Among the foxtail marten hat and big cloak cavalry bush, Yilijin (the commander of the military leader and the commander of the military leader) who was appointed by the Khan and approved by the great masters of various departments, Yelu Shilu, wearing a unique crimson robe and Diao Chan crown, was also walking under the blue-black wolf-headed flags that represented the king's tent and the Khan's orders.

But his mood was a bit complicated, because since his father, Yilijin, had also led his tribes to fishing and hunting, who had no fixed place to be a semi-settled farming and herding chief Yelu Yundeshi, who was killed with dozens of relatives, including his second son Yelu Sala (Abaoji's father) more than 20 years ago;

This is the first time that the lords will transfer the responsibilities of the Dadi Lie Mansion (military leader) who commanded various tribes Yilijin back to the Yelu family. However, as a corresponding price and condition, he would hand over the position of Yu Yue (internal prime minister) whom he was familiar with and had a long history; and the leader of the lords, Feng Gu, who came from another ten-arrow tribe, only temporarily took on his responsibilities.

On the other hand, it was a meaningful hint from Hende Khan before going to the expedition; that is, someone told him that the Diez tribe had not only boiled salt and made profits in the ointment and marinade north of Konoha Mountain, but some even took in and gathered the people from the Bohai Sea to try to mine cast iron in the mountains upstream of the Tuhe River;

If only a few tribe members make a fuss and think they are self-sufficient, it would be fine, but if they benefit from it, shouldn't they be worshipped in the king's tent and prove themselves? However, this result made Yelu Shilu both angry and frightened; he was angry that he was the leader of the tribe, but he knew nothing about it; he was even more frightened by the warning from the king's tent.

Don’t underestimate this salt and iron, but it is an indispensable lifeline for the reproduction and self-protection of all ethnic groups on the grassland. Every year, tribes even use their lives to rush to seize the iron tools of the people in order to obtain enough iron from the Han area. By mastering the location of the salt pond, they also master the greatest source of wealth in the grassland trade, because both humans and animals must be supplemented with salt.

It should be noted that the last Turkic man who was a member of the Thunder Tribe of Rouran Khan was born. After a blizzard disaster that caused the king's tent to be severely damaged, he suddenly started to attack and overturned his sect leader and drove him out of the West (the later generations of Avalmazar Huns), and replaced him as the new overlord and powerful on the grassland.

Then the Xueyantu people, who also came from the Nine Tiel tribes affiliated with the Turks, relied on the convenience of forging and controlling troops for the Eastern Turkic Khanate; and took advantage of the momentum to grow and rise to challenge the hegemony of the grassland, which also caused the Turkic Khanate, which was being hit by the Tang Dynasty, to collapse and disintegrate several times under the blows of the Tang Dynasty.

Then, the Xueyantuo tribe, which rose on the corpse of the scattered Turkic Khanate, was unable to glory and control hegemony for long; but was again challenged by the Uighur tribe from the Iron Nine Tribes, supported and supported by the Tang Dynasty's iron materials; then there were many years when the Uighur tribe was dominant on the grassland.

As one of the second and third-rate peripheral forces that were forced to compete, the ancient Eight Khitan tribes followed and witnessed the process of the rise and fall of these grassland overlords as vassals of different eras. Although they were on the verge of extinction and collapse several times, they also absorbed enough nutrients from the rise and fall of these overlords.

At the same time, he was in charge of the Songmo Governor's Office of the Tang Dynasty. He was in the cracks of repeated low tides and forces, and obtained advanced skills and tools brought by the Han exiles, and gradually flourished. Therefore, the Uighur Khanate has been in the grassland for many years, but the Middle Earth is still in chaos. The northeast corner is just when the Khitan is dominant.

Therefore, with some great prospects and hopes, the Hende Khan can tolerate and rely on the Yelu family of the Dieta tribe, as Yilijin of the Dadili Prefecture, while making profits for the king's tent and suppressing the other seven tribes, he can also continue to grow on his own. However, the tacit understanding between the subordinates of the clan ministers seems to be broken.

But as a vested interest in his position, no matter what happens to the Dieshu tribe and Yaonian clan in the future, at least Yelu Shilu does not want this relatively close tacit understanding and subordinate relationship to not be easily broken in his own hands. So he did not hesitate to thoroughly investigate the clan and give an explanation to the king's account.

Because he already had a guess in his mind, but he had not yet made up his mind whether to hand over it or just take his clan members out to take the blame as a way to save the situation.

On the other hand, compared with his nephew A Baoji, who is now in charge of the tent Weierlang (Tama tribe) who is invading the east and west, and seems to be in a glorious way, he is much more mediocre, but if he takes Khan's daughter and becomes an official in the tent, it will be a good future.

Because Hende Khan also suggested that he was more optimistic about Abaoji's attitude of inheriting the Yelu clan leader and Yilijin of the headquarters, and even Yilijin of the Dadilie Mansion. This made him a little helpless and powerless. Although Yelu Shilu was the Yilijin of the Diezu tribe and the Yelu clan leader, it did not mean that he would arbitrarily deal with all the affairs of his clan.

In fact, the next generation of members of the tribe and the young children of the nobles of the tribe, such as Yelu Helu, Yelu Neila, Yelu Yuzhi, Yelu Huzhi, and Yelu Shubao, were closer to who could lead them to victory, and continued to win the leading brother Yelu Abaoji, the leader of the vassal department; even his younger brothers Malu and Yanmu.

