It is often said that the winters in the north are unusually cold,

Actually, it's not.

The spring in the north is unbearable for the cold,

Although spring has begun, a heavy snowfall last night made the entire Luoyan Pass clothed in a layer of white clothes.

On the hillside, on the pines, on the city walls, on the rooftops, there was a thick layer of snow everywhere,

No, people have already come out to clean their courtyards as soon as dawn breaks.

Sparrows jumped up and down the branches, chirping, and occasionally shaking off a patch of snow, startling themselves.

In the garden of the General's Palace, there is a study in an inconspicuous corner,

The light shines through the window of the study,

A handsome teenager is reading a book by the light, next to a few articles he has written.

The young man is full of heroism, his face is beautiful, and his skin is like jade, not simply fair, but faintly glowing with a blue light.

The young man's eyes were bright, like a carp in a pond full of vitality,

Although he was tall, he looked thin, not as strong as the other border soldiers at the pass, and it seemed that he was studying all day long, and he didn't go out to practice his ability to kill the enemy.

At this time, the boy heard the sound of snow clearing outside, looked up at the window, and saw that it was already white, so he stood up and stretched

"It's cold!" The boy thought to himself, and quickly grabbed the quilt from the chair and draped it over his body.

The charcoal in the brazier in front of the bed was almost burning, and the smoke was a little loud at this time.

The young man frowned when he looked at it, turned around and opened the window, the cold wind blew in, and the young man couldn't help but shiver.

After taking a long breath, the boy took off the quilt on his body and threw it on the bed.

"I must pass the exam! Not only to lift people, but also to be the solution of the yuan, not only to be the solution of the yuan, but also to be the champion of the jinshi! The boy put on his sheepskin coat and made up his mind secretly.

It's also a strange thing, this young man won the show at the age of ten, but unfortunately he couldn't even lift people in the township test two times in a row.

In the Pingcheng Township Examination last fall, the teenager failed again, and since then he has come to this secluded place by himself and studied alone.

The boy was dressed and pushed the door out, creaking through the snow and walking to the garden pond.

Crack the ice floe, pick up a handful of ice water and pour it on your face,

After washing his face, the boy rinsed his mouth again,

By the time I finished grooming, my hands and face were red from the cold,

But since childhood, I have been used to it, and it is good for teenagers to get up in the morning to freeze their minds.

The boy looked up at the sky, the sky was clear after the heavy snow, and he took a deep breath,

That cold air seems to be able to clean up all the depression in the chest.

In fact, teenagers like winter and snow.

But this time is different, because the young man's father, the governor of the five towns in the north, the hereditary commander of the north town, the Long Xiang Pavilion Hou Lan Thousand Array led the main force of the five towns with a total of 200,000 troops to expedition to Mobei in October last year, and there is still no victory.

"It's a bitter cold place outside, and when you go out to fight in winter, how can the soldiers stand it? What's more, after the autumn, Ma Fei, it is the time to be fierce, and if you go out to fight at this time, even if you win, you will hurt the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800. I don't know what happened to the front line with that heavy snow last night? Are your uncles and brothers okay? ”

The young man shook his head at the thought of it, trying to shake it all out.

I don't know when it started, the young man set up the idea of studying for the imperial examination,

For this his father Lan Qianzhen did not clean him up,

After all, the Lan family has been a general for many generations since the founding of the Dazheng Dynasty, and it is not that they do not study, but they do rely on military merits.

When he was a young man, Lan Qianzhen found someone to teach riding, bow and arrow, sword fighting, and long and short weapons to fight.

But the boy is extremely stubborn, he just doesn't study, he just goes to the study to read,

In order to force the boy to learn this, Lan Qianzhen even hung his son up and whipped him down.

But the young man was indomitable, to put it bluntly, he didn't learn to cut people when he was killed, he just wanted to study.

The teenager's mother also supported her son's education.

To say that Lan Qianjin is the supreme military commander of the entire northern border of Taisho,

Charging into battle, he didn't frown when he went into battle to kill the enemy, and his hands were full of elite soldiers.

I saw that my wife softened,

In fact, Mrs. Lan didn't say a word after getting married, it is said that it was to take revenge on Lan Qianzhen for snatching the marriage.

Lan Qianzhen was not controlled by his wife, but when he saw his wife, he had no choice.

Both mother and son planned to choose the path of studying for the imperial examination, and Lan Qianzhen only had this one child, although he was reluctant, he had to acquiesce in the end.

It's just that the relationship between father and son is not good.

"I made up my mind not to lead troops, regardless of the military, why do you still think about him, I don't want to, go to breakfast."

The boy shook his head vigorously and walked through the snow to the kitchen.

However, as he walked, his thoughts turned to the supply and marching route of this attack.

To say that it is really blessed by God, the north starts from the sea in the east, and reaches the plain in the west, and two towering mountains divide the desert grassland in the north of the mountain and the cultivated land and rivers in the south of the mountain.

The two mountain ranges are towering, the cliffs are steep, especially the cliffs in the north of the mountain, unless the mountain is dug to open the road, it is too difficult to climb the mountain, and the successive dynasties of the Middle Earth have built beacon towers on the ridge, and the war will be spread throughout the Taisho as soon as there is a wind and grass and the beacon fire.

Therefore, if the north and the south want to have large-scale entry and exit of people, it is not feasible to cross the mountains.

People who tried this before were trapped in the mountains,

In addition to the five gaps in the mountains,

From east to west, there are three main passes, namely the Longtou Pass close to the sea, the Luoyan Pass between the two mountain ranges, and the Ghost Gate Pass that connects with the original Zhou Yuan in the west.

There is also a path in each of the two mountain ranges, so there is the Tiannu Pass in the east and the Jianfeng Pass in the west.

