Volume 1 Chapter 20

Sometimes, it's easier to live than to die. /

no one knows what happened behind the giant golden chariot that represents the dignity and power of qianxiashan on the day when qianyeguan was broken by cangyue.

Because on this day, Hu Biyi survived, and some people who knew what happened behind the chariot, who were most loyal to his subordinates, and the priests who could not be governed by the military, left in the dark and died.

The people of the Yunqin Empire only heard the bad news from the southern border area day by day.

Even most of the people in the Yunqin Dynasty didn't expect that the defeat of Yunqin at the southern border would come so quickly and thoroughly.

After conquering the thousand leaves pass, a great mang army of about ten thousand people, exhausted after days of rapid march, soon arrived at the thousand leaves pass.

Although under the control of Hu Biyi, the retreating Yunqin army changed its route and turned to jiayeguan to avoid being completely encircled by the Dashan army, the tired Dashan army, which had been forced for several days, relied on the powerful weapons such as the catapult and the remaining moon falling crossbow of qianyeguan. Under the command of the moon, it blocked Yunqin in the next few days Thirty thousand reinforcements and several parts of qianxiashan attacked each other, waiting for the arrival of the successor reinforcements of Dashan.

However, in pursuit of Hu Biyi's main army, only 30000 troops were allocated to continue to pursue Hu Biyi, and the rest 40000 troops entered Qianye pass according to the established route.

Only three days after entering Qianye pass, the two passes of Qianyu and Tongan near qianxia Qianye pass were all conquered by the big mang army.

On the day when the thousand leaves pass was broken, the main army pursued by Da mang was five days away from qianxiashan.

Therefore, in the expectation of most people in the Yunqin Dynasty hall, it will be a little time for cangyue to repair. It will be about ten days from that day to attack qianxiashan.

However, it was only eight days before and after that. The big mang army had broken through three levels in a row. The big Mang's first troops had invaded the territory of Yunqin!

Hu Biyi returned to jiayeguan of qianxiashan with more than 40000 Yunqin troops, plus nearly 50000 garrisons left behind by all parts of qianxiashan. Under the urgent mobilization of the Yunqin Empire, nearly 170000 reinforcements had already arrived at qianxiashan.

At this time, the total number of the army of Da Mang in qianxiashan and close to qianxiashan was only about 150000.

It's impossible for the common people of the Yunqin Empire to think so thoroughly. They have a poor understanding of the arrival time of these reinforcements. Moreover, the advance speed of the Dashan army is far beyond the estimation of the Yunqin army. They don't understand that at this time, even if the other most powerful general of the Empire, commander Gu Yunjing, is still there, they can't avoid being invaded by the Dashan army 。

They only know that under Hu Biyi's commander, the front four hundred thousand southern army of Yunqin was beaten so many people came back.

They only know that in the case of so many reinforcements, they were even defeated by the great mang army.

When the army of the enemy attacked the territory, some urban residents began to flee and be displaced. This is something that Yunqin has never thought of since its founding, and almost all Yunqin people have never thought about!

The people of Yunqin began to panic and became extremely angry, demanding that Hu Biyi's post of commander be removed and his crimes be dealt with.

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Lin Xi was still crouching in a low grass.

He was dressed in a green robe, covered with a coarse blanket made of long grass at will, but it had an excellent hiding effect.

In front of him, not far away, is a large burnt ruins.

On the map of Yunqin, it was originally called Xiaguang town. Here, not only can you see the gorgeous sunset on qianxiashan mountain in the distance, but also produce a bowl of red wine, which can make people's faces even redder than the sunset.

There used to be many distilleries here, and many sorghum plants were planted in the surrounding fields. At ordinary times, it is a big town more lively than Donggang Town and Yanlai town. However, at this moment, it is only a burnt ruins.

Lin Xi knew that Wenren cangyue would definitely attack qianxiashan and drag Yunqin into the mire of the war. If it wasn't something he did at the dragon and snake border, as long as it was delayed until this autumn and winter, I'm afraid that the situation of Yunqin would be even worse. However, he didn't expect that Wenren cangyue's army could break through qianxiashan so quickly and hold on to several checkpoints of qianxiashan.

When he arrived at qianxia border, the big mang army had broken through the three passes. After qianxia mountain, half of Nanling province had become a battlefield.

In the distant woods, the howling of the wolves echoed.

Without brass hawk's eyes, Lin Xi's eyes locked several moving grey spots in the miscellaneous forest which was six or seven miles away from him.

In this area, it is impossible to see the traces of wild wolves. However, the market town here has only been destroyed for a few days. As soon as the footprints disappear, the wild wolves, which originally appeared at the foot of qianxiashan mountain, have crossed hundreds of miles and appeared here.

Lin Xi's eyes did not stay on these wolves. His eyes continued to turn to the ruins of the market town.

At the moment, there is a big mang cavalry of more than 20 people patrolling around the market town.

The horses under the big mang cavalry are all wrapped in cotton cloth. Lin Xi has been with the cavalry for two days, so he can be sure that the cavalry must be a reconnaissance army of the big mang army that has entered the territory of Nanling province.

Xu Qiubai's whereabouts are extremely secret. According to some information collected in the shallow Tang Dynasty of Zhantai, Xu Qiubai wanders like a lone wolf at will, but is assassinated again and again without anyone's instruction.

That is to say, his task is to assassinate the general of Yun Qin as much as possible. There is no limit on when and where to assassinate.

In such a situation, even the whole Yunqin military can't trace the specific whereabouts of Xu Qiubai. It's impossible for Lin Xi alone to find out the whereabouts of Xu Qiubai, the powerful archer who participated in the most in the battle in the whole biluobian army.

However, when she decided to come to qianxia border, Lin Xi had already figured out some of vice president Xia's intentions and how she would do it.

Xu Qiubai is constantly assassinating the general of Yun Qin.

He decided to assassinate Da Mang's generals like Xu Qiubai.

This is a kind of practice for him, and he can be sure that Xu Qiubai will notice his existence. In this way, maybe Xu Qiubai can appear in front of him.

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Lin Xi looked at the reckless scout calmly and patiently.

In the past two days of tracking, he has observed some habits of the scouts.

In recent days, this scouting army's actions are very different from those of ordinary times. It is not only slow in moving, but also long in staying in the same area.

All kinds of signs let him judge that there will be a big reckless army, which will pass by here and return to qianxia mountain area along some of the secret records left by this reconnaissance army.

So when the Scout left the charred town and went to qianxia mountain area, he did not track the Scout anymore, but moved slowly into a canal full of weeds and some water.

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