Li Xiang had just come out of the camp when the militiamen rushed back from the men's side and brought news to Li Xiang that his prey, Qingzhu Village, had been preempted.
There was a mutiny in Qingzhu Village, and the third master of the family joined forces with Xuanshui Village to cooperate with the outside world. No, they should have defeated Qingzhu Village in an upright manner. Now the men and horses of Qingzhu Village are coming to the north.
According to Zhang Qingyun's speculation, the defeated soldiers of Qingzhu Village are likely to go to the iron ore area. The reason for this rebellion is also because of the iron ore.
After listening to this, Li Xiang sat quietly by the fire and thought, secretly speaking, Qingzhu Village should know that the iron ore area is no longer in their hands, but why do they still want to retreat to the iron ore area?
Could it be the second group of people?
Before Qingzhu Village, the second batch of people arrived to recapture the iron ore area and return it to their hands?
But he clearly killed all those people without leaving a single person alive. It has been almost three months, and those people have not returned to their lives. Even a fool should know that things in the iron ore area are very big, and the worst is not possible.
Send a few spies to investigate.
But there seems to be no spy coming to the iron ore area. How did the other party think of retreating to the iron ore area?
There must be something wrong with this!
"Lord!" Li Yi strode in: "All five hundred spearmen have been trained!"
Prime Minister Li nodded: "Gather them together immediately!"
He stopped thinking if he couldn't figure it out. There must be something he didn't know here. As long as he took down these defeated soldiers, wouldn't it be easy for him to know what he wanted to know?
Five hundred spears were being collected, but Li Xiang did not believe that he could not defeat the defeated soldiers of less than a hundred men in Qingzhu Village.
Li Yi responded: "Yes!"
In the middle of the camp, Li Yi specially left a large square in the middle when he arranged the Xiliang camp.
Five hundred spearmen gathered among them. Due to the rush of time, the spearmen did not change their clothes. They were still wearing the thick animal skins they wore in winter.
Five hundred people were neatly arrayed in the middle. Each of them had been training in the military camp for several years, and they only quit after passing the test.
They have a strong military atmosphere!
Li Xiang carries a long bow on his back, a horizontal sword hanging on his waist, and a spear in his hand. The spear is a medium and close range weapon, and the horizontal sword is a weapon used in close combat with the enemy.
On the battlefield, every inch grows stronger.
Li Xiang looked at the pikemen below, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of heroism in his heart. These were his soldiers. Although they were still wearing animal skins, their aura was far more powerful than some of the troops in Daqian.
As long as Prime Minister Li is given enough time and resources, he will build a strong army in the northwest.
"Let's go!" Li Xiang didn't say much. He took the lead and walked at the front. The soldiers behind him followed Li Xiang in a row and walked towards the south. In front of them was a scout force composed of fifty militiamen who set off first.
Li Yi looked at the retreating figure of the army. This was the first official dispatch since the founding of Xiliang, although the enemy was just a copycat.
Xiliang's fangs have been exposed. War is the driving force for Xiliang's development. A battle is a battle, and there is no one more powerful than them in this world.
After the Lord's battle is over, as long as he brings back some supplies, even just some food, it will be enough to bring the Xiliang camp one step closer.
the other side
In the mountain forest, Zhang Qingyun took Zhou Yulan and his mentor to hide in a cave. They were not very far away from the people in Qingzhu Village. They were hiding in this place and could also supervise the people in Qingzhu Village.
All four militiamen left, leaving only Zhang Qingyun, the teacher and Zhou Yulan in the cave.
"Brother Qingyun, what is the Xiliang camp? Why do they listen to you so much?" Zhou Yulan had long been very interested in the identities of several big men, because there was no information about the forces of these big men in his father's information.
Zhang Qingyun put his clothes on his sleeping mentor and whispered softly after hearing Zhou Yulan's words: "I don't know what the Xiliang camp is. I was caught by the enemy the last time I went to the iron mine, and so was Li Xiang, the camp leader. Expelled from Daqian.
After knowing the name of my mentor, he kept me here and asked me to help him later. I have been following Camp Master Li these days. Although it is a bit cold in Xiliang Camp, the people there are very nice.
It’s not just the beginning of spring. The camp owner wanted to unify the northwest. He didn’t know much about Qingzhu Village, so he asked me to take a few people to get familiar with the route, so I brought a few of them over. Fortunately, I had the shamelessness to tell the camp owner at that time. You have to go south, otherwise if something happens to my mentor and you, I really don’t know what to do!"
