Li Luo was leaning on the side of the carriage, having taken off his evil armor and threw it in the carriage behind.
The surprise of Emperor Wanlong when he heard what he said seemed to be floating in front of his eyes, and the sarcastic and sarcastic sounds of the royal family and several court ministers were still lingering in his ears. His father must also feel very embarrassed, Li Luo thought to himself.
After relaxing his muscles and bones, Li Luo asked Tiger Guard Ni Qing who was driving the carriage: "Ni Qing, how far have you walked?"
Ni Qing responded, looked back, and said with a wry smile: "General, you have only traveled more than thirty miles."
Li Luo hummed and stood up.
After leaving Zhuocheng, the Muzhou Rangers and Youzhou Division, together with the generals and soldiers stationed outside the city, plus the troops recruited from surrounding prefectures and counties, a total of more than 100,000 people, slowly marched towards Xifu.
The Muzhou cavalry, who was good at riding and shooting, walked in the front, and the Youzhou troops came in behind. Except for Hucha Dongchan, the other generals in the army were not far from Li Luo, and they walked together.
Li Luo was better off, he just brought two carriages and seven personal guards. This King Huai Li Chengyue was quite a pomp, with more than a dozen carriages and more than a hundred personal guards, all riding high and high.
Weaving in and out among the army, from time to time reprimanding the soldiers passing by to improve military discipline.
Not far away, they started to argue with the Muzhou Rangers. If Huchajing hadn't hurriedly suppressed it, the two parties would have started fighting. The Muzhou Rangers all looked at each other angrily, but the soldiers of King Huai still went their own way, and Li Chengyue didn't join in.
Temperance, presumably to establish authority in the army, Li Luo smiled, but did not see it.
At this time, the guards had lost the energy they had when they first left Zhuocheng. They were all a little listless, lying on their saddles and panting. On the other hand, the Muzhou rangers and Youzhou cavalry were still the same as when they just left the city, and the marching team was not scattered.
, compared with King Huai's personal guards, he made a judgment.
Li Luo looked up and saw that the sun was setting. It was past its hottest time. He turned to a very burly man with a height of seven feet and asked: "Wu Pagoda, can you catch up? If you are thirsty,
Yes, there is water behind."
The big man looked at Li Luo, grinned, shook his head, and replied with a loud voice: "No need." After saying that, he strode forward as fast as a galloping horse, following closely beside Li Luo's carriage.
Li Luo looked at the Wu Pagoda, then looked back at the carriage following him. Suddenly the curtain moved slightly and lifted a corner, and out came a Qingjun old man in Confucian clothes with a few strands of long beard.
When he saw Li Luo, he nodded slightly and sat next to the Huwei who was driving the carriage.
Li Luo returned the greeting with a smile, and turned around to see that the walls of Zhuocheng were still visible in the distance. This time the expedition to the west left Zhuozhou, then passed through Gongzhou, Quanzhou and Huluzhou, and reached the boundary of Xifu.
Xifu is vast and sparsely populated. The population of the three prefectures is only a few million. However, in terms of territory, one prefecture is wider than the two prefectures of Zhongfu combined. The three prefectures of Dizhou, Tianshui Prefecture and Shahu are formed into a glyph. Dizhou is the largest in Xifu.
The entire territory of a state at the western end has now fallen into the hands of the Xirong. Di Jie, the envoy to conquer the west, set up defenses in Tianshui Prefecture and Shahu Prefecture to resist the Xirong.
However, these two states are vast in territory, and Di Jie's 500,000-strong army can only guard some frontier fortresses.
The Xirong tribe is good at fighting, and their cavalry is well-known among the countries in the Western Regions. If there is a trace of the march of a large army, but there are about a thousand people, it can be said that they come and go like the wind, faster than Dagan's spies.
By the time the troops guarding the border received the news, the Xirong army had already left, leaving no grass behind. Young men, women, and young girls were all kidnapped and used as slaves. If no one wanted them, they were sold to others until they died.
There was no chance to return to Dagan, and all the others were killed. A village with Xirong crossing the border, if only ten fingers survived, it would be considered an exception.
Seeing this, Di Jie withdrew all the Dagan people behind the defense line. So far, there was no one inhabited within fifty miles. Although the number of people who died tragically every year was much smaller, most of the border troops were frightened by the Xirong troops and could only huddle around.
In the fortress.
The Xirong cavalry went in and out of Tianshui Prefecture and Shahu as if they were deserted. What's more, there were already Xirong herdsmen herding horses and sheep in the clear fields of these two prefectures, treating the Dagan army as if they were nothing.
Emperor Wanlong was overjoyed when he got Li Luoyan and wanted to go to the West Palace. After talking to him, in the royal city, if he could be sent, Li Luojin could be his personal soldier.
It's just that Li Luoyuan wanted to serve under Di Jie, but he didn't want Emperor Wanlong to take the post of Xifu manager, set up his own army, and pacify Xifu.
After Li Luo learned about it, he thought about it again and again, without refusing, and agreed. Emperor Wanlong originally planned to recruit an army of 200,000, but Li Luo asked to reduce it to 100,000. He also ordered the troop deployment of the Youzhou Ministry and Muzhou Rangers.
It was Li Luo's own choice.
Prince Chun originally had three hundred personal guards, but Li Luo only retained four, brothers Ni Qing and Ni Bai. The other two were named Qian Yi and Zhu Zhi, both of whom were outstanding members of the Tiger Guard.
