At night, the sky was still not clear, and the snow was falling.

Yu Jue gradually felt bored in the house, pushed open the door, and wanted to go over to talk to Jingge, but suddenly saw Yun'er enter the Chinese military tent. Stopping in her tracks, the wind and snow seemed to grow bigger, blurring her vision.

Although the two of them did not say it, everyone knew that they had a deep affection for each other, so how could they be embarrassed to disturb them.

She stood on the stairs for a moment, and saw a fire in the tent in the distance, and a faint sound could be heard. There are soldiers drinking and laughing, and they are all very excited about the arrival of Jingge today, and the army is also allowed to rotate and rest the team to have fun.

She walked towards the tent, and at this time, she also wanted to drink inexplicably.

Jing Gepan in the Chinese military tent sat on the blanket in front of the desk, looking at the northwest military defense map under the candlelight.

"Why did you sneak here like this?" Jing Ge looked at Yun'er who was tiptoeing and asked with a smile.

Yun'er took off her cloak, shook off the snowflakes, and hung it by the door.

"There shouldn't be a female dependent in the barracks in the first place, and it's an exception for you to bring us here, and if someone sees me coming over in the middle of the night, maybe there will be gossip." Yun'er said softly.

"Why do you want to come here if you're afraid of gossip?" Jing Ge looked at her with a smile.

"I can't sleep, I'm a little worried about you, and as for gossip or something, I don't really care much."

She said calmly, her pretty face was slightly red from the candle flame, as if there was a hint of shyness.

When I didn't know Jingge before, I didn't feel anything, but now I have a little dependence.

"Don't worry about those worldly rules and regulations, don't worry about causing trouble for me, come here if you want to see me. You're not around, and I'm missing you very much. Jing Ge put away the drawings on the case and said to her with a smile.

Both of them are frank people, and they have never been secretive since they met.

Yun'er took off her shoes and socks, snuggled up to Jing Ge, and pulled a blanket to cover the legs and feet of the two.

"It's snowing outside, if it's not in the barracks, it's just a good time." She said softly that it was not good to play the piano in the Chinese military tent, and it seemed that Jingge indulged in vocal music, which damaged her prestige.

"It's nice to listen to the snow quietly. The sound of snow falling and flowers blooming, can you hear it? Jing Ge hugged her.

"Hear." She nodded in her arms and replied obediently.

She heard the snow fall on the top of the tent, heard a plum tree blooming behind the tent, and heard his heart beating.

It's so peaceful, it's wonderful.

Jing Ge gently moved the lingering afterglow of his deep sleep to the blanket, took a quilt to cover her, and walked out of the Chinese military tent.

"Young marshal." The soldiers who were celebrating around the fire saw Jing Ge and wanted to get up and salute, and Yang Bang was also there.

"No need to be polite." Jing Ge motioned for them to sit down and continue, without restraint.

"Jingge, Jingge, you're here." Yu Jue saw Jing Ge with hazy eyes, and said vaguely, "Come, accompany this girl to drink a few more bowls." ”

The surrounding soldiers were a little nervous, this was the woman brought by the young marshal, and they were drunk like this, I don't know what the young marshal would think in his heart.

Yu Jue has a heroic temperament, is very playful, and the amount of alcohol is not bad, and he doesn't know how much he drank when he was drunk like this.

"Okay." Jing Ge originally planned to send her back, but she didn't know how to speak.

simply sat down and drank and chatted with the soldiers, and when the soldiers saw the young marshal here, they gathered more and more, and surrounded layer after layer, forming a big circle.

"Brother Jing'er is very similar to the generalissimo's temperament, he doesn't have any fights, and he mingles with his brothers." Yang Ding looked at the bustling crowd from a distance and said to his second brother.

Yang Guo was silent and did not respond.

"Our father and son have been in the army for many years, and now we want to bow down to him?" Yang Guo said softly and looked at the eldest brother.

"Second brother, you... What do you mean by that? Yang Ding was not stupid, so he naturally heard what Yang Guowei meant.

"It's true that he is the son of the generalissimo, but he may not really have the ability to command the three armies like the generalissimo." Yang Guo said bluntly, "Even if he is extremely smart, after all, he is too young and inexperienced to take on the great responsibility of taking charge of the Northwest Army." Besides, as a general of the empire, his father's status is not much lower than that of the generalissimo, how can he be condescended to a dime boy. ”

"What you say is not unreasonable, I don't know what my father means." Yang Ding said.

