The general looked at Wu Xing and said: "Some of your later thoughts are taken for granted, and that's because you don't see the essence of the matter: invasion! These barbarians regard the territory of my Zephyr Country as their own backyard, and they can come and leave whenever they want! In order to receive the so-called goods, they dare to kill people and set fire to our villages and towns directly! If I accept the attachment of such a tribe, other barbarians will often be on the sidelines, and if it doesn't work anyway, they will finally ask for attachment, and when they become stronger, they will become our henchmen!"

"We must cut off this kind of thoughts and ideas of the barbarians from the very beginning! In fact, what remains unchanged is that only when we are strong can we calmly face any challenge. On this point of attitude towards the barbarians, I differ from my father's policy of tenderness......"

The general said that he was up, and Lu Lao coughed lightly and said in a low voice: "General, it's not too early, please rest early." We quit first. ”

"It's rare to find someone of a similar age to listen to me nag a few words...... "The general muttered, then waved his hand, "Okay, okay, you guys should rest early." In two days we set off for the Great Wall. ”

Lu Lao and the other three went out of the big tent, and naturally there were personal soldiers who were responsible for bringing them to the tent assigned to them.

Wu Xing and Qian Nanzheng were assigned two single-person marching tents specially prepared for officers, although these two people were only separated for more than a month, they each experienced a life and death test that others could not imagine, and now they naturally did not rush to sleep, so they squeezed into a tent.

Qian Nanzheng only said a few words about his thrilling experience of going north, focusing on whether the process of Wu Xing's trial went smoothly and how he would appear by the general's side. As for the progress of Wu Xing's trial, he unexpectedly found that as long as he lit up the four-star chain on his right hand, the star hammer would appear in an ordinary style, which also eliminated the need for some explanation. Xingjun can hide his true grade and strength, and in some cases, he can still receive miraculous results. As for the existence of Wentian, it is natural that the fewer people know, the better, in case Qian Nanzheng said that he leaked his mouth and boasted to people that Wu Xing was a nine-star chain after he first woke up, that would only aggravate the suspicion of others even more, and it would even be easy to connect Wu Xing with the jade pendant on the ladder again. After all, Wu Xing is just a kid with no background background, even if Shi is really talented, but Mu Xiu will be destroyed by Lin Feng!

"You did a good job of dealing with it, and you didn't mention this matter in front of the general....... Qian Nanzheng looked at the copper token of "Lintao County Inspection" that Wu Xing took out, a star stone with a bean size and a gold dot, and a piece of silk cloth painted with Wu Xing's head, and said: "Longxi County Shou Zhao Zhongguo is the first to initiate, and he is a minister from the dragon, and he has governed Longxi County in an orderly manner during his tenure. At present, after one more term, he will be promoted and transferred back to the court for reuse. We can only be careful to guard against him, and we must not show any hostility. Besides, these things we have on hand can't help him at all!"

"As for the students who are listening to the outer hall of the Star Palace...... Qian Nanzheng muttered, "If it can help you cultivate, you will continue to stay." If someone really makes things difficult everywhere, come back! The military department is not a soft persimmon to be kneaded by others, and the Star Hall is not in charge of the military department. Besides, now that the 'General' has become your Eagle Master, you have at least a hole card to save your life. ”

The two chatted for a while, and Qian Nanzheng saw that Wu Xing was really tired, and then he remembered that although Wu Xing had not experienced the battle, he had also broken into the camp with a horse formation and had gone through a vicious battle. The two of them agreed to come back early tomorrow morning to discuss how to deal with the county keeper.

Out of the tent, Wu Xing looked at the bright moon in the night sky, and muttered: "I heard that there are eternal day and eternal night in the far north, I really can't imagine what kind of scene it is......"

.......

In the midst of a blizzard, a convoy struggles to move forward.

At the front of the convoy were three snowstorm bears taking turns to clear the way, digging a way out of the barely roofless snow with their giant palms. The three snowstorm bears sat on their backs with several barbarians, and from time to time took out the animal skin map to confirm the direction of their progress, and then pierced the snowdrift in front of them with their paint-filled spears to leave holes in the snowdrift in front of them, to indicate the direction of the snowstorm bears under the seats.

Behind the Snowstorm Bear was a convoy of cars with no end in sight, all of which were pulled in front of four long-haired yaks, one cart after another.

There were three or four people between the cars, and they were wearing a thick leather jacket with a hood and a tight tie. The edge of the cap is inlaid with wolf shrub or wolf skin, because these two skins are different from other furs, so the exhaled water vapor does not condense into ice on it. Their hands wore wide finger-length gloves that reached to their sleeves, and over their coats was a wide tunic with fur facing outward, and under two layers of leather were thick fur trousers, and on their feet, the soles of each of them were unusually "swollen", as if they had long boots in addition to their shoes.

