On the Silk Road in the west of Ganzhou City.
The smoke and dust gradually dissipated, and the last vague figures of the soldiers of the Western Expedition could still be vaguely seen.
Song Qing looked at Liu Mingzhi's melancholy eyes staring at the West, with a sad expression, and patted Liu Mingzhi's shoulder with a slight smile.
"I dare to slap His Majesty on the shoulder!
Aren't you extremely disappointed that Your Majesty couldn't go on the expedition in person as he wished? "
Liu Mingzhi came back to his senses, retracted his gaze towards the west, shook his head silently at Song Qing, waved his hand to Song Qing, and asked him to order hundreds of escort soldiers under his command to return to the city first. Slowly walked towards the city gate.
Seeing this, Song Qing waved to his lieutenant and followed Liu Mingzhi silently.
“I can’t say that I am extremely disappointed, but it would be false to say that I have no regrets at all.
To be honest, brother, I am the Emperor on Horseback. This is the first fierce collision between Eastern and Western countries. Brother, I, the Emperor on Horseback, cannot personally participate.
There is inevitably some regret.
After all, not only the millions of elite soldiers in the frontier army are about to fall apart, but also my brother, my bones are about to fall apart.
Rather than guarding the capital to deal with those troublesome memorials, brother, I would rather command my soldiers to fight on the battlefield, riding horses and whipping their whips.
Put our dragon flag in every corner of the world.
It's a pity that God didn't give me this opportunity.
Compared with the regret of not being able to lead the expedition in person, I am more worried.
We know too little about these two countries, Tianzhu and Dashi.
We can only know some trivial information from the oral accounts and descriptions of Liao Fan and Lu Fengshuang.
In the expedition against these two countries, which are more distant than the countries in the Western Regions, my brothers resented the two countries for massacring the subjects under my rule, and at the same time, they also had a touch of worry.
I don't doubt that the brothers' fighting ability is not as good as these two foreign barbarians.
What I'm worried about is the problem of food and grass, and the problem of acclimatization.
Man-made disasters can be prevented, but natural disasters can be avoided.
In fact, I originally planned that within five years, my dragon would no longer start wars.
But things are unpredictable, and even before three years, our army went out to fight on the battlefield again.
In order to unify the world, we fought for twelve years among the Three Kingdoms.
Although the world is unified now, the young and strong people among the people can be recruited as soldiers at a time when they are young and old.
After the imperial court streamlined its troops, although it still retained 1.2 million elite troops, the current situation meant that there would be fewer troops to fight.
The wolfish ambitions of all the Western countries have been eyeing our dragon for a long time, and there is a possibility of invading the country from the east at any time.
What about the north? In addition, the Russian generals Slav and Spismult, whom we intend to put back, may come back at any time.
Can there be less pressure on brothers?
In the past, Pan Yun, Pan Aiqing, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, said that my brother, I was so eager to expand the territory, it was a bit militaristic.
At that time, the imperial court was powerful and capable of conquering the two countries of Jin and Tu.
It's not considered militaristic at all.
However, if it is a Western country and Tsarist Russia comes to invade the border again, it would not be in line with the character of a brother to not take revenge.
What about revenge? If this continues, it may really lead to militancy. "
Song Qing was silent for a long time and nodded clearly: "I thought that after the world was unified, I would be able to live a stable life.
Now when I hear you tell it, it can be said that we are surrounded by enemies on all sides!
It's just that Brother Wei doesn't seem to see any worry in you? "
"Do you still remember those tall soldiers and horses wearing plate armor similar to ours that we encountered during our Western Expedition?"
Song Qing thought for a while and nodded slightly: "I still have the impression that the combat effectiveness of those soldiers and horses is not strong, but they are not too weak either.
However, our artillery shells were almost exhausted at that time, and we allowed them to escape from the encirclement and suppression.
Now my army for the Western Expedition is different from the past. At that time, we only had a few dozen artillery pieces. For this Western Expedition, we have prepared a total of 1,300 artillery pieces.
I'm a bit arrogant, brother, as long as the barbarians of these two countries don't have the same combat weapons as our artillery.
