Realm of Power

The sky is a wash of blue, but the vast plain is shrouded in billowing smoke.

Countless grassland cavalry marched along the mountains to the south, like horse teams rising in the wind, spreading out towards the two wings, guarding the tribes in the middle to pass cautiously. Countless baggage vehicles, millions of cattle and sheep, constituted A huge long dragon with no end in sight. It seemed that everyone on the grassland was crowded together.

The road ahead is bleak, but there is a way out. The old man leaning on the baggage cart has an extremely solemn look in his eyes. Children cannot understand the melancholy of leaving the land. They are playing and playing next to the baggage cart. For children, home is a constant. mobile,

From the time they can remember, home is where the most luxuriant water plants grow. Therefore, this time they will at most move a little further. There is no place on the prairie that is not home! But as the grass in front obviously began to shrink, large tracts of light yellow land were exposed, and black smoke pillars went straight into the sky in the distance, as if a huge flag was inserted between the sky and the earth.

The place where the flag is located is Yanzhou in Zhongbia, which is Zhongbia's biggest barrier against the northern grasslands. There used to be a powerful force that had been fighting the grassland people for hundreds of years.

Zhongbia Yanzhou Army, most of the elders in the tribe still remember how powerful this army was. At this time, they unconsciously stood up from the baggage truck.

The key to whether we can enter China and find a way out this time is whether we can break through the barrier of Yanzhou in the shortest possible time.

I heard that His Highness attacked Yanzhou and destroyed most of the defense lines. Those that could not be destroyed were burned by fire. The military leader of Yanzhou also surrendered to His Highness. The presence of the Central Asian army in Yanzhou has long since disappeared. So what is the black smoke rolling up ahead?

Even the most careless child felt something at this time and stopped playing. He stood on the baggage car and pursed his lips tightly. The long migrating convoy in front had stopped. As the previous news came, more tribal men began to put on armor,

The woman hung the bow and scimitar that had been cleaned all night on the man's horse, put the copper-nailed armor passed down from several generations on the man's head, and carefully arranged the saddle straps of the horse again. Various amulets, hole-punched beast bones, and a series of beast teeth obtained from the clan wizards were all stuffed into the man's arms. The woman didn't say anything, only the horn horn sounded urgently. urging.

The man rubbed his child's face, stretched out his warm and rough hands, and touched his woman's face. Under the woman's gaze, he smiled and hung all the amulets around his neck. The woman His face looked better, but his eyes were still fixed on the back of the horse galloping away, until it turned into a small black dot and could no longer be seen.

For many years, people on the grassland have been like this, like grass seeds, as long as they don't die. It's fate,

It's just that the wind here doesn't have the breath of the grassland, blowing against your face. It’s also bloody, that place is not home! That's not the prairie! That's the northwest of Yanzhou. At the Khural Pass, the 300,000 right-wing troops marching south ushered in the first battle of their own destiny.

Yeluguda, who was wearing a bright red armor, led dozens of blood wolf guards and galloped through the Hural Pass. Like their group, the cavalry from other ministries were also divided into groups of horses, and they surrounded the mountain in disorder. A pass between two towering mountains,

Yelu Hongtai sent the most elite 1,500 blood wolf guards on this road leading to Yanzhou. I thought that the Yanzhou army was already dead. This pass has no master. It is not a rush down. ? Capture the mountain pass, enter Yanzhou, and then enter Zhongbia. This route has been planned in Yeluguda's mind countless times. Who knows that he only discovered it when he arrived?

I don’t know when, the Central Asians had already placed a troop at Hulaer Pass.

The furious Yelvuguda led the 1,500 Blood Wolf Guards and ran headfirst into this barrier like a natural chasm. They attacked and killed all night and suffered more than 300 losses. They finally managed to seize a hole, but they knew that The opponent sent out a group of heavily armored troops, which could not be cut with swords or shot with arrows. Yeluguda's men, who were killed directly, collapsed.

In the end, after a night of fierce fighting, the Right Prime Minister's army still failed to capture the mountain pass in front of them. There was no way to pass, and it was a dead end.

