When he was young, Jiang Zhan came to the pavilion and saw King Xian's gloomy face, Jiang Zhan knew that today was going to be a catastrophe, so he knelt down and asked for sin:

"The last general, Jiang Zhan, ten thousand deaths knock on the king!"

King Xian clenched his fists and said coldly:

"What are you doing while you're still alive?"

"The whereabouts of General Baili are unknown, it is the dereliction of duty of the last general, and the last general deserves death......"

"If you're missing, why don't you send scouts to search for it!"

"The last general sent hundreds of people to search for the whereabouts of the general, but there was no trace in March, when the king's secret letter was delivered, the last general did not dare to hide it, so he had to return to China alone, and confess the truth to the king to receive the death penalty!"

"If you know that you are dead, you will come and send the widow out and behead him!"

The forbidden army on the left and right stepped forward to drag Jiang Zhan out and kill him. Gao Xun hurriedly stepped forward to stop:

"The king, Gongzi Yan has not yet confirmed that he was killed in battle, and there is still a special plane to be found, please calm the king's anger!"

"Even if it's missing, why is there still life!" King Xian was angry and questioned, and his heart was like a knife.

"King, according to Jiang Zhan, the barbarian army has neither found the body nor captured it, and is sending troops to search for Gongzi Yan, which shows that Gongzi Yan is not dead, and there is still life."

"Yes king" Jiang Zhan hurriedly said: "According to the news of the barbarian prisoners, in July, the remnants of the cavalry of the Xian army fled to the south, and the generals Lu Gao, Sikong Nan, Su Hong, Bai He and other generals did not return to the north. ”

"Gongzi Yan has made great contributions to the world, and he is a disciple of the royal guest, why is there no soldier and horse to respond, is it that the whole world is full of ungrateful and unrighteous people!" King Xian said hysterically.

"Great King, the situation in the south has completely collapsed, and it is really difficult for the royal guest to respond."

"Then you tell the widow, where is Gongzi Yan now!"

"The last general is guilty, I really don't know where the general is!"

"I don't know this, I don't know that, what else do you know, get out, go back to the south for the widow, I won't see Gongzi Yan for a day, you don't need to return to the Central Plains in this life, get out!"

"The last general is guilty of death, if you don't find a general in this life, you will never return to the Central Plains!"

Jiang Zhan's tears soaked his eyes, he endured his grief, disappeared from the sight of King Xian, and returned to the south a few days later to search for Bailiyan.

When Jiang Zhan retreated, King Xian's anger was not gone, Princess Lanyuan still couldn't cry, Gao Xun said at this time:

"The king, Gongzi Yan's news is very important, you should report to Zhao Shuai as soon as possible, and the inner dynasty should also make all preparations to prevent accidents."

"The widowed Yan Gongzi, there will never be anything, never! He was instructed not to leak this matter for the time being, and no one in the Wei Mansion would be allowed to know, and violators would be severely punished. ”

"Obey orders!"

The news of Bailiyan's disappearance or death in battle soon spread throughout the Central Plains, and Mrs. Wei did not learn of Bailiyan's disappearance until half a year later, Jiang Rong, Xiao Chunyu and others heard the news, and immediately fainted and fell unconscious.

In the middle of November, the snow fell heavily in Qianyue Mountain, walking along the way to the Posong River, the temperature fell to the valley bottom, the snow was very deep, everyone was frozen with bruises, with the decrease in altitude, the local winter is much better than the winter of Qianyue Mountain, because the dimension is higher.

Along the way, there are primeval forests and wild animals are frequent, and although it is difficult to go south, hunting is barely enough to survive.

Perhaps it is related to the altitude, Lu Gao's intermittent cough and asthma have not occurred for more than ten days, but Bai Liyan is still worried that she will have sequelae such as asthma or bronchi in the future.

Around the fire to roast charcoal, the fragrance of pine wood is refreshing, Baili Yan Chop pulled a bear paw on the fire to roast, roasted until eight ripe, sprinkled with a little salt, and continued to burn.

