Chapter 719
"General, we have received a report from our scouts that a large group of soldiers and horses are coming 50 miles ahead, numbering no less than 100,000!"
As Li Linfei flew a kite and led the exhausted Rong Di soldiers and horses who had been chasing them for days and nights to approach their ambush circle, Xiang Liang also received news from his spying horses.
"It looks like the Rong Di army has arrived, pass the order to all the generals to act according to the plan!"
And as Xiang Liang's order was given, Yi Xiaochuan finally knew what Li Linfei's plan was!
Fire attack! The most effective fire attack! Yes, Li Linfei had scolded Yi Xiaochuan before, this place was full of desert and Gobi, how could he attack with fire?
But that didn't mean that Li Linfei didn't have a way to attack with fire. On the contrary, he had already thought of a way to burn the 100,000-odd Rong Di soldiers into charcoal fire, except that for one thing, disliking Yi Xiaochuan had become a habit and would refresh him.
The second is that who said that only grass, wood and cloth can be ignited? The first thing is that you can't even get to the surface of the earth.
The place where there is not an inch of soil is the Gobi, and the Gobi is not always an open pit coal mine, but an open pit coal mine is definitely the Gobi, and these are all things that Li Linfei has looked up through the system, or else he thought that Li Linfei would have thought of this solution.
However, coal is very laborious to ignite directly and needs some kind of fire starter, so after Li Linfei left, Vice General Pang took the 50,000 Mongolian troops that had been seconded to him and worked day and night to transport all the coal blocks that were exposed on the ground nearby to the ambush point that Li Linfei had chosen.
A small basin, so to speak, was so wide that no one would be on the lookout for it, and smashed it into small pieces. Then, Yi Xiaochuan went to Shangxian County to borrow men from Meng Tian, and used the grass and grass cut by the 250,000 Mongolian troops to fight for several days and nights.
"If we can bring in these bastards from the rear, we can turn them all into fireballs! Teams one to five go to the left hillock, teams six to ten go to the right cliff!"
As he spoke, Li Linfei also handed two pockets of aluminium thermite grenades to his own soldiers with one free hand.
A few months later, when Li Linfei, Xiang Liang, Xiang Liang, Xiang Zhuang, Yi Xiaochuan and Vice General Pang, each of the six men led a way to kill the Rong Di country, directly swallowing most of the Rong Di territory into the Great Qin territory, capturing half a million prisoners of war and millions of cattle, sheep and horses, with provisions and treasures amounting to tens of thousands of carts.
The journey was so vast that it even alerted Meng Tian and Wang Li, who each sent 50,000 troops to assist in the escort, and together they sent their armies forward 1,300 miles to take all the territory that Li Lin Fei had conquered under their command.
After nearly two months of marching, Li Linfei finally returned to Xianyang on the day of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's birthday banquet, and led his men into the palace in full military attire, to the hall where the banquet had already begun.
"Hahahaha! Well, well, well! I thought that my uncle would not be able to come back in time for my birthday today, but I never thought that he would finally come back to celebrate my birthday!" Seeing that Li Linfei had rushed back in full military attire and covered in dust, Qin Shi Huang was overjoyed and directly stood up from his dragon chair, personally walking down the imperial steps to help Li Linfei and Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang beside him up.
"Your Majesty's great birthday is glorious, how dare the last general not patronise you and run back?" Li Linfei said this kneeling down on one knee and giving a military salute to Qin Shi Huang.
"Your Majesty, today is Your Majesty's great birthday, and the last general has three gifts to present to you! May Your Majesty be blessed like the sea and live as long as the heavens, and heaven and earth shine together for all eternity!"
"Oh? Your uncle has gifts for me? Quickly present them!" The first emperor of Qin had guessed what gift Li Linfei was talking about after a brief thought, it must be the head of Pa Jia Gao that Guo Dong had mentioned before!
On the occasion of his birthday, it would be a great pleasure to have the head of an enemy king on display, and it would also be a great deterrent to the emissaries from foreign countries and those with ulterior motives, as well as a great boost to Qin's national prestige!
