Sha Yuliang took Zhu Wei, Yuan Mingxian, Sima Yi, Hu Daxi, Zhenghe, Ying Wei and other generals of the Eastern Expedition to the east, and made a detour in Liaodong for several months, and finally drove the remnants of the Jurchens out of the wild land outside Zhenbei Pass.

And Goguryeo harbored the leaders of the rebel thieves of Dayu, Sha Yuliang led the original 60,000 cavalry and nearly 200,000 soldiers of Liaodong formed by Liaodong to fight in the eastern battlefield after destroying the remnants of the Beidi soldiers.

swept all the way through the past with great momentum, but all the Goguryeo towns that resisted sent troops to capture them.

Although the Xiyi people had already sold muskets and artillery in the eastern coastal countries in this world, Goguryeo was poor and really had no other enemies except for the Jurchens to bully them, so such a comfortable life also led their king to not pay enough attention to weapons.

In the past, the Dayu Dynasty, which was a puddle of mud, still had a little firearms, but Goguryeo was only the opposite, and the king was so desperate that he didn't even buy any firearms from the Xiyi people.

This can be regarded as the achievement of Sha Yuliang's group of generals, so that they attacked the city and captured the land very smoothly, and successfully captured Qin Lang and other rebel thieves, and finally drove all the remnants of Goguryeo into Silla at the end of the peninsula.

How could Silla allow the remnants of Goguryeo to enter their country, you must know that in the past, Goguryeo relied on their land area and strength to be stronger than Silla, and they bullied Silla a lot.

In this way, Goguryeo has become a lost dog, and they are sorry for their ancestors who were bullied to death if they don't take the opportunity to beat the water dogs.

Unable to return to their own homeland, they fled to Silla, but Silla refused to accept them, and in the end, the Goguryeo royal family was captured by Silla's soldiers and horses, and lived a life of captivity.

This time, Sha Yuliang's eastern expedition team can be regarded as really opening up the territory for Dayu, and the remnants of Beidi have been eliminated, and the grassland of Beidi really belongs to Dayu.

And the demise of Goguryeo, Xia Jing directly let the local garrison and established the Andong Protectorate.

The area under the jurisdiction of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate is directly under the jurisdiction of Youzhou.

Youzhou has the territory under its jurisdiction, and its jurisdiction area is the smallest in the northern states, and a large area has been added under this time, and the happiest is Youzhou Thorn Shi Feng Yanrong.

In addition to Hu Daxi's promotion on the spot as the capital guard of Andong, the commander-in-chief of the former Goguryeo and the soldiers and horses of Zhenbei, Zhendong and other places to protect the peace of the party, other generals embarked on the road back to Beijing.

They are triumphant.

They are the heroes of Dayu's expansion of territory, and they must be rewarded when they return to Beijing.

Approaching the capital, there are well-grown green gauze tents on both sides of the road, and both the generals and the soldiers are in a good mood.

Aren't they leading troops to fight outside to protect the peace of Dayu?

Now they are more relieved and proud than anyone else to see the people living and working in peace and contentment.

"General, look at this patch of crops, how well the crops are growing, full of energy, it seems that this year is another bumper harvest year!"

There is a concrete road under the horses' hooves, and there are many farmers working in the fields, and occasionally you can see a pond in which many ducks swim and play.

Sha Yuliang looked at the thriving scene and said with emotion: "The harvest is good, the harvest shows that the people don't have to go hungry, don't have to go everywhere to escape the famine, and live a life of displacement." ”

On both sides of the road, the peasants who were working in the fields, seeing the endless long army, stopped what they were doing, stood up straight and saluted them.

And the respect in the eyes of these farmers can be regarded as the greatest affirmation of their efforts.

But there are also many people who envy that they can fight for the country, not only for the country, but also for receiving military pay to support their families. Even if you join the army for a certain number of years, you can still receive a pension when you are old, and you can have money to retire, what a good thing!

Zhenghe and Ying Wei, who followed behind, felt the deepest, if their family had such good crops, would they take the whole village to escape from the famine?

If you don't flee the famine, you won't have the opportunity to participate in the rebels and do something that wants to overthrow the imperial court.

The soldiers looked at the crops on both sides of the road, homesick, after so many years, they really wanted to go home to see how their families were doing.

They have made meritorious contributions this time, so they should have a holiday to let them go home and have a look, right?

If they return to their hometown, they will be considered to have returned home, right? By the way, the ancestors were returned, and the villagers praised a few words, and the ancestral tomb was smoking.

Especially the soldiers who used to be rebels and came over later, they are the most eager to return to their hometowns.

