Chapter VII.
Five months ago (the tenth month), the Sunless Empire’s City of Night.
“Your Majesty, the Xianbei tribe has repeatedly violated my borders, every time my empire conquered in the west, it harassed me at my borders, making my empire not dare to do its best, and this time, it even massacred my empire’s merchant fleet for no reason, and also plundered my empire’s children’s rations, I want to take this opportunity to send out an army this time, so as to put an end to the future troubles.” Minister of War Liu Chunbai spoke vehemently.
“Wang Cheng, how is the matter I asked you to investigate going?”
“Enlighten your majesty, that caravan went to Hulun prairie was killed by Xianbei, the reason is that they lacked catty, coaxed the Xianbei tribe, and stole is cymbal tribe’s one sacred object on their way out, which brought about the killing.” Saying that, he intentionally glanced at Liu Chun Bai, who hemmed and hawed and laughed twice, half of that merchant fleet was owned by the Liu family, “As for the plundering of rations it was because their country was hit by a snowstorm unseen for a hundred years last winter, freezing to death countless livestock to the point of not having enough food to eat.”
“Your Majesty, regardless of the facts, this is a wonderful excuse for our empire to attack the Xianbei.” The Minister of War said.
“Elder General Lin, do you think this battle is battleable?”
“It’s not that my empire doesn’t want to conquer that Xianbei race for more than a thousand years, but for one thing, Xianbei is a nomadic people, their kung-fu on horseback is not my enemy, and the Hulun prairie is even more of their world, and secondly, it’s because of the lack of military food in my empire, there isn’t much of it after supporting Canglong Legion, Qinglong Legion, and Demon Dragon Legion, and the strategic reserve food can’t be used casually, and thirdly, the three defenses of my empire are spread out, and the The rest of the countries are watching intently, once my empire starts a war with Xianbei, if the countries send troops to attack, the empire will be in a dilemma situation, four is that the country only has 800,000 troops, and a war against Xianbei would require at least 200,000 well-trained soldiers. But now it’s different, one, now the other countries on the continent to my empire are in a defensive position, we do not go to attack, they will thank God; two, three years the empire’s agricultural successive harvests, production is more than before several times, food only worry about eaten; three, the empire’s existing one million two hundred thousand army, only the first legion of 100,000 is just established inexperienced, and the rest of the one million one hundred thousand are well-trained elite soldiers and strong generals. Fourth, the Xianbei pastoral industry has just suffered a heavy blow, and its ability to withstand war has been greatly reduced. Therefore, the old minister suggests that we attack Xianbei four months later, when their rations have just about been used up and the fall grain has not yet been harvested, so they will not be able to get food from other countries.” Lin Yi Quan said.
“Then who do the ministers think is suitable to be this conquering general?”
“The old minister recommends He Huajing, the commander of the Red Dragon Army, General He has been guarding the Hulun Pass for thirteen years, no one will be more familiar with the situation in Hulun than him.” Lin Yi Quan said.
“No, since he was transferred to Hulun Pass, he has never had any major battles in the past thirteen years, all he has done is wipe out three hundred riders, or at most one thousand riders.” The Minister of War shook his head.
“Has General He ever been defeated.” I asked.
“That’s not true.” Liu Chunbai said.
“Then choose him to be the Great General of Conquest.” I made my decision, “Liu Chunbai, urgently order the First Legion to go north to take over the defense of the Xuanlong Legion and the Clerical Dragon Legion, and the Xuanlong Legion and the Clerical Dragon Legion to go south and enter the Hulun Pass, and outwardly proclaim that they are taking over the defense of the Red Dragon Army.”
Liu Chunbai was shocked and fell forward, “Your Majesty, please also think twice, the commander of the conquering army is a matter of success or failure, be careful!”
I frowned and stood up from the dragon chair, “As long as I can remember, Hulun Pass has never asked for a single soldier from the capital, since He Huajing guarded Hulun Pass, the Xianbei iron cavalry has never invaded Hulun Pass on a large scale, why? During the siege of Jiajing Pass, the empire had also transferred three armies of the Red Dragon Army, Hulun Pass only had 50,000 soldiers and horses, and the Xianbei still never invaded, why is that?”
“A good fighter does not have a heck of a lot of success, could it be that this is exactly what is meant?” Old General Lin came to a great realization.
