I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country - Chap 89
After Xue Yuan had a full meal, he went out to see how the soldiers were providing relief to the victims.
These victims, who had been hungry for a long time, queued up diligently to get food. Their eyes were filled with hope as they looked ahead. There were several rows of people filling the entire open space. The end of the team could not be seen, and at a glance there were densely packed heads of people.
Xue Yuan asked: “Have you resettled the group of victims following the food delivery team?”
The officer who was watching the soldiers distribute food replied: “We have resettled these victims, but they have been hungry for too long. Now they can only eat thick vegetable porridge, which is being cooked in the kitchen.”
Xue Yuanyan said concisely and to the point, “Send someone to take me to the refugee residence to take a look.”
The officer sent a soldier to follow. Xue Yuan walked into the refugee center and saw that many people had already received rations and were gathering together to cook rice in earthen pots.
These victims were resettled in northern Xinjiang. Because there were so many of them, the places where many of them were resettled could not even be called houses. There was air leakage from all sides and rain from the roof. While General Xue was busy, he only built some temporary houses to accommodate the victims. However, in the cold of northern Xinjiang, such houses were useless.
It’s too cold in northern Xinjiang.
Xue Yuan knows what the cold feels like and what the snow in northern Xinjiang tastes like. The Holy One likes him to be hot, but dislikes him to be hot, but even Xue Yuan, who is not afraid of the cold even if he is steaming hot, will be so cold in the winter in northern Xinjiang that his hands and feet will become stiff and unable to move his legs.
It is almost the end of October, and if this continues, many victims will freeze to death even if there is food. The lives of these victims are worthless, and they will freeze to death in a large area. However, after the cold and locust plagues, human-to-human diseases may also be caused.
The reason why the little emperor sent so many medicinal materials and doctors was precisely because of this concern.
After Xue Yuan took a look around, he immediately led people to drive horse-drawn carts to find materials for building houses, preparing to build a house that could at least keep people alive before the winter that can really freeze to death.
He did what he said, and worked enthusiastically with his hands. After General Xue knew what he wanted to do, he allocated more manpower to him. The more people he had, the more powerful he would be, so he could do it faster.
After the materials for building houses were recovered, the victims in northern Xinjiang also knew what the army planned to do. They stood up silently and got busy.
Xue Yuan threw the heaviest stone on the ground, clapped his hands, and picked up the dagger from his arms to sharpen the wood. The soldier who was chopping firewood on the side was sweating profusely. Seeing him like this, he shouted loudly: “Major General, come on!”
The dagger in Xue Yuan’s hand circled around his hand twice, flipping it up and down to form a flower. This move was extremely powerful, the cold light of the knife flashed, and several rays of white light from the scorching sun were reflected on the wood.
The soldiers who were building houses and the victims were attracted by the cheers. They looked over, took a breath of air, and started clapping along with them.
Because these soldiers are stationed in northern Xinjiang, they are always faced with the risks of locusts and nomadic herds. There are terrible disaster-stricken areas outside and a crisis of gradually dwindling food inside. After eating gruel for ten consecutive days, the morale of the soldiers was very low, and they were always scared and uneasy deep in their hearts. The food Xue Yuan brought was a heavy blow that shattered their uneasiness. But this is not enough. The soldiers and the numb victims need a complete carnival to boost their morale and ignite new hope.
A victory.
Northern Xinjiang needs a victory to inspire people.
Xue Yuan thought for a while, lazily pulled out the last flower of the dagger, and retracted his hand beautifully.
The officers and soldiers standing around watching the excitement kept cheering, and some were ready to make a move. Amidst the cheers, they went up and punched twice.
As they entertained themselves, Xue Yuan lowered his head and whittled the wood again, but at some point, the hand holding the dagger involuntarily carved three characters on the wood.
When the last stroke was completed, Xue Yuan didn’t know how the first stroke of the name was carved.
He was lost in thought and rubbed the handwriting with his thumb. General Yang Hui, who had been on the battlefield with him in northern Xinjiang, approached, looked down, and asked loudly: “Major General, what is this word?”
