The night was dark on the northern grasslands, the sound of horses' hooves outside the pass drowned out the sound of the wind, and more than a dozen war horses trampled on the glacier and crossed the frosty river of the Ulan Pass.

One of the Tanma Red Army, led by the Red Army, was looking at the lights under the snowy slope in the distance, and several Tanma followed with torches.

Behind these horses was a strange man in a cloak, whose face was hidden in the shadows.

"It's Yanshuang Town in front of you, my lord. "It seems that there is no sign of an army in the outskirts of the town. ”

The adult waved his hand slightly, meaning to let him look more closely.

The leader was puzzled, there was obviously no one on this dark grassland, but he obviously did not dare to disobey the will of this adult.

"Let's go, a few people will come down with me to have a look. ”

He shouted, tightened his grip on the reins, and rode his horse down the snowy slope, and the torches of several horsemen and horses ran through the vast field like wildfire on a snowy night.

As they descended the slope, the leader suddenly saw a few tents scattered around.

Wooden stakes were inserted outside the tent, and several speckled horses were tethered to the stakes and snorted lowly.

"Stop, it's all quiet. The leader motioned to the crowd, "There are southerners." The lord was really thoughtful, and he said to himself, "Everyone dismount and prepare their weapons." ”

The horses extinguished their torches, their sabers slowly unsheathed, and some followed silently with their bows and arrows.

At this time, they heard someone singing in a low voice, and everyone raised their vigilance.

Next to an exposed rock, a soldier of the Eastern Emperor dressed in the brown scale armor of three thousand battalions sat on the grass, staring blankly at the snow drops falling overhead.

"Sorrowful...... When will you return to the south?" he grunted a jug of wine and slapped his thighs decadently.

It's a homesick southerner, and the leader has a heart. He had seen many, many of these southerners, and he had also been a member of the Fanying Border Saisanqi, and he had seen many of his southern colleagues stationed in Wulan County secretly sobbing.

Many of them were poor, exiles, and few volunteered, and although they were often respected by the locals, they never missed their distant homeland.

"It's a pity. The leader sighed and said, "Quietly, be sharp." He commanded the horses behind him, and they set up their bows and arrows, "For Ulan, for the sake of righteousness." ”

The cones and arrows were off the string, and the probes heard the dark sound of the arrows tearing into the flesh, and the leader closed his eyes and gritted his teeth and gave the order: "Deal with them all." ”

The horses sneaked into the tent in the dark, like snow wolves in the night, quietly approaching their prey, and they approached the sleeping soldiers with their knives as claws.

Then without hesitation, a blow slit their throats, blood gushed out, and they died in their sleep.

"Who's there, is it Lao Gao......?"

Behind the leader came a drunken voice, and without thinking about it, he drew his bow and shot an arrow through his heart, and the man lost his life in such a way that he lost his life in vain.

"It's all settled. ”

The leader nodded, "Strip off their armor and bury their bodies in a snowdrift to hide." ”

He looked around again, and there were still two or three wooden watchtowers standing alone on the high ground not far from Yanshuang Town.

The adult's caution is correct, and there are still quite a few sentry posts here.

Yanshuang Town is part of the Great Wall of Saibei, and when it comes to the bottom of the slope, the outline of the Great Wall, which is hazy by wind and snow, finally appears.

The walls of the town are connected to the walls of the Great Wall, which are more than ten meters high, and the walls like Wolong loom in the frost.

Several beacons were frozen in a faint icy blue, and it stretched to the end of the snowfield, as if it were endless.

It has stood on the side for thousands of years. The leader had heard from the southerners that in ancient times, there was a beast called Nian outside the borders of the empire, which was as large as a dragon elephant and had huge tusks that could bite and devour people.

In ancient times, thousands of warriors went to hunt the beasts outside the fortress, but no one returned, so people built the Great Wall to defend against the beasts.

During the Chinese New Year, the people of Biansai would renovate the Great Wall, and even after the beast disappeared, the custom continued to spread in the local area.

Therefore, the southerners thought that the Ulan people outside the gate were the hybrid race of the Nian beast, and the leader spat out, what a stupid and cowardly southerner, our ancestor is the Ulan Jade Dragon!

"Let's go, go back to life!" he said.

But as soon as the horses turned around, the cloaked adult came behind them on horseback.

"It's hard work, and now you're going to be southerners for a while. ”

The adult's voice sounded soft and soft, it should be a woman, and it had a strong Western accent, which didn't seem like a Ulan people.

Her countenance was always hidden under the hood, and the silky snow of her pointed chin exposed in the firelight, and a lock of pale blonde hair exposed beyond the hood, seemed to prove it even more.

"The people of the ghost show troupe haven't met for so long, so there must have been some accident. ”

The adult stretched out her hand, and there seemed to be a red rope with a dragon head decoration tied to her right wrist, "You wait here until the people from the ghost troupe arrive, and any southerners who come to take over will have to be eliminated without leaving behind, understand?"

"Understood, Venerable Emperor. "The leader of the probe horses bowed his head.

It turned out that this foreign woman was the emperor Maria appointed by Hulagu Khan, and the leader had heard that this woman came from the Valantin Empire, a knightly kingdom in the far west, and was a mysterious master.

Under the Khan, there were still many foreigners, and Hülegü was never prejudiced against foreigners.

Some of the generals came from the East Island and admired the spirit of serving souls; some craftsmen came from Sals, the "Land of Sand" in the Western Regions, and were good at making siege equipment, and there were even monks from Vientiane, the "Kingdom of Towers......

As long as he can serve him, Hulegü welcomes all foreigners.

"Why are we going to such lengths to take this important town?" asked a reckless creature with a superfluous remark, "no other steppe khans have ever done this before. ”

But Maria was not angry when she heard this, "The Great Khan needs something in this city. She paused.

"What's that?"

"You don't have to know. ”

This empress has a background, and the leader of the horse secretly thinks that although she worships the true dragon, she always feels that Maria's dragon does not refer to the Ulan Jade Dragon.

"I will propose that the Great Khan break through the pass as soon as possible, so that the enemy will not be prepared. Maria placed her hand tied with the red rope flat on her chest and said reverently, "The true dragon is with you, and tomorrow Ulan will break through the Great Wall." ”

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After the emperor left, the scouts quickly changed into the armor of the Eastern Emperor's soldiers, and draped the steel equipment of the war horse on their horses.

There were still two or three watchtowers in the distance to solve, and they planned to wait here for the sentry to change shifts.

"When will the ghost troupe come out?" A Ulan man played with the ring head knife of the 3,000 battalions of the Eastern Emperor, and it was quite smooth to use.

"When they said yes, it's almost four and five now. "You'll have to be patient, like the steppewolf." ”

At this time, the wind and snow seemed to become heavier, and the whistling sound of the wind slowly became sharper, mixed with various sounds.

Wait, no, the leader of the probe took off his tower-shaped helmet, and the red tassels swept in the wind.

He looked at the hazy Yanshuang Town in the distance, his ears tried his best to listen, there was a sound like nothing, like gongs and drums, and like beating on an anvil, and finally the sound became clearer and clearer.

"That voice is ......" He was very familiar with this voice, he had heard it countless times when he was in the camp, his hands trembled uncontrollably, and a certain strong uneasiness began to emerge.

"That's the highest vigilance. We, were discovered......"