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On the outskirts of the west of the city, the left and right military guard barracks.

Zhou Ming, who was dressed in silver armor, under the leadership of Shi Guang, the squire of the military department, came to take over the command of this army, as soon as he entered the barracks, even if he was prepared, Zhou Ming was still taken aback by the scene in front of him.

Of the 50,000 soldiers, most of them were over 40 years old, many of them were gray-haired, trembling and trembling when they walked, and the younger ones were either thin and disabled, or too young, only thirteen or fourteen years old, so they struggled to carry their armor and were conscripted into the army.

Zhou Ming roughly estimated: Of these 50,000 soldiers, those who can really go to the battlefield to kill the enemy may not even be one-fifth.

As for weapons and equipment, it would be good to be able to find a spear that was not rusty, but most of the iron armor, leather armor, and shields were rusted and rotten, moth-eaten and moldy, and could not be used at all.

The supply of grain and grass in the warehouse is also pitiful, at most enough for the 50,000 troops to eat in January.

After understanding the general situation, Zhou Ming, who had a number in his heart, did not complain to Shi Guang, who had a strange smile on his face all the time, which made Shi Guang, who had already prepared a reason, depressed.

"Gather the drums and gather the soldiers to come to the colonel!"

Zhou Ming said to Li Dazui, Li Dazui nodded, and took the drum stick and struck on the huge cowhide drum.

After the three-way drum sounded, it was extended for two quarters of an hour, and in the school field, the personnel were basically all assembled, but they only stood in the sun for a while, and a complaint was heard below, and some veterans simply sat on the ground with a loud roar, and led a group of people to sit down, and the military discipline soldiers who were responsible for maintaining the appearance of the army were useless.

Standing on the high platform, looking at the rabble below, Zhou Ming knew that taking this army to fight was no different from running to death, and an elite army of 5,000 people could wipe out this army that was not an army at all.

So, after the main general opened his mouth to speak, Zhou Ming only said three words, and then among the soldiers below, it caused a great commotion, or a cheer.

"Those who are over forty years old and under fifteen years old should immediately return to the army and unload their armor, leave the barracks, and go home!"

"If you are disabled or physically ill, and you are not fit to go on the field to kill the enemy, immediately return to the army and unload your armor, leave the barracks, and go home!"

"If you are the only child in the family, or if you have too many children to support, and your parents are sick in bed and cannot leave for a moment, you should immediately return to the army, unload your armor, leave the barracks, and go home!"

These three sentences reduced the number of soldiers in the school yard by half, one-quarter, and one-eighth respectively, and the number of soldiers left in the school yard was less than 5,000.

In just three sentences, Zhou Ming reduced the 50,000 army that belonged to his control by 90%.

"Tian ...... Tian Zihua, you are giving up on yourself, and you don't want to complete the task given to you by Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother!"

Looking at the back of the soldiers who cheered and left the barracks together after taking off their armor, Shi Guang, the squire of the military department, pointed at him, staring at him with wide eyes, eager to eat him!

This 50,000-strong army of soldiers and horses was specially selected by him from the 16 guards and 500,000 troops in accordance with Wu Sansi's orders, and their combat effectiveness was low! They were not even cannon fodder, and they would definitely be defeated when they went to battle! Tian Zihua's actions were tantamount to countering his army, because even if this army was defeated in the end, part of the responsibility would be shirked on his head.

"Lord Shi, I have handed over a military order to the Queen Mother, if you can't relieve the siege of Yumen Pass, please behead me, it won't affect you, you don't have to be afraid. Zhou Ming comforted him.

"You're a madman who doesn't know whether to live or die!"

Shi Guang scolded and ignored him anymore.

……

Three days later.

Everything was ready, and when the army was about to leave, there was a sudden commotion outside the barracks.

But it was a group of young people dressed as scholars and with swords at their waists who came to the barracks in groups, shouting that they wanted to join Mr. Zihua's army.

"Mr. Zihua, we are going to join your army and go out together!"

"Mr. Zihua, you are going for the righteousness in your heart, how can we be greedy for life and afraid of death! I am willing to fight against the enemy with you and kill the enemy to serve the country!"

