"What's going on with the coalition forces?" Li Xiang, who had just returned from the south, asked casually. He chased the old man from Liangzhou to the Gobi where Lingjiu Palace was located.
He had long lost control of the battlefield, so he asked the soldiers who came to greet him.
The guard captain who was asked this question said: "The coalition forces have been defeated. At this time, our army is cleaning the battlefield. This time there are a lot of captured enemies. Everyone is waiting for you to come back and deal with them."
"You lost so easily?" Li Xiang was a little surprised.
The time when he left should normally be the most intense time. Even with the guarantee from Lingjiu Palace behind him, Prime Minister Li didn't think he could defeat the coalition army so easily.
The coalition forces relied on their troops to fight against Xiliang, rather than the sect disciples from all directions. The coalition soldiers were the main body, and the sect disciples assisted from the side, blocking the progress of the Xiliang army.
Now Li Xiang was surprised to hear that his neighbor was already there.
The guard captain said: "Not long after you left, we divided the coalition army. After dividing it, we continued to attack them every day. We didn't know what happened in the coalition camp. Suddenly there was a fierce fighting.
We did not enter the camp to take a look, but waited until the next day to enter the camp again and found that it was already full of corpses.
According to speculation, they should have had a camp roar. All the soldiers in the camp turned into wild beasts and fought indiscriminately. All the senior members of the Ma family were killed in the camp. Their deaths were probably the cause of the camp roar!"
"After the Ma's army was destroyed, we turned our forces to target the Pang's army. The Pang's army, which was unable to support itself, also fell on the third day after the Ma's camp fell!"
"Does this mean that the war on Fufeng Plain ended with our army's complete victory?"
The guard captain nodded.
Li Xiang couldn't believe it. He thought that this war would drag on for at least half a month, but he didn't expect to hear the news after he came back. It turned out that the Ma family and Pang family's coalition forces were gone.
But that's fine, he can send troops north to the city to support the border.
"Can arrangements for prisoners and the like be made?" Li Xiang asked.
Now that Xiliang is short of a large labor force, these captives can just make up for the lack of labor outside the customs. There are many of these people from the fish and meat countryside. The best solution for these people who are bullying their own people is to throw them outside the northwest customs.
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The remaining people who basically have no criminal records can be kept as prisoners for a few years and then released. There is a large population in the Central Plains, but the places occupied by Li Xiang have relatively less people than land.
So if you can do less killing, do less killing. After all, these people can provide him with a lot of funds and resources!
"All prisoners received the best treatment from our army. Those seriously injured soldiers were also revived by doctors. It took a long time to recover." The guard captain said: "Everyone knows that there is a very serious situation outside the customs.
There is a lack of labor force, so we should try to capture those people who can be captured, and do not let them die due to non-battlefield fighting!"
After hearing this, Xiang Li nodded with satisfaction: "It seems that you have remembered everything I said. Speed up? After arranging them, we will send troops north to support the border."
The only trouble in Xiliang now is the grassland tribes coming south from the northern grasslands. If they dare to come down, Prime Minister Li will prevent them from going back.
For the three major families in Liangzhou, the grassland is a tasteless place that is a pity to abandon. Therefore, their approach to the grassland is basically to resist, and will not take the initiative to attack.
Because the vast grassland is basically of no value to them? They also have a place where they can tame war horses? Then why do they still bring that grassland?
So they don't pay much attention to the grassland? Or maybe their focus has never been on the grassland? As long as those grassland tribes don't invade their pastures, they won't embarrass those grassland tribes.
This has also made the grassland tribes develop faster and faster in these years, and the population is getting larger and larger. Once the population increases, the pastures they need to go to will become larger.
To the north is a stretch of barren mountains. Is it cold there? And it doesn’t have many resources? So the prairie people can only focus on the southern region.
Most of the grasslands in the southern region are owned by major families. In areas such as Bingzhou and Youzhou, are there strong border troops guarding them? Only in Liangzhou, because of the three major families, the border troops have been abolished.
Therefore, several of their grassland tribes put their main attack direction here in Liangzhou, and usually went south to catch the autumn wind when there was nothing to do.
The three major families do not want to have bad relations with the grassland tribes because of this. As long as the other party does not provoke them, they will not take action against the grassland tribes.
The tribes on the grassland also knew this, so they rarely touched the places of the three major families when they went south, and almost all the pastures other than the three major families had been occupied by them.
Over the years, they were no longer satisfied with the small amount of pasture and began to attack the areas where the three major families were located, but the three major families did not respond much to this.
Because the tribes on the grassland have become too powerful and cannot be solved by the three major families, they have repeatedly shrunk their sphere of influence.
This also made the grassland tribes become more and more arrogant. If the three major families had not built a large number of cities on the border to defend against cavalry raids, these grassland tribes might have marched straight in and began to attack Liangzhou, which is still a lush plain.
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Unable to attack those cities, the grassland tribes began to take out their anger on the small rural towns around the cities. Although these places were small, they gained a lot.
Even if you don't harvest much supplies, it's not bad to rob those people and go back. The men can be used as slaves and the women can be used as reproductive tools, so that the number of their grassland tribes can increase!
After getting to know these grassland tribes, Li Xiang didn't have much favorable impression of these tribes. Although they were not as rampant as the prairie people on the prairie, they were almost there!
They have not rebelled against Daqian now, just because they do not have that kind of strength. They are afraid that Daqian will dispatch an army to attack them. However, their current actions and various systems within the tribe have violated the rules set by Daqian for them.
The rules that came down.
