The location of Beidaying is probably located in the territory of Inner Mongolia now, about 200 miles away from the Great Wall, and it was called Hukou Village in the Jin Dynasty.

This is the most advanced place in the northern defense, legend has it that when Meng Tian conquered the Xiongnu, he left a stone tablet here, and the generals He Hu and Xia Houping when the Jin Guang Emperor also had soldiers here and set up this line of defense.

Beidaying broke through the area of the Great Wall and expanded to the north, known as the first fortress in the north.

Sima Dan and Zuo Yong and Right Yong rode non-stop, and a few days later caught up with Mu Sheng and Mu Xiaomin in Youzhou, who were escorted by the 36 cavalry forbidden troops, and went to the common destination - Beidaying as Sima Dan's family.

When Xiao Min saw Sima Dan on the horse, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Is it a dead Ma Dan?" I've lost so much weight and darkened a lot! ”

Sima Dan sighed: "Nonsense, I only sleep for one or two hours for dozens of days, and I keep hurrying, are you thin?" ”

Xiao Min shook his head: "You didn't bring me with you when you ate and drank well in Jingshi, don't come to me to cry, hum!" ”

Mu Sheng was a fat man fifty or sixty miles away, and at this time, the horse approached and patted Sima Dan on the shoulder: "Grow up, stinky boy!"

Sima Dan exclaimed bitterly: "Can't you tap it?" Are you eating too much and have nowhere to help? ”

Mu Sheng held the wine gourd in one hand, took a sip, and scolded: "I have become a prince!" There's no one in sight! See what you do this time? More than 30 people were holding us, and we couldn't escape. ”

Zuo Yong's strange voice: "What are you talking about?" Why can't I listen to a word? ”

It turned out that what Sima Dan and Mu Sheng said was definitely not a Middle-earth language, how could Zuo Yong understand it?

Sima Dan smiled: "My drunkard master is from the Western Regions, we are used to using his words, so it's funny, do you want me to teach you?" ”

Although Zuo Yong and the others were sent by the emperor to monitor Sima Dan, they were now far away from the Jingshi, and they had no way to stop the prince from speaking in any words, so they could only continue to hurry with a gloomy face.

Xiao Min grimaced at Sima Dan: "Abba said that you must be a groom in the capital, isn't it?" ”

Sima Dan suddenly remembered the orchid, and was not sure how to answer, Mu Sheng patted him on the shoulder again: "Don't pay attention to her, first of all, did you ask how your cousin died?" ”

Xiao Min snorted angrily and urged the horse to go away.

Sima Dan nodded hurriedly, and then got angry: "Don't you know everything?" Why did you bring me to Jiangnan back then? I didn't know anything beforehand, and there was only one night in the capital, what could I spy on? Can't you drink less in broad daylight? ”

"Originally, I wanted to wait until you were older to tell you, anyway, you will tell me what you heard first, and then we will settle our accounts privately, okay?"

"Alright! It's really crooked on the top and crooked on the bottom, teach me to calculate this and spy on that all day long, as for the prince, phew! How the old prince died, of course, was given death by the emperor! I heard that when he was in Beidaying, because he had an affair with a foreign woman, he was humiliated by the country, and he was sued by the officers and soldiers of Beidaying, and was finally given death by the emperor. If you had said earlier, I might not have died! ”

Mu Sheng sneered: "If I teach you that, can you live to this day?" Or can I stay with you for so long? ”

Sima Dan couldn't help but shudder, and the faces of the dozen or so guards who were slaughtered like dogs because they heard Princess Jingyang's words flashed in his heart, and he thought, "His grandmother, did these two yin people show me their methods that day?" I couldn't help but ask, "When are we going to escape?" It won't be like this in the prairie, right? ”

Mu Xiaomin complained to her father: "It's not good to speak, I always scare people with death, death!" She snatched the gourd from Mu Sheng's hand with one hand.

Mu Sheng fell: "Okay! All right! What else do you hear? ”

Sima Dan said in a deep voice: "Huan Wen told me that Empress Chen killed a noble concubine a few days ago, and it is said that she was pregnant with a dragon seed, but why did the emperor let her kill her own son in a nonsense manner?" He didn't explain, he just said that if Empress Chen continues to kill like this, only a kid named Wang Chen can be the emperor, and he told me to be careful of the people of the Wang family! ”

Mu Sheng nodded: "This is interesting, if the emperor has no heirs at this age, he can only pass it on to a different surname, Princess Jingyang is not married yet, and she just wants to sell it at a price, but this delay has been more than ten years, and the emperor is also old... Sima's world! ”

To make a long story short, after leaving the prairie from the Great Wall, they drove straight north for several days, without stopping to make contact with people anywhere on the way.

The grassland outside the gate is very different from the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River where Sima Dan grew up as a child, the endless blue grassland, the high and distant blue sky and white clouds, with the cool breeze of sweet grass, so that Sima Dan and Mu Xiaomin forgot to be tired, and constantly urged the fast horse to gallop to their heart's content.

Especially Sima Dan's reunited Western Regions horse Xiaohong, at this time let go of its four hooves and ran as if it did not touch the ground, but its mane was growing like crazy, fortunately Xiao Min patiently trimmed it at night.

