In the spring of the seventeenth year of Zhenyuan, the Tiantuo Strait was once again obscured by the clouds of war, and Zhou Qing's fleet returned to Hanzhou seven years later. But this time the army is no longer facing the arrogant barbarians of seven years ago, but the vicious wolves who have sharpened their minions. Having learned the lessons of the previous Northern Expedition, this time the Zhou army gave up the idea of full occupation and only followed the Tiexian River and the Xuesong River to make a chiseling attack on the northern capital. In the autumn of the previous year, the Tiefu Tu of King Chuyun of Chin Dahan swept away all the Eastern Continent garrisons in Hanzhou, and only two scouts barely managed to escape back to Tianyuan, but Zhou Qing only nodded. Of course, in the mind of Emperor Wu of Zhou, this was something that would happen sooner or later. Since both sides also know that war is inevitable, it doesn't really matter who is the first to declare war.

Within a month, Zhou Qing's edict galloped through the Eastern Continent, and within three months, the 150,000 troops of the princes of the Sixteen Kingdoms came to the end of the army. Counting the Wulin Heavenly Army after the reorganization, the number of Zhou Wutie Brigade in the Second Northern Expedition was as high as 330,000, known as 400,000 troops. The navy of the Eastern Continent gathered in the narrow Tiantuo Strait and transported the army to the Northern Continent, and it is said in the "History of the Mirror and Ming Dynasty of the Great Zhou Emperor": "The sails are connected, and compared with the paddle wheels, the strait is almost a thoroughfare." Zhu Tingshen, as the Duke of the Ming Dynasty and a staunch supporter of the Northern Expedition, ordered that all administrative services be used to receive the Northern Expeditionary army, and even did not hesitate to relocate the 2,000 households near the wharf. Since Li Jinglong reopened the Western Continent, the Eastern Continent has made ships for a long time. During the Zhou Wu period, the size of the ships and the draft doubled, and the progress of warships was also very obvious. The picture shows the Lionsgate fighting ship of the Ming Kingdom, famous for its bow batter.

The barbarians did not try to intercept the convoy of the Eastern Continent at sea, but chose to abandon water warfare altogether. In the first Northern Expedition, the Zhou Wu Iron Brigade relied on the Tiexian River to achieve a huge transportation and marching advantage, and the barbarian general Azug sank a large number of long ships full of stones in the river, trying to compete with the Eastern Continent in a land battle on the plain. When Zhou Qing's fleet crossed the Tiantuo Gorge, the barbarians' Jiuyu tribe only symbolically shot a shower of arrows and retreated inland, and on the flat coastline hundreds of miles long, the barbarians were obviously powerless to resist the Eastern Continental Fleet, which had the advantage of sea support. But in the vast grasslands of the Northern Continent, victory or defeat depends on strength. Azug, whom Chu Yun ransomed with fifteen sheepskins, was obviously a rare wise general in the Northern Continent, but Su Jin was a genius.

Different from the first way of advancement, Su Jin will fight a heart-piercing battle this time, the army will go all the way north from the plain between the Xuesong River and the Scarlet Cloud River, cross the Tongyun Mountain Horse Pass, and smash the northern capital, completely and quickly crushing the pride of the barbarians. This route was Ye Zheng's guerrilla route during the First Northern Expedition, and Ye Zhengze, who was already a general of the Great Zhou Dynasty at this moment, led an army of 80,000 with Peng Qianjin to advance along the route of the main force of the First Northern Expedition, with the purpose of attracting the main force of the Northern Continent and covering the advance of the Zhou Wu army. Peng Qianjin is undoubtedly one of the most fierce generals in the world, and Ye Zheng's wolf teeth are the most terrible nightmare of the barbarians, their ferocity is like the galloping wolf riding in Shuobei, but the military discipline is comparable to the strictest mountain formation in the Eastern Continent. Only this strong force could quickly break through to Tongyun Mountain, stop the barbarian interception of Su Jin, and join the headquarters of the Zhou Wutie Brigade.

Later generations once lamented that if this army was under the command of Li Jingxin, there would probably be no success, but Li Jingxin was not good at fighting urgently, and he might not be able to meet the requirements of speed. The army that went north from between the Scarlet Cloud River and the Tiexian River was personally commanded by Zhou Qing and Baili Yu, and of course the supreme military commander was still Su Jin. Bai Liyu is not in the imperial capital this time, on the one hand, he believes that after seven years of peace, the foundation of the imperial party has been quite solid; On the other hand, he also felt some crises in Hokuriku. This is a crisis from the Qin Heavenly Prison. Although Baili Yu had not been in contact with Qin Tianjian for a long time, he had never ignored this terrifying force, and he used Tian Yuan's intelligence to keep an eye on Qin Tianjian's actions, and received a secret and shocking news: the power known as the "Dragon of Qin Tianjian" had traveled to Beilu. The Dragon of the Qin Heavenly Prison is a terrifying force in the hands of the Great Pope, but even Bai Li Yu does not know whether it represents a terrifying mystic or a powerful army, even if Bai Li Yu is the identity of the Qin Heavenly Prison seed, he only knows that "the Dragon of the Qin Heavenly Prison is the most terrifying combat power of the Qin Heavenly Prison", but he has never heard of any specific battle examples.

