Although autumn is not yet complete, the grassland is still full of snowflakes as it was last year.

Lin Han walked out of the big tent and looked up, the sky was overcast, and snowflakes as big as goose feathers were falling down.

The snow in the grassland is heavy and urgent, and when it comes to the hearty rain, it is almost a blanket of snow, not to mention enjoying the scenery, and even the road cannot be found. However, it may not be winter yet, and this time the snowflakes are a little timid, fluttering, and far less ferocious than before. Of course, compared to the snow in Sene, this can also be regarded as a goose feather snow.

Lin Han stretched out his hand to catch a snowflake, felt the slightest coolness on his palm, looked up at the heavy snow falling from the sky, and smiled at the high priest of the royal court beside him: "It's snowing, it's dead." ”

The high priest of the royal court, also known as the high priest of the steppe shamanism, looked drooping and old, hunched back, his face wrinkled and stacked, and in his hand he held a vine cane entwined like a tree vine, and said, "This is the first snow of the year. ”

Lin Han narrowed his eyes and said softly, "The first snow." ”

The high priest also reached out to catch a snowflake and said softly: "A hundred years of life, after a hundred years, there is no trace. It's like this snow, the snow is so big that it can crush people to death, and when the snow stops, who can see where the dead are?"

In the dark wind and snow, there are hundreds of thousands of grassland troops.

Lin Han looked at the hundreds of thousands of cavalry, lost his mind for a moment, and remembered a past incident many years ago for no reason.

At that time, Xiao Yu had already conquered Shuzhou, swept Houjian, and was about to enter the pass in the east, so his brother-in-law naturally had to accompany him. On the night before leaving, he went to the Zhongdu City to meet his sister Lin Yinping, at that time, his sister had just given birth to his nephew Xiao Xuan, and his body was so weak that he couldn't stand for a long time, so he squatted in front of his sister.

His sister instructed him, "The battlefield is dangerous, and everything is based on caution." When you have nothing to do, stay in the big tent with peace of mind, and don't get into battle yourself. Your brother-in-law and Mr. Lan are in charge of the march and battle, so you should sleep well when you are in the middle of the war, nourish your spirits, and don't get tired. ”

He buried his head in his sister's knee and didn't speak, just hummed lowly.

My sister said, "Okay, that's all I'll say, let's go." Go in peace, go back in peace. ”

He held his sister's knee and slowly got up, and finally spoke: "Sister, it's okay, the southern and northern wars have been fought, and this time it's not bad." ”

My sister didn't speak, but just took off the string of bodhi seeds that had been worn on her wrist for many years and put it on her wrist.

Lin Han looked down, after so many years, the string of bodhi seeds was still on his wrist, but his sister was no longer there, and even the nephew was gone.

He muttered to himself: "Sister, I don't have any relatives in my life, my father and mother left early, only you have protected me since I was a child, if it weren't for you, I would have died in the hands of the red lady, without you, and without my Lin Han's majesty today, so I can disown anyone in my life, but I will not disown you as a sister." ”

Lin Han, who was already an old man, lowered his voice more and more, "If you are still alive, you will be very angry when you think about it, annoyed that I am a younger brother, but I can't help it, there is a white disaster on the grassland every year, so many mouths have to eat, I can't watch them starve to death." Sister, if we can see each other in the future, if we want to beat or punish, we will listen to you. ”

The snowflakes in Lin Han's hands gradually melted, the wind became more and more urgent, and the snow was boundless.

He raised his head abruptly and raised his voice, "Lin Shu!"

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the army parted like a tide on both sides, and rode out of the crowd.

The fourth son of Lin Han, the king of the steppe khan, Lin Shu.

Lin Shu, who was wearing armor and saber, turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and said, "The last general!"

Lin Han waved his hand and said, "Let's pull out the camp." ”

Lin Shu said in a loud voice: "No!"

