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After the envoys arrived in Xianyang, they still stayed in Xianyang for five days, not more than a second, not less than a second.

Staying in Xianyang for five days was not a sudden opening of Han Xin's brain, it was a joint decision of Liu Bang and Chen Yu. This is also a rare occurrence for Liu Bang and Chen Yu, and the two have reached a unified opinion on one matter.

"Han Xin is covered by His Majesty and many royal families, but we don't, right?"

"The only thing I agree with is what you say."

"So, Commander Han can offend the Marquis Gong, we can't afford to offend."

"Old man, can you understand that you are saying that the Marquis Gong is a person with a small belly?"

"What a nasty old fellow!"

"Each other, each other!"

Merchants from all over the four counties of Qindi were gathering to come to Xianyang, and they registered the records of the envoys, negotiated with others about the amount of goods they carried, and then handed over the guards to Han Xin.

The merchants from Longxi County arrived on the morning of the fourth day of the envoy's stay in Xianyang, and the number of merchants was not too many, that is, about a dozen, but they brought 3,000 cavalry.

"Maybe we misunderstood, the reason why the communist general asked us to stop in Xianyang for five days is for these three thousand cavalry, not as few as thirteen people, and not many merchants from Longxi County."

"The cavalry is of good quality, a force that can be used."

"That's right! I think you should go to the general for a while and thank him warmly or implicitly. It is obvious that General Gong is helping you as much as you can, as the only child of His Majesty. ”

"I'll go, but only after returning to the empire from the far Mediterranean."

"What a brainless guy!"

"Even if it's a dead brain, everyone who should be clear must have already known. The communist general is naturally one of them. ”

"Ah......?"

Yu Fanjun watched Han Xin turn around and leave in a daze, he didn't understand whether Han Xin was really stupid, or whether he was deliberately creating an image, an impression that people didn't understand the world. He thought to himself: "This guy who has to defend the embankment doesn't seem as simple as it seems?" ”

The merchants from Longxi County really didn't carry many goods, and the types of goods they brought were also unusually monotonous. In addition to the skins of some animals, cartloads of bronze-quality weapons were escorted. Among the types of weapons, the most numerous are swords, and the other are some spears and ge.

"We know that armor is worth more than weapons, but without armor, not a single piece of armor." Yang Kun, a businessman from Longxi County, who was facing Lu Xiang face-to-face, said: "We don't occupy any kind of quota on the government's guidelines, and we don't need any quota distribution. ”

Lu Xiang was not the only one present. There are also many merchants from Nanling, and there are also many merchants from all over the country who continue to gather along the way. They all looked at Yang Kun, the representative of Longxi County, with some laughing, some people being stunned, and more of them were thoughtful.

"You brought 3,000 cavalry, and you participated in the cavalry in your personal name, can you explain why?" A businessman from Handan, his name is Zhao Li. He was a merchant who mainly sold porcelain.

Yang Kun said with a smile: "The young eagles in the nest always need to spread their wings and fly high, and the Wehrmacht has only recruited 70,000 soldiers in the Longxi grassland. We have many more fighters who can only be kept company by cattle and sheep. After a pause, his face suddenly became serious: "The empire has given us too many benefits in Longxi, so much that we are very embarrassed, maybe we should also do something for the empire, and this time to send an envoy to the West and provide force for the envoy is something that we think can repay Your Majesty and the empire." ”

A piece of "Huh? A surprised sound was heard. They weren't exclaiming, they just thought they hadn't thought of it.

Yang Kun was laughing again, and he said, "We originally wanted to bring 20,000 or more young men, but General Gong said that we could only bring 3,000 people at most. ”

Not everyone understands the current situation in Longxi County, and there are still too many nomadic clans and tribes in Longxi County. They are accompanied by horses, cows, and sheep, walking in the blue sky and white clouds, and living a mobile nomadic life.

The people on the other side of Longxi County settled somewhere but a minority, large and small clans did not change the nomadic habits of their ancestors, they herded any livestock that could be grazing, and provided enough war horses for anyone who could afford it, so Longxi County was also one of the places with the most war horses in the land of China.

