Chapter 1042: Cold and Handsome
Thunder Valley is a rare and peaceful scene, and not many people pay attention to the great war in the western frontier. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In their opinion, compared to the current turbulent Middle-earth, Thunder Valley is a rare Pure Land on earth, as for the Crescent Council calling? No kidding, if the True God Cultists can fight here, Middle-earth can be declared finished.
With the presence of the Thunder Valley Lord, Master Li and others, and the protection of the Xuannu Palace, even if the True God Sect wanted to attack in a roundabout way, it would be impossible for it to choose such a route - the deterrent power of the Thunder Valley to the outside world was much greater than that of the Jing Palace.
As a matter of course, the weather in Leigu is good, and this year's grain output has also increased greatly -- in fact, the grain production in several surrounding counties has been bumper in abundance, which has attracted many people from the disaster to come and defect.
Now in the Thunder Valley, the number of displaced people has approached 300,000, for the small Thunder Valley, it is already a little overwhelmed, fortunately, Zhongyi County has a bumper harvest of grain, and there is a need to build a city wall, digesting some of the displaced people.
Even so, before the autumn grain came down, Lei Gu still had to use some of the grain reserves left by the Ninth Princess.
However, for Li Yongsheng, this is not a problem, the people left by the ninth princess manage the accounts very clearly, and in his storage bag, there is still a lot of grain and grass, Lei Gu buys food from outside, and the channels are also very smooth.
His main concern was the destruction of the Dao Intent, which had recovered slightly after three months of silence, and the formations he had set up around it showed that no one had taken the initiative to attack it.
However, this is still not a matter that can be ignored, Li Yongsheng knows very well in his heart, if this intention is not leaked, once the news leaks, Lei Gu will face endless troubles.
Therefore, except for the limited time he had, he inquired about the affairs of the valley, most of the time, he was careful to protect the Dao of Destruction, and at the same time, he learned about the war in the Western Frontier from time to time.
At the beginning, the Crescent people seemed to be fighting steadily, although they entered Middle-earth, but the speed of their advance was not fast, and it was only thirty or forty miles a day, and the marching and camping were quite orderly, and a large number of scouts were released to cover the battlefield.
Some rangers from the western frontier wandered around the army with ill intentions, intending to take the opportunity to harvest a wave of heads.
Unfortunately, most of the time, they don't get their way, the Crescents are too tightly guarded, and the scouts are very closely connected with each other, and the reaction is quite fast.
On the contrary, some rangers, because they did not control the distance very well, accidentally suffered some losses.
After the imperial court made the decision to deal with the western front with all its might, Kun Shuai reacted very quickly, and two days later he swore to march westward, and after eight days of rapid marching, the vanguard had reached Guanlong.
Although the Guanlong military service envoy can be compared with the deputy minister of military service, and when it comes to the number of troops under his control, he is even stronger than the deputy minister, but in the face of the veteran commander who participated in the Great Patriotic War, he can only obediently obey the dispatch.
Kun Shuai did not sit in command in Guanlong as the Heavenly Family requested, but after quickly sending 30,000 elites, he reorganized the army by himself, focusing on straightening out the logistics, carrying part of the grain and grass, and moving the Shuai banner westward towards Wusun County.
Kun Shuai's westward advance clearly stimulated the Crescents, who began to divide their forces in a big way, dividing troops ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 men, plundering the western frontier and launching a bloody massacre of the resisters.
What is especially surprising is that there are many people in the Crescent team, who are familiar with the customs of Middle-earth, and under the leadership of these people, they can find some large settlements with relative ease.
There are all kinds of indications that most of these Belt and Road parties are from former members of the Ma League, because of Lei Gu's attack on the pro-Crescent forces in the Ma League, which caused them to flee one after another, and now they think they have found an opportunity, of course, they want to bring people to take revenge.
Fortunately, it was Lei Gu who launched the purge in advance, if Li Yongsheng had not launched a purge of the Ma League and allowed the local officials to indulge the local forces, the situation would definitely be much worse than now.
In fact, because of the resolute resistance of the border army, the residents of the border area were given precious time to evacuate, and the vast majority of them escaped this catastrophe.
However, some Li Shu, who were lucky and refused to leave, were still looted and killed.
Of course, because the True God Cult is in the western Xinjiang and there is still some soil for survival, it is not uncommon for some residents to directly defect to the army of the Crescent Country.
On the whole, there were fewer Westerners who defected to the enemy than everyone expected—not just less, but much less, but the court officials were accustomed to overestimating their influence, believing that even without the purge, there would not be many defectors.
Until a small tribe of 5,000 people took refuge in the Crescent people and killed more than 100 people in the tribe who resolutely opposed to taking refuge, the news shook the entire western Xinjiang.
