Realm of Power

Kaishan, the cold wind is blowing on the flagpole of the army, sending out waves of chilling chill.

The military flags of the Long family were fluttering in the wind. The camp was already ten miles long, covering the original color of the earth. The sight of flying military flags was very spectacular. In the largest military camp in the middle, there were seventeen generals from the Third Army of the Long family. All the officials are here, the air of silence and oppression Here, Long Xueshan stood up from the main seat and handed a piece of information in his hand to a middle-aged man next to him. It was another Long family general who had just arrived from the Long family headquarters in Guanglinchuan, and Long Xueshan Long Shi, the left guard general of the Long Family's Western Army, who had worked together on the border for three years,

Long Xueshan said in a deep voice with complicated eyes, "Long Shi, I have also seen the situation. Seven days have passed since the final ten-day deadline, but the eldest princess still has no sign of giving up Lanzhi, and the news from Lanzhi shows that, Not only did Princess Mingyue not do There were no signs of giving up on Lanzhi, but instead they were actively recruiting mercenaries from the merchant corps in Lanzhi City, and they personally boarded the walls of Lanzhi several times to direct the construction of defenses. With the reputation of the eldest princess, in just a few days, there were already more than 2,000 mercenaries. The mercenaries of the merchant group joined the temporarily formed Lanzhi Army "

Long Xueshan said, "To be honest, what the eldest princess has done has impressed me. In this case, it is completely impossible to avoid hurting the eldest princess!"

"I also know it's very difficult." Long Shi's face was solemn, and he sighed slightly, and his voice paused before continuing, "This time, all the clans in China and Biya agreed with the Long family to attack Lanzhi. The request was that it was okay to attack Lanzhi, but not to hurt. To Her Royal Highness Princess Mingyue, after all, Princess Mingyue represents the royal family of China and Bia, and in the current situation where the royal family of China and Bia is obviously in decline, Princess Mingyue, who single-handedly supported the miracle of Lanzhi, is undoubtedly very optimistic to many regional sects. "

"Are you optimistic?" Long Xueshan looked a little defeated when he heard Long Shi's words. Suddenly, he was shocked. A bright light appeared in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up disdainfully. "Long Shi, you and I have known each other for so many years. You said this?" What do you mean, what are you thinking, I'm almost confused?" "Oh?" Long Shi's eyes were cold and his eyebrows were raised. After a while, in the Long family, Long Shi and Long Xueshan were both the main fighting factions. This time, the Long family headquarters sent Long Shi to assist Long Xueshan, which is quite interesting in itself. However, as soon as Long Shi arrived, he immediately The high-profile request for the entire army to attack Lanzhi and not harm the eldest princess really made the coach Long Xueshan feel quite dissatisfied.

How could the soldiers fight Lanzhi if they made such a request before they even started fighting? The two even had a quarrel.

The next day, Long Shi summoned all the generals for a meeting in the name of the family supervisor. No matter how dissatisfied Long Xueshan was, he still had to come to the meeting. The supervisor represented the family, and he, Long Xueshan, had the most weight, and he could only attend the meeting. It is impossible to blatantly oppose the will of the entire family. "Tell me, what does family mean?"

While they were just having a meeting, Long Xueshan seemed to notice something strange, and his expression became relaxed: "Don't tell me not to hurt Princess Mingyue. You have been a general for several years. How could you not know that once the army attacks the city, swords and swords will fight hand-to-hand." , flesh and blood flying everywhere, thousands of arrows flying, in that kind of scene, who can guarantee that Princess Mingyue will not be hurt? Our soldiers can't just turn around and run immediately when they see Princess Mingyue in front of them?"

"That's right. If Princess Mingyue comes to the city wall in person, how can we fight?"

"Princess Mingyue has indeed gone too far this time." The generals also complained in a very embarrassing way. Some people also expressed dissatisfaction with Princess Mingyue's current stance. Back then, the eldest princess denounced the cruelty of the prairie people during the catastrophe in the imperial capital. The entire Long family She was also full of admiration for Princess Mingyue. As a woman, she did things that many men dared not do. Unexpectedly, this time she turned to the empire and used the honor of the eldest princess to assist the aliens in ruling the Central Asian region. What is this? ! If it weren’t for Princess Mingyue’s staunchness, everyone in China and Bia would have known about it, and someone would have accused Princess Mingyue of being a traitor.

"That's enough!" Long Shi's face darkened, knowing that these vulgar soldiers would only make things worse and worse. He snorted heavily, stopped the general's discussion, stood up suddenly, and glanced outside the tent. " Since everyone is my Dragon family member, I won’t beat around the bush.”

