"Zhang Xi, you go to the front to report. Li Bai rode on the black mane, and the white robe was replaced, replaced by a ring chain mail, this kind of armor is far less comfortable to wear than the practice clothes, and it needs to be padded with a layer of cotton jacket, which is very hot and humid in the sunny Western Regions, just like being in a stove.

But this was his first meeting with the commander of the Great Wall Guards, the Broken Leaf Town Guard, and it was still unknown whether the other party would be as good at talking as Guo Qianjin, and he had to dress more formally after all, and he couldn't let people pick on your thorn at the first meeting.

Just like the scenes that often appear in many novels, you are obviously going to a big hotel for a banquet, but you have to wear a dress to sell goods, and you are stopped by the security guard, which is completely self-inflicted.

"Commanded. A black-faced man holding a simple knife received the order and strode forward.

The running posture of the Tang soldiers is very distinctive, perhaps because the armor is too heavy, the leggings and shin guards are too hard, and they always have a feeling of being inside when they run.

(Here it is said that the Tang Dynasty did not have the self-title of "under the mark", and the meaning of "subordinates" in the Qing Dynasty was indicated under the mark, which was purely used for comfort, after all, in the overhead world, everything was too serious to write and it was also difficult.) ）

Zhang Xi is the only two government soldiers in the team of fifty people, after seeing Li Bai's ability, not to say that he bows to him, but now he is also convinced, only he is the first to look forward.

It's not that Li Bai's personality charm is great, but if they want to survive on the battlefield if they want to survive on the battlefield, they can only cling to Li Bai, otherwise as long as they go to the battlefield, a random cold arrow behind them can kill them.

The three of them formed a small team centered on Li Bai in this foreign country, which seemed to be unreliable, but in fact it was inseparable.

After a short time, Zhang Xi led the two horse scouts to this side, and they beckoned Li Bai's team and said, "Brothers over there, go this way, you can't live in the town tonight." ”

Li Bai frowned slightly, why don't you let you live in the town anymore? How can you live in this windy and sunny outside, sometimes cold and sometimes hot? Could it be that the situation in Broken Leaf Town is so bad that you need to be cautious to this point?

"I have a handwritten letter from Lord Du Hu, and I want to meet General Du Huaibao, the envoy of Broken Leaf Town. Li Bai said loudly.

"Master Guo's handwriting, you will present the handwriting in a moment. The riding scout turned pale, came on horseback, glanced at the handwriting in Li Bai's hand, and said solemnly.

Immediately, he took the handwritten letter given to him by Guo Qianjin from Li Bai, and directly turned his horse and galloped back.

The soldiers couldn't hold back the wait, and complained, Li Bai ignored them and just sat on the black mane, sipping the wine in the wine gourd, but his movements were very careful, and he didn't let the smell come out in the slightest.

Finally, the smoke and dust in the distance rose again, and the cavalry scout returned and said loudly: "Team Li, the handwritten book is true." The third child, you place the people under the team to Dongying. Team Li is coming with you. ”

The soldiers and ruffians behind him scolded angrily, staring at such a hot poisonous day march for a whole day, they were already impatient.

Discussions also began on the barrage.

[Guo Qianjin is so dignified that his handwriting doesn't work?]

[I found that this so-called Broken Leaf Town Guard doesn't seem to be hanging Boss Guo much. 】

[It's really a twist and turn, but when will you be able to see Huahua, Xiaobai, you drag the plot like this, be careful that I tear up the recommendation ticket!]

Li Bai frowned slightly, raised his hand and said, "You take them to obey the orders of those scouts, and I will come as soon as I go." ”

The two fireheads agreed to the promise, and Li Bai ignored the ruffians, and ran straight to the town gate with the scout at the beginning.

"This brother, what happened to Broken Leaf recently?"

The scout's face sank, but he did not shy away from it, and said bluntly: "The Khorezm people in the west are making trouble, releasing a lot of demon seeds, using the grassland tribes as blood food, and strengthening themselves. Although the most severely affected are the Beiyi people, there are also many monsters that have touched my Datang border. These demon seeds seem to have swallowed too many Beiyi people, and they have evolved some kind of ability to disguise themselves as living people, and they come out day and night, lurking in the city, and dozens of people have died in a few days. ”

"That should be done with caution. ”

Li Bai nodded, he knew that the Khorezm people were the Zoroastrian kingdom that was later destroyed by the Golden Horde established by Genghis Khan, and this history is described in detail in the background story.

The scout looked at the black mane under Li Bai's crotch with envy, and said sourly: "Wusun Shenjun?

"The elder gave it, and he didn't dare to resign. Li Bai smiled and shook his head.

The scout grunted, presumably a boy of good fortune, and then raised his whip, bringing up a puff of dust that caused the merchants on the side of the road to avoid it.

