Chapter 528: Mingxiu Plank Road (Part 2)
Kons knew that Xiangwen was hinting that this was a warning to the enemy, so he couldn't help but smile: "Send 30,000 cavalry to act in advance, let them run around within a radius of thousands of miles of these three rivers, and make our counterattack on the grassland."
"Will the 30,000 cavalry be too few? Do you need to gather the inner guards?"
Xiangwen was a little worried about the Lord’s decision. Thinking about it, he was also wandering on the prairie that was thousands of miles apart, and 30,000 people were equal to the pepper in the noodles, which was pitifully rare!
"Don't worry, so many strong men died in the battle of the prairie, and the rest were all the elderly, weak, women and children, which is not worth mentioning. And didn't the Fourth Prince unified the counterattack with us? It was just when his raven was needed to be dispatched, and the fourth prince was also responsible for our logistics." Cons laughed.
[But then we will take 20,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry to attack the esoteric clan’s nest? And this river is against the current for us, how can the ships move?" Xiang Wen was still very worried.
"The boat can use a pedal-plated inland boat that is only seven or eight meters wide, and the 30,000 cavalry that set out at the beginning can meet with us when we reach the top excavation port, as long as there are enough ships to be dispatched."
"The inland boat is moving on the slurry? It's the kind of tourist boat that travels in the lake? Oh, why would I not have imagined it!"
Xiang Wen patted his head in annoyed manner. When it comes to ships, he only chose from those sea boats. He completely forgot that there are more types of inland boats, and some ships transporting inland rivers rely on the upstream to go upstream, so the problem of attacking against the current is not a big deal!
Since Cons made a resolution, the action immediately began. First, a group of people scattered and secretly purchased excavation equipment and carriages within the alliance boundary. Finally, the ants moved to the camp outside the city.
In addition to sending people to purchase these tools, Xiangwen also secretly recruited a large number of professional civil craftsmen and sent them to the camp.
While preparing here, Cons had already sent an invitation to the Fourth Prince.
At this moment, the fourth prince, who not only increased the population but also became rich and wealthy, had a wave of words and had 20,000 dragon cavalry and a logistics team carrying enough 100,000 troops to fight for half a year, and was assigned to Cons command.
Moreover, in addition to having these 20,000 dragon cavalry, Cons was forced to own a cavalry team composed of five or six thousand powerful children and servants.
The reason why the Fourth Prince is so generous and the Southwest's powerful people are so enthusiastic is because they have seen the benefits of selling land. Now Cons is preparing to attack the prairie. With Cons's ability and understanding of the prairie, the entire prairie will fall into Cons' hands. In this case, of course, they and others have to squeeze in with the covenant to get benefits.
Because of the restrictions of the alliance rules, not to mention the difference between having military achievements and not having military achievements, it is the difference between participating and not participating. There is a world of difference in the right to share the spoils.
Originally, Cons was just going to give some benefits for the Fourth Prince to eat, but now there are a little more powerful people in the southwest. Although they are a little dissatisfied, it doesn't matter. But unexpectedly, people all over the world know that Cons is preparing to attack the prairie, let alone within the alliance.
In the past, Cons expressed his support for the Fourth Prince and the Grasslanders to stand up. Although everyone agreed, they all thought Cons was too arrogant and really thought that a few soldiers could destroy the Grasslanders, who were known as the mortal enemy of the Empire for thousands of years?
At that time, the Empire was the largest country in the world, and countless troops were sent to conquer the prairie, and they were defeated. You, Cons, formed a loose alliance, just like taking your people to die? Dream about you!
If it weren't for your strong soldiers and strong horses, and the ones who needed to bleed and work hard were not me and the Bai family's children, but just untouchables, I wouldn't even agree!
Although the alliance later occupied two provinces, divided the spoils and sold the land to gain a lot of benefits, making the powerful and powerful in the alliance a little biased towards Cons because of the interests, they never stood on Cons' side. Instead, they secretly had a little rebellious because of the secret guards.
Of course, because of the secret guard problem, these people could only hold this rebellious intention in their hearts, and even their direct relatives dared not expose them at all.
