Outside the northern suburbs.

The city wall, mottled with traces of time, is made of bluestone slabs, which is extremely strong and difficult to enter.

This was built in the North from the beginning of the war, until now. It's not a year, but there are a lot of baptisms of war that can be endured, so many years.

This city has changed hands many times, but the northern barbarians have never crossed the northern border once.

The northern border has never fallen once, whether it is traced back from Bai Peng or the Bai family further up, it has never fallen, and the Bai family has paid the most.

But other families, large and small, have also paid a lot of manpower and material resources. The realm of resources can only have today's step, if it weren't for this, it would have fallen as early as when the Northern Barbarians attacked the city.

Chu Tiannan is the new heir, and he also has to fulfill his mission.

Defend the land and protect the country, defend every inch of their territory, and every inch carries the hope of the glory of the past.

"Will Li Fangyuan still set up an ambush outside the city?" asked Yelu Feiguang.

"Yes, this person doesn't look like a measured person, besides, the hatred between him and Jian Chen can't be resolved, Jian Chen has been in the golden age of learning martial arts for so many years because of this, can he give up?"

"As long as he doesn't give up for a day, Li Fangyuan's status will be threatened one day, from a bandit who has nothing, to this point, the city lord of the northern realm, and he is glorious. With so many brothers dead and climbing up with so many people's bones, he wouldn't give up so easily. ”

"Indeed, even if Li Fangyuan is encircled, it is not very useful, even without us, with Chen Jian's realm, as long as he enters the wilderness, no one will be able to keep him. ”

"Li Fangyuan is not in a hurry, Jian Chen went to the Northern Barbarians, whether he can come back alive is still a matter of saying, even if he comes back alive, Sister-in-law Wang and Fang Fang are at home, and Jian Chen will not be able to make up for it. ”

"Will they embarrass Sister-in-law Wang's family because of this matter, should they give them a little warning first. ”

"No, Li Fangyuan is insidious and will not make such a stupid decision. If I'm not mistaken, Fang Fang and Sister-in-law Wang's family will be able to live a little better before Jian Chen comes back. ”

Ye Lu Feng Feiguang nodded.

He didn't know why, but he didn't bother to think about it.

For the sophistication of human feelings, he is very lazy to study, calculating these he doesn't like to do much, there are too many things to learn, since he was a child, Yelu Fei Guangqin, chess, calligraphy and painting are proficient, under Bai Peng, his art of war is also like a god.

For some trivial things that require the use of his brain, he chooses to skip. ”

"Will Jian Chen come on time?"

"Do you want to pick it up? ”

"No need, no one will stop him in the city, the state shepherd token is enough to make a city lord obedient. ”

"The system in the north needs to be adjusted. ”

Yelu Feiguang was absent-minded just now, and he was thinking about this. Li Fangyuan is a mediocre person with mediocre martial arts, only relying on the identity of the city lord, he dares to argue with Jian Chen, who is behind him?

Northland!

In recent years, the rules of the northern border have been very strict, and the appearance of slaughter has also been created on the outside, in order to rectify military discipline, and the second is to prevent the appearance of those so-called foreign gentlemen.

But now these things seem to have the opposite effect, not only did not make the atmosphere in the north very good, but also made some people with ulterior motives mess up.

For example, Li Fangyuan, with his identity as the city lord, as long as the yang and yin are violated, the people outside can't move him, and the people inside can't find him.

Chu Tiannan smiled, how could he not know these things.

It's not that I don't want to, but I just can't.

"Do you think that if we change the rules of the northern border, we don't give these backbone officials such a good treatment, let them not be in power much, and the northern border will not give them support if something happens, the happiest people will be those people?"

Jerry Feiguang pondered.

"Ten families, they?"

"Yes!"

"It is they, we have weakened the protection of officials in the north, and they will be more brazen to reach in and arbitrarily transfer obedient and disobedient officials and soldiers. ”

"If someone is disobedient, just replace it, and then rely on financial resources and connections, and constantly support their obedient people to go up, is it difficult for a big family to do these things?"

"It's not difficult. Yelu Feiguang shook his head.

