At Hanyang Pass, the garrison envoy Xu Zhongxing stood at the top of the city, staring into the distance.
At the end of his sight, a banner broke out of the fog, and countless cavalry came towards Hanyang Pass, with military spirit like a mountain!
Xu Zhongxing's eyes narrowed, and such a military spirit was completely beyond his expectation. The garrison of Hanyang Pass was fifty thousand. If the original garrison was still so military, but when the county was established, Chen Dao took away many elites from Yuejin Mountain.
Now the military morale is not as good as it used to be. If we don't gather thirty or forty thousand people, I'm afraid we won't be able to build such a military morale.
Military morale can also be concealed or exaggerated. The army in front of us is marching. Although it is possible to show off in front of the pass, it basically represents the strength and morale of this army.
Fan Donghe next to him had a solemn expression, and after a moment he said: "He is truly a master of tiger and wolf!"
A guerrilla general said: "Fortunately, we can now be used by the imperial court. With them blocking the west, our life will be easier."
Fan Donghe said with a hey, "Easy? That's not necessarily the case. Even if you restrain your ambition for a moment, it will still be exposed sooner or later."
The army was approaching quickly, and even ordinary sergeants could see the large word "GUARD" on the dark green flags.
The troops were all cavalry, with more than 3,000 cavalry, all wearing green armor and red decorations. Although they were marching normally, their hooves were thundering and murderous!
When the troops arrived not far outside the pass, they changed direction and instead of entering the pass, they circled the city. The relevant documents had already been sent to Hanyang Pass, so all the generals in the pass knew that they were escorting Wei Yuan, the envoy of Dingxi Jiedu, to Beijing to face the Holy Spirit.
of soldiers and horses.
Xu Zhongxing suddenly said: "When he went west alone, I didn't even know that such a person existed. I didn't expect that now there is a cavalry that is not weaker than the Ninth Army. It's less than a year!"
"Hmph, maybe it's just a bunch of showpieces. If it weren't for all our elites being mobilized, we wouldn't be bad at all!" A captain said unconvinced.
Fan Donghe glared at the man fiercely and continued to observe the cavalry. The more he looked, the more he frowned: "The military spirit is a bit weird. How can such a small number of people have such a strong military spirit? It's ridiculously strong."
Xu Zhongxing's eyesight was far superior and he said slowly: "Because there are many, many Taoist foundations inside, maybe eight hundred, maybe a thousand. The military atmosphere is covering it up, so it's a bit unclear."
Fan Donghe was shocked, "So many!? Where did he find so many Daojis? Did all the Daojis in the Broken Realm go to him?"
The cavalry had already bypassed Guancheng. Looking at the banner with the word "Wei" drifting away, Fan Donghe said: "Raising tigers will bring trouble! Why did the king appoint him as a military envoy? How stupid!"
Xu Zhongxing glared at him fiercely, and then Fan Donghe realized that he had made a mistake. Fortunately, they were brothers who had been together for many years, so there should be no one to report him.
In the cavalry formation, Wei Yuan sat on the green horse and moved forward slowly without feeling any bumps. At this time, the army was connected with military spirit and formed a self-contained body. The march seemed slow but was actually fast. It was a cavalry army.
Can run hundreds of miles.
Wei Yuan could feel that as he got further and further away from the Qingming Realm Stone, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains gradually fell into silence, his Tao power continued to decline, and his whole person gradually became weaker.
Cui Yu, who was next to him, felt something and asked: "Are you okay?"
"It doesn't matter, I'm just a little weak."
Cui Yu sighed: "If you ask me, you should mobilize all your troops. Why should you be so low-key? There are many people in Jindu waiting to cause trouble for you."
Wei Yuan said: "These soldiers are just right now. If there are more, King Jin may regret it. If you want to cause trouble for me, haha, I'm afraid it's not that easy."
Cui Yu said: "There is a traitor in our realm. Now that you leave Qingming, you will become weak. This matter has been spread in Jindu. Many young people there want to fight you to become famous and suppress them.
The momentum of our Taichu Palace. I think we need to clean up the interior this time when we come back."
Wei Yuan shook his head: "It's not necessary. There are so many people now, and there will be more and more people in the future. There will always be people sneaking in, and there will always be people leaving us. Let them go."
