Chapter 19: Young Captive Camp

Yelu Wuzhi came from Yelu Shuogu's tent and came to Yelu Chacho again. Yelu Chacho asked, "Why is it too late? Why are you here to do?"

Yelu Wuzhi said: "Just come from the quiet and stable position, he is losing his temper. He says the two major generals are not in harmony with each other and are preparing to remove the deputy commander."

Yelu Chache laughed and said, "Remove Huwuli? He won't do such a thing! Who is Huwuli? That's the place for the Empress Dowager Supervisor! Yelu Shuogu dares to offend anyone, but he doesn't dare to offend him! The current Khitan is the world of Shulu!"

Yelu Wuzhi hurriedly said, "Brother Chacao, you must not say this nonsense!"

Yelu Chache snorted coldly, "I saw that you are also a child of Yelu Jinzhi, so I told you the truth!"

Yelu Wuzhi said, "Yelu and Shulu are inseparable bodies. Emperor Tian, ​​Empress Earth, and natural enemies are inseparable, and the royal family is also one. What does it mean that the Khitan is the world of Shulu? His Majesty the Emperor is still from our Yelu family."

Yelu Chache sneered: "The current emperor is the surname Yelu... but the empress dowager has the power to depose the emperor!" He was not an arrogant person who was not willing to restrain himself. He lowered his voice when he said this and said: "Who doesn't know the way of the empress dowager? Since the death of the Emperor of Heaven, she has been the only one in the whole country! The human emperor is the eldest son and her son. If she is said to be deposed, she will be deposed?" He pulled Yelu Wuzhi and said: "You know, although the empress dowager likes the current emperor more than the human emperor, the one he likes is Li Hu!"

Yelu Lihu is the younger brother of Yelube and Yelu Deguang, the third son of Yelu Abaoji and Shuluping. He is the most favored by Shulu. Everyone in the Khitan knows about this.

"Your Majesty the Emperor today may not become the second emperor tomorrow!"

Yelu Cha's words surprised Yelu Wuzhi and hurriedly said, "After all, the Empress Dowager is the biological mother of His Majesty the Emperor, and this is not the case between mother and son."

"Mother and son, mother and son! What kind of love can a mother and son be tolerated in national affairs?" Yelu Cha said: "People say that children are like flesh and blood, but she can even cut her own hands! What's more, a piece of meat that has been separated from the body!"

Shuluping was very skillful. When Yelu Abaoji died, in order to maintain her position, she insisted that she would lead some of Abaoji's ministers to sacrifice for her husband! After the ministers tried hard to persuade her, she still refused to give up and forced her to cut off one of her arms to "follow the emperor underground" instead of her! This forced most of her political enemies to "sacrifice" for Abaoji. A woman could use her husband's funeral to ruin her political enemies. Her perseverance was really terrifying! And her persistence in power can also be seen!

Yelu Cha said: "The Uighurs originated from Mobei, but my Khitan belonged to the Donghu faction! The Huangshui River is between the Donghu and Mobei, but the main and secondary are still clear! Now, the empress dowager is in the face of fear of the shock of Mobei and to protect Mobei, she has abandoned the benefits of the Central Plains! Do you think she is for the Khitan or for the Shulu?"

Yelu Wuzhi said: "Although the Central Plains is beneficial, the Beiting is harmful - if the Tiance army, which has whales swallowed the world, is a climate, I am afraid that in the future, we will not be able to protect it, it will be more than Mobei!"

"The Tiance Army has the ambition to swallow the world. Isn't Li Congke in the Central Plains? The Tiance Army can attack my Mobei from Beiting. Can Li Congke attack my northeast from Yanyun?" Yelu Cha said: "From Yanjing to Huangshui, it is easier than from Beiting to Mobei! The tribes in Mobei are not devoted to our Khitan! There are also immigrants who are dissatisfied with us. The Bohai Sea also has immigrants who are disobedient in our time. The Jurchens rebelled in time. The Liaodong **** bitch now seems to be respectful, but in fact they have been looking for a new master. Once the Tang army leaves western Liaoning, the Bohai Sea remains, and the backyard of the Jurchen barbarians catches fire, and the Donghu's foundation will be in danger at that time - did these empress dowagers not see them? Why do you only see the danger in Mobei!"

