In fact, by boat from the Yellow River, you can always reach Guide and Tongde, which Liu Mingqi and the others are going to first.

But the problem is that the Yellow River still needs to go around the Qiyan Plateau before it can go down.

The Qiyan Plateau has never been a controlled area of ​​Dakang, so they have changed their boats in Xianyang, took the boat again to Linxia in the Weishui River, and then took the land route.

After a while of trouble, it will take at least a month to reach the destination.

Of course, this is also related to Liu Mingqi and the others' in no hurry.

If they marched all the way, they could arrive in twenty days.

However, Gong Chuxin, the second butler of Yiwang Mansion who has researched in the small tribe alliance area, thinks that it is better to set foot on the northwest grassland in March.

Because the grasslands were completely thawed in March, there would not be so much ice and snow on the ground, which would facilitate cavalry movements.

As Gong Chuxin, who was carefully advised by Yiwang and his wife, his heart is always held every day.

Originally, Gong Chuxin was full of confidence in the small tribe alliance, but everyone made the momentum so grand that Gong Chuxin didn't dare to say more.

If the two princes fell directly into the small tribe alliance because of his negligence, his whole family, his three tribes... no, all nine tribes can only die.

After Liu Mingyou's hot air balloon team arrived in Linxia, ​​it had already risen in the air.

The height of the hot air balloon and the accuracy of the clairvoyance allow them to detect movements dozens of miles away during the day.

There are more grasslands and lakes on the grasslands, and there are not many mountains, so this hot air balloon is better than any scout.

If you discover the enemy, you don’t have to say much. Just use various fireworks to let the people below know where the enemy comes from and about how many.

Now Liu Mingyu is in the sky.

There are ten hot air balloons, and now five are adapted to the environment and climate in the sky.

Although they are blown away from time to time, this can help them better grasp the hot air balloon.

When I was in Northeast China last year, hot air balloons actually encountered this situation, but they all overcome it one by one.

Now that we are in the northwest, the wind direction and geographical environment are different, so we naturally need to adapt again.

Liu Mingguan was originally planning to get off the boat from Linxia and head north, first to Wuwei, then to Zhangye, and finally to Jiayuguan.

But when it was time to get off the boat, he changed his mind again.

"You two go and take risks for me, Dakang. It's useless for me, a brother. Just wait for you to come back in Tongde City!" He said, "When you come back, I will go to Jiayuguan again. It will take about half a month, and there will be no delay!"

Everyone knows Liu Mingguan's character, he is gentle and never harms others. He said that because he really cares about Liu Mingqi and the others.

As a result, Liu Mingqi smiled: "But if there is any accident, Brother Mingguan, you can't lead the army to save us! If it's really so messy, Dakang can't bear the danger of falling three princes in a row... So you'd better go first!"

"What are you saying?" Liu Mingguan pretended to be angry and said, "Stop talking, I'll wait for you to come back! If you are in danger, I'd like to ask someone to save you!"

Liu Mingjing could see that Liu Mingguan was afraid that they would have any risks, so he had to take charge of Tongde City with 30,000 elite border troops, specifically for supporting the two.

So Liu Mingguan felt that with his own prince, these armies would definitely work harder.

What about the facts?

Without Liu Mingguan in charge, General Ganxi, Kuang Huijing, who came from Wuwei, knew what to do.

The general who had been stationed in Wuwei, with only 30,000 soldiers and 20,000 young and strong men, with only two months of attack by more than 150,000 Western Qiang and Uighur troops.

Wuwei is very critical. It is located in the southernmost section of the Jiayuguan defense line, and Lanzhou is below it.

As long as the enemy conquered Wuwei, it would cut off the connection between Jiayuguan and Lanzhou, thus opening up a big hole for their invasion and could be unobstructed.

Such an important place is of course the best generals must be sent to garrison.

It was in this situation that Kuang Huijing defended his city.

Because of this, he was transferred by the Ministry of War to Tongde City, leading 30,000 soldiers who had lived for the rest of their lives to protect Liu Mingqi and the others from the rear.

His role is much greater than that of Liu Mingguan.

But Liu Mingjing won’t say it, and Liu Mingqi won’t say it.

So he followed this trip.

As long as this brother Ning Wang doesn't follow them to the grassland on a whim.

...

Nothing to say along the way.

After resting in Tongde City for two days, Liu Mingqi and Liu Mingjing took three thousand elite imperial guards to break out of Dakang's territory.

Putting down his waving hand, Liu Mingqi turned around and smiled and said to Liu Mingjing, "Do you see, Brother Mingguan is a bit of a mother-in-law? It's like a good old man in the neighbors?"

"hey-hey!"

Liu Mingjing's eyes were also taken back from the city of Tongde City, "If a person like this is the emperor, then our lives will be more interesting. Maybe I can still fight!"

