Shi Bao and Zhao Yi went to Muzhou to recruit the Dunjia god Ying Ming, and Chao Yong asked Zhao Yi, Pan Wende, and Ying Ming to lead soldiers who were willing to continue to serve as soldiers to Tokyo to participate in the selection of recruits. Those who didn't want to be soldiers were directly entangled and sent home.

The army stopped at Muzhou for a day, and then continued southward, surrendering the territories controlled by Lü Shisang along the way.

Chao Yong made a special trip to Fuzhou to pay tribute to Fang Baihua, and then joined the army and came to Fujian Road.

After Shen Gang, the god of heaven, heard the news that Lu Shisang was defeated and Fang Jie avenged the Holy Aunt, he did not bring his own soldiers, and he disappeared alone.

The six Ding God Xu Tong was unable to support it alone, and he also led his troops to join the beam.

The prince paid 100,000 yuan to arrest Shen Gang.

Hu Yanzhuo served as the chief soldier of Fujian Road and led 10,000 soldiers to guard Fujian Road.

On 10 December, Chao Yong led an army of 70,000 to Guangzhou, and Li Xie led the city of Chinese to meet him.

With the development of maritime trade, Guangzhou, as one of the city's shipping companies, is also full of shops, and the streets are full of foreigners in fancy clothes.

Although Guangzhou is more prosperous than many northern cities, it is still the frontier of the empire for those who are officials, far from Beijing, and it is a place to belittle officials.

Therefore, the Chinese Wu of the city was very enthusiastic about Chao Yong's arrival, and they all wanted to be favored by the prince and transferred back to the north.

Chao Yong was not stingy, and played the exploits of some officials, if there was no accident, the imperial court would drop them all to the north to serve as officials. Of course, there will be no surprises when Chao Yong plays it. Therefore, Guangzhou officials were grateful to Chao Yong and actively mobilized grain and grass for the army. All the way south, the army's grain and grass were escorted by the navy.

The pacification of Guangdong made Li Heng resist the invasion of the Li Dynasty in Vietnam, and he was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Jiangsu Road and made him an earl. After Huainan East and West Road was changed to Anhui Road and Jiangsu Road, Luan Tingyu was appointed as the chief soldier of Anhui Road, and the chief soldier of Jiangsu Road has not been appointed. However, Li Heng was familiar with the military affairs of Guangnan, and mobilized 10,000 soldiers and horses to accompany the army.

The general army of Guangdong Road was succeeded by Shi Wengong.

This was also the first time that Chao Yong called on southern soldiers and horses after he went south. Although there is an Taoquan escort all the way, after thousands of miles south, there are still people who are not accustomed to the water and soil, so they can only stay along the way to recuperate.

When they arrived in Guangzhou, although there were still 70,000 troops, the actual strength was only 60,000.

After resting in Guangzhou for two days, the army headed for Guangxi.

The soldiers and horses of the Li Dynasty had already abandoned the cities on the Guangxi Road and retreated to Yongzhou.

When the army arrived in Pennsylvania, it had to stop to recuperate, not because of the plague. It's the Lunar New Year here.

At this time, the city of Tokyo was celebrating, and when Chao Yong swept away the Southern Song Dynasty and Lu Shinang, Lin Chong also forced Wang Qing to surrender. As soon as Lin Chong sent troops, Wang Qing kept sending envoys to ask for peace, but Chao Gai only promised to make him the uncle of Chu Guobo, without any official position. When the two sides were still bargaining, Lin Chong, who had been holding back for a long time, led his troops to kill him, killing tens of thousands of Wang Qing's soldiers and horses in the two battles, and defeating more than 100,000. forced Wang Qing to surrender unconditionally. Chao Gai did not lower the reward, and rewarded Wang Qing with a Tokyo mansion and Chu Guobo.

Wang Qing was also full of joy, in his early years, he was just a military man in Tokyo. Now Feng Bo can be said to have returned to his hometown.