Jiang Jie chewed bear meat, and his eyes would look curiously from time to time:

"My lord, what's delicious about this bear's paw, it's really unaffordable."

"Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, this bear's paw is a good thing, if it is done, but it is a famous dish in the world, it will be a waste."

Su Hong said at this time:

"General, there are people who eat bear bile and bear meat, but I have never heard of eating bear paws, what does this bear paw taste like?"

"Ben Jiang hasn't eaten it either, isn't this a fresh picture."

Nowadays, it is very rare to kill bears, after all, not everyone is Wu Song who fights tigers in Jingyanggang, anyone can kill, there is no group organization, not only can not kill bears, but they may also be killed. Before this, Bai Liyan had never eaten bear paws, if it weren't for the wild bears infested in the middle of the road, the skin on his body would not have become a meal on everyone's plate.

"Jiang Jie, how many days can the grain and grass last?"

"Fifteen days or so. If it weren't for the ability to hunt along the way, I'm afraid we would have run out of food today. ”

"Stop and go for more than two months, why haven't you seen the barbarian army's fortress, it won't be a fraud of the surname Fang."

Su Honghu was suspicious, and Bai Liyan denied it:

"Probably not, it's in the right direction. Stop-and-go along the way, after the snow, there are many and few daily walks, and there are Sixon and Figos verifying each other, Fang Liang should not be lying. ”

Fang Liang is one of the more active people in the second generation of the Central Plains, can speak fluent Jinxuedi and Central Plains dialect, his father is from the Song Dynasty, and his mother is a patriot, and he is twenty-nine this year.

The second generation of descendants of the Central Plains can generally still speak the Central Plains, but very few are proficient in Jin Xuedi, and the cultural detachment of the Central Plains descendants after the third and fourth generations is very serious, and seven or eight out of ten cannot speak the Central Plains. Taught by the words and deeds of their parents, the second-generation descendants have more Central Plains consciousness and strong anti-oppression sentiment than the third- and fourth-generation descendants of the Central Plains.

According to Fang Liang, all the second-generation descendants of the Central Plains were exiled to Posong Province east of Songdia Province outside Guanwai Province, and were not allowed to move west for life.

The pass in Fang Liang's mouth is the Great Wall built by the Jin Xuedi people at the source of the Posong River, the narrowest part of the mountain range on the east and west sides, with a length of about 800 miles, lying between the two mountains, completely blocking the land passage to the Jin Xuedi mainland.

Fang Liang was assigned to the village near Posong City, and worked as a slave for life, farming and doing hard labor for the Jinxuedi people, all year round.

The population of the entire two provinces outside the Guanxi is more than 12 million, and the population of the Guanwai is unknown. After the south of the Blackgill Lake, Figos and Sisenke realized that Bailiyan's southward movement was by no means goodwill, so they almost did not say a word about Jin Xuedi's situation inside and outside the Guan.

Even so, Fang Liang and others' intermittent descriptions and speculations can roughly deduce that the Jinxuedi people have a population of at least 50 or 60 million, and in view of the seasonal conditions in the middle and high latitudes of the south, as well as the current technological productivity, the land suitable for the Jinxuedi people to live in the Guannai is probably not less than 10 million square kilometers, and this does not include the land area of permafrost and the Antarctic Circle.

In addition to the barley, the yield per mu of wheat and oats is very low, coupled with the high latitude in the south and the low average annual temperature, in order to feed a population of 60 or 70 million and maintain hundreds of military expenditures, there must be enough economic land to carry its expenses.

The core territory of 10 million square kilometers should still be conservatively estimated, and its economic and military potential was still far underestimated by Bailiyan before that.

The Jinxuedi people divided the descendants of the Central Plains into 369 and so on, and the second generation of descendants could only engage in production and labor in the marginal areas outside the Guanxi until they died, and the second and third generations of descendants enjoyed the right to move land to the west.