Bai Li Yu is not the only one who is also concerned about Qin Tianjian. The Holy Church, the greatest enemy of the Chin Heavenly Prison in the history of Kyushu, also noticed this. When Ye Wang gathered his Three Thousand Wind Tigers at Bizhi, he was found by his teacher in Ji Palace, Yu Wutuo, who was one of the Templar Sect Masters and was sixty-six years old and could no longer go to battle, but he brought news about Qin Tianjian's movements.

He was perhaps one of the most obscure sect masters in the history of the Templars, but in fact, he died of an illness in the Ji Palace shortly after his return to Tengen from Bizhi, which the doctors deduced was due to the fatigue of the saddle horse. He had been under the supervision of Li Zesi for the first half of his life, and he had not been able to do anything great, and when the Northern Expedition began, he was already a frail old man who was dying of old age. The highest position in his life is only the chief deacon of Ji Palace, but it is this person who uses his ring to send orders to the Eastern Continent and the Three Hundred Holy Churches to gather in Tongyun Mountain, so that Ye Wang can slay the tiger and slay the dragon.

In April of the 17th year of Zhenyuan, the 300,000 troops of the Zhou Wu Iron Brigade landed on 12 tidal flats, and Zhu Jie, who was known as the first in water warfare in the Jigong Alumni Association, led a fleet of 80 long ships and 54 building ships to the north along the iron line north, and to the east of the fleet was Su Jin's Chinese army. Soon, at the first narrowing of the Ironline, the fleet encountered the ships loaded with stones that had been sunk beforehand, which was an obstacle set up by the Hokuriku, and Azug set up thirty-seven blockages in the Tielin River and the Crimson Cloud, and he requisitioned almost all the pirate ships that had been used to plunder the Eastern Continent, connected by iron cables, and sank into the river with earth and stones. According to his calculations, even if these arrangements could not completely stop the waterway tactics of Zhou Wu's army, they could at least delay their march. This idea was undoubtedly militarily correct, but he was unaware of the political changes that took place during the seven years: through the sage, Zhou Qing had reached a tacit agreement with the Wu regime, and he purchased from the Wu the Ningzhou longship, which had a shallower draft and faster movement. Although it is nominally a purchase, the price is good and you can pay it on credit in advance, which is almost the same as free support.

The Witch Mariners were the masters of Kyushu and had their own solutions to the blockages of the river, and the small boats with tow hooks and the nimble witches who were as nimble as loaches quickly dug a path through the river, and they skillfully used the water to scatter the wooden boats full of stones at the bottom of the river, and the light Wu longboats passed quickly. Azug's strategy of breaking the river did slow down the northward movement of the Zhou army, but it was too far from the result he expected. Zhou Qing got in touch with the Wu Clan. In the second Northern Expedition, a total of 1,500 elites of the Wu tribe were incorporated into the Zhou Wutie Brigade, in addition to those who were familiar with the terrain of Tongyun Mountain were organized as scouts, and the Wu tribe, who was already a cavalry captain at this moment, personally led a thousand Wu archers as guerrillas for the large battalion. Although these Wu people are not as strong as the legendary marksman, when it comes to their personal bow and arrow skills, they are also impressed by the Bauhinia Long Shot, who once underestimated their thin stature. In folklore, there are also many stories such as "Zhou Wu Bows to Ghosts" and "One Arrow Pierces Three Chiefs". In addition, there are a considerable number of Wu warships equipped with Youzhou boatmen named recruited, who are actually powerful characters of Wu Clan's sailors, and have made great contributions to opening up the river.

