Chapter 43: Open Struggle and Secret Fighting
Because Warwick was seriously injured and fled back to the Huairong camp, Zhang Changan immediately learned the news of the defeat of the Abdominal Heart Army, which made him tremble with excitement, and after struggling to calm his breathing, he hurriedly went to Buchen to discuss the next action. m.
"Warwick is back, and there are only two breaths left, and it remains to be said whether he can hold on. Coming back with him, there were also several Khitan monks with a high level of qi cultivation, all of whom looked like they were going to die. What does this mean?
"Without the monks of the Divine Envoy Realm to escape, Warwick doesn't even have the will to follow the defeated army, so you can imagine how completely defeated they were!"
Zhang Changan clapped his fists and said his speculation with burning eyes, "I knew that General Shangguan would definitely win! With the help of the elite of our Chang'an Cultivation Academy, the heart must no longer exist!"
"Great, wonderful!" Buchen was also overjoyed, "Our opportunity has come! The defeat of the Belly Army will inevitably affect the hearts of the Khitan army in the entire Yanzhou, and in this kind of situation of being attacked by the enemy on the back, even if it causes panic in the whole army, it is not impossible." The Prairie Tribal Army has completely lost its military rations, and we should take immediate action to break them apart!"
Although Zhang Changan was embarrassed, his bloody experience made him calm down quickly.
He said in a deep voice: "According to our previous plan, we must be cautious and not let Yelu Xiannichi find out the clues, otherwise our lives will not be saved!"
Buchen nodded: "It's natural." ”
The eyes of Jerush, who were about to burst, couldn't believe his ears. After confirming it three more times, he had to accept the fact that Yelu Hongguang was almost completely annihilated. This made his eyes full of horror for a moment, and even the few fierce generals on the grassland couldn't help but fall into their seats all of a sudden.
The defeat of the heart of the abdomen, and the death and wounding, this at any time, is beyond the reach of the general of the heart of the abdomen, it is a disaster that destroys the world and destroys the earth, and he is guilty of great sins!
His fate is not only that his own reputation is ruined and his crime cannot be punished, but his relatives will also be implicated!
In the context of the current war with the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan army of Yanzhou has lost the most elite combat power of the heart, and the current stalemate of the war has been broken.
What made Yelu Xian Nechi even more frightened was that the Tang Dynasty actually had an extremely elite army that could defeat the heart of the heart! Moreover, that Tang army was actually less than 40,000 people! This was no longer the catastrophe of Yelu Xian Nechi, but would be the great enemy of the entire Khitan!
"We paid the price of the party and Shatuo to besiege and kill the wolf's tooth army, why did the Tang Dynasty still have such a terrible army? Shangguan Chengcheng has obviously been defeated, why was she able to lead the troops to appear in the grassland again just a few months later?!"
Yelu Xiannichi muttered to himself in despair, he wanted to calm down immediately, but when the matter came, how easy was it? The situation was too grim, and the disaster was too serious, in his position, where did Gu Bo not be alarmed?
His state is undoubtedly what Zhang Changan and Buchen want to see the most, and it is also the most conducive to their actions.
"It is not unusual for the Tang Dynasty to have such an army, after all, they are a great power for hundreds of years. The profound heritage of the revived Tang Dynasty is far from being comparable to us, and this is the inherent gap between emerging countries and century-old powers. ”
The mastermind of Jerushinerchi sighed and said, his face sad and sad.
Yelu Xiannechi glared at the other party, "Could it be that we can't win the Tang Dynasty in this war?" What about the hundred-year-old country and the hundred-year-old tribe, the hundred-year-old country that destroyed in the Central Plains, and the hundred-year-old clan that disappeared in the grassland, is there still one less?"
In the face of great changes, although he is now deeply affected and a little helpless for a while, the courage of the warrior has not been lost, and he still has the will to fight, of course, he cannot accept the remarks that the mastermind is strong and I am weak, and he is not as good as the opponent.
