Chapter 14 Khitan's worries

Li Congke is not a fool. He also saw what Feng Dao saw. Is the alliance with Zhang Mai right or wrong?

Originally, he planned to start organizing the internal structure immediately after stabilizing the Western Front and form an alliance with the Tiance Army to deal with the Khitan, hoping that when he was weakening the vassal states, the Khitan did not dare to take action easily because he was restrained by the Tiance Army. But now, Li Congke has to consider what to do if he cuts the vassal states and Zhang Mai intervenes?

The opening of the Decade is a win-win situation for the Later Tang and the Tiance Army. Although the greed on the Later Tang side was quite serious, Li Congke still obtained a lot of money from it, and the amount was far beyond his expectations. You should know that it was not the Tiance Army itself who did business with the Later Tang. The Tiance Army played a linkage role. By opening up the middle section of the Silk Road, the Central Plains and the world west of the Pamir Mountains were reconnected. The commercial momentum it generated was imagined. The Lianglan region and the Guanzhong region benefited first, and the Bashu Basin was driven by the Guandong prefectures, and even Jingchu and Jiangnan were touched.

Li Congke started his business in Fengxiang and had a strong control over the Yongqin area. He had traded with the northwest. He had the most benefits. The several powerful vassals he feared received were less benefits. If he continued to strengthen the armed forces of the Central Army with this amount of money, then time would be on his side.

However, Li Congke was a little anxious. He was not young anymore and always hoped to finish all this in the shortest time!

What's more, the reduction of the vassal states is not the end, but it is just the first step, the second step is to integrate the world, and the third step is to make people reluctant to accept it outside... What a grand cause that is, the road after the reduction of the vassal states is still long, so it needs to be fast!

However, the situation in front of him asked Li Congke to keep calm.

In the far north, a woman who has always been very calm could not wait in the tent at this time. After hearing the news, she ran out of the tent barefoot, lifted the heavy bag from the horse's back, opened the bag, pushed the lime away, and saw the shriveled corpse. The body had no head, but she still recognized his brother from the scars on her chest and abdomen.

"Myer!"

The one-armed Queen Mother Shuluping shook her body. She was cruel, but she was not a ruthless woman, but her self-control often suppressed the volcanic emotions.

Yelu Deguang caught up from behind and wanted to support his mother, but Shuluping pushed it away!

"Don't help me!" The old empress dowager stood up straight: "I'm not old yet, I'm not dead yet! I won't just fall down like that!"

"Mother Queen!" Yelu Deguang knelt on one knee. With a swish, thousands of people on the grassland knelt down. It was late spring, and the grass grew to its knees. The thousands of people in the camp tent had no sound. Only Yelu Deguang said: "Don't worry, my uncle, my son will definitely avenge my uncle's revenge! I will lead my troops to commit suicide in Liangzhou, take back my uncle's head, and ask Zhang Mai to bury him with him!"

With a snap, Yelu Deguang was slapped heavily, and Shulu pointed at him and scolded: "Emperor! You are the emperor! You obviously won't do anything, don't say it!"

She pressed her chest and shouted with a crack: "There is no tolerance for national affairs! Not to mention your uncle, even your brother, you have to give in! Even me, you have to give in! He was killed on the battlefield, there is nothing to hate! Get up, get up, stand up for me, don't kneel down!"

All the people stood up with the shouts, only Yelu Letaigu was still crawling on the ground and buried his head in the grass.

"Letaigu, you stood up for me, straightened your back and told me, "Tiance Army is really that powerful? Yang Yi is really that powerful!"

Yelu Letaigu stood up, barely stabilized his feet and did not tremble, and said, "Yes."

"I heard that the most powerful cavalry of the Tiance Army is the Longxiang Army beside Zhang Mai, the Yingyang Army beside Yang Yi, and a sweat-blooded cavalry regiment named Xue Fu! And the most powerful infantry is the Modao Battle Axe Formation - which one did you encounter last time? Which one did Zhemoye encounter this time?"

"The last time I met was just Yang Yi's deputy general." Yelu Letaigu said: "What Moye encountered this time was Yang Yi's Yingyang army, and one or two thousand Modao and Battle Axe Army."

"Those are the other party's two elites!" Shu Luping shouted: "Then why did he break in so recklessly!"

"This... we didn't expect Yang Yi to come in person at first, nor did we expect that when Tang people came, they would be the strongest cavalry and infantry..."

"Fart!" Shuluping cursed: "You don't know, have you ever inquired? Can't you inquire? Then have you ever tried? Have you not even known the other party's reality, and the main general has already rushed forward? You can't know, you are not ready to know at all!" He looked around all the civil servants and generals present and said coldly: "Who will tell me why our Khitan has been able to unify the north and south of the desert in recent years, and why can he thrive in the Central Plains?"

It took a long time since no one touched each other, and a young general said, "It's because our Khitan cavalry is invincible."