To be honest, when Li Linfei didn't come back in time, Qin Shi Huang was still sighing because he was missing such a birthday gift!
When he heard Qin Shi Huang's question, Li Lin Fei immediately brought his head into the hall and held the box in his hands above his head: "This is the first gift, the head of the Rong Di bandit chief Pa Jia Gao, who was promised to Your Majesty as a birthday gift when the last general went to war!"
The head of Pajia Gao was not known to Qin Shi Huang, but some of the people present, especially the Rong Di hostages and emissaries, did know him, and when Qin Shi Huang ordered the head to be passed to the officials for inspection, it was passed to these two men, causing them to cry and wail, and they were then dragged out by Zhao Gao's very discerning men.
Looking at the head of the powerful Khan King of the Rong Di, and then at Qin Shi Huang, who was in a good mood after receiving this gift, causing him to laugh with a great sense of pride, some of the emissaries from the foreign states, especially Queen Tu An and General Jin, who had come in to assassinate Qin Shi Huang, followed the group of ministers and congratulated them, while at the same time, their thoughts were strengthened.
"Good, good, the uncle is really true to his word, worthy of a manly man, the Lion King, really promised to take the head of this thief to celebrate my birthday! Well done! I am delighted with this birthday gift!"
After laughing, Qin Shi Huang turned to Li Lin Fei and praised him, then remembered that Li Lin Fei had just said he had three gifts, this was only one, I wonder what the remaining two were: "Uncle, I wonder what your second gift is?"
Li Linfei smiled, and after receiving Qin Shi Huang's permission, he asked Xiang Zhuang to go out and bring the second gift he had prepared for Qin Shi Huang to the hall, "Your Majesty, this second gift is the eight beauties I have prepared for Your Majesty, to show that Your Majesty is the most powerful emperor of the ages!"
He even ignored the fact that the so-called beauties were a bit old.
"Your Majesty, this is the Queen of Rong Di, these two are the left and right consorts of Pajak, this is the eldest daughter of Pajak, this is the daughter-in-law of Pajak and the Crown Princess of Rong Di, this is the first beauty of Rong Di who became famous ten years ago, this is the daughter of the last King of Rong Di, and this is the famous female general of Rong Di!"
Chapter 720
Although these eight beauties were all a bit poor, and a few were even a bit crooked due to their age, their status was enough to make Qin Shi Huang, and all the others, overlook the problem, and immediately made Qin Shi Huang, who was already delighted by Li Lin Fei's flattery, even happier!
A few moments later, the eight beauties were brought down by Qin Shi Huang's order, and this time without Qin Shi Huang asking, Li Lin Fei took the initiative to offer a third gift, a scroll.
He opened it and saw that it was a map. Without waiting for him to ask questions, Li Linfei explained: "Your Majesty, my third gift is that I will not be ashamed of my mission, and I will exterminate the Rong Di who dare to infringe on the prestige of the Qin Empire, expand the land by 1,300 miles, and take half of the territory of the Rong Di into the territory of the Qin Empire, so that I can congratulate Your Majesty on the longevity of his kingdom with its thousand miles of territory! "
Three gifts and three asses, both the gifts and the asses could be described as unique, everyone in the court had congratulatory gifts and messages, but none of them could compare to any of Li Linfei's.
The Emperor was so pleased that he made Li Linfei a great general of the state, ranking him as a superior general, the same as the four generals in front and behind him, and gave him all the 70,000 soldiers and horses he had led before, and the 50,000 elite soldiers left after the many battles.
In addition, 50,000 men were taken from the Mongolian army and 50,000 from Wang Li's army to prepare for the Xiongnu, which was followed by the 100,000 men who were escorting prisoners of war, slaves and finances, making a total of 150,000 troops.
The replacement, Wang Li, took the troops that had been stationed here to prepare for the Xiongnu and moved to the northwest to officially take over the 1,300 miles of Rongdi territory that had been conquered, making it the territory of the Great Qin.
In the early years, there were only two groups of people on the northern frontier of the Great Qin. One was the Meng family, which was led by Meng Wu in the early years, and now by his son Meng Tian, who led 300,000 Meng family troops to guard the frontier.