Xue Yuan’s fingertips just touched the words in the middle. He smiled, wrapped in the wind and sand, and said, “Yuan.”
Gu Lian, Gu Yuanbai.
General Yang suddenly realized, “Isn’t this the name of the young general?”
“No,” Xue Yuan smiled, “This is called fate.”
Xue Yuan, Xue Jiuyao.
It’s a perfect match.
He was so worthy that even God would not be willing to strike him to death with thunder.
Xue Yuan was in a good mood and added the words “Xue Jiuyao” next to the words “Gu Yuanbai”. He admired it for a while and felt comfortable no matter how he looked at it.
But the wood with these six characters carved on it is useless and may have to be destroyed. Xue Yuan frowned when he thought of this. He suddenly stood up, took the wood and dagger, and strode towards the military camp.
“Major General?” The shout from behind gradually became distant.
Xue Yuan’s heart was burning at the moment, and the young man’s momentum was growing in him soaring into the sky. He returned to the camp, picked up the sword and put it on his waist, led away the strong wind, climbed onto his horse, raised his whip and said, “Drive!”
The strong wind rushed out like an arrow, running from the border to the territory of the Khitan tribe.
Among the Khitan tribe, the one closest to the border was the tribe of Rilina. Xue Yuan approached on horseback quietly, dodged the sentries, and reined in his horse a hundred miles due east of the Rilina tribe’s camp. Gale Wind raised its hooves with a loud sound and stopped its galloping gallop.
Xue Yuan straightened his robe, dismounted his horse, and inserted the piece of wood with his and Gu Yuanbai’s names on it vertically into the soil.
Thick soil covered the wood. Xue Yuan stood here and looked at it for a while, remembering the approximate location and smiled.
The sun that rises earliest in the east on the grassland will be the first to bathe this land.
Xue Yuan’s heart is hidden under the enemy’s feet. When this vast grassland belongs to Gu Yuanbai, the emperor of Daheng will discover this secret himself.
The wind and sand cannot carry it away, and the heavy rain cannot wash it away. If Gu Yuanbai does not accept Xue Yuan for one day, the long tree will never fall down. Except for Xue Yuan, no one knows except Tiandi.
Xue Yuan got on the horse and turned around in the strong wind. The fast horse galloped in the cold wind.
When he stepped out of Jilena’s territory, he lowered his body and looked back at the Khitan camp behind him, which was already as small as an ant.
Rilina.
You are so close, who will die if you don’t die.
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Rilenna felt that it was better to attack Maotou General sooner rather than later, so two days later he began to send troops and horses to test, and launched many plain assault battles with the soldiers patrolling and guarding Daheng.
Both sides have their own victory or defeat, but because the Khitan horses have not had enough horse food for many days, they are now extremely weak. The patrolling Daheng soldiers did not use their full strength according to what the general said, so it gave Rilian the feeling of a tug of war between each other’s strength.
But even this was an insult to the Khitans, who had always been proud of their own achievements and cavalry.
After several encounters and assaults, Rilian had a good idea. After ten days of preparation, he organized a large number of cavalry to attack the border. The troops were divided into two groups and approached the Daheng border from the east and west sides.
In the Daheng camp, General Xue attacked from the west and sent Xue Yuan 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry to defend the enemy from the rear. Xue Yuan took the order and led 8,000 troops to the enemy’s destination to form a formation.
Eight thousand soldiers stood in order, forming a facing square array arranged by Xue Yuan. They wore fine armor and carried swords and guns that were so sharp that they shone coldly. After more than ten days of training, the soldiers became energetic again, and their armor was wrapped in a strong and powerful body.
Daheng’s bed crossbows are placed in all directions. The huge repeating crossbow weapons can fire thousands of arrows in a volley, forming a huge and dense arrow rain formation. Each bed crossbow has three to five soldiers operating as bed crossbowmen.
In Xue Yuan’s eyes, the outcome of this war was clear.
