General Mu Hanshan of Zhenxi, an outstanding figure at the level of God of War, is known as the patron saint of the Jin Dynasty. With his presence, the Western Border is stable, and the Jinxia army cannot cross the border.
Without him, the Jin Dynasty would have been divided by the Qingyuan Kingdom and the Jinxia Kingdom long ago, and it would not be able to survive until now.
With only 200,000 troops, the western border can be firmly guarded, and the Jin Dynasty can concentrate on dealing with the Qingyuan Kingdom. Compared with him, the Zhenbei General 'He Chengzhi', who has a large number of troops, is much worse.
Over the years, the Jinxia Kingdom has continuously used counterintuitive tactics to throw dirty water on Muhanshan, saying that he conspired with the Jinxia Kingdom in an attempt to carve up the Jin Dynasty. With the Wuheng River as the boundary, the north belongs to Jinxia, ??and the south belongs to Muhanshan. Wait, wait, this kind of statement has been talked about for several years.
As the saying goes, three people make a tiger, it doesn't matter what happens once or twice. If it happens too many times, the current emperor will definitely become suspicious. In addition, some ministers in the court with ulterior motives are secretly causing trouble. Gradually, he becomes more and more uneasy, so He tried to call Mu Hanshan back to the capital, have a chat with him, and try to get his reaction.
But Mu Hanshan, a Confucian general, has a lot of personality and is not a foolish and loyal person. He knows in his heart that once he returns to the capital, he will not be able to return to Western Xinjiang under the control of some treacherous officials. Considering that the current emperor is so bad that there is no lower limit. It's not a matter of whether you can save your life or not as far as your character is concerned.
Therefore, he always refused to return to Beijing on the grounds that there were changes in the Jin Xia army. This made the emperor more suspicious and the relationship between the emperor and his ministers became more and more tense.
In response to this, the Jinxia Kingdom sent envoys to the capital of the Jin Dynasty several times to sign a peace agreement between the two countries. This means that since the agreement has been signed, it cannot be said that our Jinxia army has made any changes. Mu Hanshan is still unwilling to return to Beijing. It is obvious that something is wrong in his heart.
But everyone knows that as soon as Mu Hanshan leaves, the Jinxia army will definitely unite with the Qingyuan Kingdom to invade. They have been waiting for this day for too long.
Mu Hanshan just won¡¯t be fooled. No matter what you say, I am determined to live in Western Xinjiang. I will die on this border.
Let¡¯s put it this way, Mu Hanshan and the Jin Dynasty emperor did not trust each other, and both felt that the other would kill or harm them. Therefore, Mu Hanshan¡¯s independence was a matter of time, depending on whether he felt that the time was ripe.
Now, the time has finally come.
A few days ago, a letter he wrote to the emperor of the Jin Dynasty was delivered to the capital. The content was roughly: "Don't bother me, I will help you guard the western border and guarantee that the Kingdom of Jinxia will not harm the Jin Dynasty.
"If you send troops to fight me, I won't fight you. I, Mu Hanshan, love this country deeply, and I don't want to get the blood of my compatriots on my hands. So, I will leave the Jin Dynasty headquarters with 200,000 soldiers."
In the past few years, the female princess of the Sahua Kingdom farther west has courted me many times. She is very young and beautiful, with eyes like the sky and long hair like gold I will be her husband and a Prince, help her conquer the world headquarters over there in the Western Region. There is no place for me to stay here, I have my own place to stay.
That¡¯s it, Your Majesty, you can think about it yourself. This is also the last time I call you Your Majesty. From now on, the land of Western Xinjiang is officially independent!
"Take care of yourself, Emperor of the Jin Dynasty"
I don¡¯t know if the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty vomited blood after reading this letter, but the Qingyuan Kingdom must not be aware of Mu Hanshan¡¯s promise to help him protect the gate of Western Xinjiang. There are signs of the Qingyuan Army in Northern Xinjiang gathering. It is estimated that He was also testing Mu Hanshan's reaction.
Since it is a test, there will definitely be small-scale wars in northern Xinjiang, which is what people often say: there is another war.
Luo Chong analyzed that the Battle of Hongyu had only been fought for more than four months, and both sides needed to recharge their batteries. As long as Mu Hanshan was still sitting there in Western Xinjiang, it would be impossible for the Qingyuan Kingdom to use troops on a large scale.
As for the deterioration of the relationship between Mu Hanshan and the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Luo Chong believes that the Taiping Holy Sect must have played a certain role in promoting it.
The purpose of the Taiping Holy Sect is to bring an early end to the Jin Dynasty. As the patron saint of the Jin Dynasty, Mu Hanshan must be the number one target of the Taiping Sect that must be eradicated.
There were some ministers in the court who had been infiltrated by the Taiping Holy Religion. They had said many bad things about Mu Hanshan in the emperor's ears over the years.
There is no right or wrong in this kind of thing. I can only say that this generation of weird emperors is destined to bring an end to the Jin Dynasty.
For the time being, Mu Hanshan's independence has no direct impact on Guangling Town. Luo Chong doesn't plan to go to the northwest border to join in the fun now, so he lets Ma Hanzi lead the team and leads the rangers to continuously go out to suppress bandits and train troops. , and you can earn some money back by the way.
The five hundred cavalrymen are Luo Chong's most direct soldiers. Not only do they practice internal strength, Luo Chong also teaches them many skills.
For example, how to unite man and horse.
It has been almost three months, and the soldiers have gained a certain level of enthusiasm.If you have enough strength, you can use your own internal strength to nourish the war horse.
Especially during the march, if you hold the horse's neck with your palms, the internal force will slowly penetrate its body's meridians, which can not only reduce its fatigue, but also dredge its meridians, strengthen its physique, and even establish a spiritual connection with the knight invisibly. tacit agreement.
