From then on, Chu Yun grew up vigorously in the northern capital day by day, he rode a horse on the grassland and opened a bow to learn military affairs with his uncle during the day, and studied Donglu poetry with his mother in the Golden Horde at night. If this trend continues, Chu Yun may not become a prince who admires Chinese culture and advocates friendship with the Chinese because of his mother. But on the other side of the Tiantuo Strait, careerists always covet the vast grasslands of the North Continent. The Hokuriku tribes reunited around the Shuofeng Ministry, which undoubtedly disrupted Zhou Qing's plan, and after thinking about it again, Zhou Qing adopted Baili Yu's suggestion and sent a huge delegation to the Shuofeng Ministry, nominally to re-sign the covenant and restore the tribute, but in fact to find out the reality of the Hokuriku. At the same time, under Li Jinglong's arrangement, the Zhou military scouts were anonymously placed in the chamber of commerce's fleet and went to the Hokuriku with the fleet, some of whom were secretly familiar with the routes on the ship, and brought back to Tian Yuan a steady stream of accurate nautical charts and detailed files recording the conditions of the Hokuriku coastline;

Others remained in Hokuriku under various guises, exploring terrain and water sources. A year later, Emperor Wu of Zhou, Zhou Qing, led an army of 300,000 to cross the Tiantuo River to the north, and the hatred of the country and the family completely ruined the possibility of Chu Yun's friendship with the Eastern Continent. Abandoning her homeland on one side and her beloved son on the other, Qiu Yueli had to choose between the two, and she chose the latter without hesitation. Qiu Yueli wrote a long letter of more than ten pages to her father in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, most of the letters were reminiscences of her parents' nurturing grace and childhood anecdotes, and at the end of the letter, she said goodbye to her father.

Since then, Qiu Yueli has given up his Donglu surname and name, and from now on, there will be no more Yueli princess Qiuyueli who has come to Donglu to kiss, only Shuofeng Da Yan's Huhena, and the grassland language "cyan glow" Shuofeng. The way of survival on the Hanzhou grassland is far more cruel than the magnificent dynastic change in the history books of the Eastern Continent. Although most of the history is not written, the only way to imagine the old legends is the stories heard in the arms of the mother and the songs played by the singers around the campfire. Those magnificent psalms filled with blood and fire always begin with a praise of God.

the god of the steppe people, who bears the head of a wolf and the back of a bear; One of his eyes was golden, and the other was a cat's eye. They are the day and the month; His feet were the hooves of a pair of yaks, and the wings of an eagle on his back - this was the god of the Pantar, who slowly swirled in the sky with an axe that opened up the heavens and the earth in one hand and a sword that destroyed living beings in the other. Every time he turned, heaven and earth were born and destroyed once, and Gu Xuan was embedded in his knife. The gods of the Temptars alone favored the steppe people, and at the same time gave them the eyes of an eagle, the might of a tiger, the acumen of a wolf, and the loyalty of a dog. The eagle, tiger, wolf, and dog have also become the totems of the four oldest families of the steppe people, and these four families are known as the Golden Clan. In pre-written history, only members of these four golden clans could become nobles, and they held the power of the tribe, and commoners from other families could never touch the power, let alone slaves.

In the midst of conquest and overthrow, population and livestock replaced the family line as the decisive factor in the duel of power, new tribes arose, old tribes died out, and small families of the non-four golden families gradually flourished, but they also quickly became the new "old-style aristocracy", and they still firmly held the power within the tribe. The famous hero of the steppe people, "King Xun", Akanti, unified the big and small on the steppe, Akanti was a slave cub, and no one knew who his parents were. Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, King Xun founded the Council of Kulig, which brought together the lords of all the tribes. "Kulig" means "all sit" in the steppe language, which means equality. At the conference, there was an opportunity for all clans, large and small, to sit down and speak on an equal footing. At this time, the Kurig Assembly was still a primitive system of popular discussion, and the candidates for the Maharaja were jointly elected by the various ministries, so King Xun deservedly became the first Maharaja.

