Chapter 890: Savior
Fan Tong smiled and drank a sip of milk wine. While looking at Xiao Ti reading the letter, he said, "Multiple friends have multiple ways. General Yelu Yuan, that is also our good friend."
"General Yelu Yuan is far away in Goguryeo, and he has never heard of him helping you? Why have you become good friends?" Xiao Ti put down the letter in his hand and asked curiously.
"Captain Xiao, you surrendered to the King of Liao later, so naturally you don't know the causes and consequences of many things. Liu Yan, our leader, was also a big shot under the King of Liao back then! He and General Yelu Yuan were originally old acquaintances." Fan Tong cut a small piece of mutton with a small knife and stuffed it into his mouth to chew it.
"So that's it!" Xiao Ti suddenly realized. "But later?"
"Later, something else happened, and the Liu Dazhuan had a dispute with Deng Jingshan. Deng Jingshan killed our Liu Dazhuan Manchus completely, leaving only ours. Hey, you think, can ours still count on the Liao King for justice?" Fan Tong said with a smile.
"Of course it's not possible." Xiao Ti shook his head and said, "If the power is evenly matched, or if you can still find some explanation, since one side is completely destroyed and the other side is completely won, then the Liao King will naturally support the winning side. Now General Deng Jingshan is the most powerful and most useful general under the Liao King."
"That's natural. It's precisely for this reason that Liu Dazang had to go up the mountain to make trouble, but he was always in love with him back then." Fan Tongdao.
Xiao Ti nodded: "In the past few years, we have also been thankful for General Yelu Yuan's care. If it weren't for him, I'm afraid that Xiao's enemies would have killed me long ago, and instead of slowly troubling us like now. General Yelu said that I would trust you completely. Since General Yelu said that, I would naturally feel at ease."
Fan Tong smiled and took out another letter from his arms, "I have another letter here with Chief Xiao."
"What are you doing to take it out together?" Xiao Ti opened the envelope in surprise and took a look at the signature first as usual. When he saw it, he jumped up in fear.
The signature of this letter was clearly another Khitan, Yelu Qi.
But Yelu Qi and Yelu Yuan are completely different. He was a general of the Tang Dynasty.
"Who are you?" Xiao Ti looked at Fan Tong in shock, "Why are you still in contact with Yelu Qi?"
Fan Tong slowly cut the mutton with a knife, "Captain Xiao, is this strange? Liu Dazhong wants to take revenge, but he can't think of it in his life with his own strength. Don't think about it when we live in Wuhu Mountain, but it's just in the mountains. His true strength is compared to Deng Jingshan, which is the fireflies and Haoyue compete for light. But Liu Dazhong wants to take revenge and wants to cut off Deng Jingshan's head with his own hands. What he doesn't want to see is that Deng Jingshan, an old thief, died. Do you understand?"
"So you colluded with the Tang Dynasty?" Xiao Ti swallowed, "But, is General Yelu Yuan?"
Fan Tong smiled but said nothing.
Xiao Ti shivered and looked at the other person with an incredible look on his face.
After inserting the knife on the mutton, Fan Tong raised his head and looked at Xiao Ti and said, "There is nothing strange about this. General Yelu Qi surrendered to Li Ze and Li Xiang, and General Yelu Yuan followed the Liao King to the northeast. The two were originally the same, but since then they chose different paths, they had completely embarked on different paths."
Xiao Ti naturally understood this principle. Thinking about the fact that he had not followed the local tribes in Liaodong to fight against the Liao King, but chose to join the Liao King at the beginning, then his current situation would probably be completely different.
One wrong step, one wrong step.
"General Yelu Qi has now become a third-rank general in the Tang Dynasty. The Siwandan clan is no longer the same as before." Fan Tong said: "When they went south, the whole clan could not even reach a cotton coat. As they walked, some people died in the wind and snow. The old ministers and soldiers walked in front to block the wind and snow for women, children and children, and danced on the snow roads, just to give the tribe a good future."
This is the tradition of the Khitans. Whenever there is a crisis, the elderly always sacrifice themselves to protect the entire tribe. Xiao Ti still remembers that many years ago, in the winter without food, the elderly would take off all their clothes and walk naked into the boundless wind and snow in the dark.
"But now?" Fan Tong said: "Boxing Trading Company is famous all over the world. The people of the Sidan tribe who were poor at that time, who didn't even have a cotton coat, are now the richest people in the Tang Dynasty. General Yelu Qi's son Yelu Fengze waved his hand and was a big business of millions of dollars. Chief Xiao, tell me, why doesn't General Yelu Yuan regret it? Now, he is still traversing the ravine in the place of Goguryeo, living in a broken shack, and catching cats with Tan Daoji!"
