On the right side of Yuanrilong, near Longju Island in the West Sea, the howling north wind swept the overwhelming snowflakes, roaring from the frozen lake for thousands of miles, as if it was an ancient beast from the dark abyss, roaring to devour all things in the world.

Li Sheng, the captain of the Shenwei Army Light Cavalry Regiment stationed in Yinglong City, rode on Gao Jun's Qinghai Horse, looking at the wind and snow in the sky, and he didn't feel a little distracted.

He habitually reached out and grabbed the parchment sac from the right side of the saddle, and took a big sip in the cold wind.

The cold wine ran down the throat and flowed to the stomach before slowly dissolving, turning into a line of heat, scalding the internal organs warm. At this moment, Li Sheng felt that he was slightly relieved.

"Shiro, let's have a bite too!" Li Sheng looked back and saw that Liu Poyu, the team under his command, came over with a smile on his face.

The more than 100 cavalrymen behind the two also stopped and began to look for wine and food from their saddles.

"Where's your own wine?" Li Sheng looked at Liu Poyu, who had a greedy face, and was angry.

"Boss, Team Liu's wine was drunk by him before he left Yinglong City. If you don't believe it, his sac is already empty. After taking a sip, the cavalry behind began to coax.

"Little bunny, get out of the way! This team is talking to Captain Li, where is your part to interject! Liu Poyu Tian was shameless, and waved his hand to drive the mouthy little cubs away.

"Remember to leave a sip for so-and-so, the wind and snow are so big, it's really not good not to take a sip!" Li Sheng had no choice but to throw away the full wine bag for his own township party.

Liu Poyu took the wine bag, pulled out the stopper, and came with a super big mouthful.

"Liu Poyu, you leave some for so-and-so, don't drink it all in one gulp!" Li Sheng made a gesture to kick Liu Poyu.

Liu Poyu clamped the yellow horse under his crotch, and the horse jumped lightly on the slippery ice, and it was far away from Li Sheng's Qinghai horse.

When the yellow huss jumped up, Liu Poyu's hands were reluctant to leave the wine bag, only to see that he was hard under his crotch and firmly stuck to the yellow, as if he had grown into one with the war horse.

Li Sheng smiled bitterly, knowing that he would definitely not be able to keep a bag of wine, but he had long been used to it.

Liu Poyu and himself are from Longyou Taozhou, Tianbao came to Hexi Jiedu in the early years to join the army, because of the skillful bow and horse, brave combat, were assigned to the marshal Wang Zhongsi as a personal guard.

Liu Poyu missed several opportunities to make meritorious contributions because he was greedy for the things in the cup, so he was a few steps slower than Li Sheng, who had a strict personality.

However, Liu Poyu's heart is as rough as a fight, and he doesn't care about the level of his position. For him, as long as there is good wine to drink, good horses to ride, and enemies to kill, then life is happy.

Thinking of Da Shuai, Li Sheng's eyes couldn't help but fog, and the wind and snow in front of him seemed to become more dense.

At that time, seventeen or eighteen-year-old Li Shenghun didn't know that there was still the word "bitterness" between heaven and earth, and he only knew that he followed the handsome Daxu and rushed into the army with his brothers, and repeatedly destroyed the madman.

His horses broke through the cavalry of the Turkic Khanate, his bows shot down the Khitan warriors with left hair, and his horse lance pierced through the leather armor of the Tibetan warriors......

Before leaving home to join the army, Li Sheng would not have drunk. After being with my brothers, I also liked the days of charging into battle, drinking in big bowls, and eating meat.

Li Sheng likes to play with knives and guns since he was a child, and he doesn't love poetry. But after listening to the chatter of the marshal at the post-war carnival, he also remembered the sentence "Don't laugh when you are drunk and lying on the battlefield, and a few people will come back to fight in ancient times." ”

Li Sheng still can't figure out who wrote this poem, but every time he returns from victory and drinks and eats meat by the campfire, Li Sheng feels that this poem is too appropriate.

Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived. It was only three or five years after such a happy day that it disappeared without a trace.

Somehow, Dashuai offended the saint and was imprisoned in the Dali Temple. If General Ge Shuhan hadn't stepped forward and went to Beijing alone to ask for his life, the marshal might have been beheaded by the sage.

Listening to the big-mouthed Wang Sili, it seems that the marshal is unwilling to waste the lives of the soldiers to capture the stone fort for the saint, so Long Yan is furious; Li Fei Yuanli, who is mysterious and always has a lot of gossip, said that the sage's anger was not because of the stone castle at all, but because the relationship between the marshal and the prince was too close...... In short, at that time, the brothers were panicked, and all kinds of rumors flew everywhere.

Although the marshal saved his life, he could never return to Longyou, and he would never be able to command the army.

The brothers are also scattered like stars, and Wang Sili closely follows General Ge Shuhan, who is the new envoy of Longyou Jiedu, and has already been promoted to Longyou general; Wang Sili's younger brother Wang Siyi said goodbye, some people said that he went back to his hometown Yingzhou, and some people said that he went to Anxi Duhufu to seek refuge in his fellow countryman Gao Xianzhi, Li Sheng asked Wang Sili, but Wang Sili always smiled bitterly and avoided talking about it; The brothers Li Fei Yuanli and Li Fei Shouyu have always had close contacts with General Li Guangbi, and they followed General Li to transfer to the Shuofang army together.