However, the internal affairs of the tribes were not managed by the Maharaja, who was only responsible for convening the Kurig Assembly to decide on major matters such as wars, migrations, and the settlement of disputes between the tribes. However, King Xun served as the monarch for only seven years, and the lord of northern Shuo killed King Xun and appointed himself as the king. Less than two years later, Chu Shuofeng killed the lord of northern Shuo, avenged King Xun, and became the third monarch. But in fact, in the battle of northern Shuo to attack the northern capital, it was the soldiers of the Shuofeng Department who mixed into the chaotic army to help northern Shuo capture the northern capital.

Chu Shuofeng was born as a commoner, and in his veins flowed the blood of heaven, which only the most powerful warriors could possess. The Blood of Heaven allowed the samurai who possessed it to wield their weapons tirelessly when they went into battle, and they did not know the pain, not even friend or foe, only that they could kill people without stopping, and one person could even wipe out an army. In order to pass on this bloodline to his sons, Chu Shuofeng killed his sister and his sisters' husbands and messed with his own sisters. He had many sons, nine of whom inherited the blood of heaven, and with these sons, he finally destroyed all his enemies and occupied the steppe.

Since then, Maharaja Kulig has become the hereditary honorific title inherited by the father and son of the Shuofeng family of the Chu family. The Shuofeng family of the Chu clan, who was born in commoners and used the white wolf as a totem, was called the Golden Holy Family from then on, announcing the decline of the Golden Family. At this point, the tribes of the entire steppe formed a nominally unified nation-state under the tribal alliance of the Kurig Assembly, and then subdivided by the tribal alliance into tribes gathered under different totems, each tribe was divided into different clans according to the surname, and the clans with the same surname were divided into different families. Taking Chu Yun as an example, he has five identities, namely the head of his clan, the patriarch of the Chu clan's Shuofeng family, the lord of the Shuofeng tribe, the king of Kulig, and the most powerful envoy of the Pantar Heavenly God in the Hanzhou grassland.

In the mythology of the steppe people, including the lineage of the only main god Pantar and his messengers. The whole sky is the symbol of the Pantar gods, who convey their will by choosing messengers among the human beings, who are the lords of the tribes. At the same time as sending a messenger, the god will also send a wise man to deliver the news of the god's choice of messenger to mortals, and this wise man is the tribe's witch. The leader of the sorcerers in the tribe is called the Witch, and the greatest sorcerer in the whole steppe is called the Great Witch, and the lord who the Great Witch follows is of course the master of the Kurig Assembly, the Lord of the Kurig, because that is the most powerful oracle that the Pantar god told him to follow and serve. The myth is true, but in most cases, the actual process of the creation of the Great Witch is completely reversed, and in any given era, every tribe that wants to get their hands on the throne of the Maharaja of Kulig will have a Witch who stands up and declares that the lord he follows is the most powerful messenger of the Temptar gods. But there is undoubtedly only one of the gods of Pantar, so in the end, "the facts often prove" that the witch next to the king of Kulig, who has gained dominance by virtue of his strength, is the closest to the will of the gods, so he is undoubtedly the wisest and greatest, that is, the best choice for the great witch.

Because of this relationship, in the political system of the steppe people, the royal power and the divine right have always been one. The aristocracy had a monopoly on both political and religious power, and not only was the head of the religion held by the sovereign, but the shamans who assisted the sovereign in the management of religious affairs could only be selected from among the noble children of the clans with the big surnames in the tribe. Talented nobles followed the wizard through years of scripture and occult training until the death of his teacher, who could not inherit the title of wizard. The most of these noble sons are those with the greatest clan background who are qualified to learn from the Wusa and inherit the position of the Wusa, because the Wusa is generally not produced by the clan of the tribal lord, so the second most noble position in the tribe is often closely linked to political transactions within the tribe.

From the eyes of the Donglu people, the grassland people do not have a complete official system. The Kulig assembly confirmed the territory of each tribe, and the tribal lord distributed the population of the tribe to each clan in thousands, while the smaller clans often chose to live together, and the patriarch of the larger clan continued to divide further according to the lineage. Those who are in charge of a thousand households are named the heads of a thousand households, which are further subdivided into ten hundred households, and in addition to the head of a thousand households directly ruling over one hundred households, there are also nine hundred household chiefs. In the same way, each hundred households will be divided into ten ten households, and there will be nine ten household heads. In this way, the system of dividing the household into one with production, administration, and combat has been realized. In peacetime, they herd, hunted, and multiplied in their respective territories, and in wartime they could quickly coalesce into a large army.

