A group of ten people rode on the vast sea of snow.
The mountains in the distance are endless and have nothing to do with "Mt. Tai is majestic, Mount Heng is beautiful, Mount Hua is dangerous, Mount Heng is amazing, and Mount Song is mysterious".
A thoroughfare was run over by countless carriages and became muddy.
Although Chili was wearing thicker clothes, his face was still red from the cold, and his eyelashes were covered with a layer of hoarfrost. The Liaodong slang "Haqi" kept popping up on his lips as he breathed, which is actually the white breath he exhales.
They had been walking for five days before they got here. The road was too slippery, and the friction between the horses' hooves and the ice was too small. If they were not careful, they would fall over.
She looked at the huge rocks standing alone on the vast snowfield in the distance. They could be called mountains. They were only five feet high and couldn't be any smaller. They could be called stones, but the entire outline looked like a mountain.
Rugged!
She asked Yuan Zishan: "Miss, do you think that is a rock or a mountain?"
Yuan Zishan said: "No matter how big it is, it is still a stone."
"Why?"
"Because it has no roots."
"Without roots, it is a rock; with roots, it is a mountain?"
"It can be said that a stone is actually a part of the mountain. The parts that are separated from the mountain are stones. The stones are then divided into big stones, small stones, and gravel."
"Then there aren't any mountains around here, so where did this stone come from?"
"Then... maybe it fell from the sky."
"A stone fell from the sky? Isn't that a meteorite? It doesn't look like it?"
"Book of Han·Biography of Du Ye": "Ye said that the people were cheating on their words and deeds, and Gu Yong said that the king bought private land, and the comets, meteorites and Mu Fei accounted for them. The words are in the "Five Elements Chronicles"." The incident of meteorites has been recorded in ancient times.
Yuan Zishan said: "Yes! It doesn't look like it is possible!"
Chili said: "Miss, you don't want to fool me without knowing, right? Is there such a big meteorite?"
Yuan Zishan smiled and said: "Everything is possible."
The conversation between the two attracted everyone's attention.
Wang Sheng said: "If the boulder is a meteorite, then the ground around it should be collapsed, at least there will be obvious traces of being smashed, but the surrounding area is flat, doesn't it look like an alien object from the sky?"
Duanmuyan said: "It doesn't look like a meteorite to me either. But if it weren't for a meteorite, where did such a big stone come from?" How can such a huge boulder, which is as big as a hill, be shaken by human power? The creation is miraculous and uncanny in craftsmanship.
Breathtaking!
Pang Shishi said: "Brother, is it the good deeds of the two gods mentioned in the legendary story of Yu Old Man Moving the Mountains, that they threw the stone blocking the residence here?"
Feng Jiuxiao said: "It makes sense. Everything is possible. Haha, the two gods you mentioned are the two sons of Kua'e!"
Everyone was still a hundred feet away from the stone when they suddenly heard a sharp cry from the sky. Everyone looked up and saw a large eagle soaring in the sky, seemingly searching for prey on the ground!
"Haitongqing?"
Feng Jiuxiao had very good eyesight and saw that Hai Dongqing's claws were covered with gold rings, indicating that someone was clearly raising her.
Ordinary families cannot afford to raise such raptors! Haidongqing needs meat every day!
Then everyone heard thunder rumbling behind them, and the earth seemed to tremble!
Chili suddenly turned around and shouted: "Wow! So many soldiers!"
Feng Jiuxiao and others looked back, only to see flags fluttering, thousands of horses galloping, and an army of cavalry rushing to seize it!
The cavalry was very fast, almost in the blink of an eye, it approached everyone within twenty feet. When it reached ten feet, the leader suddenly tightened the reins and began to slow down. When they arrived in front of Feng Jiuxiao and others, the entire army suddenly stopped.
!
Each one is a hero, high-spirited, with bright armor, holding a spear, strong soldiers and horses, and majestic!
Feng Jiuxiao couldn't help but secretly sigh that the Liao army's combat power was indeed the most powerful in the world!
Well-deserved reputation!
As soon as the leader lifted his mask, Feng Jiuxiao's eyes immediately lit up, "General Tuoba, you have finally been transferred from the Pishi Army to the Cavalry Battalion. Congratulations!"
Tuoba You cupped his fists and said, "Thank you for your kindness, sir! How did you get here?" It had been more than ten days since we were separated. He thought that everyone had arrived at Lingxiao City long ago.
Feng Jiuxiao said: "The snow is too thick and the road is too slippery, so I dare not go fast. Our horses are not as good as your war horses. Their hooves are not equipped with anti-slip pads. They fall when they go fast. By the way, you guys
What are you going for?"
Tuoba You said: "Originally the Jurchens have always been very honest, but they heard somewhere that there was trouble in the capital, and they actually wanted to join in the fun. The news of the emperor's funeral may no longer be hidden. According to the spies, it was said that
Wanyan Wugunai gathered five thousand infantrymen and was rushing here from Changbai Mountain. They stayed overnight at dawn and appeared elusive, and actually deceived Wanyan Shilu. Therefore, based on the letter sent by the spy Fei Ge and our prediction,
They are most likely not far ahead!"
Feng Jiuxiao didn't quite understand the cause and effect, but he roughly understood it. He asked: "Are you going to suppress that Jurchen named Wanyan Wugunai?"
"Yes, the Yelu family's quarrel is enough to cause a headache. They also want to fish in troubled waters, so why not? Empress Xiao sent General Han as the counter-rebellion general. I am the vanguard. I must teach them a lesson, otherwise they will become more and more courageous.
The bigger it gets, the more trouble we will have in the future!"
"Are the Jurchens so scary? I heard that their number is very small and their development is very backward. They are like uncivilized savages."
