Chapter 306 Giving advice
After the Emperor of the Haotian Empire personally gave the slave legion a new name of "Guide", it was passed to the slave legion. Kang Tuo immediately excitedly gathered the entire army and read out the edict in front of all the slave soldiers!
The 300,000 soldiers of the entire slave army were all moved to tears. The scene of hundreds of thousands of passionate men crying and crying was absolutely shocking!
People who have never been slaves, especially those who have never been slaves in the Blue Moon Empire, cannot imagine how much they care about a formal citizen status!
In the Blue Moon Empire, slaves are not treated as human beings at all. Perhaps, they are not even as good as livestock. In the Blue Moon Empire, many animals are more valuable than them!
Subsequently, Kang Tuo issued another military order in accordance with Du Long's wishes. All soldiers who returned to Germany and were unwilling to join the army could be relieved of their slave status on the spot and could stay on the fertile Qingyun Grassland as civilians.
Once you decide to stay in the Guide Army, you will undergo strict military training. Those who pass will stay, and those who fail will still be dismissed!
Now that the new Guide Army has been established, it must act in accordance with military rules. Soldiers without strict training will never have strong combat effectiveness!
As soon as this order was issued, tens of thousands of people chose to leave the army on the spot. Most of these people were thin or older and could not withstand the continued torture of the harsh environment in the army.
After discussing with the Prairie King, Du Long decided to build a new city in a remote location on the Qingyun Grassland to house homeless slaves.
You know, in addition to Kang Tuo's Guide Army, the newly occupied Hansi City is full of slaves. Du Long directly ordered that these slaves are free from now on and can be directly converted into official subjects of the Haotian Empire!
They can choose to live in Prairie New City, and those who are able-bodied can also apply to join the Guided Army!
For these slaves, Du Long once again requested support from the Haotian Empire and provided food, tents and other living materials to Prairie New City. Before they settled down, they would need outside assistance for at least half a year to avoid starving to death!
In addition to settling these slaves, Du Long also ransacked the homes of those notorious slave owners, nobles, corrupt officials, etc. in Hans City.
The Shadow Guards explored the checkpoints in advance, saving a lot of time. Many of the great nobles in Hans City had no time to transfer their belongings. They never expected that Hans City would be captured so quickly!
This home raiding operation is very necessary. With the increase in the number of the army, there are still a large number of slaves in need of rescue, and a large amount of material supplies are urgently needed. The financial support of the Haotian Empire alone will be very stressful.
After Du Long kept some of the money and property he had copied, he transported the rest to the imperial capital and handed it over to the treasury!
To be honest, he didn't want to rebel, so spending too much money on him was of no use. In addition, the emperor had recently given him full support without hesitation, making Du Long embarrassed to make any more heavy moves in this regard.
At most, he just wanted to find a way to recover the 100 million gold coins he owed Su Jinbao. After all, after investing so much money, didn't he end up making wedding clothes for the emperor?
While Du Long was busy in Hansi City, in the direction of Yulin Pass, the nearly 600,000 to 700,000 troops of the Blue Moon Empire, which had been attacking Yulin Pass with all their strength, finally began to retreat!
Even Hansi City was lost, how could they dare to continue attacking Yulin Pass? Once the army from the direction of Hansi City moves towards Haoyue City in the east, they may even have their escape route cut off!
It is necessary to briefly mention here that when Du Fengzhong and his grandson went south to support Chilong Gorge, Wei Xuan rushed to Yulin Pass with the imperial edict!
The Dunwu Army led by the Li family did indeed arrive outside the north gate of Yulin Pass. According to the original plan, they were rejected. The general of Yulin Pass, Luo Hao, closed the north gate tightly to prevent the Dunwu Army from entering. The excuse was similar to that used by Du Zhentian. !
However, the Dunwu Legion did not choose to be as extreme as the Zhenwei Legion, but stayed where they were.
According to the grand plan drawn up by the Fan family and the Blue Moon Empire in collusion, Yulin Pass is not the most critical battlefield. The key location is Chilong Gorge, and the direction of Yulin Pass can be captured later.
Therefore, the Li family's Dunwu Legion was not in a hurry to attack Yulin Pass, but wanted to see the result of the Chilong Gorge battle. Unexpectedly, they did not see the result of the Chilong Gorge battle, but waited for the guards with spiritual level strength to arrive. Xuan arrived holding the imperial edict!
After Wei Xuan announced the decree in public, he directly used a big move to kill Li Yiyan, the leader of the Dunwu Army. Under the big move, many of his trusted lieutenants and dozens of people were also affected. The group was leaderless and coupled with the news of the rebellion of the Li family It was so shocking that no one dared to stand up for the tragic death of the general and others.
After the Dunwu Army was under control, the Blue Moon Empire's army in Haoyue City also rushed to the south gate of Yulin Pass and launched a fierce attack on Yulin Pass.
However, they have been attacking for several days without any results. Without the Dunwu Legion attacking from both front and back, Yulin Pass with Luo Hao garrisoned is not so easy to conquer!
Finally, after receiving the news of the retreat, the Blue Moon Empire army that attacked Yulin Pass retreated in an orderly manner like a wave. The Yulin Pass defenders did not attack, but continued to defend Yulin City, waiting for further instructions!
Behind Yulin City, the generals sent by Emperor Haotian's army began to take over the Dunwu Army Corps under the supervision of Wei Xuan and reorganized the internal affairs. Within the Dunwu Army Corps, the middle and high-level generals were basically Li Yiyan's confidants. Therefore, a major change of blood is needed to rectify the situation!