Without a large army to attack the city, as far as artillery is concerned, the small gates and towers of Parthia can be razed to the ground.
Brother Wei and Cheng Kaibing personally attacked the border town of Anxi in two groups.
The combat effectiveness of their soldiers and horses is not bad, but as for the defensive strength of the city!
Just don’t mention it!
If you hadn't ordered the troops to stop and return to Ershi City in Dayuan Kingdom.
Give Brother Wei and Cheng Kai three more months to ensure that the territory included in my Dalong map will be an additional three hundred miles.
Why did you bring this up so well... Hiss... You didn't want to tell my brother that the soldiers and horses of Dashi were the soldiers and horses of the Parthian Kingdom back then, right? Or similar? "
Liu Mingzhi smiled and nodded: "I hit the nail on the head, nine times out of ten it's like this!"
"No way? If that's the case, what do you have to worry about with the combat power of two swords?
I have to say something arrogant for my brother, if the fighting power of the Dashi Kingdom is almost the same as that of the Parthia Kingdom, we don’t even need to send troops from the mainland. Commander Zhang Mo and the 300,000 coalition troops from the Western Regions can defeat them. "
"Where's Tianzhu? Have you considered it? As far as I know, this is a country where one motorcycle...and one horse can ride ten people!"
"Huh? Ten people riding on one horse? How about fun?"
"It's just a joke, a joke, just a joke. In short, we know very little about the country of Tianzhu.
It is better not to underestimate the enemy if you can.
But my worries have never been about the two countries Tianzhu and Dashi.
Have you ever thought about where is the west side of Dashi?
Are there any countries we don’t know about? Will he become Dashi's helper?
How is the national strength? How is the military strength? So what about combat power?
How many countries might exist?
Let me tell you this, my Dalong expeditionary army, from the moment it dispatched troops, has never faced only Dashi and Tianzhu, two barbarian countries.
There are more potential enemies and opponents that we don’t know yet.
Just like before the Slavs crossed the Yinshan Mountains with Murt, we saw Tsarist Russia on the map I drew. But before they actually appeared, who guarantees that there really is such a country in the far north?
Therefore, by analogy, who can guarantee that there are no powerful countries to the west of the Great Eclipse that can become the helper of the Great Eclipse?
Dear brother, this is the source of my worries.
It is not impossible that this army's western expedition will last for two or three years at the earliest, or more than ten years at the earliest! "
Song Qing took a breath of cold air and looked at Liu Mingzhi who looked worried:
"Brother, I really haven't thought about these things you mentioned.
If it is as you said, this army's western expedition is really a big problem.
After all, potential enemies are the most terrifying! "
“However, my brother’s worries about these people are only secondary after all.
As you just said, our expeditionary troops have prepared more than a thousand artillery pieces this time.
These barbarians say that 100% of them don't have artillery. Brothers can't guarantee this, but the possibility of having artillery is really slim.
I still have a good idea about this expedition of soldiers and horses.
But once there are enemies on all sides.
Brother, I am worried that the embankment of a thousand miles will be destroyed by the ant nest! "
Song Qing frowned in thought for a moment, and seemed to understand the true meaning of Liu Mingzhi's words.
"It seems that the real source of your uneasiness lies within our court. For example, you mentioned in the palace earlier that the spy force seems to have disappeared from the world."
"To be honest, that's true.
Once there are enemies on all sides in the future and all the troops and horses are exhausted, my brother, the emperor, will be nothing but an empty frame.
Faced with the huge power, the endless spies of masters, and some ministers with ulterior motives in the court, I can't help but feel worried!
It has been more than half a year since Li Tao took power in the Palace of Ten Kings.
But there was no sign of the missing spy figure.
The more they act like this, the more uneasy I feel!
I also hope that they can truly stay away from the dispute, but I don’t dare to bet!
I can’t even afford to gamble!
I hope Chengzhi and the others can take charge of their own business as soon as possible.
Don't talk about this anymore, just go back to Beijing. "
"Why don't you meet with the officials from the three governments?"
"Forget it, let them take care of people's livelihood, it is better than flattering me, the emperor, and go back to Beijing directly!"
