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Chapter 263 Blizzard Wolf Trail
Guanghe first year (eighth year), October [-].

In the inner city of Pingcheng, shortly after the relocation began, the first snow in the first year of Guanghe arrived as scheduled.

In Pingcheng at this time, in addition to the housewarming banquets in full swing, there is also vigorous preparations for war.

After all, last year was plagued by drought and locusts. Xianbei still invaded Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Beidi County in Liangzhou normally. This year, the situation has improved a lot.

They will not be absent.

Therefore, the entire Yanmen began to enter a state of combat readiness and patrolling.

The guards on the pier of the Great Wall sleep with one eye open.

Afraid of being tricked by these cunning Xianbei and Northern Man, he wiped his throat.

However, the scene they had imagined did not appear. The north wind howled and the snow was all over the sky. This sudden snowstorm forced them to concentrate on taking care of their cattle and sheep.

This is especially true for the tribes along the Great Wall.

They need this sheep to produce wool continuously.

In this way, they can get what they want from merchants in the Central Plains.

Especially the merchants from Yanmen County, their prices are very fair, and they only accept wool.

It made them unconscious this year, reducing the number of horses and increasing the number of sheep...

Asking for a relatively fair price is naturally Qiu Zhiqing's request. You must know that when the tribes outside Yanmen County and along the Great Wall become richer one by one.

Then guys like them without the protection of the Great Wall have become fat sheep in the eyes of others?
You know, the interior of the grassland has never been peaceful.

When they rob together together, they will occasionally attack the "companions" around them.

The most typical example is the Qiang people in Liangzhou, who usually rob themselves, but when they want to rob a big man, they gather together for a meeting to choose a leader and target.

As a result, later, on the side of the Han Dynasty, as soon as they saw the Qiang people gathering, they knew that they must not hold their farts.

Just start first, send troops to this group of guys in the meeting, come here.

But that was the period of the former Han Dynasty, and now the Qiang people and the Han people live together, which is why the Qiang chaos is becoming more and more troublesome.

……

The Han army sentry on patrol, cruising inside and outside the Great Wall.

It may be because of the heavy snow, but this year Xianbei did not go south to hunt like in previous years.

This heavy snow fell intermittently from the end of October until the end of the new year.

It seems that the rainwater accumulated during last year's severe drought was poured down all at once, and they didn't care at all. The people living on the earth couldn't bear it.

Fortunately, the relocation was completed before winter.

At the same time, this heavy snow also helped Qiu Zhiqing complete the demolition of the inner city.

Half of those houses were collapsed by the heavy snow.

Although the snow was heavy, the operation of the Sheriff's Mansion could not be stopped.

Teams of fast riders galloped out of Pingcheng, walked on the snow, went to the villages outside the city to check the disaster situation, and at the same time went south to let the counties report the situation.

What the counties are asked to report is naturally the disaster situation outside the city.

Because of the situation in the city, there is no need for them to report.

For example, now, in the hall of the Sheriff's Mansion, the Sheriff, the Chancellor, the Captain, and all the officials gathered together.

A huge sand table appeared in the middle, which was the terrain of Yanmen County and the distribution of various counties.

However, there is only the county seat, and there are no signs for the manors and villages outside the city. This also shows in disguise that the strength of the Han's rule over the local area is indeed not high.

This is why Qiu Zhiqing proposed that Zhang Jiao develop a vast village.

Right above the sand table, there was a silver seal with green ribbon floating, which was the seal of Qiu Zhiqing's Yanmen prefect.

At this moment, there is a faint blue light on it, presenting the situation of each county in Yanmen to everyone.

This is another usage of the county guard's seal, and it is also the reason why Guo Yan came to help in such a timely manner when Pingcheng was breached for the first time.

However, compared with Guo Yan, Qiu Zhiqing's use is more detailed.

At this time, Qiu Zhiqing became more interested in this so-called "heaven".

It feels very much like a network system, and it is a network system with huge energy, covering the whole big man.

Comprehensive supervision and suppression functions in one.

As for the meticulous effect now, it was Qiu Zhiqing who combined his "circle light technique" and made a small change of [-], replacing it with his predecessor.

Or the other sheriffs could not be as meticulous as Qiu Zhiqing.

At most, we can know which county was attacked, that's all.

Therefore, Qiu Zhiqing also wanted to see how dereliction of duty this guy was.

It's good to replace a group of people, but there are not enough people, so we have to ask Zhang Jiao for talents.

