"Lord, this is not a good time to send troops!" After Wang Tianlong went down to rest, Zhang Qingyun once again admonished him.
Li Xiang sat on the chair and sighed: "We have to go out this time. We in Xiliang City do not lack food or other things. What we lack is a large amount of gold and silver. Ferocious beasts are raging in the northwest.
By then there will be no caravans going outside the customs, and we will also lose our source of gold and silver!"
Zhang Qingyun didn't know what gold and silver could do in Xiliang City, and he didn't know the importance of gold and silver to Xiliang City, but he thought that his lord had exchanged all the materials that could be sold for gold and silver.
Do gold and silver have other uses?
Li Xiang continued: "Now there are only fifteen thousand taels of gold and sixty thousand taels of silver left in the warehouse. This expedition is very important!"
"This time, the five major legions will not be brought out. I will only take the Guards Corps. The five major legions will wait for the beginning of spring and attack the Qing Army and the Southern Wilderness!"
Li Xiang already has a plan in mind. He wants the territory outside the pass, and he also wants the territory inside the pass. To fight the ferocious beasts, a large number of war weapons will definitely be used: "A battle with the ferocious beasts will require a large number of war weapons. In this battle, transportation
The team needs to follow me!"
Zhang Qingyun frowned: "My lord, if you send troops in the cold winter, even if there is a transportation team for logistics, the pressure on logistics supplies is still very high. After arriving in the pass, it will not be easy to keep the soldiers warm and replace their weapons. How about we wait until spring
Send troops again?"
Zhang Qingyun still disagrees with sending troops in the cold winter, it is really too risky.
Li Xiang shook his head: "If we wait until then, it is estimated that the northwest land will be full of ferocious beasts. The main purpose of going out this time is to protect the trade routes and prevent the caravans from being disturbed by ferocious beasts. I will lead the troops out to dig water channels.
I have to put all my pressure on you, and the Eighth Legion is temporarily under your control!"
"Yes!" Zhang Qingyun thought for a while, he heard the decisiveness in Li Xiang's words, and knew that he could not persuade his lord, so he could only accept it.
Li Xiang knew Zhang Qingyun's plan, but trade routes were really important to Xiliang. Although the Western world had opened trade routes, it was impossible to rely on the Western world to deal with the shortage of gold and silver in Xiliang City.
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The Western world is really far away. We only come here twice a year. How much gold and silver can we carry?
Daqian is more reliable here. There are not many places he needs to defend, which is the fifteen-day journey from Guanwai to Jiuyuan County. There are many cities and small towns along the way.
Each of these towns and cities has its own characteristics. The three cities were established because there were three Yuankuang towns because there were special things produced around the towns. These special things could attract caravans.
This is the normal state of life in the northwest!
Li Yi said aloud: "I wonder how many guards my lord will take this time?"
Li Xiang said: "Five thousand cavalry are the vanguard, followed by two thousand spearmen, two thousand crossbowmen, and one thousand sword and shield soldiers.
Two-thirds of the carriages of the transport team followed the frontline troops."
"There are 14,000 people in total, 10,000 main battle troops, 4,000 auxiliary troops, and 1,000 carriages, enough to carry the army's food for one month.
Please also ask the lord to bring one thousand more cavalry, and these one thousand cavalry will serve as escort for the transport team.
In this way, when the lord comes to the pass, he can choose a place as a storage place for the army's supplies, and the transportation team will continuously transport the food, so that the army does not have to worry about food!"
"Um!"
....
After discussing in the hall for a long time, everyone dispersed. The soldiers of the Guards Corps began to gather and put on thick winter uniforms. The winter uniforms were the clothing prepared by Xiliang for the winter war.
After putting on a set of clothes, only one pair of eyes are left outside, and the rest of the place is covered tightly. In the cold winter, it is fine if you are at home, you can rely on the house and the fire to keep warm, but when you go out in the army, you rely on the soldiers' physical fitness and
Equipped.
The army begins to prepare. Li Xiang will dispatch with the vanguard cavalry. The infantry and transport team soldiers will be slower. After all, they still need to prepare supplies.
night!
As if knowing the news that the army was about to go on an expedition, the heavy snow in the sky stopped, and the bustling Xiliang City fell silent at night.
"Do you really want to go?" Wu Yating wrapped herself tightly in the quilt and looked at Li Xiang with gentle eyes. The two were married and everything they had to do had been done, but she was still shy: "You are already the King of Xiliang outside the Pass.
, there are so many generals under his command..."
