Chapter 22: Shaking the mountain is easy, shaking the Lu Family Army is hard

【In the following three months, the beacon fire was continuous, and battles were fought one after another; you always anticipated the enemy, coming without a shadow and going without a trace, making Tuoba Shuyi's thirty thousand troops look exhausted in the endless running.】

【Facing your elusive nature, Tuoba Shuyi helplessly gave up chasing you, turning to use the strategy of feinting to the east and attacking to the west, pretending to chase, while secretly leading the main army to rush to Hulao Pass.】

【However, he did not expect that you had already anticipated this and set up an ambush, forming a pincer attack with Wang Yang at Hulao Pass, defeating the Northern Wind army in one fell swoop.】

【This battle was a great defeat, and Tuoba Shuyi had to lead his troops to retreat.】

【This war lasted for a year, attracting the attention of the world.】

【Every battle you commanded was a victory, winning with fewer troops.】

【The name Lu Chen shook the world.】

【You three father and sons relied on your great military achievements to be promoted four levels, and you were also granted the official position of Military Governor along the river in Jiangnan West Road, ranking third rank.】

【You did not stop, continuing to lead the army north, breaking eighteen cities in two months, the North fled at the sight, recovering Yanzhou and Yun Prefecture.】

Yun Prefecture, located in the northern frontier.

The climate is cold.

At the end of autumn, a sudden heavy snow swept across the whole world.

The entire area for thousands of miles around was dyed a frosty white.

In this snowy weather!

A team of people galloped through the white snow.

Leading them was the seal-holding eunuch Ma Bao, who was wearing a heavy mink coat and riding a Night-Shining Jade Lion.

This horse was the imperial mount, extraordinary, worth a thousand gold.

Finally!

After much hardship, the team arrived in front of a majestic military camp, and Ma Bao turned off his horse, his movements agile and neat.

He was of medium build, holding a precious sword in his arms.

He looked fair, but had no feminine air, and his brows revealed a heroic spirit.

His eyes flashed with awe-inspiring righteousness, making people dare not look directly.

Ma Bao was the confidant of the Great Daqing Emperor, and as a companion, he had accompanied the Emperor since childhood.

More than twenty years ago, the current Emperor of the Great Daqing jumped from a leisure prince to the Son of Heaven.

Ma Bao also rose to prominence, becoming one of the most powerful eunuchs in the Great Daqing dynasty.

However!

This eunuch Ma Bao was unique, not forming cliques for private interests, not oppressing officials.

He was upright and selfless, deeply respected by the court and the public, and the people praised him as "truer than a man."

He not only enjoyed a high reputation in the court but was also a first-class swordsman in the Jianghu, his sword technique was fast, and with a long sword in hand, it was like a dragon out of the sea, breathtaking.

However, after days of running around, even he felt slightly tired and could not take it.

All this toil was because of the three father and sons of the Lu Family Army.

Since the Northern Wind army retreated, the Lu Family Army led the army north, with the momentum of breaking bamboo, capturing a city in a few days.

Subsequently, the Lu Family Army led several thousand elites, north like a storm, capturing three more cities in half a month, successfully taking half of Yanzhou.

Then they entered Yanzhou, controlled all military power, and their momentum pierced the sky like a rainbow, breaking ten cities in a row, invincible.

The news spread back, and the world was shocked.

All this seemed so unbelievable in Ma Bao's eyes; in just over a month, Yanzhou returned to the embrace of the Great Daqing.

You know!

For twenty years, the Great Daqing's troops had never crossed the Yellow River.

For twenty years, no Great Daqing army had ever fought to this place.

Yanzhou, the land that the Great Daqing had lost twenty years ago, now in the hearts of most people, still leaned towards the Great Daqing.

On this journey, Ma Bao witnessed the warm welcome of the people, who offered melons and fruits, expressing their respect and gratitude to the Lu Family Army.

At the same time, he also felt the novelty and changes on this journey, and his heart was full of surprise at the new leader of the Lu Family Army.