Cui Yu turned around and said: "One more thing, this time you assigned official positions and did not leave any positions for your fellow disciples of Tianqing Palace. They are secretly dissatisfied."
Wei Yuan said: "They came late, and I have been idle for a while. They have basically done nothing, so how can I give them a position? Don't worry about them. There will be more wars in the future. When they have meritorious service, they will naturally have enough positions. North
How is the situation?"
Cui Yu said: "The Liao people moved south in a large scale, and the Western Jin Dynasty's front collapsed. Only by reactivating the King of Ying did they stabilize the position. They retreated thousands of miles in one breath, and the main force of the Liao people was able to free up their hands to attack the northern mountain gate with all their strength. Most of the combat forces in the palace were transferred
When I arrived in the north, I heard that the situation was very pessimistic. At this time, the King of Jin held an autumn hunt to boost morale."
"Qiu Shou..." Wei Yuan knew that this was the highlight of the trip.
Thousands of cavalry rode around the city day and night, traveling more than 100,000 miles in ten months, changing from hot and humid to cold and dry along the way. Finally, a huge dark gray city appeared in front of Wei Yuan: Yingdu.
Ying, the royal capital of the Western Jin Dynasty, was originally just a small border town. After the Lu family gained the kingdom a thousand years ago, to everyone's surprise, they settled the capital in Ying, a small town with only ten thousand people at the time.
Ying was located on the edge of the northern grassland. At that time, it was only a few hundred miles away from the nearest Liao grassland, and the Northern Liao cavalry could reach the city in one sprint.
In the next hundred years, several generations of Jin kings waited for the enemy, and pushed the Northern Liao Dynasty back thousands of miles, laying the foundation for the present-day territory of the Western Jin Dynasty. After that, the Jin kings of the successive generations were either ignorant or diligent. At the farthest, Yingying was 30,000 miles away from the border.
It's only two thousand miles away.
The northern mountain gate of Taichu Palace also stands on the grassland of Beidi. The relationship between the Western Jin Dynasty and Taichu Palace is sometimes close and sometimes far away. Generally speaking, they still watch and help each other and rely on each other.
Over the course of hundreds of years, Ying has grown from a small town of 10,000 people to a giant city of 2 million people today, becoming a famous city in the Tang Dynasty.
At the west gate of Yingdu, the afternoon sun shines through the windows of the city tower, illuminating the room warmly. The Imperial Guard general in charge of duty leaned on the back of his chair, his eyelids gradually becoming heavy.
Suddenly a horn sounded, and the general jumped up instinctively. Enemy attack?
A soldier rushed into the tower and shouted: "General Lin, you have military spirit! You are very fast!"
General Lin grabbed his saber, rushed to the gate tower, and looked into the distance. Sure enough, a military aura appeared in the distant sky, shooting straight into the sky, full of murderous intent.
General Lin has been on the battlefield for a long time. He only retired from the northern border this year due to injuries and was transferred to the Royal Guards. He is experienced and experienced, and he can tell at a glance that it would take 20,000 Liao barbarians to build such a military spirit.
However, even though they had just experienced a major defeat and retreated thousands of miles, the front line was still thousands of miles away from the royal capital. How could the Liao cavalry suddenly appear near the royal capital?
The army moved very quickly, and the army below finally appeared in sight. General Lin used his eyesight enough to finally see clearly the dark green and red armor and the word "Guardian" on the military flag.
He suddenly remembered something, took out the military register, rummaged through it quickly, his tense face finally relaxed, and cursed at the sergeant next to him: "What a fuss! That's the flag of the Governor of Wei! You blew the trumpet without seeing it clearly, I was shocked.
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Suddenly a majestic voice sounded behind him: "Why are you blowing the siren?"
When he looked back, he saw a dark-skinned general with a Chinese-character face standing behind him, showing no anger or authority. He immediately straightened his body and said, "I've seen the right guard! Returning to the general, he should be the envoy of Wei Jiedushi."
Military horses, the people underneath didn’t see clearly and blew the alarm by mistake.”
The general with a Chinese character came to the city, looked at the rolling cavalry, his pupils shrank, and said slowly: "As expected of the frontier army, it is indeed a tiger and wolf army!"
General Lin was startled and said: "Border troops? They are not on the list?"
