Steel Dynasty - Chapter 507

[Chapter 507: Provocation from outside the customs]

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Shanhaiguan.

When Xiao Ming was setting up the privateering plan, his order to attack the barbarians had already arrived.

When Lei Ming read the military order from Qingzhou, he suddenly laughed.

A group of Guan Ning cavalry generals gathered around him with puzzled expressions on their faces. A captain asked: “What on earth makes Governor Ru so happy?”

Lei Ming carefully put away the military order with the seal of King Qi and said : “The Grand Governor said that His Highness asked us to go out and kill the barbarians with their vigor.”

“Finally the war is about to begin. Hey, our hands are itchy.”

“That’s right, now that the barbarians are dishonest again, we should give them some color. Take a look.”

“Tough them up and let them know how powerful our Guan Ning Cavalry is,” the generals shouted louder and louder.

Lei Ming stretched out his hand to signal the generals to quiet down. He said: “It has been five days since this order was issued. However, according to the governor, this time it is enough to stop fighting the barbarians to the death. Just retreat after taking advantage.”

Just now .

The excited generals suddenly fainted, and one general said: “It turns out that we are not going to continue fighting to the north.”

“You are thinking too much. If you continue to fight to the north, the Qingzhou Army will be stationed in Shanhaiguan long ago. “

Who said we can only fight with the Qingzhou Army? Is our Youzhou Army’s training in vain?”

“We have trained, but our Youzhou Army only has three thousand muskets in total, which is not enough.” “

Generals. “

The discussion started again, and finally everyone looked at Lei Ming, “Captain, the equipment of our Youzhou Army is really poor. Can you please mention it to the Commander, otherwise we will not be able to fight the barbarians.”

Lei Ming suddenly felt a little embarrassed, he was already more than I raised this question with Qingzhou once, but they have only received 3,000 muskets during this period, but now the Youzhou Army has only trained 20,000 musketeers after careful selection, and this does not include the expansion. To the two Guan Ning cavalry.

“You can’t say that. Didn’t Qingzhou just send us 10,000 war horses a few days ago? These war horses all come from the fiefdom of King Zhao. It can be seen that His Highness still treats our Youzhou army preferentially.” Lei Ming explained that he was most afraid What is important is that the generals ask him for equipment.

When the general heard this, he immediately felt that it made sense. Half of the 20,000 war horses were given to the Youzhou Army. Because of this, the number of Guan Ning’s cavalry was expanded to 20,000.

Clearing his throat, Lei Ming’s expression became serious, and he said: “Now we must immediately implement the order from Qingzhou. Now you must immediately gather people and horses to set up an ambush outside the city. Once the barbarian scouts come to investigate, kill them immediately.”

“Yes.” “All the generals responded in unison.

After the order was given, all the generals left one after another. After a while, a rumble of bells suddenly rang in Shanhaiguan, and the cavalry in the military camp quickly gathered.

Then they set out outside the customs to carry out their attack plan on the barbarian scouts.

Lei Ming did not lead the troops this time. At this time, he stood on the wall of Shanhaiguan and watched the five thousand cavalry disappear on the vast grassland.

Behind him, the city wall that had been destroyed in the war had been repaired, and it was even larger and thicker than before.

Today, Shanhaiguan is not only difficult to break on the north-facing side, but also on the weak southern side.

Three years of food has been stored in the granary in Shanhaiguan, so the soldiers in Shanhaiguan no longer have to worry about going hungry.

At the same time, the soldiers could also receive monthly pay, which made the soldiers more enthusiastic about joining the army. However, this was only one of the reasons. The deeper reason was that Xiao Ming promised them that they would capture an inch of land just like Youzhou. , the future land will be distributed to soldiers.

And just as Xiao Ming promised, after they recaptured Youzhou, they distributed farmland to the soldiers in Youzhou, which was all fertile land near Youzhou.

This alone made the soldiers very grateful to King Qi. Because of this, the soldiers and generals were looking forward to fighting, because it was said that there was a very vast land outside Shanhaiguan.

Even if you don’t farm it yourself, you can still make a lot of money by selling the land to businessmen.

After watching the soldiers leave, Thunder descended from the city wall, and he still had to think about building a bastion a hundred miles away from Shanhaiguan.

In the evening, the cavalry who had been out of the city for a day returned.

The purpose of the cavalry leaving the city this time was to kill the scouts and create conflicts. This was a very simple task for Guan Ning’s cavalry.

After all, Lei Ming’s personality would send soldiers to harass the barbarian tribes even if nothing happened. He was now very familiar with this area, and he even drew a map specifically for this purpose.

The map marks the locations of various terrains and barbarian tribes.

“Captain, we ambushed a group of scouts outside the city. According to your instructions, we deliberately let one of them go back to report the news.”

“Yes, good job.” Lei Ming nodded with satisfaction.

Although they didn’t understand the purpose of Xiao Ming’s order, to them, all he needed was to obey the order.

Just as he was preparing to send the battle report back to Qingzhou, a large number of barbarian cavalry appeared sixty miles northwest of Shanhaiguan.

The leader was none other than Gurtai, the leader of the Huyantuo tribe who once lived in Youzhou.

“Flaghead, we were ambushed here.” The escaped scout said to Gurtai.

Looking at the hundreds of corpses of barbarian soldiers on the ground, Gurtai’s eyes seemed to be able to shoot out flames.

“Lei Ming, you are going too far.” Gurtai said angrily. He now knew that the general in Shanhaiguan was Lei Ming.

Because since Shanhaiguan was lost, the Guan Ning Cavalry always entered the grassland from time to time to harass the tribes on the grassland. During this period, they and the Guan Ning Cavalry had wins and losses.

However, this mutual victory not only did not make them feel balanced, but also made them more and more worried, because in their opinion, this Guan Ning cavalry grew too fast.

In the past, no cavalry could fight with their cavalry on the grassland.

“Flaghead, do we still have to be patient? If this continues, our tribe will have no way of living here.” said a captain of ten thousand men.

Gurtai looked in the direction of Shanhaiguan and said: “Coward, what is there to be afraid of? Dadaiji said that the emperor of Dayu is dying. When he dies, Dayu will definitely be in chaos. Now Dayu The King of Liang has secretly sent people to meet the Khan, proclaimed his vassalship to the Khan, and recognized the Khan as his father. He is just waiting for the chaos in the Chongqing Kingdom so that they can use our cavalry to seize the throne. At that time, we can directly Kill Prince Liang and the Second Prince, and the Chongqing Kingdom will be ours.”

After hearing this, all the generals burst into laughter.

(End of chapter)