Chapter 538 Send it over first
Chen Yun was more or less aware of the dangers of the battlefield. He already knew that Qin Zhidao's commander Lu Huacai had died and Zhao Yulin was also injured, but looking at Zhao Yulin it seemed as if nothing had happened.
Lu Youpeng said: He did not go to the battlefield in person and did not know the truth. He only knew that the guard captain Ke Zhenxie and three guards protected Yulin Ge'er under them, and Zhenxie and the others were all killed. The situation at that time was absolutely extremely dangerous.
Mrs. Yuqi was in a hurry to travel on horseback when she had a miscarriage. After the miscarriage, she still rushed to the front line. It can be seen that the war situation was too critical at that time. Fortunately, she survived.
Chen Yun was stunned and said nothing.
After a short rest, he said to Lu Youpeng: Then let's close the road to the mountain and let them all have a good time.
Lu Youpeng suddenly laughed and asked: Mr. Chen never disturbs other people, now you understand.
Chen Yun waved her hand without saying anything, then got up and went back to the house.
Zhao Yulin was having fun with Hulan in Xinshi, but her two brothers were worried in Zhending Prefecture, Hebei.
Da Mengge retreated and did not even fight against Goryeo. He was very depressed. He returned to Mobei with full confidence, but he suffered heavy losses and wasted his time. It was of no benefit to the fight for the Khanship. Mengge returned to Zhending Prefecture with a depressed mood and drank all day. Not long after, the imperial edict from his friend came, asking him to send 100,000 troops to form a western expedition army and march west immediately.
The guy threw the jar of Wugufeng wine in his hand away and yelled: Let alone 100,000 soldiers, I won’t even send 10,000.
No, nothing.
Hubili, however, felt that something was fishy.
He believed that the most powerful force in the west right now was Badu Anda. Guiyou and Kuoduan Linzhou had suffered heavy losses after their defeat. They still had to raise an army of 200,000 to march west. Who were they going to conquer?
Could it be that he was going to conquer the eight cities while passing through the west?
Meng Ge shuddered all over when he heard this, and thought to himself, it's true, maybe your friend really is using the excuse of a western expedition to raise an army to attack Badu.
This time, at the big river in Mobei, the kings gathered to elect the Khan. Badu did not even appoint a representative, but only sent a messenger to deliver a letter to strongly recommend Mengge to the position, and did not support Guiyou as the Khan. Xiao Guizi had long been resentful of Badu. After he became the Khan, he raised his arms and called on the kings to go, but they did not listen to him. They sent soldiers and money to follow him to the Western Expedition?
The more Meng Ge thought about the problem, the more serious it became. What should he do?
If they don't listen to your friend, Xiao Guizi will immediately order the kings to raise troops to fight them. In that case, their Tulei family will be attacked from both the north and the south by the two major military groups, the Imperial Army and the New Song Army, and they will die without knowing where.
If he accepted Xiao Guizi's order to lead the troops to the west, he would be at odds with Badu Anda. Badu was his good Anda and his strong support. How could Mengge do such a treacherous thing?
Absolutely impossible.
Brother Meng lowered his head, held his head with both hands, and shook it violently twice, screaming "Wow wow wow", but there was nothing he could do.
However, Hubili slammed the table and said he had a solution. We should send troops, and we should send elite troops, but not 100,000, but 30,000.
He said: It is impossible for the empire to organize an army of 200,000 to march west at the moment. Not to mention that it is impossible to gather enough troops, even if there are people, it is impossible to gather enough food and fodder for 200,000 people.
His friend also needs to be on guard against the Divine Mighty Army.
Even if we have 100,000 soldiers, we can't go there. That would scare your friend and Kuang Dan. We can send 30,000 elite soldiers with the latest weapons to go west. If we try to control the troops along the way, won't the Western Expedition Army be ours?
Hubili further elaborated: These 30,000 elite soldiers should be dressed up as ordinary soldiers and led by the prince himself, so that your friend will not feel threatened and think that he can easily control the troops by excluding the prince.
Secretly, we will send out the prince's close followers who are sworn to be loyal to the prince until death to lead the troops and act according to the situation. No matter who is the commander-in-chief, we will just catch him and kill him. This team will be ours then.
Mengge was overjoyed and exclaimed that this was a brilliant plan. He held Hubili's hands and said: "Brother, you really understand me. I have a loyal warrior here. Even if your friend leads the army in person, we will kill him. If we take over the military power, we are afraid that the power of the grassland empire will not be transferred to our family."
Hubili was shocked by what Meng Ge said. He didn't realize that his elder brother, like him, was also recruiting assassins to become elite secret guards, ready to take action at any time.
The two brothers quickly got together and conspired. In order to make it look more convincing, they simply transferred Shi Tianze's troops to the west, removed the spring boosters on the new catapults, and hid them under the bellies of the cavalry's pack horses.
There is no way to deal with the hot air balloons. Your friend specifically requested to send thirty over, but they only made twenty, and all of them must be handed in.
Hubili felt extremely upset when he thought about the hot air balloon he had made with so much difficulty and was reluctant to give it up.
Brother Meng told Hu Bili not to worry, the army operating the hot air balloons are all our people, as long as we kill the commander-in-chief, the army will be ours, what is there to be afraid of?
The two brothers continued to put their heads together to discuss the details.
In Luoyang on the banks of the Yellow River, Miao Gui was organizing a military meeting of the commanders along the river.
The New Song Dynasty and the Grassland Empire fought a great battle in Linzhou. Although the Shenwei Army won a great victory, the main force of the Northwest Army suffered serious casualties and damage, and had to switch to defense and rest.
