Realm of Power

The fat man was riding on his horse, looking at the undulating mountains, the snow-capped northwest land, and deserted villages everywhere. Most of the villages were empty, not because there were no people inside, but when the doors were opened, a family The child with a big head and a small body died lying on the noodle vat. The noodle vat was as clean as if it had been eaten by a dog. It was as if they had been licked. At first, the imperial army was still searching the villages within the range closely. When they got to the back, they had no intention of opening the door. Famine was not unprecedented in the empire, but so many people were frozen to death and starved to death. This is the first time for people to see that even experienced imperial soldiers, who are killing many people on the battlefield, feel uncomfortable with the tragic scene in front of them.

“Look at the good things Yeluguda has done”

The fat man sighed, tightened the reins of the war horse, and said in a very disdainful tone, "The deeper you go into the northwest, the worse the situation becomes. It is conservatively estimated that the number of corpses that have been seen to death from freezing and starvation in the past few days has exceeded 200,000, and for For the millions of Central Asians in the entire northwest, this is still less than one-tenth of the number. "This is only if the empire accepts hundreds of thousands of grassland people. Otherwise, you will see a more tragic situation."

"What's the matter? On the grassland, who has to sympathize with the old and the weak who have to sacrifice themselves every year due to lack of food?" Yelu Qiyeguang looked disapproving, completely unmoved by the scene in front of him, but said coldly "The empire only saw these Central Bians who froze to death and starved to death. Why didn't they see how these Central Bians tortured and killed our grassland people? The northwest ministries just left, and these Central Bians immediately slaughtered them and are still there. Seventy percent of the grassland people in the northwest are "Yelü" Qi Yeguang's voice paused, with a look of gnashed teeth. "Everyone, old, weak, women and children, was brutally executed. At that time, who was going to speak for those grassland people who died tragically?" Moreover, the Southwest Long family also took away a large number of young people from the northwest. , can be regarded as preserving the seeds for the people in the northwest. Didn’t Your Majesty see that most of these Central Bian people who froze to death and starved to death died in their own homes? It was because they had decided to accept death. In this case, there are Nothing to complain about! "

The fat man's face was stunned. Yelu Qiyeguang's thoughts were so extreme that even Ruitang Tingna was not so ruthless. From this, we can imagine how miserable the situation of the Central Asians under the control of the entire Yelu Group would be. No wonder Northwest The blood army of the Long family, composed of human beings, would fight to the death with Yeluguda's elite cavalry at the Beishan Racecourse in Yanzhou. They used human sea tactics to kill Yeluguda. The hatred was really too great.

The fat man looked away, hesitated and said, "Now the entire Daizhou has been sealed off. Even if the people sent by the empire can sneak in, it will be difficult to see Yelu Hongtai. You are also the princess of the Yelu family after all. Is there anything you can rely on?" people"

Since it was decided to take Yelu Qiyeguang to Daizhou, there would naturally not be any concealment about the current dangerous situation of the Yelu family.

Originally, Yelu Qiyeguang was not prepared to return immediately, but after seeing the information about the four major ministries in Daizhou, he immediately agreed to accompany Fatty to Daizhou, and a hundred thousand imperial troops went to Daizhou. If it were any other time, for the Yelu family Yan definitely felt like he was facing a formidable enemy, but at this time, the empire pressed Daizhou's soldiers The more power they have, the more beneficial it will be to the Yelu family. With the pressure of the empire's troops approaching the city, the ministries may not have much thought to elect new leaders immediately. And if it turns out that these 100,000 emperors were brought by themselves, I'm afraid The scene is even more exciting. The empire and the Yelu family join forces. Even the four major movies are not enough!

"It's useless. I have thought of it a long time ago. In this situation, even the people within the Yelu family, my father may not believe it."

Yelu Qiye's long black hair was floating in the north wind, and he shook his head with an ugly face, "I know my father. Now all the ministries are gathering in Daizhou, and the four major ministries are even secretly involved in replacing the Yelu family, even if they are from the Yelu family." "I'm afraid even my father won't believe it," he said. I don’t know how many grassland heroes died on the grassland because of betrayal by their cronies. What’s more, now that the Yelu family is surrounded by soldiers, it’s impossible to tell who is the enemy and who is one of our own! If I were the father, I would most likely deliver the message! Conspiracy to treat people as opponents! "

"Then your letter.??..."