In the autumn of the twenty-third year of Chengping, in the wind and snow, the golden horde, which symbolizes the royal court of the steppe, crosses the Duolun River, goes out of the Wusi Plain, and enters the small hills.

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The wind rises at the end of Qingping, and many things, when the princes who are high in the temple have not yet perceived it, there is already a rumor of wind below.

Just when the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were thinking about the major event of the new monarch's accession to the throne, the entire northwest line was already like a great enemy, and the sky over the entire northwest seemed to be cloudy, just like a heavy rain before it fell.

Under the gloomy sky, at the head of the city of Dayifu, which is located at the forefront of the northwest line, a person leans against the wall and looks out.

The man wearing the official uniform of the military attache of Daqi is about the age of confusion, although he looks at his face, because he has lived in the border for a long time and his face is full of vicissitudes, but his temperament is elegant, such as a mellow old Confucian, he is Zhao Xu, the guard of the Great Yi Mansion.

Since the early years of Chengping, he was transferred from the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River to the northwest frontier, starting from a captain, and has been the commander of the garrison today, and it has been twenty-three years.

He was ordered to garrison the Great Yi Mansion for many years, and over the years, the grassland cavalry has repeatedly violated the border and gone south, and he has not fought with the grassland cavalry once or twice, but this time he smelled a lot of different meanings.

Because this time, the steppe cavalry marched south much later than in previous years.

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It was also because the grassland was too quiet this time, so quiet that it made people feel suffocated, so quiet that all the scouts he sent to the grassland were silent.

Where did the scouts go? Were they taken away by the wild wolves of the steppe, or were they killed by the horse thieves of the steppe?

Such a reason would not even be believed by the three-year-old children in the Dayi Mansion.

The northwest defense line, known as "the side has a wall, the wall is related, there is a fort in the pass, there are soldiers in the fort", a fort constitutes the entire defense line of the northwest borderland, Danxia village and Xiaofang village were a member of this defense line, only later the northwest defense line as a whole moved forward, only gradually withdrew from the fortress system.

In order to prevent thieves from repeatedly entering the Northwest Army, Zhuge Gong, the former governor of the Northwest Army, instructed the Northwest Army to "work hard all night to try to succeed, and send troops to kill thieves near the border", and led the Northwest Army to patrol the border and take the initiative to attack many times. As the so-called defense along the border today, there is the construction of camps, forts, piers, and platforms, and the defense of patrols and ambushes, and there are left governors to take over their powers, and there are right governors to divide their responsibilities. Those who dispatch have soldiers, those who divide the defense are prepared, and the way of strict observance can also be described as thorough and prepared.

The so-called "patrol press", also known as "dun night" or "direct dial, horizontal dial". "Dun" refers to the dun army, also known as "horizontal dialing", which is mainly responsible for the task of standing guard and sentry in the pier platform and its nearby areas. "Night" is also known as "sentry night" and "direct dialing", specifically refers to "those who can go deep into the camp and the outpost to find out the truth, that is, the scouts who can go deep into the enemy's territory to carry out reconnaissance activities.

The so-called night not collected, famous, can be described as the most elite scout in the Great Qi border army, Zhao Xu almost scattered all the night not collected this time, but no one came back.

There is only one result, that is, the grassland has been prepared for a long time, and more scouts have been dispatched, and they have killed all these nights with their intentions.

Zhao Xu looked out of the city with a resolute expression, and muttered to himself: "In the spring of this year, the Governor has increased his troops by more than 6,000 people, plus the already more than 4,000 people in the city, there are more than 10,000 defenders in total. The steppe cavalry has never been good at attacking cities, even if it is several times the enemy attacking the city, it can hold on for more than half a month. ”

It's just that......

Zhao Xu squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, between the lines at the end of the sky, smoke and dust rose up.

At such a distance, you can still see the smoke and dust, which shows how big the smoke and dust is.

If several times the enemy can still be defended, what about ten times the enemy?