Chapter eight hundred and thirty first
Ye Qing and others did not find the camel group they had passed by, but instead met a business trip consisting of camel caravans. From the dress of these people, you can tell at a glance that these people were authentic Khwarezm people.
A small business trip consisting of seven camels and ten horses. After Ye Qing and six of them climbed the canyon, with his tacit approval, Mu Huali and the other five took only a very short time to deal with nine of them.
The only Harazimo man who was planning to ride a horse and throw down his goods to escape was unable to escape the fate of being robbed. Ye Qing pulled him off the horse, and without hesitation, he twisted his neck and threw it into the canyon.
After stripping off the white long gowns and headscarfs of the Khwarezmians who were almost the same figure as theirs, the body was also thrown into the canyon, Ye Qing and his six men transformed into small business teams from the east under the cover of night.
As Ye Qing and his six men dressed up as business travelers, they distinguished the direction, and after the camel bell rang again, they began to walk towards Yifa City in the darkness.
They were not far from Yifa City, but because of the pursuit, they had to hide in the canyon with the advantage of strong mobility. But even so, the rest in the canyon and the rushing road did not actually keep them away from the area of Yifa City.
Unlike the city gates of the Central Plains city that are closed regularly, Yifa City may be due to the arrival of the Sun God. When Ye Qing and others approached the city gate, the city gate was still crowded with people, and under the dim light, it still seemed very lively.
The check at the city gate was still quite strict, and the inspection at the city gate was not relaxed because the number of people waiting to enter the city continued to increase.
With the tourists from other Khwarezmians, business travelers, or other people, they voluntarily waited for the inspection to enter the city. For Ye Qing and others who pretended to be business travelers, it was not difficult to enter the city.
It was only half an hour later that it was their turn to enter the city. Facing the investigation of the soldiers guarding the city by the Khwarezmians, Ye Qing and others responded calmly, while the Khwarezmians seemed to be not interested in their identities. They just checked the goods on the camels and horses and paid the tax on the city, they could enter the city openly.
There are six people, seven camels, and ten horses. There are many such business trips. They are not very large-scale business trips, and it is also in line with the configuration of every small business trip. They are always a ratio of camels to horses, and they are also to cope with the various unexpected situations of long journeys along the way.
Ifa City is not not very big. Even under the night, you can still see after entering the city. At the end of the straight street, a tower-shaped building is much taller than the low buildings around it. At this moment, the surroundings are brightly lit.
The six people slowly approached the building along the street. The closer the distance, the more people around them were, and each of them looked at the tall building with an almost pious look.
Ye Qing and Mu Huali rode on their hunched back and looked at everyone's eyes. They saw the blurry figure under the lights, as if they had seen it somewhere.
"This should be their sun god Fars?" Mu Huali whispered in a low voice looking at the general outline.
"It looks like, who knows. First look for the inn and then see if the troops in the city are more than the guards in the other two cities." Ye Qing pulled the reins, turned around with the camel, and walked towards a slightly quiet alley.
While not familiar with the place, it is not easy to find an inn suitable for merchants like them in Yifa City. Moreover, their appearance is different from most of the people here. Even though they are unshaven, they can still be distinguished as foreign merchants.
In a street not far from the Zoroastrianism, they finally found an inn dedicated to receiving foreign merchants. After being inspected by the city gatekeeper, all their goods were naturally regarded as being planned to carry the goods they bought from Khwarezm.
Even after temporarily settled down, Ye Qing's mind was still lingering in the tall building he had just seen, the figure of the Zoroastrian sun god. Even if the lights were bright at night, he was still not sure whether the even more vague figure was dressed by the Liao people.
The knock on the door temporarily pulled Ye Qing's thoughts back. After dinner on the lively first floor of the inn, he began to investigate whether there was still some secret hidden in Yifa City as planned.
The ignorance of words also brought great difficulties to them. In addition to the urgency of time, the six people had to divide into two groups and agreed to meet in front of Zoroastrianism after an hour.
There are not many soldiers in the entire city of Ifa, and most of them are still stationed outside the city. They have already explored it clearly when they entered the city, so now we need to understand the situation in the city, especially the so-called sun god Fars appeared in Ifa City at this time, and what is the purpose of it.
In an hour, Ye Qing and Mu Huali, who had no gains, had to return home in despair. As the night became darker, the streets at this time, except for the bright lights near the Zoroastrianism, there were only barking dogs in other places, and there were no people wandering outside.
"In addition to the troops at the gate of the city, there are troops surrounding the Zoroastrianism. It is impossible to see that Fars has such a noble identity that he can actually accompany him to Ifa City." Mu Huali, Ye Qing and the rest said in a secluded corner of the street.
"In Yulong Chi, although Fars is not the king of the Khwarezmians, his influence and prestige are no less than their kings, so it is understandable that his travel is so grand." Ye Qing said with a wry smile.