The fat man blinked his eyes. If Yelu Hongtai didn't believe it, then everything was not possible. With the sudden change in the status of the Yelu family and the persecution of Yelu Hongtai by various ministries, Daizhou was already in a state of turmoil and undercurrents. It could be a disaster at any time. There is a big shock within the Yelu family group. Now even if someone tells Yelu Hongtai with a letter that Yelu Qiyeguang is not dead, I am afraid Yelu Hongtai will not believe it.

"Don't worry, my letter will be delivered!" Yelu Qiyeguang's eyes flashed with a cunning luster, and he said in a solemn tone, "And it doesn't matter even if it is seen by others, because most people can't understand that letter at all!" "

"A letter that others can't understand?" The fat man's face was stunned, but he soon felt relieved. He had forgotten that Yelu Qiyeguang was originally a dead leaf bone disc in charge of intelligence among the grassland people. It was expected that he could write letters in secret words. Otherwise, if you are stopped by others, you will be exposed.

"Because that letter was written to a blind man, a man who can't see with both eyes, but can see more clearly than many normal people!" Yelu Qiyeguang said with certainty, "This is a man that no one would have thought of." , If someone else finds my father, my father will not believe it, but if it is him, my father will believe it. My father is one of the few people who knows about my relationship with him!”

In Daizhou, the sky after heavy snowfall is all gray.

The dry and cold wind hit his face. No one knew what Mongolian Tiemu was looking at, but every day, Mongolian Tiemu would stand on a slope outside Daizhou City, staring at the sky with his empty eyes. In the distant sky, several guards stood around meticulously. They looked like guards, but in fact they were more. It's surveillance. In two days, the people who went to Yanzhou to search will return. The young patriarch specifically said that this blind man must be watched closely and there must be no mistakes. Thinking that the blood flowing through this man is the most noble golden family on the grassland. Blood, the eyes of several guards were filled with complex expressions,

"Excuse me, the person in front of me is Tiemu, a disciple of the Holy Doctor. I am Lukasa from the Ketayan Division. Eight years ago, it was the Holy Doctor who cured my daughter. I wonder if you still remember it?" I don't know what it is. A middle-aged man dressed as a prairie man appears in Mongolia In front of Gu Tiemu, his eyes lit up when he saw Mongolian Tiemu, showing a look of surprise. This was a middle-aged man with a good-looking appearance, wearing a prairie man's toga, riding on a strong brown-red horse, holding hands Put it on your chest and bend down to salute

"Didn't the Tayan tribe flee to the wilderness of the empire? Why are you still in Daizhou!" Before Mongolian Tiemu could speak, several guard captains among the guards had already stood up and looked at him with fierce eyes. The Tayan tribe is in the northwest A small tribe among the prairie people,

"I have sworn hatred with the empire. Both of my sons died at the hands of the empire. It's a pity that the tribe is so weak that it refuses to help me take revenge. I will not join the empire." Lukasa gritted his teeth angrily. "I have left the Tayan tribe, and now I am an idle traveler, living only for revenge. They said that my grassland army is in Daizhou, and I am here to take refuge." "Idle traveler?" The guard captain softened his attitude. ,look Looking up and down, idle tourists on the grassland are so-called wanderers, people who have been abandoned by the tribe, but don't underestimate the idle tourists, because those who can become idle tourists are either criminals or nobles in the tribe, and ordinary civilians are Those who betray the tribe are often killed by the tribe. Only nobles have such privileges. Seeing that the other party is alone and surrounded by wilderness, it does not seem like he can hide people. The nervous look on the guard's face gradually fades.

What can one person do? As for the assassination of Mongolian Temu, the possibility is slim, because most people outside do not know the relationship between Mongolian Temu and Mongolia. This situation has not happened once or twice. Mongolian Temu followed the holy doctor. In the past ten years, I have traveled to almost half of the grassland tribes, and I don’t know how many people have been saved. People have always been respected as disciples of holy doctors. They often encounter similar situations. The guards are used to it. This is one of the reasons why Mongolia dare not kill him without permission. On the grassland, the craftsman Doctors and doctors are the most noble, even higher than ordinary prairie nobles.