After Lin Chong swept away Wang Qing, he led his troops into the Sichuan Road to exterminate the rebellious ethnic minorities in Sichuan.

Because of the rapid expansion of the territory of the Great Liang, Chao Gai announced the opening of Enke in the second year of the Apocalypse. Again, the imperial examination was elected.

For two consecutive years, the selection of scholars in the imperial examination has made everyone in the world rejoice.

Guangxi Road was not as rich as Guangdong Road, and Penn was swept away by the retreat of the Vietnamese Li Dynasty. Ding Zhuang was taken captive in the city, and a fire almost burned Penn to the ground.

The army did not have any entertainment in Pennsylvania, only 100,000 catties of wine and meat urgently dispatched from Guangdong Road, which was even enough to eat for one meal, and there was no shortage of rice.

There was no entertainment, so Chao Yong held a bonfire party for the sergeants in the various armies who could sing and dance.

Although there was not much wine and meat, the sergeants ate very happily, because each piece of meat was smeared with a thick layer of spices.

Most of the spices in the Central Plains come from the southern countries and big food sellers, and they are all precious things in the Central Plains, which can only be enjoyed by large households, and ordinary people may not be able to taste them in their lifetime.

Guangzhou couldn't raise too much wine and meat, so Chao Yong asked the navy to transport all the spices from Guangzhou Port. In the overseas trade system of the Song Dynasty, one-tenth of the value of goods arriving at Hong Kong was taken as tariff. Instead of calculating the value of the tax, the tax is taken directly, but the tenth of the goods is taken directly. The rest of the goods will not be sold by the merchants themselves, but will be purchased and sold by the imperial court to earn huge profits.

The overseas trade system of Daliang also followed the system of the Song Dynasty, and Chao Yong issued a warrant, and all the spices purchased in Guangzhou were shipped over.

When you bite into it, you can't taste the meat at all, and you can only eat a mouthful of spices.

Chao Yong didn't like this kind of barbecue, but the soldiers liked this way of eating, and even Li Kui was a mouthful of spices.

Although the price of spices purchased by the imperial court was low, it was also necessary to leave a huge profit for the maritime merchants, otherwise the maritime merchants would not have fought for their lives in the waves against the storm.

In this bonfire party, more than 200,000 guan of spices alone were eaten, and if they were sold, these spices would be worth more than 2 million guan.

If the coach is not the prince, absolutely no one would dare to call these many spices, and of course they may not be able to transfer them.

In addition to the spices, Chao Yong also rewarded each person with ten yuan. After sweeping away Master Lu's bag, Chao Yong was not stingy, and he also rewarded each person with ten times.

Many of the soldiers who were still in the family when they set out from Tokyo also had 30 pieces of wealth, and there were other rewards for beheading meritorious service.

These rewards were not given cash, but were deposited by the Ministry of War into the royal ticket number, and they could get the deposit receipt and go to the royal ticket number to cash out. The bounties for the fallen soldiers will be distributed to their families together with other pensions of the imperial court, but the soldiers killed in the Southern Song Dynasty and Lu Shisang will only be hundreds.

Destroying all the soldiers and horses, there was a big award for the whole army, although it took four months and marched thousands of miles, but the morale of the soldiers was still high. I wish that this southern expedition would wipe out all the nations, so that when they go back, they will all be rich men.

The army only rested in Pennsylvania for three days before sending troops to Kunlun Pass.

Kunlun Pass is between Yongzhou and Pennzhou, compared to the Xiongguan in the north, the mountains on both sides of Kunlun Pass are not high, and the pass is not dangerous, but the trees on both sides of Kunlun Pass are thick, there are countless snakes and insects in the meantime, if you want to bypass from both sides, you have to face countless snakes and insects first. It is not easier to deal with than the swords and arrows of Kunlun Pass.

The Kunlun Pass guard will be Liu Qingtan, the captain of the Li Dynasty of Vietnam, leading 30,000 troops to garrison Kunlun Pass, wanting to block the soldiers and horses of Daliang.