The five major passes make up the five northern towns of Taisho,

The most important of these is Luoyan Pass.

To the north of Longtou Pass is the Taisho subordinate country Silla, and outside the Ghost Gate Pass is a desert of thousands of miles.

The form of Tiannu Pass and Jianfeng Pass is dangerous, it is difficult to break through, and these two passes are governed by a sheep farm trail, and the army cannot withstand it.

Only the Luoyan Pass is between the two major natural hazards, the east and west are sixty miles wide, and there is a small river running through the north and south, the water and grass outside the pass are abundant and beautiful, and the pass is not far to the south is Pingcheng, where the fertile fields are thousands of tilts, and it is most suitable for the army to enter and exit, so the Luoyan Pass has always been the focus of contention between the Middle Earth and the northern grassland.

In this northern expedition of the army, the front-line base is Luoyan Pass,

For this Northern Expedition, the imperial court has been hoarding supplies in Luoyanguan for nearly ten years.

Grain, cloth, gunpowder, swords, bows, and crossbows,

Pingcheng also built three large granaries, and the grain reserves went straight to the imperial city of Taicang.

But even so, the expedition was extremely risky.

The only advantage of going out in winter is that the peasants are in the time of slack farming, and the war does not hurt the farm, and it is very convenient to recruit and transfer the people.

But this expedition has been fought for three months, and Lan Qianzhen has seen with his own eyes that the fingers of many people transporting grain and grass have been frozen.

Not to mention the soldiers fighting on the front line, and there has been no news from the front line for half a month.

Thinking about many things, the young man came to the kitchen of the General's Mansion,

Cooks and helpers went in and out, and the heat of the steamer rose to the roof one by one.

Several stove pots bubbling,

At this time, the chef saw the young man coming, hurriedly welcomed people in, picked a table with no one and settled down, and asked:

"Young master, what to eat?"

"Whatever."

The cook also knew that the boy had failed the township test twice, and thought that he was in a bad mood, so he thought about it and turned his head and ordered it to go down, and after a while, a bowl of steaming wontons was served.

The boy didn't look closely, and when he saw something brought up, he buried himself in eating.

Suddenly, the general's mansion seemed to be agitated,

The crowd grew noisy from far to near, then jubilant, and finally elated.

The boy didn't pay attention to the noise, and continued to eat breakfast by himself, until someone stopped at the door by someone from the kitchen:

"What's wrong? What's wrong? ”

"A great victory at the front! Victory on the front line! The main force of the general marshal and the main force of the royal court of the Woo Woo battle, five battles and five victories, capturing the Khan of the Dou Va! Win! Win! ”

When the young man heard the news, he jumped up from his seat, swept away the chaotic thoughts in his head, ate the rest of the wontons in the bowl in a few bites, and ran out.

The people in the kitchen also forgot that breakfast had not been cooked, and everyone cheered and rushed to the courtyard to tell each other.

The boy ran a few steps, remembering that he was no longer going to participate in military affairs, and he always felt a little strange when he looked at his elated appearance,

"After all, it's a big victory, it's normal to be happy and happy, and today I'll treat myself as a border soldier."

The boy thought as he slowed down,

Seeing that the entire general's mansion, young and old, rich and low, was immersed in joy at this moment,

People chased and frolicked, played with each other, and it snowed heavily, just in time for snowball fights,

Suddenly, snowballs flew in the general's mansion, and people seemed to have integrated their excitement into the snowflakes, pinched them together, and passed them on.

The boy walked along the way, and he was hit by a lot of snowballs thrown by maids.

Of course, he couldn't fight back, and the boy also actively fought back, and laughed for a while.

When the boy was free from the encirclement of the maids, he heard the two women muttering

"The battle has been won, and the shopkeeper of my family is estimated to be back soon."

"Yes, I think we will go to the cloth shop together to buy some cloth to make two clothes, this is written to go out for three months without conscience, and the clothes on my body should have been thrown away a long time ago."

Hearing these teenagers, they couldn't help but sigh secretly,

"If it is really five battles and five victories, the loss will definitely not be a small number, but I am afraid that the people who will come back this time will ......"

The boy sighed again, and then a hand slapped on the boy's shoulder, and a hearty voice sounded behind him:

"Young master, everyone is so happy, just you frown, this is really a failure!"

The young man looked back at the man who called him the young master, and said:

"Poor and uncertain riverside bones, like a person in a spring boudoir dream. Winning this battle is also a tragic victory, third brother, don't just care about being happy, think about how to settle the soldiers in the future. “

The young man is the only son of Lan Qianzhen, and this person who is called the third brother is the youngest son of the Lan family's old cangtou Taotou Tao, and there are two brothers Taozhuhu and Taozhulu on top of Taochai Rabbit. These three people are the same age as the teenager, and Tao Laoqi is an old man who took care of Lan Qianzhen to grow up, so these three brothers are mixed with the teenager, and the teenager treats them as his own brothers. Because the teenager is the youngest, he privately calls the three brothers his elder brother. This peach rabbit is the youngest of the three brothers, usually spoiled by the brothers, and protected by the teenager, proficient in eating, drinking, and having fun, although it looks like a prodigal, but the eyes are bright.

Tao Zhutu looked disgusted and replied:

"The young master is really a scholar, and he is a literati when he opens and closes his mouth. I'm too lazy to care about so much, anyway, big brother is fine. “

Speaking of which, Tao Zhutu changed his tone and said:

"Young master, eldest brother, he brought back the general's military order, which is for you, young master. Please also ask the young master to hurry over. “

When the young man heard that he had given him a military order, he hurriedly rushed over with Tao Zhutu.