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Chapter 1165: The Gift of Food (Continued)

PS, the previous chapter should be Chapter 1168.

When the news of the Khitans' defeat in Liaodong spread earlier and faster than expected to come to Youzhou, even the most conservative and stable local generals and the World War House could not help but become eager and radical under the rumors and descriptions that echoed in the city.

Then, as waves of figures went to Yacheng to meet and ask for help, the first four thousand cavalry as advance had already completed the assembly in Youzhou and drove northward without stopping. Then, more soldiers from the local generals and soldiers also gathered at Youzhou City with sword armor and bows and horses in the recruitment order issued by the new Jieya, and began to receive points and receive the money, grain and materials distributed by Jieya.

After all, in the spring, a large-scale attack on foreign tribes whose strength was damaged; but it has not happened for more than 20 years. The last time was Li Maoxun, a commander from the Eastern Uighurs, and Zhang Zhongwu, the predecessor of Li Keju, a father and son, who fought against the Uighurs in the north during the Huichang period (the battle against Uighurs in the Tang Dynasty), defeated the Uighurs in killing Hushan (now Hanshan, Balin, Right Banner, Inner Mongolia), beheaded 10,000 people, and captured more than 20,000 people. Wujie Khan was injured and fled far away;

Since then, he has been killed and left in the Khitan, and more than 800 Uighur envoys of the Xi tribe, causing the two tribes to return to the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty. Then, during the Dazhong period, he defeated the northern mountains Xi and strengthened his control over the two governors' offices of Raole and Songmo. However, the root of disaster was also planted in the foreign tribes whom he thought were driven by the surrender. Later, when he died of illness, his successor son Zhang Zhifang was addicted to alcohol and abused the soldiers, resulting in chaos in the army, and Li Maoxun, who was born in the Uighurs, was promoted to the throne.

Therefore, in the Lu Long army that has been in the past dynasties, there have been factions and differences between repelling the country (supporting the king) and ambulance (preparing the border). However, when Li Keju, who had been leading the repelling the country for many years, was defeated and died after repeated defeats in the country, Li Quanzhong, who was regaining the throne, naturally stood on the position of the Anwai faction; and there was an urgent need to cut his wounds from these Yanbian foreign tribes who had already gathered in a considerable scale, and then he thought he had to make up for it.

Therefore, their response this time was more positive than usual. On the one hand, although the losses after the years of war and defeat in Daibei made many soldiers and families in the world fall into difficulties and difficulties; on the other hand, this time, it was rare to bleed heavily to the athletes who were recruited and generously distributed sufficient money, grain and supplies to the athletes who were recruited.

In addition to the most common beans, maize, rice cloth, and candies, paper-packed biscuits, choy candies, tea cakes, salt blocks, etc. that were popular as soon as they appeared in Yandi. Everyone even got a more or less bag of heavy copper coins. However, these copper coins looked quite new, and the words on them were not the most common Tongbao of the Kaiyuan, Dazhong, and Qianfu, but the completely unfamiliar Taiping Qing coins.

Although many people couldn't help but wonder, after breaking it apart and confirming that it was really a real blue coin, and after using it to molten it into a yellow copper material, they accepted this reality without any objection and turbulence. In their opinion, this may be just a new coin color privately cast by a vassal state; but as long as the quality and material are sufficient, even if it is melted into a copper ingot, the copper ware can still maintain its value for value.

As the general of the advance cavalry who had already set out, Liu Rengong, who had just returned from Daibei controlled by the Taiping Army, a group of aid supplies and released prisoners. Therefore, on the third day after the departure of the vanguard cavalry, the 24,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 accompanying civilians who had been initially organized and prepared, led by Li Quanzhong, drove northward to the north.

Then, as this army advanced through Ji, Ping and Ying states north of Youzhou, there were local land groups carrying swords, bows, grains and horses along the way, and the garrison soldiers came to surrender; then they received the news that they passed through the prefectures and counties, and also sent hundreds to thousands of civilians to help the army;

Therefore, when the army led by Li Quanzhong crossed Bailang Mountain and arrived at Liucheng in the hinterland of Yingzhou along the narrow Liaoxi Corridor, facing the sea, and gathered the last thousands of local garrisons, it was already a powerful force of 50,000 troops (36,000 soldiers). At this time, new news had just been obtained that several small Khitan troops in the nomadic hierarchy of the White Wolf Water in front had been attacked and captured by Liu Rengong.

At the same time, under a sparse bush near the Yanshan Mountains in Tanzhou, Yelu Abaoji, who had been hiding in the east and west for several days, slowly opened his swollen and blood-scattered eyes, but there were only more than twenty entourages who were still following him. Although they were talking, eating, drinking, or tidying up their saddles, they could not hide the lowness and confusion on their faces.

Because they did not choose to return along the Liaoxi Corridor where they came, they flew into the more rugged and narrow Yanshan remnants from Pingzhou. Although they got rid of the search and interception of the Lu Long Army along the way, they also made the team of the delegation lose their troops. They were not a semi-fishing, hunting and semi-nova tribe who were good at mountain climbing, and the process of climbing the Yanshan trail was a bit deadly.

The mounts were constantly killed and injured, and even the middle-aged people, including Yelu Abaoji, became scarred. However, there was a kind of strength and belief that they were constantly supporting them to continue walking, walk out of this stretched mountain and return to the Raole River Basin behind the mountain, and bring back the news of Lu Long's invasion as soon as possible; fight alongside their own tribe members to save and save the lives of more tribal children.

However, in Youzhou City more than two hundred miles away, a team of ragged and covered in mud and blood were also escorted by a few united soldiers and walked into the city gate; from their ragged leather robes and cone caps, they were obviously the mission team that belonged to the Shulu team and could not escape.

Because Shulukanna, who escaped back to report the news, he went a long way because he was not familiar with the terrain, but when he arrived at the place, he was still one step late. He arrested Macheng (northwest of Yi County, Hebei), who had obtained the news through the post station, closed the city gate first and siege the mission teams that arrived nearby. Although Shuluping, who was the leader, was unable to break through the siege of more and more local defenders.

In the end, these soldiers of the Shulu Division fought and walked and were forced to the bank of the Rushui River. Then, they jumped into the river at the end of their own way out and tried to cross the water to escape. However, this time their luck was completely used up. Because a group of earthen groups that came across the river easily intercepted these exhausted Shulu soldiers on the river beach.

Then, after another dying struggle like a rebirth, most of the remaining Shulu team's athletes drowned and died of exhaustion in the river; a small number became prisoners of this earthen group as Shuluping was flooded with water; and then, after a certain price, they turned to the hands of the pursuit of Lu Long's army and were sent back to Youzhou City by prisoners, but they happened to miss the oath-taking ceremony of Lu Long's army.

Not long after the captives were taken into Youzhou City, as the sky gradually darkened, a tightly wrapped carriage came to Tanzhou Street, Jibeifang, as the new secretary of the army, Jing Xiang, who was parked in the mansion. Then, several healthy women came down and carried a bundle of wriggling things to the inner courtyard. They put them down in front of Jing Xiang who was shocked and said respectfully:

"The little woman came to the courtesy for the order of the Lord, and this is what the noble man pointed out to be..."

Then, they worked together to lift the cover, and immediately showed a disheveled face. Then they opened the constraints around them and shook them hard. Suddenly, a woman with no strands and a bulging belly rolled down in front of Jing Xiang, who was stunned, and then her hands and feet were pressed down by her quick eyes, and continued:

"It's the newly captured Fanwu Shuliu..."
Chapter completed!
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