In the Northern Expedition, Zhu Tingshen became the nominal vanguard as the Duke of the Ming Kingdom, Ye Wang, who was the commander of the three armies of the Ming State at the time, was the actual vanguard, and Ye Wang's Jigong junior lieutenant Tang Xiang was known as the vanguard of the vanguard, leading a group of cloud cavalry to open the way before Ye Wang's iron cavalry. Tang Xiang has always taken Ye Wang as an example, accustomed to charging into battle, and the contempt Kunbu between the two rivers fled from the wind, and did not give him a chance to make a move. In fact, the barbarians didn't expect that the advance speed of the Zhou Wu Iron Brigade could be so fast, let alone that their strategic goal this time was to directly target the northern capital. The urgently mobilized cavalry encountered the 80,000 horses under Ye Zheng and Peng Qianjin, and were blocked west of the Tiexian River. When Tang Xiang's cavalry saw the mountain pass of Tongyun Mountain, almost everyone thought that this time they would definitely be able to break through to the northern capital and trample the barbarians under their feet. Ye Wang instinctively felt the danger, he was the number one general in the Eastern Continent and the sect master of the Holy Hall, the crisis he felt at this moment did not only come from military experience, but also an instinct that made him creepy.

For the Wumin, they were shocked by what the Eastern Continent Chinese had achieved in Hanzhou. For a long time, although the barbarians were haunted by the ravages of the barbarians in Leizhou back then, the Wu clan had never had the opportunity to go deep into Hanzhou for revenge in history.

The next day, the scouts came to report, and the Horse Race Pass stood up overnight, shining brightly, and there were many swords and halberds at the head of the city, and I don't know how many defenders there were. Ye Wang led the team to look at it in person, but found that this mysterious pass, which seemed to fly from the sky, turned out to be an ice pass. It was May, and the snow and ice were still condensed, which caused a considerable degree of panic among the Zhou army. The barbarians have the help of the stars and gods. Rumors spread quickly among the soldiers.

This pass is not a miracle of the gods of the stars, but the handiwork of their follower, Qin Tianjian. After considering the strength of both the Chinese and barbarians, the Great Pope believed that the strength of the Zhou army was still too strong, so he sent a large number of mystics to assist the barbarians in building this pass called Yinming Pass. Dozens of mystics worked together to build a huge secret ritual array in the Happy Horse Pass, in late May spring, the Happy Horse Pass was still as cold as winter, the barbarian soldiers erected hundreds of huge logs as a base at the pass, and on this basis, they continuously poured boiling water on the logs, and the boiling water quickly condensed under the strange cold, connecting the logs into a huge ice city wall. And the commander of these mystical masters is the dragon of Qin Tianjian. No one knew his real name, no one knew what race he was, and few people outside of the Qin Heavenly Prison even knew of his existence. Some speculate that he is an arcane master who is older than the Great Pope, others believe that he is a witch nobleman like Gu Lun, and some even swear that he is a real dragon.

The Zhou army launched an assault on the Yinming Pass, but as they approached the pass, they felt a biting cold, and the barbarian soldiers in furs threw arrows and boulders at the Zhou army, and the two armies were at each other. When Ye Wang was about to break through the pass at any cost, a barbarian ten-household leader suddenly entered his tent and performed the temple salute to tell the dragon of Qintianjian to run the horse pass to perform the secret technique, and the Xiongguan rose overnight, but his real purpose was to cause a landslide in Tongyun Mountain, bury the entire army of the Eastern Continent, and inform him that there was a small road to reach the place of the Qintianjian secret art formation. Ye Wang was shocked and wanted to inquire in detail, but the barbarian holy church said angrily: "I am the evil Qintian supervisor of the world, and I hate the Ru army for the destruction of the Northern Continent. After finishing speaking, he pulled out his knife and committed suicide, Ye Wang couldn't stop it, and sighed for a long time. On this night, Su Jin, who was in charge of Zhou Wu's main formation, found that his classmate, the Wu tribesman who served as a guerrilla in the Chinese army, was missing.

At the same time, there are dozens of generals at all levels of the Zhou Wutie Brigade, they did not flee from the battle, when they left, they all had a letter to their superiors or subordinates to make detailed arrangements, although the grammar is different, but the general idea is to explain who should take over the military command, the tone is flat, as if their disappearance is just to go to the next door to eat tea. And among the ordinary soldiers, there were also hundreds of people who silently broke away from the team and disappeared into the night. Su Jin roughly guessed the reason, but there was one person who was more certain than him, and that was Baili Yu. This former seed of the Qin Heavenly Prison knew very well what that meant, but did not make any move. More than 300 people who joined the Zhou army through various connections left from the main formation and even the rear army of the Zhou Wutie Brigade, crossed the desolate Barbarian Dance Plain, and entered the Tongyun Mountain. Some people were on horseback, some were on foot, and some people fell in the cold water while crossing the Xuesong River. In the end, only three hundred and four people arrived in front of the Yinming Pass three days later.

