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This little wolf cub! "

Er Zhurong said very dissatisfied, but his tone sounded very strange.

At this moment, Erzhu Puti, the eldest son of Er Zhurong, hurried in, cupped his hands and said to Er Zhurong, "Father! The big thing is not good! The scouts came to report, and Rouran Khan Anagu personally led a hundred thousand soldiers." Ma went south, passed Lingqiu (near Datong, Shanxi), crossed Xiurongchuan, just captured Yangqu, the northern gate of Jinyang, and the soldiers pointed directly at Jinyang!"

Rouran?

Both Er Zhurong and Murong Shaozong were taken aback, for a moment they couldn't understand why Anahu was going crazy and wanted to go south to Jinyang at this moment.

"Get a map!"

Er Zhurong said in a deep voice.

He had just woken up from his half-drunk.

Murong Shaozong took out a detailed map of the north of Jinyang, and Er Zhurong took a deep breath after reading it.

When the anti-thieves have been rebels for too long, and they have forgotten that they used to be the loyal dog of the Northern Wei Empire, what should they do?

The Erzhu family started their business by serving as a close and loyal dog guard for the Tuoba family. Their ancestors were the same as the founding emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and they had always taken root in Beixiu Rongchuan.

This is one of the portals for the northern forces to enter the Central Plains. The Erzhu family's job is to guard the gate for the Yuan family and prevent the barbarians from the north from entering.

After the substantive demise of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Er Zhurong took Qihu soldiers to the south to Luoyang, and had long forgotten his own job.Rouran went south from Daijun, passed Lingqiu, passed Yanmen Pass and then went straight to Jinyang. Isn't this kind of thing very common?

In the past hundred years, this kind of "going south to thresh grass" has happened every year, at least once every three to five years.

The original six towns were the outermost perimeter of this line of defense!The reason why the soldiers in Six Towns are so good at fighting is also because they have experienced repeated beatings in the border towns, and they have developed their skills.

Now Er Zhurong has even forgotten the situation north of Jinyang. It has to be said that he is really old.

After the rebellion of the six towns, the six towns were useless, the people left the city, and the frontiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty were no longer fortified.

After Erzhubu left the place where he made his fortune, Beixiurongchuan no longer fortified.

As a result, the northern gate of Jinyang was wide open, and the frontier defense was greatly damaged!The forces in the north are all concerned about fighting for each other, and no one wants to rebuild the border defense.The old rival Rouran not only got out of the disaster of destroying the country, but also formed a short-lived revival!

The last time Gao Huan attacked the grassland, he taught Rouran's potential enemies a lesson, so Rouran was able to grow up and regained a lot of strength.

So Anahu was unwilling to be lonely, and coupled with the heavy snowfall on the grassland this winter, the livestock were frozen to death one after another.Under pressure, he had to go south to plunder.

Since the north of Jinyang is not fortified, why not go south?

Killing one's own people can reduce the burden on the population; looting goods can expand the plot, no matter whether you win or lose, as long as it is not a disastrous defeat, Anahu will make a steady profit without losing money.

What Er Zhurong thought was shocking was actually nothing more than ordinary, a simple truth that children of seven or eight years old could understand after hearing it!It's just because he's old, he's forgetful, and he's lost the calmness and vigilance he once felt.

Sure enough, after looking at the map, Er Zhurong's already fair face became as pale as paper.

"The door to northern Shanxi is wide open..."

Er Zhurong couldn't help sighing with emotion.

In the past few years, the north has been fine, which gave him the illusion that the north is very safe.

"My lord, for the current plan, quit the Shangdang and stick to Jinyang as the top. Rouran went south only for wealth, and he will leave after a wave of robbing. We just need to guard Jinyang City."

Murong Shaozong said in a deep voice.

Yangqu fell, and there was no obstacle to the north of Jinyang, and it was a foregone conclusion that Rouran people would drink horses to Jinyang.Hurrying back to Jinyang now, I have to say something before it's too late.However, with Rouran's scumbag siege ability, as long as the guards are properly guarded, it is not a big problem to keep Jinyang.

Theoretically so.

"Shaozong, you stay to guard the county, and I will lead the troops back to Jinyang."

Er Zhurong ordered in a deep voice.