Because of the language barrier, it is particularly difficult for them to find out some news about the Sun God in a crowded and lively place.
Ye Qing never thought of infiltrating the umbrella here, and he did not have that great ability to penetrate this place. Even the merchants of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce had little to do with it. After all, the goods basically changed hands after entering Liao or Xia, and then sold them to Western countries such as the Khwarezmians through the hands of Xia and Liao.
So in this place, they, like deaf people, could only try their luck everywhere.
Seeing that the crowd on the street had not dissipated, although they were not sure what they were saying, they could still feel a hint of regret from their tone. However, with the sound of horse hooves, the soldiers covered in armor passed by, and the faces of the people of Yifa City shone under the lights were a hint of excitement.
He hurriedly poked Mu Huali, looking around with his eyes, and Ye Qing stood up and said, "Wear your clothes neatly, these people seem to be able to enter the Zoroastrianism."
Just as Ye Qing was talking, the people who had been wandering in front of Zoroastrianism began to spontaneously follow the dust raised by the soldiers just after they passed by, towards the gate of Zoroastrianism.
After looking at my body for only half a day, I was already dirty and no longer white. I still patted the dust on my body hard, and then slowly moved into the Zoroastrianism as the crowd began to slowly move into the Zoroastrianism.
In July of the first year of Shaoxi, even farther west of the Western Regions, it was still hot in summer. Even when it was late at night, the coolness in the air seemed extremely stingy.
Ye Qing, Mu Huali and others slowly entered the Zoroastrian area as the crowd was watched by the soldiers on both sides. Then, listening to the huge creaking sound from the front, the two huge wooden doors of the Zoroastrian hall in front were slowly opened at this time.
"This is a party? What are so many people gather together for? A ritual?" Mu Huali asked muttered.
"I don't know, but since they are sun gods, these people must be believers. They either take the opportunity to pay homage to the great sun gods and listen to the teachings of the great sun gods, or they are..." Ye Qing originally wanted to say that these people were probably waiting for the morning to worship tomorrow morning, but they didn't know if there was this word, so they simply changed it to: "Either it's what you said, wait for the morning morning to do the ritual here."
"We have to wait until tomorrow for rituals. So why do they come so early?" Mu Huali was stunned and then asked back.
"This seems pious, and you can secretly repent the sins in your heart to their gods at night, so you came early." Ye Qing followed the crowd and finally squeezed into the hall, and then sat cross-legged in an inconspicuous corner like others.
"Then what are we doing here? Do we also want to pay homage to the great sun god?" Mu Huali asked in a low voice, with a hint of novel smile in his tone.
The only four personal soldiers left beside the two were sitting around Ye Qing and Mu Huali, vaguely protecting the two in the middle, making it difficult for others to hear their conversation.
"Don't you find it strange after investigating it all the way?" Ye Qing looked up at the distance in the hall. Although the entire hall was still entering the hall, the smell became a little unpleasant due to the hot weather, even so, the entire hall still could not hear the noise, and there were only slight footsteps.
"Are you talking about the Khwarezmian troops' camp?" Mu Huali asked in a low voice again.
"Yes, the number of people is half different, and the infantry and cavalry are mixed together. Every time they invade the Liao Kingdom, they are in the size of tens of thousands of people. They are not the kind of fierce battle that must be decided, and they are always a war with heavy thunder and little rain. So I suspect that this is likely to be the king of the South Court, Xiaowulishu, who had already colluded with the Khwarezm people. The purpose is to restrain the troops of the Northern Palace, so that the Northern Palace in the royal city cannot gain an advantage in terms of the number of troops." Ye Qing said thinking.
"Yes...but if this is the case, Xiaowuli Sect should take advantage of the fact that the Northern Palace has fewer troops and should take action first." Mu Huali once thought so, but he felt that the possibility was relatively small.
"That's right, the situation is also a favorable situation for him. From the perspective of a general, in such a favorable situation, you can naturally attack the enemy. But don't forget... Xiaowulishu was born as a general, but he was even more a scheming politician. As the saying goes, the superiors attacked the plan, the second is the enemy, and the second is the enemy. After all, the interests must be maximized. Moreover, if he really colluded with the Khwarezm people, then he must have to pay some price. And the hidden worries are: once the problem is solved with the Northern Prefecture through internal strife, it is very likely that they will both lose money, thus giving the Khwarezm people a chance to take advantage of the situation. In this regard, one or two can be seen from the Khwarezm people mobilized 50,000 or 60,000 troops in the barracks." Ye Qing also lowered his voice and said.
"So, Xiaowuli Tsai didn't want to lead the wolf into the house, but he had to collude with the Khwarezmians to restrain the Northern Prefecture, hoping that the Khwarezmians could defeat the Northern Prefecture by a small-scale war? This is really a good idea to kill two birds with one stone. It can not only weaken the military strength of the Northern Prefecture, but also allow the Khwarezmians to lose their combat effectiveness on the frontier..." Mu Huali said in some agreement.