At night, when Sima Dan watched Mu Xiaomin trim the mane of Xiaohong, that is, the Western Regions Fierce Horse, in the starlight, he felt that although the starlight of the grassland was farther, it was denser, and the stars in the sky were so dense that if you could catch them with one hand, you could catch dozens of them at a time.

Sima Dan singled his eyes and grabbed the stars in the sky with his hands, and after scratching a few times, he didn't catch anything, but touched Mu Sheng's beard.

Sima Dan was startled and screamed: "What are you doing?" ”

Mu Sheng looked at him obsessively at Xiao Min, and he didn't know what it was like, "Do you know why I have to give Xiaohong to you?" That's a real red horse. ”

Sima Dan knew Xiaohong's origin, thought for a while and said, "Is it easy to walk in the future?" You made me look like I was going to die, and I should have given me a good horse. ”

Mu Sheng: "Phew! With a sound, he patted him on the shoulder and said: "With your identity, I imprisoned you in Jiangnan to weaken your mind, and my education of you cannot be revealed, so I thought of using this fierce horse to arouse the ambition in your heart!" Then I thought that you weren't peeking at the girl, and I thought about running away...," he sighed and shook his head and walked away.

Sima Dan was stunned on the spot.

I see.

How far can a horse run?

Can a puppet protect the woman he loves?

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Hukou Village is a magnificent earthen village.

Although its actual length and width are only about two arrows, it cannot be compared with the city in the Great Wall, but its civil structure makes it look more hideous, and there is a row of wooden fences outside the earthen wall that greatly thickens the earthen wall.

At the four corners of the city, there are arrow towers made of huge trees towering into the sky, which are forty or fifty zhang high, but they can be seen far away, which is extremely important for defense.

Sima Dan saw the construction of these predecessors in order to protect the family and defend the country from afar, and his heart was still full of enthusiasm: "This is the Beidaying!"

Either die here, or build a feat here for the ages!

On both sides of Hukou Village, there are arrow towers built every few miles, as the purpose of looking at the enemy's territory, from here, the arrow towers can still be seen in the extreme eye to extend outward, I heard that the defense line of Hukou Village is full of two hundred miles, but now most of them have been deserted.

When Sima Dan and his party arrived, the sun was in the sky, and there was not a single guard on the arrow tower.

...... creak, the gate of Hukou Village slowly opened, and a team of ironclad cavalry rushed out, lining up to pay tribute to the prince.

However, the deputy pacification envoy of the Beida battalion, Weiyuan general Cao Lie, did not come out to greet him.

Adjutant General Liu Yi asked Sima Dan for instructions: "The prince, please rest first, General Cao will come to see him immediately." ”

But Sima Dan insisted on going to General Cao's place to pay a visit first.

When the group entered the inner village, they saw that the Seine was desolate, only the northeast corner, and they were still a little angry.

Liu Yi: "Since the opening of the Ming Dynasty, foreign enemies have not dared to come, the garrison here has been continuously reduced, and now there are only three battalions of Xiaocai, so it is enough for us to live in the northeast corner, which is the direction of the Xiongnu attack." ”

Mu Sheng sneered.

Sima Dan nodded: "Let's go see General Cao." ”

The group passed through the soldiers' quarters and reached a small cabin.

A large crowd of soldiers had gathered there, but it was not a military assembly, but like a group of idlers, waiting there to see the excitement.

When Sima Dan and his party arrived at the front of the house, the surrounding noise suddenly disappeared.

Sima Dan looked at the soldiers standing around, their clothes and armor were not neat, and they all looked listless and dazed.

This is the elite soldier of our Dajin border?

Out of the hut came a man in his fifties, with white sideburns, but his figure under the cloth was not inferior to that of any young man. But from his eyes, it was certain that he was Cao Lie.

Sima Dan noticed that his cloth clothes were wet in several places, and there were also a few traces of blood, and he couldn't imagine that Cao Lie was even more unkempt than ordinary soldiers.

Cao Lie silently walked three steps away from Sima Dan, looked down at Sima Dan for a while, then looked left and right, and pulled out a knife from the waist of a soldier behind him.

It was a saber about a palm longer than the blade of a normal saber.

Cao Lie's knife handle retorted, and threw the knife at Sima Dan: "Welcome to the Mobei Prairie!" ”

Sima Dan casually copied the knife down.

Good fellow, weighs about twenty pounds.

It was a real murderous knife, with a narrow blade, a thick back, and a knife more than a foot longer than an ordinary saber, but the faint golden light on its body witnessed its history of drinking blood.

Cao Lie said in a deep voice: "If the war horse is injured and cannot recover, we will end her pain with one sword, prince, please come in!" He pulled his hand into the hut.

Could it be that this wooden house is a stable?

Sima Dan didn't say a word, held the knife in his backhand, and stepped into the hut.

There were some soldiers in the house, and they all got out of the way, and Sima Dan walked straight into the middle of them.

There lay two soldiers with arrow wounds.

One of them was hit by an arrow in the chest, and he was already out of breath and out of breath and inlet in little.

The other soldier was only shot in the thigh and was crying.