- When the Yan caravan completely stopped walking, a military general strode out of the cavalry camp.

This general is dressed in gray armor, with a horizontal sword at his waist, his eyebrows are as black as a mountain, and his face is resolute. In contrast to his rough skin, his eyes were as bright as the North Star, and it seemed that because he often cast his gaze on the vast four fields, he was not narrowed, making his gaze also strong and powerful, as if he had the edge to hurt people.

Yan Yu met such a gaze for the first time, and couldn't help but have a slight idea of dodging.

As a businessman, when talking to people, I often like to look into or scan the other party's eyes, and subconsciously move my mind, wanting to peek into the other party's state of mind from the other party's eyes, grasp and speculate on the other party's hopes and weaknesses, and negotiate a transaction that is absolutely beneficial to me.

However, in the face of a soldier and a general in the defense army around him, Yan Yu found out with some hindsight that the reason why he wanted to avoid the other party's gaze before was because he saw a spirit called the military soul, which was on the border line, like the color of the sand and stone refined by the scorching sun, pure but dazzling, without a trace of gaps that outsiders could invade.

The two groups of people from the first army and one merchant stopped steadily opposite each other, and the contrast formed a somewhat strange scene - these two types of people would not have met in such a way that was almost confrontational between the two armies, but at this time, the respective leaders of the two sides had already come out, and on an open field, with their backs to their subordinates, the two figures gradually approached, isn't it just a bit like two generals preparing to fight with their blades?

But this was just a fantasy that occasionally slipped through the minds of the subordinates in the rear, and Yan Yu and the general over there approached each other to a distance of about three steps. When they stop, they bow to each other almost at the same time. The smile on Yan Yu's face has the gentleness that businessmen are used to, while the smile on the face of the border general is tougher, but it is very pure and high-spirited.

Naturally, the two parties did not have the slightest intention of hostility. This meeting is actually the first time that the military businessmen of the Yanjia Commercial Bank Group and the Nanzhao Border Army Group have cooperated.

The two of them saluted face to face, which was regarded as a greeting, and they were about to start talking about the main matter of this meeting, but at this moment, Yan Yu suddenly felt the direction of his right hand. It seems to be a long way off. There was a rumbling sound, distracting him slightly. He thought it was because he rarely saw such a tough military array in front of him, and he was slightly oppressed by the almost scorching gaze of the martial artist in front of him, which made him hallucinate slightly.

However, the rumbling sound did not end in a moment. Above the Hirono. Unusually quiet. And there is no high mountains around to block it and the noise of the woods, which can be recognized after listening for a while. The rumbling sound is rhythmic.

Not only had he heard of it, but the cavalry on the opposite side, although all the soldiers abided by military discipline, and more than a thousand people lined up in the local area, without the slightest abnormal sound, the horses under their seats could not help but make some movements. Animals are much more advanced than humans in some aspects of their perception, so humans sometimes need to rely on the power of animals alone to accomplish certain tasks. The war horses raised by these border guards are becoming more and more sensitive to a certain kind of sound.

As soon as the rumbling sound came, the merchant horses on the side of the Yan family's caravan did not react much, but the war horses on the side of the border cavalry consciously swung their horses' heads slightly towards the place where the sound came from, and raised their long horse ears.

The frontier general also heard some kind of heavy rumbling sound from afar, he was used to this kind of sound, but when he saw the slight change on the face of the young head of the Yan family, who was always rich and rival the country, he thought about it for a while, and finally opened his mouth to explain: "This is the voice from Kyoto, the first sound of the sea trade giant ship setting off, and there are two more after." ”

After Yan Yu understood the meaning of the general's words, he couldn't help but be surprised: "This place is four hundred miles away from Kyoto, to say the least, what kind of thing can make a sound that can be transmitted so far?" ”

The border general hesitated for a moment, and then replied with a light smile: "At this year's shipping ceremony, the general missed the opportunity to watch it again, so what Yan Shao asked, the general didn't know the specifics, but he was also very curious!" Yan Shao is wise and sensitive, maybe when it is his turn next time, he will take a look in person, maybe he can see the truth at a glance. ”

Yan Yu hurriedly waved his hands: "Don't dare to be." ”

