Green grass, blue sky, white clouds, herds of cattle and sheep, this is the general rudder of the Tiger League.

It was once one of the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty and was located outside the Daqing Mountains in the Yinshan Mountains. It used to be heavily garrisoned, and the border people were deserted, with a population of hundreds of thousands. The topography here is unique, with a unique dam zone formed by the steep rise of the grassland, and a meadow-like grassland formed due to the climate and vegetation. Blue sky and white clouds, green grass, trees, strong wind, barefoot, no obvious summer, even in the middle of summer. This grassland is rich in water and grass, for thousands of years, it is the grassland that countless nomadic tribes compete for, at the same time, it is also the natural boundary between the nomadic tribes and the Central Plains Dynasty, the two major mountain ranges of Yinshan and Yanshan behind lie in the south, and across the mountain range, you can go straight down to Hedong or Hebei, and enter the Central Plains.

Huaihuang used to be an important frontier defense area, and the Northern Wei Dynasty relied on it for national defense. The people stationed here are all the children of the Xianbei nobles, known as the heart of the country, and the children of the nobles are willing to come here to guard the frontier. And the experience of guarding here can also add luster to their resumes and find a fast track for their career promotion. However, such a scene did not last long, and later the strong enemy on the grassland of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Rouran civil strife, Gaoche rebellion, Rouran was no longer able to invade the south, and at this time the Northern Wei Dynasty also moved south from Pingcheng, which was located in the south of Yinshan, to Luoyang, Xianbei Sinicization, and the center of government moved south. The former heart of the country has been reduced to a low-class military household, and the military town has gradually become a place for criminals to be sent to exile, and a place for officials and generals to be frustrated and degraded. Especially after the capital moved south, the economy of the six northern towns also tended to collapse, and finally the six towns of the million uprising that ended the Northern Wei regime broke out. The Northern Wei Dynasty was destroyed because of this, splitting the Eastern and Western Wei. In the end, he stood for the confrontation of Zhou Qi.

During the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi dynasties, the war between the east and west of the north continued, and both sides fought in the east of Hedong and Henan. And further north, in the land of the original Six Towns. At this time, due to the rise of the Turks, Rouran declined, and these places were finally effectively controlled by the Turks. The former prosperous border towns were abandoned one by one, and the Turkic wolf cavalry began to break through the important barriers of Yinshan and Yanshan, and the outermost Great Wall built by the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty was completely ineffective, and the Turkic wolf cavalry approached the second inner line of the Great Wall.

The Northern Zhou eventually destroyed the once more powerful Northern Qi. Then the Sui unified the world, and the Central Plains changed. The Sui Dynasty, who unified the Central Plains, was unwilling to be the son of the Turks anymore, and fought several battles. In the end, the powerful Turks split, and to this day, the Eastern Turks even have to rely on the protection of the Great Sui to move to the Dingxiang area in the Yinshan Mountains to graze and recuperate.

Although the Great Sui defeated the Turks. However, the actual border line remains on the second Great Wall. The area between the first and second Great Wall was actually deserted and could only be grazed by the dependent Turks. As for the area outside the Yinshan Mountains outside the first Great Wall, it has long been reduced to the grassland pastures of nomadic herders.

Once an important border military town, it has now been silent for nearly a hundred years, and Huaihuang Town has become the general rudder of the Tiger League. The northern military town of the Northern Wei Empire was reduced to the entrance of a group of green forests in the north of the Sui Dynasty. Who would have imagined that?

Three thousand men and horses came out of the jam.

Luo Fang and Xue Shui followed behind the Lingyun Brigade with a hundred riders and two hundred foot soldiers, and they made a disgraced face. Luo Fang, who had eaten up the dust, had an ugly face. Ling Yun has too many people. He left five hundred people in the Erlong Hall, but Ling Yun also left three hundred people in the Erlong Hall. Then he can take 3,000 people to the north, he underestimated Lingyun too much, just this morning, more than 1,000 teams of people came to converge, all of them were Lingyun's people.

Ling Yun has always said that he doesn't have many brothers around him, but are the thousands of people and horses who kick up countless dust dead people?

Xue Shui counted it privately and told him that this huge team included the cronies of Yang Guang, the king of Jin, the white-haired princess of the Gao family of Northern Qi, and the rest of the people and horses were also complex, including several heroes from Henan and Hebei, as well as new subordinates recruited by Lingyun on the way to the north. It's thousands, even if only half of these thousands of people can really wield knives and arrows, it's enough to make their faces ugly. You must know that Lingyun is not only these people, outside the Sai, Lingyun also has a White Horse Hall with 200 elite horsemen and 800 elite foot soldiers. What's more, Ling Yun has so many supporters, none of them can get two or three hundred private arms, if they really want to put together, Ling Yun can pull up another thousand eight hundred reinforcements at any time.

The team crossed the Great Wall again in Daning and went far out of the fortress. Daning, that is, Zhangjiakou in later generations, but Zhangjiakou will not appear until after the construction of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zhangjiakou gradually prospered, becoming a major trade place in the north. At this time, the Daning City that had been set up in the Northern Wei Dynasty was already gone, it was just a barren place, and the Great Wall of the past had become a ruined wall with no one to defend, and the door was wide open, allowing people to enter and exit.

Lingyun rode a horse and slowly passed through the gap of the Great Wall, his heart was full of sighs, and he couldn't help but look at the horse for a long time. Wei Zheng caught up from behind, stopped his horse, and sighed.