"No matter how strong the enemy is, what if the big husband was born in the world, when he wields a sword to fight, he stands up to the sky and dies!"

"Mr. Zihua, that demon queen wants to harm you in every possible way, we might as well start from here, enter the imperial capital, and get rid of the traitors!"

"Mr. Zihua, I have long heard of your archery skills, and I am also good at using a big bow, on the battlefield, how about you and I try it out?"

"Zihua ......"

More than 3,000 literati with weapons joined Zhou Ming's army.

And these literati learned from the mouths of the soldiers who were put back home: Mr. Zihua, who was merciful and compassionate, returned most of the old, weak, sick and disabled, and soldiers who had difficulties at home, and the entire imperial capital was infected by Mr. Zihua's benevolence, righteousness and great love, and they vied to discuss this matter.

Countless literati in the imperial capital were even more stimulated by this righteousness, and many of them had hot heads, and they also angrily brought weapons to kill the enemy with Mr. Zihua!

Yes, they are all weak scholars, powerless, but they are also fearless, even if they die in battle, they also die gloriously, and they die on the sky!

Zhou Ming was ecstatic to accept all these people who joined unexpectedly, these are intellectuals who have read poetry and books, each of them takes at least ten years to cultivate, these valuable talents, why didn't he accept them?

Early in the morning of the fourth day.

After the oath was set out, Zhou Ming took this army of more than 8,000 people, rolled up the dust and smoke, and marched to the northwest at a relatively fast speed of more than forty or fifty miles a day.

There is no need to even worry about the supply of grain and grass, because along the way, there have been countless righteous businessmen who have prepared grain and grass supplies in advance, and put them on the road that must be passed through the march, and use them whenever they want, without taking a penny, saving this army a lot of time and manpower in the transportation of baggage.

And that night, standing on the stargazing platform in the imperial capital, looking at the Wen Star in the sky, emitting brighter and brighter light, Lai Junchen sighed and said to Wu Mei beside him: "Your Majesty, this Wen Star can no longer be suppressed completely, from now on, it can be compared with the Ziwei Emperor Star, if there are a large number of people from the dragon to assist, this Wen Star can even be turned into an emperor star, from Your Majesty, you will compete for the luck of the world...... And he is virtuous and supportive, if he has the intention of rebellion, the minister is worried about ......"

"Really?"

Looking up at the starry sky, Wu Mei asked noncommittally, and whispered to herself: "But the mourning family will not give him another chance, thinking of me'Seven Stars of the Ghost Valley', in order to suppress this Wen Xing, the five senior brothers have been by his side for seven years, and it's almost time to finish...... For thousands of years, Guigumen has entered the WTO seven times, and has never encountered such a big variable. ”

Lai Junchen nodded and said: "Senior sister, although there are variables, but in this chess game of the world's dragon competition, I, Guigumen, will definitely win another game! That outsider star is no matter how demonic it is, and under the combined attack of the five senior brothers, it will undoubtedly fall!"

Wu Mei nodded slightly, but I don't know why, I feel that my eyelids are always jumping.

……

Two months later.

Zhou Ming took the number of soldiers and horses, which had swelled to 20,000 people, and arrived at the important starting point of the Silk Road - Yinzhou in Liangzhou.

In Yinzhou, Zhou Ming asked the team to stop, and then took Li Dazui, a hundred clan soldiers, and five martial arts masters who followed behind, under the pretext of doing something, and galloped westward.

In the Gobi Desert, the group rode wild for most of the day, burying their heads in more than 300 miles, and did not say anything all the way.

And following behind, the five martial arts masters, all of whom were white-haired and long-bearded, and were over eighty years old, all felt puzzled, their mouths moved, and they communicated with each other with lip language.

"What the hell is this kid doing in such a hurry?" asked one of them.

"Do you want to run away like this, get rid of us?" asked another.

"It shouldn't be, he has tracking powder on him, and no matter how far he runs, he can't escape from the palm of our hand. ”

"Does he want to ......" One thought of a possibility, and his gaze motioned to the others.

"It's okay, on this kid's head, our five elders of the Ghost Valley have spent seven years, and it's time to end it, we'll see where he goes, and when he arrives, he will be fruited!"