The tribal lord will set up another one or several Wanhu to preside over military affairs, so Wanhu is only a military commander. In large tribes, there are often large clans that rule over thousands of households, and their patriarch is generally named Khan King instead of ten thousand households. The Khan was not hereditary, and if the Khan died, his son would only inherit his land and population, but lose his title. There is only one kind of Khan who can pass on the title to his descendants, and that is the Great Khan, and the one who can obtain the title of the Great Khan is either a unique warrior or someone who once saved the Shuofeng tribe at a critical moment of survival. They were given a token as a symbol of the status of the Great Khan. The token of the Great Khan of the Shuofeng Department is a white leopard tail. At the same time, the monarch will also have a dedicated personal guard unit stationed around the lord's tent to protect the lord's safety. The guards were selected entirely from among the sons and daughters of the nobles, and their commanders were also generals who were absolutely trusted by the sovereign, and they were often the companions who grew up with the sovereign.

There are generally only two types of people in the tribe who can be called civil officials, namely "Quuraya" and "Mirchi". Translated into the Eastern Continent language, the ancient Lanya is the judge of the matter, and the steppe tribes have no fixed laws, except for the "rules" that have been circulated for thousands of years in classics such as "Tieqin Tushuo" and "Stone Drum Scroll", the edict of the sovereign is the law. The Qulanya was responsible for handling the affairs of the tribe according to these rules and edicts, and because of the power of life and death in their hands, the status of the Qulanya was very high, and the head of each clan generally recommended a nobleman of high moral and wise rank.

Originally, the word "herald" meant "messenger", that is, the person who was responsible for conveying the edict of the lord in the personal guard. Later, he gradually began to assist the monarch in handling some basic government affairs, and evolved into a affairs officer, which is also called "account follow" in the Eastern Continent language. There is also a division of labor responsible for crown clothes, bows and arrows, food and drink, literature and history, chariots and horses, tents, treasury, medicine, divination, sheep herding and so on. Despite being the person in charge of the relevant affairs, the Mi'er Chi did not enjoy the same high status as their Eastern Continent counterparts, they could only be regarded as the executors of the lord's orders at best, and they did not even have any salary except for food and lodging, but this was also a high honor for the children of the steppe people, and if they performed extremely well in government affairs, it was also possible to obtain land and population rewards.

According to the records of the ancient ballad "The Biography of King Xun", when the Chaqin tribe led by King Xun unified the grassland, in addition to the seven largest tribes in Chaqin, Lanma, Yanghe, Shuobei, Jiuxu, Shachi and Arutai, there were more than 100 small tribes on the land of Hanzhou. King Xun announced the convening of the first Kurig Congress, with more than two hundred of the fastest riders, each with three horses, two for the transfer, and one for the carrying of dry rations, jerky, and fresh water. They gathered outside the tent of King Sun, memorized King Sun's commands, and then set out to leave the tribe and traveled day and night. Only half of these messengers had a definite destination before they set out, and the rest went deep into the vast steppes in search of unknown tribes, many of whom did not return. The tribes who received the letter all respected King Sun, and their lords and their attendants came from far and wide to attend this great gathering of the steppe people.

"We are here to attend the assembly of the King of Sun", as long as we say so, we will not be attacked by any tribe along the way. It is said that the nearest tribe can be reached in just one day, and the farthest tribe can travel for two months. And the kings of the tribes came with their attendants, and the king of Sunh had them pitch their tents around their tents, and they held feasts every day, and entertained them with wine and fat sheep. After the tribes arrived, the Golden Tent of King Xun could not fit so many people, so he gathered outside the city, set up a high grill, which could roast hundreds of fat sheep at a time, and the spirits of Gurqin were stacked as high as a small hill. The lord of more than a hundred tribes stood in front of the throne of Sun, waiting for him to speak, and the first thing King Xun said was, "Bring cushions to the distinguished guests, and everyone sit down and speak." Later, the assembly became known as the "Kurig Assembly", which translates to "all sit down" in the Eastern Continent language, meaning that all tribes, regardless of size, have the right to speak.

