Liu Jian issued six orders at once, and from the Western Regions to Ningxia, from the frontier to the land of Shaanxi and Long, it boiled at any time.

In just a few days, the Shaanxi Merchant Army, the Ningxia Merchant Army, and the Xikang and Dongchuan Merchant Regiments, which had been preparing for a long time, quickly assembled on Shazhou.

As Liu Xing's army drove out of Yumen Pass, those flash regimental troops were quickly divided into two parts according to Liu Kuang's instructions and also opened out of the pass immediately after the royal troops.

Shaanxi, Ningxia, and even the Guanzhong merchant army that followed later, were inferior to the merchant army in Sichuan and Kang in terms of numbers, firearms, and even the quality of soldiers. This is also the same as the merchant army, which Liu Jian had discovered when he assembled in Ningxia.

Why is this happening?

The reason is that most of the merchants in Shaanning and Guanzhong are engaged in general business activities, or rely on border trade fields to do business with foreign races, or make a fortune by transshipment, and more actually rely on the low-profit agriculture, mulberry, fishery, and animal husbandry to do business.

However, the merchants of Sichuan and Kang are different, and most of those merchants of Sichuan and Kang rely on agriculture, mulberry, fishery and animal husbandry to obtain the accumulation of original capital, and most of them turn to Yanjing Xingdang.

Thousands of wells in Chuankang produce salt, and thousands of grain dealers have legal salt in their hands, making them financially proud of the provinces in the entire western region.

It is for this reason that after Liu Xing issued an order to build a merchant army, many of them who were sent to the front line by Zhang Suo and Liu Xi in the past but were successively repatriated to their hometowns due to disability, old age and other reasons, were successively recruited by those salt merchants into the merchant army in Sichuan and Kang.

Either as a low-level school assistant or as a teacher.

Those veterans with full combat experience helped the merchant army in Sichuan and Kang not only recruit troops and horses and make the soldiers strong and strong, but also made the overall quality and combat effectiveness of the Sichuan and Kang merchant army far surpass that of the merchant army in Shaanxi, Ningxia and Guanzhong.

Since the strength of the Chuankang merchant army was stronger than that of the soldiers of other provinces, when Liu Jian assigned tasks and gave instructions, he ordered the Dongchuan merchant group coalition army with the prestigious Dongchuan soldiers as the backbone as the main force, and unified Liu Zheng, the general under his command, to go straight to the land of black sweat from the middle.

As for the alliance of the other three merchant groups, the Shaanxi merchant army and the Guanzhong soldiers followed Liu Xi to attack the heart of Yelu Dashi, and the Ningxia soldiers went to assist Liu Feng and fought from the east towards the western Liao......

Liu Jian actually sent troops to fight the black sweat, and after learning the news, Zhang Yang suddenly became anxious again. He was in a hurry, and secretly said in his heart: What are you doing! Oh, I gave the main forces of Black Khan and Seljuk to fall apart and fall apart, and you Liu Jian rode my neck and in Ningxia, and now you are coming to grab my territory? Wow, let's see who is faster, and who is more familiar with the terrain and humanities......

With this idea in mind, Zhang Yang immediately made a strategic adjustment.

Originally, there were less than 80,000 horses left under his command, and he was only going to take 50,000 men to extinguish the black sweat at first.

However, with this adjustment, he scattered 80,000 people and emptied the city of Shule. He also took the demon and demon Jelupu Suwan directly as a gift, and sent a battalion of soldiers to Liu Jian to present it.

It's not good to finish the speed, that's Zhang Heizi's wife! How could he do such a shameful act of selling his wife in the midst of a great war?

In fact, Pu Suwan is only the mother of Zhang Heizi's son, not Zhang Heizi's wife.

Because on the day when Zhang Yang was preparing to fight against the black sweat, he also issued an order and announced to the world, announcing that he had taken a leave of absence from the demon girl.

At the same time as refuting a wife, he also announced that he officially welcomed Wei Chi Min Ling, the daughter of the descendants of the royal family of Yu Chi in the Kingdom of Khotan, who had lost the throne as early as 200 years ago, as his wife.

At the same time as sending Pu Su to Wang Liu Qian, Zhang Heizi also made another surprising move when he personally led the troops to the battle.

He actually followed Liu Xing's example and entrusted all the defense of Shule City to a team of 8,000 female soldiers that had just been formed by that lieutenant Chi Minling.

And Zhang Yang also handed over all his artillery to his new wife, so that the lieutenant Chi Minling could use the advantage of artillery to defend Shule City.

Zhang Heizi is really mature.

When Liu Xing learned that in the face of Liu Kuang's declaration of war on Western Liao and the declaration of war on Black Khan, Zhang Yang made this series of moves, and sincerely gave him a big praise from the bottom of his heart.

Why did Liu Xing give him a big thumbs up? That's because of the origin of the new wife, who is a descendant of the Kingdom of Khotan. How did the Kingdom of Khotan, which flourished during the Han and Tang dynasties, fall? It was destroyed by the Black Khan dynasty in the west.

As far as righteousness is concerned, Zhang Yang and Black Khan have made a feud and a mortal enmity. The Weichi family is the same, and the Weichi family and Black Khan still have a real inextricable blood feud.

Although it has been 200 years since the defeat of the Chi clan in Khotan, its influence in the southern Xinjiang region is still there. This is enough to see how influential Wei Chi Min Ling can be seen just from the fact that Wei Chi Min Ling was able to recruit 8,000 women from the Western Regions in a short period of time and form a team that emulates her own female guards.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and Zhang Yang knows how to unite the enemy's enemy to fight the enemy together, which is a kind of real maturity in strategy and political strategy, which is worthy of praise.

And what Liu Xing admires the most is of course not only because he united with Yu Khotan's lieutenant Chi, but also because of his arrangement.

Zhang Heizi has so many men under his hands, did he really take all the 80,000 male soldiers away? The answer is no, it was Zhang Heizi's bluff and show the Black Khan people, and he also wanted to dig a pit for Yelu Dashi.

In fact, according to the report of the secret agents of the Military Intelligence Department lurking beside Zhang Heizi, the troops that Zhang Yang really took away were 60,000 people. Of those 60,000 men, there were only 25,000 fire cavalry.

Didn't Zhang Heizi have 30,000 fire cavalry? Could it be that after the fire burned for a hundred miles, he did not get the replenishment of troops, then there should be at least 27,000 fire cavalry!

In fact, he was replenished, and in a timely manner. On the day when he submitted his petition for canonization, 15,000 guns that had been eliminated by the royal troops were sold to him by Su Quan with a stroke of his pen in the field at the junction of Qinghai and Shaanxi.

Then why did he only take 25,000 fire cavalry? That is a sign of Zhang Heizi's true maturity.

His total real firearms are now 40,000 firearms cavalry and 20,000 firearms infantry. Of the 60,000 men he took with him, 25,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry with firearms.

The remaining 5,000 fire cavalry and 10,000 fire gun infantry were ambushed by him in the northwest of Shule City, the only way for the Khitans to reach Shule City.

Simply counting on the 8,000 female soldiers with the help of artillery, it is impossible for Shule City to ensure that everything is foolproof. Knowing how to release smoke to confuse the enemy, he sent his own troops to attack the third party and still did not give the strongest enemy a chance to sneak up on his nest.

This is the embodiment of Zhang Heizi's real maturity, and this is the main reason why Liu Xinghao did not hesitate to give him a big thumbs up in his heart. (To be continued.) )