Chapter 113: Gunsmoke

Gongsun was white and hateful, thinking about finding a way to remove the two shrunken turtles together, his two old legs staggered forward again, and said: "Summer is coming, the funds for the repair of the river embankments in various places are still allocated early, there has been no war recently, and the military department should not need to increase military spending." ”

Zhao Luo looked at Gongsun Youbai carelessly, as if unintentionally stroked his forehead, Gongsun Youbai was excited, lowered his head, and no longer dared to look up at the emperor directly.

Zhao Luo said in his heart, the old fox is really smart, he said flatly: "For all repair projects, it is necessary to list the details of various materials, and the requirements are detailed to the consumption of each meal of migrant workers, otherwise they will not be approved." ”

He paused, and saw that the ministers had no objection to this, and threw a bombshell without care: "When it comes to the end of spring and the beginning of summer, I want to sweep the Northern Tartars, and the ministers should prepare early." ”

Sweep the Northern Tartars?!

Gongsun raised his head suddenly, but saw that Zhao Luo's face was extremely resolute, and said word by word: "I have made up my mind, there is no need to discuss it again." ”

The reaction of the ministers was beyond Zhao Luo's expectations, and they thought that they would attract opposition from the ministers, but they were echoed. The northerners are brave and good at fighting, but it is a pity that the two generations of emperors of Northern Chu have no intention of fighting, and they have no intention of showing their talents.

Now that Beichu has been recuperating for many years, he can finally sharpen his sword, and the ministers rubbed their fists one by one, and discussed enthusiastically, even the white-haired old prime minister Gongsun Youbai was also in tears, for the ministers, the merit is not greater than the expansion of the territory, and finally can go down in history, all the ministers, how can they not be excited, how not excited? !

Zhao Luo has no intention of taking the throne, he has always been perfunctory, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault, and knowing that she is safe and sound, but he is much more serious about state affairs.

He is extremely smart, he has already vaguely guessed Zhu's thoughts, if she has no worries, he can only become the lord of the world, so that the land of the world, the Chu realm, the people of the world, all bow down.

Only in this way can he protect her under his wings, Zhao Luo resolutely decided to do whatever it takes to achieve this goal, even if the heavens are angry and people are resentful, even if countless people are displaced for this, even if he falls into hell forever after death, he will never move forward.

Leaving a group of ministers and businessmen to discuss the Northern Expedition, Zhao Luoan stepped into the car and slowly walked towards the Qinzheng Palace.

Seeing the warped cornices of the Qinzheng Hall from afar, Zhao Luo took two steps, his heart suddenly tightened, no, why is it so quiet, he should have heard Wei's voice when he walked here in the past, he panicked, spread his steps and ran wildly, and the young brother behind him was panting and chasing.

When he arrived at the palace, he saw that all the palace maids and eunuchs were silently performing their duties, and when he saw him coming, he knelt down wordlessly, and he searched everywhere in the palace, shouting loudly: "Wei'er, Wei'er......"

Looking up and suddenly seeing Zhao Yang stepping into the palace gate, his face was as gloomy as autumn as a remnant, Zhao Luo immediately stepped forward, clamped Zhao Yang's shoulders with both hands, and asked urgently: "Big brother, where is Wei'er?" ”

Zhao Yang turned his face away, avoided his gaze, and said in a low voice, "Let's go." ”

Zhao Luo was startled, and his handsome face was full of panic: "Gone?" Where did you go, did you call someone to find it? ”

Zhao Yang raised his head, looked into his younger brother's eyes, and replied honestly: "He sent a letter back to his hometown." ”

Zhao Luo let go of his hand, sat down on the ground decadently, and muttered, "Why, why do you always give it to me and take it away?!" ”

In the spring of the tenth year of Zong, Emperor Zhao Luo of Northern Chu insisted on going his own way, regardless of the fact that it was the busy time of spring planting, he insisted on sending troops to the northern grasslands, and insisted on driving the expedition in person, and the ministers exhorted and angered Emperor Chu, and imprisoned more than 100 important ministers overnight, adding another stroke to the name of the faint king.

Flags were flying, war drums were excited, Zhao Luo was dressed in a yellow robe and rode on the famous horse Yunxue, beside him was the Northern Chu military god Lan Zhige, and behind him were countless Northern Chu men in armor lined up in several phalanxes, shouting in unison: "My emperor!" Mighty! ”

Looking back at the Great Wall, Zhao Luo whipped to the north and shouted, "Attack!" ”

With his command, the drums beat rapidly, and the army slowly moved northward, Lan Zhige clenched his fists, and the forward battalion with all the cavalry broke away from the army and took the lead.

The news that the Northern Chu army had set foot on the grassland with iron hooves flew to every corner of the grassland like wings, causing countless panics on the grassland, and tribal leaders of all sizes gathered in the Gurhan King Tent of the Thornmur tribe to discuss countermeasures.

