Chapter 112 The belated arrival of the imperial army

After seeing Xiao Pengtian's information, Lu Chen was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that there was actually a master in the barbarian army.

Thinking about it this way, the tens of thousands of people behind the barbarian army at that time were led by Xiao Pengtian.

Seeing that Lu Chen didn't speak, Wen Renlie asked, "My lord, what do you plan to do with him? He is still alive, but he was seriously injured and has fallen into a coma."

Lu Chen said: "Immediately let someone heal his injuries and revive him. After he wakes up, I still have some things to ask him."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Then the soldiers took Xiao Pengtian down on horseback for treatment.

At this time, Mu Changtian glanced at the 100,000 barbarian captives squatting on the ground, and then asked in a low voice beside Lu Chen: "My lord, what do you plan to do with these captives? There are a lot of them. We don't have so many in Yancheng." Food to feed them, or else all..."

At this point, Mu Changtian hesitated and did not continue.

Lu Chen understood what Mu Changtian meant. Mu Changtian felt that these 100,000 barbarian prisoners were a burden and they should all be killed.

Hearing this, Lu Chen smiled and said, "If they weren't in Beijun, I would really have planned to bury all these people."

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Hearing Lu Chen's words, it was clear that he did not intend to kill them. Mu Changtian continued: "My lord, are you planning to conquer them by keeping them?"

This kind of thing is relatively common. Even though the barbarians are foreigners, there are still many barbarian soldiers in the army of the Great Xia court.

When Mu Changtian went north to fight the barbarian army, he captured many barbarian soldiers. Finally, after they civilized these barbarian soldiers, they asked these barbarian soldiers to take them north to find the barbarian royal court.

Although in the face of race, it often happens that one party massacres the other, but it is more about deterrence and subjugation. Population is very precious in this era. Unless you really can't support so many people, you won't kill them casually. .

Lu Chen said: "After the war is over, I will need a large amount of labor to help me build Beijun. These 100,000 barbarian prisoners will just solve the problem of insufficient labor that I am worried about."

Lu Chen had already obtained cement, and he had long planned to build a new building in Beijun. However, he had been recuperating his energy, so he had not taken any action.

But after this war ended, he could no longer hide it. Everyone knew that he had an extremely powerful army in his hands.

Since it can no longer be hidden, there is nothing left to hide. As one's own fiefdom, Beijun should be well established.

As for the imperial court's battle for the right to inherit the throne, Lu Chen had no intention of getting involved at all. If there was no chaos in Daxia, he had no intention of returning to Daxia. It would be good to stay in Beijun.

Hearing what Lu Chen said, Mu Changtian reacted instantly and said immediately: "Your Majesty, this is a brilliant move! If these 100,000 barbarian soldiers can be educated by then, we will have another 100,000 slave soldiers! No one will dare to covet them in the future. North County!”

Mu Changtian's idea was obviously different from Lu Chen's. Lu Chen wanted to use these 100,000 barbarian slaves to build Beijun, while Mu Changtian thought that Lu Chen left these 100,000 barbarian soldiers because he took a fancy to the strong combat effectiveness of the barbarians. , intending to use these 100,000 barbarian slave soldiers to deter other forces.

Lu Chen now has 50,000 heavy cavalry, and he also has an order to expand the army. In the future, the number of soldiers in Beijun will soon reach 150,000.

If we add the 100,000 slave soldiers of the barbarians, that would be 250,000 soldiers!

With these 200,000 troops, let alone attacking some small countries, there would be no problem even if they could send troops to directly attack the Great Xia Dynasty.

Of course, to win a war to destroy a country, sometimes it depends not only on the number of soldiers, but also on logistics.

Therefore, Mu Changtian believed that Lu Chen was planning to continue to recharge his batteries and wait for the opportunity.

At this moment, Mu Changtian suddenly thought of something, and immediately said to Lu Chen: "Your Majesty, the war is over. If the court knows that you have tens of thousands of heavy cavalry, I am afraid some people will treat your wife." When the children have an idea, the top priority is to immediately send someone to take the princess and the others back to Beijun, or send someone to Anping City to guard them."

Lu Chen immediately understood what Mu Changtian meant.

Heavy cavalry in this era is not only a symbol of combat effectiveness, but also represents the strength of comprehensive strength, because it requires a lot of resources to build a heavy cavalry, and it also costs a lot of silver to raise a heavy cavalry.

There were not 50,000 heavily armored cavalry in the whole of Daxia. As a result, there were so many heavily armored cavalry in Beijun alone, which would inevitably arouse the fear of the imperial court.

At that time, someone from the court will probably ask Emperor Xia to take Lu Chen's princess or children to the capital as hostages to prevent Lu Chen from rebelling.

Using the prince's children as hostages was the most common practice in the imperial court.

Emperor Xia wouldn't do this in the past because Lu Chen was shown to be a loser and there was no need to take Lu Chen's child as a hostage.

It was different now. Now the Beijun soldiers led by Lu Chen not only killed 200,000 barbarian soldiers, but also captured 100,000 barbarian troops.

This has reached the point where quick work and high performance can overwhelm the master.

Even if Lu Chen is the son of Emperor Xia, Emperor Xia will be on guard. At that time, Emperor Xia will probably take Lu Chen's wife, son and daughter directly from Anping City to the capital as hostages before Lu Chen can react. .

Lu Chen then said to Xuanyuan Chen: "General Xuanyuan, you immediately lead five thousand black cavalry and go south with Captain Mu to bring all my princess and the others back to Yancheng."

The people in Anping City didn't know that he had heavy cavalry, so they were probably wary of Xuanyuan Chen's identity, so Lu Chen planned to ask Mu Jingwu to follow him south and bring Mu Zixuan and the others back so that the court wouldn't worry about it. When the time comes, he will take action against his children.

After hearing Lu Chen's order, Xuanyuan Chen and Mu Jingwu immediately said, "Yes, Your Majesty!"

Then the two of them turned and left on horseback.

at the same time.

Lin Xiuming and the others have led an army of 70,000 to approach the Wanning Valley.

In order to reach Yancheng before the barbarian army reached Yancheng, they marched almost through wind and rain, all night long, with almost no rest.

Now the soldiers were dozing off as they walked.

At this time, a soldier saw the city gate in the distance and immediately shouted loudly: "Here we are! We finally arrived at Yancheng!"

Lin Xiuming frowned at this time, with a very serious expression on his face. He did not relax just because he arrived in Yancheng.

Because entering Yancheng is the most critical thing. No one knows whether Yancheng has been occupied by barbarians at this time.

Lin Xiuming immediately said loudly: "Stay vigilant! Scouts go to explore the road!"

After the words fell, dozens of cavalrymen went to the south gate of Yancheng.

In order to resist the barbarians, most of Yancheng's soldiers went to the north gate. Now there are only a few soldiers at the south gate.

After seeing the imperial army approaching, the soldiers guarding the south gate of Yancheng suddenly trembled.

The soldiers in Yancheng are not stupid. They know very well that there are some things belonging to the Northern King that cannot be displayed. If the court knows about it, there will be a lot of trouble.

The captain guarding the city gate immediately said to his soldiers: "Quick! Go and tell the prince that the imperial army is coming!"

The soldiers guarding the city mounted their fast horses without hesitation and headed to the north gate.