When there were still three days before the Chinese New Year, Zhao Hongming, the eldest prince, and Zhao Zongyun, the father of Zhao Zhongling, the fifth princess, finally returned to Beijing.

Zhao Zongyun, Prince Yanyun has been guarding the northern border of Yanfeng all these years. In the north of Yanfeng, there is a mountain range across the continent, stretching nearly 8,000 li from east to west, 600 li wide from north to south, with an average height of 1,500 zhang, extending from the deep inland in the west to the west near the coast.

To the north of this mountain range is the territory of the Ice Barbarians, the sworn enemies of Yanfeng. The colder the place, the larger the organism tends to grow, because it is good for keeping warm. Most of the barbarians living north of the mountain range are extremely strong.

Although this cold region is not frozen for thousands of miles all year round, there is a warm season for six months for them to cultivate and stock up. But this group of guys didn't know what evil they had fallen into, that is, they wanted to return to the interior.

But if these barbarians simply want to return to the interior to develop, it is not impossible, as long as the means are possible, there will always be a chance. But these people are like brainwashed, convinced that their ancestors were driven to this cold region by the people of the interior, and they not only want to return to the interior, but also turn all the people in the interior into their slaves, for their enslavement, and to avenge their ancestors.

Zhao Hongxing sees that in many novels he has read in this world, the evil villains are all from the Ice Barbarians.

Just because these barbarians are unreasonable, they cut down when they see the people south of the mountain range, and they have made enemies with the Yanfeng people closest to them.

The towering mountain range is very steep, even the barbarians who are accustomed to the cold cannot say that they can cross it horizontally, there is only one road that can pass through the mountain range, and the exit is on the mountain range in the northwest near the northern border of Yanfeng.

It is a naturally formed valley with a gentle terrain, and at its widest point it is more than 100 meters. This twisting valley can cross the entire north and south of the mountain range. And at the exit from this valley to the south, the Yanfeng royal family blocked it with a wall dozens of feet high hundreds of years ago.

Because of Yan Fengren, he was really afraid of these ice barbarians who started a battle and fought fiercely.

Hundreds of years ago, the Ice Barbarians often organized small forces to cross this valley and fight into the northern border of Yanfeng. However, since there were not many people who came each time, Yan Feng's army quickly drove these invading barbarians back.

Then, the people of the Ice Barbarians suddenly stopped moving, and this "quiet" was quiet for decades. At first, the Yanfeng royal family at that time thought that these barbarians had figured out and wanted to live in peace with the people in the interior. But after a long time, the royal family began to wonder.

These guys have been hiding for so many years and haven't shown up, what are they for?

Later, many barbarian spies were caught in the north. These spies were not friendly to Yan Fengren at all, and after they were discovered, they all resisted desperately without exception, even if they couldn't escape, they would fight to the death. Once caught, then bite through all the poison hidden in his mouth, and swear to die not to leave Yan Feng alive.

The actions of these spies aroused the suspicion of the Yanfeng royal family, and they were busy organizing a group of daredevils to cross the northern mountain range and go to the territory of the ice barbarians to investigate the situation.

Soon after, the man who risked his life to visit the letter returned. Moreover, they also brought bad news - the barbarian army has set out.

It turns out that the Ice Barbarians have been silent for decades, and all of them have been used to increase the population. It took these guys decades to raise the population to a size that the northern ice couldn't handle. Subsequently, hundreds of thousands of troops were put together, intending to break through Yanfeng in one fell swoop and directly attack the interior.

Yan Feng, who had just received the news, was a little too late, and they had to do their best to raise supplies, gather troops, and prepare to fight to the death against the invading barbarians.

The hundreds of thousands of garrisons in the north were the first to engage with the armies of the Ice Barbarians, and they were also the worst to be destroyed. In the case of not having an advantage in strength, size, and numbers, the northern garrison, which was indeed better equipped than the barbarians, only blocked the barbarians for three days in the hills near the northern mountain range, and then, they were all annihilated.

Fortunately, the three days that the northern garrison fought hard gave the northern residents a chance to evacuate. Because they really didn't know what the brutal Northland barbarians would do to the common people, the first thing the Yanfeng royal family at that time was to mobilize the evacuation of the residents of the North.

