The years have passed without leaving a trace, and time has passed in a hundred years.

Twenty-three days have passed since Wang Mang ordered the soldiers to set off from Yinchuan County.

In these short 23 days, he led an army of 50,000 galloped nearly 3,000 miles, crossed the long boundary between Inner Mongolia and Gansu, and almost reached the outer boundary of Dunhuang Pass, only one step away from Yumen Pass.

Along the way, although there are many rogues, renegades, and foreign herdsmen and horses. But under Wang Mang's high-pressure and coercion, it was difficult for these people to shake the footsteps of the army.

Wang Mang gave a strict order to his subordinate army, telling them that if they could make sense with the people who stood in the way, then they would make peace. If it doesn't make sense, then blood will be killed.

In the past 20 days, his subordinates have killed more than 20,000 people.

These people die without repentance, that is, they don't make sense, like elm heads.

Wang Mang was not merciful to them, and directly destroyed them all, with a great reputation and arrogance, like death.

He is paving a broad road with hot blood, and warning many forces with endless corpses and bones, don't block the way, otherwise there will be a dead end.

Of course, his method of killing people without blinking has indeed achieved remarkable results, deterring many forces.

Therefore, in the very beginning, although his subordinates killed a lot of people, but when they came to the rear, they were almost unimpeded, and no one dared to stop them. Because those forces behind heard about Wang Mang's subordinates who were blocking the way, they were very scared and did not dare to come forward again, frightened of this "Wei family" army under the banner of Wei.

To expand the territory, recover the lost territory, and expel foreign enemies, in addition to suppressing them with upright royal means, it is also necessary to use hegemonic means to assist.

Only use the royal road of benevolence and righteousness, that is pedantic, and it will not become a big thing. Just use domineering, that is, brutal, unkind, ruthless and unjust, and it will not become a big thing. Only by combining the royal road and the domineering can we achieve great things.

Sometimes, it is not a bad thing to be ruthless, domineering, and not benevolent. Wang Mang knows a lot about this. Because not everyone will listen to the persuasion of others, and not everyone has a good heart.

It is necessary to use drastic measures to deal with such unrepentant people, otherwise it will bring immeasurable losses.

When many of Wang Mang's subordinates saw that they were getting closer and closer to Yumen Pass, their hearts became inexplicably excited, and their blood was boiling.

After dozens of days of continuous travel, they did not feel the slightest fatigue, but the fighting spirit was high, and the morale was surging, and they all hoped to arrive at Yumen Pass as soon as possible, and then have a bloody battle with the Huns.

Not only them, but the 50,000 soldiers of the Tianhan Battalion led by Wang Xianzhi were also enthusiastic and surprisingly smooth.

They met little resistance along the way, and no one interrogated. Many forces in Qinghai Province almost reached a consensus, and they all believed that Wang Xianzhi's subordinates were the mysterious force that had previously defeated the Loulan coalition army.

In this way, his 50,000 horses and Wang Mang's 50,000 horses across Gansu, echoing each other from afar, and the pace is the same.

Of course, these two teams of more than 100,000 people were dispatched, and the peripheral spies on the Huns' side noticed that something was wrong and wanted to tell Da Shan Yu the truth.

It's a pity that their intelligence transmission speed has never been one step ahead, and they have not been able to accurately deliver the news to the big orders in time.

As for Da Shan Yu, all he got was that there seemed to be a large number of troops and horses in Yizhou under the jurisdiction of the Wei family.

Regarding this situation, he basically believed that this was Wei Gonghan dispatching troops and horses to reinforce Dingxi Pass, and he didn't care too much.

In his prediction, the major families of the Han Dynasty will indeed continue to reinforce their troops and hold Dingxi Pass for a long time in the future.

In addition, Ji Yun stirred up the wind and rain in the rear of the Xiongnu before, captured many princes and princesses, and even captured Yuezhi, which is equivalent to sharing some of the attention of Da Dan Yu for Wang Mang.

At this moment, Da Shan Yu has a part of his energy on finding these princes and princesses, and he is exhausted, unable to sleep at night, and regrets a lot.