I nodded, “Lord Liu needn’t worry, back then that He Huajing was relegated to Hulun Pass not because he was not good in battle, it was only because he and Long Liduoqi got closer that the late emperor found an excuse to relegate him to Hulun as a commander-in-chief.”
“Although I don’t quite understand Your Majesty’s intentions, if Old General Lin agrees, I will have nothing to say.”
Hulun Pass Governor’s Mansion.
“The holy decree has arrived.” A dozen soldiers (Jin Yi Wei) walked into the mansion.
The seven generals who were deliberating in the mansion were startled and were busy kneeling down to receive the decree.
“General He has defended Hulun for thirteen years without any mistakes, and dispensed with the worries for my empire’s westward expedition, the merit of which is hard to describe, so he is hereby rewarded with 3,000 pieces of gold, promoted to the second rank, and all the generals under his command have their own rewards, Chia Chia.”
He Huajing received the imperial decree, seven people can not believe this, thirteen years the empire has never this place soldiers and generals after the reward, this time the merchant fleet was killed, the people were robbed, but instead of the reward.
“Great General He need not be skeptical, I heard that the general has been here for thirteen years, but the Xianbei have not had a single large-scale invasion, his majesty said ‘those who fight well do not have a heck of a lot to show for it’ and then sent this holy decree.” The soldier laughed.
“Thanks for the instruction.” He Huajing said.
“By the way this is a military order.” A person dressed as a soldier next to him delivered another piece of paper.
He Huajing took it and was shocked in his heart, followed by joy, “Please also tell the emperor that I will definitely live up to my promise.”
“That’s good. General He, I still have to return to the capital to resume my orders, so I won’t stay here, farewell.”
“Please also go well.” The Jinyiwei’s turned around and walked away.
“General, what did the military order say.” A general asked.
“Let’s change the Red Dragon Army into the Red Dragon Legion, expand it to 120,000, and step up drills.”
“So, it’s time to use the army against Xianbei.” A general said excitedly.
“That should be right, previously the empire also set up the First Legion, so maybe it’s exactly for this that we’re preparing.”
“Good man, after enduring for more than ten years, we can finally strike to give Xianbei an unforgettable lesson.”
“There’s no need to say more, it’s better to go and practice!!!”
Three days later, an imperial spokesperson issued a stern statement at the capital’s Proclamation Platform, demanding that Xianbei immediately hand over the murderer, or else the empire would not hesitate to fight.
On the same day, the empire sends two groups of emissaries into the Hulun Prairie to enter into an agreement with the other two powerful nomads on the Hulun Prairie – Turkic and Mongolian – to establish an offensive and defensive alliance, which ultimately also fails, and due to the empire’s promise to provide large quantities of food, iron, and horses, the two tribes finally promise to not provide support to the Xianbei. At the same time, a group of emissaries entered Biaoxin Kingdom and signed a five-year truce with Biaoxin Kingdom.
In the past three months, the empire kept displaying the tragic scenes of merchants being killed, townspeople being killed, goods being looted, and towns being destroyed, which greatly mobilized the people’s enthusiasm for the war, and students took to the streets to demand Xianbei to hand over the murderers, and the enthusiasm for joining the army was high, and every day, the conscription department received many enlistment requests. Quite a lot of enlistment request letters, and it even reached a climax a month later.
This day I am lying in bed counting my gold coins, next to a woman without clothes to help me count together, the money earned in these years can be really quite a lot, in the royal power of the covert support, the capital of Milan has been expanding outward, away from the river to the north of the Milan all the capital of Milan’s outlets, Tao Ranju is also the same, the chain stores opened everywhere, the iron salt gang’s sphere of influence is also in the south of the push, the only thing that is upset is the Lotus Heart, even ran to another The only one who is not happy is Lianxin, even ran to another country to perform songs and dances, let her come back to listen to the songs of the four sisters, but they said that what the deadline set by the contract has not yet arrived, and can not go back for the time being.
I’m already seventeen years old this year, is already a man, all day long full of brain in addition to gold is a woman, but unfortunately the stunning beauty is always very little, but that Cathy, George Sand, Constantia, Ningxiang, Qiuxiang is quite beautiful, Spike sister is also good. Only up to now, apart from picking up Nging Xiang and Qiuxiang into bed, the remaining three women have not yet been taken care of.
