Due to the urgency of the situation, all the people on the road were on fast horses.

All of them, including hundreds of guards, carried two horses to facilitate the transfer on the way.

Among all of them, Ji Fei's riding skills were the worst, because he had only learned to ride a horse for half a year.

Normal horseback riding is okay, but if it is a long speed ride in the style of a rapid march, it seems a little inadequate.

At the end of the day, the whole body was sore as if it had fallen apart, and the inner thighs were even more painful.

Because I was so tired, I often fell asleep on the ground and slept until I was woken up.

Although he was miserable, he could only grit his teeth and persist in order not to become a burden to the team.

Fortunately, he has been practicing martial arts for many years, and his physical fitness is excellent, and after the most difficult four or five days, his riding skills have improved a lot, and his body has gradually adapted to this high-intensity way of traveling, and finally began to slow down.

Sure enough, horseback riding is like driving, it is a skilled and technical job, and there is no other way than to ride more and practice more.

Seeing that the little son-in-law had adapted to the rhythm of the march so quickly, Ning Zhiyuan, who had been secretly watching him, felt very satisfied.

Ning Zhiyuan had long seen that his little son-in-law was a novice in horseback riding, but what was rare was that he was not afraid of hardship or tiredness, which made him appreciate his little son-in-law even more.

is also a son-in-law, Ning Zhiyuan has more of a paternalistic attitude towards his eldest son-in-law Qiu Yuchen as long as he is good to his eldest daughter, Qiu Yuchen is still an outsider in his heart, but he usually does not show this kind of differential treatment.

For his little son-in-law Chi Fei, Ning Zhiyuan really treats him as half a son, and will say a lot of heart-wrenching things to him.

There is no way, there are still lengths of ten fingers, and people will inevitably be eccentric.

The little son-in-law is sober-minded, cautious, and sees things in the long run, and it is not difficult to talk to him at all. Sometimes he doesn't have to say a lot of things explicitly, and the other party already understands, which is too worry-free.

After so many things, especially the discovery of Wuxiang, and knowing that he was the "master" who taught Lu Jing to refine soju and stitch up wounds, he found that this little son-in-law really had some unfathomable taste. I know so many unheard of and unseen wonders.

These seemingly shocking and vulgar methods, not to mention a young ordinary commoner like the little son-in-law, even a great Confucian who claims to know astronomy and geography may not necessarily know.

No, I definitely don't know, otherwise the matter of Wuxiang would have been exposed a long time ago.

But only this kid knows what's going on, and he catches it accurately.

It is said that some people are born to know a lot of things that others don't know, and this is called being born to know.

He vaguely felt that the little son-in-law was such a strange person, which made him feel a sense of surprise that he had accidentally picked up a treasure.

Regarding this trip back to the northwest to deal with the plague, although the little son-in-law kept emphasizing that he was not sure at all, Ning Zhiyuan had a kind of inexplicable confidence in him, so he took the initiative to ask Jin Shangjuan to do this thing that sounded a bit fantastical.

After riding horses for more than half a month, the group finally arrived at Wuchi County, an important border town.

Along the way, Chi Fei was carefully explained by Lu Jing and began to have a general understanding of Wuchi County to go.

Wuchi County is located in the central part of the northwest, is the intersection of many major thoroughfares, almost the entire northwest region, is a very important transportation hub, but also a battleground.

The famous Northwest Battalion is located in Wuchi County, where more than 150,000 troops are stationed on weekdays.

In addition, the 100,000 troops stationed on the border can form an army of nearly one million people from the local area at any time to deal with the invasion of the Hu people.

Of course, this so-called million army, only the 250,000 regular troops in the northwest can really fight the Hu people head-on, and most of the rest are ordinary people who are responsible for building fortifications and transporting grain and grass materials.

However, the people in the northwest have always been fierce, and even ordinary people, as long as they can be organized and mobilized, they can become a force that cannot be underestimated.

