Chapter Nine Hundred and Five
Daqian Dynasty.
In the eighteenth year of Jisheng calendar, March three.
Spring is cold and cold, and everything is in spring.
early morning,
The night frost melted early and turned into morning dew, and fresh green shoots squeezed out of the moist soil.
"Boom~"
Soon, these green shoots were uprooted by a smiling and kind young man.
"Junior Sister, look, these are called vegetable seedlings, pulled out before they are fully grown, even if they are simply boiled and cooked, they will not have a refreshing taste. The moment you enter the mouth, the taste of nature will instantly entice every taste bud on the tip of your tongue. Conquer. This corresponds to the old saying, 'The top ingredients often only need the simplest cooking method'. Junior sister, do you understand?"
After sleeping in the open all night, Yi Lin took Xia Xiaoman with her, and the two woke up early to wash up, searched all over the mountains and plains for ingredients, and prepared to make breakfast.
Not long ago, there was an innocent little snake who slept in a drowsy way all winter. When spring just arrived, when the snake was about to show its sinful fangs to the world, Yi Lin kicked the snake with a pot and turned into a snake. Rolled into snake meat rolls, marinated and ready to be put into the pot.
"Okay, let's have a simple meal today, and we have to hurry."
Yi Lin clapped her hands and decided to have a simple breakfast.
...
In a quarter of an hour.
Yi Lin, Jian Nanchun, and Xia Xiaoman had breakfast around the campfire.
Today's breakfast is "Snake Meat Stew with Vegetables".
Yi Lin and Xia Xiaoman squatted on the side, almost finished eating, and Jian Nanchun sighed and put down the small bowl, looking listless - he only drank a bowl of soup the whole time.
Seeing Jian Nanchun's cowardly behavior, Yi Lin and Xia Xiaoman knew each other well, so they didn't bother to ask.
For no other reason, Chao Rushuang ran away again.
As soon as Chao Rushuang stepped out of the fairy island and arrived at the coast of the East China Sea, she asked to go to the Black Wind Sand Sea alone.
Of course, these words were whispered to Yi Lin, Jian Nanchun was still ignorant of Zhao Rushuang's secret and kept in the dark.
Yi Lin is emotional and reasonable, and she should return to the Black Wind and Sand Sea with the morning frost, so as to complete her "main mission". After all, a stone tablet in the sea of black wind and sand was broken by a heavy building,
Assuming that Xiaoxi had anticipated this situation five thousand years ago, it is very likely that the content recorded on the wordless tablet was temporarily stored in Chonglou's body in a unique way.
However, when Xia Xiaoman got off the mountain, he hurried towards Qingdu with great anxiety, which made Yi Lin a little worried and asked his junior sister to return to Qingdu alone.
In the end, Chao Rushuang left alone with the sword.
To be honest, Yi Lin was not afraid of Zhao Rushuang's tricks.
There is a good saying that secrets are the cornerstone of trust between two people.
Only by sharing secrets can the relationship between the two be closer...unless they turn their backs.
Chao Rushuang confessed her biggest secret, Yi Lin can still trust Chao Rushuang so far.
At that time, Jian Nanchun originally wanted to follow, but after Yi Lin showed off 108 "chain self-explosive flying swords" to surround Jian Nanchun, Jian Nanchun, who knew the power of this set of magic weapons, could only obediently subdue in the end.
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After a light breakfast.
Xia Xiaoman quickly cleaned the pots, pans and pans by the stream, and after collecting his vows, he got up and urged: "Senior brother, Qingdu is not far away, let's hurry up! Don't waste time!"
Yi Lin looked at her junior sister calmly.
He knew his junior sister very well, and knew that although Xia Xiaoman's face was not obvious, in her heart, she must be anxious to return to Qingdu as soon as possible.
Because, usually junior sisters never take the initiative to wash dishes.
The reason is that simple.
In fact, it is also possible for Yi Lin to open the portal and land directly in Qingdu as a king.
But Yi Lin didn't do that.
One was that he was afraid of inaccurate positioning and accidentally opened the wormhole in the wrong place, and the other was that he felt that Xia Xiaoman was not ready yet.
On the way here from the coast of the East China Sea,
Though they all move in the air,
But they have a panoramic view of the situation in the world.
The war... has begun.
The reason for the war should start from the beginning of the founding of Dagan.
Part of it is to continue the customs of the previous dynasty, and the other is to stabilize the internal affairs and make great efforts to establish the founding emperor and formulate the "vassal king system". In other words, in the Dagan Dynasty, there were four vassal kings in the east, west, south, north, which were equivalent to a country within a country.
These four vassal kings were either relatives of the emperor, or generals who had made great military exploits at the beginning of the founding of the country.
During the hundreds of years of the Daqian Dynasty, there was only the Zhennan King faction, and a completely changed person. However, because the "former Zhennan King" stood on the wrong team when Emperor Xia Yuan ascended the throne, the entire family was uprooted. That's why there is the current King of Zhennan——Xia Xingchen.
Except for King Zhennan, the other three vassal kings are all inextricably linked with the Daqian Dynasty. They are: King Pingxi, King Zhengbei, and King Zhudong.
In the seventeenth year of the Jisheng calendar of the Dagan Dynasty, the four vassal kings raised troops at the same time and marched towards Qingdu in almost no particular order, in the name of "royal orthodoxy".
Along the way, the armies of the four vassal kings captured military fortresses and dangerous places. They blocked the roads and used them to transport armaments. At the same time, they planted flags to enclose the land. They surrounded the center from the periphery in a safe way. They wanted to gradually annex them in this way. Dagan makes Dagan change hands.
