As soon as the frost falls, the cicadas are poignant, the fallen leaves are all over the ground, and the geese fly south. The coolness in the night breeze turned into a bone-chilling chill, and in the blink of an eye, it was already mid-October, and after the beginning of winter, there were only less than three months left before the lunar New Year.

After Li Xuandu and the others stopped at Hejian Mansion for a while, they went to Wucheng, the closest to Yuguan.

Yuguan is known as the first pass in the world, and this place is close to the key pass, becoming the key point of Heshuo leading to Liaodong. The ancients called it "the key is incomparable, the first pass in the world." "Indeed, it is well deserved.

A large part of the reason why the Liaodong Iron Cavalry can look at the world is because they have mastered this Xiongguan, and they can enter the pass and go south, and retreat to divide one side. According to the original idea of the imperial court, Yuguan and Youzhou should be under the control of the governor of Youyan, so the imperial court can control Liaodong, and retreat can be collected according to the pass, but unfortunately Youzhou is lost, Yuguan changes hands, and the offensive and defensive forces are mutually exchanged, and the Liaodong iron cavalry has become a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the imperial magnates.

Out of Wucheng, you have to walk another 300 miles north to reach Yuguan. During the three hundred miles of the journey, except for a few post stations that were only used by the imperial court, there were only a few scattered people, and there were no inns at all. And before you reach the gate, the weather here is already very cold, almost comparable to the midwinter of Shujiu in the south of the Yangtze River.

Masters above the innate realm can not invade the cold and heat, and they are not afraid, but ordinary disciples can't do it, and they change into thick fur clothes early.

When Li Xuandu saw this scene, he asked Qin Su about the situation outside the gate.

Qin Su grew up in Liaodong since he was a child, and he was familiar with it, and said: "Although it has just entered winter, it is already very cold outside the pass, and if you go further north, it will almost begin to snow on the grassland." ”

At this moment, Qin Buji said: "What the eldest lady said is that in the past two years, there have been continuous white disasters on the grassland, and the snow has crushed people to death, and there are really not a few herdsmen who have fled from the grassland. ”

Li Xuandu said curiously: "How could the herdsmen of the Golden Horde flee to Liaodong?"

Qin Buer said: "The herdsmen grazing is like us farming, we have to set aside next year's seeds and rations from this year's harvest, and the herdsmen also want to set aside next year's lambs and food, but a white disaster has come down, and the livestock have frozen to death countless times, even if they survive until the spring snow melts next year, the herdsmen still have to drink the northwest wind." Therefore, the herdsmen have only two ways, either follow the Golden Horde army to the south, or flee to Liaodong, in recent years, Zhao Butang organized people to reclaim wasteland, the land is small, as long as they come, there is a full meal, not to starve to death. When the herdsmen who were reluctant to fight learned the news, they dragged their families to Liaodong. ”

Qin Su agreed: "In the past two years, the Golden Horde has repeatedly violated the border, either trying to attack cities and plunder land, or to survive the winter. But Zhao Butang has a whole army, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry is not inferior to the Golden Horde Cavalry, and they often can't take advantage of it, those ordinary

The herdsmen didn't want to die in vain, so they naturally ran to Liaodong. ”

Li Xuandu nodded, thoughtful.

Although he has never been to the grassland, he also knows one or two, where they all live by grazing, if the snow is majestic, the pasture grass is buried deeply, the livestock can not be fed, to starve to death part, not starved to death is also weak, can not resist freezing, the weather is cold, it is bound to freeze to death part, the herdsmen themselves suffer heavy losses.

Thinking of this, Li Xuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this kind of war has nothing to do with doing the right thing for heaven, it is just for survival. And the two countries compete, no matter who wins or loses, the people below are in a miserable situation, which really responds to the poem of the ancients: "Prosperity, the people suffer; ”

Qin Su saw that Li Xuandu was silent, and said: "Do you want to go to the grassland to have a look?" When I was a child, I went to the grassland with my father, it was really a snow-white between heaven and earth, without any variegation, the sun shone down, the snow was so white that I couldn't open my eyes, I came back from the grassland that time, and I couldn't see clearly for several days. ”

Li Xuandu said: "If I have the opportunity, I don't mind going to see the scenery outside the Seychelles." ”

They set out from Wucheng at the time of the day, and only walked more than a hundred miles until Shen Shi, and by this time, many disciples of the Heaven Replenishing Sect who had not cultivated in the innate realm had stopped riding horses, but instead dismounted and ran on foot. In Qin Su's words, if you sit on the back of a horse all the time, you will soon be numb from the cold, so it is better to come down and move, but you can warm up your body and suffer less.

