After the Battle of Sadland, Qiao Se commanded more than 30,000 mercenaries, and such a force was enough to deter the Northwest Army in Moxi.

With his full support, the production and processing of the hot air balloon was also on track, and Kay became his magician advisor, responsible for further refining the fuel oil from the crude oil more efficiently. This experiment was very much in line with the sorceress's appetite, aside from the fact that it often caused accidental explosions in the backyard of Jose's county watchman's mansion, and what was the overall progress...... Well, it should be regarded as a steady development.

Encouraged by tax exemptions, Sadrand's agriculture already had far more people cultivating than the towns under the Northwest Army, and tens of thousands of displaced people fled to Sadrand every month in search of livelihoods, despite the Northwest Army's strict orders to move westward.

It is said that the angry commander of the Northwest Army, General Ronktor, has issued a strict order that any soldier caught in Sadland, whether it is the former Northwest Army or the new Sadland Army, will be sentenced to death.

On the day he got the news, Joseph posted a notice at the gate of the county town that once he caught the deserters of the Northwest Army, he would treat them well.

In less than two months, nearly 10,000 deserters of the Northwest Army had surrendered to Sadland, and the strength of Jose and the Northwest Army was basically equal.

Of course, this is only "basic", because the generals of the Northwest Army are already scattered, and many of them realize that the enemy they have to face is not only the huge Bright Empire, but also the terrible Viscount Sadland in the west!

Joseph has not slackened in the past few months, and the newly joined Northwest Army has been incorporated into the army, and these originally brave and warlike veterans of the Northwest have improved the combat effectiveness of the entire army. In the autumn, Jose received a thousand Sadland cavalry and 5,000 war horses from the steppe of Temur, and as a reward for supporting Temur, José used the tax revenue of Sadland to send tens of thousands of catties of grain to the grassland.

This made Temur very grateful, because with the generous gift of Jose, their tribe would not run out of food throughout the winter, and with such an advantage, his foreign war would be smoother. In one winter, this medium-sized steppe tribe can expand several times, and with José's promise to send 10,000 new troops to the grassland, Temur has the confidence to expand abroad.

The dispatch of these armies was naturally a simple matter for Joseph, and for supporting Temur, he could obtain brave cavalry and fat war horses from the steppe, which he needed. Temur's strength is also good for his own development, and importantly he is more trustworthy than the other steppe people, at least for José this one.

At the end of the winter, the Temur tribe received a terrible boost in strength, and through aggressive external expansion, his tribe almost unified the whole of southern Xinjiang. It consisted of three medium-sized tribes, and more than a dozen smaller tribes, and Temur plundered a large number of livestock, horses, and people from his steppe compatriots.

In a letter to Joseph, Temur praised him as "the supreme master" and said that his tribe now had nearly 20,000 troops, tens of thousands of horses, and countless cattle and sheep. From it, Jose received tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of steppe slaves, which were the basis of his Sadran cavalry force.

Joseph didn't expect these steppe people to be obedient, he just carved out a grassland in southern Xinjiang, and then gathered these hundreds of slaves, telling them that as long as they raised strong war horses for themselves, he would give them land and grassland, food, and freedom.

In this way, Joseph had hundreds of faithful slaves and an endless supply of war horses and horse farms.

At the beginning of spring, corn was spread to the county town of Sadland, and Chaucer believed that this high-yielding grain would soon spread throughout the Northwest and even on the mainland of Ceylon, but before that, he had to deal with the last obstacle in the Northwest, the Northwest Army.

In just two years, Joseph has raised 40,000 troops in Sadland, and more than 10,000 cavalry, and he has recruited another 20,000 new troops in the spring of this year, after all, the population of Sadland has swelled to a limit.

A small county town has a population of more than 500,000, and these are the increasingly scarce troops of the Northwest Army. After several battles, the strength of the Northwest Army was less than 30,000, and the original advantage was gone, and even Ronkedo knew very well that it was only a matter of time before the Northwest Army was destroyed.

The empire also seemed to notice the fragility of the Northwest Army, and Jose soon received orders from His Majesty the Emperor, but instead of attacking the Northwest Army, he let him stand still!

This did not surprise Joseph, a suspicious emperor like Montevia IV would never sit idly by and watch Joseph become stronger, a Northwest Army was enough to make him uneasy, if Joseph attacked the Northwest Army again, I am afraid that even if the Northwest can be pacified, it will only be one more warlord.

But Jose didn't care, he knew the strength of Sistine very well, just as he knew the strength of the Northwest Army. The Sistine can't defeat the Northwest Army, and the Northwest Army can't defeat the army in Guannai, so if it drags on like this, it will still be itself that benefits in the end.

