The territory of the Daxing Empire is vast, and the southernmost Caiyun City is tens of thousands of miles away from the current imperial capital Chang'an, so the ancestors of the royal family of Xingguo, as early as the beginning of the founding of the country, set the policy of dividing and ruling the twelve roads in the world. The world is divided but not chaotic, and the envoys of each section are appointed by His Majesty the Emperor himself, and every three years of the official examination, the envoys of each section are transferred. At the same time, in order to prevent the provincial envoys from controlling the local power, on the basis of the establishment of the envoys of each province, 12 powerful generals were assigned to each take charge of military power. One article, one martial arts, one relaxation.

The deceased Northwest Provincial General Li Yannian is one of the twelve most important generals in the world. Because he guarded the northernmost Chaotian Pass of Daxing, and Chaotian Pass was the last pass between Daxing and the grassland, which was very important to Daxing. Therefore, in Chaotian Pass, Daxing set up a post of Taishou to restrain the generals.

Chaotian Pass is the northernmost pass of Daxing and belongs to the Northwest Road. The Northwest Road is named "Northwest Road" because it is directly north of the imperial capital Chang'an, but part of the jurisdiction is adjacent to the Longyou Road in the west of Daxing. To the south of the Northwest Road, there is the Guannei Road where Chang'an is located, and then to the east from the Guannei Road, there are two roads in Hedong and Hebei. The seat of the entire Northwest Province is Yangliu County, the southernmost county in the territory. Compared with the other eleven provinces in the world, Yangliu County is far inferior in terms of both the size of the city and the number of people. Why? Not to mention that this Yangliu County is adjacent to Chang'an, only to say that the Chaotian Pass in the northwest province, its prosperity can be compared with the imperial capital Chang'an. Therefore, whether it is south or north, Yangliu County does not have the slightest benefit. In this way, Duan Liangzhou of the Northwest Province was about the most aggrieved of all the feudal officials outside Daxing. There is a false name for guarding one place, but the means of political performance are far inferior to the rest.

The Northwest Army was killed, and the general Li Yannian died, in addition to Wu Youfang, the Taishou of Chaotian Pass, who was in panic all day, Duan Liangzhou, the Jiedu envoy of Northwest Dao, was also unable to sleep at night when he knew the news that Chaotian Pass was difficult to protect. Why? was already in a useless situation, and now that he is in such a big trouble, can Lord Duan sleep and eat?

The grassland barbarians can't enter the customs, not to mention that just the first to bury the Northwest Army in a hundred years, and the possibility of losing the influence of the Daxing Festival of Chaotian Pass, I am afraid that they will be able to let their official road come to an end. Therefore, when this Lord Duan received the decree of the imperial court asking him to raise troops and horses in the territory as soon as possible and prepare to go north to support Chaotian Pass, he was really moved to tears.

The emperor's grace is vast, His Majesty has not forgotten his days and nights guarding the border, and he is grateful for his hard work without merit, so now he has not directly belittled the officials, and even has no words of blame, but just told him to work hard and implement the recruitment of troops as soon as possible, so as to go to Chaotian Pass with General Luo Shiquan and defend the land of Daxing without losing an inch.

This day was the first time in the past few days that Lord Duan Liangzhou had a meal with the three ladies at home. Daxing has been peaceful for decades, so except for the border where there are heavy troops, the rest of the cities have never had a standing army. There are only thousands of security armies, distributed in major cities. Nowadays, the total population of Northwest Province is not as good as that of other provinces, and the territory under its jurisdiction is vast and wide, so it is extremely difficult to recruit soldiers. Yangliu County, which is under the jurisdiction of the territory, responded the fastest and took the longest time to recruit soldiers, but even so, counting the existing soldiers and servants, it only raised a mere 20,000 horses. Weiyang County further north of Yangliu County is even more outrageous, worthy of more than 5,000 people, Taishou Zhou Chunliang is already anxious like an ant on a hot pot, eager to pull out the little hair left on his head and turn into a divine soldier from the sky. and Shanyang County, which borders Yangliu County and Weiyang County to the west, contributed 10,000 people; Dafeng County to the east of Yangliu County and Lianyun County to the east raised 8,000 and 7,000 people respectively. In addition to the precarious Chaotian Pass, a total of 50,000 horses in the remaining five counties have all been assembled in their respective counties, and only after today's Jiedu envoy Duan Liangzhou has eaten this parting meal with the three ladies, he can go north, gather the army, and drive into Chaotian Pass.

Lord Duan Liangzhou was very sad today, and during the luncheon with the three ladies, he couldn't help but drink a few more sips of wine, which would be a little drunk.