At this moment, the war no longer belongs to the Eastern Continent and the Northern Continent, but to the Holy Church and the Qin Heavenly Prison. On the eve of this short and tragic battle, Ye Wang demonstrated his marksmanship one by one in front of him, and it did not mean that the people of the Tuowu clan would pass on their marksmanship. Although he did not die in the battle, he was never able to return to his loved ones. The Barbarian Sanctuary brought news to Ye Wang from a secret path from which he could also reach a snow-capped mountain on the flank of Yinming Pass. Although it was already May, due to the existence of the secret art formation, the top of the mountain was still covered with snow, and the secret magic team of the dragon of Qin Tianjian had arranged the secret ritual formation on this mountain top. They used the combination of Yinchi, Filling, and Gu Xuan to find the most vulnerable hub of Tongyun Mountain, which caused an avalanche or even a landslide after the Chinese army of the Zhou Wutie Brigade entered the mountains, burying at least half of the hundreds of thousands of troops.

Three hundred churches raised eagle flags and chanted, "Death today!" ", sonic boom mountains. On this morning, Tang Xiang led a charge to cover the actions of the Templars, but because they did not carry many siege equipment, the Zhou army suffered heavy casualties, and Tang Xiang was also killed by a stone bullet during the siege. By this moment the Templars had disappeared into the mountains. Although nominally a mountain trail, it was barely crawlable and dangerous even for frequent walkers, making it impossible for armies to march, even among elite Templars, several of whom fell to their deaths while crossing the peak. Qin Tianjian also noticed the movement of the Holy Hall, and also noticed that someone in the Holy Hall within the barbarian clan was missing, but the Secret Ritual Formation had been activated, so it was no longer possible to move the location. They can only try to lay secret traps and more troops in the mountains, trying to kill and repel possible enemies. The Templars undoubtedly understood this, but they entered Tongyun Mountain, which might have become a trap, without hesitation with a fanaticism that ordinary people could not understand. The scouts scattered in the mountains were quickly killed by the Templars, and before they could even give a warning, the Barbarian Ghost Bow became a formidable enemy of the Templars. Although the Holy Hall is powerful, this is the Northern Continent after all, for the barbarians, the time and place are on their side, and the cold arrows flying out of Zhou Xue have taken the lives of many Holy Churches, but almost no ghost bow has time to send out the second arrow, and it will be killed by the flying witch arrows or spears. The battle was short and fierce, and by the time the Templars reached the top of the hill, nearly a hundred men had fallen on the road.

The Great Array of Secret Rites is composed of twelve mysticists, but the power that Qin Tianjian has put on it here is not only that. Alternate mystics and the undead who had used their mystical skills to generate their physical potential formed the last line of defense and fought against their generational enemies, the Sanctuary. Thankfully, due to the need to keep secrets for the secret arts, Qin Tianjian did not arrange barbarian soldiers around the secret ritual array. The battle between the Qin Heavenly Prison and the Templar was fierce, and even the Northern and Eastern Continent armies as far away as Yinming Pass could see the mountains change color, and a loud noise resounded through the mountains. Chu Gui, the six kings of the Shuofeng Division, who commanded at Yinming Pass, was even so shocked that his sword fell to the ground, and the dragon of Qin Tianjian who was with him immediately rushed to the top of the mountain in person.

The power of the dragon of Qintianjian made many temples talk about it many years later, although they suffered heavy casualties, they also almost killed all the defense lines of Qintianjian, but suddenly the wind and snow were blowing, and many temples were instantly blown off the cliff by the strong wind, and the Wu people, who were one of the sect masters, fired three arrows in a row, shooting the last three mystics, and they themselves also fell down, but the wind and snow did not stop at all. The crowd could no longer advance, and the Secret Ritual Array slowly rotated, and those in the Sanctuary who knew some secret techniques pointed out that the formation should be launched in advance, although it was not as good as encompassing the entire Zhou Wu Iron Brigade, but it was enough to wipe out the vanguard troops. At this moment, there were only more than ten people left in the holy church, and Ye Wang, who was suffering five wounds, suddenly stood up with a gun, tore his blood-stained robe, draped his hair over his shoulders, and walked into the wind and snow with a spear. No one knew what the duel between Ye Wang and the dragon of Qin Heavenly Prison was like, and some of the Templars swore that they had seen the shadow of the dragon appear in the snowstorm. Some people say that Ye Wang summoned the spirit of the tiger in the tiger tooth spear to fight the dragon, and there is also a legend that Ye Wang sucked the spirit of the dragon of Qin Tianjian into the spear in his hand. But when the wind and snow stopped, all the Wu people could see was Ye Wang, who was still standing, and the gun in his hand.

