The Khitan soldiers and horses gradually converged together, began to march eastward, at noon the brigade stopped in a mess, after lunch, was about to continue on the road, Sun Wanrong suddenly passed a general order, so only more than 10,000 soldiers who were slightly wounded in the previous battles were able to stay, and the other soldiers and horses all left the brigade.

Yang Fan sat on the car, only to see countless cavalry rolling south, thousands of horses galloping by, rolling up smoke and dust like a dark cloud, filling the sky.

Yang Fan was slightly shocked, and subconsciously asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Fei Mo smiled "hehe", and his face showed a cunning that was quite incompatible with his rough and honest appearance: "The generalissimo led his troops south and attacked Jizhou." ”

"What?"

Yang Fan's heart jumped: "Aren't you going back to the mountains?" ”

Fei Mo said lazily: "The Khan suffered from heat stroke, and then his body was a little uncomfortable, this time he led us and escorted the grain and grass back to the mountain first." As for the generalissimo, ......, don't you have a few spies from the imperial court in the huge Zhuolu City? The khan deliberately let out the news of returning to the mountain in order to confuse the officers and soldiers. ”

Yang Fan was dumbfounded for a long time, and said: "With the main force going south, only sending a small force to escort the Khan back to the mountain, and escorting so many baggage, aren't you afraid that the imperial army will come to intercept it?" ”

Fei Mo let out a loud daxiao: "Haha! If they do come after us, we will abandon the grain and grass and walk away, and then go back and take another city and raid their homes. However, do you really think that Wu Youyi will send troops? If he had the guts, we stayed in Zhuolu for the past few days, he would have come a long time ago, hahaha......"

Although it was Wu Youyi who led the troops, as a member of the imperial court, Yang Fan couldn't help but lose his face when he heard Fei Mo's presumptuous and contemptuous smile.

Tens of thousands of Khitan iron horsemen, belonging to different tribes, immediately left the team as soon as they "went south", looking chaotic and completely disorganized. However, the Khitan cavalry did not need to be integrated through queues and banners like the Han cavalry. Through the ability to hunt since childhood, they almost like an instinct, in the chaotic march, naturally according to the banner of each department, reorganize and line up, and then form a very effective marching column.

In the evening, they stopped by a small river.

Sun Wanrong rode a tall horse. Stand at the front of the queue and watch his army silently.

Thousands of troops and horses slowly quieted down in front of him, like a standing mountain, and a thick and majestic atmosphere rushed towards him.

Sun Wanrong nodded with satisfaction and shouted: "I pretend to go back to the mountain to bully the Tang army." The Tang people will have no defense! Today, the soldiers of the whole army, only carrying two days' rations, day and night, go straight to Jizhou, even if the Tang people have reconnaissance horses, we also want them to chase after us, watching our wolf battle flag planted in the city of Jizhou! ”

His hand slowly reached to his waist, and suddenly pulled out a Turkic-style long knife with a slight arc. Gently knock your legs on the horse's belly. The war horses galloped sideways in front of the neat wall-like array: "Jizhou must be taken, and all will be conquered!" ”

"Jizhou must be taken. Conquer it all! ”

"Jizhou must be taken, and everything will be conquered!"

Tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry spoke in unison, and the sound of convergence was like a mountain and a sea, earth-shattering, and in a birch forest in the distance, countless birds and birds flew up in shock, hovering in the sunset sky.

Sun Wanrong suddenly flicked his horse, slashed the long knife towards the south, and shouted hard: "Keep going!" ”

Thousands of troops and horses were like a raging tide that burst the embankment, trampling the small river in front of them, and rolling southward!

South, south, continue south! Under the southern sky, the sunset was as red as blood, and the cavalry covering the sky soon merged with the red sunset......

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In Luoyang City in the evening, because it is almost time to close the door, there are not many pedestrians on the long street, and occasionally some pedestrians who return late are also in a hurry.

On the bank of Tianjin Bridge, a team of people and horses walked slowly.

The soldiers around the guards are the brightly armored and very mighty Yulin Guard, and the middle group is a Turkic with fur and fur oblique, curly hair and a sharp nose, Liu Ruoyu, the pawn of Honglu Temple, has a blank face, without a trace of expression, so silently accompanied the Turks forward, until they rushed to the post house where the Turks were placed in the Pawn Bureau, only then did he turn around and said lightly: "Messenger, please go back to the pavilion to rest, if you need anything, you can propose it to the pavilion!" ”

The Turkic envoy was a short man in his early forties, with a hooked beard, and a rather unruly expression, but his eyes were shrewd and cunning. In the face of Liu Ruoyu's disrespectful attitude, the Turkic envoy did not feel sorry at all, just smiled faintly, and replied in Chinese with a foreign accent: "There is Lao Liu Dianke, we don't have any other needs, I just hope that the emperor of your country can give us an answer as soon as possible, our Khan's patience is not very good!" ”

Liu Ruoyu's face changed, he snorted heavily, flicked the horse's head, and walked away.

The Turkic envoy smiled triumphantly, turned over and dismounted, and walked towards the pavilion with his legs, which were a little loopy because of his long-term horseback riding.

On the Wucheng Palace, the prime ministers and several important ministers of the court are still here, and they have not yet left the palace.