The emperor promised to give him five days, but four days have passed. In order to prevent the emperor's backlash, the Baihe troops of the Yelu family have been at the end of the entire migration team, so although they have tens of thousands of troops, they are unable to move forward. Mobilize even the slightest bit,

The Hural Pass was once the outpost of the Northern Army Camp in Yanzhou. Although it is located in the center of the country, it is the most important western gate for the entire Yanzhou. The imperial capital of the Zhongbia Empire was defeated. Although the century-old Kyoto was burned down and the main armies in the Central Plains suffered serious battle losses, it does not mean that there are not one or two discerning people in the entire Zhongbia court. The most fundamental reason for the catastrophe in the imperial capital is because of the century-old barrier. Yanzhou was lost, and now the grassland army has retreated to the grassland. Three The civil strife in this prince is so obvious. This is the best opportunity to march north to regain the lost territory. If you want to regain the lost territory, the first thing you need to do is to restore the Yanzhou barrier. Otherwise, if you don't consolidate Yanzhou, the grassland army can come over at any time. , there is no talk of regaining lost ground and reviving China’s national prestige!

Because the main forces of the army have not yet recovered, and the emperor is only tentative about this strategy, the army ordered to march into Yanzhou this time is the Luzhou Army in the south of Central and South Asia. The Luzhou Army has always been the most important in South China and South Asia. A military group with hundreds of thousands of people guarding the four southern provinces. Its main role is to suppress the powerful forces in the south on behalf of the central government. This time, those who were ordered to be transferred north were the Luzhou Army who mainly guarded Wutong Province and Fengwu Province in the south. There are four armies, with 63,000 men. The Central Asian military system adopts the establishment of one army with 12,000 men. Under one army, there are six commanders, each commanding 2,000 men. At this time, in There were actually only two commanders at the Khural Pass, less than 5,000, belonging to the Fengwu Army. However, Yeluguda was really unlucky and bumped into the head of the Central and Asian heavy armored soldier who was known as the strongest wall. More than two hundred people were lost, but they were still driven down from above.

The Luzhou Army is permanently stationed in the south. It is located in the southern mountains rich in iron ore. In order to deter the barbarians in the south who claim to be kings based on the mountains, they have a rare array of heavy armored soldiers among the Central and Asian armies. These Central and Asian heavy armored soldiers wear They are all three layers of Zinobia scale armor, which are put on all over the body just before the battle. There are auxiliary soldiers beside the heavy armored soldiers. Although they move slowly, they can be lined up once. Even the heavy cavalry may not be able to break away. It is the most advantageous unit to deal with the southern mountain people who are mostly guarding the mountains. Most of the long-range weapons of the mountain people are hunting bows, which cannot cause any harm to the heavy armor. The latest rebellion in the South, Phoenix The Wu army only sent a team of 150 heavy armored soldiers to destroy the rebel stronghold of nearly 3,000 people. The losses suffered by the heavy armored soldiers were only 16 people killed and 37 injured. It was because the auxiliary soldiers behind were intercepted by the opponent and could not respond for a while. Thousands of people surrounded these more than a hundred people, but they were all killed and dispersed.

When it comes to formation battles, even the Long Family’s Western Army, which is good at field battles, must avoid the heavy armored soldiers of the Feng Wu Army.

The battle for the throne on the northern grasslands has not yet come to an end. The Luzhou Army did not expect that they would encounter grassland people coming south at this time, and they would rush in from the most remote gap. Therefore, the rammed earth walls at the Hural Pass have not yet been covered with bricks. Many crenellations also collapsed. Only wooden pillars could be erected next to the walls to provide cover for the defenders on the city wall. The front ditch is not wide either. A channel was also led out to irrigate a field outside the mountain pass. The water level only reached knee level. The banks on both sides collapsed to form gentle slopes, making the moat shallow and narrow. Hardly a hindrance. As for auxiliary defense facilities such as hanging walls to resist heavy siege vehicles, they are basically useless.

The Yanzhou Barrier has been standing for hundreds of years. Although it has experienced the impact of previous wars, the structure still exists.

This defense line is like a giant dragon's winding spiked back, with Yanzhou Shangjing as its core, a powerful and solid city. Many annexed buildings. In many areas, soldiers and towns are integrated into one, and soldiers and civilians are of the same clan. It is common for fathers and sons to go to the battlefield together for generations. It is this environment that created the Yanzhou Army, one of the two major armies of the Central Asian Empire. , for more than a hundred years, the walled fortress defense system has been repaired and repaired again and again. It can definitely be called the first line of defense in the Eastern Continent, layer by layer. The layers of brick and stone buildings will never be finished. For the grassland Qingqi, the seven hundred miles of Yanzhou and the three hundred miles of city defense are an insurmountable chasm. Therefore, the three princes went south and chose the same route. Bypassing Yanzhou "You bastard, you can't even take a mountain pass, why are you talking about crossing Yanzhou!"

