Chapter 194: The Emperor Appoints His Generals (2)
Tonight, the Queen Mother said nothing.
Only Yinyuan was roaring and shouting like a "tyrant" who had torn his face off, scolding the civil and military officials, and even giving orders arbitrarily and arranging things.
All the civil and military officials in the court, whether they were relatives like Le Wu or powerful officials like Zhu Chong, cooperated perfectly to implement Yinyuan's orders.
Zhuge's behavior crossed the bottom line.
Even the cultural and educational families who should have been natural allies of the Zhuge family could not accept their betrayal this time!
We were originally one, but you actually abandoned the other families, and one family secretly wanted to eat all the food alone... No matter where the Zhuge family got the confidence from, no matter what the Zhuge family wanted to do, the cultural and educational families would definitely teach them a lesson.
Lu Fu and Lu Yu left Fuyao Palace.
Behind him, Yin Yuan was still roaring, "Investigate, investigate thoroughly. All of Zhuge's properties in Haojing will be confiscated, all confiscated... All officials and merchants related to Zhuge will be arrested, arrested... Confiscate all their properties, all of them!"
"Lao Yu, you are personally responsible for this matter... Don't miss a single penny!"
"Well, the Ministry of Rites is unreliable. All the officials in the Ministry of Rites, from top to bottom, will be dismissed... All those related to them will be arrested. First, their property will be confiscated, and then they will be tortured severely."
"The vacant positions in the Ministry of Rites should be sealed first. There is no rush to fill them."
"Well, there will be an imperial examination in May this year? General, Prime Minister, you two will be in charge of this examination. The general will be the chief examiner, and the prime minister will be the deputy examiner. That's it!"
Lu Yi and Lu Yu walked down the steps in front of the Fuyao Palace with heavy steps.
After walking down the last step, Lu Yu turned around and looked at Lu Yi: "Haojian Palace has always been the private domain of the Zhuge family. We have always suspected that Haojian Palace is an external sect of the Taoist Heart Sword Sect."
Lu Yu nodded: "That's right. When Zhuge Mingming was captured, there were swordsmen from the Haojian Palace beside him who were using swords to kill people."
Lu Yu smiled slightly: "It seems that everyone can't hold back anymore... Hey, if the disciples of Xinjian Sect don't take action and let Haojian Palace be the pathfinder, it seems that this secret agreement between the three religions will not be able to constrain much time."
"Brother, be careful on this trip!"
Lu Yu nodded to Lu Yu and said, "Don't worry, if everyone fights honestly, who will be afraid of whom? Even if they want to use some tricks, who will be afraid of whom?"
Lu Yu laughed out loud, patted Lu Yi's shoulder vigorously, and said with satisfaction: "Very good, worthy of being recognized by Senior Brother Shi E, the reincarnation of the true Buddha of Buddhism, hahahaha, who is afraid of who?"
At the south gate of the imperial city, Lu Yi whistled, jumped onto the dark cloud beast, and bowed to the three Qingyou girls who were waiting lazily outside the south gate: "Three of you, I am following the order of the emperor to lead the army to fight against the rebellious Dong Qibo... Well, he has the support of the Haojian Palace, which are the white-clothed swordsmen you just encountered."
"Are you interested in joining us to have some fun?"
Lu Yi extended a formal invitation to Qingyou and the other two girls.
Qingyou nodded slightly.
Qing Ning and Qing You happily jumped onto their donkey and slapped it on the head: "Let's go, of course. We can see what the sword cultivators in the world are like."
Qing Ning patted his chest and said, "Those guys just now were really weak. I hope I can meet some masters this time."
Lu Yi nodded, smiled, hooked his finger at Yu Dianhu, and gave him a few instructions.
Yu Dianhu immediately led a group of personal guards and ran towards the direction of Tianyang Mansion. Lu Yi was going out tonight, and the alligator turtle was unable to move, so he stayed at Tianyang Mansion. Lu Yi would definitely take it with him on this expedition.
Given the increasingly large size of the alligator snapping turtle, we have to make some special equipment to bring it along with the army.
With a whistle, all of Lu Yi's ceremonial equipment, including the hundreds of large banners that Yin Yuan had just given, were put up one after another. The wolf-tail banners of different colors fluttered in the night wind. At Lu Yi's command, thousands of personal guards surrounded Lu Yi and rushed towards Jiuqu Garden in a mighty procession.
Lu Yu had already taken his two sons and bypassed the imperial city and headed straight for the north gate of Haojing.
The army that suppressed the rebellion at Anping Pass was completely annihilated, and Yin Yuan had already ordered the 800,000 Cang Lang Cavalry from Beijie City to march south to serve. These days, the Cang Lang Cavalry traveled day and night, and with the Cang Lang's strong endurance, they were now less than ten days away from Haojing.
Lu Yu would go north to join up with the Canglang Cavalry, and then directly mobilize troops from the Five Military Prefecture's Northern Expedition Corps to cooperate with the Canglang Cavalry, turn eastward, and serve as the main force to suppress Dong Qi Bo's rebels.
As for Lu Yi, he went to Jiuqu Garden and used Yin Yuan's order to mobilize troops to directly mobilize 100,000 elite light cavalry from the Yulin Army. Carrying only a few days' rations, the large group of troops marched out of the east gate of Haoshan.
When Lu Yi went to war, he left Ah Hu and his brothers from Baihu Hall in Haojing.
Everyone is selfish.
Lu Yi didn't dare to let his trusted brothers fight to the death on a battlefield where millions of people were fighting, especially since the enemy had the Haojian Palace and the lurking hand of the Xinjian Sect. Who knew what would happen in this expedition?