"But the senior sister said that it is best to arrange for this kid to die in the army, so that it will not cause too much criticism, and this has not yet reached the battlefield, so it will be ......"

"I can't care so much, now this kid is taking the initiative to find death, I'll wait for him to be fulfilled!"

"Yes, it's been seven years, my old bones, I can't play with this kid anymore, this will make him fall, and we will be free!"

In the evening when the sky was full of red clouds, a tall sand dune appeared in front of me.

On the top of the sand dune, there was a red flag, and after seeing the red flag, Zhou Ming blew a whistle, and when he heard the whistle, Li Dazui and a hundred clan soldiers behind him immediately dispersed on both sides and slowed down.

Zhou Ming clamped the belly of the red dragon horse with his legs, and ordered the red dragon horse to suddenly speed up, almost like an explosive sprint, and the red dragon horse instantly opened the distance between him and the five martial arts masters behind him, and it was a hundred zhang away.

"This kid wants to run!"

The five masters in the back were anxious and wanted to catch up with him, but the speed of the horses was not as fast as that of the horses, and the distance was getting wider and wider.

"Dismount and chase!"

A master jumped directly from the horse, galloping with both feet, what is shocking is that this person has a unique pace, running speed like electricity, not slower than the horse, not to mention, and gradually narrowed the distance with Zhou Ming, the other four masters saw it, they also got off the horse and ran, palms together into a knife, transporting internal strength, ready to chop the person on the horseback in front of him.

"Red Dragon, hurry up, hurry up again!"

Seeing that the rear pursuers were getting closer and closer, Zhou Ming used a horse whip on the ass of the red dragon horse, and slapped it hard, the red dragon horse "Ang Lu ~" screamed in pain, sped up a little speed, and finally arrived at the top of the sand dune.

"Musketeers, shoot!"

After landing, Zhou Ming immediately gave an order.

"Bang bang!" rows of dazzling fires rang out at the same time, and the explosion was like thunder.

"Puff puff!"

Countless high-speed projectiles came from the surface, and the five masters who followed closely saw the figure that suddenly appeared behind the sand dune, their faces did not show a surprised expression, and in the deafening sound, there was a sharp pain after the body was penetrated.

Four of the five fell to the ground with disbelief in their eyes and died instantly.

There was only one person, because of the position behind, quick response, only three or four bullets in the dense rain of bullets, a little bit of minor injury, after seeing the death of four companions, eyes were split, grief and inexplicable, shouting the names of several companions, wanting to rush up to take revenge, but after hearing a sound like fried beans, turned around and ran, the back "poof" hit more than a dozen bullets, still tenacious, escaped to the back of the dune, wanting to escape!

"Chase!"

Zhou Ming took the lead and chased after him.

Behind the sand dunes, Li Dazui and a hundred clan soldiers, who had been waiting for a long time, intercepted his retreat, took out the revolver in their pockets, and fired thousands of bullets at him, although only one percent hit, but also made him escape faster.

"Bump!"

Zhou Ming was the first to catch up with him, and kicked this bloodied master to the ground from behind, only to see him lying on the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood bubbles from his mouth, and wailing: "Don't kill me, don't kill me! I am the third disciple of Guigumen, Qian Ji, leave me alive, I can help you fight for the dragon!"

"Lao Tzu is not rare!"

Zhou Ming took out a revolver and pointed it at his head, thumping the bullet and knocking him into a colander.

asked someone to move the five corpses together, and after confirming that they were all dead, Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

Kill it! These five system bugs are the same thing, and they are all finally killed!

It's been seven years, and even Zhou Ming himself can't believe that he will be trapped in the imperial capital for seven years by five old men over eighty years old.

During this period, each of these five old men, he used force to fight each other, but each of them, the force was unfathomable, and at most it was a tie.

Because, these five old men seem to have mastered a mysterious "Qi Cultivation Technique", and they will meditate for several hours every day to gather internal qi and condense into Gang, and after condensing into Gang, some martial arts moves are even beyond Zhou Ming's understanding of martial arts in this world.

