Groups of Luobei prisoners were queuing up to get on the train. Having lost their fighting spirit, they had completely reduced themselves to simple ordinary herdsmen. Like a group of docile sheep, they boarded the large transport carriages that continued to come from the northwest and began to march towards Huohuaji. The number was too large. For safety reasons, Ling Tianfang divided the placement of prisoners into three places. Wusun City and Huohuoji each housed 20,000 people, while the remaining 30,000 people were sent to Qingyang.
The Mote soldiers were very happy to take on the arduous task of escorting them. In their view, these Luobei people, who always thought of themselves as overlords and suppressed their own nation, were now prisoners, enjoying the taste of the victors. It was really a shame. This is a supreme honor. Although the military judges who supervise everywhere may severely punish those soldiers who violate military disciplines by beating, scolding and corporally punishing prisoners at any time, even if they pay a certain price, as long as they can taste the taste of enslaving the Luobi people, they think it is worth it. .
It was learned from the envoys who came to negotiate that Bessan had been dismissed from his post and was temporarily imprisoned for review to determine whether he had committed malfeasance in this war. His deputy Kurdo was also dismissed and imprisoned. Perhaps such a huge responsibility as the collapse of the eastern part of the country needs to be borne by the two of them. Topo has officially taken over as the general to conquer the east. When will the nearly one million strong laborers and land herdsmen be reunited? No one knows. Wulanji has been occupied by the Northwest Army and the Mote people. All Luobo The Bei people were required to withdraw from Ulanji two hundred miles away before starting negotiations. Such harsh conditions made the Luo Bei envoys who came to negotiate burst into tears.
After receiving the news of the northwest's great victory on the eastern front, the Chidi people suddenly became extremely tough in their negotiations with the Luobi people. The collapse of the eastern expedition meant that the Luobi people no longer had the strength to cope with the pressure on the two fronts. Without the control of the Tanghe people in the east, the Luobi people would have to lower their proud heads in front of the Chidi people.
Wadeya seemed to have aged a few years, and there were a few more wrinkles on his fat face. The meeting of nobles had been going on for more than two hours, but there was still no result. These losers only quarreled and cursed. Deep in his heart, Wadeya There is an urge to order the warriors standing outside the hall to drag these guys out and behead them all in public, but this idea can only be thought of.
The focus of the debate is still on the terms of negotiation with the Chidi and Tanghe people. The Chidi people are very aggressive. In addition to demanding huge armistice compensation, the Chidi people also demand that the Luobi people release the prisoners of war unconditionally, and they The captured Luobi prisoners of war asked the Luobi people to redeem them with money. This humiliating condition aroused strong indignation on the Luobi side, and they were naturally rejected. However, the attitude of the An'ou people seems to have changed somewhat from the previous times. They want the Luobi people to put pressure on the Luobi side to accept the unreasonable demands made by the Chidi people. Otherwise, the development of the war will be unfavorable to the Luobi side, etc. The ambiguous language also caused great panic among the upper-class Luobei nobles. If the Anou people changed their previous neutral stance, the situation of the Luobei people, who were already at a disadvantage, would be even more difficult.
Negotiations with the northwest side have also reached a deadlock. The northwest people not only demand the cession of large tracts of land as compensation, but also demand that Ulanji be turned into an undefended town, managed by the joint garrison of the northwest, Mote and Luobei. These are also second. After all, large tracts of land including Wulanji are now essentially controlled by the northwest. Worried about the retaliation and purges of the Mote people, a large number of herdsmen have fled their original residences and poured into the central region. This has not only greatly aggravated the situation in the central pastoral areas. The conflicts between the herdsmen and these westward-migrating herdsmen also spread the atmosphere of fear and decadence to the central pastoral areas. However, at this time, the Eastern Expedition was still busy recruiting remnants of soldiers, while the northwest people did not take advantage of the situation to move westward. It seems that Li Wufeng's heart Shen Shen did not want to kill his own clan, otherwise with their current momentum and the Chidi people joining forces to attack, I am afraid that two more Tu Da would have no choice but to surrender.
The 70,000 captives are also a severe pain in Wadeya's heart. If he can't find a way to redeem them, I'm afraid that the small tribes under the Eastern Expedition will immediately rebel. Those are their children and herdsmen. No matter how unwilling he is, He could only endure the pain and admit defeat, hoping that Li Wufeng's butcher's knife would not be raised too high. Thinking of this, Wadeya couldn't help but hate Besang and Cuerdo even more. If they hadn't advocated curbing the development momentum of the northwest, By intervening in the internal affairs of the Namot people, my clan would not be involved in the grievances with the northwest people at all. This was a good thing. It suddenly fell into a big somersault, and even the entire Eastern Expedition was involved, and it was also dragged thousands of miles away. Fertile fields.
