All my eyes were filled with troubles.

For Yelu Deguang, there have been few things that have been going well in the past year. There are still a large number of supporters behind his brothers, who are still eyeing them. Although the Shiwei people surrendered on the surface, they are still waiting and watching, just like those people in the Marines. There are also Tuyuhun people in the west, who are never willing to give up the opportunity to pull themselves back.

Of course, the most hateful thing is Liu Shouguang, who has always adopted a policy of delaying his own demands. If he presses him tightly, he will relax his mouth and let it go a little looser, and immediately climb along the pole, making it more and more flawless. This is extremely hateful.

Maybe I should really give Liu Shouguang a little color? Let him understand who is the real master of this land.

"Mother, I plan to show off to Liu Shouguang and ask him to formally hand over Tanzhou and Jizhou to us." Yelu Deguang finally made the decision.

"Oh, Tanzhou and Jizhou?" Shuluping hesitated for a moment, "Are they pushing you too hard? Do you want to use this to comfort them?"

"Not quite, in fact, there are many people in our Khitans in Tanzhou and Jizhou. Liu Shouguang just nominally owns there. His officials cannot even get out of Miyun and Yuyang City, but he still has troops there. This is always a fish bone that is stuck on my throat. I want him to take the fish bone away by himself." Yelu Deguang's face at this time was a bit more sinister.

Shuluping shook his head, "If you really want to do this, you may need to settle the internal situation first. Your elder brother and eight departments must be prepared to deal with the unexpected. Liu Shouguang is also a vicious wolf, and he will not give in easily."

Yelu Deguang knew his mother's worries.

Liu Shouguang has been here for so many years. Of course, it is not simple. Everything is easy to say, but it would be different to ask him to withdraw his army from Yuyang and Miyun. However, because Liu Shouguang could endure it, Yelu Deguang also believed that the other party lacked the courage to turn against him.

In the early years, when his father A Baoji was there, Pingzhou was also in the hands of Liu Shouguang, so he obediently handed over it. Yelu Deguang believed that as long as he did not touch the other party's bottom line, that is, Youzhou, Liu Shouguang would not dare to turn against him.

"Mother, I know how to do it, there will be no problem. I am thinking that if we don't speed up the pace of going south, once the Shatuo people have a firm foothold in the Central Plains, we will not have many opportunities."

Yelu Deguang also felt a deep sense of urgency. He never expected how Daliang, known as the most powerful vassal in the Central Plains, collapsed so quickly.

Didn’t it always say that Daliang has never been at a disadvantage against Shatuo people?

Didn’t it mean that every time Shatuo people hit Daliang, they would have to bring some helpers?

Why did the Shatuo family beat Daliang like this time?

If the Liang collapses, the situation in the Central Plains will change drastically, but the Khitan is not ready to go south in full, but he cannot do anything, so he must take down Tanzhou and Jizhou, and the next step is Youzhou.

I heard that the population of Bianliang is over one million. If it is obtained by Shatu people, then Shatu people will be really hard to deal with. However, I also said that the Han people in Bianliang are fleeing south to Xuzhou in large numbers, and I don’t know whether this is a good or a bad thing.

For Yelu Deguang, it was a pity that the Khitans could not bite a bite. The biggest obstacle was the three towns of Heshuo, especially Liu Shouguang. If Liu Shouguang was not solved, the Khitans would never be able to move south.

The Khitan Iron Cavalry didn't say anything, but there was still a gap between the infantry and the Central Plains. Yelu Deguang has been recruiting Han and Xi people in Pingzhou, Yingzhou, and training infantry. The effect is very good. In time, a powerful Han-Xi coalition infantry will be formed, and by then it will become the most powerful helper of the Khitan Iron Cavalry.

However, Yelu Deguang didn’t know whether to contact the Tuyuhun people. The Tuyuhun people and the Khitan have always had a bad relationship, but the Shatuo people have entered the Central Plains. Should they change their course and re-adjust the direction?

There are also people who stop the Bu Bu. If the Tuyuhun people remain the same, they might be able to lead the evil wolf of the Bu Bu Bu to the south, which may cause some trouble for both the Shatu people and the Tuyuhun people.

When Yelu Deguang thought of the slaughter, he had a headache. These barbarians were the most difficult to conquer. When his father was there, he made these guys obey orders. However, since he ascended the throne, these slaughterers pretended to be deaf and dumb again and refused to pay tribute. However, their words were quite respectful during the exchanges, and they might be able to use them.

However, no matter what, I should show my strength to the south. Whether it is Liu Shouguang or the Han vassals further south, they should let them know that not only the Shatu people, but also the Khitan people are all heroes on the northern plateau.

Heshuo should be the horse farm and grain field of the Khitans, not the place where Shatu people or Tuyuhun people made their decisions. Yelu Deguang felt that the Shatu people must understand this, otherwise there would be only wars.

