Devil’s Advent

Yinlang County is located in the southernmost part of Dayan, bordering Jin State on one side and Qian State on the other.

A hundred years ago, Yinlang County was actually called Yinlang County;

This is the name taboo of the first prime minister of the Yan State after the founding of the country. Because of his great contributions in helping Yan Taizu establish and govern the country, his hometown county was named after him.

It is named because of people, and similarly, it is also renamed because of people.

This name change is also related to the first Zhenbeihou.

A hundred years ago, when the barbarians in the desert fought a decisive battle with Dayan under the call of the royal court, the new emperor of the Qian State marched in person, and the army of the 500,000 Qian State marched northward.

Next, is the well-known battle of the first Zhenbeihou with 30,000 to break 500,000.

That day, after the army was broken,

The first Marquis of Zhenbei wrote a poem:

"Raise the whip and drive the horse to chase the silver waves, and look at the peach blossoms in a clear way."

The Yinlang here refers to the 500,000 army of the Qian Kingdom collapsing for thousands of miles. The roads in Yinlang County are littered with corpses. The armor worn by the soldiers of the Qian Kingdom reflects luster in the sun, like a rolling silver wave.

The latter sentence refers to the leisure on the way of pursuit. This is not a war, nor is it a fight, but just an outing to see peach blossoms.

In terms of tactics, it is not known whether Zhenbei Hou paid attention to his opponent's descendants. Anyway, the Qianguo army suffered a crushing defeat and was interrupted since then.

And these two poems can be said to express vividly the attitude of the first Marquis of Zhenbei who completely despised the army of Qianguo strategically.

In addition, the first Marquis of Zhenbei was actually from the original "Yinlang County", an authentic southerner of Yan Kingdom.

Because of this, Yinlang County was renamed Yinlang County.

On the contrary, in the official documents between Qian State and Yan State, whenever Yinlang County is involved, "Yin Lang" is used instead.

It is really the word "Yinlang", which is too irritating to the eyes of the people of the Gan country. Every time they see this place name, the people of the Qian country will subconsciously think of the poem by the original Zhenbei Hou;

Then I thought of the ghastly scene a hundred years ago, and thought of the tragic scene of my own children's soldiers' corpses strewn all over the field...

Seventy percent of the frontier army of Qian State was used to defend Yan State, and the remaining 30% were distributed on the borders with Jin State and Chu State.

However, Yan State abruptly placed 300,000 cavalry of the country's most elite Zhenbei Army in the north to deter the barbarians. On the southern border of its own empire, it only set up a border town - Nanwang City.

Green Willow Castle is a link in the defense chain relying on Nanwang City as the core. There are eight other forts like Green Willow Castle.

Compared with Qian State who was waiting in full force, Yan State here seemed to be much more perfunctory.

There is no way, the century-old prestige is here, the psychological advantage is here, and the strong self-confidence is here. Perhaps, this series of defenses including Nanwang City and Cui Liu Fort are more concerned about the face of the Chinese people.

After all, from Yinlang County to Tiancheng County, which is the capital of Yan Kingdom, is completely flat.

Once something happens in Yinlang County, Yan Guo's iron cavalry will arrive sooner or later.

Over the past hundred years, countless men from Yan Kingdom have dreamed of being able to revisit the glory of the first Zhenbeihou, and become a marquis and a prime minister!

Unfortunately, Qianguo has never given this opportunity.

And the name of the Green Willow Castle is said to be derived from the first Marquis of Zhenbei.

According to legend, when this fort was built, the first generation of Zhenbei Hou once planted a willow branch here.

At that time, the first Marquis of Zhenbei was ambitious, thinking that by the time this willow branch grew green willows, he would probably have led his army through the capital of the Qian Kingdom.

It's a pity that good fortune tricked people, because the war in the north was urgent, and the country of Yan could no longer send more soldiers and horses to the first Marquis of Zhenbei from the front line of the decisive battle with the barbarians.