Li Qiande, the lord of the Li Dynasty of Vietnam, led 70,000 soldiers and horses and 100,000 barbarian troops from 36 mountains of the left and right rivers to garrison Yongzhou.

After the autumn wind of the Great Liang swept away the fallen leaves and swept away the Southern Song Dynasty and Lu Shibao, the barbarian soldiers of the Thirty-six Mountains were unwilling to follow the soldiers and horses of the Li Dynasty to loot the state capitals on the Guangxi Road, for them the city and land were of little use, all they wanted was gold and silver treasures and Han slaves, and they had robbed a lot. Therefore, after hearing that the soldiers and horses of Daliang were menacing, they all rushed back to Yongzhou.

In the face of the Great Liang, Li Gande did not dare to disperse his troops, so he simply let the soldiers and horses of the state capitals plunder. They all retreated to Yongzhou, wanting to defeat the Liang soldiers and horses in Yongzhou.

When Nong Zhigao rebelled, he was also preparing to block the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty at Kunlun Pass. Unexpectedly, Di Qing, the leading general of the Song Dynasty, directly led his troops to bypass Kunlun Pass, disrupted Nong Zhigao's deployment, and finally put down Nong Zhigao's rebellion. Therefore, Li Gande did not put the main forces in Kunlun Pass, but concentrated in Yongzhou, preparing for a decisive battle with the soldiers and horses of Daliang in Yongzhou. Ask them to help in the fight.

Li Qiande knew the strength of the northern soldiers, but he also knew that most of the northern soldiers would not adapt to the soil and water after staying in the south for a long time, and there would even be plagues in the army. Wait for the intention of the Great Liang to attrition.

It's just that Chao Yong has formulated strict health regulations for the army, and the imperial doctor led by An Daoquan has carefully prevented and treated them, but there are very few people who are sick in the army. And once the soldiers are unwell, they can immediately go to the nearest state capital to recuperate. So there was no plague in the army.

The attrition of the Liang soldiers is not serious, and the serious attrition is the war horses of the Huarong Department. After the 10,000 cavalry of the Huarong Department entered the Guangxi Road, more than 3,000 cavalry became infantry. Every day, war horses fall ill, and in order to prevent contagion, they can only kill them. Soldiers were also strictly forbidden to eat horse meat, both to prevent contagion and to prevent someone from deliberately killing horses because of horse meat.

When the Liang soldiers and horses arrived at the Kunlun Pass, it was already close to evening, and Chao Yong did not let people set up camp in the village, but set up a position and prepared to attack Kunlun Pass.

On Kunlun Pass, Liu Qingtan saw the soldiers and horses of Daliang lined up below, and said with a smile: "This Daliang prince really thinks that he is a god of heaven, and he will not let the soldiers rest and rest, so he will attack the city overnight." The crowd listened, and whoever killed a Liang soldier and horse was rewarded with three pieces of cloth, and three were killed, and a Han woman was rewarded. ”

"Good"

"Good"

"Good"

When the Vietnamese soldiers of the Li Dynasty heard the generosity of the main general, they howled one after another.

The Li Dynasty of Vietnam plundered the Guangxi Road, obtained the property of Daliang, and also captured hundreds of thousands of Han people Dingkou, all of whom had been escorted back to China and distributed the spoils after returning to China. All of these Han Chinese will be reduced to slavery, and the status of slaves in the Li Dynasty in Vietnam is very low, and Li Qiande only banned the burning of characters on slaves three years ago.

There is no need to boost morale, the soldiers of Daliang are full of anger. After entering Guangxi Road, you can see the ruins after burning and looting everywhere, as long as Ding Zhuang of the Li Dynasty in Vietnam, the old and weak are either killed, or robbed of money and food, and there are old and weak who starve to death everywhere. Everywhere the army used to go, it was the people who took wine and meat to work the army, but after arriving in Guangxi, it was the hungry old and weak who blocked the way and wanted to eat.