“Your Majesty, Constancia seeks an audience.” The voice of Akika’s words came from outside the door.
The girl next to me screamed, her hands, which had been gleefully counting gold coins, hurriedly picked up her clothes and was about to put them on, I let out a lewd laugh and pounced her on the bed again, “Ngingxiang, there’s no need to be shy, she won’t care.” Groping around her body for a while, then pulling up a quilt to cover both of us, then I revealed my head again and smoothed it out, “Let her in.”
Constancia came in, blushing, and stood by my bedside, the nimbus I held in my arms shrinking back and refusing to stick her head out.
I pretended to cough twice, and asked with an old-fashioned face, “Constancia, what is it today?”
“The empress dowager has found an etiquette teacher for your majesty and asked your majesty to come over.”
I froze for a moment, in the past two years the Empress Mother has found a lot of teachers for me, there are all kinds of teachers but no etiquette teacher, why did she find an etiquette teacher this time.
“Know why you found an etiquette teacher.”
Constantia puffed and laughed, blushing, “The empress dowager thinks that you have too many room affairs, which is not in line with etiquette, and says that you are not cultivated enough, and wants you to cultivate your body and increase your training in etiquette.”
What the fuck is this reason, I jumped up from the bed in a fit of anger, the room resounded with two screams at once, Ningxiang grabbed the quilt to cover her face at once, while Constantia turned violently and covered her face, it turned out that I had actually forgotten that I wasn’t dressed, there was no way that it was too hot for the past two days (fifteenth month, mid-autumn), so I didn’t dress. Originally, I wanted to shrink back to the bed, but when I saw Konstancia turn around like a bunny in fear, my “sexual” interest came up.
I went up to Constantia and hugged her, “Don’t be afraid, Chas, I’m here, no one’s going to hurt you.” (What’s going on here?)
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you’d better get dressed, it’s not good if people see you.” Constancia shrinks her body and breaks off.
I hugged her tightly, letting her feel my body heat, while my lower body was also tightly pressed against her, “Yael-san, I like you a lot.” To know that in these few years since testosterone secretion has been increasing, I know a lot of things between men and women, in order to be able to be invincible in front of women, specially practiced a lot of strange skills that can confuse women, just now that sentence is to use the voice to confuse the other party, so that she thinks that she is indeed sincere in saying this sentence, it will make people involuntarily believe it.
Constancia was obviously mesmerized by me, normally although I was also furtive to her, but never skin to skin like today (I had just removed one of her outer garments, with her arms exposed), and also used the mesmerizing magic, Constancia’s heart was jumping around, and she could only weakly say, “Don’t be like this, your majesty.”
I ignored her and gently undressed her. The bed felt wrong Ning Xiang quietly poked her head out and saw me undressing Constancia, couldn’t help but giggle, this was good Constancia was like a frightened bunny hiding her clothes and rushing out of the room.
I watched Constantia rushed out of the room, sighed regretfully, turned my head to Ningxiang said: “Ningxiang, Chas spoiled my good deed, how to do?”
Ning Xiang pouted, “Your Majesty, didn’t I mean it, just spare me this time, if it’s not possible, I’ll help you get Ya sister back.”
“Getting someone back follicle is a must, but the punishment is also a must.” I laughingly lifted the quilt up and flipped Ningxiang’s body over and gave her three “heavy” spanks on her buttocks, while Ningxiang continued to struggle on the bed, just at this time, the door came: “The Empress Dowager has arrived.”
Ningxiang and I were shocked, busy and Ningxiang put on the clothes, just put on, the mother queen came in.
“See you, Empress Dowager.” Ning Xiang knelt on the ground and said.
“Greetings Empress Mother.” I was embarrassed, but I saw Dao Constantia standing behind the mother, red-faced, but also unsuspecting to me, a smile, her side also stood a woman in her thirties, a mature woman’s flavor came to the surface, this woman but I do not recognize.
Seeing that Ning Xiang and I were unclothed, mother frowned: “Your Majesty, the country is overworked, you need to pay more attention to your body.” Even though I held the power, I was still extremely filial to the Empress Mother, I was still a small child in front of the Empress Mother, thus the Empress Mother still often talked about me.