The first Marquis of Zhenbei had to lead his army to break through the three counties in the north of Qianguo to absorb the wealth of the population and return home. Later, for the sake of checks and balances, the first Marquis of Zhenbei, who was a southerner, was conferred in the north.

"I said, there are so many willow trees here, which one was planted by the first Marquis of Zhenbei?"

Zheng Fan, who was riding on a horse, asked the people around him.

"Is the lord very interested in this?" Si Niang, who rode the horse and Zheng Fan together and had a disguised appearance, asked.

"What if the first Marquis of Zhenbei buried some treasure under that willow tree, for example, Zhenbei's suicide note?"

"It's easy to handle, my lord. You give an order to let the blind man use his mental strength to search in this willow forest. If he doesn't eat, drink or sleep for a month, he will be able to find it."

The blind man next to him coughed subconsciously, interrupted the unreliable chat between Zheng Fan and Siniang, pointed to the front,

road:

"My lord, the Green Willow Castle is ahead."

"It's not easy, it's finally here, order, speed up, and rest in the castle before sunset!"

As soon as the voice fell,

Zheng Fan rode his horse forward,

Liang Cheng, who was behind, waved his hand, and more than five hundred barbarian cavalry wearing the same armor as the Zhenbei Army also began to speed up.

for a while,

In the willow forest, horseshoes are pounding and dust is flying.

However, after he rode his horse out of the willow forest, Zheng Fan had to order to slow down his horse again.

As soon as you get out of the woods, your sight suddenly opens up. There is no desolation like the frontier fortress. Instead, there are endless fertile fields.

Even, there were quite a few farmers and women who were busy working in the fields. Seeing so many cavalrymen popping out suddenly, they couldn't help but put down their work and began to look at these people curiously.

Zheng Fan couldn't help but look back at the blind man behind him, and asked:

"Blind man, are you sure we're on the right track?"

This is the frontier?

This is the frontier?

This bitch is a frontier fortress?

It's not that the frontier fortress can't farm the fields, but the scene of fertile fields and the rosy faces of the farmers and women here;

The bitter coldness of Beifeng County is naturally incomparable, but the people of Huwei, Sanshi and two counties in the hinterland of Yan Kingdom, and even Tiancheng County, which is the capital of Yan, who passed through the hinterland of Yan on the way, these days, this situation is not in sight. Rich here?

"My lord, I must have gone the right way," Blind Bei replied.

All right, Zheng Fan just believed it when the Humanoid Radar said he was going the right way.

At the moment, Zheng Fan could only order:

"Restrain the speed of the horse, whoever's horse tramples on the crops, will be killed without mercy!"

After Zheng Fan gave the order,

Siniang stretched out her hand to A Ming,

A Ming was a little puzzled and said:

"What?"

"Give me your nail clippers first."

"do what?"

"Maybe I will help the master cut his hair later."

A Ming was still a little confused at first, but then he came to his senses, and smiled at Siniang, but he didn't give her the nail clippers.

Hurrying all the way, in fact, is also training soldiers all the way.

After the first day's first experience of the "Devil's Cave", the fear of these barbarians towards Zheng Fan can be said to be imprinted in their bones. In addition, Liang Cheng's military training has always been a skill, and he cooperated with the ideological and political education after camping every night in Shangxiabei. The barbarian soldiers talked together about the tragic years when they were squeezed out by the big tribes, suppressed by the nobles, and detained by them as prisoners. The tribe, that is, cannon fodder, was crying every night in the camp.

In short, this team of 500 riders has been integrated, and these barbarians themselves are excellent in riding and shooting, so they can be said to be a real elite team.

Following Zheng Fan's order, the cavalry began to march slowly on the road.

The nearby farmers were not afraid of life, and some even took the initiative to come over to watch the excitement. Of course, there was no such scene where soldiers and civilians rushed to deliver food and drinks.

Zheng Fan couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He wondered if he should notify the blind man to arrange for someone to hire a nurse in advance when he leads troops on a march next time?

This group of civilian households are not afraid of soldiers. They lead soldiers over here, as if they were being watched as monkeys.

