Chapter 248 Brothers

Luo Dacheng led 40,000 cavalry and stepped across the grassland with great power, making the herdsmen along the way respectful and worshipped. The grasslands in this area have been completely controlled by the Hualie tribe, and the Gobi area in the south and the Xing, Xia, Gan, Su and other states to the south are all under the control of the Hualie tribe. The strength of the Hualie tribe has the strength to change the world.

The situation of three-legged stalemate has gradually formed.

But the Hualie tribe has not yet controlled the entire grassland, which is a major concern for Luo Dacheng. If he cannot ride the horse grassland and completely control all nomadic peoples, his own power will not reach the level of Genghis Khan. When attacking Liao Kingdom in the future, he will have to worry that the two Khan kings will attack from behind and will fall into an unfavorable situation at any time.

Therefore, a decisive battle with the two kings of the north to fight for the ownership of the grassland will become an inevitable development of the situation.

Forty thousand iron cavalry crossed the vast grassland and gradually approached the most central camp of Hualie's tribe after a long journey.

Countless herders fell to the ground and welcomed the return of the Khan. Di Liniang and Wei Mu Qingyang held the child and stood with the other princesses with a smile, coming to greet him.

Looking at these concubines from afar, Luo Dacheng's eyes became gentle, and he rode forward on his horse, glanced at the crowd, but did not see Meng Yilan, and he couldn't help feeling a little sad.

But his attention soon fell on the side. The young men who were obviously Han people had their eyes widened slightly, and their hearts were filled with surprise.

Standing among the thousands of officials, the familiar face, the tall young man's heroic spirit, and the elegant and strong temperament of the black-faced scholar, were like two stars. Even if they were in the crowd, they could not hide their dazzling light.

Luo Dacheng led the light cavalry guards to the front of the greeting team, jumped off the horse, walked towards them with great joy, and laughed out loud: "Di Qing, Brother Bao, it turns out that you are here! Are you still used to living on the grassland?"

Seeing him strode, the officials and scholars bowed down one after another. The two of them also pushed the gold mountain and turned the jade pillar and bowed deeply.

Luo Dacheng hurriedly took two steps, held the arms of the two, and shouted: "Please get up quickly, you are my closest relatives and brothers, why should you do this great gift?"

Bao Zheng knelt on the ground and said calmly: "The courtesy cannot be abolished. My brother is now the king of a country. He should perform this great ceremony according to the courtesy and pay homage to the king."

Di Qing also bowed to the ground and said loudly: "Since my subordinates have joined the Hualie tribe, they should take the king as the lord and serve the king wholeheartedly. It is natural to perform this great gift!"

Luo Dacheng laughed and helped them up, looking at the pair of famous ministers and generals, he was filled with joy.

The last time he had instructed Brother Su to find a way to let the two of them go to the grassland to help him, but he didn't expect that Brother Su would do his business so quickly that he actually sent the two of them to the grassland before he came back.

The details he didn't know were that Brother Su spent a lot of effort to verify the whereabouts of the two of them for his orders, and personally went to Bao Zheng's hometown, respectfully invited him to the grassland, and assisted the Khan to establish a complete government mechanism.

Moved by his sincerity, Bao Zheng agreed with mercy. When spring came and the business road was smooth, he followed the immigrant army organized by the Song Dynasty government and headed towards the grassland.

Di Qing was sent as the escort of the Immigration Army, following the escort army, protecting these immigrants, scholars and officials, and heading to Hualie's tribe together.

In order to put him in the guards, Brother Su spent a lot of gold and silver to achieve his goal.

When they arrived at Hualie's tribe, Di Qing and Di Li's brother and sister met, they were filled with joy and sorrow. Brother Su got the news that they had arrived at the grassland safely, and his heart fell to the ground. He requested that Di Qing be sent to Hualie's tribe to serve, just like those scholars and officials, he became a member of the government under Hualie's tribe.

The Song Dynasty court also knew Di Qing's identity. In order to make the Han power stronger in this barbaric country, establish a more pro-Song government. In order to give Di Liniang's pure Han son a helper to ensure that he can ascend the throne of Khan in the future and be loyal to the Song Dynasty forever, he also agreed to let Di Qing join this vassal state as an official sent by the Song Dynasty. From then on, he would obey Luo Dacheng and become his subordinate.

On the grassland, Luo Dacheng pulled the two young talents and laughed to the sky, feeling extremely happy.

Later generations talked about the era of Emperor Renzong of Song, there was a saying that "there are literary songs and the martial songs are martial songs", which was about the two famous ministers and generals who assisted Zhao Zhen. They were famous and well-known and well-written.

The legendary Wenquxing refers to Bao Qingtian as mentioned in history; and Wuquxing is Luo Dacheng's uncle and Di Qing, the first general of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Amid the loud laughter, Luo Dacheng pulled these two close brothers and led his subordinates' thousands of officials and households to strode towards the big tent.

