Wan Yankang and Juekong went all the way to the west, passed Taiyuan Mansion in a few days, and rushed to the border pass between Jin and Xixia. When they were in the mainland, they could also see smoke curling everywhere, and the two sometimes missed the lodging, borrowing the farmer's house to rest and replenish some dry food, etc., with the name of the Shaolin monk, it was not difficult.

After passing the Taiyuan Mansion, the more you go to the border pass, the more sparsely populated. When it comes to the boundary of Yuzhou, the junction of Jinxia, there are no people for ten miles, and the land is barren everywhere. Many of the areas that used to be cultivated are overgrown with weeds as far as the eye can see. On the road, I occasionally saw some people in a hurry, most of them were in rags, and there were no thick clothes in the late autumn fashion, dragging their families to flee to the mainland.

Wanyan Kang rode his horse up a small hillside, looking at the devastated scene, he couldn't help but think of a famous poem, and couldn't help but read it: "The peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road." Looking at the western capital, he hesitated. Sad, the Qin and Han dynasties, the palace and thousands of rooms have been made of soil. Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer. ”

"Uncle Shi's article will be passed down through the ages!" After hearing Yan Kang read these words, Juekong was even more impressed, there is really a talent in this world, this little uncle's martial arts articles are all outstanding, and what is even more rare is that he has a compassionate heart.

Inadvertently made a copy of the text, Wan Yankang didn't care, and asked with a whip: "The ancients, those who have to pass the pass will win the world, Juekong, you see that the great rivers and mountains in this pass are now dilapidated, what can I do?" ”

Juekong said without thinking: "If Uncle Shi can take power one day and lead his troops back to the Song Dynasty, then the mountains and rivers of my Han family can be restored to their old appearance!" ”

Wan Yan Kang laughed, but did not answer, only whipped the horse and shouted: "Let's watch the battle." ”

The two left the territory of the Kingdom of Jin and rushed to the place of battle. The two countries of Jinxia each built a dock fort here, and each garrison had thousands of soldiers. The dock fort is only fifty miles apart, and the middle plot is full of hills and ravines, and the terrain is not dangerous, but the army cannot be deployed here, so they have built a dock fort here to prevent the opponent from sneaking attack.

In these fifty miles, it was a real extermination of human population, only some birds and beasts existed, and the corpses of some people and horses were often found, pecked by vultures, blown by wind and sand, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was the remains of the Jin soldiers or the bones of the Xia army.

After Yan Kang and the two of them were deaf and clear-sighted, they saw smoke and dust flying up for miles from a distance, and drove their horses to the nearest place, just in time to see the men and horses on both sides of Xia and Jin fighting there.

A few hundred paces away, I heard the shouts of people and the neighing of horses, and it seemed that the fight was extremely fierce. But when the two looked at it, they realized that something was not quite right, except for the first few charges on both sides, which seemed to be perfunctory.

Half an hour later, both sides retreated with great tacit understanding, leaving a few lives for each and then turned their horses back to the camp. When the two armies returned to the camp, they each left a few men behind.

Wan Yankang and Juekong looked at this posture, thinking that the fight was over, leaving a few people to collect the corpses of their comrades.

Wan Yankang asked lightly: "Senior nephew, how do you see the combat strength of the two armies?" ”

Although Juekong has never experienced a battle formation, he is a martial arts master after all, and his eyesight is still the same, looking at the performance of the people on both sides, it can only be said to be unsatisfactory at best.

Before the two finished speaking, they suddenly saw a bizarre scene on the battlefield, and they were extremely surprised.

It turned out that a few small soldiers left on both sides of each side, when they passed by the corpses of their comrades, they did not stop, and when they encountered the corpses of the opponent's dead in battle, they stopped and cut off their heads and collected their belongings.

The head of the Jin soldier cut the body of the Xia man, the head of the Xia soldier cut the body of the Jin soldier, and occasionally encountered a seriously injured person who did not lose his breath, and did not rescue him, but directly made up for it. After cutting off the heads, the soldiers on both sides picked up the armor they could use, wrapped them in a ball, and returned to their camps.

The whole process was quiet and fast, and the people behind the palace on both sides did not offend each other.

Wan Yankang and Juekong glanced at each other, and they both felt incredible. After the soldiers on both sides walked away, Wan Yankang jumped off his horse and let Juekong take care of it, and followed him to find out.

After a while, Wan Yankang came back with a gloomy face.

He quietly followed the few golden soldiers alone, restrained a few people, and asked about the situation: it turned out that this place was limited to the terrain, and it was difficult for the two armies to start a big battle, but the army could not help but be stationed, and the surrounding area was extremely difficult, and life was very difficult.

Later, I don't know who came up with the idea, and the commanders on both sides sent some scouts or small troops to fight every once in a while. After the battle, they each reported the good news to the imperial court: on a certain day in a certain year, a certain month, our army led an attack and annihilated a number of Jin/Xia soldiers, in order to get a reward from the imperial court and transfer themselves out of this ghost place.

Wan Yankang had already learned from Wu Shiman and others that the Jin soldiers were erosive, and there were not many people who were good at fighting, but he didn't expect that the border army had been eroded to this point!

At this time, Wan Yankang had the heart to slap a few golden soldiers to death with one palm, but looking at the numb expression of the soldiers opposite, he had to sigh and let them go.

What a crime a little soldier is!

