Shen Changgeng tugged at Hsu Fengnian's sleeve and whispered, "You want to go north? Why don't you take me with you? As for me, since I can't help much here and no one wants me even if I wave the flag and shout, I want to go to Beiliang to take a look. Along the way, I heard from many people that not only does Beiliang Palace have an arsenal and Tidehark Lake, but there are also thirty new monoliths behind the mountain. In the past, I only heard people curse Beiliang. At the beginning of spring, I heard that Beiliang was defeated in Youzhou, losing one battle after another. What they said was that they threw away their armor and were utterly defeated. In short, the Beimang barbarians came knocking at their door. On this trip to the Western Regions, I mainly passed through the northern part of the Xishu Road near Beiliang's Lingzhou area. Only then did I know that some things might be different. At first, I was skeptical because hearing it with my own ears was different. I wanted to see it with my own eyes. If I was unlucky enough to run into the Beimang barbarians and be trampled into meat paste by the horses, then I'll count myself unlucky. If by any chance it's not like that, when I return to Yanglu County, I want to say something that no one else has said before. "
Thousands of Jianghu people from the Central Plains entered the Western Regions from three directions. Shen Changgeng's group was in the middle, passing through the border between the Xishu Road and Beiliang Road. Huang Fangfo's group took the Xishu Road Plank Road, and the last group passed through Lingzhou under the guidance of the Fish-dragon Gang's Liu Nerong.
Hsu Fengnian looked at Shen Changgeng, whose expression was solemn and sincere, and shook his head. "Don't go. People die at the border every day. There's nothing to see. Besides, Beiliang is heavily guarded. You won't be able to reach Hutou City, which is the northernmost part of Liangzhou, or Xiaguang City, which is the southernmost part of Hulukou."
Shen Changgeng scratched his head and turned to glance at the group of men in the distance. "I casually mentioned to them that you're a local of Beiliang. For some reason, when they heard that someone was leading the way, they insisted on going to Beiliang. They said that since we're already in the Western Regions, it would be outrageous if we didn't go to Beiliang. It wouldn't be good for us to go back to our hometown and brag that we've seen 300,000 cavalrymen from Beiliang." "I'm, I have a habit of boasting without a draft. Now, I'm't, I'm. How about you take us to the southern border of Beiliang and then we go on our own?"
Of course, Hsu Fengnian wouldn't drag his feet for them. He couldn't slow down his pace towards Hutou City. He could only shake his head. "If it weren't for the current situation and a year or half a year ago, it wouldn't be a problem to take you to Liangzhou Pass to see the scenery beyond the Great Wall, let alone the southern border of Beiliang."
Shen Changgeng didn't get angry. He patted Hsu Fengnian's shoulder and laughed. "It's okay. I'll go back and let them know. Okay! You owe me a drink. How about it? "
Shen Changgeng turned around and jogged a dozen steps. Suddenly, he turned his head and asked, "Oh right, if we go to Beiliang in the future, how can I find you for a drink?"
Hsu Fengnian was about to speak when Zhang Chunlin looked at Shen Changgeng, who was slow to react. He laughed and said, "What a coincidence. I'm also going to Liangzhou soon. If you don't mind, let's go together?"
Shen Changgeng was a little surprised. He asked tentatively, "Won't it trouble you?"
Zhang Chunlin's smile was intoxicating. He said loudly, "I promise to eat meat and drink wine along the way. How about it?"
Then, Zhang Chunlin turned to look at his three friends with a gloating expression. "Chen Zhengyong, Qi Retreated. Cai Yongjia, what do you say? Do you dare to follow our agreement and go to the border of Liangzhou with me after this matter is over?"
Chen Zhengyong, who was the most handsome of the three, smiled and said, "Why wouldn't I dare?"
The young man with the most conceited expression crossed his arms. "I dare to go to the battlefield and kill the barbarians in person. Why wouldn't I dare to go to Liangzhou? If that vassal king really had the magnificent feat of personally leading an army to appear at the mouth of the gourd, and if Xu Fengnian's piece is among the three hundred thousand stone steles on Mount Qing Liang, then after we retreat, there's no harm in me leading his horse! "
The other young man, who was dressed in a scholarly robe, said with a smile, "I like the little girls in Yanzhi County the most. As for fighting, I don't like it very much, but I'm not afraid of it either. "
Hsu Fengnian smiled and said goodbye to them. He led his horse away.