Gradually, there are still people from the Western Regions who look like all kinds of people, but most of them are Han people who belong to the jurisdiction of the Duhufu, and many of these Han people are not Tang people who have migrated over, but Han people who have moved in since the Western Han Dynasty.

For example, the Gaochang Kingdom, which was destroyed by the Tang State and included in the jurisdiction, was once formed by the descendants of the Han and Wei Dynasty.

This is not a commendable war of liberation, but a war of conquest that starts nakedly, using the same origin and the same ancestry, using the Zhengshuo Tang Dynasty as an excuse, and a little whitewashing, which is not much better than other conquests in history.

There was the same massacre, there was the same oppression.

Fortunately, with the end of the first wave of wars, the Western Regions had stabilized, and this conquest had gradually faded away, replaced by assimilation and herdsmen.

The Great Wall was built from the north of Tingzhou to which Beiting City belongs, Broken Leaf is one of the four towns of Anxi, and the entire Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate is in addition to the Beiting Three Armies of Hanhai, Tianshan, and Yiwu 20,000 elite soldiers, respectively, and has a total of 30,000 garrisons in Qiuzi, Yanqi, Khotan, and Shule, but the elite degree is not as good as the former, and a considerable number of people are local farmers and soldiers.

In this era, the Han people in the Western Regions and the Tang people could not be equated, at least for many Tang army generals, recruiting the Han people of the Western Regions as soldiers was not as good as those prisoners, and there was a trust issue involved.

The Tang army roared in iron horses, trampling on Loulan, Qiuzi, Shule, and many countries in the Western Regions were pointed out by its soldiers and surrendered, but this was only a rough conquest, and the Tang people did not focus on turning the Han people in the Western Regions into their own compatriots, and it can also be said that the long supply lines and the tense situation did not give the Tang people room to learn from the Yankees to engage in peaceful evolution.

Therefore, although there are not a few Han people in the Western Regions, the vast majority of Han people in the Western Regions are still peasants, and another considerable component of the Han people in the Western Regions are armed peasants.

Most of them carry their dependents, not only all over the three states and four towns, but also the guards, forts, and beacons of each transportation artery are all on duty. They were not only loyal guards of the frontier, but also had to cultivate land for self-support, which belonged to one of the remarkable achievements of Guo Qianjin in the implementation of the equalization system in the Western Regions.

However, most of the Han people in the Western Regions were still a rabble, they had not been effectively trained, and they only fought the enemy with rudimentary weapons and the blood to protect their land, and their equipment was even inferior to these prisoners behind Li Bai, which showed that the Tang general's trust in the Han people in the Western Regions was very limited.

Of course, this is not without reason, although the prisoner has a despicable character, but he has traveled thousands of miles, and he is not familiar with life here, even if he holds a regiment, it is only the size of dozens of people, and it is not a climate at all, and he can only rely on the army.

However, there are many Han people in the Western Regions who are not in peace, and the undercurrents of the conquered small countries such as Shule and Qiuzi are turbulent, and they are always ready to raise the banner of rebellion against the rule of the Tang people. But so far, no one in the Tang Dynasty dared to beat its edge, so they had to continue to shrink.

Li Bai thought of the crooked prisoners who followed him along the way, spewing foul language in their mouths, and scattering like refugees with weapons, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"I'd rather recruit some natives from the Western Regions than these ruffians. He secretly planned, "When we get to Shattered Leaf Town, we will confiscate their weapons and braided them to do coolies." ”

How many people have reverted to the small countries of the Western Regions? Compared with those small countries, the vast majority of people have a higher sense of identification with the Central Plains Zhengshuo Datang. Because of such a possible spy who gave up such a vast source of soldiers, Li Bai felt that this was tantamount to abandoning food due to choking.

The streets are noisy, and the closer you get to the border, the more developed the business becomes, and the thinner the boundaries of the market become.

It is common to see vendors with food stalls, jade clay pots and other antiquities dug out of the ruins, restaurants, teahouses, restaurants and even Goolan are popular in the world, and there are many people who pay out of pocket, especially Goolan run by Orchid.

In addition to the Golan girls, there are also many orchids who sell wine in the furnace, they are all tall noses and beautiful eyes, and their bodies are healthy and enthusiastic, attracting a large number of rugged men to come to the door, and it seems that they will occasionally do a part-time job for generous benefactors.

Li Bai did not stay in this bustling street, but followed the rider in front of him and hurried towards the Broken Leaf Town Guard's Mansion.

Leaving the black mane outside the gate of the mansion, led by a sergeant, Li Bai went straight into the lobby of the town guard's mansion.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a middle-aged man in a Confucian shirt sketching on the rough yellow paper with a brush, as if he was making some kind of drawing, Li Bai thought about it for a while, and felt that this thing was very similar to the mechanical drawings given to him by Guo Qianjin, but it was obviously a lot more high-end, so he hurriedly turned his head and looked at it again.