"Master Feng, legends are legends and reality is reality. Don't be deceived by them! They have been in contact with the Central Plains culture very early like us! In the Yuan and Wei Dynasties, Wuji had seven tribes, and in the Sui Dynasty it was called Mohe; in the early Tang Dynasty, it was divided into
Black water moji, millet moji.”
He taught Feng Jiuxiao another lesson.
"Today, the Jurchens of Daliao are distributed in a very wide area, starting from the Yalu River and Changbai Mountain area in the south, to the middle reaches of Heilongjiang in the north, and to the Sea of Japan in the east. They live between the northeast of Xianzhou and the Shumo River, with the Huifa River Basin as the center.
"Huiba"; those who live to the north of Songhua River, northeast of Ningjiang Prefecture, and up to the middle and lower reaches of Heilongjiang are called "Jurchens born in China"; those who live east of Wusuli River and near the East China Sea are called "Jurchens of the East China Sea"."
"We Khitan people's policy towards the Jurchens is also to implement "divide and rule", that is, using Jurchens to govern Jurchens. But it is not the same as the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures using Han to rule Han. We have brought the Jurchens' strong surname to the Liaodong Peninsula
, all incorporated into the Khitan nationality, called "Hesu Guan", also known as Hesu Guan, Hesu Gun, which means "fence" in Jurchen language. We call these people "Mature Jurchen". The other part stayed in Sumo.
To the north of the water and to the east of Ningjiang Prefecture, these people are the "true women"."
After listening to Tuoba You's introduction, Feng Jiuxiao nodded, "There are only one Jurchen tribe but so many tribes. This is not only a test for the leaders of the Jurchen tribes, but also a test for Queen Xiao!"
Tuoba Xiu said: "Isn't that right? Fortunately, we adopted the national policy of divide and rule, so that the Jurchens were not unified. Once the Jurchens were unified, their combat power would be daunting even for the elites of Daliao!"
Feng Jiuxiao frowned and said, "Are the Jurchens more powerful than you?"
Tuoba You smiled and said: "We are all paper tigers in front of the young master. How can we be called powerful? What the young master said made me blush a little."
Feng Jiuxiao smiled and said: "Don't be too modest. How can the combat power of the army and horse corps be confused with the combat power of Jianghu warriors? In today's ranking of military and horse combat power, the Khitan cavalry naturally ranks first. Although I am a citizen of the Great Zhou Dynasty,
We can’t ignore the facts! The Luoyang Tigers of the Great Zhou Dynasty are not low in combat power, but they are infantry after all, and they are still not at the same level as the Khitan cavalry. So I really can’t imagine that the Jurchens are more powerful than you Khitan people?"
Tuoba You said: "You Central Plains people have almost no contact with the Jurchens, so you don't know how powerful the Jurchens are! But we are different. We have fought for generations and finally conquered them. There is an old saying in Khitan, if the Jurchens have thousands of soldiers
Then you are invincible!"
Feng Jiuxiao said: "It means that the Jurchens must not be allowed to have more than 10,000 troops. Once they exceed 10,000, their combat power will be too strong and difficult to resist, right?"
Tuoba You said: "That's right! Another meaning is that once the number exceeds 10,000, don't fight them. You can't win! I heard that this time Wanyan Wugunai gathered 5,000 elite soldiers and marched westward, just to take advantage of the chaos.
The ultimate goal of entering Shangjing is to assassinate the emperor."
Feng Jiuxiao asked: "Why do they want to kill the emperor? The emperor exacted tyranny on them?" It was okay for him to ask such "disrespectful" words. If others had asked Tuoba You that way, he would have stabbed him with a knife.
Tuoba You said: "That's not the case. We only collect some local specialties from them normally, such as ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum, which are limited. There are not many tiger skins, bear skins, and mink skins. It is definitely not enough to force them to want to rebel.
The situation. What Wanyan Shilu, the father of Wanyan Wugunai, wants to do most now is to unify the Jurchens, and he will never cause any trouble. And the last thing we want to see is the unification of the Jurchens, so it is inevitable that there will be
To embarrass Wanyan Shilu with some difficult problems, Wanyan Wugun probably has some hateful thoughts in his eyes since he was a child. So this time he probably wants to take advantage of the chaos to vent his anger!"
Feng Jiuxiao said: "Is the Khitan people or the Jurchens responsible for the defense of this area?"
Tuoba You said: "The Jurchens are naturally responsible for dividing and conquering."
"No wonder they were able to march straight in and attack quickly. There was no resistance at all along the way."
"There is no other way. Part of our troops must be deployed in the south to prevent the Northern Expedition of your Great Zhou Dynasty. Part of our troops must be deployed in the center to control Monan and Mobei. Some of our troops must be stationed in the west to control the Ganzhou Uighurs, Xizhou Uighurs, Kara Khanate and other places.
So if the eastern region can’t send troops, then we won’t!”
"If you look at it this way, your Emperor Jingzong is really an amazing person." Feng Jiuxiao couldn't help but sigh.
Although Jingzong is dead, there is still Empress Xiao, but after the death of Emperor Shizong of the Great Zhou Dynasty, where will the empress and the young prince go? The profile of Zhao Kuangyin who looked down upon the world suddenly appeared in Feng Jiuxiao's mind!
Tuoba You said: "Young Master, soldiers are valuable and quick. Please forgive me for not being able to accompany you for one more journey. Farewell!" He clasped his fists and said, and then gave an order: "Forward!"
The army was launched, row after row, and gradually accelerated from slow to fast. The entire cavalry regiment consisted of about five thousand cavalry, charging forward in a mighty manner.
Suddenly, a group of figures appeared in the snow in the distance. At first they were sparse, but later they became densely packed, like a black cloud pressing over them!
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