And because most of Zheng Fan's troops were barbarians, their appearance was quite different from that of the Yan people, so this aroused the curiosity of the local residents even more.

After walking for a few miles, there were actually people from the whole nearby village who heard the news and came to see the western scenery. The road, which was not wide at all, was surrounded more and more tightly.

The history of the war between the Yan people and the barbarians is very long, but in the past hundred years, because of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, the barbarians have been in a state of being beaten passively. The environment is full of flames.

Therefore, the local households have no resentment towards the barbarians.

On weekdays, they often saw barbarian caravans, and in the territory of Yan, they often saw barbarian slaves.

It was indeed the first time I saw this kind of barbarian wearing the standard Yan army armor.

When I took them from the north to the south, it also caused some disturbances. Fortunately, this kind of thing of incorporating barbarians into the army is not uncommon in Yan State. There are also four major Guiyi tribes in the Zhenbeihou Mansion. Well, oh, there are only three left now.

Furthermore, it may be due to the strong national self-esteem created by the unparalleled military strength of the Yan people over the past century. They don't think there is anything wrong with using barbarians as soldiers, and they don't think there is anything to be afraid of.

This point made Zheng Fan feel that he had the feeling of Datang in another world.

Tang people are too proud, too proud, so they can absorb foreigners into their system and absorb the elites of foreigners for their own use.

Looking through the history books of the Tang Dynasty, one can see that there are not too many generals of the Tang army with the names of foreigners.

Of course, it doesn't matter when your country is prosperous, but when your country is weak, the saying "people who are not of our race must have different hearts" will be verified.

The night before yesterday, when Zheng Fan and Blind Bei Bei were drinking, they joked that God knows when Dayan will come out of Anlu Mountain.

Then,

Blind Bei looked at himself with his white eyes,

look at yourself,

You taste, you taste carefully;

He doesn't know if Dayan came or went from Anlu Mountain, but Dayan has already left you.

An Lushan is from the Sogdian tribe, you, Zheng Fan, are not even from this world...

"Step aside!"

In order for the team to advance, Zheng Fan had to let his barbarians clear the way.

It is true that the people in Yandi are tough, but they are not full of idiots, and they are not to the point where they have to work with soldiers just to watch the excitement.

finally,

After walking for about two hours, Zheng Fan finally led his troops to the place where he went to work—Cuiliu Fort.

Then,

Zheng Fan felt blind.

Fort, it is not a city. Zheng Fan knows this. In fact, it is more like the Wubao in Beifeng County. It is also big and small, but it has more official meaning than Wubao.

The castle in front of Zheng Fan,

If you can still call it a fort...

Its area is not small, at least, it can be seen that it used to be not small, enough to easily accommodate thousands of soldiers fighting inside without being too crowded.

but now,

Its outer wall has collapsed for many years.

The ruins were covered with moss.

After getting closer, Zheng Fan even saw reed chickens running out of it.

"Cuckoo, cluck, cluck..."

Bullishly striding forward in front of Zheng Fan and his barbarians, as if declaring his sovereignty!

Now, even Blind Bei didn't know what to say.

Toil and labor, working from north to south,

who ever imagined,

Actually inherited a chicken coop?

Fan Li said with a smile:

"From now on, I can eat eggs every day."

Zheng Fan took a deep breath. He felt that he was dating online now, but sister Zhiling on the Internet looked like a flower offline...

"Who is it?"

At this time, an old man came out of the chicken farm.

The old man was wearing a worn leather armor, holding a clay pot in his hand, and walked out while sprinkling chicken food.

When seeing Zheng Fan and the dark barbarians behind Zheng Fan,

The old man froze for a moment,

Immediately settled down,

With broken pots in hand,

Pointing at Zheng Fan, he scolded:

"Who is coming!"

Hey,

don't say

This old man doesn't look old, but seriously, he really has such an aura of "old soldiers never die".

It's just that although this is a frontier, it has not fallen here, and this veteran is not a warrior who is alone outside the Great Wall.

Zheng Fan exhaled, stepped forward two steps, took out his identity token,

road:

"Dayan Green Willow Fort is on guard, Zheng Fan!"

