"In Pingzhou area, at least hundreds of people die every day." Deng Sihai touched the wine pot on his waist, drank a big sip, and his eyes were obviously angry: "It is said that the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty is the official family of the people. Did he really care about the people?"

Deng Wenjun also let out a sigh of depression and then said, "The shoulders of the civilians are about to be worn out, and the officials are still whipping and whipping the poles. They are severely punished by the court because they are afraid of misleading the situation and losing their schedule. The local area is already poor, and even the soldiers of the Xiang army will be in trouble. Last time I went to Pingzhou, about a military army almost mutiny. Later, I transferred the imperial guards to suppress them. I told Li Shu that if the punishment is severe, the soldiers of the Xiang army will be even more dissatisfied... For no other reason, many Xiang army do the same job as the civilians and owes military pay. It would be strange if the Xiang army can be convinced."

"The imperial guards are the three routes on the left, center and right, and the left side is the most relaxed. They have nothing else to do except to station in Pingzhou, Jinzhou, and just take on the position of taking over the battlefield, waiting to give the credit."

"The tough battle is still a must-have, and Li Youde and others fight. Li Enmao has no ability. He is not upright and claims to be romantic. He drinks alcohol and enjoys his time in the big tent and staff every day, and ignores military affairs at all."

The two pirate leaders became more and more angry as they spoke. The Great Wei people and martial arts have been playing for a long time. People who are in it or at a high place in the temple may not have a deep understanding. The people and gentry can see more, and few dare to criticize without restraint. They are only half of the outsider Wang Zhi's subordinates. When they are in it, they are away from it, but they can see more problems and deeper resentment.

Wang Zhi had to stop the words of his two subordinates. After the quiet behind him, the former pirate king walked out of the cabin with his hands behind his back. They had been on the sea boat for several days. The sea in front of him was blue and vast, and the sea surface was quite calm. For the pirate king who was used to seeing the southern seas, this area was his ideal place for retirement, beautiful and quiet. However, as soon as the Northern Expedition was a illusion, Wang Zhi felt that the previous tranquility was an illusion.

Not far away, on the dark land you can see, a major battle that determines the fate of China is about to begin.

The manpower of both sides will be mobilized by more than two million people, and there will be hundreds of thousands of soldiers who will fight directly. Blood will soak the earth and bones will accumulate in the wild. Countless fathers, sons and husbands will bury the corpses here, or break the corpses here.

The war horses and the brave men would roar towards the enemy together, spears gushing like forests and blood gushing.

Countless people and horses will scream, be injured and die.

Rulin's spear, strong shield and armor, humans tried every means to create weapons that were enough to hurt and kill similar ones, and hoped to protect themselves.

Every middle-aged man has strong confidence and can survive the cruel war. He may hold a long scepter, wear heavy armor, and be full of strength. He is surrounded by equally strong partners.

But everyone may die, including those generals in charge of the army, including the commanders of the Donghu people and Taiji.

The dark land is as vast as the sea. Wang Zhi, who is not familiar with the plains, feels that the earth is more worthy of respect. The trendsetters on the sea don’t like too wide continents, which makes them feel at a loss.

Wang Zhi grew up in Mingzhou and hangs out at the port since he was a child. Mingzhou is mountainous and near the sea, and the Liaohai side in front of him is obviously a wider, deep, vast and boundless continent.

This is a vast, broad, deep and cruel continent.

In winter, Wang Zhi once quietly rode his horse on the shore. In the place near the closing of the Great Wei Dynasty, the Donghu people would not appear in winter. Most of them lived in the Old Yingzhou, and they were their heartfelt place in the Liaoyang area.

Wang Zhi ran north for two or three days, dozens of guards rode their horses to follow him. For days and nights, they kept running on the land, feeling the cruelty and terror of winter in this continent.

There are hills everywhere, frozen rivers, and the endless black soil has become dazzling white in winter. It is covered with white everywhere, deeper than the human knees, and there is no sign of life. A small number of houses have long become broken walls, no roads, and the trees are bare, and there is no green on the mountain.

Wang Zhi lives in the south all year round. Even if there is at most a light snow in winter, you don’t need to worry about it. In the Nanyang area, winter is as hot as the summer in the Great Wei Dynasty. There are no four seasons at all, only summer one season.