"My lord, Shangdang has already lost its hold. Why don't the whole army withdraw to Jinyang and make further calculations. The Rouran people are coming in menacingly. It will be bad if Jinyang can't be held."

Murong Shaozong patiently persuaded, Er Zhurong was really thinking too much, and he was thinking about the looted goods in Shangdang.Wouldn't it be possible to keep the township if we didn't retreat and pile up everything in the township?At that time, the township and county will be destroyed, and the things will not belong to others.

Liang Jun went north with momentum like a rainbow. If he entered Jinzhou without bloodshed, his plans would definitely be bigger, and there was absolutely no reason to retreat!

"Could it be that half of the Shangdang was handed over to Liu Yishou? What kind of person did I take?"

Er Zhurong said furiously, still unable to swallow that breath.

"My lord, Liu Yishou will definitely not do anything to you, but it's hard to say anything about Rouran people. It's just the lesser of two evils. I hope my lord will calm down."

Murong Shaozong had nothing to say, is that tone really important?How important is it?

With Er Zhu Ying'e on Liu Yishou's side, she can at least be guaranteed to be a rich man in the future, so what is there to worry about?

Murong Shaozong felt that Er Zhurong just couldn't swallow that breath.What was the situation of Er Zhurong and Liu Yishou back then, and now they really fulfilled the sentence: 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, don’t bully the young and poor!

"That's all it takes."

Er Zhurong let out a long sigh, and the thousands of words in his heart became speechless.

……

Er Zhurong's army withdrew from the county without taking anything, and left Shangdang almost empty-handed, all the way back to Jinyang.Liang Jun soldiers occupied Xiangxian County, Niexian County, Yushe and other places without bloodshed. To be honest, this didn't look like Er Zhurong's style.

In Liu Yishou's perception, Er Zhurong has always liked to be tough.At the beginning, it was not in vain to face Ge Rong's hundreds of thousands of troops, how could it be possible to run away without fighting?

In the study room of the Huguan City Government Office, Liu Yishou, who was chatting with Wei Xiaokuan, finally received the important news brought by the scouts who came back from the north: Rouran's army was suppressing the border, intending to plunder Jinyang, and Er Zhurong had to return to defend Jinyang !

"Anahu said that he wanted to marry his daughter to the king, but he broke his promise and became fat; he also said that he wanted to marry his daughter to Gao Huan, but he broke his promise and became fat again! This person is too dishonest, and the king must arrest him someday. How he behaves."

Liu Yishou complained indignantly, Wei Xiaokuan who was at the side was taken aback, he never expected such a secret.

"My lord, the forces of the Rouran Grassland will definitely be our enemies in the future, but there is no need to worry too much. This is just a disease of scabies. They have no ability to support those little characters who are not on the stage to compete with the lord."

Wei Xiaokuan bowed his hands and said.

Rouran has been rising in the grasslands for many years, has there been any disturbance?

Of course, it can't be said that there were no disturbances at all, but it is true that there is no such thing as leading troops to threaten the Central Plains regime, right?

Of course Wei Xiaokuan couldn't see the events of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, but Liu Yishou knew that before machine guns came out, these grassland nomads couldn't be killed, just like leeks that grow and grow again.

"You have a point.

Rouran is the co-lord of the grassland, but she definitely doesn't keep her promises.There are Turks to the west of Rouran royal court, who are good at forging iron and have great potential. If they unite with Gaoche people in the future, they may not be able to replace Rouran.

Therefore, Bian Zhuang's method of stabbing the tiger is a good method.Now that Rouran is powerful, we don't need to compete with them for the time being. We just need to send someone to contact Turks and say that we are willing to do business with them.

In this way, the Turkic people must be dissatisfied with Rouran's oppression and exploitation, and it will only be a matter of time before they conflict with the Rouran royal court. "

Liu Yishou said calmly.

The Turks will definitely be a serious problem in the future, but even if the Turks are dealt with, there will be new "Turks", and they will never be killed.The foreign policy of the Sui Dynasty towards the grassland people was extremely successful, almost doing the biggest thing with the smallest cost.

But when the Sui Dynasty collapsed, the grassland people made a comeback again.These things are objective laws and can only be suppressed for a while. Before the technological tree with absolute suppressing power comes out, similar problems have no solution.

