Baling, Royal Palace.

After discussing the Northern Expedition with Sun Siwen and Zhou Qing, Lu Yuan handed over the matter to them, and he began to work overtime to catch up with the Yellow Turban Lux clone.

This matter is not very difficult for Lu Yuan.

Now he is already a cultivator of condensing the three qis, and after thirty years of cultivation, he has long been extremely proficient in the supernatural power of condensing the two qis.

Now with just one thought, Lu Yuan can light dozens of yellow turban wrestlers with a wave of his hand.

And the materials are also readily available.

In the early years, when slaughtering god-blood xenos, the Chu State obtained countless materials from hundreds of god-blood xenos, which was enough to refine hundreds of clones.

The only thing that is a little problematic is that fifty-six doppelgangers are ignited at once, which consumes a bit of Lu Yuan's mana, and almost drains half of his mana.

This is half of the mana of a condensed three-qi cultivator, and when it is consumed, I don't know how much spiritual energy I have to exhale before I can make up for it!

But then again.

If you can use half of your mana, you can exchange it for fifty-six people who can be used for a long time and have absolute trust, which is equivalent to the clone of the innate second realm, and take down half of Zhongzhou with this.

Then this deal is not too much of a loss.

Especially for the current Lu Yuan, since he broke through the condensation of the three qi, the only place he currently occupies in Yangzhou has gradually been unable to meet his cultivation needs.

The cultivation of the three qi cultivators has almost ten times the demand for cultivating the spiritual qi as much as that of the cultivators who condense the two qi, and it will continue to rise as the cultivation progresses.

And the luck provided by the Unified Yangzhou can only pry the Heavenly Dome Spiritual Qi to meet the cultivation needs of a condensed two qi cultivator.

When it comes to condensing the three qis, this bit of luck and aura is far from enough.

Although with the in-depth development of Yangzhou, the population is constantly multiplying, and the luck provided is also increasing.

But this improvement is far less than the progress of Lu Yuan's cultivation.

Now, he absorbs the aura every day, and it is only about 10% of his own cultivation limit.

After meditating for a day, the improved cultivation mana is not even as good as an ordinary monk in the same realm, but he has not cultivated the method of luck.

Relying on his life to practice the Taiping Dao Book, he brought eight or nine times the cultivation speed of ordinary people, but because of the lack of aura, he did not exert its due effect at all.

According to the current cultivation speed in a state of severe aura hunger, Lu Yuan calculated a little that if he wanted to rely on a Yangzhou to break through to condense the four qi, it would take one hundred and twenty or thirty years to say the least.

This turtle speed, it will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse.

And as far as the current situation of Kyushu is concerned, whether this broken Yangzhou can last for 30 years is enough.

Not to mention more than a hundred years later.

Therefore, Lu Yuan actively promoted the Northern Expedition this time, and it was also enough of this kind of hard life of young spirits, and in order to improve the cultivation environment, he had to launch external expansion.

"When the land of Liang and Wei is captured, the territory of Chu can be doubled, and the population can be more than doubled.

With these, my cultivation speed should be able to increase to about 30% of my extreme aura exhalation speed.

Although he was still in a state of aura hunger, he was about three times that of ordinary monks of the same realm.

With this progress, it should be possible to complete the accumulation within 30 years, before the fall of Yangzhou, and break through to the realm of condensing the four qi. ”

In the palace, Lu Yuan thought in his heart as he waved his hand and sprinkled a piece of golden light.

A little bit of golden light floated and fell on the rows of materials placed in front of him, and suddenly the golden light turned into runes, and the materials were ignited, and a burly yellow turban wrestler stood up.

They lined up and walked to the corner of the main hall, where a larger number of Yellow Turban wrestlers were already standing in silence.

If you count it carefully, it's exactly fifty-six.

"You should report to the Privy Council immediately, and after receiving the title, go down to the camp and familiarize yourself with the people you are leading in advance."

Lu Yuan looked at the many Yellow Turban Lux clones he had created and gave an order.

He didn't create these clones to give an order, and with a letter of appointment, he could fully take over the army.

It is impossible to march and fight, to lead the troops and horses, by relying only on one person.

If you want to command an army smoothly and freely, in addition to a wise commander, you must also have a large number of low, middle, and senior officers with qualified abilities and qualifications, so that these people obey your orders and manage their direct subordinates well, so that the commander can command the army like an arm.