After hearing this, Juekong looked at Yan Kang's gloomy face that was about to drip water, and explained: "Jin Bing is so unbearable, so it seems that the Jin country is already in decline, it is better for Uncle Shi to restore the name of the Yang family as soon as possible, lead the troops to recognize the ancestors and return to the ancestors, and restore my Han family clothes as soon as possible." ”

Wan Yankang heard this, glanced at Juekong, and said angrily: "Xixia and my Jin State soldiers are so rotten, the Great Song Dynasty that you have in mind is defeated again and again in the hands of such Jin and Western Xia, and now the representative of the Han family, the Zhao family in the south, how unbearable should it be!" ”

Juekong was like a lightning strike, and after a while, he opened his mouth to say something, but he only said two words: "Maybe ......" and he didn't know how to refute it.

After Yan Kang cleaned up his mood, he turned his horse's head and shouted: "The few soldiers I just restrained may have returned to the dock fort at this time, and the dock fort will definitely send people to trouble us later, hurry up!" With that, he whipped and walked away.

Juekong opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to pat the horse and follow.

Wanyan Kang was going to go south and go with Juekong to meet the situation of the Song State, but after seeing the battle of the Jinxia border army in Yuzhou, the first thing he wanted to see was not the military strength of the Song State, but the reality of the grassland in the north.

The two rushed to Zhongdu first, and when they arrived in Zhongdu, Wan Yankang did not enter the city, but only went to the Shenbing base to report safety, replaced with his own little white dragon, and by the way, Juekong also changed two good horses, and the two of them each brought a waist knife on their bodies, and continued to gallop north.

Wan Yankang's original horse was not as good as Juekong's horse, but his riding skills were exquisite, and the horse's speed was just right. Later, Juekong mastered the riding skills taught by Yan Kang, and Yan Kang fell behind, and several times Wan Yan Kang looked at the lack of strength of the horses under the seat, so he simply dismounted and galloped, exercising light skills. The two of you chased after me, and the wind was galloping, and the previous depression invisibly diluted a lot.

At this time, Wan Yankang rode on the little white dragon, the little white dragon had not seen the master for three years, this reunion, extremely excited, the master urged, and disappeared like an arrow from the string.

When Juekong was eating ashes behind him, he understood why Uncle Xiao let him bring two horses.

Three days after the horse change, Wan Yan Kang and Juekong arrived at the destination of the trip - Gyeongju.

Gyeongju is thousands of miles away from Zhongdu, under the jurisdiction of Daikin Beijing Road, and has been an important place for soldiers since the founding of the Liao State. Daejin also attached great importance to this place after the establishment of the country, from Gyeongju to the north to the west is full of grassland, and the rain is abundant, the grass and trees are luxuriant, it is a good place to raise horses.

Originally, Beijing Road was an important place for Dajin to raise horses, but in the past ten years, the Mongolian tribes have risen and often invaded the grasslands of Beijing Road to plunder horses and livestock. Because the Jin State fought with the Song Dynasty all the year round and was also at war with the Western Xia, it was unable to transfer troops to the north to launch a major war, and it could only turn a blind eye to the actions of the Mongols.

In recent years, the northern part of Beijing Road has been gradually encroached upon by Mongolian tribes, and only the south of Gyeongju is still under the control of the Jin State. This is also because of the dangerous terrain of Gyeongju, the mountains on both sides of the northwest stretch for hundreds of miles, Gyeongju built a city between the two mountains, it can be said that a city is a pass, ten thousand people do not open, it is the necessary place to go north to the grassland and outside the pass.

When Yan Honglie came back from his northern tour of Mongolia, he first returned to the central capital through Gyeongju, and at that time he also beheaded a greedy and fearful of death city lord Wan Yan Decao, and later Wan Yan Honglie recommended to use Tuoba Iron Head to guard the city, and the original deputy general Ma Desheng was in his original position.

In the past few years, Tuoba Tietou has diligently repaired military equipment and renovated the city, but Gyeongju has been built like an iron barrel. During this period, Wanyan Honglie came to inspect twice, and he was very satisfied with Tuoba Tietou's performance, and often praised this person in front of Wanyan Kang.

When Wanyankang and Juekong entered Gyeongju, they found that the Seongguan was tightly inspected. Wan Yankang and the two were bald, but they have recently begun to grow hair, and they have only grown a short section, so they have wrapped their heads with headcloths, and they look quite strangely dressed.

Wan Yankang was not in a hurry, and threw a waist card at a centurion.

The centurion at the gate of the city took the waist card and looked at it, it turned out to be a silver waist card, with a Zhao character written on it, and the workmanship was extremely exquisite. This person guards the city gate all the year round, and from time to time he will meet the messenger of Zhao Wangfu and the city lord to communicate, which is to use this Zhao character waist card as an order. In the past, the messenger mostly used iron medals, and some used bronze medals, but today's strangely dressed person actually uses a silver medal, presumably a big man!

The centurion did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly withdrew his subordinates, and very earnestly asked the nobles to lead the way.

Wan Yankang summoned him to the front and whispered to him that this time he had come to be a confidential matter, and he would never be silent about the identities of the two of them, so he went into the city with Juekong and the others.

After entering the city, Wan Yankang found that this Tuoba Iron Head really had some ability, and the city of Gyeongju was orderly, and some soldiers patrolled from time to time, but they were all on duty normally, and there were not many things that disturbed the people for no reason.

The two rested in the city for the night, washed away the dust, let the horses rest, replenished some dry food, and went out of the city through the north gate the next day.