In the late winter of the eighty-second year of Emperor Yitian, the entire Hanhai Sea was frozen again, and the top and bottom of Yaoshan Mountain were also snow-white. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Different from usual, the lonely deep mountains in the past were lively, using hundreds of thousands of demon barbarians and Yanzhou bitter slaves, after more than a year of hardship, opened up the valley road mountain trail, like a strange to completely open up the interior of Yaoshan, connecting the habitats of large and small tribes, and also connecting the most important five cities of Yaoshan Bailu City, Demon Ape City, Silver Stone City, Hailing City, and Beiyuan City, from time to time there are chariots and horses to transport materials, back and forth between the five cities.

Demon Ape City, as the ruling center of Yaoshan, the blue-gray city wall is also covered by heavy snow, at this time there are many demons on the head of the city to clear the snow at the head of the city, not far away a sound of trumpets from time to time, but it is a team of brute warriors training on the school field.

Further north, next to the North Cliff Fish Village, thousands of demons are busy in a small ice pit, transporting the big fish caught by a net to the shore.

Although the food of the barbarians will become scarce after winter, the Iron Cliff Department has ample preparations this year, and sent people into the fish village early to guard it, waiting for the sea water in the north to completely freeze it, and then break it.

Although there is no help from the demon ape and other big demons at this time, if you want to break through the ice layer dozens of meters thick, as a powerful tribe with a powerful craftsman battalion that can make many instruments, there are always many ways, but it is more troublesome.

In addition to filling the gap in food, a steady stream of marine fish was caught, and it also provided a solid foundation for the rule of the Iron Cliff Tribe.

After the Tieya tribe surrounded the Tuoba tribe in Hailing Plain, Tie Kun ordered all the surrounding tribes to gather in Yaoshan and accept stricter rule, and many tribes were very resistant. After all, they are used to being free and loose, and even a behemoth like the Black Stone Khanate will not restrict their gathering place.

Most of the tribes were limited to the tense and urgent situation at that time, and were intimidated by the force of the Iron Cliff Tribe, so they reluctantly marched to Yaoshan. Despite this, many tribes have migrated farther afield, trying to break free from the Iron Cliffs.

However, it is impossible to go south to Koubian to replenish food and the shortage of labor, only the tribes that have moved to Yaoshan can rely on the shortage of fish to supplement food, and those tribes who want to get out of the control of the Iron Cliff Department will have a very bleak life, and when this cold winter passes, I don't know how many tribesmen can survive it.

Tuoba Banner finally led 60,000 remnants of the Tuoba Department and the Kelie Department to the east of the Tong River, completely ending the battle of Yaoshan. After a crushing defeat in this battle, the Tuoba Department and the Keree Department did not part ways, but carried out real integration under the promotion of Tuoba Hao, Zuoyang, Tuoba Qi, Zuo Vulture and other leaders.

They knew in their hearts that the rise of the Iron Cliff Department was inevitable, and the Black Yan Army had terrifying combat power, and the Tuoba Department and the Kelie Department could not really be fused together, and they could not gather all the large and small tribes on the periphery, not to mention that in the face of the Black Stone Khanate and the Dragon Xiang Army rising in the south, even in the face of the Iron Cliff Department, there was no chance of winning.

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Cultivating the Yuan Shen is not a day, it takes a long time, and now that the major event of Yaoshan has been decided, Chen Hai is a little impatient to return to Yuchengling.

Before leaving, Chen Hai deliberately rushed to the underground palace at the northwest foot to see Ning Chan'er.

At present, Chen Hai divides the Yaoshan underground palace into three major areas, the Xilu underground palace is located in the underground of Bailu Gorge, and is temporarily controlled by the second battalion of the Iron Cliff Army before the human elite and bitter slaves have completely withdrawn south;

Ning Chan'er had more than a dozen medicine slaves under her command before, and this time she controlled Mu Tu, Meng Li and more than 20 witches as medicine slaves, at this time, they all wore iron masks to serve in the northwest foot of the underground palace, and the strength of the three-headed spirit fox was extraordinary, and Ning Chan'er also had a group of real elites available under her hands.

Chen Hai still cared about Ning Chan'er's whereabouts, and specially came over to ask him clearly, so that he could leave Yaoshan and go back to Hengshan.

"What, are you afraid that I won't succeed in alchemy?" Ning Chan'er asked with beautiful eyes.

"......" Chen Hai saw that Ning Chan'er had other intentions, Ning Chan'er's identity was not exposed at this time, she was still the daughter of the Ning family, the princess of the grandson, if Emperor Yitian died, it would be impossible for the Ning family and the crown prince Yingdan to be indifferent in Yanmen County, but thinking that he was still unclear about what kind of chaos would occur in Yanjing at this time, he thought that he had something to say to Ning Chan'er at this time, or a little earlier.

"If there is any need for alchemy, you and Tie Kun, if the Iron Cliff Department is lacking, I will have someone send it to you from Hengshan," Chen Hai said, "Or if you have time to go to Hengshan and meet Su Aya." ”

"Sister, I'll see you. Ning Chan'er said with a smile.

"Then take your leave. Chen Hai stood up and said.