Song Renzong did not know how to cherish talents, so he let this pair of civil and military stars come to his side and assisted him. The prosperity of the Hualie tribe is just around the corner!

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Luo Dacheng led 5,000 iron cavalry to the north. This time he did not go to the decisive battle with the two kings of the north, but received invitations from Tuntugus and Hu Lan, and went to the junction of the three tribal forces to negotiate with the two kings.

In fact, in such a situation where water and fire are incompatible and difficult to reconcile, it is a joke if there is any peaceful negotiation. When both sides go to negotiate, they are both ill-intentioned and no one really wants to live in peace.

A long time ago, the Hualie tribe had sent many loyal tribes to impersonate refugees on the grassland and join the two major tribes. At that time, the two Khans were busy annexing various small and medium-sized tribes and recruiting herdsmen to join the headquarters. He did not expect that Luo Dacheng was so cunning and did not investigate their life experience and directly took it in.

In fact, in such a chaotic situation on the grassland, no one can find out a person's background. At most, he can only infer his origin from his accent and appearance. It is estimated that he is a descendant of the Xianbei people or a descendant of the Turks.

With so many tribes plagued into the enemy's tribe, there were always people who could reach high positions, or as attendants of senior generals such as Qianhu, they could approach the center of power and get in touch with confidential information.

With their efforts, the Hualie tribe gradually learned the secret plan that the two Khans were discussing: lure Luo Dacheng into their controlled area, kill Luo Dacheng in one fell swoop, and let Hualie tribe lose its leader and fall into civil strife. Then, he could take advantage of the situation to defeat the Hualie tribe and plunder their property and livestock for himself.

There is nothing to do in doing this. After all, the Hualie tribe is becoming more and more powerful, and it has brought a large number of Dangxiang cavalry from the south to join the battle for hegemony. Such power has made the two Khans frightened, worried that if they fail in the battle, they will be killed or captured as slaves.

They also knew that Luo Dacheng would come to the peace talks and would bring a large number of soldiers and generals. In order to ensure that Luo Dacheng could be killed, the two Khans invited the Beast God Shaman, the best master of the grassland, to secretly hide it in their entourage. When Luo Dacheng sat in front of them, they immediately asked the Beast God Shaman to take action and kill this powerful enemy in one fell swoop, avoiding future troubles!

In order to deceive Luo Dacheng into coming, the two Khans pretended to be willing to help Song attack Liao, and the three major tribes on the grassland attacked the Liao Kingdom at the same time, and then they would benefit everyone.

Such a treacherous and cunning plan could not be thought of by their simple minds. The Liao Kingdom had already sent envoys and counselors to give them advice and brought the will of the Empress Dowager of the Liao Kingdom to use this method to eliminate the Han Khan, the Han Dynasty who was deeply threatening to everyone.

Originally, such secrets should be kept secret. Unfortunately, the Khan on the grassland was simple-minded after all, and did not expect the various dangerous struggles between countries and the terrible spy wars. The large number of spies sent by Hualie's troops finally received generous rewards. Before the plan was discussed thoroughly, the news had been quietly transmitted back to Hualie's troops with carrier pigeons, so that Luo Dacheng could have enough time to think about the strategy.

When the messenger who asked for peace to the two Khans arrived, Luo Dacheng had already had a vain and expressed his agreement to the messenger for the three tribes to attack Liao. However, at the meeting place, he had to be at the junction of the three tribes controlled areas, and he had to ask Hualie's troops to send people to check and beware of ambushing there.

The two kings of Shubu agreed and pretended to be generous and asked Hualie's troops to inspect the hill that was chosen as the meeting place.

The three thousand cavalry sent by Hualie's troops surrounded the mountain. After going up the mountain for a long time, they finally retreated down the mountain and stationed troops at the foot of the mountain, waiting for the arrival of the three Khan kings.

Three days later, when Tuntugus and Hu Lan led their troops to climb the mountain, they were filled with excitement and nervousness, but they never dreamed that thousands of kilograms of explosives had been buried under their feet. As long as they ignite and explode, even a hundred beast god shamans would fly into the sky with them.

In this way, when both sides of the talks were ill-intentioned, the meeting between the three Khans of the Grassland was about to begin.

On the vast grassland, there is a hill. Although it is not as tall as the high mountains and ridges, it is not too short. It is covered with grass and trees. A road to the mountain is opened from the middle and it reaches the top of the mountain.

At the top of the mountain, the strong Tuntugusse sat on the felt carpet on the ground, holding a wine glass in his hand, and slowly drank the fine wine given by the Liao people.

His younger brother Sigeli stood behind him, waving his arms, looking itchy and unbearable. He murmured and recited Luo Dacheng's name, and an excited and bloodthirsty gaze surged in his eyes.

Hu Lan, who is nearly fifty years old, sat on the other side, lowered his head and pondered, with a slight look of sorrow on his face.
Chapter completed!