"Our Yang family has made countless efforts for the Northwest Army, how can we hand it over again." Yang Guo looked at the figure that mingled with the soldiers, and then returned to his camp.

"Second brother, you..." Yang Ding looked at his departing figure, and didn't know what to say for a while, but he was vaguely uneasy, worried that this second brother would behave out of line.

At the end of the drink, Yu Jue staggered and fell unconscious.

Hey, this girl is really big-hearted, and she is always helpless to her Jingge.

Jing Ge picked her up and knocked on Qianxue's door.

"She's drunk, so I'm going to take care of her." He handed over Yujue to Qianxue to take care of, and then returned to those soldiers, and continued to talk and laugh with them until the dead of night.

"Brother Jing, how are you practicing marksmanship?" Yang Bang hasn't left yet, and the Yang family is the closest to Jing Ge.

"Okay, take me for a walk?" Jing Ge said that even if it was late at night, he didn't feel sleepy.

"Okay, let's go to the Yanmen Gate and close it." Yang Bang didn't drag the mud and water, took him on the inspection, and climbed the giant city of Yanmen Pass, overlooking the other side.

The wind on the huge city wall was very strong, and with the help of the light reflected on the snowy night, you could see that there was a vast plain outside the gate.

"Outside the Guan, it can be regarded as the Xiliang Realm, and there is a Xiliang army stationed in less than fifty miles." Yang Bang pointed in one direction.

"Fifty miles, it won't take two hours to get down to the city." Jing Ge said, so close, it can invade at any time.

"That's right, so we didn't dare to relax, and sent a lot of rangers out, including the newly built beacon tower, all deployed outside the pass, keeping a close eye on their movements." Yang Bang said.

"How many soldiers and horses are there in Xiliang?" Jingge asked.

"There are 300,000 troops stationed at fifty miles, and the hinterland of Xiliang, plus the legions fighting against small countries such as nomadic tribes in the Western Regions, is estimated to have more than 500,000 cavalry and millions of infantry." Yang Bang replied, his face solemn.

"So much?" Jing Ge was slightly surprised, the total number of the three major legions of Great Qin may also exceed one million, but it is still not as good as Xiliang.

Moreover, the Xiliang army is strong, and it has been fighting and training with many small nomadic countries in the Western Regions all year round, and its combat power is by no means comparable to the likes of the Hedong Army.

The only one who can compete with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry may be the Northwest Army.

"Since Xiliang annexed the Song Kingdom, the national strength is far greater than in the past, the Western Regions have almost been pacified, and many small countries have been annexed. If it weren't for this Yanmen Pass, Daqin might have been flattened. Yang Bang said.

In addition to the main passage where Jingge is located, there are two small roads that can pass through Yanmen Pass, but the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the cavalry cannot pass, the Northwest Army is heavily guarded, and Xiliang has nothing to do for a while.

"After pacifying the rear, it's time to make a move against Daqin, then, how are you going to smash this Yanmen Pass?" Jing Ge frowned and muttered to himself.

"Even if you fill in millions of bones, you may not be able to pass the Yanmen Pass." Yang Bang said he had confidence in the defenses here.

It seems that this is true, but Jing Ge knows that there is no unbreakable level in the world, and the question is whether he can find a suitable method.

Xiliang's father and daughter, and the cheap big brother are not simple characters, so they may not be able to solve this problem.

"Has Xiliang attacked Yanmen Pass in recent years?"

"Nope." Yang Bang shook his head, they knew that it was futile, and they would not make an easy move unless they were sure.

"Have you ever fought with the Xiliang army?"

"There have been one or two tentative engagements, and in the open plain outside Yanmen Pass, our Northwest Army clashed with an iron cavalry, and each retreated." Yang Bang said that the open terrain outside the gate is suitable for cavalry galloping, and it is a good battlefield.

"Since then, my father has ordered a retreat, but the door will be opened for a period of time every day to allow trade between the two countries."