The Eastern Group of the Shenwei Army is strong in both men and horses, especially after the acceptance of Yang Xingyun's troops from the Shandong Legion, their strength has greatly increased. From generals to soldiers, they are all eager to fight a big battle to make achievements and completely recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun from the Song Dynasty.
Miao Gui explained to all the brothers that the third young master had said in Linzhou that if the enemy wants to attack us in the future, we will not be afraid at all.
But right now the country is at war year after year, not to mention the lack of financial resources, even women can’t keep up with giving birth.
How many brothers have died in battles over the years? Let's count them. Ours and those of the Steppe Empire are all strong men.
There is no doubt that all of us in the Shenwei Army are not afraid of death and dare to fight tough battles. But the Third Young Master hopes that we can all live well and wants us to use our brains more to fight smart battles and fight fewer tough battles.
The imperial court has already stepped up propaganda and education in Hebei, and will also send special envoys to the border counties to split and disintegrate the enemy forces. They should use the pen as a weapon to defeat the enemy together with us.
However, the enemy will not leave our land on its own, and in the end it will still depend on our continued desperate efforts.
The Ministry of War drew up a strategy to reorganize the Eight Character Army to recover the Taihang Mountain area, and each department carefully discussed it and tried to get all the rebel armies to join the ranks to fight against the grassland empire. The Shandong Army was to implement the Ministry of War's siege strategy, completely block the trade routes at sea and on land, and not sell any military supplies to the enemy.
We also have to plan to cross the sea to attack the northern barbarians, oh no, let me correct you, it's the Mongolian army.
Miao Gui stuttered and corrected . He said that the Third Young Master said that we should respect our opponents so that we can defeat them better. We are not allowed to call them Northern Barbarians anymore.
Brothers, tell me, how to do it?
After three days of discussion and the decision on the Northern Expedition, Miao Gui gave the command to Lai Chuanfang and ordered him to lead the three armies and actively prepare for war. He then went south back to Chengdu to personally report the response strategy to Young Master Zhao San.
At this time, the Third Young Master was still soaking in the hot spring with Huang Lang and Wu Yuqi.
Last year, Lu Youpeng petitioned the Chengdu Ministry of Revenue to upgrade Huanglang, Yongshan and Shimen to counties. After years of governance by the tax bureau, these places have seen a significant increase in popularity and economic output, even surpassing the impoverished counties in the interior. Upgrading these border villages to counties will be more conducive to the prosperity and stability of the border.
Lu Youpeng knew that in Huanglang County, upstream along the Jinsha River, there was a remote place called Houhai, where the hot springs were better and the rape flowers were more beautiful, so he dragged Zhao Yulin to Huanglangzhai to soak in the magical hot springs.
He understood Lao Lu's thoughts. This place was remote and not as crowded as Xinshi. If the hot springs were blocked for a long time, the people would have objections, and he would not agree to it.
Chen Chen and Hu Lan were delighted to see the Huanglang with its bamboo houses, the simple folks and the mountains full of rape flowers. Surrounded by flowers blooming in early spring, they felt like they had arrived in a new paradise.
The family was having fun when Lu Youpeng came to tell him: Sister Sihan and Prince Zhennan are here to see them.
He took Yuqi to see Duan Xiaolin.
Xiao Linzi looked unhappy. Wu Yuqi carefully asked Sihan: My sister and Prince Zhennan hurried to find Huang Lang to see my third brother. What's the big or important matter?
Duan Xiaolin handed a manuscript to Zhao Yulin and asked him to read it himself.
Zhao Sihan spoke like a machine gun, asking his brother: The New Song Dynasty court issued an edict: requiring Dali to open its borders and allow the New Song Dynasty to open Shunfeng Express within the territory of Dali. Is this to annex Dali?
Zhao Yulin had already finished reading the manuscript. Hearing his sister's aggressive questioning, he quickly handed the document to Yuqi and buried his head in laughter.
Wu Yuqi also smiled when she saw the announcement, thinking that her sisters were really good at doing what they said and were really going to open a post station in Dali Kingdom to connect to Thang Long Prefecture.
Duan Xiaolin couldn't sit still when he saw him like this, and questioned Zhao Yulin: What do you mean, Third Brother? Are you really going to annex Dali?
Zhao Yulin sat up straight and shook his head. He picked up the tea bowl, took a sip, nodded towards Yuqi, and asked her to speak.
Wu Yuqi said with a smile: She and her third brother both asked for leave to go home and not to take care of government affairs. The new Song Dynasty's leader asked Dali to support the opening of post stations and postal routes, but it was a state matter, not a family matter. State affairs should be negotiated with the Ministry of Rites in Chengdu and the leader of Feiyan State.
Duan Xiaolin's face turned black when he heard this, and he felt like he was going to wring water out of him.
Zhao Sihan also had a look of anger on his face.
Zhao Yulin smiled and told them to go find Sister Yangjin to argue. He said that opening a post station and a postal route was not a bad thing. The Dali Kingdom could share this post station and post route with the New Song Kingdom.
He told Duan Xiaolin not to worry, he would never support the use of military force against Dali. But he should be prepared to return to the New Song Dynasty, Dali would return to the New Song Dynasty sooner or later.
If he, the King of Zhennan, is willing, he can be the pacification envoy of Dali Road, or Yunnan Road, and Thang Long Prefecture will be included in Dali as one of the roads.
Duan Xiaolin interrupted him before he could finish his words, and told Zhao Yulin clearly that he would rather die with honor than live in disgrace, and vowed to live and die with Dali.
If he is asked to give up the idea of destroying the Dali Kingdom, the people of Dali will not surrender.