Many cities with "Qian" flags were secretly replaced with their own east, west, north, south flags.
Take Xia Xingchen, the Zhennan king whom Yi Lin is most familiar with, as an example.
Although Xia Xingchen said that he was in charge of the thirteen provinces in the south of the desert, these thirteen provinces were only "management" in the final analysis. The people stationed there had always been the big garrison troops, and the leaders of these garrison troops were also big cadres.
When the King of Zhennan raised his troops, waved his "Southern King" flag, and waved his troops northward, some generals resisted stubbornly, and some generals surrendered decisively. In addition, long-term operations required continuous replenishment of supplies from the rear. This tug-of-war So far, it has been going on for a whole year.
The strength of each vassal king cannot be generalized. The king of Zhennan manages thirteen provinces in the wild south, with a vast territory. And King Pingxi, who has the smallest sphere of influence, is backed by the black wind and sand sea, let alone "no one inhabited", there is really no one.
However, the large land in the black wind and sand sea is also counted on the head of King Pingxi, so that there are only four provinces where he can really produce resources. This makes King Pingxi sound very famous, but in fact he is very poor.
Every time the four kings gather, King Pingxi is at the bottom of the chain of contempt, and he has been deeply resentful for many years.
In an avalanche, no snowflake is innocent. And war, too.
The four kings have accumulated grievances, each with their own schemes, and many of the kings' cities and city owners seem to be in harmony with each other; coupled with the weakness of the royal family, internal and external troubles coexist, it is natural for this war to break out.
On this road, Yi Lin looked very calm and indifferent.
But Xia Xiaoman didn't think so.
As soon as she heard the news that the Daqian Dynasty was in danger, she rushed out of the teacher's door with a hot head, and she didn't care about whether she violated the rules.
It is precisely because of getting along with each other for several years that Yi Lin knows that Xia Xiaoman is a straight-hearted person with no intentions, so she is worried about her returning to Qingdu alone.
Back then, she had shaved her head and fled in embarrassment. Even if she became a Golden Core cultivator now, would going back change the situation?
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three days later.
The three arrived outside Qingdu.
Along the official road, many checkpoints have been set up.
Caravans and pedestrians need a warrant before they can pass.
In order to keep a low profile, a few people got off the Feijian skateboard and walked instead of walking a hundred miles away.
After walking for a while, Xia Xiaoman felt that walking was too slow, so they spent money to buy good horses in a village, and rode on the road.
The three of them arrived at the checkpoint closest to Qingdu and stopped.
Jian Nanchun's face was somewhat dispirited, he raised his eyelids, and pointed to the sky: "Or fly in?"
Xia Xiaoman looked at the armored elite soldiers patrolling back and forth in the distance, and after carefully identifying the style of the armor, she couldn't help frowning: "Is it the Shenwu Army?"
Yi Lin: "What's special?"
Xia Xiaoman replied: "The military power and internal affairs of the Dagan Dynasty are divided into two parts. The military power is controlled by the commander of the six armies, who is in charge of the tiger talisman and gives orders to the six armies. The internal affairs of the dynasty are divided between the left and right prime ministers."
Yi Lin shook her head: "Internal affairs are not important, um... let's talk about military power."
Xia Xiaoman continued: "Under the commander of the six armies, there are six generals who are in charge of the six armies. These six armies are: Shenwu, Baizhan, Yingyou, Tiangong, Assault, and Liaoyuan. Among the six armies, The Shenwu Army is mainly responsible for the affairs of the inner city, but why are they now setting up guards outside Qingdu City?"
Yi Lin thought for a while and asked, "Is the problem serious?"
Xia Xiaoman took a light breath: "Senior brother doesn't know something, General Shenwu, but he followed my father to quell the civil strife back then, and had a violent temper. In the past, even if the general wanted to mobilize his army, he had to persuade him well. Otherwise, he would be kicked out of the hall. In the past, if his Shenwu army was transferred here to guard the road, he would definitely point the nose at the commander of the six armies and scold..."
Xia Xiaoman's voice paused for a while, and he intentionally lowered his voice, imitating the tone of the general Shenwu in his memory, and said vividly: "Fuck his grandma, I'm so stupid, my Shenwu army is used to defend Qingdu to the death, how can it be used Do such a shitty thing?"
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While the three were whispering,
A young team leader, wearing iron armor, noticed three people riding horses in the distance, whispering and sneaking.
Especially the pale young man in the middle with a smile on his face, it makes people feel that he is not a good person.
During the current war, criminals cannot be allowed to sneak into Qingdu at will.
So the squad leader directly held the saber, the saber was not out of the sheath, and walked towards the three of them with a bad expression:
"Where did you come from, without a warrant?"
Xia Xiaoman was so nervous that his palms sweated, and he lost his mind for a while. Brother Jian is not very reliable now, Xia Xiaoman can only habitually regard Yi Lin as the backbone, and asked in a low voice: "Senior brother, what should we do? Or use the old trick?"
That move?
Yi Lin was taken aback, when did he have "that trick"?
But he didn't think much, shook his head speechlessly, pointed to the towering and fortified city wall at the end of the official road, and asked with a smile: "Although I don't know why you escaped from it four years ago, tell me, What kind of place is there?"
"Qingdu."
"Where is Qingdu?"
Xia Xiaoman's expression was slightly startled, he didn't understand what the senior brother meant when he asked this: "Qingdu...is Qingdu!"
Yi Lin stretched out her hand and rubbed her junior sister's hair habitually: "That's your home, do you need to toss so many moths when you get home? Don't forget your honorable status."
There was a pause, and under Xia Xiaoman's astonished gaze, Yi Lin smiled slightly: "My lord princess, go home~"