The old man first took a closer look at the token, and after confirming that it was correct, he took a few steps back and knelt down facing Zheng Fan:

"See you, my lord, for a humble position!"

"Who are you?"

"Your subordinate is the captain of Green Willow Castle, Tie Sanzhu."

Zheng Fan put away his token, pointed to the Green Willow Fort in front, and asked:

"This Green Willow Castle, why is it like this?"

"My lord, Green Willow Castle has been abandoned for decades."

…………

it's night

a bit cold

The air is filled with the smell of old chicken excrement and sour smell,

In short, very shabby.

Zheng Fan originally thought of building his own soup pool in his Green Willow Castle.

In the end, good guy, repair the soup pond into the chicken coop?

While taking a bath, watching the big cocks feed themselves?

The barbarians set up tents relying on Fort Green Willow,

Liang Cheng and Fan Li first carried a coffin into the fort, found a fairly dry room, and put the coffin down.

Along the way, I encountered many checkpoints, and was asked many times why I took office when I took office many times, why did I still carry a coffin.

The answer given by Zheng Fan is:

"Get ready to die for your country in a shroud of horse leather."

But many guards at the checkpoint were moved, and even many senior military officers took the initiative to invite Zheng Fan to drink and worship.

Therefore, Dayan's ethos is still very simple.

In fact, the coffin contained Shatuo Que stone.

Ding Hao, Xiao Yibo and Hong Bazi were responsible for escorting the little lady and some belongings from behind, and they did not follow the team.

There were two chickens cooking in the iron pot, and Siniang also pasted corn tortillas on the edge of the iron pot, which was considered ground pot chicken.

"My lord, aren't you slapping me in the face? What if the lord comes to take office, and the villain asks the lord to eat two chickens?"

The old iron man came here with the silver and shouted.

Zheng Fan didn't go to pick up old man Tie's money,

But in an unquestionable tone,

Pointing to the opposite side of himself,

road:

"sit."

Old Man Tie hesitated for a moment, not daring to give way to Yin Zi, and obediently sat down opposite Zheng Fan.

"How long has this Green Willow Castle been abandoned?"

"In terms of adults, it's almost thirty years."

"Why was it abandoned?"

Dayan's frontier defense, is it such an absurd joke?

If he hadn't seen the scene of Beifeng County with his own eyes, Zheng Fan really thought that the Great Yan had come to the end of the dynasty.

"Responding to my lord, it was decided by the superiors to disband, the original soldiers of our Green Willow Fort have been dismissed long ago, and no money or food has been given.

Because Beizhi has never married and has feelings for this place, he has been living here. "

"The frontier defense is so lax, do the officials above know?"

"I know, I must know. The other castles are similar to our Cuiliu Castle. There are no people there. Our place is not bad, because the humble people live here, and they can maintain a brick shelf or something. The other castles even The stones were picked up by local households and taken to the pigsty."

Hearing that not only Cuiliu Fort is like this, but all fortresses are like this, Zheng Fan is clear about this matter, Dayan officials are clear about it.

Zheng Fan asked involuntarily:

"Aren't you afraid that the Chinese will call you?"

When Tie Sanzhu heard what Zheng Fan said,

Tears immediately flooded the eyes,

Like being poked into the deepest pain in my heart,

Choked up and said:

"My lord, I joined the army at the age of seventeen in a lowly position. In order to join the army, I even rejected my mother-in-law and aunt who my family promised me, just to wait for the day when I can make military exploits and honor my ancestors!

who knows,

who knows,

who knows! "

Tie Sanzhu stomped his feet and pointed to the south.

Gritting his teeth, he said:

"I've been waiting here since I was seventeen, and I've waited for more than forty years of my mother's life, and the goddamn Gan people just can't come here!

This humble life was ruined by the god-damned Gan Chinese! ! ! "

The blind man Bei who sat next to him and was eating oranges heard what Tie Sanzhu said,

Quietly said:

"Looking south to Master Wang for another year, Master Wang still has a few companies left."

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