Zhang Qingyun was very lucky. He didn't know how his mentor and Yulan would have looked after being caught by the rebels if he had arrived a little later. Thinking about it, his eyes got wet.
"Aren't we okay? You are such an old man, and you are still crying?" Zhou Yulan knew Zhang Qingyun's character, and seeing Zhang Qingyun looking like he was about to cry, a warm current flowed through his heart, and he smiled and said: "Unify the northwest Dadi, is this Camp Leader Li Xiang a little crazy?"
Zhang Qingyun wiped his eyes: "I thought so too when I first met with Camp Leader Li, but in the past two months, I have changed my mind. Do you know? In Linhai in the northwest, not far from the iron ore area In this place, the camp owner actually built a small city!"
Zhang Qingyun gestured: "That's a small town where thousands of people live. Qingzhu Village is over the Xiliang Camp. It's less than one-tenth of the Juhu Camp where we fish. The camp owner is still in the wilderness not far from Juhu. Thousands of acres of farmland have been reclaimed. I heard from the big guy from Farmer One that the harvest will begin this month, and they will reclaim more farmland after the harvest.
The camp owners want to turn all the wilderness into farmland. I have seen that wilderness. If it is completely cultivated, there will be tens of thousands of acres of land. If you go further north, there will be millions of acres of land!
....”
Zhang Qingyun softly talked about what he had seen and heard in the Xiliang camp. His mentor and Yulan were family members in his heart, and he had no reservations about his relatives at all.
Zhou Yulan originally thought that the Xiliang camp was just another cottage, but listening to what Zhang Qingyun said, she felt a little unreal. There were people farming in the northwest. Are there any crops that can be grown in this ice and snow?
There are also those small towns with thousands of people. Thousands of people are very few in Daqian, but this number is quite a lot in the northwest. It is not that there are few people in the northwest, but that there are very few people in the northwest who can feed so many people. .
'Zhou Hangjie', who was pretending to sleep, was thinking about the name Li Xiang in his mind. The name was very familiar. Suddenly the Li family appeared in his mind. The Li family, yes, they were the people who were expelled from the Li family. That guy was called Li Xiang!
"Master Zhang!" The militiamen came in from outside: "Reply from the camp and tell us that the Lord will lead five hundred spearmen southward and ordered us to closely monitor the movements of everyone in Qingzhu Village!"
Zhang Qingyun was a little surprised: "Five hundred spearmen, have they been trained so quickly?"
He knew that Li Xiang wanted to train soldiers, but this was too fast! It only took seven or eight days for the spearmen to be trained.
But think about the speed of the Xiliang camp. Every step of building houses, docks, and cultivating farmland is so fast.
The militiamen nodded: "Under the leadership of the lord, we will arrive here the day after tomorrow, and the scout troops will arrive tomorrow!"
Zhang Qingyun thought for a moment: "What's the situation at Qingzhu Village now?"
The militiaman said: "They just retreated from the battle yesterday. Most of them are hungry. They are hunting wild animals now. They should not be able to move today!"
"Take me to see it!" Zhang Qingyun said, turning to Zhou Yulan and saying: "Yulan, you take a rest here, I'll go out and take a look at the layout of Qingzhu Village!"
"Yeah!" Zhou Yulan nodded: "Be careful!"
"I know!" Zhang Qingyun led the militiamen out, and only Zhou Yulan and Zhou Hangjie were left in the cave.
After about a few minutes, Zhou Hangjie, who was sleeping, opened his eyes and said softly: "Miss, before the snow fell last year, Li Xiang, a descendant of the Li family in Daqian, was deported to the northwest. According to the intelligence at the time, Li Xiang was thrown into this area. Area, people in the imperial capital don’t want him to continue to live, could this Prime Minister Li be the same Prime Minister Li?”
"Huh?" Zhou Yulan didn't know about this matter, mainly because it had nothing to do with her. At that time, she was focused on the iron ore area.
"Talk about it!"
"Yes!" said 'Zhou Hangjie': "Li Xiang is a descendant of the general Li family and a supporter of the prince. He himself works in the palace and is the messenger between the Li family and the prince. Last year, there was a problem on the ninth floor and he was treated as an abandoned person. Push it out.
Although the Li family didn't care about a concubine, he was still a Li family. He could not escape the death penalty but could not escape the penalty of life, so he was expelled. However, there were people on the prince's side who didn't want him to live. You also know that usually those who are expelled from the prince's side will be expelled. After receiving the order from the organization, no one went to respond, so the Li family gave him a spear, a bow, and an ax, and then he was thrown into this area!"
When he saw this piece of information, he felt a little interested and watched it carefully.
