In the city in the clouds, after the winter, it is the most lively time.

In spring, summer and autumn, they all cultivate, trade, and graze on this barren land. in order to accumulate resources to survive. They also had to be on guard in the villages, mountain forts, and beacons everywhere, fearing that the wolf smoke would suddenly rise, and the endless steppe peoples would suddenly surge in, enter the land in the clouds to burn and plunder, and open the way to the richer lands to the south.

These three seasons, when the climate is relatively good, are the most difficult for the people of the Land of the Clouds. Survival on the border has never been easy.

In winter, when the birds of thousands of mountains fly away, and the traces of thousands of people disappear. In other places, lamenting the loneliness of winter and the dullness of life. The people in the clouds have a different kind of joy of life from other places.

The people scattered outside the outside poured into Cloudsdale in large numbers every winter.

One is that winter is not the season for the grassland people to use troops, so you don't have to be on duty in the beacon fort, and you can spend the winter with peace of mind.

The second is the land in the clouds, although the Great Sui ended the centuries-old chaos of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. However, in the border area, the model of the garrison military government was continued, and the people had a deep relationship with Hengan Yingyang Mansion, farming for Hengan Yingyang Mansion in peacetime, and transporting materials for Hengan Yingyang Mansion in wartime, or garrisoning the city. In exchange, the production is not taxed by the county government, and it should not be adjusted by the county government.

The clouds are barren, and Heng'an Yingyang Mansion has to be supported by the county government and even Hedong and other places, and these military people who belong to Heng'an Yingyang Mansion can also share the profits. The winter is difficult, the household registration converges inside and outside the cloud city, and the military government also has to open a warehouse to release grain for their chewing and wrapping in winter, Hengan Yingyang Mansion does not have the ability to distribute food and materials to various military and civilian points, it is better to take advantage of the winter to concentrate tens of thousands of households as much as possible.

At that time, the six towns of Xianbei were this model, and the Great Sui traced back to the roots, it started from the six towns of Xianbei, and the military government stationed in the border areas still followed the model.

In winter, the military government household registration is concentrated and gathered in one place, but it can save materials such as food and firewood, and you can also take the opportunity to strengthen and renovate various urban defense facilities of the military government, which is exactly a matter of benefit and convenience.

Because of this reason, every winter, Cloudsdale is a lively scene. The people in the forts everywhere, and the soldiers who had been guarding the beacon for more than half a year, almost all rushed back. Anyway, the places left behind are poor, and if the grassland people are willing to freeze and starve to death in the ice and snow, more than half of the horses will rush to plunder and take advantage of the weakness to loot, and they will not be able to catch anything.

Even if those village forts were destroyed, the dwellers would be dug up in two days, and the trenches and fences would not last long. The beacons were built by dry bases, and the rammed earth was extremely hard after a hundred years of wind and sun, and they wanted to completely destroy them one by one, so that those grassland people could gnaw it slowly with their teeth. Anyway, after so many years, none of these steppe peoples are willing to do such stupid things in winter.

Inside and outside the city in the clouds, there were tens of thousands of people for a while, inside and outside the city, everywhere. The people under the military government serve in the army every year and have their own discipline. Outside the city there were winter camps with dug nests in the ground, and the empty houses inside the city were full of people, and they were well organized according to the constraints of the fortress. In the cold season, so many people live together and do not worry about the occurrence of epidemics.

Every day, the strong men were gathered together, either to teach them the art of training in formation, or to renovate the fortifications of the city. When these things are over, inside and outside the city, there is a social fire, and the people wrapped in leather robes gather in one place, watching the play, and the children are chasing me, and there is a happy and peaceful atmosphere.

Every five days, the lord of the fortress or the head of a clan will receive grain, rice and firewood according to the household registration registered in the roster, which is supplied by Hengan Yingyang Mansion, and the amount is almost enough, plus the food he brought, he can also deal with a full stomach every day.

If the wind and snow stop and the sun comes out, you can see how many people inside and outside the city hold their hands and bask in the sun while chatting. That comfortable appearance, as if you can't get it for an official.

