Chapter 148: Border defense is useless, just open the door to welcome the thieves
"Sister Hongmei!"
"Brother has found another treasure!"
Xiao Douya was holding a first-class spiritual fruit, a large green pear, and was eating it while speaking to Hongmei who had just arrived.
"You found another treasure?"
Hongmei is now somewhat surprised at Li Dingguo's luck.
The Fuxing Army founded by Li Dingguo can be said to have been created from scratch and has now become a new force whose combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.
Li Dingguo started from nothing and rose all the way to the present day. Both himself and the new army under his command have a solid foundation.
Their new army is much stronger in every aspect than most other rebel armies.
Including Zhang Xianzhong, the Eighth King who once occupied Dingbian City.
A large part of the success of all this is due to Li Dingguo's good luck.
In this big magical world, luck really does matter.
The battle in this town has ended. Before Hongmei rushed here, she had ordered the soldiers from each battalion to clean up the battlefield and count and collect all the useful supplies in the town.
"Brother, Sister Hongmei, you two should also eat a big pear. It's delicious."
Xiao Douya took two large green pears and handed them to Li Dingguo and Hongmei respectively. She picked them from the largest pear tree nearby.
She explained to Hongmei how they had discovered this spiritual fruit garden and picked up a top-quality treasure, a spiritual pearl.
“That’s great!”
Hongmei's eyes lit up when she heard this. She had read relevant books about the Earth Spirit Pearl and knew the function of this top-grade treasure.
She thought for a moment and said, "With this Earth Spirit Pearl, it is equivalent to having an additional large spiritual field. In the future, our Renaissance Army's cultivation resources can be partially self-sufficient."
"After we leave the border, we will choose a place on the prairie to build a survival base, and then we will be self-sufficient through farming and solve the most difficult food problem."
"Only if we can be self-sufficient in food and training resources in the future can we remove the biggest shackles on the development of our Renaissance Army."
"The value of this precious Earth Spirit Pearl I picked up this time is even greater than the gains of the previous two days combined."
Hongmei, who was originally a little worried about the future of the Fuxing Army, suddenly lost all her gloom and became very cheerful.
She took the large green pear in her hand, took a bite, and her eyes lit up again, "Yes, although this green pear is only a first-level spiritual fruit, it tastes very good, and its value is no less than that of first-level spiritual rice and Qi and Blood Soup."
"We have so many people now. We can ask the Artisan Battalion to build dozens of special long carts to dig up the dozens of first-level spiritual fruit trees here and take them away with the army."
"We now have the Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array and the Earth Spirit Beads, so we don't have to worry about the failure of transplanting these spirit fruit trees."
The problem she mentioned can be easily solved by the current Renaissance Army.
In this magical world, due to the strength of the warriors and soldiers, some powerful armies even brought a few low- and medium-quality treasure ships with them and marched on land together.
Their huge team could easily do it by marching with dozens of first-level spiritual fruit trees.
"Yeah! That's a good idea. I totally agree!"
When Xiao Douya heard this, his eyes lit up and he quickly raised his hand in agreement.
It’s nothing, although this big green pear is only a first-grade spiritual fruit, it is so delicious.
Xiao Douya had never eaten such delicious fruit before. Now that there was a way to take all these spiritual fruit trees away, she naturally agreed with both hands.
"Okay! Let's do it."
Li Dingguo nodded and said, "I see that this town has a lot of supplies, especially daily necessities. Hongmei, send someone to the main force that we are temporarily staying at and ask Cao Yongxiang to send several thousand young and strong men from the logistics camp to come and help."
"Because the battle today is quite special, everyone hasn't set out yet. Just wait nearby. It's very easy to come over and we'll be there in a little while."
"Let the Artisan Camp send over a thousand craftsmen to build some large carts and other things to speed up the transportation of materials!"
"In two or three days, we will be able to reach the Great Wall. We must make as many complete preparations as possible."
Over the past few days, the Fuxing Army's plan of fighting to support war has been going very smoothly, and the gains from several consecutive battles have been huge.
This made Li Dingguo more confident, and he quickly expanded his team after leaving the country.
"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away."
Hongmei knew that she had to seize the time, so she immediately took the order and flew away.
As long as the Fuxing Army has not left the border, the threat from the government troops will always exist.
Their large army has too many and too diverse personnel, and most of them are ordinary people with no combat effectiveness. They are now in their weakest state. They should avoid government troops if possible and avoid causing trouble.
In less than half an hour, thousands of young and strong men from the logistics camp and thousands of craftsmen from the craftsman camp arrived in the town, led by a team of warriors sent by Hongmei.
Under the command of Hongmei, the chief commander of the Renaissance Army, and dozens of talented girls from the Suzaku Camp, everyone who came to the town was busy seizing the opportunity.
Li Dingguo and Xiao Douya were not idle either.
The two of them first found some large baskets, picked all the large green pears from the spiritual fruit trees and put them into the baskets.
The two were afraid that someone else would damage the roots of these dozens of first-level spiritual fruit trees, so they simply did it themselves and dug out their roots along with part of the soil at their roots.