“Empress Mother, Imperial Son understands and will pay attention in the future.” I respectfully said.
Constancia pointed at the bed, and the Mother Empress looked at it smoothly and frowned again, “Your Majesty, why did you put the gold coins on the bed.”
I fiercely glared at Constancia, this ghost girl even returned a smile, I was so angry that my teeth were itching, but on my face I still had to pretend to be serious: “Mother Empress, these two days the Emperor’s son is thinking about how to increase tax revenue, there has been no inspiration, Constancia mentioned that if there can be gold coins next to it perhaps I can come up with a way to do it, and so the Emperor’s son is therefore and try. ” This time it was Constancia’s turn to glare at me.
“Oh, Ya’er, it’s true.” Mother asked as she turned her head.
I fixed Constancia with a threatening gaze, and Constancia only reluctantly said, “Ya’er also did it so that she could relieve Your Majesty’s worries.”
“You guys, as much nonsense as you can. By the way, Your Majesty, I have invited a teacher for you, Xie Huanzuo Xie, Tai Fu Xie is the daughter of General Xie Yuanling Xie, and is extremely knowledgeable about etiquette, in the future, Your Majesty should learn well from Xie and Xie, so as not to let the countries laugh at our monarch’s lack of understanding of etiquette.”
“Yes.” I respectfully answered to, then walked over to the mature woman and bent down, “Greetings, Tai Fu Xie.”
Xie Huanzuo smiled faintly and returned the salute, “Your Majesty there is no need to be polite.”
“Your Majesty, tomorrow Tai Fu Xie will come back again, if you have anything to do today, you should finish it first, I’ll go back first, there’s no need to send off your imperial son.” Mother also knows that I secretly keep a group of people, which gave me a day to let me deal with it, finished, finished, I won’t be able to hang out with Ning Xiang and the girls in the future, but this daughter of General Xie is quite good looking, if she picks up, hehehe ……
“Mother, the imperial son still has things to do so I won’t send him off. ” I face squarely two said.
Mother and Unhuan Cherry exited Qian Yang Palace, but Constancia stayed.
Looking at Constantia, I hemmed and hawed and laughed wickedly twice, all of a sudden pounced over to try to catch her, but unfortunately, she even ran away with a spin, causing the two of us to make a mess in the palace for a while before we could catch her, a move that convinced many of the guards that the one who holds the fate of this country is the Empress Dowager rather than the Emperor.
I said with a smile, “Now let’s see where you can run, I caught you.”
“Who said I ran!” Constancia said with her head held high.
I laughed a little and turned my head, “Nging Xiang, you go out first, don’t let anyone in.”
Watching Nging Xiang go out, I immediately carried Constancia onto the bed.
“Your Majesty!” Constancia whacked me.
I smiled and said, “I like talking to you in bed.” I placed her on the bed and pulled a quilt right over us. After half a moment I sat up with a jerk and pondered for half a second, standing and walking around on the floor while Constantia lay lazily on the bed.
“You stay here while I go out and take care of this.” I said to Constancia, not waiting for her to reply, I went out of the inner room.
Seeing me come out Qiu Xiang and Ning Xiang, their hearts were surprised that I came out so quickly, I grimaced and ignored them. Just then someone outside came in and reported, “Your Majesty, East Factory Governor Sun Yong seeks an audience.”
“Declare.” Since the establishment of the East and West factories, the position of commander of the forbidden army was held by Wu Jianjun, the West factory was under the control of the East factory, and the Governor of the East factory was held by Sun Yong.
“Your Majesty, I have something important to report.”
“All retire.” I said.
Sun Yong glanced behind me, Spike was hiding behind me, and when he saw that I didn’t say anything, he frowned and said, “Your Majesty, there are some circumstances over in Tundra City that are cause for alarm.”
“There is someone in Tundra City who is secretly in contact with the royal family of the Demon Race’s Magic Orchid Empire, the Luo Throat Clan.”
“Who?”
“The Zhen Demon King’s subordinate general Hua Yixiong, but we suspect ……” Sun Yong didn’t go on, the Zhen Demon King is my second brother’s title.
