattle, sheep and war horses to pay tribute to the Turks as a sign of submission.

Seeing this request, Li Chongjiu knew that Luo Khan was in his hands, and there was no room for him to bargain at all. When the elders heard this, they also begged Luo Khan if he could cut it by one or two.

The envoy's words were harsh, but in the end, after receiving a lot of benefits from the elders of the Murdexi, he finally showed a little kind of face, and quietly told the elders that the Murdexi people had been too popular in the grassland in the past few years, and the Turks had always been worried that the Murdexi had the ambition to challenge the hegemony of the Turkic steppe, and as long as the Murdexi people expressed obedience, anything could be discussed.

Therefore, the Turkic envoy's decision to retreat was to let Li Chongjiu and the elders of the Xi tribe go to Tieshan to meet Luo Khan. As long as the Khan Longyan is happy, then there is nothing left.

After hearing this, Li Chongjiu sneered again and again, even the elders of the Xi tribe who have always been the main peace, they are not bold at this time, and anyone can see that this may be a Hongmen banquet set up by the Turks.

Go, at the banquet, everyone was worried about killing for the Turks, and if they didn't go, they were worried about sending troops for the Turks to attack and destroy.

Although the elders of Murdexi did not want to conflict with the Turks, they took their lives more seriously. So the elders began to argue and try their best to delay.

Li Chongjiu saw the meaning of the Turkic envoy and immediately understood that a war with the Turks was inevitable. He is not Liu Bang who can grovel and pretend to be garlic, and even if he is willing to be Liu Bang, Chu Luo Khan is by no means a soft-hearted Xiang Yu who can let the enemy go.

Take your life to this gamble that you lose nine times out of ten, hum, that's why this Hongmen banquet, the ghost will go.

Since he didn't go, and this sky-high tribute, Li Chongjiu would not come out at all. The equipment in Li Chongjiu's hands now, the war horses, and the cattle and sheep of the tribe are all a little family foundation accumulated after three years of hard fighting, and they are given to the Turks.

There is never an end to satisfying the ambitions of the Turks, so instead of keeping their heads in obscurity, it is better to draw their swords and rise up.

Li Chongjiu couldn't help but grit his teeth. At that moment, Li Chongjiu gathered all the generals to discuss the chances of starting a war with the Turks next year.

The generals under Li Chongjiu's command heard that Li Chongjiu was going to fight with the Turks, and the reaction of the generals at that moment was actually blind.

Ying Hefu first said: "Khan, the Turks are not Khitan, and if they insult such an opponent as the royal department, once they start a war, there are 300,000 iron cavalry to mobilize, and it is not easy to gather 50,000 troops from our towns. Under the First World War, the odds of victory were slim. ”

As the head of the Xi generals, Ying Hefu first expressed his disagreement. As soon as Ying Hefu said his word, of course, a series of generals shook their heads together. They have been in the steppe for a long time, and of course they know the strength of the Turks.

Li Chongjiu's eyes narrowed, now for him, it is not a question of whether to fight, but whether he can beat it.

Wen Yanbo, who was also on the side, deeply understood Li Chongjiu's current situation, and after Luo Khan put forward this condition, even he completely extinguished his desire to negotiate with the Turks.

The advice he gave to Li Chongjiu was, what the Xi elders wanted to do, how to give them, soldiers, horses, money, grain, cattle, sheep and horses, and now they are all in Li Chongjiu's own hands. As long as it is clenched, the Turks will not be able to take away a single hair.

They left the negotiations to fool the Turks, and when they really couldn't negotiate, they simply turned their faces with the Turks, and now they can delay for a moment.

Li Chongjiu also agreed, those who are afraid of death will always die, and sooner or later the Turks will realize that their Huaihuang Town will inevitably be their great enemy in the future. So there must be a war. Therefore, now they dare not fight with the Turks, and sooner or later they will have to be coaxed.

