Walking on the Ningxia Plain by the Yellow River, Li Chao was as shocked as many generals who came here for the first time. The wind blew the grass and the cattle and sheep appeared, and the fertile field was thousands of miles away. The terrain here was completely different from the Jinghe Valley, as if it had returned to the Guanzhong Plain.

Li Chao actually came to the Ningxia Plain, but that was before traveling through time. However, he came to his house with his classmates at that time. His classmates took him to visit many places, but he dared to say that Ningxia was definitely not what he is now.

The mountains are greener, the grass is greener, and the water is more beautiful.

It is hard to imagine that there are lakes everywhere here, with many huge lakes scattered on the plains, with rippling waves and rippling green water. The Xitau Plain was originally in arid and semi-arid areas, with sparse rainfall. Such places would have been extremely unsuitable for farming and living, but here there are also the benefits of the Yellow River water diversion and irrigation and abundant groundwater resources, forming unique water conservancy conditions.

In addition, the terrain is flat and the soil is deep, which makes it easy to cultivate and plant, and there are excellent harvests, making it the south of the Yangtze River.

"There is Helan's foundation in the west, the Yellow River is natural danger in the east, and the desert is thousands of miles away from the territory, and the Longshan Mountains in the south. This is a land of heaven!" Li Chao looked at the plain at this time and was deeply moved.

There are no ecological problems here yet.

The 500-mile Helan Mountains are like a huge primitive jungle, and the Longshan Mountains are also densely packed with forests. The Yellow River is not that yellow, with abundant plants and numerous lakes.

There are countless wild animals here, including wild horses, deer, tigers, wolves, deer, roe roe, wild boars, etc., and countless birds and beasts.

Moreover, there are 800 miles of Yellow River passing through the Xitao Plain, which makes it unique water transport conditions here. Whether it is Lingwu to Lanzhou, Liangzhou, or going north to the East Tao Plain, there are nearly 3,000 miles of Yellow River water transport conditions here.

This is a natural highway.

The Xitao Plain is bounded by Qingtong Gorge, but is actually divided into two plains. At the same time, it is bounded by the Yellow River and can be divided into two areas: Hedong and Hexi.

After the Northern Wei Dynasty unified the world, the two towns of Gaoping and Pugujin were set up here, and the pastures were set up here. At its peak, there were more than 2 million horses alone, which can be imagined to be powerful.

During the Sui Dynasty, another 20,000 people were sent to build the Great Wall, starting from the east bank of the Lingwu Yellow River in the west and ending at the west bank of the Suide Yellow River in the east. It lasted for more than 700 miles. Relying on the Hengshan Mountains, a solid Great Wall defense line was established.

During the Daye period, the Xitau Plain had a population of about 30,000 households. It had more than 500,000 mu of irrigation areas that led to the Yellow River ditches.

This place is not only the best pasture, but also the extremely fertile farmland, it also has rich medicinal materials, wild animals and other resources, and also produces salt.

Large areas of rice and wheat were even planted here as early as the Sui Dynasty.

There is no overpopular population here, nor pastoralism, excessive reclamation, soil erosion, forest deforestation, and relatively small population.

It's really a scenery on the south of the Yangtze River.

"Master, this place is so beautiful!

"Yes, will we stay here in the future? Can we divide the land and land here? I don't want to go back!"

This group of 20,000 government soldiers who came with Li Chao were basically from all over Guanzhong. Guanzhong was already overcrowded, and even the government soldiers could not get enough equal land. Often, the 100 acres of land were only thirty or fifty acres, or even less.

This time they went to the expedition, as mentioned above, when Lingwu and Jiuzhou were captured, they would be allowed to station and immigrate here and re-provided the fields here. Their original fields were taken back by the court and they would also be given a subsidy.

Before coming, everyone thought that Lingwu in northwest of Guanzhong was a desert, yellow sand and extremely dry place. But when they arrived here, they found that it was even more fertile than the Guanzhong Plain.

Just one Lingzhou is already so fertile. It would be even more amazing if the larger Dongdao was defeated.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, many channels for diversion of Yellow River water have been built on the Hetao Plain, and hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland can be irrigated. As long as some manpower is invested and some water diversion canals originally from the Qin and Han Dynasties are repaired, then irrigating millions of acres of land will not be a problem. This is just a place in Lingzhou. In fact, by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the farmland reclaimed here reached more than 2 million acres, and during the Qing Dynasty, there was more than one million people here.

Li Chao brought 20,000 troops in the palace, and one person actually gave 100 acres of farmland, but it was more than enough to give 50 acres of farmland and 50 acres of pasture.

There is no need to be afraid of another 30,000 people. After all, there are eight other states. Just the front and back covers of the east plain are several times that of the western cover.

The entire Hetao Plain is actually much stronger than the current Guanzhong Plain.

"Mr. Liang even owns such a good territory and cannot develop it. He is such a mediocre person!" Li Chao said contemptuously.

Qingtongxia South entrance.

The vast Yellow River passes through an S-shaped bay from south to north and enters the Qingtong Gorge Canyon. On both sides of the canyon are high mountains standing across the river.

The bronze canyon also divides the Xitau Plain into two plains, north and south.

