The next morning, Liang Xiao walked into Weiyang Palace in the military uniform given by the emperor, carrying a jade sword.

The men at the gate of the palace greeted each other without hiding their envy in their eyes, and even a little jealousy. There are many people who have joined the army, and there are only a handful of people who can be appointed as marquis like Liang Xiao for several years, and more of them are like Li Guang, who have fought for a lifetime and have no hope of being appointed as marquis.

The young man was granted a marquis, appreciated by the emperor, and favored by the beauty. This is the greatest ambition that most people can imagine, just like countless people in the future want to become a ceo, marry a rich and beautiful woman, and reach the peak of their lives.

Liang Xiao stopped, greeted the men and made a few jokes.

"Bo Ming, I have to marry the Master Huainan when I come back this time, right?" A man squeezed his eyes and said with a wicked smile: "Don't let the beauty wait too long, otherwise you won't go to bed on the wedding night."

"You think it's you." Another man pushed him away, looked at Liang Xiao up and down, and said with a sound. "Look, people are just wearing clothes and wearing this armor. If you walk around Chang'an Street, I don't know how many girls will be in their youth."

"This is what Bo Ming earned with his life. You are jealous and you will earn it yourself." An older man came over and pushed his companions away. "Bo Ming, hurry up and go in, don't let the emperor wait. What's there to say to these rabbit masters? They are timid and jealous, and have no future."

The men shouted and laughed. Liang Xiao also laughed, waved his hands, and walked into the palace gate. If he hadn't entered the palace, he wouldn't have dressed so flamboyantly. He walked in brocade clothes and returned to his hometown in glory. In this era, it was a privilege for successful people. If he didn't do this, it would not be enough to comfort his whole life. However, he was not used to it, and he always felt like a villain was making money like suffering.

It has to be said that although he has been reborn in the Han Dynasty for four or five years, his appearance is no different from that of ordinary Han people, he still has not fully adapted psychologically.

When they arrived near the front hall, the officials said that the emperor was in Chengming Hall and was discussing affairs with Yan Zhu and other close ministers. Liang Xiao hurried to Chengming Hall again. Seeing that Liang Xiao was dressed in bright clothes and armor, the emperor also lit up and praised, "This is my Han family."

Liang Xiao bowed and bowed. "This is your Majesty's favor. I will never forget it for a moment."

The emperor smiled. "I went to Longyou in this armor and told the soldiers that the court had prepared generous rewards and waited for you to pass through triumph. Liang Xiao, I have asked someone to clean the Beique. You must capture more prisoners, so that I can hang their heads on the Que gate to pay tribute to the previous emperors."

Liang Xiao said with a sigh: "Give your Majesty the trust, I dare not serve you by death."

"Very good!" The emperor encouraged Liang Xiao a few more words before he let Liang Xiao out of the palace.

After leaving the palace, Liang Xiao stepped on his horse and took his personal guards along the street and out of the city gate. He left alone with two horses. He traveled day and night, and it took only six days to arrive in Longxi.

After leaving Longguan, Liang Xiao felt the atmosphere of war. On the way, you could see teams of servants, driving cattle and horses, pulling trucks of food and various supplies that they had just harvested, and rushing to the front line. Most of them looked dark, worn-out, haggard and taciturn. Seeing Liang Xiao and his party wearing furious horses, they could not see much excitement in their eyes. Instead, they had some fear or deep disgust.

Liang Xiao knew that for these ordinary people, war means heavy burdens, especially corvee labor. The government does not pay any compensation. Sometimes when encountering bad officials, even food will be deducted. The cattle and horses are their own. If they die, it will be an unbearable loss. They pay the price but will not gain any benefits. If they win the battle, the soldiers will be rewarded, and they have nothing to do with them.

At this moment, Liang Xiao didn't care about pitying them. In his opinion, how to relieve the threat from the Huns at the lowest cost and let these people settle down and enjoy themselves, and no longer have to worry about the threat from the Huns is the only thing he can do for them.

Liang Xiao came to the county magistrate's mansion and saw Li Guang.

Li Guang was busy and surrounded by a group of subordinates to report various data. It was obvious that he was not very patient. Li Guang was literate, but he was not very educated. He had been in office for many years and had done many tasks, but he still refused these trivial matters. Seeing Liang Xiao, he immediately stood up, as if he had found a scapegoat, and showed a relieved smile.

"You came so quickly, and you arrived just two days after the clerk arrived."

"The war is about to begin. You can get familiar with the situation one day earlier. General, how are you prepared?"

"You ask them." Li Guang waved his hand and pulled a clerk to Liang Xiao. "You are a Zen general, so I'll leave it here to you. I have something to do, so I'm going out." Li Guang laughed and patted Liang Xiao's armor with his big hand. "Boy, are you deliberately stimulating me?"

"There is no way, it's the emperor's edict." Liang Xiao shrugged helplessly. "General, you don't have to be jealous. After this battle, you should be granted the title of marquis."

"I hope so." Li Guang raised his eyebrows and turned around and left. Li Gan hurriedly followed him. Li Jiao also wanted to run away, but was grabbed by Liang Xiao. "You can't be too much. You father and son all ran away. Leave this matter to me alone?"

Li Jiao grinned. "Bo Ming, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's because I'm really not good at this."

