In the imperial palace, in the emperor's study, the emperor and Yao Ce discussed things, and the emperor trusted the prime minister very much, so the two often discussed things in the study.

"Yao Xiang, do you think what my imperial grandfather said is reasonable, how strong can this martial artist be?"

"The Holy Lord thinks that the dean can destroy Yongdu with a sword"

"Well, I'm afraid not"

"If you can't, you should keep the status quo"

Yao Ce replied, he knew very well how much Jiang Cheng had shocked the martial artists and the royal family after he had conquered the immortals, and at the same time, it also bred their idea of getting rid of the immortal sect.

Yao Ce himself is the prime minister, and he knows very well that power has an exclusive and dictatorial nature, and the Li family has been ready to move all these years, but the Xianmen has been pressing.

"It's because I'm different, so Yao Xiang thinks, how to deal with this matter?"

"Xungui's side is very simple, you only need the order of the saint, Xungui's heirs should be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, and actively join the army, and unite the eldest princess, all the Xungui heirs who join the army can get preferential treatment in the Ask Immortal Pavilion"

"Good, what about Wenchen"

When the emperor heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, forcing the nobles to send their heirs to join the army, so those nobles must send masters to protect their heirs, after all, the sword is ruthless on the battlefield, and a large number of warriors in the hands of the nobles can be transferred to the battlefield.

"It's a little more difficult for Wenchen"

Yao Ce shook his head, he dared to offend Xungui, but he didn't dare to offend Wenchen, because he was also a Wenchen, so he couldn't dismantle his own team.

Besides, Wenchen and Xungui are different, a large number of powerful Wenchen are all from families, and they are generally local clans.

"It's even harder"

"Then we can only call on warriors to join the army in the name of the imperial court, and promote the patriotic meaning of joining the army, and the imperial court will reward these people again, and maybe a group of warriors will join the army."

Yao Ce was forced to have no choice, he could only say that there was a means to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, it is estimated that this is the case, he will also be scolded to death, it is not easy for Wenchen to raise some doormen, the court let their doormen go to join the army with a word, it is estimated that many people will not accept it.

"Yao Xiang, Wenchen will ask Yao Xiang, how is Xungui, how Wenchen should be"

However, the emperor was still not satisfied, and showed a meaningful smile, Xungui wants to suppress, why don't Wenchen knock and knock, how can Xungui say that he is still related to the country, Wenchen can't be unilaterally bigger.

"Yes, Holy"

Yao Ce felt sorry in his heart, so he had to accept it, it seemed that the emperor was getting more and more powerful, and now he didn't dare to think about it anymore.

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Yongzhou, at the foot of a mountain, there is a military camp stationed, this is the border army camp that retreated to Yongzhou, the number of these border troops is not very large, to deal with the black wind army of the King of Xiliang, but to deal with those Xiliang horse bandits, it is more than enough, they are here today, just to encircle and suppress a horse bandits.

However, it did not go well, those horse bandits were extremely cunning, and never fought head-on with the officers and soldiers, but whenever a large number of officers and soldiers appeared, they would flee in the wilderness and hide in the mountains, and once the officers and soldiers were alone, they would attack them in groups, which gave the officers and soldiers a great headache.

So much so that for the rest of the month, the horse bandits were suppressed more and more, all of them were joined by the poor people in the areas where they were raging, but on the side of the border army, the more they fought, the less they fought, and as the area was destroyed more and more, their food and wages were also in trouble.

"Stop, the barracks are heavy, and idlers are not allowed to approach"

"Presumptuous, see clearly"

In the evening, twenty or thirty horsemen came to the barracks, and the soldiers stopped them, and one of them quickly took out his token, and the soldiers let them go in horror.

Soon, the captain of this border army hurriedly came out to greet him, and one of the people who came was the enshrinement of the military department, but many of them were masters of the royal family.

"Let me ask you, how many bandits are there in the mountains?"

"Lord Hui, there are more than 2,000 bandits on the mountain, of which more than 1,000 are Xiliang horse bandits, and more than 1,000 people are local Diao people, and the bandits were forced into the mountains by our army, and they resisted stubbornly, because of the rugged terrain in the mountains, our army suspended the offensive."

"Understood, you immediately order to bury the pot and make rice, as soon as it gets dark, immediately block the entry and exit of the mountain pass, we will go and kill the bandit leader, and you will capture all the bandits"

"Yes, my lord"

The lieutenant took the order hard, and he didn't know what the people were capable of, but the commander gave the order, and they could only take it.

After more than half an hour, more than 20 worshippers entered the mountain, they did not ride horses, but operated light work, and the steep mountain forest was like walking on the ground under their feet, who let them all be innate warriors.

"Old prince, you see, these bandits do have men and horses in the army, and the terrain chosen is very conducive to stationing, only a few troops are needed, and they can hold the key points, and the idle soldiers and horses can't attack it."

After entering the mountain, the worship of the military department pointed to the bandit camp in front and said to Li Changsheng that the method of camping these bandits was quite appropriate, no wonder the border army did not dare to enter the mountain to suppress the bandits.

"There are twenty-five of us, ten of whom will attack the mountain head-on with me, and the remaining fifteen will be divided into two teams, one on the left and one on the right, and all the thieves will not be spared."

Li Changsheng nodded, he had also been a soldier in the army and knew some tactics, although they were few, they also had to divide their troops and take a detour to wipe out all this thief army.

