At about one o'clock in the afternoon, General Zhao, the new Zhenwu border patrol envoy, led the team to set off and marched towards the valley mouth west of Yangfangkou.

This time there were more than 300 horses, and although many people could not fight on horseback, they could still walk slowly on horseback. After all, they are all people who grew up in the Northwest Territories, no matter what nationality, horses are commonplace animals, and the difference is only whether you have the ability to raise a horse to ride in your family.

The hundred or so horsemen surnamed Zhao are the official cavalry in this army. Now those surnamed Zhao are so big that they don't want to get off the horse and walk at all, and they are riding on horses with their heads raised high, their buttocks are round, and they are arrogant.

The road in front of me is no longer the endless plains that existed before, but an uneven uphill road. Although it is an uphill road, the slope is relatively gentle now, and it is not too difficult to walk. The mountains on the left and right gradually approached from far to near, and the wide flat road gradually narrowed, and the slope became steeper, and it slowly turned into a valley walk.

After walking for less than two hours, the scout rider in front came to report.

"Report to the general, there is a deep valley ahead, and there is a pass at the deep valley."

He Daxian didn't say a word, took a dozen cavalrymen and stepped forward to see what was going on.

As you walk along the winding valley, the mountains on both sides become steeper and steeper, and the width of the flat land in the middle of the valley has narrowed to less than two hundred meters.

After running for about two miles, the width of the road at the mouth of the valley in front of me was narrowed to less than 100 meters, and the road was just in the middle of a wooden building seven or eight meters high, and on both sides of the mountain were built five or six meters high city walls, firmly locking the entrance to the valley. A number of people in soap-colored uniforms, holding spears, staggered around the tower, and these were probably the guards of the gate.

This pass is not a pass built by the government and the army, but a checkpoint built by the local residents themselves.

To tell the truth, the city wall is just a few meters high, not to mention tattered, the appearance of the city wall is still pitted with many holes and protruding stones, there are really troops attacking from outside the pass, and you don't even need to build a ladder, you can climb up directly from the stone wall. This pass is to the north, and if you want to talk about military use, it is probably to prevent the invasion of northern nomads. But if someone really comes to invade, they won't choose this way. On the one hand, it takes a lot of effort for the cavalry to go up the mountain, and on the other hand, even if they come in, there is not much oil and water. Behind the pass is a large triangular plain, sparsely populated, there are no big cities, only many herdsmen come and go regularly like migratory birds, eat some grass, and the weather turns cold and I don't know where to run.

Not to mention a large army, even if it is a grass valley, it is rare to choose this direction to fight.

After all, choosing the southern passage at Yangfangkou, a big road is too cool, and as long as you pass through Ningwu Pass and pass through Yangwu Valley, you can enter the Huahua world of the Central Plains without shelter.

Who would go to Hanako's house to rob when their brains are pumped?

In Ho's view, the pass was more of a tax bureau that collected taxes from passing merchants and herders than a military installation.

Although the prairie behind the valley is not full of oil and water, after all, the area of this triangular plain is still very large, and it is almost two hundred miles along the edge. Coupled with the abundant grasslands and abundant river water, it is always possible to feed tens of thousands of people. Therefore, there is a family surnamed Li at the back of the valley, who built a manor called Taipingzhuang, usually grazing horses and cattle for a living, and also planting a small number of crops. Later, all kinds of Huazi and wandering herdsmen slowly gathered in Taipingzhuang, and the population gradually increased, and Taipingzhuang became Taiping Town.

Six years ago, Yelu Deguang's younger brother Yelu Lihu had nothing to do, led thousands of Khitan cavalry to break through Yunzhou and came into the grass valley, beat Huanzhou to a pulp, plundered countless young and strong people and materials, and the remaining many old, weak, sick and disabled people had no life, so they had to drag their families to the south to survive, who knew that Shuozhou at that time closed the city gate and did not let them enter, and wanted to continue to go south to the Central Plains, Ningwuguan also locked the gate, and drove them all up the mountain, passed through the valley, and came to Taipingzhuang.

The owner of Taipingzhuang is called Li Hongji, although he is a party member, but the whole family has always admired Han culture, and his dress and living habits have long been no different from those of Han people.

In the society at that time, the Khitan State was the world's largest military power, but culturally, everyone regarded Han culture as the most respected. is as powerful as the Khitan, isn't it just as shameless as almost copying the Han culture to its own country?

Li Hongji is the same, his original party name has long been forgotten.

The ancestor chose the surname Li, which is said to have been given by the Tang Emperor. Of course, smart people will know that it is pure nonsense when they hear it, you are a small grassroots herdsman far away in the sky, where will the Tang Emperor be so idle that he doesn't even have time to pull, so he will come over and give you a surname? However, at that time, the people's customs were like this, and no one broke it, and after several generations, even their family themselves believed it.

As for the name "Hongji", at that time, it was a very long-faced thing to have a "base" in the name, and it was a name that only nobles dared to give in the Han world.

The word "Hong", that's because he happens to be a Hongzi generation. Yes, Han people naturally have to learn a full set, and the ancestors have long defined the generations clearly.

The things stipulated by the ancestors cannot be changed casually, and one of the Han people has said something.

For such a strange thing in the mortal world, He Daxian didn't feel strange at all. Even in the 21st century, aren't there many people who admire Western culture, so they have named Thomas Young, Alex Zhang, Francisco Chen, Christina Wang, etc., etc., right? If you ask them: What is your original Chinese name? Well, I don't quite remember, huh?

There are more daring and Western aristocratic names, which can be called "Camaron. Feng. Lee". You see, with the word "Feng" in the middle of the name, the aristocratic atmosphere that comes to the face, low-key and luxurious, bullish and reserved, how many young people are envious, how many girls cry and shout and kneel and beg you to give birth to a monkey.

Therefore, pretending to be forced still depends on the year.

Immortal cultivators come out of the mortal world to mix, and if they really want to figure out the crooks in the mortals' stomachs, it will be too troublesome.

He Daxian was much simpler, regardless of who he was, he directly raised the horse lance in his hand, pointed to a guy on the city tower who was a little neatly dressed and shouted:

"Hey, I'm Zhao Ping, the current commander of Zhenwu's patrol, and now I order you to open the gate!"

Hearing someone shouting downstairs, it seemed to be an official at a glance, and there were more than a dozen fierce cavalrymen beside him.

It's scary, the dozens of militiamen standing on the tower were in chaos at that time.

Anyway, they just run.

Many people were running up and down the towers, and they didn't know why, and they trotted all the way to the east, then turned and ran back, and then trotted all the way to the west. The whole city tower was crowded with people, chaotic, everyone squeezed around in the narrow passage, and then someone was squeezed out of the fire, began to scold the mother, the other side immediately returned the mouth, and then a hat was thrown over, and then a shoe was thrown over, and in the midst of the noise, a large group of people hugged each other and rolled into a pile of scuffles.

He Daxian shouted, waited for a long time, but no one paid attention to him, and then for some reason, there was a commotion on the city tower, and there was a sudden fight for some reason.

Now no one pays attention to He Daxian.

, what's going on?

He Daxian was really angry, he was full of anger, and shouted loudly:

"Oh my name! Open the gates! Don't open again! I'm going to attack the city! ”

He Daxian roared with all his might, how powerful it was!

Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, it exploded in mid-air like a thunderstorm, shaking the ears of all the soldiers on the city tower.

Almost half of the soldiers were so frightened that they were urinating on the spot, and the strong smell of urine instantly permeated the entire city tower.