The dragon is in Kyushu, and there is no empirical evidence. Whether the dragon that Ye Wang slain was the secret master of Qin Tianjian himself, or whether he really summoned the spirit of the dragon, no one knows. Even Ye himself is vague. Without the support of the Secret Instrument Array, Yin Ming Pass melted faster than ordinary ice and snow, perhaps because of the backlash of the secret arts, and in an instant, cracks visible to the naked eye began to appear on the wall, and quickly spread throughout the pass, Yin Ming Pass collapsed into snow water and logs in front of the eyes of the army, and the two thousand defenders of the barbarians were almost wiped out. The snow flooded into the pioneer camp, reaching ankle deep. Zhu Tingshen was hesitating whether to retreat, and the Wu people carried Ye Wang down from the sky, "Yang shouted, 'The pass is broken, why not move quickly', the public is happy, and the wind tiger is knocking on the pass."

The Templars returned to their respective armies, and Su Jin ordered that they should not be held accountable for leaving the team, and the words of this battle spread to the community, becoming the legend of Ye Wang's "slaying the dragon and breaking the pass", and the prestige of the tiger teeth will continue for future generations. But in fact, the wreckage of Yinming Pass made it difficult to march into the Horse Pass, and many horses fell due to snow and mud, and it was not until ten days later, when Zhou Wu's main formation entered Tongyun Mountain, that Ye Wang's vanguard barely passed the Horse Pass. And this mud made it impossible for the siege equipment and baggage to move forward, and the army could only march west along the foothills and join Ye Zheng and Peng Qianjin.

Although the Yinming Pass of Qin Tianjian did not lose the military strength of the Eastern Continent, it won valuable time for the preparation of the Northern Continent. In a sense, Su Jin's heart-piercing tactics still failed. Chu Yun's secret weapon, Tiefutu, has been transferred to the northern capital. They will face Ye Wang, who has passed through the horse race pass and tried to explore the northern capital. After Ye Wang's Wind Tiger passed through the Horse Pass, the northern capital city was already close at hand, although the mud made the combat power of the Wind Tiger cavalry drop somewhat, but the morale was booming, and many Wind Tigers even had the naïve idea of not having to follow up with a large army and smashing the northern capital. However, they ran head-on into the Iron Butcher. The Shuofeng Department imitated the mountain formation tactics of the Zhou army, using the Iron Floating Slaughter to fill the mountain formation, the Iron Floating Slaughter to charge the Wind Tiger, and the Ghost Bow to charge the Cloud Cavalry. The Iron Float was more aggressive and lethal than the Mountain Formation, and the twenty-seven-year-old Iron Bolt took the lead, and the Iron Floating Slaughter launched a deadly assault on the Wind Tiger. This was the first time that the Eastern Continent army had faced the Iron Floating Massacre, and they were horrified to find that their swords and spears could barely hurt this heavy armor, and the impact of the Iron Floating Slaughter would sweep and engulf the Wind Tiger like ground meat, and in front of the tall Northland horses as tall as four-horned yaks, the Wind Tiger Cavalry selected by the Ming Kingdom was as weak as a child facing a giant. Even Ye Wang's bravery could not allow the Wind Tiger to defeat this king of cavalry, so he could only order the entire army to retreat. Tiefutu and the ghost bow covered up and killed, and Chu Guizun, who was lucky enough to escape at Yinming Pass, personally led Tiefutu to chase and kill, and killed countless wind tigers. Ye Wang was suppressed and retreated to the south of Tongyun Mountain, but Zhu Tingshen, the Duke of Mingguo, died in the retreat. When Zhou Qing heard the news, he was saddened, Zhu Tingshen was his staunchest supporter of the Northern Expedition, and he was the same age as him, and he was really the most compatible with him among the princes.

But Zhou Qing didn't know that he would soon get even more sad news. Zhu Tingshen's death brought Zhou Qing great pain. But the serious consequences of this incident did not become apparent until Zhou Qing's class: Ming Guo, who had lost Zhu Tingshen, was no longer his biggest supporter. Ye Zheng and Peng Qianjin's Western Route Army went all the way north and successively defeated the attacks of Heishui, Yanghe, and Lanmabu, but Ye Zheng found that the barbarians' tactics were much smarter. In view of the characteristics of the Zhou army, the barbarian army, which had suffered several hard battles, changed its tactics. The barbarian army took a small number of death squads as the front army, arranged the main force of the cavalry on the left and right flanks, and launched a surprise attack with the death squads, and if the attack failed, they immediately retreated and regrouped. If the enemy's main force attacked, they would disperse and retreat, luring the main force of the Zhou army to pursue, and then form an encirclement with the main force of the cavalry on the left and right flanks. If the besieged main force is too strong, immediately retreat and lure the enemy into pursuit. Because barbarian soldiers often carried several horses, even long-distance gallops did not slow down the cavalry. Only wait for the Zhou army to be exhausted, and then turn around to cover and kill the soldiers who are advancing lightly. After several encounters, although the Zhou Wu Iron Brigade maintained its advance with the advantage of numbers, the speed was much slower than that of the first Northern Expedition.

