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Cheng Keling had just picked up his job and before he could take a bite, an alarm came from the top of the mountain. Jiang Tao asked Zhang Jinbiao urgently: "Didn't you say there are no Tada people here?"

Zhang Jinbiao was also surprised. This was the territory of the Khitans and Xi people. Where did the Tada people come from? He threw down his bowl and rushed to the top of the mountain. There was indeed a small team of cavalry at the foot of the mountain.

"It's not a Tada, it's a Khitan." Zhang Jinbiao shouted at the foot of the mountain panting. In the past two years, the Xi people and the Khitans have been fighting for years. The three unrelated lands belong to the Khitans today, and tomorrow they may be the Xi people.

"Shut off the engine, turn off the engine!" Cheng Keling shouted suddenly. Even though he shouted through a mountain, he didn't have to worry about being heard by the Khitans on the other side of the mountain, but the thick smoke rising into the sky would inevitably reveal his identity.

The already cooked broth was used as fire-fighting water, and the soldiers put out the bonfire with all their might.

It has been the tenth day of pursuing Li Shaoqing. At this time, it is already thousands of miles away from Fengzhou and hundreds of miles away from the nearest border village of the Tang Dynasty. It is necessary to go deep into the hinterland of the grassland alone.

However, the movement on this side of the mountain still aroused the alert of the Khitans. The team of cavalry suddenly turned their heads and ran northwest.

"Get on the horse and kill them." Jiang Tao ordered, and more than fifty cavalry of the personal soldiers rushed out like arrows. At this moment, the Khitans had escaped three or five miles away. Although their horses were a little tired, the distance between three or five miles was not something that could be caught up by chasing them. The problem was that there was a small river that was east-west and east, and it was almost the twelfth lunar month. It was cold and frozen in the north, so it was not easy to cross the river.

After the Khitans arrived by the river, they did not flow across the river, but turned their horses to attack the Tang army that followed. The Khitans had only more than 30 cavalry, and Jiang Tao's personal army had 50 people, and the Tang army had the advantage of the troops; the Khitans came from afar, and their men were exhausted. The Tang army had just rested for a while. Although the people had not eaten, the horses had been fed, and the Tang army had another advantage. The Khitans were surrounded alone, and their morale was inevitably affected. There were four hundred reinforcements behind the personal army, and their morale was high.

This was a battle without suspense. A quarter of an hour later, there were only three living people left for more than 30 Khitans, so they were left to question. Cheng Keling, Jiang Tao and Zhang Jinbiao also rushed to the river at this time. Looking at the corpses all over the ground of the Khitans, Cheng Keling smiled and said, "Everyone says that the Khitan Iron Cavalry is so powerful. I think it's normal. If you change to him six, your brothers are good at doing well!" Jiang Tao smiled bitterly and did not answer. His personal soldiers were all good players who had been through battle formations for a long time. He lost five people at once. He felt as if he was digging in his heart.

Zhang Jinbiao carefully looked at the corpses of the two Khitans, and his brows suddenly frowned. After a nervous search, a black iron ring finally appeared on the finger of a young man. Zhang Jinbiao took the ring down with his trembling hands and gave it to Cheng Keling and Jiang Tao. Both of them didn't understand what they meant. Zhang Jinbiao said with a bitter face: "We are causing a big disaster this time. This young man is the prince of a certain Khitan tribe. If we shoot him, it is equivalent to forming a deep blood hatred with the Khitans. Fengzhou will no longer be at peace."

Cheng Keling and Jiang Tao were also panicked after hearing this. The Khitans were divided into Dieshu, Yishi, Pinmen, Chute, Wuwei, Tu Pinbu, Pinbu, Pinbu, and Pinbu. They were distributed in the north of Youzhou and Yunzhong, occupying a grassland of thousands of miles. They were on the surface to surrender to the Uighur Khanate, but in secret they had a disobedient intention. Over the past ten years, their power has expanded rapidly by continuously annexing the weak tribes around them, and they have seriously threatened the security of the northern border of the Tang Dynasty. The Khitans claim to be 200,000 iron armor, and no one can be happy to provoke such a strong enemy.

Cheng and Jiang both felt like a disaster was coming, and they asked Zhang Jinbiao in unison: "What are the ways to solve it?"

Zhang Jinbiao shook his head blankly: "The Khitans have the custom of revenge for blood clans, and they always pay blood debts for those who kill their clans. What's more, the one who kills their prince. This matter cannot be solved, it cannot be solved." Cheng and Jiang, who said something, were like falling into an ice cave, and they couldn't help but tremble all over.