Therefore, after creating the clones, Lu Yuan also had to let them go to the grassroots level, get acquainted with the generals and generals assigned to them, understand the abilities of these people, and run in with each other, so as to train the soldiers and horses of the road.

As for Lu Yuan himself, there is no need to be so troublesome.

According to the previous discussion with Zhou Qing, this Northern Expedition will be divided into five major camps and sixty soldiers and horses.

And the commanders of these camps and various soldiers and horses are the doppelgangers of Lu Yuan himself.

Control your own doppelganger, what is used to understand familiarity.

How capable they are, their own essence that gives everything, is it still unclear?

What's more, with Lu Yuan's current cultivation, even if he and the clone are thousands of miles apart, they can still achieve instant communication through the connection of divine thoughts, and even transmit the images they see each other, as if they were there in person.

In this case, it is not too easy for Lu Yuan to command the five major battalions and sixty soldiers and horses.

It's like playing a computer game, although the foggy vision is opened, it's still God's vision.

As long as he is the main body, his mind moves, and his troops can be immediately mobilized like a game character, and make instant adjustments according to changes in the situation.

It is precisely because there are so many benefits between the main body and the clone that Lu Yuan has to refine so many clones before starting the war, even if he does not hesitate to spend a lot of mana.

This is not only greedy for the combat power of the clone, but also takes a fancy to this instant messaging function.

"Yes!"

Hearing the command, the doppelgangers nodded, then turned and walked out of the main hall and rushed away.

Looking at their backs, Lu Yuan couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

With such a big advantage and the strength to crush the opponent, what reason do you have not to win this war?

In this Northern Expedition, the overall situation has been decided at this moment.

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Yongzhou, Guannei County, Chang'an.

Since twenty-five years ago, after Wang Shi expelled the former Zhou and entered the Guannei, the former imperial capital of Yongzhou has naturally become the capital of Wei.

Because the palace in the city is complete, and at the same time, the Guannei County where the Jingshi is located is also a rich grain-producing county, which is enough to supply hundreds of officials and a large number of forbidden troops.

Therefore, even if Wang Shi later captured the two counties of Henan and Nanyang in Zhongzhou, the imperial court did not move the Jingshi over, but left it to the immigrants who continued to migrate from Yanzhou.

The imperial court itself led a large number of soldiers and horses and stationed them in Shuofang and Guannei counties to resist the barbarian alien races that were constantly migrating from the grasslands and the Western Regions.

It is said that the Son of Heaven guards the country.

As we all know, any important frontier town is a place where soldiers are used, and this economy and people's livelihood are naturally difficult to get any better.

Chang'an is no exception.

Since the previous week, after losing Shuofang, Helong and other places, Guannei County, where Chang'an is located, has no barrier, and Chang'an City has also become the front line.

From that time on, near Chang'an, there will be beacon fires every month.

And to this day, although Shuofang County in the north is still there, it can shield the north of Jingshi.

However, the two counties of Helong in the west were still not returned, so the west of the capital was still a smooth road, without any blockage.

The barbarians from the west, compared to climbing over the steep and difficult Longshan Mountain, went to the majestic pass.

I still prefer to follow the plain rivers and go straight to Kannai County, which is not hindered by natural dangers and is extremely rich.

Therefore, even if the Wei State is stationed in the western frontier of Guannei County all the year round, there are still small groups of barbarian rangers in the Western Regions from time to time, rushing to the foot of Chang'an City, causing a big mess.

Because the place where we live is threatened all the time.

In addition, most of the people living in Shuofang and Guannei counties are relatives of the forbidden army, and they are already martial because of the people's customs and martial arts.

In the end, the people of the two counties, regardless of men and women, can dance knives and guns, and know the habit of archery with both hands, which can be said to be a soldier for the whole people.

The martial arts are even more fierce than those barbarians who have migrated.

In fact, those barbarian rangers who broke through the western defense line and approached the hinterland of the Guannai often did not wait to continue deeper. Halfway through, the villagers who spontaneously organized themselves between the villagers were brave and directly solved, and there was no big mess at all.