“How do you guys know? “
“A year ago, after capturing several scouts from the Devil Orchid Empire, a few of them ostensibly claimed to have been executed, but in fact were secretly released, the person who gave the order was nominally the commander of the Third Division of the Seventh Army of the Devil Dragon Legion, but in reality, it was the pressure exerted by Senior Colonel Hua Yixiong, and among these scouts according to Lord Wang’s intelligence one of them is someone from the Imperial Clan.”
“Is that all?”
“Since then, there are often people coming in and out of Major Hua Yi Xiong’s residence, which is inconsistent with the usual records, and there are also three black-clothed men who must enter the residence on the third day of every month.”
“Don’t know who they are?”
“We have not been beating the bushes.”
“Why suspect ……“
”In every month’s fourth day to the tenth day Zhen Demon King must come to Hua Yi Xiong major school residence once.”
I was silent for half a minute, “Who else is there besides him?”
“No more, but the Xuan Long Legion’s Legion Commander, Major General Lei Zi Bing, has also been pointing abnormalities recently, and certain generals of the Demon Dragon Legion and the headquarters have been walking around very diligently.”
“It’s appropriate for generals to socialize with each other.”
“But it’s too diligent, almost every day, which is a big difference compared to his previous record, but there’s no sign that he’s related to the Demon Race yet.”
“Declare Wang Cheng’s examination into the palace.” I shouted violently outside.
Soon Wang Cheng Chuance entered the palace.
“Wang Cheng Chuen, has there been any abnormalities in Tundra City in the last year.”
Wang Cheng Chuen froze for a moment before replying, “Your Majesty, there is nothing unusual except that there are more letters than usual.”
“Who are the ministers in the court who have received the most letters in this year.”
“There are Wang Yuan right, Lv Meng, Tang Fa淜…… “The further down I say my face is also more gloomy, and Wang Cheng certified that the face is full of cold sweat, do not know in the end what is wrong, until said a dozen or so names, stopped but also do not dare to wipe the sweat on the forehead.
“Is there a letter from the Empress Dowager of the Northern Palace?” My face clouded over.
“There are letters from the Zhen Demon King going to the North Palace, and there are quite a lot of them, but there are very few that come out from the North Palace.” Wang Cheng Cheng said cautiously.
“You back off, remember, I didn’t say anything to you today.” I coldly said.
“I understand, I obey the order.” Only then did Wang Cheng Cheng dare to reach out and wipe the cold sweat on his forehead to exit the palace.
Looking at him as he exited the palace, I said to Sun Yong, “Send someone to watch him, I don’t want him to betray me before I know it.” Although my spiritual power told me that there was nothing unusual about Wang Cheng’s examination, but now that this kind of thing had happened, it made my suspicions rise and I felt that it would be better to have someone keep an eye on him.
Sun Yong nodded.
My heart is a little confused, just now Wang Cheng Wen read a dozen people is the dynasty of slave owners class of people, last time I did not exhaust all the slave owners, and even said that there are still a large number of the dynasty, I just eliminated the southern part of the northern part of the almost all are still alive, these people and the army of the senior generals have inextricable links, if this is not carefully disposed of, it will result in the army of the mutiny, the last Civil War, had made the Green Dragon Army During the last Civil War, the strength of the Green Dragon Army was reduced by a third.
I should have thought of it, second brother was originally a big slave owner, in the capital, the south has a large area of the manor, slaves, but I almost destroyed all of them, which naturally seriously affects the second brother’s private interests, of course, the second brother will be dissatisfied, at this time, if someone in the second brother to say a few words, the second brother against me is not unheard of, the last “Civil War The last “Civil War”, if it is not the magic world in the tundra city that made a lot of trouble, maybe he has long led the troops back to the city. There is another thing ……
Zhenmu Wang’s mother is the one in the North Palace, only this empress dowager in the father’s death on the heart of Ru Buddha, external affairs almost no matter, of course, even if she wants to manage, she can’t manage, I will be them to watch over the but very strict. This time it seems as if she hasn’t conspired with the Zhen Demon King, otherwise her letters wouldn’t be so few.
“Sun Yong, investigate the Green River King as well, you go now.” I coldly said, although it was third brother who annihilated the lair of the southern slave masters, but after a long time it is hard to guarantee that he is not dissatisfied, moreover the Qinghe King and the Zhen Demon King are still a little bit different, the Qinghe King is the son of the Southern Palace, the one from the Southern Palace still has a certain amount of power within the dynasty, at least my Donggong dowager empress and my mother are both good with her.
