Chapter 378 The demise of Mu Erhu
In the original plan, he only captured Shanzhou and Lingbao, but unexpectedly, Guo Ziyi even captured Tongguan. This was undoubtedly a phased victory of the Tang Dynasty against the rebel army and a turning point.
Suzong Li Heng was so excited that he couldn't sleep. He sent envoys to recruit Guo Ziyi to Lingwu, probably to discuss the recovery of Chang'an City.
Guo Ziyi knew that before leaving Tongguan, the 20,000 Tang troops who were instructed to stay, Shanzhou and Lingbao could guard the rules. If they could not defend, they could retreat to Tongguan and make every effort to protect Tongguan. As long as Tongguan was still in hand, Guo Ziyi would have 100% confidence to defeat the anti-army general Chang'an City, which was resolute to recover Chang'an City.
On April 10, Guo Ziyi crossed the Yellow River from Tongguan, walked to Hedong, and crossed the Yellow River again in the Fenzhou area to go straight to Lingwu. By the time Guo Ziyi arrived in Lingwu, it was already mid-April of the second year of Zhide of Emperor Suzong.
Pinglu Road, Pingzhou City.
After five months of continuous pulling the people who escaped the war, the generals of Henan Road "cooperated hard" for the food promised by Li Fei, almost "guided" all the refugees on Henan Road to Dengzhou, and the total number actually exceeded one million!
As agreed, every five people successfully arrived in Andong and "assisted" the generals of Henan Road, and more than one million refugees would have more than two hundred thousand stones of food.
After getting so much food, the generals of Henan Province were also very happy and immediately expanded their army.
By land, traveling to Lutai County, which is the direction of Tianjin in later generations, and passing through Shanhaiguan through Pingzhou, it is obviously much easier than sea routes. With 50,000 elite Andong cavalry, the anti-army troops in Hebei did not dare to move. They watched refugees flock to Lutai and finally pour into Andong, becoming the population under Li Fei's rule. Because of the continuous battles in Hedong, there were countless refugees coming from Hedong. In five months, more than 1.5 million refugees passed Shanhaiguan by land to Andong.
In just five months, with the addition of sea routes, Andong actually increased the population by more than 2.6 million. Now, with the addition of Andong and Pinglu Road, the population has reached more than 6.2 million.
Due to the surge in population, the fields that have been reclaimed from water conservancy construction in recent years have basically been allocated.
Li Fei ordered the development of the northern plains of the Liaohe River near the Khitan area along the Liaohe River.
The land in the plains in the northern part of the Liaohe River is also fertile. If it is developed, it can support one or two million more people. In the past, it was because of the threats of the Khitan cavalry and the Uro cavalry, and there was no danger to defend there, so it has never been developed.
Nowadays, Anton's strength is different, while the Khitan and the Ulu tribe have both been damaged and are much weaker than before. Especially the Khitan, years of war have already caused them to die withered. Now Muerhu is still fighting with Princess Yangu and Yelucha, whom Li Fei supports, and Li Fei has estimated that in just a few days, Muerhu, Princess Yangu and Yelucha will decide the outcome and completely decide the future ownership of the Khitan.
As Li Fei thought, after nearly half a year of tug-of-war, the two forces of Muerhu, Princess Yangu and Yelucha on the Khitan grassland are about to decide the outcome.
It is said that Muerhu came from the second largest tribe of the Khitan. He was originally appointed as the new leader of the Khitan by An Lushan. Then he brought 18,000 elite Khitan troops to rebel and head south with An Lushan. Although more than half of the losses were lost in the Central Plains and when he returned to the Khitan grassland, there were only less than 8,000 cavalry left, but they all got back with excellent equipment.
Fish scale armor and some horizontal swords.
The Khitan cavalry were already fierce, and with fish scale armor and some horizontal sword equipment, it became even more fierce.
Although Princess Yangu and Yelucha, with the support of Li Fei, had tens of thousands of cavalry when Muerhu returned to the Khitan grassland and had three thousand sets of armor assisted by Li Fei, their strength was actually not as strong as Muerhu.
At the beginning, Princess Yangu and Yelu Cha had lost consecutive battles and could only defend themselves with three major stone cities including Chifeng.
Later, Princess Yangu and Yelucha exposed An Lushan's conspiracy to the Khitans who followed Muerhu, which aroused the anger of many Khitans who followed Muerhu, and made Muerhu's subordinates distracted. Princess Yangu and Yelucha slowly regained their decline and overwhelmed Muerhu.
Princess Yan Gu is the nominal Khitan leader of Li Feili. In fact, the Khitan cavalry of Princess Yan Gu is basically under the command of Yelucha, and Yelucha also overwhelmed Muerhu with one hand.
If Yelucha is really a character, Li Fei even doubted whether the Khitan was brought up by Yelucha after the Anshi Rebellion in history.
Because An Lushan's conspiracy was exposed, Muerhu, as the leader of An Lushan's original establishment, refused to admit An Lushan's conspiracy against the Khitan over the years. Many of the people who followed him turned to Princess Yangu and Yelucha. Now there are more than 9,000 Khitan cavalry under Princess Yangu and Yelucha, but there are only more than 1,000 Khitan cavalry left by Muerhu, who are surrounded by Yelucha.
"Murhu, you are in a state of hope, surrender!" Yelucha shouted to Muruhu indifferently.
"Yelucha, you and Princess Yangu are just Li Fei's lackeys. The Khitan will be defeated by you sooner or later." Muerhu's face twitched and he roared at Yelucha.
"You don't have to worry about this. The Khitan will flourish in my hands!" Yelucha narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a full will.
"Hahahaha, you Yelucha are just as ambitious and unwilling to be inferior to others!" Muerhu suddenly heard the ambitions hidden in Yelucha's words, and immediately said with a laugh.
"If you want to fight, you can fight. It is impossible to make me surrender!" The strong man on the grassland is respected, and the success and the defeat of the bandit. Since Muerhu was defeated, there was not so much nonsense. He was optimistic about Yelucha who defeated him, but he would never want to let him surrender Yelucha be taken to Princess Yangu to kneel down.
Although Princess Yan Gu is the daughter of former Huaixiu Khan and the nominal leader of the current Khitan, she is Li Feili, and more importantly, Princess Yan Gu is a woman! Muerhu's chest is filled with anger. How can a woman be the leader of the Khitan? I'm afraid it's just Li Fei's toy to support him by Li Fei, which is a shame for the Khitan. The Khitan can only follow the strong!
"Kill!" Yelucha did not continue to persuade the surrender and ordered the Khitan cavalry under his command to launch a charge.
More than 9,000 cavalry surrounded and killed more than 1,000 cavalry, with a great advantage and the ending was destined. Muerhu was originally a fight of trapped beasts. After resisting for nearly a stick of incense, he was killed by Yelucha himself. The remaining hundreds of Khitan cavalry under his command all surrendered to Yelucha.
As Yelucha returned to the Chifeng royal city through triumphantly, the Khitan's ownership was completely established.
All the Khitan tribes came to worship Princess Yan Gu, nominally accepting the leadership of Princess Yan Gu.
Of course, in fact, they were more willing to obey Yelucha's leadership because it was Muerhu whom Yelucha defeated. Although Princess Yangu was a woman and the daughter of former Huaixiu Khan, they were always a woman. They always had some resistance in their hearts, but because of Li Fei's strength and Yelucha's always expressed his loyalty to Princess Yangu, they did not have the intention to resist.
Such a situation is undeniable. If Yelucha ascended to the high ground, the Khitan tribes would definitely be more willing to let Yelucha be the leader.
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Chapter completed!