"There was thunder in the north, and the king entrusted his life. For the sake of the world's affairs, the battlefield will be ordered again" Lord Duan is another cup of elixir, and the chopsticks are like waving a knife, "I want to be Duan Liangzhou, I have been an official for 20 years, and now I have a day to kill the enemy." Your Majesty, the Emperor, trust us, and we will work together to kill the enemy. ”

The three ladies in the hall are all skinny, young and beautiful. The one who cries at this time is called a pear blossom with rain, which is touching. Although Lord Duan was reluctant, he was helpless.

"My lord, can you not go?" The woman in colorful clothes in front of Duan Liangzhou is a newly married third room recently, and she has not been in the house for a month, and now she is separated, crying very sadly.

"Xiaocai, I am naturally reluctant to be reluctant to you, and I am reluctant to Ah Yun and Xiaohuan, but this time I must go to the husband, and I must go into battle in person, otherwise, I am afraid that I will not be able to keep the official hat for my husband" Lord Duan looked sad and reluctant.

"My lord, I am a Wenchen, how can there be a reason to raise a knife and kill the enemy, these things should be done by those soldiers" The lady who was called Xiaocai was the new love of Lord Duan, and she dared to speak out.

"No, if you don't go for your husband, how can you show His Majesty the Emperor that he is loyal to the country and the people." Master Duan drank two glasses of wine in a row, "Actually, I still have to thank that Li Yannian, if it weren't for him, how could I have a good time to worry about the king now." ”

"But..."The lady in the hall was about to say something, but was interrupted by Lord Duan's wave.

"Okay, the woman is a woman, I don't understand the truth here, you can wait and wait for me to triumph with peace of mind, and I will go for my husband." Master Duan slammed his cup and staggered out the door. In fact, according to Lord Duan's usual routine, it is advisable to take a nap for half an hour after dinner, but I am afraid that it will not work today, after all, the 20,000 horses of Yangliu County have already gathered and waited for more than an hour.

On this side, the troops in the northwest province gathered and marched north, but on the other side, the Longyou Road was still silent. It stands to reason that the decree from Chang'an should arrive in no particular order with the Northwest Road. But looking at the current situation in Longyou Dao, the guard general Chen Qiushui does not seem to have received the will from Chang'an.

In fact, as early as about ten years ago, Song Zhiyi, the seventh elder of the Yanshan Eight Horsemen, had already arrived in Longyou, and had already explained everything to Chen Qiushui. But how can Chen Qiushui believe it? Even if you are a close confidant of General Chen, how can you easily believe such a major military event after listening to your words. Of course, the subsequent decree affirmed Song Zhiyi's statement. Longyou sent troops, took the Yin Mountain, all the way to the east to Chaotian Pass, if the whole army is in a hurry, it can be reached in about seven days. These Chen Qiushui had already made plans, and he expected that the grassland barbarians would never attack Chaotian Pass immediately? Why? In the past ten years, Longyou has heard that the Northwest Army has fought no less than dozens of times with the grassland, and the grassland barbarians have lost more and won less. Even if they were victorious, there were countless cases in which the tribes of the steppe fought over the poor military horses and equipment that were divided into small amounts. The 100,000 Northwest Army was killed, and how many heavy supplies had to be left behind. Therefore, Chen Qiushui expected that the grassland people at this moment must be infighting.

But the military situation is like fire, and the holy decree has been issued, and he does not dare to delay the fighter. It's just that what he didn't expect was that the leader in this holy decree was his deputy general Luo Shiquan.

Luo Shi was promoted by half a level, and he had to take 50,000 horses from Longyou, which made Chen Qiushui extremely uncomfortable. You must know that the importance of Longyou Road is not much less than that of Northwest Road. The territory of Longyou Road is in the shape of a long strip, and it goes west from the west side of Daxing. The westernmost Fufeng City is like an isolated island hanging overseas, lying between the small countries of the Western Desert. This Fufeng City is now guarded by Chen Qiushui himself.

And under Chen Qiushui's account, now that he is full of calculations, he is only worth 100,000 horses, and now if he is taken away by Luo Shiquan, if there is any change in the small countries of the Western Desert, the consequences will be unimaginable. The most important thing is that it was Luo Shiquan who led the troops to Chaotian Pass, not him Chen Qiushui himself. Therefore, Chen Qiushui did not move, and Luo Shiquan was helpless.

Therefore, a letter of military writing from Longyou was sent to the imperial capital Chang'an at an expedited speed of 800 miles.