Li Xiang stretched out his hand and touched Wu Yating's hair: "Time is running out, and the five legions have not yet formed an army. Sending them up at this time means letting them die!"
This time I can only lead the troops out, but I can’t accompany you back home. You won’t blame me!”
Wu Yating shook her head gently: "I can just go back by myself. General, please take care to protect yourself when you are out. Don't forget that you still have Duoduo and me in Xiliang City!"
Li Xiang laughed: "I remember, don't worry! As long as I don't want to die, no ferocious beast can kill me!"
"Then, let's sleep!" Wu Yating blushed.
"good!"
...
Early the next morning, Li Xiang put on bright red armor, and Wu Yating tied a cloak on Li Xiang. The guards outside had been waiting for a long time.
"Wait for me to come back!" Li Xiang kissed Wu Yating's forehead and rode on Xing Liao's back: "Drive!"
Tap tap tap!
The horses' hooves made a crisp sound when they stepped on the bluestone. The cavalry guards followed closely, trying to run towards the outside of the city.
Each cavalryman carried a huge package on his back. They carried four close-quarter weapons and only one spear. The package carried rations for them and their horses, which made everyone look very bloated.
Total, total, total!
The army has gathered together, and the horses have not yet started running, but the sound they make can suppress everything.
Wang Tianlong followed Prime Minister Li. When he saw the cavalry army sent by Xiliang, an incredible look appeared on his paralyzed face, just like the first time he saw Xiliang City.
The Xiliang cavalry was not the kind of cavalry that was looked down upon. He could feel the murderous aura in these cavalry from a distance. This was a terrifying cavalry that had experienced hundreds of battles.
Some of the five thousand cavalry were slow, and some were slow. They needed to cross Xuanshui Lake in batches to go to the town, and then spend about a day to get to the pass outside the pass, which was a pass built between two mountains.
There are usually 5,000 Great Wall Legion soldiers guarding it, and prisoners who want to go outside the customs have to pass through there, and Prime Minister Li is no exception, but he was riding a carriage at that time.
within the pass
The city closest to the pass outside the customs is called Spike City. Several major families and city lords in the city gathered together.
They have all received reports that Yumen Pass was lost due to the prairie people, and the Great Wall Army was defeated and returned to Jiuyuan County.
The journey from Yumen Pass to Jiuyuan County takes nine days. If the horses are galloping, it will also take about four days.
After the fall of Yumen Pass, the Great Wall Legion sent out fast horses to spread the news to the entire northwest, so that everyone in the northwest would be mentally prepared.
"Everyone, let's talk!" A fat man in a black robe sat in the main seat and said: "Our place is the closest to Yumen Pass. If those ferocious beasts charge over, we in Langya City will be the first to charge.
There are currently 1,000 soldiers in the city and 1,200 hunters that can be recruited. I don’t know how many people each family can provide!"
The hunters in the northwest are very skilled. They usually hunt ferocious beasts. Sometimes they even hunt ferocious beasts. Their combat effectiveness is no worse than that of soldiers.
There are a total of three families in the city. These three families are unique among many cities in the northwest because these three families have never had major conflicts. Even if there is a quarrel between the two parties, it will be resolved quickly.
It's not like families in other cities, where they all want to kill the other family and then have their own family monopolize the resources.
Liu Ji, the head of the Liu family in the city, said: "My Liu family has five hundred guards, and we can send them out."
The head of the Lin family said without hesitation: "Our Lin family is the same, we can send five hundred people."
"We, the Xiao family, can also send out five hundred people!" The head of the Xiao family stroked his beard, his face still sad: "But even if we gather nearly three thousand people, it will be difficult for the earth walls of Langya City to stop those ferocious beasts.
attack!"
The walls of Langya City are not built entirely of stone like the border pass, but are built of yellow map. The ferocious beasts are so strong that it is difficult for the loess to block the attack of the ferocious beast.
The city lord also frowned, the walls of Langya City were really brittle!
"Report!"
A long voice came from outside, and a young man with some snowflakes on his body walked in: "City Lord, the scouts in front came to report and found a large amount of black smoke at the checkpoint outside the pass. It seems that a large army has gathered in the checkpoint!"
"Haven't the soldiers in the checkpoints outside the pass been summoned back by the Great Wall Legion a long time ago?"
Everyone in the hall was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, the head of the Xiao family opened his eyes. He thought of something and looked at the young man: "Go and investigate again to see clearly the clothes and flags of those people!"
The people in the hall were not fools, and everyone suddenly came to their senses. The only troops on this side were those from outside the customs.
