In February of the third year of Dalong Ruian, the ice and snow melted, and everything revived and everything seemed full of vitality.
Young Master Liu felt very at ease while riding on his horse, listening to the chirping sound in his ears. He opened his eyes and glanced at a phalanx of fifty thousand people. The soldiers leapt forward together and quickly circled around one side.
"I want you to understand what it means to train more in peacetime and bleed less in war. Who dares to talk about how this commander is avenging his private revenge? He deliberately made a fuss about the fact that you used snowballs to hit me with a bruised nose and face to punish each of you." Jump two miles!"
These words, Master Liu, rode around in a large circle and were all spread among the 50,000 soldiers who were leaping forward.
The phalanx of 50,000 people immediately turned their resentful eyes to Young Master Liu. What about the unjust revenge they had agreed to make?
Are you asking us to play a game?
Major General Liu slowed down his horse and heard Song Qing, who was jumping forward with a big stone in his hands: "Vice General Song, how are you doing? Isn't it more interesting than lifting a stone lock?"
Song Qing gave Mr. Liu a hard look and said nothing for fear of being discouraged. He held up the stone and kept beating forward.
Liu Mingzhi looked faintly at the phalanx of fifty thousand people and sighed and murmured: "Brothers, I really want you to bleed less. I hope you can understand my painstaking efforts!"
The 50,000 soldiers in the phalanx are all auxiliary soldiers, but Liu Mingzhi believes that as long as he persists in training, there will be no distinction between elite soldiers and auxiliary soldiers in the 400,000-strong army, and they will all be strong elite soldiers.
With 400,000 elite soldiers in hand, attacking the Western Region increases the chance of victory by a few percent.
Apart from the fact that the 200,000 auxiliary soldiers have not experienced the baptism of war, their physique is gradually shrinking from that of the 200,000 main battle army.
Liu Mingzhi did not reduce the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the auxiliary troops like other generals. The food of these 200,000 auxiliary troops was exactly the same as that of the elite main battle troops.
Liu Mingzhi truly treated everyone equally. The elite soldiers who ate meat and the auxiliary soldiers would never drink porridge, and the elite soldiers ate porridge and the auxiliary soldiers would never get a trace of meat.
Coupled with Mr. Liu's words of encouragement and innuendo from the Ming Dynasty, these 200,000 auxiliary soldiers are secretly competing with the elite soldiers, and their physical fitness is increasing day by day.
Liu Mingzhi did this for the same reason as Zhang Kuang and the other six, to take his brothers home!
Thinking of these things, Liu Mingzhi waved the riding crop in his hand and shouted while riding: "Didn't you fucking eat? When you were chasing me, you were all very strong. Why are you so soft like women now?" Now? If you’re a man, jump right away and don’t let me look down on you!”
"Report! Traces of hundreds of people were found thirty miles ahead. Their identities are unknown for now! They are rushing towards our army!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at the scout in front of him who was carrying the command flag and waved the command flag in his hand with a condensed expression: "Stop advancing!"
"The commander-in-chief has ordered us to stop advancing!"
"The commander-in-chief has ordered us to stop advancing!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at Song Qing who was not far away: "Stop leaping and put on your armor!"
Song Qing threw away the stone in his hand, took out the command flag from behind and waved it. The 50,000 auxiliary soldiers immediately began to run to the ox cart not far away in an orderly manner to prepare their armor and equipment!
"Continue the investigation! Find out the identities of these hundreds of people!"
"Got the order!"
The scout Juechen left. Song Qing wore armor and rode towards Liu Mingzhi: "Hey, Commander, what happened?"
Liu Mingzhi did not answer Song Qing's words and took out the map from the saddle on the horse's back to look at it. After a moment, Liu Mingzhi put away the map with a serious face and started looking through the telescope.
"Vice General Song, the day after tomorrow should be arriving at the territory of Gumo Kingdom, one of the thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions, and ordered the officers and soldiers of the three armies that except for catapults, door-ramming trucks, siege ladders, bed crossbows and other large equipment, they should not be placed in baggage carts, and the three armies should wear armor Check your weapons and prepare for battle!"
Song Qing's face tightened and he nodded: "Yes!"
Less than half an hour later, Song Qing walked up to Young Master Liu and said, "Commander Qi, the three armies are fully prepared for war and can move forward at any time!"
Liu Mingzhi drove his horse to a high slope and used a telescope to look at the 400,000 troops divided into eight square formations. Sure enough, they were all wearing armor and looking serious.
After traveling for more than three months, we finally arrived at the place where we made our achievements. Everyone had a strong fighting spirit on their faces.
