Jizhou City.

Li Qi never expected that Tang Pidi went to the Nalan Grassland with millions of family fortunes and did not buy back the war horse.

None of them were bought.

"A million taels of silver."

Tang Pidi looked at Li Qi and said lightly: "Six thousand Nalan warriors, for three years, I didn't buy war horses, but I hired the most elite cavalry on the Nalan grassland. ”

Li Qi blinked, thought for a moment, and then the corners of his mouth began to rise, and it didn't take long for him to reach his ears.

"I'll go, Don!"

Li Qi patted Tang Pidi the shoulder: "Is it so earned?" ”

With one million taels of silver, you can only buy back 6,000 war horses on the Nalan grassland at most.

The price of one hundred and sixty or seventy taels is the money of war horses, but now there are six thousand more warriors.

Six thousand war horses are valuable, and six thousand warlike Nalan cavalry are valuable?

He asked Tang Pidi, "Does Porco Tichi have any other ideas?" ”

Tang Pidi replied with a smile: "He didn't mention conditions, he said that he regarded us as friends, even if he didn't have that million taels of silver, if you asked him to send troops to help, he would definitely come." ”

Tang Pidi said seriously: "So I gave him a promise, he didn't mention it himself, but I have to give it." ”

Li Qi nodded and said, "That's inevitable." ”

Tang Pi said: "Don't ask me what promises I made to him?" ”

Li Qi said: "No matter what it is, what you give is what I give." ”

Tang Pidi replied: "The lord of the steppe." ”

Li Qi was stunned for a moment, this was indeed a bit more than he imagined, so his eyes narrowed slightly.

Tang Pidi smiled and said: "I told him that his six thousand elite horses will be lent to me, and when we wait until later, we will help him fight to the outer grassland, and he will be the master of the grassland." ”

Li Qi thought for a moment and nodded: "That's it." ”

Tang Pidi asked Li Qi: "Don't you think what I promised is a bit outrageous?" In comparison, if you think about it for three years, you don't feel a loss? ”

Li Qi said: "I don't think so." ”

He put his arm on Tang Bi's shoulder, smiled and said, "The six thousand fine horses that are lent to us by Er Tichi, this is a favor, and the one million taels of silver are not worth mentioning at all compared to the six thousand fine horses." ”

"As for what you said about helping Tichana to be the lord of the steppe in the future, does he believe what you say?"

"He said he believed it, but he didn't take my promise seriously. ”

Li Qi smiled: "So if I don't believe you, then let's let him see if what you say counts." ”

Tang Pidi glanced at Li Qi and laughed.

At this moment, a personal soldier came running outside, saying that the cavalry of the Nalan grassland had returned.

Li Qi and Tang Pi glanced at each other, and then walked out at the same time.

Yu Jiuling leaned on the pillar next to him, watched the almost synchronized movements of the two people, and then looked at Gao Xining, who was smirking next to him, and said, "Brother Ning, I really think that sometimes you are redundant. ”

He added, "I mean, it's not that you're superfluous sometimes, it's that you're superfluous sometimes, and you're superfluous all the time. ”

Gao Xining's eyes narrowed slightly.

Yu Jiuling ran out to follow Li Qi and them, turned back to Gao Xining and smiled, "I'll help you keep an eye on the two of them." ”

City gates.

When Li Qi saw the Son Tichina, he greeted him with a smile, and the Son Tichana jumped off the war horse and ran in front of Li Qi.

Li Qi was just about to speak, but Er Ti Chi directly gave Li Qi a bear hug, the kind that was very hard.

"Brother."

Xiao'er Ti Chi let go of her hand, held Li Qi's shoulders and looked at it carefully: "Brother Tang Pi said, you went to the south, I thought I wouldn't see you this time." ”

Li Qi said: "If I knew that you would come to Jizhou."

I put on my wings and flew back. ”

Yu Jiuling thought beside him, the head of the house was really a scumbag, and he could say so passionately to a man.

Besides, where to plug in?

Er Tichi said with a smile: "I chased and killed the men on the grassland for a while just now, and your enemies should not dare to come back." ”

He took Li Qi's hand and said as he walked: "After chasing and killing for dozens of miles, the people who fled didn't even dare to turn their heads." ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head sideways and shouted: "Brother Titeng, come here." ”

A young man who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old ran up, with a dark complexion and a simple face, but his eyes were very bright, like stars in the sky.

Porco Tichi said to Li Qi: "This is my younger brother, although he is not his own brother, but he is like a brother, he is the warrior of our Porthi family. ”

He said to Brother Titeng again: "In the future, you will stay here to help Li Qi do things, you remember, he is just like me, I am your brother, he is also your brother, Tang Pi is also your brother, how you treat me, you must treat them." ”

"Yes!"

Brother Titeng put his hand on his chest and bowed to Li Qi: "Brother Li Qi." ”

Li Qi laughed and said, "Okay, good." ”

"The six thousand cavalry I brought this time are the ones I have carefully selected, and each of them is a warrior who is good at fighting, and I have already told them that they should respect you and Tang Pi as much as they do for me, and be as loyal as they are to me. ”

"Brother Li Qi, you and Tang Pi are the benefactors of our Nalan grassland, and they are also the brothers of my son Tichina, I will hand them over to you."

Li Qi nodded heavily: "Okay!" ”

That night, Li Qi was overwhelmed by guests from the grassland.

That's a lot.

Li Qi's alcohol consumption was very good, so good that he felt that he could play a circle.

