Red Mansion: Seizing Jiangdong, starting with pirates

Chapter 200: Huleileyong

A place outside the capital, not far from the capital and not close to Bazhou.

Hu Leleyong led his troops and occupied this place.

In the current situation, the grassland troops occupied the capital and the area to the north of the capital, to the south was Fang Yong's Huaiyin Army, to the west was Taihang Mountains, and to the east was Jizhou.

Mao Cheng still has 80,000 troops in Jizhou.

Since Kah Khan was not aware of Fang Yong's strength, and Mao Cheng was watching him covetously, he did not dare to act rashly. He only ordered Huleliyong to lead his troops to maneuver and test the situation.

At the beginning, Huleliyong strictly followed the orders of Kah Khan and personally organized several attacks.

But the effect is not ideal.

Hu Leleyong first suffered repeated defeats in naval battles and was defeated by Zhang Yuan, and was eventually forced to abandon the water vein.

Later, they switched to using cavalry to fight. Although they won several victories this time, they were also tragic victories. They killed one thousand enemies but lost eight hundred of their own.

The Huaiyin Army is not easy to mess with.

After realizing this, Hu Leleyong began to work without putting in any effort.

After all, these soldiers were from Huleleyong's own tribe. Every time one was lost, Huleleyong's strength would be reduced by one point, which was absolutely unacceptable to Huleleyong.

At the beginning, Hu Leleyong would organize one or two small-scale battles to test Fang Yong. Later, Hu Leleyong completely gave up any organized battle with Fang Yong.

He instead used some stragglers, a dozen or twenty people, to form small teams. When they encountered the Huaiyin army, they would shoot one or two arrows at them and then retreat. This was considered a battle.

One day, a small group of people came back from outside. They brought half a bag of looted items and several naked women.

These are the women from a wealthy family nearby. Their home was broken into by the grassland people and they were taken here abducted.

As for why it is not ordinary people, it is because ordinary people no longer have any money to make.

Those young and strong who could escape had all fled, and those left behind were the old, weak and sick who were unable to escape.

These people are so poor that even the people on the grassland are unwilling to take a second look at them.

After riding a horse to rob, not only did he not gain anything, but he also had to owe a day's worth of horse feed.

Hu Leleyong frowned as he looked at the women who had been robbed and asked:

"What are you doing? Have you forgotten the Khan's order? Randomly kidnapping Han women is a capital crime!"

The team leader said angrily:

"Chief, our brothers have fought hard for such a long time, how many people have died? But they are hiding in the capital and enjoying themselves, and they are not allowed to do this or that. How can this be justified in the world? We fought hard to enter Zhongxia, didn't we just want to rob gold, silver, and women? What crime have we committed?"

Hu Lei Leyong was silent for a moment after hearing this, then sighed and said:

"But it is the Khan's order after all..."

The team leader said unconvincedly:

"What a bullshit Khan, Chief, you are the blood of the Golden Family, do you have to abide by the rules set by those lowly half-bloods?"

When Hu Leileyong heard the word "mixed-race", he clenched his fists instantly.

Huleleyong's full name is Xilin Huleleyong. He is one of the eight direct bloodlines of the former Yuan Dynasty royal family. His ancestor is the famous Genghis Khan.

Before the rise of Kah Khan, the Xilin tribe was the largest tribe on the grassland.

It was through defeating the Xilin tribe head-on that Kah Khan reached the peak of his reputation and became the common ruler of the grassland.

If it were any other grassland people, with such reputation they could actually establish a country directly on the grassland.

But not Kah Khan.

Because he is not of orthodox grassland blood.

In the past, after the Great Xi Emperor conquered the fertile land of Liaodong, he drove all the Jiannu people born in the white mountains and black waters to the grassland. At the border between the grassland and Liaodong, the Great Xi Emperor ordered people to plant a willow forest, named Xilin, and sent troops to garrison to prevent the Jiannu people from returning.

As a result, the Jiannu completely lost their homeland and could only wander on the grassland.

But the grassland people did not welcome them.

After all, the resources on every piece of land are limited, and more people mean more people have to compete for the resources.

The two sides experienced several large-scale battles for this. The ancestors of the Jiannu shed their blood and paid every price, and finally gained the opportunity to marry into several small families on the grassland and preserve some scattered bloodlines.

Kah Khan was the descendant of the marriage between the grassland and the Jiannu.

He has the dual blood of grassland and Jiannu.

The old nobles on the grassland were very resistant and contemptuous of this kind of mixed blood.

For example, Huleilyong, who has the orthodox blood of the Golden Family, looks down on the family to which Kah Khan belongs.

Before, when Kah Khan and his sons were still working hard on the plan to liberate the nomadic slaves, Huleilyong publicly mocked Kah Khan's family at a banquet of grassland nobles, saying that they were always stained with the smell of the nomadic slaves' feces.

But the final result was that after liberating the herdsmen, Kah Khan's strength increased greatly. He defeated Huleleyong's Xilin tribe head-on on the battlefield, forcing Huleleyong to lead his people to surrender.

This is the grudge relationship between the two.

Huleleyong was not convinced by Kakhe Khan in his heart, so he pretended to obey him but actually disobeyed him. His subordinates were influenced by his attitude and naturally did not obey the military orders issued by Kakhe Khan.

"Don't spread the word."

Hu Leleyong turned his head and said.

The team leader was overjoyed.

"Yes!"

Then he excitedly ordered his men to carry the women into the military camp.

quickly,

Several women died.

The grassland soldiers, not having enough fun, began to plunder the surrounding areas.

Mr. Zhou.

This is a wealthy family in Zhoujiazhuang outside the capital.

Mr. Zhou was a wealthy man of the lowest level, who made his fortune by exploiting the people in his hometown and occupying farmers' land.

Compared with Mr. Zhou, Mr. Gao from the next door village had more connections in the capital. He learned the news of the grassland people's attack in advance, so he found an excuse that he was in urgent need of money, sold all his land to Mr. Zhou at a low price, exchanged it for gold and silver, and ran away.

Mr. Zhou had no connections and didn't know about the attack from the grassland people. He thought he had gotten a great advantage. However, when the grassland people reached the capital, Mr. Zhou couldn't sell the land anymore.

Most of his money was used to buy land, so he couldn't bear to run away and had to stay here.

Then, the grassland people broke into his mansion and stole his money and women.

On the way, a Huaiyin army suddenly rushed out and killed all the grassland people.

Wei Xing skinned the grassland people in this group and hung them on a wooden pole, and wrote in blood: "Anyone who offends the people of Zhongxia will be killed!"

In the following period, a large number of grassland people who went out to plunder were attacked and killed by the Huaiyin army, and many grassland soldiers did not even dare to go out to plunder again.

After investigation, Hu Leileyong learned that the general of the Huaiyin army was named Wei Xing, with a total of 30,000 men under his command. Wei Xing was of little fame and had mediocre abilities, so it was not his turn to be a general. It was only because he gave a military order to Fang Yong, threatening to take his head within a month, that Fang Yong let him lead the troops.

Hu Leleyong couldn't help but shook his head.

"Haha, one month, ignorance is bliss!"

(End of this chapter)