At ten o'clock in the evening, the family gathered around the large living room of the inner house to eat, and Bai Liyan was very relieved to see her daughters grow up and gather around her one after another.

"Master Hou, you have to be a good family with the right family for a brutal marriage, otherwise I won't be at ease as a mother."

Before Tang Tao's voice fell, Baili squirmed and said:

"Mother, my daughter doesn't want to get married yet."

Tang Tao stretched out his hand and poked Baili Barbarian's forehead, and said menacingly:

"Sixteen girls have given birth to babies, you are twenty years old, how can my mother not be anxious."

"Dad said it, if you want me to be in love freely, the man that my daughter can't look down on, my daughter won't marry."

In fact, Tang Tao had already fallen in love with Baili Barbarian, but in her eyes, there was only one word "money" for measurement, and she would not consider Baili Barbarian's feelings, so Baili Yan did not agree.

After a few words with her daughter, Tang Tao turned to Bailiyan and complained:

"Master Hou, look, the barbarism really gets bigger and more disobedient."

At this time, Bailiyan said:

"Back then, I wanted you to marry a rich man with horizontal eyebrows and a full face, were you willing?"

Tang Tao's face suddenly turned red, her eyes looked left and right hesitantly, she said:

"Then how can you compare with Master Hou, besides, Miss won't agree."

At this time, Xiao Chunyu answered:

"This may not be, I knew that Sister Peach was good at serving, so I should have redeemed you two years earlier, maybe people can thank me as a matchmaker."

"Oh, miss, you're really ......"

Xiao Chunyu made fun of Tang Tao, Tang Tao's face was red and embarrassed, and the women laughed when they heard it.

"Alright, alright, now let's get serious. If there is any inconvenience, call me, or ask Mr. Zhao and Mr. Zongbo for advice, and you can understand it. ”

"Why is this good guy going to Liang Country again."

Lord Qiao was worried, and Xiao Er answered:

"Yes, Master Hou is not what he used to be now, he is always running around and working hard, and it is distressing for me to wait for a good time."

"Why don't you want to enjoy the joy of family life for your husband, but now that the new army has just been formed, I have to go out in person for the first battle, you just need to take care of the family business at home with peace of mind, and control your children, the war is your own proportion, don't worry."

Pre-war dinner gatherings have become a practice in the Hou Mansion for many years, although the women are unwilling, but no one is tired of dragging Baili Yan back.

In the early morning of the next day, in the front yard of the Hou Mansion, Baili Yan took Feiyu and stroked its old and dull mane, and her heart couldn't help but be uneasy.

"This journey is long, it seems that I can't take you with me anymore, you are good to live at home to recuperate, when I come back, I will ride you around, do you understand?"

Fei Yu is very human, snorting and bowing his head to get close to Baili Yan rubbing in front of him, as if he is reluctant to give up his master, the next moment Bai Li Yan and the general Xu Yu said:

"On hot days, take the flying feathers to the shade of the trees, don't run wildly, feed more well water and concentrate feed, and clean the stables every day to avoid illness."

"No!"

After instructing Xu Yu, Bailiyan and Jiang Rong and other women said:

"Ladies, please stay, and on the day of your husband's victorious return, you will be with you for a good life."

Bai Liyan raised her hand and made a salute, the women burst into tears, Jiang Rong stepped forward and said:

"Just rest assured, I'll be waiting at home, you can rest assured."

"Hmmm......"

Holding Jiang Rong's hand affectionately, Baili Yan endured the waves in her heart, took Feiyu's fifth son, Feixia, and turned away categorically.

In the past 22 years, Fei Yu gave birth to four sons and two daughters in his life, every year as long as he is free, Baili Yan will let people move Fei Yu back to the south to breed, Fei Xia is Fei Yu's fifth child, physical fitness and endurance are much better than Fei Yu, but only the strength is not as good as Fei Yu.

A large part of the reason why Flying Feather stood out as a leader in the herd was that he was very strong and not slow, and he was in his prime at the time, and the other stallions were no match for him.

Out of the Hou Mansion to the West Gate, Zhao Huan, Lu Gao, Zhang You and others have been waiting here to see them off, this time Zhao Huan will go together, absorb combat experience, the book is a hundred times, it is not as good as the practical flexible application once.

