I heard that the forbidden army will also participate in this military deployment, which is obviously beyond everyone's expectations.

Because strictly speaking, the forbidden army will not be transferred out of Gyeonggi under normal circumstances, and the right to transfer the forbidden army only belongs to the emperor, and the Privy Council has no right to interfere.

But as soon as this news came out, some people immediately understood the true meaning.

Apparently Ryan is that kind of smart guy.

Dispatch the forbidden army, which means that there are people in the army who are related to the duties of the forbidden army, otherwise the imperial court only needs to transfer battalions and government soldiers from various provinces, how can the forbidden army be dispatched.

Contact the important supervisor that Yao Xin just said, as well as the identity of Taiwei Zhang, this identity is about to come out, that is, Taiwei Zhang's student, the prince of the dynasty will come to the front line as a supervisor!

Thinking of this relationship, Ryan also understood why these orders would be issued by Yao Xin on his behalf, and they would be so secret, it seems that Captain Zhang became the marshal of the army this time, also because he was the prince's teacher, and the prince came to supervise the army, obviously to brush up the military merits.

And the forbidden army must have been transferred to protect the prince's safety.

It seems that this time the Miaojiang war was specially arranged by the emperor for the sake of the crown prince's accumulation of popularity, so he must show himself even more, which is related to his future in the next ten years.

And this Yao Xin is actually the prince's person, no wonder he is so young, and he lives in the third grade.

Ryan swept the generals in the tent with his eyes, and Xiong Lai also cast a gesture at him, obviously he also figured out the joints, but this kind of thing is good if everyone has a tacit understanding, it is absolutely impossible to say, otherwise just on the charge of revealing the deeds of the former prince of the army, he can go and drink the northwest wind.

Xiao Yao didn't know what was happening inside the Huzhou camp, let alone that the imperial court would move so quickly.

After leaving Xizhou City, Xiao Yao did not choose to enter the hinterland of Miaojiang immediately, but chose to secretly enter the garrison garrison twenty miles outside Xizhou City to investigate the situation.

This was originally the frontier used by the imperial court to monitor the movements of Miaojiang, but because there was no war for a long time, the garrison army, which was originally half peasant and half soldier, almost became real peasants.

Although the army was still retained, these garrisons often dragged their families with their families, and the whole family lived near the barracks, making it a small town.

In addition, a hereditary method was adopted here, and as long as there was a male in the family, he could inherit the status of a soldier in the garrison. Once you have the status of the garrison, not only does the whole family not have to pay taxes, but you can also use the land of the garrison for free, as long as you pay 10% of the harvest at the end of the year and participate in the training of the garrison on time.

The original intention of the imperial court was to reduce military expenditures, so that the garrison army could be self-sufficient in food and grass, and since there was almost no war, the cost of garrisoning the army would be much less.

But as the first generation of garrisons took root here, things began to slowly deviate from the direction.

Since most of the garrison troops were hereditary, there was no strict recruitment process, and the middle-level officers in the army were basically produced in these garrison troops themselves.

Therefore, the grain handed in by the soldiers of the garrison army gradually became less and less, until the last 20 years, not only did not hand over the grain, but also needed the imperial court to allocate food to feed the garrison army.

This gradually becomes a different scenario.

Although such an army is stationed at the door of Peng's Tusi in Xizhou, it is almost regarded as a transparent reason.

The imperial court also tried several times to rectify the garrison army, but all of them ended in failure.

In the end, even the imperial court gave up the rectification of this tun army.

Fortunately, the country has been relatively peaceful and rich in food in recent years, and it does not care about the expenditure on this.

Although the atmosphere outside Xizhou City is a little tense now, there is no military atmosphere at all here in the garrison.

The original garrison camp has long since become a small city, with many houses in the city, and there is no military camp at all, and there are even inns, restaurants, teahouses and other facilities, and the development is simply not under Xizhou City.

Although a stone wall about four or five feet high and a number of arrow towers were built, and there were sergeants in charge of standing guard, because some of the garrison troops lived outside the city walls, the inspection of the city gate had no real effect at all, only the military flags floating in different areas of the city, which also marked the identity of the military camp.

Xiao Yao looked at the few sergeants who were wearing soldiers' uniforms but were full of peasants who walked past him, and couldn't help but feel that the combat effectiveness of this garrison army was really negligible.

No wonder Peng Shan never mentioned the imperial garrison at his doorstep.

Xiao Yao found a tavern facing the street, asked for some wine and food, and kept an eye on the flow of people while drinking.

In the middle of the night, I couldn't help but chuckle, whether it was the restaurant here or the passers-by, it seemed that there was no awareness of the imminent war at all, and they still continued their daily ordinary life.

Xiao Yao chatted with the tavern owner, and from time to time there were people wearing military uniforms around him, but they walked by listlessly with a lazy look.