"Not to harm Princess Mingyue is indeed a guarantee made by our Long family to all clans. The current situation in China and Bia, to put it bluntly, is the benefit of the three parties. The Song family in the south controls the power of the court, while our Long family in the southwest This is what the people of China and Biya want, but the real resource of China and Bia is still the control In the hands of these wavering regional clans, whether the Song clan can take over the world or our Long family, the final decision is which side these regional clans will fall to. In fact, we and the Song clan both know very well that these regional clans will Still have no intention of giving up on the Central and Asian royal family"

"Long Shi, why do I feel that what you said means exactly the opposite?"

Long Xueshan's eyes were bright. Long Shi's words were not persuading to protect Princess Mingyue, but more like encouraging everyone to kill Princess Mingyue in the chaos to clear the way for the Long family. Now that I think about it, Long Shi's arrival is indeed quite strange, just a mere one. It’s just Lanzhi City, Long Xueshan considers himself Thirty thousand troops are enough to crush it into powder. The Long family still needs to send Longshi to bring 20,000 people here. Now everyone knows it, and they almost shouted to the whole of Zhongbia, I To fight Lanzhi is completely contrary to the most basic way of fighting.

"What do you mean? Let's see how you understand it." Long Shi picked up the information that was pressed on the table by Long Xueshan, curled his lips slightly, and glanced at everyone, "Please report that Princess Mingyue, in just a few days, can recruit as many as two thousand caravan mercenaries, you won’t I think this is a joke at all. "Not to mention that our Long family's tens of thousands of troops may attack the city at any time. No matter how much money we spend, we have to spend it with lives. If our lives are gone, what's the use of money?" , Those mercenaries are not fools, can they not understand this truth? "

"What do you mean? ≠..." Long Xueshan's body trembled slightly, his eyes were so bright that the hairs on his hair stood up unconsciously, and he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, "My dear, I think this is incredible. , It turns out that it was you who did it on purpose. Tell me, how many people did you squeeze in among those two thousand people? "

"It's not that many. There are at least 1,500 people out of the 2,000 people. Our Long family deliberately stuffed them in." Long Shi raised the corner of his mouth and showed a proud smile. "Do you think you, Long Xueshan, are the only one in the entire Long family?" Are you just thinking about Lanzhi City? The main camp has been sending people in for more than half a month. , these people will launch an attack the night before the deadline. Before our Long family attacks Lanzhi, they will attack and kill Princess Mingyue on the spot, disrupting the defense in the city, and then withdraw before dawn. Even if the various clans ask afterward, I, the Long family, can just blame it on the prairie people."

Long Shi paused, looked away from outside the tent, and smiled coldly, "The 20,000 people I brought are just to attract the attention of various clans. Before the deadline passes, we will not have any All we have to do to get Lanzhi is Princess Mingyue. As long as Princess Mingyue dies, Lanzhi City will naturally become the property of my Long family. If there is anything else to fight, just accept it!"

"Dongfeng Lei, this is the name set by this camp for this plan."

Long Shi pressed his finger heavily on the information on the table. "Anyway, everyone knows that the empire killed many prairie people in the wilderness. It is common sense for these prairie people to seek revenge, and the death of Princess Mingyue was just the trigger. As long as the conflict between the empire and the prairie people breaks out, hundreds of thousands of The people of the northwest grasslands, even the empire, will not be able to stabilize in a short time. In this way, the empire will be temporarily unable to take care of my Long Family's attack on Lanzhi. As long as Lanzhi is in hand, there will be no obstacles for our Long Family to enter the northwest. As long as the Dragon Breakthrough When the adults return, our Long family can take over the northwest again."

"Dongfeng Lei! What a name. I've been frustrated for several years. It's time for the empire to have a taste of the rolling thunder in China." Long Xueshan's expression was extremely excited. His loud voice almost overturned the tent, and so did the other generals. Everyone was extremely excited. Finally, the Long family was about to launch a counterattack against the empire.

In the past few years, although the prairie people have caused boundless killings when they went south, for the Long family, the empire has always been a shadow in their hearts. Although the prairie people's horseshoes are sharp, what can they do when facing the mountains in the southwest? Sample? The warships of the Imperial Navy have penetrated the entire southwest river and can transport troops into the southwest at any time, while the imperial merchants control half of the commerce in the southwest.