The frontier general laughed loudly, raised his hand casually, pressed the handle of the knife that shook on his waist, and said: "However, if the general does not remember the time when the merchant ship in the East China Sea set sail for the first time, in this way, Yan Shao's master arrived more than an hour later than the agreed time, and it really made the general worry for a while just now!" ”

Yan Yu immediately apologized: "It was Yan's fault." ”

The border general shook his head with a smile and said: "Yan Shao does not need to bear his own responsibility, this trip is a special situation, and the merchant has no obligation to trek for this matter, but we have brought a lot of trouble to your caravan, and the general should apologize first." ”

……

After a brief conversation, the general who had left the army summoned a group of ten soldiers to the ranks. When the ten men ran close to the Yan family's caravan, none of them had weapons in their hands, but they were divided into groups of two to carry a long wooden plank similar to a flat pole, but wider than the flat pole. There were eight soldiers with planks, and two others with tools similar to those used by carpenters.

These eight people entered the middle of the Yan family's caravan, and Yan Yu just raised his hand and pointed, and they accurately found the carriage that Lin Shan was riding. Immediately afterwards, the sticks in their hands passed under the board of the carriage, and at the same time, the two soldiers with carpenter's tools had already dismantled the carriage. Specifically, the wheels are separated from the body.

It was only half a pillar of incense time later, and the carriage that Lin Shan was sitting in turned into a sedan chair, which was lifted up by eight middle-aged soldiers with long legs and thick arms, and ran away from the Yan family caravan with brisk steps, and entered the middle of the cavalry phalanx opposite.

The cavalry, which was originally arrayed into two phalanxes on the left and right, suddenly turned into two dumpling skins when Lin Shan's "sedan chair" entered the position of the Chinese army, and Lin Shan, which could be treated as meat filling, merged and surrounded. The original formation of the cavalry phalanx was quickly disrupted. However, it was quickly and neatly reset, but the shape was formed into a separate long phalanx from the original left and right squares.

From the periphery, Lin Shan seemed to have disappeared into the military formation.

……

Seeing that the gray cavalry team moving away with the dust flying in the sky at an extremely fast speed, Yan Yu was still standing in front of the Yan family caravan, where he was standing when he talked to the general over there just now.

The protagonist of the last mission in this trip was also sent out, Yan Yu thought that he would feel very relaxed, but the figure of the cavalry just now was entrenched in his heart at this time, making him feel a new invisible pressure.

Watching his young master still stand in place after the cavalry walked away. It seems to be thinking about something. But it didn't seem to be so simple, because there was a clear hint of tightness between his eyebrows, and Governor Wu, who was in charge of the general affairs supervision on the business road, approached and hesitated for a moment. Then he asked softly, "Young Master." Can we go now? ”

There was that rumbling sound in the sky again. Yan Yu frowned, and after being silent for a while, he said one word: "Go." ”

Yan Yu boarded the carriage. Governor Wu, who was accompanying him, was about to leave to greet the queue within his duties, but suddenly heard Yan Yu call him: "Inspector Wu, please bring me a jar of burning knife wine loaded in six carts." ”

Inspector Wu turned around and looked at Yan Yu, making sure that he had heard correctly, he couldn't help but hesitate a little: "That wine is extremely strong, and it is easy to hurt your body when you drink it, this trip to transport three truckloads of this wine to Liang Country is actually to be supplied to coolie workers and military defense soldiers, and the young master really wants to drink?" ”

"Then take half a jar!" Yan Yu closed his eyes, pressed his eyelids tightly, the dry feeling in his eyes eased slightly, and he opened his eyes and said, "I want to get drunk." ”

"Yes, young master, wait a minute."

Inspector Wu didn't hesitate any longer, he was already in his forties, but he didn't know why, his mood suddenly became a little fluctuating, Yan Yu's car was not a few steps away from the No. 6 commercial car, Inspector Wu went over there, and he actually trotted up with his clothes.

Yan Yu leaned against the car door, his eyes cast into the distance, his eyes stopped on the huge cloud of smoke and dust left by the cavalry after he walked away, and then his eyes moved up, and then looked at the sky where the clouds were getting thicker, and silently thought in his heart: After I go back, I must gather all the clansmen to talk seriously, but I don't know if they are willing to listen to what my concubine says?

