The North Sea is the far north of the grassland desert. Even the Xianbei people rarely arrive here. Compared with the grassland, it is more deserted, remote and colder. There is only a few months of thawing period in a year, so the grass here will not grow too lush. The Xianbei people who are used to living by water and grass will not come to this bitter and cold place in the extreme north to graz.

But now the Xianbei people had to enter this place because under the continuous pursuit of the Bingzhou army, they could only fight and retreat and eventually flee here.

If they cannot grazed, they naturally cannot get food. In order to survive, the Xianbei people had to build rafts and go to the North Sea to catch fish. A nomadic tribe was forced to become a fishing and hunting tribe. It can be said that the Xianbei people now have lived a very miserable life.

After Tuoba Liwei escaped from Shengle, he also fled to the grassland and met with Tuoba Desert Khan in Yanran Mountain, and gathered several groups of people from the Tuoba tribe together.

I thought all suffering would end, and after the Tuoba tribe survived this difficult winter, they would also usher in a turning point, but the fact is that on the contrary, not only did their suffering not end, but the nightmare really began.

After the Bingzhou army captured Shengle, it still marched northward unyieldingly, chasing the remnants of Xianbei. Tuoba Liwei had to migrate north again and again to escape the attack of the Bingzhou army.

During this migration spanning thousands of miles, the Xianbei people paid a heavy price, and seven or eight out of ten died. Most of them died not by the swords, guns, bows and arrows of the Bingzhou Army, but by the hunger and disease. They traveled long distances, were poor and destitute, and had no food. The Xianbei people could only kill horses to feed and slaughter the excess war horses to make a living.

They even ate bark, grass roots, bones, and everything they could eat. Hunger made them crazy. Even if they caught a field mouse, they could yell for a long time. Even the wolves on the grassland were afraid of them. If they escaped late, they would become food in the mouths of the Xianbei people.

But even so, the harsh living environment and severe food shortage in the Gobi Desert made their escape extremely difficult. Most of the Xianbei people died due to famine, and their bones were thrown away.

The pursuit of the Bingzhou army is more like an expulsion. They attack in groups, but they never go deep alone and do not give the Xianbei people a chance to counterattack. Once the Xianbei people are caught up, they will often be surrounded and killed by several Bingzhou troops. The exhausted Xianbei people are no match for the Bingzhou army at all. They are defeated repeatedly and they have to escape to the far north to escape the attack of the Bingzhou army.

During the Bingzhou Army's conquest, Kuxian, Wang Wuhuan, chose to surrender to the Bingzhou Army. After disarming weapons and war horses, he was moved back to the old land of Baishan. The originally defected tribes of the Hei Shui tribe and other tribes also surrendered one after another. The only Xianbei tribe that did not surrender on the grassland was the Tuoba tribe and the Liu Yuan Xiongnu tribe who had joined the Tuoba tribe.

However, during the long-term displacement, Liu Yuan's Xiongnu army also suffered heavy casualties. From more than 20,000 people when he first defected to the Tuoba Xianbei, it has dropped sharply to seven or eight thousand people now, with heavy casualties.

However, Liu Yuan and Cao Liang had a deep hatred. He secretly vowed that no matter how the situation evolved, even if one soldier fought, he would never surrender to Cao Liang. This hatred was irreconcilable and he had no possibility of reconciliation with him.

Tuoba Liwei was becoming increasingly melancholy. The territory he had struggled for decades to expand was gradually being eaten up by Cao Liang, but he was powerless at all. He could only retreat step by step to the deeper part of the grassland and to the desert area in the extreme north.

All of this is unbearable for an old man who is in his 80s, both physically and mentally. The long-term suffering of wandering has made Tuoba Li aged a lot, and his hair turned white, describing his dry face without blood.

They had arrived at the North Sea, which was the farthest place that the Xianbei people had reached. Tuoba Liwei knew that if he continued to walk north, there would be a large area of ​​land there, but it was covered with snow for many years, without the concept of all seasons, only the long winter, and even in winter, there was no sun all day long, only endless darkness.

There is the forbidden land of life. If the Xianbei people were driven there, they would not have to pursue the Bingzhou army, and they would all be buried in the snow and ice.

Tuoba Liwei was really tired. His body could no longer support this long journey. He had already felt that the god of death was summoning him, but he was unwilling to accept it. The Xianbei Empire he founded, not only did not carry forward, but was disintegrated and destroyed in his later years. He just let go, and he was unwilling to accept it no matter what.

Unfortunately, Tuoba Liwei was unable to turn the world around at this moment. He had been dealing with Cao Liang's Bingzhou Army for nearly half a year. From winter to spring, from spring to summer, and from summer to autumn, the Xianbei people were defeated again and again, and they were defeated in a terrible defeat. Tuoba Liwei could not see any hope or a way out, and a deep sense of frustration enveloped him.

Could it be that the Xianbei people will eventually be buried in the shore of the North Sea?

Autumn in the Beihai is extremely short, and the hot weather just now feels so cold that it is so cold. If the North Sea is frozen and snowy, how will the entire Xianbei tribe make a living?

Just when Tuoba Liwei was worried, the Bingzhou Army suddenly sent an envoy, and the envoy was not someone else, but Tuoba Luguan, a son of Tuoba Liwei.

The one who was patrolling the outside world that day was Tuoba Demo Khan. He was originally very disgusted with the envoys sent by the Bingzhou Army and was about to kill these people to vent his anger. However, he did not expect that someone from the Bingzhou Army's team called him a brother. When he looked closely, he found that it was his fourth brother Tuoba Luguan. Tuoba Li was shocked. He originally thought that all his brothers were dead in the chaos, but he did not expect that Tuoba Luguan was still alive and was sent by Cao Liang to negotiate. This was really beyond his expectations.

Tuoba Luguan told Tuoba Demokhan about his experience. When Sheng Le fell, he could not escape. He was injured and captured by the Bingzhou Army. The Bingzhou Army confiscated their weapons and war horses, but did not treat them as slaves, but placed them on the grassland near Shengle. Although life was quite difficult, there was no war and he could finally survive. This time, Cao Liang sent him to Beihai and gave a letter to his father Tuoba Liwei.

When Tuoba Demohan heard this, he quickly took him to see Tuoba Liwei.
Chapter completed!