However, after the death of King Xun, the "Kulig Assembly" slowly changed its taste, and although the lords in attendance still sat together, the Shuofeng Department took the place of Chaqin, and the original hundred or so small tribes became fewer and fewer, and their words were no longer valued. After the Shuofeng tribe destroyed the Alutai tribe, there were actually only six major tribes and more than 30 small tribes left on the grassland, including Shuofeng, Lanma, Yanghe, Shuobei, Jiuyu, and Shachi, and the Zhenyan tribe only became one of the seven major tribes after Emperor Wu of Zhou's second northern expedition.

In the summer of the ninth year of Emperor Wu of Zhou, the Shuofeng Department returned to the northern capital, and a dispute subsided. Many of the nobles of the Shuofeng Department burst into tears when they saw the city wall of the northern capital that they had lost for seven years, which was the only city wall on the vast Hanzhou grassland, and the golden tent standing in it was a symbol of the king of the grassland. Now, they have returned, to the center of power in the Northland, and after seven years of exile, their children have grown up, and their axes have been sharpened, and it will not be long before the whole steppe will hear the roar of the saber-toothed leopard and submit to its majesty. However, the strife will not stop because of the appearance of the king, and the various departments of the grassland that have stopped fighting have only a little respite, because a year later, they will usher in a greater storm, and the name of Emperor Wu of Zhou, like a devil, will be imprinted in the most terrifying position in the hearts of every grassland people. And at this moment, the Hokuriku tribes were enjoying the last shred of their peace, trying to recuperate, completely unaware that their formerly weak neighbor had grown strong and was licking his claws, ready to deliver a deadly pounce.

In the autumn of that year, an envoy rushed from Tianyuan to the northern capital as usual, bringing Zhou Qing's national letter and Donglu's New Year's coins, as usual. Chu Yun, who was only ten years old, met the envoy in his golden tent accompanied by Chu Ye, and handed the letter to a witch next to him to reply, he did not personally see this letter of state mentioning and greeting his mother, let alone know that the ink used to write this letter came from the same place as the ink used to write the poem of Zhou Qing in the autumn moon of that year. This trivial matter, which is so subtle that it cannot even be said to be negligence, led to the unpreparedness and complete passivity of the steppe people in the first Northern Expedition, and Zhou Qing only let go of his hanging heart when he saw the formulaic reply of the Shuofeng Ministry, before he ordered to add a greeting to Qiu Yueli in the national letter on a whim, but accidentally revealed his familiarity with the grassland people - even the other grassland tribes may not know who is actually in charge of the Shuofeng Ministry.

It is obvious that Shuofeng is not the only one who is ignorant of the ambition of the Donglu people, and at the same time, the hatred of the Donglu people is like magma under the ice, waiting for the moment when it erupts. On April 3, the tenth year of Emperor Wu of Zhou, a little green was revealed under the snow, and the Tiexian River woke up from a six-month slumber, and the cracking sound of breaking the ice and the loud sound of the ice hitting it, the iron line flowed and roared. With the breaking of the ice of the Tiexian River, Shang'an Hai'an, located on the southern coast of Hanzhou Qingfu Yuan and controlled by the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce, welcomed an unexpected visitor - Li Jinglong personally led the fleet to Hai'an. At the same time, he also brought a secret order issued by Jiang Di in the name of the general head of the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce and the commercial and political envoy of the Ten Cities, requiring all the people on the merchant shore, whether they were from the Eastern Continent or the grassland, to stay in the house after dark and not go out.

It was night, after supper, and while the merchants and sailors were grumbling around the fire in the house, the sound of ships sailing was heard on the sea, and it was getting louder and closer. The merchant and the sailor held their breath and listened intently, as if there were countless ships docking at the merchant shore, and then countless gangplanks set up the trestle, and the sound of dense footsteps sounded for more than a pair. The sound of footsteps surrounded all the buildings, and by the time the doors were opened again, the merchants and sailors found that the houses had long been surrounded by soldiers in iron armor - the Zhou army had taken full control of the trading coast. All the people were herded into several large tents, and no one could sleep peacefully that night.

That night, Zhou Qing ignored Su Jin's dissuasion, insisted on walking with the first batch of 30,000 soldiers and took the lead in setting foot on the North Continent. "If you have to be as fierce as Ye Wang, what are you afraid of?" Zhou Qing said goodbye to Su Jin with a smile, stepped on his exclusive Lion Gate fighting ship "Zhenyuan", and headed towards the North Continent that he had dreamed of boarding. When the first rays of sunlight pierced through the mist in the morning, the huge dragon-headed warship docked, and an emaciated figure wearing purple and black sable fur walked on the gangplank, watching the surrounding Zhou army commanders kneel on the ground and shout long live, the merchants and sailors finally realized that they were witnessing the most important moment in the history of the relationship between the Eastern and Northern Continents - the imperial conquest of Emperor Wu of Zhou.