He wanted to learn this kind of qi refining technique, but these old men didn't teach it at all.

In addition, these old men are knowledgeable and fluent in all kinds of languages, such as lip language, ventriloquism, and even bird language, cow language, horse language, and cat language, and can drive some animals to do things.

There are also astrogazing, turtle divination, divination and other techniques for predicting the future, and sometimes they can accurately deduce, what will he do tomorrow, and what people or things will he meet?

There is also a magical positioning technique, no matter where he runs, these old men can quickly find him, and after many times, he completely loses the heart of running away.

In the past seven years, these five old men have brought great restrictions and troubles to Zhou Ming, and they are extremely loyal to Wu Mei, asking them not to leave within ten zhang of themselves at any time, and they have really done it, of course, Zhou Ming has also used the idea of killing them with a musket team, but a few old men are so close to him, what if a bullet kills him by mistake?

Moreover, if he couldn't kill four of the five people in an instant, even if there were only two people left, Zhou Ming's life would be in absolute danger, so even if there were many opportunities to do it, Zhou Ming still didn't launch an adventure unless the success rate exceeded 80%.

Until today, after some careful deployment, Zhou Ming finally got his wish to kill these master old men, and he didn't want to be verbose, to listen to the nonsense of "Guigumen" and "Fighting for the Dragon", as well as those intrigues and tricks of the gods, he didn't want to listen to so much, talk to the musket team, gather fire in a row, and no matter how awesome it is, he has to fall down for me!

What else is the Guigu Gate, where a musket team of 10,000 people is easy to use?

"Wu Mei, I don't care if you have more powerful moves, don't provoke me again! If you provoke me again, I don't care what kind of powerful people are still standing behind you, give me death!"

……

Seven days later.

Outside the Yumen Pass, the smoke of gunpowder is billowing, 500,000 Tufan and Turkic coalition troops, the offensive is pressing, and the siege troops have stood on the head of the city many times, making this pass crumbling and imminent.

"Three days at most, this level can be broken, right?"

In front of the army outside the city and the Chinese army, Lun Zanqin, who was riding on horseback, looked at the Yumen Pass, and his eyes flashed with excitement and inexplicable light.

It's been thirteen years, and he's been waiting for thirteen years! Finally, it's time to wash away his shame and take revenge!

In order to achieve a balance in his heart, Lun Zanqin decided: After breaking through this pass, he will wash the Yumen Pass in blood and slaughter all the men, women and children in the city!

Lunzanqin made this decision to slaughter the city, on the one hand, because he wanted to solve the hatred that had accumulated in his heart for many years, and wanted to completely destroy this city that had brought him endless shame and plunge it into the abyss!

On the other hand, Tu Yumen Pass is also to deter the countries of the Western Regions that have not been subdued for a long time, so that they will obediently offer the treasures of beauties, and they will not dare to have the slightest idea of betrayal!

In addition to the Western Regions, he also has more long-term ambitions and plans, that is, he hopes that in his lifetime, he will lead his troops to attack the Zhongzhou Imperial Capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, destroy this huge empire, and then enjoy countless Shang women in that prosperous divine city that makes his soul tremble, and ascend to the Supreme Dragon Throne!

This dream is indeed a bit ambitious, but it is not impossible to realize the possibility, the Empress Dowager Wu Mei of the Great Zhou Dynasty is going against the sky, making the artifact shake, there are signs of a group of heroes chasing the deer, he just needs to watch the fire from the other side, wait for its changes, find the right time, and then launch it in one fell swoop!

Thinking of that bright prospect, Lunzan Qin was full of pride, waved his horsewhip, and said to the banner soldiers: "Send another 20,000 slave teams to increase the offensive!"

Hearing this order, the Turkic king Ashina Gu on the side smacked his mouth with some distress, extravagant, too extravagant, these days, Lunzanqin has invested 100,000 slave lives in this key pass, although the lives of these slaves are worthless, they are basically captured from the countries of the Western Regions, but 100,000 people, this is a shocking wealth on the grassland, almost equivalent to millions of cattle and sheep, just fill it in?

Anyway, Ashina was reluctant to put so many slaves into it to capture a useless city, and he also wanted to bring these people to the grassland to strengthen his tribe.

