"Where are you going?" The three patriarchs clasped their hands behind their backs and stared at their daughter in front of them with a headache.
He looked left and right, lowering his voice worriedly.
"A lot of soldiers have come to the tribe in the past few days. They are being made very angry by Scout Yunchui. My dear daughter, please stay out for now."
"Dad, what does the fight between two elephants in Yunchui and Xiliang have to do with us little ants?"
Yingpan muttered dissatisfiedly.
"If my daughter doesn't come out, don't those Xiliang soldiers know that you have two children with faces that hang down from the sky?"
The three clan leaders were speechless and remained silent for a long time.
He was speechless and had no choice but to flick his sleeves and said, "Ji Xiang, take the girl back to the tent. Keep an eye on her and don't let her come out again these days."
After saying that, looking at his daughter's beautiful face, the three patriarchs sighed tiredly.
It was because he knew that his children looked different from other Xiliang people that he sent his sons to study abroad in Yunchui early.
And the girl in front of her has grown tall and graceful in the blink of an eye. She cannot be imprisoned, nor can she be hidden for long.
When the two countries are at peace, it's fine, and no one cares about it; but when the two countries are at war, her life is estimated to be difficult to save based on her appearance.
Thinking of this, the three clan leaders sighed again.
The two masters were quarreling, and Jixiang kept her head shrinking as a backdrop. At this time, she had to move over with a grimace.
"girl……"
"Let's go." Yingpan turned around and walked towards her boudoir without embarrassing the maid she had grown up with.
As she walked, she pulled off the veil from her face.
She was not deeply involved in the world, but she was also aware of her father's difficulties and her own situation, so she deliberately wore a veil to cover her face before going out.
I thought that the pony's foot injury was almost healed, so I took advantage of the sunny weather to go out for a ride.
But when she met her worried father, Yingpan had no choice but to give up.
Jixiang followed behind with a little tail.
She hesitated for a while and couldn't help but speak.
"Girl, don't be angry."
"Slave, I heard from Brother Alen that this battle can't be fought for the time being. Just wait until those vicious soldiers leave, and Jixiang can go out with the girl to have some fun."
boom!
Yingpan stopped and kicked the mud piled on the roadside hard without making a sound.
She raised her head and glanced east.
This battle cannot be fought for the time being. But it will start sooner or later, right?
east
The border of the Yunchui Empire, Yanchui Fortress.
Three days ago, Ren Ning met the second batch of Yunchui scouts heading west, and they rushed back to the country.
At this time, he was under the city gate, looking up at this majestic fortress with strange lights in his eyes.
Ren Ning had some enlightenment.
No wonder people say that a fortress is a city, but an ordinary city is definitely not a fortress, nor is it qualified to be a fortress.
For example, Xingji City, as the imperial capital of Yunchui, has a city wall about four feet high (12 meters), which is considered first-class among ordinary cities.
As for the Yanzuo Fortress in front of us, its walls are nearly ten feet high (30 meters), which is almost three times the height of the Imperial Capital's walls.
Basically there is no ladder that can be erected to the top of the city.
After verifying the password and checking the frame, the suspension bridge was lowered and the west city gate slowly opened.
Ren Ning's car slowly entered the doorway.
Walking in the long doorway, his eyes became brighter.
This is a fortress built for war.
The entire fortress only has two gates running east and west, and the rest of the city is surrounded by towering walls, which are seamless and drillable.
The width of the wall at the city gate is more than ten feet. What is even more surprising is that the door opening in front of you is not straight, but a large "S" shape.
Ren Ning's eyes flashed.
When the ancients wanted to break open the city gate when attacking a city, they usually had countless soldiers pushing thick and long city pillars to break or knock the city gate crooked.
Once the door is broken successfully, the enemy can march straight in.
But that was an ordinary city, and this was a fortress in front of me.
There are five gates in its S-shaped doorway. Even if the outermost gate is breached, there will still be four gates inside to protect it.
