Chapter 11: Arrival in the Eastern Capital
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Time flashed to August of 4867 in the Guangming calendar, at the beginning of this month, Qu Shouyi finally paid off the money to Buchen, because Buchen was going to travel far away, Qu Shouyi paid him all gold, a total of 13,762 taels, plus the two bottles of magician blood that had been paid to him before, so that the inverted alliance between Buchen and the Weiyuan Qu family finally had a perfect result. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After the two bottles of blood were over, Buchen had already given them to the elf sisters, and these two girls were now considered vindictive cultivators, and the little cat girl had almost practiced light skills, and Buchen asked her to practice marksmanship again, assassin, how can you do it if you don't know marksmanship? As for the gun, you don't need to be in a hurry, just practice in the virtual world first.
And the gold is what Buchen has been looking forward to all along, and with this money, he can finally enter the hinterland of the Syris Empire and start his new journey!
After sending Liao Daguan, who had been under house arrest for nearly two months, back to Weiyuan City, Buchen mobilized everyone in the "Xiaojiazhuang" to start a large-scale demolition activity - this Zhuangzi will be sold after he leaves, there can be no suspicious things in it, and all steel-making furnace shooting ranges must be dismantled!
Two days later, all the demolition work was completed, Buchen loaded the belongings, took his accomplices and pig friends and dog friends, as well as a small worker brother who dragged his family with his family, and left Xiaojiazhuang and set off for Wushan Pass.
Wushan Pass was the natural danger that the Osan Empire relied on to resist the Annihilation Army of the Seris Empire, and the Jingsheng Pass on the northwest border of the four towns of Wushan, that is, the origin pass when the Wushan Empire was still there, and was called "Wushan Two Xiongguan". At present, it has become the key of the four towns of Osan through the hinterland of the eastern country, and all business travelers who go to the hinterland of the eastern country, as long as they do not take the sea route, there is basically only one way.
Of course, it is possible to take the path over the Osan Mountains like those wolf tribes, but then they will run directly to the grassland, and for the Seris, they will only run to the kind of orc gathering place when they are sick and tired.
Although Buchen is not afraid of all kinds of beasts, but after all, he has a large number of people and belongings at this time, so naturally he can't take those paths, after almost two months of trekking, in early October of that year, he finally arrived at Wushan Pass.
This journey has made Buchen a little depressed, and the reason is not difficult to guess, it is because of the slowness! Usually he only took a few people to hurry, but naturally it was all kinds of speed, and at this time, he brought so many people, including women, children and the elderly, and it was strange to be able to walk fast.
Fortunately, after walking a few hundred miles out of Wushan Pass, the Tianzang River, the upper tributary of the Xionghe River, if you get on a boat here, you can directly enter the main stream of the Xionghe River, and then go down the river to reach the hinterland of the Syris Empire.
Speaking of the Xionghe, it is really incredible, this river almost has the status of the Yellow River in the previous life, according to legend, the ancestor of the Seris people took the people out of the land of the two mountains (the origin of the mountain range + the Wushan mountain range, that is, the place of the four towns of Wushan), it was along the river to the east, only to finally reach the hinterland of the East Continent, and then the Emperor Guangming also took the people to settle near this river, before the establishment of the Donglu civilization that lasted for thousands of years.
It can be said that the Xionghe River is the mother river of the Seris people.
Buchen had already forged his identity at this time, and his face had been changed to that of his previous life, and the defenders of Wushan Pass naturally couldn't see any flaws, and after he paid the tariff, they let them go according to the rules.
As for Lao You, the wanted criminal, has also undergone disguise at this time, put a package in the clothes behind him, and used makeup to make his face very old, looking like an old hunchback in his old age, the defenders of Wushan Pass could not have imagined that this old guy who looked not big was actually a wanted felony who escaped from the court a while ago, and he was fooled through.
As for the four non-human girls, the kitten girl performed in her true colors, wearing ragged linen clothes, wearing an iron hoop around her neck, and pretending to be a female slave.
And Xue is dressed as Buchen's sick wife, her face is relatively white, there is no blood, put on makeup, dye her hair black, and there is no problem at all in pretending to be a seriously ill patient.
Ai Ai dyed her hair and pretended to be the second room of Bu Chen, and Fei Fei was dressed as Ai Ai's maids, under the cover of the gorgeous headdress of the Seris style, their long ears were well hidden, and they were not found to be aliens, and the soldiers guarding the gate just felt that these women were so tall that they looked a little stressful......
After leaving the customs, Buchen sat on the cart with gear parts, looked back at Xiongguan who had been left behind, and let out a long breath.