"The imperial court has moved back to the capital, I don't know how the mother is doing now? Did it go well?"

Zhu Wei was bold and careful, at this time he thought that the imperial court would move back to the capital, there were many people, and he didn't know if Niangniang had bullied her in the capital.

Several generals next to him listened to his words, and their hearts were equally worried.

After leaving Lingnan, Niangniang led them all the way directly to the Gyeonggi region, drove out the Beidi soldiers and horses, and occupied the dominant side of Gyeonggi.

Now that she is mixed with the court, who knows if the civil officials in the court with knives will find her trouble.

When the army returned, they first returned to the Gyeonggi camp, and after the generals had settled down, they went to the palace together to meet them.

As a result, there was still some distance from the city gate, and they saw from a distance that the construction site that was once under construction was now full of people.

"General, is the railway station built?" Zhenghe asked, looking at the busy scene in the distance.

Sha Yuliang squinted slightly, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, "It should be opened to traffic, otherwise there can't be so many people in this remote place on the outskirts of the city, you see there are still many vendors." ”

"It's open?" Sima Yi craned his neck to look at the train station in the distance, "Why didn't I see a train?" Eh, do you know what a train looks like? ”

The others shook their heads, when they left Beijing, the train station had not been repaired, and now that they had come back, it had been opened to traffic, and they had not seen it.

The road into Beijing passes near the train station, but it is still a little far from the train station.

Because they were in a hurry to enter the palace to meet them, they did not go to the train station to find out, and when they entered the city, they found that the streets of the capital were more lively than before.

It's just that before they could take a closer look, countless pieces of colored paper suddenly fell from the second-floor windows of the shops on both sides of the street, and they fell on the generals one after another.

This sudden play made all the generals pull out the knives on their waists, thinking that it was an enemy attack, but found that it was colored shredded paper.

"Who made this one, it scared me, and I thought that the enemy's fine work had lurked in the capital!"

"Who's to say it's not." As he spoke, he pointed to the waiter who threw the colored shredded paper down the window on the second floor, "He almost died in Huangquan, but fortunately I stopped it in time, otherwise this dagger would have been thrown." ”

The waiter at the window on the second floor, who had palpitations in his heart, threw down a handful of colored shredded paper with a smile on his face, and shouted: "Play music!" ”

Suddenly the music was deafening.

The generals looked ahead.

"My mother, which one is this? It's so grand to welcome us? ”

The front rite department arranged a band of hundreds of people, dressed in colorful clothes, standing on both sides of the street to play music, a hundred music played in unison, the music shook the sky, I am afraid that the whole capital will be alarmed.

Yuan Mingxian looked up at the colorful shredded paper that fell from the top of his head, and then looked at the bands on both sides of the street in front of him, "Tsk, how do I feel like I have a sense of déjà vu across the streets?" ”

The music was loud, but because the two were not far apart, Zhu Wei still heard his words.

So, he laughed: "You are young and have the immediate sense of being a champion on the street, but I have the feeling of a little Dengke!" ”

Yuan Mingxian looked at him sympathetically and said loudly: "When you are old, why are you not in a hurry about lifelong events?" Come back this time and let the mother help you make a plan, marry a daughter-in-law who knows the cold and the heat and can warm the bed and go home, and your life is almost complete. ”

Zhu Wei glanced at him: "How can it!" After marrying a daughter-in-law and not having children, and not being a grandfather, how can life be fulfilling? ”

Yuan Mingxian couldn't stop laughing when he heard this, "Okay, the eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, you just want to be a grandfather, admire!" ”

How dare you think!

Because of the band's music, the generals' horseback slowed down.

When they arrived at the palace gate, Sha Yuliang and the others found a bright yellow figure standing in front of the palace gate. The people who dare to wear yellow robes only have the emperor and the crown prince in the whole Dayu, and the emperor will definitely not come out of the palace to greet them.

Then the person standing in front of the palace gate may be His Royal Highness the Prince.

Closer, Sha Yuliang saw that the person who came was the Prince Li Chengmu, whom they were familiar with.

Sha Yuliang and the others dared to slack off, so they immediately jumped off the horse and trotted over to greet Li Chengmu.

"The ministers have seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Hurry up, you are the heroes of Dayu's expansion of the territory, everyone has worked hard, all are exempt, please enter the palace with me, my father is waiting for you!" Li Chengmu hurriedly stepped forward and helped Sha Yuliang, who was about to kneel, up.

"Your Highness!"

Let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wait for them at the gate of the palace, Sha Yuliang and the others felt guilty and moved at the same time.

