In the courtyard in the heart of the lake, the handwritten letter of the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty had fallen in the charcoal brazier in front of Xiao Yan, most of the letter had been turned to ashes, and some edges were slowly burning in the charcoal brazier.

Soon after talking to the old monk, Xiao Yan's requirements for daily life were simpler, he only ate one meal a day, and later changed to one meal every few days.

Even the charcoal brazier in front of him was placed here in advance by the person who delivered the food today, under the pretext that it would freeze the elderly official, and there is not even a charcoal brazier here on weekdays.

Few people could understand why he did this, but Xiao Yan himself understood that what he thought about was very different from what he had thought about when he was alive.

He also began to understand the meaning of such ascetics who were practicing for the purpose of torturing themselves and not for the purpose of deliberately torturing themselves.

For him at this time, many things can be ignored, and some things should be cherished more.

As for the letter of the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, some of the contents of it were quickly forgotten after reading it, just like the ripples in the water that disappeared naturally after they dispersed, but some feelings lingered more clearly in his heart.

In addition to those words, he understood the emotions of the Northern Wei Emperor better.

He can empathize.

Because rightly or wrongly, he lost his mother, and so did the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The middle of winter is not suitable for large-scale warfare, road transportation will be very problematic, and there will be a lot of non-combat attrition in the bitter cold weather, and even the wearing of a lot of armor will be problematic.

However, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, a large number of border troops passed through half of the territory of the Northern Wei Dynasty like migrating ants, and under the orders of the emperor, they resolutely launched a war against the Guanlong He clan.

It's not so much war as revenge.

The Northern Wei Dynasty was a big dynasty, and the wars of the dynasty needed to consider far-reaching consequences, but many years ago, the revenge of those tribes in the north did not consider the price they had to pay.

With clear clues that can prove that the Demon Sect is under the control of these descendants of the Emperor You, the revenge of the Northern Wei Dynasty is not at all like the revenge of a huge dynasty, but like the revenge of those tribes.

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A cavalry army of the Northern Wei Dynasty appeared in the plain under Longshan.

Not far in front of them was Tianwu River, an important fortress of the Guan Long He clan.

In the minds of these border soldiers, Tianwuchuan was a town, but from a distance, they realized that this "town" was much larger than many of the border towns they had previously stationed on the border.

Looking at the many flickering cold lights on the tall walls covered with frost flowers, the cavalry did not get too close and began to set up camp.

The more than 2,000 of them were not even considered the vanguard army, but they were just pathfinder scouts before the vanguard army. Not far from their rear, they were followed by 30,000 vanguard troops, and in the rear of the 30,000 vanguard armies, there were more than 200,000 troops.

The cavalry did not choose to make any defenses, and did not prepare for any battle, but just as they began to spread out their tents, and before they had fixed the four corners of the tents, they heard the whistling of the tide and the sound of horses' hooves.

This cavalry army did not panic, but looked in the direction of Tianwu River in confusion.

Shock and even more bewilderment soon appeared in their eyes.

They saw a cavalry rushing out of the Tianwu River.

A large number of cavalry troops poured out of the several gates of the Tianwu River, constantly galloping into the plain covered with frost flowers.

They didn't expect that Guan Longhe's army would not rely on the strong city wall to defend it, but would directly choose to attack.

The general of this Northern Wei cavalry army was a man in his thirties.

Of all the generals of the border army, he was still quite young.

Seeing that in a short period of time, the enemy troops who were several times larger than them had poured out of the Tianwu River, he uncharacteristically did not immediately issue any military orders.

The horses beneath them were tired.

The cavalry on the other side didn't seem to be just trying to intimidate them, so at this time, he knew that all the brothers behind him were also very clear that they had two choices, one was to stimulate the war horses under him as much as possible to see if they could escape to the location of the vanguard army in the rear.

Another option is to die here.

Even if it was a few months earlier, even if it was facing the army of the Southern Dynasty, this young general of the Northern Wei cavalry would probably choose the former.

But neither the cavalry general nor the cavalry behind him wanted to flee.

Like all the border generals who did not hesitate to support the emperor's decision, a strange emotion and anger that was originally a little hazy rose violently in their eyes.

"What happened to the descendants of the Emperor You?"

"They are all from the Northern Wei Dynasty, we originally regarded you as siblings, but you used the Demon Sect to slaughter siblings. ”

"When there are too many people, you are violent, do you think that we will be afraid of you?"