Lun Zanqin laughed at himself, saying that the older he gets, the more timid he becomes, as long as he takes the Yumen Pass and then sweeps the Great Zhou, there are millions or tens of millions of slaves waiting for them to capture, and the population of the Western Regions is not as good as half a state of the Great Zhou.

Ashina shook his head, noncommittal, he has lived for more than seventy years, among all the Turkic kings in the past, he has lived the longest, he can live so long, in addition to the necessary ruthlessness and ruthlessness, but also because he is scheming, knows how to judge the situation, and do what he can.

Lun Zanqin underestimated the Great Zhou too much, or rather, he underestimated those Central Plains people too much, yes, the dynasty established by these Central Plains people, when they were the weakest, the grassland people could plunder and bully at will, make them pay tribute, offer beautiful women, and give what they wanted, but when they were the strongest, they could also send troops to sweep the grassland, and in the Wanli Hu region, behead the Khan, and beat the grassland people even lost the grassland, and could only flee to the Western Regions.

Ashina Gu quite agrees with the Central Plains people's saying that "the five virtues are the end, the rise and fall alternate, and the cycle of three hundred years", because the rise and fall of the grassland tribes also conforms to this law.

Moreover, there is another law: the Central Plains is in turmoil, and the grasslands are strong, and the Central Plains is strong and the grasslands are chaotic, and it is impossible to be strong at the same time.

Ashina also knows that now is the strong period of the Central Plains people, the weakening period of the grassland people, the best time has not yet come, only when the Central Plains Dynasty is weakened and chaotic, and the grassland people are revived again, can the grassland people show their teeth and claws and cover the Central Plains.

This process may have to wait another hundred years.

However, now it is Da Zhou's self-chaos, revealing flaws to give him a chance, of course he will not miss this rare opportunity to snatch a piece of big fat from the mouth of Da Zhou, a tiger.

Ashina Gu also planned: After the Yumen Pass in front of him is captured, he will take the treasure and population, withdraw the army back to the grassland to rest and digest, and let Lun Zanqin gnaw the hard bone of the Great Zhou first, if Lun Zanqin wins, he will also join, if Lun Zanqin loses, I'm sorry, the original two countries each accounted for half of the Western Regions, and now the Turks want to enjoy it exclusively......

"Report! A reinforcement of the Zhou people came from the east, numbering about 10,000 people, all on camels, and the weapons used were strange!

At this time, a Tufan detective horse hurriedly came over and reported.

"Iron rods?"

A trace of puzzlement flashed on Lun Zanqin's face, and he turned to his third brother Zanpo and said, "Zanpo, you lead 30,000 elite soldiers to go, and you must completely annihilate this Zhou reinforcement army!"

"Yes, big brother!"

Zanpo led an army of 30,000 to set off, and after a while, ten miles to the east, there was a "bang" sound like a torrential rain, and a few moments later, dozens of wounded soldiers covered in blood fled back in horror and said: "Commander, Zanpo's army has been wiped out, and General Zanpo is dead!"

"What?!"

Lun Zanqin was startled, and after asking about the situation, he still couldn't believe it, and immediately ordered one of his tiger generals, Chi Song, to say: "Chi Song, you take 50,000 troops to go, and you must destroy this Zhou army!"

"Bang bang!" The thunderous explosion sound resounded endlessly, and Lunzanqin's horses sat down and were restless after hearing this, and Lunzanqin himself was staring at the east with his eyelids beating wildly.

"Dashuai! Dashuai! Zhou Bing has an artifact in his hand, the power is amazing, the soldiers can't resist it, run quickly, it's too late if you don't run!"

The general Akamatsu held a bleeding arm and fled back in a hurry to report, followed by the Tufan soldiers who fled all over the mountains and wilderness.

Later, Lun Zanqin also saw the true face of the strange Zhou army: wearing green cloth clothes, holding divine soldiers that could spew fire in their hands, lined up in pairs, and shot together, while the Tufanerlang hundreds of steps away were as if they had been struck by thunder, pierced by dense fiery red streamers, and then fell to the ground, howling and dying.