When Kun Shuai heard the news, he was furious, and ordered the 20,000-strong army to chase after him, and made it very clear: I don't want any of these 5,000 people to be killed, and all of them will be slaughtered - although Middle-earth is large, there is no place for those who will take revenge.
When Guan Long's military envoy heard this order, he went to see Kun Shuai in private: Is it okay to kill all the old and weak women and children? You must know that most of them should have been coerced by a small number of people.
This speculation is quite down-to-earth, and most of the time, there are often the most neutral people in a group, neither very supportive of the rule of the imperial court, nor very supportive of the Crescent Country.
It's very simple, the Crescent Kingdom is too poor, and if you believe in the true God, you have to live like that, and it's still very aggrieved to think about it.
So the truth of the defection of this small tribe should be like this: some people support the imperial court, but there are also fanatical believers who want to defect to the Crescent Moon Kingdom, and the two sides are very opposed, and in the case of irreconcilability, the fanatical believers killed more than a hundred of the fiercest opponents.
The remaining neutrals had no choice but to be coerced by these fanatics and take refuge in the Crescents.
Guan Long's military envoy believes that there is no problem in killing those fanatical believers, but most of the Li Shu who were coerced are innocent, they just have no opinion and go with the flow, and it is necessary to punish them, but it is too much to kill them all.
However, on this issue, Kun Shuai showed unusual coldness, and she simply rejected the suggestion - since these people did not oppose the defection to the Crescents, they should suffer the consequences of being coerced.
At the same time, she said with disdain that Guan Long's military service makes you a woman's benevolence, but fortunately you are only Guan Long's military service envoy, not the minister of military service.
Kun Shuai is an old marshal who grew up during the war years, and has the ruthlessness and ruthlessness that a professional soldier should have.
In normal times, she can be a tender wife, a kind mother, and a generous boss, but once on the battlefield, she will only be a chilling commander, and will not substitute everyday emotions into it.
In fact, Kun Shuai has a lot of feelings that the domestic generals who grew up after the war are not as good as the generation, and if it is about the art of leading troops, only Li Qingming can make her look up to her a little higher.
However, there is a deeper reason for her anger this time, that is, she has always been very disgusted with the preferential treatment of a small number of border people by the emperor, and she thinks that the imperial court can treat everyone equally, and these young people should have been moved to tears.
But there is no way, after the first emperor sat on the throne, he has been trying to eliminate the influence left by Guangzong, and on the issue of treating the young people, the first emperor made such a change, in fact, it is also a denial of Guangzong's attitude towards the young people.
That's right, for the former emperor, how to treat the young people, it doesn't matter at all, whether it is strict or relaxed, this kind of trivial matter will not affect his position, he just wants to "de-Guangzong", and he is against it for the sake of opposition.
Kun Shuai looked at this problem in this way, but at that time, she was already begging for bones, so she didn't bother to wade into this troubled water.
It is precisely because of this that the words of the current military envoy of Guan Long can easily make her angry: What do you hairy children know? What do you say all day long?
In fact, Guan Long's military envoy also participated in the Great Patriotic War, but he was still young at the time, and he was only a high-level cultivator in charge of clerical work in the Imperial Forest Army.
Anyway, Kun Shuai reprimanded him like this, and he could only endure it stubbornly, and he had to thank Kun Shuai for his guidance.
Because Kun Shuai was angry, the 20,000 elite tails chased after the 5,000 rebellious Hu clan.
The defection of the Hu tribe was supported by the Crescent Country, and there were 10,000 soldiers of the Crescent Country who accompanied them.
Their defection, because it was entrapment of the old and weak, women and children, so the speed of escape could not be fast, and the 10,000 Crescent soldiers also paid a great price in order to block the pursuers behind them.
The orders given by the military service envoys of Guan Long and the military service envoys of Wusun to Kun Shuai were a bit big -- this was basically an impossible task.
The 5,000 defectors of the Hu clan are the most urgently needed "horse bones" in the Crescent Country, and even if it is to set an example, they must protect these people in order to win the hearts and minds of the people of Middle-earth.
The battle is like this, if you want to hunt down and kill these 5,000 people, you must face the crazy resistance of the Crescent Moon Country, and after this wave, you don't know what price you will pay to complete this task.
I'm afraid that the possibility of not completing the task will be greater, right?
However, what puzzled the two was that after chasing for three days and three nights, the 10,000 Crescent soldiers saw that their side had suffered heavy losses, and they directly broke up and fled, and the small tribe on the way to the migration, out of 5,000 people, only escaped more than 20 people.
The two military envoys really didn't expect that the task would be completed like this, so they couldn't care much about it, and directly ordered the sergeants: leave a few important ones, and kill all the others.
Along with these 5,000 people, there were more than 400 sergeants of the Crescent Country, most of whom were wounded, but there were also people who were arrested in a daze when they were retreating.