This section of the canyon is also an important passage to enter Lingwu.

The Liang army commanded 50,000 troops and horses, and was lined up at the entrance of Qingtong Gorge.

"I dare to go deep into Lingzhou with only 20,000 troops. I am overestimating my ability and seeking death! What kind of military god is Zhao Kuo who talks about war on paper."

Master Liang waved his horse whip and pointed at the country.

"Your Majesty, when Li Chao comes, I will personally capture him alive to Your Majesty." A Liang general said with a laugh.

"Report!"

"The Tang army has arrived, just ten miles away. They have stopped marching and are lined up on the spot!"

Master Liang heard this and sneered.

"It seems that Zhang San has learned that my emperor was here in person, so he is afraid to come forward!"

"Your Majesty, he won't come, let's go."

Another general said, "Why did your Majesty go there in person, please let the last general lead three thousand troops to destroy him directly."

Mr. Liang shook his head.

"Although Li San is young, he is also a person who calls his father by the Tuyuhun people who fought in Longyou. Don't underestimate him. The order is to advance the army and I want to meet him in person."

Twenty miles away.

Yuchi Gong asked Li Chao in confusion.

"Then Master Liang is only twenty miles away, why stop moving forward?"

"This is a military order."

Li Chao was usually very polite to Yuchi Gong and others when he was in Ping'an, but he was not polite at all in the military camp. Faced with Yuchi Gong's questioning, he didn't even explain.

The cool breeze blew.

Twenty thousand Tang troops launched a defensive formation on the east bank of the Yellow River.

Seven troops and 20,000 people were launched one after another, ready to fight.

The Liang army led 50,000 people to arrive. When they saw the Tang army formation, they couldn't help but frown.

"This Li Chao is a bit wise."

"Please allow me to fight!"

A Liang general asked for a fight.

However, Liang Shidu frowned and refused to agree. He was the general of Yingyanglang in the Sui Dynasty and had followed Yang Guangdong to conquer Goguryeo, and he fought many battles.

Although Li Chao's troops were less than half of him, the formation was flawless.

He was a little surprised that Li Chao came out of Xiaoguan and came straight towards Lingwu. He neither captured the villages nor stopped, but rushed straight to the road.

But when he arrived here, the two armies approached each other, but he set up a defensive formation again.

"Wait first!" Master Liang didn't even see Li Chao's reality and planned to wait.

As a result, two soldiers were basking in the warm spring sun by the Yellow River, and they lasted for more than an hour.

"Your Majesty, this Li Chao is just a turtle shrunk. Let's fight!"

"That's right, Li San doesn't dare to fight at all."

"He is just afraid of His Majesty's power!"

Master Liang thought about it, so it was not a solution to wait like this.

"Go and challenge!"

A Liang general rode his horse to the front of the formation.

"Hey, Li San on the opposite side, you dare to come, but come and fight!"

In the Tang army formation, Li Chao was observing a bucket of newly-cast Yellow River water. The water had been standing for a long time and the mud and sand had settled down. It was better than he had imagined, and it was not a lot of mud and sand.

Li Chao watched the soil samples he had nowhere to come to collect, including lake soil, saline-alkali soil, sand soil, etc., and saline-alkali soil was not serious.

"Master General, Liang Jun has come up to challenge me, let me fight!" Yuchi Gong said impatiently.

Li Chao just continued to look at the specimens he collected and replied lightly, "Military orders are like mountains. Those who dare to fight without permission from this commander will be killed!"

The military law of the Tang army is extremely strict. Even when the team is protruding, they can be beheaded when they are on the charge. When they are shooting crossbows, they can be beheaded when they are on the left and right. They dare to fight without authorization. This is absolutely not allowed.

"But they all rode on our heads!"

“So what?”

Yuchi Gong was speechless and had no choice but to retreat.

Liang Jun came over to challenge the formation, but no one responded for a long time. Tang Jun was just arrayed there, motionless.

"Your Majesty, just rush straight to the battlefield. We have 50,000 troops!"

The Liang army looked at their own troops and their number was indeed more than twice as many as the Tang army. However, no matter how they looked, they felt that although they had many soldiers, they were not as tidy as the Tang army. They had been lined up here for two hours, but the team was still energetic.

Such a team is elite.

"Simo Special Service, please lead the Turkic cavalry in our headquarters to rush forward for my vanguard, how about?"

Master Liang turned his head and said to a blonde and blue-eyed general beside him.

This general who was obviously a Hu person was a Turkic nobleman, Asanosmo. He also served as a Turkic Khan in the East for a few days. At the end of Kaihuang, the ******* Khan of Qimin was defeated by the Western Turkic Khan and fled to Chang'an. Asanosmo was supported as a Khan in the north of the desert. However, later Qimin got the support of the Sui Dynasty to fight back to the grassland, and Asanosmo took the initiative to go to the Khan again.

After that, the three brothers Chuluo, Jie Li, and Asunasmo were not valued, but because they looked very similar to Hu people, they only followed the Khan in the Khan court and did not get the power to seal the Kaiya.

At present, he was specially sent to Liang's capital, with three thousand Turkic cavalry, and was the foreign aid of Liang's capital.
To be continued...