After another half a year of fighting in the Northwest, both the Northwest Army and the Sistine were almost miserable, but Joseph was very nourishing in Sadland. Only then did the Sistine see through the seriousness of the matter, and he sent a letter directly to Montevia IV, with only a few words on it: "Chasé, or the Northwest Army?"

This clever marquis has already seen that without Joseph's intervention, he would not be able to fully defeat the Northwest Army, and if he wants Jose, a former subordinate, to make a move, I am afraid that he will already be powerless.

Now that Joseph sits on half of the land outside the pass, he has taken two county towns one after another in the six months that the Northwest Army and the Sistine have been fighting, but it seems that he deliberately does not engage in a head-to-head confrontation with the Northwest Army, and this way of encroachment is very useful. When the Empire discovers that José's growth has exceeded his expectations, they can no longer control the behemoth of the Sadland army.

Now there is only one choice left for the empire, either unite with Jose to destroy the Northwest Army, or unite with the Northwest Army to have a tough battle with Jose!

Just when the situation was a little tense, a shocking news came from the northwest: the commander of the Northwest Army, Long Keduo, led more than 30,000 of his subordinates to surrender to Jose, the Viscount of Sadland, and the entire territory outside Moxi Pass was in the hands of Jose. The news from the front line is that Viscount Sadland has 70,000 infantry and nearly 30,000 cavalry!

In the end, Ronktor chose to compromise, he could no longer compromise with the Empire, Mondevia IV wanted not only the Northwest Army, but also the head of a traitor, and compared to Jose, he was much safer, at least surrendering to Jose, he could get a decent ending.

Jose accepted Ronctor's surrender and made him a baron in a small town on the border of Sadrand, where he and his descendants will live forever, and the once ambitious captain will be buried in history forever.

Just when everyone thought that Joseph was about to become another careerist, and that he would lead 100,000 heroes to detain Moxi Pass and point his troops directly at the mainland, Joseph sent a letter to Montevia, on which no one knows. The palace attendants only knew that after reading the letter, Montevideo IV thought for a night and then wrote a military order, and then quickly spread it to the outside of Moxi Pass.

In the 565th year of the Bright Empire, the Emperor Jin named Joseph, Viscount of Sadland, as the Grand Duke of Sadland, and the four counties outside Moxi Pass were his fiefs.

Half a month later, the head of the Ellios family, Ellios Suya, also resigned from the family position and came to the northwest alone.

In the summer of 565 years of the empire, the Grand Duke of Sadland, King Joseph of the Northwest came to the news of marriage, and the whole city carnivaled for three days, King Joseph announced that he would cut 20,000 troops and pay taxes for three years, and the soldiers and civilians of the Northwest all supported him.

On the edge of the Qianli Tadam Desert, a convoy marched slowly, this team was full of thousands of people, all riding high-headed war horses, led by men wearing armor, but extremely thin in appearance.

There was a carriage in the center of the procession, and Jose looked at the desert outside the window, and said with a helpless smile: "You say, what is there to see in this desert, how can it be regarded as our honeymoon, but we came to this place." ”

Lying in his arms, Su Ya pouted at this time: "What do you know, this is the place we met for the first time, and it is naturally very meaningful!"

Jose couldn't help but scratch her nose, and then said with a smile: "Speaking of which, I am really touched that you are willing to give up your identity as the duke of the family for me, won't you regret it?"

"What is there to regret? I am not a duke, but I have become a princess!"

"That's a good point, your husband now is the only prince outside the Northwest Pass, far more valuable than the duke. José laughed and took his wife into his arms.

Su Ya deliberately pushed him away, and then smiled strangely at Joseph: "Unique, you are not the only king outside the Northwest Pass now, you are not the only king of the Northwest now, you are not the only King of Joseph in the Northwest now!"

Qiao Se snorted deliberately, and said majestically: "Outside the Northwest Pass, besides me Qiao Se, where is there a second king? Your husband and I are the king of the Northwest personally appointed by His Majesty of the Empire! What other king do you say?"

"In addition to you, there is naturally a king, and there is also a little northwest king......" Su Ya smiled, and at the end of the day, her face was already crimson.

"Little, little Northwest King?!" Qiao Se was stunned for a moment, then looked at Su Ya in surprise, and said in disbelief: "You mean, you have ...... Little Northwest King?!"

Su Ya smiled shyly and couldn't help but nod.

In the Tadam Desert, someone in the convoy soon heard a loud laugh......

(End of book)