Weiwu County, Liangzhou, a camp on the edge of the grassland.
"Father!" A young man who was more than seven feet tall and wearing a large red armor walked to a huge table.
The middle-aged man sitting at the table said without raising his head: "How do you like the information about Prime Minister Li?"
The young man said: "After reading this, the real person in Xiliang who is difficult to deal with is not Li Xiang, but Taoist Priest Qingsong of the Immortal Realm, a master of the Grand Master level. If he takes action, our side will not be able to resist at all!"
The young man was very confident. Xiliang's achievements were nothing in his eyes. Their Ma family's army was running rampant on the grassland. When the Qiang people saw his Ma family's cavalry, they fled!
He was even called the Heavenly General by the Qiang people. Ma Jin was not afraid of Li Xiang at all, but rather wanted to fight with Li Xiang to get to know this bandit leader from outside the customs.
If he didn't have a master at the Grand Master level, he didn't think His Majesty would give the Eighth Princess to Prime Minister Li.
That is to get the support of a grand master level master. Grand master level masters are extremely important to the entire Daqian.
Your Majesty has long been supported by the Xuantian Sect, and has the support of the Grand Master Ouyang Xidu. The Royal Grand Masters and masters are also on His Majesty's side.
The other princes joined forces to fight against His Majesty!
Ma Teng raised his head and glanced at Ma Jin: "Li Xiang can travel across the northwest, and he has his own strength. Don't be careless.
According to my understanding of the northwest, they are likely to go south this winter. I have sent people to the Han family and the Pang family. By then, the three families will organize a coalition to go to Sanshan City!
If Li Xiangruo goes to Liangzhou Mansion alone, we can let him go and protect him along the way, but if he wants to take the army with him, let him know that Liangzhou is not his northwest territory."
Ma Jin nodded: "Yes, but father, what about the Qiang people?"
The Qiang people on the edge of Liangzhou are not very peaceful these days. After they see the independence of the grassland people, they also want to achieve independence. Every once in a while, some tribes will start a war because of this or that.
On the surface, the three families were trying to counter the rebellion, but in reality they were fighting for territory and seizing the large area of grassland around them. The Qiang rebellion was their best excuse.
"I have asked your third brother to go. Your current task is to stop the northwest army from going south!" After Ma Teng finished speaking, he lowered his head and looked at the things in his hands: "Bring the Black Tiger Cavalry with you, don't weaken the majesty of my Ma family. !”
"I know!" Ma Jin turned and left. A group of heavy cavalry wearing pure black armor was waiting for Ma Jin outside.
Ma Jin mounted his war horse and held an extremely heavy spear in his hand: "Let's go!"
Not far away, several soldiers secretly looked at Ma Jin and the black heavy-armored cavalry that Ma Jin took away from the corner of their eyes.
The Black Tiger Cavalry is the most elite heavy armored cavalry of the Ma family, with a total army of 10,000 people. The horses they ride are pure Liangzhou horses. They have strong endurance and good explosive power. They often use Liangzhou horses in big battles. Defeat the steppe men.
Nearly a thousand years have passed, and many people have gone to the prairie to buy prairie war horses, leaving the Liangzhou horses behind. The Ma family secretly gathered pure-blooded Liangzhou horses and formed such a black tiger cavalry.
This is also the reason why the Ma family was able to suppress the other two families and become the only three major families in Liangzhou to dominate two counties.
Every time the Ma family's black tiger cavalry is dispatched, it will cause a lot of noise. The Ma family will only dispatch the black tiger cavalry when encountering enemies that ordinary troops cannot defeat.
And Ma Jin, the son of Ma Teng, is now in his thirties and is at the peak of his rise. He is a first-class and perfect master. He is the most promising person in the Ma family to break through to the master level. He is also born with divine power.
He began to fight on horseback at the age of fifteen. At the age of twenty-five, he began to lead the Ma family army to suppress the rebellion of the surrounding Qiang people. He was called the General of Heaven by the Qiang people.
Following the black tiger cavalry, there is another army, 30,000 cavalry, 50,000 infantry, plus the black tiger cavalry, a total of 90,000 troops.
This is the number of troops that the Ma family can dispatch. If they are sent any more, it is very likely that the Ma family's plan will be broken.
