Chapter 013: The Wind Rises at the End of Qingping (6)

Snow Castle, one of the partial cities of Gwangwon County, is located at the junction of Western Wilderness and Gwangwon County.

Seventy years ago, the Xirong people frequently plundered the border, and Cai Zhuoqin, who was the Taishou of Guangyuan at the time, led 3,000 elite horsemen to the west to protect the city, crisscrossing the wasteland for three months, and beat 50,000 Xirong people to cower in the snowy mountains and dare not show their heads.

Since then, the Xijon tribe has gradually declined, and the Snow Protector has changed from a frontier city to an obscure side city like it is today.

The snow protection city is close to the western wilderness, and nearly half of the year is blowing the cold wind, especially in the winter season, no one dares to go out in broad daylight, so they can only huddle in the bed and rely on the brazier to survive.

Now that winter is approaching, the guards of the snow city have become a chore, especially now that there is no winter military rations in Guangyuan County, so there are only twenty soldiers guarding here now.

"Phew, a ruined city, what's there to defend!" said the sloppy guards at the head of the city, sitting under the female wall.

"That's it, there is no one to ask for, there is no land, I heard that a merchant wants to build a foothouse here, but he lost a lot of money in half a year!" another soldier, who was also nesting under the female wall, chimed in.

The snow protection city is very desolate, there is no Gobi Desert within a radius of 100 miles, the food cannot be grown at all, there are less than a thousand residents here, all of them are prisoners who have committed serious crimes and have been assigned to the border, it can be said that if it were not for the continuous distribution of felons by the imperial court, there would be no residents in the snow protection city at all.

The people who defend the city are not self-sufficient, and they all rely on the military rations distributed by the county government, and now the army is short of food, so almost everyone in the city is now not enough to eat.

"If you want me to say, this ruined city is useless at all, can the Xirong people still fight over? What do you say, just in case, as a result, those lieutenants are eating, drinking, and having fun in the county government, but our brothers are going to drink the west wind here!"

Although it is said that there are twenty people guarding the city, because there is really nothing to defend the snow city, these twenty people are in groups of two and rotate every three days, which means that there are only two soldiers who really defend the city in a month!

"Who let our brothers have a bad life, and they were arrested by the lieutenant by secretly going out of the camp to drink, otherwise there are so many people in the camp, why were the two of us selected?"

"Alas!" said this, the two of them let out a long sigh, then squinted at the sun overhead, and shrunk their necks, like two big quails in a snowstorm.

"Huh?" Just as the two of them were enjoying the warm sunlight, one of the soldiers suddenly tilted his head, and then asked his comrades beside him, "Did you hear any sound?"

"What's the sound?" said the comrade, turning his head and squinting his eyes.

"It seems to be the sound of horses' hooves, just outside the city!" said the soldier, frowning, "stand up and see if there is anyone from outside the city?"

"Why do you want me to look at it, the wind on the wall is so strong, that a fool will be deceived by you!" the other soldier gave him a disdainful look, and then narrowed his eyes lazily.

"No! listen carefully!" Seeing his comrade snoozing again, the soldier's voice became quick, and he heard it clearly, and the voice was getting closer and closer.

"Huh?" At this time, the other soldier seemed to hear something, and the two looked at each other with some confusion, and then stood up suddenly!

The west wind cut the faces of the two soldiers like knives, but they were unaware, and the two of them stared wide-eyed, facing the direction of the wind, and thousands of galloping horses were neighing, which made them feel suffocated......

The city of the Zheng people, the legendary indestructible city of the Zheng people, was beaten down like this? To this day, Agudamu still has some feeling of being in a dream.

He had heard rumors from his fathers that those Zheng people had strong war horses, armor that could not be pierced by bone arrows, their long ges could easily penetrate the necks of the clansmen, and one Zheng man could kill seven or eight warriors of the clan!

Agudamu had heard that the Zheng people had an army of 200,000, and all the people on his side, including women and children, added up to a little more than 20,000, and he had imagined the scene of the Zheng people's army entering the grassland, which was really a nightmare.

But now Agudamu suddenly found that the Zheng people seemed to be a little different from what he imagined, and the legendary impregnable city, he even shot down without even putting an arrow!

"Chief, what should these Zheng people do?" Suddenly, a clansman came up to Agudamu and pointed to the Zheng people who were surrounded by warriors not far away.

Agudamu looked from afar, the group of Zheng people surrounded by the warriors of the clan were scolding and pushing and shoving, these Zheng people were not afraid of the bone spears in the hands of the clansmen, but looked at the warriors with some curiosity.

Is this the Zheng people? They look the same as their clansmen, except that they seem to be shorter......

Agudamu saw the legendary Zheng people for the first time, and couldn't help but be a little stunned, in his impression, Zheng people should be mighty and majestic, wearing armor, and a powerful warrior who can take down the yak with one punch, but the Zheng people in front of him are obviously not like this.

"Chief?" the inquiring clansman shouted in confusion when he saw that his leader was suddenly stunned.

"Well...... , these Zheng people surround first, as for how to deal with it, wait until I ask Da Bei to beg. Agudammu waved his hand to let the people go down, and at this time his heart was a little blocked, and he always wanted to find someone to fight.

When Agudammu found Dabie, the old man was wandering around the city with Kiqige, who was holding the sable in her arms tightly and looking at everything around her with curiosity, the only buildings she had seen since she was a child were tents, and she had never seen a house made of stones.

"Don't beg!" Agudamu stepped forward and followed the two of them, intentionally or unintentionally, he moved slightly away from the girl, as if it was some kind of hoodoo.

"What's wrong?" the old man asked without looking back, and continued to lead the girl to enjoy the scenery of Zhengren City.

"The clansmen have captured some Zheng people, what should we do about it?" Agudamu followed behind, looking like a sidekick, and the girl looked back at him, causing his face to stiffen.

"Leave them alone, leave them to fend for themselves here. The old man stopped, turned to Agudam, and said, "Hurry up and finish searching the things in the city, we will continue eastward, and we must not delay at all!"

"I see!" Agudammu nodded, and quickly turned to leave, glancing at Kikige with a meaningful look before leaving.

"Awu, why doesn't my father like me?" asked Kikige shortly after Agudammu left.

The old man seemed to be stumped by the sudden question, thought for a while, and said to his niece and granddaughter with a serious face, "Qiqige, you don't need others to like it in the future, you can only become an awesome existence in the end!"