Chapter 134: Grassland (1)
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Xiao Shilan quietly looked up at Yelu Longxu. Seeing him walking back and forth, as if thinking about problems, he would obviously not punish him much. Xiao Shilan couldn't help but feel happy. At this time, Yelu Longxu suddenly shouted loudly, and scared Xiao Shilan so much that his souls and six spirits almost flew out. He only said that Yelu Longxu still wanted to kill him, but Yelu Longxu called the eunuch and passed his will, so that Zuo Jinwu came over. Xiao Shilan secretly breathed, thinking to himself, long live my master, wasn't it just to summon someone to come? It was really scary to have such a loud voice.
It was not because Xiao Shilan was timid. Yelu Longxu was a saint of the Liao Kingdom. He had his own set of methods. It can be said that no one in the Liao Kingdom was not afraid of him. Now Xiao Shilan was guilty, and Yelu Longxu was just now full of anger. Xiao Shilan was naturally even more afraid. After Yelu Longxu ordered the eunuch, he swept Xiao Shilan and saw that his face was changing. He must have scared this guy by the loud shout just now. Thinking of this, Yelu Longxu felt a little relieved. As a superior, what he needed was his subordinates respect and fear. Xiao Shilan's expression was exactly the attitude of a minister who Yelu Longxu liked to see towards him, the emperor of the Great Liao Kingdom.
"Get up, let's spare you this time. If you make this mistake again next time, I will definitely kill you with one knife." Yelu Longxu finally decided to let Xiao Shi take a look first.
"I, thank you for your kindness, long live my lord." Xiao Shilan was overjoyed. He knew that he had escaped a great disaster, and he kowtowed to Yelu Longxu three times regardless of the injuries on his forehead.
Yelu Longxu thought about it and knew that Xiao Shiling didn't have much ability, but he has been loyal to him over the years. He also had a responsibility to stop the Song people from killing Fang Yu, a Song man. He underestimated the courage of those Song people. After all, the Song country is vast and has many talented people, and has many famous generals. It is because he underestimated the enemy too much. Yelu Longxu sighed and thought that he could not make such a mistake again in the future.
Xiao Shilan stood up from the bluestone floor and stood obediently, waiting for Yelu Longxu's instructions. Looking at his obedient appearance, Yelu Longxu waved his hand and said, "Go clean up the blood on your forehead first. See what you are like. You must remember it for me in the future. If you make mistakes again, I will definitely not spare you easily."
Xiao Shilan quickly responded. Only then did he feel that his forehead was hurting so hard. The sound of his head on the bluestone slab was simply self-harm. After Xiao Shilan took it, Yelu Longxu calmed down his mood and returned to his seat to review the memorials. He was also a relatively diligent emperor. Generally speaking, he had better control over his emotions. However, this time, he was really unhappy and his emotions were a little out of control.
After Xiao Shilan cleared the wound on his forehead, he returned to Yelu Longxu and waited for his orders. Yelu Longxu kept bowing his head and reviewing the memorials, ignoring Xiao Shilan. When Xiao Shilan was a little uneasy, the eunuch outside came to report that General Zuo Jinwu had come. Yelu Longxu asked the eunuch to come in. Not long after, a general with full armor came in and knelt down at Yelu Longxu and said, "Long live my lord, long live my lord."
"Well, get up, Zuo Aiqing, I'm now ordering you to lead 20,000 Flying Wolf Cavalry. Be sure to kill all the envoys of the Song Kingdom this time. No mistakes are allowed. If you hear it, you will come to see me yourself." Yelu Longxu looked up at the general and said the last sentence, his tone became cold, which made Xiao Shiyuan on the side shudder.
"I swear to complete the task assigned by my Lord to the death. I will never let any of those Song people escape." The general named Zuo Jinwu replied loudly, thinking that if he could not get a thousand Song people even if he could not get a thousand Song people, then he would be shameless to come back.
Yelu Longxu nodded and said, "Go down, remember, don't underestimate the enemy, I'm waiting for your good news."
The general Zuo Jinwu responded and stood up and left. Yelu Longxu glanced at Xiao Shilan and said, "Go and tell Han Chang that old man that I don't want to see him again in the future."
Xiao Shilan was shocked, responded in a low voice, said goodbye to Yelu Longxu, and went to the underworld of Han Chang. That night, Han Chang sighed to the long waning moon in the sky, and drank a glass of poisonous wine soaked in the red crane. The next day, the Han Mansion claimed that the old marshal of the Liao Kingdom died of illness. Yelu Longxu was not stingy and posthumously named Han Chang as Duke of Yong. After his death, he was extremely mournful. When Xiao Shilan came to mourn Han Chang, he couldn't help feeling sad.
The north wind was filled with dry grass everywhere. The cold wind in the north made the Song soldiers from the Central Plains slightly uncomfortable, but fortunately, these people are strong and have good physical qualities. These cold winds can't do anything to them. Fang Yu looked at Yang Paifeng, the little face next to him, with a cold face like a red apple.