Yelvruda's eyes were red with anxiety, his mouth was dry, his lips were chapped, and he was very angry. He had no choice but to ask for help from the various tribes migrating south. The prairie cavalry kept coming up, and thousands of cavalry surrounded the mountain pass defense line and fired bursts of arrows from time to time. rain. Thousands of light cavalry holding shields dismounted and formed a formation. Forming one scattered formation after another. in the array. There were also long crude ladders built in a hurry. In the middle of the escort arrays, several clan leaders stood nervously in front of the array, just waiting for the order to attack. The mountain pass city wall was not very high, and there were hundreds of corpses piled under the wall. They were twisted and dead in different shapes. Seven or eight long ladders collapsed under the city wall, and there was still a little bit of charred wood left in the fire. At this moment, there are still wisps of green smoke. "Come on, the Yelu family is willing to pay three hundred gold for whoever conquers the mountain pass!"

Yeluguda waved his sword and shouted loudly, the Yelu family only has so many blood wolf guards, but they cannot all die here. The grassland army has never lacked blood bravery. What they lack is nothing more than buying their lives. Before the Yelu family killed An Brother Naning plundered the wealth of Lang Ruijun, one of the eight Dongting armies, and reserved enough property for this trip south. If necessary, the Yelu family would not hesitate to use these properties to encourage other tribes to become cannon fodder.

When the other prairie people heard that there was a three hundred gold reward, their eyes suddenly turned red. Some of the tribal leaders who had been complaining just now took a deep breath of cold air, and their voices immediately became louder, facing the cluttered people behind them. the infantrymen shouted" Whoever is the first to climb the mountain pass will be given freedom. "To win the mountain pass, three hundred gold coins are not three hundred gold coins, but gold cakes popular on the grassland. A gold cake weighs one or two pounds, three hundred gold, that is That’s more than four hundred taels of gold! Who would be unmoved after hearing this? These light infantry are poorly equipped and are naturally cannon fodder. Most of them are strong slaves. They only need a short sword and a wooden shield. In terms of value, I don’t know if a sheep is worth anything. ?

Since the Yelu family is willing to spend a lot of money to open this mountain pass, then everyone will not be stingy either! What's more, I don't know how many emperors are watching behind me.

All the grassland people, including the Yelu family, had no choice. The right prime minister said that going south was the way to survive. Others also said that if they didn't go south, they would all be killed by the imperial people. But what finally made the leaders of the Onnacuo tribe decide to go south was the news that the three princes brought back countless treasures from Central Bia. The main force of Central Bia had been severely damaged. What was in front of them was a large open warehouse. Many cattle and sheep froze to death in the winter, and the tribe's property was also consumed. Since the right prime minister was leading them personally, it was a good choice for everyone to go to Central Bia to make a fortune. It was better than staying in the Onnacuo area and being caught in the vortex of the war between the imperial army and the royal court.

Among the eight armies of the East Court, three legions had already fought with the empire, and the results were quite tragic. Zhamuhebi died in Tianlang Mansion, Ananingge died in Onnacuo, and Wugudeli of the Lei Army had already seen that the situation was not right and withdrew in advance. In this way, more than 100,000 grassland troops died at the hands of the imperial army. How could the royal court continue to turn a deaf ear? The throne of the Khan of Wang Ting fell. According to tradition, the new Khan would launch a full-scale conquest to show his royal power, just like the howling of a wolf looking at the moon.

Over the years, the new Khan's conquest target has always been Central Asia in the south, causing a storm of blood and corpses.

This time, it is obvious that the target of the conquest is not only the Falcon Empire that has humiliated the King's Court several times, but also who else? Once the King's order is issued, should I obey it or ignore it? This is a big problem. If I choose to be neutral, the result will be a faster death. If I don't offend either side, I will offend both sides!

The powerful fighting force displayed by the imperial army in the Battle of Baikonur shocked all the people in this land.

After receiving the ultimatum from the imperial army, the right prime minister Yelu Hongtai finally let go of his last bit of vigilance and immediately sent a message to the tribe of the Baihe army who had been wandering on the edge of the Annacuo grassland. Together with the grassland people on the Annacuo grassland who had been encouraged to go south, the total number of the two was more than 300,000. Go south, at least there is still a way to survive! The mountain pass ahead was covered with black smoke, and the flames were like a huge evil dragon, illuminating most of the wilderness. In the afternoon, cheers shook the four fields! The right prime minister's army broke through the Hural Pass, and 300,000 grassland tribes poured into the north of Yanzhou like a tide (to be continued...)