Surrounding the sand table, a group of county officials surrounded them, pointing at the side, assessing the disaster situation in each county, recording it in the record, and waiting for the report from each county.

Then make a comparison, you can quickly draw a conclusion.

Know who is the most perfunctory.

……

Three days later, the last group of Kuaiqi who went out of the city to investigate the situation returned to Pingcheng with hundreds of people.

At this time, the houses in Pingcheng that had not yet collapsed were just right after inspection and were used as resettlement houses.

"You mean, a village outside the city was attacked by wolves? Tell me in detail."

This is the last team of Kuaiqi Shichang who came back. He led ten people and went out to check the disaster situation outside the city.

He was responsible for bringing those who were seriously affected by the disaster back to the city for resettlement.

However, the issue he reported today attracted the attention of everyone present.

At this moment, everyone was still present, and when he felt that the eyes of almost all the officials present were focused on him, the senior who bent over and cupped his hands couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

On a cold day, a trace of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

damn cardigan, it's hot...

"My lords, let me tell you what happened..."

The name is very long, and he will tell the story of this encounter one by one.

Their trip was to go into the mountains to look for those mountain people, to see if they could migrate out.

The route is provided by the villagers at the bottom of the mountain. There are often some people who, because they can’t bear the various taxes of the government, go directly to the mountains to become mountain villagers. The population of this part cannot be counted.

When Qiu Zhiqing first arrived in Pingcheng, he deliberately let the mountain people go down the mountain.

However, the transfer order came faster than he expected, and he was carried away before it was implemented.

Now that this happened, Qiu Zhiqing couldn't help but secretly scolded himself for being confused, for forgetting about it.

In fact, ever since Qiu Zhiqing moved the Yanmen County Government to Pingcheng, there have been successive mountain people descending from the mountain to be naturalized first, and to distribute land, etc.

But it is only non-allocation official land, they are only renting seeds.

It is equivalent to the tenant farmers of the government, and the harvest is still Qiu Zhiqing's business rules, and the three and sevens are divided, and they are seven.

It's just that the government decree was not issued directly. This time, Qiu Zhiqing only needs to issue a new government decree.

As for the wolves that wiped out the entire mountain village...

Qiu Zhiqing looked at Xu Rong and motioned him to deal with it.

When he thought about it, with the strength of Xu Rong's county soldiers at the moment, destroying a group of wolves was still easy. Qiu Zhiqing thought so, and Xu Rong didn't care too much.

He casually threw the task to his personal guard camp and let them handle it.

Wei Zonglang, the captain of the personal guard camp, didn't care much about it, so he arranged for a military marquis to deal with it.

And this Marquis is Hu Lai, one of the two Marquis who followed Wu Xian before.

This is Wu Xian's old subordinate. Unfortunately, after Wu Xian was turned into a soldier, he used an excuse to go home to visit relatives. After Qiu Zhiqing came back, he came back after the reorganization was completed.

I can only wrong him and continue to be a military lord.

After all, Sun Huai, who was a military marquis with him, was already a military commander, second only to the school lieutenant.

Zong Lang was also looking at Wu Xian's face, and he gave this credit to Hu Lai, which was a worthy friendship with Wu Xian.

Here, Hu Lai quickly took the order to set off, and suppressed it.

Qiu Zhiqing, on the other hand, quickly reissued a preferential order for the mountain people to go down the mountain, asking the villages along the mountain to help promote it. After all, the mountain people also want to come down to trade some things.

Time is in this busy, approaching the end of the year.

Qiu Zhiqing took the initiative and killed hundreds of sheep that ate too much grass.

So edible, the grass outside the Great Wall will be eaten up by them sooner or later, it is better to kill them as soon as possible.

Besides, who said that Han people have no talent for herding?

At the beginning, there were only more than 3000 sheep in this flock, but now there are almost [-] sheep. This is the result of the former Cheng Yao, who ate one if he had nothing to do.

The flock of sheep is near the Great Wall, guarded by more than a dozen Great Wall piers, and they take turns to herd the sheep.

When I usually go out to herd sheep, I dress up as barbarians in the grassland, and occasionally communicate with herdsmen along the Great Wall.

For example, is your sheep’s wool growing fast? When the southerners (Han people) collect wool, what price do they charge? I don’t know what the big bosses are doing recently.

In short, to raise this flock of sheep in a decent way, Qiu Zhiqing planned to see if he could let people occupy the grassland and graze them by himself.