Yan Feng left a few empty cities for the Ice Barbarians, and a no-man's land within a radius of hundreds of miles. After the great destruction of the Yanfeng northern army, they saw such a scene again, which made the high-level of the barbarian army think that the Yanfeng people had been frightened, and now as long as they went south in one go, they might be able to fight the capital without blood.

It's a pity that they "swelled" early.

In terms of infantry battle formations, group charges, and the ability to fight alone, Yan Feng's army was indeed not as powerful as the Ice Barbarians. However, Yan Feng's army is not only infantry, Yan Feng also has hundreds of thousands of strong cavalry. In the era of cold weapons, when the war horses covered with iron frames gathered together to charge, it was an invincible existence.

Due to the limitations of the hilly terrain in the north, it was difficult for Yanfeng's cavalry troops to give full play to their advantages, so they were not stationed in large numbers. As soon as you cross the northern border and go southeast, there will be a large plain.

Bringing the army of the Ice Barbarians here and using iron horses to fight the winner was the idea of the Yanfeng royal family at that time.

The jealous and inflated barbarian army was led to this plain without much effort. Coming to this endless plain with fertile land, the Ice Barbarians were overjoyed at the time, because these guys thought that such a good place would be theirs immediately.

What they didn't expect was that the next day, Yan Feng's cavalry appeared in front of their vanguard team.

Obviously, they didn't fight the cavalry. The barbarian army, which did not know the power of the cavalry, formed a neat battle formation and slowly advanced towards the cavalry.

Yan Feng's cavalry actually did not appear in front of the vanguard of the barbarian army, these hundreds of thousands of cavalry came down from the northeast of the barbarian army, directly cooperating with the infantry who had been ambushed here for a long time, and kept the entire barbarian army tight.

When the barbarian army came to a distance suitable for cavalry charges, all the Yanfeng cavalry launched a deadly charge against these invading barbarians.

However, this "fatal" here is a two-way street.

The first wave of the charge had a great effect, and the cavalry group that rushed wildly, with heavy iron hooves and sharp machetes, reaped the lives of countless barbarians. Whether he was knocked down by a horse or cut down by a cavalryman, or whether the man was dead or not, as long as he fell, he would be trampled into a pulp by the rushing hooves of the horses.

A wave of Yanfeng cavalry charges killed and wounded more than forty percent of the barbarian army.

However, the cavalry, who launched a second wave of charges, were immediately dragged into hell by the enraged Ice Barbarians.

When these guys found that their battle formation worked against the cavalry, they immediately gave up the formation of the formation. One by one, the same barbarian soldiers wielded the weapons in their hands, trying to deal a heavy blow to the galloping horses and cavalry on the horses.

As long as the horses are killed, or the riders are defeated, then the advantage of the cavalry disappears.

The tragic collision occurred in an instant, and the barbarian infantry and Yan Feng's cavalry once again rushed together. The desperate offensive of these guys really slowed down the charge of the Yanfeng cavalry group, which caused tens of thousands of cavalry and war horses to be left behind by the barbarian infantry in the second wave of charge, and then brutally torn to pieces.

This second wave of charges only achieved less than 20% of the results.

In the face of the barbarian troops, which had already reached half of the attrition, Yan Feng's nearly one million troops who were ambushed not far away also launched a charge.

The loss of tens of thousands of cavalry and horses was not small, and the Yanfeng royal family believed that the remaining barbarian troops were enough for the infantry at that time to solve it.

What Yan Fengren never thought about was that the barbarian soldiers who had no way out and killed red-eyed people became even more difficult to deal with. After the infantry met with each other, the Yanfeng infantry assembled into a battle formation was unable to rely on the numerical advantage to encircle and suppress the remaining troops of the Ice Land Barbarians, and even was almost torn apart by the barbarian soldiers desperately at one point.

The fierce fighting on this plain lasted for two days. The isolated barbarian army had no idea of surrendering at all, and every soldier desperately wanted to take one more soldier with Yan Feng before he fell. These ice maniacs even hit a battle loss ratio of one to three.

Eventually, less than 5,000 of the Ice Barbarians fled back to the Ice from the battlefield. And Yanfeng's infantry also lost nearly 300,000.

Tens of thousands of cavalry and 300,000 infantry, which made Yan Feng's heart bleed. This is a war with no winners, and both Yanbong and the Ice Barbarians have paid a painful price for hundreds of thousands of loyal souls after this war.

