On the eighth day of the fourth month, the ten-day Guyu Festival of the Moon Temple finally came to an end.

The truly busy season for the West Mountain handymen has just begun. There are still 10 days to go until the opening day of the pilgrimage on April 18, but some anxious pilgrims have already arrived at the opening day of the 50th store.

Many of the pilgrims were illiterate herders, and they didn't know how to read the calendar, except that when the weather warmed up, it was time to go to the temple to pray for blessings and disasters.

All the houses in Fifty Lipu were occupied by the soldiers of the Zhangxiong Division, and the new pilgrims had nowhere to stay but to spend the night in the mountains.

More and more pilgrims gathered, and when they gathered, they surrounded the military camp of the Fifty Miles Pu Zhangxiong, clamoring to drive the barbarians out of the snowy region.

After this incident became a big problem, it alarmed the head of the Xishan Adjudication Division. Fushengye was worried that the soldiers of the Zhangxiong Department would hurt the herdsmen, so he took Su Xiao down the mountain and came to Fifty Lipu in person.

In the minds of many Moon Temple worshippers, the Chief of the Judgment Division is an emissary sent by the Moon God to the world. Floating Leaf's iconic black robe and golden mask made him look outstanding.

As soon as he appeared, he had not yet spoken, and the pilgrims fell down in a large area.

Bathed in sunlight, he opened his arms and said in a loud voice to the pilgrims, "May the moon god bless you." ”

The pilgrims were devout devotees of the Luna God, and they knew that it was wrong to besiege the barracks, so they all consciously dispersed when they saw the floating leaves.

An old and frail herdsman holds a snow lotus in his crumpled hand and has to offer it to the floating leaves in person. Su Xiao stretched out his arm to stop the old herdsman, not letting him get close to the floating leaves.

Seeing this, Fushengye walked directly to the crowd and helped up the old herdsman who was kneeling on the ground.

The old herdsman said excitedly: "Lord Divine Envoy, this is the snow lotus that I Dan Dale dedicated to the Moon God. I beg you to convey my thoughts on my behalf. ”

Fushengye said: "There are only ten days before the opening of the mountain, you have to wait patiently, and when the time comes, you will personally go to the Moon God Temple to offer sacrifices to the Moon God, and you will definitely get the blessing of the Moon God." ”

Dan Dahler said angrily, "I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until then." ”

Fushengye looked at the elderly Dan Dahler and thought of his grandfather. He took the old man's cold hand and asked, "Are you sick?" ”

Old man Dan Dale said: "I have eaten all the dry food I brought on the road, and originally there was a porridge shop for soup soup every year in Fifty Miles, but this year it is full of soldiers. I've been hungry for days. My blanket was also stolen, and I had nowhere to sleep at night and was freezing to death. I was advised to exchange the snowdrop for a blanket and two flatbreads, but I didn't say yes. Because the holy snow lotus is dedicated to the moon god, not to be traded. ”

Fushengye was full of guilt, and said bitterly: "It is my fault for letting the followers of the Moon God starve and freeze at the gate of the Moon God Temple, and I promise you to solve the problem of food and accommodation for all pilgrims as soon as possible. Now I'm going to go into the barracks and negotiate with them. ”

The pilgrims consciously dodged a road, and Su Xiao knocked on the fence gate of the fifty-mile barracks.

As soon as the soldiers guarding saw the costume of the floating leaf, they immediately knew that it was the first floating leaf of the Nishiyama Ruling Division, the elder brother of the Yanlong Prince, who had arrived.

Yan Longye is still happy on the West Mountain. These days, the contestants of Mangyuan have basically arrived, Yan Longye has a cheerful personality and likes to make friends, and today he has met many young talents, and a group of young people gather every day to carnival, and the banquet continues.

Coincidentally, Liu Hanye also went out and was not in the barracks. Fortunately, the leaders of the Vermilion Bird Camp and the Xuanwu Camp both knew the floating leaves, and the two of them opened the door and respectfully invited the floating leaves into the camp tent.