Xiao Yao ate most of the wine and food, and saw a few people walking in the distance, one of them was an old man in his fifties, wearing a foreign clothes like a rich man, but he walked with force, the wind under his feet, and his pace was very regulated.

Xiao Yao immediately judged that this person was definitely from a military background, and he should have stayed in the army all the time, so he would retain this way of walking.

This old man is not tall, with black cheeks and a square face like a knife and axe, which makes people feel a kind of respectful and distant psychology when they see it.

Xiao Yao knew that this was the temperament that he had cultivated in the army for a long time, and this person was obviously not the garrison army here, and it was not an inland government soldier or battalion soldier, but the kind of border army that had been on the battlefield for a long time.

There will be a border army here, and it is also a border army general, so at least it means that the outpost of the imperial court has arrived here, but Peng Shan has not received any news.

Xiao Yao immediately thought of a question, that is, blitzkrieg!

Maybe this time the general will raid Xizhou. Although the current Xizhou has strengthened its vigilance, because there is no war, there is no restriction on the entry and exit of personnel, if the other party's sergeants sneak into Xizhou secretly, then it will be really dangerous.

Before, Xiao Yao and Peng Shan had always thought that the imperial court would first condemn the four major Tusi for not accepting the change of land and returning to the stream, and then they would send troops to recruit them in a grand manner, and seeing this scene now, Xiao Yao knew that the general this time must be a front-line general who has been stationed on the frontier all the year round, and they only pay attention to the outcome of the war, and they don't care about the way of war at all.

Xiao Yao's heart churned for a moment, and gradually calmed down, he couldn't leave now, but he wanted to continue to observe the old man and his party to see what else was going on.

Full of wine and food, Xiao Yao secretly followed the group from a distance, but saw that they were just wandering around the city, but they didn't buy anything, and they didn't stop at any taverns and inns.

The group walked almost all the main streets of the town.

Xiao Yao didn't dare to follow too closely, so as not to be noticed by the other party, which would outweigh the losses.

Following their route, Xiao Yao finally understood the intentions of these people.

These people are definitely observing the structure of the buildings and forces of this small city, which is obviously looking at the distribution of the future garrison and the deployment of military fortifications in the small city.

In the end, watching a few people enter the general's mansion in the center of the city from a distance, Xiao Yao's judgment was even firmer.

Now there was no more time to investigate other matters, Xiao Yao immediately secretly returned to Xizhou City, sneaked into Tusi Mansion overnight, put a letter on Peng Shan's desk, and then left Xizhou overnight.

The big war is coming, and I need to return to Phoenix Mountain as much as possible.

Xiao Yao urged the Tibetan horse under him while thinking about various possible situations.

I don't know what happened to the Witch God Temple now, if the mountain continues to be closed, it will be really troublesome.

Now that the imperial court is soon approaching the city, the attitude of the Witch God Temple has become very critical at this time, and this is all he can fight for Peng Shan.

If Xizhou is lost, and the imperial court's army drives straight in, then there is really only one way left for guerrilla warfare, and the military strength of the various departments in Miaojiang is too weak, and it is not much stronger than the imperial court's garrison army, and it is not at all the opponent of those long-trained battalions.

Moreover, there are no large-scale iron mines in Miaojiang, and the smelting and casting technology is relatively backward, and it is much backward in weapons compared with the regular army of the imperial court, which cannot be made up for in the short term.

In addition to the military strength of the Peng Tusi, those scattered Miao Jiang tribes did not have the strength to fight in the face of the imperial army.

Seeing the mountains flashing beside him, Xiao Yao didn't dare to have any stay, the fast horse galloped all night, and when he was tired, he just took a brief rest by the roadside.

In the early morning of the seventh day, Phoenix Mountain finally appeared in front of Xiao Yao's eyes again.

Looking at the Phoenix Mountain that appeared in front of him again, Xiao Yao couldn't help but sigh that he went back and forth, but it was no longer a person, and the Phoenix Mountain at this time was still the same as when he first arrived, but on the top of the mountain, the maple leaves were half the red sky.

Standing here twice, my mood is very different.

This time, the patrol team of the four Miao descendants has disappeared, and Phoenix Mountain is a depressed scene, and no one passes by along the way.

I sighed in my heart, hoping that this time there would be a completely different result.

I don't know how Yi Feng is now, thinking of his past in Phoenix Mountain, I remember it vividly, and I can't help but feel the impermanence of life.

Xiao Yao walked along the mountain road to the main peak towards the underground palace of the Witch God Temple, and he couldn't help but think of the scene when he and the eldest lady and Hu Yiyi went up the mountain for the first time.

Originally, Phoenix Mountain was not allowed to ride horses, but now it can't take care of so much.

Along the winding mountain road, he soon arrived outside the underground palace of the Witch God Temple, tied his horse, and walked directly into the underground palace without stopping.