But since the war starts, it is necessary to choose the time and place by default, of course, the later the war starts, the more beneficial it will definitely be for Li Chongjiu.

At this time, Wang Ma Han said: "Envoy, at the moment we have Luo Yi, Gao Kaidao two thieves, behind Zhuojun pulling the hind legs, Khitan, humiliating the royal department also wants to beat us at all times, if there is a war with the Turks, if they take advantage of the fire to rob, how is it good, if we guard against them, then the strength to fight with the Turks is not enough, this will definitely lose." ”

Although Wang Mahan is a Hun person, what he said is extremely correct, and Li Chongjiu does not want to rush into war with the Turks in the case of Luo Yi, Gao Kaidao, Khitan, and humiliating the royal department. Therefore, just as Wen Yanbo said, the war must be postponed until next autumn, and Li Chongjiu must clean up a few opponents before the autumn, and then turn back to fight a decisive battle with the Turks, so that he can have a chance of winning.

This is not impossible, because in spring and summer, all the tribes of the steppe do not like to fight at this time, and only autumn, and even winter, is the time when each other is willing to use troops.

Here's Eto said: "It's not impossible to fight with the Turks, we captured Zhuojun this time, and took so many sharp weapons to defend the city, we can strengthen Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town, as long as we can hold these two cities, and counterattack when the Turks are tired, it may not be impossible." How we defeated the Khitans in the first place, how I defeat the Turks today. ”

At this time, Ji Chuan sneered and said: "Take it for granted, who told you that the Turks would definitely fight Huaihuang Town." The Turks are not Khitans, the Turks can use an army to contain us outside the two towns of Huaihuang and Yuyi, and then send the main force and Liu Wuzhou to cross the Feihu Pass from Yanmen and break through the Great Wall. Or will you continue to stay outside the fortress and sit back and watch the hinterland be slaughtered? ”

Hearing Ji Chuan say this, the expressions of everyone who originally had illusions changed, when he was fighting with the Khitans, Li Chongjiu was just a famine, and the two towns of Yuyi were easy to defend. Although there are many troops now, but the territory is also expanding, the Turks 300,000 iron cavalry, running left and right, can not fight with the city and Li Chongjiu, but make full use of the cavalry mobility, divide the road, avoid the real and empty.

The Turks are not Khitans, and several Turkic khans are all masters of strategy, and they will not be unscrupulous because they have an army of 300,000 and feel that they can crush Li Chongjiu casually. Even if the Turks felt that 300,000 against 50,000 would absolutely win the battle, they would not adopt this method of warfare.

Playing the expected defensive counterattack with the Han people is equivalent to attacking the opponent's strengths with their own shortcomings. What the Turks are really good at is this kind of coming and going, making full use of cavalry mobility, and using strategic superiority to completely defeat their opponents.

This is the most terrible enemy, with absolute strength, but never underestimate the opponent because of this.

After Ji Chuan finished speaking, regardless of the generals glaring at him, he immediately opened his stinky mouth and continued to say alarmistly: "Expecting the Turks to make mistakes themselves and fall into our trap like the Khitans, it is better to expect the sow to go up the tree and make the king, I think that if there is a war, our only chance of survival is to give up all the strongholds outside the Great Wall, such as Huaihuang, Yuyi Erzhen, and even Yanmen, we must be ready to give up." After that, he gathered his forces to defend the Great Wall. ”

"Now we have Zhuo County, it's not the time to only rely on Huaihuang and Yuyi two towns, we can afford to lose, Liu Bei took Shu land back then, and refused to let Jingzhou, so there was the loss of Guan Yu and the defeat of Yiling."

After Ji Chuan finished speaking, he was unanimously opposed by the generals of the Xi tribe, and they scolded in front of the court, which was a move to cut the land without a fight.

Ji Chuan rolled a pair of bull's eyes and put on a look of barbarians, I don't care about your reasoning, which angered Eto and the others even more, and several generals of the Fan Army almost danced their fists, and they were about to step forward and beat people. (To be continued.) )