Early the next morning, a team of fourteen people left Chang'an City. People leaving the city were generally not subject to inspection, so they encountered no obstruction when they were carrying weapons and pretending to be merchants. The group left in a carriage, including the ten people Prince Zhong had left behind in Chang'an City, plus Big Dog, Qilin, Iron Slave and Ye Xiao.
This time, Fang Jie only had one Shen Qingfan left by his side. Especially without the big dog, he seemed a lot more deserted. Back in the shop, Fang Jie didn't want to go out again.
"I hope the Big Dogs won't have any strong opponents this time."
Fang Jie sighed, but he still didn't have much confidence in his heart. He didn't know much about Chun Gu's ten people, so he wasn't sure whether they could protect Wu Yinyu with the strength of fourteen of them. Wu Yinyu's view in Qingle Mountain cannot be said to be absolutely safe now that he thinks about it. Those Taoists will not take special care of a little girl, and if the killer goes up the mountain disguised as a tourist, it will be impossible to prevent him.
"The lame man said ten of them are very strong."
Shen Qingfan comforted Fang Jie.
Fang Jie nodded: "There is only so much that can be done now, and there are still too few people around me. It seems that I will have to pay more attention to the people I can use secretly in the future. More helpers are necessary after all. Yanwuyuan There are a few suitable people here, but they won't be able to help me for at least two years, so if I want to find people, it's better to find people in the world. The most places. But among those great practitioners, who is willing to follow me?¡±
Shen Qing raised his chin: "I am also a great practitioner now."
Fang Jie laughed amused by her words, took her hand and asked her to sit down on his lap. Holding Shen Qingshan's slim waist and smelling her faint body fragrance, Fang Jie buried his head in her chest and murmured: "Actually, I should be content now, right?"
¡°Contentment makes people lazy.¡±
Shen Qingshan smiled and said, "This is what you said."
Fang Jie shook his head: "It would be great if I didn't have to be involved in so many things. I could just get promoted and make a fortune."
Shen Qingshan's fingers gently brushed Fang Jie's cheek: "Things like getting promoted and getting rich are just like daydreams. Those adults in the court seem to have endless glory, who doesn't have troubles behind their backs? Sometimes They have to take sides and express their opinions. In fact, most of them don¡¯t want to provoke anyone, they just want to get promoted and make a fortune.¡±
"This idea is indeed too extravagant."
Fang Jie suddenly thought of a question: "You haven't told me yet, what was the name of your original disciple and where was it?"
"The largest mountain range in Nanyan is called Moshan, and my sect is on Moshan. The sect is called Huachiyuan, and they are all women. It is said that the founder of the sect was a concubine of the Shang State. After being deposed by the emperor, he was deposed in the cold palace. , read and write every day. Later, because she had read too many books, she actually tried to figure out how the great practitioners practiced in these classics and history books. In this way, after being locked up in the cold palace for sixteen years, she actually It is a very high level of self-cultivation without a teacher.¡±
"Sixteen years later, she escaped from the cold palace. She reached out to take care of the rough roads along the way and rescued seven women. She then accepted these seven women as her disciples. On Mo Mountain, the eight of them built the building by themselves. She built a wooden house, and because there was a pond not far from where she lived, she called the place Huachi. Later, the number of disciples in the sect increased, and the name of Huachiyuan gradually became famous in Nanyan. "
"However, there is another sect in Nanyan that is all women, which is more powerful than Hua Chiyuan. And since that mysterious man seriously injured the master and several elders in the sect, Hua Chiyuan can no longer think about it. It¡¯s back to its former glory. The other sect is all women, called Piaomiao Palace.¡±
"She is a strange woman."
Fang Jie said with emotion: "Zhuo Buyi meditated for ten years in the copper and iron walls, and realized that the painted ground is a prison. The founder of your sect studied in the cold palace for sixteen years, and finally became a great practitioner. But I am not the kind of person who can calm down. "If I were trapped in one place for ten years, I would probably become a fool."
