Dushanbo is scheming and knows that no matter how much troubles are made in the court, no matter who is in power, it will not be as effective as the army in his hands. Now he has an army of 200,000, including 120,000 White Tiger Army, 60,000 Suzaku Army, and 20,000 local troops.
The rural army. These 200,000 troops are now the most elite troops of the Holy Han Empire and the most powerful force in the country. As long as this power is in the hands of Du Shanbo, he does not need to care whether Zhang Kuan or Zhang Kuan is in power in the court.
The little brat Zhang Xiaowu is in power.
But compared to Zhang Kuan, Du Shanbo admired Zhang Xiaowu more, and what he admired most about Zhang Xiaowu was not that he alone guarded the star-catching platform, but that he pursued and attacked the rebels in a timely manner when they were temporarily defeated.
, killing the opponent until he was unable to parry. This decisiveness was not just a military victory, but also a political victory. Zhang Xiaowu killed the enemy without even having time to breathe, so that those who were originally preparing to rebel,
I had no choice but to support the imperial court anyway.
Just this ability to seize opportunities is not something ordinary people possess. Du Shanbo once again recalled Zhang Xiaowu's past experience, and suddenly discovered that Zhang Xiaowu actually chose the most correct choice in every choice. This requires more than just wisdom.
, courage, and more luck.
"What a lucky boy." Du Shanbo said with a smile.
"Father, what did you say?" Luo Xiu asked hurriedly.
Du Shanbo said: "I say that Zhang Xiaowu is able to rule the court as a fifth-grade military general because he has both luck and wisdom behind him."
Ruan Qingwen smiled and said: "No, there are still connections and people's hearts."
Du Shanbo thought for a moment and realized that this was indeed the case, and he was even more pleased that such a monster and powerful minister appeared in the court.
Naturally, the labor cost of half a million taels can only alleviate part of the pressure. The White Tiger Army is confronting the puppet Wu army and needs more support. Ruan Qingwen expressed that the court is willing to continue to increase support in order to quell the Jiangnan Rebellion as soon as possible.
"Uncle, Master Shaobao also said that when you recover, it will be the day when the imperial court will confer a title on you as a county prince. Please take care of yourself and recover as soon as possible." Ruan Qingwen said to Uncle Dushan before leaving.
Du Shanbo smiled slightly and said through the curtain: "I'm sorry to trouble you, but I still hope to wait until Your Majesty wakes up."
"Your Majesty is so blessed that he will wake up early."
After bidding farewell to Jiangnan Camp, Ruan Qingwen rushed to Longdu without stopping. When he arrived in Yuezhou, he met an old acquaintance in Yueyang Mansion, Hu Li, who had been transferred to Yizhou to serve as the Snow Guard at Xuelong Pass.
When Ruan Qingwen saw Hu Li walking into Yueyang City with a thousand Snow Guard Hu Ziying soldiers, he was so surprised that he couldn't believe it. He rushed up on his horse and laughed and said, "But General Hu Li?"
Hu Li turned around and saw Ruan Qingwen and his entourage. He also saw that the guard general protecting Ruan Qingwen was Bao Yin. He laughed and shouted: "Cui Qilang, Qu Ming, look who is this?" Cui Qilang and Qu Ming rode on.
Come, Bao Yin was so excited after seeing his old acquaintance that he gritted his teeth and said, "Why are you here?"
Hu Li explained that it turned out that they had received an order to escort the Bo'an envoy to Longdu in person - but in fact, they were driven away by Jiang Ai, the commander of the Snow Guard.
This small country on the southwest border of Bor'an Kingdom has been bullied by the Southern Qiang Kingdom for a long time. The king of Southern Qiang even made an excessive request to the Bor'an Kingdom. They asked the king of Bor'an Kingdom to marry his fifteen-year-old daughter to the Khan of the Southern Qiang Kingdom.
After all, the marriage between a princess and a prince is a perfect match.
But everyone knew that the Nan Qiang King was cruel and incestuous. Because the eldest son of the Nan Qiang King was stupid at birth, the Nan Qiang King used the name of choosing concubines for his son and raped several of his son's concubines.