It must be said that from the time when Lu Zhe was a small warlord in Nanjun, Longxi County began to provide war horses for Lu Zhe, which was 214 BC. It was only after Lu Zhe unified Nanjun, Qianzhong County, and Hengshan County that the sales volume in Longxi began to increase dramatically, and he once provided 100,000 war horses at one time. Later, Lu Zhe's power became bigger and bigger, and the trading volume of war horses with Longxi County increased intermittently, and the first of the counties in the old Qin land of Qin to be included in Lu Zhe's rule was also Longxi County.

The merchants of the other counties were thinking about their own affairs, and they were a little annoyed that they didn't think of bringing more samurai, or simply let the people mobilize their own samurai to serve them.

The envoy corps is not a legion, and there are strict restrictions on the corps of service, and it is obviously easier for the envoy corps to accept the armed forces from the people of Longxi County than the legion of the army.

"The envoys don't have a salary, but in many cases it's not everything."

"Yes, this group of soldiers who followed the envoy group to tens of thousands of miles away, they must be accepted by the military after they return, if the soldiers in a certain place perform well, does it also mean that that area is brave and good at fighting?"

"Is it still too late?"

"It's too late, and the samurai who come after you won't necessarily be accepted."

Merchants of all sizes in various counties and counties have gathered more than 500 people, and the merchants have to carry some accompanying samurai, less than a dozen people, more than 1,000 people, and the number of all the samurai has exceeded 30,000 people, plus more than 7,000 official soldiers, and many civilian samurai have been added one after another, and the number of envoys has exceeded 70,000 when they arrived in the fertile fields of the Hetao.

Once fertile, now Linrong. It is no longer a camp, once a large number of troops stationed here, now only a thousand military troops are stationed, and the rest are people from all over the world, it has become a small town, a settlement of more than 30,000 people.

"We'll be going north along the Yellow River here. Then head to a confluence of the Yellow River for a short stop at the place named Woye. ”

"Woye? Isn't this the place we are staying in the fertile wilderness? ”

"No...... Neither is it. It's more complicated, the place we are staying in used to be called Woye, but now it has a new name, called 'Linrong', the meaning can be understood when you hear it, right? The true fertile field was moved forty miles to the north, where the landscape was even more extensive. ”

The name of the northern side of the Cypriot is constantly changing, and there are many places where the military camps. After the military leaves, civilian people will be stationed, and the civilian people will rely on the sites previously opened up by the military to build rudimentary camps, and then it will become a new settlement.

It has to be said that the empire is very encouraging people to settle down with the traces of the military, and it is very welcome for people to settle outside the country, and every time someone settles in a certain place, there will always be a civil official from the official before long, and the civil official will bring a group of administrators, and then the settlement will be named. All kinds of supplies will also be obtained by civilian officials, and in many cases, the military will also provide help within its capacity.

"These ...... A lot of them are Hu people? ”

"Hmm. Of the more than 30,000 residents of Linrong, only about 2,000 are from the 'hinterland', and the rest are herdsmen from the grassland. ”

"Is there any danger in that?"

"Are you kidding, or are you timid? The people of the steppe Hu can live are those who have been killed. Don't know a rumor? When an imperial man dies, there will always be a hundred Hu people to be buried. The military said it did. ”

"Hmm! I probably understand that the Hu people who can enter the settlement are docile...... At least the people who know how to obey in order to survive, no wonder those Hu people with dirty faces keep giggling when they see us, and many people still think that there is something wrong with those Hu people. ”

Some are right. Some of them are out of random speculation, the military continued to comb the grassland, annihilating batch after batch of Hu people who did not obey the arrangement, the blood on the grassland has not stopped since the imperial military's military boots stepped in, I don't know how many once powerful Hu tribes disappeared, and how many Hu tribes were captured after the defeat.

The Imperial Army, which had left the fortress, tried to form a servant army, which was to use the captured Hu people to organize them, give them rudimentary weapons, and then let them participate in the combing of the steppe under the supervision of the Imperial army.

"I heard...... The servants did a pretty good job, and they can only be described as brutal in their treatment of the same Hu people. We kill people with a sword, a spear, and an arrow, and those servants will deliberately leave some alive, and then abuse them to death one after another. Because they're abusing and killing aliens, they're doing a good job, don't you say? ”

"How is it different from a beast?"