In fact, Yelu Chache is not so supportive of Yelu Deguang, but rather that he prefers Yelu Bei. Yelu Bei is the eldest son of Yelu. Shulu Ping abolished the crown prince and established Yelu Deguang. Even if she had a sufficient reason, in the eyes of Yelu, this kind of interfering with the inheritance of the Yelu family is unacceptable! Moreover, Yelu Bei is outside, but his descendants are still left in the Khitan. Shulu Ping suppressed most of the political enemies through two major changes - forcing political enemies to be buried alive and changing the Khitan heirs - but the people who supported Yelu Bei's branch still did not cut off, but just hid them secretly.

There were no oppositions within the Khitan regarding the advance of the Beiting army. However, the East did not dare to openly confront Shuluping. When it came to the front line, internal conflicts broke out.

Although Yelu Wuzhi was young, he had already been an official since he was in his teens and had been intimate with various changes from the Abaoji era to the present. Therefore, Yelu Chache only showed his thoughts slightly, but he had already seen his true thoughts in his heart. At this time, he did not point it out and just asked: "So what should I do if Brother Chache is going to do? Is it going to be defeated by my Khitan in Beiting? Will I humiliate the empress dowager? Well, in that case, maybe I have the chance to let the empress dowager reflect."

Yelu Chache was stunned and frowned and said, "How can this kind of thing be done? Once the army is defeated, let alone the power of our Khitan, our army will also be greatly damaged! Using tens of thousands of elite soldiers to exchange for the old woman's reflection is too expensive!"

Yelu Wuzhi said, "If not, we must ask His Majesty to allow us to withdraw our troops before we are dragged into the quagmire."

Yelu Chaci said: "Although this is the best, we have a covenant with the Uighurs to attack Beiting. Now the fierce battle is in full swing, and suddenly we are about to slap our feet, and His Majesty can't get out of his face."

Yelu Wuzhi said: "It is impossible to get permission to withdraw troops. Delaying will ruin the country. Since that is the case, I think there is only the third way."

"What way?"

Yelu Wuzhi said: "Please give up your prejudices for the entire Khitan plan and cooperate with Hu Wuli!"

Yelu Chache was stunned and sneered: "Want me to cooperate with that useless old man?"

Yelu Wuzhi said, "Although Huwuli is useless, he is his own person after all! No matter how domineering Shulu's family is, do you think the queen mother will let Shulu's surname be the emperor of the Khitan? Will her nephews and nephews replace her descendants?"

Yelu Cha said, "Of course not. How can nephews and nephews kiss their children and grandchildren?"

"Then the world of the Khitan will still be the world of the Yelu family in the future." Yelu Wuzhi said: "The Empress Dowager is getting older. Even if she is domineering, how many years can she be domineering? This country is still ours after all! No matter how powerful the Shulu family women are, they will still be our Yelu family women. Perhaps it was wrong to go west to Beiting itself, and now it is too late to go east to fight for the benefits of the Central Plains. But if we do not fight hard, the hidden dangers that might have been eliminated cannot be eliminated, and the benefits of the Central Plains have been missed. Wouldn't that be both wrong at that time? Isn't that a mistake?"

Yelu Chache heard this and said, "The house is in the form of a house, you are here to be a lobbyist for Huweili today! Well, Huweili can't move you, it was Yelu Shuogu who sent you!"

"Xiangwen didn't send me here, it was me who went to see him! It was me who wanted to come by myself!" Yelu Wuzhi said, "But, it would be good if I was sent by anyone. Brother Chacao, do you think what I said just now makes sense?"

Yelu Chacho had a calm face and had not spoken for a long time. Yelu Wuzhi wanted to let him calm down before he was about to leave the tent. Yelu Chacho suddenly said, "The Tiance Army is actually not without flaws."

"What?" Yelu Wuzhi was stunned.

Yelu Chaci said: "For the past two months, I have been in charge of the eastern wing, but although there are fewer Tiance troops on the eastern wing, there are no flaws to be found."

