Chapter Twenty-Seven: Stand Firm
Lu Bu led 60,000 iron cavalry from Bingzhou and tens of thousands of local soldiers and horses from Shuofang County, and had just gone far from Woye City when he met the rescue coalition of the Qiang and Xianbei tribes!
This time, the Qiang and Xianbei tribes concentrated almost all the soldiers and horses in the vicinity of Shuofang County, and wanted to unite to block Lu Bu's attack! After all, a few years ago, their two tribes were killed by Lu Bu and were defeated, causing their plan to occupy the border area of the Han Dynasty to be completely ruined!
This time, they have finally occupied the territory of nearly two counties in the state, how can they be willing to spit it out again!
When Lu Bu led 60,000 Bingzhou iron cavalry to set off from Jinyang, they received the news here, and they knew that Lu Bu was not good, and the Qiang and Xianbei tribes in Shuofang County planned to unite against Lu Bu, and they must not be killed by Lu Bu and Bingzhou iron cavalry like a few years ago!
This time, the Qiang and Xianbei tribes gathered a total of 300,000 troops in Shuofang County, which was far superior to Lu Bu, but they still underestimated Lu Bu's strength and underestimated the strength of the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry!
In the face of the alien alliance army, which was far superior to them, Lu Bu's face did not change, but he was full of fighting spirit, and directly led 60,000 iron cavalry from Bingzhou to rush to the alien alliance army, and the ordinary cavalry of Shuofang County assisted in the battle.
Lu Bu, whose strength has reached the sixth heavenly realm, is simply invincible in the world and invincible.
I saw Lu Bu stepping on the void, holding the Fang Tian Painting Halberd, and the terrifying momentum soared into the sky, facing the generals of the Qiang and Xianbei tribes, Lu Bu could almost use one as ten, and it was effortless, almost no foreign generals could survive three moves in his hands!
Lu Bu's terrifying strength made these alien generals feel frightened, and they began to avoid Lu Bu one by one, not daring to come forward to fight him, many alien generals saw Lu Bu kill him, directly regardless of the life or death of his subordinates, and began to flee in the wilderness, the coalition army was disrupted by Lu Bu's one-person killing formation, morale declined, and for a time many alien cavalry groups were leaderless, chaotic, and were shot by the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry.
Moreover, the 60,000 iron cavalry in Bingzhou are well-trained, and their strength has reached at least the middle stage of the Quenching Realm, and even the late stage of the Quenching Realm, and they can also quickly form various military formations, which greatly increases their defense and lethality, and the strength of Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Zang Ba, Wei Xu, Song Xian and others under Lu Bu is not bad, and they have brought huge casualties to these alien races under the joint force!
After three hours of fierce fighting, the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry led by Lu Bu won a complete victory, and almost all the generals of the Qiang and Xianbei coalition forces were killed by Lu Bu, except for 20,000 people who fled, the rest were either killed or captured, and the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry only lost a few thousand men and horses, but the ordinary soldiers and horses of Shuofang County lost more than 10,000 people, but compared to the harvest, this loss is really nothing!
In addition to harvesting some small alien weapons and materials, this battle also obtained nearly 300,000 excellent war horses, as well as a large number of cattle and sheep and other livestock!
Such a huge harvest made Xiao Yun very happy, and Lu Bu sold Xiao Yun a favor, and sold these war horses to Xiao Yun at a very low price, helping Xiao Yun solve the problem of new recruits' war horses.
Lu Bu's battle can be said to have killed the main force of the Qiang and Xianbei tribes in Bingzhou, and the remaining four county towns of Shuofang County are much simpler, almost without Lu Bu leading the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry to go, Xiao Yun led the soldiers and horses of Shuofang County to subdue the remaining four counties in three days!
The main reason is that many Qiang and Hu people have been frightened, and when they heard the rout soldiers who fled back, they all had a huge fear of Lu Bu and the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry, and many generals defending the city fled directly with their men! This is the reason why Xiao Yun was able to take the four counties so loosely!
After Shuofang County was fully recovered, Lu Bu once again led the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry to Shangjun, wanting to drive out the Qiang people who had been entrenched in Shangjun for several years, these Qiang people had already taken root in Shangjun, and it was definitely not as simple as recovering Shuofang County if they wanted to get rid of it!
For Lu Bu wanting to subdue Shangjun, Xiao Yun knew that this was after Lu Bu woke up under his reminder, wanted to make up for his mistakes in the past few years, and wanted to expel all the alien races in Bingzhou in one go, Xiao Yun definitely hoped that Lu Bu could succeed, but he couldn't help much, Shuofang County still had a lot of things waiting for him, the new county guard, to deal with!
The 50,000 recruits and more than 30,000 family members and craftsmen recruited by Xiao Yun in Taiyuan County finally arrived in Shuofang County two days late.