"So this strategy can't be canceled, this is the main reason why the northern border has not been polluted for so many years, and what is happening now can only be said to be an example. ”

"But if we don't solve it, I'm afraid that these individual cases will become the norm in the future. ”

Chu Tiannan smiled and patted Yelu Feiguang's shoulder: "That's why we are going to the Northern Barbarians, and when we come back from this trip, we will start investigating the Ten Great Families, even if they can't all be destroyed, we have to let them retract their claws on the Northern Territory." ”

"And this matter is not necessarily instructed by the ten major families. ”

"What?" Yelu Feiguang's eyes suddenly became complicated.

"You mean?"

"Yes, I suspect that we have been misguided all these years, and it may not be the top ten families who are doing tricks within us, you think about it, the Northern Barbarians have recruited so many people in the past, and they will definitely not be less if they are put back in Huaxia, I have always thought that they were cooperating with the top ten families, but I estimate now. We may have been misguided all the time. ”

"The Ten Great Families may not know the situation about many things, they may not be puppets of the Northern Barbarians, just a backstabber. ”

"If this is true, then it matters. It is possible that many of the things we investigated will be overturned and repeated, but we have no evidence to confirm it. ”

"The above policy has always focused on the ten major families. ”

"This is the purpose of our coming here, let's go to the Northern Barbarians, I can investigate the truth of the matter, or I may not be able to investigate, it all depends on whether this dark line left by the master back then can surprise us. ”

"This was left by the master?"

"As mentioned in the bag left by the master, after so many years, it's time to use it once. ”

Chu Tiannan patted Yelu Feiguang, "There's no need to be so pessimistic, there is an intelligence team in the north, this Li Fangyuan has not been investigated, it is purely that what he did was five years ago, and he should have disappeared in the past five years, and he rarely contacted this group of people in the Central Plains, but I don't know if he received any news five years ago and was used as a pawn." ”

"What do you mean about this?"

Chu Tiannan raised a chestnut: "If five years ago, he received an order for Li Fangyuan to do one thing for so many years, that is, what goods are shipped from and where they are transported." For him, it is just to do one thing, and for another person, this batch of goods that may be transported can improve his status, and the other person's status is improved, and he does another thing to improve the status of others. ”

"This set is replaced by the whole of a bureau. ”

"Li Fangyuan is a chess piece, the Northern Realm City Lord is still a good chess piece, the people they support up, it is impossible for them to kill only one person, and do one thing as simple. ”

Jereh Feiguang was furious.

Chu Tiannan already understood what he wanted to say and do, and pressed his arm: "Don't worry, it's useless to kill anyone or say anything." It's easy to startle the snake, wait until we investigate the ins and outs first. At least find out how they plan to play this game, and we're trying to figure it out. ”

"What's the use of being so impulsive now. ”

Yelu Feiguang exhaled deeply: "The throne teaches too. ”

"Alright, this brother is here too. Chu Tiannan waved his hand.

Jian Chen came, wearing a plaster cast at this moment, his arm couldn't move, and he had a backpack and a sword behind his back.

The Chen family never left their swords.

"It's late, so the two big brothers have been waiting for a long time. ”

"It's okay, I've only been here for a while, let's go, let's go. ”

Chen Jian was stunned and glanced at the two of them: "What about the goods? Didn't we transport things to the north? Why didn't the things arrive?" ”

Chu Tiannan smiled incomprehensibly: "When things should arrive, they will naturally arrive, Brother Chen will just go with us." ”

Jian Chen nodded thoughtfully.

I had to follow the two of them to the front, and he led the way in front, after all, he was a tourist merchant who often walked here.

"We are going here now, it is called the Anti-Japanese City, even if we go out of the city now, and then go to the front, we will almost reach the North City, but the officers and soldiers are stationed in that place all the year round, so it is divided into two roads, an official road and a civil road.

Officials take the official road.

"Of course, we took the people's road, and when we walked over, we were almost out of the border, out of the territory of the north, and about ten miles forward, and we arrived at the place I said. ”

"That's also a caravan's guild location, whether it's the people of the Northern Barbarians or the people of the Chinese Kingdom, it's a mixture. Many of the people of the Chinese Kingdom and the people of the Northern Barbarians were combined to do business. ”

"Oh? Our country is not accustomed to the northern barbarians, and they are not afraid of being cheated if they do this business?"