A few years ago, when the Hu people invaded during the great drought in the north, these spontaneous anti-Hu forces composed of locals in the northwest were even stronger than the ordinary soldiers who had never fought in battles transferred from various local guard offices.

Because the soldiers transferred from various guards were really vulnerable, the local people in the northwest jokingly called them "young master soldiers" or "soft-footed soldiers", which shows how much they despise these people.

In fact, most of the soldiers in the Northwest Army were recruited from the local areas of the Northwest, not only because outsiders did not want to come here to serve as soldiers, but also because the Northwest people were indeed fierce. With a little training, you can become a good soldier who dares to kill, which is unmatched elsewhere.

The main threat to Great Wei came from two sides, one was to the north and the other was to the southwest.

The enemy to the north is, of course, the Hu people in the north, and the enemy to the southwest is the Changmao people who live in the northwestern plateau.

The real name of the Changmao tribe is the Tianlu tribe, because its body hair is much thicker than that of the Han people, and it is often not pruned, and it looks like a wild man, so the Han people call it the Changmao tribe.

The Tianlu people live in the northwest plateau and are a typical mountain people, brave and good at fighting, fierce and abnormal.

They often invaded the border in groups on bantam mountain horses, burned, killed and looted, inflicted heavy casualties on local civilians, and were also one of the main enemies of the Great Wei.

Until the time of Emperor Wu of Wei, Emperor Wu personally led a large army to the southwest plateau to crusade against the Tianlu people.

Under the several battles of the army, they killed countless enemies, and even burned down the palace of the Tianlu tribe, capturing a large number of Tianlu nobles alive.

After this expedition, the vitality of the Tianlu clan was greatly damaged, and since then they have been in a state of decline, and they dare not easily invade Great Wei.

Only a few Tianlu people will infeass the surrounding towns from time to time in hundreds.

The Southwest Army under the command of An Guogong was stationed here to prevent the resurgence of the Tianlu people in the Southwest Plateau.

Compared with the Tianlu tribe, which has become a horse thief, not only has a large number of people, but also Hu Cai, who is good at riding and shooting, is a big problem for the Great Wei, so the permanent army on the northern border is the most.

Once the Hu people invaded, it would only take a few days for the 150,000 troops on the side of the Northwest Battalion to quickly rush to the border for reinforcements.

Unlike other county towns, which practice self-cultivation or tenant farming, the entire Wuchi county implements the military cantonment system.

That is, all the fields in the county are cultivated by soldiers or military households, so as to reduce the expenses of the imperial court to raise the army as much as possible.

There are no ordinary civilians in the county, only soldiers and military households, especially military households.

The military households of the Great Wei were all convicted prisoners, and after they were sentenced to be confiscated into the army, they became military households, and the rear of the five generations may be converted into civilians.

These military households were essentially serfs in the army, and they were responsible for cultivating the fields and providing military rations for the army.

Their children can also join the army as soldiers, and as long as they have served in the army for three consecutive generations, they can become civilians early. Therefore, there will still be many children of military families who choose to become soldiers.

The implementation of the military cantonment system can not only reduce the burden on the imperial court as much as possible, but also effectively avoid the mixing of spies, so many important military towns in the northwest will adopt a similar business model.

Lu Jing himself was born in a military family, and his grandfather was also the imperial doctor in the palace. But because he offended a certain nobleman in the palace, the whole army was confiscated and became a military household in the northwest.

Since Lu Jing's grandfather, he has served as a military doctor in the army, and his generation is already the third generation. In other words, his children can already be converted from military households to civilians.

Now that his son is five years old, he plans to start teaching him medicine when he is older.

Speaking of his son, Lu Jing's weather-covered face would unconsciously show a sincere and satisfied smile.

When the group approached Wuchi County, Chi Fei soon saw a majestic and tall city standing in front of them.

Flags flutter on the city walls, bows and crossbows are available everywhere in the towers, and there are even a few forts, which look very majestic.

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