Realm of Power

The Mokan Pass in the southwestern part of Zhongbia has high mountains, towering trees, and mist surrounding the mountains. For thousands of years, these mountains have been the dividing line between the southwest basin of Zhongbia and the southern mountains. At this time, in Under the cloudy sky, on the winding road of the pass, an unmarked carriage appeared there.

Dozens of guards with serious expressions slowly followed the carriage.

Below the pass is a small town, which is the first place to stay when entering the southwest from the south, Longjing Town. It is said that the mountains in the south are the spine of the dragon, the southwest basin of China and Bibia is the huge dragon's head, and the dragon's tail is on the southern coast. The spiraling extension,

"Stop"

A low voice came from the carriage. The carriage stopped at the downhill slope of the pass. A middle-aged man wearing arrow-sleeved nylon stepped out of the carriage. There was no greeting staff, not even the most basic guide. Could it be that he was going to Are you going to enter the Southwest like this? Such a scene was completely beyond the middle-aged man's expectation, "Song Lu, are you sure you have sent your itinerary to Southwest Mansion?" The middle-aged man's eyebrows frowned together unconsciously, "The subordinate sent it in person, The time of the trip was also clearly stated, and it was impossible for the other party not to know. "A young man behind him who looked very capable stood up, saluted the middle-aged man and said, "The Western Army must be responsible!"

Next to the young man, a strong man with a blue birthmark in the corner of his eye and a fierce look said in a bad tone, "What do you mean by the Western Army? The Lord of the Valve came in person and was so cold. It seems that we are not welcome to enter the southwest. We will not be sent." People come , are we, the Song people, unable to enter the southwest? Are you kidding? In the eyes of our Song people, these two armies from China and Biya are just shutting up and bragging about themselves. The Yanzhou army was beaten by the grassland people. Lost the imperial capital, flattered Zhang The military army fled to the south like a bereaved dog. If we hadn't worried that those guys in Luzhou still had some fighting strength, we would have gone straight to Hanglin and captured the cowardly emperor. What kind of bullshit would we have to attend there? The ceremony of establishing the capital! "Song Li, since he has left the mountains, he should know that there are some things he can say, but there are some things he cannot say even if he is choked to death!" The middle-aged man's face turned as cold as a knife when he heard the strong man's words. In the mountains, the Song people are the masters. Compared with the mountain villagers, the Song family's army is still very powerful, so the children of these families have unconsciously developed a mentality of contempt for the entire Zhongbia.

But this is not a mountain. To say such words here seems very ignorant!

The middle-aged people know very well that the Song people today are not the Song people they were when Zhongbia rose a hundred years ago. The ancestors took advantage of the turmoil in the Central Plains for hundreds of years. It took such an explosion to allow the Song people to gain control of the southern coastal areas, and now the Song people. Under the suppression of the Zhongbia court in the past, it has long been inferior to before. The main reason is not that the mountain people are cowardly and dare not fight, but that the weapons and equipment in the southern coastal areas are too different. Although the mountain people are tough, they have become accustomed to it. The power structure of each one. The population is not concentrated and technology has hardly developed. Not to mention economy, trade and forging skills. Outside, Zhongbia has already equipped its troops with full iron armor, but most of the villagers in the southern mountainous areas still use linen and light swords. Facing the real Zhongbia army, it is simply impossible to fight. Some time ago, the Six Villages During the rebellion, the Luzhou Army killed 3,000 mountain people with only 150 armors, shocking the entire south!

A single Luzhou army could almost overwhelm a mountain of 100,000 people and make it breathless. Not to mention that the Central Committee of China and Bibia also controlled the flattery and Zhangwu military groups with a total of more than 400,000 combat troops, as well as the Yanzhou War Army of 100,000 troops. Yu Wan, the two main field forces of the Southwest Long Family's Western Army of 200,000, although the Yanzhou Army has been destroyed, the Long Family's Western Army is actually full of troops.

