At the gate of the Li Mansion, people came and went at this time, and the traffic was busy.

"Lord Zhang has arrived..."

"Lord Wang has arrived..."

At this time, a steward at the door, every time he entered a person, he had to shout as a sign of respect.

Xia Ren also came to the door of the Li Mansion, put down the congratulatory gift, and walked in.

"His Royal Highness Nioh has arrived..."

When everyone next to them saw Xia Ren, they also smiled and saluted.

Xia Ren also responded with a smile one by one.

As soon as he had walked a few steps, a small servant ran over and took Xia Ren to another place.

It's still the pavilion full of night pearls that day.

Li Yuande was sitting with two people talking and laughing.

Seeing Xia Ren coming, he immediately stood up and smiled: "His Royal Highness King Ren has come down." ”

The two people next to him also stood up and saluted.

Xia Ren walked into the pavilion with a puzzled look and looked at Li Yuande.

Li Yuande said with a smile: "These two are my old friends, and it is rare for us to get together together, so we are here to reminisce about the past." ”

After speaking, he pointed to a burly middle-aged man on the side and introduced: "This is Ding'an Hou Sun Meng, that is, the head of the Sun family." ”

Xia Ren was taken aback, and immediately hugged his fist towards Sun Meng and said, "It turned out to be the Marquis of Ding'an, who has admired the name for a long time." ”

Sun Meng also replied with a smile: "Your Highness is really a dragon and a phoenix among people, a talent!"

Later, Li Yuande introduced another old man with a thin face, Chen Wuming, the secretary of the military department.

Chen Wuming also smiled lightly: "Your Majesty has seen His Royal Highness King Ren. ”

Xia Ren hurriedly said, "Elder Chen doesn't have to be polite. ”

Li Yuande smiled and said: "Okay, today's old man's birthday, I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to come to the gathering, and by the way, I would like to introduce His Royal Highness Nioh, who is the most talented person the old man has seen in the past hundred years." ”

Xia Ren smiled stiffly at the two of them, he was not very used to being praised in front of others, although he was telling the truth.

Sun Meng and Chen Wuming also smiled and said: "Since Marquis Li praises His Royal Highness King Ren so much, then I believe that His Royal Highness King Ren must be a talented person." ”

Li Yuande also stroked his beard with a smile and nodded on the side.

Subsequently, several people talked for a while, and then went to the hall for a banquet, after all, Li Yuande is the protagonist today, and he can't keep showing up, and this time he called Xia Ren to come just to get a familiar face.

If you want to say that they should take refuge in Nioh, it is probably impossible, and others will not be convinced by Nioh because of Li Yuande's few words, at most they will have a good impression.

The banquet lasted until the end of the evening, and the guests departed.

Xia Ren was just about to say hello to Li Yuande, and when he was about to leave, Li Fu appeared and said that Marquis Li had invited King Ren to the study.

With doubts, Xia Ren followed Li Fu to Li Yuande's study.

As soon as he arrived at the study, Xia Ren was immediately overjoyed, and it was actually Concubine Li Guifei who was standing inside, not Hou Ye Li.

hurriedly stepped forward to visit, "I have seen the mother concubine, the child has been in the summer capital for many days, and has never visited the mother concubine, and I ask for forgiveness." ”

Concubine Li Guifei said with a smile: "The rules of the palace, I don't blame you, today on Grandpa's birthday, the palace has the opportunity to come out to meet you." ”

After speaking, he looked up and down, and said softly: "I haven't seen you for more than a year, Ren'er, you have changed a lot, and you are no longer immature at the beginning." ”

Xia Ren smiled: "The situation is forced, and the child has to take responsibility. ”

Concubine Li nodded and said slowly: "Ren'er, since you have embarked on this road now, then don't look back, don't be timid, and don't regret it, move forward indomitably, and the Li family and I will always stand behind you." ”

Xia Ren nodded silently, what he was carrying was not the fate of one person, but the fate of countless people, so no matter what, he couldn't fall, even if he wanted to fall, those below him could carry him up.

Thinking of this, Xia Ren sighed, alas, Wang Bang is in his hand, and it is difficult to lose.

Seeing Xia Ren's silence, Li Guifei thought that he was under too much pressure, so she smiled and said, "You don't have to have too much pressure, I heard my grandfather say that there are already faint signs of wanting to side with you on the Sun family's side." ”

Xia Ren was stunned for a moment, didn't the Sun family say that Marquis Sun was very cautious? How could he easily stand in line? But he didn't think much about it, it was best to be on his side, even if he didn't stand in line, it wouldn't have a big impact, it was just a little bit of a mistake, anyway, he was used to it.

Then the two talked again, Li Guifei was going back to the palace, the concubine couldn't go out of the palace for too long, and she had to go back to the palace at night.

"Ren'er, there is still a little more than a year, Xi'er is about to become an adult, don't forget when you are a brother, she has been thinking about you for a long time, this time you go back to the summer capital, you can't see each other, she is angry. ”

Xia Ren smiled bitterly: "The child knows that when my sister becomes an adult, I will definitely give her a big gift." ”

Concubine Li nodded, and then left.

In a blink of an eye, half a month has passed since Li Yuande's 100th birthday banquet.