At this time, Jiang Tao's personal soldiers were Huang Yiliang coughing gently and bowing and saying, "Brother-in-law, I have something to say." Jiang Tao was happy when he heard this. Huang Yiliang was his wife's brother-in-law, with a careful mind and a flexible mind, and he often offered amazing tricks.

"There is only Jiang Tongjun here, and there is no brother-in-law. Just say what do you have?" Jiang Taohu said with a face. He was young and experienced in the military. He had just taken control of military power for a while. What he was most annoying was that his relatives and friends in the military did not distinguish between public and private, and what he was most afraid of was that people said that he did not distinguish between public and private.

Huang Yiliang quickly changed his words: "Three generals, the injured prisoner who had just been tried. The deceased was the eldest son of Yelu Salad (leader) of Diela's Yilijin (leader) and was named Yelu Shula. He married the daughter of Yilijin Tujumanlei from Tujuman. Ten days ago, the couple was quarreling, and Yelu Shula slapped his wife twice. His wife was angry and returned to her parents' home. Yelu Shula was ordered by his father to go to Tuju to pick up his wife. Because he was in a hurry to travel, he detoured here."

Jiang Tao said impatiently: "What do you mean by saying so much? I don't care about him, what are the Yilijin and Yelu... People die at our hands, what can you do not let the Khitans take revenge?"

Huang Yiliang smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, don't be impatient, I have a way." Jiang Tao coughed again when he heard the sound, and said with a dark face: "Your brother-in-law is not here." Cheng Keling shouted, "When is it now, I still care about these things!" He turned to ask Huang Yiliang: "Don't let my mother-in-law, what are the solutions? Tell me quickly."

Huang Yiliang said: "There are eight major tribes of the Khitan, with the Diela tribe's strongest power. The Yaonian clan in the tribe has long held the throne of the Khitan Khan, while the Yelu clan controlled the military power of the Khitan. The other tribes had long complained about the two families, but the Yaonian clan was large and powerful. Although the people of the Yaonian clan were not convinced, they dared not fight against him. The Yelu family was different. The Yaonian clan suspected them, and the other tribes did not obey them. The Tuju tribe had fought with the Yelu family, and each had died or injured more than a thousand people. In order to stop the war, the two families formed children and relatives, but hatred could not be forgotten. Yelu Shula and his Tuju tribe's wife often quarreled because of the old grievances of the two families, and even fought each other. The two even used knives."

Jiang Tao suddenly interrupted Huang Yiliang's words: "You mean to use the old grudges of their two families to set up a situation to make them suspicious of each other and even fight?... Hey, wonderful, brother, I really deserve to be my good brother." Jiang Tao hugged Huang Yiliang and laughed.

"What method can be used to make Yelu Salad believe that people were killed by the sudden army?" Cheng Keling was not as optimistic as Jiang Tao. "If this game was clever, it would certainly allow us to get rid of our relationship. But if they saw it through, there would be big trouble. By then, not only the Yelu family, but also the eight Khitan tribes would come to cause trouble for us."

Zhang Jinbiao also echoed: "Don't look at the Khitans fighting and killing on weekdays. Once they start a war against the outside world, they will be ruthless."

Huang Yiliang smiled slightly and said confidently: "Don't worry about Cheng Tongjun, and General Zhang doesn't have to worry about it. Beizhi has already had a plan, and he blinded him. I don't know who is doing the game." After that, he used the corner of his eyes to measure the three Khitan prisoners in the distance, and a hint of undetectable sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Three days later, a caravan heading north from Yunzhou found thirty corpses by the Qibiliang River forty miles away from the Khitan Raider Treasure. One of the young men's bodies was chopped off one hand and his face was removed. The caravan deduced from the clothes and weapons they used that the deceased was a member of the Diela tribe and had a noble identity.

In order to get rid of the suspicion, the caravan reported the matter to the Uighurs' supervisor stationed in Khitan nearby, and asked the supervisor to prove his innocence. The Uighur supervisor who accepted the bribe sent his subordinates to the Diela tribe to explain the reason. Before this, the Diela tribe Yilijin Yelu Salade had sent dozens of teams to find the missing Yelu Shula, but nothing was found.

When he learned that his beloved son died tragically, Old Bai's father whistled to the sky and sweared to find out the murderer with his back and paid for his blood debt.

Twenty days later, Cheng Keling, Jiang Tao and Zhang Jinbiao led hundreds of remaining soldiers back from the banks of Julunbo. The place east of Julunbo is now controlled by the Bohai Kingdom. Li Shaoqing had an old age with the Bohai County Prince in the past and was defeated to surrender. The Bohai County Prince ordered the generals of the border town to dress up as horse bandits to ambush Cheng Keling's troops. The powerful infantry formation of the Bohai Kingdom caused a great loss. If it weren't for the retreat, the entire army would have been wiped out.