When we arrived here, Wang Zhi and the others felt the vastness of the world and saw a different scenery.

Later, when Wang Zhi and the others inquired, they found out that the land outside the gate was the western Liaoning Corridor, a small plain. To the north, they walked up to two consecutive months before reaching the border of the Donghu people. Then they rode north for at least half a year, crossed countless rivers, woodlands, plains, and hills, and could see the frozen sea in the extreme north.

There is wider there, and there is a frozen earth everywhere, boundless and endless.

I want to imagine how the people living there live. In the long winter, there is no trace of life everywhere, and frozen land is everywhere. It takes a lot of effort to chisel to chisel the land. The river is frozen, with ice hangings on the trees, no birds and beasts, and there is no green. Under this vast world, there is an average temperature of about minus thirty degrees below the earth and endless silence.

In such a place, hunting, fishing in spring and summer, hunting in autumn and winter, men do these things, women sew fish skins and animal skins as robes, pick wild fruits, and tribes can give birth to babies and raise adults in a good harvest, but in the long run, they can't raise a child for many years.

This is an extremely cruel land. How tough will the people living here develop, how terrible will they have, and how strong the body they have?

Rising here

The Jurchens defeated the Khitan army with 20,000 people, with no rivals.

Later, the Northern Territories emerged, and the Jurchens and Khitans merged, and the current Donghu gradually formed over two hundred years, with the best warriors on this land.

Their riding skills are not as good as those of the Beilu, and the soldiers have undergone more stringent tactical and combat-making training. They are stronger, tougher, more brave and good at fighting than the Beilu.

Their heavy cavalry was not inferior to the Western Qiang, and their armor was slightly inferior. The Western Qiang people could obtain armor casting technology from the Western Regions, Central Asia, and West Asia, or ready-made strong armored soldiers, while the Donghu people forged themselves, and their fine iron weapons were not inferior to those held by the imperial guards of the Great Wei Dynasty.

They were not as rich as the Great Wei, but there were 300,000 soldiers who could mobilize. Most of these people were pure war soldiers, and there were supplementary soldiers from young people who joined the army, because they were pure cavalry and could use their mobile advantages to mobilize the Wei army's imperial guards to exhaustion and difficult to defend.

Their mobilization ability and system of the upper and lower is basically designed for war. When the sound of the conch sounded, countless soldiers wearing armored horses rushed out of the villages of various centurions, carrying their own long scepters, scimitars, straight swords, straight swords, long swords, giant axes, iron spears, and self-proclaimed bows. They usually have double bows, long stair bows and light arches, plus two to three quivers, filled with heavy arrows with flat arrows and light arrows with triangular arrows.

They gathered at their respective village heads, and were led by the commanders of thousands of men to the commanders of ten thousand men, usually under the military flag of the nobles Taiji. There were large wings above the commanders of ten thousand men. Generally, when they confronted the Great Wei, the Khan of the Donghu would divide the army into three wings on the left, center and right, with several ten thousand households each, and a large wing leader.

Before this, Wang Zhi did not feel that Donghu was terrible. Instead, he was surprised that the Great Wei imperial guards had been entangled with the enemy for decades.

When he stepped on the frozen soil and walked in the knee-deep snow, an extremely terrifying picture suddenly appeared in front of him.

Under countless black military flags were iron cavalry dyed with armor. They appeared on the snow-white horizon, and they started with small dots, like peppers scattered on the ground, and then they became bigger and bigger, like the rising water at the tide of the sea and the sky, with an extremely powerful momentum that made people unable to resist, surging.

Those cavalry, this white mountain and black water, are all amazing, fearful, and afraid.

No wonder the Wei Dynasty used up all its wealth and was bleeding, defeated, and fought many times before it could win once.

The entire northern land was full of broken battlefields, with bones, broken weapons, lodging war horses everywhere. A village was normal to look from a distance. When I got closer, I saw it, but it was completely abandoned village with white bones everywhere inside. Some were killed on the front, some were lying down, and heavy arrows from the Donghu people were inserted into the bones on their backs.

Some people were cut down on the road, some were killed in the fields, beside wells, houses, and courtyards, and there were crowds of people everywhere, with a large number of obvious children's bones. Seeing such small bones is simply creepy.