Chen Zhengyong glanced at Zhang Chunlin, whose eyes were wandering for thousands of miles, and asked softly, "Who is it? When we met Fairy Liu at the Drum Platform, I didn't see you so distracted. "
Zhang Chunlin smiled and said, "You'll know in the future."
Just as Hsu Fengnian left the crowd and mounted his horse to gallop north, the woman in purple was no longer standing on the roof of the tall building.
Then, the woman's words spread throughout the world in the late spring of the second year of the Auspicious Era.
At this moment, she stood with her hands behind her back, like a female emperor sitting in the north facing the south.
Six bloody heads were placed near the bottom of his feet.
"There's a guy who was with you just now, and now he's secretly heading north. If I'm not wrong, he's rushing to Hutou City, which is under the siege of Beimang's million-strong army."
"This person probably just fought with someone from the northern part of the Western Regions to the southern part of the Western Regions. The two of them have been fighting for almost a month, more than a thousand miles. He didn't win, so he's too ashamed to meet others."
"His opponent is called Tuoba Bodhisattva!"
"I'm not interested in the battle of Liang Mang, and I don't have a good impression of him or Beiliang. Besides, I'm just the woman that person mentioned. Going to the battlefield to kill the enemy has always been a man's job. It has nothing to do with me, Xuanyuan Qingfeng … What does it have to do with me?!"
"There are nearly four thousand people here, and more than three thousand seven hundred men. Other than the sixty-two members of the Fish-dragon Gang, there's no one else from Beiliang."
"During this year's Qingming Festival, there's a place called Mount Qingliang in Beiliang. 36,872 names have been carved on the stele forest behind the mountain. As for the Beimang barbarians, nearly a hundred thousand people have died in Liuzhou, Liangzhou, and Youzhou! "
At this point, she kicked the six heads off the roof one by one.
"I, Xuanyuan Qingfeng, have already killed the six demons. There's nothing for you to do. So now, I only have one question for you. Beiliang has only two million households, and more than thirty thousand people have died. How many people from Liyang and the Central Plains have died in battle? And how many people dare to die in battle? "
"If I remember correctly, Liyang Dynasty, after the reformation at the end of Yonghui Dynasty, has twelve provinces, sixty-three prefectures, and more than two hundred and seventy counties besides Beiliang."
"Millions of Beimang barbarians are already at the border. Where are the men of Liyang?"
There was a deathly silence inside and outside the town.
The woman on the roof sneered, and it was unusually ear-piercing.
Finally, a clear voice rang out in one of the taverns in town. "Jingan Province, Qingzhou Hanlin County, Quicksnow Villa, Yuchi Youquan, here! I'm willing to go to the border! "
The woman on the roof laughed. "How strange! It's a woman. "
Then, someone at the entrance of the town said loudly, "Dongyue Province, Wu Province, Zhang Chunlin, is willing to die outside Beiliang!"
"Peach Blossom County, Gangnam-do, has me, Chen Zhengyong!"
"Huainan Province, Peng Province, has retreated, only seeking death!"
"Qingzhou Province, Xiangfan City's Cai Yongjia, dares to fight to the death at the border!"
A slightly weak voice rang out, but it sounded more heroic and solemn. "Yanglu County, Gangnam-do, Shen Changgeng is here!"
"Nanjiang Province, Wenxian County, Bazhou, Xue Tao is here!"
… …
Voices rose and fell one after another, continuing without end as if there was no end to them.
Far to the north of the town, a rider stopped, but he didn't turn around.
This young man who dared to slay dragons, who dared to fight Tuoba Bodhisattva for thousands of miles, didn't even dare to look back at this moment.
Beiliang was at the northwest gate.
The Central Plains was behind him.
Beiliang cavalry was the best in the world.
The spearhead had been facing north for twenty years.
However, it wasn't the Central Plains in the eyes of most of the civil officials in Liyang. When had the real Central Plains ever lacked heroism?
This rider began to gallop wildly.
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