Flying Clouds in Another World

Chapter 392: Cavalry is needed to welcome the bride (Part )

In troubled times, if a force wants to mobilize all its citizens to fight, first of all, it must have a cohesive core where everyone is willing to obey one order. Otherwise, it will be a mess and the force will quickly fall apart.

Secondly, you must have enough food to feed these soldiers and not let them starve!

Finally, you need to have enough weapons to equip these soldiers.

And Liu Feiyun, or the Liu family, has all three.

Before the world fell into chaos, Anping County was the Liu family's base camp, and Anya County was the Liu family's sphere of influence.

Liu Jia has been working hard here for nearly thirty years, and the tentacles of his influence have long extended to every corner of Anya County.

It can be said that in Anya County before the war, the Liu family could do what the government could not do.

Today, the Liu family has taken advantage of the chaotic times to openly rule the entire Anya County, and naturally the people are loyal to them.

And those barbarians who came to seek refuge were all people who had been frightened and subdued by two generations of butchers from the Liu family.

In their opinion, the two butchers of the Liu family were really cruel to the hostile barbarians! But they were also very kind to the barbarians who sincerely surrendered to them.

Today's Northern Wilderness is just like the Great Chen Dynasty, a mess. The major tribes are constantly fighting each other, and there is no room for small tribes to survive.

So these barbarians came to surrender.

The original Yunhuang tribes were made up of a group of small tribes, and the same is true for the current Yunhuang tribes.

The barbarians numbering more than 200,000 were actually made up of nearly a hundred tribes, large and small, with the largest of them only having 5,000 to 6,000 people.

As the saying goes, it's nice to lean on a big tree for shade. Now that they have joined the Liu family, although they can no longer continue to use the name of their original tribe, at least they don't have to worry about being bullied and annexed by other barbarian tribes.

The annexation between the barbarians was extremely bloody and cruel, and was far less gentle than being controlled or even annexed by the Liu family.

That's why they are willing to come and join the Liu family.

As for food and weapons, the Liu family had no shortage of them.

The Liu family has their own iron mine and their own weapons workshop, so they can build their own weapons. It is nothing more than expanding production capacity.

What's more, years ago, they first destroyed the rebel army and then the Jin army, and they did seize a lot of weapons and armor.

As for grain, the Liu family had been accumulating it for nearly thirty years. The amount that Liu Feiyun had seen alone was as high as tens of millions of dan, enough for two million people to eat until the autumn harvest.

"Anya's people's support, a huge amount of stored food, a large amount of hidden weapons and armor, as well as a huge amount of wealth, and all kinds of talents cultivated in secret, this is the wealth that my parents have saved for me!"

"If it weren't for them, there wouldn't be anyone like me, Liu Feiyun, today."

"In my last life, I was alone and helpless! I could only envy others!"

"And in this life, I have family that loves and helps each other! What a blessing this is!"

"Liu Feiyun, Liu Feiyun! My father is getting older and older, and my mother's hair is getting whiter and whiter!"

"And you're going to start a family soon!"

"It's time to take over the responsibility of protecting the family!"

"It's time for Dad and Mom to have a good rest!"

Liu Feiyun was riding on a majestic horse, his mind full of thoughts.

Behind him was a special float built specifically for the wedding reception, pulled by eight strong horses.

In front, behind, and on both sides of him, two thousand light steel knights were in high spirits and marched in an orderly formation, firmly protecting him, the float, and the nearly one hundred carriages that followed.

In front, behind and on both wings of this core convoy, there were large groups of cavalry who were either following in sync or cruising back and forth, as if they were ready to engage in battle at any time.

With a large number of barbarians coming to seek refuge and their own horse farm, the Liu family has no shortage of horses.

The Liu family has no shortage of qualified cavalry candidates.

Although this is a world of high martial arts, the power of cavalry cannot be underestimated and can still determine the outcome of a war.

At the end of August, the wedding procession, consisting of 8,000 cavalrymen and nearly 1,000 other accompanying personnel, set out from Anping County in a mighty manner.

However, their destination at this time had changed from Jinkou County to Yanluo City.

At the end of June, the Qingming He family finally captured the largest city in Yanluo County and completely took over Yanluo Mansion.

At this point, the Qingming He family had taken over nine counties and one prefecture, controlling most of the territory of Yanluo County, as well as 90% of the population, more than one million people.

The reason why the Qingming He family expanded so rapidly had a lot to do with the betrothal gift sent by the Liu family.

Afterwards, the He family chose to temporarily stop its expansion and instead digest and absorb the territories they had already captured. They also followed the example of the Liu family and began to massively absorb the population from the surrounding counties.

By mid-August, its population had reached nearly 1.3 million, with tens of thousands of soldiers and a total force of nearly 100,000.

To this end, the He family borrowed more than 500,000 shi of grain from the Liu family.

As a result, the northern part of Yunzhou is almost entirely controlled by the Anping Yaliu family and the Qingming He family. The two families rely on each other and have formed a separatist alliance that cannot be ignored.