The other group was the Wang family, Wang Ben in the early years, and now Wang Li, the elite soldiers of the 250,000 who had destroyed the six kingdoms, which was even more powerful than the 300,000 Meng army.
With these two Meng and Wang commanding 550,000 soldiers guarding the northern frontier, it can be said that the northern frontier of the Qin Empire was as solid as a rock, so that Qin Shi Huang was assured of living in Xianyang City.
But because of this, the two Meng Kings had gained unrivalled prestige among the two frontier armies, and one of them was already known as the Meng Family Army, so how could Qin Shi Huang not be worried that they would take over their own army?
Therefore, when Li Linfei sent his troops to the Rong Di, he originally only had to deploy 30,000 Meng's troops, but Qin Shi Huang took the initiative to increase the number to 50,000, in order to reduce the Meng's army, or Meng Tian's military power.
Now he even explicitly took 50,000 men each from Meng Tian and Wang Li and gave them to Li Lin Fei, making him one of the great generals of the garrison and thinning out their forces and power.
The newest general of the frontier garrison, Li Linfei not only had the smallest army of the three, but was also stationed in the northeast, the farthest away, and would not be enough to worry about for a few years.
But yet, with 13,000 elite soldiers at his disposal, a famous commander like Xiang Liang, a fierce general like Xiang Yu, and the help of the Hall of Lifting Sages, he was sufficient to counter the other two.
And Meng Tian had died of illness a few days ago, or rather of poison. Before he died, he finally persuaded Yi Xiaochuan to change his name to Meng Yi and take over the reins of the Meng family army, and with the new change of command, there was no need to worry about the Meng family army at all.
As for Wang Li, after 50,000 men were taken away, only 200,000 troops were left, and they were again far away from the place they had been stationed for years and had long been familiar with, heading for the windy and sandy land of the Rong Di that they had just defeated.
Not only did he have to re-arrange the garrison in a place he was unfamiliar with, but he also had to take care of the land and settle the people, which was enough to make Wang Li's energy and strength stretched to the limit for a long time, so it was impossible for him to do anything!
In this way, the three major generals have enough strength to ensure that the frontier is free from worry, but none of them have that ability to hold their own troops and claim the throne.
He looked at Li Linfei even more favourably as he found that he was a blessing to him, from the moment Li Linfei appeared, he did everything in his favour!
From rescuing Meng Tian and Yushu and sending them to Xianyang, to saving the army at Lanchi, then treating Yushu's illness, garrisoning Xianyang, training elite troops, conquering the Rong Di, expanding the land by a thousand miles, and now solving a major worry that had been there all along.
Without affecting the stability of the border army, he has weakened the two Mongolian kings, and even the previous remarks about loyalists, traitors and sycophants were a great inspiration to him.
It was his eldest son, Fusu, who had established the Hall of the Raising of the Magi, which was filled with descendants of the six kingdoms. The gathering of so many remnants of the six kingdoms in Xianyang had always been a hidden worry for him, but once Guo Dong caught and released them, they were no longer a hidden worry and had become a powerful force in the Qin garrison!
The Confucian scholars, who had wanted to be exterminated many years ago, and the Moists, who had to be suppressed because of the wars between the seven kingdoms, have put aside their past grievances and rejoined the Great Qin.
And they found the areas in which each was best at and would not affect their own rule, all of which Li Linfei found excuses for and came up with.
It can be said that Li Linfei's good deeds were too good for Qin Shi Huang to finish even if he thought about them for three days and nights!
The Emperor was so happy that he let Li Linfei sit at the head of the military generals and took out the treasure he had been hiding. The famous Gao Jianli, who has been known for thousands of years, struck a building!
But Qin Shi Huang, whose dragon heart was overjoyed and who was celebrating his birthday, had no idea that this Gao Jianli, whom he had kept in the deep palace for many years, had blinded himself back then, in order that Qin Shi Huang would no longer be wary of him as a blind man and approach him.
Then ...... assassinated Qin! Following in the footsteps of his friend Jing Ke, he also assassinated Qin to avenge his friend Jing Ke's death!