Zhao Ning knew very well that Emperor Song Zhi of Great Qi was thinking most about what he was doing now, and what he was desperate to do.

Looking back at the thousand-year-old history of the Central Plains, although the dynasty is changing, some things have never changed.

Zhao Ning, who was a man of two lifetimes, understood that what to do now was not only in line with Song Zhi's intentions, but also did not hinder Zhao's plan to protect the Central Plains, the country, and his relatives.

There's a lot of article here, and it's not easy.

Even if it was for the sake of the Great Qi Dynasty, he couldn't put his hopes on others, even if this person was the Great Qi Emperor. As a human being, everything can only be relied on by oneself.

If you want to protect what you want to protect in troubled times, you have to be strong enough.

Nowadays, what Zhao Ning lacks most is time.

He was only in the early stage of the Yuan Shen Realm right now.

If you don't reach the realm of Wang Ji, it is impossible to protect yourself.

If you don't reach the realm of heaven and man, you won't have a chance to defeat Tianyuan Khan.

If you can't defeat Tianyuan Khan, no matter how much you have, it's just a bubble.

In this world, the core that determines the outcome of a war is the strength of a strong cultivator.

How can Zhao Ning give himself the time needed to cultivate Dacheng?

There is only one answer.

Delay the time of the war between Daqi and the Tianyuan Royal Court.

This is in line with the idea of the Tian Yuan Royal Court.

The Tianyuan tribe did not want to start a national war with Daqi early, because they were afraid of the prosperous combat power of the Central Plains Dynasty, which was rich in land and had a large population, and wanted to wait until the Tianyuan Khan achieved the realm of heaven and man, and there was no need to worry about the grassland by unifying the grassland;

Zhao Ning didn't want to fight with the Tianyuan Imperial Court early, because he knew that under the prosperity of the current dynasty, there were all kinds of crises hidden, and the national cohesion was more than one or two levels worse than at the beginning of the founding of the dynasty.

Without war, the so-called prosperous era of Great Qi can be maintained for a while, and once a strong enemy invades, the dynasty will soon be completely revealed.

Before these crisis issues were resolved, Zhao Ning did not want the Great Qi Dynasty to fight a decisive battle with the Tianyuan Imperial Court. The mistakes of his previous life, he didn't want to repeat them.

This is one of the two core reasons why he is buying time.

After Xiao Yan's incident, the Great Qi Dynasty began to face up to the wolf ambitions of the Tianyuan Imperial Court, and the military strength of Yanmen Pass was also greatly enhanced.

Although there are different thoughts of the emperor in this, at least the strength of the Yanmen army at the moment is indeed not what it used to be, and it has the ability to undertake a large-scale local war alone.

If the Tianyuan tribe temporarily gave up attacking the Dadan tribe because of the fear of the war with Daqi and the possibility of the leakage of the "high-level spies" inside, it would undoubtedly be what Zhao Ning wanted to see the most.

In this way, he will be able to gain a long period of time to practice in peace and improve his realm.

If Tianyuan Khan was unwilling to slow down the pace of his ambition to dominate the cause and continue to promote the war to unify the grassland, Zhao Ning would have to participate in this war.

According to the current situation of imperial public opinion, Jiangmen's strong position in the court, once the Tianyuan tribe sent troops to attack the Dadan Department, the imperial court was bound to order the Yanmen army to send troops to check and balance.

Zhao Ning can also logically participate in the war, seeking to prevent Tianyuan Khan's plot from succeeding.

In the absence of a unified grassland to solve the instability and threats around him, it was impossible for Tian Yuan Khan to rashly march south and start a national war with Daqi.

In this way, Zhao Ning can also win some time.

In the previous year, everything Zhao Ning did in Yanping City, whether it was to overwhelm the sect or find out Xiao Yan's fine forces, its direct purpose was to allow the Yanmen army to go north to the grassland to participate in the war when the grassland war broke out, and have the strength to destroy Tianyuan Khan's plan.

He achieved this goal in Yanping City, so he has only come to Yanmen Pass now.

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Looking at the right virtuous king of the Tianyuan royal court in front of the city, Zhao Ning took Zhao Beiwang's words:

"Since we've dried them four times before, it's better to dry them a fifth time. What is the right virtuous king and not the right virtuous king, Tianyuan Khan has not come, we will not switch it. ”

At this time, the tougher Daqi behaved, the more jealous the Tianyuan Royal Court would be of Daqi.

