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Xiao Ming, together with Niu Ben and Luo Quan, talked in detail about the matter of the General Staff Department, and under his explanation, the two of them were very much in favor of the establishment of this organization to formulate war plans and make overall arrangements for logistics.

They are all veterans of the battlefield, so they can naturally see the subtleties, and in this way, they can also restrain the generals, so that they don't come nonsense on the battlefield.

After deciding to establish this institution, Xiao Ming arranged Luo Quan into it, Niu Ben was in charge of the Military Machinery Department, and Luo Quan was in charge of the General Staff, and the two complemented each other and cooperated with each other.

Of course, their final decision is still in his hands, and only the battle plan approved by him can be implemented.

Speaking of which, this military reform has allowed him to grasp the army more tightly.

……

Lin'an, the king of Chu had learned about the defeat of the barbarians in Bashu, and he was quite unhappy when he sat in the pavilion and drank tea with Richard.

Richard noticed the expression of the King of Chu, and he took a sip of the tea, which he could drink every day in Europe that only the rich could afford.

"Your Highness, are you still thinking about the Golden Horde?" Richard asked.

The King of Chu stood up, and he said angrily: "This Golden Horde is really useless, how could it be defeated so quickly, weren't they very powerful before?"

Richard suddenly laughed, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, the Golden Horde has never encountered muskets and artillery before, and if we French have 60,000 people in Bashu, we can easily defeat the cavalry of the Golden Horde." ”

"So the Golden Horde is finished?" The king of Chu said nervously, what he likes to see most now is that the Golden Horde has destroyed Xiao Ming, so that he can sit firmly in the south.

Frowning, Richard said: "Your Highness thinks too much, there is a vast grassland in the north of the Great Yu Kingdom, and it is not so easy for Xiao Ming to destroy him in a short time, but if they fight, we are happy to see it, so His Highness will have more time to prepare." “

The King of Chu nodded when he heard this, in fact, he had been living in fear since Xiao Ming ascended the throne, because he knew that once Xiao Ming had a free hand, he would be the next dead vassal king.

So during this time, he gave all his trust to the French, just to be able to survive and keep his father's inheritance.

He had even begun to consider the French ideas that Richard had spread to him, and as long as he could become strong and eventually defeat Xiao Ming, he would be willing to share power with merchants and establish a constitutional monarchy.

And it was precisely by following Richard's advice that many businessmen now gathered under his banner and contributed money and efforts for him.

At a time when the war in the north continues, his feudal kingdom is changing imperceptibly.

"You're right, I only hope that the Golden Horde can entangle Xiao Ming to the death, so that it will be more and more beneficial to us." The King of Chu was in a better mood.

Richard blew the heat of the tea smugly, and they were worried when they learned that the emperor of the northern kingdom of Yu had flintlock pistols and artillery.

But judging from the current chaotic situation, the emperor of the Great Yu Kingdom seems to be in a difficult situation, and now coupled with the balancing strategy of the British, the Great Yu State is more like a trapped beast.

Although the emperor had a large army and advanced firearms, the French, who had been framed by the British countless times, understood that when a land country was caught in war with its neighbors, the country's rise would be greatly reduced.

And in this way, they have the opportunity to turn East Asia into their sphere of influence as well.

"So now, His Highness wants to take the opportunity to grow, and we hope that His Highness will no longer hide our trade with France." There was a hint of menace in Richard's words.

He knew that the weakness of the king of Chu was now being grasped by them, so he no longer showed humility in front of the king of Chu.

The unnaturalness in King Chu's eyes flashed, he was a monkey-like character, and he didn't want to put all his eggs in the basket after suffering hardship.

Secretly, he had already sent businessmen to contact other Western countries, and it was impossible for France to become dominant.

And the fear of Xiao Ming also gave him a trace of crazy thoughts, even if he died, he would drag Xiao Ming into the war with these Western countries.

……

Qingzhou.

One by one, the prisoner carts pulling the barbarian generals set off from Qingzhou City to Shanhaiguan.

When the people on both sides of the road knew that this was the barbarian general, they picked up what they could pick up and threw it at the barbarians.

Born and raised in Qingzhou, they hated the barbarians very much, and now they can't wait to throw these barbarians into the oil pot so that they can experience the taste of being fried.

When the barbarians invaded Qingzhou, the people of Qingzhou were amused by the barbarians like this.

The barbarian generals on the horse were still fierce, glaring angrily at the people in the streets, and let out threatening roars from time to time.

But all they got was a whip from the guards and a fiercer counterattack from the populace.

This chaos lasted until these barbarian generals were transported out of Qingzhou City.

Then, after seven days of bumpy road, the convoy arrived at Shanhaiguan, where the guards in charge of custody handed over the captives to Lei Ming.

Along with these captives was Xiao Ming's message, and after reading it, Lei Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

He was originally worried that Xiao Ming would return these people to the barbarians, but the order reassured him.

So he instructed the guards around him, saying, "Prepare thirty-six wooden stakes, and erect these thirty-six wooden stakes along both sides of the road outside the gate of Shanhaiguan." “

After receiving the order, the guards led the soldiers to carry it out.

In an hour, thirty-six wooden stakes three meters high were erected outside the customs, and then Lei Ming said: "Hang all the barbarian prisoners on the stakes, and let the barbarians see the fate of their invasion of the Great Yu Kingdom." ”

Saying this, he actually thought that Xiao Ming was still merciful, if he directly cut these people with a thousand knives, they would never be merciful when they killed the people of Dayu.

However, a personal guard's explanation made him suddenly come back to his senses, and it turned out that the method Xiao Ming chose was vicious.

The barbarians have worshiped the Eternal Heaven for generations, and in the eyes of their shamans, every clansman who dies in battle can ascend to the Eternal Heaven and obtain eternal joy.

It is precisely because of this that the barbarian soldiers fight so fiercely, because it is not terrible for them to die.

But there is one thing, if they are killed by the weapon of the raven's blood, they will not be able to ascend to the heavens of eternal hatred, because in the eyes of the barbarians, the ravens are unclean.

In Xiao Ming's command, he asked Lei Ming to hang these generals on wooden stakes, and then use the blood of crows to kill these barbarian generals, which must have made them extremely afraid.