Today, the autumn is gradually rising, the grass and trees are slightly yellow, and a group of Wei villagers composed of cavalry teams skillfully arrange the formation, like a tiger driving wolves, chasing and strangling a group of more than ten people, from the west of the barbarian herdsman.

The battle lasted only a few moments, and it ended with most of the barbarian herdsmen killed and wounded, and the rest fled.

However, the victorious Wei Guoxiang Yong did not give up, and continued to chase and keep up, and there was a great sense that he would not give up until he killed all these barbarian herdsmen.

However, they did not chase for long, because from the south, a team of hundreds of people met them.

Some of the Wei cavalry who were guarding the periphery, seeing this situation, directly hit their horses and helped those villagers to easily kill those herdsmen.

Among the team coming from the south, Han Shun and Huang Yun, who were escorted by the soldiers and horses of the Wei State, witnessed this scene with their own eyes and couldn't help but feel slightly shocked.

"Real person, this is already a suburb of Chang'an, and it is only three hundred miles away from the imperial capital of Wei, right?" Han Shun couldn't help but turn his head, looked at Huang Yun next to him and asked.

As one of Lu Yuan's five major personal disciples, Han Shun belonged to his own people who could be trusted, so after he broke through the innate nature, he was reused.

In recent years, at the local level, he has successively served as the defense envoy and chief manager of each county; In the Central Committee, he also served as a general of the forbidden army and a privy deputy envoy. The military rank was also cumulatively promoted to General Zuo, ranked in the first rank, and was made a marquis.

It can be said that Han Shun is in the Chu State, and he is a real military real power figure, second only to Zhou Qing as a general.

However, despite his high position, Han Shun still did not dare to slack off Huang Yun beside him, but was extremely humble and respectful.

This is not only because Huang Yun is a real person who protects the country, and like himself, he is ranked first.

is even more because the other party is a doppelganger of his master, which is equivalent to Emperor Chu in person.

No matter how arrogant he Han Shun is, he doesn't dare to blow up in front of his mentor and monarch!

That's not madness, it's stupidity.

Therefore, in the Chu State, the Qinghuang two real people are already a semi-open secret to all the high-level people.

Basically, the high-level leaders of both the military and the political side knew that this was the emperor's doppelganger, and no one dared to be rude.

In front of them, they were all very respectful and humble.

"Indeed, we have arrived in Lanyu County, which is under the jurisdiction of Jing Zhaoyin of the Wei State, which is where Gyeonggi is located."

Huang Yun heard the inquiry, nodded slightly, and then sighed: "I didn't expect that this kind of absolute hinterland land, there are still barbarian rangers who can approach, it seems that the trouble in the western frontier of Wei is far more serious than imagined." ”

Han Shun agreed: "The border troubles of the Wei people are so serious, they all endanger Gyeonggi. It seems that this time we will be able to accomplish our mission easily. ”

At the beginning, Lu Yuan made a plan to unite with Wei and send troops to sweep away the grassland barbarians and alien races in the Western Regions to mobilize the soldiers and horses of Wei to Chu State.

After that, it was naturally indispensable to send people to Wei to achieve this.

And Huang Yun and Han Shun are the chief and deputy envoys of the Chu State Mission.

At the same time, the two were also responsible for echoing with the Wei State, and together they went out to sweep the barbarian Hanzhong Legion, each commanding all the way to the troops and horses, or obeying orders in the legion camp.

Well, judging from the responsibilities of the two, it is not difficult to guess that they went to Wei with some special tasks this time.

For example, spy on the intelligence of the Wei State, observe the reality of the other party, and prepare for the attack on Guanzhong by the army in the coming year.

After all, in addition to the task of drawing out the main force of Wei, the Hanzhong Army also had the important task of attacking Guanzhong and blocking the soldiers and horses of Wei from returning to Henan and Nanyang.

It's not that simple to accomplish this task.

"It's easy to lure the Wei people out, but it's not easy to block them."

Huang Yun looked at the Wei people who had killed all the barbarian rangers in the distance, and were happily disposing of the corpses and looting the spoils, and his eyes were worried: "The Wei people in Guannei and Shuofang already have 1.5 million soldiers and horses, more than ten congenital, and they are already extremely strong.

But now I see that the local people of Wei are also brave and brave, and their martial arts are far greater than my Chu.

