northernbook Chapter 391: Cavalry is needed to welcome the bride (Part )
Chapter 391: Cavalry is needed to welcome the bride (Part )
"Young Master Hua Nanxing of the Hua Family!?"
"Luo family's young master Luo Tong!?"
"Eleventh Princess Gu Qingya!?"
"The Eighth Prince Gu Chengxu!?"
"The two leaders of the Miyun Sect are coming too!?"
"Hiss!? In this case, doesn't it mean that the Miyun Sect will have three sect leaders all here?"
"This matter! I'm afraid it will fall on the three sect masters!"
"Ming'er, go and invite your sister's master! I'm afraid the three sect masters are coming for Huanyue Palace!"
He Shicheng took the list and looked at it while thinking. Finally, he had an epiphany.
"Fantasy Moon Palace!?" He Jieming was puzzled.
"That should be it! The world is in chaos now. Not only are our ten great royal families deeply involved, but even the ten great sects will probably find it difficult to escape!"
"The Miyun and Huanyue sects have always been on good terms. I'm afraid that they want to take advantage of your sister's marriage and the leaders of the two sects will gather together to discuss how to jointly deal with this chaotic world!"
"Go and invite the two venerables!"
After He Shicheng finished explaining, he urged his son to go and ask for help, and added:
"Invite several of our family's elders and your great uncle to come as well! And discuss the defense when escorting the bride!"
At the end of May, Cheng Xuyuan calculated an auspicious date and decided on the final date for the bride-receiving and wedding. The bride-receiving ceremony would be in late August and the wedding would be in early September, completing the ceremony of asking for the bride's date.
Next, both families began to make final preparations for the wedding.
It takes several days to travel from Anping County to Jinkou County, whether by water or by land.
Originally, according to Liu Feiyun, they should take the water route, which is relatively safer.
But Liu Shihao and his wife insisted on traveling by land.
In Liu Shihao's words:
"How can I, Liu the Butcher, hide when I marry my daughter-in-law? I can't afford to lose face!"
Thus, a wedding welcoming team consisting of 8,000 cavalrymen began to be formed.
The Liu family wants to use the wedding procession to demonstrate to the surrounding forces in order to intimidate the enemy, and to show their strength to the people under their rule in order to further stabilize the people's hearts.
Ever since the Liu family took control of the entire Anya County, they have been actively absorbing population.
The first to be hit was Yanluo County.
There are two counties bordering Yanluo County and Anya County. The county in the south has been controlled by the Qingming He family, while the county in the north is still occupied by the rebel army.
Yanluo County has one prefecture and twelve counties, and the Qingming He family now occupies six counties and is constantly attacking Yanluo Prefecture.
The other six counties were also occupied by different rebel armies, and there were constant wars between them.
In addition, in the Northern Wilderness, various large and small forces from neighboring states and counties would occasionally move in and out of these six counties and one prefecture, causing constant wars and restlessness in these places.
As a result, a large number of people from six counties and one prefecture fled to Anya County. By the end of April, the number had reached hundreds of thousands.
In addition to the people from Yanluo County, the barbarians from the Northern Wilderness also began to be relocated to Anya County in large numbers by the Liu family.
Ever since the so-called 100,000-strong army of Liaozhou was repelled, more and more barbarian tribes have come to join the Liu family. Together with those who came to surrender before the war, the total population of the skilled barbarians from the Yunhuang tribes has reached nearly 300,000.
In this regard, Liu Feiyun thought carefully and finally persuaded his father Liu Shihao and his subordinates to move 100,000 domesticated barbarians into Anya County.
These 100,000 skilled barbarians are actually the elders from various tribes in Yunhuang and the new tribes with outstanding performance.
However, he dispersed these people and relocated them to various counties, where most of them were engaged in raising livestock and simple handicrafts, and were not allowed to engage in large-scale farming.
Moreover, the young and strong among them were mixed into the expanded regular cavalry.
The newly surrendered barbarians outside Linshui Pass also had their original tribes disrupted and reorganized into the Yunhuang tribes. Their young and strong men were also organized into another army, which was firmly controlled by Tuoda Jun and others.
In addition, there were also 20,000 to 30,000 Jinzhou prisoners captured years ago.
By early May, the population actually controlled by Anya County had reached more than 1.8 million.
Among them, there are 1.6 million people in Anya County, nearly 200,000 outside Linshui Pass, more than 1.5 million Chen people, and nearly 300,000 barbarians.
Relying on these populations, the Liu family's army continued to expand.
Among them, the regular army was expanded to 50,000 people, and was directly named Anya Army.
In addition, the local soldiers were expanded to 100,000, and there were 30,000 Yunhuang barbarian cavalry.
The ratio of soldiers to civilians in the mutiny reached a terrifying 1:10.
In troubled times, there is nothing that can be done about it. If the entire population is not mobilized to fight, it will be difficult for a force to survive.
But if we want to make everyone aware of this, there are several prerequisites. It is not something that can be achieved just because anyone wants to.