The Taoist held his bamboo stick and walked from west to east.
The bay-red horse carried the luggage and followed silently.
The little girl next to him also held a bamboo stick, which was much thinner than the one in the Taoist's hand.
The little girl held up a bamboo stick and trotted forward. There was a thin straw rope tied to the bamboo stick, and a small piece of white cloth tied to the straw rope, about the size of a cat's paw. As she ran, the wind blew The white piece of cloth on the rope blew up, shaking and spinning, as if it was not a piece of cloth but a butterfly.
The butterflies on the grassland were silly, as if they really thought they were butterflies, so they followed the white cloth and quickly formed a long row behind the white cloth.
The little girl ran with a stick, pieces of cloth flying.
Followed by a long series of butterflies, arranged neatly.
When she ran far away, she would circle around the grassland, run back, then pass behind the Taoist and the bay red horse, and continue forward.
As if tireless.
"Taoist, look!"
"Um."
"More and more!"
"sharp."
"..."
Not only is she tireless, but she also doesn't seem to be able to smile. All she can see is that her eyes are extremely bright, full of novelty, and her voice is crisper.
Holding the bamboo stick like this, he ran back and forth.
The Taoist glanced at her from time to time.
The picture seems very beautiful.
Others would never imagine that this is the border between Dayan and Saibei Grassland, which are often contested today. Both parties often travel frequently on this grassland, spying on each other, and sometimes encountering each other is unavoidable. A fight.
After a long time, the little girl seemed to be tired from running, so she slowed down her steps and waved her bamboo stick around her body. In this way, she ensured that the pieces of cloth were flying so that the butterflies would continue to follow.
But she quickly reached out and grabbed it.
"brush!"
Easily catch a small butterfly.
Before the Taoist could look away, he saw her put her hand to her mouth.
"..."
Only then did the Taoist look away and look into the distance.
"Well?"
Just as Sanhua Empress was about to reach out and pick another lucky little butterfly as her self-service snack, she stopped and turned her head to look into the distance.
There was the faint sound of horse hooves behind the hill.
Not long after, several figures appeared on the hilltop in the distance.
They were all big men from the prairie. Their clothing styles were very different from Dayan's. They had no armor and only brought scimitars and bows and arrows. They went into battle lightly. I also saw two people and one horse here.
They looked at each other and headed this way.
"thorough!"
A few shouts.
Song You only took one look and knew that they were the waiting knights from Saibei. They had the same configuration as Dayan, and they were in a group of ten.
As expected, before the group of waiting riders approached, there was a shout.
It's an incomprehensible language.
Perhaps they saw that Song You was handsome, wearing Taoist robes, without weapons, and brought a little girl with him. He didn't seem to be a threat, and they didn't immediately show strong hostile and murderous intentions. However, based on Song You's experience walking on the border these days, most of the other parties will not let him go easily. Even if they don't kill him on the spot, they will take him back or let him go with them.
So the Taoist turned to face them, unhurriedly, and waited for them to come closer before saying calmly:
"Everyone, please come back."
"Xilulu..."
The horses under Saibei Hou's saddle suddenly raised their heads and neighed, stopped one after another, and refused to listen to the people on the horses no matter how hard they beat them. Then they all turned around and ran back and forth.
The cavalrymen were so frightened and angry that they bent their horses' necks, and the horses under them did not stop.
In the end, this group of people came from a distant hilltop and disappeared again.
"That's awesome, Taoist priest~"
Empress Sanhua's voice was soft and thin, but she imitated the tone of Wu Nuxia from Changjing. She turned her head and stared at the Taoist while holding up her bamboo stick.
"Want to learn?"
"Will our horses listen to me after learning how to do it?"
"Now that Sanhua Empress is talking to it, won't it listen to Sanhua Empress?"
"Sometimes I listen, sometimes I don't."
"Then it is just like Sanhua Empress, it has its own ideas."
"What if I learn this spell?"
"Sanhua Empress cannot use magic to make her friends obey."
"Then I won't learn anymore."
The little girl then retracted her gaze and continued to look at the piece of white cloth attached to her little bamboo stick. However, it was only then that she realized that she had been looking too seriously at the group of people just now and forgot to move the bamboo stick. The butterfly that had been tricked came over. After discovering that the butterflies tied to the bamboo sticks were dead, they all flew away.
"..."
The little girl was not discouraged and continued running with her bamboo stick.
The Taoist also took steps and continued walking eastward.
There seems to be a military fortress of Dayan here. It's called Zhaoye City.
It can be said to be famous.
When Song You was in Yidu, he had heard its name from the storyteller. It was one of the five towns in the north of Dayan Town, and it was also the farthest military town in the north from Changjing. There were quite a few legends that attracted Dayan to it. The literati and common people talked about it. It's just that the storyteller didn't know its specific location. He only knew that it was in the north. However, he heard about its approximate location after arriving at the Doda Grassland.
However, the grassland is so big that Song You has neither a map nor a guide, so it seems not easy to find it.
It is possible that we missed it because we were separated by a hill.
Slowly passed from afternoon to night.
The sky is full of stars and the sea is as vast as a grassland.
Sanhua Empress still went to collect firewood and lit a bonfire in the mountains.
The Taoist boiled a pot of water, took out the beef jerky, and added the hare caught by Empress Sanhua. It was tonight's dinner.
It's just that the long night doesn't stop.
I don't know who the knights were, but they were also wandering on this grassland at night. Maybe they saw a fire here, so they came quietly to investigate. Before they got close, they were spotted by the alert calico cat. When they saw the fire clearly, they The person sitting was a Taoist priest, so he sent one person over on horseback, while the others held bows and crossbows to keep vigil at night.