On May 16, Peng Qianjin personally led the pursuit of a cavalry of the Black Water Division, he had repelled several barbarian encirclements, and was very confident in his military strength, but this time it was undoubtedly great. After many tactical reconnaissances, Azug figured out Peng Qianjin's habits and personality, and this time mobilized 20,000 Iron Floating Tu and 3,000 ghost bows to eat this big bone. When Peng Qianjin found himself surrounded, he didn't realize that the enemy's military strength was different this time, and he wanted to transfer the army to rush back, but when he found that the other party had raised the banner of Shuofeng Tiefutu, Rao was brave and good at fighting, and he also felt a little bad. But the barbarians did not immediately tighten the encirclement and eat up the army of less than 10,000 people, which was already close to the barbarians' camp in the northern capital, and Zhou Wu's army was still unable to advance at Yinming Pass. According to Ye Zheng's art of war, he should give up Peng Qianjin at this moment and stand out, but his character and his art of war are not integrated. In the iron car, Ye is the most contradictory one, although his art of war is ruthless and ferocious, but he himself is the most casual and gentle, when he learned that Peng Qianjin was surrounded, he resolutely made the decision to go to the rescue. The Ye family and the Peng family in Yunzhong have been friends for generations, in fact, Peng Qianjin's wife is Ye Zheng's sister, but he went to the rescue, I am afraid it is not just because of this kinship. Ye Zheng handed over military affairs to Ma Di, a classmate of Jigong, and "Zhou Shi Ye Zheng Biography" contained what he said at the time: "If I don't return, you are a soldier, and the enemy has a wise general, so you can't enter lightly, and you can also go to the general headquarters of Su." This may indicate that he had expected that Zhou Wu's main formation might not be able to complete the battle of piercing the heart.

Ye Zheng only took the seven columns of the wolf's tooth and a small number of Tang cavalry to charge the battle, Tiefutu saw that there were not many troops, so he withdrew an opening, and let the wolf's tooth seven columns enter the encirclement. Ye Zheng ordered the Wolf Tooth Seven Columns to escort Peng Qianjin out, and he led the cavalry to break off. Tiefutu only lets people shortlist, and will not go out of the encirclement and cover up on all sides. But under Ye Zheng's training, the Seven Columns of Wolf Teeth can be called the first fierce in the Eastern Continent, they are 4,900 sergeants selected from the Xiao Cavalry Guard, all of them are fierce, although they are not under the direct command of Ye Zheng, but they still show amazing tactical literacy, interspersed in the Iron Floating Massacre, skillfully avoiding the edge of the enemy, not only seeing that they are about to break out of the encirclement, but also killing many ordinary barbarian soldiers. So much so that Azuge, who was watching the battle on the nearby hills, sighed after seeing the wolf's teeth charging into battle: "Let the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Continent be the same, and Hanzhou will belong to Zhou." Although the Seven Columns of the Wolf Tooth were strong, the Iron Floating Slaughter had the advantage in numbers, and Azug ordered the Lanma troops to immediately step forward to reinforce them. Ye Zheng discovered the hill where Azug was located from afar, gathered the remnants of Peng Qianjin and the cavalry of the Tang Kingdom, and first went straight to the intersection of the soldiers of the Tiefutu and Lanma Tribe, and suddenly turned around and broke through Azug in a wedge-shaped formation.

If Ye Zheng led the new force of the Wolf Tooth Seven Columns or the Xiao Cavalry Guard, perhaps the Northern Continent Zhi General Azug would once again become the unjust soul under Ye Zheng's knife, but Azuge probably learned the lesson of Tie Bayue and Chu Guiyi's surprise attack, and arranged a guard by his side. Ye Zheng led his troops to the bottom of the mountain, killed hundreds of enemies, and saw the Tiefu Tu listed in front of Azug, knowing that the surprise attack would not succeed, he led the army to leave. Azug was shocked and asked who his subordinates were, and replied to the witch general Ye Zheng, Azug sighed, "It's really terrifying", and ordered to besiege and kill at any cost. Ye Zheng led the troops to rescue Peng Qianjin, he had been galloping for a day and a night, people were sleepy and tired, Tiefutu was besieged, left and right conflicts, and he could not come out. Azug was overjoyed and sent someone to report to the northern capital.

