Li Siye faintly felt that the Anxi Protectorate's conquest of the Tuqi Shi Huang seemed to be ahead of schedule, and his feeling was not wrong, the butterfly of the traverser flapped its wings and always produced some changes and waves. Knowing very little about history, he naturally didn't know how much this had changed.

According to the original historical trajectory, in the first year of Tianbao, Ashina Xin was attacked by the ambush soldiers sent by He Modagan, and after three years of Tianbao, Fumeng Lingcha led the troops to pacify the Tuqi Shi Huang, which was a full two years apart.

However, in the spring of Tianbao's second year, the conscription order was indeed issued. I don't know what made the Metropolitan Protectorate prepare the money and food so quickly and be ready. Could it be that the success of his merchant post station, or it may be that the effective liquidation of the sand bandits made the trade between the north and the south more developed, resulting in a much higher commercial tax revenue this year?

Even though it's just a long journey of more than 10,000 people, it's quite expensive. They need to set up a grain and grass transfer station in the middle of the expedition in advance, and use a large amount of manpower and animal power to transport grain and grass, and the location safety of grain and grass is the key to this expedition.

Fumeng Lingcha recruited a total of more than 12,000 soldiers from the three towns of Qiuzi, Shule, and Yanqi, which was a complete army array of the Six Flowers Array. Jiedu envoy Meng Lingcha personally led the team, Gao Xianzhi served as the head of the Chinese army, Li Siye was the head of the left and right Yu Hou Army, Ma Phosphorus and Li Qiyun were the head of the left and right Xiang Army, and the deputy capital escorted Cheng Qianli to sit in the rear. Bi Sishen, Kang Huaishun, Chen Fengzhong and others served as envoys to the festival.

When the conscription order was issued, it was the end of March, and Fumeng Lingcha asked Li Siye to lead his troops to the front line of Dundo City before the third day of the fifth month.

It's Dunduo City again, Li Siye couldn't help but want to complain when he heard this land, this has become the royal advance base of the Anxi Army, can't he change places?

If nothing else, grain and grass will also be hoarded in this place, and the vanguard troops of Swap City and Big Stone City will also arrive to guard the grain and grass in advance.

After receiving the military order, Li Siye immediately prepared, and ordered the cavalry corps to assemble from the spring pasture, and the jumping battalion and the battle front team were ready for battle. He also ordered the states to send three veterinarians to the army, and the barracks began to fry compressed biscuits and cut cured meats, and ordered those who had private horses to carry a month's dry rations, and those who had selfless horses also needed to carry half a month's worth of dry food.

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In the early morning of mid-April, this western border city was awakened by the morning light, Li Siye wore a brown bronze mountain armor, hung a horizontal knife at his waist, and walked out of the side door of the mansion accompanied by Mei'er and Twelve Niang.

A few days before Li Lang was about to leave, Twelve Niang's heart was so anxious that she couldn't sleep, and at night she rubbed the scar on her husband's back with her hand. During the day, she casually ordered Wu Niangzi and the kitchen to improve the food as much as possible and make more mutton, and she held back her strength to let her husband grow a few more catties of meat in the past few days, just like fat can block knives and guns. Even Li Lang's mount, Black Fat, stepped up feeding barley for a few days, and Twelve Niang stroked its face in the hope that it could take on the responsibility of a mount and bring the owner back safely.

She held the phoenix wing hood in her hand, and stood on tiptoe to put it on her husband's head, but she was a little short and couldn't reach it, so Li Siye had to bend her knees and lower her waist, allowing the lady to buckle the hood on her head, and raise her neck to make it easier for her to tie the belt.

Pei Guoliang, the governor of Shule, also came to see off Li Zhen's envoy, but he only stood far away, and waited until his wife and his wife said goodbye to each other, and then stepped forward to see him off.

"I am willing to help Li Zhen with 2,000 soldiers, I wish you success and return victorious as soon as possible!"

He instructed his subordinates to bring wine cups, bring up the jars of good wine accumulated in the wine cellar, and fill them for General Li himself. Li Siye picked up the wine cup with both hands, raised his head and poured it.