If he hadn't considered taking advantage of this opportunity to obtain some benefits from the Western Army and greatly improve the strength of the south, the middle-aged people would not have wanted to come at all. When the Song people entered the southwest, I heard that there was already a boil in Hanglin. The oil exploded like boiling water. Many people said this was a crazy idea. One can imagine what kind of turmoil it would cause in the southwest and among the Western Army! If I really think that the Western Army, which has been an independent system for hundreds of years, will obediently regard the orders of the Zhongbia Court as imperial edicts, then I am deceiving myself and others. The Central Committee of Zhongbia is killing people with a borrowed knife, killing the Song people and killing the Western Army. Because In order to show his goodwill, he notified the Southwest Prefecture of his itinerary in advance, and he only brought more than a hundred people with him.

Such sincerity should not be missed by the Western Army! But what does the situation in front of me mean? It seems that this southwest land does not know that the storm is coming. Although it is just a formality, it is still a formal act of the Song people entering the southwest. Is the Western Army just avoiding it? Long Yang brought 100,000 elites out of Guangling. The Central Committee of China and Libya seized the opportunity to use the situation and directly gave Long Yang the hat of Yanzhou guard. This was considered to have cut off Long Yang's possibility of returning to the southwest in a short period of time.

Yanzhou is the first frontline against the northern grassland people, and now there are more than 300,000 grassland people looting. As the guard of Yanzhou, before the grassland people in Yanzhou have not been wiped out, they must bear it like a nail. There, that's why I say that the central government is really too poisonous this time. The prairie people are here, and the dragons Yang wants to support Yanzhou, and the grassland people have been beaten away. As the guard of Yanzhou, Long Yang cannot return to the southwest without authorization, at least until the central government appoints a new guard of Yanzhou. The problem is that the Long family's western army is all in the southwest. How could a man stay in Yanzhou in the north and protect the central government with the blood of the people from the southwest? Therefore, Long Yang’s defeat is only a matter of time. If he loses, the Long family will be finished. If he is not defeated, the Long family will not be able to turn around.

The middle-aged man sighed slightly. He was the leader of the Song clan in the south. Song Que had a typical strong body of a southern mountain man, with endless energy. His skin was slightly dark and purple, and he wore a pair of dark His eyes are prominent, standing here, his eyes are focused and shining, with his hands behind his back, the wind blows the arrow sleeves of his broad robe, he has the magnanimity of a great leader of a generation, under his gaze,

Longjing Town below is on the edge of the Nuba River that rolls out from the high mountains. The impact of the turbulent water continues to hit the wellhead-shaped outer wall of the town, causing bursts of white water to appear in the town. The outside is a pile of low but solid stones, and the large and small pits left by hundreds of years of wind and rain are clearly visible on the wall. Hundreds of houses can be vaguely seen in the town, and some horse teams traveling in the mountains are visible. Stop here. The cooking smoke is lingering, and the calm is like a layer of sand hanging over the town. "Stay here for three days, and then send someone to the Southwest Mansion, three days later. Regardless of whether there are people coming from the Southwest Mansion, enter the Southwest, and in Before that, don’t make trouble, let alone talk nonsense, do you understand?” Song Que said with a stern expression. After getting on the carriage, "Yes!" The people behind him were of different shapes, and they were all tough and powerful mountain people. After hearing Song Que's order, they responded in an orderly manner. The formation following the carriage looked very loose. But experienced people can see that these guys are not just ordinary guards. Whose guards will form a formation that changes with the direction, blocking all views of the carriage. There are more than ten people on both sides. meters, and light cavalry were sent back and forth if anyone in the town wanted to attack the carriages located inside from a distance. It is inevitable to step over the corpses of two or three people. This is a group of desperate people who protect the family with their lives.

The Song people entered the southwest. It was like a drop of water falling into boiling oil. Although he showed good intentions and was cautious, he was walking on thin ice. Who dares to say that the Western Army was devastated. Wouldn’t he choose to attack the Song people? After passing this pass, the front is the territory of the Western Army. On this journey, every step is on the edge of a knife. Along the way, everyone's nerves were stretched to the limit, so Song Que had to get off the carriage here and take a look for himself at this first Western Army town after leaving the pass. If the Western Army wanted to sniper Kill yourself. This town is the first choice. It is located in a remote area. There is no one coming and going except the cavalry. The cavalry usually takes one to two months to come and go. Kill all the Song people who entered the southwest here and then bury them. Who knows? ?