The Donghu cavalry that invaded were completely a group of human-shaped beasts.

After arriving at the northern islands, Wang Zhi, who was born in the south and had been developing in Nanyang, realized his previous shallowness.

Such enemies are as vast and wide as the earth in front of you, seemingly calm, but contain extremely powerful power. They are wild and untamed and good at learning, because they must do so, otherwise they will not be able to survive in this white mountain and black water land. Everything they have for killing and conquest. Once they are conquered by them, the Wei Dynasty will sink for hundreds of years, not only the overthrow of the dynasty, but the severance of civilization.

For a pirate leader who has traveled all over the world, experienced dozens of countries, and watched countless massacres and destruction of countries, Wang Zhi really didn't want to see the Great Wei for that day.

"The emperor is incompetent." Wang Zhi finally said to his two confidants: "In terms of Mingda, the two palaces are right to make a decision. King Zhao is not capable and unpopular. He is the identity of a emperor as a biological father. He handed over the Fujian Road to Mingda, and even gave him the southeast to him. The two palaces don't have to worry about anything about pirates, so how worry-free it is. Mingda is a royal family, and there is no precedent for the royal family to rebel. To be honest, if the emperor is really grand and generous, what if he is given to Kaifu? Originally, the throne is empty, and Mingda's qualifications and contributions are completely qualified! The emperor wants to revive all day long, and he really has the opportunity to revive, and he let it go easily. It's a pity."

It has been announced that it would be appointed as the prince, the defense of the East Vanguard, the chief of the navy, and the promotion of the entire road, the general of the guard, and the deputy commander-in-chief. These are all related to the prince's identity.

When Wang Zhi and others heard the news, they were naturally happy. While being happy for Xu Zixian, they also felt that the Wei court finally had a happy event.

As a close clan, Xu Zixian's achievements were the glory of the imperial family. Unfortunately, the emperor was obsessed with it. Not only did he forcibly suppress the activities of offering the head and winning the victory that the two mansions wanted to lead, but he also suppressed all kinds of celebration activities.

Wang Zhi sighed, smiled bitterly, and said, "We have done almost everything. We have been busy for two or three months. We will continue to send orders. We will not do the next thing. The ships will go back to the islands to rest. Merchants will go to sea to make money as usual."

The personnel and supplies transported were indeed similar. Some coastal officials hoped that Wang Zhi's fleet would continue to be on standby and use it when needed in the future. Wang Zhi was still hesitating, and using this matter could be regarded as expressing his dissatisfaction. As for whether the two palaces and the emperor could feel it, it was theirs.

"Master," Deng Qi leaned outside the window and knocked

The window shouted: "A lot of cavalry have rushed out and closed the door."

Wang Zhi's flagship was parked by the sea, only a few miles away from closing. This majestic pass was built by Taizu and was personally named Shanhai Pass.

This name is quite appropriate and appropriate. Guanmen is connected to the Great Wall of the North. From Jiayuguan to Shanhaiguan, it is the most important military defense facility in the northwest and north of the Great Wei Dynasty.

This pass is surrounded by mountains and seas, with many facilities and strict defenses. The city is 14 meters high and 7 meters thick, with four city gates, as well as many arrow towers, Jingbian Tower, Muying Tower, and Wengcheng. There are still important gates outside the city. Before this pass, it is completely impossible to attack with force. Two or three thousand people guard the gate. Even if the 300,000 cavalry of Donghu attacks day and night, don’t want to conquer this pass with force.

Because of this, Donghu could only detour from northwestern Liao to enter the grassland, and then break through the defense line from the north to enter the inner territory of the Great Wei.

Wang Zhi and others came out of the cabin door. A group of pirates were wearing Dawei official robes, standing on the side of the ship's side, silently watching the scene of large groups of military horses leaving the door.

"About a hundred miles ahead, Li Youde has set up camps and built forts there." A young military officer pointed at the large army and said, "It seems that there are many troops now, but judging from the banner, most of them are commanding Li Youde's subordinates, and the rest of the troops have fewer troops. It is obvious that this time the troops should be to cover the construction of military forts in front and expel the Donghu's sentry cavalry."