Sun Yong bowed and retreated.
“Declare the Minister of War, Liu Chunbai.”
Emergency military orders to the north, ordering the first legion to no longer travel to Tundra City, but to be stationed in the northeast with the frozen zone of the city of Hal, and begin to construct a defense line on the spot, to be centered on the city of Hal, and to build the surrounding hundred miles as a second line of defense against the Demons, with a steady stream of money and city building materials being transported to the city of Hal.
At the same time, order the Xuan Long Legion to continue traveling to Hulun Pass to meet up with the Red Dragon Legion.
Establish the third legion, with Baku as the head of the legion, and collect 100,000 Orcs and Winged Races from the Songhua River Plain in the northeast and integrate them into the third legion, as well as integrate two hundred and seventy of the first three hundred graduates of the Academy of the Night into the third legion’s special forces (the other thirty are now teaching in the academy), for a total of two hundred thousand troops. A month after the formation of the army, it was ordered to move northward and stationed in Changchun City, with more than half a million troops in the northeast and north of the country, as well as more than 300,000 troops in Hulun Pass, which made it possible to have close to 900,000 troops in the entire north, forming a closed siege against the Xianbei.
On the 27th day of the 13th month of the 4th year of the Kaiyang era (1629 A.D.).
On this day, I enacted a policy of equality for all races, with racially discriminatory offenses ranging from a fine of one gold coin to the death penalty (sentencing is a bit more difficult)
“Brother Wu, ah, it’s been years since our four brothers have been intimate.” I smiled and said to Wu Jianjun.
“Your Majesty, I can’t afford this Big Brother Wu.” Wu Jianjun said in fear.
“Alas, at this time there is no one around, let’s just call each other brothers, when there are people we will be the ruler and minister, you don’t need to say much, just take it as my order.” I said.
Wu Jianjun then had to agree.
“Brother Wu, can you still remember our trip to Taran?”
“Of course I remember, at that time, His Majesty wasn’t the Emperor yet, and while the late Emperor went to Taishan to offer sacrifices to the heavens, we ran to Talan to play.”
“That time was really thrilling! We were attacked in Yanggu City, fortunately you three brothers and Bluestone blocked the enemy, otherwise the situation would have been dangerous.”
“Where, it should be thanks to the two Yuri siblings.” Thinking about this matter, Wu Jianjun was still a little afraid, but there were some ambiguous currents that swept through his heart, after all, he had shared the same life and death.
“After that outside the city of Yanggu that is even more dangerous ……“
”Yes, also don’t know that more than twenty miles how to run down, as long as slow a slow maybe now will not sit there.”
“Remember when we first met?”
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“I still remember that battle with Long Li Duoqi ……”
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” Brother Wu, the four of us brothers haven’t seen each other for years, right?”
“Yes, since His Majesty became the Emperor and Master Lei went to Tundra City, we haven’t gotten together again.”
“Yeah really miss the days when the four of us were together, it felt as if nothing could stop us from moving forward anymore.” I sighed
“Your Majesty,” Brother Wu hesitated for a moment, “The Xuanlong Legion is already stationed at Hulun Pass, and Master Zhao is in Har City, so if we’re going to use our troops against the Xianbei, we should do it a month from now, so why don’t you ask Master Lei and Master Zhao to come back, and we’ll get together again.”
I was overjoyed in my heart, just waiting for you to say this! I didn’t refuse, “The staff can’t be fought yet, Xianbei seems to have the intention to seek peace, but when these two come back I’m afraid that their army’s training can’t keep up.”
“Your Majesty this is nothing to worry about, even in the army soldier drills are not the responsibility of the commander in chief.”
“In that case, I’ll ask them to come back, how about this, you write a letter to liaise with them and I’ll bring it to you along with my orders when I send them.”
“Then thank you, Your Majesty.” Wu Jianjun said with great joy.
Ten days later, Lei Zibing and Zhao Yun returned to the capital, seven days later, Zhao Yun came to Har City, while Lei Zibing was left behind in the capital, with Wu Jianjun taking over Lei Zibing’s position as the head of the Xuanlong Legion, and three days later, Wu Jianjun arrived at the Hulun Pass, supervising the practice, and then brought around 100,000 troops and horses to the vicinity of the Shanhaiguan Pass to start the military drills.