In today's world, the spiritual power of heaven and earth has collapsed, and the true masters of the major sects have not come out. At most, it would be the best that a being at the Fiery Realm could appear on the battlefield.
Lu Yu was confident that he was invincible in the Fiery Realm of all the major sects today.
Therefore, he has no concerns about his safety.
But if something happened to Ah Hu and the others, wouldn’t he be heartbroken?
Lu Yi had another purpose for leaving Ah Hu and the others in Haojing - it had been such a long time since he was granted the title of Duke of Tianyang, and he had all the fiefdoms and stuff, but there was still nothing about his family's private army.
The only forces available to him were the three thousand personal guards given to him by Yinyuan.
A mere three thousand people are not worthy of his current title, let alone effectively protecting his interests.
Anyway, Lu Yi made a lot of money in the past few years, and with the properties and fiefdoms rewarded by Yinyuan, it was enough to support an elite army.
Ah Hu and his men stayed in Haojing to select a group of reliable men from Baihu Hall and the relatives of Baihu Hall members to serve as officers of Lu Yi's family's private army, and then recruit able-bodied men from the people in Lu Yi's fiefdoms and estates to form Lu Yi's private army corps.
As long as you are willing to spend the money, you can build a private army of 300,000 soldiers according to the specifications of the Imperial Guards and the Yulin Army.
Lu Yi is not short of money, nor is he short of martial arts. He also has the brothers of Baihu Hall as a framework, and with the recovery of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it is believed that this legion will be able to form a certain combat effectiveness soon.
Not to mention, Lu Yi also has the inheritance of the Supreme Beiming Immortal Sect.
However, the Supreme Beiming Immortal Sect has the concept of "guardian immortal soldiers" and has a corresponding secret method to allow the guardian immortal soldiers to take shape quickly.
With countless thoughts in his mind, Lu Yi led a large group of people straight to the east.
May 2, the 19th year of Jiayou.
Lu Yi led 100,000 elite cavalry out of the Jingmen Gate of Haojing.
On May 5th, Lu Yi's large group of troops arrived at the Zhengdong camp just east of Haojing City.
Under the General's Office of Dayin, there are the Imperial Guards and the Five Military Offices. The Imperial Guards are responsible for defending the capital of Haojing and the prefectures and counties. They are the backbone of the country. The core essence of the Imperial Guards lies in "guarding" and "defending".
The Five Military Commands were divided into the Central Corps and the Four Expeditionary Corps.
The Central Army Corps is the largest and most organized. Every year, it recruits countless able-bodied men from all over Dayin and incorporates them into the recruit team, which undergoes a three-year recruit training.
Three years later, these new recruits have basically reached the Peiyuan realm level. After gaining a certain amount of experience in fighting, they will be assigned to the Four Expedition Corps.
As for the four major legions, namely, the Eastern Expedition, the Northern Expedition, the Western Expedition and the Southern Expedition, as their name implies, they do not care about anything else, whether it is the training of new recruits or logistical supplies, etc. The four legions only care about fighting.
The Five Military Command was an extremely terrifying war beast at the beginning of Dayin's founding.
However, over the past 1,800 years, as martial arts continued to decline, Dayin had completely lost control of the four great states. The princes of the four great states had also formed their own systems and played their own games behind closed doors.
With the rise of culture and education, the Four Expedition Corps of the Five Military Offices have not fought a serious war for over a hundred years.
Fortunately, Dayin had served as general for many years and had relatively strong control over the army.
Especially after Le Wu, a general who was a relative of the emperor, took office, he regarded military power as the life and property of the Le family. He spent a lot of money to win over and reorganize the Five Military Offices. Over the past ten years, although the means he used were rather despicable, everyone in the Five Military Offices was indeed Le Wu's trusted lackeys.
The Four Expeditionary Corps were certainly inferior to the Imperial Guards and the Feathered Guards in terms of troop numbers and military equipment and supplies, but they were much stronger than the city defense forces of the Ministry of War controlled by the cultural and educational officials.
The Zhengdong Tuanying was the base of the Zhengdong Army.
This is a huge defense line consisting of hundreds of purely militarized garrison cities and thousands of camps of all sizes on the vast plains in the western part of Haojing. It is managed by the Eastern Army Governor's Office of the Five Military Offices.
The current Grand Commander of the Eastern Army Governor's Office is General Dayin Leping.
Le Ping, who is in his early forties, is Le Wu's half-brother and a legitimate relative of the Le family.
Lu Yi brought the troop mobilization document and token signed by Le Wu. Le Ping directly transferred the mobilization rights of the Eastern Expedition Army to Lu Yi.
"Lord Tianyang, to be honest, I am a rough man. When my second brother killed a dog, I helped him boil water and scald the dog's hair. I am not good at marching and fighting. As the Grand Commander of the Eastern Army Command, I usually take my brothers to eat and drink and bring them together as one."
"This Dongqi Bo has evil intentions. I heard about the reason why he started a rebellion... Damn it..." Le Ping lowered her voice, "He is bringing shame to my elder sister... to the Queen Mother. His son Qi Lu, who is like a dog, is dead, so what? Is it worth it for him to start a rebellion?"
"So, this battle concerns the reputation of our Le family. To put it more seriously, it concerns the life and death of the entire Le family."
"So, Lord Tianyang, rest assured, just mobilize the troops to teach Lord Dongqi a lesson. I will never hold you back."
Le Ping's figure is almost identical to Le Wu's.
He solemnly promised Lu Yi that he would fully cooperate with Lu Yi's battle plan, and his fat palms slapped his chest so loudly that it shook the sky.