If the war really starts, and the five million Wei people in the two counties of Guanzhong and Shuofang are so brave, I am afraid that it will be easy to gather a million troops, and they all have a certain combat power.

That's 2.5 million soldiers. ”

In the end, Huang Yun's tone couldn't help but lower.

Han Shun was also silent.

The Hanzhong Legion where they belong has an establishment of 200,000 soldiers and 800,000 people, which adds up to one million.

This strength seems to be strong, but it is far inferior to the strength of Wei in Guannei and Shuofang.

The gap between the two sides is nearly four or five times.

"The Wei people are not necessarily so brave, or they can call those village brave horsemen and ask one or two." After Han Shun was silent, he proposed.

Huang Yun said: "Okay, you go and call someone." ”

Han Shun nodded, then turned around and went to the Wei State official who was escorting him to negotiate the matter with the other party.

After a few words with Wei Guan, the other party did not push back, perhaps with the idea of showing off his strength, he called people to call those villagers.

A moment later, the villagers who were cleaning up the loot in the distance were brought over.

"The villain Zhu Shen has seen a nobleman."

Perhaps because it was the first time they saw a big official, the villagers who were brought in were a little restrained, and they carefully saluted Huang Yun and the others.

Huang Yun looked at the man named Zhu Xiang in front of him, burly, vigorous in qi and blood, and rough internal strength, obviously he had practiced martial arts.

It's just that he's a little older, his temples are gray, and he looks like he's fifty or sixty years old.

Perhaps it is because of this that the other party was able to escape military service and not be drafted into the army.

"Get up, you don't have to be polite."

Huang Yun raised his hand slightly, motioned to Zhu Shen, and then said: "I just saw that the old man led people to drive away the barbarian rangers, and he was extremely brave, and he couldn't help but be surprised, so he asked the old man to bring him for questioning." ”

explained first, and then he continued: "Dare to ask the old man, are there many warriors like you in the countryside?" ”

Zhu Shen raised his head and replied cautiously: "Back to the nobles, the villains are superficial, and they dare not be brave in front of the nobles." However, farmers like the little people who have practiced one or two hands are a lot of them in the countryside.

After the basic boy Lang is eleven or twelve years old, he will learn some protective skills under the leadership of the elders in the village.

So on our side, all the country men know some swords, guns and archery. Even women can play with a bow, and ten arrows can always hit one or two arrows. ”

In the Kyushu world, those nobles don't just mean that they are from a good background.

In this transcendent world, birth also means strong force, just like those Linhai families in Yangzhou, which is not both civil and military, and their cultivation is profound.

Under this current situation, ordinary people at the bottom face the high-level aristocrats, even if they want to play any kind of blood-spattering drama, it has become a luxury.

Therefore, a low-level martial artist like Zhu Xiang, in the face of a noble person like Huang Yun, who is a big man at first glance, really dare not be brave.

"Is that so......"

Huang Yun paused, and then looked at some villagers waiting in the distance, curiously and nervously looking at this place, most of them were teenagers and old people.

It was these people who killed a group of barbarian rangers and fled.

He looked at it twice, and then asked: "I look at your fellow countrymen, they all have the heads of killing barbarians on their bodies, and they specially cut off the heads, but what is the saying?" ”

Zhu Shen replied honestly: "There was a notice in the county earlier, and anyone who took the head of the invading barbarians to the county government could receive fifty catties of rice with the head. This time, we took thirteen barbarian heads, which can be exchanged for six and a half stone of rice. ”

"I see."

Huang Yun nodded, and then said, "Thank you, old man, for clearing up your doubts, go down and receive some rewards, and then you can leave." ”

"Thank you!"

Hearing that there was a reward, Zhu Xiang's face was overjoyed, and after thanking him, he hurriedly left.

After he left, Huang Yun looked at Han Shun beside him and asked, "General Han, how is it?" ”

The latter's face was solemn: "The Wei people are indeed difficult to deal with, if their people are all Zhu Shen and others, this battle will be difficult." ”

Huang Yun sighed lightly: "No matter what, let's go and see Emperor Wei first." Later, whether it was to send additional troops and horses, or any other plan, it was always necessary to transfer the Wei soldiers out of the country first. ”

The conversation between the two ended.

Amid the sound of cars and horses, the mission continued to march towards Chang'an.