The first line of defense of the carriage is a middle-aged man of about 40 years old, wearing a copper helmet inlaid with hard leather. The top of the helmet is decorated with red feathers. Under the shoulders of the black leather armor, a pair of strong and powerful legs are revealed. Hands, dark curly hair from helmet The two sides of his body were exposed, and under two well-proportioned long eyebrows, his cheeks looked deep and resolute. His thick eyelashes made his eyes like a flickering light bulb, and a faint murderous aura emerged from his body. He is Song Que The guard captain, next to him, is a thin young man with a slightly dark face and an earthworm-like scar on the corner of his eyebrow, which gives this delicate face a bit of a ferocious look that belongs to a warrior. He is looking carefully. looking at the four Zhou Huangcao, the grass in the southern mountains in spring has grown to calf height, and the low shrubs are spread out like a blanket. On the relatively stable mountain road, you can hear the ruts rolling on the hard loess road, making a low sound. creaking sound

Unknowingly, the carriage has arrived three hundred meters away from the town entrance. "Master, no problems were found along the way!" The middle-aged man turned around and came to the carriage and said, "It's good if there are no problems. Let everyone cheer up. It's so far away from here." The pass is only more than a thousand meters. If this is really the case, , send a signal immediately, the five thousand people from the pass should be able to arrive! "Song Que opened the window curtain of the carriage, glanced at the town in front, and landed on a wooden fence in front of the town. An entrance about three meters wide, which he had carefully observed just now , if there is a real situation, it will not be a problem for more than a hundred people to guard the town entrance. The pass has also specially arranged 5,000 people to deal with the sudden change. Although Longjing Town is small, it is also an area of ​​the Western Army. Entering Longjing Town by yourself is equivalent to After setting foot in the southwest region, no matter how reluctant the Western Army was, , and can't continue to avoid it, otherwise the Western Army's own courage and century-old Western Army's arrogance will never swallow this breath. As long as the Western Army's people are willing to show up, I can no longer worry about the Western Army's evil hands. , if the people from the Western Army don’t show up, how can I enter the southwest?

The carriage drove onto the wooden bridge outside the entrance of the town. Under the wooden bridge was the rolling water blocking the river. The wind on the water blew open the curtains.

Song Que's sharp eyes habitually glanced towards a corner of the town entrance, and he accidentally saw a figure standing there. It was a town citizen wearing ordinary clothes, looking at the people entering the town with a cold look. Looking at the cavalry in front of him, Song Que's expression suddenly changed, and his fingers clenched suddenly and unconsciously.

He knew that person. Although he was wearing very ordinary town clothes, his eyes and calmness made him unmistakable. It was Long Yang, the man who everyone said went to Yanzhou for rescue. Biya's number one general was looking at him like an idle town citizen. His gaze didn't make Song Que's whole body shiver.

The first thing he thought of was that this could not be a trap set up by the Central Committee of China and the Western Army. The purpose was to snipe the elites of the Song clan in the southwest!

"Stop the car!" Song Que couldn't care anymore, and jumped out of the carriage under everyone's confused gazes. He bowed slightly to Long Yang, who was standing on the roadside watching the excitement, "Song clan leader Song Que, greeting the general." Although he is one of the four clan clans of the first rank, in fact, the first rank of the Song clan has always had water, but the Long family is different. He holds the second rank. One hundred thousand troops. The real No. 1 local power in the empire. Compared with the status of the two, the Long family is still above the Song clan. What's more, now, they are on the territory of the Long family. Life and death are just a matter of a word from Long Yang. Song Que lowered his posture to express his attitude to Long Yang. I am moving step by step like a snail. I really have no ambitions in the southwest.

"The Valve Master is too polite. I learned that the Valve Master is entering the southwest today, so I am waiting here specially for you!"