During the whole process, try to keep the roots from getting too damaged.
The two worked together for about an hour and finally finished digging up the dozens of large pear trees. At this time, dozens of craftsmen had built dozens of extended and enlarged large carts according to Hongmei's requirements and pushed them over.
Li Dingguo and Xiao Douya helped everyone and it took about another half an hour to finally move all the big pear trees onto these specially made large carts and secure them firmly.
In order to prevent the soil from falling off the roots of the trees, dozens of pieces of coarse cloth were used to wrap all the roots.
Doing so can not only slow down the loss of soil and water from the tree roots, but also make transportation more convenient.
By the time Li Dingguo and his men had finished all this, the town had been emptied of useful supplies and loaded onto trucks by more than a thousand combat soldiers, thousands of officers and soldiers from the logistics camp, and craftsmen from the craftsman camp.
"Let's go and return to reunite with the main force!"
"It's getting late now, everyone should have a good rest for the night and continue on the journey tomorrow morning!"
Following Li Dingguo's order, the huge convoy started its journey, returning to the original route to reunite with the main force.
……
"what?"
"You said that there is a rebel army of more than 150,000 people heading towards our pass?"
"There are three exits within a thousand miles of this place. They don't want to go anywhere else, but they insist on heading to the Victory Fort in the north. Are they trying to get out?"
Ma Ruhu, the garrison officer of Desheng Fort, was drinking wine and humming a tune in the backyard hall of the official office when he suddenly received an urgent report from the sentry. He was so frightened that he knocked over the wine glass in his hand and asked the head servant who came to report the news with a pale face.
A mysterious rebel army of more than 150,000 people!
Among them, there must be at least more than 5,000 warriors and soldiers alone to be able to control such a large army, right?
How could Ma Ruhu, a man like him, have the qualifications and ability to fight against the enemy with the help of dozens of servants and hundreds of low-level warriors?
Well, he is a wretch and doesn’t want to die yet.
Among his subordinates, the most powerful one is the servant leader Hu Dahai in front of him, who has only reached the initial third level of martial arts.
"Yes, my lord."
Hu Dahai's face was also pale, and he continued to report, "I and several soldiers went to observe from a distance! They have about 300 elite cavalrymen, wearing black clothes and black armor, and they look very elite!"
"I estimate that the enemy only needs one charge to capture our victory castle!"
"Sir, what should we do?"
Hu Dahai was really scared this time.
When he thought of the seemingly endless army of rebels, he couldn't help but want to pee.
When did such a large rebel army appear in this northwestern border area?
What he was thinking now was that almost all the elite soldiers and generals in Yansui Town had already followed the Governor Hong Chengchou to Shenmu to suppress the bandits.
I heard that they would invade Shanxi in one fell swoop and wipe out all the bandit chieftains led by Wang Jiayin who occupied the important town of Hequ in the northwest of Shanxi.
Hong Chengchou's army, which was thousands of miles away from Desheng Fort, had no way of returning in time to deal with this huge rebel army that suddenly attacked.
How can the hundreds of soldiers in Desheng Fort fight against the enemy army?
If we rely solely on the mob of people in Victory Fort to go to war with the enemy, we might as well just pick up a knife and slit our own throats.
"Hu Dahai!"
"Quick! Go and gather all our servants, escort me and my family, and leave the city immediately to hide in the nearby valley!"
"I don't want to die yet, so I can only temporarily use the empty city plan to confuse the enemy and retreat strategically to avoid this huge bandit army first."
Ma Ruhu was a very smart guy. He clearly wanted to give up the victory castle temporarily, but he said it openly.
If Hu Dahai was not very aware of his parents' support, he would probably have been confused.
"Yes! Your lord!"
"I will immediately gather my soldiers and escort your family to the valley outside the city to avoid this terrifying mysterious rebel army!"
Hu Dahai certainly would not refuse the chance to live, and continued, "Sir, we can simply open the front and back gates and let the mysterious rebel army that is probably trying to get out pass through directly."
"Once they leave, we can come back and retake Victory Castle right away. No one will be able to find fault with us and use it to frame us."
"Anyway, we don't seek to be without merit, but to avoid mistakes."
"As for what the adults above think, that is not our concern."
"As long as we don't foolishly report it, who will have evidence to hold us accountable?"
He was very clever and in a few words he came up with a solution that would satisfy both parties.
"Okay... Dahai, I'll do as you say!"
"Hurry up! We have to move quickly! We must take our family and some important property and leave the city to temporarily avoid the enemy before the enemy arrives!"
Ma Ruhu didn't want to delay even for a moment and urged Hu Dahai to act quickly.
According to Hu Dahai, the enemy was still about ten miles away from Desheng Fort, so there was still enough time.
About a quarter of an hour later, the front and rear gates of Desheng Fort were opened wide, and a small convoy, escorted by dozens of fully armed servants and hundreds of soldiers, hurriedly left the fortress.
The entire Victory Castle suddenly became undefended.
At this time, the military households and civilians in the fort were still unaware of anything.
Everyone is doing what they are supposed to do.
(End of this chapter)