Li Chengmu glanced at a few of them and said with a smile: "Since everyone is here, come with me!" ”

There are palanquins in the palace, but those palanquins are not for anyone who enters the palace, but for the old and the weak, as well as for courtiers or family members who have the right of pardon.

Several strong generals definitely don't have the face to ride, but the palace gate is too far away from the emperor's Qinzheng Palace, and it will take a lot of time to walk over.

But when they entered the palace this time, they found that there were several strange things placed not far from the palace gate.

"Your Highness, this is"

"Haha." Li Chengmu was overjoyed when he saw their confused appearance: "This is a new means of transportation made by the War Bureau in his spare time, the name is bicycles, or bicycles, do you want to try to ride them to the Qinzheng Palace?" ”

He wanted to know if this group of fierce generals who had terrified the enemy on the battlefield could handle this little bicycle?

The generals were taken aback: "Bicycles? ”

Yuan Mingxian circled around the bicycle, and didn't understand how to ride this thing, "Your Highness, this thing has no legs, how can it be ridden away?" ”

Sima Yi gestured with his hand to the height, "And this thing. The height of the bicycle is not as high as that of a war horse, and it is still thin, which may not be able to bear our weight. ”

Li Chengmu and Changlu glanced at each other, and then the two couldn't help laughing.

The laughter of the two made Sha Yuliang and the others look at each other, can this thing really ride? Or are they lonely?

"It's still a small one, let's demonstrate it to the generals." After laughing, Changlu didn't forget the business, teach the generals to ride bicycles, they can't let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince teach it.

“.”

The generals' eyes widened as they wondered how this legless iron lump could ride away.

Changlu didn't care about the generals' thoughts, riding on the bicycle, holding the front of the bike, and with a kick, the bicycle went out.

With a slight swing of the front of the bike, he was able to ride steadily on the long road, of course, he didn't go far, but just circled around them so that they could observe the riding skills of the bike.

Seeing that it was easy to ride, Sha Yuliang and the others were gearing up and couldn't wait to try this new toy.

Right!

In their opinion, such a thin iron lump is a toy, and if they really want to talk about transportation, they still prefer horseback riding.

One for each person, and Li Chengmu also rode one, and he explained to them the precautions for riding a bicycle.

"Keep your eyes on the front of the car, and don't shake it."

As soon as Sha Yuliang heard it, he understood!

Get in the car and kick it off!

They were dumbfounded, this bicycle looks easy to get started on the long road, why is it disobedient in their hands?

Holding on to the left, they don't want it to fall to the left, but they have to fall to the right, and they don't dare to press hard with their feet, and wherever they step on it, the bicycle will fall that way, and they want to control it but can't control it.

"What kind of bike is this, not obedient at all, not obedient without my wind!"

The wind is Yuan Mingxian's war horse, if it weren't for being in the palace, he almost lost his temper and smashed the bicycle.

Such disobedience is worse than a mustang!

Two quarters of an hour later, Zhenghe was so anxious that his forehead sweated, "What the hell is this, the front of this car is unstable, I straighten it to the left and fall to the left, and if I want to help it down to the right, I will fall to the right, but I am disobedient and go forward, is there something wrong with this bicycle?" ”

Several generals went to the Qinzheng Hall while studying, but by the time they arrived at the Qinzheng Palace, it was already an hour later.

"I thought you had disappeared halfway, and it took you so long to come back!" Li Jingfu almost fell asleep waiting, and when he saw someone coming, he glared at Li Chengmu angrily.

As soon as he entered the hall, he was scolded by the emperor, and no one dared to say anything.

Waiting to stand in front of the emperor, all the generals saluted: "The last general Sha Yuliang (Sima Yi.) has seen the emperor!" ”

Li Jingfu stepped down from the Danqi, personally helped Sha Yuliang up, and then motioned to the other generals to excuse themselves and stand up.

Looking at the other generals who had been on the battlefield and had reined in their edges, he said happily: "The generals are crusading for the country, and I have always remembered you in my heart, and I hope to come back safely."

Now that I have returned safely, I am very relieved, and the other rewards are not to mention for the time being, and the bicycle you rode all the way just now will be given to you. ”

"Let the emperor worry about it, it is really a dereliction of duty by the last general and others."

Li Jingfu waved his hand indifferently, got on the Danqi and sat back on the dragon chair, and asked some about the situation in Liaodong and what problems could not be solved on this expedition.

Sha Yuliang shook his head: "Our generals are all ruthless people, ruthless to themselves, but responsible for their families, facing difficulties head-on, and not encountering any problems that cannot be solved for the time being." (End of chapter)