Lu Family Army discipline: "Freeze to death without tearing down houses, starve to death without looting!"

Those who oppressed and forced the people were punished with sticks at best, and beheaded at worst.

Ma Bao knew the darkness in the army; sometimes, to vent, the army would pretend to be horse thieves to slaughter the people; this kind of strict military discipline was rare in the world.

Ma Bao muttered to himself: "Lu Chen, courtesy name Shenzhou."

And these Lu Family Army outlines were created by Lu Chen.

There were nursery rhymes in the North.

"Shaking the mountain is easy, shaking the Lu Family Army is hard!"

Lu Chen... no.

Now, he had been granted the title of Shaobao by the court, respectfully called Lu Shaobao.

Ma Bao was full of curiosity and interest in this young hero.

Now!

Having reached the north of Yun Prefecture, the Lu Family Army gathered sixty thousand people again, preparing to recover Yue Prefecture.

Recovering two prefectures in less than three months, such a record was exciting.

Ma Bao, on the order of the Son of Heaven, originally intended to hold a conferment ceremony for the Lu Family Army on the banks of the Yellow River, but did not expect the Lu Family Army to have crossed the Yellow River and marched north.

He heard the news and galloped, not stopping, all the way to Yanzhou, but the good news came again, the Lu Family Army had attacked Yun Prefecture, its rapid marching and fast city-breaking were breathtaking.

Ma Bao chased relentlessly, finally reaching the Lu Family Army camp.

On this trip, he took a detour of a thousand miles, although it was a futile round trip, his heart had no complaints, but was somewhat happy.

At this moment, Ma Bao stood quietly outside the military tent, waiting for an audience.

Naturally, his subordinates sent a message to the main tent.

He did not rely on his status, but as an imperial envoy, representing the majesty of the imperial power, so he had to be solemn.

Before long, footsteps came from afar.

Ma Bao's eyelids jumped slightly, his gaze following the sound.

Only to see not far away, dozens of figures walking in unison, revealing a murderous aura, looking like they had killed their way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

The Lu Family Army, indeed worthy of being an iron army.

That sentence rang in his heart again.

"Shaking the mountain is easy, shaking the Lu Family Army is hard!"

They came to both sides of Ma Bao, standing tall in the wind and snow, like spears, standing still like steel sculptures.

Three people walked out side by side, with different auras.

In the middle was a white-haired old general, the vicissitudes of time were all on his face.

On his right was a young man in armor, full of heroic spirit.

Ma Bao just swept a glance, and guessed their identities.

Lu Jiaxuan and his son Lu Yu.

Lu Jiaxuan had fought for more than ten years, but in the confrontation with the Northern Wind, he always lost more and won less, and never achieved success.

And Lu Yu, although a general, was known as "Ten Thousand Enemy," but in a country like the Great Daqing, such generals were not rare.

However, Ma Bao's gaze did not look at the young man walking a step behind on the left.

This person should be Lu Chen.

In the mouths of scholars in the south, he enjoyed a high reputation and was called "the best in using troops in four hundred years."

Tuoba Shuyi, who once sighed helplessly on the banks of the Yellow River:

"Since I, Tuoba Shuyi, was born, why was Lu Shen Zhou born."

The young man walked out of the shadows.

Tall and slender, wearing casual clothes, hair tied with a Daoist hairpin, handsome, and his whole temperament was steady.

Feeling Feng Bao's gaze, the young man smiled slightly at him.

Feng Bao felt the young man's eyes were extremely bright, as if he could see through people's hearts.

【This year you are twenty-five years old, you were granted the title of Shaobao, and the Lu family was granted the power to open a mansion and discuss the three armies.】

【In the early spring of the second year, you personally led forty thousand Lu Family Army soldiers, recovering six prefectures, more than thirty battles in half a year, attacking and winning.】

【In the same year, the Northern Wind sent a delegation south to negotiate peace.】

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 23 =====