The mastermind shook his head and said bitterly: "The Tang Dynasty should have perished, even if there is a foundation, no one can stimulate this heritage, master this heritage, and let it burst out with great power." But Li Ye was born out of nowhere, helped the general of the building, turned the tide of the tide, and single-handedly created the world of the Tang Dynasty, which made the current Tang Dynasty as difficult as the early Tang Dynasty. ”
Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly said: "General, please report to the king as soon as possible about the matter here, this is a big change that may endanger the entire battle situation, and the king must be allowed to deal with it as soon as possible!"
Yelu Xian Nichi has a headache as long as he thinks of Shangguan Allure, not to mention Li Ye, it is not a level of existence with him, and he is the object of Yelu Abaoji's headache. When they talk about Li Ye here, they have the meaning of Xia Worm Yubing and Jing Frog Yuhai, so they can only let Yelu Abaoji think of countermeasures.
When Yelu Xian Nechi was about to send someone to report to Yelu Abaoji, there was a commotion outside the tent, and it intensified, as if there was some kind of chaos and conflict.
"What's going on?!" asked Jerushine with a cold face.
The confusion caused by the defeat of the heart has gradually dissipated, and Yelu Xiannichi has stabilized his mentality.
In any case, the demise of the heart has become a fact, even if he will be replaced and punished by Yelu Abaoji, but the current situation makes him unable to cheer up and face the crisis that may arise next.
Although the heart of the abdomen is gone, his sense of honor and mission as a general of the heart has not been lost.
It's just that the crisis appeared, earlier than Yelu Xiannichi expected.
"It's the chiefs of the tribes, who are clamoring to see the general. "The guards came in to report.
Jerushmane's face sank.
At this time, he knew with his knees what these people were here for. In order to cope with the next situation, Yelu Xiannichi suppressed the pain in his heart, ignored the misery of his future fate, and meditated hard, only wanting to find a way to avoid defeat.
But these tribal chiefs only know that the military rations are gone, and they come over noisily to say something inappropriate, and they don't have the dignity of a warrior to win, and they will definitely cause chaos for him!
It is really not a son of man!
Now they dare to gather without an order and make noise outside the big tent of the Chinese army, are there any rules in the eyes of these people? !
According to Yelushonechi's temper, he really wanted to kill a few people to establish his authority! Let those unworthy tribal soldiers know what the military order is. It's a big deal, and then I will allocate a little cattle and sheep from my own army to them to ensure that they will not starve to death for the time being, and I don't believe that anyone else dares to shout indiscriminately.
The military has never been a place to be reasonable, it is about military law and military orders.
"Anyway, the general should meet them first. It is possible to persuade them with good words and stabilize them temporarily, even if it is to pay some cattle and sheep, but the current situation is very unfavorable, and the most important thing is to stabilize the morale of the army and ensure the overall situation. Seeing that Yelu Xiannichi's expression was uneasy, the mastermind hurriedly spoke.
Jerushonechi barely suppressed his anger and asked the guards to let the chiefs in.
As he expected, as soon as these people came in, they all said that their tribes had no military rations, and asked Jerushunezchi how to ensure the food of the warriors' cattle and sheep. In the words, although the withdrawal of troops was not explicitly stated, the meaning was clearly expressed.
The respected chieftain saw that Yelu Xiannechi's face was gloomy, but he did not answer everyone's questions, so he said in an unkind tone: "General, the warriors of our army gave up the peaceful life of grazing cattle and sheep on such a good day and traveled thousands of miles to fight for the king.
"But now, our warriors are going hungry! How can there be hungry warriors on the grasslands? How can there be warriors who are weak on the battlefield? If the general cannot solve the problem of military rations, our department requests that we go and find military rations on our own!"
As long as they leave the barracks, the devil knows if they will come back? Knowing that there are Tang troops in the grassland, this rhetoric is clearly to tell Yelu Xiannichi that they are going back.
In the minds of these chiefs, there was never such a concept as a state.
Although there are many male lords on the grassland, who nominally rule the entire grassland, there is no centralized administrative organization and official management system at all, and there is no unified ideology and doctrine that is recognized by the vast majority of people.