"Shut up." Liu Mingqi clamped the horse's belly and changed the topic. "These horses on the grassland are really much better than ours... I don't know when our horse farm can cultivate a more excellent horse than this!"

What Liu Mingjing said was a bit sensitive. Although Zhang Qin and Xiong Dabao adjusted the team and managed affairs later, if they said too much, they would not be able to hear it.

If the emperor asks them at that time, do you think they are saying it well or not?

So Liu Mingqi couldn't let him continue talking.

Liu Mingjing didn't deliberately talk about that topic.

Hearing what Liu Mingqi said, he immediately mocked the young man: "Better than the prairie horse? Don't joke! Even if we cross the horses from the northwest, north and northeast together, the final horses will not be as good as those of the thoroughbred horses! Instead, they will be smaller! This is a thousand years of experience, otherwise why can't our cavalry scale develop? "

He talked about a key point.

That is, Zhongyuan has never been a good place to raise horses.

The only good thing is that I was a great man. After plundering the Hetao Plain, I beat the enemy for more than a hundred years.

Of course, the Tang Dynasty is not bad, but this is also thanks to the Li family itself having the blood of a barbarian, so they occupied the area for raising horses.

In addition to these two dynasties, there may be father and son Zhu Chongba and Zhu Laosi, who can crush the grassland tribe.

Most of the rest, our Central Plains dynasty was mainly infantry and defense.

Many people don’t know that the peak of our infantry happened to be the Song Dynasty that many people look down upon.

But there is one thing that the Song Dynasty resisted the peak Khitan tribe and the peak Jurchen tribe, and almost defeated the invincible Mongolian tribe in the world. Such performances have been repeated for five thousand years in China. If it is not the first, it must be considered the top three.

The Ma Zheng of Dakang was already very diligent. Over the past 80 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, more than 30 large and small horse farms have been built in the north. Every year, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works supervised and inspected each year. At least most of the horse farms have been operating normally.

But for various reasons, the horses cultivated are still not as good as those on the grassland, and the best ones can only be bought by others.

This also caused Dakang's elite cavalry to be unable to increase the number.

Liu Mingqi didn't think so before.

When he heard Liu Mingjing say it today, he suddenly had an idea: "According to what I know about reading, the Kushan, which is closest to us, has very good war horses. When my caravan crosses the Strait of Malacca, I will get some over and maybe there will be surprises."

"Better than the one on the grassland?" Liu Mingjing was a little disbelief.

"certainly!"

Liu Mingqi looked at the horse she was riding and said, "At least it must be about one foot taller than it."

Most Asian horses are not tall enough. If they were based on the standards after the Yuan Dynasty, normal horses were about one meter and two, but the descendants of horses flowing into India from West Asia could reach 1 meter and 4 or even 1 meter and 5.

Don't underestimate such a mere twenty or thirty centimeters, it looks completely different.

Moreover, these horses are very suitable for the environment in Asia, and can be cross-bred and cultivated after taking them.

But Liu Mingqi didn't know if the consequences of such hybridization would also fail like before.

But when you think about how Europe can cultivate heavy Malays up to two meters, you will know that only hard work is possible!

"ah!?"

Liu Mingjing's eyes widened and almost blurted out his "bragging".

Fortunately, he knew that Liu Mingqi never bragged, so he endured it.

"I remember you said before that Kushan has high-quality iron ore that we Dakang do not have?" Liu Mingjing suddenly remembered something, "It is just that you can get high-quality... steel iron ore without such complicated processing?"

"right!"

Liu Mingqi nodded and said, "It's a lot, and it's also very good!"

After a pause, the boy said again: "The land on their side is also fertile and oily. It can be planted three times a year. One piece of land is enough to support 2 billion people!"

"Tsk tsk!"

Liu Mingjing started drooling, "If you have the chance, I will lead my army to fight Dakang. What a great thing! No matter how much we suffer from disaster, it doesn't matter!"

"You're not dreaming." Liu Mingqi laughed, "But our navy really has the hope of defeating it in the future. I hope it can be solved by my generation!"

"well!"

Seeing this, Liu Mingjing sighed, "It's not okay to join the army normally, and it's not okay to even take your boat out to fight water. I, a clan, are so cowards!... If the clan has regulations, I can expel me from the clan's ranks!"

Liu Mingqi shrugged and didn't talk to him much.

Anyway, it’s all hopeless things, why do you say so much?

If Liu Mingjing is allowed to go to Kushan to open up territory, what will happen to the future clan children?

Being able to win over Nanzhao this time is Liu Mingjing's highlight moment for the rest of his life.

At that time, I will probably have to make some deals with those cunning and stubborn guys. I have so much to worry about Mingjing!

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