Wu Zetian looked tired, but the extreme anger made her old face still full of majesty: "How can this be true!" It just doesn't make sense! Silk silk, farm tools, seeds, steel, medicinal materials, agricultural books, medical books, ......, this is not counted, he also has to ask for the six states of Hequ and the land of the capital protectorate, this Mo Si is really bold, I haven't settled the crime of invasion with him, he still dares to be so insatiable! ”

Lintai Young Eunuch Li Qiao said solemnly: "Bixia! If these conditions of the Turks are agreed, and Mo Si is allowed to win people, land, and agricultural materials, the Turkic national strength will inevitably become stronger. Moreover, the Turkic wolf is ambitious, greedy and untrustworthy, and even if he is promised so many conditions, it will not be possible to exchange for peace. The minister thinks that the armament should be strengthened to prevent its attack! ”

Li Qiao is also a member of the royalist heir party, and he supports the current crown prince Li Dan, so Wei Yuanzhong and Yao Chong immediately pulled him into the political core.

His words were naturally also the meaning of Wei Yuanzhong and Yao Chong. The current situation is still unclear, although the emperor is angry, it is not yet certain what his true intentions are, and it is most appropriate for him to come forward first.

Wu Zetian took the crown prince Li Dan as the marshal and Di Renjie as the deputy marshal, sent troops to the Western Regions to crusade against the Turks, and the Turks heard that the imperial court had increased their troops, and it was the highly respected Di Renjie who was in charge, and he raised the banner of the crown prince Li Dan, and was supported by all the people all the way, and the morale of the army was extremely strong, and he was worried that he would suffer a loss, so he immediately withdrew his troops and retreated.

Di Renjie couldn't catch up, and he didn't have the confidence to fight a chasing battle, so he just stationed troops on the border to strictly prevent the Turks from counterattacking, and at the same time helped the affected border people to rebuild their homes, and the two sides were temporarily deadlocked.

At this time, there was civil strife in Tibet, the kings were fighting for power, and the Turks lacked an ally with the same voice, and they were unwilling to fight a decisive battle with the imperial court alone, but Mo Si was unwilling to give up this good opportunity, so he sent envoys to Beijing to propose peace to the empress.

His conditions are: he recognizes Wu Zetian as his stepmother, and at the same time is willing to marry his daughter to the kings of the court and form a father and son with the court. However, at the same time, he also asked the imperial court for a large number of silks, agricultural tools, seeds, iron tools, and even medical books and medicinal materials. That's not all, he also asked the imperial court for the Turkic households of the six states of Hequ that had been surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, as well as the territory of the Duhufu alone.

There are more than 8,000 accounts in the six prefectures of Hequ, and the accounts are the household units of the nomads, which are equivalent to more than 8,000 households of the Han people, and the population of a household is about five or six people, and the more than 8,000 accounts are 40,000 or 50,000 people, and each family has at least one strong man, that is, nearly 10,000 warriors who are good at riding and shooting.

The most important thing is that these Khitan households took the initiative to defect to the imperial court, if they were pushed to the silent si, how would the people of the world view the Great Zhou? There are more than one or two dependent tribes like this!

The Shan Yu Duhufu is one of the six most important Duhufu established in the Tang Dynasty, which belongs to the Guannei Road, and its jurisdiction is far from the desert in the north and reaches the Yellow River in the south. If they really promised them, the Turks would be able to graze sheep under Wu Zetian's nose.

Wu Zetian glanced at Yang Zaisi and asked, "Yang Qing, what do you think?" ”

Yang Zaisi hurriedly said: "Well......, the minister thinks that he is willing to serve his mother with his son, and marry his daughter to the kings of my dynasty, and he is still very respectful to Bixia." However, they asked for the six states to be downgraded, and they asked for Shan Yu Duhu, and they wanted me to cut the land and abandon the people in Dazhou, so the request was simply ......"

When the words "loss of power and humiliation of the country" came to his mouth, he swallowed it again, and quickly changed it to "It is simply insatiable, and the minister thinks that if he agrees, it will inevitably fuel the ambitions of the Turks, and he should be sternly refused!" ”

Yao Chong heard his ambiguity, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Not only can you not allow the land to be cut and abandon the people, but even the gifts of silk, grain seeds, farm tools, iron tools, agricultural books, medical books and other things should also be resolutely refused!" This is a capital enemy! The Turks took advantage of the inappeasement in the north of our court, sent troops to invade our borders, and killed our border people, and now they only say a word to negotiate peace, without any punishment, but the court wants to give him so many materials, how can there be such a reason in the world? ”

Nayan Lu Jie said worriedly: "What Yao Xiang said is true, but although the soldiers and horses led by Di Gong seem to be strong, most of them are untrained recruits, and Di Gong himself has never led troops to fight, and lacks experience in battle formations, if he silently settles down to invade the east again, now the Khitan bandits are rampant, and the northwest is wolf smoke again, I am afraid it will ......."

When Wu Zetian heard this, his eyebrows couldn't help frowning deeply. She regretted a little that she shouldn't have listened to what Zhou Xing said and killed the black tooth. If he is still alive, how dare he dare to open his mouth, and the 160,000 army will not be wiped out in Huangzhangkou.

hateful that Wu Yiyi, but when he arrived in the north, he only held on to the city, and never dared to find the enemy to fight, and sat back and watched the Khitan crisscross Hebei, causing nuisance everywhere, otherwise he could have transferred northern soldiers and horses to join the Helong Corps, at that time, how could Mo Si dare to take advantage of the fire to rob, and why did the imperial court take care of one or the other, and had to let the Turks blackmail.

After thinking about it for a long time, Wu Zetian's anger gradually subsided, and he sighed deeply: "Let's stabilize the Turkic envoys first and delay time." Quickly send an edict to Wu Youyi, let him send troops, take the initiative to find the enemy for a decisive battle, and exterminate the Khitan thieves as soon as possible! ”

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