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July 13th, there are nine days left until July 22nd.

The northern Xinjiang fortress, composed of countless square cities, moats, pavilions, and beacon towers, stretches for thousands of miles, like a mighty dragon with all its scales and claws.

The city's main wall starts from Longshou Pass in the west and ends at the Xuchuan River at the junction with Tanhuan in the east. Along the way, it connects the important towns of Jiubian.

For two thousand years, Chixian Shenzhou has been able to resist the most feared grassland enemy in every dynasty without giving in.

Even in troubled times, the frontier troops here still stick to their posts.

It’s just that the main body that supplies food, grass, ordnance, and military pay has changed from the original imperial court to the current [Nine Soldiers].

Among them, Mr. Wang, who is rich and wealthy, is the deputy of the [Fighting Department] and accounts for a considerable part of the support. It is not an exaggeration to call himself a small shareholder.

among these frontier troops.

Relying on their own innate magical powers, the "Feathering Camp" and "Xuanhe Camp" who can transform into various birds at the [Tao Weapon] stage have always been the best scouts.

I don't know what happened today.

Many scouts were like lost homing pigeons. After flying out of the fortress, they did not follow the normal reconnaissance route and headed for the endless northern desert.

Instead, after turning around in a circle, they all headed south, and one after another entered the territory of Yanzhou, which was in chaos.

There are two main forces fighting against each other.

One of them is the coalition of eight kings, Fan, Wang, Jin, Yu, Liang, Tian, ​​Zhai, and Huang, whose territory is located to the west of Yunjing City and each of them occupies at least one prefecture.

Each family is a wealthy businessman who has been operating locally for hundreds of years and has been helping each other from generation to generation.

As for the main targets of this group of merchants, they are naturally the five tribes of Naiman who are only separated by a city gate!

When the Great Yan was strong and powerful, these eight wealthy merchants only dared to carry out frontier military business. Until the middle and late Great Yan began to decline, military expenditures became less and less.

I often default on payment.

They naturally shifted their trading partners.

The five major tribes on the grassland, Ulan, Wuhuan, Bayegu, Tuwa, and Jiegu, which are ruled by the "Cangtian Zhengfa Way", have almost nothing except animal husbandry.

There are no light industries and handicrafts, no smelting, no textile crafts, no pots and pans, no fabrics, and even the most basic food is in short supply.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in Dayan, the nine military towns headed by Baiyunguan were built not only to block the grasslands militarily, but also to suppress their living space economically.

Among the five tribes of Naiman, whether it is [Sewing Thousand Corpses] that collects the "living tax", or "Strange Corpse" that collects the "dead tax".

To a certain extent, it is also a helpless strategy to forcefully eliminate the old, weak, sick and disabled in the tribe to keep the tribe alive (Chapter 292).

And this just gave the eight wealthy businessmen an opportunity.

There is a saying that is very vivid: once there is a moderate profit, they will be bold; if there is a 50% profit, they will take risks;

For the sake of 100% profit, they dare to trample all human laws;

With 300% profit, they dare to challenge any crime, even risking the beheading of their entire family!

Driven by profit, even if Baiyunguan has a strong defense line that can block the fierce Naiman cavalry, there is no way to prevent these greedy Central Plains businessmen!

In the past hundred years, they have purchased a large amount of supplies from all over the country, under the guise of doing business with the border troops, and then headed north through the secret passage controlled by their own family.

Through the commercial roads all over the grasslands, a steady stream of blood was supplied to the Naiman.

All materials embargoed by Great Yan are relied on by them to make huge profits.

The five tribes of Naiman easily purchased precious tea, silk, ironware, salt, grain, grass... and even arms from the eight wealthy merchants.

The eight wealthy businessmen also relied on their geographical advantages to quickly accumulate original capital, with wealth in their hands like mountains and seas, and bank accounts all over China.

Each family further married each other, forming a huge business group that even surpassed Jiangnan salt merchants at its peak.

After you have money, it is not difficult to bribe officials, border guards, or purchase high-grade Taoism that does not have many flaws and whose commandments and taboos are not terrible.

In the end, the eight wealthy merchants snowballed from a regional business group into a complex of warlock groups and military groups.

A sudden rise in troubled times.

These eight kings are headed by Jin Liangyu, the strongest head of the Jin family in this generation.

With the fifth level of [Soldier Soldier], he can control five thousand [Fire Dragon Soldiers] and various private military generals who spent huge sums of money to raise them.

Whether it is the Warlock Camp or the Firearms Camp under his command, they all have a strong sense of local tyrants, and are ten times more arrogant than ordinary princes.