Jing Ge nodded, there was nothing wrong with allowing ordinary people to pass through Yanmen Pass, and some people would be worried that they would let Xiliang spies get mixed up. In fact, this kind of worry is superfluous, no matter whether the door is closed or not, those spies and spies can still cross the mountains and enter the country.

Those steep mountains can stop the army, the grain and grass are heavy, and the horses and so on cannot pass, but they cannot stop a single pedestrian from crossing over. In the past, when the Song State fell, a large number of fleeing refugees entered the territory of the Qin State.

"In two days, I'll go out of the customs." Jing Ge said, wait until you see Uncle Cheng.

"You want to enter the territory of Xiliang? If someone finds out, it can be dangerous. Yang Bang reminded that with his identity, once he was discovered by Xiliang, it would be difficult for him to get out of the way.

"It's okay, I'll be careful." He replied, they are all here, how can they not accompany Yun'er back to see her hometown.

He got off the Yanmen Pass and returned to the military tent, where Yun'er was still asleep like a cat.

Early the next morning, Jing Ge arrived at Yang Wei's military tent.

"Ge'er, do you plan to stay here for a long time this time? I have prepared a memoraba and reported it to the imperial court, asking you to become a general in the Northwest Army. Yang Wei said.

"Uncle is slow, my nephew didn't have the intention of staying for a long time when he came over this time, because there are many things that have not been dealt with in the imperial capital. When I arrived, I saw that the Northwest Sergeant treated me like this, and I really wanted to stay here, but my nephew still felt that I should go back first. Jing Ge said frankly.

"There are a lot of thieves in the imperial capital, and it will be difficult for you to let you be alone with them." Yang Wei sighed, he is a soldier, and he does not know or disdain the art of power schemes.

Jing Ge smiled, no longer entangled in this matter, and discussed the defense of Yanmen Pass with Yang Wei, he looked at the border defense map, and had some thoughts and suggestions in his heart. The defense strategy of Yanmen Pass was formulated by his father and has remained unchanged for many years.

If it hasn't changed for too long, then Xiliang should have already figured out the details, and sooner or later he will come up with a way to crack it.

After listening to Jing Ge's suggestion, Yang Wei felt quite relieved, thinking that Jing Ge was young after all, and many of his opinions were not mature enough. But after some conversation, he completely changed.

The tiger father has no dogs, he can completely provoke the girder of the Northwest Army, and he is no worse than the generalissimo in temperament and talent. Yang Wei thought to himself, and the original concern dissipated.

"Young marshal, steward Cheng is back." While the two were talking, their subordinates reported.

"Ask him to come in." Yang Wei said.

"I've seen the general, Your Highness."

Uncle Cheng, who was dressed in a black cloak, gave a slight salute.

"Where did Uncle Cheng go?" Jing Ge asked curiously, he was not in the army before.

"According to His Royal Highness, after his subordinates helped the Northwest Army deploy the beacon tower outside the pass, they went to the north to investigate." Uncle Cheng reported that the beacon tower he built was equipped with dozens of well-trained spies, who collected and transmitted intelligence and harassed guerrillas.

"Well, what about the north?" Jingge asked.

"Compared with Xiliang, my subordinates are more worried about the north." Uncle Cheng was worried, "Zheng and Wei have been guarding the Great Wall all year round, and they have long been empty, and now they are almost unable to support it, whether it is weapons or food and grass, they are in short supply." They have already sent an embassy to ask Daqin for help, and I don't know if Daqin will come to their aid. ”

"What about the Northern Demons?" Jing Ge asked again.

"The demons of the northern realm marched south and gathered near the Great Wall. I'm afraid that in the near future, the Great Wall may... Lost. Uncle Cheng said his judgment, and he told Jing Ge the truth. This is also Jing Ge's concern, so he has stepped up the deployment of spies in Zheng Wei's territory to build an intelligence network, so as to get information as soon as the demons cross the Great Wall.

"How could the Great Wall be lost, the demons have not been able to advance an inch for more than three hundred years." Yang Wei was a little unconvinced.

"General Yang didn't know that this time they gathered on a much larger scale than in the past. It's the biggest wave ever. Uncle Cheng said.

"Please go out with your subordinates." Uncle Cheng took them out of the tent, "There has been no trace of the demon clan in the Central Plains for three hundred years, and my subordinates caught a demon clan and brought it back on this trip to the north." ”