All the children born of his concubines were strangled to death.
The King of Bo'an Kingdom therefore asked for help from the Holy Han Empire, and Jiang Ai, the old commander of Xuewei, gave him an idea. He told the envoy of Bo'an Kingdom that the Emperor Dade was young and had few wives and concubines, so it would be better to let the Princess of Bo'an Kingdom marry Emperor Dade.
She became a concubine to prevent the humiliation of the Southern Qiang Kingdom.
After the King of Bo'an learned the news, he immediately arranged for an envoy to take Princess Analguli to the Central Plains. It turned out that the King of Bo'an knew that the Shenghan Empire was very powerful and its territory was very large, but he did not know how big it was. He thought that Jiang
After Ai made suggestions to him, he immediately reported it to the emperor, and the emperor had not yet objected. In fact, Jiang Ai's memorial had just arrived in Longdu, and the Jin Dynasty had not even broken out in Longdu at that time.
When the memorial arrived in Longdu, it was already the time when Zhang Xiaowu was in power. Zhang Xiaowu couldn't laugh or cry after reading the memorial. Now the emperor was also "demented", even worse than the stupid son of King Nan Qiang. Soon after, the Central Government obtained another
After receiving a memorial, it turned out that the King of Bo'an State actually sent his national advisor to take Princess Analguli to Xuelong Pass.
After the King of Southern Qiang learned that Bo'an had disobeyed his orders and married the princess to the Central Plains Dynasty, he was furious and immediately sent troops to hunt him down. In order to protect the princess and for the sake of the face of the Celestial Kingdom, Jiang Ai allowed Bo'an to marry the princess to the Central Plains Dynasty.
The Anguo mission entered Xuelong Pass.
The Southern Qiang King immediately sent troops to attack Xuelong Pass, but was attacked from behind by the Hu Ziying led by Hu Li. Since the ghost guards often attacked in secret, Hu Li's rich experience in sneak attacks caught the Southern Qiang army by surprise, and the Southern Qiang King was almost defeated by Hu Lishuang.
The sword fell off the horse.
For many years, the Southern Qiang had been accustomed to attacking Xuelong Pass from the front, and Xuelong Pass struggled to resist it. Who would have thought that they would meet Hu Li, who liked to attack from behind. The Southern Qiang army was in chaos, and Hu Li led a thousand men in pursuit.
, without giving their opponents any chance to breathe and counterattack, they pursued them all the way to the capital city of the Southern Qiang Kingdom. When they saw that the city was too strong and too deep to be breached, they led their troops back.
Along the way, Hu Li carried out a barbaric style that would never return empty-handed. He looted all the Southern Qiang livestock and food wherever he passed, and blinded all the surrendered troops. Even if Cui Qilang and Qu Ming hadn't stopped him, Hu Li would have
Li also wanted to kidnap the Nanqiang girls between the ages of twelve and eighteen. Fortunately, the Han army was a "teacher of benevolence and righteousness" and did not act so viciously.
Hu Li erected a stone tablet on the border of Nan Qiang. There was a line of words written in Chinese and Nan Qiang on the stone tablet: "Anyone who violates the power of the Holy Han Dynasty will have his head cut off!"
Based on Hu Li's ferocious style in the southwest border, various countries in the southwest gave him a nickname, called Evil General Hu Li. After hearing his nickname, Hu Li laughed three times, led everyone to drink, and said: "
The general's name is Ghost General, but I am an evil general. Don't I have the same name as the general? This is so good, so good!"
The King of Nan Qiang was beaten to the point where he lost all his armor and lost all face, especially the loss of more than 50,000 livestock. However, due to the interference of Hu Li's thousand ghost guards, the Huzi Camp, the national strength of the Nan Qiang Kingdom was actually reduced by ten percent.
1. In order to avenge the humiliation of the Holy Han, the Southern Qiang King hurriedly gathered herdsmen from all over the country to form a large army, and invited other countries in the southwest to join forces to attack the Snow Dragon Pass of the Holy Han.