Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 288 Why don’t you listen to the price?

An army of nearly 300 million has gradually gathered around the small Tingli Mansion, and the number is still increasing. Everyone is grazing while fighting. The entire front is more than two thousand miles long. There are more than 200 troops, large and small, operating in the battlefield area.

A battle of this scale has never been fought before, and it has almost never been seen in history books.

After all, it is rare for the Han people to extend the front line so long in a war, and it is also unrealistic.

Shiwei and the Khitan people are fighting a battle for racial survival. On the Shiwei side, men, women, old and young are fighting together, while on the Khitan side, the population base is displayed. At this time, the pure Khitan population is almost 1000 million. In the face of the threat of genocide, the herdsmen who were originally reluctant to mobilize finally entered the battlefield one after another. Yelv Xian and Yelu Xiezhen had more than one million soldiers and horses together, which made Zhao Guangmei even... I can't help but feel a headache.

The reason why the formal decisive battle has not yet begun is that the Liao army is still recruiting troops, and 100 million troops is by no means the limit that the Liao army can recruit under the mobilization order.

200 million, 300 million, or even 400 million are not impossible.

You must know that the peak population of Daliao in history was more than 4000 million!At this time, in the early Song Dynasty, it had a population of at least 3000 to 3000 million. Among the 1000 million, there must be at least [-] million pure Khitans. In fact, the Khitan was essentially the same as Shiwei. All the people were soldiers. The devil knows what happened. How many people will come.

Yelvxian, who had been unable to recruit troops, suddenly became cautious now.

In comparison, Zhao Guangmei's military strength is a bit underwhelming. Brother Yeluxiu brought 10,000, Yang Ye brought [-], plus [-]+ party soldiers who came one after another, that's all. .

The Shiwei people will not be able to sleep even if they enter the grassland. These people are too poor. People on the grassland know what poverty means better than anyone else.

"Pass my order and ask Ugu Humar if you are still willing to talk to me. Although I am not very good at fighting, but now the number of soldiers plus one, they are all going to go for more than 500 million. Let's start a fight. , no matter who loses or wins, this is called hurting Tianhe, and God will not tolerate it, you tell him that I will not treat him badly, just think of it as me asking him, asking him to give me a chance."

The messenger went, and Zhao Guangmei waited for him for three days. When he came back, the messenger relayed: "He said that as long as the Song Dynasty supports him in occupying the grassland, he is willing to be the fence of the Song Dynasty forever, no matter what you want to order him to do." , he will not hesitate, there is no need to talk, and if you don’t support him occupying the grassland, then there is no need to talk.”

"Hey~ I see."

Zhao Guangmei was still very depressed. At ten o'clock in the afternoon, another chamberlain came to report to him that Yelu Xiezhen had arrived.

"Come in person?"

"I came in person."

"Have you led the troops?"

"I took more than a hundred tooth soldiers and stayed outside our army's tent."

"pass."

Not long after, Yelu Xiezhen came in, but he was the first to say: "My lord, Yelv Xiezhen, the envoy of Dading Jiedu, pays homage to His Highness the King of Qin."

Good guy, it’s okay if you give yourself an official title.

"Come to force me into the palace?"

Yelv Xiezhen did not deny it, but responded with emotion: "Shiwei is a barbarian. However, now the Song Dynasty has expressed ambiguity. All the officers and generals under my command are already panic-stricken. Therefore, I am here today, so it is As a minister of the Song Dynasty, I would like to ask Your Highness to make an edict to expel Shi Wei."

When Zhao Guangmei saw this, she said meaningfully: "Didn't you let this Wei man in?"

"Your Highness is joking, I have no such courage." "Humph."

Anyway, if it is based on the beneficiary mastermind theory, Yelv Xiezhen is definitely the biggest beneficiary of this Shiwei people's desperate act.

In this way, he successfully recruited almost all the men west of Linhuang Mansion into his own army, and no one among the Khitans finally said anything about his intention to surrender to the Song Dynasty.

Everyone's intention is very clear. If the Song people can lead everyone to defeat Shi Wei, everyone is willing to become Song people even though they are Khitan people.

The Khitan were a nation with a high level of Chinese language during the Tang Dynasty, and they had Li Guangbi.

"Shi Wei, you are my ally in the Song Dynasty. If I refuse to help you, what do you want?"

"Then please, Your Highness, grant me death. I really cannot explain this to my colleagues."

"Hey~"

Zhao Guangmei could only let out a long sigh, then waved her hand, motioning for him to get up and drink tea together.

If Yelv Xiezhen is killed at this time, Yelv Chong can take the million troops to defect to Yelv Xian, and let Yelv Xian lead the 200 million troops to defeat the Song Dynasty and Shi Wei.

Although the idea of ​​an army of 200 million is nonsense, there is no command at all, and it is impossible to assemble it. To put it bluntly, it cannot be called an army. In Zhao Guangmei's view, it is actually nothing, even if it is not Shi Wei, with the current national power of the Song Dynasty, it is not impossible to kill them all, but if he really fights like this, then the peaceful reunification that he has been working hard for for many years will really be in vain.

And to be honest, it is actually much easier for the Khitans to rule than the Shiwei people. You know, after the demise of the Liao Kingdom in history, except for the group that formed the Western Liao, the remaining Khitans were almost useless. Those who were later switched to Han Chinese were said to have changed their surnames to Liu, Li, Xiao, and Jiang.

Of course, the Shiwei people are not saying that they are barbarians. Whether they are barbaric or not depends on who they are compared with. If you compare them with biological women, they will still be much stronger.

"If I ask you and Ugu Humar to sit down together and have a good talk, can you not fight me?"

"No, there's nothing to talk about with such a blood feud and a fight to the death."

"Hey~, everyone is so tough, do they have to kill them all? You too, have to be driven up the desert."

Yelv Xiezhen said: "There will always be people deep in the desert. If there are no Shiwei people, there will be other people. The poorer they are, the poorer they are. This population will soon be overloaded. Once overloaded, they will become barbarians. Even if the Khitan people are really willing to give up the grassland to let the Shiwei people live together, it won't take long for a new Shiwei to come out there. Therefore, the Liao Kingdom has always divided and conquered the Shiwei people. It means pulling two to fight one, sometimes pulling one to fight two. As for the true birth of a girl, we naturally have a way to suppress it, which is... haha."

"It means that it was me who supported Ugu Humar that gave him the opportunity to unify Shiwei, right? The Khitan people are quite resentful of me, the Song Dynasty? Why, this blood debt will be counted on me. What?"

"Actually, there is no blood debt. People on the grassland all understand that in the battle between Song and Liao, Liao lost. Even if we lost, you are still willing to give us a way to live, and even lead us to live a good life. It belongs to you and the Song Dynasty. Renyi, everyone is grateful to you. If someone died in the process, it was God's will and it was a bad fate. We and Shi Wei can let go of our hatred, but this does not mean letting go of our hatred is useful. If they want to live, they will not let us live. We want to If you want to live a good life, you can’t let them live. The pasture is so big and it can’t feed all the people.”

"That's it...that is to say, if I can make you all live, as long as the Shiwei people can leave this pasture and can guarantee that they will never come back in the future, you are also willing to put down your hatred and join me. talk?"

"There's no way they're leaving."

"It all depends on people. Why are you all like this? You don't even listen to my offer."

(End of this chapter)