The territory of Heiwu is larger than that of Daning, but more than a quarter of the places are not suitable for human habitation, covered by ice and snow all year round, and the temperature in the coldest places is so low that living people can't hold on for an hour, even if they wear thick cotton clothes, they still can't hold on.

It is also cold in the area close to the northern Xinjiang of Daning, and the people of the southern Xinjiang of Daning will definitely not be able to stand it when they come here, but compared with the place where it is really cold to the extreme, at least people can live.

The soldiers of the northern frontier are more accustomed to calling the black warriors the ghost moon people, and the group of blonde and blue-eyed guys are full of awe of the moon, they believe that people are created by the moon god, and the moon is one of the eyes of the moon god, staring at the world all the time, staring at the people it created.

The temperature at night is naturally cooler than during the day, so the Black Warriors take it for granted that the moon represents cold, and their country has such a large area that freezes all year round, so it is natural to think that the moon god was born in that place and also ascended in that place.

Many years ago, the Emperor of the Black Warrior Kingdom even sent an elite team of thousands of people to go deep into the bitter cold land to find the Moon Palace, it is rumored that in that ice and snow world, there is a moon god living in the palace, find the palace, you can get the elixir of immortality, and may even fly to another world, with the moon god as a companion.

However, thousands of elites carefully selected from various armies were wiped out in the bitter cold land, but the Emperor of the Black Warrior Kingdom did not think that those people were frozen to death, but because his stupid actions angered the moon god, and the moon god sent down divine punishment.

So he commanded all the nation to join him in pleading with him, and to eat or drink without food or drink for three days.

The ghost moon people are naturally the big clan of the Black Martial Empire, but just like Daning, it is not a country composed of a single nation, in addition to the ghost moon people, there are also Sark people, Tiele people, Changwei people, etc., among which the cavalry of the Sark tribe is famous all over the world, only the northern Xinjiang iron cavalry can be compared with it, once because of the fierceness of the Sak cavalry, the northern Xinjiang of Daning was suppressed without the power to fight back, at that time Emperor Ning ordered to do his best to create a heavy horse, so there was even the northern iron cavalry that even the Sark cavalry had to avoid when he saw it.

The Tiele people are warlike and ferocious, and there are a large number of Tiele people in the border army of the Black Warriors, who live on the edge of the bitter cold land, with low status, living in poverty, and all food sources are hunting, so they are extremely fierce, and it is said that even if they encounter a snow grizzly bear, the Tiele people dare to go up and fight with it.

The reason why the Changwei people were not as many as the Ghost Moon people in the Black Warrior Empire, and the reason why they did not control the population like the Ghost Moon Slaughter Tiele and Zac was because the Chang Wei people were gentle and not warlike, they were born shepherds, managing the vast grassland for the Ghost Moon people, and the mounts of the Black Warriors were all from the Changwei grassland, and the rations of the border army, that is, a large number of cattle and sheep, also came from the Changwei grassland.

Li Xiaoshan, who has been in northern Xinjiang for nearly a year, already knows a lot about the black warriors, the Ning people are not in the northern Xinjiang, and the hatred for the black warriors may not be so deep, after arriving in the northern Xinjiang, even the scholars who are powerless will give birth to a knife to Lao Tzu with anger and hatred and ambition, this world is so big, but the black warriors and Ning people seem to never tolerate coexistence with each other.

In the past year, even if Li Xiaoshan does not experience life and death every day, he has to participate in several battles almost a month, and the whole person has changed in temperament, his skin is no longer white and tender like a woman, and he seems to be rubbed with sand over and over again, his face is also dark, and he has a beard, he likes to drink saliva and the feeling of a layer of ice on his beard, and he also likes this kind of life of eating frozen meat with knives.

The transformation from a weak scholar to a brave scout has only been less than a year.

"General."

Li Xiaoshan rode on horseback and glanced at Meng Changan, who was walking side by side: "Is our war against the Black Warriors soon?" ”

"yes."

Meng Changan's answer is still so simple, after he returned to the northern Xinjiang, he returned to that cold and arrogant appearance, not talking much, if no one pays attention to him, he may not take the initiative to talk to someone all day, when he is not practicing, he can sit in one place and watch the south in a daze for a long time.

Although Li Xiaoshan is a prince, his military rank is no more than a captain, and in the army, regardless of his identity, he only talks about military position, especially in a cruel place like northern Xinjiang.

"A few days ago, General Wu Xinyu came to me, saying that you gave me another military merit, and General Wu calculated it, I have accumulated enough military merit, so I plan to promote me to a five-grade general."

Li Xiaoshan lowered his head: "I refused." ”

"Huh?"

Meng Changan glanced at him.

"Because I'm not qualified."

Li Xiaoshan smiled self-deprecatingly: "Almost everyone in this northern Xinjiang is stronger than me, because I am a member of the Li family's royal family, so I am a captain, and for the brothers, this is not fair, I have accumulated enough military merits from captains to generals, but in fact, in fact, the military merits of each lieutenant must be enough, and even some people have far exceeded the regulations, why are they still captains?" Because the number of border troops is only so large, it becomes more difficult to be promoted, and the cost of maintaining an iron cavalry is already a terrifying number, and it is impossible for the rest of the border army to expand indefinitely...... I am a member of the Li family's royal family, and I can no longer compete with my brothers for this hard-won general armor. ”

He said so much in one breath, and finally said what he wanted to say, he didn't want to prove anything to Meng Changan, but in this northern Xinjiang, there are not many people who can talk to him more, everyone knows that he is the son of the world, the word son of the world, represents respectful and distant, ordinary soldiers will not talk to him, and the captain of the same level respects him too much, only Meng Changan's natural cold appearance, he thinks it is not bad.

