Chapter 947 946 [March of War]

To the west of Yunzhou is Huazhou, and together with Dengzhou to the west of Huazhou, they together form the three northern states of Daliang. In a sense, they are the barriers to Kyoto, even though this barrier has not been maintained for thousands of years.

It has played a role, but no one would question the value of these territories without reason.

It is said that eight-foot-tall barbarians like ferocious beasts live in the wilderness. It is said that those barbarians are violent in character and cruel in methods. It is said that they still retain the habit of eating human flesh and drinking human blood. It is said...

"The weather here is really weird. It's completely different from previous years. It's already spring and it's still so cold. It's so damn weird. Those big men say every day that barbarians have to be on guard. Are barbarians not human beings? It's so cold that barbarians can't

Don’t you need to spend the winter in a cave? I really want those big men to come over and watch over them for a few days to see if they can survive it.”

Beside the small river outside Beishan Village, team leader Liu Gu was warming himself by the fire while cursing.

This is located on the border of Huazhou, and further north is the wilderness. Daliang has established more than a hundred military stations on this border that stretches for thousands of miles, and each military station is stationed by a hundred-man team.

The biggest official here is just a sentry officer, so the class concept between superiors and subordinates is not so strict. Listening to Liu Gu’s complaints for several years, an old soldier named Gu Sian next to him said: "Liu Da, what are you saying?"

If Sentinel Qi heard it, he would probably be reprimanded again."

Liu Gu looked suffocated, then stretched his neck and said: "Are I afraid of him? Isn't it just that he came here to gild under the banner of Marshal Ge Shu? If the barbarians really attack, this kind of weakling will definitely be the first to run away.

, do you believe it or not?”

Everyone laughed, and another soldier with a slightly childish face asked curiously: "Liu Da, are there really barbarians in the north?"

Liu Gu nodded. Seeing the nervousness of the soldier, he grinned widely and said, "Why are the barbarians called barbarians because they are afraid of birds? Because they are still rolling around naked in the snow with those wild beasts.

There is no difference, so they are called barbarians. We also killed a lot of wild beasts last year. These beasts look ferocious, but in fact they are very easy to kill."

The atmosphere became increasingly relaxed and leisurely.

Liu Gu became excited and continued to explain to the recruit: "I have never seen barbarians, but the hunters in the village behind have seen them. That was a few years ago. Since the year before last, barbarians have rarely been seen.

We didn’t see them even once last year. Maybe all those barbarians have died long ago, so there’s no need to worry at all.”

Although Northern Xinjiang is vast and sparsely populated, it is certainly not deserted. There are many small villages and towns like Beishan Village, and military depots are mostly established near these gathering places. Firstly, they have to take care of each other, and secondly, they are all suffering.

The soldiers would often exchange scraps of silver with the villagers for needed items.

The recruit's name was Yang Ding. He had been in the army for less than half a year. He was somehow driven to the Xuanhua camp guarding the northern border, which is where the Daliang army jokingly called his stepmother. In the eyes of Liu Gu and others, this boy definitely had nothing.

Background, otherwise I could at least stay in the inland army camp and not go directly to the most miserable and difficult border military station.

Yang Ding was thoughtful after hearing this, and then asked: "Liu Da, are there any records of barbarians going south before?"

Liu Gu shook his head and said, "Never."

Gu Sian stretched out his hands and approached the fire, sighing: "Then what's the point of us patrolling all day long?"

Liu Gu raised his hand and patted him on the head, laughing and scolding: "What a fool you are for patrolling! Jian Tian'er is warming himself by the fire here. If someone named Qi knows about it, I may not even be able to protect you."

Gu Si'an was not worried and said with a smile: "Liu Da, it's not my idea to warm up by the fire alone. If Qi is able to take down all ten of us and beat him with military sticks, then I will really obey him."

The wind suddenly became noisy.

"Liu Da, why do you feel something is wrong?" A soldier named Chen Dan shrank his neck.

Liu Gu said impatiently: "I have told you that the so-called barbarians are a group of uncivilized savages. Don't scare yourself all day long."

The world seemed to be extremely quiet.

Gu Sian retracted his hands, subconsciously pressed the handle of the knife next to him, shook his head and said, "No, Chen Dan has a sharp nose. Have you forgotten that he noticed the beast tide in advance the year before last?"

Liu Gu patted the dust on his hands, then jumped up and stared at the other side of the frozen river. There was a dense forest there, which looked normal.

Everyone else stood up. Although Yang Ding was a newcomer in their eyes, his movements were even more agile than these old soldiers, and his face looked very calm, without any panic.

Chen Dan suddenly frowned and said, "Do you feel it?"

Liu Gu turned around and asked, "What?"

Chen Dan's expression became more solemn and he said slowly: "I seem to feel the ground under my feet shaking."

Gu Si'an said with a gloomy look on his face: "It's not going to be another beast wave, is it?"

At this moment, Liu Gu suddenly yelled: "Fuck you!"

There was a faint tremor in the voice.

Everyone looked around and saw a few extremely tall figures emerging from the dense forest. They had faces like Liang people, but the robes on their bodies revealed a barbaric and rough temperament. Especially the faces of these people were stained with...

The black patterns, coupled with their exceptionally strong bodies, really look like wild beasts as the legend says.

Time seems to have stopped at this moment.

A total of ten people, including Liu Gu, all stared blankly as more and more barbarians appeared from the dense forest until their sight was filled. Yang Ding still remained calm at this moment. After rough calculation, these barbarians

At least around two hundred.

The two sides looked at each other across a small river.

According to the military regulations drawn up by the Xifu Military Academy, all soldiers in the Xuanhua Camp must shoulder the responsibility of guarding the territory. The only purpose of the court spending money to support them is to prevent them from barbarians who may cross the border and disturb the people.

But at this moment, the difference in the number of people on both sides is too huge.

Liu Gu's eyes suddenly froze, and he felt intense fear in his heart.

He actually saw weapons in the hands of these barbarians. Although they were not the standard weapons of Daliang, and although these weapons looked very crude, how could the barbarians in the wilderness know the art of iron smelting?

In an instant, he roared: "Run!"

The ten-man team no longer hesitated and ran as fast as they could towards the south.

Behind them, the barbarian warriors looked indifferently, with a cruel smile on their lips, as if they didn't care about the escape of these people.

In the seventh year of Kaiping, on the fourth day of March, several military stations on the border of northern Xinjiang successively ignited beacon smoke representing the highest level of danger.

…

Kyoto.

It took about five days to go to Beijing by land from Songning City in Qinzhou. Lan Zhiqiu was extremely tangled along the way. As he got closer to Kyoto, he felt more and more tortured.

On this sunny afternoon, Qian Bing suddenly opened the door of the carriage, showed a gentle smile that did not suit his status, stretched out his hand and said: "Mr. Lan, we have arrived in Kyoto, please."

Lan Zhiqiu hesitated for a long time. These days he often woke up from his dreams and his body was often soaked in cold sweat.

Those nightmares were extremely clear. Either killers fell from the sky and killed all of them, or His Majesty the Emperor wanted to confiscate his home and exterminate his family with a ferocious face.

Qian Bing smiled and said: "Master Lan, you will come out sooner or later, please don't make it difficult for me."

Lan Zhiqiu gritted his teeth and stood up. After getting out of the carriage, he looked up and saw this majestic city.

He said coldly: "Where are you sending me?"

Qian Bing said very politely: "Your Majesty has a decree to summon you to the palace."
Chapter completed!