Chapter 20 Shatuo soldiers go south 2

Li Keyong and General Sha Tuo argued endlessly on the issue of "helping together" and "helping Tang", and it was difficult to make a decision for a while. At this critical moment, Li Guochang came to the Daizhou government office, and the old man opened his mouth to speak and suddenly solved the problem.

Li Guochang raised his wrinkled Chinese face and said word by word: "The way of life is the most important. What is the name? They are princes, marquis, ministers, doctors and other officials. Who rewarded this score? It's the king! Think about it, how many years has Li Tang established the country? Nearly 300 years! How many years has Shatuo existed? In the eyes of the world, the Shatuo people are just a nomadic tribe in the north, living like beglings all day, so Chinese orthodox people have always thought that the Shatuo people are barbarians. Now Li Tang has been fighting for a long time. Please send troops to help us, which gives us a chance to rise, which can be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime! Our Zhu Xie clan has been a tribe under the jurisdiction of Li Tang. If we help them, we will become a rebel tribe. Once Shatuo is characterized as a rebel tribe, it will never come out!"

Zhu Xie Sha said, "Brother Guochang's words are reasonable. As the saying goes, if the name is not right, it won't go well. I think Shatuo should help Tang!"

Li Guochang nodded: "Brother Sha La's analysis is exactly what I want. Think about it again. Personally, is Li Yan or Huang Chao?"

Li Ke blurted out: "There's no need to ask, of course, Huang Chao is awesome! Huang Chao's literary and martial arts talent is a rare hero in China. It only took Huang Chao eight years to form a million-strong division; while Li Yong is just a prodigal son who only knows how to play, and is not as good as me in terms of military and political ability!"

Li Guochang listened and gently patted Li Keyyong on the shoulder: "Kyyong, Dad is proud to have a son like you! Yes, Shatuo and Li Tang have a lot of festivals, but this is a small matter. If Shatuo wants to survive and establish a country in the future, he must help Li Tangping destroy Daqi. If we help Daqi, once Huang Chao unifies China, Shatuo will definitely not be able to establish a country, and then he can only obediently become a tribe in Daqi. Do you want Shatuo to establish an independent state or be under the jurisdiction of Daqi?

"We want to be independent!"

"Shato wants to establish a country!"

"Shatuo abandons small grievances and must help Tang!"

"Let's listen to the patriarch!"

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The generals spoke one after another to support Li Guochang's proposition of "helping Tang".

Li Guochang stood up like a bell: "Since everyone has agreed to help Tang attack, let's act quickly. The soldiers are very fast. Our army has been adapted and rested, and now the army is strong. However, due to years of war, the army's fighting power is constantly declining. Now sending troops to help Tang attack Qi is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I was responsible for the logistics of the army in Daibei, and the elite division of Shatuo quickly advanced south. Along the way, I had to ask Li Tang all the towns for military pay as much as possible. When fighting with the Qi army, we should try to let the Tang army fight first and the Shatuo army as a reserve. The reason is that we have few soldiers. If we defeat them, no Shatuo people will be willing to be soldiers to help Li Tang fight. Do you understand?

The generals shouted together, "I see!"

Li Guochang stared at Li Keyong and ordered, "Kuyong, you should do these two things immediately. One is to cut off the Hunjintong and return the messenger of Daqi; the other is to gather the elite of Shatuo's army, and I will allocate 40,000 elite soldiers for you, and you can choose freely. We have a small number of soldiers in Shatuo. You go south with these 40,000 soldiers. When you return to the north, you should bring back the surviving soldiers, and bring back the missing arms and broken legs! If you are seriously injured and can't fight as a soldier, you can still reproduce! For the survival of Shatuo and the establishment of the country, Zhu Xie sincerely asked you!"

Let's say that Daqi's messenger carried a lot of rare treasures and met Li Ke several times under the introduction of Hun Jintong. Li Ke used his delay to express his position to fight against Li Tang with Daqi, but served Daqi's envoys with good wine and meat, and Daqi's envoys had to wait anxiously at the Daizhou Pavilion.

The days of Hun Jintong were worse than that of Daqi's messengers. He sat and lay restless in Li Ke's house all day long, because the careful Hun Jintong found that Li Ke's attitude towards him by the people in the house was cold day by day.

One evening, Hunjintong had just returned from the post hall where Daqi's messenger lived and was walking on the street. Suddenly, a convoy came in front of him, a leading general, ** silver horse, skilled copper sticks, majestic, as if no one was around.

Hun Jintong took a closer look and finally recognized the general, Kang Junli, a general under Li Ke's command.

Kang Junli shouted: "Is the opposite one Hun Jintong?"

Hunjintong quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "The villain is Hunjintong. He accidentally blocked General Kang's way. I hope you can forgive me!"

Kang Junli sneered: "Hun Jintong, did you go to the Daqi messenger again just now? Is it to help the Daqi messenger persuade General Li to cooperate with Huang Chao?! You are a picky guy!"

Hun Jintong was shocked: "General Kang, I advise General Li to cooperate with Daqi. That's a sincere heart. I'm from Shatuo and will always be a servant of the Zhu Xie family!"

"Don't talk nonsense. Come on, tie up Hun Jintong for me!" Kang Junli looked up at the rolling dark clouds in the sky with a disdainful face.

"General Kang, listen to my explanation! I am loyal to the Zhu Xie family. There is no reason for you to order the sergeant to bind me for no reason today!" Hun Jintong kept twitching because of fear and anger.

Kang Junli's eyes showed murder: "Hun Jintong, listen to me! Today, Kang didn't want your life, but the order issued by General Li, and Kang had to execute it! Let me tell you so that you can die clearly. General Li has decided to cooperate with Datang to deal with Daqi together!"

"Then why did you kill me?! I really can't figure it out!" Hun Jintong shouted in despair.

Kang Junli replied, "Because you surrendered to Daqi, you are the sinner of Shatuo!" But General Li remembered your previous service to the Zhu Xie family and left you a whole body, not your family. Only part of your property has been confiscated, which is considered to be benevolent!"

Hun Jintong still wanted to argue. Kang Junli waved his hand, and several Shatuo soldiers rushed to Hun Jintong like wolves, pressed Hun Jintong on the ground, tied them with flowers, and stuffed cloth strips in their mouths.

Kang Junli looked at the struggle on the ground like Zongzi and sighed, "Brothers, take Hun Jintong to the wild and bury it directly in the ground!"

"Yes!"

Shatuo soldiers answered loudly.

A few days later, Daqi's messenger was driven back to Chang'an by Li Ke, and the peace process between Daqi and Shatuo was completely interrupted.

Li Ke personally led 40,000 Shatuo cavalry to the south into the river to help Li Tang Wang Chongrong attack the Qi army.

Yu Lu had nothing to say, and Shatuo's soldiers soon arrived at Sangquan. Li Ke called Li Kexiu and ordered, "K Xiu, I will allocate 5,000 people to you to cross the Yellow River and launch a tentative attack on the Daqi army!"