On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 287
After Cui Che and Mai Tiezhang separated their forces, they led the main force to make a big splash, leaving only the headless corpse of the leader of Yu Yuling, which was hung on a wooden pole and swayed in the wind.

When Ahui Lusu in the north heard the news, he also resolutely gave up going out of Fufubu, and set off on his way home with the people and animals looted from Rilianbu.

Ah Hui Lusu had always been superstitious about Cui Che's judgment, although he didn't know the reason, but since Cui Che left, he would not stay in Khitan alone.

Let’s talk about the three Khitan Adahe, Yu Yuling, and Rilian soldiers. When they heard that their tribe was looted by the Sui army and Kumoxi, they hurriedly took the people and animals looted from western Liaoning, and traveled day and night to chase the Sui army and Kumoxi. Xi, trying to save his family.

As for the generals of Xidan Wanbu and Chufubu, they breathed a sigh of relief and drove the looted women, children, and livestock that invaded western Liaoning to the northeast to join their own tribe.

In this battle, under the cooperation of Goguryeo and Khitan, Wei Chong finally saved Longshan City because of Cui Che's strategy of besieging Wei and saving Zhao.

Wei Chong was lucky to be able to defend Longshan City, and he was powerless to pursue.

Cui Che was worried that the Eastern Turks would return, so he could only lead the main force back to the division.

Since Adahe, Yu Yuling, and Rilian joined forces, Mai Tiezhang and Li Jing just ambushed the Rilian tribe and rescued the people in Yingzhou who were captured by the Rilian tribe, which aroused the attention of Ah Dahe. , Yu Yuling's vigilance.

They stopped there, no longer chasing, and instead drove the Sui captives, turned around and headed east.

Although the atrocities committed by Khitan and Goguryeo in western Liaoning were the same as those committed by the Sui army in Khitan.

But listening to the crying of the rescued captives, Mai Tiezhang still gritted his teeth in hatred, wishing to rescue all the captive women and children now.

But after Li Jing's persuasion, and thinking of Cui Che's exhortation, he could only bear it.

His ferocious gaze was always fixed on the direction in which Ah Dahe and Yu Yuling left.

After re-finding a place to thrive, the Adahe tribe elected a new leader, who was renamed the Daji tribe.

Yu Yuling's department also had a new leader, and it was renamed Fenwen's department.

As for the defeated soldiers of the Rilian tribe, they joined forces with some small tribes to form the Tubian tribe, one of the eight new Khitan tribes.

In any case, this enmity is completely over.

However, the Khitans hated Kumoxi even more.

Kumoxi and Khitan belong to the same branch, both originating from the Laoha River Basin in the upper reaches of the Liaohe River, but later they parted ways and were divided into Kumoxi and Khitan.

In the past, there were many frictions over the ranch, but the two have the same root and the relationship is not bad.

It's just that Kumoxi came out with an Ahui Lusu, who would open the way for the Sui people and follow the Sui people east to plunder.

Besides, Cui Che and Ahui Lusu returned to Kumoxi one after another, but because of the scramble for humans and animals, small-scale conflicts broke out. Although no lives were caused, the relationship between the two was more tense in the eyes of outsiders.

The envoy Cui Che sent to Daxing to repay the victory had already set off with the heads of A Dahe and Yu Yuling, as well as Cui Che's memorial to impeach Ahui Lusu.

Ahui Lusu was also tit-for-tat, impeaching Cui Che for brutal and indiscriminate killings. In fact, the crimes committed by Ahui Lusu in the Japanese company department were not much better.

Knowing this, Yang Jian praised Ahui Lusu, thinking that although he had a bad relationship with Cui Che, he could put the overall situation first, and even go off in person to force Khitan to come back for help.

In order to appease Ahui Lusu, a loyal minister of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian decided to let his son-in-law feel wronged, after all, he is his own.

For this matter, Yang Jian ostensibly sent someone to reprimand Cui Che and fined him another year's salary, but in private he rewarded Cui Che with gold and silver, which was several times his one-year salary.

Of course, these are things to follow.

Cui Che didn't stay in Kumoxi for a long time, he was worried that the Turks would go back and return, so after playing a scene with Ahui Lusu, he returned to Youzhou with the harvest of this trip.

Seeing this, the remaining sergeants were all jealous.

Every time he goes out of the fortress, he can make a lot of money. No one wants to follow such a coach.

At the same time, the envoys of the imperial court had already been waiting in Ji County.

Previously, Cui Che went to the school and thought that the Turks were fleeing far away and should save Yingzhou first. Now that he has returned to his teacher, he finally got Yang Jian's permission to do things on his own.

Mai Tiezhang and Li Jing went south from Khitan to Yingzhou, and sent back the people who were captured by the Rilian Department before returning from Yingzhou.

Cui Che has never allocated humans and animals to the soldiers, just waiting for the partial teacher to return.

When Mai Tiezhang and others returned safely, Cui Che didn't say a word when they heard about the tragic situation in Yingzhou.

He distributed all the Khitan women and children looted to the meritorious soldiers, and the livestock were replaced with the grain that was originally supplied to the logistics of the fortress, and used as logistical supplies after the fortress.

Cui Che wantonly recruited herdsmen to join the army among Neifuxi people, preparing for the battle with the Turks.

After all, taking advantage of the emptiness inside the Khitan, bullying the old and the weak, women and children is just a foretaste, and the Northern Expedition to the Turks is considered a tough battle.

Goguryeo and Khitan also sent envoys to Mobei one after another, accusing Dulan Khan of fleeing north, allowing Cui Che to go east without any scruples.

Dulan Khan was also in distress. If Datou Khan hadn't come to support him and help him stabilize the situation, even Cui Che's Northern Expedition would not have been needed, and his tribe would have been scattered.

Datou Khan and Nili Khan, who were harassing Longyou, heard that Cui Che was in command of the Northern Expedition, and gradually learned of the internal turmoil in the East Turks.

The Western Turkic Datou Khan led his troops to the east to help Dulan Khan.

It was hard to instigate the East Turkic rebellion, but it could not be returned to the embrace of the Sui Dynasty in any case.

Cui Che learned that Datou Khan was advancing eastward, and he also knew that he could not rely on more than 5 horsemen alone, so he fought against the two. He recruited the remaining troops from fifty towns in six states through Li Jing, the general manager of Youzhou, and won a total of 3 troops. [-] infantry.

Li Jing only left thousands of people to guard Youzhou.

On the seventh day of June in the 16th year of Emperor Kaihuang (AD 596), after making all the preparations, Cui Che told the soldiers to say goodbye to their families, and then led the [-]-step ride to the north, leaving the fortress for the second time.

The flag covered the sky and the sun, and for this campaign, he almost mobilized all the military forces in the fifty towns of the six states.

Accompanying him, apart from Zhang Lihua who continued to pretend to be a personal soldier, there were thousands of recruited Neifuxi people who, as herdsmen, would drive cattle and sheep for Cui Che.

Because the Khitan women and children had been divided up before leaving the fortress, the morale of the Sui army was high.

Especially the newly recruited [-] infantry, since Cui Che set up an ambush in Yuyang, annihilated more than [-] cavalry from the Western Turkic Inspectorate, and then went out to loot, they have been looking forward to a share of the pie day and night.

Now I finally got what I wanted, even if it was the first time I went out, I didn't have much fear of unfamiliar environments.

They believed that Cui Che could still achieve brilliant results and return victorious.

(End of this chapter)