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On July 30th, the territory of the Red Banner...

"Xilulu..."

A group of five or six hundred soldiers slowly sailed from Xiang Zhenghong Banner territory listlessly. The cavalry on the horse's back all had broken armor and their morale was low. The wolf flag symbolizing the Zhenghong Banner was also curled up in a ball at this moment without any momentum.

The one who rode his horse at the forefront was the flag leader Yuchi Jingyun. At this moment, he held a scimitar with a corner missing, his expression was dull, and his face was covered with blood from fighting.

When the Matsuro Banner herders who came to greet him saw this scene, their hearts were tight. From their expressions, they could basically tell that they lost this battle and were defeated by the embroidered red banner again. The tribe that was originally at the bottom of Hachiban was defeated.

The Canjun returned to the golden tent without saying a word, and the personal slave Ashina hurriedly came out to greet him: "Master, are you back?"

Yuchi Jingyun didn't say anything, but just turned over and dismounted. Asina hurriedly supported him to prevent him from falling.

"Get out! This banner owner doesn't need you a slave to sympathize with you!"

Yuchi Jingyun pushed Ashina away and scolded him. Obviously, he was in a very bad mood at this moment.

In this battle, Yuchi Jingyun lost 3,000 people, of which 500 were regular troops of the Zhenghong Banner, which made the Zhenghong Banner tribe, which was already in a dilemma, even more passive.

Although there are not many 500 people, they all grew up on horseback since childhood. They are superb horsemanship and riding superb. They are elite troops in the banner. You should know that the regular elite cavalry at the heyday of the Zhenghong Banner were only more than 20,000, and Yuchi Jingyun only had 10,000 people left when he took over. Now, a loss of 500 is equivalent to a half-cent reduction. It is quite difficult to add it.

This is the disadvantage of the military organization of the grassland ethnic group. The gap has gradually widened by the Han Dynasty's military system. They are still at the level of consciousness that is mainly elite and auxiliary soldiers.

Of course, there is no problem with this military system itself, but the problem is that the interests of Hachiman in Monroe are the primary priority, and excellent troops can only be selected from the herdsmen in their own flags. As for those dead soldiers and cannon fodders, no matter how many military achievements you make, you will not be able to obtain the same status as Hachiman.

Over time, this led to the slave army and the auxiliary soldiers of the dead no longer sacrificing their lives. After all, they knew that no matter how hard they worked, they were destined to be unable to enjoy the same treatment as the soldiers of Hachiman, and gradually they eroded their fighting spirit of progress...

However, apart from Liu Ce, a time traveler's conscription system, the military system of the Monroe Empire is still very excellent in the entire land, otherwise it would not have been fighting westward to Dashi, and the Sassanid territory would have been in a state of no one.

It is understandable to want elite troops, but the prerequisite is that there must be backup troops to replenish staff in a timely manner and ensure the complete organization of the army as much as possible. This requires a large population to lay the groundwork.

The population distribution on the Monroe grassland is not uniform. Tens of millions of Monroe people are distributed in the Zhenghuang, Embroidered Yellow and Zhenglan Sanban territory. They can have fertile land and pastures, as well as a large number of captured slaves to drive, so their economy and strength are naturally extremely powerful.

The three banners of Zhengbai, embroidered white and embroidered blue have about six million people in the territory of Monroe, second only to the three banners of the royal court. The remaining more than two million people were distributed to other tribes and the bitter and cold land in the northern desert to resist the Slavs.

In other words, the Monroe people who were left to Zhenghong and embroidered the two red flags to drive the Monroe are at most less than two million. This is also the reason why the two flags are confronting each other all year round, just to compete for the Monroe population to grow itself.

Of course, this does not include the Monroe people who were separated from the control of the Monroe Empire.

Therefore, population is crucial in this era and is the key to measuring the prosperity of a tribe...

Zhenghong Banner is currently in severe shortage of population. After many hardships under his control, it is less than 500,000. The disaster of Murong Chong and Murong Bao at that time hit the Zhenghong Banner, which was already worsening, hit harder.

In order to avenge the brother and to prevent the red flag from falling in his hands, Yuchi Jingyun ignored the huge gap in strength with Yuwen Zhou and started a bloody battle at all costs. He was eventually defeated again, and his prestige once again dropped to freezing point.

The elders of the Yuchi ministers were very disappointed with Yuchi Jingyun's performance and even had the idea of ​​changing the banner master. The nobles had already written memorials and were ready to order people to send them to the royal court at any time, asking Tuoba Hongye to allow Zhenghong Banner to re-election of the banner master.

The failure of the war, the disappointment of the tribe, the depravity of strength, and the coercion of the enemy, Yuchi Jingyun was almost breathless.

“Ah~~”

Finally, Yuchi Jingyun roared to the sky, suppressing his boredom for a long time, and at this time he roared to vent his heart's heart on this hot grassland.

Finally, he fell to the ground with his back, allowing the fiery sun to burn the mail on his body to a boil.

"Come~~"

Just at this moment, a roaring sound of iron hooves went from far to near, causing Yuchi Jingyun, who was in a trance, to slowly get up and turn his head to look.

"That's it?"

Everything you see is full of bright feathers, which are particularly eye-catching among the rolling yellow sand.

When the iron cavalry approached, the cavalry team in black gray robes made Yuchi Jingyun feel excited and got up from the ground.

“Well…”

Huo Qing took the lead, grabbed Mali more than ten steps away from the golden tent and shouted softly, and said loudly to the warrior of Zhenghong Banner who was blocking him: "This general is the prince consort of the Mengluo Empire. I came to inspect the Zhenghong Banner. This is the order of Prince Tuobasi. Let your banner master come out to pick him up quickly!"

