Chapter 138 Advance to Tiger Valley
After thinking about it for a few quarters of an hour, he now suspected that the Red Leaf Tribe had been pursued and besieged by the Xianbei people. He was preparing to lead his troops to go deep into the grassland to launch rescue operations.
Then he summoned the generals, and he explained his guesses and ideas, and then solicited everyone's opinions.
Guan Yu's face immediately pulled down, "Lord, the war between us and the Xianbei people has ended. The military advisor has sent a letter to ask us to go back to consolidate the regained Yaoyang County. If there is no lord back to take charge, how can we live?
If the Xianbei grassland is sent for such a small tribe, once the two sides fight, it may trigger revenge from the Xianbei people. If they again lead their troops south to invade, the disaster will be great. The soldiers of Youzhou are exhausted, and the treasury will have to wait until the autumn harvest this year."
"The Red Leaf Tribe is subordinate to the Xianbei royal court of the Danhan Mountain. If Xubts leads his troops to leave the Xianbei and enter the Han Dynasty, it will be betrayal from the perspective of the Xianbei people. Now the Red Leaf Tribe is still a subordinate of the Danhan Mountain. We take the liberty to enter the country and help them escape. Are you meddling in other people's business and looking for trouble?" Zhang Fei immediately took over Guan Yu's words and added.
"It is indeed inappropriate for us to do this. First, there is no command from the governor, and second, there is no official document to be based on. Crossing the border without reason not only violates military discipline, but also violates national laws. This is different from fighting Bai Tan and Yao Yang. These two places are originally the homeland of the Han family. If you want to save the Hongye Tribe, once you pursue it, it will be a disaster for the nine tribes. Lord, don't joke about everyone's lives." Cheng Pu also said seriously and very seriously.
Hu Lin curled his lips, looked disdainful, and retorted loudly: "Opening national laws and silence military disciplines? It's just fear of death, why do you need to find many excuses?"
The signature smirk on Tie Tuo's face suddenly appeared, and he muttered in a loud and small voice: "No one tells me, who knows?"
Guan Yu suddenly stood up, pointed at Tie Tuo and shouted, "What do you mean?"
Tie Tuo was not afraid at all and shouted loudly: "No one would tell me, who would know that we were fighting across the border? Now, how many people in the entire border county know that the Tuoba people have withdrawn from Macheng? Who knew that we were in a state of truce?"
Yan Rou grabbed Guan Yu and smiled and advised, "They just joined the army and don't know something. Don't you be angry at Chang Yun? We are all brothers and will fight hard on the same battlefield in the future. Why bother to get angry about this? But I think what he said makes sense. Do you think so?"
"You..." Guan Yu was so angry that he rolled his eyes, and sat down on the ground and was too lazy to talk.
"Lord, let's make an idea and we will all listen to you." The tall, mighty and chubby Pan Feng pushed Liu He who was sitting next to him and said carefully.
"It turns out that our brothers from the horse gang are following the lord to the death and ask for his advice." Hu Lin shouted loudly, his tone obviously meant to instigate him.
Guan Yu started to attack again. He pointed at Hu Lin and shouted: "Now everyone is a border army affiliated to Youzhou, there are no horse bandits or horse gangs. The army implements a system of joint seats. If you break the law alone, we will be implicated. If you are beheaded, we will lose our heads. Can you not make trouble here?"
Hu Lin was startled and stopped talking.
Zhang Fei looked at Liu He's hesitant expression and sighed in his heart.
"Master, do you still want to enter the country?" Zhang Fei asked.
Liu He nodded.
"There are 20,000 innocent herdsmen in front of them. They have no right to decide their own destiny. When they think of the great man, they just want to live a stable life of food and clothing. What is the sin? They have no hatred with us. Why don't we save us when we die? If they are the people of the great man, will we save us?"
"The people of the Han Dynasty are humans, are they not humans?"
"I want to bring the troops there. Whether you agree or not, I want to bring people there."
"Lord, would you be more rational? Everyone came from Zhuo County together, and they were in the same boat through thick and thin. How could you say this? If you must do this, let's go with you. But we don't understand which one is more important, 10,000 or 20,000 Xianbei people, or more than 5,000 brothers?" Guan Yu said angrily.
In fact, no matter whether the two sides are in a state of war, as long as the troops enter the Xianbei border, they will violate military discipline. They have never received an order to cross the border and fight. Perhaps after entering the country, they can help the Hongye tribe escape from the grassland smoothly and everyone is safe. However, if they meet the Xianbei army and trigger a war between the two sides, the consequences will be unpredictable and uncontrollable. In the future, the dead are already dead, and it doesn't matter. The living will suffer.
Guan Yu was quite rigorous and used the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period as his ethics. Cheng Pu and Yan Rou had been in the army for a long time and knew how powerful it was, so they strongly opposed it. However, everyone had a deep brotherhood and asked them to watch Liu He take risks alone, no one could do it.
Liu He was silent for a while and said loudly: "Brothers are of course more important."
"But what we do in the army? Isn't it just to protect the weak? No matter who it is, as long as he needs our help, we should be determined. Is there any mistake in this?"
Everyone was silent, looking at Liu He who looked firm in front of him, some were helpless, some admired, some admired, and some were grateful. Everyone thought about their own thoughts.
When Liu He saw that everyone no longer raised objections, he was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Let's go out in the middle of the night and you can arrive at Laohugou in the early morning tomorrow. Demou, Deran, you are waiting for us in Zhuolu as planned."
Pan Feng screamed strangely and shouted in pain: "It's midnight again, are you going to live?"
Everyone was surprised at first, and then burst into laughter.
Liu He kicked hard and cursed with a smile: "You go and die."
Then he watched his subordinates jump to gather the troops one by one, and felt excited. It would be better to have these brothers who follow life and death.
A speeding horse suddenly rushed out of the horizon in the distance, and then more than a dozen war horses rushed out one after another.
Liu He's heart beat violently.
The migratory army of the Hongye Tribe was caught up by Tanliao's troops in Laohugou.
Subutz used four or five hundred horse-drawn carriages and ox carriages to form a defensive formation. More than 20,000 people in the tribe were crowded in this small space. No one was afraid or crying. People on the grassland were already numb to this kind of fighting and killing. Except for children, the elderly, and all moving people in the tribe, including women, all picked up spears and raised bows and arrows. Life was not rewarded by anyone, but by themselves.
This place is eighty miles away from the border of the Han Dynasty.
Subutz almost succeeded. The Red Leaf Tribe has been living close to the grassland border, and their habitat is more than 800 miles away from the border of the Han Dynasty. Although their actions were very fast in this operation, the tribe had too many people and was slow to move, and it was still one step slower after all.
After the King Kuitou's western tour, the King of Danhan Mountain was left behind by his cousin Tan Liao. Tan Liao was shocked to receive news that the Red Leaf Tribe was preparing to move south to Han. This precedent could not be opened.
He led a thousand iron cavalry south overnight, summoning the Shuiqian tribe, the Natsume tribe, and the Dragon Eye tribe, and surrounded the border with 6,000 troops in two groups.
In Laohugou, Tan Liao commanded his troops to surround the Hongye Tribe.
Chapter completed!