Zhao Beiwang glanced at Zhao Ning, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Although you kid is a big ghost and has a lot of deep thoughts, this domineering spirit is like me, and he is worthy of being my Zhao Beiwang's son! Okay, just continue to hang them!"

Saying that, Zhao Beiwang ordered people to shout, and asked the Right Xian King under the city to go back and bring Tianyuan Khan, otherwise don't want to enter the customs.

After shouting, ignoring the ugly face of the right sage king in front of the city, Zhao Beiwang laughed three times, and said heroically to go back to the general's mansion to continue the banquet, and left the city with Zhao Ning and the others with a swagger.

After they left, not long after, the mighty contingent of Tianyuan tribal envoys on the mountain road turned around and slowly left Yanmen Pass under the order of King Youxian.

They've been in this situation many times, and they're familiar with it now.

The guards on the city all showed disdain, and some generals even mocked the embarrassment of the right virtuous king, and their words and deeds were full of a sense of superiority as a Qi person.

After returning to the General's Mansion, Zhao Ning did not go to the table and continued to drink, and after receiving the notice from Zhao Beiwang, he rushed to the barracks of his subordinates to get acquainted with his subordinates.

He is now the commander of a battalion, not counting the one thousand Qi Realm cultivators who are equipped with amethyst stone rune bows, and also commands five thousand soldiers and horses, and his official position is "Commander of the Horse Army".

That is to say, the 5,000 men under his command were all cavalry.

In the Great Qi army, the cavalry was very expensive, and it cost more money and food to raise one elite cavalry than ten infantrymen. As the heavy cavalry of the king of the cavalry, it is the treasure of the treasures, and the value is even greater.

Because of the limitation of the number of war horses in the Central Plains Dynasty, the number of cavalry in the Qi army was far inferior to that of infantry.

As for the heavy cavalry, there are very few strong horses needed on the grassland, and the bantam horses in Mobei are generally not suitable for being equipped into heavy cavalry, and they must be good horses from the Western Regions.

For the Central Plains Dynasty, a million foot soldiers are easy to obtain, but 100,000 elite horses are basically a dream, and they are not available for a strong dynasty with strong military strength and outstanding martial arts.

In addition, the cavalry soldiers, who themselves are the elite of the selected army, can easily defeat a foot soldier even if they don't ride a horse, even if they don't ride a horse.

It is not a simple matter for a lieutenant officer to become a cavalryman.

Daqi has been strong for a hundred years, and all the tribes of the grassland have surrendered, which is not too short of war horses. The Yanmen army guarded the northern border pass, and the enemy it faced was the grassland people, and the number of cavalry was relatively large.

The normal war between the cavalry of the steppe nomads is mostly chasing each other with archery, and everyone fights for a wave of horse archery skills.

Only when one side has suffered heavy losses, or is relatively weak and has few people, and the other side feels that the victory is in hand, it will rush over and slash at close range.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Yanmen Army is basically light cavalry, otherwise it will not be able to catch up with the grassland cavalry - on the other hand, when it is necessary to retreat, it is not easy to run.

The armor of the heavy cavalry is too heavy, and the fight is instantaneous, and when the two armies face each other, they break through the formation with all their might, and it is impossible to run around with others, in that case, they will be tired and exhausted.

In the war with the grassland tribes, when Daqi needed to use heavy cavalry, most of them did not plan to compete with others in riding and archery skills, such as sneak attacks and directly entered the opponent's camp.

Therefore, there were relatively few heavy cavalry in the Yanmen army.

All in all, Zhao Ning was able to command five thousand light cavalry when he arrived in the Yanmen Army, with a very high starting point and very good treatment.

This relies on his identity as the heir of the head of the Zhao family.

Of course, the cavalry camp was built on the grassland, Zhao Ning arrived in front of the gate, turned over and dismounted, and the lieutenant general of the battalion who got the news had already come here to greet him first, and the leader was a young man Du Yu Hou - Zhao Xin.

"Zhao Xin is waiting for Zhao Xin, and he has seen all the commanders!" Zhao Xin clasped his fists and saluted. Because he has armor on his body, he can't bow down, so naturally he can't say "goodbye".

The generals behind him also clasped their fists and saluted one by one.

When he was hunting in autumn last year, Zhao Xin was present, and he was also the one who came out at that time, but he did not serve in Yanping City, and came directly to Yanmen Pass.