The force outside the Northwest Pass is the only one. The one who is expelled outside the Pass is not a sinner, but his crime does not lead to death. In addition, given some money, he is not beheaded and thrown outside the Pass.
Although the cultivation of these people has been ruined, as long as their bodies are not ruined, it is not difficult for them to restore their cultivation.
Therefore, the forces outside the pass are much stronger than them, especially the first-rate forces outside the pass. If these forces were not suppressed by the Great Wall Army, they would probably have reached the inside of the pass.
As neighbors, they don't know much about the major forces outside the customs, but they know from the caravans who came back from outside the customs that the current forces outside the customs are one super, one top, three first-class, one super power Xiliang City, and one top power
Qingjun, the remaining three first-class gangs are the Jinsha Gang, the Yulong Gang, and the Snow Mountain Gang.
The superpower Xiliang City even defeated the Qing Army and the Great Wall Legion's coalition forces. As a result, Pang Sheng, a general and first-class master of the Great Wall Legion, died in the battle outside the pass. Thirteen thousand Great Wall Legion soldiers died in the battle. The Qing Army has always been fighting against the Xiliang army.
Become a single family.
In addition to these, it is also known that Li Xiang, who is called the Human Massacre, the lord of Xiliang City, led an invincible army and defeated all the major forces outside the pass. He killed people with a strange weapon.
Masters from all walks of life did not dare to compete with him, and General Pang Sheng died in the hands of Li Xiang.
There are both praise and criticism for Prime Minister Li, but one thing is that Prime Minister Li will not massacre civilians. Those who died in the hands of Prime Minister Li were soldiers from all walks of life.
People in the hall frowned. They were ferocious beasts and outside forces. In the past, they didn't like the Great Wall Legion very much. They regarded the Great Wall Legion as a blood-sucking insect that would only suck their blood. They wondered when the Great Wall Legion would disappear.
When the Great Wall Legion really disappeared, they saw that they were blocked by the Great Wall Legion and now they began to miss the Great Wall Legion again.
On the night of the second day of departure, Li Xiang led his army to the checkpoint outside the pass. This was the station of the Great Wall Legion. However, the city had been deserted and most of the supplies had been taken away. Things such as stoves could not be taken away.
Come down.
Li Xiang asked people to boil water so that the soldiers could drink some hot water and have a good night's rest in the city, and let the war horses also take a rest.
All five thousand people arrived at night. After eating, the soldiers who had rested earlier stood up to keep vigil.
Marching in heavy snow is difficult. On roads covered with ice and snow, you don't know what kind of dangers are hidden under the white snow.
Li Xiang could only rush to the front with Wang Tianlong and others to explore the way for the army behind. There were many dangers along the way, but they were all overcome.
When Li Xiang woke up the next day, Wang Tianlong and two of his men came to Li Xiang with a man wearing clothes sewn from various animal skins.
There were still some bruises on this man's face. It looked like he was dishonest when he was caught and was beaten by Wang Tianlong and others.
Li Ergou looked at the man who was almost twice his height. He was only a little over one and a half meters tall. Facing Li Xiang, who was over two meters tall, he was like a child looking at an adult.
The tall body and fierce face reminded Shan Li and Ergou of a character that was circulated among the merchants. He could be a terrifying figure that would scare the bad guys outside the Northwest Pass.
"Sir, this guy and another guy were sneaking around outside. When we found out, they ran away!" Wang Tianlong said and waved his hands: "This guy is a dog. When he was caught, he even bit his subordinate. Look.
The wolf teeth on the neck should be the scouts of Wolf Fang City, they have the wolfish temperament of those people over there!"
Li Ergou, who was kneeling on the ground, felt his heart tremble. These guys knew about their Wolf Fang City!
"Spike City?" Li Xiang thought for a moment in his mind: "Is that the city you said is closest to the checkpoint?"
"Yeah!" Wang Tianlong nodded: "There are almost a hundred thousand people over there, most of them are road miners, and the remaining few are hunters. This guy should be a hunter!"
Wang Tianlong was deeply impressed by being bitten by a person who was not in the upper realm.
"A hundred thousand people think this place is good, but this level is still a bit small and cannot be used as a place to reserve military supplies for the army. What is the geographical location of Wolf Fang City?"
"The geographical location of Langya Chang is very good. It is the last city on the trade road. It also has abundant water resources!" What Wang Tianlong hopes most is that Li Xiang can fight with the ferocious beast. Langya City is a place where it is easy to fight with the ferocious beast.
The place above.
Yuan mine is not only attractive to humans, but also to ferocious beasts!