With a low and resolute roar, the young Northern Wei general and all the cavalry behind him all turned on their horses, and they did not flee towards the field behind, but resolutely rushed towards the cavalry army in front.

They knew they couldn't win, but they didn't want victory, they just had to kill as many enemies as they could, and when they were going to die, as many enemy troops as they could die.

This Northern Wei cavalry soon met the Guanlong cavalry army gushing out of the Tianwu River.

Facing the cavalry army, which was already several times their size, this Northern Wei cavalry stabbed into it like a sharp arrow, bringing out a wave of blood, and then disappeared in an instant.

Just like what this Northern Wei cavalry thought at the beginning, the Guanlong cavalry did not expect that they would counterattack so fiercely, and the number of Guanlong cavalry troops who fell to the ground was much more than them.

After a short period of fighting, the outpouring of troops from the several gates opened by the Tianmu River did not stop.

Cavalry, infantry, light armor, heavy armor... It still gushes out like a tidal wave, spreading across the plains.

Without any warning and without any dialogue, the war between the Guan Longhe clan and the Northern Wei army broke out directly.

The garrison strength of Tianwuchuan exceeded the expectations of the border army of the Northern Wei Dynasty at the beginning, with more than 80,000 people, and in the rear of Tianwuchuan, the army of Guan Longhe was still constantly gathering, constantly converging to Tianwuchuan, and then pouring out from Tianwuchuan, and then pouring into this plain.

In just a few days, the combined army of more than 400,000 on both sides began a frantic strangulation in the plain outside the Tianwu River.

In continuous battles, even if all the armies have a certain amount of elixir reserves, in such an era of spiritual famine, in continuous battles, most of the cultivators in the army have no time to replenish the true yuan, and they will be killed at any time in the stormy battlefield and become corpses in the blood and mud.

Compared to a few years ago when the war with the Southern Dynasties had just begun, the number of cultivators was decreasing, and the True Yuan in the bodies of the cultivators who participated in the battle was also drastically reduced and could not be replenished.

However, every general of the Northern Wei Frontier Army knew very well that the army of the Guan Long He clan could only contain two intentions when it took the initiative to launch an attack on such a plain.

The first intention is that they are beginning to officially enter the human world, and in order to become the masters of the human world, they need to at least give real benefits to all the people in their territory if they cannot wash away some of their notoriety.

They don't want the flames of war to burn within their own territory.

On the other hand, they did not consider this a suicide attack, no matter how strong Guan Long's army was, it was impossible to compete with the border army of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the army of Luoyang, and in the north, the army of the bereaved clan would also launch an attack on Guan Long.

If they want to win this war, they must rely on extraordinary cultivators.

Therefore, even in the early stage of the war, it seemed that the role of cultivators was infinitely weakened, but every border army general of the Northern Wei Dynasty knew very well that at some point, some special cultivators of the Guan Longhe clan would definitely appear on the battlefield.

In a seemingly ordinary chariot, Zhongshan Wang Yuanying was draped in a thick blanket, only revealing two eyes to look at the blood-colored world in front of him.

For the high-ranking generals of the border army of the Northern Wei Dynasty, their supreme commander on the frontal battlefield this time was still Zhongshan Wang Yuanying.

Even if it was a fiasco in the Battle of Zhongli, most of the complaints came from the people, and in many later military reviews, every high-ranking general of the Northern Wei Border Army knew that all the troops and dispatches of Zhongshan Wang Yuanying before the Battle of Zhongli were almost invulnerable and perfect.

The only accident came from Lin Yi, who was born out of nowhere.

But before that, no one would have thought that there would be such a proud son of heaven in the Southern Dynasty.

So even though Zhongshan Wang Yuanying was forced to go into the field after that war, he was quickly secretly transferred again, all just to appease the people's grievances.

And these generals of the Northern Wei military were very convinced of Yuan Ying.

In Yuan Ying, he knows very well that in this battlefield, he is actually not the real commander and protagonist.

And compared to any battle formation he had experienced before, he didn't have the slightest confidence in this battle formation.

He didn't even know what kind of opponent he was going to face.

But he looked at the blood-colored heaven and earth in front of him, at the arrows that kept whistling in the air and the blood that was spilled out, his state of mind was unprecedentedly calm.

There is an end to life.

His thoughts at this time were similar to the young cavalry general at the beginning.

He could even feel the mood of the young cavalry general at that time.

If there is no competition on the part of the cultivators, then it must be their determination and courage that can win this war.