Because the taxes they received were too low, the imperial merchants took advantage of the huge price advantage and almost destroyed the local business in the southwest. As a result, most of the materials the Long family needed were purchased from the empire. How much did the Long family charge? Profit taxation just went full circle and returned to the hands of the empire. In just two years, local business in the southwest suffered heavy losses, and the empire Whether it was military or economical, the Long family was overwhelmed. In the battle of Tianlang City, the Long family and the empire were completely torn apart. The main force of the Long family's northward march also gained less. It is equivalent to giving it to the empire in vain. The wealth belongs to the empire, and the territory it has conquered also belongs to the empire. If the Long family continues to tolerate this, it will really be equivalent to helping the empire conquer the world in vain!

In the dark night, outside the Longjia military camp, a dark figure squatted in a high bush. The withered weeds and bushes after winter were naked and hanging on their clothes. Wang Ende, a scout of the Imperial Yanzhou Flag Regiment, was bent over and squatting at a height of about 100,000 feet. Among the bushes, as a former scout of the Yanzhou Army, he was no stranger to the traditional Central-Bian army layout of the Long family barracks. He even knew the route of the Long family's peripheral patrol team very clearly.

In the darkening night. The Long family army lit countless bonfires in Kaishan, like the stars in the sky falling to the ground. Many mobile sentries could be seen around, and the Long family soldiers sat in groups around the bonfires. The vigilance is not rigorous, but it is. After all, there are still a few days before the final time. With an army of tens of thousands of people, what do you need to worry about when facing a small Lanzhi City?

Wang Ende looked around carefully, then carefully climbed up a slope on the outside. With a grin on his face, like a fox stealing a chicken, he slowly withdrew from the line of sight of the Long family's military post, and stood in the bushes behind. Inside, take out the carrier pigeon that represents the confirmed goal, open the pigeon cage, take out the carrier pigeon inside, and put a red The ribbon was tied to the pigeon's leg, and he let go of his hand towards the sky. A dark gray pigeon flew impatiently towards the sky with the full moon, and soon disappeared into the black sky. Watching the pigeon fly It quickly turned into a small black dot that was invisible to the naked eye. Wang Ende jumped off a tree trunk and disappeared into the darkness.

The Long family believes that they are 100% sure about Lanzhi City. If they had launched a direct attack, Lanzhi City might have been captured long ago. However, the Long family decided to release a final period of ten days. Ten days, in the eyes of the Long family, might be just The process that caused Lanzhi City to fall from prosperity to chaos may even be watched with a certain mentality. The Long family would not have thought that for the empire, ten days, It was enough for a group of imperial cavalry to move south from the northwest and central part and attack the Long family's camp in the direction of Lanzhi. Throughout Obaro, everyone knew that the empire was best at running battles, but this was Zhongbia, which had never been the case. The Long family, which had fought against the empire, was stationed safely in one place. This was a mistake in itself, but the entire defense was almost different.

Mulihe was dressed in black armor and stood on a raised mound. This grassland man was raising his head and looking at the moon above his head. The snow-white moonlight flowed down like a bowl of clear water, fiercely. The night wind blew his head until a small black dot appeared under the bright moonlight.

"Look!"

A low voice came from below. Everyone raised their heads at this moment. A black shadow appeared in the moonlight circle and quickly came towards this side. At this moment, tens of thousands of eyes were looking at this person from the circle. A small black spot flashed out in the middle of the moon. The moonlight shone down from a high place, flowing from the emperor like a stream of water. The resolute and upright postures of the national cavalry flowed down, with neatly arranged armors and spears, and the low neighing of the war horses. A total of 30,000 imperial cavalry were like a herd of beasts entrenched here in the dark night, spreading pressure to the surroundings. There was a sense of desolation in the silence of the night, and there was not much sound.

"Pap!" It seems that only the flapping wings of homing pigeons can be heard in the air.

A soldier standing behind Mulihe who was responsible for receiving the carrier pigeon stretched out his hand. The gray carrier pigeon landed on the messenger's shoulder. The sound of clapping and folding wings was particularly clear at night. The imperial messenger glanced at the carrier pigeon. The red ribbon on his leg immediately reported to the Muli River in front, "Sir, the target is indeed in the Kaigu Valley five miles ahead. It has been confirmed!"

"Kaishan?" Mulihe took a deep breath, raised his hand, and ordered behind him, "Everyone mount up!"

"Swipe" 30,000 imperial cavalry neatly mounted their horses, the sound of countless armors turning was like a murderous sword being pulled out of its scabbard, as the 2,000 imperial heavy armored cavalry were at the forefront of the assault, first from The heavy armored cavalry marched out from the queue. Each of these heavy armored cavalry held a long spear in their hands. The sides of the horses were covered with the bucklers of the prairie people. When they were given the order, they marched in. The armored spears shining in the moonlight were like the Milky Way leaking to the ground and the river. Run! (To be continued.) 8