Although Guan Xiaorou can directly lead the troops north, the Ninth Princess is the emperor of the new Dakang after all. According to the procedure, the emperor's imperial edict and military talismans are required for the army to depart.
Otherwise, whoever wants to mobilize troops can do so, and the regime will soon be in chaos.
Guan Xiaorou didn't understand this and was worried about Jin Feng, so she didn't think of this.
Although Tang Dongdong had read books, it was her first time leading troops on the battlefield and she didn't know the rules.
At this time, Zhao Yue's role became apparent.
While Guan Xiaorou went back to make arrangements for the child, he secretly reminded Tang Dongdong.
Tang Dongdong quickly took people to find the Ninth Princess, and as the commander-in-chief of the Second Detachment of Women, asked for permission to send troops.
The Ninth Princess still didn't want to agree to let Guan Xiaorou go to Xizhou, but she knew that she couldn't stop it, so she could only hand over the imperial edict and military talismans to Tang Dongdong.
That night, the Second Detachment of Women, led by Guan Xiaorou and Tang Dongdong, rushed to Jinchuan Pier.
They will take the Zhenyuan No. 2 at Jinchuan Pier and rush to Dashanguan, and then follow the large army led by Zheng Fang to the north.
The Ninth Princess stood on the high platform at the entrance of the village and watched the team completely leave the village before going back.
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Brass trench.
After several days of overtime work, Dangxiang's southern expeditionary army rebuilt the stone wall that had been blown down before, reinforced the loose areas, and then began to build the wall again non-stop.
In order to prevent the Shu army from sending people to lurk and destroy it, Li Lingrui directly arranged 3,000 elite soldiers under the stone wall and surrounded it on three levels inside and outside.
In this case, let alone the scouts, the mice would not even be able to sneak under the stone wall.
Not only that, in order to speed up the construction progress, Li Lingrui also sent many more soldiers to the stone wall.
Viewed from the air, almost everyone is sitting next to each other on the top of the stone wall.
The sound of banging stones is constant day and night.
Seeing the stone wall getting closer to Zhuzhuanggou day by day, Zhang Liang couldn't sit still.
"When will the hot air balloon be delivered?"
Qin's spies had long since confirmed that the Eastern Barbarians had only given the King of Qin two Haidongqings.
One of them was injured by the bombing on Wutou Mountain, and the falconer was also killed. Then the sea turtle disappeared.
In other words, King Qin now only has one Haidongqing left in his hand.
With King Qin's life-saving character, Zhang Liang couldn't believe that he was willing to send this life-saving sea turtle to the front line.
In fact, Zhang Liang doesn't care even if he sends it over.
He had already issued an order to exchange the hot air balloon for Hai Dongqing, and let the airship carry the hot air balloon directly from Dashanguan to Brass Valley.
Even if King Qin sends Hai Dongqing to the front line, how many airships can he stop?
According to the speed of the airship, even if it was traveling against the wind, it should have reached Brass Ditch a long time ago, but it never came until now.
"Commander, I am preparing to report to you."
Han Feng said solemnly: "I just got the news that our supply depot was attacked, and the warehouses of supply depot No. 1, 2, 4, 67 were burned down..."
"How could this happen?" When Zhang Liang heard this, his expression suddenly changed.
Even Jin Feng couldn't help but stand up.
Airships need kerosene to drive steam engines, and hot air balloons also need kerosene to lift off.
However, due to limited cargo capacity, airships and hot air balloons need to replenish fuel every time they fly.
If there was no kerosene, airships and hot air balloons would be just decorations.
After the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau occupied the western part of Qin, they set up many supply stations on the road from Dashanguan to Xizhou and stored a lot of supplies in advance.
When the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce's mule and horse teams go to Dangxiang, they can take a rest at the supply station.
Later, the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau withdrew from Qin to Sichuan, and most of the supply depots were withdrawn with them. Only some supply depots at key nodes were left and relocated to provide material supplies for the subsequent war.
At that time, Zhang Liang thought that the enemy might attack these supply depots, so before the escort retreated, he moved the supply depots that were originally close to the official road to dangerous locations, and built each supply depot like a fortress.
Not only were catapults and heavy crossbows installed, but a large amount of food, ammunition and kerosene were also stored in advance.
In Zhang Liang's view, even if the King of Qin sent a large army to surround the supply depots, these supply depots could last for a long time.
"The King of Qin ordered people to light fires and smoke at the wind vents of each supply station, and then asked people to carry catapults and throw jars of kerosene at the supply stations."
Han Feng explained: "The brothers were so thick with smoke that they couldn't even open their eyes, and they couldn't see the situation upwind..."
Hearing what Han Feng said, Jin Feng and others' expressions turned ugly.
Lighting a cigarette at the upwind point is indeed a very useful way to deal with checkpoints. Before Jin Feng got the hot air balloon, Zhang Liang often used this trick to deal with the bandits who were guarding the checkpoints.
Unexpectedly, the King of Qin learned it and used it against himself.
"If you can't fly over, then send someone to carry it over!" Zhang Liang said.
"General Zheng sent someone to deliver it, but the brother who sent the hot air balloon was blocked in Jiuliangou."
Han Feng said: "The King of Qin deployed tens of thousands of troops in Jiulian Gou. Commander, you also came from Jiulian Gou at the beginning. You know the terrain over there. Brothers can't rush through at all!"
Jiulian Valley is more than 70 miles northwest of Dashan Pass and consists of a large area of hills and ravines.
There are nine large ravines alone, and countless small ravines. They are famous bandit dens with a radius of hundreds of miles.
More than twenty years ago, one of the King of Qin's subordinates was passing by a group of bandits as a gift for his birthday as a tribute to the King of Qin. He was robbed by a group of bandits while passing by Jiulian Gou. The King of Qin was extremely angry and immediately mobilized tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress him.
However, there are large ditches and small ditches in Jiulian Valley, just like a maze. Not only did the King of Qin fail to suppress the bandits, but thousands of people were killed by the bandits.
From then on, the Jiuliangou bandits became famous.
There is an ancient road in Jiuliangou connecting the north and south, from Dashanguan to Xizhou. If you take this ancient road, you can save at least three days.
But because of this group of bandits, the merchants would rather spend three more days taking a detour rather than go through Jiuliangou.
Later, the bodyguards secured the Dashan Pass and began to march toward the western part of Qin. Only then did they send troops to exterminate the bandits.
The terrain of Jiuliangou was extremely complicated for the Qin King's army, but for the Zhenyuan Escort Agency with their hot air balloons, it was child's play.
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Among the reform-through-labor prisoners currently digging coal for Zhuzhuanggou, there are many Jiuliangou bandits.
"Didn't Zheng Fang ask them to carry some emergency kerosene?" Zhang Liang said, "Isn't it enough to blow up Jiuliang Valley for me?"
"Commander, you also know that steam engines are made of iron and are too heavy. In order to deliver things as quickly as possible, the brothers carried hot air balloons instead of steam engines. Jiulian Valley has been very windy recently, and the hot air balloons have also been