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"Wei Xiong, look how warm and fragrant the red musk deer is, why don't we call her Sweet Potato?"
Xu Weixiong nodded and said, "Sweet potato sounds much more familiar!"
"From now on, she will no longer be an assassin when she follows the prince."
From then on, sweet potatoes became Li Chang'an's professional bed warmer.
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The first wave of backlash from the Northern Liang was thus successfully blocked.
The governor's office publicly stated that bandits had entered the city and looted it that night.
However, secrets can be kept forever.
It's somewhat understandable that the bandits attacked the Tang Prince's Mansion for money.
But how could bandits come into the city to rob brothels!
The next morning, Governor Tian Zong came to visit the Prince's residence.
Lord Tian now wishes he could worship Li Chang'an with the utmost respect.
"Your Highness, I heard from Han Diaosi that Your Highness intends to go to Qingcheng Mountain to suppress bandits?"
Li Chang'an said, "I do have this intention, but the soldiers and armor have not yet been gathered."
Tian Zong immediately said, "Han Diao Temple has already issued an imperial decree that Yongzhou Prefecture should give its full support to the Tang King's campaign to suppress bandits!"
Li Chang'an said, "Governor Tian is so enthusiastic, I wonder why he doesn't send troops to suppress the bandits?"
Tian Zong looked troubled and said, "The troops from the prefectures and counties are causing too much disturbance; the King of Qingcheng will blame us!"
"Therefore, only with the Prince's intervention can the bandits be successfully eradicated!"
Li Chang'an said, "In that case, please ask Lord Tian to advance the money for casting the armor."
For a prince like Li Chang'an who had no fiefdom, the imperial court naturally had to pay for his military campaigns.
Waiting for the imperial court to allocate funds directly would take forever, so it's normal for the prefectures to advance the money.
"I have already conscripted a thousand soldiers, but I am still short five hundred. Please, Lord Tian, allocate them as well."
At this point in Li Chang'an's speech, Tian Zong suddenly perked up.
"Your Highness, the Yongzhou troops guarding the palace suffered heavy losses last night!"
"However, they greatly admire the prince, so why not just give the money to him directly?"
Seeing Tian Zong's shifty-eyed look, Li Chang'an started to make demands.
"Give me all one thousand guards of the Prince's Palace, including both wounded and unwounded soldiers."
Tian Zong quickly came up with a plan: he allocated 1,000 men, while Li Chang'an recruited 1,000 himself.
There are two thousand people in total, which is more than 1,500!
However, it was no secret that the feudal lords had an overstretched military force.
The Yan King of the Southern Frontier commands an army of 200,000 men; who dares to say he's violating regulations?
With a sincere expression, Tian Zong readily agreed!
"Your Highness, I will grant your request, even at the risk of violating the rules!"
Li Chang'an chuckled inwardly, then continued, "The armor of the thousand Yongzhou soldiers is too thin; it needs to be thickened."
Furthermore, I require a thousand light long-handled swords.
"The thousand men I recruited need new armor and weapons to be trained into elite mountain soldiers."
"Therefore, the armor and weapons I require must be sufficient to equip two thousand men!"
Li Chang'an had already decided to divide the two thousand newly recruited soldiers into two different branches.
One type is the Mo Dao soldiers, who can deal with cavalry; the other is special forces soldiers, who are good at mountain warfare.
The Tang Dynasty's Mo Dao soldiers are extremely powerful; the elite Mo Dao soldiers obtained through the in-game store can even withstand an attack from ten times their number of cavalry.
To quell the bandits on Mount Qingcheng, you'll naturally need to exchange your resources for special forces soldiers for mountain warfare.
Li Chang'an had a handle on Tian Zong, and Tian Zong had to meet this demand no matter what.
He took the list handed over by Li Chang'an, which included a variety of items such as light longswords, ring-pommel swords, bows and crossbows, clubs, short blades, and armor.
The light Mo Dao inside is a simplified version of the original. The actual Mo Dao is extremely expensive to make, and Li Chang'an is unwilling to reveal it.
After Tian Zong left, Li Chang'an began searching for troop templates in the Zhutian Mall.
He has already exchanged for the Mo Dao Army, a fourth-rank elite warrior, the Mo Dao Soldier, in the shop.
In this world's armies, warriors and ordinary soldiers are mixed together; there are very few armies composed entirely of warriors.
A fourth-rank Mo Dao soldier can normally break through the Six Armor level!
In other words, it can deal with six ordinary soldiers.
If you add a fine Mo Dao (陌刀), taking on eight opponents by yourself will be a piece of cake!
"Mo Dao soldier (elite warrior, fourth rank), 3 worldly points."
As for the special forces in the mountains, Li Chang'an quickly found a target as well.
"White Feather Soldiers (Elite Warriors, Rank 4), 3 Mortal Points."
The White Feather Army of the First Emperor of Shu Han was an elite force fighting in the mountains and forests, and was very suitable for suppressing mountain bandits!
Chapter 181 Exchanging for the White Feather Soldiers of the Mo Dao! Recruiting General Zhi Xuan! (33)
[Consume 3000 Mortal Dust Points to exchange for 1000 White Feather Soldier templates!]
After exchanging for 1,000 Mo Dao soldiers and 1,000 Bai Fei soldiers, Li Chang'an still had 8,000 Red Dust Points remaining.
If destroying Qingcheng Mountain allows for private expansion of the army, these points would be enough to double the size of the army.
The Tang Prince's Palace was not a large place, making it difficult to station two thousand soldiers.
Li Chang'an found a place outside the city and set up camp for two thousand soldiers.
After that, he merged all two thousand templates with the soldiers.
These soldiers naturally became elite troops, and they didn't feel it was abrupt at all.
Many soldiers were injured during the Beiliang army's night raid on the Prince's Palace, so Li Chang'an allowed them to rest for a while before setting off to wipe out Qingcheng Mountain.
The back door of the palace.
An inconspicuous alley.
Li Chang'an discovered a newly opened tavern that was still selling the famous Southern Tang wine, "The Soul of Buried Flowers".
Li Chang'an knew the shops near the Tang Prince's Mansion well, and any shop that suddenly appeared would always stand out.
Li Chang'an walked into the tavern and habitually shouted out.
"Waiter, bring the wine!"
A middle-aged man with gray hair walked out, his back bent.
"The waiter isn't here, so it's just this old man like me."
As he spoke, he brought up the wine pot and wine bowl.
"Young master, please make yourself at home."
Li Chang'an poured himself a bowl of fine wine and drank it all in one gulp.
"Don't go, shopkeeper, let's have a drink together."
The shopkeeper smiled憨厚ly, "This old man brews wine but doesn't drink it."
Li Chang'an drank another bowl, "That was before."
"Now, times have changed!"
A glint of surprise flashed in the shopkeeper's eyes.
Name: Gu Dazu
Age: 48 years old
Realm: First-grade martial artist (referring to the late stage of the Profound Realm)
Talents: Commander (Rank 1), Military Strategy (Rank 2), Martial Arts (Rank 2)
Abilities: Commander (Rank 1), Military Strategist (Rank 2), Manager (Rank 4), Brewing (Rank 4)
Emotion: 50
Li Chang'an never expected that his commotion would attract the attention of Gu Dazu.
Gu Dazu, the former general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, whose entire family was known for their loyalty and bravery.
The former Celestial Phenomenon Realm General was so angered by the Emperor Hong's questionable actions that he fell from the Finger Profound Realm.
After the fall of the Southern Tang dynasty, the Hong family emperor executed his own loyal general Du Jiankang and then knelt to welcome the surrender.