……

When Hironogami Yanyu and the cavalry commander talked, they faintly heard the rumbling sound, as the general said, the first sound of the merchant ship sailing ceremony on the east coast of Kyoto. The so-called first sound represents the warning sound that all the crew members have boarded the ship and returned to their positions.

The source of this sound, in the past few years, was born by the 100 drummers of the festival rooftop dancing drums and hammers, and it was divided into three performances: "Zhenhang", "Qiwei" and "Shunfeng". Kyoto residents have the opportunity to participate in the festival every year, and after a few years of passing it back and forth among the people, it has gradually become a common practice, and everyone calls it "Zhenwei Drum".

To put it in layman's terms, it means that the big ship is about to sail into the vast sea, and I don't know what kind of setbacks and tribulations will be encountered on the way to sail, so at the beginning of the departure, we must make some prestige battles, urge courage and boost morale. It is said that there are actually only ninety-nine of the 100 drummers, because one of the participants cannot be called a drummer, and it is on this day that His Majesty also rolled up his sleeve and swung the drum hammer himself!

But this year's "Zhenwei Drum" made all the spectators feel a little different, it was not the sound of drums, but closer to the sound of spring thunder during the New Year, and every sound on the altar of the festival, it would "soar" and fly out of the billowing smoke.

This seems to be the effect of the spring thunder. The spring thunder should be spring, it seems to be very suitable for the beautiful meaning of the thing itself, but the people in the stands are not blind, the kind of spring thunder released during the New Year, are resting on the ground, lit with a lead, although this super-large share of firecrackers can indeed make a loud noise similar to what is heard on the beach today, but after the explosion, there will be a place of confetti.

Even if the onlookers only listen to the sound, they can estimate that at least more than 100 spring thunders have exploded on the altar, although the altar occupies a very high position, and the people in the other stands below it cannot see the situation on the upper platform, but the beach is constantly windy, if there are confetti all over the ground on the altar, it will not be blown down.

And what's even more bizarre is that every time the spring thunder sounds, a shiny thing will be projected obliquely into the sky on the altar, which is almost the light emitted at the moment when the spring thunder explodes.

But...... Isn't this a spring thunder thrown into the sky to explode?

That's really ...... It's weird!

The fundamental reason why the onlookers felt strange was that they couldn't see what was happening on the altar, they could only hear the sound, and the elusive traces left in the sky after the explosion of something similar to spring thunder, and they couldn't guess what the sound was that made Haiyan shake, and what the original sound was.

The first warning period is very long, because the crew comes on board, not only people on board, but also several teams of horses. When watching several groups of horses galloping from the coast not far away, and very consciously divided into several groups to get on the boat, Mo Ye, who was standing on the observation deck, couldn't help but be stunned.

However, at this time, she couldn't find Ye Nonuo, and the crowd in the stands was fluctuating, and the few people who came together were so crowded that they didn't know where to stand. She couldn't find anyone to ask, and she didn't understand the point of letting her get on the boat. She only saw that with this scene, the spirits of everyone in the stands were excited to a new level, and then the deafening sound exploded overhead.

Mo Ye only felt that the hard stone foundation under his feet was shaken, and at first he had a feeling that they were about to fall into the sea when they were shaking, but he saw that all the spectators on the platform did not seem to be worried at all, and there were still people jumping on the slightly shaking stands, almost wanting to pounce on the giant ship, in order to go to sea with the giant merchant ship and a group of crew members who were ready to go, and to see the scenery in the depths of the vast sea.

Of course, this is not something that can happen.

Even if you want to cross it with the height of an adult, you must at least climb one step up first, but with the crowded situation in the fence at this time, let alone want to bow your back and make a climbing action, you just want to stand firmly in place for a short while, and your body will be swayed from side to side by the excited crowd.

Mo Ye stretched out his finger curiously and tapped it, even though the sound of the knock had been covered by the various shouts coming from the sea of people around him, but the slight reverberation sensation passed into the skin of his fingers, and it was still not difficult to feel that the extremely cold and hard fence was actually cast of iron.

Those iron fences may be hollow, but they are not easy to tear down by man...... (To be continued......)