Chao Yong could only distribute half of the military rations to the victims, and at the same time asked Guangdong Road to send officials to the abbot of Guangxi to relieve the victims, and hire merchant ships to transport money and grain from Guangdong Road to Guangxi.

Fortunately, the Zhancheng rice on Guangdong Road can be harvested three times a year, although it has also suffered a disaster this year, but there is a lot of grain in stock, and Liu Huasan is also controlled by Li Heng in several states in northern Guangdong, and it has not affected the entire Guangdong Road.

Hearing the ghost of the soldiers and horses of the Li Dynasty in Guanshangyue, Li Kui pulled out the plate axe from his waist and shouted: "Prince, let me go and fight this level, cut those bitches." ”

Chao Yong shook his head and said, "Don't worry, let them see our spaceship and fire thunder first." ”

Li Kui smiled: "Yes, scare their dog guts and kill them again." ”

Dozens of deputy armies, soon set up a few silos in front of the formation, the battle of crossing the river, after the initial test of the power of the spacecraft, Chao Yong asked Hou Jian to make five more spaceships, if it were not for the lack of fierce fire oil carried, Chao Yong would let Hou Jian make dozens of spaceships out. During the attack on Lü Shinang, the six ships were dispatched together, but before they could exert their power, the chain of horses and heavy cavalry caused the rabble of Lü Shilang to be routed.

In fact, the fire and thunder carried by the spaceship is limited, and the power is not enough to affect the overall situation, but this subversive combat method can directly disintegrate the enemy's will to fight, so Chao Yong also likes the spaceship and is ready to form a spaceship team.

The man on the siloe held the airbag, and the fire burned below for a while. The airbag swelled and slowly rose, quickly stretching the cable straight.

Li Kui saw that Hou Jian and the others were about to get on the airship, and couldn't help but say greedily: "Hou Jian, how about I fly for you?" ”

Hou Jian hurriedly said: "You haven't flown again, it won't be fun if you fall." ”

Li Kui pointed to the five people next to him and said with a smile: "Haven't they ever flown before, you and I will tell you how to fly, don't you know?" ”

Chao Yong glared at Li Kui: "All the soldiers have gathered, you let everyone wait for you to play." Wait until you reach the Yue Li Dynasty. You want to play and then let you play. When you fall, it will be the Yue people who will be stoned to death. ”

Li Kui was not afraid, and said with a smile: "Good, good." ”

Hou Jian and others boarded the spacecraft, and soon the spacecraft went straight into the air and came to Kunlun Pass.

"Something."

"Black Dragon."

"It's a black dragon."

The hot air balloons are painted with black dragons, and the black dragons with teeth and claws on them look even more hideous after liftoff.

The Yue Li Dynasty claimed to be protected by the Yellow Dragon, and every time the troops were dispatched, the Yellow Dragon would appear, and this time when Li Qiande led his troops north. It is also blessed by the Yellow Dragon, but this Yellow Dragon is not visible to ordinary people.

The history books of the Yue-Li Dynasty have recorded the Yellow Dragon countless times, and it can be said that the Yellow Dragon runs through the history of the Yue-Li Dynasty.

Liu Qingtan saw that many soldiers were lying on the ground in fright, and hurriedly shouted: "That's the Han spaceship." It's not a black dragon. ”

Although Daliang's newspaper has not yet been printed in Guangdong and Guangxi, the spies of the Yue Li Dynasty have also explored many situations in Daliang, especially the spacecraft and fire and thunder are the key objects of investigation.

Li Qiande also let people publicize it in the whole army, of course, not to scare his own people. Rather, it is to reduce the soldier's fear of the unknown.

But when the spaceship actually flies, many people still seem to see ghosts.

"Flying."

"It's as tall as us."

"Ahead of us. Still rising. ”

"Bows and arrows can't shoot ......"

"Coming to us."