"The lord is saying that we just told the Turks that we want to do business with them, but we absolutely do not give them the opportunity to do business and strengthen themselves, right?"

Wei Xiaokuan is a sensible person, and he knew Liu Yishou's crooked ideas as soon as he heard it.

"Isn't this obvious? We allow trade, but no caravan is willing to go to the grassland. This is not something we can control. After all, if you pass the checkpoint on the grassland, the customs tax is so high, and anyone who goes to trade will lose money. Why bother yourself? Woolen cloth?"

Liu Yishou said indifferently.

That's right, we agreed to trade, exchange materials, and get what we need.

However, there is no caravan in the Central Plains willing to go to the grassland to trade at a loss. This is not our problem, it can only be said that the people are not cooperative.

Liu Yishou's rhetoric is indeed logically self-consistent.Wei Xiaokuan also had to sigh with emotion, this kind of old coin routine of paying lip service to reality is probably able to control the Turks to death.

If you are obedient, we will do business, or when I need it, the business route will not be interrupted, otherwise it is a "technical failure".

This method of controlling the number of transactions by controlling the tax collection at the checkpoint is still very new, but Liu Yishou's previous life has long been nothing to be surprised about.

"My lord, since this is the case, shall we send troops to Jinyang?"

Wei Xiaokuan asked curiously.

"We don't fight Jinyang, we just wiped out all the land in Bingzhou, except Jinyang City, and besieged Jinyang. I believe that there is not much food and grass in Jinyang City.

Let Er Zhurong fight with the Rouran people first, we will not send troops to Taiyuan County for the time being.Let's go again when spring starts and it's time for spring plowing, and see how many county soldiers Er Zhurong can find to help him defend the city at that time. "

Liu Yishou sneered.

Facing his "father-in-law", he didn't intend to hold back at all, and he was still going to die.

Chapter 693 Winter is about to pass, spring will not be too far away

Yangqu is in the north of Jinyang, and it is the northern gateway of Jinyang, and its strategic position is very important.If Yangqu falls, the Taiyuan Basin will be opened wide, and there will be no dangerous places in the north to occupy the enemy.Why is such an important place easily won by Rouran people?

The answer is very simple, because the talents of the Erzhu family are withered, except for Murong Shaozong, Erzhu Tianguang and others, they can also point out that the others are either greedy and ruthless people, or they are wastes with corpses.

It is Erzhu Shilong who was bought by Wei Xiaokuan before to keep Yangqu!After Erzhu Shilong arrived in Yangqu, he searched the local people's wealth, which made the sky angry and the people complained.As soon as the Rouran people came, the local county soldiers threw down their weapons and ran away. They didn't want to work for Er Zhu's family at all!

Anahu took down Yangqu almost without bloodshed.Of course, the Rouran people did not come here to do charity. Although Yangqu is not rich, it is a typical small border town in the north, but it is much better than the clinking poor grassland tribes.

The complacent Anahu led [-] fine cavalry to attack Jinyang, thinking that he could take advantage of the chaos to win.

However, the army lacked siege equipment, and a large number of locals fled to Qi County, refusing to cooperate with the Rouran people who burned, killed, and looted. He couldn't attack the city, so he could only return without success. The army was stationed by a small river north of Yangqu.

The local people call this river "Yinma River". Obviously, Anahu is not the only "grassland guest" who has been here. There must have been nomadic troops who came here to drink horses before.

This time, the "one hundred thousand cavalry" that Anahu publicized to the outside world sounds scary, but in fact it is not the case.

Where does Rouran have that strength now?It's all just bluffing.

This time Anayu ran for thousands of miles, and he brought one man and two horses, which was less than 4 people. If you say [-] horses, you can barely fool it.

Even so, this is almost all the elite that Rouran Royal Court can control and bring out.Anahu had to keep some people to guard the Rouran royal court, otherwise it would be a lot of fun for the lair to be taken care of.

That's why Anahu was very cautious even when picking opponents, he didn't even dare to venture into Youzhou, for fear of losing the little capital in his hand.

