On the last day before the seventy-fifth year of Emperor Yitian, a huge team of five or six hundred chariots and horses slowly marched out of the urn city of Tieliu Pass. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Outside the urn city, there is also a section of paved stone avenue, at this time there is a thick layer of snow, the ruts run over, and the rattling sounds, as if crushed on people's hearts.

Tieliuguan is the last pass out of Hexi, and it is also the last pass out of Yanzhou, but the chariot and horse team drove out of the urn city of Tieliu Pass, even if it was stepping into a foreign land.

Dong Ning opened the car window, the wind and snow poured in through the car window, blowing her face like a cut, blowing her eyes and tears, and looking back to see the black fortress built in a narrow valley, it was so cold, it was so ruthless - looking east, the mountains were covered under the snow and ice, and dozens of fortresses were divided into dangerous terrain, and the shadows were like a huge lock, completely locking the Jinzhou barbarian enemy to the west of Tieliuling.

And the thousands of soldiers who stood like sculptures at the head of the city cast countless eyes to this side, but in the intricate eyes, there was pity, anger, unwillingness, or resentment, but there was no trace of pity for her.

"County Lord, Dong Duhu's horse team has returned to Guancheng. ”

Ran Hu, the cloud cavalry captain who escorted Dong Ningxi's marriage, rode over and talked to Dong Ning through the car window.

Dong Ning is not very familiar with the uncle who is the general of the Tieliu battalion, and he only has the opportunity to meet him when he is young or when he grows up to meet his grandfather, but he doesn't remember what he said in the past, whether he passed through the Tieliu Pass to say goodbye, he only knows that he is one of the few Dao Dan powerhouses in the Dong family, and they all say that his status in the Dong family and Hexi is only under his father Qin Muhou.

Is power really that important to men?

"We're on our way?" Ran Hu saw that Dong Ning was in a trance, and asked again.

"Oh, let's go. Dong Ning answered, put down the curtain of the car, and sat back in the warm carriage where the incense burner was steaming and the brocade couch was spread.

Listening to Dong Ning's empty voice, Ran Hu felt uncomfortable, but the wind and snow were so heavy, if the chariot and horse team continued to delay in front of Tieliu Pass and did not move for a long time, they would not be able to arrive at the remnants of Yuguan two hundred miles away before nightfall and camp for the night.

In that case, such a big snowmobile team camped directly in the wilderness, and people could bear it when they slept in tents, but the horses were afraid that they would suffer a lot of frostbite.

It is more than 10,000 miles to the west, and it is still very tight to get married in two months to the capital of Xiqiang on the shore of Chaimu Lake.

Dong Ning's marriage with the young monarch of Xiqiang can be arranged after the spring of the next year, when the ice and snow melt, the spring flowers bloom, and the journey of more than 10,000 miles only takes a month to reach the Xiqiang country, but Hexi is eager to form an alliance with the Xiqiang country and lift the threat from the west, and he can't even wait for half a year, but he has to catch up in the coldest season of the year, in the season when he is frozen and biting, especially when he leaves his homeland and travels west the day before the end of the year, Ran Hu feels cold.

It's just that he, as a disciple of the Ran family, is just a cloud cavalry captain in the Hexi Wuwei Army, and there is no room for him to intervene in this kind of matter.

After Chen Hai handed over Juquanling, he left a letter to resign and left, and it has been more than a month since he left Juquanling, and no one knows his whereabouts. Miss, you said he wouldn't suddenly come over and stop Miss from marrying into the Xiqiang Kingdom?"

At this time, Dong Ning's personal maid Dong Xing'er asked in a whisper from the carriage.

Ran Hu couldn't help but prick up his ears to sound, and his heart was also uneasy: Chen Hai suddenly handed over Juquanling to all the families, and the Hexi side was also like a calm lake being thrown into a boulder, disturbing for a while, but most of them were accusing Chen Hai.

Ran Hu, who returned to Hexi from Yanjing at the beginning of the year, didn't know what Chen Hai thought in his heart, but Chen Hai, as a disciple of Hexi Taiwei Sect, was also a traitor to Hexi who had already laid down the chess piece of Shichengling in Tongbei Mansion, not to mention that he would completely hand over Juquanling to Hexi, and in the end he only held Juquanling with the Miao clan in the northern region and the Zhao clan in the southern region.

Ran Hu didn't know why Dong Xing'er said that Chen Hai would suddenly run over, thinking to himself, this bastard really wanted to run over to intercept the road, but he wanted to grab his collar and ask, why did he refuse in the first place, why did he do such a bastard thing!

"Alas......" There was a heartbreaking sigh in the carriage at this time, and Ran Hu was uncomfortable listening to it, knowing that the county lord Dong Ning was not looking forward to Chen Hai's bastard.

In other words, if someone else is humiliated like that in public, and it is polite not to want to cut it with a sharp blade in hand, how can you expect the other party to appear?

At this time, seeing Ye Heze, the military captain of the Xiqiang Kingdom who was in charge of welcoming and escorting his relatives, came over, as if he had something to show the county lord of Yuecheng, Ran Hu coughed lightly and reminded the county lord Dong Ning and Dong Xing'er not to discuss Chen Hai anymore.

Dong Ning was rejected by Chen Hai in public, Dong's face was naturally gloomy, and if the people of Xiqiang Country listened to it, it would not be a good thing, and it might even make Dong Ning be undeservedly scorned in Xiqiang Kingdom.