In the next two months, the emperor would bring an army of more than 310,000 people from the Yulin Heavenly Army and the Princes' Army, and they would raise the red banner of Emperor Wu of Zhou, which historians called the Zhou Wu Iron Brigade. Among them, there are more than 180,000 people in the 12 guards of the Yulin Heavenly Army, which are composed of the left and right Jinwuwei, the left and right Qianniu guards, the left and right leading guards, the left and right Xiao cavalry guards, the left and right van guards, and the left and right shooting sound guards, and more than 130,000 soldiers of the Qin King of various countries. Among the princes' armies, there were more than 1,500 ships and 50,000 sailors sent by the Ming Kingdom, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty, the Tang Kingdom and the Wanzhou Chamber of Commerce; Ming country wind tiger iron cavalry 3,000 horses; 5,000 cavalry of the Izumo cavalry of the Eastern Jin Dynasty; 3,000 people shot long-distance bauhinia; 10,000 heavy infantry of the Chu State; Chen Guo took one hundred and fifty stone chariots, with twenty soldiers each; and 60,000 horse infantry from the rest of the countries.

Due to the fact that the van guards and warships trained by Li Careful undertook considerable logistical functions, after excluding the 50,000 naval troops, there were actually only more than 60,000 soldiers in the Yulin Heavenly Army and the princes' armies who were specially used to transport grain and grass, that is, the actual combat troops reached as many as 190,000. The Hai'an landing opened up a landing zone thirty miles wide and ten miles deep in seven days, partly because Beilu did not carry out any effective resistance at all, and on the other hand, because of Su Jin's methodical command. The Hai'an Battalion was the base camp of the Zhou army and the base of the entire Northern Expedition. Zhu Zhao, who was known as the unparalleled logistics in the Ji Palace, presided over the work there, and he died during the Second Northern Expedition. Before the deer outside the Hai'an camp was set up, Ye Wang rushed out of the camp with the Wind Tiger Iron Horse he had trained himself. Su Jin, the general of the Zhou Wutie Brigade, gave him the first order to raid the Wudi Division. Wudi was the first tribe to touch the Eastern Continent during the barbarian locust period, and the world flowed, and Wudi became the first victim of the Zhou Wutie Brigade to take Liwei.

To win, to win cleanly, this is the only instruction Ye Wang received before setting off with his troops. Guo Chun, the lord of the Wudi Tribe, was the first to set foot on the territory of the Zhou Dynasty in the Eastern Continent thirty years ago, and now he is a sixty-three-year-old man, wearing silk produced in Wanzhou, smoking authentic Ming tobacco and tobacco. Thirty years have worn away his perseverance and tenacity, leaving him with arrogance. Ye Wang did not leave time for the Wudi Department to prepare, the "True Martial Marquis" Ye Wang was never a person who stabbed in the back, his messenger set off from the Hai'an camp half a day earlier and brought his war letter, but when Ye Wang rushed to the outside of the Wudi Ministry, all he saw was a group of herdsmen who had no resistance - his messenger was lost in the night.

Despite the haste of preparation, when the military flag of the Zhou Wutie Brigade appeared at the end of the grassland, the lord of the Wudi tribe standing in front of his phalanx was still immersed in the recollection of the glory of the past, and he inspired his soldiers to say that we are the galloping wolves of the grassland, the Donglu people are the yellow dogs under the fence, we ride tall horses, and the Donglu people can only be regarded as lambs. Thirty years ago, we went to the Eastern Continent to fight the Wudibu, and thirty years later, the people of the Eastern Continent came to the Northern Continent to let us fight. When the iron armor of the Wind Tiger shone in the first glimmer of morning light that pierced through the mist, the lord of the Wudi tribe was still laughing at the Zhou army for not understanding the importance of cavalry mobility at all, and he would be stupid enough to put armor on his horses. The lord of the Wudi tribe raised his saber high, and the five tribes bravely charged the Wind Tiger Iron Cavalry in the horn and shout, pouring out round after round of arrows to the Wind Tiger Iron Horse, but the cavalry of the Eastern Continent did not break as they expected like the withered grass in the autumn wind, and the sharp arrows that could easily penetrate the four layers of skin bounced off the iron armor of the Wind Tiger Iron Horse, and the war horses under their crotch had extremely obvious characteristics of the Northern Continent horse bloodline. The two armies confronted each other, the Wind Tiger Iron Cavalry wedged into the formation of the Wudi Division like a sharp arrow, and after breaking through, they turned to both sides at 45 degrees and rushed out diagonally, and then re-lined to attack again.