Even if it is clear that Che Ma is hostile to Su Guyun, the "co-founder", there are still a lot of "zero negative review type" weapons obtained from other channels.

On the other side, under the command of Su Guyun, they gathered all the wealth of the "Wu Sheng Dao" in the north and put together the last six thousand [Sanyang Soldiers].

Together with the guardsmen and green forest soldiers from different sources, they formed a force of 10,000 soldiers.

The Warlock Battalion, which comes from regular religious sects, is no worse than the Allied Forces.

And the [Firearms Battalion] under his command has an overwhelming advantage. With the huge amount of arms support, the number of regular soldiers in the Firearms Battalion alone has already exceeded the one hundred thousand mark.

They are all young and strong men who have been selected from the best in each government.

Even with one against eight, the victory is firmly established. In this world where great power belongs to oneself, there is little suspense about defeating the enemy.

Of course, the premise of everything is that nothing unexpected happens.

Not surprisingly, an accident occurred immediately.

The bird scouts who entered Yanzhou seemed to have lost their minds and rushed directly into Chen Bing's forward camp on the front line of Yunjing City.

At this time, in order to compete for Yunjing City, the battle on the front line has already begun. Guns, artillery, Taoism, and military tactics are all fighting each other in a stalemate.

"Anyone who breaks into the camp without permission will be killed——!"

He didn't wait for the general's order or to confirm the identity of the person coming.

The soldiers patrolling the perimeter of the Eight Kings Alliance Army and the Izumo Army, as if they had made an appointment, raised their blazing guns at the same time with expressionless faces, and decisively pulled the triggers.

Bang! Bang! Bang!...

Fires were everywhere, and the blazing threads of fire formed a large net, and they shot down the [Yulin Camp] and [Xuanhe Camp] Dao soldiers who came over them.

The urgent military information Su Guyun received was obviously just the beginning.

After being attacked, the scouts at Baiyun Pass naturally began to launch a counterattack.

They especially like to take advantage of the air superiority and throw high-explosive bombs produced by Dushuo Mountain from the sky, destroying the baggage and knocking people on both sides off their feet.

But the weird thing is that they shouted with red eyes while exploding:

"The barbarian must die and give me my life!"

It seems that as soon as they leave the city gate, they will quickly become cognitively confused.

Confusing which is Yanzhou, which is the desert, who are the five Naiman tribes, and who are the Yan people...

"There's something weird about these scouts!"

Chunyang's incarnation Li Chengyun, who was stationed in the central army, and Jin Liangyu, who was opposite the Eight Kings Alliance Army, soon realized that something seemed amiss.

But even if they issued strict orders immediately.

However, they still could not stop the soldiers under their command, and they used all their strength to surround and kill the scouts at Baiyun Pass indiscriminately.

It was obviously not just the scouts who were weird.

The forwards of the two armies were fighting inextricably, and a strange atmosphere in the rear that made people restless and uneasy suddenly enveloped everyone.

This made the commanders-in-chief of both sides who had already begun the war feel a bit stuck.

Neither did he want to give in casually, nor did he dare to ask Xie Tianke what the problem was.

Until a supply troop passing through Gongbei City, Yunjing Acropolis, heading to Baiyunguan, rushed into the battlefield without warning as if committing suicide, and was wiped out by the fire of the two families.

The weird atmosphere suddenly reached its extreme.

Only Zhu Boan, who followed Su Guyun back to the camp, had a dignified look of understanding flashing across his face:

"This is someone from one of the four [Green Seal Script Immortals] who sneaked into the lower realm as mentioned by Master.

Came so fast!"

Apparently no one is stupid.

Wang Yuan wanted to defend the enemy from outside the country, so he pushed Su Guyun out as a target to attract firepower, so that he could safely deal with the autumn tide.

He even found an opportunity to kill the four strange immortals here.

After temporarily giving up the attack on Dushuo Mountain and Yu and Dai states, these strange immortals were not prepared to end the attack personally at the first opportunity.

Instead, he chose to kill someone with a borrowed knife!

Provoking Xie Tianke and Su Guyun, the two sure-kill targets, into a fight with each other, and even dragging down the five Naiman tribes outside the pass who belong to the "Cangtian God Line", they then reaped the benefits.

As for the Eight Kings Alliance, they were just "passers-by" with guns blazing.

...

On a high ground outside the battlefield, there is a small mountain temple that has long been abandoned, desolate and dilapidated.

Two figures were silently watching the battlefield.
To be continued...