It took him a day to rush back to the big tent on the battlefield. He summoned the generals of the Xiliang headquarters and made some explanations before handing over the prisoners to the Seventh and Eighth Legions to escort them to Zhangye County.
The Seventh and Eighth Legions suffered very few losses in this war because they were operating with the Shenji Battalion. The Shenji Battalion was not attacked by the enemy, so they were not attacked by the enemy.
On the battlefield, they were equivalent to taking a stroll in the street. At this time, they were transporting hundreds of thousands of prisoners towards Zhangye County. Escorting prisoners was not an easy task.
Because along the way, they cannot let these prisoners die too much. Every prisoner is a good labor force, and many of them are Xiliang doctors who worked hard to bring them back from death!
It would be unreasonable to die on the battlefield but die while rushing.
The second heavy snowfall happened in the past few days, so this task was very difficult for the people of the Seventh and Eighth Legions. They had no complaints because all they had to do was transport these prisoners.
After the soldiers from Xiliang headquarters fought fiercely on the battlefield, they only needed a few days of rest before rushing to the north. There was still a more intense war waiting for them in the north.
Their difficulties are nothing compared to those of the soldiers at Xiliang headquarters.
When Li Xiang dispatched the Xiliang headquarters army to rush north, the news that he had killed a great master quickly spread throughout the entire eastern world.
The old man's name is Yang Lei, and he is a long-established Grand Master. Although he is not at the top level among Grand Masters, he is very powerful.
But he was killed by Li Xiang, or he was killed by Li Xiang in a head-on confrontation, which made all the great masters in the world find it hard to believe.
They all knew very well who Li Xiang was. Back then, a group of top masters and masters in the world gathered in the imperial capital, and Li Xiang was among them.
At this time, everyone felt that Li Xiangcai had just broken through to the Grand Master level not long ago, but because of his strong strength, he managed to squeeze into the top level in the world.
At that time, everyone began to understand Li Xiang. Li Xiang had created a foundation in the northwest. He was a top strong man. Not only was he powerful, but his power was also first-class.
The world is changing now, and everyone knows that a strong man with a golden body who has not appeared for hundreds of years may appear during this period of time, because the rules of the world are being improved, and the vitality between heaven and earth is gradually becoming stronger.
Li Xiang is already a person who has the potential to become a strong man in their hearts.
Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for Li Xiang to do such a big thing again, killing a grand master at the grand master level.
Only those in the Grand Master realm know how difficult it is to kill a strong man of the same level in their realm.
Everyone can use the energy of heaven and earth, and the consumed energy can be quickly recovered. As long as you don't use those secret techniques or other moves that use a lot of energy, it is almost equivalent to a perpetual motion machine.
So if a strong person wants to run, his speed is very fast and lasts for a long time. It is difficult for you to catch up with him in a short time.
But Li Xiang killed a great master like this, so for a while, masters from all over the world were shocked.
The emperor who lives in the chaotic world cannot believe it. This is very different from the memory of his previous life. Li Xiang did not appear in his previous life. Now he has become the king of the northwest land and has become a man who can attack.
The master who killed the master master.
Could it be that Li Xiang, like himself, is also a person from the future world?
He thought about it and felt that it was impossible, because the actions shown by Li Xiang did not look like a person who had returned from rebirth.
But if Li Xiang was not reborn, how could he be so powerful and able to establish such a huge force?
In these days, the people he sent collected a lot of information about Xiliang. The more he learned about it, the more terrifying he felt, because the entire Xiliang had been run by Li Xiang and was airtight, like a huge iron barrel.
In addition to the Xiliang headquarters generals who were loyal to Li Xiang, there were also a large number of outstanding generals in the northwest, and those outstanding generals were sent to various places by Li Xiang.
For example, the Qingxi Grassland is connected to the prairie. Zhuo Bufan on the Qingxi Prairie is a very outstanding general in his previous life. Now he is sent by Li Xiang to guard against the Qing tribe in the Qingxi Prairie.
The generals of the 7th and 8th legions under Prime Minister Li are all pretty good people.
Apart from the military, Xiliang's economy is not as good as that of the Central Plains, but it has an advantage that the Central Plains cannot match, that is, they are very stable.
The economy in Xiliang is booming. There are merchants from the Western world. Those merchants have brought various things from the Western world. Xiliang can sell a large number of Eastern products to the Western world.
This business is a transaction between Xiliang and the West. No one knows how much benefit Xiliang has gained from it.
But it can be seen from those priceless Western products that the benefits gained by Xiliang are at least a hundred times more.
Because of these products from the Western world, all the major chambers of commerce in the world like to go to the northwest, and they all want to go there and purchase a batch of products from the Western world.
Although these goods are very expensive, when they are resold in the Central Plains, the profits they get are huge.
This Xiliang side brought a large amount of funds and materials.
Due to the wars in various parts of the Central Plains, the poor people below were displaced and had no place to go. They would drag their families and board the ships to the northwest region, going to the northwest land where few people lived before.
This brought a large population to the northwest!
The population and economy in the northwest are growing faster and faster. After Li Xiang takes Liangzhou, the power of Xiliang is not only in Jiuyuan County, but has begun to intervene in the Central Plains.
Coupled with the powerful naval force under Li Xiang, Bingzhou, Yanzhou and other places around Liangzhou will be radiated by Li Xiang's powerful power.
Li Xiang is likely to become a powerful enemy of him!
The more he thought about it, the more uneasy the emperor felt. The threat from Prime Minister Li in his heart had exceeded the threat from his brothers. If his throne was seized by those brothers, it would still belong to their Zhao family.
Then the world will become their Li family's, and he has not forgotten who Li Xiang's father is.
