Chapter Ninety-Eight: Harvest
Ten days, another ten days!
In ten days, Ye Qing led the army to exterminate and slaughter one tribe after another, no matter how big or small the tribe was, no matter men, women, old and young, all of them were killed! The people who escaped by luck brought the news out, like a gust of wind, quickly blowing through the entire southern region of the Blood Wolf Tribe!
However, the news is spread in the southern region, in the north, now there is no one at all, the large-scale outbreak of the plague, so that the area where the blood wolf tribe is located can be preserved except for the southern region, the central and eastern and western steps have been affected, and the barbarians who survived the plague have begun to migrate to the north, hoping that a big tribe like the green wolf can have a solution.
It can be said that the area under the jurisdiction of the Blood Wolf Tribe, except for these barbarians who are now being slaughtered by the Ye Army, is already uninhabited.
The Ye Army's five-way army formed a semicircle, encompassing the entire southern region of the Blood Wolf Tribe, and directly crushed it in a very barbaric way, leaving no chickens and dogs wherever the army went.
When Ye Qing and the other Fifth Route armies converged at the original Blood Wolf Tribe's station, it was already half a month later, and after finding that there were no barbarians in this large area, Ye Qing began to withdraw his troops.
This expedition, before and after the time is less than a month, but it is indeed a remarkable result, just the capture of cattle, sheep and horses, is the wealth of one side against the sky, with this batch of cattle and sheep, Qingyunling's living standard can be further improved.
And with this huge number of horses, Ye Qing can achieve self-sufficiency in war horses, and there is no need to worry about the loss of war horses and no place to make up for them.
Moreover, with war horses, Ye Qing can train cavalry on a large scale, although it is not necessary to maintain a very large cavalry force, so that Ye Qing's finances cannot stand it, but it is still necessary to train a large number of cavalry.
After all, for a long time in the future, the barbarians will be Ye Qing's main enemy, and against the barbarians, the cavalry is the main force, and the casualties are too great if they are infantry, which is not conducive to the mobility of the troops.
And when there is a war with the barbarians in the future, it will not stop fighting now, giving Ye Qing too much time to train his troops, and if a war breaks out again in the future, it will be a protracted war.
It's good to take advantage of some time now to train more soldiers.
In addition to the material gains, Ye Qing slaughtered nearly three million barbarians on this expedition, although most of them were old and weak, but it was also a very large number, the human race and the barbarians had been fighting for ten years, and the number of barbarians killed was almost this number.
As for the battle damage, it can be said that Ye Qing has suffered the most serious loss in all wars, 350,000 troops went out, and less than 300,000 soldiers returned to the territory, and some of them were seriously injured and disabled, and they could no longer go to the battlefield.
Although almost every battle, the Ye army launched a surprise attack, coupled with the superiority in numbers, it was enough to win every time, but the reason why the barbarian is called a barbarian is because of his barbarism.
It is also very terrible for the barbarians to go crazy, especially after they have no hope for life, they will basically choose to die with the enemy, and even the old people, women and children of the barbarians will attack before they die.
Many casualties of Ye soldiers were actually caused by the massacre of the elderly, weak, women and children, and such losses accounted for almost two-thirds of the Ye army's losses, which was already a high proportion.
Of course, after so many battles, the combat effectiveness of the Ye army's cavalry has also been improved as a whole, and now one cavalry can almost defeat the three before the battle, which shows how great Ye Qing's harvest is.
When Ye Qing's army withdrew to Tsing Yi City again, it was already almost winter, and in the autumn that was about to end, Ye Qing not only realized the unification of the chaotic land, but also temporarily solved the barbarian threat, and won at least three or five years of development time for the territory.
This autumn, Ye Qing has gained a lot, but the trouble is also not small. What gave Ye Qing the most headache was that Xuanguo came. The growth of Ye Qing's power finally attracted the attention of Xuanguo. For this potential danger, Xuanguo obviously wants to nip it in the bud.
Although Xuanguo has relaxed its control over the Land of Chaos in recent years, this does not mean that they will let the power here grow and thus endanger themselves.
After all, nominally, Ye Qing still belongs to Xuanguo's vassals, but his freedom is much higher than that of other courtiers, as long as he pays a certain amount of taxes every year, in fact, Ye Qing can already be regarded as a vassal state dependent on Xuanguo, just like Xuanguo is dependent on the dynasty.
As the suzerain, Xuanguo naturally couldn't see that his subject state was too powerful and threatened his rule. Originally, Xuanguo began to notice Ye Qing as early as two years ago, but at that time, Ye Qing was still restrained by other forces, and according to the situation at that time, it was a question of whether Ye Qing could protect himself, let alone develop.
In addition, Xuanguo was really confronted by the army of the barbarian green wolf tribe at that time, and he didn't have the energy to take care of such a small problem as Ye Qing. Unexpectedly, in just two years, the previous small problems have become too big to be resolved, improperly unifying the chaotic land, and even repelling the attack of the barbarians.