Yelu Deguang never thought that there would be other people who dared to fight Heshuo. In his opinion, the only people who dared to covet this land were Shatuo people, while the Tuyuhun people could only have tinea scabies.

As for the Han vassals in the south, did Jiang Feng dare to cross the river? The powerful Khitan cavalry didn't mind giving the other party a profound lesson.

Seeing his son's face showing a confident look, Shuluping thought about it and said, "You must discuss this with the Duke of Lu and come up with a proper way."

The Duke of Lu was Han Yanhui, and he was also a Khitan government official, assisting Yelu Deguang in managing the national affairs.

At present, the major national affairs of the Khitan State were determined by Yelu Deguang, Shuluping and Han Yanhui. Yelu Deguang and Shuluping both rely heavily on Han Yanhui.

"Don't worry, Mother, I will discuss a strategy with the Duke of China."

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Qu'a, the intersection of Jiandu and the canal.

Li Bing stood on the bow of the boat, looking at the ant thief who was still showing off his might on the river bank, his face full of gloom and blood dripping from his heart.

He really didn't want to fight with the ant thief anymore. The war over the past year has caused the entire Wu Kingdom to decline. Even though Li and Wu have sufficient financial resources, if this continues, especially as the war continues to burn on the territory of Runchang and the two states, Wu Kingdom can't hold on anymore.

It seems that the two states of Runchang will be in a difficult time this year. People flee everywhere and no one will take care of the crops in the fields. How should we live next year?

Bian Hao's eyes were also cruising on the shore, and the ants thieves' horse army decreased compared to the last time. It can be seen that the news brought back by Xizuo was correct. The war horses brought by the ants thieves from Jiangbei were also becoming more and more rare. This was related to the inadequacy of the climate in Jiangnan and the inability to supplement their war horses, but the situation on their own side was the same.

Xuzhou tightened its output to the horses in the south. It is said that this may have a lot to do with their large-scale formation of cavalry. Thinking of this, Bian Hao was in a bad mood. There were ant thieves in the south, Qianyue in the east, and Jiang Feng, who was like a wolf and a tiger in the north. Bian Hao felt that since the king of the country accepted the title of King Wu, it seemed that it had become unhappy.

Chu Yang Runchang is the must-defend place of Wu. It is impossible to lose any state. Chu Yang is the foundation of the establishment of Wu, and Runchang is the foundation for Wu to revive.

Without the Runchang Prefectures, it would be a matter of time before the Wu State could only defend Chu Yang and be annexed by the increasingly powerful Xuzhou, so the Runchang Prefectures must be recaptured.

However, the current situation is unbearable for Wu State. The ant thief divided into several parts cannot be defeated one by one as I thought, or eliminated by surrounding points and attacking aid.

They obviously formed two large clusters, and they were almost unaffiliated and fought against each other, but sometimes they would support each other. Because of this, they could not grasp the rules of the battle against these ants thieves, and their repeated judgments were missed, and instead they were exploited by the ants thieves.

The war against the ant thieves has not made no progress, but the number of ant thieves is too large. Even if thirty or fifty thousand have been eliminated for so long, so what? For an ant thieves with a number of more than 150,000, it is not harmful to the bones.

They even kept looting good people in Run, Chang, She, Hang, Mu and other prefectures and counties, or simply burning, killing and looting everywhere, forcing the poor who had lost their homes to join them.

This move was extremely powerful. Many of the already miserable farmers in Shezhou and Muzhou were swept into it by them. This method has been successful many times in the Central Plains, but it has not worked well in wealthy areas such as Runchang, but it has also been effective in the mountainous areas of Shemu and the two prefectures.

Last month, the ant thieves were already a little tired and retreated from Changzhou and instead attacked Huzhou. They captured Anji and approached Wucheng. They were later repelled by the Vietnamese army. However, Qian Yuanguan, a short-sighted rat, refused to take advantage of the victory and allowed the ant thieves to escape back to Sui'an. Now these ant thieves attacked from Maoshan and Chishan Lake again, catching their side off guard.

One thing that made Li Bing and Bian Hao a little afraid was that these ant thieves from the Central Plains had experienced such a long war. Not only were they becoming more and more familiar with the climate and geography here, but they were also even more frightened that a large number of local refugees and tenants also joined them. Some local gentry were secretly engaging in music with these ant thieves, which was what worried them the most.

The local gentry is also quite impatient with such a long-term war. If the decisive victory over the ant thief still cannot be achieved, perhaps these people may change their ranks, especially in the fact that many strategies of the ant thief are also changing. The ant thief has made some attempts in Xuanzhou and has obtained the support of some evil gentry in Xuanzhou. This is definitely a news that cannot be worse than bad.

If this continues, the situation in Runchang and the two states may be even worse. Some information has been obtained from all aspects. There are gentry secretly communicating with the ant thieves in Jurong and Jintan, using food and money to redeem the ant thieves and not attacking Jurong and Jintan. This is also one of the reasons why Yanling and Qu'a were attacked this time.
Chapter completed!