Chen Jian smeared a black line on his forehead and explained: "From the moment this group of people became tourism businessmen, they chose to be careless, no family and country, as well as relatives and friends, they didn't care about it, they just wanted to be chic and uninhibited, they didn't care about it, and they didn't care about any country." ”

"Cooperate with whomever is pleasing to the eye. ”

"And who are?"

Jian Chen smiled: "I never look for these caravans, there is no need. It's enough for one person in my realm, the masters of the northern border and Huaguo are in the army, how can there be any masters wandering on the border, and few of those bandits dare to do anything to me, but if you know that I am injured this time, you dare to try. ”

"With this big brother Yelu here, we are not afraid. ”

Chu Tiannan smiled: "You can also see it." ”

"By the way, two big brothers, where are we going to go this time? ”

"If yes, I'll take a job from the caravan by the way. ”

"Take it, don't delay, we have a long way to go this time, and we have to go a long way, deep into the hinterland of the Northern Barbarians. ”

"That's a good feeling, I took a look at the difference between the Northern Barbarians and us by the way. ”

"It's very different. ”

"Big brother, have you been there?"

"Haven't been. ”

A few people chatted with a partner.

This out of the city, it seems that the more you walk, the narrower it becomes, the more people walk, the more scarce people become, at the beginning there are a few families, a few wisps of fireworks popularity. Now it's all gone, and the small dirt road is very narrow, and it can only accommodate people one after the other.

Everywhere there are shrubs, weeds, jungles.

Walk better.

There may be snakes and insects in the weeds and shrubs, most of them are poisonous, unlike the water snakes in the Central Plains, most of the ones that can survive in these shrubs and weeds are poisonous snakes and poisonous insects.

A bite that is not fatal is also a serious injury.

Everyone is willing to walk, and they don't want to get into trouble.

At this time, the sound of a crossbow breaking through the air came.

"This thing is a crossbow. Chu Tiannan grabbed the bow and arrow and explained to Jian Chen.

"Hit this thing, according to your realm, don't hide, adjust your breathing and grab it with your hands. He can't hurt you. ”

There was a scolding from the grass.

"Look for death!"

Someone moved the bed crossbow.

A crossbow bolt with thick arms rushed towards the three of them.

The speed was gone, and the strength was so great that it made gusts of wind.

Chu Tiannan smiled: "It's here." ”

"This is the bed crossbow that shot you today, and I see how to defend this thing at close range. ”

"Big brother, don't!" Seeing Chu Tiannan rushing up, Jian Chen was still in a hurry.

This is not an ordinary crossbow, but a bed crossbow!

is different from the few in the daytime, which are separated by dozens of meters, and now this is a close-range bed crossbow, and the power is no less than that of a sword immortal.

Will this man be able to stop him?

It was too late to dissuade them.

Jian Chen's eyes widened.

I saw Chu Tiannan's body turn and stretch out his hands.

There seemed to be an invisible barrier in the air, blocking the bed crossbow from the outside.

"Sword Qi?"

Jian Chen muttered.

It's not sword energy.

It can be very similar to his Chen family's move sword qi.

As soon as Chu Tiannan's palm pressed down, the arrow lost its strength and fell down on the spot.

"This is the way to block the enemy's bed crossbow, have you learned?"

Jian Chen nodded.

"Big brother, be careful, look ahead. ”

Ahead, four bed crossbows were firing continuously, faster and denser than just now.

Someone said gloomily: "What's the use of being able to protect the body? My four bed crossbows shoot out at the same time, and the true qi of the body protection can't resist it." ”

Chu Tiannan's body turned, and the bed crossbow stopped in the air, but it shook and shook, as if he was trying his best to break free from the shackles of something.

Bang!

He broke through the barrier and headed straight for Chu Tiannan.

Jian Chen panicked and moved his left hand.

The long sword behind his back flew out, and he wanted to protect his big brother!

How can the savior die again because of him!