"Tayanbu, eight years ago?" Mongolian Tiemu hesitated for a moment. He had traveled to too many places and couldn't see clearly. It would be damning if he could even remember it.

"Tayanbu, it was the same winter under the Ajitai Snow Mountain. At that time, there was a big avalanche, and a father brought a girl with frostbite. Your Excellency Tiemu should still remember it!" Lukasa showed a look of anxiety on his face. I got up really anxious.

"Ajitai Snow Mountain...a father and a girl suffering from prolonged frostbite?"

Mongolian Tiemu murmured in a low voice, as if he was reminiscing, and his body suddenly trembled. Yes, how could he forget that? Eight years ago, a middle-aged man did come with a girl. The girl It seems that he was trapped under the avalanche for a long time and his body is very weak. His body was covered with frostbite, but he didn’t know that something terrible had happened. His teacher, who had always believed in saving the common people, was really furious that time. He flatly refused to treat the girl at that time, even in front of the girl’s father. There is no compromise under the machete

For this reason, my teacher also broke up with the middle-aged man for more than ten years. Originally, the two of them had a pretty good relationship.

In the end, I really couldn't stand it, so I told him some ways to treat frostbite in snowstorms in private. I don't remember whether it was Tayanbu, but Ajitai Snow Mountain remembered it, because the identity of the father and daughter was unknown at that time. Already quite prominent, not to mention , now rivals the Northern Royal Court, and is known as the fastest-rising family in the grassland in the past century. Although it is not the Golden Family, its popularity is not exaggerated compared to the Golden Family, and that is the one who is currently trapped in Daizhou. Yelu Hongtai and the dead Yelu Qiyeguang

"My daughter has always remembered Lord Tiemu, so she personally copied this Sutra of Immortality, hoping that Lord Tiemu can accept it." Lukasa saw the look on Mongolian Tiemu's face, and finally breathed a secret sigh of relief. Huajuan, respectfully wanted to come over, but was stopped by the guard captain.

"Leave it to me, you can leave!" The guard captain stretched out his hand to stop Lukasa and said coldly. Although he is not afraid of the opponent assassinating Mongolian Ironwood, in extraordinary times, various situations are possible, and there is almost no discussion. , I opened the hand scroll from Lukasa and took a look. Sure enough, it was an article about the sacrifice of a grassland tribe. , the Immortality Sutra used to praise the Immortal Heaven, the handwriting is beautiful, and the copies are full. It is indeed written by a woman. After driving Lukasa away, the guard captain smiled evilly and stuffed the Immortality Sutra into the hands of Mongolian Tiemu. "What a pity." It seems that this girl has always remembered you. No matter how good a blind man writes, can you see it? "

"My eyes can't see, but my heart can see." Mongolia Tiemu grinned slightly, and his hand clenched the copy of the Immortality Sutra, trembling slightly. Yelu Qiyeguang was not dead! In addition to offering sacrifices on the grassland, the Immortal Sutra also has another meaning, which is to report peace to relatives.

In Yanzhou, Long Po, the head of the Long family, walked into the conference room with an extremely solemn expression. He glanced at the generals who were waiting for him and clenched the report that had just been sent to him. The generals of the Long family were all wearing armor and looked nervous.

"Master, although our army has occupied Yanzhou, the shortage of military rations is increasing. This morning, we can only guarantee one meal a day. I am afraid that if it continues, the overall situation will be too high and we will be unable to fight," a general reported.

"Yes, procrastinating like this is not an option. As long as the master of the family gives the order, our blood army is willing to move forward and clear the way for the army." A middle-aged general of the Long family stood up and said with a solemn expression. This general of the Long family He is about forty years old, with a Chinese-shaped face and a ferocious scar that almost cuts across the entire left side of his face. He is Long Xiao from the Blood Army of the Long Family. As one of the personal generals of the former head of the family, Long Yang, Long Xiao After Yang died in the battle with Yanzhou, it was Long Xiao who brought back two of Long Yang's teeth back to the southwest with his body covered with injuries, and built a tomb for Long Yang in the southwest. The scars on the corners of his face were caused by the scimitars of the prairie people. Yes, the blood was flowing profusely at that time, as if he was seriously injured. The prairie people rushed up like crazy. Everyone thought he was dead. Who knew that when the prairie people withdrew, Long Xiao actually crawled out of the pile of corpses again? ,

