After traveling through time, I thrived in ancient times

Chapter 357 March

The advance of the large force was very slow.

Shen Chenli and Yu Tingwan brought a total of 400,000 troops this time. They were able to have so many people thanks to the people that Prince Rui brought when he fought against them before.

After this period of integration, the military force at the border has become stronger.

That's why they were able to gather so many people to fight this time.

The generals who came with them this time were General Zhou Yan and General An Yuan. The other generals were at the border watching the movements of other countries around them.

This time, they did not choose to take the previous route from the capital to the border, but decided to split their troops into two groups in the front.

Yu Tingwan and Song Shixu led an army of 200,000 through Gaoling County, Hanzhong County and Hejian County, while Shen Chenli, Zhou Yan and General Anyuan led an army of 200,000 through Fenyin and went directly to Hejian County to meet up with Yu Tingwan and his men.

By advancing in this way, they would be able to capture the entire northern part of Da Sheng more quickly. By then, even if the prince reacted and wanted to counterattack, they would be able to occupy advantageous terrain.

This is because there is a fast-flowing river outside Quyang County, which is the closest county to the capital in Hejian County, and there are only three bridges connecting one side of the river to the other.

One of the bridges is located outside Quyang County in Hejian County. It is also the most important bridge connecting the two sides. Therefore, Hejian County has an army of 100,000 stationed there.

The other two bridges are in more remote places. If you want to go to the capital through those two bridges, you have to take a long detour. It is possible that the prince had already ascended the throne by then and had sent a large army from Hejian County to the border.

Therefore, they decided to gather directly in Hejian County, even though the prince had already sent troops to Hejian County by then.

They could also fight them outside Hejian County. There were two mountains outside the city of Hejian County leading to the border, and they could fully utilize the terrain to fight.

All of these things were slowly thought out by Shen Chenli, Yu Tingwan and others during the march.

I'm afraid even the emperor in the capital could not imagine how familiar they were with the terrain of Dasheng.

But they never expected that one day they would have to fight on the land they were familiar with. It must be said that this made them all feel a little emotional.

The only one who didn’t have these melancholy feelings was Yu Tingwan!

After all, in her heart, even if she defends Da Sheng, the red land is still her homeland in her mind.

"We will attack Luyang County tomorrow. After we take it, we will separate here. If we go further, we will not be under my jurisdiction. Everyone should cheer up."

The army had been marching for six days, and they had been in a state of rapid march during these six days, so the pace was still very slow.

And they finally arrived at the border under Shen Chenli's jurisdiction. If they continued to move forward, they would enter the territories of other officials.

The officials at this time would not let them in easily even if they didn't know they were coming to attack.

Therefore, Shen Chenli decided to let the army rest here for one night, as tomorrow would be the most important moment.

And they will also separate directly from here after conquering Luyang County.

A group of people sat around the campfire. The weather was cold, but no one cared whether they were cold or not. They just wanted to think over the action plan for the next few days.

The first stop in their plan was Luyang County, which was closest to the border. Here a new official named Liu Mian served as the county magistrate, governing all the counties under Luyang County.

"This Liu Mian, humph! He is simply a scum!"

Hearing this, Yu Tingwan raised his eyebrows and looked at General Zhou Yan, curious about why he said that.

The others also looked down upon the official named Liu Mian. Seeing that Yu Tingwan was curious, they told her about this official one by one.

"Princess, you don't know that we have come into contact with this Liu Mian before. He is arrogant and domineering. He looks down on us and the officials under him. He even treats the common people as tools for him to make money and slaves so that he can live like a local tyrant."

"Zhou Yan is right!"

General An Yuan also nodded in agreement and continued, "Princess, Liu Mian can only be called a corrupt official who exploits the people. The people living near the border don't have a good life to begin with, but he wants to be the emperor here. In the past two years, the taxes and grain that the people have paid are more than twice that of other counties. The people's lives can only be described as miserable."

To them, no matter how high or low your official position is, as long as you are an official who can do good things for the people, they will respect you from the bottom of their hearts.

But as long as you are not nice to the people, you are lucky that they don't try to kill you.

This was what Yu Tingwan was puzzled about. He looked at them in surprise and asked, "Then you didn't think of a way to deal with him?"

After hearing this, everyone in the circle fell silent.

"what happened?"

Yu Tingwan looked at Shen Chenli again. According to his personality, he would not leave such a person alone.

But I heard others say:

"This man was suddenly transferred here after the prince got into trouble. Although we don't think highly of him, we have also reported the situation here, but unfortunately there was no response at all. Moreover, when the prince got into trouble like that, the entire border lost its backbone, so naturally there was no time to care about other people's affairs."

After hearing this, Yu Tingwan finally understood what was going on.

"It was only after I came back that I learned about the actions near this border. Many officials have been replaced. If the emperor hadn't known that the Northern Di were difficult to deal with, I'm afraid that when I came back, there would be no familiar figures at the border."

This is also what made Shen Chenli angry.

To transfer officials near the border is to transfer away officials who are on good terms with him, and then erode the entire border bit by bit.

In fact, that's what he did, and Shen Chenli wouldn't say anything. What made him angry was that in order to keep the surrounding counties under his control, the emperor had few good new officials, some of whom were cunning and deceitful or committed evil deeds throughout the counties.

Allowing such people to be the governor of a county is simply allowing them to harm the people!

Yu Tingwan saw the anger on his face and quickly shook her head at him.

But now, aren’t they here?

Then, Yu Tingwan pointed to Luyang County on the map and said with a smile:

"Since this county magistrate is not a human being, let him be a ghost!"

Hearing this, the surrounding generals looked at each other, then thought of their princess's abilities and what they were going to do next, and they suddenly became excited.

Then everyone suddenly understood.

Yes, isn't this what they are going to do now?

Going straight to the capital is one thing, but we can also clean out the parasites in the entire Da Sheng at the same time!

As expected, the princess is taller!