Half a month later, the mighty army was pulled out, according to the rules, the Chinese army led by Li Meng did not have to arrive at the front line of the Western Regions immediately, but the large army should leave Yunjing at the auspicious time, General Wu Di led the vanguard of 50,000 people to accelerate to the front line, and the 200,000 troops requisitioned from all over the country will go directly to Xiyang Pass to converge one after another, General Wu Di and General Gomen will not wait for Li Meng and others, they will divide their troops in advance and attack the countries of the Western Regions from the southern front and the northern front respectively, General Gomen is in charge of the southern front, General Wu Di is in charge of the northern front, and further north is the border between the Northern Barbarian State and the countries of the Western Regions。

According to the agreement, the strategic purpose of the first phase of the Makino Kingdom and the Northern Barbarian regular army is to occupy the Seven Eastern Kingdoms of the Western Regions, which is the first line of resistance of the countries of the Western Regions to Makino and the Northern Barbarian State, and it is also the place where the Western Regions coalition forces are concentrated, and the key defense area.

The seven eastern kingdoms of the Western Regions were Western Wu, Wei, Lie, Donghu, Wuwei, Wutan, and Khan, and in order to achieve the strategic objectives of the first stage, Emperor Dingyuan's will was for the two deputy marshals to occupy Western Wu, Wei, Lie, and Donghu respectively.

Weicheng is light and dusty towards the rain, and the guest house is green and willow-colored.

Persuade you to have a glass of wine, and there is no reason to go out of Yangguan in the west.

There are only dozens of poems that Li Meng can remember, and changing the words and sentences of the poems makes Li Meng regret it, blasphemy, that is a good thing precipitated by history, and you can't easily change everyone's things, and you will sing it when you see a suitable scene in the future.

Muwen: "The second brother's poem is getting better and better, even the father and the emperor listened to the song "Will Enter the Wine" are full of praise, although this poem is only four sentences but meaningful, although the wine and friendship are good, but it is far less refreshing than opening up the territory, once the situation is stalemate, the second brother must promise the younger brother to lead a sentry to level the countries of the Western Regions. ”

Li Meng led an army of 150,000 and more than 50,000 heavy troops to travel for half a month and finally arrived in Xiyang County.

He Taiyi, the county guard of Xiyang County, had already led hundreds of civil and military officials to the east of the Acropolis of ten miles east to meet the army, Li Meng asked the Left Guard Army and the Imperial Forest Army to send 10,000 each to follow him into Xiyang Pass, and other troops were stationed in the Acropolis, and only after the matter was arranged was stationed in Xiyang Pass.

He Taiyi already knew the special features of these two princes, one of them was a waste of firewood, and the other was young and vigorous, and the old emperor was thrown into the pit if the royal family wanted to do their part, and He Taiyi had to dig out his mind to keep these two princes in Xiyang Pass if he wanted to live for two more years.

In a word, let these two princes eat, drink and have fun in Xiyangguan.

In the Xiyang Guan Marshal's Mansion, He Taiyi waited carefully, and had already arranged the entire Marshal's Mansion properly, there were more than 200 maids and servants, and the 20,000 Imperial Forest Army and Zuo Wei Army brought by Li Meng had already controlled everything around.

Li Meng: "Lord He, how is the current strength of Xiyang Pass?"

"Back to the marshal, each acropolis guards are about 1,002, mostly archery infantry, the main city is less than 100,000, the infantry and cavalry account for half each, plus the nearly 200,000 troops brought by the marshal, Xiyang Pass is absolutely foolproof, Marshal Gomen explained before the expedition, the lower officials only need to guard Xiyang Pass and guard the grain road, I don't know what new arrangements the marshal has?"

Li dreamed for a moment and said: "There is nothing else, Marshal Gomen has done a good job, it will take a few years to fight this battle, I am afraid that pure courage will not work, this king has invented a new thing, the name is telephone, this king intends to connect the phone from Xiyang Pass to the front line, so that this king can also know the situation on the front line in time, in case the grain road is attacked, this king can also know in time to go to support." ”

Of course, He Taiyi didn't know what the phone was, but since the second prince said it, he had to ask humbly, at least it was a matter of attitude, and it took Li Meng a full quarter of an hour to explain it to him.

"Your Highness, in this way, the most needed to build this kind of telephone is wires, and the most materials used are aluminum and copper, although we do not lack this kind of thing, but the quantity is a bit large, and it takes about a million taels of silver to reach the front line in the Western Regions. ”

Hey, I want money again, Li Meng has already found that the price of goods in this world is too different from the original price after coming here, the spiritual materials are not very valuable, but silver is very expensive and has become the mainstream currency, the value of one million taels of silver is about ten times the original value, so even if the amount of one million taels of silver seems to be small, but it is very valuable, Li Meng's palace is only five or six hundred thousand taels, and it is not his own, the money in the hands of those princesses is all private money, and Li Meng can't control it.

Li Meng could only take a detour for the time being and said: "This matter is not in a hurry, first connect the acropolis and Xiyang Pass, the soldiers naturally hope to use this kind of good thing when they see the benefits, He Jun has been guarding the border for so many years, he should know the importance of information, as long as we have the information, we have time, time determines everything." ”

Mrs. He nodded and said, "Yes, Lord Wang, if you only connect the Acropolis, maybe 100,000 taels of silver will be enough, and your subordinates will do it." ”

Li Meng nodded and said: "Okay, tonight this marshal plans to feast the generals and local officials and squires of Xiyang Pass, one is to express condolences to everyone on behalf of the emperor, and the other is to hope that the whole county will work together to do a good job in the affairs of the Western Expedition, in addition, since the war is coming, those businessmen should not be idle, the things that are in short supply on the front line, and the excess materials captured on the front line are their opportunities, are they not tempted?"

Mrs. He didn't expect that this scrap wood prince would actually think of doing business, but is this good? In the previous wars, there were some merchants, but they were all secretive, and it was probably not appropriate for such a thing to be brought up by a prince.

"Lord Wang, I'm afraid it's not easy to control them by advocating them to do business like this. ”

Li Meng said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, as long as we control it well, we can not only support the soldiers in front of me, but also make the businessmen make a lot of money, what are the wars fighting? The king intended to set up a merchant association to guide them on what they could and could not do, what was profitable, and what was to be killed. ”

He Taiyi suddenly smiled and said: "The prince is wise, as long as the businessmen know what to do, they will naturally restrain themselves, so that we can save a lot of effort in investigating, and those who knowingly commit crimes will be severely punished, so that those guys know how powerful the prince is!"

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This He Junshou is also very interesting, he didn't compare with Li Meng in these trivial matters, the two of them had a tacit understanding and didn't talk about the two deputy marshals on the front line, because it was in vain to talk about it, Gomen and Wu Di had independent army command, and Li Meng only had nominal command.