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Chapter 49 The Northern Army goes south

Leave the county.

The place connecting the Jun Basin and the Ganyuan Basin is different from the canyon landforms imagined by Luochuan, but it is an extremely open plain. It seems a bit narrow compared to the vastness of the hinterlands of these two major basins, but the mountains at both ends of this area are more than two hundred miles away from the closest place.

So when Luochuan and his team went north to repair the Liangjie Village Station next to the official road, they climbed up a mound to see Luochuan on both sides of the east and west, and they didn't even see the shadow of a mountain.

After going down the hill, Luochuan, I went down to a pavilion next to the official road outside the inn and sat down. The pavilion was much higher than the official road and was a good place with a wide view.

The old coachman and the beautiful woman with a white veil were coming with him, so he asked the palace guards to go farther and left room for the three of them to speak.

"It seems that the Ganyuan Basin and Lijun Basin are just one," Luo Chuan leaned against a pavilion pillar and pointed to the official road not far away and the fertile fields around. "If even these two realms villages are smooth along the way, there is no need to divide these two places."

"From the perspective of military tactics, it is naturally one. Isn't it because of this reason that there is no big city in these two realms?" The old coachman stood at the entrance of the pavilion and watched the farmers in the distance busy growing a crop of vegetables. "But the people in the two places do not think they are the same. After passing these two realms, the farmers on the other end may not want to come to the Xiashan Town closer to this end, but rather go further to the Hongju Town in the north. After all, even if the dialect is not very different, they will be regarded as outsiders, right?"

Luo Chuan smiled and shook his head. He was not very understanding of these small feelings in the countryside. "I didn't go to Lijun before. I thought there were Western and Southern Yi in the west, and there were southern Yi in the south, and the people should have lived a very hard life. I didn't expect that people in these two plains were quite comfortable. The prefect had no bad ability to govern one side."

The old coachman reached out and patted Na Tingzhu and sighed, "In fact, just regarding political achievements, it is absolutely a promising to put him among the prefects of Leave County. When I took you away from Leave County, I had just experienced the years of power change. At that time, the Southern and Western Yi took the opportunity to invade. Many great men died in the battlefield. Even in the hinterland of Leave County, there were several places that were turned into scorched earth under the vent of anger by the great demons. The tragic situation was really hard to describe. You were still young at that time, and I took you all the way north to Zhongjing City. What you saw and heard was full of scars, and I still felt desolate in my heart..."

He smiled self-deprecatingly and continued, "But this time I came back, although I had learned a little from the letters of my friends in the past, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion when I saw the situation of my stability and prosperity everywhere in the county..." He seemed to remember something and couldn't help but sigh deeply, "In just over ten years, this outside of the county has given me such a look without saying the hard work he has put in it. Even if I still couldn't help but feel resentment towards some old things in my heart, I had to admit that he was an excellent prefect. What a pity... It's a pity..."

"A good prefect in the prosperous times may not be very good in the troubled times," said the beautiful woman who had been sitting aside and listening quietly. "The gentleness in Luo Tianen's bones was not only given to the people around him, but also to the people of the county. For them, he is indeed a good prefect."

Luo Chuan looked at the beautiful woman and asked, "What about the Western and Southern Yi?"

The beautiful woman turned her head and looked at Luo Chuan when she heard this. The faint smile on the corner of her mouth under the white gauze made people unable to see it. She only felt a little chilling, "No hunter would like his prey to be thin and injured. Wouldn't it be great if someone stood up to fatten them?"

Luo Chuan couldn't help but curled his lips, ignoring the beautiful woman, but looking at the old coachman, "Cangyan has rarely had wars these years? Is it because the battle more than ten years ago was too fierce?"

The old coachman shook his head, "The battle between Nanyi was probably really thoughtful. There were constant wars in all sizes on the southern battlefield, especially Baitong City, which was closer to the mountainous areas, had already fought street battles. The elite troops on both sides came out and killed blood until Wangchuan Jianxiu rushed to help... Now all sizes of wars in the southern battlefield can be regarded as the continuation of hatred in that war, but that time the Western Yi was just a huge momentum. Tens of thousands of soldiers were held outside Xigu Pass, and in the end they were just a few battles. In the past decade, except for the occasional demon tribes crossing the border to harass the Yanbian area, there was no war in the Cangyan area."

"Ten hundred thousand soldiers?!" Luo Chuan widened his eyes, "The number of Western-Japanese demon clans is so huge?" "Of course there are not all demon clans, otherwise how could Xigu Pass be able to defend?" The old coachman glared at Luo Chuan angrily, "It is a human army raised by Western-Japanese war formation. The combat formation ability is ordinary, but the fox demons hidden in the battle formation are all hidden and powerful. They look no different from the human race. When the two armies fight, they suddenly kill people and cannot defend themselves."

Luo Chuan nodded, but the beautiful woman did not react at all.

Just as the three of them were silent, an army came from afar above the northern official road.

The army was led by cavalry, mainly infantry, and carriages were carried. The army was dragged by thousands of people, and the infantry was based on four columns, but it only occupied nearly half of the spacious official road, which did not affect the chariots, horses and pedestrians.

The army was not moving fast, and when we got closer, we could see that the leading cavalry was only 200, and the equipment level was similar to that of the Upper Yuan army cavalry that escorted Luochuan back to Licheng. It was far less than the five Lijun light cavalry led by Li Mu, not to mention the one hundred blood cavalry that was being repaired at the post station.

The equipment of thousands of infantrymen was good, with complete armor and complete swords and bows. The thousand people walking in the front were equipped with spears, but the team was not very neat. Some of the long spears were held and some were carried, but they were not dragged to the ground. They could only be said to be unsatisfactory.

The old coachman looked at Junrong and couldn't help but snorted coldly, "Hmph, that old general Zhong is really too old to get out of bed. Such an army may be difficult to win even against the Gayuan Beast Tide. It is indeed time to throw it to the southern battlefield to practice!"

Luo Chuan just looked silently, and waited until the army passed by the pavilion before retracting its gaze and muttering to himself, "This is already the second batch of troops I have seen along the way. However, this level of army mobilization..."

The old coachman sat next to Luochuan and looked at him, "It will take nearly twenty days to dispatch troops from Ganyuan to Taiming City at their marching speed. The teams heading north from Taiming City must have a much faster marching speed, but it will take a few days for the first teams to arrive at Ganyuan City. If we walk slowly, we may be able to meet them." He snorted again, "That is my real elite soldier in the county."

"Yes," Luo Chuan sighed, "Those who do not walk down from the battlefield may never be called elite soldiers," he looked at the southern official.

Several cavalrymen were rushing towards him, and the person in charge was Li Mu.
Chapter completed!
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