"When the Imperial Army enters the northwest, our army's retreat will be cut off. The longer it is delayed, the worse it will be for us!" Other generals also agreed. The northwest has been regarded by them as the scope of the Long family, but If they really wanted to fight against the empire's 100,000-strong army for the sake of the northwest, they felt that the military strength was insufficient. The generals all looked at the Long family. After the victory of the Battle of Yanbei Mountain, everyone in the Long family army is now excited. Since the Yelu family has been defeated, the empire should be about the same. With this idea, the generals' fear of the empire has been suppressed. It was replaced by a strange emotion: attack the northwest to kill the grassland people, attack Yanzhou to kill Yeluguda, why can't you attack the empire? Hasn’t the head of the family mentioned many times that the Empire will be the future enemy of the Southwest Long Family?

Long Po's eyebrows knitted together tightly. Although the northwest was as useless as it was, the whole of Zhongbia knew that the northwest had been recovered by him and now fell into the hands of the empire. Did he really not have the courage to fight? That doesn't make the world laugh at the Long family for bullying the weak and fearing the strong, daring to attack the grassland people, but yet they are afraid of the Falcon Empire of the Western Continent! If it had been before, Long Po might have endured it, but now, the Long family has won consecutive battles and its reputation has risen. It seems that it has been regarded as the backbone of countless Zhongbi people. Even if he wants to let the Zhongbi people in the world Even Asians won’t agree!

"How many refugees from the northwest are following us into Yanzhou this time?" Long Po looked at one of the generals in charge and seemed to have something in mind.

"There are only about 250,000 to 60,000, and they are all young and strong men with good physical strength. Most of them have already fallen on the road before they entered Yanzhou," the general replied with an ugly face.

"Are there only 250,000 or 60,000? Of the millions of refugees from the northwest, only these finally arrived in Yanzhou?" Long Po's eyes flashed. There was no food in the northwest, and millions of Central and Asian people were in a desperate situation. The only way was Taking these Central Asians to search for food, we can’t go south. OK, although the south is where the Long family's headquarters is, the area where the Long family is located is so big and it is not a food-producing area. The two years of war have long exhausted the original storage. If these millions of people are allowed to The influx of refugees into the southwest will be a disaster for the southwest.

Since we can't go south, we can only go north. The whole of Central Asia saw that they personally led the main force of the Long family to defeat Yeluguda's more than 100,000 grassland troops at the Beishan Racecourse in Yanzhou, and also massacred Yeluguda several times in the south. Hundreds of thousands of butchers were slaughtered in Beishan, but few people paid attention to how tragic the situation was in the northwest. Yeluguda stole most of the food, causing the Zhongbia people in the northwest to suffer in the cold wind. Countless people froze to death and starved to death in the roar. The ground was covered with white snow along the way. As long as you swept away it, you could see the corpses that had been frozen into blocks of snow. I could only extract young men from them and fill them into the army, and then ordered the army to march to Yanzhou. Previously, he claimed to all the people in northwest China that the only way to survive was to rob the grassland people, and to enter the areas controlled by the Yelu family on the grassland, Yanzhou was the inevitable gate.

"Only by capturing Yanzhou will everyone have a way to survive."

Long Po was standing in the cold wind, pointing with his long sword. Tens of thousands of Long family troops entered Yanzhou, followed by millions of refugees. If he continued to sit back and watch the people in the northwest starve to death, Long Po could not guarantee that he would survive. Will the Long Family Blood Army, which was built as the backbone of the Northwest people, directly mutiny? And the Long Family Blood Army The combat effectiveness of the army was vividly demonstrated in the battle at the Beishan Racecourse in Yanzhou. Although the Long family's blood army was poorly equipped, facing the Yelu family's rushing cavalry and horses, the entire team was overwhelmed and crushed. The whole army was helpless. One person retreated and eventually killed Yeluguda who was trying to break out.

The northwest people gave themselves Yanzhou, so they should give the northwest people a way to survive. Fighting Daizhou is the only way to survive now (To be continued.) 8