In addition, the door opening is not straight, and the long battering ram will basically get stuck in front of the second gate and cannot move again. Therefore, breaking the door is impossible.
Ren Ning raised his head and looked above the doorway.
The doorway is more than a foot high, with a semi-arc shape at the top. There are some dark holes every half a foot on the top of the arc.
These holes are about the size of a tail finger, some are used to launch arrows, and others are used to put oil or set fire.
When the enemy attacks the city, they can open the outermost gate to let them enter the long doorway, then close the door to beat the dogs.
A burst of arrows or fire, or even a combination of both, will leave enemies who have nowhere to hide but few will survive.
Therefore, when attacking the city, passing through this doorway will be a complete journey to hell.
As for the five-layer gate, each gate is controlled by a different general. Therefore, it is basically impossible to open the door to meet the enemy from inside the fortress.
Ren Ning clicked his tongue in appreciation.
It is worthy of being a famous military fortress in the mainland. In this era of cold weapons, as long as there is food, grass and water in the fortress, it is almost invincible.
Not long after, I walked through this S-shaped doorway and finally entered the fortress.
Ren Ning raised his eyes and looked around.
The size of the fortress is similar to that of a small or medium-sized city in Yunchui, with everything you need inside. The only difference is that no ordinary people come in and out, and usually only soldiers are stationed in it.
The scout camp he belongs to is not far from the west gate.
When the car returned to the camp, the muscles on Ren Ning's face couldn't help but twist.
In such a large scout camp, there were many soldiers planting vegetables in the loose soil, and they were all sweating profusely from their work.
Not long after, the car arrived in front of a small stone house and he was carried out.
"Brother, your home is here, take a good rest first."
Ren Ning bowed his hand to express his gratitude.
He did not enter the house, but moved his gaze to the left, landing on the stable next to the house.
Rock Frontier Fortress is a city, and most of the time there are only 150,000 garrison soldiers stationed there, so almost every soldier can be assigned a house to live in.
The fate of scouts or cavalry is linked to their horses, so their houses are usually equipped with stables or even racecourses.
But the stable in front of him was empty. His horse fell in the vast grassland to the west.
Ren Ning subconsciously touched his ration bag.
There was no life-seeking grass that Zhui Feng found inside, but only two wolf fangs, one long and one short.
Turning around and entering the familiar house, he touched it casually and found that his hands were covered with dust.
Ren Ning doesn't care either.
His body was already seriously injured, and he had been bumpy for three days and nights. Now that he had returned to a safe place, he could no longer hold on.
Quickly shaking off the dust on the bed, he fell asleep.
However, Ren Ning woke up not long after he slept.
His mind was not clear yet, but his hand had already habitually touched the short knife at his waist.
However, it came up empty.
Before going to sleep, he took off everything on his body and placed it on the table next to the bed.
"Are you awake? Are you hungry?" A gentle voice came over.
Ren Ning opened his eyes suddenly.
The other party was not surprised and took a cautious step back.
"So it's you, Mrs. Zhang." Ren Ning struggled to sit up. He apologized to the other party, "I must have scared you, I'm sorry."
"It's okay." The woman looked at him calmly, "I've long been used to it."
Mrs. Zhang took her husband's surname of Zhang, but I really don't know what her real name was, Ren Ning.
Like Ren Ning, her husband also joined the military.
In this era, once one becomes a member of the military, unless there is an amnesty from the imperial court, all men will have to join the army without exception.
If these people and their descendants do not join the army, they will be breaking the law. The only way to survive is to go into the deep mountains and forests and become bandits, or to hide and never see outsiders for the rest of their lives.
This is also the reason why Ren Ning only went to Yanchui Fortress because Yunzui was so big.
After joining the army, he had nowhere to go. And only in the army could he get ahead.
It's just that Ren Ning doesn't want to be a scout anymore.