This rush to the aid of Liang State is not only to show the national strength of Xian State and provide a political atmosphere for the next princes' alliance, but also to automate weapons and equipment, and has not been put into battle head-on.

In the first battle of Sangbei County, although the eighth town of Zhoukong was also pulled up, it was not put into battle in the end, so it was necessary to test a series of tactical tactics formulated before in actual combat, so as to provide reference experience for the next fierce battles and counteroffensives.

As soon as they came out of the Lingling, the group first went to Yongxing City to arrange production scheduling, and when Mo Yunfeng was transferred from Wanchuan before, he had been stationed in the barracks west of Yongxing City to receive retraining and equipment replacement, Xue Sheng was transferred to Xianxi and Beihai counties in 653, and Tian Peng and Fang Liang were transferred to Dongyuan.

After the transfer of Mo Yunfeng's department, west of Yongxing City and even in the entire Dujun West County and Xianxi County, there was only the Eighth Town Army left in Zhoukong, and the defense pressure was not small, especially the foreign soldiers who had been recruited from various countries in recent years were all in Tuntian and training in Chunan County, although there would be no mutiny, but after all, there were potential safety hazards, and we could not help but be vigilant.

Yongxing stayed for two days, and the group immediately changed to take a special train to Ganfu.

It is said that it is a special train, in fact, only three carriages are passenger carriages, in order to improve the efficiency of transportation, pull more people, the remaining more than ten carriages are truck carriages and carriages for pulling livestock. The guests are all for the commanders and generals to rest, meetings and meal preparations.

Even so, there was still an endless stream of people from their own countries and vassal states who fled by train to take refuge in the capital of Xianguo, and even the wealthy.

As soon as the train arrived at the station, the auxiliary troops at the station organized personnel to drive the ordinary people out of the car, enter the return yard on the spot, hang up the locomotive to the west, and transfer to the Xianjun to board the train.

The soldiers of the Xian army held copper megaphones in their hands, walked back and forth on the platform, repeating the announcement, whether they arrived at the station or did not arrive at the station, everything was for the needs of the war, and they had to get on the train without conditions at this moment.

"This is the military train sent to the front line, all the people and foreigners get off immediately, this is the Xian army train sent to the front line, all the people and foreigners get off the train immediately......"

Passengers were quickly driven off the carriage in a panic and panic, whether they wanted to or not, whether you were a nobleman or a pariah, whether rich or poor, at this moment there was no essential difference in the face of war, the same vulnerability, in the face of a vicious enemy, military support priority over all people's livelihood needs.

The Xian army quickly boarded the carriage with dirty air and messy space, hung up the front of the car heading west an hour later, pulled the green smoke, and rushed to the unknown battlefield on the front line.

The opening of railways, telephones, and cable telegraphs enabled the counties of Xianguo to be included in the general logistics dispatch, and all material transfers and personnel transfers were compressed from the original three-month cycle to three to five days by relying on railway transportation.

Although the railway is not yet able to reach the point where every city is connected by train, the overall transportation capacity and efficiency have changed the mode of transportation and delivery, pushing the war into a new era.

The progress and development of information and communication has made the central government have formed a substantial administrative jurisdiction over the local government, and compared with the previous loose management and local appointments, this kind of administrative efficiency of listening to and delegating from the top has made the state power highly concentrated in the central government.

Each local government will no longer be a town with an independent local economy, and with the impetus of communication and the modern commodity economy, the town will become every cell of the country, and the renewal and iteration of the cell will be brought under the central authority with unprecedented transparency.

The train drove all the way through the vast territory of Xianguo, Bai Liyan looked at the scenery outside the window, and recalled the fledgling youth thirty years ago, now he is old, but the empire he created will rise in the forest of the universe at an unprecedented speed.

In addition to replenishing coal and food twice along the way, the special train kept going west, arrived at Fengqing, the county capital of Ganfu County two days later, crossed the Quanhe Railway Bridge through the Fengqing return yard to the north, and detoured to the west to the east bank of Jiangquancheng, Dekang County, under the Sishuijiang Railway Bridge in Ganfu County, and the railway took this as the end point, entered the local return factory and turned around and returned the original way.