The cavalry of the nomads were strong and fierce, but their horses were extremely weak and could not charge or run. The weapons used by the nomads are still the most basic bows and arrows, swords and guns. They are isolated by the Great Wall and have no way to learn the knowledge of making weapons. While they are spinning in circles, Daheng’s soldiers are already full of weapons. Take the crossbow.
How could the Khitans win?
Xue Yuan looked at the approaching enemy cavalry in the distance, raised his eyebrows and smiled deeply, and ordered the soldiers to prepare for the attack.
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Rilenna personally led his troops to take a detour to the east to meet Xue Yuan. Before a large number of cavalry troops arrived at the city, they had already seen the soldiers preparing to fight under the city.
A cruel desire to kill flashed through Rilian’s eyes, “Is that the general sent by the imperial court?”
The deputy general nodded and said, “That should be it.”
Their ambitions were aroused by Daheng’s food and grass, and their eyes were filled with fire. All the tribesmen rushed forward with great momentum, howling and shouting, until they rushed in front of Xue Yuan.
Such a large formation would often frighten the new recruits to the point of weakening their legs. Before the cavalry could rush to the enemy, Rirenna had already thought of the victorious outcome and burst out laughing.
However, the next moment, his laughing expression was frozen on his face. They saw the face of the leader of Daheng. This face was extremely familiar, extremely familiar! The young general sent by the imperial court turned out to be Xue Yuan, who once bitten off a layer of his flesh!
It’s Xue Yuan, the son of old man Xue Ping!
Jilena’s expression instantly turned ferocious.
Xue Yuan had already seen Rilenna. He gave a fighting and bloodthirsty smile and shouted: “Fire the arrow!”
The archers’ movements were uniform and clean. They used the new crossbows made by the Engineering Department to launch a rain of arrows attack on the Khitans.
Thousands of densely packed bows and arrows swooped down from the sky, and the huge crossbow arrow holes were aimed at the enemies whose expressions suddenly changed. This powerful weapon was released in their expressions of horror and disbelief.
Sadly, the Khitans came within the shooting range of the Daheng soldiers, but the Daheng soldiers were still far out of the range of the Khitan archers.
They can only bear it and cannot fight back.
Thousands of ferocious bows and arrows hit the Khitan people’s bodies and horses. The horses were frightened by the rain of arrows and ran away in panic. From time to time, someone was thrown off the horse by the running horses and trampled to death by random hooves. These horses, which had not been fed for a long time, were on the verge of collapse. When they were frightened, the riot of one horse led to the riot of more horses. Between the arrow rain and the horse riot, the Khitan had already suffered numerous casualties.
How ridiculous.
Rilian’s expression was twisted to the point of being a bit frightened.
Before the Khitans even got close to the Daheng soldiers, the people of Riliana were already on the verge of defeat. He shouted: “Shield Army! Shield Army on top! Move forward and counterattack with arrows!”
The deputy general struggled to withstand the rain of arrows, unable to take a step forward. He panicked and said, “Chief, I can’t walk!”
Usually the arrow rain comes in bursts, with a time to counterattack in between. But this time Daheng’s archers didn’t know what was going on. Could it be that the layers of archers were alternating back and forth, making the arrow rain unabated and making it difficult for them to move forward?
Then there should be an end time!
The corpses of the Khitans and horses shot to death by bows and arrows in front blocked the progress of the remaining tribes. Even Na Na, who was killed, could not imagine how the offensive of arrows could be so fierce. The bodyguards around him even died trying to protect him. Several people gritted their teeth day after day, pulling back and forth between death and the shame of being defeated by Da Heng. The flesh on his face trembled, and finally, “Withdraw!”
Seeing the backs of the Khitan people fleeing in embarrassment, and seeing the corpses and horses shot to death by arrows all over the ground, Daheng’s soldiers stopped shooting arrows, and after a moment of silence, they burst into loud cheers!
But the Khitan people who fled with such cheers drove their horses faster. They covered their faces and felt extremely embarrassed and humiliated.
The enemy suffered heavy casualties, but our army suffered no casualties. A great victory!
That was the Khitan, the cruel and fierce Khitan who had plundered the border several times. They were beaten and fled!
Is it true that Khitan is so weak?