The snow was falling so heavily that they couldn't walk half a mile, and the shoulders and backs of those people were already an inch thick of snow, and they had to shake it vigorously and pat it with their hands to remove the snow. After the men had disposed of the snow on their bodies, they would climb onto the edge of the car and sweep the snow off the tarpaulin with a rake in their hands.

The snow here is big and big, bigger than cotton wool, one by one, overwhelming. Sometimes when it falls on the eyebrows, it can seal the eyes, so that people can't open their eyes for a while.

In the middle of the convoy, two people who were relatively less "bloated" sat on the seats on the backs of two snowstorm bears. The seat was tightly tied to the snowstorm bear's back with multiple straps, swaying slightly as the snowstorm bear moved forward.

The sky in the midst of the blizzard was very low, gray and gray, like a large dome only ten feet above the head, and it seemed to be overwhelming.

"The wilderness is low and the trees are low, and Jiang Qingyue is close to people. One of them, who did not have to suffer the long journey, was at ease and said, "The first half of this verse means that in the vast wilderness, the heavens are lower than the trees......

As if God couldn't see it, the blizzard suddenly became more manic, surging around the convoy like a long white dragon. It was the snow particles carried by the wind, slamming into the people's faces, and the hats and boots that were already tight were also forcibly drilled into by these snow particles like projectiles, and then half of the muffled curses of the man on the back of the snowstorm bear came out, and the second half of the sentence was naturally blocked by the wind and snow poured into the mouth.

The man on the back of the snowstorm bear in front of him turned around and shouted, "Hold on two or three more miles and you'll be at camp! You can't stop yet! If you stop, you'll be buried alive by the snow!"

With the arduous trek, the sky was noticeably darkening rapidly, and the convoy had not gone a mile before it was night! The moon seemed to be hanging on the treetops not far away.

Fortunately, the wind and snow also subsided, and huge torches began to be lit one after another from the front of the convoy, which lit up the night road.

"We set out from the previous camp early in the morning, and how come it was night in less than two hours?" said the two men on the back of the snowstorm bear again.

The man in front replied, "That's because we're now in the Eternal Night Zone." It's pretty good now, and the moon can be seen about ten days. For the next half month or so, the moon will not be visible, and the light will only be through torches. That's why we prepared so much grease on the cart just in case. ”

At this moment, there was a cheer from the front.

"It's time to camp!" The expression on the face of the man in front of him relaxed, and he added, "Trees are scarce in the Far North, so half of our convoy is carrying charcoal purchased from the South and our own stone resin. ”

"However, if you only replenish it once in half a year, I'm afraid that the charcoal and stone grease are not enough, right?" the man behind him curious.

"When we go to the far north, a lot of things are very different from what we imagined. The man in front of him laughed and said, "For example, in the cold winter, people here don't live in wooden huts, but in igloos. And there is no fire in the igloo. So, charcoal and stone grease are really only used for daily lighting in the camp. Coupled with the fact that there is a moon for half a month and no moon for half a month, in fact, it is enough. ”

While the two were talking, the convoy had already driven into the camp one after another. The so-called "camp wall" is actually an ice wall made by pouring water on the inside and outside of a wooden fence and then freezing it. Repeatedly watered and frozen, the wall was almost taller than a snowstorm bear. The camp walls and camp gates were built to defend against beast incursions.

"After the beginning of spring, the ice and snow melted, and it was not so cold, so you could take out the tent and use it. The two of them turned over and got off the snowstorm bear, unloaded the seats, and naturally someone came over and took the snowstorm bear to feed and take care of it.

As for the barbarians who had driven no more than ten miles before and after, they were all exhausted, and they had only time to unload the wooden knots from their shoulders and pile the trough with forage from alpine desert plants such as needle grass, moss, sedge, and artemisia grass, and then hid in those igloos to rest.

"Let's go! I'll show you how rutile is forged into titan gold. The two walked side by side, towards the center of the camp.

As you approach the central area, you can see that this is a "camp within a camp", an area enclosed by another section of ice wall. As a rough estimate, this camp is about the size of an ordinary village.

When he walked to the gate of the camp in the camp, it was obviously different from the lax guards in the outer camp, in the middle of this ice and snow, there were actually four barbarians with weapons in hand, like four snowmen, and they didn't move until someone approached.

"This is the star envoy of the Sangar tribe in the lower reaches of the Lena River, and I will take him in to meet you totem stars. The one who led the way handed over a beast bone token and said.

Hearing that the other party was a star envoy, the four barbarians didn't care, and carefully inspected the palm-sized bone beast before waving their hands to let them go, and even specially advised: "Don't make a noise when you go in, it's better to talk less and see more!"

After entering the camp gate, the star envoy of the Sangar tribe asked his companion in a low voice, "The weapons that the four guards hold in their hands...... Is it a star soldier?"