Chapter 88 Hostility
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"What's the important thing now? Call us all back?"
Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan, Yin Peng and Tang Qing walked into the house and saw Xu Huai, Liu Qiong'er, Su Laochang, Xu Wuli, Xu Wukun, Zheng Tu, Zhou Jing and others in the house; the yard was empty, and Han Qi and the two blocked the gate of the courtyard to prevent irrelevant people from approaching.
Judging from this posture, Xu Xin'an and Tang Pan knew that Xu Huai sent someone to call them back to Nanyu Lane, and things were never simple.
Xu Huai stood in front of the window and saw Xu Xin'an and the others walking into the living room before sitting down.
Since going north, he has been thinking hard about the situation in all aspects of the Khitan, which is obviously even less optimistic. Why did Dayue gather superior forces to fight against Yan north, and why did it suffer a severe blow?
He has always had the luxury of reversing the existing historical trajectory.
Now he finally brushed away the fog that covered his eyes, but the vague historical truth was so cruel that it was powerless.
It is not entirely true that Xiao Linshi has great ability and skills.
After Xiao Linshi was a Khitan royal family, he was once in the Xingyi Palace and was in power for the position of state affairs in the Southern Prime Minister's Office. Seeing the Khitan national politics declining, he watched the Khitan men fall one after another under the iron hooves of the Chihu people, but he was powerless.
Xiao Linshi really needs great ability and skills. He only needs to set up tens of thousands of elite troops in Shuo and wait for the place to stand up to keep the enemy from the outside. Why do you need to take such a dangerous plan?
However, Xiao Linshi, who had no choice but to do anything about the decline of the Khitan, set up such a death trap on Xijing Road, but it was like a Luotian big net, which made Xu Huai unable to stop tens of thousands of Dayue soldiers from stepping in ignorantly.
There are no one in the temple who has long-term plans. At this moment, few people took the threat of the Chihu people seriously. What can he stop?
It’s hard to persuade the damn god!
What he can do now is that since the temple has no long-term plans, he will not plan with it.
At this time, he urgently summoned everyone to Nanyu Lane, and wanted to formally determine this tone before Hu sent Zhu Han north.
Before this, Xu Wuli, Zhou Jing, Su Laochang and others were all inclined to learn about Chen Zixiao through Wang Bing or Wang Fan's report, hoping that this would be helpful to the northern expedition to fight against Yan.
All this is due to their deep-rooted feelings of family and country and loyalty in their hearts, and they do not feel that this temple is beyond healing.
Of course, Xu Huai would never reject his loyalty and righteous feelings towards his country.
If Xu Wuli, Su Laochang and others had not had a deep sense of family and country, how could they have such a deep recognition of his biological father, Wang Xiaocheng; and if they were not loyal and righteous people, how could they have made such great sacrifices, and have been dormant in Tongbai Mountain for more than ten years, covering up his life experience and taking good care of him?
If Xu Huai had not hoped to turn the tide or thought about doing something, he would not have taken everyone to risk staying in the north.
However, in his eyes, even if the feelings of family and country cannot be abandoned, it does not mean that he must be loyal and righteous to this temple.
At this moment, Xu Huai even had to make it clear that he had no far-reaching plans and was occupied by people who were occupied by wolves, greed, rats and thieves to ensure the absolute independence of Zhufeng Hall.
Now everyone is hesitating whether to report Chen Zixiao’s affairs or a trivial matter.
It is not to mention that the Chihu Iron Cavalry will go south like a torrent in the future. They will try every means to avoid being dragged into the quagmire of incompetent and stupid temples. Take this trip north as an example. If they cannot maintain absolute independence and soberness, Xu Huai will not know how many people will return alive in the end.
"What the hell is that you really scared us like this!" Tang Pan asked with a smile.