Shen Qingshan shook his head: "No one can be sure about something that has not been experienced before. Moreover, I have always believed that even if people all over the world are living in trouble, you must be the one who finds a way to live the best life."
¡°My wife values ??me so much, which makes me burst into tears.¡±
Fang Jiediao smiled.
"It's because you are shameless and shameless."
Shen Qingshan explained seriously.
Fang Jie curled his lips and patted her butt: "Tell me, if something really happens in Sanjinhou, if I go to ask the lame master, will he help me?"??? He doesn't know how sure you two ninth-level masters are of rescuing you from Chang'an City. As long as he doesn't die, that's fine. As for the goods being circulated all over the world there's a high probability that it won't be guaranteed. "
"Fang Jie, don't you think the emperor is a very paranoid person?"
Shen Qingfan asked.
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Fang Jie nodded: "I thought he was a terrifyingly paranoid person from the beginning. Especially later, when I knew what he had done for this expedition to the northwest, I found him even more terrifying. All the emperors of the Sui Dynasty had to open fire. The responsibility of expanding the territory is his obsession. This is a good thing and a bad thing. Fortunately, the emperor is not a person who does whatever he wants. He has been preparing for this war for more than ten years, and who knows how this war will happen. How many years will it last?¡±
"You don't think the Sui Dynasty can win?"
Shen Qingshan asked with a frown.
"Win?"
Fang Jie slowly shook his head: "If I were an out-and-out Sui person, if I hadn't stayed in Fangu for three years, maybe I would be like the people and firmly believed that the Sui Dynasty would win. But just because I know some Mongolian people "
Shen Qing fanned his hands in silence, thinking that being an emperor, opening up territories and leaving a name in history, is it really so important?
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Northwest grassland
General Li Yuanshan personally led nearly 20,000 cavalry to pursue the remaining soldiers of the Mandu Banner. The Mandu Banner troops retreated steadily all the way to Tumubao. This is the second largest city in Mandu Banner, second only to Zhi City. However, this place is actually not very big, because the Mongolian people never had the habit of building large cities. The Tumu Fort is next to Keqin Banner, and less than twenty miles to the west is the camp of nearly 60,000 cavalry led by Keqin Lelang, the leader of Keqin Banner.
¡°Maybe now Keqinlelang is regretting why he didn¡¯t send troops to help Mandu Latu. He really didn't expect that the Sui people's offensive would be so fierce, and that the bellicose Mandu Latu would be defeated so easily. The Mandu Banner was finished. The owner of the flag, Mandu Latu, and his son Mandu Tele were dead. The eldest son in the royal court was as lonely as a wild goose that had escaped from the flock.
The battles on the grassland were inherently cruel. Although a family that had been wiped out was a shame to the Meng Yuan people, no one was willing to help Mandu Banner stand up again.
Mandu Yong might have rushed back with the royal army, but when he came back, the family pasture had become the territory of the enemy.
The reinforcements sent by Wang Ting camped about thirty miles away from the Keqin Banner troops. This time, the leader was Teqin Kuoketai Meng Lie, the younger brother of Meng Ge Han, who arrived early with Wang Ting's 200,000 troops. When they left the royal court, the second batch of reinforcements was already gathering, and they would arrive at the easternmost part of the grassland about a month later than they did.
The Sui army swept away the Mandu banner and occupied most of the territory. The 700,000 Sui troops marched 1,700 miles to the west and began to build a defensive line. Before His Majesty's decree came down, the first task of the Western Army was to defend the nearly 2,000 miles of grassland they had just captured.
For Sui Dynasty, this is more than just a number.
The Great Sui Dynasty was short of war horses, and the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was the country with the most war horses in the world. With these two thousand miles of pasture, the Sui Dynasty could build its own horse farm and train its own cavalry. As long as the Mandu Banner can be defended, the Sui Dynasty will have a powerful cavalry team in ten years. When the time comes, the Great Sui Dynasty will have an advantage in comparison with the Meng Yuan Dynasty.