If there are a few more treasures in the waist, you will have to find a secluded place mysteriously, and secretly drink a few sips of the turbid wine brewed by the store - from winter to spring, the land in the clouds is strictly forbidden to make wine, save food, and if you catch it, you will be beaten with a military stick and punished with hard labor. But I still can't stop the wine insects, if I can take a few sips of wine, it will be completely beautiful, that is, let the Jinluan Palace in Luoyang City not be changed!

For many years, people in the border areas have lived like this and enjoyed themselves. No matter what kind of barbarians the hinterland of the Central Plains regards them, they still survive in this most treacherous environment, resisting the invasions of the steppe peoples again and again. Sometimes they succeeded, sometimes they failed, but they never left the land.

Although the situation of Cloud City at this time is a sinister situation that has not been seen in the decades since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty. Liu Wuzhou led them to resist the Turks in the north and Wang Rengong's hostility in the south. The military government's grain storage was extremely tight, and it could not even support it until the beginning of spring.

But tens of thousands of households are still basically gathered here, and few people have migrated. Not to mention how many young men from Ma Yi who rushed to join the army.

Just because they all regard Liu Wuzhou as a hero!

It's just that now, there seems to be one more hero who is looked down upon by Cloudsdale City.

In the midst of these days, there is another earth-shattering news circulating in Cloud City.

On the same day, outside the city in the clouds, a person alone broke into the camp of the nine Tatars surnamed in the steppe, defeated the Turkic envoys, and captured the Le Langjun who colluded with the Turks, and Zhang Wansui, the general under Wang Rengong, did another great thing!

This Le Langjun was ordered by Liu Ying to write a letter to Wang Tai, questioning Zhang Wansui about collusion with the Turks. only to find that Wang Taishou sent Ma Yi Yue to ride and wash his hometown in Shenwu County.

This Le Langjun rose up angrily, gathered the Ma Yi men, first killed the battalion of Ma Yi Yue Qi, and then captured Shenwu City with his backhand!

After Wang Taishou gathered the elite of the Yingyang Mansion in Mayi to counterattack Shenwu City, Le Langjun raised troops to counterattack again, winning more with less. In one fell swoop, he destroyed the thousands of elites gathered by Wang Taishou and showed his troops under Shanyang City.

After counting the sins of Wang Taishou, Le Langjun is about to return to the north and return to Liu Ying's command!

I don't know how such news spread inside and outside Yunzhong City at once, and the people in Yunzhong, who were originally quite worried under Wang Rengong's pressure, were immediately stirred up by this news.

Wang Rengong coerced the name of the son of the family, exhausted the financial resources of Mayi County to expand the military strength, and oppressed Liu Wuzhou, who was facing the front line of the Turks, to survive. It is even more colluded with the Turks, and it is necessary to completely annex a place in the clouds.

Originally, it was nothing under the rule of Wang Rengong, but last year's big war was in everyone's eyes, Liu Wuzhou has been fighting to the death, but Wang Rengong is preserving his strength, and then it was Tang Guogong Li Yuan who rushed to join the war, forcing the Turks to return south, and finally attacked to take advantage of the Turkic retreat, resolutely impacted, and defeated the Turks, or Hengan Yingyang Mansion!

Wang Rengong also hooked up with the Turks, if the land in the clouds was cut off from the Turks, what should it be?

The people in the clouds have a lot of grievances against Wang Rengong, but one is afraid of Wang Rengong's strong strength, and the other is that the food supply is stuck in Wang Rengong's hands. Everyone has a sense of precariousness.

But Xu Le's blow completely exposed the essence of Wang Rengong's strong and middle-class cadres. made the soldiers and civilians in the clouds quite angry.

What is there to fear from such an enemy? Just raise troops and fight over! Just wait for the winter to pass, just wait for Le Langjun to return to Liu Ying's command.

When the time comes, the elite soldiers will go straight to the good sun!

Just wait for Le Langjun to return north!