As he said that, he threw the warrant that Tuoba Si gave him into the hands of one of the warriors.

The warrior took the order and did not dare to neglect it, so he hurriedly entered the golden tent and handed it over to Yuchi Jingyun.

When Yuchi Jingyun saw the warrant, he was trembling all over. He threw Tuoba Si's warrant on the ground and roared viciously: "He is also worthy of being the son-in-law of our Holy Emperor! Humph! He is a robber flower picking thief!"

After talking, he took his personal warrior and Asina out of the golden tent and came to Huo Qing.

Before Yuchi Jingyun could speak, Huo Qing waved his hand first and said, "I will be spared if I salute you. I learned that you are in trouble with the red banner, so I came to explore the situation..."

While speaking, Huo Qing looked around again. When he saw the remnants of troops, he couldn't help but shake his head: "It seems that the situation in the Red Banner is not optimistic at the moment, but it's okay. Now that my son-in-law is here, I can solve this problem for you."

"This is our Mengluo people's affairs. What does it have to do with you, Han people? If you know the truth, leave quickly. The owner of the banner is in a very bad mood now!"

"If you lose a battle, you will look furious. It's very unwise..." Huo Qing ignored Yuchi Jingyun's threat and turned over and dismounted toward him.

"Swish~~"

Before Huo Qing got close, the surrounding warriors immediately drew their swords in front of Yuchi Jingyun to prevent him from being unfavorable to the banner master.

Huo Qing smiled and said, "Don't be a stubborn attitude of keeping people from thousands of miles away. This is very unfavorable to what we are going to discuss next. I believe that this prince-consort will not harm you.

Look, I brought eight hundred people, and there are at least hundreds of thousands of people in your banner. Will I come to die for no reason? Let your people put down the knife first, and this son-in-law guarantees that we will meet in the meeting..."

Yuchi Jingyun looked at the people behind Huo Qing. Although there were more horses, as he said, there were only a few hundred people. Even if they were all wearing the black iron armor (plate armor) without any gaps, they were not their opponents.

"Explanation of your purpose!" Yuchi Jingyun asked the warrior to put his sword away and retreat, "Get out after saying that, the red flag will not welcome you. If you hadn't read that you had the order of Your Highness, I would have let you splatter blood on the spot!"

Huo Qing replied: "Isn't this prince-in-law here to seek justice for you? Is it a bad feeling to be beaten?

Do you want to let this anger come out? By the way, let the red flag press past him again. If you want, you should welcome me into the gold tent. Today, the sun is too strong and it will make people feel uncomfortable."

"snort……"

Yuchi Jingyun snorted coldly, turned around and walked towards the golden tent, which was to allow Huo Qing to enter the tent to negotiate.

As soon as he entered the golden tent, Yuchi Jingyun took off his heavy armor with the help of Asina, sat in his own position in anger, and hugged a plump gangster with a cold face, and began to play with a smile on his face.

Seeing that Yuchi Jingyun didn't like him, Huo Qing was not upset, so he found a place to sit down and watched Yuchi Jingyun try to calm down in front of him.

The alien woman was caressed by Yuchi Jingyun, and she couldn't help but let out a ecstatic whisper in her mouth, but her lustful gaze kept spinning on Huo Qing, a handsome man, from time to time, licking her lips with her fragrant tongue and teasing Huo Qing secretly.

After Yuchi Jingyun laughed with Hu Ji for a while, he suddenly said to Huo Qing: "Why don't you say anything? Didn't you say you want to help me? Then tell me, how to defeat Yuwen Zhou and how to regain the people who were taken away by the embroidered red banner?"

Huo Qing smiled slightly: "I am waiting for your acting to end, otherwise how can I talk about it? After all, I am going to know the whole story of the matter to solve the problem for you."

Upon hearing this, Yuchi Jingyun pushed Hu Ji away, picked up a bowl of iced milk wine, drank it in one gulp, threw the empty bowl on the low table, and said with a gloomy face: "The embroidered red flag bullies me too much, taking away my people, insulting my banners, and killing my elder brother. This revenge is irreconcilable!"

"Then kill him..." Huo Qing said indifferently, "You can endure the revenge of killing your brother, what kind of man is he?"

Yuchi Jingyun snorted with a self-deprecating voice: "If it were so easy, I wouldn't have waited until now. I can only order people to go to Guining City to ask His Highness the Prince to reconcile. I am afraid that several tribes and pastures will be divided under the Xiuhong Banner..."

Huo Qing said: "That happens that Your Highness, the prince entrusted the prince to deal with this matter. As long as you believe in this prince, the prince will definitely help you kill the enemy and take back everything you lost!"

Yuchi Jingyun said: "There are now 40,000 regular banners and flags in the embroidered red flags, and 200,000 slave legions. Now I have less than 10,000 banners and flags under my command. The four subordinates of the slave legions are not full, and less than half of the embroidered red flags. How can I continue to fight with him?"

Huo Qing replied: "You have to use your brain when fighting in war. It would be a damn thing if you fight with him head-on without losing. Why would you give you an idea to let you step on the embroidered red banner forever and never pose a threat to you again?"

When Yuchi Jingyun heard this, he said strangely: "Oh? Is that right? Let's hear it?"

So Huo Qing secretly told Yuchi Jingyun his thoughts.

After Yuchi Jingyun finished hearing this, his eyes couldn't help but lit up, but after thinking about it, he said, "But in this way, my red banner still has to lose a lot of troops?"

Huo Qing smiled and said, "As long as you succeed, the entire embroidered red banner will belong to you. Are you still afraid that you will not be able to recover your strength? The so-called "I can't bear to leave my child and can't trap a wolf, it depends on whether the Lord of Yuchi's banner has the courage to burn his boats."
Chapter completed!