Even people like him sometimes fail to have a clear understanding of themselves.

Before a third of the lap was reached, he was already asleep on the table, and he was still bleeding.

The next day.

Li Qi woke up as usual, got up and went to the yard to practice, the summer sun rose very early, Li Qi was sweating shirtless in the early morning sun.

On those muscles, beads of sweat reflected the sun.

After the practice, take a bath and change clothes, and then go out of the city with Tang Pi and them.

The team divided into two routes, Tang Pidi and Er Ti China led the cavalry to continue southward to see if the remnants of the Anyang army had indeed retreated.

And Li Qi took the Ning army team to Baipo Lake to clean up the corpses of the Anyang army in the water village.

The body was fished out, the leather armor was removed, and then buried.

It's not a beautiful thing, the mountains of corpses are the cruelty of war.

There are so many corpses that need to be disposed of, and it is not possible to do it in a day, but in the summer, corpses will decompose quickly, so it must be disposed of as soon as possible.

In order to prevent the plague, dispose of the corpses in place, but also cover a layer with white ash.

Then Li Qi ordered the captured weapons and armor to be transported back to the city, where the people could come and collect them.

Of course, it was not sent to the people, but to ask the people to help clean and tidy up.

Clean out a set of leather armor equipment, can not be exposed to the sun, to air dry in a cool place, and then to maintain.

After finishing the work, hand over the leather armor back to the camp of the Ning army, and each person can receive a tael of silver.

After this battle, the Ning army had more than 20,000 troops in Jizhou, and they all had their own full set of equipment.

A few days later, he left Jizhou and returned to the Nalan grassland, and Li Qi and Tang were sent fifty miles away.

A few days later, Li Qi received a military report from northern Xinjiang, which was sent by Xiahou Zhuo.

The black warrior really went south, but as he and Li Qi judged, he didn't plan to fight to the death at all.

The 150,000-strong army was stationed in northern Xinjiang

Piercing down, it looks like it's menacing, and it's just looking.

Three months later, a military report from the northern frontier sent a telegram saying that the black warriors had retreated, and they had not attacked the frontier from beginning to end.

The military newspaper also said that it was known who the current Heiwu Khan Emperor was.

The younger brother of the broad and invincible Dashi has won the battle for the throne, and in this competition, the broad and invincible royal family and the major families are involved.

The ultimate victor walked on the high platform where the throne was placed by stepping on the corpses of countless people.

The master of the Sword Gate held a coronation ceremony for the new Khan Emperor, and he stood at the highest point of the black martial power.

Intelligence-wisely, compared to the broad and invincible Daishi, he has a more radical personality, is younger, and wants to make a difference.

But he is not a person who only has impulses, and this person's resourcefulness should not be underestimated.

That's why he just let the black army go south to make a show, if he is really a radical person, maybe he will personally lead the army south.

What he has to do is, of course, to stabilize his throne as soon as possible, which is much more important than going south to attack the Chu State.

In the capital of Heiwu, there are still countless people who disobey him.

For Nakahara, this should be considered a good thing anyway.

In the next two or three years, the Black Warrior Khan Emperor may not have too much energy to target the Central Plains.

So Xiahou Zhuo said in the letter that if nothing else, he would return to Jizhou this winter and celebrate the New Year with them.

It is already late autumn now, and it will be the beginning of winter in a few days, and it is not far from Xiahou Zhuo's return.

More important news came two days later, Luo Jing returned to Youzhou.

There was no mistake with Li Qi's expectation, and Luo Jing's expedition returned in vain.

He failed to take Yanzhou, and on the surface it didn't seem to have much loss, wasting more than a year.

As Li Qi expected, he had no plans to come to Jizhou at all, and he didn't even send someone to tell Li Qi that he was back.

What a proud man he was, so he didn't look good on his face.

He would rather not come to Jizhou, and would rather really hand over Jizhou to Li Qi than come to see Li Qi and them.

And for Luo Jing, this expedition, how can there be any invincible and undefeated situation, if you don't win, you will lose.

Because he consumed a lot of money, food, and materials, many soldiers died in Yanzhou.

Youzhou was already short of troops, and after this battle, Youzhou's troops were even more stretched.

Before the arrival of this winter, Li Qi's Ning army had reached 38,000 troops.

And this does not include the cavalry of the six thousand Nalan steppes, but only the strength of the Ning army.

Of course, including those who were withdrawn from the Yanshan camp.

The Yanshan camp still needs to be retained, and the cottage is everyone's way out, but now that Jizhou is stable, the base camp can be moved to Jizhou.

Therefore, Li Qi sent people to Yanshan and asked Zhuang Wushu to arrange capable men, leaving 1,200 people to guard the camp.

The rest of the team, before the arrival of winter, had already moved to Jizhou City.

With a team of 38,000 people and three armies, how can such a scale not make people's hearts surge?

In fact, if it weren't for Tang Pidi and Li Qi's extremely strict requirements for governing the army, the number of troops would have quadrupled.

With Li Qi's current fame, influence, wealth, and stability in Jizhou, if there is no requirement for the quality of soldiers, let alone 100,000 troops, 150,000 people can also have them.

However, with such 150,000 people, Li Qi didn't want it, and Tang Bidi wouldn't want it.

On the city wall of Jizhou, the flag of Ningzi is fluttering.

That year, the child followed his master into the big city of Jizhou with some incomprehension.

Master said that you are still young, and when you are older, you will understand that Master is changing your life.

Five years later, the big city was his.

He's no longer a kid.