The commander of the Xuanwu battalion said to Fushengye: "The eldest prince came to the barracks for those people outside the door, right?" Don't worry, a group of unarmed people, forgive them and don't dare to be presumptuous. ”

Fushengye said: "They are not some kind of people. They are all believers in my Moon Temple. Watching them suffer from hunger and cold at the bottom of the mountain, I couldn't bear it, and I couldn't sleep well! ”

The commander of the Xuanwu camp said: "It turns out that the eldest prince is worried about them, I thought you were worried that we would be wronged!" ”

Fushengye said: "What am I worried about you, the Vermilion Bird Battalion is all cavalry, can't you run away, and the armor of your Xuanwu Battalion is stronger than the turtle shell, and those sheep herders can still hurt you?" ”

The two commanders were hysterical for a while before they realized that Fushengye was joking with them, and they immediately laughed awkwardly.

The floating leaves waited until it was dark, and the fifty shops of the barracks were in charge of the lamps before waiting for Liu Hanye to come back.

As soon as Liu Hanye entered the barracks, he immediately came to see the floating leaves. When Floating Leaf asked where he was going, he realized that he had just returned from Dawn Pass.

It turned out that Liu Hanye was also concerned about the increasing number of pilgrims near the fifty shops, and he knew that he was a dove occupying the magpie's nest, which would inevitably arouse public anger in the long run, and it would also cause riots.

Just when he was worried about the placement of the barracks, Baturu, the commander of Liming Pass, actually sent them an invitation letter, inviting 1,000 soldiers from the Zhangxiong Department to go to Liming Pass to assist in the defense.

Liu Hanye didn't know why General Baturu suddenly made such a move, he decided to go and meet General Baturu, and it would be better to meet in person.

After understanding the reason why Liu Hanye went to Dawn Pass, Fushengye asked him: "Why did General Baturu suddenly invite you to Dawn Pass to assist in defense?" Could it be that something happened outside the gate? ”

Liu Hanye said: "This matter is a long story, please listen to me tell you slowly." ”

Last night, the 3,000 thunder cavalry and 20,000 light cavalry commanded by the third prince Lei Zhe were suddenly transferred from the Dawn Pass, and their whereabouts were unknown, leaving only the 7,000 giant deer slave soldiers still in the Dawn Pass. And General Baturu had only more than a thousand of his old subordinates at Dawn Pass.

These giant deer slaves are all barbarians who are close relatives of cannibals, and they are originally disobedient to discipline. The army of the third prince Lei Zhe was still able to suppress them when he was there, but he also kept deserting every day. It gave Lei Zhe a headache. Now that the third prince has suddenly transferred away the army that guards the giant deer slaves, these fierce slaves are like a swarm of bees without a king, and General Baturu can't suppress them at all.

Recently, the weather has warmed up, and a group of adventurers in Wanzhou of the Central Plains Empire have formed several dark slave hunting teams to cross the Tianqi Mountain Range and enter the vicinity of the snowy region.

In order to obtain more slaves, the nobles of the various tribes of the Mangyuan would encourage professional soldiers to go to the wilderness to capture the barbarians as slaves in the name of hunting.

Slave hunters were not part of the regular army, but they had developed into a full-fledged industry. There were slave markets in all parts of the Mangyuan that specialized in buying and selling barbarians. This business also made some gang organizations in the Central Plains Empire in the border area feel profitable.

As a result, gangs from the Central Plains Empire spontaneously formed hunting teams and were active in the border areas. They mainly made a profit by buying second-hand slaves from slave hunters and selling them to the Central Plains Empire.

Their gang is a mixed bag, acting without rules, and often eating black slave hunters.

There are also a small number of gang members who often burn, kill, loot and do all kinds of evil in the snowy territory. Therefore, the various ministries of the Mangyuan have long announced that they are forbidden to conduct any trade with the hunters of the Central Plains Empire. General Baturu's main mission in previous years was to crack down on the Dark Slave Hunters operating outside Dawn Pass.

Now General Baturu can't take care of the giant deer slaves inside the Dawn Pass, and he has no time to take care of the dark slave hunters outside the pass. In this way, the Dark Slave Hunters became more and more rampant, and they destroyed a village composed of hunters north of the Tianqi Mountain Range a few days ago, and not a single person in the village was killed.