"So, it's not too late to make up for the siege!"
Listening to the last sentence Fan Tong added, Xiao Ti was silent for a while before saying, "Mr. Fan, it's rare that you can like me, but I'm just three hundred warriors, what role can it play?"
Fan Tongdao: "You three hundred people have arrived on the main battlefield in the front battlefield, and it really counts nothing. To put it bluntly, Clan Chief Xiao is afraid that if you charge, your three hundred cavalry will no longer exist. You have not fought with the Tang army, right? But you have fought with the Liao King's army."
"The warriors who are not me are not brave enough..." Xiao Ti said.
"It's not important." Fan Tong said: "Do you know that on the banks of the Yishui River, King Zhang Zhongwu of Liao was still the governor of Lu Long. His 20,000 cavalry fought a decisive battle with Li Ze and Li Xiang, who was the governor of Wuwei, and the scene of the charge of the 20,000 cavalry, you have never seen it in your life, right?"
Xiao Ti shook his head. Although he had never seen it before, he could still imagine the unrivaled ending of the earth and mountains.
"In that battle, the Liao King lost a lot, and 20,000 main cavalry were almost wiped out on the banks of the Yishui River." Fan Tong said with a smile, "Now, Li Xiang's strength is not comparable to that of the past. Li Xiang is now ten times stronger than He Zhi. Li Xiang's army came out, and there were only tens of thousands of people. Although he won that battle, his vitality was also severely damaged. But today, Li Xiang has hundreds of thousands of troops. Do you think the Liao King has a chance of winning?"
Fan Tong took advantage of the asymmetry of the information between the two sides and easily changed the concept. Li Ze did have hundreds of thousands of troops, but this time he dealt with Zhang Zhongwu was only two of them. However, Xiao Ti was in a remote and poor town, and his subordinates had only hundreds of people, so where could he know so much?
Xiao Ti's face turned a little pale.
"I know that Clan Captain Xiao and your men are all warriors, but war is not a house. The role that can play on the battlefield with thousands of troops is really minimal. And people like Clan Captain Xiao, who are unpopular, must have been sent out as the first wave of death squads to charge. You must first advance against a meteor-like stone cannon, charge against a strong crossbow, and finally charge against a crossbow arrow that is as dense as a locust. The Tang army used all the arms of the arm, such as crossbow bows that are soldiers sitting on the ground and using the power of their waists and legs to skew. But the range is much farther than ordinary bows and arrows, and it is easy to break armor. Clan Captain Xiao, I see that your soldiers do not even have a decent armor. When you meet the other cavalry, I really don't know how many people you can have left."
Xiao Ti lowered his head in pain.
"So Clan Chief Xiao, this time I'm really here to save you. Once you go to the main battlefield, your clan will be completely finished." Fan Tong whispered.
"But what can I do? I only have three hundred people?" Xiao Ti sighed.
"Of course I can do a lot of things!" Fan Tong said: "This time, the King of Liao was dispatched in full swing. He only left the few guards in various places. The only one left behind is the army that was left behind. The master is to monitor our Weihu Mountain army. However, there are only three thousand people, and with a part of the servant army recruited by you. Although the strength of the Clan Xiao is not as good as before, your tribe was famous before. Just your surname is enough to make many small tribes believe in you. If you can contact some people quietly, at that time, we will cooperate with our Weihu Mountain army and break the Liao army in one fell swoop, and then we can make a big fuss in the empty Liao land."
"Then what?"
"What do you think?" Fan Tong laughed and said, "The army was fighting outside, and the backyard was on fire. There were strong enemies outside and troubles inside. Can the King of Liao still hold on?"
Xiao Ti took a deep breath: "I'm afraid that King Liao will not be finished by then. After he returns to the army, he will destroy us first. So what am I going to do?"
"Did you forget General Yelu Yuan?" Fan Tong said: "Do you think that at that time, the King of Liao still has time to take care of us? Even if the King of Liao is really red, he has to deal with us first, and we can retreat to Weihu Mountain. He has no choice but to do anything about us all these years, and there is even more so in the future. Your tribe members will probably live better than here when they arrive at Weihu Mountain. Chief Xiao, this is your opportunity and the last chance. Otherwise, your tribe will be finished."
Xiao Ti was silent for a long time, and Fan Tong was not in a hurry. He picked up the knife again and began to slowly cut the mutton and chew it slowly. Until he saw Xiao Ti finally stretched out his hand and put away the thick stack of silver notes on the table, a smile finally appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Walking out of the yurt and looking up at the gorgeous sunshine, Fan Tong stretched his waist. The weather was so good today!
Chapter completed!