Xu Jingxuan was already familiar with military affairs, and had various strategies in his mind, but he was limited by the reality and had nowhere to mention them. Now that he has a goal, he works very quickly, drawing up a conscription plan in one night, preparing to recruit 50,000 new soldiers. Tacheng is an important town in western Xinjiang. Zheng Guo has stored a large amount of weapons, ammunition and various military supplies here. Now these strategic reserves have been taken out for military expansion.
As for Xu Jingxuan's family, he didn't have time to pick them up in person, he just begged Qianye to send someone to the capital to pick them up for him. Thinking about it, in front of King Xinzheng, even a small soldier sent by Qianye is much more important than Xu Jingxuan.
Of course, Qianye would not refuse such a trivial matter. Xu Jingxuan is also considered a rare talent, with outstanding personal talent, if he hadn't grown up in Yonglu, he might have already started to attack the gods. What's more rare is that he is still a general. Since guarding the western border, he has often fought classic battles that can be written into textbooks, causing the dark race in front of him to suffer. It's just that Zheng Guo was busy with internal fighting and was unable to expand, so the good opportunity to expand the territory slipped away again and again.
Now that Qianye has arrived, and he has unprecedented air superiority, he will never miss the opportunity again. And Xu Jingxuan saw that the ambition that he had buried in his heart for many years could finally be realized, so he was full of energy and devoted himself to the military expansion and preparation for war.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and the expansion of Tacheng's army had begun to take shape. The population of Tacheng is not enough to support an army of tens of thousands, but the western region is actually very fertile, with various small towns dotted around, and villages abound. The population scattered in the four fields is several times that of Tacheng, and these are the sources of abundant soldiers. It was because Xu Jingxuan was familiar with the situation in Tacheng that he set such a seemingly impossible goal of conscription.
However, a large army is not a joke. Just where the equipment is enough, all kinds of logistical supplies, people eat horses and chews are not small amounts. With the output and food storage of Tacheng, it is absolutely impossible to support so many troops.
Qianye was well aware of this, but he did not object to the goal of conscription. Xu Jingxuan also understood that the future supplies of this army would all fall on the dark race. On the contrary, he was even more excited, and this confirmed Qianye's determination to fight.
Just as Tacheng was in full swing, a group of unexpected guests arrived.
Hearing the attendant's urgent report, Qianye was taken aback, and asked, "Forbidden Army? What are they doing here?"
The attendant replied: "The commander of this forbidden army wants to see you to discuss the transfer of Tacheng."
Qianye was even more confused, "Handover?"
The attendant lowered his voice and said hesitantly: "Yes, the commander wants to confirm when you will hand over the tower city to them."
Qianye was a little stunned for a while, this request was so absurd that he didn't even feel angry, he couldn't think of who the sacred commander of the forbidden army was. For a moment, Qianye really wanted to meet him, to see what was in that man's head, and that's why he came up with this idea.
However, Qianye immediately put this self-willed thought aside, Xu Jingxuan is capable of making decisions on how many important matters he has to make, but the key decisions still have to pass him one by one, and he still has to spend his spare time practicing Taixuan Bingjue Not enough, where is the spare time spent on this kind of person
He then said to his attendants: "Call all the generals, and I will wait for them in the war room in half an hour."
The servant took the order and flew away. Half an hour is not long, and if the action is late, it will time out.
After a while, all the generals arrived in the war room, and some of them were out of breath, obviously a little far away, and came at full speed after receiving the order. Qianye looked at the time, only twenty minutes had passed, and he was very satisfied.
"I heard that a forbidden army has arrived outside the city. How many are there and where are they stationed?"
Xu Jingxuan got up and said: "This Forbidden Army has a total of 30,000 people, under the jurisdiction of the first and seventh divisions of the entire Forbidden Army, and the commander is Xue Yang, the deputy commander of the entire Forbidden Army. He is the uncle of Concubine Xue Gui. The record of commanding troops is also very good, and has always been regarded as the number one general of the Forbidden Army."
"The number one general of the Forbidden Army?" Qianye smiled and asked, "How strong is he?"
It was Xu Jingxuan who replied: "Same as my subordinates, my cultivation is at the sixteenth level. However, after Concubine Xue came to power, I heard that he switched to the kung fu passed down by King Zheng's ancestors. If we really fight, I am afraid that most of our subordinates will lose. "
Qianye nodded and said, "No wonder you speak so loudly."
At this moment, the generals are rumored in private that they all know Commander Xue's request for handover, and his 30,000 troops are stationed less than ten kilometers away from the city.
The mercenary generals didn't take it seriously, if they weren't afraid of Qianye's majesty, they would have quarreled a long time ago, shouting and killing them. Xu Jingxuan looked a little cautious, and at the same time his face was solemn. Even with the advantage of city defense, he and the original 6,000 defenders cannot stop Commander Xue's 30,000 forbidden troops.
Seeing that everyone was waiting for him to speak, Qianye said: "Okay, let's talk about the reorganization of the new army first."
The reorganization of the new army involved all aspects, and the basic necessities of tens of thousands of people were not trivial. The generals knew that Qianye's time was precious, so they tried to compress their speeches as much as possible. By the time the report was completed, an hour had passed.
The attendant at the door kept looking around, looking very anxious.
Qianye remained calm, let the attendant come in, and asked, "What's the matter?"
The attendant hesitated and said, "My lord, the envoys of the imperial army are still waiting outside, and they are already very impatient."
Qianye turned to Xu Jingxuan and said, "Is this your person?"
Xu Jingxuan got up hastily, with sweat on his forehead, he said: "Yes. This subordinate is incapable of leading troops, please punish me!"
Qian Ye said lightly: "What do you do with such a cowardly person in the army? Drive him out."
"Subordinates understand!"