It made people want to take a bite. When Fang Yu thought of such a cute little girl, he couldn't help but feel more pity for her.
After leaving the Dading Prefecture of Liao Kingdom, Fang Yu and others did not go south, but headed northeast. Fang Yu's plan was very simple, that was to turn to Goryeo and return to the Song Dynasty from the sea. Of course, Goryeo has become a minister of Liao Kingdom now, and it is not so easy to borrow the Song Dynasty from here. For a small country like Goryeo, anyone who is strong will depend on whom. Fang Yu did not take them seriously. Although Goryeo has a lot of troops, Fang Yu did not.
It was planned to conquer the city and plunder the land from them, but it was just to rob them and hurt them. Fang Yu believed that Goryeo would definitely be willing to use the means to let them leave the sea. In addition, Fang Yu also wanted to recruit some people from the Jurchens and Jubu tribes in the north to enrich his cavalry team. If you want to say that these people on the grassland are born cavalry. With a little training, you can become a good soldier. Now the people here are scattered.
Small groups without their own national concepts, Fang Yu believes that as long as there are certain interests, they can tempt them to join their army. As long as there are a few thousand people, they can completely turn Goryeo upside down. Even if there are a little more people, they can directly fight back from the land of the Liao Kingdom. Of course, it is also very difficult to recruit so many people. First of all, although these people do not have the concept of a country, most of them still have their own concepts of their own tribes. Generally speaking, they are reluctant to leave their tribes. Another point is that the more people there are, the more difficult it is to replenish their supplies. Even if they go to loot, there will be so many places for looting. Just in the case of Goryeo, if they don’t attack their cities, then robbing a little rural things alone will not meet the needs of a large army. However, Fang Yu has not thought about these things carefully now.
Fang Yu and his group traveled north for a night. It was only during the day that they had set up camp and sent dozens of whistle-riding cavalry, and everyone went to rest. The reason why Fang Yu chose to rest during the day and march at night was because he had a far-reaching field of vision on the grassland during the day, and he could find it earlier when there were enemies. However, at night, the whistle-riding cavalry was not easy to see the enemy in the distance, so naturally he could not call the police in time. At the same time, Fang Yu also felt that robbing was better at night and it was easy to attack the selected targets. Speaking of robbing, Fang Yu was originally worried that Ouyang Chun and Zhan Zhao would disagree because they were too chivalrous. Who knew that when Fang Yu tentatively stated his robbing plan, the two agreed without thinking. It turned out that the knights at this time were not as mentioned in later novels. Love was flooded, and they would sympathize with all the weak. At this time, the knights were more
It is only loyalty, not principles, and will sympathize with the weak in the same race, but different races only talk about the distinction between their own people and their enemies. No one will be full and want to be a savior in the world. The only principle is that people like Ouyang Chun and Zhan Zhao will not do things like adultery, because as Han people, there is a moral standard, that is, lust is the leader of all evil, and filial piety is the first. In ancient times, ordinary people would not make these two mistakes. The rapist and the evil son were called to have a partner. Unlike later, rapist is a kind of honor, and unfilial piety is also a personal right. So Fang Yu sometimes couldn't understand. In the Song Dynasty, the trend of playing with women and playing with the young husband is so popular. Why did the people in the local area hate rapist so much at this time? Everyone is lustful, and why are the treatment so far apart?
But Fang Yu and his team had not planned to plunder so quickly to avoid exposing their group's direction of action too early. However, everyone soon found that there was no food and grass, and in this case, they could only ignore anything. After the sentry returned the situation ahead, Fang Yu and his team chose a town with only three thousand people and started the first plundering operation of this army. It was a small town, but in fact, Fang Yu and his team saw that the low earth wall was not like a city wall. This was a small capital of the Liao Kingdom. There were more than one hundred Liao soldiers responsible for the public security in this area. They robbed 100 Liao soldiers with one thousand iron cavalry and three thousand ordinary people. Naturally, there would be no questions.
Question: Taking advantage of the night, a thousand people were divided into ten groups and rushed into the town. They almost didn't have much effort to kill the 100 Liao soldiers, collected enough food and grass for four days, as well as two hundred horses and a large number of sheepskin sacks for winter. Some brave soldiers also snatched dozens of women back. However, at this time, they were running for their lives, so how could they bring these women as burdens? Fang Yu educated the soldiers and promised them that there would be better women after they arrived in Goryeo. Then Fang Yu let all these women go. Fang Yu did this just not want to make the army more burdens. Unexpectedly, in Yang Paifeng's eyes, this brother Yu became a good person.
After Fang Yu and his friends snatched the town, they turned northwest again. The northwest direction was the Mongolian grassland of later generations. There were many small tribes living on this land. Although they were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Liao Kingdom, these small tribes actually left the Liao Kingdom.