Lun Tsenqin even saw with his own eyes that those Zhou soldiers were bombarded from a distance of 300 paces, and hundreds of their own people were knocked to the ground in pieces......

"Demon soldiers, demon soldiers!"

Lunzanqin's chest was tight, a mouthful of blood almost spurted out, and he hurriedly roared and ordered: "Withdraw the troops, withdraw the troops!"

When the Turkic king Ashina Gu saw this scene, he was also taken aback, and ordered a cavalry force of 10,000 people under his command to rush towards this Zhou army.

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

The 200,000 Turkic army fled in a hurry to the north, beating the horses desperately, leaving behind the slaves and treasures, and those who had not had time to get on the horses and could only flee on foot, even rolled and climbed, only hated their parents for not having two more legs.

However, the 500,000 troops of these two countries, together with their commander Lunzanqin and the Turkic king Ashinagu, did not escape, because Zhou Ming took 10,000 elite musketeers to relieve the siege of Yumen Pass at the same time, the other two elite musketeers of 5,000 people each had captured the stone city on Tianzhu Mountain and the dragon city on Dayin Mountain respectively, and captured these two Tufan and Turkic armies.

In these two fortresses, 5,000 musketeers, who had been waiting for a long time, killed 100,000 on the spot and captured 200,000 of the 300,000 remnants of the 300,000 remnants of the two countries.

"Young master, what should we do with these captives, do you want to send them all to Penglai Immortal Island to work as pioneer slaves?"

After the army rendezvous, brigade commander Tian Zhiqing asked Zhou Mingdao.

"No need!"

Zhou Ming waved his hand, and said in a cold tone: "Bring so many people into trouble, shoot them all, and pit them on the spot!"

"Yes!"

"Bang bang!"

……

Half a month later.

A news that shocked the imperial capital, the imperial capital, and the ten states in the world came from the Western Regions:

Tian Zihua, the general of the left and right military guards, led an army of 20,000 to break the Tufan and Turkic coalition forces in the Yumen Pass of the Western Regions, killing more than 300,000 enemies and capturing 200,000 people.

In order to prove the authenticity of this news, there are hundreds of heads of high-level generals of Tufan and Turkic countries, and the heads of Tufan Marshal Lunzanqin and Turkic King Ashina are even better nitrated, solemnly packaged, and their faces are clearly identifiable.

Wu Mei, who has ascended the throne and changed her name to Wu Cao, and calls herself the "Holy Goddess Emperor", in addition to this military victory, also received a special "gift" from Zhou Ming.

This gift is naturally the head of the five elders of the Ghost Valley.

As soon as she saw these five heads, Wu Cao's body shook, if it weren't for the junior brother on the side to help Junchen in time, she would almost have fallen.

"My five senior brothers, it was my senior sister who hurt you!"

Thinking of the years of studying in Shanmen, the five senior brothers took care of him, Wu Cao was sad from the bottom of his heart, and couldn't help crying bitterly.

"There's another letter here!"

Seeing a wooden gate where people were headed, there was a letter, and the sharp-eyed Lai Junchen took out the letter.

Wu Cao snatched the letter, swept his phoenix eyes, trembled with anger, tore the letter into pieces in three or two strokes, and then returned to the dormitory with boundless anger, and within two or three days, he ordered someone to kill fifty-seven innocent palace maids.

Lai Junchen quietly put together the letter paper that had turned into pieces on the ground, and saw sixteen big characters:

So far, the well water will not be committed, and it will be provocative, take your dog's head!

"Tian Zihua, you dare to provoke our Guigumen like this, aren't you afraid of our dragon slaying technique?"

Lai Junchen roared angrily.

But......

He also knew that it was all in vain.

Because, now Tian Zihua has an undefeated golden body that can't even be broken by the Ghost Valley Dragon Slaying Technique, and after he disappeared without a trace with the 20,000 soldiers and horses equipped with artifacts, it has led to the current night sky, the stars are chaotic, and it is impossible to predict the future at all, and the Wenxing is bright, and the light covers the Ziwei Emperor Star, and even faintly, controlling the trend of the entire starry sky cannot be stopped......