Yuezhi is his intimate little padded jacket, holding it in his mouth for fear of melting, holding it in his hand for fear of falling, and doting to the extreme.

But now, Yuezhi disappeared inexplicably, and he was very anxious.

In his intelligence, the source of everything pointed to his own opposition, and in this way, he allocated part of his energy and forces to suppress these opposition.

As for the imprisoned cow, he was also very angry about Yuezhi's disappearance. Yue Zhi is his fiancée, and he doesn't allow any accidents to happen to Yue Zhi, and he also devotes most of his energy to finding Yue Zhi.

As for Shi Xiuying, the princess of Dawan Kingdom, she went out to play, but she didn't return for several months, and no letter was sent, and the king of Dawan Kingdom was also a little anxious, and sent orders again and again to ask about the situation of Mandrola, the general of Dawan Kingdom.

Because Shi Xiuying followed Mandrola to the Xiongnu, now that King Dawan has not received Shi Xiuying's message for a long time, he is naturally anxious.

Faced with this situation, Mandrola was also anxious and asked Da Danyu to do his best to find it.

However, Shi Xiuying's luck was much better than Yuezhi after all, although she was captured by Wang Mang, Wang Mang did not embarrass her, but gave her relative freedom. As for Yuezhi, she is a sheep in the mouth of a tiger, and she is insulted by Ji Yun almost every day.

These things happened together, as if the heavens were helping Wang Mang, relieving Wang Mang a lot of pressure and distracting most of his enemies' energy.

At this moment, Wang Mang cut off all external contacts, kept his spirit, and did not dare to distract himself. If you don't contact Liaoning, you don't contact the imperial capital, it's like being in another time and space, and you only lead the troops to attack with all your heart.

On the 24th, he led his troops across the Dunhuang Pass in the outside world and finally arrived at the periphery of the Yumen Pass.

When he came here, he was completely relaxed.

One step away, now it's really just one step away. Just cross the border with Inner Mongolia and drive straight into it to reach your destination.

"Twenty-four days, the detour is nearly 3,000 miles, rare, really rare." Wang Mang looked up to the sky and sighed.

"All the soldiers are united and can defy all difficulties. I have such a divine soldier and a god will help me, why worry about the big thing not succeeding, the world is uncertain? ”

"Miss Ji Xue, the Yumen Pass is in front of the left side of my army, after the army has rested for a few hours and has recuperated enough. Tomorrow morning, our army will begin to rush through the pass, and after a day, we will be able to join forces with my uncle and march to the city. Now that the stars are shining, it will be dawn in a few hours, and you should also go back to Dingxiguan to meet Ji Yun and them. ”

Ji Xue's eyes were red, and she was very reluctant.

"Wang Mang, you just let me stay by your side for another night, and I will leave early tomorrow morning."

Wang Mang said: "Cutting constantly, the reason is still messy, it is a sorrow, and there is a different taste in my heart." Tomorrow is followed by tomorrow, and the cycle goes on and on. You don't have to be reluctant, because you and I will be separated after all, and the sooner day and the later day will be the same ending. ”

"That is, but I still don't want to." Ji Xue turned over and dismounted, and then pulled Wang Mang off the horse.

She looked left and right, and found that there were no outsiders around except for Wang Mang's henchmen, Murong Xiao and Shi Xiuying, so she took Wang Mang's hand and said: "The sky is full of stars right now, and tomorrow will definitely be a good weather with clear skies." Let's go around and relax. ”

Wang Mang glanced around, and said to his subordinates: "You give me the order to go down and transfer the army to rest for five hours." After that, the whole army continued to hurry, and it was necessary to break through all barriers at the pass in the early morning of tomorrow and arrive in front of the Yumen Pass. ”

"Yes, sir!" Many generals said.

Wang Mang came to Murong Xiao's horse and said to him: "Murong Xiao, now is the rest time of the army, you can take Shi Xiuying and us for a walk." I have some personal matters that I want to talk to you about. ”

(End of chapter)