In addition, they live by water and plants. A tribe is actually a mobile country. As long as they claim to be a minister and pay tribute to the Liao Kingdom, generally speaking, the Liao Kingdom will not interfere too much in their tribe. Unless the tribe's strength expands too much, the Liao Kingdom will interfere.
The thousand cavalry led by Fang Yu was not very strong or small when they came to this grassland. At this time, the large tribes had 20,000 people to fight. No matter how big they were, the Liao Kingdom would try every means to suppress them. Moreover, there were very few large tribes like this, and most tribes had only one to three thousand people to fight. They each occupied a land of water and grass on the grassland. Although they often fought for the grassland, because the Liao Kingdom was checking and balancing them, even though this kind of struggle was extremely fierce. Generally speaking, one tribe did not dare to easily annex another tribe. When the Liao Kingdom was in the hands of Empress Xiao and Yelu Longxu, it would not sit idly by and watch which tribe became stronger.
A thousand people and more than two thousand horses were not very conspicuous on this vast grassland. The endless grassland was too big. Among the people, except Fang Yu, they were the first time they came to this place. Although it was winter and the grass had withered yellow, everyone was still moved by this magnificent landscape, and they all showed a look of admiration.
"Brother Yu, the scenery here is so spectacular." Yang Paifeng rode on a fiery red horse and stood side by side with Fang Yu. Looking at the landscape in front of him, he couldn't help but say Fang Yu in admiration.
Fang Yu looked up at the sky, frowned slightly, as if he hadn't heard Yang Paifeng's words. Yang Paifeng looked at the sky with Fang Yu's gaze. But he didn't see anything. He was curious and wanted to ask Fang Yu what he was looking at, but Zhan Zhao ran over and said, "Brother, are you camping here today."
Fang Yu withdrew his gaze, shook his head, pointed to the sky and said, "I'm afraid there will be a big battle today. Look at the sky there, the black spot looks like a kite. Maybe the Liao soldiers are chasing each other. Let's take a break here and wait until the whistle drivers find out the situation."
Zhan Zhao and Yang Paifeng looked in the direction Fang Yu pointed. Sure enough, there was a black dot in the sky hovering and flying there. Zhan Zhao asked curiously: "Brother, why did you see that it was a kite?"
"Ha. Hehe, I can't see clearly either, but it's a harrier eagle, but it's true. I've seen this kind of bird before. The trained harrier can track and monitor people on the ground at high altitude, and report the situation to its owner in the air with a series of flight actions. Now the kite is hovering there, just reporting the situation here to its owner." Fang Yu smiled and explained to Zhan Zhao and Yang Paifeng, but the two of them didn't seem to understand very well, but they still didn't understand, so they nodded. When Fang Yu saw their expressions, he knew that they didn't understand very well, but Fang Yu didn't know how to explain it clearly.
"Brother Yu is so amazing. Even I know this. Otherwise, Brother Yu, how about you shoot it down?" Yang Paifeng looked at Fang Yu with a naive look on his face, with the admiration of Fang Yu in his eyes.
"No, it's flying too high, and the bow and arrow can't shoot that high." Fang Yu shook his head and denied Yang Paifeng's idea.
"Brother, then there is no way to deal with such a tracking thing?" Zhan Zhao asked at the black dot in the sky.
"It's not that there is no way. With my archery, I can find a way to lure it down and shoot it down." Fang Yu still has some confidence in his current archery. For Fang Yu, shooting moving objects is easier than stationary objects.
Zhan Zhao and Yang Paifeng were still very convinced of Fang Yu's words. At this time, Xu Qing, Ouyang Chun, Bai Yutang and others all rode over, but Zhan Zhao left here to send orders to the soldiers below. Xu Qing dismounted and said, "Brother, what did you say just now."
"We may have set the Liao soldiers on the sky. The kite in the sky is a kind of bird used for reconnaissance on the grassland. It is now reporting the situation of us to its owner. Let's take a break first, and there may be a fierce battle to fight later." Fang Yu said the previous words to everyone again.
Xu Qing looked at the black dot in the sky, touched his head, and said, "It's good that those bastards from the Liao Kingdom come. I'm afraid they won't come. Today, I have to hammer them a few more."
Everyone also knew that Xu Qing was a warlike person. If he didn't fight or kill for a few days, he would feel that life was boring. Moreover, since he entered Liao, everyone felt that he had suffered a lot of leisure. At this time, he was not only not afraid of the Liao soldiers who might be chasing him, but they were like Xu Qing. They all wanted to fight one by one to relieve the depression in their hearts.
When Fang Yu and his group were guessing whether the Liao soldiers came, a fast horse came straight to Fang Yu. The horse knight saw Fang Yu, turned over and got off the horse, and knelt down on one knee to Fang Yu. 《font style="display:none"》 (1 6k Novel Network www.cn Mobile, mobile phone reading. You can also download Electronic Astronomy "font color="red"" Mobile phone Interview: 16 k.cn "/font" Enjoy the fun of reading anytime, anywhere!
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