He tasted it, and the wine seemed to be a syrup, but it seemed to taste sweeter. He had never drunk this variety, and it should be very scarce.

"This jar of wine is good, save it first, and then drink it with you when I return."

Zhao Zhengyi, the master of the Thunder Observatory, stood not far away with a square box, and when he saw that Li Siye was free, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down to offer a gift: "General Li, this is a gift from the poor Dao to help you win." ”

Li Siye glanced at the box and asked, "It's not a strong pill in this, King Kong Dan, right?" ”

"By no means, how can I offer something that the general doesn't like, you open it and see for yourself."

He stretched out his hand to take the box and pulled out the cover, there were three black cast iron balls in it, with twists on the top, and Zhao Zhengyi also cast two seals of "thunder" on the surface of the iron ball.

Three thunderbolts, let's call them that, what effect can a small number of them make? But after all, it was Zhao Laodao's intention, and he arched his hand goodbye to him under his armpit.

"The more things like this, the better, and when I come back, I hope you can cast hundreds or thousands."

The sun gradually rose, Yan Xiaosi brought the black fat from the stable, and Li Siye reached out to take the reins and turned over on the horse.

Li Mei'er walked up to her with Twelve Niang, and the two important women in her life raised their heads, and the black crystal eyes under their eyelashes still couldn't hide the worry in their eyes.

He immediately said to the two of them: "Lady, Mei'er, don't worry, this expedition is a strong attack on the weak, and there won't be much suspense." ”

Yan Xiaosi followed behind him, and the two horses headed towards the street, and Li Mei'er suddenly shouted loudly: "Brother, come back early!" ”

Li Siye turned around and nodded, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded on the hard soil.

Many of the Shule soldiers had families in the city, and when they marched out of the camp gate and into the street, there were women who came with their children and stood on both sides of the street to see them off, and they picked up the children and asked them to stretch out their little fingers to identify which of the same armor was his father.

To Li Siye's surprise, there was not much worry and sadness mixed with this kind of send-off, maybe they were already used to fighting and parting, or maybe they were like Twelve Niang, hiding their worries in their hearts, and covering them up with lively and even jumping smiles.

The queue slowly advanced in the crowd of people in the middle of the road, and a woman wearing a kudzu shirt stood on tiptoe in the queue of onlookers, carrying a cloth package in her hand and running away from the whole crowd, and kept asking the onlookers: "Liu, have you seen my Jiulang?" ”

"No, you two didn't say enough love words last night, and now you can't bear it?"

"No, I boiled him a few eggs last night, and he didn't take them."

The morning in Shule City is cold and cold, and the temperature difference between day and night is also large, and the white gas can still be seen in the mouths of the women and onlookers who are talking. She hurriedly staggered through the crowd and pursued until she was about to approach the city gate, and saw the backs of more than a dozen soldiers with overlapping fish scales and armor, faintly similar to her Jiulang, the lady opened her mouth with a red face, but she was afraid that others would laugh at her and she didn't make a sound, but they were walking away, and in a hurry, she finally broke the woman's reserve, and shouted loudly: "Jiulang!!"

The entire queue of soldiers turned around, and the man known as Jiulang was indeed among them, his cheeks first bloomed with joy, and then his lips tightened, revealing the majesty of his husband's authority: "What's the matter?"

"Jiulang, why don't you take a few boiled eggs I asked you to take yesterday."

"The army has dried meat and dry food, and you can keep the eggs for yourself, so you don't have to give them to me."

A few old pawns coaxed beside him: "Why do you want to make up for your body, were you tired last night?"

"Get out! Go aside!"

The flow of troops pushed them forward, and the lady thought that she couldn't wait, so she made up her mind to squeeze through the crowd, ran two steps and rushed to her husband's side, and forced the egg in the cloth bag in her arms to pass it, "Here you go!" Then he flew back as if he were flying.

Kurou turned around and beckoned as he went, but his face was blocked by his jagged head, and the lady could only hear a faint voice: "Wait for me to come back!"

The procession had already flowed to the city gate, and the lady was still waving to Kuro, and all kinds of people began to follow the procession and poured out of the gate, mostly women, children, and herdsmen, who greeted the morning sun under the city wall and waved in the direction the procession left.

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