During this Khitan Western Expedition, Shulu was in the forefront because of the bereavement, so he was the one who was in charge of the western wing. They were also the ones who kept communicating with the Uighurs in the west of the Khitan. Yelu Chache was located in the rear, protecting the way back, breaking the villages in the eastern part of Beiting, and besieging Zhelumanshan City and other wars. He was in command.

"The main force of the Tiance Army is concentrated in Beiluntai City. The troops are not arranged on the road to Yizhou, but the goal is clear, and they must defend the city to the death! Their defense is famous. Once they make up their minds, it will be very difficult for us to take down Zheluomanshan City. If we want to take it in three months, I dare to assert that it is impossible!"

Zheluomanshan City is no better than the small Jinshan hanging alone. Behind it is the road to Yizhou, and it is backed by Tianshan Mountain. It is a dangerous place. The repairs in the past two years have made the city's fortifications complete and the savings are abundant. Yang Yi made very careful arrangements for this and explained that as long as he can defend Zheluomanshan City, everything else is not to be cared for. Because of his sufficient preparation and obvious strategic goals, the selected generals are all steady. Therefore, it is not easy for Yelu Chacao to send all the elite soldiers in the skin room to take them down.

"But there is an opportunity to take advantage of the Beiluntai City!" Yelu Chache said: "If the head coach of the Tang army is a mature and steadfast person this time, it will be more difficult for us to deal with it. But Zhang Mai and Yang Yi are not such people. They both like to take risks. Yang Yi has to defend but refuses to give up his advantage, so he has the initiative to attack the Uighur base camp at night. He has to shrink in and wants to minimize consumption, but refuses to give up the opportunity to stop us from joining us - he is probably unwilling to let us get together too easily. In other words, this person is strategic The upper party is still swaying! He is a main attacker, and all his arrangements are obviously not for defense. The response of the camps is to attack at any time! So their cavalry sometimes wanders a hundred miles away from the main camp to intercept us! This shows that their cavalry has the ability to fight hard with us in the field, but this is not a defensive momentum at all! Although he is determined to use the severe winter to freeze us to death, if we reveal our flaws, he will not wait until the cold winter. He will be proud to annihilate us before the cold winter comes!"

Yelu Wuzhi was a little excited when he heard this: "Brother, is this their flaw?"

"It can be a flaw if it is used well!" Yelu Chache said, "But this is not a flaw that can be exploited suddenly! Besides, we and the Uighurs themselves also have flaws. Even if Yang Yi attacked because he couldn't bear it, the victory and defeat between us and the Tiance army was only 55..." He said this and sneered: "So I never thought attacking Beiting was a good choice!"

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During this period, Chai Rong ran in the northeast and northwest of Luntai Defense Zone. He was the deputy commander of the young soldiers, but even the new soldiers who completed the training could only be arranged in the second and third rings. These young soldiers who had not completed the training were even less trusted by the veterans. They did not trust the loyalty of these young soldiers, but their combat effectiveness.

"What can a group of stinky boys do?"

Many veterans and veterans thought to themselves. Many people seemed to have forgotten that when they were in Lingxi, the time it took to start from re-entering the army to winning the victorious Western Regions was actually very short.

Old guys (in fact, most people are just qualified to be old rather than old) are always like this. After experiencing that stage, they will not be sympathetic to the younger generations who are experiencing this stage. Old guys always think that they are different from the younger generations. The arrogant face often makes Shi Octopus and others very angry.

But no matter how angry they are, they have no power or position, and they are not the only ones who say nothing, and they don’t even have the chance to make suggestions. They have to do whatever they arrange for them to do.

Yesterday, I was arranged to patrol, today, I might be arranged to protect my horse, tomorrow, I might be arranged to appease the irritable herders... In short, it was all auxiliary things. From another perspective, the old guys did this out of caring for them, and they didn't let them do too dangerous things, and they pushed them to the front line in an instant.

However, whether it is Shi Octopus or Chen Fengxiao, they all yelled in secret. In their opinion, this is not a place of care, but it simply deprived them of the opportunity to make contributions!