Qi Hanjiang and Granny Crane had already gone to Shouyang Mountain with Yan Yuan and Heiyan Jun, where there were 100,000 elites, hundreds of thousands of clansmen, and bitter slaves to be settled, any of them were very arduous, and many big demons, even the four big demons of the Demon Ape, the Black Horned Demon Tiger, the Black Scale Cunning, and the Blue Giant Wolf, had not yet been able to understand the transformation chapter, and it was temporarily inconvenient to follow Chen Hai and them to the south, and they would continue to stay in the underground palace to cultivate, which was also to ensure that the situation in Yaoshan would not change.

In the end, Chen Hai quietly left the Demon Ape City with Cang Yi and Yao Wenjin and embarked on the road south.

Cang Yi naturally wanted to fly directly to Yuchengling and Hengshan, he turned back into his real body, took Chen Hai and Yao Wenjin, and it only took half a day to fly over the Guanhe River of eight or nine thousand miles and arrive at Yuchengling, but Chen Hai wanted to walk a few more days in the ice and snow south of Yaoshan Mountain, and get a closer understanding of the terrain of Yuchengling to the city.

No matter how urgent the situation in Yanjing is, he is not afraid of delaying it for a few days.

Yao Wenjin had already recovered to the peak cultivation of the Spirit Clearing Realm, and without help, he could barely keep up with Chen Hai and them.

The three of them walked and stopped in the snow, and only in the evening of the fifth day did they arrive at Shouyang Mountain.

Although Shouyang Mountain is named after the mountain, it is only composed of some hills more than 100 meters high, with a radius of more than 200 miles.

The families of the remnants of the Black Yan Army, nearly 300,000 people, moved over one after another in winter, with the help of several wind and flame airships, it was finally a lot less arduous, and when Yan Yuan led his troops south, a lot of simple camps had been built here.

When Chen Hai and the others arrived, the northern part of Shouyang Mountain had just experienced a battle. The periphery of a camp was bloody, and there were thousands of demonic corpses lying horizontally, and if you looked closely, there were women and children covered with green scales and short bodies.

Yan Yuan had already received the news that Chen Hai was coming, and he greeted him at the gate of the camp at this time.

Yao Wenjin asked curiously: "Don't these demon barbarians know that General Yan has 100,000 elite troops here, why do they still bring old and young women and children to find death?"

Yan Yuan leaned over and looked at the messy battlefield, and said helplessly: "This is a surrounding tribe, it is said that when Shouyang Mountain was just built before, it was okay with them. It's just that as the snow fell, I was afraid that there would be insufficient food to survive the winter, so I wanted to come over and ask for some. We have also cooperated with the Iron Cliff Department for a few months, and there is no resistance to the demon barbarians, and we have all given it. It's just that they are too insatiable and raise the demand again and again. The Black Yan Army still had to rely on the Long Xiang camp to survive the food shortage, and they cut off their rations in a fit of anger. As a result, they called, and this should be the last batch. I knew that it would be good to let people sweep them directly, and it made this side bloody, which made the women and children in the village nervous for no reason. ”

Chen Hai and Yao Wenjin sighed when they heard it, but the demon barbarians have always been like this, their own production system is not perfect, when there is a shortage of food and clothing, they can grab some, and when there is nothing to rob, they can only face destruction.

Fortunately, Chen Hai has already helped the Iron Cliff Department establish a fishing and farming system, so that there is no shortage of food, and if there is no catastrophe of the invasion of blood demons, Tie Kun and his people will completely take root in Yaoshan, I am afraid that in a few decades, a new empire will really rise on the shore of the Hanhai.

As he spoke, several people came to Yan Yuan's big tent.

Yan Yuan knew that the Blood Demon Tribulation was about to break out soon, and he would lead his troops south again at any time and retreat to the south of Yucheng Ridge, so he didn't bother to build a large number of buildings in Shouyang Mountain.

Even his handsome tent is simple and abnormal.

In the dim oil light, Yan Yuan explained the situation in Shouyang Mountain to Chen Hai.

The bitter slaves brought back from Hanhai and the families of the Heiyan Army are as many as 370,000 young and strong, and the most critical issue now is grain, grass and warm clothing.

The old and weak women and children are just fine, and they can be harder, but hundreds of thousands of young and strong people still need to maintain basic exercises, and the food consumed is an astronomical amount.

After the Tong River froze, a large amount of supplies were more convenient to transport from Yucheng Ridge, but compared to the consumption of Shouyang City, it was still a little stretched......

"In addition to gradually arranging for the old and weak women and children to go south first, Senior Brother Yan can also use things cheaply in Shouyang Mountain," Chen Hai said with a frown, "All the tribes that can be controlled by the Iron Cliff Department have already gathered in Yaoshan, except for this time, the large and small tribes from Shouyang Mountain to the west will all threaten the transportation channel of the northern route, Senior Brother Yan can lead the troops to sweep it over, and it can also replenish the shortage of supplies......

The remnants of the Black Yan Army have a foothold in Shouyang, and they can't show that they have too much to do with the Long Xiang Army, especially the resources of the Long Xiang Army at this time are not particularly rich, and the Black Yan Army needs to use all means to strengthen itself, and plundering the barbarians is also one of the ways.

Yanzhou can't be plundered by barbarians for thousands of years.