I have lived forever since the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 218
As the night darkened, the candles in Changle Palace were flickering.

There was a burst of footsteps mixed with a few low voices, overshadowing the chirping of crickets outside.

"The matter of resisting the Huns, I will rely on everyone's concerted efforts." Sending the ministers to the door, Liu Bang smiled and bowed his hands in salute, just like when he left Pei County and entrusted his friends to take care of his wife and children.

The group of ministers returned the big gift, repeatedly saying "definitely" and "I will live up to your majesty's entrustment".

Immediately Liu Bang waved his hand and said, "I'll see you off soon, so I'll watch you go out here."

After finishing speaking, he stood on the spot, staring calmly at the crowd who were leaving with their backs turned to him, until after a long time when everyone disappeared from sight, he turned around and walked back to the hall in a lonely way.

Xia Houying didn't realize what he had experienced tonight until he walked outside the palace city.

In the beginning, the attendant yelled himself out of bed in the middle of the night, and before he could get angry, he learned that someone from the palace had summoned him, and His Majesty asked him to drink.

Then he entered the Changle Palace suspiciously, and heard the heavy news of "the Huns' invasion of the South" at the very beginning, and they were still in the stage of being smashed into a dizzy state. The general situation of the conquest of the Huns has been discussed.

In the end, it was Chen Luo who recommended him to join the army against the Huns, and His Majesty agreed directly without thinking too much.

The whole process was ups and downs, like driving an out-of-control carriage on a mountain road beside a cliff, people couldn't react at all, until the "carriage" stopped at the foot of the mountain, Xia Houying had time to think.

Then in a few days, he will go to the battlefield?
And it was the Huns?

Turning her head in a daze, Xia Houying asked Wang Ling as if dreaming, "Old Wang, am I dreaming?"

"Don't be cheap and be good-looking. You have made great contributions with General Han this time, and you will have to increase your fiefdom when you come back." Wang Ling thought he was showing off, showing disdain, but found that Xia Houying's eyes were clear and stupid, "How about... Shall I slap you twice? But this dream is very fragrant, I'm afraid I'll wake you up."

"That's not necessary, thank you." Xia Houying shook her head, Wang Ling still looked so cheap, so it seemed that she was not dreaming.

Looking at the back of Chen Luo who was walking in front, he stroked his beard and had a rough guess in his heart.

The reason why I was recommended was probably not only because he was the most qualified general in Chang'an City.

Recalling Chen Luo's proposal last year, saying that a special fund could be allocated for raising horses. At that time, the world was not completely peaceful, there were bandits in many places, and news of rebels came from time to time.Therefore, breeding war horses and training cavalry is indeed an important matter. After the situation stabilizes later, this policy has not been changed and canceled in time.

Therefore, there are more than [-] horses raised near Bianjun in the Guanzhong area. According to the data reported in April, there are more than [-] usable war horses.

If you want to talk about who knows the nature of those war horses best in the court, no one is better than yourself.

This is the most critical reason.

"The Huns, heh. I heard that they are all good at riding? Then I want to compare with you." Xia Houying showed a confident smile on his face, and he had already figured out how to swing the long spear on the chariot to defeat those stupid and barbaric horses. Enemy beheaded.

If I, a former groom from Pei County, can crush them under the wheels, then their reputation for being good at riding is just that.

……

"Beloved, my mother has already started to worry when she heard that my uncle was injured. She asked me a lot about the situation, but I couldn't answer most of the questions. Therefore, my mother is planning to send her people to the army to check the specific situation." After getting into the carriage, Liu Le summarized the conversation between her and Lu Zhi, and then asked in a low voice, "But... did something else happen?"

She and Lu Zhi talked halfway in another side hall, and then watched Xiao He come over. Even before this was over, Xia Houying, Chen Ping, Wang Ling and others came one after another, and even Zhang Liang, who was sick at home, rushed away. come over.

This kind of situation is rare, even if there is an accident with Lu Ze, it is impossible to cause such a movement, and almost all the important officials in the court will be called in the middle of the night.

If it wasn't for Chen Luo still in that palace, Lu Zhi, who was extremely sensitive at this time, looked at the battle and almost thought that Liu Bang had recruited important ministers and cronies to discuss the matter of changing the prince.

"There is going to be another war." Chen Luo's expression was as calm as water, and he clenched his hands in his sleeves, saying to himself, "The flames of war are about to start, but the world now is the time to rest and recuperate. I just finished several years of civil war. ...but this is another battle that has to be fought."

The battle of Qin and Chu in this timeline is much less intense than the war at the end of Qin in history.

Han and Ba have even achieved considerable development.The loss in Guanzhong was not great, and it was only held by the Communist Party for less than a year. After several years of recovery, it is already thriving.

However, the situation in the Central Plains and the Shandong area is completely different. The main battlefield where the Qin Dynasty perished was concentrated in these two areas. In Luoyang, there are only [-] households in the city, which is less than half of the households in the newly built Chang'an.

In the final analysis, this is caused by insufficient recuperation time.

If the big man is given another 20 years, then a rising empire will appear.At that time, when fighting the Huns, it was impossible for the mainland to be invaded, but to fight on the grassland.

It's a pity that the Xiongnu started fast enough, and it happened to seize this gap period, and did not allow the big man to develop to its full glory.

Liu Le said softly: "Does my beloved need to go out with the army?"

Seeing Chen Luo nodded slightly, she continued to ask, "When will you return home from this expedition?"

Liu Le did not raise any objections, nor did he ask questions.

Because she saw those important ministers entering the palace to discuss matters, she understood that this war was raised to the level of national policy, and she could only support it.

"It's as short as half a year, but it won't exceed a year." After making some estimates in his heart, Chen Luo pursed his lips, "After expelling the Huns, I can go home to celebrate the New Year."

What I said was different from Marshal Mai's "go home for Christmas", it was not arrogant.

After all, the Huns who invaded the south could not benefit from the frontal battlefield and could not plunder the people's supplies, and after the heavy snow fell, the grassland died, so they continued to stay on the territory of the Han Dynasty, only to be besieged and killed.

Mao Dun will definitely not choose to wait for death. Returning to the grassland where the Han people are not familiar with the road conditions is their only way of life.

"Okay." Liu Le didn't say anything more.

When a beloved man goes to war and he returns home, he should prepare thick clothes for autumn and winter, and put away the newly sewn sachet, so that he can wear it to go to war and protect his safety.

(End of this chapter)