On the contrary, because Fenglin army is relatively rich, it is willing to pay for local supplies, which makes local businessmen and people make a lot of money. Of course, the officers and soldiers of the Shuofang army also made money, so the two sides even got along very happily.
As for whether the Shuofang army has ever moved his mind, Wei Ran is too lazy to guess. After all, the elite of Fenglin army is also displayed in the open. Both sides really want to use swords. With Wei Ran''s ability, Shuofang is blocked by Helan Mountain in the West and the poor place in the Gobi desert in the East.
After entering the Helan Mountains, the road is very difficult to walk. Until entering the Hetao Plain, there is a smooth river, and waving troops straight into the Yinshan Mountains.
Most of the people we met along the way were Khitan ranches, and few Turks could be seen.
They had long fallen into recession. Most of them went west to the Dashi area, converted to the green religion, renamed Seljuk, and became powerful mercenaries of the Dashi army who also fell into recession.
At this time, no one knew that the army of the Seljuk nation would later occupy the magpie''s nest and become the most powerful country in the eastern Mediterranean - Ottoman Turkey.
However, the nomadic tribes that dominate the East have become Khitans and are on the rise. In a few decades, they will replace Turks as the biggest foreign enemy in the Central Plains.
Wei Ran is not familiar with the water, grass and roads outside the Great Wall, but the way to deal with it is very simple. He first deterred with a large army and found a Turkic tribe with few people and often bullied by the Khitans.
Then, in the frightened eyes of the Turkic herdsmen, Wei Ran took out their lack of iron, gold, silver and jewelry as a temptation and invited them to send qualified soldiers to follow the army as a guide.
Nomads live by water and grass. Although the Qidan and Turks have different languages, their customs are actually similar. To live in such a place as the Great Wall grassland, we must adapt to the natural climate, otherwise we will be eliminated by the longevity day.
Eight thousand iron cavalry, with light-weight scales and well-equipped, and one man and two horses, will surely meet the nomadic tribes of Khitan when they chase the fertile land of water and grass under the guidance of the guide.
After that, thousands of troops swept through and maneuvered. This half month, they supported the war by fighting, and killed the Qidan tribe at the foot of Yinshan Mountain.
Almost all the young and strong people in their family were transferred to attack Yanyun and are facing off with Li Chengye. Therefore, the clan is basically old and weak, and only 30000 cavalry are scattered everywhere to guard against other small tribes on the grassland.
Through the Turkic guide, Wei Ran contacted these small tribes bullied by Khitan, led them to break through several Khitan nomadic tribes, and then the army snowballed to 20000 people.
Then he took advantage of the situation to break the Qidan cavalry distributed all over the grassland one by one, killing them scared and afraid to fight again. Small tribes such as Shiwei, Wugu and Liuxi revered Wei Ran''s 8000 elite riders as gods. The more they did, the more skillful they became and the more serious they became.
Wei Ran also learned about the Khitan tribe during the continuous attack on the grassland.
Today''s Khitan Khan is the famous yelyabaoji in history. In his early years, he unified the eight Khitans, but he always made friends with each other based on the strength of the Pinglu Jiedu envoy, and even sent the elite of the tribe to join the Pinglu Jiedu envoy''s army to attack the Central Plains.
After Pinglu Jiedu envoy was attacked by Li Chengye, Liao''s defense was empty. With ambition, yelyabaoji had long coveted the fertile land of Liao and Han cities.
Therefore, we decisively enter western Liaoning and occupy Liaohe plain, Yingzhou and Western Liaoning Corridor. He defeated the local giants, but did not kill them all. Instead, he succumbed to the local forces friendly to the Han people and sincerely hired them to join the ruling system as bureaucrats.
Although the local aristocratic gentry saw that yelyabaoji was a foreign race, they were polite to the virtuous and corporal, took the initiative to learn the advanced culture of the Han people, and treated them more sincerely than Pinglu, so they resolutely joined and attached to it.
The national policy of the Tang Dynasty is national integration. The Han people in this era do not have such a strong national consciousness. As long as they identify with their own culture, they can be regarded as their own people.
In fact, the attack on Yanyun was not the idea of Yelu abaoji himself, but the persuasion of Han bureaucrats in western Liaoning.
Therefore, when Wei Ran did such a big thing behind Khitan, yeluabaoji will immediately give up the offensive against Yanyun and go north to Yinshan. He may even be trying to ambush himself.
However, Wei Ran always put intelligence first in his use of troops. He will send troops only after he has mastered the actual intelligence and has estimated that he has a certain chance of winning. So when he was ravaging the grassland, he arranged for a Li to go to Yanyun to contact his father, Li Chengye, to learn about the enemy''s intelligence.
He has long been used to taking ah Li as the most trusted scouts, although ah Li clearly expressed his opposition.
Now her cultivation has reached the level of a great master. She can enter the realm of heaven and man with only a sudden enlightenment. Therefore, when you become a fox, you can run faster than a galloping horse. Your endurance has its own heaven and earth, and your aura can be supplemented at any time. It is very deep and thick, which is unmatched by a war horse.
At this time, Wei Ran occupied the camp of a Khitan noble tribe. Those who dared to resist were cleaned up, and those who could run were allowed to escape. Wei Ran was not interested in killing the captured old, weak, sick and disabled, but could become a burden to Khitan.
According to the agreed world, ah Li should be able to return today. He is not afraid that ah Li can''t find the Fenglin army that destroys everywhere like the horse bandits on the grassland, because they have telepathy between them, and ah Li also knows the art. He left a mark on Wei Ran''s body and can sense the position at any time.
Li Jianxing is roasting mutton on a campfire. This Khitan noble tribe is very rich, with tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses. Except for the war horses, Wei Ran only took enough for his army for five days. He killed all the others and would not leave them to his opponents.
"Hey, brother, the Khitan tribe is too soft. Except for those who are acclimatized, there have never been casualties in direct combat. It''s boring. You see, I haven''t learned anything except a good technique of slaughtering cattle and sheep and roasting cattle and mutton. "
"Then I really brought you here for nothing. You didn''t remember the key points of marching, camping, identifying geography, predicting climate and customs? Well, don''t eat. Take this memo and don''t want to eat unless you recite it well! "
Wei Ran took out from his arms the daily march log written during this period of time. In addition to the above contents, he also drew a map for reference when entering the grassland in the future.
Princess Shouning and bu Lanshan looked at the interaction between the two brothers. They couldn''t help looking at each other and smiled. She said, "it''s true that the third childe''s roast mutton technology has improved, and he''s still young. The eldest childe doesn''t have to be so critical of him."
Princess Shouning went out with the army. Although she was a woman, she learned more seriously than Li Jianxing. She will extract one of Wei Ran''s daily marching log, and will recite it carefully during the rest every day. After observing Wei Ran''s leading actions, she has mastered many key points.