In this kind of frontier land, Xiao Yun always has to guard against the invasion of foreign races, only with a strong army in his hands can he feel at ease, in order to gain a firm foothold here, Xiao Yun asked the county Cheng Chen Hong and a group of civil officials to restore the economy of Shuofang County, place those craftsmen and other talents, and restore the economy of the five counties that have just been recovered as soon as possible, he immediately recruited new soldiers in Shuofang County, and asked Cao Xing and Hou Cheng to step up the training of recruits.
Lü Bu's reconquest of Shangjun this time was met with fierce resistance from the Qiang people, which was relatively difficult, but it was a pity that they encountered Lü Bu, and no matter how much they resisted, they could not be spared! Lü Bu led the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry to take over the entire territory of Shangjun for more than a month, killing countless Qiang people, and capturing more than 100,000 Qiang people.
Shangjun is the largest county among the twelve counties in Bingzhou, but because there are more Qiang and Hu people living in Shangjun, the number is about to catch up with the local Han people, which is also the reason why Shangjun has repeatedly fallen into the hands of foreign races!
After Lu Bu took Shangjun, because Shangjun had fallen into the hands of the Qiang people for many years, a large number of Qiang and Hu people made it difficult to manage here, so Lu Bu asked Xiao Yun to help manage it first, and then make a decision after he returned to Jinyang to ask for instructions to assassinate Shi Dingyuan!
Xiao Yun also had an extreme shortage of management talents, so in desperation, he put a group of newly recruited Hanmen scribes to Shangjun to serve as officials, and temporarily managed them first.
Then Lu Bu went to Yanmen County again, and after a fierce battle with the Xianbei army, he finally recovered all the counties occupied by Xianbei in Yanmen County.
After more than two months, Lu Bu led the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry to finally recover all the territories occupied by foreign races on the border of Bingzhou, rescued millions of Han people, and greatly shocked all the surrounding aliens!
In the past two months, affected by Lu Bu's successive victories, there are a lot of people who have joined the army, Xiao Yun directly recruited 100,000 recruits in Shuofang County and Shang County, plus 50,000 recruits recruited in Taiyuan County, a total of 150,000 recruits have begun to bear fruit under the training of Cao He and Hou Cheng, and Lu Bu's successive victories have provided Xiao Yun with a large number of population resources and various war horses and materials.
Seeing that Lu Bu was about to return to Jinyang with less than 40,000 Bingzhou iron cavalry, Xiao Yun couldn't help but worry for a while, if there was no Lu Bu's deterrence, these alien races were very likely to invade Bingzhou again, and his current strength was too weak, the 150,000 recruits did not have much combat power now, and there was no powerful martial artist in his hand to calm the situation, how could he not be worried about this situation!
After Xiao Yun told Lu Bu about his worries, and hoped that Lu Bu could leave a general to defend these alien races, Lu Bu thought about it for a while, and promised to leave Gao Shun and three thousand elite iron cavalry to help Xiao Yun guard the frontier, and Cao Xing and Hou Cheng would just give it to Xiao Yun! Now that Lu Bu has many generals, he doesn't care about those few, but let Xiao Yun pick up a big bargain!
After Lu Bu left, Xiao Yun was very generous to Gao Shun, Cao Xing, and Hou Cheng, and provided the three of them with various resources needed for cultivation, so that the three of them could make a breakthrough in their martial arts cultivation and devote themselves to helping him train recruits.
In Shuofang County, Xiao Yun mobilized the peasants to plant crops on all the abandoned fields, and allocated more than 10 acres of land to each person, reducing some commissions and taxes to a reasonable degree as much as possible, and vigorously developing the economy of Shuofang County.
At the same time, in Bingzhou and even the surrounding counties and counties quietly began to issue recruitment orders, hoping that some people with lofty ideals could come to Shuofang County and Shangjun to help resist the Qiang and Xianbei tribes, and Xiao Yun also offered extremely high treatment and promises, and the Juxian Towers in various places became the main recruitment locations.
In order not to arouse suspicion and misunderstanding in the imperial court, Xiao Yun sent someone to send Zhang Rang a batch of specially made high-quality wine and several priceless treasures, so that his plan did not cause the emperor's misunderstanding.
The frontier land has been repeatedly invaded by foreign races, but the imperial court does not care, Xiao Yun has hyped up the cruel deeds that the Qiang and Xianbei have done to the Han people over the years, he does not believe that no one will come to help him, those military generals in the world who have never met talents, those down-and-out scribes, those loyal and righteous people who have no strength, but have not been able to find a place to use, these talents are Xiao Yun's goals.
And he also sent people to start looking for some generals and scribes he knew, to see if there was any chance of being under his command!
In just a few months, Shuofang County slowly returned to stability under Xiao Yun's governance, and he couldn't wait to cross again, according to his observations, the Great Han was about to be in chaos, and his current cultivation had not yet broken through to the innate realm, how could he not be in a hurry!
After explaining the matter of Shuofang County to Chen Hong and Gao Shun, Xiao Yun urged the mysterious ball in his mind to leave quietly on the grounds that he needed to cultivate for a period of time!