Shortly after the victory of the enemy, Chai Rong's part was assigned a new task, which was to go to the inner second defense to take care of some young prisoners.

These are all prisoners aged between thirteen and fourteen and sixteen and seventeen. This time, all the Uighurs were on the battlefield. Almost all the males were dispatched for more than four and a half feet, and they had to ride on the battlefield if they were over five feet! Those who were younger, such as those who were thirteen and fourteen, had to help with logistics, such as herding horses and sheeping on the spot, etc.

During several conflicts between the Tang army and the Uighurs, they were injured and captured suddenly. In general, the Tang army was more strict and tidy. After all, Satuk obtained the military and political power of the Uighurs in Lingxi. After all, it was less than a year since he had given him a calm finishing time for only one winter, so many details were naturally not as good as the Tang army.

Yang Yi arranged the army layer by layer, with the strong outside and the weak inside. It was difficult for the Uighurs to break through several rings of elite soldiers and generals to break into the internal raid of the logistics and civilians of the Tang army. However, the Uighurs' arrangements were not as orderly as those of the Tang army, and their supplies were not as well prepared as those of the Tang army. Therefore, the Tang army's rangers often had the opportunity to take advantage of, invade their weak links and disrupt their formation.

Because of this, the number of Uighur soldiers and civilians captured by the Tang army over the past two months was several times more than those captured by the Uighurs! There were more than 700 young men aged twelve to sixteen. The Tiance Army was very strict with those who were difficult to naturalize, especially during the war, Geshuo's extinction practice was not questioned, but Zhang Mai was more inclined to be kind to the minor. However, during the war, the Tang army had no extra experience to persuade them, so they were arranged to be on a small hill on the inner second ring road, and they were asked to do some hard work and some herdsmen were in charge.

Unexpectedly, some of the seven hundred people were extremely naughty and powerful. Once, they tried to kill the herdsmen and escape. Although the matter was not successful, it was also the Tang army's preventive measures. When the nearby third battalion soldiers heard the news, they also went to work together to suppress the hidden dangers.

After this, the handling of the remaining nearly 600 people became a very difficult problem. Even Yang Yi was as cruel as he did not want to kill these teenagers. Guo Shiyong suggested transporting them to Gaochang, but that would take a lot of effort. Zhang Mai said: "We seem to have a group of young soldiers, and we will be transferred to control them! The young soldiers are in charge of young offenders, and we are on the road!"

He said casually, Chai Rong was transferred to the Second Ring Road. Shi Octopus and others felt depressed about this decision. However, the first military training he received after entering the Guzang grassland was that military orders were like mountains! What's more, this was a decision made by Zhang Mai in person, how could it be overturned by a few words of teenagers?

There were two teams of young soldiers who were transferred to take charge of these young prisoners, and there were no more than herders. They were all in all kinds of swords and horses and were well-organized, and it was more than enough to suppress six.

When Shi Octopus and others complained, Chai Rong was more happy to think that this might not be a bad thing. After coming here, he had much autonomy. Originally, he was just the deputy team leader, and there was also a veteran in his thirties who was the chief team leader. After coming here, the other team was under the command of this team leader. This team was quite dependent on Chai Rong, so Chai Rong got more power. In this 100-person young team, he was already under one person, above a hundred people. Another deputy team leader was Hu Yanzhao, and was also impressed by Chai Rong's wisdom and courage. Because of his peers, these little leaders were close to Chai Rong as far as the chief team leader, which made Chai Rong the child king of these young soldiers.

"Damn it! I've already rushed to the outer second ring road and can fight those Khitans at any time, but I'm transferred here in a blink of an eye! What's this? If we want to shed horses and sheep, we'll be fine in Hexi, why bother to come to Beiting?"

Shi Octopus and others shouted, and Hu Yanzhao was also very dissatisfied. The young man was upright and had to vent his resentment. The best target to vent was naturally those young prisoners!

"Damn it, it's all these Hui Hui kids!" Looking at the young prisoner who was also resentful and picking up cow dung, Shi Octopus suddenly showed a fierce light.
Chapter completed!