After the fourth generation, the Central Plains people will be completely deprived of their surnames, and the surnames created by the Jin Xuedi people will be changed to the surnames created by the Jin Xuedi people, and they will be incorporated into the household registration of the Central Plains people who are one level higher than the second, third, and fourth generations, but still belong to the untouchables, and can move into the Guannai, as slaves, and be called by the Jin Xuedi people for life.

More than 30 years ago, the Jin Xuedi people attacked in the north, plundered more than 700,000 people in the Qianyue Mountains of the Song, Wei and Xu Kingdoms, captured more than 200,000 prisoners of war of the coalition army, and moved to Posong Province, where 250,000 people died, were killed, and tortured. Ten years ago, all the old generation of Central Plains people, regardless of gender, were exterminated in order to cleanse the sense of belonging to civilization of the second generation of Central Plains people.

At present, the number of descendants of the Central Plains who have moved to the west of the primeval forests in and outside the province is unknown, but it is conservatively estimated that there are no less than 450,000 and more than 100,000 in the third and fourth generations of the Central Plains. The three and four generations of the Central Plains people in Songdia Province have reached one million, and there may be more, and the situation in the customs is unknown.

Su Hong was worried that Fang Liang was lying and designed to harm the Xianjun, but Bai Liyan felt that the hatred of the second generation of descendants of the Central Plains for the Jin Xuedi people was far greater than that of their parents.

Fang Liang watched the Jin Xuedi people execute their parents, watched the Jin Xuedi people take away their children, and even gave their own women to the Jin Xuedi people to ravage, the oppression and exploitation they suffered were far from the great shame and humiliation that people suffered, it was the pain of the skin and the hatred of the cone, and the eternal life could not be erased.

In order to guard against the rebellion of the first and second generations of the Central Plains people, Jin Xuedi stationed 600,000 heavy troops in Posong Province during peacetime to respond to possible riots at any time, and at the same time implement Tuntian. And a few years before the Northern Expedition, all the old and weak Central Plains people who gave birth to a generation of children were killed, or they were used as food and grass for fierce beasts and put into animal cages to completely eliminate the resistance of the Central Plains people. The bloody and brutal nature of its methods is outrageous.

On the second day, the snow stopped, the army continued on the road, getting closer and closer to Posong Province, the emotions of the descendants of the Central Plains became complicated, the third and fourth generations of the descendants compared to the second generation, after being deprived of their parents, grew up under the strict control of the Jin Xuedi people, and had basically lost the sense of belonging to the Central Plains cultural identity, and their perception of the situation was complicated.

"Fang Liang, have you ever thought about resisting?" Bai Liyan asked.

"I thought about it, but they all failed, ten years ago, some people resisted, and in the end they were all executed, more than 30,000 people died......" Fang Liang said in frustration, his eyes were full of fear: "We have no weapons, no armor, they are all rabble, their army is crowded, surrounded the rebels on all sides, and was killed one by one, and finally released the wolf and the toothed tiger, and ate all the corpses. ”

"Did you ever think that one day, the Central Plains Coalition Army would be able to come here?"

"No, it's not possible. I heard my father say that from the south of the Central Plains to Posong City, they walked with their feet for a whole year, and you don't have enough food, so you will starve to death if you can't walk the Posong River at all. ”

"But at least for now there is hope!"

"No, there are only more than 2,000 of you, and you can't beat them at all."

Bai Liyan didn't respond, which is really difficult to answer, at least for now, they can't protect themselves. Although all the main forces of the Jin Xuedi people have gone north, there are still more than 100,000 auxiliary troops stationed in Posong City.

The auxiliary army is between the reserve and the regular army, but it is not an armed police, it is a unit with inferior combat power to the regular army.

The combat training exercises of the auxiliary troops lagged behind the main army of the Jinxuedi people, but the combat strength was still roughly equivalent to that of the Central Plains coalition army, and it was still a thorny trouble.