The most important thing is that their army is well equipped.

Almost all the soldiers had a full set of heavy helmets, warhorses and spears. Because they were good at hunting on horseback, they also had a large number of archers in their army.

And less than one-tenth of Zheng Xi's 100,000 army has horses, and not everyone has armor, and the legendary species of archers is also in short supply.

The most important thing is that you need money.

When you go to war, you fight for money and materials.

Fighting in a situation where the equipment is completely unequal, the soldiers are too bitter. It's all about flesh and blood.

However, Zheng Xi's army has a big killer.

Artillery.

The arsenal jointly founded by the crown prince and the king of Qin a few years ago, under the powerful transformation of Yun Dai after joining, designed a powerful artillery, as well as several hot weapons such as hunting rifles and mines.

The thing is that the production is too low.

All the previous production was sold to the Northern Qi to fight the civil war.

In the past two years, he has accumulated forty or fifty artillery pieces and more than a hundred shotguns.

Before Zheng Xi's army set off, Zhao Yuanjing asked the arsenal to allocate half of the number to them, and let them go with thirty artillery pieces and fifty shotguns.

When Zheng Xi's army arrived in Saibei two months later, it was already a sunny day in May.

Northern Qi has also reached the hottest time of the year, and it is rare that there is no snow and ice in the month, which is just right for war.

After arriving, Zheng Xi first met with the elders of the Jiuli tribe to exchange hostages according to the requirements of the imperial court.

Xiao Ziliang and his family also suffered some torture, but fortunately, their lives were safe, and when they saw Zheng Xi bringing someone to redeem them, they immediately cried aggrievedly, saying that their brother-in-law was really close and was willing to exchange the Jiuli patriarch for himself.

Zheng Xi looked down on the people of Northern Qi in his bones, and when he saw the king of Northern Qi being so soft-boned, he despised it even more, and he didn't bother to pay attention to his crying, so he asked people to stuff them into the carriage and take them back.

The Jiuli people were also greatly comforted to see the safe return of their family patriarch.

As for Zhuang Yunshu, as Ji Wenyuan's widow, she was also settled well.

So I was ready to open it.

Of course Ji Tangtang refused.

When she returned to the tribe, she immediately convened an urgent meeting of elders and invited her mother, the previous patriarch Ji Li, to come over.

After stepping down as the patriarch, Ji Li was also a member of the elder group.

She rushed over and hugged her daughter: "Tang Tang, you scared me to death!" You've been locked up for so long, why didn't you come back sooner? Did those thieves in Da Zhou hurt you? ”

"Nope." Ji Tangtang pushed his mother away, "A-Niang, the emperor of Zhou State did not imprison me, I have been living with Sister Yun for half a year, and I am living very well." ”

"Really?"

Ji Li looked at her daughter carefully and saw that she had not changed, so she breathed a sigh of relief and put her mind at ease, "Even if they still know each other, if they dare to hurt a hair of you, my mother will take someone to their Kyoto and kill them all!" ”

Ji Tangtang said: "Sister Yun is very good to me, and I also accepted Sister Yun's two daughters as apprentices. ”

Ji Li was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "That's not bad." In this case, when the Zhou Kingdom is destroyed, bypass your sister Yun and the two apprentices, let them join our Jiuli, and I will make her an elder. ”

"Who is going to be an elder?"

Ji Tangtang said, "Auntie, we also brought back my brother's bones." ”

From the meeting to the present, Li Ji has only focused on her daughter, and has not even asked about her son's death.

When the other elders heard this, their expressions did not change.

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