So he's really not proving himself anything, he's just sharing, sharing with a cold guy.

Meng Changan didn't reply a word, turned his head and continued to look ahead.

"What we said before we came back was not angry, it was not a joke, and it was not to provoke the general."

Li Xiaoshan's voice lowered: "I only knew how naïve I was in Northern Xinjiang for a year, and the so-called ferocity was only used to beat women, and I felt ashamed when I thought about it...... I have seriously thought about it, Yuezhu Mingtai does not belong to me, she is a good girl, after the war in Northern Xinjiang, I will ask Your Majesty to give her freedom, she will go to live the life she wants, even if it is to return to Tibet. ”

Meng Changan still didn't say a word.

Li Xiaoshan said: "I know that the general is frank, but I was too dirty at that time. ”

Meng Changan still didn't speak, but the corners of his mouth involuntarily rose slightly.

That's the change, and that's good, isn't it?

He was very happy about Li Xiaoshan's change, because when he was in the Western Xinjiang, he could see that Li Xiaoshan was not a bad person, just a person who was too depressed, his release became distorted, and people became distorted. Try it after being suppressed for a long time? Or try it in northern Xinjiang.

At this moment, Meng Changan stopped his horse, clenched his fist and raised his right arm, and the team behind immediately stopped.

There are still less than three miles away from the frontier, they are chasing out this time, and after discovering that the scouts of the black warriors have infiltrated the northern Xinjiang, Meng Changan led one hundred and twenty fierce scouts to chase and kill, and chased all the way out from the northern Xinjiang, chased them to the territory of the black martial arts for fourteen miles, and slaughtered all the people.

There are still three miles away, Meng Changan is familiar with the terrain, the mound covered with ice and snow that just appeared in front of him is exactly three miles away from Guancheng, that is to say, he has walked back eleven miles, according to Meng Changan's requirements, the scouts who are exploring the way ahead must leave marks every ten miles, but Meng Changan has been paying attention since just now, and after walking one more mile, he still did not see the mark.

"Be on guard."

Meng Changan pulled down the visor on the iron helmet, looking like a yaksha.

**Ten scouts also dropped their armor, with a crossbow in their left hand and a horizontal sword in their right hand.

Figures suddenly popped up one by one in the snow around them, and these white-robed ghost moon people crawled in the snow before, and the snow reflected the dazzling light in the sun, and they couldn't see that there were people hiding at all.

"Go home."

Meng Changan hit the war horse with a black-line knife and rushed out first.

A feather arrow attacked, Meng Changan lowered his body, the person was lying on the back of the horse, and the feather arrow whistled in his ears.

Ah, there was an exclamation, and the voice was Li Xiaoshan.

Meng Changan immediately stopped his horse, went back and lifted Li Xiaoshan, who had landed with an arrow, and put it behind his back, and the two rode together, Li Xiaoshan was hit by an arrow in the chest, and the blood flowed like a note.

Meng Changan didn't look back: "Don't pull out the arrow first." ”

Then urge the horse forward.

The ambushed Black Warrior Frontier Army rushed over from all directions, and the feather arrows were so dense that the sound of breaking through the air was like a howl of the wind.

"The general doesn't care about me."

Li Xiaoshan looked down at the arrow on his chest: "The war horse can't run fast with two people." ”

Meng Changan was still like that, and he didn't even bother to say a word.

The ambush of the black warriors was not originally here, this was a strategy to get rid of Meng Changan, those black warrior scouts who infiltrated the northern frontier of Daning were bait, they knew very well that only in this way could they not be suspected, and they could let Meng Changan appear, and they would rather spend more than a hundred elite scouts at the expense of it, as long as they got rid of Meng Changan, it would be worth it, even super value.

In the eyes of the Black Warriors, Meng Changan is their natural enemy.

It's just that they didn't expect Meng Chang'an to pursue so fast and fiercely, and they didn't dare to underestimate Meng Changan, but they still underestimated it, so the ambush had to be placed closer to the Ningren border pass, and it was too late to arrange it elsewhere.

There are not many people who can be called opponents in the eyes of Jiang Liao, the border army of the Black Martial Country, and Meng Changan is the opponent he thinks, and he is the number one opponent, even surpassing Wu Xinyu, who has been fighting with him for so many years.

Wu Xinyu's command of the battlefield dispatch is better than Meng Changan, but the fierce battle on the battlefield is not as good as Meng Changan.

This is also the reason why His Majesty feels that Wu Xinyu is more suitable to be a general in Northern Xinjiang.

"General, be careful."

Li Xiaoshan posted a reminder on Meng Changan's back: "General Wu...... It may not come to your rescue. ”

Meng Changan's eyes lit up.

It is only three miles away from the border pass, and the reinforcements must arrive within two sticks of incense.

Li Xiaoshan's voice was a little flustered: "Although I know that I shouldn't figure out General Wu's mind like this, you are the one who competes with him for the position of the general of Northern Xinjiang after all." ”

That year, he didn't come to Feng Yantai.