Only Li Sheng and Liu Poyu, the youngest, were helpless, and they were squeezed into Yinglong City on Longju Island in the West Sea, and led the light cavalry regiment to patrol day by day. When he was bored, Li Sheng began to flip through some books that he used to read, including "The Book of Songs" and Buddhist scriptures. Li Sheng was not a lover of reading when he was young, but after many years in the army, he began to get in touch with books.

Because when reading these words that seem to be understood or not, Li Sheng always feels that the handsome man with a smile on his face and benevolent eyes does not seem to have left him......

"Da Shuai lives between Jiang and Han, a warm and humid place, there should not be such a biting wind and snow there, I think the old wound on Da Shuai's leg will not be painful and unbearable this year." Li Sheng looked to the south and thought silently.

Li Sheng's posture of turning around and looking south made Liu Poyu, who was burping, also silent, looking south in a daze.

"When Dashuai was drinking this year, it is estimated that no one could accompany him and shout 'drunk and lying on the battlefield Jun Mo laugh'!" Liu Poyu muttered, pouring all the last sip of wine in Li Sheng's wine bag into his throat.

Li Sheng originally wanted to pretend to be angry and make a few more jokes with Liu Poyu. But seeing the spicy wine turn into cold tears and flow out of Liu Poyu's eyes, Li Sheng really didn't even have the strength to pretend to be angry.

The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but it's not time to be sad. Now Li Sheng has begun to know the heaviness and bitterness of the word "bitter".

"Listen, sir! There's a noise ahead! The shouts of the cavalry woke Li Sheng from his contemplation.

In order to prevent the Tubo people from supplying and supporting the stone fort from the west, General Geshuhan made a thousand choices and searched for Longju Island within a radius of several miles in the vast and blue West Sea, and conscripted soldiers and civilians last summer to build Yinglong City on Longju Island, stationed 2,000 soldiers and horses and dozens of warships to control the entire West Sea.

Li Sheng, who was born in Longyou, has always felt that Xihai is very evil. It is said that it is a lake, with a radius of thousands of miles, and the water is bitter and salty, according to Wang Sili from the seaside, it is completely the same as the seawater; It is said that it is the sea, trapped between Sun Moon Mountain and Bison Mountain, and the volume is too small.

What's even more evil is that there is such a small dragon horse island in the West Sea, and it is said that there is a dragon horse on the island. According to ancient legends, if the good horse is placed on this island, to the spring pasture, the horse is pregnant, and the horse born will be many different horses, known as the "dragon horse". The Qinghai skull under Li Sheng's crotch is said to be the son of Ryoma.

And the most evil thing is that there really is a dragon in this West Sea! When Yinglong City was built, Li Sheng also participated. On the day when the city was built, a strong wind suddenly arose on the sea, and a white dragon flew between heaven and earth, drifting on the sea. This is what Li Sheng saw with his own eyes, and he has to believe it.

According to the later report from the scout, on that day, a Tibetan army was preparing to take a sheepskin raft to attack Yinglong City, but it was frightened by the vision of the white dragon and collapsed without a fight.

After Yinglong City was built, it firmly choked the western front of Tubo, which made the Tubo people extremely uncomfortable.

The shipbuilding skills of the Tibetans were not perfect, and the sheepskin rafts were powerless in front of the warships of the Longyou Army, and the several attacks of the Tibetan army in the summer and autumn were in vain.

However, the winter in the West Sea is unusually cold, there is a lot of ice and snow, and the sea surface is frozen hard, and it is very convenient to drive and move, which gives the Tibetan people who are good at winter warfare an opportunity.

Since the beginning of winter, there have been Tibetan armies using ice and snow as a cover to sneak attack Yinglong City. In response to the defense of Longcheng, he had to arrange manpower to patrol day and night to prevent a sneak attack by Tibet.

Li Sheng's luck was particularly bad, and he unfortunately won the patrol mission on the first day. Although the brothers were not happy, they did not dare to be sloppy in the face of the military order.

After General Geshuhan rescued the marshal, he was very concerned about the matter of the stone castle that the saint was obsessed with. The safety of Ying Longcheng is very important for the battle for the stone fort, and Ying Longcheng is in the hands of the Longyou army, so it can cut off the western support of Tubo to the stone fort; Ying Longcheng fell into the hands of the Tubo army, and the central line held by the stone fort and the western line on the Xihai side were connected, and the Tubo could advance and retreat freely. Therefore, although it was not willing to patrol on the first day, the cavalry regiment still had a clear eye and was solid throughout the patrol.

Li Sheng was startled by the exclamation of the brother in the back, and he hurriedly tapped a little on the stirrup, jumped up, and the monkey looked forward in the saddle.

I saw that in the vast white wind and snow, there seemed to be a large black shadow moving rapidly, and the sound of small hooves was intensively beating on the ice, like a trumpet drum was pounding.

"Enemy attack?!" Hearing the sound of dense hooves, Liu Poyu immediately threw Li Sheng's wine sac onto the frozen sea, and casually bent the bow.

The brothers in the back also started to the guys, with feathered arrows and bows in their hands. The fire commanders of each fire kept greeting the brethren of the fire, and the cavalry regiments, which had been loosely resting just now, immediately reined in their horses and formed an evacuation formation to defend against the onslaught of the cavalry. In an instant, the cavalry regiment changed from a resting domestic cat to a sharp mountain tiger.