Lingering days are always scarce, and time flies to March.

On the second of February, the dragon raised its head; On March 3, Xuanyuan was born.

On the Shangsi Festival, Zhang Miaotong and Wang Luying's four daughters were pale, and they watched with tears in their eyes as Liu Xian led his soldiers out of the mansion in military uniforms. I don't know how long it will take to see each other? They are even more worried about whether Liu Xian will encounter unforeseen circumstances.

Xinjiang!

It's an extremely distant geographical term. In the minds of the four women, it is completely like an outer land, separated from thousands of mountains and rivers, and out of reach.

Zhang Miaotong is not a little woman who doesn't understand anything. When deciding on the marriage date, Zhang Shoudai told her everything. After all, Liu Xian's expedition to Xinjiang is very likely to make Zhang Miaotong become a ** soon after passing through the door.

The fires everywhere, the traitors everywhere, the rout of 20,000 Mongol Khalkha soldiers, dozens of commanders, commanders, leading ministers, commanders, deputy commanders, and finally the fall of governor-level officials like General Ili all made Liu Xian's 10,000-mile expedition gloomy.

Zhang Miaotong chose to marry without hesitation. But this does not mean that she is not concerned about Liu Xian's expedition in the near future. On the contrary, it was a nightmare buried deep in her heart.

Therefore, in the half month after marriage, Liu Xian's wife and three concubines in the back house were all accepted by rain and dew, and Liu Xian himself was in the middle of the day, and the night was not empty.

In order to leave a son and a half daughter. Zhang Miaotong is preparing for the worst.

Liu Xian also understood this unspeakable reason, so he went to bed on time for half a month. Although he himself is quite confident in the battle for Xinjiang.

On the third day of the third month of March, he led 5,000 Qin troops and 600 Dong troops, nearly 6,000 troops, and more than 8,000 mules and horses.

At the oath-taking meeting, Liu Xian officially issued the Qin army military card, a long iron piece half the size of a palm, which was engraved with inscriptions to mark the names, establishments, and places of origin of the soldiers to which he belonged. At the same time, it was announced that all the officers and men of the expeditionary army would be paid in pairs.

Among the crowd of people who bid farewell to the soldiers, there are a handful of yellow-haired and blue-eyed foreigners who attract attention. It was Schubert Duke and Bell Fowles and two of his entourage.

At the last moment when the Qin army was about to be deployed, Bell brought Liu Xian six six-pounder cavalry cannons and, more importantly, three hundred firing bolts, one hundred of which were Colt revolvers.

This is a great help to Liu Xian.

Although Liu Xian's horse team was all equipped with Western horse pistols, no matter how short the horse pistol was, how could it be compared to a short gun? And it's still double-haired. And the Colt revolver is even less needless to say.

300 short guns, connected with more than 200 flint and firing short guns of different quality but the same caliber accumulated by the craftsman battalion in the past three years, Liu Xian concentrated on arming the two infantry squadrons in his own army, so that he had an extra powerful hole card in his hand.

"It's a march to death. I hope that the guns you bring can save General Liu's life. "Schubert Duque had no hope for Liu Xian's expedition. So when Berdeen Stanford invited him to join him in the army, Schubert refused without hesitation.

Bell also had worry on his face. Liu Xian is the biggest collaborator of Maisheng in recent years, and they have made a lot of money on Liu Xian, and they do not want Liu Xian to lose his life in Xinjiang.

"May the Lord bless Berding and General Liu. Let them return safely! Amen. ”

At the head of Liu Xian's Chinese army, the yellow-haired Burding Stanford wore a hat and was hidden in the crowd, inconspicuous.

At the end of the marching column was the troops led by Dong Fuxiang.

Half an hour has passed since the pledge meeting, and many officers and men are still in high spirits.

"Combat allowance, double salary!"

For Dong Junlai, this is the world's best 'spiritual food'.

The laughter from time to time and the exchange of words between each other made Dong Jun's already very poor formation completely out of shape. Compared with the Qin army, which was in strict formation, majestic in breath, and solemn in appearance, Dong Fuxiang, a team that was quite famous on the battlefield in Shaanxi and Gansu, directly became a group of rabble.

At the same time, it has also become a 'jumping clown' in the eyes of the military and civilians in Hanzhong.

Ordinary Dong soldiers don't care about the pointing and pointing of the soldiers and civilians on the side of the road, and from time to time some people will make vicious expressions and draw swords to intimidate the people on the side of the road. Take pleasure in hearing the exclamations of the people.

But Dong Fuxiang will not be so heartless. Some of the generals in the Dong army saw the majesty and majesty of the Qin army, and they were also very embarrassed by the appearance of their own subordinates, and there were many people who waved their horsewhips and aimed them at one or several people.

"It's a really strong team. No handsome soldier is too much. ”

"Liu Junmen has been a famous commander for three years, and the name of Qin Jun's good fighting has been broadcast all over the world. In the past, I was still unconvinced, but when I see it today, I know what a strong army is. The Qin army lives up to its name—"

Li Shuangliang and Zhang Wanhui are Dong Fuxiang's right and left hands. In the case that Dong Fuxiang's father and brother were left under Duolong's tent to obey orders, Li Zhang was the first two generals of Dong Jun. The two of them, who were born as leaders of the party and have been rolling on the battlefield for several years, have good eyesight and meticulous observation.

But today, neither of them can use their eyesight and observation. Because as long as you are not blind, you can see the obvious gap between Dong Jun and Qin Jun.

The team followed the same route that had been laid out years earlier.

Fifteen munitions transfer depots, large and small, are responsible for replenishing grain and grass along the way. In the future, if needed, this transportation line will also extend forward through Qinghai, across the vast mountains and rivers, and connect Hanzhong with distant Xinjiang.

However, the precondition is that Liu Xian wants to deal with the rebel army of the True God Cult in the area of Qinghai Lake.

To go from Sichuan to Xinjiang, if you want to cross Qinghai, you must cross Qinghai Lake. Although on the map, that's a big circle. If you don't spare the road, people and horses can't cross at all.

Liu Xian's road into Xinjiang is the road of Tang Seng to learn scriptures and go to Xitian. Disasters and disasters will never stop. All he had to do was flatten them one by one. Moreover, there will be no Guanyin and Mantian God Buddha to escort the Qin army. Liu Xian can only rely on his own fists.

The rebel army of the True God Cult by the Qinghai Lake was the first opponent to enter the territory of Liu Xian and pose a substantial threat.

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The speed of fifty miles a day is a weak distance for a mounted army. It is much worse than the actual combat training of the Qin Army's infantry main battle brigade.

Whether it is the Qin Army, which is at the level of military discipline and military appearance in China in this era, or the Dong Army of a group of 'rabble', it is easy and stress-free.

From Hanzhong to Songpan Hall, a distance of 1,500 miles, in early April, the expeditionary army to Xinjiang arrived at the destination without missing a miss.

There were no massive injuries or deaths in the horses, and no horses lost weight or weakened a lot.

Liu Xian, who had 'tested the truth in practice' on the battlefield as early as before, was familiar with the team under his command.

The speed of fifty miles a day is completely harmless, and it cannot touch the bottom line of the horse's body and health at all.

Those who hold that 'the cavalry moves at a speed that is not as fast as the infantry', 'during the Old American Civil War, as long as the cavalry marches for five consecutive days, the cavalry's speed drops to about five kilometers a day', and 'the infantry must stop and wait for the cavalry for seven consecutive days', their brains are simply open, and their brains are filled with super imagination YY power!

They ignore a fundamental fact --