Due to Ye Qing's blockade of military intelligence, Xuanguo's spies only got the news that the barbarians were attacking and were repelled by Ye Qing's army, they didn't know that the attacking barbarian army had reached a terrifying 500,000, let alone that Ye Qing had almost completely annihilated the 500,000 barbarian army, and even went deep into the barbarian territory to carry out a massacre.
But even the little bit of information that Xuanguo had was enough to make Xuanguo frightened, and they immediately realized the danger, but it was too late, Ye Qing's power at this time had already been established, and he had 20 million people under his rule, and he had a million heroes in his hands.
To solve Ye Qing's problem, it is difficult to achieve it by military means alone, although Xuanguo has tens of millions of troops, most of them are hoarded on the border, guarding against the possible invasion of barbarians at any time. Other armies are also deployed in various parts of the country to guard the peace of the country.
There is really no extra force to encircle and suppress Ye Qing, after all, Ye Qing has a million army in his hands, and if he wants to encircle and suppress such an army, Xuanguo has no army of two million at all, but the army of two million, Xuanguo really can't be mobilized, otherwise, if Ye Qing is not exterminated, his country will fall into disaster first.
This time, Xuanguo sent envoys, and its meaning was also very obvious, that is, to take the opportunity to see how far Ye Qing had developed, and at the same time to see if Ye Qing had any intention of breaking with Xuanguo, after all, in the past few years, Ye Qing had already used the barbarian invasion, the people's losses were too serious, and the taxes of the lord's mansion could not come up, and refused to pay taxes to Xuanguo first.
At the same time, the envoy of Xuanguo also brought an order, that is, to ask Ye Qing to go to Xuancheng to meet him, and after inquiry, he learned that it turned out that the lord of Xuanguo will be sixty next year, and he plans to hold a grand celebration, not only his own people will go, but also other foreign forces have issued an invitation, saying that they want to take this opportunity to hold a competition, and all young people under the age of twenty-five can participate, and the top three will be rewarded.
Ye Qing didn't want to go very much, Xuancheng was no better than in his own territory, it was windy and rainy. Although Ye Qing is now a small and big force, in Xuancheng, there is more than one force that can compare with Ye Qing, let alone the unfathomable family of the country.
But Ye Qing had no way to refuse, not to mention that Ye Qing couldn't be an enemy of Xuanguo now. What's more, Ye Qing is still nominally a subordinate of Xuanguo now, and Xuanguo personally came to invite him, if he didn't go, it would be morally untenable.
forced Xuanguo to send someone to do something for himself, and Ye Qing also had a share. But if he went, Ye Qing was really afraid that he wouldn't be able to come back if he went.
When Ye Qing welcomed the arrival of the envoy with a grand ceremony, the envoy of Xuanguo did not buy Ye Qing's account, but directly asked Ye Qing to go to Xuancheng in an almost commanding tone and set off immediately. Anyway, the reasons given by the people are very sufficient, and not only Ye Qing, but also the surrounding Xuanguo affiliated territories also have a share. They should either send their own heirs, or the young lords themselves.
In fact, in everyone's opinion, this is to go to Xuancheng to Ye Qingkuang, as long as Ye Qing arrives in Xuancheng, other people's territory, nothing can be left to him. When the time comes, just find a reason to detain Ye Qing and imprison him for more than ten or twenty years, or kill him directly, anyway, Ye Qing has no descendants or relatives, and no one will take the lead at that time, no matter how good the development of the territory is, it will be in vain.
In this case, anyone will excuse themselves with various reasons. The envoys of Xuanguo will be ready to deal with Ye Qing's various prevarications. As a result, it didn't take long for Ye Qing to happily agree to the envoys of the Great Xuanguo, he would definitely go, and he could go with the envoys. But this envoy was taken aback, could it be that Ye Qing's brain let the donkey kick it?
Ye Qing's other intentions didn't matter to the envoys of Xuanguo. As long as he went to Xuancheng with them, at least the arduous task given to him by the above could be achieved without much effort.
Before Ye Qing arrived in Xuancheng, he issued a final order. It is to let the civilian official group headed by Wen Lao draw up a plan to first stabilize the situation in the territory, develop internal affairs, and reserve talents. At the same time, Li Xin and other generals actively expanded their armaments and cleared all things around the territory that threatened the territory, especially the fierce beasts in the mountains, so as to achieve the purpose of military training.
This time to go to Xuancheng, Ye Qing also made a decision after thinking about it for a long time. Through Fu Bo's information, Ye Qing knew that in Xuanguo, Hou Rank was already the top master in martial arts, at least there was no master who surpassed Hou Rank in the open and in secret.
Therefore, Ye Qing was able to go to Xuancheng to attend the meeting with confidence, after all, he was a master of the martial arts Hou rank, although he was not invincible, but it was always possible to protect himself.