"Zhou Wushi Lu" recorded: "(Ye Wang) broke the five Di Divisions, pursued a hundred miles, annihilated 4,000 enemies, and Yu Kou died in the north. The Wudi Department retreated to the Xiyu River, and begged for aid from the Jiuyu Department and the Yanghe Department, but the reinforcements had not yet arrived, and Li Careful came again, but this time he did not bring cavalry, but 2,000 elite infantry. The scouts planted by the Zhou army in the Northland had already thoroughly explored the water sources and pastures of the Northland and drew a map, which was even detailed enough to record the nomadic paths of several major tribes over the years. Long before Ye Wang started the war with the Wudi Division, Li Dangxin calculated the possible retreat of the Wudi Division, and led the troops to set off in advance to prepare before the Wudi Division. After nightfall, Li Careful led the soldiers to sneak into the camp quietly in the guise of grassland people, wrapped a white silk around his right arm as a memory, and lit a fire in the stables, military tents, etc., and the Wudi tribe was in chaos. Li Beware took advantage of the situation to kill more than 1,000 people. Lee's troops had a white cloth wrapped around their right arm, but the fact that the steppe people also had people wrapped cloth around their arms caused some confusion, but it only made a small splash.

Thirty years ago, the first to enter the Eastern Continent, the Wudi tribe was quickly defeated, and their remaining people spread the terror of the Eastern Continent to the ends of the grassland. What surprised the warriors of the steppe people even more was that they were defeated by a cavalry of the Eastern Continent. It's a shame! If you ask a person who grew up in Hanzhou, what is the strongest cavalry in the world, Kuafu's hexagonal yak cavalry is a big challenge, but Shuofeng's tiger and leopard cavalry, Shuobei's white wolf regiment are the real powerful contenders, as for the Donglu people, let them be busy for three hundred years and don't think about training a good cavalry. But the fact before us is that in just thirty years, an entire tribe of steppe people was defeated, defeated at the foot of the cavalry of the Eastern Continent. The genius cavalry general burned the tent of the Wudi Division, set up camp three miles away from the ashes, and released the prisoners, so that they could tell the other grassland people that the military flag of the Zhou Wutie Brigade had been planted on the edge of the Wudi Division, and the next one would be you.

After the rear was stabilized, the army was divided into three routes, the first route was led by Zhu Tingshen and Ye Wang, the princes of the Ming Kingdom, with the princes' army as the mainstay, a total of 70,000 people, and continued to pursue the Wudi Department along the iron line north; The second route was led by Ye Zheng, mainly composed of the 12 guards of the Yulin Heavenly Army, with a total of 20,000 people, crossing the Tiexian River to search for the grassland people; The third route was led by Liang Chongshen and Peng Qianjin, and the leading guards, Qianniuwei, and Shotshengwei of the twelve guards of the Yulin Heavenly Army were the mainstays, with a total of 80,000 people marching eastward from the Hai'an battalion; The rest of the troops were led by Su Jin, consolidating the rear defense and protecting the logistics while slowly advancing along the Tiexian River.