Seeing that the chief was looking a little distracted, Duny, who was in charge of internal affairs, had to use a high-pitched voice to suppress a group of nobles who were still arguing, and then said in a deep voice: "Great chief, you see that the situation is critical now, we must A decision must be made immediately. The Chidi troops have made adjustments again. I am worried that if we cannot give them a satisfactory answer, they may provoke another period and deliberately provoke a war. We have sent the Anou people to People went to touch them, but these guys probably got a lot of promises from the Chidi people, and their attitude is ambiguous. I think they are very dangerous, so I should ask the chief to make an idea."
"Yes, there is no progress in the negotiations between the Tanghe people in the east. I wonder if we can make some concessions. I don't think those Tanghe people have much thought about interfering in matters on our grassland. It's not that Li Wufeng has been Do you want to go back to the hinterland of their Tanghe Empire? I think if Besang and the others hadn't provoked them without authorization, I'm afraid they would have turned their attention to the hinterland of Tanghe Empire. It's just that now the Mote people are relying on their own strength, but they are not willing to give in. Listen, He said that Gu'er Sufu is currently circling around Li Wufeng because he wants Li Wufeng to completely defeat us so that the Motte people can dominate East Tengri. We can't delay it any longer. Li Wufeng has not made up his mind yet. If we let him The tailless wolf Guersufu has really blown Li Wufeng's heart, so we are really in trouble." The person who spoke was Misai, who was responsible for the daily administrative affairs of the clan. He was both Wadeya's confidant and a member of the clan. He is an old minister with considerable qualifications and is quite influential among the nobles of the clan.
"According to Mr. Misai's wishes, are we going to give up our original rights and interests in the Eastern Zhengdong and compromise with the Tanghe people? Then hundreds of thousands of people in the Eastern Zhengdong have lost their land and pastures. How will they survive? Li Wufeng He clearly wants to turn that land into an outpost of the Mote people. That will only condone the Tanghe and Mote people and make them more arrogant, which will pose a greater threat to us in the future!" Tu Da couldn't bear it anymore. Now, he also knew that it was quite irrational for him to stand up and argue with Misai. Although he won the war against the Chidi people on the southern front, this did not eliminate the suspicion of the chief. Besang The disastrous defeat on the Eastern Front was indeed beyond Tu Da's expectation. He did not expect that Li Wufeng was so powerful. He actually defeated the more than 200,000 Eastern Army led by Besang in just a few days. The losses caused by one side were not even much worse than the last battle to encircle and annihilate Ule, but the gap between Besang and Ule was too big in Tu Da's eyes, but they both fell into the hands of the same person, which could not help Tu Da. A stood up and expressed his dissent. He knew that the longer Li Wufeng was allowed to rest, the greater the threat to the Luobi people would be in the future, although it was not clear from the current situation that the Tanghe people had any other ideas.
"No, General Tu Da, you seem to have misunderstood me." Misai's attitude seemed very kind and friendly. He did not want to have an argument with this general who had repeatedly made military exploits on the Western Front battlefield, but this did not mean that He thought that the other party was very mature politically. He always thought that Tu Da was a good soldier and a good commander, but he was not that wise politically, and he could not even see clearly where the fundamental interests of his clan lay. , maybe because he has been the head coach of Zhengdong for too long, he has too deep or even abnormal feelings for Zhengdong.
"The cruel reality is before us. Judging from the current strength of our Luo Bei clan, no matter from any aspect, we should not be enemies of the Chidi and Tanghe people at the same time. This is definitely an unwise move. Although Both the Chidi people and the Tanghe people are our enemies, but we need to analyze them carefully. Although the Tanghe people, under the leadership of Li Wufeng, caused great harm to our eastern expedition, I personally think Besang should We have to bear a great responsibility. It stands to reason that Northwest has signed a friendly business treaty with us. We have indeed benefited a lot from this treaty, and the strength of the whole clan has also been significantly improved. In this environment, we completely let this While this situation is maintained, our strength continues to increase. The northwest people fought with us this time because they felt that we Luobi people no longer seemed to want to be friendly with them. The Mote Incident was just a trigger, so That’s why there’s this battle.”
"I also think that Li Wufeng's win over the Mote people will pose a certain threat to our east. But judging from the current performance of the northwest people, at least they have no ambitions for our territory to the east. Maybe the Mote people do, but They are now affiliated with Li Wufeng, and everything depends on Li Wufeng's wishes. I think Li Wufeng may not want to see the strength of our Luobi people decline significantly, and their alliance with the Chidi people may not be stable." Misai's words are not surprising. Never stop swearing.
"Oh?" Almost everyone opened their mouths in surprise, some not understanding the meaning of Misai's words. The people from the northwest had just dealt a fatal blow to Zhengdong, turning the entire Zhengdong into the palm of his hand. I'm afraid what Li Wufeng wanted to see the most was the destruction of the entire Luobei people. How could Misai have it? Do you think so