The reason why no one was willing to go to war easily before the Sui Dynasty and the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was because the monarchs of the two countries were not sure of winning the war. The infantry of the Sui people could not fight thousands of miles deep into the grasslands, and the cavalry of the Mongolian Yuan people could not conquer so many large cities densely packed in the Sui Dynasty.
But now, the balance seems to be tilting.
As long as the Sui Dynasty maintains its victory, when the Sui Dynasty's cavalry becomes stronger, the Sui people will have the strength to further conquer the west.
?? Tumu Fort is a city built on a mountain. It is not big. In the past, there were less than 4,000 herdsmen and more than 1,000 cavalry living here. When the defeated troops of Mandu Wolf entered here, the already small city became even more crowded. About eight thousand people were crowded into this earth city, and food and weapons were their first concerns.
Because the west side of Tumu Fort is the territory of Keqin Banner, the Sui army only surrounded the south, northeast and three sides of Tumu Fort. The Sui army was not willing to easily put a force between the Mongolian and Yuan people. The terrain here was not suitable for encirclement from all sides.
Mandulang stood on the west side of Tucheng, frowning slightly as he looked at the Keqin Banner army camp faintly visible in the distance. Keqinlelang, that old fox, was unwilling to move his troops any further because he was worried about being attacked by the Sui people and wanted to preserve his strength. But if no reinforcements come, this small earthen fortress will definitely not be able to hold it for much longer.?.
He killed Mandu Ratu to avenge his father and to take back what was rightfully his. But he didn't expect that Wang Ting's reinforcements would stand still forty or fifty miles away. That despicable guy Kuok Tai Meng Lie must have no good intentions.
While he was meditating, a group of people suddenly came galloping from the west. It looked like there weren't many people there, about seventy or eighty riders. When we got closer, we saw clearly that the flag was actually the Mandu flag.
The seventy or eighty men and horses arrived outside the Tumu Fort. The leader shouted loudly: "I am Mandu Yong. Warriors of the Mandu Banner guarding the city, open the city gate and welcome your new flag master into the city!"
Hearing his words, Mandu Wolf's frown deepened.
"General, please open the city gate. The young flag master is really back."
A captain shouted excitedly.
Mandu Wolf¡¯s eyes flashed and he nodded to Agudamu. Agudamu understood what he meant and led his soldiers down from the wall of the earth city.
"Welcome back, my flag master!"
Mandu wolves shouted on the city wall.
The city gate opened with a creak, and Man Duyong rushed into the city gate with seventy or eighty cavalry soldiers. Manduyong looked at the herdsmen and soldiers who had gathered around him, feeling so sad that he even wanted to cry. Just as he was about to open his mouth to say something, a wolf-fang arrow pierced through his mouth, and the bloody arrowhead came out from the back of his head, with some white brains on it.
In an instant, hundreds of wolf-fang arrows poured down, and the seventy or eighty cavalry soldiers were shot to the ground before they had time to react.
This sudden change surprised everyone. They looked at Mandu Wolf standing on the city wall, with fear and anger in their eyes. Mandu Wolf laughed loudly, glanced at the crowd below and asked loudly: "Now, is there anyone who objects to me inheriting the banner of Mandu Banner? If so, you can stand up and speak."
Agudamu stood there with hundreds of soldiers holding bows and arrows, and the originally angry people began to retreat. Mandu Yong is dead, what else can they do? Help Man Duyong get revenge? They don't have the courage. The herdsmen did not dare, and neither did the soldiers. The strict hierarchy made them fearful of the people of the Mandu family. Now there is only one Mandu wolf left in the Mandu family.
"Children, bury him. Next we should think about how to defeat the Sui people."
Mandu Wolf smiled, his expression as calm as if he had just killed a group of sheep.