The officers and men of Mo Yunfeng's Second Town Army and Jiang Jie's First Column arrived first and crossed the river on foot through the road on the upper level of the cross-river railway bridge.

The construction period of the cross-river railway bridge is expected to be three years, and it should be completed by the end of this year and early next year, and the progress is actually slightly faster.

On the one hand, the use of electric tower cranes has increased mechanization, on the other hand, the use of automobiles and trains has allowed raw materials to be continuously transported to the riverside, and dozens of large ships on the river surface have taken turns to assist in construction, and manpower has been working in three shifts 24 hours a day.

In addition, the use of empty boats, so that the key groups of girders can be easily closed, a variety of technical factors combined to complete the construction period as soon as October, after which a three-month bridge static pressure test will begin to test whether the ultimate bearing capacity of the railway bridge meets the design indicators.

Although the lower railway bridge has not yet been fully completed, the upper road bridge was almost completed last month.

According to the construction plan, the upper and lower construction together, the upper layer can be effectively used to build the lower layer, so the upper layer is completed quickly, the highway pavement is ramming the soil layer, and the first asphalt pavement will be laid after the ramming is completed.

The Xianjun army continued to arrive in Ganfu by special train, and thousands of medium-sized trucks and pickup trucks drove to Jiangquan, Du Ruixun was shocked to learn that Bailiyan had arrived in Jiangquan, and quickly rode to Jiangquan to meet Bailiyan.

Bai Liyan took the opportunity to invite him to see the appearance of the Xianjun army, but in fact, he gave him a dismount.

On this day, the sky was clear, and he pointed to thousands of trucks and said triumphantly:

"General Du, can our army be strong?"

"Very strong."

Du Ruixun complimented, but in fact, it is not okay not to compliment, and then Bai Liyan said again:

"I think that if your army had encountered tens of thousands of people in our army today, I am afraid that it would not even be able to withstand the distance of one mile."

Du Ruixun's cheeks twitched, and he said:

"Then according to Your Excellency, you attacked me back then, and your subordinates showed mercy."

"The battle between the two armies will inevitably lead to casualties, but Ben Hou really did not kill your army, otherwise General Du would have starved to death in the first place."

Hearing this, Du Ruixun was quite unconvinced, he said:

"Hmph, your country is just relying on the excellent equipment in your hands, if our country also has the same sophisticated equipment, it may not be able to fight with the Xian army."

"Hehe, the general's words are good, but God may not give your country this opportunity."

"Alas......" Du Ruixun sighed, and then said: "It seems that from now on, Xianguo will definitely win the world." ”

At this time, Bailiyan denied and said:

"No, it's not the Xianguo that wins the world, it's the Central Plains, the Central Plains can't continue to fall apart like this, otherwise even if you drive away the armpit this time, and make a comeback next time, every time the Central Plains is so traumatized, three or five times to make my Central Plains essence blood bear such a price, it's time to stop this endless war."

"Could it be that Your Excellency wants to sweep the princes and set the world!" Du Ruixun asked carefully, he knew very well that the current situation was unprecedentedly beneficial to the Xianguo, and if the Xianguo wanted to wipe out the princes, there was no one to resist.

However, Bailiyan did not want to use the bloodiest means to forcibly achieve reunification, he said:

"The princes are the feudal lords of the Son of Heaven, and the princes can still retain the titles and the counties where the capital is located, and as for the nobles of various countries, they can be discussed again. General Du thought that Ben Hou was discussing this. ”

"There is no way that at this moment, my king can agree to such conditions of loss of power and humiliation of the country."

"At that time, you will not be able to defend the king." When the words fell, Bai Liyan pointed to hundreds of trucks in the distance and said: "General Du, you see, these trucks can plant more than 10 to 20 soldiers per truck, and Ben Hou has called 8,000 such trucks to carry 75,000 Xian troops, in addition to ammunition, artillery, grain and grass supplies, and rations can be used for the whole army for two months." From here, it will only take more than ten days to go to Liang country, and it will not take more than a month to go to your country.

And our country is in a steady stream of quantity, day and night production and construction, it does not take ten years, our whole army can be equipped with such trucks, General Du thinks that your country now relies on people to pick up horses and transport heavy grain and grass, can it compete with our army, not to mention that your army is still holding swords, guns, swords, halberds, and even bronze weapons. ”

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