Xu Huai spread the Yanyun geometric map onto the long table, took a long breath and said:
"The governor of Shuozhou, Cao Shixiong, led his troops to the southern court of Shuozhou. Tianxiong's army was in Langu. Ningwu's troops would go to Shuozhou City in two days at the latest. I had just received the order from Wang Fanlangjun to escort Zhu Hanlangjun to the governor of Shuozhou City before this time!"
"Is that true?"
At first glance, Xu Huai talked about this secret matter, Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan, Yin Peng, Tang Qing, Zheng Tu and others were all very excited.
Xu Wukun said happily: "If the Shuozhou governor really surrenders so quickly, it seems that there will be no bad battle to win the entire Xijing Road. Xin'an also complained that he was assigned to the Military Supervision Envoy, and there was no military achievements to be made. If it could be resolved so smoothly from beginning to end, it would be the most comfortable thing to be assigned to the Military Supervision Envoy!"
They could not see the crisis hidden deep in the depths, and suddenly they heard the enemy generals surrendering before the war. How could they be unhappy and unhappy?
Even if Wang Fan, Zhu Han and others, who are not sure of winning?
This also determines that Xu Huai's position at this time cannot withstand a gust of light breeze.
However, it was Xu Wuli, Zhou Jing, Su Laochang and others who saw Xu Huai in the afternoon asking Liu Qiong'er to search out all the text materials of Datong Mansion, and they were absolutely convinced by Xu Huai, so they guessed that things were far less simple than what Tang Pan and Xu Wukun and the others thought.
At this time, when Xu Huai talked about Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili's enslavement, he was worried about his followers. Su Laochang frowned and asked, "What do you think Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili's enslavement are a fraud?"
"..." Xu Huai shook his head and said, "Cao Shixiong, Cao Shili is a Han Chinese in the Bohai Sea. Although they may not have much affection for the Central Plains, the fact that the Khitans are weaker and weaker than the West is a fact that anyone with discerning eyes can see. They cannot be loyal ministers and harsh khitans. At this critical moment, they use their Han identity to accept this point more easily for the Great Yue. There should be no problem in surrendering to the Great Yue in the south-substan.
"What's wrong with the whole thing?" Xu Wukun asked in confusion.
"Although Yue Hailou had previously represented the court and Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili had many secret contacts, and the court also enthroned Cao Shixiong as the Xinzhou Observer, Liu Shizhong, Cai Yuanyou and Ge Boyi were still worried about fraud. When Cao Shixiong officially changed his banner, he must clear the Khitan, Xi tribe and other tribes in Suzhou. I led my troops to escort Zhu Han to Shuozhou. Rather than being a general, it was to supervise whether the Shuozhou affiliated troops were killed according to the requirements of Liu, Cai, Ge and others."
Xu Huai said,
"Although Wang Fanlangjun never revealed a word to me, the northern expedition strategy formulated by the Privy Council is no longer a secret in my eyes. Look at the topographic map, the 50,000 imperial guards of the Eastern Army and the Xiang army of the same size have completed the assembly at Yanmen, Daizhou, and basically attracted the main force of the Khitan garrison on Xijing Road to the southern part of Yingzhou. However, it was our Western Army that the assembly of Tianxiong Army was delayed and delayed, which undoubtedly created an illusion for the Khitans: to the west of them, there were Shuozhou City Control and Chasing the Hui River on both sides, which was enough to block the Tianxiong Army that had been defeated by them more than ten years ago..."
"You mean that the Tianxiong Army's troops had actually secretly completed the preparation for a rapid advance north, but they delayed the assembly. In fact, they waited for Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili to officially surrender. The troops rushed directly to Shuozhou, and even did not stop in Shuozhou, and raided Datong, the heart of Xijing Road from the west as quickly as possible?"
Xu Wuli led the Jingsheng army to Datong City more than ten years ago. The marching route at that time was along the Huihe River. He was very familiar with this situation.
"Do you suspect that the head coach of the Khitan Xijing Road had already noticed Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili had a problem. It is very likely that the Tianxiong army would hide under the ambush in Datong City and would be buried in?" Xu Wuli asked.