Qiu Zhiqing was preparing for the new year, but Zong Lang couldn't sit still.

Because Hu Lai hasn't come back yet, he's been away for more than half a month.

At this time, Hu Lai's situation is not too good.

Strictly speaking, the situation reported by the cavalry team was not wrong.

If so, they also searched for more than ten days before they found this cave, but this is not an ordinary pack of wolves, it is a wolf demon...

At this time, Hu Lai's men, two Qu, less than 200 people, were forming a circular formation, confronting a pack of wolves.

Outside the arena, there were two or three corpses of the Han army, as well as dozens of wolf corpses.

This is a small valley with dense forests and tall trees on both sides.

According to Qiu Zhiqing's understanding, it would be impossible for such a tall tree to grow here.

But the world is so miraculous, in the surrounding area of ​​Pingcheng, in Qiu Zhiqing's impression, the mountains that should be mostly shrubs, but the trees are towering and extremely dense.

The buildings of the outer city and the dwellings in the city are made of trees from the mountains outside the city.

It's just that at this time, the mountain is covered by heavy snow, and although the forest is dense, there is only white snow and no greenery.

Trees without leaves cannot resist the warm sun in winter.

However, the winter sun did not bring warmth to Hu Lai and the others at all. On the contrary, it made Hu Lai and the others feel cold all over their bodies and their hearts felt cold.

What made them feel cold was the sun above the sky.

But what made them feel cold was the one in front of them... this...

This four-legged, wolf-headed human body, thick cloth apron, and a tail sticking out from behind... something...

The appearance is very strange, but what is certain is that this is their wolf king without a doubt.

The chiefs of the two villages under his command quietly approached and said in a low voice:
"Boss... this situation is not good, do you think I will die, or retreat?"

Hu Lai was also frightened, of course he knew that the situation was not good, wouldn't it be easy to kill him by transforming into a monster in human form?
However, seeing this werewolf, he didn't intend to attack actively, but rather seemed... as if he was threatening them.

This gave Hu Lai a bold idea, and he felt that he could do it!
Thinking of Sun Huai who killed the enemy with him in bloody battles, he is now the commander of the army.

And myself, in five years, was still the same as before, a military lord leading 200 people.

Thinking about it this way, what are werewolves, they are just beasts with a little magic.

Just cut it with a knife!

"Retreat? Why retreat? Didn't you hear the voice from the cave? These livestock dared to plunder humans today and used them as rations. The people who came here became a climate, and it was even more difficult to deal with, brothers! For the villagers in the cave, fight to the death !"

Hu Lai's voice, from a slight hesitation at the beginning, gradually became firmer at the end.

Until the final roar of "Fight to the death!" exploded in the entire mountain forest.

"Dead fight! Dead fight!"

A general is the courage of a soldier, and a soldier is the prestige of a general.

Upon receiving the response, Hu Lai swung the long knife in his hand, and a ray of the knife went straight to greet the guy with the wolf's head and human body lying on all fours.

But he saw that the guy who was still somewhat human raised his left hand and slapped him.

It was originally a human five fingers, but at the same time as it shot out a blue light, it turned into an extremely thick and furry wolf paw.

When Hu Lai looked at it, he was a little happy.

With a bold guess in my heart, it is indelible, but at this time hundreds of wild wolves have already approached the army formation.

Hu Lai had no time to think about it, and ordered his two chiefs to go back to command the army to fight against the enemy, while he brandished a broadsword and slashed out three times in a row.

Three swords and swords, wrapped in the military spirit of the army, slashed towards the wolf king.

Being locked in breath, there is no way to avoid it, you can only force it.

He opened his mouth and spit out, the three-sword moon blade, facing the three-sword knife gang.

The moment the two collided, the aftermath of the explosion directly emptied the area around the wolf king.

Within a radius of two feet of the wolf king, wolves' blood was spattered everywhere, but there was a huge gray wolf standing tall even on all fours.

On the face of the huge gray wolf, a slanted knife mark almost split half of its wolf face.

Seeing this scene, Hu Lai thought to himself: It really is so...

"Aw... woo woo woo..."

The wolf king, who wanted to scream up to the sky, pulled the wound on his face and made a funny "woo hoo".

This made the pack of wolves who were planning to listen to their boss and say something a little bit confused.

How could this fleeting opportunity be missed.

Another round of arrows was shot, and the gap between the two sides was reduced by another point...

　Happy Chinese New Year, everything goes well, wealth is rolling in

　　
　
(End of this chapter)