"But let the dragon city fly, not make Humadu Yin Mountain." Ling Yun recited a poem, "Senior brother, this was once the frontier of the Central Plains, the Great Wall. But now, it has allowed people to enter and exit at will, and there are bloody horses inside and outside the Great Wall. If there is an opportunity in the future, he must regain the status of the Han family here, regain this land, and drive the Hu people back to the north of Yinshan. ”

Wei Zheng's eyes flashed with a bright color, and he said appreciatively: "I am willing to help you with a modest force." ”

After crossing the Great Wall, the terrain is completely different, and the grassland has been stepped onto here. In later generations, this unique terrain was known as the Dam Shang, the Grassland Sky Road. When I was in Youzhou, everyone had changed into thin shirts, but as soon as they crossed the Great Wall of Daning, although the weather was still sunny, the temperature dropped sharply a lot, and everyone began to re-turn out their jackets and leather robes, as if they suddenly entered the feeling of entering an air-conditioned room in the hot summer.

The huge team left the Great Wall, and Xue Liang immediately sent someone to the chief helm to inform him.

The elders of the chief helm and the people of the Inner Eight Hall rushed to greet them, and they had already received Rose's letter and learned of the change in the alliance, and they came together to welcome the arrival of the alliance leader. Ling Yun was still right away, and his heart was still affected by the feelings when the Great Wall of Daning passed by, and finally arrived in Huaihuang, he just wanted to take a hot bath and sleep well. But in the face of the left and right envoys who rushed to the helm, the four protectors, the eight inner hall masters, and the thirty elders of the Council of Elders came to greet him, but Ling Yun could only smile at each other.

Zuo Envoy stepped forward with a kind face and helped Ling Yun hold the saddle, "When I first received the news, I couldn't believe it, but when I received the news from Luo Fang and Xue Liang, I didn't doubt it anymore." Zuo Envoy Pei Zeng smiled on his face: "Although I was a little surprised at first, but after thinking about it carefully, you are indeed very suitable for the position of the leader of the alliance, and Rose's girl has a good eye." ”

"I'm afraid that everyone doesn't agree with Rose's decision, and maybe how many people will think of pulling me off the horse." Ling Yun smiled at the old man with gray hair, but still a straight chest and a ruddy face. Pei Zeng is the left envoy in the alliance, and there are deputy alliance leaders under the alliance leader, and there are left and right envoys and four protectors under the deputy alliance leader. These left and right envoys are the people who assist the alliance leader in handling the help, and they are all served by people with great prestige and high morality in the gang, which is equivalent to the three princes and three divisions in the court. Ling Yun and Fan Zeng are very familiar and have a good relationship, because when he first joined the Tiger League, after worshiping Murong Ke as his father-in-law, he followed Fan Zeng to learn. Murong Ke is Ling Yun's father-in-law, while Pei Zeng is Ling Yun's master.

"When have you ever been afraid, you have never been afraid of heaven and earth. I think that back then, when the old master and I met you, you were only twelve years old, a half-old child, and you actually killed a tiger by yourself, and the shock of me and the old master at that time is needless to say. In the past few years, everyone in the alliance has also looked at you, how many times have you charged, whether the other party is a hundred or a thousand, have you ever been afraid? ”

"Haha, there is a master, I'm afraid of who will come." Ling Yun said with a smile, with the help of such a heavyweight patriarch, maybe things will be simpler than imagined. "You're still so strong that you can't tell you're seventy-three."

"Well, since I ate the tiger you beat that year, I have such a hobby, and I often get one or two tigers to eat. Tiger meat, tiger bones, and tiger whips, I think I'm getting older and younger, and I even had the third daughter last night. Pei Zeng smiled proudly.

"Master, you have to take it easy, at such an old age, do you still want to give me a whole few junior brothers and sisters?"

"Don't worry, I'm old and strong, and I won't have to live for another eighteen years." Pei Zeng smiled: "We have prepared the former yard of the rose for you, and you will live there." ”

"Thank you, master." Ling Yun hugged Pei Zeng.

Pei Zeng sighed, "You really don't remember what happened before, hey, if it was before, how could you be so polite to me." Forget it, don't say much, let's go to the city. ”

The general rudder of the Tiger Hall was built in Huaihuang Ancient Town. This military town was dilapidated for a long time, and later Murong Ke occupied this place and began to use it as the general rudder, and after years of repair, the ancient city also regained some momentum.

This is indeed a city, on the grassland on the dam, you can see three quaint cities standing in the shape of a pin, this is the border city of the three cities in the east and west, in the shape of a pinzig. The Midtown is long and large, jutting out to the south. According to the information that Ling Yun got from the green forest book, the width of the middle city was about 120 zhang from east to west, and 200 zhang from north to south. The east city is about 110 zhang wide from east to west, and 160 zhang long from north to south. The west city is more than 90 zhang wide from east to west, and about 190 zhang long from north to south. The walls were made of rammed earth, and the gates were clad in masonry.

Zhongcheng opened a gate to the south, and there was a six-zhang high lookout tower on the east and west sides of the gate, and several eight-bull crossbows flashed with ghostly light.

Ling Yun stood in front of the south gate of Zhongcheng, his heart was full of amazement, he couldn't believe it, the three cities in front of him, only from the outside, he couldn't see the slightest bit of dilapidation. I only saw that the city wall was tall, the corner tower of the arrow tower was standing, the guards on the city were moving, and the arrows and crossbows were strictly guarded.

On the way out of Junduguan to here, that is, there is a county seat in the Huairou Basin near Junduguan, and there are many villages. But who would have imagined that after leaving the Great Wall on the outer line, on this grassland plug, such a city could still be seen.

A city, not a fortress, not a stockade, it is a majestic city, even far beyond many county towns in the Central Plains. The Tigers, how did it do it? (To be continued......)