Chapter 291 A Battle
"Your Majesty, Lingnan and the North Sea are currently in turmoil, with frequent military movements. This is a good time to suppress the rebels and reclaim Lingnan."
"The Lu family couple are extremely ambitious and have long harbored ambitions to seize the throne. If we don't seize this opportunity to capture these traitors, they will surely become a grave threat to us in the future!"
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In the Golden Palace, a group of ministers, led by Minister Cui, wrote petitions to the Emperor, requesting him to send troops to Lingnan.
Most of them were fence-sitters whose homes had been confiscated by Jiang Tangtang. Some, like Minister Cui's wife, desperately hoped that the Emperor of the Great Zhou would show his might, destroy Lingnan, and rescue his children who had been captured and forced to serve in the mines.
Xiao Ye hated the Lu family for a long time and wanted to capture all of them and tear them into pieces.
He didn't want to miss this rare opportunity.
If Lingnan can be recovered, not only will the emperor's prestige be restored and Lingnan's military forces be subdued, but the Zhou Dynasty will also be relieved of its predicament.
Zhou Ye quickly dispatched an army to attack Lingnan.
When the Great Zhou sent troops to attack Lingnan, the Western Rong, Rouran and other countries also began to quickly dispatch troops, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity to get a piece of the pie.
As the drought worsened, the Xirong and Rouran were no longer keen on attacking the ordinary capitals of the Great Zhou.
Most of the wealthy people in these capitals fled, leaving behind only dry land and thousands of refugees.
Taking down such a capital would not only fail to alleviate their current severe shortage of water and food, but would also increase their burden.
Most of the Great Zhou's military forces were concentrated in the capital, and even a small number of troops could not attack.
In addition, the refugees described Lingnan as a paradise, so these jackals naturally set their sights on Lingnan.
The unusual movements of the troops of several parties were all discovered by the spies deployed outside by Lu Shiyan, who quickly sent a message back to Lingnan by carrier pigeons.
After receiving the news, Jiang Tangtang temporarily put aside the matter of raising wild rice seedlings and personally transported food and grass to the border.
The food stored in the Lingnan granary is very diverse. In addition to soybeans, rice and flour, there are also sweet potatoes, cassava, potatoes, fish meal, bacon and dried fish.
However, Jiang Tangtang secretly stored perishable grains like sweet potatoes and potatoes in the space warehouse on the pretext that part of the national treasury grain needed to be kept secret.
There is abundant spiritual energy in the space, and these things will not go bad no matter how long they are kept in the space.
Previously, when Lu Shiyan led his troops out to sea, Jiang Tangtang personally prepared supplies for him.
However, it is not convenient to make a fire and cook on the boat, and the space is limited, so things like sweet potatoes and potatoes are basically useless.
Instead, they use flour and other ingredients to make cakes that are easy to carry, filling, and not easy to rot.
In addition, there was tea and beans that she had specially prepared for Lu Shili to go to sea. Later, due to the drought, Lu Shili temporarily changed the time of going to sea, and these things were not used, so she gave them to Lu Shiyan who was leading the troops to sea.
Unlike on the ship, it was easier to make fire and cook on land, and they were the ones waiting for the enemy to tire themselves out. Therefore, whole grains like sweet potatoes and potatoes were also part of the soldiers' rations.
Of course, they couldn't just eat whole grains like sweet potatoes and potatoes, otherwise the soldiers wouldn't have the strength to fight. So in addition to whole grains, she also prepared more nutritious foods like fish meal.
When Jiang Tangtang arrived at the Cangwu border with his convoy, Xie Xin had already led his troops there.
This time he only brought 500 elite soldiers and the heavy strike team that Lu Shiyan had just formed this year.
The heavy strike team was small, only about a hundred men, but all of them rode rhinos.
Many officials in the General Staff believed that the heavy-hitting squad should be used as a secret weapon to deliver the final blow to the enemy on the battlefield.
But Xie Xin felt that although this Rhino Team had been training, they had never been on the battlefield.
It's time to use the military strength of the Great Zhou to hone this team.
If Xiao Ye knew that the army he had spent so much effort to mobilize was used by Xie Xin for training, he would probably be furious.
Xiao Ye did not dare to move the troops around the capital, and finally gathered an army of 10,000 people from all over the place.
The lack of military rations, coupled with drought and water shortages, and the long journey meant that this army, which was several times larger than that of Lingnan, was defeated by the army led by Xie Xin as soon as the battle started.
Many soldiers had not recovered from the shock until they were captured.
The Western Rong Rouran people, who were hiding in the back, waiting for the war between Da Zhou and Lingnan to break out and then seize Lingnan, were also frightened out of their wits by the heavy-hitting team that shook the earth.
This time, Qi Hongshen personally led the team to Cangwu. He was determined to capture Lingnan, but when he saw that Lingnan had defeated the Zhou army with such a small force, his brows unconsciously frowned.
This Lu Shiyan was indeed a tough nut to crack, just as he thought.
"Young Master, is that Lingnan's divine bull?" Guo Shaoan's eyes widened in envy. "It's even more powerful than our elite cavalry! If we could have a cavalry like this, why wouldn't we be able to conquer the Great Zhou and unify the Central Plains?"
Qi Hongshen asked, "What is the identity of the commander who sent out the troops today?"
Guo Shaoan immediately understood what he meant and said loudly, "I'll send someone to inquire about it right away."
Find out the identity of the commander-in-chief, promise him high official salary, or use threats and bribes, in short, find a way to win him over. Then, won’t the Shenniu team be theirs?
Not to mention the Shenniu team, if they can bribe the internal officials of Lingnan, the entire Lingnan will be in their hands.
But before they could successfully bribe the officials in Lingnan, news came from Xirong that the Queen of Xirong was seriously ill.
The Xirong Emperor Qi Zhuanyu had only one woman in his life, the Xirong Queen. Seeing that the queen was seriously ill and dying, he could no longer care about anything else.
Not only did he recruit doctors from Xirong to treat the queen, he also sent a message to his son, saying that he had heard that there was a very powerful doctor in Lingnan, and asked him to invite the doctor to treat the queen at all costs.
Regardless of the situation between the Western Rong and the Great Zhou, the entire Lingnan was filled with joy of victory.
Xie Xin defeated tens of thousands of soldiers from the Great Zhou with only a thousand men, which gave the people of Lingnan an unparalleled sense of security.
The people were all as happy as if it were New Year's Day.
Jiang Tangtang was also happy. In this battle, many secret weapons developed by the weapons institute had not yet been used, but they had defeated the Great Zhou in one fell swoop, which showed that their military force was very powerful. In this chaotic world, they could protect themselves.
But after a brief moment of joy, they were faced with a new problem. In this war with the Great Zhou, excluding those who fled and those who died in battle, they captured a total of 5,000 prisoners.
With so many people around, if it were in the past, Jiang Tangtang would be very excited.
Whether they are enlisted in the army as soldiers to strengthen the military strength of Lingnan, or sent to various farms and mines to work, they are all labor!
But now it is dry and many arable lands cannot be cultivated. Five thousand people mean five thousand mouths to feed.
Although the war with the Great Zhou ended quickly, the war at sea has not yet ended, and military supplies will continue to be consumed.
How to deal with these more than 5,000 mouths after they are conquered?
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