Liu Yu just wanted to meet Qin Feng, since his senior brother Zhu Wen suddenly disappeared last time, he had been inquiring about his whereabouts, and the last news he got was that Zhu Wen might have gone south. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since it goes south to the Central Plains, it will inevitably pass along the Great Wall, that is, the boundary of the Tang Dynasty Shan in the capital of the palace.

It has been established for more than 200 years and is one of the six major protectorates of the Tang Dynasty. It is precisely because of its existence that Datang has been able to keep the grassland in the north for more than two hundred years. Even if the tribes on the grassland are constantly fighting, you rise and fall, but few people have always dared to invade the south.

It's just that at present, the flames of the Huangchao Uprising have burned all over the prefectures and counties of the Central Plains, and the Tang Dynasty is already in turmoil. The Imperial Military Department allocated most of the money to the feudal towns and generals who suppressed bandits in various places, and the remaining food and salary was not much, and the food and salary allocated to the capital and the palace was even more insignificant.

Originally, there were 100,000 elite soldiers in the capital, but due to the lack of food, most of the soldiers were dismissed and returned to their hometowns. The people left behind are not one in ten, and most of them are brave and loyal ministers like Qin Feng who do not care about returns.

"Khan, either leave this matter to me, and I'll bring the horses to them. Liu Yu said.

"It's better to let someone else go, the battle may be tighter later, and I can feel at ease by keeping you by my side. "Jerushelu.

After dozens of battles, large and small, he has regarded Liu Yu as his henchman. The war has not been extinguished, and he is unwilling to rely on Bai Shao to help Liu Yu.

He reached out and patted Liu Yu on the shoulder, trying to comfort him, "Sometimes the higher a person's position is, the less free he is. It's like being put in mid-air and you can't go anywhere. It's better to stay and accompany me to fight against the Tibetans!"

"In that case, can the Khan ask the people who are going south to help me inquire about my senior brother's whereabouts by the way?" Seeing this, Liu Yu no longer insisted.

"You don't need to send someone to ask, we will also meet with those Central Plains people. Yelu Shilu smiled, "One day, when you become the commander of the first army, you will naturally understand my hard work." ”

"Khan is too famous, I'm just a country boy, I'm afraid I can't sit in such a high position. Besides, as Khan said, the higher the position, the less free people are, and I still prefer to be a little freer. Liu Yu smiled bitterly.

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In the following days, after receiving the Khan's edict, the Khitan Eight Tribes were ready to break out of the Ulandaba Forest Sea. According to the Khan, scouts went out to inquire and came back to report that the Tibetans were still blocking the perimeter of the Ulandaba Forest Sea and did not slack off in the slightest. If you want to break out of the encirclement of the Tubo people, I am afraid it will be extremely difficult.

Although the forest sea of Ulandaba is vast, it is surrounded by undulating mountains for thousands of miles, and there are only a few roads in and out from the east.

It's just that because of Yelu Shilu's policy of "keeping people and spending money", the supply of grain and grass for the Tibetan army has been very difficult, and the wheat and dried meat brought with the army in the first two months, but this month there is only rough barley rice. It must be very difficult to live in the country, and it is difficult to afford such a large number of men and horses to fight abroad.

Yelu Shilu expected that the food and grass of the Tubo people would not be able to support them in a thousand-mile battle, so he locked his eyes on the endless desert south of the Ulandaba Forest Sea. There was no water or grass there, and the Tubo people could not send heavy troops to garrison it, so it became the only exit for the Khitans to escape.

After being appointed by the Khan, a general of the Yuewu tribe took dozens of soldiers to prepare enough water bladders and drove 3,000 horses to the south to meet the generals of the Tang Dynasty.

Two days after the departure of the horse-sending procession, Yelu Shilu ordered the army to move southward after the horse-sending procession, preparing to rush south out of the forest sea of Ulandaba and, after crossing the desert, enter the territory of the Central Plains. With the prestige of the Tang Dynasty Shan in the capital for more than 200 years, those Tubo people will definitely not dare to attack rashly.

However, Liu Yu was not without worries about this marching plan, and he rode up to the Khan's chariot of Yelu Shilu and expressed his worries to him, "Thousands of horses are too conspicuous in the desert, and the Tibetans will definitely be able to find out in advance the soldiers we sent to deliver the horses, in that case, their men will also follow and surround us, I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to us." ”

Yelu Shilu smiled, "If they want to do that, then we will naturally know in advance, and we don't have to worry too much about the other party coming to sneak attack." ”

Liu Yu was obviously not satisfied with this answer, and he wondered, "Is it really worth using thousands of good horses as bait in exchange for the news that the Tubo people sent troops?"

Yelu Shilu didn't care, "It's just horses, it's not as important as the lives of our Khitan men!"

Liu Yu looked at him with wide eyes, and he remembered another thing, "Actually, in the battle a year ago, you can defeat the Tubo people, Khan, right? Why did you deliberately stay in the forest of Ulandaba, why did the Khan deliberately drag them down?"

Yelu Shilu glanced at him meaningfully, and then his gaze turned into the distance, "It's true that you have been following me for so long, and you can finally understand some things." When I was your age, I was a young man who didn't know how to drill a pretty girl's tent or search for some cute slave girl. ”

Liu Yu felt uncomfortable with this kind of meat and vegetarian jokes, and he felt that even if he just took Yelu Shilu's words and joked about them, he would be disrespectful to Li Jing in every way.

"Husband and wife should respect and love each other", this is what his mother Fu Min once said.

Although his status with Li Jing is far from being decided, and he is far from getting married, in his mind, this is a rule that must be followed.

He avoided Yelu Shilu's joke and continued to ask, "The Khan must have been deeply concerned about dragging the Tibetans like this?"

Yelu Shilu raised his head and looked at the sky, and sighed deeply, "The country of Tubo is strong, and it is not a battle to lose. It's not enough to drive them away, once they regain their strength, they will come again!"

"So you're going to consume their national strength, so that they no longer have the power to look north at the grassland?" Liu Yu seemed to understand.

"It has to be so!" Yelu Shilu sighed, and then coughed violently as he did, "My time is short, only three or five years left, and I must not leave such a great calamity to my Khitan descendants." ”

His gaze staring at Liu Yu became sharp, "When I win the battle in Tubo, the Khitan national fortune will definitely be strong." A hundred years from now, my children and grandchildren will definitely be able to dominate the world and make the Quartet come to court, even the Tang Dynasty is no exception. General Liu might as well stay on this grassland and be a Khitan, how about it?"