"Out of the desert, four hundred miles to the west is the Qi-Wei border, it is estimated that another two hundred miles will enter our country's border defense area, and you can see the border guards."

Qi Bin briefed the two of them on the road ahead and the situation, and there are still two hundred miles to enter the border defense area, if they can pass smoothly, then there will be no more problems in the territory of Qi State.

Therefore, the two-hundred-mile journey is also very crucial, and the whole team must not relax in the slightest. But there is no need to march day and night, as in the desert, where the horses will not be able to bear it, even if they can bear it.

It is still the method of day and night sleeping, and you can stop for a while when you encounter a market town to replenish your supplies. After all, after walking in the desert for more than ten days, the grain and grass were almost consumed.

However, the march will be slow, and it is expected that there will be three days before entering the border defense area.

The team walked on the Gobi Desert, and after leaving the desert, the desolation remained.

At this time, it is the middle of July, and in the land of Qi, it must be grass and warblers flying, and summer is full of joy.

But along the march, looking around, it is difficult to see much greenery, and it is difficult to see pedestrians, even among herders, and even in towns.

Two hundred miles away, there was only one market town, which was pitifully small, and a supply of the team bought almost all the items in the town.

However, the townspeople have made a lot of money because of it, and almost everyone is smiling.

There was nothing along the way, nothing happened. In three days, not to mention encountering enemies, not even a few people were encountered.

On the morning of the fourth day, everyone saw a garrison camp from a distance, and there was no need to guess that they had entered the border defense area.

The Qi-Wei border was too desolate, and there was no war between the two sides for many years, and the two countries did not build a Guancheng in the border area.

The garrisons were all based on the camps, the smaller camps had only more than 1,000 people, and the largest central camps had 10,000 garrisons.

At the front of the line was a small camp stationed on the post road, responsible for replenishing the front line sergeants.

The chief officer of the camp was a five-rank partial general named Anshan, who immediately went out of the village to greet him after receiving the report.

After seeing Yi Jiuxiao and Qi Bin, he dismounted and knelt down, Qi Bin was the commander of the forbidden army, with the rank of fourth-rank official, one level higher than An Shan. Yi Jiuxiao is a scholar of Sanpin University, and he is also a big official in the capital.

Everyone was welcomed into the camp, which was very spacious, two miles in size in length and breadth, and there were many vacant barracks, and it was not a problem for the escort team to be stationed in it.

After the settlement was completed, Qi Bin took out a letter and handed it to Anshan, asking him to send someone to General Wuwei.

This letter was originally written by King An Yuan to Song Ding, and was later found in the ring of the sand leopard.

The escort team did not continue to set off, but rested and waited in the camp, and Yi Jiuxiao happened to take advantage of his free time to practice the combat skills in the Book of Grounds.

Two days later, a formation of 1,000 people came from outside the camp, which was sent by General Wuwei. It is estimated that he was dispatched immediately after receiving the letter, and he arrived here after a night march.

The leader of the team is named Pang Chenglong, who was cultivated in the early days of Jindan and was the deputy general of General Wuwei.

After Pang Chenglong entered the camp, he met with Yi Jiuxiao and Qi Bin, saying that he was ordered by Wuwei to welcome the team to the central camp.

Pang Chenglong led a thousand people to open the way in front, and the team followed closely behind, and the road was extremely safe, and there was no longer anything to worry about.

Yi Jiuxiao couldn't help but secretly praise Song Ding for his steady work, and those who can guard the border are really eloquent and strategic, if he contacts Song Ding as soon as possible, he will not be so dangerous along the way.

The march was continuous, with only two breaks on the way, and reached the central camp in the middle of the night.

Song Ding has led his subordinates to wait outside the camp, which is very large, with 10,000 defenders stationed, stretching for ten miles, crawling on the border land like a giant beast.

Yi Jiuxiao and Song Ding met with a flat courtesy, both of them were third-rank officials, one was the deputy envoy of the emperor's Qin faction, and the other was a famous general stationed at the border pass, and they were not up or down from each other.

Before setting off from the small camp, the princess had already sat in the phoenix, and Song Ding led everyone to kneel in front of the princess's phoenix.

He said: "The last general Song Ding paid a visit to the princess! It was the last general's dereliction of duty that he failed to send someone to greet the princess as soon as possible, and he really deserved to die." ”

This phoenix is very ingenious, you can see the outside world clearly when you sit inside, but the outside world can't see the inside clearly.

Seeing Song Ding kneeling in front of Feng Yuan, the seventh princess hurriedly said: "General, please get up, it's a message that doesn't work, it has nothing to do with the general, and the general doesn't have to blame himself." ”

Song Ding only read King Anyuan's letter at this time, and he didn't fully know the danger on the way to escort the team, and after entering the camp, Yi Jiuxiao and Qi Bin told Song Ding what they had encountered on the way.

Song Ding suddenly broke into a cold sweat, if the escort team had an accident in Shazhou, Cheng Fu, the Taishou of Shazhou, would definitely bear the brunt, and he would probably be unable to escape the blame.

"The deputy envoy and the commander of Qi have worked hard all the way, why don't you live in the camp for a few days first, and then I send someone to contact the border of Wei first, and then set off for the border to enter Wei, how about it?"

Song Ding's suggestion is very safe, it is not good to enter the Wei State rashly, you should contact the other party's defenders first, and it is not too late to set off after everything is arranged, after all, it is the most important thing to arrive safely.

"The general is right, then we will wait for the general's news in the camp. ”

Yi Jiuxiao handed over the documents of the two countries on peace and affinity to Song Ding, who arranged for people to go to the border to contact the defenders of the other side.