"But it is also possible that after the Northern Palace was defeated by him, the Khwarezmians immediately kicked away the oath between them and led their troops eastward to occupy the territory and city of the Liao Kingdom." Ye Qing smiled and said lightly: "But these are our guesses. If this is the case, we must see whether the great sun god will appear in this hall tomorrow morning, or will he continue to advance eastward."
"Do you suspect that the sun god and Xiaowulizh secretly colluded with everything?" Mu Huali was often wary of the brightly lit hall, and the sour smell became stronger and stronger. There was no way. At this time, the entire hall was crowded with people. Now it was not easy to find a spacious place to stay.
"The timing of his appearance is so coincidental, I even have some doubts..." Ye Qing's brows frowned slightly, and after looking around, he said: "I even suspect that this great sun god is coming for us. If the sun god does not stay in Yifa City tomorrow morning, but chooses to continue moving eastward. After stopping in Kman City, which is closest to the Khwarezmian Camp, it can basically be said that he is coming for us."
"In other words... Xiaowulizhan may have known the Sun God before us? So... he will cheer for the Khwarezmians in the camp and help Xiaowulizhan stay here forever?" Mu Huali's lips curled up slightly, and a hint of contempt and disdain said.
In his opinion, he did not believe that with the Khwarezmian army he saw along the way, he had the ability to defeat their elite cavalry of more than 15,000 people.
"It is not good for you to look down on your enemies. Didn't Temujin teach you? Or have you never suffered any losses on the grassland?" Ye Qing looked at the disdain left on Mu Huali's mouth, and immediately poured a basin of cold water and continued to say: "And I'm very suspicious. Xiaowuli's prick had already intended to let us go to the border, but he was afraid that we would doubt it, so he pretended to be reluctant, which made us relax our guard... Don't look at me, this matter was something that Temujin and I had expected long ago, but we didn't say it clearly."
After all, Mu Huali's heart is only loyal to Temujin. Even though he is currently under Ye Qing's command, he is still in the end with the interests of them Tatars and Temujin.
After hearing Ye Qing say that Temuzhen knew about this, Mu Huali relaxed and asked, "So, are you just trying to do it? Are you afraid that Xiao Wuli will immediately transfer the troops from Hara City to deal with Princess Chengli after we pass his base camp?"
"Xiaowulita dare not do this. He is now a scheming old fox. If things are not sure and cannot be fully confident, he will not risk breaking up the face of the Northern Palace. So unless we are really defeated by the Khwarezm people here, he will be able to mobilize some people to the Liao King City and put pressure on the Northern Palace. After all, he must guard against whether the Khwarezm people who are in high morale will advance eastward in one go and penetrate into the heart of the Great Liao." Ye Qing said with a smile.
Mu Huali nodded silently. Compared to war, he felt for the first time that he had to think so many things in his mind every day, not like them. It was enough to think about how to lead troops to win the battle.
Everything is true and false, and the truth needs to be carefully peeled off to see through.
All possibilities related to success or failure can happen, and they can become the only reason for your own failure or the only reason for your victory.
After leaving the Liao King City, they were surprised at how happy the king of the Southern Court, Xiaowulishu agreed. Now it seems that who would have thought that they had taken advantage of the situation and advanced westward was a trap. It was a trap that Xiaowulishu had already designed with the Khwarezm people and was waiting for them to take the initiative to get into it.
"If this is true, then Xiaowuli Tshu is simply too cunning. No wonder he can become the king of the Southern Court of Liao Kingdom, suppressing the Liao royal family to being unable to move, and always at a disadvantage." Mu Huali murmured and sighed.
"So, Yelu Pusuwan is not a simple woman. Under the suppression of such a cunning king of the South Court, he can find an opportunity to fight back. It is enough to see that this woman is more troublesome than ten thousand elite soldiers." Ye Qin explained the complex situation to Mu Huali, and she became more and more admiring for Yelu Pusuwan.
He acted vigorously and used the means that women were best at, causing the Xiaowuli family to be divided, as if he had dismantled Xiaowuli from the inside, which made Xiaowuli now have such great power, and he could not find a suitable heir.
Of course, it has to be said that this is the only way that Yelu Pusuwan can save the Liao royal family and make Xiaowulitao fear the head and tail. It is also a double-edged sword, which saves the Liao royal family for a while, but it also destroys the foundation of the Liao royal family, thereby accelerating the demise of the Liao royal family.
Ye Qing's ideas are naturally hindsight, and only after things happen, he combined with the historical process can he see these. Obviously, no one in the situation can know the result clearly like him, and then analyze the image of the brick family in the future, regretting the loneliness of a dynasty.
Chapter completed!