"Let your bullshit!" Shuluping stared at the young man in front of him and said, "The words of invincibility are boastful to people outside. If you really have this thought in your heart, then you will be not far from death. Today I will tell you the truth-"

She paused, swallowed her saliva and let her hoarse throat smooth, and then said: "We Khitans can become stronger because the Han people are weaker! We can occupy the old land of the Andong Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, taking advantage of the Han people's killing each other. We can occupy the northern part of the Mobei region, taking advantage of the decline of the Uighurs. How many wars have you really thought that they are all fighting with the strong? It is a good thing for the warriors on the grassland to challenge the strong, but it is a fool to fight with others head-on! In the past few decades, we Khitans have indeed been invincible under the leadership of the Emperor of Heaven, but do you think that our cavalry can be invincible under any circumstances? Most of the time, we found the weakness of the other party and then attacked! You have forgotten the lessons of our fathers. If you have such a defeat, you deserve it!"

Shuluping pointed to the two corpses of Shulu Moye's body and said with tears in his face: "Hold up his body and let everyone in the Khitan see what the enemy is going to be underestimated!"

At first, no one dared to take action. It was not until Yelu Deguang nodded beside him that two skin chambers stepped forward and tied Yelu Zhemoye's body to a flagpole.

"Emperor, son!" Shuluping looked at his younger brother's body on the flagpole.

"Son is here!"

"You have to remember today, you have to remember how your uncle was dismembered!" Shuluping said: "This is a shame for the Shulu tribe, and it is even more a shame for the Khitan, and it is also your shame! One Moye is not to be cherished! One Beiting is not to be abandoned! But the Mobei tribes have been shaken - if Mobei is lost, our Khitan will lose everything! The grassland can only accommodate a strong man, and the weak can only become slaves!" Later, her tone became very slow: "How to deal with the Tiance army, maybe you have to reconsider!"

"We underestimated them before," Yelu Deguang said: "Now it seems that it may be necessary to pacify the northwest first and then settle the Central Plains!"

"No!" Han Yanhui, the Han minister, took a step forward and said: "The Western Regions are thousands of miles away, and the victory and defeat are difficult to decide. The situation in the Central Plains is extremely subtle. If we lead our clans to attack the west, we will weaken our control over Lu Long and Hedong. If we fight with the Tiance Army, Li Congke will definitely take the opportunity to reduce the vassal states. Once he is asked to flatten the Central Plains vassal states and turn them into giant dragons, at that time, Liaodong and southern Mohe will not be able to live in peace."

Just when there was a disagreement to deal with the strategy of the Tiance Army, a small number of cavalry rushed past the northern part of the Uighurs in Beiting. Beiting was vast. Although Yang Yi controlled the strategic points of Beiting, he could not control the hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. This team of cavalry was more familiar with the terrain of Beiting than Yang Yi. Taking advantage of the winter cold, he stole the path between the northern grasslands and mountains and forests, entered the north of the desert, and then came to the Yelu Deguang Tent.

In the past, tribes from the Western Regions came to the east, whether they paid tribute or on missions, they always had to prepare gifts. However, the team of men had no gifts. Even due to the long journey, their clothes were tattered and tattered. At first glance, they looked similar to a group of beggars, but after Yelu Deguang heard about their origin, he still met them.

He glanced at a general in charge and said, "Are you the Uighur general Ge Lan who betrayed Vijay?"

The man standing in front of him was Ge Lan, but he did not wince and said, "I am Ge Lan. But the reason I left Viaga is because he lost the qualification of a king! My current Khan is Arslan Khan!"

"So, did Arslan send you here?"

"Yes," Ge Lan said: "To be more precise, I asked the Khan of Arslan to meet His Majesty the Great Khitan Emperor!"

"Hmph," Yelu Deguang said: "The Uighurs in Lingxi have no friendship with me, Khitan. What is Arslan asking you to come to see me?"

"Why should your Majesty ask clearly?" Ge Lan said: "For our common enemy - Zhang Mai! I set out before the battle of Xiaojinshan, but the battle of Xiaojinshan was not as unexpected as I expected. Zhang Mai had indeed attacked the Khitan."

Yelu Deguang frowned, and Han Yanhui shouted, "What do you mean by this sentence?"

"I mean," Ge Lan said: "Zhang Mai is a beast that will never be full! After eating Talas, he targeted Shule, after eating Shule, he targeted Kucha, after eating Kucha, after eating Kucha, after eating the entire Anxi, he targeted Hexi, and now he has also eaten Hexi. Now that he is blocking him, only Khitan is left!"

Han Yanhui laughed: "Don't compare our Khitan with those small countries in the Western Regions!"

Ge Lan said: "Satuk, Gudu, Viga, Cao Yijin, Di Yin... These people have said the same thing before."

Han Yanhui's face changed slightly, but Yelu Deguang stopped him and asked, "No need to say anything, just talk, what does Arslan ask you to do?"
Chapter completed!