Liang Chongshen's real name is Liang Liangji, hereditary Pingliangbo, even in the star-studded Zhou Wu army, the title is also very high, so he can lead the East Road army together with the fierce general Peng Qianjin. He was alienated from other classmates in the palace because of his illustrious family background, but this person has a bold temperament, calls himself a light marquis, comes and goes, and even mingles with his classmates, and even travels together, although he is eyed by the family, but he is quite popular in the army. Liang Chongshen is good at arranging camps, and Peng Qianjin is an offensive and defensive one, which is a perfect match. The Wudi Department joined forces with the Jiuxu and Yanghe Divisions, and fought with the Zhou army in Zalamud. In the battle, Ye Wang was in the center with heavy armor spearmen, the Wind Tiger Iron Cavalry and Izumo Cavalry served as the left and right wings respectively, and after the heavy armor spearmen, there were Bauhinia long shots and stone carts, and the rest of the troops served as the reception. Decades later, the surviving lord of the Yanghe tribe recalled the war and still panicked over the wine in front of him, a dense rain of arrows and stones as big as cattle and sheep fell from the sky, and the wind tiger iron cavalry wrapped in metal armor cut the steppe army into two sections, and the Izumo cavalry always maintained a distance from the barbarians, passing the flanks of the barbarian army again and again, pouring arrows like rain, washing away the morale and patience of the grassland people.

When the valiant steppe cavalry finally rushed in front of the Zhou army, what awaited them was a sharp and dense array of guns like a porcupine. The steppe army's crossbow arrows knocked down the heavily armored spearmen in the first row, but this only made the spearmen's formation closer. The steppe army lowered their crossbows and rushed desperately at the heavily armored spearmen, spears and maces, sabers, and was crucified to a steel thorn of two-foot spears. The grassland army was defeated, the front army was surrounded and annihilated, the rear army fled in a hurry, Ye Wang pursued for more than 300 miles, returned with a great victory, and Mo Gan, the lord of the Nine Tribes, was also killed.

The Third Route Army led by Peng Qianjin was the orthodox infantry and cavalry army of the Eastern Continent. Peng Qianjin's formation was a hollow phalanx composed of Qianniuwei, with archers in the middle and leading cavalry in the rear. When approaching the enemy, the light cavalry first harassed in front to lure the enemy into pursuit, and then dispersed from the left and right, and the sound guards began to fire a volley. Then the cavalry rushed out from one side, and if the enemy was scattered and outflanked the two wings, they concentrated their cavalry and annihilated one of the wings with numerical superiority; If the enemy forces are in a head-on attack with the Thousand Cows, cut off the enemy cavalry directly from the flank. Under his leadership, the Third Route Army steadily advanced westward, driving the Zhenyan and Heishui divisions to the northwest.

After the army of the Nine Clans was wiped out with their lord Mo Gan, the combined army of the Nine Clans, Yang He, and Zhenyan was left with only the remnants of Yang He and the relatively intact True Face. However, although Zhenyan was rich, the number of people was far rarer than that of other tribes, and even the remnants of the Yanghe Tribes were more than all the warriors that the Zhenyan Tribes could mobilize. At this time, Liang Chongshen, who had replaced Liang Chongshen, who had died in battle, judged that although the Yanghe Department still had more combat power, after a big battle, it had been chilled, but the morale of the Zhenyan Department was not declining, and the threat was greater, so the next strategic goal was pointed to the Zhenyan Department. The soldiers were very fast, and Peng Qianjin wanted to take advantage of the great victory and high morale the day before yesterday to attack the Zhenyan Department as soon as possible, and after repairing for a day, he ordered the army to break west again. Longbi General Peng Qianjin is still a brave young man at this moment, as the only two remaining veterans of the Zhou Wu Dynasty, he and Su Jin have lived until the reign of Emperor Wai.

The Bayan Maternity Trust, which means rich water and soil in the language of the grassland people, is the summer place of the Zhenyan Department. Peng Qianjin led the army to camp thirty miles east of Bayanchantuo, and sent scout cavalry to investigate the enemy's situation. Peng Qianjin was taken aback by the news that the scouts approached the tent of the Zhenyan Department without encountering any obstacles, and the women and children in the tent lived and cooked as usual, as if the war was a distant thing for them. After lurking for most of the day, a ranger encountered a group of steppe herders returning from hunting, and one of them even smiled at him with a deer on his back. According to the records of the military historians, Peng Qianjin's "complexion changed greatly" at that time, and he immediately ordered to retreat 30 miles to the camp. To put it simply, even though Peng Qianjin is brave, his worries are not unreasonable. Any soldier, no matter how much training he has experienced, as long as he has never really been on the battlefield and has seen bloodshed and death, he cannot be regarded as a real veteran. Recruits who have just entered the battlefield, no matter how well-equipped and strong their martial arts are, will be afraid, so those who survive on the battlefield are often not the strongest, but the bravest. Because of this, the grassland people are the great enemies of the Eastern Continent, compared to the farmers who were recruited in the Eastern Continent and may not have even killed chickens, the grassland people ride on horses all day long, eat their own prey, and at the least kill the grazing cattle and sheep, they are natural warriors. However, Peng Qianjin knew that even a battle-hardened warrior would be afraid and nervous when facing a powerful enemy, but the tribe in front of him, which was not very numerous, was clearly facing a catastrophe, but even women and children could remain calm and live a normal life, which was simply terrifying! If it weren't for military education being carved into their bones—Peng Qianjin knew it couldn't be—there was some trap waiting for the army of the Eastern Continent. So what is the aftermath of the True Face Division?