Xu Jingxuan walked to the door with strides, lifted the attendant and threw it to his entourage outside the door, and said in a deep voice: "Take it down, revoke your military registration, and never recruit!"
The attendant responded loudly, and dragged him out all the way regardless of the attendant's cries.
When Xu Jingxuan returned to his seat and sat down, Qianye said: "Since it has been brought up, let's deal with it. It's not a big deal, let's discuss it. Jingxuan!"
Xu Jingxuan stood up abruptly and said, "This subordinate is here!"
"Go and tell them that the 50 kilometers around Tacheng is a restricted area, and they are allowed to leave within half an hour, otherwise they don't have to think about leaving."
Xu Jingxuan obviously didn't expect Qianye to be so tough and merciless, he was startled for a moment before recovering. He was also determined enough, so he quickly said yes, without saying a word of nonsense.
Qianye withdrew his gaze from him quite satisfied, and said again: "Song Lun, Song Hui, you two set off with the flagship, and let all the warships take off to prepare for battle. When half an hour is up, immediately start bombarding the Imperial Army barracks, no matter what is inside Anyone."
Song Lun shivered, stood up and took orders. Song Hui's eyes were shining brightly, she was very excited.
Those mercenary generals were all militants, and they couldn't hold back at the moment, they called for a fight one after another, some wanted to take a back route, some wanted to attack head-on, all of them wanted to wipe out the 30,000 forbidden troops, making them Qianye couldn't laugh or cry. He has no intention of fighting a battle under Tacheng City at all, but if someone has to seek death, he will not be lenient.
Qianye pressed his hands to make everyone quiet, then summarized the preparation work of the new army, arranged a few words of defense, and let the generals disperse.
Half an hour later, patches of huge shadows swept across the ground, and immediately there were bursts of roars outside the city, billowing thick smoke straight into the sky, and raging fire, engulfing the temporary camp of the imperial army in a blink of an eye.
One kilometer away from the camp, a tall and strong man jumped into a rage and shouted: "Grandma, you are too deceitful! Let me go, I will fight them!"
This big man was extremely strong, and around a dozen officers of the imperial army hugged their legs and hugged their waists, and they were all dragged forward step by step by him. All the officers dragged him back with all their strength, and shouted: "My lord, absolutely not, absolutely not!"
The big man roared angrily: "What about the brothers who stayed in the camp?"
"It's too late, we can't save him!"
The big man was stunned for a while, then suddenly stomped his feet and said, "It's my incompetence and my greed that hurt them!"
The officers breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly persuaded: "Master Commander, we just want to give that person a bad start. Who would have thought that he would be so vicious and send warships to bombard the camp!"
"We don't even have a warship, so we have no choice but to retreat first."
"My lord, if you keep the green hills there, you are not afraid of running out of firewood. We will make a comeback in the future! Why bother to compete with that person for a short time?"
The big man was silent, he let out a long sigh after a while, and said: "Forget it, it's all my fault, I just left, why do I have to leave hundreds of brothers behind, thinking about ambush? Sigh!"
At this time, the entire camp was engulfed in flames, and even the generals would have difficulty escaping from the bombardment in the sea of flames. More than a dozen floating warships in the sky gradually stopped their artillery fire and circled continuously, apparently checking for any fish that slipped through the net.
On the battle patrol, Song Hui pointed out, and said, "Those people still don't leave, they really don't want to die!"
Song Lun hesitated for a moment, and said, "They have already left the camp, and they have followed your lord's orders."
Song Hui shook her head, "That's not what you said. Since you've already humiliated them for the first time, it doesn't matter if you do it again. The important thing is not whether they listen or not, but whether they are convinced or not. It looks like they are obviously not convinced, Then it is necessary to let them have a longer memory in the future."
Song Lun said vigilantly: "What are you going to do? My lord didn't say to start a war now."
"My lord didn't say that when they refuse to accept it, let it go!"
Song Hui pushed Song Lun back with one sentence, then stretched out his hand and drew a line, and said to the captain: "The secondary artillery salvo, bombard this position. Then advance 30 meters forward, start the second round of salvo, and so on. .”
The captain has rich experience, and he can understand what the intention is at a glance, and arranges it by returning to the bridge.
After a while, Zhan Xun began to turn around and moved across the air with an elegant posture. The secondary gun on one side slowly lowered the muzzle, aimed at the line drawn by Song Hui, and started a round of salvo.
The gunners were all well-trained and their accuracy was excellent. More than a dozen explosion points were almost connected in a straight line.
This artillery line was only more than a hundred meters away from the place where the commanders of the imperial army stood. The roar shook the officers' ears and made their faces pale. They looked at the rising wall of smoke with fear on their faces, and felt the power of the giant ship's guns up close for the first time in their lives.
The battle patrol slowly adjusted its posture, and the auxiliary guns were ready to fire. Before the dust from the first gun line fell, the naval gun roared again, this time the gun line was 30 meters closer.
The powerful naval guns have a killing range within 100 meters, and the gun line is closer to 30 meters. The feelings of the officers of the Imperial Army are too strong. Approaching the gun line of thirty meters, the deterrent meaning is much stronger.
Seeing the battle patrol slowly move sideways, stop, and adjust the muzzle, an officer couldn't help trembling: "Master Commander! They are going to blow us up, why don't we retreat first!"
Commander Xue said angrily: "I want to see if they have the guts to kill the court officials!"
Before he finished speaking, the third round of shelling had already begun. This time, the artillery line was only 50 meters away from the crowd, and the raised dusty gray stones fell like rain, leaving everyone in disgrace, and the aftermath of the force explosion was already violent enough to hurt people.
Seeing the warship moving sideways, the muzzle slowly aimed at everyone, the commander finally gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go!"