Anahu is different from some prairie khans who don't understand the language and are extremely vulgar. He has a strategy and a deep Chinese culture. He knows what the Central Plains people like and dislike, and also knows Rouran's own weaknesses.

When the Rebellion of the Six Towns first broke out, Anahu went to Luoyang to present his interests to Emperor Ming of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty in the Taiji Hall, and answered questions posed by the central courtiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty fluently.Therefore, he won the full support of the Northern Wei Dynasty and helped him regain the control of the Rouran Royal Court (of course, this is also the traditional art of the grassland policy of the Northern Wei Dynasty "Bianzhuang stabbing the tiger", but it was done smoothly).

This time Anahu sent troops to merge the prefecture, the reason is very simple: because Er Zhurong is now a sick tiger that everyone wants to beat!

The opponent is weak both in terms of military strength and morality!Now Anahu still understands the truth that getting the right way helps more than the wrong way.He felt that if he led the troops to deal with Er Zhurong, the Central Plains people would not say anything or react.

If you don't consider Liu Yishou, who is determined to rule the world, Anahu's plan is still very accurate.

……

In the lobby of Erzhurong Mansion in Jinyang City, many relatives of the Erzhu family gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

Er Zhurong returned to Jinyang after retreating from the Shangdang, and found that Anahu did not attack Jinyang by force, let alone besiege the city, but stationed troops in Yangqu, and did not attack.So Er Zhurong took advantage of the situation and led his troops into Jinyang City, not in a hurry to compete with Anahu.

The people from Rouran came from a long way, without hindrance and without loss. It is the time when the morale is high, and it is the best policy to avoid their edge.Er Zhurong was not in a hurry to fight to the death with the opponent.

A quick battle might be exactly what Anahu expected!

But Er Zhurong is still stable, and the rest of the Er Zhu family is not so stable anymore.The fertile fields around Jinyang were all divided up by these children of the Erzhu family. The Rouran people came and did not leave. If the spring plowing was delayed, they would suffer a great loss.The Jinyang area itself has been declining day by day since the Erzhu family took over. If they are neglected by the Rouran people for a while, what will everyone eat in the future?

"uncle!"

"Brother!"

Er Zhu Zhongyuan and Er Zhu Tianguang spoke almost at the same time, seeing that other people wanted to speak, they refused to speak first.

"Talk one by one."

Er Zhurong looked at Er Zhu Zhongyuan and said, "Zhongyuan speaks first."

"Brother, in the current situation, a decisive battle with the Rouran people in the Yinma River can be settled in one battle, just like when we defeated Ge Rong's hundreds of thousands of troops. Sitting in Jinyang will not solve the problem."

Er Zhu Zhongyuan said bluntly, if it wasn't because he didn't have Er Zhurong's ability to lead troops, he would have rushed out with his cronies a long time ago.Previously, the main force of the Qihu trilogy was in Shangdang, so it was naturally impossible to do anything to Rouran.

But the situation is different now, Er Zhurong has rushed back with his troops, and his side occupies a favorable location, why can't he give it a go?

If he were Er Zhurong, he wouldn't be used to these Rouran people.

"What about you?"

Er Zhurong ignored Er Zhu Zhongyuan, looked at Er Zhu Tianguang and asked.

"Uncle, defending Jinyang is the best policy, and we should not fight. Rouran is far away, and the royal court must be empty. It is impossible to stay in Jinyang for a long time. Sooner or later, we will return to the grassland. After they leave, we will guard Yangqu well." That's it."

Erzhu Tianguang did not dare to look at Er Zhurong, let alone the Erzhu clan members who glared at him.

"Shaozong, what do you think?"

Er Zhurong didn't say what he thought, but turned his head to look at Murong Shaozongdao who bowed his head silently in the corner.

Er Zhurong knew who had something in his belly, and he asked some people, but it was just a show, to show that he was "accepting advice with an open mind".In fact, no matter what Er Zhu Tianguang said to Er Zhu Zhongyuan, Er Zhu Rong would not take it seriously.

"The Rouran people have not been hurt from a long time ago, and their morale is high. It is not suitable to confront them head-on. In the cold winter, it is not easy to take care of the livestock and ensure the food and grass of the army. We might as well repair it in Jinyang City first to avoid a decisive battle with the Rouran people. .