The other three were personal guards selected by Li Luo personally, and one of them was the burly Han Wuta who was walking next to him.
Another old man from the Qing Dynasty was named Shen Xiangdong. The last person, Li Luoben, wanted to find someone who was familiar with the customs of the countries in the Western Regions and who had some ability to protect himself.
Emperor Wanlong summoned Xiao Baisheng and asked him to find a reliable person in Zhuocheng.
Unexpectedly, when Xiao Baisheng heard this, he immediately laughed and said that God was doing his best to accomplish Li Luo's conquest of the west.
It turned out that Chu Ying'er, who was beleaguered on all sides, was from the Dayue Kingdom in the Western Regions. When he was young, he lived in a merchant family in the Dayue Kingdom. Later, the family was framed and all the clan members were killed. Chu Ying'er also narrowly escaped death. It happened that Xiao Bai died while traveling in the Western Regions.
After saving Chu Ying'er, Xiao Baisheng entrusted a friend who was hiding in the Western Region to take care of her when she saw that Chu Ying'er was helpless.
This man was originally a world-famous master in Dagan Wulin. He hid in the Western Regions for some reason. Seeing that Chu Ying'er had good bones, he had the idea of becoming a disciple. He immediately agreed to take him as a disciple. Not only did he take good care of him, but he also took care of himself.
I taught him everything I learned, but he died suddenly and suddenly for unknown reasons.
Chu Ying'er wandered in the Western Regions for several years, killing her former enemies, and then came to Dagan alone to seek Xiao Bai's death.
Fortunately, Xiao Baisheng's reputation spread far and wide, and Chu Ying'er found it without much effort. Xiao Baisheng was also extremely surprised, and he was very sad as he spoke, and took Chu Ying'er in. The name Chu Ying'er also begged Xiao Baisheng.
Later, Xiao Baisheng named Chu Ying'er for the little girl he rescued. Later, he saw that Chu Ying'er had extraordinary martial arts. It happened that Xiao Baisheng was appointed as the new member of the Nine Guards, so he recruited Chu Ying'er into the Nine Guards. However, Chu Ying'er was
Ying'er often wore a veil. Xiao Baisheng was quite puzzled, but after all, he was a close friend, so he went with her.
When Xiao Baisheng heard Li Luo's request for this expedition to the west, he immediately thought of Chu Ying'er, but it really took no effort at all.
After hearing Xiao Baisheng's words, Chu Ying'er remained silent for a while and then agreed. Emperor Wanlong issued a special order to protect Li Luo Zhouquan. In this expedition to the west, Tian was one of Li Luo's seven personal guards.
When Li Luo invited Wu Ta and Shen Xiangdong to visit Emperor Wanlong that day, Emperor Wanlong was extremely surprised. These two people were not prominent people.
On the contrary, they were all prisoners on death row in Dagan Heavenly Prison. Emperor Wanlong didn't know why Li Luo chose these two people, but he had already made it clear that Li Luo could choose his own bodyguards in Zhuo City, and he immediately issued an order to exempt them from death.
Serve as Li Luo's bodyguard.
Wu Ta was originally from a local county in Zhuozhou. He was born with supernatural powers and supported his family by working hard at Suoshui Wharf.
The year before last, he brought his parents and two younger sisters to the south of Zhuocheng City. But as soon as he arrived in Zhuocheng, he was involved in a murder case, killing three government officials and thirteen innocent people, including Wuta's
Two sisters.
Such a horrifying tragedy was rare in Zhuocheng. Zhuochen's governor acted vigorously and swiftly to solve the case, and caught the murderer Wu Ta. In the afternoon, a notice was posted declaring Wu Ta's guilt.
Yandao Wuta has been violent since he was a child, and he is often in a trance. Because of trivial matters, he suddenly becomes murderous and kills his two sisters and three government officials who came to dissuade him. He then kills eleven innocent passers-by who he does not know.
, the crime cannot be pardoned, and he will be executed after three days.
Wu Ta had just moved to Zhuocheng and had no relatives. His parents were old and had been stimulated. They were both crazy and their whereabouts were unknown, so no one complained.
Li Luo also heard about it at the time, and even briefly inquired about the whole story of the murder. It was quite strange that these eleven innocent passers-by, some from the west and some from the east of the city, came to the poorest place in the south of the city where Wu Ta lived for some reason.
The case was concluded in a hurry, and the person who was killed by manslaughter was also mentioned in one stroke, which was quite strange. However, Li Luo had no intention of doing it, so he left it alone. He only found out three days later when he was drinking with Cheng Ziyao, the prince of Fuyin. It turned out that the case had caused the Grand Master
Yu Chengyun pressed down.
On that day, Emperor Wanlong asked Li Luo to choose his personal guards. Li Luo suddenly remembered Wu Ta. After a thorough investigation, he found that Wu Ta had been locked up in the sky prison. The grand master took pity on the talent and kept Wu Ta for his own use. However, this case
It was so shocking that on that day, Yu Chengyun did not dare to release Wuta immediately. He also imprisoned him and ordered people to teach him the internal skills, mental methods and martial arts of Wuta so that he could be used in the future.
Unexpectedly, Yu Chengyun's plan was exposed, and he himself became a prisoner of his subordinates, giving Li Luo an advantage in vain.