Liu Mingzhi looked at the majestic archer carrying a quiver on his back, holding an iron tire bow, a big yellow bow and other crossbows, wearing a melee sword on his waist, and wearing light plate armor, and his face felt very comfortable.
"Looking at ancient and modern times, how can anyone in the world compare with the Great Dragon's armor rate?"
Song Qing also put away his telescope and showed a relaxed look: "We are armed to the teeth. Whether we can capture the Zhanwang Heshuo and Hetao areas in the Western Region depends on this battle!"
Liu Mingzhi raised his handsome flag high with high spirits: "Okay..."
"Report, Marshal, the next shipment of grain and grass from the Ministry of Revenue has arrived! The grain transport officer and the fast horse have arrived!"
Liu Mingzhi put away his command flag and looked toward the rear. Sure enough, there was a man in civilian clothes driving a horse, and he rushed towards him with a clamp on the horse's belly.
"Mr. Miao, why did you personally escort the food and grass here?"
Miao Ji, the right servant of the Ministry of Revenue, looked at Master Liu with a faint smile: "Master Liu, this batch of food and grass is too much. Master Jiang is worried about giving it to others!"
"Thank you for your hard work. This time I go back and tell Lao Jiang that from now on, I don't have to transport food and grass!"
"Huh? No...you don't want food and grass?"
Miao Ji looked at Young Master Liu with an expression of disbelief and was at a loss for a moment!
Liu Mingzhi looked at the Western Regions coldly: "It's okay to go to war without declaring it. You dare to take the money and run away to disgrace me. I want to win the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions with war!"
"Fighting to feed war?"
"That's right, Master Miao, look at the map!"
Liu Mingzhi took out the map and pointed to a location: "At this location, I have hidden the stove in a valley. You can take it back with you when you go back. It is inconvenient for the army to carry it with you, and it is a pity to lose it. This is all What a waste of money!"
"This... Mr. Liu, are you sure you really don't need food and grass?"
"OK, we have come all the way. The countries in the Western Regions have to fulfill their friendship as landlords. Just go and hand over the supplies to General Cheng Kaicheng. I have to make a battle plan, so I won't spend more time with you to catch up on old times. Go back and wait. Let’s drink at my handsome celebration bar!”
"Well, since Mr. Liu you have made up your mind, I won't ask any more questions. Just be careful!"
"Thank you, Mr. Miao, and take good care of yourself along the way!"
Half a day later, the handover of grain and fodder was completed. Young Master Liu looked at the backs of the 40,000 soldiers who were transporting grain and fodder as they headed east, and waved the command flag in his hand fiercely.
"The army moves out!"
"The commander-in-chief has given orders, the army is on its way!"
"The commander-in-chief has given orders, the army is on its way!"
With flags flying, the 400,000-strong army marched toward the territory of Gumo Kingdom in the Western Regions.
Along the way, hundreds of scouts continuously reported the military intelligence of the investigation to Young Master Liu, providing him with ideas for the plan!
"Report, we have figured out the identities of those 296 people. They are all businessmen from my Ganzhou City! We will meet the front army in three quarters of an hour!"
"Instruct the three armies to continue on their way!"
"Got the order!"
Liu Dashao galloped towards the front army with his horse under his belly. He couldn't wait to meet these two hundred people and inquire about the situation in the Western Region.
Sure enough, as the military situation reported by the scouts was, two hundred people were rushing towards the army. When these people saw the banners of the army, they immediately scattered and fled.
Young Master Liu was startled and didn't know why. Are people like him ferocious beasts?
"Stop them......"
The two hundred people who fled before Young Master Liu finished his order gathered together and rushed toward him.
"It's the Dalong soldiers of our Han family. Don't be afraid, young and old. It's our own army that's coming!"
"big dragon!"
"big dragon!"
"big dragon!"
Liu Mingzhi watched in astonishment as more than 200 people running toward him, shouting "Big Dragon", reined in their horses and couldn't figure out what was going on for a moment.
"Xu..."
"big dragon!"
"big dragon!"
Seeing Young Master Liu stop, more than two hundred people also stopped and suddenly stared at him with tears in their eyes and grinned.
Liu Mingzhi got off his horse and went to meet him. He found the eldest man and walked over and stopped.
Looking at the shabby appearance of these two hundred people in ragged clothes, Liu Mingzhi wondered why the caravan was so popular and ended up like this.
"Who are you? How did you end up in this situation?"
"The head of the Deng family's caravan in Ganzhou City pays homage to the general. Dare I ask if the general is our Han family's heavenly army!"
"Meet the General!"
"Get up, get up, what are you doing? Don't kneel down!"