"Forget it, don't say so much. Let's make adequate preparations first, this way has been brave to snow and so many Gobi Deserts, God knows what difficulties will be encountered, and it is right to make more preparations. ”

When the envoys entered the Hetao area, they saw a place full of grasslands under the blue sky and white clouds, and they could also see the rushing Yellow River. Of course, the current Yellow River is not "yellow" at all, and it can even be said that the water of the Yellow River is very clear.

Don't forget that there is a place called "Loess High Slope", the water of the Yellow River began to turn yellow, that was in Chang'an and Luoyang as the capital of many dynasties, because of the need to build palaces, but also because of wars and other reasons, but also because the trees and vegetation on both sides of the Yellow River were wantonly destroyed, resulting in excessive soil erosion, and the water of the Yellow River will turn yellow because it is mixed with too much and too much contourage.

When starting from Nanling, the number of envoys was in the early 40,000s, and too many people were added along the way, and by the time they arrived in Woye, the number of envoys had swelled to about 80,000, and 80,000 people did not count the troops and people who accompanied some counties and counties to enter the Hetao, if those who accompanied them were also included, in fact, the total number of the troops was 210,000.

"It looks like a big war is approaching, right?" Yu Fanjun rode a war horse, and beside him was Han Xin galloping up a high slope. He pointed to the huge camp with his horsewhip and said, "The army here will continue to march to the western regions, and some will bypass the Yin Mountain on the east side and go deep into the grassland from the east side. ”

The camp that Yu Fanjun was referring to was not the camp of the envoy regiment, but the camp of the Hetao garrison. Judging from the size of the camp, there are more than 200,000 garrisons in Woye alone, and the 200,000 people here are not all the garrisons in the Hetao.

"In the entire northern Xinjiang, from Jiuyuan County in the west to Shanggu County in the east, the empire of each border county in the northern Xinjiang has at least one and a half million soldiers," Han Xin touched the horse's mane with a hint of longing: "You can imagine how fierce the next big war will be." ”

"Envious?" Yu Fanjun's arm holding the horsewhip slowly lowered and said, "Actually, I don't know how many people envy us. We will travel tens of thousands of miles, to strange places, to contact strange countries, although I don't know how long it will take, but as long as we can return to the empire, it will be a great achievement. ”

"I'm even more eager to participate in a new round of grassland wars!" Han Xin's eyes widened as he looked at the camp of the Hetao garrison: "This is an era of fame but immediate, wealth, status, and honor...... All of this can be achieved on horseback, provided that you can join the Empire's outward conquests. ”

"So, anyone who has a little guts, they are eager to join the army, become a member of the army, and then under the guidance of the Imperial Banner, shout and rush to the enemy, and use the enemy's blood and head to accumulate merit." Yu Fanjun didn't have any envy on his face, he said with a smile: "Fighting deep in the grassland will not end this war at one time, and the Hu people will no longer be stupid to fight with us head-on, they will avoid us, cross the desert, and reach the cold Gobi, it is not so easy to find them." ”

"Yes, the war will go on for a long, long, long time," Han Xin agreed with Yu Fanjun'......s view, and he continued: "This is only the first time, there will be a second and third time, we will return from afar, and some will have the opportunity to participate in the battle." ”

"Maybe we don't have to wait for us to come back, we're on our way to Central Asia...... I bet there's going to be a war. Yu Fanjun patted the neck of the war horse under the seat, and the war horse made a panting sound. He touched the mane of his war horse instead, and said with a smile: "There are 80,000 Wehrmacht cavalry who will escort us to the Western Regions, not because the Wehrmacht cares much about our safety, but because our route just overlaps with the Wehrmacht who are about to go to Wusun. ”

"Hmm. It was overlapping, we didn't go fast, and the second-line troops of the military who were transporting the baggage were just with us. Han Xin said as he kicked the horse's belly with both feet, and the war horse stepped on the horse's hooves and galloped out with the neighing of "Herod".

Yu Fanjun stopped on the high slope and looked at Han Xin, who was gradually moving away, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and then he also instigated his war horse, shouting "I come, I see, I conquer!" ”。 (To be continued......)