Hearing Zhao Xin's self-reported identity as "Du Yu Hou", Zhao Ning was a little surprised.

According to the cultivation realm of the early stage of the opponent's Yuan Shen Realm, there should be an official position at the level of the commander of the capital, even if it is in the cavalry battalion, it should be the deputy commander of the envoy.

Du Yuhou has this title, and he has been ranked third among the generals of this battalion.

Zhao Ning met everyone one by one, and found no trace of the deputy commander, so he asked why the other party didn't come.

Zhao Xin's face was a little weird, "The general doesn't really know who the deputy commander is, and where is he now?"

Monk Zhao Ning was confused, he really didn't know what the situation was.

Looking at Zhao Xin's appearance, Zhao Beiwang should have explained the situation to him, but before remembering it, Zhao Beiwang was still drinking with Zhao Xun, and Zhao Ning knew that it must be the other party's negligence.

"Who is the deputy commander and where is he now?" Zhao Ning asked as he entered the gate.

"Guangling Yang, Yang Jiani!"

Zhao Xin saw that Zhao Ning really didn't know, and when he told the identity of the other party, he couldn't help but squeeze his eyebrows, looking like he was gloating and watching a good show:

"She has now gone to the steppe, and if nothing else, the general will go next. ”

Hearing Yang Jiani's name, Zhao Ning's eyes froze, and he immediately felt bad, and blurted out: "Why did she come to Yanmen Pass?

The first thing that came to Zhao Ning's mind was the picture of the other party holding a Zhang Ermo knife in his hand during the autumn hunt last year, rampage and invincibility among a group of children of the family.

At the end of the autumn hunt, the other party also told Zhao Ning that when he achieved the late stage of the Imperial Qi Realm, remember to write to her, so that she could come and fight him.

What does it mean to fight? The other party just wanted to beat Zhao Ning, a negative man, openly and honestly when the two sides were in the same realm, and as soon as Zhao Ning saw Zhao Yujie when he saw her, he left her behind.

In all fairness, Zhao Ning felt that Yang Jiani might not have a good impression of him, but the other party would definitely not be able to swallow this breath.

Zhao Xin coughed, held back a smile, and said officially: "This is all the arrangement of the old general, the lowly position is low, where can I ask about this?"

After saying that, seeing that Zhao Ning had a bitter look on his face, he couldn't hold back after all, rubbed his hands and smiled: "Humble estimate, this should be what Madame meant, right?"

Since it was Wang Rouhua's handiwork, Zhao Ning could only shake his head, not saying anything. In order not to suffer losses in the future, Zhao Ning cautiously asked Zhao Xin: "What realm is she in now?"

The other party was a few months older than him, and the realm had been ahead of him until then.

If the other party is only in the early stage of the Yuan Shen Realm, then Zhao Ning is naturally not afraid, if the other party has reached the middle stage of the Yuan Shen Realm, the problem will be a little troublesome, he has no hobby of being beaten down.

"The early stage of the Yuan Shen Realm. Zhao Xin replied solemnly.

Zhao Ning secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

When he was a child, for well-known reasons, every time someone from the Yang family came to the Zhenguo Mansion as a guest, the other party would be thrown to him and follow him around behind his ass.

The fat face was always covered with snot foam, holding a large bag of pastries and halva in his arms, and he stuffed it into his mouth, stuffed his cheeks so that he didn't know what to do, and he didn't talk much, as if there was only one thing in his life, such that he only had one thing to eat, and he didn't like to take care of it, and in a blink of an eye, he became a peerless beauty and a cultivation wizard who was famous in Jiangzuo, Zhao Ning felt a little toothache when he thought about it.

What made him even more toothache was that in his previous life, after seeing the other party's smart and moving water, he was really moved and promised the family a family affair between the two.

What made him most embarrassed was that as soon as Zhao Yujie appeared, he forgot about Yang Jiani again, and he ignored the other party when he came to Zhenguo Mansion as a guest in those two years.

It's no wonder that the other party wants to have a good discussion with him in the name of cultivation.

But even if there are 10,000 reasons, Zhao Ning will never allow it, he was really beaten down by Yang Jiani. This is a matter of face, and it is categorically not discussed......

Zhao Ning didn't go to the big tent, so he took Zhao Xin and other generals around the camp, wanting to know more about the training of his troops, and unknowingly came to the shooting range where the soldiers practiced their riding and archery skills.

He saw a familiar figure, his pupils narrowing slightly.