The establishment of the cavalry team is still too short. In terms of equestrian skills, even if you have an internal force accelerator, you can learn everything quickly. Compared with the nomads living on horseback, it is still far behind. In addition to relying on internal strength, you can only rely on your mind. The tacit understanding made up for it.
Horses also have meridians and intelligence, otherwise there wouldn¡¯t be so many monsters in the universe.
After enough training and proficiency, the knight and the war horse can connect the meridians of the two through the flow of internal energy, and they can circulate continuously, just like one body, just like the war horse is also practicing internal strength.
This is the integration of man and horse that Luo Chong taught them. The effect is extremely good. When it reaches a certain level, it will naturally far exceed the simple horse control technology.
"Report!"
On this day, Ma Hanzi, who was out suppressing bandits, sent back a scout and reported to Luo Chong: "General, a batch of our property in Lingyuan County has been seized. Adjutant Ma asked me to come back and ask what should be done. deal with?"
Lingyuan County is right next to our section of the canal. It can be called a transit base and trading city. Every day, many cargo ships from the south unload their goods here, and then travel westward by land to transport them to more than a dozen big cities along the way. Countless counties and towns.
Ma Hanzi has been suppressing bandits throughout Guang Ninh Province, and once again removing the bandits' lair, he can harvest a lot of property. It is useless to transport many things back to Guang Ling Town. It is more cost-effective to sell them in the nearest county.
This time, he went to Lingyuan County and wiped out the bandits on three hills in succession. The property he obtained was quite substantial, so he sent it to Lingyuan County. He felt that he should be able to sell it at a high price in such a trading base, and then he could sell it in Lingyuan County. At the dock, real military supplies such as grain, cloth, and iron ore that had just landed were purchased at relatively low prices, and then sent back to Guangling Town.
Sell ??high and buy low, this calculation is of course pretty good, but something went wrong. The docks in Lingyuan County are controlled by a group of gang members, and they take a cut of 10% or 20% of any goods.
What¡¯s wrong with the soldiers? Soldiers also have to pay fees when buying and selling goods. Those guys are crazy. Of course, it is also related to the fact that the Jin Dynasty's army was in a state of decay and did not have much deterrence.
There were only a dozen or so sergeants responsible for escorting property into the city to sell goods, but they were all warriors with inner strength. During this period, they killed many bandits, and each one of them was not afraid of anything.
Why should we pay taxes? You are not an official. This is not a reasonable tax payment!
"If you don't want to pay, you can, take the goods, get out of the dock, get out of Lingyuan County, and sell them elsewhere!"
The two gangs escalated from bickering to fighting. Although our sergeants were small in number, they all had murderous martial arts. Although they were not ruthless, they beat the crap out of those guys. Two of them had their legs and arms broken. Thirty people.
This alerted the county government. When they heard that it was soldiers who were beating people, the county magistrate came in person, but obviously not towards the soldiers. This is normal, they are all a family, and the county magistrate gets a share from them every month.
So, he detained all the goods that the sergeants wanted to sell, saying: Let your commander handle it. So many people have been injured, and we can't have no explanation.
But they didn¡¯t detain any of the sergeants, they just drove them out of the county.
The soldiers were afraid that if this kind of thing spread, it would affect Luo Chong's reputation, so they never mentioned their numbers and affiliations. After all, everything seized from bandits is considered stolen property, and should be handed over to the state layer by layer, but everyone knows that it cannot enter the national treasury at all, and will only be corrupted by officials at all levels.
"Very good, I have work to do!"
For Luo Chong, this is good news. He is looking for an opportunity to take over a certain county next to the canal as a future water transportation base. This is good. There is no need to deliberately find trouble, and he will give the best excuse to On his own lips.
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Luo Chong personally led three hundred cavalry and rushed towards Lingyuan County, three hundred miles away.
Every time Ma Hanzi went out to suppress bandits, he only took two hundred horses with him, because the soldiers were still weak and had to take turns to rest.
With the gradual improvement of the integration of man and horse, the marching speed is also gradually increasing. There is no need to rush for 300 miles, it only takes more than a day.
During the boring march, Luo Chong always let his avatar take charge, and his main consciousness would run into the small universe to be lazy. Anyway, this is how it happens when something boring happens, so I won¡¯t say more about it in the future.
Ma Hanzi¡¯s camp is more than 30 miles away from the county seat. The location is relatively secretive because he does not want to pose a problem to the surrounding counties and towns.Disturbance, this is also the discipline that Luo Jiajun has always followed.
But this time it was different. Luo Chong arrived with his troops and immediately gave Ma Hanzi an order: "Rest for the night, and the whole army will be dispatched early tomorrow morning to surround Lingyuan!"
"Here!"
Ma Hanzi had guessed a long time ago that our general would definitely do this. However, it was also a matter of surrounding the county town, and he did not have the authority to issue such an order.
The next morning, horses hooves rumbled and five hundred cavalry roared in. The troops were divided into three groups and blocked the three city gates of Lingyuan County.
Unlike other counties, the east side of Lingyuan County is the canal wharf, so the west gate opposite the wharf is considered the main city gate.
Luo Chong waved his horsewhip at the west gate and ordered directly: "There is a charge for blocking the gate, and those who come out will be charged 30% of the protection fee. Because we have wiped out all the bandits along the way, they have a worry-free journey, so they should be given this money. Those who are unwilling to pay the fee Don¡¯t force them, just let them return to the city. We are soldiers, not bandits. We can give them one more choice. This is the difference. "
The bandits will not let you go back. If you pay them, they will let you go. If you don't give them, you will die. There is no other choice!