On the Kunlun Pass, the soldiers of the Yue Li Dynasty watched the spacecraft gradually rise under the Guan, and then flew dozens of feet over the Kunlun Pass, and they all immediately screamed.

Liu Qingtan looked at the spaceship flying overhead, and he was also terrified. He originally thought that the spaceship might not be able to fly higher than Kunlun Pass, in that case, they could attack the spaceship at Kunlun Pass, and rely on Kunlun Pass to keep the girder soldiers and horses out of the pass.

I didn't expect that the spaceship could fly dozens of feet above Kunlun Pass, so that the spaceship could attack them, and they couldn't attack the spaceship.

Liu Qingtan listened to the bowing sounds around him, and knew that if he didn't boost morale, he would be defeated, so he hurriedly shouted: "Don't panic, don't panic, it's just a few spaceships." If they can't blow up Kunlun Pass, we can stop them. ”

As soon as the words fell, the general next to him said: "My lord, quickly avoid it, they are coming at us." ”

Liu Qingtan looked up and found that a spaceship was really coming up above his head.

One of the generals shouted: "It must be the flag, they must have seen the flag." ”

Everyone immediately reacted, the spaceship was dozens of feet away from the pass, and the people on it should not be able to see people clearly.

The little school holding the flag was even more frightened, and the flag trembled.

Another general shouted, "Not necessarily, maybe they were using a telescope." Isn't the telescope invented by Prince Liang that allows people to see things in the distance? ”

When the generals heard this, they couldn't help but change their faces, if the people on the spaceship could see them, they would definitely blow them up with people wearing armor.

One of the soldiers hurriedly said, "My lord, take off your armor, lest the people on the spaceship find you." ”

Liu Qingtan looked at the golden armor on his body that showed his status, hesitated, and saw that the spaceship on his head was already much closer, and he couldn't care about it, so he hurriedly asked his own soldiers to help him unarmour.

The generals who wore gold and silver armor also asked their own soldiers to disarm them.

The Yue Li Dynasty was not as rich as the Central Plains, but most of the wealth of the Yue Li Dynasty was concentrated in the hands of officials and nobles, and the wealth of these nobles was no less than that of the Central Plains. Moreover, the Yue people preferred to wear gold and silver than the Han people, and many noble generals wore gilt armor.

On the spaceship, Hou Jian had already taken a telescope to see where Liu Qingtan and the others were, and they were still about 20 zhang away, so he threw a fire thunder down.

"Boom"

The fire and thunder fell a few feet in front of the pass, smashed under the wall, and exploded, blowing up a cloud of dust.

The huge power suddenly made the Yue people on the gate frightened, and many people knelt on the ground and kept bowing, praying that their legendary Yellow Dragon of Protector appeared and collected the black dragon in the sky.

Liu Qingtan saw that there was another black dot whistling down above his head, and he couldn't care about holding on anymore, so he hurriedly ran to the gate.

The power of fire and thunder is definitely not something that flesh and blood can resist.

When everyone saw it, they also rushed down one after another.

Hou Jian was not polite when he saw the people who were closed and escaped, and threw the fire and thunder to the Yongdao like money.

Liu Qingtan ran a few steps before he heard something whistling above his head, and when he looked up, he saw that a fire thunder had reached a few feet above his head.

Just as he was about to dodge, the fire and thunder had already smashed into his head. His golden helmet had just been removed, and his head was hit by an iron lump that fell from a height of dozens of feet, and it immediately turned into a rotten watermelon. Then there was a loud bang, and Liu Qingtan became a pile of rotten meat.

The generals who followed Liu Qingtan and ran down were also injured a lot, and a few fire thunders were accurately thrown onto the Yongdao, and the Yue people who squeezed into the Yongdao were all blown down.

The other five spaceships also kept throwing fire and thunder, and for a while, Kunlun closed with loud noises and screams.

Many Yue people were shocked by the power of the spaceship and the fire and thunder, and they jumped off the wall a few feet high. (To be continued......)