"who?"
What came out of the darkness was a familiar language.
One person and one rider, they approached slowly, facing the starlight in the sky, and gradually walked into the light of the fire from the dark night.
He was a strong man armed with a spear and a bow and arrow.
The Taoist still sat facing the fire, holding a piece of dried beef in his right hand and a bowl of boiling water in his left hand. He turned to look at the visitor.
After they understood the language, the Taoist did not use magic to invite them back, but said: "My surname is Song, and I am a native of Lingquan County, Yizhou. I traveled down the mountain and traveled to the north. Please don't make things difficult for me, the captain."
"..."
The cavalryman approached and took a closer look. His eyes swept over the Taoist, the calico cat next to the fire, and the bay-red horse lying nearby.
"Mr. Song Yousong?"
"Um?"
Song You turned to look at him: "The captain also knows, do you?"
"Nature knows!"
The cavalryman immediately turned around and shouted behind him:
"It's Mr. Song!"
Then he got off his horse and hugged Song You with a fist: "The young man's surname is Feng. He is a ranger of the 9th Regiment of the Zhenbei Army. On the orders of General Chen, if he encounters a man with a calico cat while patrolling the grassland, , Taoist priest named Song Mingyou of Zaohongma informed Sir that there are demons in the Saibei army to help, and asked Sir to go to Yuanzhi City to help."
"Yuanji City?"
"yes!"
"Where is Yuanzhi City?"
"Six hundred miles east from here."
"so far……"
"Sir, we were stationed at Zhaoye City. We received military orders from Yuanji City, so we were looking for you while on patrol."
"How did General Chen know that I would be here?"
"I don't know about this little one."
"..."
Song You thought for a while and almost understood.
It should be the news coming from Caotou Pass in the south. General Chen knew that he had passed Heyuan and Caotou Pass. He also knew that there was a grand meeting on the Duda Grassland in front of him. He guessed that he would definitely go and pass the grassland meeting. The location continues to the north, which is here.
It's a good plan.
At this time, the others also put away their crossbows and swords and came over.
In addition to the previous knight surnamed Feng, there were nine horses in total. There were people sitting on eight of the horses, with injuries on their bodies. It seemed that they had fought with people. There was also one horse being led by another person, and there was someone on the horse. There was a tied corpse in light armor and several heads hanging on it. Most of these people were carrying spears and crossbows.
Everyone got off their horses and clasped their fists at Song You.
Song You also returned the greetings one by one and asked: "Are you injured?"
"While patrolling today, I encountered a group of Saibei cavalrymen and had a fight with them." The cavalryman surnamed Feng said, his gestures were quite quack-like, "I suffered some minor injuries and a brother died. It's a pity that No one was caught alive, so I brought back my brother’s body.”
"Do you look like you are from the Spear Gate?"
"Sir, do you also know about my spear gate?"
"Like thunder."
"A few are."
"I am……"
"Me too……"
"Zhao Guanyi of the Changqiang Sect! You're polite!"
"The Spear Gate is open on Monday..."
Several cavalrymen with long spears spoke out one after another.
The north is in chaos, and heroes emerge from troubled times.
Since Song Xing traveled to Hezhou and Yanzhou, he has seen many people from the Changqianmen and many people in the army. Most of them are elites in the army.
When I was in the south before, I heard that the Changjing Yunhe Sect, Yizhou Xishan Sect, and Yue Changqiang Sect were listed by the storyteller as the three major sects in the world. Because the Yunhe Sect is located in Changjing, related to the nobles in the court, and has an absolute advantage in publicity, although it is despised by people in the world, it is also respected by storytellers as the number one sect in the world. The Xishan Sect has a very good reputation in the martial arts world, and all of its disciples have outstanding martial arts skills. When people in the martial arts world see it, they often pick the one with the big finger. The spear gate had to be lined up one row back.
Now it seems that there may be something untrue.
Amidst the troubled times, and with the support of General Chen, when it comes to power, I am afraid that the Yunhe Sect and the Xishan Sect, together with other powerful forces in the world, are far inferior to the Changqiang Sect.
"I just heard that you are from Zhaoye City?"
"That's right."
"Has Zhaoye City been recaptured?"
"It was recaptured the year before last."
"I heard that the people who occupied Teruye City in the past were demons?"
"Sir, you don't know something..."
You Qi named Feng said to him.
Zhaoye City is Dayan's farthest military town in the north of the Great Wall.
Why is it called Zhaoye City?
This vast grassland, where Dayan's troops are stationed, is just like this night, and the eyes and ears are dark. However, this city that illuminates the night is like a lamp in the night, going deep into the night and illuminating the surroundings.
The last time the Saibei people invaded the south in a large scale, Zhaoyecheng's army defended for several years under the front of the Saibei people. The Saibei people had even crossed the northern border, crossed the entire Yanzhou, and galloped all the way to the north of Hezhou. Under Fengguan, the entire Heyuan was massacred, but the northernmost Zhaoye City was still not lost. But they had already lost contact with Changjing, and Changjing thought they had fallen.
Until the news spread back to the capital, the government and the public were shocked.
It is said that the court was suing for peace at that time. After hearing the news, Emperor Wu decided to continue the war. It was also said that many heroes in the world were inspired by it, became angry and joined the army.
However, Zhaoye City was still lost later.
Some say it was the work of demons.
Some people say that the northern generals at that time were unable to rush to the rescue. Zhaoye City ran out of food and grass, and then it fell. The generals were afraid of being held accountable, so they blamed it on monsters.
All the officials and civilians, literati and military men in the world are interested in talking about what happened in Night City.
Probably also want to be famous for eternity.
…
Asking for a monthly ticket~
(End of chapter)
