"Young master, the grassland king has withdrawn! The army scattered all over the country has been gathered together and slowly retreated in the direction of the grassland! Our Qingyun Town is located on the only way for the grassland army to retreat to the grassland, and we must evacuate as soon as possible, otherwise we will become the target of the grassland army's attack! With the strength of our Yang family's army, we can't stop the attack of the grassland army!"

Yang Ping reported to Yang Rui with a solemn face.

At this time, half a month had passed since Yang Rui captured Crescent City, and Yang Rui had already evacuated Crescent City with his army and returned to Qingyun Town to garrison.

As for the mountains of grain, grass and materials and other wealth in Crescent City, they were sold by Yang Rui to Sun Qian, the steward of the Four Seas Commercial Bank, who rushed to hear the news, and obtained a large amount of purple gold coins.

In half a month, the grassland army scattered in several counties frantically plundered the people of various counties, took countless material wealth and slaves, and quickly gathered together to form an elite army of up to 10 million yuan, slowly retreating in the direction of the grassland.

In this process, Zhao Kun, the county guard of Sunset County of Zhao State, only sent a large army to keep an eye on the grassland army, so that it could not continue to expand its territory, but did not attack the grassland army and prevent the grassland army from plundering the people of several nearby counties.

At the same time, Zhao did not dispatch the elite army in the empire to attack the grassland army, as if the counties captured by the grassland were surrendered to the grassland army, allowing the grassland army to plunder wantonly, without taking the lives and deaths of several counties and tens of millions of people into account.

Yang Rui didn't understand Zhao Kun's approach to Zhao Guo and Sunset County, but he was helpless, so he could only watch the grassland army wantonly roaming and plundering the people of several border counties.

"The imperial army doesn't dare to attack these grassland armies, how can our Yang family army fight to the death with these grassland armies! Pass my order, clean up today, and tomorrow the army will withdraw from Qingyun Town!" Yang Rui replied softly.

"Yes, young master!" Yang Ping replied softly, then turned around and left the arrangement.

In the early morning of the second day, Yang Rui slowly withdrew from Qingyun Town with 30,000 Yang family troops and more than 160,000 slave legions under his command, and retreated towards the territory controlled by Sunset County.

Not long after Yang Rui retreated with the army, a million-strong grassland cavalry arrived in Qingyun Town, easily occupied Qingyun Town, and opened the passage between Sunset County and the grassland.

Immediately afterwards, tens of millions of grassland troops with a large amount of food, armor, weapons and other materials, as well as tens of millions of Zhao people, formed a huge team, slowly came to Qingyun Town, and then passed through Qingyun Town and entered the grassland.

"Young master, the people of the five counties on the border of the empire were either killed or looted, and directly turned into empty counties, but the empire ignored them and didn't care at all, why is this!"

Yang Ping stood on top of a hill, looking at the mighty and mighty team in the distance, stretching for an unknown number of miles, frowning slightly, and muttering softly.

"There are hundreds of counties in the empire, and just five border counties have become empty counties, and they don't care at all! At the same time, these five border counties have become empty counties, and they can directly become aristocratic territories and canonize them to new nobles in the empire!

As for the tens of millions of people in the five border counties, the empire didn't even pay attention to them! On the border, there are countless people in the empire, there are billions of people, and a mere tens of millions is nothing!" Yang Rui's expression remained unchanged, and he said in a quiet tone.

After speaking, Yang Rui turned around and left the hill and walked towards the place where the army was stationed.

Yang Rui was very disappointed with Zhao Guo's practice of not putting the border people in his heart and allowing the grassland aliens to loot and slaughter, and his sense of belonging to Zhao Guo disappeared without a trace.

A week later, all the grassland armies withdrew from the territory of Zhao State, and the tens of millions of troops under the control of Zhao Kun began to enter the cities of the border counties one by one, taking over all the cities of the five border counties.

"Lord Yang, congratulations on becoming an imperial noble, this is the identity certificate and territorial proof of the imperial noble!"

This is, a messenger from Sunset County came to the place where Yang Rui's army was stationed, pointed to the wooden box in front of him, and said with a smile on his face.

After speaking, the messenger from Sunset County didn't wait for Yang Rui to reply, he directly turned over his horse and quickly left Yang Rui's army camp.

Seeing the swift departure of the Sunset County messenger, Yang Rui frowned slightly, and immediately set his eyes on the small wooden box, opened it, took out the various documents inside, and read it carefully.

"Hereditary Baron of the Empire! Fiefdom Donglai Peninsula, within three months, you must go to the territory to take office!"

After reading the various documents, a cold light flashed in Yang Rui's eyes, and he muttered softly.

"Young master, what the empire has done is really disappointing! Our Yang family army captured Crescent Moon City and turned the tide of the war between the empire and the grassland, the empire only canonized the young lord as the hereditary baron of the empire, and also placed the fief in the Donglai Peninsula, a barren place that I don't know where it is, this is really too bullying!"

Yang Ping, who was on the side, looked at the documents in the box and said with anger on his face.

"Uncle Ping, the empire is not bullying people, but trying to force people to death! Donglai Peninsula is a Longtan tiger's den, the empire canonized the Donglai Peninsula to our Yang family, doesn't this want our Yang family to die?" Yang Rui said softly with a sinister face.

"Young Master, where is the Donglai Peninsula, is it so dangerous?" Yang Ping's face turned slightly pale, and he hurriedly asked.