There was still a month to go, the sixteenth month would be here, and the fall grain would be harvested. The Empire’s ultimatum to Xianbei had already reached the Xianbei nobles two months ago, but the Xianbei had been actively preparing for war and ignored my ultimatum.
On the first day of the fifteenth month of the fourth year of the Kaiyang era (1629 A.D.), the Empire’s northern expedition against the Xianbei officially broke out.
On the first day of the fifteenth month of the fourth year of the Kaiyang Era, 300,000 men of the Imperial Red Dragon Legion and Xuan Dragon Legion led by He Huajing and Lei Zibing broke into the Hulun Prairie, and the army was divided into three divisions; He Huajing led 150,000 men to attack from the middle, Wu Jianjun led 100,000 men to attack from the southeast of the Xianbei, and the other 50,000 men led by another general attacked from the southwest, and the empire used 1.2 million people to transport the army for the 300,000 imperial troops. to transport military rations for the Empire’s 300,000-strong army.
In the direction of the two flanks, the Imperial Army has been invincible for the past two months since the start of the war, and has also gained a series of small victories in the center, but the enemy’s army is mostly too small in size, and so far it is only 3,000 people, and the other side has died less than 2,000 people so far. The three armies are seeking a decisive battle with the enemy, but the enemy’s maneuverability is extremely strong, repeatedly breaking into the rear of our army to our supply line caused serious harassment. Three days later, He Huajing laid an ambush on the supply line and captured 1,000 men and killed 1,000 enemies in one battle.
The main force of Xianbei finally began to appear, ready to fight me. Xianbei has been seeking external assistance for the past two months, but since Turkic and Mongolian just signed an agreement with me, and their mouths softened after taking my food and iron weapons (mainly because the food I provide every two months is only enough for one month), they did not send reinforcements to Xianbei, and the Canglong Legion in the west guards the four western countries and is eyeing all four of them, and under these circumstances, the four countries do not dare to move at will, and unless the four join forces The Canglong Legion’s defense line is highly guarded, and it is very likely that they will attack without eating the mutton, giving the Empire an excuse to attack.
Xianbei two hundred and eighty thousand iron horsemen finally appeared in the ears of the empire, appeared in the vision of the two legions, in the middle of the Xianbei used one hundred and thirty thousand cavalry, although the equipment of the Xianbei is not as good as the empire, but the horseback kung fu is not the empire can not be compared to the first contact, the Xianbei simply do not fight with me, swept the side of my army formation, accompanied by a shower of arrows, and the mighty cavalry of our army can not catch up with the enemy army, and do not dare to We could not catch up with the enemy’s strong cavalry, and we did not dare to change the formation, but could only watch the two armies shooting at each other with bows and arrows. Fortunately, our army had anticipated this situation when we left for the battle and prepared a large number of arrows.
The next day, the enemy repeated the same trick, swept outside my camp, but early preparations for the Red Dragon Legion cavalry violently killed from the camp, immediately robbed part of the Xianbei cavalry, killing, followed by infantry out of the camp formation, up to support the cavalry,
The enemy finally retreated, throwing three thousand corpses, three thousand two of my army. Since then, the two armies have only small-scale contact, ten days later, the enemy army suddenly withdrew.
“Gentlemen, do you know why the enemy withdrew?” He Huajing asked.
“Could it be that they are stuck with military rations?” A general said.
“It’s possible, but our army intruded, as long as we stay on the prairie for two months, the enemy’s military rations will be even more insufficient, and theoretically they should be quick to fight (snowstorms usually come in February and March)?” Wu Jianjun said.
“His Majesty said that in the first two months, the Empire has already sent in spies to blend in with the Xianbei to spread rumors and provoke internal unrest in the Xianbei, could it be that ……“
”Then let’s take advantage of the victory and pursue the attack.” He Huajing made a decision.
The middle of the road 150,000 army began to start, to the depths of the prairie north, but the other side in the road laid a lot of ambushes, on the 150,000 army along the way to intercept, for this reason the empire to speed up the progress, constantly tracking the enemy army in depth, unknowingly 150,000 army pulled into a long dragon.