Zhou Yulan frowned: "If this is the case, Mr. Li may have died in the ice and snow!"
In this world of ice and snow, it is impossible for anyone without any cultivation to survive. If Prime Minister Li was a strong man, he would not be used as a scapegoat.
'Zhou Hangjie' looked at the dark cave roof and sighed: "Miss, there are countless possibilities in this world. Maybe this Prime Minister Li is really the same Prime Minister Li. He has the same name, the place where he appeared, and the time he came from. Being kicked out, is this a bit too much of a coincidence?
I'm afraid that he has defected to someone else. He has been a messenger for the Li family and the prince, and he has learned a lot over the years!"
Zhou Yulan frowned even more when she heard Zhou Hangjie's words: "Who doesn't want him to continue to live?"
'Zhou Hangjie' smiled bitterly: "Prince's wife and brother, alas! Your Majesty's time is short. Although the prince is unhappy with the generals, he has the support of the civil servants. The second prince does not have many people in the court, but he is a disciple of the Taoist sect and serves the world. Sectarian support.
We are all one body, and the Li family will not say much when they are driven out of Daqian, but they will be killed. Although they are just concubines, the Li family will not say much on the surface, but they must be somewhat dissatisfied in their hearts!"
Zhou Yulan fiddled with the ribbon in her hand: "Isn't this their usual style? If you want to know whether this Prime Minister Li is that Prime Minister Li, wouldn't it be nice to meet the day after tomorrow?"
"Right!"
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Two days later, Li Xiang led his men and horses to a relatively sparse forest. The trees here were much shorter and smaller than those in the Xiliang camp, and the temperature was also warmer.
Continuously rushing, everyone was more or less tired. This place was not very far away from where everyone in Qingzhu Village was, and there was only an hour left to move forward.
The men and horses of Qingzhu Village are recuperating. They fought against the traitors of Xuanshui Village. Many of them were injured. They could still hold on on the first day. Now some of their wounds are suppurating and they need further treatment.
I like that there are many Chinese herbal medicines in the deep mountains and old forests. The martial arts practitioners have some medical skills, so they can pick the herbs and apply them. The traitors in Xuanshui Village did not follow, and they were not in a hurry.
"Lord, Master Zhang has arrived with his mentor and his daughter!" A militiaman came to the side of Prime Minister Li and whispered.
Zhou Hangjie has arrived!
Li Xiang was a little excited. Zhou Hangjie was also the governor of a county in Daqian. His status in Daqian was very different from Zhou Hangjie's. Back then, he could only be seen from a distance in the palace.
What is lacking most in the Xiliang camp now? It's not the talents for the war, but the people to handle internal affairs. The farmers and soldiers in Xiliang have him to manage their interests, but what about the prisoners?
It is impossible for Prime Minister Li to kill everyone in the northwest! There will always be prisoners, and Prime Minister Li cannot arrange these people. He will only recognize one as an enemy and that as a surrender.
Zhang Qingyun feels that it is very useful. As Zhang Qingyun's teacher, Zhou Hangjie, who once ran a county, should be able to manage these people very easily.
As for whether the other party would help him or not, Li Xiang felt that Zhou Hangjie could help Qingzhu Village with suggestions, so there was no way he wouldn't help him!
"Line up!" Li Xiang shouted to the soldiers who were resting on the ground. The soldiers who were resting on the ground immediately lined up. Their clothes were a little tattered, and their momentum was something that no one dared to look down upon.
Zhang Qingyun supported Zhou Hangjie, and Zhou Yulan followed beside him. There were more than a dozen militiamen around him. Each of the big men was almost the same height, which made Zhou Yulan couldn't help but take a few more glances. Such heights are rare in Daqian. , but there are so many such people in the northwest. Shouldn't they be dragged away by other major forces as soon as they appear?
How can I stay in this place?
Walking into the forest, Zhou Yulan couldn't help but froze for a moment. Zhou Hangjie, who was being supported, was also full of surprise. There were spearmen neatly arranged in the forest in front, each one as tall as the militiamen around him.
This made 'Zhou Hangjie' feel like when he went to the imperial capital with his master, he saw the soldiers in the palace. Apart from their equipment, the aura of these people in front of them was similar to those of those people!
At the front is a taller man. He is taller than the soldiers behind him and has a stronger aura, like a tiger.
In the past two trainings, he led troops to fight, the second time with cavalry, and the third time with infantry. Prime Minister Li inevitably went into battle to fight, and his momentum was naturally strong.
Zhang Qingyun said to Zhou Yulan: "That is the leader of the Xiliang camp, Prime Minister Li Camp!"
