Invincible son

Chapter 947 946 [The Beacon Company March]

To the west of Yunzhou is Huazhou, together with Dengzhou to the west of Huazhou, together constitute the three northern states of Daliang.In a sense, they are the barriers of Kyoto. Even though this barrier has not been used for thousands of years, no one will question the value of these territories for no reason.

It is said that there are barbarians who are eight feet tall and look like beasts living on the wasteland. It is said that those barbarians are tyrannical and cruel. It is said that they still have the habit of eating human flesh and drinking human blood. It is said...

"The weather in this bird is really weird. It's completely different from previous years. It's already spring and it's still so cold. It's so fucking evil. Those old men say every day that barbarians have to be guarded. Are barbarians not human? Barbarians in such a cold day Don’t need to stay in a cave for the winter? I really want those elders to come and watch for a few days to see if they can survive.”

Beside the small river outside Beishan Village, team leader Liu Gu was babbling and cursing while roasting the fire.

This place is located on the border of Huazhou, and further north is the wasteland. Daliang has established more than a hundred military depots on this border that stretches for thousands of miles, and each military depot has a hundred soldiers stationed there.

The biggest official here is only a sentry officer, so the class concept of superiors and subordinates is not so strict. Listening to Liu Gu's complaints for several years, an old soldier named Gu Si'an beside him said: "Liu Da, what do you say?" If the Qi sentry officer heard it, it would probably be another reprimand."

Liu Gu looked suffocated, and then stretched his neck and said: "I will be afraid of him? Didn't I just run here to be gilded under the banner of Marshal Geshu? If barbarians come to attack, this soft bone will definitely be the first to run away , do you believe it or not?"

Everyone laughed, and another soldier who looked immature asked curiously: "Liu Da, are there really barbarians in the north?"

Liu Gu nodded, seeing the nervousness of the soldier, he grinned and said: "I'm afraid of a bird, why do barbarians call barbarians? Because they are still rolling in the snow with their buttocks bare, fighting with those wild beasts." There is no difference, that’s why they are called barbarians. We also killed a lot of beasts last year, and these beasts look fierce, but they are actually very easy to kill.”

The atmosphere became more and more relaxed and leisurely.

Liu Gu was excited, so he continued to explain to the recruit: "I have never seen barbarians, but the hunters in the village behind have. Last year, I didn’t see it even once. Maybe those barbarians are dead long ago, so there is no need to worry at all.”

Although northern Xinjiang is vast and sparsely populated, it is certainly not uninhabited. There are many small villages and towns like Beishan Village, and most of the military depots are built near these gathering places.Firstly, there is a support for each other, and secondly, these miserable soldiers will often exchange some needed items with the villagers with broken silver.

The recruit's name was Yang Ding, who had been in the army for less than half a year, and somehow was driven to the Xuanhua camp guarding the northern border.In the eyes of Liu Gu and others, this kid must have no background, otherwise he could at least stay in the army camp in the interior, and would not go directly to the most difficult and difficult border military station.

Yang Ding was thoughtful when he heard the words, and then asked: "Liu Da, is there any record of barbarians going south?"

Liu Gu shook his head and said, "Never."

Gu Si'an stretched out his hands close to the fire, and sighed: "Then what's the point of us patrolling all day long?"

Liu Gu raised his hand and patted him on the head, and cursed with a smile: "You are a fart on patrol! See Tian'er warming up here, if you let the surname Qi know, I may not be able to save you."

Gu Si'an didn't feel annoyed, and said with a smile: "Da Liu, warming up to the fire is not my idea alone. If the surname Qi has the ability to take down all ten of us and beat them with army sticks, then I will really obey him."

The wind suddenly became noisy.

"Liu Da, why do you feel something is wrong?" A soldier named Chen Dan shrank his neck.

Liu Gu said impatiently: "I told you all, the so-called barbarians are a group of uncivilized savages, don't scare yourself all day long."

The world seems to have become extraordinarily quiet.

Gu Si'an withdrew his hands, subconsciously held down the handle of the knife beside him, shook his head and said, "No, Chen Dan has a good nose. Have you forgotten that he detected the beast tide in advance the year before last?"

Liu Gu patted the dust on his hands, then jumped up and stared at the other side of the frozen river. There was a dense forest there, which looked normal.

Everyone else stood up. Although Yang Ding was a newcomer in their eyes, his movements were even more agile than these old soldiers, and his face looked very calm, without the slightest panic.

Chen Dan frowned suddenly: "Did you feel it?"

Liu Gu turned his head and asked, "What?"

Chen Dan's expression became more serious, and he said slowly: "I seem to feel the ground under my feet trembling."

Gu Si'an said with a gloomy face: "Could it be another beast tide?"

At this moment, Liu Gu suddenly scolded: "Damn it!"

There was a slight tremor in the voice.

Everyone followed the prestige, and saw a few extremely burly and tall figures appearing from the dense forest. They had faces like Liang people, but the robes on their bodies showed a barbaric and rough temperament.In particular, the faces of these people are still dyed with black patterns, and with their extraordinarily strong bodies, they really look like wild beasts as the legend says.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

A total of ten people including Liu Gu watched in a daze as more and more barbarians appeared from the dense forest until they filled their sight lines.Yang Ding remained calm at the moment, roughly counting, there were at least two hundred barbarians in this group.

The two sides looked at each other across a small river.

According to the military regulations drawn up by the Military Academy of the Western Government, all the soldiers of the Xuanhua Camp must shoulder the responsibility of guarding the territory. The only purpose of the court spending money to support them is to guard them against barbarians who may cross the border and disturb the people.

But at this moment the difference in the number of the two sides is too great.

Liu Gu's gaze froze suddenly, and intense fear filled his heart.

He actually saw weapons in the hands of these barbarians. Although they were not the standard weapons of Daliang, although these weapons looked very rough, how could the barbarians in the wasteland know how to forge iron?

In an instant, he suddenly roared: "Run!"

The ten-member team no longer hesitated, and ran towards the south with all their might.

Behind them, the barbarian warrior looked indifferently, with a cruel smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he didn't care about these people's escape.

In the seventh year of Kaiping, on the fourth day of March, several military depots on the border of northern Xinjiang ignited beacon smoke representing the highest level of danger.

……

Kyoto.

It would take about five days to travel overland from Songning City in Qinzhou to Beijing. Lan Zhiqiu was extremely tangled along the way, and the closer he got to the capital, the more torment he felt.

On this sunny afternoon, Qian Bing suddenly opened the door of the carriage, showing a gentle smile that didn't fit his identity, and stretched out his hand, "Mr. Lan, the capital is here, please."

Lan Zhiqiu hesitated for a long time, these days he often wakes up from his dreams, and his body is often drenched in cold sweat.

Those nightmares were extremely clear, either the killers fell from the sky to kill them all, or His Majesty the Emperor wanted to ransack his family and exterminate his family with a ferocious face.

Qian Bing smiled and said, "Young Master Lan, you have to come out sooner or later, please don't make it difficult for me."

Lan Zhiqiu gritted his teeth and stood up. After getting out of the carriage, he looked up and saw this majestic city.

He said coldly: "Where are you going to send me?"

Qian Bing said very politely: "Your Majesty has an order to call you into the palace."

(End of this chapter)