A month later, Cheng Ke led his troops to pretend to be a Han caravan and passed by the Qibiliang River. There were thousands of corpses on both sides of the river. Half a month ago, the Diela tribe Yilijin Yelu Salade's army was raised and 13,000 troops, and joined forces with the B, Pin and Chute to attack the Tuju. The Tuju team received the assistance of the two units, and gathered 35,000 cavalry near the Qibiliang River to fight against Yelu Salade. One day, the Tuju team's coalition forces were defeated.

Yelu Sarad originally intended to take advantage of the situation to attack the camp of the rushing army and slaughter the turfing army to avenge his son, but Zhaogu Khan, who was born in the Yaonian clan, was worried that the Yelu family was too powerful and affected his authority, so he sent Yu Yue (Prime Minister of the Khitan Tribal Alliance) Yilijin Wukuidaxiang as the special envoy to mediate the two armistice. Wukuidaxiang was highly respected, and the Wukuida tribe did not participate in the struggle between the two armistice. With his mediation, the two armistice signed the armistice agreement.

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Yang Hao did not dare to stay in the Ice Rock Valley for more time. After comforting Lin Luohu, he rushed back to Feng'an overnight.

Seeing that the beautiful Feng'an City was ruined by Zeng Chongyang and Guiyi Army, Yang Hao was full of energy and had nowhere to go. After returning to the city, he had to spend all his energy on the aftermath. He forgot that Qing'er and others in Xiangfu Temple in Beishan outside the city were still looking forward to him to pick them up.

A month passed in a blink of an eye. The shock brought by Zeng Chongyang to the three cities of Fengzhou gradually subsided, and everything seemed to return to normal. Cheng Keling, Jiang Tao and Zhang Jinbiao failed to capture Li Shaoqing. This book was as expected by Yang Hao. Therefore, when Zhang Jinbiao took off his shirt and followed Lian Po to apologize for guilt, Yang Hao asked Yu Yanlu, who had been promoted to the commander of the Liehuo Camp, to help him up.

Yang Hao did not punish Zhang Jinbiao for his crime, nor did he let him look back at the mountain town again. Zhang Jinbiao was appointed as the deputy envoy of military farming to assist the governor Zhang Huchen in stepping up the implementation of this year's military reclamation plan. The time delayed by Zeng Chongyang must be regained, otherwise next year will be another difficult wasteland.

Cheng Keling was appointed as the Xiaochang'an City Defense Envoy. The City Defense Envoy was a newly established position by Yang Hao, mainly responsible for the city defense and public security in the city. Generally speaking, the City Defense Envoy was appointed as the military commander of the military camp stationed in the city. Xiaochang'an did not have the garrison battalion stationed in the small Chang'an, so Cheng Keling's city defense envoy was regarded as a nameless person.

Yang Hao admired Huang Yiliang's performance in handling the shooting and killing of Yelu Shula, and transferred him to the Staff Office as Guan Suo's deputy. Guan Suo was ordered to prepare for the intelligence room at this moment. This is an organization designed by Yang Hao himself. From the name, mission, structure, personnel, budget, system, to the office location, daily dress, Yang Hao personally inquire about it.

The Intelligence Office is under the General Staff Department and is directly responsible to the General of the Xining Army.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zeng Chongyang went to Fengzhou for a whole month. In the first half of the month, he turned Fengzhou upside down. In the second half of the month, he spent three meals a day, reading and drinking tea. He quietly accepted his destiny, neither happy nor sad, nor protesting or cooperating. He wanted others to forget him, but others did not think so. In the past ten days, hundreds of people who wanted him to punish him were gathered every day outside the gate of the Defense Envoy Bureau.

Zeng Chongyang ate well and looked like he was not afraid of boiling water.

Yang Hao did not let him go, nor did he make things difficult for him. At the beginning, Yang Hao wanted to establish some connection with the Daming Palace in his name, but later he realized that this idea was really naive. A failed Zeng Chongyang was worthless in their eyes.

On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zeng Chongyang was appointed as the inspector of the North Inspection Censor. Although the inspector was only a small eighth rank official, he had a great courage. "The censor was on an envoy and could not shake the mountains and shake prefectures and counties, so he would not serve."

Yang Hao ordered people to send the official's document and copper fish talisman to Zeng Chongyang's study room. Zeng Chongyang only took a look and put it aside to continue reading his book.

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Note: Yelu Salade, the great-grandfather of the Liao Taizu Yelu Aguda.

Julunbo, now Hulun Lake, Inner Mongolia.
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