There are many soldiers in the Northern Continent who have enmity with Ye Zheng, Ye Zheng was fierce in the first Northern Expedition, and repeatedly attacked the barbarian formation, killing countless leaders, although the Northern Continent respects the heroes, but the hatred for Ye Zheng is bitter. Immediately, the general drew a knife to cut him to death, Azuge hurriedly stopped, he knew the relationship between Ye Zheng and the Eastern Continent Emperor and the general, he wanted to use Ye Zheng as the second Peng Qianjin to attract bigger fish. At this time, the news of the destruction of the Yinming Pass reached the northern capital, Azuge led the troops to retreat, Ye Wang's raid on the north was repelled by Tiefutu, and the army of Zhou Wu turned into the barrier. At this time, Peng Qianjin had been rescued back to the Western Route Army, although Ma Di was not as treacherous as Ye Zheng, and not as brave as Peng Qianjin, but he was a general who defended the success, and immediately took the van as the foundation, and slowly moved eastward until he joined Su Jin's army, and did not let the barbarian army take any advantage.

Zhou Qing was shocked when he heard that Ye Zheng had saved people from falling into the enemy's formation, and at this moment, the scouts came to report that the barbarians tied Ye Zheng up, erected a high torture frame on the plain where the foot of Tongyun Mountain intersected with the mouth of the Iron Line River, and hung him on it, in order to hang him alive. Zhou Qing was furious and wanted to send troops to rescue him personally, but Su Jin and Bai Liyu stopped him. Su Jin and Ye Zheng have a deep friendship, but he knows that the other place is the most suitable place to ambush, and the barbarian Tiefutu has already exposed its minions, and there is no way to restrain it at present, once it is attacked by the prepared Tiefutu, the army will inevitably be defeated. If Su Jin is not enough to stop Zhou Qing, and Baili Yu, who has always been very persuasive to him, "Book of Zhou" contains, "Bai Li Yu said to Zhou Qing sharply: 'Ye Zheng is your brother, and tens of millions of people in the Northern Expedition are all your brothers, and you are not pitiful!'" The emperor stopped.

But what Su Jin was most worried about was not Zhou Qing, but Ye Wang, who was as hot as fire. Ye Wang slayed the dragon and broke through, and fought Tiefutu again, but at the moment his physical condition was very bad, lying in bed to recuperate. Su Jin sent dozens of soldiers to guard him day and night, and called Yi Tianzhan to comfort him, for fear that Ye Wang would rescue him alone again. But what he didn't calculate was that it was not Ye Wang who went to the rescue this time, but Li Beware. Li Careful is an introvert, his temperament is very slow, so that many people think he is an indifferent person, but this time they know that the blood of General Li of the Great Zhou is also fiery. After learning that Ye Zheng was hanged, Li Careful did not leave the account, lined up for a day, and said to his own soldiers: "I know how to break into the siege." The soldier asked, "Then how do you get out?" Li Beware threw away the calculation plan and said, "Where is the time to wait for me to calculate how to come out?" It's enough to just go in! "Go out and get on the horse, take the two thousand van guards with you, and set off overnight. The van guards were mainly infantry, but Li Dangxin did not bring any vans, but let them follow them on light horses, all the way to the north, detouring from behind Meiyin Mountain, cutting wood in the mountains and forests, and the van guards were good at setting up camps in formations, and they also had a lot of experience in these techniques, so they squeezed a way out of the mountains. Although Azug laid a heavy net, he did not expect the enemy to appear from behind, and Li Dang's army immediately caught them by surprise.

But when Li Jingxin saw Ye Zheng on the torture rack, he couldn't help crying bitterly, Ye Zheng was already dead, and Zhou Fa was fluttering in the wind, but there were no scavenging birds to desecrate his body. The van guard dismissed Ye Zheng, and Li Dangxin immediately led the crowd to break through. As he had calculated before, the van guard could come to Ye Zheng's position almost without loss, but he didn't have time to calculate the route to leave. Li Beware of the temple calculation, this is not good at the battle of the plot, but in the next ten days, he has repeatedly made surprise soldiers, such as divine help, almost all folk tales, all of the folk tales, are said that Ye Zheng will not fall the stars, in the dark to protect Li Beware, even the compiler of the "History of Zhou" also sighed: "General Li is treacherous with soldiers, as brave as the reincarnation of the brave uncle." "Maybe at that time, Li Dangxin really entered Ye Zheng's thinking field.

