The changes in the capital were soon reported back to Qin Xi.

The Song family's secret guards lurking in the Qinyuan Teahouse used a high-speed Geese drone to send urgent news.

The emperor's arrangements, Duke Lu's informants, the imperial envoys and generals who suppressed the rebellion, and the dead soldiers sent by the major forces, everything that could be found out was reported in detail, which gained valuable insights for Qin Xi's preparations for war.

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Calculating the days, there were at least more than thirty days of preparation time, and Liuhe Villa began to work non-stop on related matters.

Song Xi ordered martial law throughout the province, blocking all major city gates and checkpoints, and at the same time mobilized troops and generals to officially enter a wartime defense state.

All Qin Xi's generals gathered at Liuhe Villa to discuss battle strategies, while civil servants from various places were trying to stabilize the territories under their jurisdiction.

Yu Yalan, who has already given birth, is also actively preparing food and grass, and working with her brother to provide logistical support for military supplies.

Winter has already entered, and the cold weather will bring a lot of inconvenience to the marching team.

This season is also when the Tatars are particularly active, so Qin Xi and Ping Liang have to be mentally prepared to be attacked from both sides.

Yu Yalan used Space's universal factory to produce 300,000 pieces of military down jackets and warm sleeping bags. In addition, she also cooperated with Sihai Commercial Bank to open a clothing factory and a food factory.

The garment factory is equipped with a batch of older foot-operated sewing machines, which specialize in producing all categories of military clothing during the war. After the war is over, it will resume normal production of daily clothing for ordinary people.

The food factory is equipped with steam power, which facilitates the batch production of packaged food at the fastest speed. During wartime, it gives priority to the production of biscuits, candies, instant noodles and self-heating military lunch boxes to provide the marching troops with energy-rich portable dry food. During stable periods, the same type of food is produced.

Civilian food allows ordinary people to try delicious snacks.

Both factories are light industrial projects. With ready-made factory buildings and raw materials, they can start construction within ten days. Recruitment matters are also very easy to complete. After all, Liuhe Villa has been reserving talents in all aspects.

Yu Yalan was busy preparing military supplies for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and Yu Hongxuan began to produce necessary military chemicals in large quantities.

The Yu family's large medicinal garden planted many common medicinal materials, but unfortunately they were too young to be put into use immediately. In order to ensure the medicine supply for the Song family army, he could only use space herbs to prepare sufficient patent medicines.

Colds, coughs, fevers, hemostasis, analgesics and anti-inflammation, all imaginable common diseases and trauma drugs are stored in large quantities. The medicinal materials produced by the space are very powerful. The same weight can produce ten times the amount of powder, which greatly satisfies Song Xi's subordinates.

Medical needs of all armies.

The Yu Yalan siblings did not dare to be careless. All supplies were stored according to the excess target. If they were not used up, they could be sold on the private market after the war. In short, they could not mistreat the soldiers who fought bloody battles on the front line.

A month passed quickly. When Qinxi and Pingliang were preparing for war, the counter-rebellion army led by Luo Yiming gradually approached.

Scouts and spies will transmit the latest military information every day so that Liuhe Villa can make correct decisions as soon as possible.

Imperial Envoy Luo Yiming was very cautious and did not launch an offensive rashly against Qinxi or Pingliang.

He first sent spies to sneak into the border towns of the two places to try to investigate the anomalies in Qinxi and Pingliang.

However, his testing did not yield results. All the spies left without returning. What's more, some of them couldn't even enter the city gate. If they dared to question, they would be immediately arrested by the soldiers guarding the city.

If covert investigation failed, he would try an open investigation. He ordered his subordinates to go to the border town with an imperial edict and a token, requesting the two places to release the anti-rebellion army teams, and notifying the Chief Envoy and the Capital Commander to prepare to welcome them.

The result was once again unexpected. The generals who defended the city did not pay attention to the imperial army at all. They falsely accused them of falsely passing on the imperial edict, and immediately sealed the city gates and announced that they were in a state of war preparation.

Luo Yiming was troubled by this and felt that the situation seemed more difficult than he imagined.

Their original plan was to go to Longxi to meet with the Lu Guoguo, understand the situation in the northwest, and then agree on a battle plan. The actual battle would probably have to wait until late winter or spring, and before that, he would have to investigate the details of the rebels.

But now, he can't even enter Qinxi or Pingliang, let alone travel across the two places to join the Lu Guild.

The rebel forces in the northwest are more powerful than the imperial court expected, and their control over the two places is far greater than that of the ordinary government. I don't know who is behind this, and why can they achieve such shocking results?

Luo Yiming was a little helpless. The 10,000 elites he led could not compete with the military power of the two provinces. If he wanted to complete the mission, he had to go to Longxi and unite the forces of the border army to compete with the northwest rebels!

Qinxi and Pingliang were unwilling to let them go, so they had no choice but to take a detour to Shu. However, this would consume a lot of time and food. It seemed that they had to request the court to reinforce them as soon as possible, otherwise they would be defeated due to lack of supplies.

The detour of Beizhen Fusi and the imperial army was really unexpected, and the dead soldiers from various families who followed behind were a little surprised and disdainful.

Even with the imperial edict, you can't enter Qinxi. This imperial envoy is too cowardly!

Luo Yiming may have some scruples and considerations, but his soldiers don't need to pay attention to any combat strategies. They can sneak into the city quietly by changing their disguises. While the imperial army is attracting attention in front, they can fish in troubled waters to investigate the situation.

All the dead men have very beautiful visions, but unfortunately reality is always more cruel than fantasy.

They were indeed able to enter the city by pretending to be ordinary people, but what followed was arrest and interrogation.

Even if someone with great skills can escape temporarily, they will still be surrounded and suppressed by countless masters once they get close to Xijing or Yanzhou.

The people in Qinxi are also very strange. When they see outsiders, they will be suspicious and question them on the spot. If they can't answer, they will directly shout loudly and attract the patrol guards in the city to arrest the dead.

There were about a thousand dead soldiers from various families who entered Qinxi and Pingliang. Without exception, they were all caught in the net of Liuhe Villa. It was not until they were interrogated by Zhenyan Dan that they felt full of regret. They should not have underestimated the strength of the rebels, which led to their own fate. The fate of body and soul disappearing.

Luo Yiming didn't know the outcome of the dead soldiers. He only left a few people outside the border town to wait and see what happened.

If those forces can really blend into the two places, he will have a good understanding of the internal strength of the northwest rebels.

It doesn't matter even if you go and never come back, anyway, it's not the manpower of their Beizhen Fusi that's lost. If you don't be more alert when you see him leading the troops to take a detour, each family will have to bear the consequences of it.

I hope this counterinsurgency can really go smoothly, otherwise he and the 10,000 troops may die here.

Luo Yiming let out a long sigh, feeling a little pessimistic in his heart.
Chapter completed!