No, they don't have a back-up move. Resistance is completely hopeless. In the early morning of the second day of the camp, the envoys of the Zhenyan Department went to Peng Qianjin's big tent and handed over the letter of surrender. The book was written in the Eastern Continent script, but the grammar was quite incomprehensible.

Descending the book, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty Junjian, my true face department lives in Hanzhou, long-admired Wanghua, the army is everywhere, my department looks at the wind and surrenders, and there is no resistance. Now that the king is in the ministry, I should greet him upside down, and hope that the king will be merciful and make the true face of the whole leader, and he will be terrified. Our department is willing to lead the horses and hold the bridle for the army, as a driving force. It turned out that the only Wusa in the True Face Department who could write the Eastern Continent script was killed by a random arrow in the battle of Zaromud, and Lord Ryko had no choice but to gather his apprentices and try to piece together a letter of surrender. The herdsmen in the clan were very happy to hear that there was no need to fight, but they didn't know that in fact, the book was just a manuscript in the stomachs of a few people. At the same time that Peng Qianjin ordered the army to retreat thirty miles, Ruike learned that the Donglu people were coming so quickly, and their scouts had already inquired about the situation nearby.

Peng Qianjin, who was waiting for a big fight, suddenly received an unexpected surrender letter, and immediately didn't know what to do - he never thought that the grassland people would also surrender. It was Guan Zhongliang who first appeased the envoys of the grassland people, and then proposed to ask Zhou Qing, who was still in the Hai'an camp, for instructions. According to the record of "Chronicle", Zhou Qing, who hated the grassland people, was reluctant to surrender at first, and his worry was "If even Shuofeng's department surrendered, what would he fight", and Su Jin strongly persuaded Zhou Qing to accept surrender, otherwise even with the strength of the Zhou army, it would not be an easy thing to be attacked on three sides, and the current war was going well, but once it reached a stalemate, not only the soldiers on the front line needed to be appeased, but the ancestral hall party in the rear might not let go of such an opportunity, so it was better to accept the surrender, so as to divide the grassland people, it was the best policy. Zhou Qing pondered for a long time, and passed the decree to seal Ruike as the "Northern Gu Jun", which can be regarded as accepting the surrender of the Zhenyan Ministry.

After pulling out Mo Gan, the nail on the way forward, the Hanzhou grassland was truly afraid. The defeat of the Wudi tribe can also be attributed to their own inadequacy, no matter how weak the Eastern Continent is in the eyes of the steppe people, no one will expect to rely on a new tribe to hold back the army of the Eastern Continent; However, the Nine Tribes are different, they are a real big tribe, their lord Mo Gan is the one who led the clan to sweep the Yanyang granary thirty years ago, and he is a real grassland warrior, but now the main force of this tribe and their lord have disappeared under the iron hooves of the Wind Tiger Cavalry. Ye Wang, the Eastern Continent general who is used to going into battle shirtless, used guns and blood to let the former "barbarian locusts" understand what the real "iron hoof" is.

Those iron-clad horses that had been laughed at by Guo Chun were now running in the mouth of the Beilu messenger, and they had traveled through all the grasslands of Hanzhou. The steppe people of the Northern Continent call themselves "barbarians", they are brave and straightforward, with the keen intuition of a fox and the ambition of a lion, but they are not without fear - the people of the Eastern Continent have already set foot on the two tribes of Wudi and Jiuyi, the two tribes that first invaded the Eastern Continent thirty years ago, and the Zhenyan Department even sent envoys to present the surrender table to the Emperor of the Eastern Continent. Who else can stop the progress of the Donglu people? Who is the next target of the Dongriku people? Should I fight to the death or surrender to save my life?