"Datong must be a trap, there is no doubt that, but in addition to Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili, Yuehailou and Liu Shizhong, Ge Boyi could not fail to repeatedly confirm the situation of Datong's garrison before launching the raid. Therefore, when Tianxiong's army attacked Datong City, Datong City must be empty! Ge Boyi, Liu Shizhong, Cai Yuanyou and other idiots insisted that Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili brothers raised their butcher knives to the Khitan and the miscellaneous captives before they could trust them. How could they not repeatedly confirm whether there were ambushers in Datong City?" Xu Huai said, "The real problem lies in the high-pressure policy of the conscription horses in the North of Vietnam against the Khitan and the foreign tribes..."
Xu Huai threw some of the information compiled by Liu Qiong'er on the geometric map and said:
"In the past two hundred years, in order to strengthen the control of Xijing Road and Nanjing Road, in addition to its own tribe, the Khitans have also continuously moved the Tiel, Xianbei, Rouran, Xi people, and Bohai Han people whom they conquered. As the Datong, as the governor of Xijing Road, there were nearly 200,000 Khitans and Miscellaneous Guards in the city at this time. At this time, the imperial guards were loose in Lan Dai and other places, and there were many plunders and nuisances. When Cao Shixiong and Cao Shili slaughtered the enemy people in Shuozhou, the news of the raided troops and horses spread to Datong City. At this time, if nearly 200,000 Khitans and barbarians in Datong City were aroused fierce resistance, they would definitely become the quagmire of the death of the raided troops and horses!"
Xu Wuli is a man who knows about soldiers and can't help but take a breath of cold air at this time.
The Khitan has become increasingly weak, and there are corrupt officials in its territory, nobles, officials bullying and exploiting the people. The officials and the people are in a serious mood of opposition, and even resistance happens from time to time.
Normally, the Khitan's Xijing Left-behind Office would never be able to organize 200,000 Khitans, Xi tribes, Tiele, Rouran and other allied men to fight against the northern expedition of the Great Yue army to attack the Yan army.
On the other hand, Xu Wuli had to admit that the Khitan people, the Xi tribe, Tiele, Rouran, Xianbei and other mixed families were all good at riding and shooting, and were strong in physiques. The proportion of martial artists was much higher than that of the Han people. Basically, every household had the tradition of carrying private armour.
If 70,000 to 80,000 strong foreign citizens were deliberately guided in Datong City, and raided troops in Dayue and aroused fierce resistance during the robbery, the raids of thousands of troops would definitely be able to suppress them quickly?
What happened in Sujin Tower today is enough to prove that the Khitan secrets have the intention to make a fuss about the conflict between Han and Fan.
Xu Wuqi didn't think that they could stop anything if they saw through all this at this time.
Not to mention that Wang Bing personally went to persuade Ge Boyi before Wu and asked him to restrain his military discipline when searching the enemy, but he was almost irritated and he did not mention the military discipline that the imperial guards were so troublesome and difficult to restrain. Xu Wuli knew more about the customs of the imperial orders coming out of it and the customs command.
The Privy Council must have already formulated a plan for the Khitans and the miscellaneous captives when the Yan army marched north at this time, and even directly wrote it into the imperial edict (commanding by the imperial pen) carried by Liu Shizhong, Cai Yuanyou, and Wang Fan on the north. It was definitely not something that could be changed at will by the low-level military officials below raised objections.
"Wang Fan's Langjun asked me to lead 200 people to escort Zhu Han to Shuozhou north. I cannot refuse, but this time I go north to Shuozhou as the governor, I will inevitably go to Datong with the raids of troops. This is a life-and-death situation," Xu Huai said. "At this time, everyone should see through what the court's masters are. Even if the king's uncle gets back, he will never change the short-sighted nature of the temple. Even if we are planning for the country, we can no longer express too much expectations for such a temple..."
Chapter completed!