Damn Chen Hai.

All this was caused by Chen Hai, if it weren't for Chen Hai's public refusal to marry, Dong Ning would have no face to stay in Hexi, how could he take the initiative to marry in the ghost place of Xiqiang Kingdom?

The Dong family has many children, so just pick a daughter to marry in Xiqiang to marry, why let the pearl of Taiwei Mountain be thrown into the bitter cold land of Xiqiang and be dusted?

Although Ran Hu was a general in Chen Hai and greatly respected his ability to govern the army, he was also annoyed that he was such a ruthless and unrighteous person, and since that incident, he has broken off his friendship with the people of the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion and no longer interacted.

"The West Gorge Corridor is more than 10,000 miles long, bordering the Wusheling Mountains and Yujin Mountain in the south, and the Gobi Desert in the north. Although the demon beasts in the depths of Wusheling and Yujin Mountain are extremely fierce and terrifying, but what may really threaten us are still those horse thieves in the depths of the long desert who haunt and disappear, Ran Hu is dangerous about this trip, but you must be prepared in your heart!"

Ordinary horse thieves in the depths of the desert, they naturally have nothing to worry about and be afraid of, but Emperor Yitian was injured in the western expedition twenty years ago, and the soldiers and horses in Hexi were forced to abandon the barracks in the Xixia Corridor and retreat to Tieliuling.

Some of these horse thieves were the remnants of the Qiang forces that Emperor Yitian exterminated during his western expedition twenty years ago, and some were some forces west of the Western Qiang Kingdom, who wanted to stretch their hands to the east and also eyed the Western Qiang Kingdom......

If it weren't for the sharp swords and soldiers of Hexi and Xiqiang, these horse thieves would probably have to occupy the Xixia Promenade and completely cut off the connection between Hexi and Xiqiang.

Listening to Ye He's words, Ran Hu snorted slightly, if it weren't for Hexi's focus on the east of Tieliuling over the years, and dedicating himself to managing the land of the three counties, where would there be room for these horse thieves to wreak havoc in the West Gorge corridor?

Of course, although Ran Hu is the leader of the younger generation of generals in Hexi, he has the capital to be arrogant, but it is also the case, he knows in his heart that this trip will not be particularly peaceful, after all, not all forces want to see Hexi and Xiqiang State marry and form an alliance, I believe that the Huang clan standing behind Helan Sword Sect and Hexiang Army is one of them.

I also knew that this trip would not be peaceful, and the more than 500 horsemen behind him were all the most elite Taoist soldiers in Hexi, even if there were three or five thousand horse thieves swarming, Ran Hu was confident that he could tear these horse thieves to pieces.

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The northwest foot of the Taiwei Mountains is the Horsehair Mountain, and to the west of the continuous mountains of the Horsehair Mountain, there is the boundless Jinzhou Desert.

Yanjing does not have a detailed map of Jinzhou, only a few spiritual travel notes, there are relatively detailed records and descriptions of the Jinzhou desert.

From the Wusheling Mountains, Yujin Mountain, Black Mountain and other desperate areas to the north, the vast Gobi Desert has 780,000 miles in the east, west, north and south.

Only the southern edge of the desert where Wusheling Mountains, Yujin Mountain, and Black Mountain meet, because there are a large number of glacier meltwater flowing down, forming countless lakes and oases, breeding the Baiqiang tribes, and there are also many vassal states that connect thousands of miles, and the Xiqiang State is only one of them.

Further north, except for a small amount of rain, no major rivers extended in, and the oases in the depths of the long desert were drastically reduced in size and number, and few vassal states or small states of true meaning appeared except for the large and small horse thieves or the remnants of the forces that had lost in the battle for supremacy in the Golden State.

Continuing north, to the northern edge of the Golden State Desert, it is an area where demons are active, and human tracks are even rarer.

Between Xichang and Tieliuguan, due to the foot of the northern mountain next to Wusheling, there are hundreds of streams and rivers pouring out from the depths of Wusheling, forming a series of large and small oases in this narrow area of 13,400 li.

It is also the main passage of Yanzhou from Hexi to Jinzhou, and the world calls it the West Gorge Corridor. Historically, whether it was the rise of Yanzhou to expand westward, or the Qiang tribes of Jinzhou united to advance eastward, the Xixia Corridor was a battleground for both sides.

However, Hexi and Xiqiang, as the two most important forces in the Xixia Corridor, have failed to completely control the Xixia Corridor after the setback of Emperor Yitian's Western Expedition due to various reasons such as internal and external troubles over the years, which cannot be said to be a pity.

After Chen Hai left Hexi, he did not take the Xixia Corridor, but went west from the horsehair mountain and stepped directly into the depths of the vast Jinzhou Desert.

However, he also despised the power of the vast Gobi Desert, and walked in the depths of the desert for more than ten days, but he was also sleepy, and was targeted by a group of iron-ridged sand wolves with hundreds of heads.

Chen Hai sat behind a boulder that could shelter from the wind and snow, took out the dried meat and bit it twice, and swallowed the wine, at this time, from the vast wind and snow, several iron-ridged sand wolves appeared, staring at them vigilantly, not approaching, not giving Chen Hai a chance to kill them, but also not leaving, as if after Chen Hai was exhausted, he would summon the wolves in the rear to surround him, and eat Chen Hai to the point that there were no bones left.