"The Donglai Peninsula is located in the southeast of our Zhao Kingdom, surrounded by the sea on three sides, only one side borders the empire, and there is a 100,000-meter-high Donglai Mountain located on the border between the empire and the Donglai Peninsula, isolating the empire and the Donglai Peninsula!

However, there is a canyon in the middle of Donglai Mountain that is more than 1,000 miles long and tens to thousands of meters wide, so that the empire and the Donglai Peninsula can be connected, and they can be connected by land!

The area of the Donglai Peninsula is very large, with more than 50 million square kilometers, most of which are deep mountains and large rivers, hiding countless powerful fierce beasts and monsters, and a small part is a flat terrain and resource-rich plains, which are occupied by our human race and establish cities one after another.

Although our Zhao State nominally included the Donglai Peninsula into its territory, in fact it only occupied a few cities on the Donglai Peninsula, and all the other cities were occupied by islands and other forces from the East China Sea Islands.

According to my understanding, several cities of our Zhao Kingdom on the Donglai Peninsula have already been captured by pirate forces, and only one Donglai City is still under the control of our Zhao Kingdom.

Even if it is Donglai City, it only belongs to our Zhao Kingdom in name! In fact, the city lord of Donglai City has already surrendered to the pirates and become pirates, but he doesn't want our Zhao Kingdom's face to be too ugly, so he didn't announce that Donglai City was merged into the pirate forces!

It is no exaggeration to say that the empire's power in the Donglai Peninsula has long been wiped out by pirates, and the empire canonized the Donglai Peninsula to me as a territory, and it is very likely that it wants to use the pirate power to destroy our Yang family!"

Hearing Yang Ping's words, Yang Rui said in a quiet tone. "Young Master, the Donglai Peninsula is so dangerous, can't we go to the Donglai Peninsula anymore?" Yang Ping frowned slightly and asked softly.

"No, according to the laws of the Empire, after I am canonized as the hereditary baron of the Empire, I must go to the territory to take office, otherwise I will not only be stripped of the title and territory of the hereditary baron of the Empire, but I will also be severely punished by the Empire, although I will not die, but it is not much different from death!

Therefore, our Yang family must go to the Donglai Peninsula to take office! However, our Yang family is not easy to mess with, since the empire dares to treat the Yang family like this, it will definitely regret it in the future!"

Hearing Yang Ping's words, Yang Rui said softly, with a determined look flashing in his eyes, and made up his mind that he must make the empire optimistic in the future!

Hearing Yang Rui's words, Yang Ping sighed helplessly and said, "Since this is the case, then we can only go to the Donglai Peninsula!"

"Uncle Ping, don't worry, with the strength of our Yang family's army, the pirates of the Donglai Peninsula can't help us! However, there are too many pirate forces on the Donglai Peninsula, and it is too dangerous for us to rush into it!

Therefore, I am ready to lead 10,000 Yang family troops and 150,000 grassland slave soldiers to take the lead in going to the Donglai Peninsula to take office, and control Donglai City and other cities that originally belonged to our Zhao State in the palm of my hand, so that our Yang family has a foothold!

And you will return to Yinghe Town with 20,000 Yang family soldiers and 10,000 grassland slave soldiers, let your father sell our Yang family's property and exchange it for money and various materials, and then take our Yang family and the people of Yinghe Town who are willing to follow our Yang family to Donglai City together!

According to my estimates, by the time you have dealt with our Yang family's property and arrived at Donglai City, I should have already controlled Donglai City and several nearby cities in my hands, so that our Yang family has a foothold!"

Hearing Yang Ping's words, Yang Rui's expression remained unchanged and said softly.

"Yes, young master!"

As soon as Yang Rui's voice fell, Yang Ping responded loudly, and then turned around and left to prepare.

In the early morning of the second day, Yang Rui left the garrison with 10,000 Yang family troops and 150,000 grassland slave soldiers and walked in the direction of the Donglai Peninsula.

Yang Rui captured a lot of food and other materials in Crescent City, and he didn't have to worry about the shortage of food and other materials at all, so the army went straight to the direction of the Donglai Peninsula and did not rest in the towns along the way to buy supplies.

For Yang Rui's army wandering in the territory, the towns along the way closed their gates one after another, guarded carefully, and sent messengers to inquire about Yang Rui's details.

After learning that Yang Rui was a hereditary baron of the empire and gave him the title of Donglai Peninsula, the towns along the way immediately gave up their vigilance and were no longer worried about Yang Rui leading a large army to attack the towns.

However, none of the official families in the towns along the way took the initiative to befriend Yang Rui, the new baron of the empire, and directly ignored Yang Rui.

After all, as an imperial official and a family, they all have a simple understanding of the situation on the Donglai Peninsula, knowing that Yang Rui went to the Donglai Peninsula to take up the territory, it would be good to be able to save his life, and there was no future at all, of course, he would not waste time and energy to befriend Yang Rui.

Half a month later, Yang Rui led the army to the southeast of Zhao State, among the Tiannan County bordering the Donglai Peninsula, and without greeting the officials of Tiannan County, he directly galloped away with the army in the direction of the Donglai Peninsula.

Soon, as high as 100,000, endlessly, and countless peaks went straight into the sky, Donglai Mountain, entered the field of vision of Yang Rui and his party, making Yang Rui smile slightly: "After walking for so long, it's finally almost there!"