"The officers and soldiers are coming"

"The officers and soldiers are coming"

"It's only ten people, what are you panicking about, give me arrows"

Soon, their whereabouts were discovered by the bandits, and the little minions screamed in horror, but they were the leaders of the bandits, and when they saw more than ten people, they did not panic at all, and ordered the arrows to be released.

However, in the next moment, a huge sword appeared and landed on top of them, and the sword gang fell, and dozens of bandits armed with bows and arrows were swept out.

"Grand Master..."

The bandits led by him were stunned, he didn't expect that the person who came to fight them turned out to be the Great Grandmaster, unscientific, the Great Grandmaster didn't go to Tongzhou to fight the Liao, and he actually came to fight them?

"Hurry up, it's the Great Master"

The man reacted quickly, screamed, and ran back, shouting as he ran, in the cottage, at this time many leaders were running, they had already seen the knife falling from the sky, realized that something was wrong, and immediately began to run.

"Kill, surrender on your knees to avoid death, kill all who stand"

Li Changsheng took the lead in attacking the bandit camp, constantly roaring loudly, and the rest of the people were like wolves entering the flock, this bandit, not even a single congenital, how could they be their opponents.

Ten people directly defeated more than 2,000 people, while the remaining ten people made a detour and drove back most of the escapees, and most of the bandits surrendered on their knees.

The border army under the mountain entered the mountain with torches, and after entering the mountain, they were stunned to see the troops in a place, is this the strength of the imperial court?

"Find out the bandit leader, kill the bandit leader, let the good people go home, and the rest of the bandits will be disorganized into the army, and follow us to encircle and suppress the next bandit"

Li Changsheng said to the lieutenant that there are more than 2,000 people, even the prison in the state capital of Yongzhou cannot be closed, so the best way is to kill the bandit leader and some backbones, and the ordinary people will be put back, and the rest will be incorporated into the army as cannon fodder.

The lieutenant quickly received the order, and by dawn, the bandit leader had already been buried, and began to screen ordinary people, Li Changsheng felt that they were too slow, and took people away again.

There are too many bandits in Yongzhou, there are more than 10,000 Xiliang horse bandits, after they arrived in Yongzhou, they continue to coerce the people, and now the bandits don't know how many thousands, even some county towns are not safe, and the retreating border army has to fight with the partial division of the king of Xiliang, and the whole Yongzhou is in chaos.

Li Changsheng led people to keep killing, killing until they themselves were soft, as if the entire Yongzhou was a den of thieves and could not be killed, and in the end, the entire army was still to sweep all the way.

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Pingzhou, Xiliang Wang looked at the pass in front of him and had a feeling of vomiting blood, Xiliang and Tongzhou and Beizhou are relatively flat, the mountains are mountains, the flat land is flat, but Pingzhou is not, Pingzhou is a mountain after a mountain, the terrain that can be used as a pass is simply not too much, after more than a month, they have laid more than ten passes, but there are still countless passes in front of them, it seems that any valley can be a pass.

"Who took the name of Pingzhou, it's really lacking in virtue"

King Xiliang scolded in his heart, can it be said that it is Pingzhou with this kind of terrain? Flat fart.

"Lord Wang, the latest report"

A guard came up and handed over a stack of detective reports to the King of Xiliang, who was about the same as the King of Pingliao, and the King of Xiliang also had many spies in Yongdu.

"Lord Wang, what's the situation outside?"

"The imperial court has recruited troops on a large scale, and it is expected that there will be hundreds of thousands, and Yongdu City has also ordered that Xungui join the army and send ministers to be local governors, and more than half of the masters of Yongdu City have come out, and Yongzhou is about to be pacified, and Li Changsheng is taking dozens of innate warriors to suppress bandits."

"Li Changsheng is not dead yet"

"Most of the people of the Li clan are long-lived, Li Changsheng, Li Changqing's generation still has many people alive, relying on the Xianmen, all of them have become great grandmaster-level martial artists, we have to speed up and join the king of Zhennan, otherwise our family will not be able to stop the Great Wei"

"Lord Wang, we Xiliang are good at cavalry, and we can't exert our strength in this mountainous area, we should let the king of Zhennan accelerate their advance, and their barbarian army will be a mountain army."

A staff member replied that King Xiliang's Black Wind Army was mainly cavalry, with very few infantry, which was suitable for fighting on flat land, and was not suitable for the terrain of Pingzhou, while King Zhennan's Ping Barbarian Army was mainly infantry, and recruited a large number of mountain people, climbing mountains and mountains as if walking on flat ground.

"This is still a trivial matter, the spies over there in Great Xia have found out, Great Xia has gathered 20,000 troops, has reached the border, and there are at least 100,000 soldiers in the follow-up, and in two days, the national letter of Great Xia will arrive, if we don't surrender Great Xia, Great Xia will attack us, you say, should we surrender?"

King Xiliang sighed, if they don't surrender, they will die, they can't beat the enemy of Da Wei, let alone Da Xia, but if they surrender, many people can't accept it, Da Xia is also often offended, looting in Xiliang, many of their men have a big enmity with Da Xia, and the king of Xiliang has guarded Xiliang for generations to resist Da Xia.

Everyone was silent, not knowing what to say, but they all knew that whatever they said would offend some people.