The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 269 Moving Again
Before the quartermasters went bald, the good news of the Western Expeditionary Army's recapture of the Seven Garrisons of Kansai finally came back.

The generals dropped the rice bowls they had just picked up and ran towards the general's tent.

Just walked in the door.

Then, Marquis Ningyang, Zhao Muyun, waved the letter Xiong Zhen had written to him and excitedly announced:

"The Seven Guards of Guanzhong have all recovered their homeland! General Gan and his men captured the Prince Zhongshun of Hami City alive, and also fought a battle with the Huozhou Border Army of the Kashgar Khanate. Fifteen thousand men sacrificed five thousand lives to leave the enemy with nearly forty thousand archer cavalry!"

The generals' shocked faces (image)

"Five thousand for forty thousand lives? Who commanded this battle? That was fucking brilliant!"

"The Seven Guards of Guanzhong, which had been seized by the Hu people for over a hundred years, have been recovered by Angmen's western expeditionary army? They've been recovered just like that!"

Before they could ask any more questions, Zhao Muyun continued:

"There's more good news: 20,000 large, fat sheep, each weighing over 100 pounds, are on their way back to the border town. Can anyone send someone to pick them up?"

Several quartermasters shoved aside the shocked and bewildered generals, their voices trembling with excitement:

"Go! Get some people and set off right now! We can't let those clueless refugees steal all those sheep on the way!"

"Hiss! Twenty thousand sheep, each weighing over a hundred pounds! That's two million pounds of meat, enough to feed one hundred thousand people for almost a month! Deputy Commander Xiong is truly quick to address our urgent needs!"

"Slurp! I wonder if the taste of Hu sheep is as good as that of grassland sheep?"

Zhao Muyun waved his hand and laughed loudly:
"Old Xiong still cares about us, but from now on you must call him the General Commander-in-Chief of Guanzhong!"

The generals went from shocked to bitter: They were so jealous! How come such a cushy job didn't fall into their laps?

Old Xiong's success today is all thanks to powerful weapons like the Jade-Faced Rakshasa charging into battle.

With such a capable person under your command, even a pig could take off, right?
Oh no!
Old Bear isn't a pig, he's a lucky bear!

Lucky Old Bear is now a powerful general with seven garrisons and 80,000 troops.

With that in mind, they immediately focused their attention on the miniature landscape model that Gan Mingfu and others had worked overtime to create, which was about half the size of a room.

The entire northwestern border is captured in this real-world image.

The future King of the Northwest has said that our Northwest territory is large enough, and he hopes to have a few more generals under his command!
Which general's ultimate career goal isn't to become a regional commander?

In war, military generals are naturally least afraid of fighting!
Come on, come on! Let's take a look at this sand table.
On that day, the General's Camp issued several orders.

The first thing to do, of course, was to inform the imperial court that Heping Pass and Jinzhou Pass were once again under attack.

Upon receiving the urgent plea for help, the border general dispatched tens of thousands of elite troops from the border city, Yulinwei, Pianguan, and Jinzhouguan to intercept and kill the Hu people.

As a result, they not only killed all the invading Hu people, but also took the opportunity to recover the seven garrisons of Guanzhong, their homeland that had been occupied by the Kashgar Khanate for over a hundred years!
After that, it was time to commend the generals who had recovered the lost territory.

There's no need to break ties with the court right now; the formalities still need to be followed.

Whether the imperial court was pleased or angry upon receiving such a victory report, Zhao Muyun, who had already taken control of the entire northwestern border army, was completely unconcerned.

The next military order was that the families of the 40,000-strong western expeditionary force from the border city, as well as Gan Mingfu's cartography team, would set off for the Seven Guards of Guanzhong in three days.

At the same time, Zhao Muyun also sent transfer orders to the 40,000 soldiers and their families in Pianguan, Yulinwei, and Jinzhouguan.

Before assembling the western expeditionary army, Zhao Muyun had reached an agreement with the generals of Pianguan and Yulinwei, as well as the garrison commander of Jinzhou Pass: the 80,000-strong western expeditionary army would never return once they captured the seven garrisons of Guanzhong. Where are the border troops not stationed to defend the frontier?
The fate of military dependents is not in their own hands.

Once enlisted in the military, one becomes a military household for generations.

While the adult men went to the battlefield, their wives, children, and elders stayed at the garrison to reclaim wasteland and cultivate land!

After arranging the resettlement of 80,000 military dependents and over 300,000 people, it was the turn of the refugees from Huaiqing Prefecture and Jinzhou Pass.

It's no wonder Zhao Muyun couldn't wait for the Seven Guards of Guanzhong to be more stable and for their infrastructure to be more complete.

The severe food shortage in the Northwest meant that so many people could not stay any longer.

According to a report from the prefect of Lintao Prefecture, the number of refugees living on the other side of Jinzhou Pass has exceeded 300,000 within a month!

The refugees have almost eaten all the fish in the Zhuohe River, and they've gnawed all the wild vegetables and tree bark off Longwei Mountain!
can not imagine.

If these 300,000-plus refugees were to unite as one and launch an attack on Jinzhou, the capital of Lintao Prefecture.

So, are the people of Jinzhou still alive?
Immigrating to the Seven Guards of Kansai was like a carrot dangling in front of these refugees, putting immense pressure on the prefect of Lintao and others to appease them.

They would send a letter every few days.

Every word was filled with anguish: "My lord, I am truly at my breaking point."
A loud shouting came from courtyard number 36 in the border town.

The mischievous child clung to his father's leg, shaking him desperately: "Daddy! Daddy! Will Mommy and my older brother come back to pick us up?"

The man's gentle voice rang out:
"If your mother doesn't come back, your father and your eldest uncle will take you all with them! Your mother wrote that although the Guanzhong Seven Guards area is all desert, the melons in Hami City, which are bigger than your head, are ripe and ready to eat. We guarantee you'll have your fill!"

What the hell is this "big brother"? He doesn't acknowledge it!
The little guy didn't notice his father's neglect of his older brother, and couldn't help but be happy when he heard about the delicious food:
"Wow! I love cantaloupe the most! Yuanyuan, we'll see Mommy soon, don't you miss her? Ah! Ah! Let go, little sister, let go, don't pull my hair!"

"Oh, oh!" The baby only grabs you because he likes you!
"Ouch, it hurts!"

Zuo Wenkang couldn't help but smile as he looked at his little daughter, who was clinging to her brother's hair like a little tyrant and wouldn't let go, her big cat-like eyes blinking.

The daughter resembles her mother!

The poor girl has been breastfed for less than four months since birth.

At six months old, my baby mainly eats porridge and pureed meat and vegetables, with milk becoming a complementary food.

In the matriarchal Phoenix Dynasty, which legitimate daughter didn't drink breast milk until she was two years old or older?!
Fortunately, they will be able to reunite with their fairy-like wife in just one more month!
The thought made him swallow hard.

Although drawing maps in the border town camp meant not being able to go home often, there was no anxiety about distance.

Now that we're thousands of miles apart, I'm incredibly anxious.

He felt no reluctance whatsoever about the No. 36 courtyard where he had lived for more than half a year, nor did he feel any fear of the vast desert mentioned by his fairy wife.

As long as we are a family, we can live together.

What does a little hardship in the living environment matter?
He wasn't the only one who thought this way.

Luo Shi also complained all the time that without her daughter-in-law, the pillar of the family, the house didn't even look like a home!

The whole family's faces were filled with the joy of their impending reunion.
(End of this chapter)