The war of the grassland army against the Central Plains has always been plundering, and for them, attacking cities and plundering land is just to rob the population and money, and they have never thought of governing the conquered states and counties, and they can't govern them.
In this sense, they are a bunch of robbers.
Robbers get together to rob, of course, to make a fortune.
If you win the war, you will be rich and you will be able to improve the lives of yourself and your tribe.
This is the fundamental reason why the steppe tribes are fighting each other, as well as waging war to the south.
At present, the Khitan State is only a newly established country, and it has not yet become "Liao", Yelu Abaoji has a sense of country, but these herdsmen have not.
After winning the war, grabbing enough property, and returning to the grassland, everyone went back to their respective homes and continued to graze; if they could not win the war, they still had to go back to the grassland, find their own mothers, and continue to graze.
This is the understanding of the steppe people, and it is also the understanding of these tribal chiefs.
Now the battle has been fought for several months, and there are many casualties among the soldiers, although a little progress has been made, but because of the Tang Dynasty's strong walls and clear fields, everyone has not gained anything, and now that there is no hope of attacking the Great Wall, and the military rations are gone, what reason do you have not to go back?
If you don't go back, you won't have time to graze, there won't be enough cattle and sheep, how can you spend the winter?
Yelu Xiannechi despised the steppe tribal army, saying that they were a rabble, but in the eyes of the steppe tribal army, all actions, including war, were for a better life.
The grassland is scarce, the life of the herdsmen is not easy, the defeat of the tribe is devastating, the cold winter will kill many people, far more than the people killed in the war, this is the most fatal disaster.
The contradiction of positions and ideas eventually led to a conflict between the tribal chiefs and Jerushine Nechi, and there was no room for a peaceful solution.
"Come on, drag Tulugu, Moye, and Urila Tea out and behead them!"
He was already grieving when the entire army of the Heartland was wiped out, and now he couldn't suppress his anger in the face of these chiefs who fought against the warriors of the Heart, without the slightest fear and reverence.
Of course, as the commander of the army, the biggest reason for Yelu Xiannichi to do this is not to vent his anger, but to use this as an excuse to kill people and deter the three armies.
Force has always been the best means to suppress turmoil and ensure order.
The three most respected chiefs of the tribe were dragged out by the monks amid the begging, scolding, and roaring of the chiefs, and their heads were cut off without saying a word.
When the heads were thrown into the tents, everyone fell silent.
Whether it's grief or fear.
Jerushinech looked at the quail-like chieftains, was very satisfied, and sneered: "You have no cattle or sheep, and I will give you a month's worth of food." After January, the king will naturally have an arrangement. Remember, as long as you defeat the Tang army and attack the Great Wall, you will have everything you want! However, whoever dares to talk nonsense and disturb the morale of the army will definitely be killed!"
When this order was given, Jerod was very sad.
In fact, there are not so many cattle and sheep in his army. The military rations provided by the Khitan headquarters were only enough for the soldiers of the Khitan headquarters.
But the 100,000 soldiers in the heart of the heart are gone.
100,000 mouths are gone.
So he had a large part of the grain that he could distribute to these steppe tribes.
The chiefs were angry when the leader was killed, but more than that, they were frightened, Yelushunechi's iron wrist made them have to be afraid, in the army, power is always the most reasonable, and the cattle and sheep that Yerushenerchi distributed to them can ensure that they don't have to worry about hunger for the time being, which is a real benefit.
Under the grace and power, these chiefs also quieted down.
Yelu's wrist had the effect he wanted.
If nothing else, they will remain quiet and continue to listen to Yelu Xiannechi's military orders to fight, and for the Tang army, the expected internal chaos of the Khitan army will not happen.
Jerushone was worthy of his status and duties as a general commander.
But now there are accidents.
Zhang Chang'an and Buchen in the camp, as well as the Quanzhenguan and Wukong Liberation Sect believers who listened to their orders.
"Tell the big monks in the camp to keep an eye on these chiefs, if they dare to have ideas that they shouldn't have, let Ben know in time, Ben will let them know that it is powerful!"
Suddenly, Yelu Xiannechi seemed to be blessed to the soul and issued such a military order.