The Han family and the Pang family both sent their most elite troops to the grassland around Sanshui City. They have always been eyeing Sanshui City, but they have no choice. Sanshui City is going to the northwest land, connecting the Golden City on the grassland, and leading to Liang.
The place where the waterways of several past states converged.
When Sanshui City was prosperous, there were millions of silver in tax revenue alone every month. Even now, there are over one million taels of silver in one month.
For some ordinary counties, a tax revenue of five million taels a year is already very wealthy, but Sanshui City only has two or three months left, and its income is already as much as that of a county.
Excluding their three big families, Liangzhou's annual income is about 20 million taels of silver. It's not that there is too much corruption by these families, but Liangzhou has no special products except war horses, and not many businessmen return.
Arrive at Liangzhou.
The income of a state is not as much as the income outside the Northwest Pass. This is why so many high-ranking officials will invest outside the Pass, and every big force has to get involved.
There are too few places to make money in Daqian. Most of the places that make money are in the hands of the royal family and generals. Can officials like them stand up to the royal family? Can they compare with the generals who have been rooted in Daqian for thousands of years?
Sanshui City has its own independent troops and navy. The city is high and the pool is deep. If anything goes wrong, the navy can ask for help from the imperial capital.
Da Gan has not yet fallen, and the Imperial Guards are still there. This has really made His Majesty angry. No family in Liangzhou is strong enough to withstand it!
Sanshui City, His Majesty's money bag, they can only watch without any intention of moving.
The northwest army heading south will definitely stop in the surrounding areas, and it will stop further down.
On the Tongtian River
After Li Xiang sent someone to promise the emperor, after a month of preparation, he finally set off with his army before the heavy snow fell.
On the mighty Tongtian River, Xiliang Navy formed a piece of land on the river. For the first time, Prime Minister Li was about to show off the power of the northwest.
Thirty-five thousand five hundred Xiliang cavalry. A small transport ship can carry twenty cavalry, a medium transport ship can carry a hundred cavalry, and a large transport ship can carry three hundred cavalry. A huge transport ship has just been built.
, can carry a thousand cavalry.
It's like an island on a big river!
The Xiliang navy used six giant transport ships, dozens of large transport ships and more than 30 medium-sized transport ships to transport all the Xiliang cavalry at once.
Following the army was the Xiliang Navy. If you looked at the Tongtian River from both sides, you could see boats everywhere on the river.
"This Tongtian River is still too small!" Li Xiang stood on top of the largest warship in Xiliang, a fuchuan that can accommodate thousands of people. This is the largest warship in Xiliang Navy at present. There is another kind of warship in the dock.
Known as a warship on an island in the water, that kind of warship is too big and cannot play its role in the Tongtian River.
It can only be released in Xuanshui Lake, so the navy does not plan to build a large number of such ships. It will wait until the Xiliang army reaches the seaside in the future to build such warships.
It is said that that kind of warship can play a role in calming water on the water. No matter how big the waves are, it will still be restrained by it.
Li Xiang had never seen that kind of warship. Now he lamented that the Tongtian River was small. That was because Xiliang's warships had occupied the surface of the Tongtian River. At a glance, they were all Xiliang's war flags.
The wolf followed the warship southward, just like a pack of wolves heading southward.
Li Shui, who was standing next to Prime Minister Li, said: "My lord, when we reach Sanshui City, the river will be two or three times wider, and it will not be so crowded by then!"
"Sanshui City!" Li Xiang sighed a little: "The people who built Sanshui City back then had really vicious vision. They had three waterways to protect them and raised a navy. If they wanted to take it down, they could only use human flesh.
Go to the pile!”
"If you are asked to fight against the Sanshui City navy, are you confident?"
Li Shui shook his head: "Sanshui City's naval force is not very strong. If we meet in a wild river, I am sure to destroy Sanshui City's navy. But near Sanshui City, we have no choice. There are many soldiers in Sanshui City."
It's like a war weapon like a psychic cannon. If our army gets too close, what kind of weapon will it be attacked by?"
"Yes!" Li Xiang nodded and looked into the distance. Something seemed to have happened in front of him!
In front of the Xiliang Navy, several ships were chasing each other. As they approached Sanshui City, the water area became much gentler. There were a large number of reeds on both sides. Some people with malicious intentions would grab a few small boats and hide in the reeds.
During the boat ride, they robbed passing ships.