Later, the fourth prince joined the alliance, and everyone made trouble for Cons to take his direct troops to help. At that time, everyone was nervous, afraid that Cons would get rid of the alliance rules and become the king by themselves. But after seeing Cons obediently and obeying everyone's resolutions, they were like taking stimulants.
Since Cons is willing to abide by the rules, will those who have become good at playing with the rules still be afraid of fighting with Cons?
At this time, everyone's fear of Cons dropped sharply. Some guys even ran to tease Cons' two wives with courage. They were driven away by the guards and laughed proudly, which attracted a group of people to watch.
But these teasers stayed in the house overnight, and the onlookers had no idea what the consequences were, which made the powerful and powerful in the entire alliance tremble.
The rest of the people also understood that as long as there was a Secret Guard, even if Cons failed in political struggles, he would be a natural king.
The powerful and powerful who had learned the lesson had to focus on robbing interests and would never dare to provoke Cons again.
Of course, another sequelae of this incident was that countless powerful ladies came to see Mrs. Cons, which made Alice had to take over the important task of receiving the reception so that Isna could concentrate on developing the elixir of youth.
This also turned the Alliance Madam Gui into two gangs, one likes to discuss politics and go out to play, and the other is a Moonlight group that likes to read and likes to be quiet like Isna. If you gather Madam Gui, it is equivalent to gathering the powerful and noble inner house.
No matter how arrogant and domineering your power, your inner husband can also affect your thinking and decision-making.
However, although the alliance's powerful people were determined not to provoke Cons outside the conference hall, they were always hostile to Cons, at most they were just the difference between more or less hostility.
When I heard that Cons had given the 100,000 elite troops to the Southwest, each of them looked ugly.
Because they knew that all forces had to contribute an army to the alliance and were also responsible for the logistics expenditure and personnel replenishment of the army. It seemed that the army was clearly owned by the alliance, but the real ownership was in the hands of the forces. After all, the soldiers were all locals.
Actually, if you have a normal mind, you know that's not the case.
The supplies are collected and distributed in a unified manner, in the name of the alliance, but the person who issued them was under Cons. Moreover, the troops contributed by several forces disrupted the reorganization and sent Cons to serve as grassroots officers. After several battles, do you think this army is still of the original force?
Such an army is not even an alliance, but Cons's private forces.
Although he knew that Cons turned the Alliance into Cons army in the name of the Alliance, Cons did it cleverly and never directly dispatched these Alliance troops, and he also focused on his Cons army. All matters of the Alliance army were handled by the officers appointed at the meeting. This really made people unable to say anything.
Those senior officers are nominally the chief officers of the army, but there is no use. Only 20 or 30% of the soldiers below are from the same hometown. All the grassroots small officers are under Cons. If your order meets Cons' intentions, then this army is like an arm and finger, but if the opposite is true, hehe, he can't move!
This is also because after hearing that Cons had another 100,000 elite, his face would be bad.
If this continues, even without the deterrence of the Secret Guards, even if they are united, they will not be able to do anything to Cons.
Therefore, when the Alliance Army was fighting against the grassland soldiers, the Alliance's powerful people would secretly pray for the Alliance Army to be wiped out.
However, the result was obviously in the opposite direction of their wish. The Alliance Army easily helped the Southwest solve the siege of the grassland soldiers that had been besieged for a long time, and then fearlessly the existence of the plague, quickly recovered the three southwestern provinces and restored all the land in the southwest region of the empire.
Although the powerful and powerful were extremely surprised by such a battle result and were puzzled, the powerful and powerful who were 11 years old were no longer on this.
These people cursed Cons in their hearts for being so lucky, but shouted in their mouths that Long Live His Highness Cons, Long Live the Alliance Army, Unify. Long Live the Alliance. They quickly carried sacks filled with money, rushed into the southwest like flying, and began to participate in the feast of dividing the spoils of the southwest.
By this time, Cons's invincible image had penetrated into the hearts of all the Unified Alliance, and the title of God of War naturally fell on Cons without any dispute.