Therefore, under such causes and consequences, Yelu Shilu was also vaguely touched; at least as the head of a clan, the chief of the headquarters, and the three-level identity of the important minister of the king's tent, he also needed more investments from cattle, sheep, slaves to further establish and consolidate his authority and influence. It is impossible to be able to compare a young junior of his clan, right?

Therefore, he also had unknown expectations for this armed parade of collecting tribute and tribute. Therefore, beside him, in addition to the two thousand tamas (guards) sent by the king's tent, the one thousand Fulizi (kind and nobles, sons of the heads) who guarded the ten-arrow tent, and the three thousand Jingjian children armed by the sects, formed the core force of this southern expedition.

However, according to the closeness and distantness of the relationship, some string control men sent by the other three masters and King Dongxi in the alliance were sent out; among them, the equipment was best, under the command of the adults of each family, including armor, horses, bows, arrows, and Dings, slaves and servants; secondly, the number of accounts and dozens of accounts to support a group of soldiers; it is also the main trunk of this army.

The most shabby ones are undoubtedly the gang members who gathered after hearing the news. Most of them were ragged and without decent mounts and saddles. Only the heads had their own ragged armor and followed them on foot. They could not even be considered formal soldiers, but could only be mixed with the gang members who were holding vehicles and driving the herds and slaves.

Of course, since the Khitan army, as the headquarters, allowed them to bring their own rations and weapons to follow, they divided the edges and corners of the Khitan army in the war; they naturally also embraced these people as disguised front-wheel drive and cannon fodder; in this way, they tested the resistance and corresponding level of the places along the way, and then the Khitan headquarters carried out targeted strategies and decisive victory.

Therefore, in addition to the Khitan soldiers who were marching in the brigade, there were many light cavalry with leather jackets and felt hats farther away, swaying in groups, constantly reporting various situations and situations that had been encountered in the road ahead. At the same time, they were also disguised supervision and command messengers, so that those miscellaneous subordinates who were scattered into the place to attack and loot would not deviate too far and lose control and contact.

However, after they passed the Daling River, the branch of the upper reaches of the Liao River, they were empty; neither were the Tu leaders and representatives of the elders who came to welcome and pay tribute, nor any symbolic resistance or harassment; when they came across the river, they saw empty and abandoned residences and settlements, even those high-risk villages and mountain cities.

"Nilei got up, haven't you ever visited where the Dingkou people who live in mountain cities in Qing Dynasty?

Yelu Shilu couldn't help calling his younger brother, and it was also Yelu's font size that was the deputy of Nanzheng and the person who brought the account to the account: However, the answers and responses were almost the same, but Yelu Shilu couldn't help but cast a shadow and a secret sound in his heart.

You should know that when Liaodong was still in the Andong Protectorate, there were no new cities, Liaocheng, Jian'anzhou, Gewuzhou, and Seven Prefectures. It had more than 30 counties and more than 100 large and small cities, representing the location of the essence of the Andong Protectorate. Although later, with the withdrawal of the Tang Dynasty's garrison and the invasion of the surrounding forces, it gradually declined a lot.

However, as a relatively good source of military force and farming and pastoral production, it has always been a key area for surrounding forces to strictly prevent and suppress and provoke disputes. Therefore, it has been a mess for so many years, and there is no way to form a real joint force or a dominant strength; because as long as there are signs of signs, it will be strangled by the nearby Bohai, Silla, and even the Lu Long army in some tacit understanding.

Of course, for the Khitans who had no plans to occupy and stay for a long time, this is just a regular and irregular harvest of food, livestock and slaves, and provide children in the tribe with a private land to train their children in foreign attacks. Naturally, they will not be more pity and caring about the lives and deaths of these local Tu household registrations than the former.

Therefore, the most common method is to engage and drive these strong men, women and children along the way to attack those cities and villages that rely on the terrain to try to resist for a while, in order to make up for the natural shortcomings of the Khitans' lack of equipment and not good at siege; to consume and weaken the enemy, and create opportunities to break the fortress. Of course, if the test is really difficult to chew or the cost is too high, the Khitans will not insist on gaining and losing a city and land and turn to other places.

This is also the basic reliance for the local ethnic groups in Liaodong to survive and reproduce and survive. But even local local households who often get news early to avoid it, at least some people, women and children who are unable to move or are lucky, and become the source of information for the Khitans. How could it be so empty and clean and creepy?

However, even though Yelu Shilu, who felt a sense of vague uneasiness and crisis, had to continue to advance, because as the newly appointed Dadilie Mansion Yilijin stopped this southern expedition just because of the concerns and conjectures of no direct evidence, the resentment of the Khitan soldiers who did not receive the expected capture and plunder would be a huge damage to his prestige and authority.

Therefore, he could only ignore the complaints and fatigue of the soldiers in his headquarters, and tried his best to send more horses and cyclists to expand the scope of search and alertness as much as possible. Then, in a sense of uneasiness that could not be expressed, he looked forward to the moment of encountering enemy forces and resistance. This dull and tense mood lasted until three days later, near the Liaodong New City, the governor's office of the former Xincheng Prefecture on the north bank of the Liaohe tributary.

The enemy's appearance and posture described by the remnants of the pioneers who had been suddenly defeated were described by the remnants of the enemy. The Khitan troops, who had been forced to endure for several days since crossing the river and entering Liaodong, had no killing or captives, suddenly became excited and energetic, howling like tigers and wolves who were out of robbery, and could not wait to attack and attack and go forward.
Chapter completed!