The overall tone of Wushan Pass and Wushan Mountain Range is about the same, the high city wall is gray-black, although it has not been repaired with the oriental style in the past hundred years, but it can still be vaguely seen some of the construction style of the Western Continent, at this time the sun is setting, the afterglow of the setting sun comes from the back of this Guancheng, from the perspective of the minister, you can only see a city silhouette hidden in the blood-red glow and the mountains, which obviously has the style of the Western Continent city tower makes him particularly impressed.
"It's unbelievable that such a majestic pass was broken a hundred years ago!" Buchen sighed from the bottom of his heart - Wushan Pass stands in the middle of the towering and steep mountains, and there is only one road more than 20 steps wide to go to the bottom of the Guancheng, and there is no doubt that any army will not be able to spread out in such a terrain, even if there are 100 times and 1000 times the number of defenders in the Guancheng, they will not want to gain the slightest superiority in strength, and with the inferior troops, even if they attack the Guancheng, they can only be killed and injured by the condescending defenders relying on the magic of bows and crossbows!
"The King of Winning was really amazing back then!" Lao You also sighed, although unlike Buchen, it was not the first time he had seen this Xiongguan, but he could still have these feelings in his heart.
"Hey, don't just sigh, tell me how the Qu Jingsheng broke through this Xiongguan?!" Fei Fei said angrily, after leaving the level, she took off her maid costume without saying a word and threw it away, and at this time she had recovered her original appearance.
Xue also looked at Buchen with some curiosity, she had an extraordinary interest in these things of fighting and killing.
Buchen and Lao You glanced at each other, and Lao You said: "Surprise attack on a snowy night." ”
"Snowy Night Raid?" Fei Fei was a little surprised, "Is it that simple?" ”
"Add to that the fact that the people of Osan were celebrating the 'Oracle Festival' at that time." Buchen added with a wry smile.
The Cult of Creation God in this world also has its own grand festivals, and the "Oracle Day" is equivalent to Christmas in the previous life, and on this day, all Creator Cultists will put down their work and celebrate the arrival of the festival with their families.
And this day is the day when their ancestors stepped out of the Origin Mountain Range and entered the Holy City to receive the teachings of the Goddess of Creation.
"Qu Jingsheng is so insidious!" Xue said with a smile, "Winter is not the season to use troops, the defenders of Wushan Pass must be lax, and the night is the time for them to rest, Qu Jingsheng also picked their most important festival to launch a surprise attack, which is strange if they can't succeed." ”
"It's not that simple." Lao You said, "It wasn't smooth back then, the people and horses sent by King Jingsheng had just climbed the rope and stepped on the city, and they were discovered by the defenders of Wushan, it was these horses who paid great sacrifices, and even the eldest son of King Jingsheng, Qu Zhengxun, who led the team, was also killed in battle, and he insisted on holding on for half an hour, and the army of King Jingsheng arrived under the city before he took it. At that time, there were as many as three strong generals under the command of King Jingsheng who died in battle when he won the pass, which shows the difficulty of the battle. ”
"I see." Snow immediately put away her previous contempt.
After the topic ended, Buchen took one last look at Wushan Pass, which had disappeared in the mountains, and turned his head, I don't know why, he always felt that he had a kind of marriage with this Guancheng, and it seemed that one day, he would also stand on top of this Guancheng to meet the incoming enemy, but ......
If his enemy really appeared at the foot of Osan Pass, then it means that most of the land in the eastern kingdom has already fallen, right?
It's just that...... How is that possible?! No matter how bad the eastern kingdom is, it can't be beaten to the corner of the old soil of Wushan, right?
After leaving the Wushan Mountains, Buchen and his party trekked hundreds of miles, passing through some state capitals along the way, and came to a wharf on the Tianzang River.
This wharf is called "Sailing Ferry", and the function is to integrate the ferry head and wharf, but they are not here to go down the river, but they are not here to cross the river, so the former function can not be experienced at all.
Yangfandu is very prosperous and lively, the market next to the ferry is larger than some large cities in the West Continent, but this is also normal, the waterway is always better than the land, the specialties and resources of the hinterland of the Cyris Empire are transported here through this river and her main stream, the Xionghe.
In fact, the reason why the Eighteenth Empire of Seris was able to continue to launch a large-scale offensive against the Osan Empire for two hundred years after the founding of the country was thanks to the powerful transportation capacity of this river, and after the war, there is no doubt that it has naturally become a place with a fairly developed economy.
Buchen and his entourage rested for one night at the inn in Yangfandu, and the next day they paid for a big boat, and all the staff and Xing Li moved up and began the waterway journey.
There was nothing to say all the way, and in March of 4868 in the Guangming calendar, Buchen and his entourage finally arrived at the capital division "Bei'an" of the Seris Empire.