Because the spoils must be regarded as the alliance rule for the dividends of war and the equality of the people, the title of Cons, the God of War, has a layer of golden light, enough to make the eyes of those who see it turn into gold coins.
So when Cons was preparing to attack the grassland soldiers, but due to insufficient troops, the news of the southwest's support for the southwest was spread, the speed of the circulating spread from the southwest to the snow country like the wind. Everyone who heard the news was ready to divide the grassland.
Members of the alliance dispatched troops to learn from the Fourth Prince to seize military achievements, let alone the powerful and noble servants, set out earlier than these reinforcements.
The merchant group and others even drove the carriage and rushed to the southwest with their money bags. Whether it was currying about Cons or being acquired for trophies, it was a sure thing. How could a merchant who was obsessed with money give up?
After receiving continuous notification from the rear that a certain unit had set out for reinforcements, Cons shook his head helplessly.
Forget it, anyway, they are just trying to cover up the supporting roles, so let them go.
The more people there are, the more you think that you want to swallow the prairie in one go, and the less you will find that Bai Ji’s real purpose is to sneak attack his lair.
But this will lead to delaying the time for sending troops, but this is not bad. Enough time can make Bai Ji’s preparation more appropriate.
Just as Cons agreed to all the increase in the army, Xiangwen rushed in with a document and shouted: "Master, the left-behind nobles in the Snow Country have sent a request together!"
"All the left-behind nobles?" After Kons asked, he saw Xiangwen nodding and couldn't help but feel a little slow.
He couldn't understand what was happening and asked all the nobles to work together to send a request. This should not be an invasion by foreign enemies, otherwise it should be a request for help.
Seeing Cons's appearance, Xiang Wen said helplessly: "Lord, they ask you to allow them to unify the Snow Country!"
"Unified Snow Country!"
Cons, who wanted to say something, paused when he said this. The Snow Country was only half unified. He could clearly unify the entire Snow Country, but he forced himself to give up because he had no interest in dealing with the things in the Snow Country. He might be an irresponsible person.
Thinking of this, Cons shook his head with a wry smile and nodded and said, "Yes, they are allowed to make a strategy on their own, but the recognition of merit requires recognition from the noble parliament. Territory division must be reported to me. It is legal to have the territory I issued."
"Yes, Lord, it is said that many nobles of the Snow Kingdom have been considering moving to the empire to live, because they feel that they are too far away from you, and have lost a lot of fat when they are dividing the dividends of the war because of the journey. The lower class probably put their target on the land on the other side because of this reason." Xiang Wen said.
Cons nodded: "I understand, I will pay attention to it in the future, but it is good to unify the Snow Country. When we conquer the grassland, the entire territory will be united."
As reinforcements from the Unified Alliance arrived one after another, the war to conquer the prairie was about to break out.
When it was a day of wind and beauty, with Cons' order, 70,000 or 80,000 cavalry troops first rushed into the prairie, followed by a larger number of infantry troops, riding in a carriage to protect the huge logistics troops and entering the prairie into several arrows. Finally, the bold merchants followed closely behind.
Few people care about Cons not leading his troops to fight. They are the big leaders of the Unified Alliance, and they are the kind of big leaders who are useless in their merits, and they will compete for merits.
At the same time, no one noticed that Cons's river digging troops had already penetrated into the prairie and probably had already been in place to start working.
Cons, who sent the troops away, transferred all the tens of thousands of soldiers left in the camp outside the city and began to expand the camp.
It looks like it is preparing to build this temporary camp into a huge permanent camp.
Just looking at the camp that actually enclosed the rivers into the camp, you can tell how huge the camp will be in the future. Anyway, the amazing amount of wood and other tools and materials were sent to the camp without stopping.
As the days passed, the reports sent back by the troops who fought against the grassland were all marching. They did not encounter a few grassland tribes. Even if they met small tribes, they were all old, weak, disabled and sick. They didn't have to fight. They stepped up and the small tribe was wiped out.
Although everyone was very unhappy about not being able to slaughter the people in the grassland, the places they walked through became a good thing for their own territory, and they didn't dislike them much. Some impatient guys sent someone to check the mine at this time.
Chapter completed!