"Is this Xiliang area so rich?" The senior officials of the Zhunter tribe looked at the sumptuous lunch placed in front of their tables. It was really rich, much richer than what they ate on the grassland.
On the grassland, there is no shortage of beef and mutton, but what is missing is green vegetables, and what they have in front of them now is a large amount of green vegetables.
They knew that green vegetables could be grown in some warm places, even in cold winters, but they went around and found that all the soldiers in the entire military camp had as much vegetables as they did.
In other words, there is no shortage of vegetables in Xiliang. Even in the cold winter months like now, they supply a large amount of green vegetables to the army.
They didn't know that in a valley not far from the city, there was a group of 6,000 Xiliang farmers who were responsible for the city's food supply.
The vegetable trees planted can provide the army with a large amount of vegetables all year round. After all, eating beef and mutton on the grassland is not very good for the body.
It must be paired with some green vegetables so that the nutrition of the soldiers can be balanced.
At the same time, the existence of these people is also to ensure the safety of life in this city. Food safety is more important than the sky in the eyes of Xiliang soldiers, because once the number of soldiers is reduced due to food problems, then there will definitely be one or two attrition.
With these cold hearts, the soldiers of our headquarters can let the soldiers eat and drink with peace of mind. At the same time, when necessary, a large amount of food stored in the valley over there can also be supplied to the city.
Because not only vegetables are grown in Shang Valley, there is also a large amount of food. However, these foods are not directly supplied to the city, but are stored as reserve food.
Only when the food in the city can no longer be supplied can the food in the canyon be used.
"If they are not rich, how can they fight against the central court?" The leader of the Zhunter tribe said: "It seems that our choice this time is very good. Next, we are the only ones who can block the pursuing troops on the other side of the prairie and give us enough
Time, let us discuss countermeasures with Xiliang, and it won’t take long for us to reorganize the Zhunter tribe.”
They went hunting for treasures on the Qingxi grassland not only to avoid being hunted on the other side of the prairie, but also to establish a Zhunter tribe here.
They escaped in a hurry, but when they escaped, they also carried a lot of things. After all, there is a space bag in this world, and the precious things of their ancestors are all in the hands of the clan leader.
Relying on these treasures passed down from generation to generation, they will be able to make a comeback in Xiliang. Each of these treasures passed down countless times is extremely valuable, and taking out any one of them can cause a sensation.
But the best choice is to contribute these things to the King of Xiliang. As long as they gain the trust of the King of Xiliang, they will get a piece of land and reorganize their tribe.
The sons of the tribe only need to find some women here to form a group. As for the tribesmen on the grassland, it depends on whether they can fight back to the grassland.
If the leader of the Zhunter tribe does not have high expectations for this, those at the bottom still firmly believe that they can fight back to the prairie, but for them, the higher-ups, they are very aware of their own strength, and they also know that Xiliang is not
Maybe there will be a war with the prairie for them.
Unless the Union Army on the prairie and the south exploded again, they would have no chance.
"We can safely follow the arrangements of Xiliang now!" The tribal leader was afraid that his people would be unruly and conflict with Xiliang, so he repeatedly warned: "Our current performance is related to our future development, so you You need to suppress your temper, don’t conflict with those in Xiliang, restrain your subordinates, don’t walk around at will, and don’t go anywhere that Xiliang doesn’t allow you to go near!”
"Chief, don't worry. You don't know our son yet." Although the Zhunter tribe is a grassland tribe, the education within their tribe is the Daqian Dynasty. Before the prairie betrayed the Daqian Dynasty, , there are many scholars from the south in their tribe, and they invite these scholars to come to the tribe to educate the children of the Zhunter tribe.
The reason why Zhun Terbulo is very close to the Daqian Dynasty this time also makes these men of the Zhun Ter tribe have almost the same values in their hearts as the Daqian soldiers. They are no longer like those people on the grassland. So barbaric.
But just like the soldiers on the Great Central Plains, they began to pay attention to reason, but because of this, their strength was weaker than other tribes. After all, civilization always has some discomfort when facing barbarism.
But if you give them sophisticated weapons and equipment, they will be the best soldiers.
"I know, but we can't rule out whether there are people from other tribes among these people!" the clan leader said matter-of-factly: "We can't let what happened to the disaster tribe happen here again, and we don't have it here either. Chances are, once the Western Union thinks we are bombing or have other intentions, we will die here."
They know very well that where they live now is a huge trap. If they make any move, the new soldiers on the city wall will pick up their bows and arrows and attack them.
They have no power to resist below, and at most they can hide in these tents. When the other party sets a fire again, they will be burned alive in the tents.
"Yes!" Another senior executive who realized the importance of the matter picked up a leg of lamb and ran outside while chewing it.
The patriarch said to another senior official: "Please ask someone to ask if they can meet with General Zhuo Bufan, the supreme leader of the autonomous city."
Now that we can't go to Jiuyuan County to meet with Li Xiang, we must first get rid of Zhuo Bufan, the general guarding this city, and establish good relations with Xiliang generals who have heavy troops. For the Ter tribe, they There are advantages and no disadvantages.
Yesterday, as a non-Xiliang general, he was able to take charge of so many armies and sit on one side. It can be seen how deeply he trusted Li Xiang.
The tribe they reorganized must be on the Qingxi grassland. Having a good relationship with Zhuo Bufan will save them a lot of time and avoid a lot of problems.
"I'll ask after we finish eating!"
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North of Daqian Dynasty
On the defensive front re-established by Beijing against the prairie, this is a defense line formed by countless cities. In the middle of these cities, there are city walls four to five meters high.