Du Huaibao was unconscious, and continued to draw with a pen, waving his hand on the paper from time to time, and the ink stains suddenly disappeared and re-sketched.

Du Huaibao's appearance is obviously not as rough as Guo Qianjin's, and his complexion is also very different from that of the vast majority of Han people living in the Western Regions, revealing a fairness that cannot be concealed.

Before he came, Li Bai heard Guo Qianjin say that this Du Huaibao town guard was a very powerful organ master, who had practiced in Jixia Academy, although his martial arts cultivation was far inferior to Guo Qianjin, but he had a great future, and he was far more than one step ahead of Guo Qianjin.

Everyone knows that in this world, there is no way to pass through the gods, and there are only two ways that can really lead to the superintelligent body, that is, the demon path and the trick.

Of course, with the arrival of Li Bai, there may be a way to add to this-Xiuzhen.

After waiting for a while, Du Huaibao finally let out a long sigh, waved the entire drawing, erased all the ink stains, and then raised his head and looked at Li Bai with a smile.

"Are you Li Bai?" Du Huaibao praised with a stroking of his palms. "I heard Lord Du Hu say that you volunteered to guard the defense line of the Great Wall, and you are indeed a hero out of a young man. ”

"Lord Du Hu calls you too white, sharp and incomparable, and your temperament is indomitable, ask me to sharpen your heart more, you don't blame me. ”

Li Bai hurriedly shook his head and said, "The town guard envoy and the Lord Du Hu have bothered. ”

But seeing that the gentle smile on Du Huaibao's face quickly converged, it was replaced by a face like a knife, and a huge momentum accompanied by an iron-blooded murderous aura suddenly set off, making Li Baizhi feel a little breathless.

Don't think about it at all, this person has a lot of blood debts under his hands, which is almost no different from human slaughter, and it is a world of difference from the previous Confucian appearance.

"Once you are under the command of a certain family, you should treat everyone equally, and the new prisoners should directly work hard before climbing the Great Wall, but since you are personally recommended by the capital guard, then you can choose one of these seven lines of defense as your station. ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, and a detailed map suddenly appeared on the yellow paper, marking the north of Broken Leaf Town, with seven lines of defense of the Great Wall.

Li Bai thought for a while, and then said: "I heard that there is a heroine in the Great Wall Guards, although she is a woman, she has been fighting on the Great Wall for a long time, if she can work under this heroine, it should be an honor." ”

Du Huaibao sketched a smile on his face, and the killing spirit was dissipated, which was quite the essence of Sichuan opera's changing face.

"But a knowledgeable boy. ”

He was a little proud, as if praising Mulan was more worthy of happiness than praising himself, because when Mulan came to the Great Wall, the identity of a female streamer caused a lot of controversy, and it was he who promoted her to the position of the leader of the Great Wall Guards.

However, there are still many people slandering him for this, and at this time, he was crossed by Li Bai, and immediately felt that the other party was quite discerning.

"Tomorrow, I will go to the first line of defense of the Great Wall, set off at the beginning of the day, and arrive at noon, and the heavy grain and grass will have their own rations. ”

As he spoke, he took out a token and threw it to Li Bai, and then asked, "What else do you want?"

Li Bai hurriedly said: "The prisoners are unbearable, I want to assign them to labor, a person with two fireheads alone can guard the Great Wall, recruit militia training, and have the heart to protect the land, even if the militia is better than those veteran ruffians." ”

Du Huaibao's face turned pale, and he snorted coldly: "Nonsense, as a team leader, how can you abandon your comrades, there is no need to say much about this matter, you can step down." ”

Li Bai shook his head with a wry smile, and left directly, he couldn't help but slander in his heart that this thing simply changed his face too quickly, and he laughed like a flower for a while, and for a while he was fierce and vicious like a ghost, and it was better to have less dealings with such moody people.

With Li Bai officially assigned to the Great Wall defense line, the main quest one was also completed.

The reward of the main quest one is a lottery roulette, Li Bai decided to wait until the evening to draw it, anyway, he is not in a hurry now, he knows that he plays any game belongs to the ranks of African chiefs, but at night the luck will rise slightly, barely enough to reach the passing line of European civilians.

Out of the door, Li Bai secretly thought about the demon seed of the Khorezm people mentioned by the scout before, and felt that this matter did not seem to be simple, the demon seed he met in Beiting before should be related to them, if he reached the first line of defense of the Great Wall, I am afraid that he would have to deal with the other party a lot.

Khorezm was indeed defeated by the Mongols in history, this has been mentioned in the legend of the Condor Heroes, Samarkand was the capital of Khorezm at that time, and was later broken by Genghis Khan.

Of course, there is no Guo Jing in history, Genghis Khan still slaughtered this city, and it is said that there is not one in the whole city of 100,000 people.

In the context of the glory of kings, this period is basically the same as history, but it happened more than 600 years in advance.