Duan Cheng had never cultivated these Southern Army soldiers as elite soldiers.

In his first interview with the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven told him very clearly that he did not want him to bring out another northern army, but to be able to cultivate generals and even handsome talents who would be able to become the pillars of the Han Dynasty in the future.

However, after careful training, these rangers-born soldiers actually gave him a different surprise, watching many southern soldiers lead their own teams, integrate people and horses, orderly and without any chaos, even Lu Zhi and others on the side of the northern army were a little surprised, they originally thought that it was better to use these soldiers to supplement the southern army, it was better to directly send the northern army to Liangzhou to guard, let the northern army in Liangzhou return, and then march to Yangzhou together.

These rangers, the princes and princes, have obviously learned how to control the army, the southern army is in place, camp outside Luoyang, Duan Cheng is in a hurry to return to the palace at the moment, he wants to tell His Majesty, the army can already set off, when he arrived in the palace, only three dukes and nine Qing more than a dozen people and the palace, but it is a private discussion with the Son of Heaven, seeing Duan Cheng coming, everyone is also saluting, Duan Cheng and everyone saluted, suddenly knelt in front of the little fat man on one knee, and said: "The three armies are on standby, and they can kill Yangzhou at any time!" ”

The little fat man nodded and asked, "I don't know how the soldiers went?" ”

Duan Cheng was stunned for a moment, raised his head, looked at the servant, and said: "Naturally, it is a carriage and horse, this fierce battle, if the foot army rushes to Yangzhou, where do the soldiers still have any fighting intentions?" The little fat man nodded, and also looked at the servant, who looked gloomy, shook his head, and said: "Your Majesty, there are not enough chariots and horses for 40,000 soldiers to march in this palace, unless they are requisitioned from the people, I am afraid that it will cost a lot."

"What? Spend a lot? No, no, there is no surplus in the treasury! Sure enough, when he heard about the money, he jumped up suddenly when he heard the attack, and hurriedly shouted, the little fat man looked at him with some deep meaning, don't look at this person who is confused on weekdays, and has nothing to do, but as long as it involves money, it will be Zhang Liang of me immediately, and the little fat man deliberately looked at the servant and asked: "The servant, if this is to buy chariots and horses from the people, thinking that the soldiers are used for the march, I don't know how much it will cost?" ”

The servant was stunned for a moment, and said slowly: "Near", "No need to say more!" As soon as he spoke, he was interrupted by Wen Ren's attack, who looked at him with some displeasure, looked at the little fat man, and said, "Your Majesty, why spend money? We will borrow chariots and horses from the people of Li on the road through which the soldiers and soldiers passed, and as long as Your Majesty agrees, these borrowed chariots and horses will be exempted from the car and vessel tax for one year, and these people will clap their hands and send the soldiers over! ”

For a while, everyone looked at him with strange expressions.

Sure enough, this guy still has to be forced to force out his talent.

The little fat man agreed to his request, and said to the servant beside him: "You are in charge of all the livestock in the world, if this horsepower is insufficient, how can the big man be safe?" Isn't Zheng Xuan herding cattle in Liangzhou? Where you let him be, and then give me some good horses, you should go to Liangzhou in person and negotiate with him! ”

The servant commanded.

40,000 soldiers gathered outside the city of Luoyang, the Son of Heaven was surrounded by many guards, and slowly walked to the east gate of Luoyang, and at this point the general sent troops, hunting with flags everywhere, the little fat man was unhappy to push away a few guards around, swaggered up to the high platform at the point of the general, looked down at the tens of thousands of elite soldiers below, saw the Son of Heaven on the stage, the front Duan Cheng suddenly knelt down on one knee, and shouted: "Long live the Son of Heaven!" ”

"Long live the Son of Heaven"

The southern soldiers roared vigorously, their faces turned red, and the roar was like thunder, and the northern army did not want to be suppressed by the southern army, so the sound became louder and louder, soaring into the sky, and the little fat man was also red, he ordered, sacrifice the flag, and beat the drum! Suddenly, hundreds of drummers suddenly beat the drum, and the whole city was full of thunder, and the drum seemed to be beating in the heart of the little fat man, and it was beating in the heart of every soldier!

It makes people's blood boil!

"Knock, knock, knock!" With the sound of drums, the soldiers also stood on the ground with spears in their hands, and the sword and shield hands hit the shield with swords, the little fat man felt that his whole body was burning directly, and he couldn't wait to go down now, and ride with them to kill the thieves, he took a deep breath, looking at the crazy cheering of the elite of the big man, full of ambition, Duan Cheng slaughtered three animals as a sacrifice, and invited the great Confucian Cai Yong to govern the Yi, to calculate this auspicious trip, sure enough, it is a good luck elephant!

Duan Cheng saluted heavily towards the Son of Heaven above, this is to say goodbye, many soldiers also knelt down on one knee one after another, put the weapons in their hands on the ground, showing their respect and loyalty to the Son of Heaven, the little fat man stepped forward suddenly, and shouted: "Where is the champion of me?!" Many heralds next to him shouted: "Where is the champion of me?!" From Duan Cheng to the soldiers, his eyes were extremely hot, and he replied loudly: "We are here!! ”

"We're here!!"

"We're here!!"

The soldiers were extremely excited and yearning, left Luoyang, because of the construction of the Chi Road, they were extremely allowed, and soon reached the territory of Yanzhou, but the Chi Road here has been broken, their speed has begun to slow down, Duan Cheng with 40,000 soldiers, known as 200,000, swept towards Yangzhou, indeed frightened most of the mountain people to surrender, out of the mountains and forests, self-binding officials.

Jiaozhou, Yulin County

Shanyue held a meeting here and here, but, compared to the last time, this time there are only six people, still standing here, Shanyue can be divided into two branches, one is the Han people who evaded taxes, and the other is the descendants of Baiyue and the local residents, these people wear hair tattoos, do not wear Hanfu, and have a strong personality, and the six people standing here, all of them are the descendants of Baiyue, those Haoqiang, especially aware of the strength of the Han Court, defected before, and now naturally surrendered.

You Tu frowned and didn't speak, the rest of the people also sighed, and one of them complained: "Brother, it can't be done, but let the shameless child leak it, this time it will attract Duan Cheng's 200,000 army, and we have no hope of victory at all!" Let's run away! ”

"My ancestor, his blood, his flesh, and his bones are all in this mountain forest, if you want to run, I will protect the soul of the ancestors here." Yu Tu's eyes widened and he whispered.

"Brother, but, these 200,000 troops, if we stay, we will be sent to death?!"

"To stay is to die, and to escape is to live? How many of your clansmen are left? You Tuchi shouted angrily, he pointed to the man in front of him, and said, "If we don't take it, this year we will have half of the people of the clan starve to death, and next year, they will dig up the spiritual land of our ancestors and start plowing their corpses!" If you are afraid, get out of business with me, and I will fight to the death, even if I am alone! ”

"I'm lucky to be able to sleep with my ancestors!"

The rest of the men got up suddenly, and suddenly, they pulled out their knives from their arms, slashed them on the palms of their hands, and shouted, "I want to die with my brother!" With tears in his eyes, Yu Tu held the hands of several of them, "Stupid stupid! Someone scolded behind him, You Tuchi turned around, You Tu was cut all over his body, but the wounds were not very deep, the wounds all over his body were being bandaged, and the knife marks on his face made him look extremely terrifying.

"Father, what is there that you don't belong to? Do you want to sacrifice the entire clan for your own sake? You Tu said weakly, but his eyes were staring straight at You Tuchi.

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