There has been no war between Qi and Wei for many years, but the defenders are still heavily guarded, and the documents are the evidence of this trip, and the border defenders of Wei may not know about the matter of harmony, and only the documents of the emperor and envoys of Wei will be believed.

This matter is more complicated, and it cannot be settled in a day or two, and everyone can only wait patiently for news.

Yi Jiuxiao lived in the village, he lived in a courtyard alone, and the princess and Qi Qingru lived in the courtyard next door.

After being together for a few months, Yi Jiuxiao had seen the princess a few times, but he had not spoken to the princess.

He is not a member of the royal family, and he is a young man, so it is better to avoid suspicion as much as possible.

Of course, Yi Jiuxiao didn't have time to speak, he had to hurry up and practice several combat techniques in the Book of Reclamation.

The Unity Technique, the Army Breaking Technique, and the Chaotic Shield Technique are all convenient to cultivate, and there are no too high requirements for the site, just in the courtyard.

Among them, the unity technique is the most dexterous and convenient, and can even be performed in the room.

Only the strong archery technique and the three arrows in one breath are long-range attacks, and they are definitely not something that can be cultivated in this small courtyard.

Yi Jiuxiao asked the soldiers sent by Song Ding to serve, and it turned out that there was a school field in the camp.

This school field is four miles long, it is used to practice cavalry formations, and it is also very empty, which is very suitable for practicing archery.

So accompanied by his own soldiers, he has been practicing in the school field for four days, although it is not completely pure, but he has stepped into the door of these two archery skills.

Using strong archery, 500 zhang away, imitation iron arrows can shoot the thick wooden stake of the bowl to smithereens.

At a distance of 500 zhang, ordinary people may not even be able to see the stake, let alone shoot.

But after Yi Jiuxiao practiced the Divine Cultivation Technique, his eyesight was amazing, and he could see clearly in the daytime at a distance of five hundred zhang.

But the night is different, and the night is not very clear.

In the past, even if you use a mountain arrow, you may only be able to do it in the range of 200 zhang.

In the desert, when he used a piercing arrow to shoot through Wei Kuang's drum-shaped magic weapon, he did so within a hundred zhang.

Doubling the distance at which an arrow can be fired will drop its power, and its power may not even be one-third.

It can be seen how much the increase in the strength of the archery technique is, and it definitely increases the damage by more than several times.

Three arrows in one breath is also very good, winning in a fast, in one breath time can shoot three arrows in a row, and can be in different directions and different angles, completely blocking the opponent's retreat, so that it has no way to retreat, no way to avoid.

However, the time of cultivation was too short and too hasty, and at present, he could barely shoot two arrows in one breath.

Four days later, Yi Jiuxiao returned to the courtyard, where he wanted to cultivate long soldiers, short soldiers, and shields.

I saw him holding a huge shield and flying up and down in the courtyard, blocking, smashing, pushing, or topping, and the wind was all over for a while. The leaves around the yard are falling to the ground, and it seems that late autumn has come to this small world.

"Vice-Ambassador, what are you doing, do you want to demolish the house?"

Yi Jiuxiao stopped practicing, and glanced at Qi Qingru who jumped from the courtyard next door, and what made him strange was that the princess also came with him.

Yi Jiuxiao was a little nervous for a while, and hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Weichen see the princess!"

When speaking, Yi Jiuxiao knelt on the ground and lowered his head, not daring to look at the princess, in his previous life in the Great Song Dynasty, the etiquette was strict, and the way of the monarch and the father and son was deeply rooted in his heart.

As a courtier, you must be loyal and respectful to the king and the royal family, and there must be no slackness or blasphemy.

"The deputy envoy is invited to get up, there is no need to be polite. ”

When the princess saw Yi Jiuxiao kneeling on the ground, she was also anxious, she couldn't help it, she couldn't pull it, she couldn't help but blush, and she looked extremely beautiful.

At this time, Qi Qingru spoke on the side, with laughter and ridicule in her words.

"If he likes to kneel, let him kneel, my royal family of Qi is a Xiuzhen family, there are not so many etiquette, and there is no need to be so restrained, and there is no rule that women don't see outsiders, you have so many etiquette, it seems that you are really mortal, haha~"

Being teased by Qi Qingru for no reason, Yi Jiuxiao stood up helplessly. Thinking about it, it seems that I have been really worried about avoiding the princess along the way.

In fact, almost all men and women in the Xiuzhen family are monks, and the etiquette of the mortal world cannot be restrained at all, and there is no need to abide by it, and the cultivators have always been very indifferent to the feelings of men and women, so there is no need to deliberately avoid men and women.

"Qingru told me that thanks to the deputy envoy's escort along the way, I was able to keep me safe, and Qingyun thanked me here. ”

The seventh princess saw that Yi Jiuxiao was a little embarrassed, so she deliberately diverted the topic.

"As a courtier, that is the duty to be done, and the princess does not have to be polite. ”

Yi Jiuxiao had a very good impression of the Seventh Princess, she was not arrogant or domineering, and she also cooperated with the arrangement of the escort team along the way.

If you don't let you sit on the phoenix, you won't sit, and she almost didn't ask for anything, she is calm and indifferent, such a reasonable woman must be protected no matter what.

Thinking that she was going to get married, I couldn't help but feel a little sorry for her, and the prince of Wei didn't know what to do, and he couldn't help himself in the royal family.

Suddenly, Yi Jiuxiao felt a little guilty, very uncomfortable, and he couldn't help but raise his head.

At the same time, I secretly hated myself: Maybe it's my fault, there was no precedent for harmony in Qi State, it was I who offered advice, and the emperor remembered to let the princess go to Wei to make peace.