Wang Zhi, Deng Wenjun and Lu Sihai were both standing on the side of the ship to watch. A while ago, the whistle and cavalry battle started at the seaside near the gate. There were dozens of Donghu cavalry groups, and they were powerful when they ran, forming smoke and dust all over the sky. They roared and roared away. They used light arrows to shoot against the Great Wei cavalry holding crossbows. The casualties on both sides were not serious, but the momentum was amazing.

Sometimes they also fought against horses, with hundreds of cavalry each confronting each other on a flat plain, and then drums and shouts of killing sounds sounded. Both sides were wearing heavy armor, and the war horses were wearing cowhides, and rushed towards the other side under the guidance of the knights. This scene was creepy, or the whole body was full of passion. Even the pirates were men who committed suicide, they dared to jump into the other side's guns and snares when jumping into the gang, but when they looked at the cavalry hedge, they heard those shouts, the thunderous sounds of the war horses running, saw the guns and thrusts stabbed on the opposite cavalry, saw the people being lifted in the air, saw the war horses rammed against the opposite horses, the knights and horses on both sides rolled together, the sound of bones cracking, and the sound of teeth making people sore when weapons intertwined... All pirates felt that their previous pride was a joke.

They are also strong, fierce and brave, but they gather thousands of people, and they cannot take the rush of any cavalry from a few hundred people. In one round, the cavalry can defeat them, and then chase them and harvest their lives and heads.

Now the pirates no longer laugh when watching the cavalry battle. They knew that dozens of people would fall off the horse in each collision, and once they were caught, there was no chance of survival.

At this time, almost all the cavalry that rushed out of the gate were cavalry. The brigade of cavalry swarmed out of the gate. Their helmets were decorated with white tail feathers, and their bodies were armor and a bright red cloak. On the barren black land, these gorgeous colors made the cavalry who came out of the gate feel extremely magnificent and extremely powerful.

"The Donghu cavalry is ten times more than the Great Wei cavalry." A pirate praised the cavalry in front of him. The young military officer who had just spoken to everyone seemed to say to himself: "If you want to defeat a strong enemy, I don't know how many good men have to bury their bones here."

"Zi Zhang, come here." Wang Zhi called Xu Xingwei's name and said with a smile: "Come to my side and speak."

Xu Xingwei looked calm and determined, and he fisted at the people around him, and strode to Wang Zhi.

This military officer who was born in a martial arts and Jinshi was very pleased by the pirates. He was generous, straightforward and self-disciplined. The martial ethics that many military officers did not have can be fully reflected in this young military officer.

In addition, it was only from Xu Xingwei that he could read the classics and history, know astronomy, know the anecdotes, understand geography, and Wang Zhi and others that he could see the qualities that the military officers of the Great Wei Dynasty should have.

This is a distinct symbol of the martial arts and Jinshi, which is the dynasty's emphasis on both civil and military affairs.

Xu Xingwei is now the Zhenwu lieutenant and Xun Feiqiwei. He is responsible for sending the intentions of the two prefectures and the general manager of the Zhaodian camp to Wang Zhi. In fact, it is because the court is not able to directly order Wang Zhi's subordinates and send a special candidate to communicate.

Xu Xingwei completed his errands very well. When he was sent to him, some officials were worried that Xu Xingwei was too orthodox and was acting in a good manner, so he was afraid that he would not be able to integrate into the pirate group.

The facts have proved that pirates may not necessarily like villains full of evil spirits. Characters like Xu Xingwei are also quite popular. This is a surprise to many officials, and it is actually reasonable.

Wang Zhi looked at Xu Xingwei with a smile. He couldn't see through Xu Zixian. Xu Zixian also had the aura of a martial artist, but his temperament was quite mixed, with the calmness and determination of a superior, the noble spirit of a noble man, the martial arts of a martial artist, and the shrewd aura of a businessman, and the literary spirit of a literati. There was also a mixed atmosphere, and there was also a sense of vicissitudes of a ignorant who could see through everything. This was called Wang Zhi and he was surprised.

Xu Xingwei is different. Xu Xingwei in front of him is a pool of clear water. He can see it at a glance, and he has no intention of hiding it. But if you despise him and easily play in his territory, the shallow pool water can also turn into turbid evil waves, destroying and submerging this generation.
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