At this time, there was Azuge's army on the way back, and Li Dangxin did not lead the troops back to Meiyin Mountain, but chose to go north along Tongyun Mountain, went around to the rear of the northern capital, and slaughtered countless civil officials and nobles who were powerless. For a time, the name of General Li of the Great Zhou Dynasty was like thunder, and his prestige was close to Ye Zheng. At this time, Su Jin already knew that Li Beware set off alone, so he immediately dispatched the army and began to advance. There is no doubt that this is to create cover for Li Dangxin's actions, and Zhou Qing's persistence also played a very important role, no matter what, Li Caution can no longer be trapped in the enemy formation. The northern capital began to mobilize the Iron Floating Slaughter and the Iron Floating Slaughter, and set up a dignified array in the shelter barrier. But this weakened the power to hunt down Lee. Li Beware burned down two granaries in the rear and blocked the great witch Sayan Zhen outside the northern capital. But fortunately, a previously unknown person stepped forward. This person is Chu Yun's companion Murchi Guo Mohan. This young man grew up with Chu Yun and was tasked with the supply of the Northern Continent army, and when Li was in the forefront of his surprise army, he resolutely stood up and commanded Ruoding, which was an important reason why he was recognized as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Alam Khan.

Before this, many people thought that he was just relying on Chu Yun's support, and he had no real talent and learning, although he managed the logistics in an orderly manner, but the Beilu people who valued the courage of the battlefield still looked down on this somewhat thin young man. When evaluating military merits, there are even barbarians who say, "I only know that there are thousands of iron households, but I don't know that there is Guo Mohan" and the like. But this time, Guo Mohan took thousands of carts with baggage, and with the van car formation invented by Li Beware back then, General Li of the Great Zhou did not take advantage of it himself, and saved Dahe Sayan Zhen, and linked to Li Beanxin's subsequent achievements, Guo Mohan's small victory was even more precious. Seeing that he could no longer continue the attack, Li began to evacuate.

Although the barbarian army was pressured by Su Jin, it still sent an army to pursue Li Dangxin, and at this time the Horse Running Pass was already under the control of the Shuofeng Division, and Li Dangxin retreated east into Tongyun Mountain. Due to the large army was transferred to the Xuesong River, Beilu only used herdsmen to piece together a team of 24,000 people and began to search the mountain, at this moment Li Beware only had three hundred people, but he skillfully used the complex terrain of Tongyun Mountain, flickering east and west, always making his troops only face a few enemies, in order to make up for his lack of numerical advantage, repelled the barbarian pursuit more than ten times, annihilated more than 3,000 enemies, and only lost 17 cavalry. Chu Yun was furious and ordered him to kill Li Beware, and there was a reward for Li Beware's head and 10,000 households. The barbarian team entered the Tongyun Mountain again in search of the footprints, but the footprints were cut off after entering a clearing in the forest. In the middle of the clearing were Ye Zheng's complete corpses, bloodstains and traces of fighting, as well as the mane and paw prints of wolves scattered everywhere. The largest paw prints are said to be the size of a bowl, and the corpses of wolves and humans are scattered all around, and rumors that Li Beware died from the mouth of Beichen's greedy wolf have spread far and wide.

But after all, no one saw Li Dangxin's corpse, so there were also some barbarian tribes who believed that Li Dangxin was still dormant in the Tongyun Mountains, waiting for the opportunity to regain the bloody storm. Over time, Li Dangxin's name was deified by the barbarians into a demon god who cracked cattle and horses and ate human flesh raw. Even decades later, there are still people who scare disobedient children with words such as "General Li came out of Tongyun Mountain and captured you and went back to eat". Regarding the death of Li Dangxin, there is a third version of the legend, when the Shuofeng Department and the Zhou army Chen soldiers were in the Xuesong River, the northern part of Shuo also quietly sneaked into the Tongyun Mountain, and quietly waited for the opportunity not far from the battlefield of the Xuesong River. Li Beware retreated into Tongyun Mountain, and happened to enter the temporary camp in the northern part of Shuo. Li Careful is known for his precise calculations, but he is not good at rushing to fight, surrounded by thousands of vicious wolves, several times of battle, but failed to break through, and finally hundreds of people died in the belly of the wolf. Because Ye Zheng had been dead for a few days, the wolf did not like to eat dead meat, so he had to save the corpse. Many people prefer to believe this statement, because the armor and weapons of Li Dangxin's department were not found at the scene, and since these things could not be buried in the wolf's belly, then the biggest possibility was that they were collected by people in northern Shuo. Another evidence of this legend is that after the destruction of the Tiefutu and the mountain formation, the Shuofeng and Zhou armies still had the strength to fight, but they hurriedly withdrew their troops to negotiate peace, presumably discovering the conspiracy in the northern part of Shuo and not wanting it to succeed.