Fushengye hates indiscriminately killing innocent people the most, especially those robbers who kill the door and slaughter the village at every turn, which makes him hate it deeply. He was indignant: "These damned robbers, can't they be cured? ”

Liu Hanye said: "So General Baturu took it upon himself to move our 1,000 soldiers to Dawn Pass to garrison. The condition is that we have to mobilize the cavalry of the Suzaku Battalion to cooperate with them to extinguish the Dark Slave Hunters. ”

Fushengye said: "That's a good thing, did you agree?" ”

Liu Hanye said: "Those gang people from the Central Plains Empire are not easy to deal with, if we dispatch the Vermilion Bird Battalion, there will inevitably be damage." ”

Fushengye said: "The duty of a soldier is to protect the family and defend the country, raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use soldiers for a while." If you watch the bandits do evil at the door of their homes and don't do anything, then what are the people raising you for? ”

The first time Liu Hanye heard it was the argument that the common people were raising an army. He had always felt that the army should be the king's private property, because he always felt that the army should naturally be the king's army. But now that he listened to Fushengye's words, he felt that what Fushengye said was also very reasonable. In the final analysis, all the food and clothing of the army come from the common people.

The common people are still the common people if they leave the king, and the king is nothing without the common people.

Liu Hanye said to Fushengye: "Actually, without your persuasion, I am also ready to bring our army into the Dawn Pass." It's just that in this way, it is too far away from the Moon God Temple, and it is no longer possible to protect the Lord of Hanxi. ”

Fusheng Ye said: "Han Xi is very safe in the Moon God Temple, Yanlong and I will take care of her, you can rest assured." ”

Liu Hanye said: "Do you want to say hello to His Royal Highness Yanlong first?" ”

Fushengye said: "It's urgent, and it's the same when I go back." If you stay here for one more night, you will freeze to death several pilgrims outside. Did you and General Baturu agree on when to pull out the camp? ”

Liu Hanye said: "General Baturu told me that our army can pass at any time. He will let his friends in Snowdrift City help him with the paperwork needed for the garrison. ”

Fushengye said: "Okay, without further ado, you can pull out the camp overnight and go to Dawn Pass!" Here I have received it, and tonight I will settle the old and infirm pilgrims to live in first, and tomorrow I will ask Xishan to send someone to set up a porridge factory and give them porridge. ”

Liu Hanye said: "The righteousness of the son is awe-inspiring and admirable. I will order the Suzaku Battalion to open, and after the Xuanwu Battalion is broken, it will be evacuated in an orderly manner. I'll leave you another fifty tents, and all the men will leave you for them, so that they can report to me at Dawn Pass tomorrow. We don't have much food, so you can figure it out for yourselves. ”

Fushengye said: "What's not much? Leave me a load of food tonight, and I'll have you return a cart tomorrow. ”

Liu Hanye said: "A word is a certainty!" ”

Fushengye said: "Don't worry! I will not treat our comrades in the Elephant Hung Division badly. ”

The horn of the fifty-shop barracks sounded, and the news of the overnight opening spread throughout the barracks. Although many people do not understand why they had to evacuate overnight and give up the barracks to a group of poor herdsmen. However, the military orders were like a mountain, and the soldiers of the Zhangxiong Department were well-trained, and the orders were forbidden, and they were assembled in a uniform manner. Liu Hanye made a simple mobilization speech, and then ordered the commander of the Suzaku Battalion to lead the team to take the lead.

They can go to the Dawn Pass first, set up the camp and wait for the Xuanwu camp to meet.

Fu Shengye walked outside the door of Fifty Pu, found the old man Dan Dale, and helped him into a tent in the Fifty Lipu military camp.

The charcoal fire in the tent had not yet been extinguished, and the warm heat of the old man Dan Dahler was moved to tears again. Fushengye asked Su Xiao to go to the man to ask for a big bowl of hot porridge, and personally fed the old man Dan Dale more than half a bowl.

Fushengye found another sergeant's futon and carefully spread it around the brazier, then told the old man Dan Dale to lie down and rest, and told the old man that they would come to see him tomorrow.

After all the soldiers of the Zhangxiong tribe were evacuated, the pilgrims entered the fifty-mile shop one after another. Tomorrow Xishan will send handymen to manage this place. By April 18, it will be back to normal for all pilgrims.