Long Yang smiled slightly, and the strength in his body suddenly burst out. Li Yuehua said that he could help him save the Luzhou Army, but he needed to go to Guangling by himself. The 100,000 Western Army did march north under his own banner, but on the edge of Yanzhou It stopped. The 300,000 grassland troops turned out to be exactly what Li Yuehua said. He gave up his plan to trap Yanzhou to death, and was so frightened that he hid in the area connected to the northwest of Yanzhou and the grassland.

In fact, Long Yang didn't know. The 300,000 grassland army looks huge, but in fact, the only ones that can really fight are Yelu Hongtai's more than 10,000 Baihe pro-army troops. The other 60,700 to 70,000 grassland army can plunder, loot and provide support, but they can really compete with the front line. Fighting with the regular army was far away, and one hundred thousand Long Family Western Army came out of Guangling. The most elite field regiments of the Zhongbia Empire were actually coming towards Yanzhou with murderous intent. The grassland ministries could no longer stay in Yanzhou, and Yanzhou was destroyed. The land has long been turned into a wasteland. There is no food in it. It is full of waist-high grass and withered bones. Three hundred thousand people have poured into such an area. The Luzhou Army is hungry in Yanzhou Shangjing, gnawing grass. People are outside Shangjing It's not much better. They are about to eat people and their stomachs are not full. Who has the strength to stop these murderous gods? The dilemma of the Luzhou Army is solved. With the cooperation of 100,000 Western troops, the Luzhou Army are evacuating from Yanzhou to Beijing,

Also in order to repay Li Yuehua's favor, Long Yang also agreed to Li Yuehua's request, which was to remain silent on the Song people's entry into the southwest, creating the illusion that they were still in Yanzhou.

The central government gave him the title of guarding Yanzhou, which really made Long Yang feel a little cold. He went to Yanzhou to rescue the Luzhou army, but what he got in exchange was this result. After a hundred years of fighting against the Western Kingdom, millions of Western soldiers spilled their blood on the battlefield, but the central government’s attitude turned out to be In this way, letting the Song people enter the southwest is obviously a plan to let the two kill each other and then reap the benefits. It is conceivable that if they are really trapped in Yanzhou, the situation will be really difficult to predict. For decades The former Western Army could be divided, but decades later, the Western Army could not kill each other? "Blessings?" Song Que's face was stunned for a moment. The word "blessings" is too easy to arouse all kinds of thoughts.

"Of course I am waiting for you! The Valve Master is now the leader of the Western Army appointed by the central government!" Long Yang saluted Song Que.

"Who am I, the leader of the Western Army? The general is really..." Song Que's face was twitching. How come these words coming from Long Yang's mouth were so disturbing! If he hadn't been afraid that Long Yang would fall out immediately, he would have run away long ago. In this mountainous area, he could ambush five thousand people. According to the capabilities of the Western Army, it would not be a problem to ambush two to thirty thousand people. Song Que felt that the mountains around him Up there, it was already tense and chilly,

"What do you think of the scenery of Longjing Town?" Long Yang changed his words, and a hint of deep meaning flashed in his eyes. "To be honest, this place is at the crossroads between two places, and the road is convenient. If the southwestern mansion of the Valve Master is set up here, , it should be more appropriate!”

"What does the general mean?" Song Que's body trembled, and his eyes burst out with light. He was not a fool, so how could he not hear what Long Yang meant? This is really a good idea. If the Southwest Palace is located in Longjing Town, the central government cannot Just as Long Yang will not hold himself accountable for not joining the Southwest, it’s amazing. When will Long Yang play this trick?

"It seems that the Valve Master has agreed!" Long Yang smiled, took out a list of names from his arms, and stuffed it into Song Que's hand. "Since the Valve Master has taken over as the leader of the Western Army, let's sign this." , I can go back to Guangling as soon as possible!"

"What is this?" Song Que was a little stupid.

"Some people don't want to obey the central government's orders and are trying to rebel. They have been captured by the Western Army. They are just waiting for the signature of the feudal lord!"

"..." Song Que felt like he wanted to hit a wall. It was obviously you, Long Yang, who wanted to kill people and wanted Song Que to sign... (To be continued)