General Guozilian said: "Think about their position, what else is this if it's not a frontier army? This Wei Yuan..."
He didn't finish his sentence.
A moment later, the city gates of Jindu opened wide, and thousands of cavalry rolled into the city. General Lin stood at the city gate, watching the cavalry passing in front of him, and felt a murderous aura so strong that it seemed to be real, rushing towards his face, making people suffocating.
The primary school student next to him quietly stuck out his tongue and said: "Oh my God! How many people have been killed? Such murderous intent!"
General Lin said: "How else can we defeat Commander Yue's 10,000 cavalry and annihilate them all?"
"Ah? It's them?" The principal was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.
General Lin nodded and said: "These are the newly surrendered people. Don't provoke them if you have nothing to do."
The principal smiled bitterly, "How many of you have the guts to provoke these murderous gods?"
General Lin felt relieved now. But he knew that there were many bold people in the capital.
Wei Yuan handed over the documents for entering the city, and the cavalry group was led to the military camp. Yingcheng also built a city wall outside the city wall, enclosing several acropolis. The acropolis was equivalent to a large urn city, with military camps inside. Wei Yuan brought
A large army of troops and horses was stationed in the military camp. He himself could take a hundred personal guards to stay at the post house in the capital, waiting for the king of Jin to summon him.
After thousands of years of operation, the royal capital has become very prosperous. Although the front line has suffered repeated defeats, banquets are still everywhere in the city.
The lights were brightly lit in a mansion, and a banquet was going on in a painting pavilion that was half-aired over a small lake. Most of the people at the banquet were young people, all of them gorgeously dressed, and one could tell at a glance that they were of extraordinary origins.
There were three seats at the top, and there was a girl in the middle. She couldn't tell what looked good, but the more she looked at it, the more she wanted to see it. She was Princess Zhao Ningguo.
The young man on the left, whose robe is embroidered with a blue dragon, is the fifteenth son of the current King of Jin. The young man on the right has a deep aura, and the skin on his face is faintly glowing, and he is obviously of good cultivation. He can sit in the Zhao Dynasty.
The princess next to her has an extraordinary life experience, and she is the crown prince.
Apart from these two, those who can drink with Princess Ning Guo are naturally of distinguished background.
There were still a few empty seats in the table. At this time, the waiter shouted: "General Wang, the right guard of the Forbidden Army, has arrived!"
A tall man with a Chinese-style face walked into the painting pavilion. Although he was not wearing armor, he was dressed in a military style that was very eye-catching. He first saluted the fifteenth prince, then sat down at the table.
Everyone at the banquet was familiar with each other, and one of the young masters said: "General Wang, I heard that the Western Region Guard Barbarian entered the city today and was so frightened that the city gate defender blew the alarm by mistake. Is this Guard Barbarian really that powerful?"
The general with a Chinese character said: "He is indeed the master of tigers and wolves."
One of the young masters snorted and sneered: "No matter how capable this guy is, if he dares to offend Princess Ning Guo, I have to learn the unique skills of Taichu Palace!"
This young man spoke freely, and the expressions on the faces of everyone at the table were somewhat subtle.
The atmosphere among nobles in various countries is quite open, especially in the royal family. Many people are dissolute. There are many princesses who meet countless people before they are twenty years old.
On that day, the Zhao State mission was hijacked by the horse bandit Zhantian Gang, and Princess Ning Guo was humiliated. The news naturally spread faster than a flying sword delivering a letter. Everyone didn't care about the princess being humiliated. They treated it as a dog bite anyway.
Or maybe you drank too much and chose an unpleasant guest by mistake.
What everyone is talking about is that the horse bandit was over in just a breath from getting on the bus to getting off the bus. There are many people in the capital with good hands and eyes. Everyone knows the true roots of the Zhantian Gang, so they naturally know how to dare to infiltrate them.
Who is in the princess carriage?
In addition, Feng Lin, who had lost his official position due to poor guarding, insisted in prison that the horse bandit had indeed done something. He heard the noise outside the car, so the incident was treated as a joke, and as Wei Yuan was granted the title of Military Envoy
, has spread throughout the officialdom of the Western Jin Dynasty.
Wei Yuan's cavalry has not yet entered the capital, but the name of Sanqiang has spread throughout the royal city.
Chapter completed!