After that, Yan Feng didn't care about the people and money, and spent a huge amount of money and tens of thousands of people to build the city wall dozens of zhang high at the mouth of the valley in the north.

The walls proved to be really useful. Decades after the walls were repaired, these ice barbarians, who couldn't swallow that breath, raised their troops to attack again.

This time, however, they attacked for three months, almost knocked out all the men again, and failed to cross the wall.

Since then, these people who are missing a root in their heads seem to be fighting against this wall. Every few decades, I have to come to fight a wave to try, although it is no longer a posture of fighting all people every time, as long as I find that I can't pass for two days, I will withdraw my troops, but no Yanfeng Emperor dares to relax his vigilance on this city wall, because once this wall is breached, what awaits them will definitely be another painful battle.

The plain, where millions of souls were killed on both sides, was nourished by the blood and bodies of warriors for hundreds of years......

As an important place to defend against the "first foreign enemy", the northern border is of course guarded by the prince Zhao Zongyun.

For the people of Yanfeng, this northern mountain range not only blocked the cold air from the south of the ice, but also those terrible barbarians.

Zhao Zongyun arrived in the capital early in the morning, and the cold of the winter in the capital was nothing to Prince Yanyun, who had been in the north for many years. Although the northern mountains block the cold of the ice, the winter is still very cold at the foot of the mountains south of the mountains.

When Zhao Zongyang and Zhao Zongming finished washing up and saw their eldest brother, they even finished breakfast.

"Big brother, it's late enough to come back this year. As soon as he saw Zhao Zongyun, Zhao Zongyang said happily.

"Alas, the northern border was a little unstoppable some time ago, and I don't feel at ease. Zhao Zongyun said very calmly, he has been stationed in the north all the year round, and this cold air is always wrapped around his body, and only at the moment he sees his own brother, these cold air seems to dissipate a little.

"You came back secretly again, right?" Zhao Zongming hugged his arms and said with a smile: "I sent someone to ask just now, you ride a horse, my sister-in-law rides a car, and you don't even add a piece of the horses that pull the cart, and there are no more than ten pants." ”

"The way back from the north is not easy to walk, and it is more convenient for fewer people. Zhao Zongyun raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Zongming, who was smiling, "What are you doing to be smart?"

"Hehe!" Zhao Zongming smiled, sat down and began to eat.

"You hurry up and eat, too. Zhao Zongyun said to Zhao Zongyang: "After eating, I will take you to meet someone." ”

"What?" Zhao Zongyang sat down and just wanted to move the chopsticks, when he heard this, he became interested.

Zhao Zongyun didn't buy the lawsuit, waved his hand and retreated the attendants left and right, and then lowered his voice and said, "I captured the leader of the barbarians." ”

"Huh?" Zhao Zongyang was startled.

"Is it alive, big brother?" asked Zhao Zongming, stretching his neck.

"Live. Compared with the reactions of the two younger brothers, Zhao Zongyun replied very calmly.

"Oh, eat fast, eat fast. Zhao Zongyang patted the third brother and hurried to eat. That's good news, and it might help them figure out a lot of things.

Zhao Zongming stuffed two mouthfuls of steamed buns, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Eh, big brother, won't you let your sister-in-law come back on horseback as a disguised guard?" Zhao Zongming glared and asked, "That carriage is used to imprison that little commander?"

"Knowing that I came back in a low-key manner, I asked. Zhao Zongyun said.

"Hey, my sister-in-law suffered with you...... Zhao Zongming said regretfully, "The wind and frost and bumps along the way, I didn't even get a carriage to sit on, but I suffered too much." ”

Zhao Zongming made fun of his eldest brother here, and Zhao Zongyang on the side ate honestly without saying a word.

"Have you eaten enough, go out with me to practice before watching people?" Zhao Zongyun said lightly.

"Oh, this scrambled egg is so tender today. Zhao Zongming, who was finished, hurriedly changed the topic.

Tempting on the verge of being beaten is a necessary skill for being a younger brother.

However, although he has "skin" on his lips, in fact, this brother is seriously thinking about it in his heart, and he will ask questions from the mouth of the little commander who was arrested for a while.

Moreover, it's all a question -

Did their second brother, Zhao Zongtian, die at the hands of you barbarians?