"General, old man, dare I ask where the commander-in-chief of the Heavenly Army is? Please ask the Heavenly Army to make the decision for us!"
"I am Liu Mingzhi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. If you have anything to say, it doesn't matter!"
The head of the Deng family glanced at Liu Mingzhi hesitantly, how could he command so many armies at such a young age?
Looking around, Master Deng couldn't tell how many people there were in this army that stretched for miles. He only knew that there were many, more than the Xiaoguo Guards who defended Ganzhou City!
"He is our Dalong's white-clothed Confucian Commander Liu Mingzhi, Marshal Liu. I have heard of his name in Yingzhou!"
The head of the Deng family pondered for a moment and his eyes lit up with tears: "The general is the white-robed scholar who defeated 400,000 rebels with 70,000 people in the Kingdom of Jin?"
Liu Mingzhi smiled awkwardly: "If there is no second person named Liu Mingzhi, you should be talking about me!"
"Meet the old man Deng Kun..."
"No need to be polite, just tell me slowly if you have something to say!"
Liu Mingzhi hurriedly stopped Deng Kun from kneeling down. He really couldn't bear this kind of gift, especially from an elder!
"Dashuai Liu, you have to make the decision for me and other merchants from the twenty-eight caravans in Ganzhou. We have experienced nine deaths before we can live to see your master!"
"Old man, don't be impatient. Tell me slowly what's going on?"
"Dashuai Liu, the matter started in February last year... Around October, people from the Kucha Kingdom robbed our goods indiscriminately and took away the Han people who were under my command. A merchant was hanged alive on the city gate. Unless we are Dalong's spies, a caravan of 2,300 people came back. There were more than 200 of us who came back. If the caravan's guards hadn't risked their lives to escort us out of the city. , we will all die in the hands of those executioners in Qiuci Kingdom!"
"How could we be spies? This is the first time this old man has encountered such a situation in the 23 years he has been doing business in Dalong, Ganzhou. All 2,000 people disappeared overnight!"
Young Master Liu's eyes were solemn: "Do you know that the thirty-six countries in the Western Region invaded my territory without declaring it?"
The two hundred people all looked at Mr. Liu with blank expressions and shook their heads.
Liu Mingzhi was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses. When Deng Kun and others went west in February last year, the border invasion in the Western Regions had not happened yet. No wonder they didn't know about it!
"Qiuci Kingdom, I understand, I will definitely give an explanation to the innocent compatriots who died!"
The knuckles of Liu Mingzhi's fists clenched and cracked. The behavior of the executioners of Qiuci State was outrageous to everyone. No matter whether there were casualties or casualties in the battle between the two armies, Liu Mingzhi had nothing to say.
But it is absolutely unforgivable for Kucha State to kill ordinary businessmen!
"Old man, it's not safe for you to go back. Without food, water, carts, horses and camels, you can't return to Ganzhou on foot! Why not join the army in the western expedition! I need your intelligence and your proficiency in the thirty-six languages of the Western Regions. !”
"Thank you Marshal Liu, the old man and others kowtow to you!"
"Get up quickly!"
Three days later, the 400,000-strong army finally arrived at a city on the border of Gumo Kingdom. Liu Mingzhi chose to set up camp on a flat and open terrain ten miles away.
Liu Mingzhi looked through the telescope at the city of Gumo Kingdom with its flag floating faintly and put down the telescope!
"Commander, the bird egg noodles you asked for are here!"
Murong Shan held a bowl of steaming noodles and placed it on the low table in front of Young Master Liu.
Young Master Liu couldn't wait to take a few bites: "Hmmmm...it tastes good. Xiaojin, your craftsmanship has improved. Just put less salt next time!!"
"Jiang Lei, the last general, has met with the commander-in-chief. I wonder what the commander-in-chief wants to see for the last general?"
Liu Da put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands and patted the cloth on the low table with a thick document: "Jiang Lei!"
"The general is here!"
"Send the expedition message and the ultimatum to the soldiers guarding the city of Gumo Kingdom, and ask them to bring a message to the leader of Gumo Kingdom. Kaicheng surrenders, stamps the national seal of Gumo Kingdom on the ultimatum, surrenders to the dragon, declares himself a vassal, and pays tribute. , support the reconstruction of the Protectorate."
"Got the order!"
"Tell them they only have three days to think about it. If they are stubborn and refuse to surrender..."
"Huh? Marshal?"
Liu Mingzhi quietly stood up holding the Heavenly Sword on his waist and looked at the city of Gumo Kingdom with a majestic and cold tone!
"First destroy the city, then destroy the country!"
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