Fortunately, we had already prepared for this. According to the old emperor's wishes, the military department sent a large number of middle- and high-level generals to replace all the generals of the Dunwu Army at once!
At this point, the Dunwu Legion finally broke away from the control of the Li family and became the new Dunwu Legion directly controlled by the royal family's children!
This war between the Blue Moon Empire and the Haotian Empire has temporarily come to a halt due to the arrival of the New Year of 1010 in the Star Calendar. However, on this New Year's Day, the atmospheres of the Haotian Empire and the Blue Moon Empire are obviously two extremes.
One side was celebrating grandly, while the other side was celebrating in a low-key manner and began to secretly mobilize troops and generals, obviously wanting to avenge the fall of Qingyun Grassland!
Of course, this New Year's Eve, Du Long can't go back to the capital to celebrate the New Year with his mother. He can only stay in the frontline Hansi City to celebrate the New Year with his grandfather, father and two sweethearts!
During this period, the city lord's mansion where Du Long and the others lived welcomed numerous New Year greeting teams, including local nobles from Hans City who had not had their homes confiscated due to their good reputation, as well as generals from the four major legions!
Of course, we need to give gifts during this New Year greeting. The gifts we received were piled up in piles. Most of them were sent voluntarily by the nobles in Hans City who were grateful for Du Long's property. They were both flattering and grateful!
At the very least, if Du Long wants to take action against any noble family in the future, he will take care of it, right? !
Later, Du Long also took the opportunity to pay New Year's greetings and visited all four armies to care about the soldiers' life this year, such as small things such as food, clothing and warmth.
During this period, it is natural to visit the camps where the grassroots soldiers live. Wherever they go, they are warmly welcomed by the soldiers of all legions. Now Du Long is the commander-in-chief of the three armies. If he is willing to go to the dirty and messy soldiers' camps, it will definitely Very inspiring.
What made the soldiers of the three armies even more admired was that Du Long deliberately stayed in a slave camp with the worst conditions in the end and shared a very rough lunch with them. His behavior of not disdainful of the slave soldiers instantly made him a slave in the army. His status in the army was raised to the extreme, and the soldiers of the former slave army were grateful to him!
In short, if Du Long gives an order now, the soldiers of the three armies will definitely follow him to the death without any hesitation!
The brief peace of the New Year celebrations did not last long!
Star calendar, the sixth day of the first lunar month in the year 1010, the Blue Moon Empire Palace!
"You bastard! Who can tell me why the Prairie King rebelled?! Could it be that our people really forced them to rebel?!" Above the court, the emperor yelled angrily.
Below, the ministers were trembling, and they all lowered their heads and did not dare to answer. At this moment, no one wanted to get into trouble. Past experience told them that nine out of ten people who spoke at this time would not end well.
However, just because others do not dare to speak does not mean that some people do not dare to speak. For example, the Right Prime Minister General Pu Zhongxiong still bowed and said: "Your Majesty! According to the report from Pu Zhongyong, a younger brother of the Weichen clan, he is on the wall of Hansi. When he was struggling to command and fight against the enemy, he once witnessed the appearance of Du Long from the Haotian Empire. He was definitely the same person as Mu Jiu who appeared in Hansi City!
Therefore, Wei Chen believes that Du Long secretly came to our Blue Moon Empire under the alias of Mu Jiu a few months ago. According to reports, Mu Jiu had a secret meeting with the Prairie King alone for a long time. It should be at that time, Instigate him to rebel!
To say that the so-called grassland people were forced to rebel by our Pu family soldiers is really the most ridiculous thing in the world! "
Right Prime Minister Park Chung-hyung is the eldest son of Park Sang-ho, the spiritual leader of the Park family. In the Blue Moon Empire, he is a being who even the emperor has to give in to. When he opened his mouth to argue, for a while, the emperor had nothing to say.
"Hmph! This Du Long, in our Blue Moon Empire, first killed my emperor, and then messed up my grand plan that I had been planning for decades. It is really hateful!" The emperor slapped the case and roared: "I wonder if you, my beloved, can cope with this? Zi’s wonderful strategy?!”
"Your Majesty!" The ministers below still lowered their heads. Finally, Pu Zhongxiong answered again: "In my opinion! This Du Long, who is full of scheming, must be eradicated first, and then we can calm down and clean up the Haotian Empire and the Those rabble from the steppe tribes!”
"Oh?!" The emperor's eyes lit up, he looked at Park Zhongxiong and asked: "Is there anything General Park can do to eradicate this scourge?!"
"Your Majesty!" Pu Zhongxiong cupped his hands and responded in a deep voice: "It is very easy to get rid of this son! However, we must first solve the next big trouble, otherwise, there will be endless troubles!"
"What's the big trouble?! General Park, please come quickly!" the emperor asked eagerly.
"Wei Chen once heard Uncle Xianglong say that back then, he and Du Fengzhong went to Dongyang Kingdom to study at the Civil and Military Academy founded by the Immortal Alliance. Later, Du Fengzhong was lucky enough to be favored by the Saint of the Immortal Alliance, but because of the Immortal Alliance, Zhili finally had to elope and gave birth to a son, the loyal general Du Zhentian!"
Park Zhongxiong began to make this secret public. In fact, this secret was not a big secret. It caused a sensation in the world at that time, but few people mentioned it recently. Most of the officials in the court had heard about it. !
"So General Park is worried that the Saint of the Immortal Alliance will be angry with our Blue Moon Empire because her grandson was killed?!" The emperor was not a fool, and he immediately understood what Park Zhongxiong was worried about.
"Your Majesty! According to my humble ministers' opinion, we can do this and that..." In the court hall, Pu Zhongxiong began to make suggestions for the emperor.