In the past half a month, Xia Ren has still spent time in some places, and in order to reduce his sense of existence, Xia Ren has been enduring grievances that ordinary people can't bear.

"Hou Ye Li, this king will return to Haiyuan City later, and when Hou Ye returns to Donghai Prefecture in the future, this king will definitely come to visit. ”

In front of the Li Mansion, Xia Ren and Dian Wei led the horses and said goodbye to Li Yuande at the door.

Li Yuande nodded with a smile and said, "Your Highness is careful all the way, the old man won't send more." ”

......

Not to mention that Xia Ren has been wandering in the summer capital for a month, here in the endless mountains, the two thousand cavalry are complaining day and night.

It's really Zhao Yun's training is too ruthless, even sleeping, you have to be on horseback, a month down, everyone feels that their walking is bifurcated, but still no one quits, although the training is hard, but every time I see the envious eyes of other infantry brothers, I immediately feel extremely satisfied.

Sure enough, vanity can make a man suffer anything.

At this time, in the central military camp, Zhao Yun and others were deliberating.

Zhao Yun took the lead and said: "Now that the cavalry training has entered the bottleneck, the basic aspects have been trained, and the actual combat is needed below, but the cavalry is not good at entering the endless mountains to fight, so we need to transfer." ”

Gao Shun nodded and said in a deep voice: "Indeed, after this month of intensive training, our First Army's actual combat ability and resilience have been greatly improved. ”

After speaking, he continued: "But we can't lose this place, and we have to leave people to guard it, and it can be used as a backup base when the time comes, and future supplies and the like can be sent here first." ”

This valley is a very hidden and safe place, Zhao Yun and the others are reluctant to throw it away, if Xia Ren has supplies to come in the future, or rescue the people of Great Xia from the barbarians, they can be brought here to settle down first.

Zhao Yun and the others then discussed, who would stay in the valley, and finally decided to let Zhou Cang stay, because his cultivation was too low, and he needed to cultivate well, and by the way, he would guard the valley.

Zhou Cang nodded reluctantly, what's wrong, if you have a low cultivation, you have no human rights, eat your rice?

"General Zhou, it's not that you stay here all the time, every once in a while, we will have another person come back to replace you. ”

Looking at Zhou Cang's depressed face, Zhao Yun had no choice but to smile and comfort.

Pei Yuanqing next to him was a little puzzled and said, "Since we are going to go to the Barbarian Empire, how are we investigating their specific situation?"

Gao Shun Zhengse said: "A long time ago, His Royal Highness sent someone to understand the situation of the barbarians, plus the information provided by General Qin Qiong, I will probably tell you about the situation of the barbarians." ”

After pondering for a while, Gao Shun spoke: "Although the barbarians claim to be a barbarian empire to the outside world, in fact, they are not strictly speaking, an empire, but a religious regime. ”

"The barbarians worship the barbarian gods, so their highest authority is called the Barbarian Temple, but the Barbarian Temple is not run by one person, but by the nine tribes. ”

"The barbarians exist in the form of tribes, the largest is the nine giant tribes, that is, the nine tribes that are in charge of the barbarian temple, and below are some large tribes and medium-sized tribes, and the weakest are small tribes. ”

"And our target this time is some small tribes, there are countless small tribes of barbarians, and they themselves are fighting every day to annex and strengthen the tribes, so as long as we don't expose traces, then exterminating some small tribes will not attract attention. ”

After listening, several people nodded, and then Zhao Yun asked: "Since the barbarians will swallow and fight each other, then our Great Xia should not be defeated by them?"

Gao Shun shook his head and explained: "Although the barbarians are also fighting internally, it is their internal matter, once it involves outsiders, they will quickly unite, after all, they all have a unified faith. ”

After speaking, he added: "Take the nine major tribes as an example, why for countless years, the barbarians have always been in charge of the barbarian temple by the nine major tribes, because once a tribe threatens their status, then the nine major tribes will secretly take action to solve each other." ”

"Therefore, the other barbarian tribes hate and fear the nine tribes, but once they fight with our Great Xia and the nine tribes issue orders, then there will still be countless barbarians participating in the war, this is their concept of action, it doesn't matter if there is internal strife, but the external fighting must be unified. ”

Zhao Yun bowed his head, and at this time, several of them had a general understanding of the barbarians.

In general, it is to try his best to hide himself, so that others will know that he and the others are the army of Great Xia, and even if they are discovered, they must be destroyed, otherwise they will be pursued and killed by countless barbarians, and then they will have to retreat to the endless mountains.

Then the group began to arrange the retreat.

First cover the exit of the valley so that people will not easily find it, then select a thousand people, accompany Zhou Cang to guard this place, and finally let all the soldiers rest for a few days, because it still takes some distance to go to the interior of the barbarians from here.

At the gate of the valley, Zhao Yun and the others were ready to set off at any time.

"General Zhou, I'm tired of you guarding this place. ”

Zhou Cang nodded, hugged his fists and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely guard this place and wait for you to return." ”

Subsequently, Zhao Yun led the cavalry, and Gao Shun led the people of the First Army, and advanced towards the Barbarian Empire.

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