Because the reed swamps are very large, and the water pirates are very good at reading flags and will only attack some weak caravans, Sanshui City used to send troops to exterminate them, but later found that it was of no use, so they did not waste time anymore.
The smallest warship in Xiliang, the arrow boat, is more than ten meters long and has more than a dozen soldiers on it. As Xiliang Navy scout warships, they are very fast, have high combat effectiveness, and have strong maneuverability.
The arrow boat was at the front of the Shangxiliang Navy, and happened to encounter several pirate ships attacking a flower boat.
The people in the flower boat seemed to have some cultivation skills. The two sides were in a stalemate for a while. Then the pirates saw in the distance the arrow boat flying down from above like long arrows. Before they could make a move, those arrows
The boats surrounded them.
Soldiers wearing black leather armor and holding long arrows aimed their arrows at them.
"Don't worry about the weapons, I will spare your life!"
A centurion shouted to the people on the pirate ship. The people in the flower boat saw the flag on the arrow boat, which seemed to be the flag of the northwest.
Why did the Northwest Navy appear near their Sanshui City? The people in the flower boat looked at the scene in front of them.
"Brother Ge, come on..." A big man on the water pirate ship cursed and walked out of the cabin. When he saw the arrow ship surrounding them and the long arrows locking them, he immediately raised his hands.
"We surrender, we surrender!" The big man immediately obeyed. He couldn't run away even if he wanted to. Now they are in the center of the river, with hundreds of meters on both sides. How about swimming across?
I'm afraid I want to die quickly.
"Woo~" A loud horn sounded, and the captain on the arrow boat was a little anxious: "Get closer, use the hook rope to pull these boats to the shore, don't block the waterway!"
The large force from the rear will arrive soon. These ships are in the middle of the river and will block the fleet's progress.
Xiliang soldiers holding horizontal knives approached the single water pirate boat and hooked an iron chain to the pole of the boat. The soldiers behind entered the boat. The Xiliang soldiers holding weapons prevented these water pirates from moving.
The captain came to the flower boat in person. Several young men and women in very gorgeous clothes looked at the captain. They wanted to see what this man wanted to do.
The captain held an iron chain hook and said to the people in the flower boat: "Everyone, I will wait for you to clear the siege. Our army is about to arrive. I need to take you to the river bank. Please forgive me!"
The captain said as he swung out the hook in his hand and hit the pole on the hull. Without waiting for the consent of these people, the arrow ship began to move.
Several young men and women frowned.
"Dahe, these people have gone too far!" A woman said dissatisfied: "The river is so big, why are we blocking their way!"
The man who was called the eldest brother was just about to speak when the ship started to move. A servant behind felt something was wrong with the river water. Looking back, he saw huge warships approaching on the river, their flags covered.
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"Young Master, Young Master, come back!" the servant said trembling slightly.
At this time, the arrow boat and the flower boat started moving, and everyone almost fell down, but when they saw the countless warships behind them, everyone's eyes were dull.
Sanshui City also has a navy, but they have never seen such a huge naval force as before. Each warship is bigger than the other.
"Xiliang Navy, why are they here!" The leader of Huacheng came out and saw those battle flags. He had been to the northwest and was lucky enough to see the Xiliang battlefield several times.
However, at that time, there were only a few Xiliang warships, rather than dispatching like today.
Soon the warship in front passed by, and on both sides were escort warships more than fifty meters long. Two giant transport ships passed by the river. Xiliang soldiers, fully armed, stood on the top of the warship.
It doesn't look too big to everyone, but it's not too small either. At this time, it is really very small in front of the giant transport ship.
When the fortune boat in the middle of the large army passed by, the waves turned up and almost capsized even the little flower boat.
What kind of ship is this?
Most of the people on the flower ship were shocked by the ship. Because of the man called Big Brother, their eyes never left the soldiers on the ship.
He knew that this was the Xiliang army, coming from the northwest, and a subordinate they called the bandit leader.
Before today, he had never thought that Xiliang could be so powerful. With such a naval army, Xiliang could already crush more than 80% of the naval forces.
The Royal Navy should be the only one that can suppress the naval force in front of us. It can suppress the Dragon Navy force of the East China Sea!
But it only took Northwest a few years to build up the water division in front of him. If he gave them enough time, he believed they could become stronger.
