On January 28, 426, the Great Jin Dynasty, Liu Ji's border guards had entered the territory of Mingzhang County, Qianzhou. To the north of Mingzhang County is Dai'an County, which is the northernmost county of Qianzhou. The place where Liu Ji guards the border is Chengyin County, the northernmost county of Dai'an County.

After entering Qianzhou, the more you go north, the less people are. The entire Qianzhou has been damaged by Hu on the grassland. In Mingzhang County, Liu Ji and others also encountered a county town that has become ruins. This county town called Jiangzhuo was captured by a cavalry of the Loufan tribe last year. Nearly 30,000 people in the city were turned into corpses, and half were looted as slaves by the Loufan cavalry and brought back to the grassland.

Nowadays, you can still see white bones on the ruins of Jiangzhuo County, as if you can vaguely see the tragic situation when Jiangzhuo County was captured.

On the night of the 28th, Liu Ji's border guards built a temporary camp near the ruins of Jiangzhuo County, preparing to rest here for a night and continue to move north early tomorrow morning.

In Liu Ji's tent, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he looked at the document issued by the Great Jin court in his hand. Unexpectedly, as Zhou Lanqi had expected, Zhao Ce reported himself to the Great Jin court this time. Because of the intervention of Sun Zhou's governor in Wanzhou, not only did nothing, but he became a blessing in disguise and became a partial general officially appointed by the Great Jin court. In this way, there was no need to worry about the safety of his father and sister.

This document was sent by Sun Youhao, the governor of Wanzhou, who sent someone to ride a fast horse. The position of this general can be said to be fought for by Sun Zhou's governor to help Liu Ji. The governor of Sun Zhou sent someone to send the document to Liu Ji, hoping to make a good relationship with Liu Ji.

In the army of the Great Jin Dynasty, any position at the level of a general must be appointed by the court himself. Although the prestige of the Great Jin Dynasty has dropped sharply due to internal and external troubles in recent years, the military men of the Great Jin Dynasty only count if they want to become generals.

A few days ago, the Dajin court asked local officials from all over the country to form local troops. Local officials could only appoint their subordinates as lieutenants, including provincial governors of each state. The title of the lowest-level general like the general must be appointed by the court himself.

This time, Sun Youhao wanted to take advantage of Liu Ji's affairs to directly win the position of the prefect of Geshan County into his own hands, but the relationship between the Zhao family in the Geshan County was not weak, and in the end, the position of the prefect of Geshan County fell on Zhao Ce.

Then the imperial court of the Jin Dynasty may have balanced the relationship between Wanzhou and did not believe Zhao Ce's slander for Liu Ji, but instead recognized Sun Youhao's statement, commended Liu Ji for defeating tens of thousands of bandits outside Cangyuan City, and appointed Liu Ji as a partial general. However, Liu Ji's mission to guard the border was still not cancelled, but his reputation was much bigger.

In addition, Liu Ji was appointed in the court's official documents to control all the troops in Chengyin County, Dai'an County, Qianzhou, including other counties in the Dajin County to Qianzhou to guard the border, and to resist the invasion of Chengyin County by the nomadic tribes on the grassland.

Of course, except for the title of a general, the Jin court did not give Liu Ji any more soldiers, and did not re-regulate the troops brought by Liu Ji to Chengyin County to guard the border. It still required Liu Ji to bring 500 troops to Chengyin County.

Liu Ji put the documents in his hand on the wooden couch in the cloth tent, then curled his lips to Su Lie, Le Yi and other military generals, saying: "This time it's thanks to the Sunzhou governor of Wanzhou. Now I am a general of the Great Jin Dynasty. Unfortunately, it's just a name. Not to mention a soldier and a soldier in the Great Jin Dynasty, I didn't even give me a copper plate!"

Su Lie smiled and said, "Lord, no matter what, promotion should be worth celebrating. In this way, we don't need to worry about being in trouble by the court!"

Le Yi also said: "After the lord was promoted to a general, we can finally bring out the banner of "Liu"!"

According to the regulations of the Great Jin court, only generals in the army could have their own flags. Liu Ji was originally just a captain and could not have his own flags at all. Now, if he was promoted to a general, he could have a flag with the word "Liu".

Liu Ji sighed at this time and said, "The court of the Great Jin Dynasty is just that. Even if I give me the title of General of the Cavalry, it will not change much for our border guards. Everything depends on ourselves."

After Liu Ji brought the border guards into Qianzhou, he found that the situation in Qianzhou was indeed very bad. Before entering Qianzhou, the number of soldiers under Liu Ji's command had exceeded 6,300.

After entering Qianzhou, Liu Ji still recruited troops all the way, but when the people of various counties and counties along the way heard that Liu Ji's army was going to Chengyin County, the border of Qianzhou, and there were very few young and strong men willing to join Liu Ji's army to guard the border.

The border guards traveled in Qianzhou for more than ten days, and the number of soldiers recruited barely reached 100. At present, the number of soldiers under Liu Ji's command has reached only 6,400, and has not increased significantly.

The reason why Liu Ji's border guard army was difficult to recruit soldiers is because many counties and counties in the border area of ​​Qianzhou have been in name only. Under the sweeping of cavalry of various tribes of the grassland nomadic tribe, towns have turned into ruins. Chengyin County, which Liu Ji's border guard army is about to go to, is located in the northernmost part of Qianzhou, and the situation may be even worse.

Liu Ji is worried now that after he leads the border guards to Chengyin County, he may not even have a place to live. Chengyin County's county may have become a ruin like the county town of Jiangzhuo County in front of him. Liu Ji is still unclear about the situation in Chengyin County, and after entering Qianzhou, he did not find out the specific situation in Chengyin County.

Fortunately, Liu Ji had 6,400 war soldiers in his hand, all of them were covered in armor, including 1,300 cavalry and 700 infantrymen, and the remaining 4,400 infantrymen were also wearing armor.

In addition to the more than 20 military generals under Liu Ji, even if Liu Ji arrived in Chengyin County, he would not have no power to fight back against the cavalry of all races on the grassland.

In order to deal with the cavalry of all races in the grassland, Liu Ji, Su Lie and Le Yi, they also developed a secret weapon to defeat the cavalry.

Liu Ji's number of military generals has not increased. In addition to Chen Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhang Shuo, Yang Hongtao and Wu Liang who have been recruited in reality, there are still twenty military generals summoned by the system.

When he left Cangyuan City, Liu Ji's soul value was still 614 points. He often encountered dead people along the way in Wanzhou, and basically starved to death. Unfortunately, most of them had been dead for more than two hours. However, some of them had just died shortly, which increased Liu Ji's soul value, especially when passing by a village that had just been looted by bandits, which increased Liu Ji's soul value by more than 100 points at once.

When Liu Ji entered Qianzhou, his soul value had exceeded 800 points, so Liu Ji asked the system to summon second-rate generals twice in a row, but the result was very sad that all failed, and the lucky bonus did not work.

Now Liu Ji's soul value is only 57 points left, and it is not enough to summon a third-rate general once.
Chapter completed!