After doing this for half an hour, they finally arrived at the scheduled campsite, and the disciples of the Mending Heaven Sect began to set up camp, while the disciples of the Forgetful Sect were responsible for reheating the food that had been cooled.

It is said that the house leak coincided with the overnight rain, and in the middle of the night, an unexpected heavy snow fell down, it is hard to imagine that Jinju a few days ago was still in the autumn rain, and now it is snowing heavily in Youzhou.

When I woke up the next day, the snow had stopped, and except for the clear blue sky, I saw a vast expanse of snow white, as if everything in heaven and earth had become one, and even the boundaries of the post road under my feet had become blurred.

Li Xuandu only has four words in his heart to describe this situation: "Only reckless." ”

The world is high and wide, and their group is like a thin black line on a white paper, walking slowly. Because of the snow on the road, it became more and more difficult to walk, and it was a little difficult to walk, and occasionally you had to look at the sun to discern the direction so as not to take a fork in the road.

Qin Su saw that Li Xuan was full of strangeness, and said with a smile: "This is not bad, because there is a post road, you can barely discern the direction, if you go to the grassland outside the Saiwai, there is no road, as soon as the wind passes, what horseshoe prints, rut prints are all covered, the sky and the earth are big, a horse and a flat river, as far as the eye can see, it is all white, not even a tree, even a hill can not be seen, and there is no half a figure."

, that's not knowing where the road is. Most of the people who go to the grassland for the first time will get lost, see the way out, and can't find the way back, and when the dry food is eaten, they will starve to death on the white grassland, which is the severity of the white plague. ”

Li Xuandu was speechless: "It's really different from the Central Plains." Then he said, "Listen to what you mean, you are very familiar with the grassland." ”

"Familiarity can't be talked about. Qin Su said: "I've only been there a few times." You also know that I am a person who likes to travel in the mountains and rivers, so how can I let go of this scenery outside the fortress? You are just in time for winter, and if it is summer, the grassland is a different scenery. ”

Li Xuandu said: "It is white in winter, and green in summer." ”

As he spoke, the wind picked up again, the sky gradually darkened, and it was snowing again.

Li Xuan didn't change into winter clothes, and he was still wearing a crane in spring and autumn, and he was hunting and hunting by the strong wind. He didn't care either, the great master of the heavenly and human realm, sympathetic to heaven and earth, and it was common to call for wind and rain, how could he be afraid of the cold.

He stretched out a palm and silently used Xuangong, wanting to use the method of "five elements to borrow the situation" to disperse the heavy snow, but found it a little difficult. According to the principle of taking advantage of the situation, in this case, he caused a heavy snowfall, which was in accordance with the time of the day, just like opening the gate in advance to release water, it was very easy, but if you want to disperse a heavy snow that should have fallen, it is not to take advantage of the situation, but to go against the trend, just like blocking a turbulent river with a big embankment, which costs a lot of energy. After all, the realm of heaven and man is to follow the sky, far from moving against the sky, that is the power that only the immortals of the immortal earth have.

Li Xuandu quickly gave up on this idea and withdrew his palm.

Seeing this scene, Qin Bu smiled and said, "Gongzi Li, it's okay, the disciples of our Heaven Replenishing Sect were all born and raised in Liaodong since they were children, and this kind of snow is just commonplace for them." Besides, it's just been winter, and there's still a lot of snow in the future, so you can't just see it once and disperse it once, even the immortal immortal can't stand it. ”

Li Xuandu smiled and nodded: "That's what Senior Qin said." ”

Qin Busan interjected: "But then again, it's still the warm and moist weather in Jiangnan to raise people, this is bitter and cold outside, every winter, there are few major illnesses and small disasters, and many old guys of our age have to die every winter." ”

Qin Buyi glanced at him, and scolded with a smile: "The old man is still alive, what kind of old guy are you." ”

Qin Busi said: "Our two brothers naturally can't compare with your old age, but life is rare for seventy years, and the two of us are really not young." ”

Qin Buyi was about to speak, when he suddenly heard Jing Xiu, who was walking at the front of the team, say in a loud voice, "It's finally here." ”

A few people followed the prestige, only to see a little light in the distance, which was particularly conspicuous.