"If you are not good at it, I am good at it?" Liang Xiao said angrily: "Are you brothers? If you are brothers, you will be together if you are brothers."

While speaking, Li Gan had already run to the door, made a face at Li Jiao, and ran out. Li Jiao had a bitter face and had to stay.

Although Li Jiao helped, it took Liang Xiao two days to basically figure out the preparations for Longxi. The officials in the prefect's office were similar to Li Guang and his son, not like civil servants, but more like military servants. There was no way. There were too few people here who could read. Those who could write their own names, and those who could mentally analyse addition and subtraction within 100 were considered literati. Faced with a large number of traversed numbers of tens of millions, they were all a little blind.

The results of the statistics were very bad, and many supplies failed to be in place as planned. The biggest problem was the force. The estimated 30,000 troops reached more than 20,000, with only 10,000 cavalry and insufficient number of war horses, only more than 13,000.

Liang Xiao was puzzled. "Don't there be nearly 50,000 horses in Longxi Muyuan? How can we provide more than 13,000 horses?"

Li Jiao explained. There are 50,000 horses in Muyuan, but it is impossible to have 50,000 horses that can be used. There are too many places to use horses. In addition to young horses and stallions that must be left on railings, it is a metaphor for the followers of officials at all levels to be equipped with war horses, and the posts in various places should have spare horses, and the guards of generals in the army should also be equipped with horses. This thousand three thousand war horses is already the greatest ability of Muyuan in Longxi.

If he was not in charge of the family, he didn't know that firewood was expensive. Liang Xiao first came into contact with these affairs and realized how luxurious he had before. If he followed his previous habit of being a man and three horses, 13,000 war horses could only be equipped with up to five thousand knights. However, he had to fight against the main force of the Huns, let alone 5,000 cavalry, even if there were tens of thousands of cavalry, he would not have enough chance of winning.

Liang Xiao pondered for a moment: "How many knights have been recruited?"

"There are about 3,000 people. Although they have more horses, they are not enough to have a one-person and two-horse configuration."

Liang Xiao shook his head, this was not enough. According to the scheduled combat plan, as the Western Route Army, they not only had to take the rest and slaughter the land, but also crossed the desert and cooperated with the other two armies to capture the land in Henan. Looking at the casualties and the damage, if they still have enough strength, they would go deep into Hexi and sweep the Hexi Corridor.

When making plans in Chang'an, he was already cautious enough. It was still difficult to implement them and there were discounts everywhere. Although Liang Xiao was mentally prepared, he was still worried when he saw these numbers.

He decided to report to the court immediately.

Li Jiao stopped him. "You are too cautious. For us, these are enough. Although there is insufficient quantity, there is a strong morale and people can use it."

Liang Xiao looked at Li Jiao, signaled the officials to go out first, closed the door, and lowered his voice and said to Li Jiao: "Brother Li, there is something I think I need to remind you again."

Seeing Liang Xiao so serious, Li Jiao didn't dare to be careless. "You said."

"This battle is a good opportunity for the general to be a marquis. I can understand the urgent mood of your father and son. But because of this, we must be more cautious. Even if we refuse this battle for a year or two, the general can afford it. But if we fail, it will be impossible to launch such a large war within three to five years, or even ten years, can the general wait?"

Li Jiao frowned and was skeptical. "As for it? Not to mention that we have a winning rate of at least 50% or 60%. Even if we lose, the losses will be limited. We won't be able to fight again within ten years."

"It has nothing to do with strength, but with the face of the emperor. This is the first battle after the emperor took power. It took so much verbalism to barely gain the support of the court officials, especially the Queen Mother. If it is defeated, the emperor's prestige is damaged, and the voice of opposition arises again. The Queen Mother takes power, and it is like the Queen Mother's time when he was alive. What should I do? Since it is the first battle, either I don't fight. If I want to fight, I must win, and I must win. If I am not sure, it is better not to fight."

Li Jiao didn't say anything. The Empress Dowager was the emperor's grandmother. She was in her twilight years and should have died long ago. The Empress Dowager was different. She was just over fifty years old. Under normal circumstances, she lived for another ten or twenty years, and there was no problem at all.

However, Li Guang couldn't wait.

Li Jiao did not dare to make a decision and went to Li Guang with Liang Xiao. Li Guang's attitude was the same as Li Jiao. He was a little disagreeable at first. After listening to Liang Xiao's reminder, he realized that the risk was much greater than he thought. However, he was unwilling to give up this opportunity.

This may be his best chance.

The emperor not only gave him the opportunity to stand alone, but also asked Liang Xiao to be a lie. Generally speaking, lie is not only a substitute for the lie-in when the lie-in unexpected situations, but also a check and balance and surveillance of the lie-in. Because of this relationship, it is common for lie-in to compete with the lie-in and even falsely accusing the lie-in.

Liang Xiao is different. Although Liang Xiao is deeply trusted by the emperor, he is his subordinate. He is close to their father and son and will only help him and will not be detrimental to him. This is naturally the compensation that the emperor has made for him last time and has not been rewarded. If he missed this opportunity, he would not know who would be arranged next time.

Li Guang said that this battle must not only be fought, but also won, and also won beauty.

(To be continued.)

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