Khan of the ancient tribe of Ergu, who was at odds with the Thorn Mur tribe, took the lead in attacking: "You have always called for friendship with the southerners, and now the dog in the past has become a wolf, and you want to bite the owner back, I see how good you are!" ”

Gulhan is worried, the Nanban merchants who have been providing him with weapons and food suddenly broke off half a year ago, he searched everywhere to no avail, the Northern Chu children just sent troops to attack at this time, the spring is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, the tribesmen put out the lambs that have been in the circle for a winter, and the lambs are when they are happy to grow, he snorted heavily: "What's the use of saying this, since the Northern Chu children dare to set foot on the grassland, let him know that the wolves on the grassland eat meat!" ”

Kedan Khan sneered: "Our ancient tribe is scarce, so it depends on how Gulhan sweeps away the Northern Chu children." With that, he turned around and left, but he didn't leave any face to Gulhan.

The rest of the small tribal leaders looked at each other, although they didn't dare to leave blatantly, but they all had the idea of being passive and slacking off and only watching the performance of the Thorn Mur tribe in their hearts.

Yelu Baobao, dressed in a leather robe, stood up suddenly, laughed loudly, and said boldly: "How can we grassland men defeat the farmers of that kind of land, my Yelu tribe will definitely do their best to assist the Great Khan!" ”

All the leaders looked sideways, the Yelu tribe has risen strongly in recent years, but it is very low-key, how can they hug Gul Lao'er's thigh so urgently today, and they all make up their minds to see him laugh.

Sure enough, Gulhan's huge body stood up from the throne, walked excitedly in front of Yelu Baobao and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, then this time I will ask the warriors of the Yelu tribe to be the forerunners." ”

The leaders laughed at him for being too stupid, but they also respected him as a man, and they all thought in their hearts that if the young and strong of the Yelu tribe died, they might as well treat those women and children better.

Yelu Baobao returned to the tribe, in this more than a year, received almost unlimited support from the family, he Taoguang and obscurity, and worked hard to improve the life of the tribe, the tribe became richer and stronger, attracting many small tribes to vote, faintly already able to compete with the two major tribes of Thorn Mur and Ergu.

In the largest tent of the tribe, Zhu and Duan Qingyan unceremoniously occupied the position of the leader, and Yelu Baobao walked in, respectfully performed the chest salute on the grassland to the two, and sat down at the bottom of the two.

Bamboo was dressed in a white shirt, holding a jasper cup, sipping warm rice wine, and asked with a smile: "How is it, have you ever got your wish?" ”

Yelu Baobao nodded his head twice and said in a deep voice: "Sure enough, he was ordered by the old fox of Gulhan to be the vanguard army. ”

Duan Qingyan stood up when he heard this, deduced the sand table on the table for a moment, and said bluntly: "The route of the Northern Chu army is that the two wings are separated, and the army goes straight in, striving to outflank it to the end, we need to pass between his two wings, avoid its main force, and wait for the Northern Chu army to fight with the tribes of the grassland, and then go around to the back of the tribe and copy their hometown." ”

Zhu put down the wine glass, glanced at the sand table twice, stroked his chin and said: "You might as well make small contact with the two wings of Northern Chu, causing the illusion of heavy losses for our department, attracting other tribes to attack, and then a self-defense counterattack, you can occupy the name of righteousness, and send another five hundred stragglers to publicize that the Yelu tribe was scarred in order to defend the grassland but was stabbed in the back by their own brothers. ”

Yelu Baobao silently listened to the discussion between the two, and said in his heart, the southerners were really shrewd, but they didn't know how the Northern Chu Emperor should deal with it.

The warriors of the Yelu tribe were divided into pieces, and dozens of hundred-man squads were interspersed on the two flanks of the Northern Chu army, which caused some trouble to the march of the Northern Chu army.

Zhao Luo decisively ordered the Northern Chu army to slow down the march, and at the same time adopted the policy of clearing the wilderness, where he passed, there was no grass left, Zhao Luo was bent on turning this grassland into farmland, and turning nomads into farmers, so that they could achieve long-term peace and stability.

Seeing that there was no oil or water to fish, Yelu Baobao ordered the whole army to retreat, relying on the familiarity of the terrain, and returned to the tribe in a roundabout way, and repelled the cavalry of other tribes who took advantage of the weakness to wait for work, and sent 500 stragglers, but it was announced to the public that it was the black hand of the Thorn Mur tribe.

As the overlord of the grassland, the Thorn Muer tribe has become the primary target of the Northern Chu army at the beginning, the tribal cavalry has been defeated and retreated, and the tribe is too large to be able to migrate in full, and now it has been stabbed in the back by the Yelu tribe.

Zhao Luo also knew that as long as the most likely king, Gul Khan, was eliminated, the grassland would be torn apart, and from then on, the heroes would compete with each other, and they would no longer have the strength to compete with Northern Chu.

Gulhan also understood this truth, worthy of a generation of heroes, he ordered the clan over the age of twelve, under the age of ten teenagers to leave on their own, and the other young men were ready to fight to the death with Northern Chu.

The Thorn Mur tribe occupies the most beautiful and largest Nima Lake on the grassland, behind which is the Goddess Snow Mountain, which is high in the clouds, and at the foot of the mountain, the endless fertile grassland, the Northern Chu army and the warriors of Thorn Mur are far away from each other, fighting against the water!

The vultures flying low in the sky seemed to smell death, adding a gray tone to the lake and mountains.

The cavalry of the Thorn Muer tribe wore a variety of leather robes, all kinds of leather robes, and their mouths made a shouting sound, riding horses in front of the Northern Chu army.

The big war is about to break out.