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Chapter 268 General Commander-in-Chief of Kansai

The next day, in the middle of the night.

The good news from Hami City reached Guazhou amidst the galloping of wild horses.

The messenger shouted at the top of his lungs as he made his way to the garrison:

"Great victory! Great victory! General Gan has captured the younger brother of the ruler of the Kashgar Khanate alive in Hami City!"

"Great victory! Great victory! The seven Kansai garrisons have been completely recovered!"

As the messenger announced the order in a loud voice, the entire Guazhou camp immediately became lively.

Someone asked:
"Has Hami City been captured?"

"We've taken it! General Gan's actions are worth a thousand soldiers!"

"I think I just heard that they captured some kind of prince?"

"Oh my, you heard me right! The highest-ranking official in Hami City right now is a prince from the Hu people! Capture him alive, and the city will fall!"

"Ah! Those vanguard bastards must have eaten their fill! Who knows how much good stuff they smuggled from the Prince's mansion into their own pockets."

"It's no use being sour! Who told you not to beat those bastards back then! Ask everyone, who doesn't want to join the vanguard battalion?"

"Hey"

The garrison in Guazhou got up in the middle of the night and ate a sour melon.

Soon after, Xiong Zhen's somewhat demonic and maniacal laughter echoed from the general's tent.

"Hahaha, excellent! General Gan's vanguard battalion is outstanding! They've achieved such great merit as soon as they arrived in Hamiwei! The key is that their casualties are so small! General Gan always manages to win these battles with fewer troops, and he always does them so brilliantly!"

In recent days, six of the seven Kansai Guards have been completely captured, and the initial garrison has been completed.

Hami Guard was the last guard.

In the words of Marquis Ningyang Zhao Muyun, the day the Seven Guards of Guanzhong were recovered would be the day when Xiong Zhen could remove the word "deputy" and be immediately promoted to the position of Grand Commander-in-Chief of Guanzhong!
This is the Grand Commander-in-Chief who can command 80,000 troops and seven garrisons!
What power and what majesty this is!

The messenger repeatedly congratulated the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief.

Then, he pulled out another piece of good news from his pocket:
"General, to congratulate you on your promotion, General Angmen has specially prepared a second piece of good news. Now it's double happiness, no, triple happiness!"

"What? There's more good news!"

"General, we not only captured Hami City, but also gave the garrison of the Kashgar Khanate in Huozhou a sound thrashing!"

General?

General!

Xiong Zhen was a little dizzy from the way the other party addressed him.

The word "sub" has been removed!
He finally achieved his ultimate career goal.

He barely managed to suppress his excitement, forcing back the corners of his mouth to curve upwards, and asked, feigning composure:
"Hmm! Did King Zhongshun go to Huozhou to request reinforcements?"

As he asked the question, he took the second report of victory from the messenger.

I finished reading it quickly.

He burst into laughter again: "What a brilliant move! This battle was fought brilliantly! Your General Gan is truly a born military genius!"

Making her the vanguard was absolutely the right choice!
Two thousand thunderbolts were buried in the desert, and they took the lives of tens of thousands of enemy soldiers!

This thing is incredibly powerful!
No, no!
This time, they brought too few deafening thunderbolts.

We'll go back and ask the border town for more.

Naturally, no one would write a long article in the report of victory. Tian Jiu and Gan Minglan each sent a congratulatory letter to the General.

Tian Jiu's congratulatory message was just a few dry sentences.

A large portion of the letter describes the background and development of the great battle to the Kansai general, and at the end, it expresses their desire to go to the Fire State to eat raisins.

Gan Minglan, a seasoned veteran in the workplace, knows how to say the nicest things better than anyone else!
The story begins by showering the Grand Marshal of Kansai with compliments.

The letter ended with the following statement.

Looking at all the cities in the Seven Guards of Guanzhong, only the Prince Zhongshun's Mansion in Hami City could barely match the prestige of the General's Mansion! The General Commander of Guanzhong, who was flattered to the point of being dizzy, only thought for a quarter of an hour.

Then, he loudly ordered his personal guards:
"One-Eyed, tell the cooks to slaughter sheep and prepare food immediately. We'll muster 10,000 troops and head to Hami City at dawn!"

The guard listened to the whole thing from inside the tent and asked with some concern, "Sir, isn't Hami City a bit too far from the interior?"

He had barely finished speaking when his family's commander kicked him.
"You coward! Open your dog eyes and take a good look at the location of Hami Guard on the map. Damn it, there are Hu people on the left and Tatars above!
The Hu people and Tatars are difficult to deal with individually, and they also like to team up to invade the pass and plunder when things are in trouble.

If the Angmen control Hami Guard, it will be equivalent to cutting off the main transportation route between the Hu people and the Tatars.

For thousands of years, Hamiwei has been a strategic location fought over by military strategists!

As the newly appointed General Commander-in-Chief of Guanzhong, how could Ang be afraid of the Hu people attacking his door just because Hami City is far from the Guanzhong Plain?

Besides, didn't you hear what the second piece of good news said?
The 40,000 troops stationed in Huozhou on the left flank of Hami Guard were almost wiped out by General Tian and General Gan!

In front of his personal guards, Xiong Zhen adopted a posture of "guarding the country's gate for the emperor".

What kept replaying in his mind was the content of Gan Minglan's private message, about the gold mine in which the Zhongshun Wang family had an annual output of up to 50,000 taels of gold!

50,000 taels of gold is equal to 500,000 taels of silver!

Whether it's military pay or military expenses.

This gold mine alone could sustain us.

He was so worried that he couldn't sleep during the first half of the night.

In the middle of the night, just as I was getting sleepy, General Gan brought me a pillow.

Isn't General Gan a timely rain that brings good fortune?!
He'll drink this first out of respect, as a sign of respect!

Of course, it's best to bring him along when you go to your neighbor's house for raisins.

Simply.

Let's begin our westward campaign against the Hu by attacking Huozhou!

Xiong Zhen could no longer sleep.

A series of arrangements were made right there in the main tent.

Of course, the good news from Hami Guard had to be sent back to the border city as soon as possible by express courier.

Hehe, it would be best to give him a formal appointment right away!

The situation in the border town these days is rather unfavorable.

It wasn't that something went wrong in the army; the key problem was still the lack of food.

The strongest able-bodied men in the army who could eat the most were all transferred to the Seven Guards of Guanzhong.

However, the remaining border troops, farming households, and military dependents still consumed a large amount of food every day.

One-third of the families have run out of staple food.

For many families, their daily diet consists of wild vegetables cooked in meat soup.

The wild rabbits that the border troops brought back every day truly saved many lives.

The grasslands near the foot of the mountain in the western foothills pasture have been almost completely stripped bare by the local people.

Fortunately, wild vegetables are extremely resilient.

After one crop is cut, new ones will grow back in a couple of days.

Huaiqing Prefecture was also in dire straits, with tens of thousands of refugees asking every day when they could go to Guanzhong.

He had spent almost all the copper coins he had.

Even without war, life wasn't necessarily easy for the people of Huaiqing Prefecture.

If that's the case, they might as well go to Kansai and claim territory as soon as possible.

Zhao Muyun's quartermaster always had a long face, as if he had lost his parents.
(End of this chapter)