Although it is not very high or thick, they have not thought about relying on these city walls to resist the prairie cavalry. They just use their own city walls to prevent those prairie cavalry from going south directly.
And every 30 miles there will be a very high lookout tower. Next to the lookout tower is the beacon tower. Once a large number of prairie cavalry approaches the city wall, the soldiers guarding the lookout tower will set off the beacon tower.
Wolf smoke rises.
In this way, the army can be informed in advance that the enemy has appeared, or where the enemy is. The four lines of defense are still being improved, because there are too many places they need to defend.
If the previous fortresses were still there, they wouldn't need to bother so much. Unfortunately, most of those fortresses have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and only one is left in their hands.
They need to re-build this huge line of defense, and most of the tax revenue in the entire northern region is invested in this line of defense. This is not enough, because the materials and money required are far beyond what the tax revenue can make up for.
Therefore, Li Zhen is like the landlords and gentry in the northern region, asking for money and materials from them. He is soft-spoken and short-handed. Li Zhen cannot be like Li Xiang who can directly confiscate the properties of these landlords and gentry and exterminate their families.
In addition, he had already obtained a large amount of supplies from these people, so he could only turn a blind eye to what these landlords and gentry were doing in the local area.
Another reason is that if he wants to resist the southward movement of the prairie in the north, he must rely on the help of these people. The local power of these landlords and gentry is far greater than that of the government.
They are not as weak as those landowners in the northwest region. If you pick any of these landowners in the north of Daqian, their families have been passed down for nearly a thousand years, and some even existed before the establishment of the Daqian Dynasty.
And the place where they are located is a place where a clan is located, and most of the local officials are served by clan members of this family. If he wants to gain the support of these people, he must first obtain the source of troops, then he must make good with these people.
relation.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to recruit soldiers locally, and it would even be extremely difficult to purchase some supplies.
Standing on the wall of a newly built fortress, heavy snow covered the earth, and the sky and the earth were completely white.
"The marshal has understood clearly that 63 days ago, the Zhunter tribe was attacked suddenly by the Golden Family, the Red Wolf Tribe and their own inner ghosts, and the family was split into two.
Some of them fled all the way to the west, towards Xiliang, while the remaining part gathered family members and reorganized the Zhunter family.
However, now the Zhunter family no longer opposes the march of the grassland army to the south, but actively participates in the march south. Because of their changes, most of the originally neutral tribes have begun to join forces and agree to go south.
Now the will of all the forces on the prairie has been unified!"
Li Zhen sighed and stretched out his hand to take a piece of snowflake: "We all know how cold the prairie is. It has been five or six years since they betrayed the imperial court. The food they stored has been almost used. If they had not gone south, they would have
There will be no food for the tribe.
Next year will be the beginning of another war!"
"Is there any reply from the imperial court?" Li Xiang asked, changing the subject. The war between them and the other side of the prairie was unavoidable. Since it was unavoidable, they could only face it positively.
But if the prairie people want to go south, doesn’t Li Zhen want to go north?
Li Zhen is actively preparing for the Northern Expedition. He is not a person who waits to die. He wants to gather more strength and defeat the main army of the northern grassland people in one fell swoop.
After defeating the main army of the prairie people, the prairie people will be unable to go south in the next twenty or thirty years. You can give them more time to prepare to return to the grassland.
This was the order given to him by the late emperor before he died. The late emperor wanted to take back the prairie, because the prairie was lost in his hands. If he could not get more prairie back, he would not be able to face the ancestors of the Daqian Dynasty below. First.
"The imperial court didn't say anything and kept silent!" Yu Cheng said angrily: "Your Majesty obviously has a lot of food and money and is recruiting soldiers in the Zhili area, but there is no sign of supporting us, as if we Not like his soldiers and horses."
Li Zhen smiled: "The tax revenue of the entire northern region is in our hands. We can't force His Majesty to provide military pay and food. It seems that we can only find a way ourselves!"
"But how much tax revenue can we get in the northern region now?" Yu Cheng said angrily: "The southern part of the Central Plains is in ruins, and our north is not much better. Those landlords have concealed how much population they have, and the tax revenue they can receive now is not as good as When the late Emperor was here, we had only one tenth. Apart from helping to pay the soldiers under his command, what else could we have left?
To form this line of defense now, it is better for you to go and fight with the powerful landlords in person, and I don’t know how much those people are chewing on their backs..."
"Okay!" Li Zhen's face became serious, and Yu Cheng immediately shut up. Li Zhen said: "Since His Majesty does not support us, then we can find other princes to help us. Now he has a large amount of supplies in his hands, and His Majesty is not the only one." one person."
Li Zhen has never been a loyal or rigid person. Whether or not the imperial court supports him is not important in his eyes. Now the tax collection and military power in the north are in his hands.
As long as he is still in the northern region, these rights are firmly in his hands, and even the emperor cannot take away the power in his hands.
Since the emperor is unwilling to help him, don't blame him for asking other princes for help. After all, the places where the emperor's brothers and brothers live may be wealthy places.
Even though the world seems to be in chaos now and many places are in ruins, the places where King Qing is and the surrounding areas are even more prosperous than when the late emperor was there.
"As for food and grass, you can contact Xiliang and buy them with gold and silver. If you don't have enough money, you can exchange them with cattle and sheep skins!" Li Zhen made the final decision: "We must prepare enough food for five million troops to last for four years. forage,"
The next war will last for a long time, so they need to reserve a lot of food and grass!
