The Lonely Mountain Range is in the southern part of the Qingyun Continent, and the mountains stretch for 100,000 miles. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the top of the highest peak, Silent Ridge, is a permanent glacier, which is 20,000 zhang high, and it is difficult for birds to cross, and even the wind cannot blow, so it is silent all year round.

The raging Liluo River rushes eastward along the rift valley in the mountains, heading into the South China Sea, splitting the Qingyun Territory in two.

The source of the Liluo River, in the southwest of the Kolan Wetland, is densely swamped with dense primeval forests. All kinds of fierce beasts, brute beasts, and demon beasts are rampant here, but it is the base camp of the demon clan, and I have never heard of anyone successfully crossing it.

Back to the east, the Liluo River is also the natural border of Chu and Yue. Only in the central Southridge city-state there are two bridges, named the Friendship Bridge and the Peace Bridge.

At the end of each of the two bridges is a castle, impregnable and heavily guarded. The two countries each arranged tens of thousands of burst charms under the bridge piers close to their side, and once the other party sneaked attacked, they would directly detonate and blow up the bridge.

Therefore, for thousands of years, the small bridge of peace and friendship between the two countries has existed for a long time, and there has been no large-scale war. It has also become the two major ports of trade between the two countries, and there is an endless stream of vendors.

Wu Lan is a ten-captain guarding the city gate of the Thunder Battle Fort of Yue Kingdom at the southern end of the Friendship Bridge, and she is 48 years old this year, but she has an 84-year-old face, her face is wrinkled like a knife, and her hair is gray.

Most of the time on weekdays, Wu Lan was drinking endlessly in the sentry station next to the city gate. The money for wine comes from the filial piety of the vendors in the past.

Although there are hundreds of taxes such as national tax, local tax, customs duty, commodity tax, poll tax, car tax and horse tax, animal and plant food quarantine tax, newspaper tax, deed tax, stamp duty, etc., merchants in the past still habitually added some heads to the city gate guards.

After all, Hades is easy to see, and the little ghost is difficult. When you are away from home, you still want peace. Therefore, although the status of the city gate guards is low, they are still a bit oily.

It's just that today Wu Lan walked out of the sentry station for the first time. Patting the shoulder of his pawn Lin Erding, Wu Lan shook the fluttering purple wine gourd, and asked with a mouthful of wine:

"Xiao'er, why is there so little filial piety in the past two days, and the wine money is gone?"

Lin Erding replied with a huff: "Lan Tou'er, you can take care of it, in the past few days, there have been eighty percent fewer merchants, and most of the rest have been whitewashed by robbers and turned back halfway." ”

Wu Lan frowned and muttered, "It's strange." Bandits get a ticket home for the New Year before the Spring Festival, which is also a practice in previous years. Didn't you send out this year's pre-holiday bandit team?"

"No, Lan Tou'er. Lin Erding replied: "You know that my brother Sanding is in the bandit team, and they set off last month. ”

"I also received a letter from him the other day saying that this year's bandits are a bit strange. ”

"What a strange method?" Wu Lan shook the wine gourd unwillingly, raised her neck and put the gourd mouth to her mouth, hoping to drip two more drops.

Sanding said that this year's bandits not only had several times more people, but were also particularly ferocious, and several bandit squads were eliminated. According to the wounded soldiers who fled back from the eagle's beak, they also heard the bandits with the Lingnan accent on the other side. ”

Wu Lan's hand stopped in mid-air, turned his head and frowned, "People from the Chu Kingdom? I have to go talk to Xiao Wang. ”

As he spoke, a drop of residual wine slipped from the gourd's mouth and dripped directly to the ground.

Lin Erding's eyes were dazzled, and he saw Wu Lan standing diagonally on the ground in a twisted posture, her neck was almost twisted at one hundred and eighty degrees, and she sucked the dripping residual wine into her mouth with a "snort".

"Lan Tou'er, you really can, this skill is not covered. Lin Erding gave a thumbs up and praised.

"Cover... Cover your old man, help me up..... ouch, my waist is twisted. ”

"Oh, oh, okay. ”

The so-called Xiao Wang is actually General Wang Shoucheng, the city lord of this "eternal" battle fortress. Because it is a combat establishment, the guard general and the city lord are one, and their status is half a level higher than that of the city lord of the small city, and one level lower than the marshal of the big city.

Wang Shoucheng touched his increasingly swollen belly, reluctantly laughed and listened to Wu Lan's mouth foaming there, and finally couldn't help but say: "Lan Tou'er, it's just a gang of bandits, the trouble of moss mustard, it's not so exaggerated to the national war, right?"

Wu Lan's face was solemn, if it weren't for the sloppy smell of alcohol, and the hand kept rubbing on the back of his waist, he really had a bit of the aura of Marshal Jingbian back then:

"Xiao Wang, your skills are the same as your name, you are good at keeping them. But there is less strategic sensitivity. So he can only nest at this border pass, and he can never be promoted to marshal. ”

"Think about it, the corpse demon exterminates, and the state of Chu is the role of keeping to itself? If you want to expand the territory, there is no oil and water in the western Gobi, how can it compare to swallowing Song Yue and unifying Qingyun?"

Wang Shoucheng nodded and said, "Lan Tou'er, you are right. The Chu people are arrogant and belligerent, and there are thieves who are not dead. It's just that my Dayue country is not a soft persimmon. It's not a boast, as long as my king Shoucheng is here, it is impossible for the Yonggu Battle Fort to fall. ”

Wu Lan shook her head in disappointment and said, "Xiao Wang, you are right, it is impossible for the Yonggu Battle Fort to be attacked from the front. But what if the Chu people don't attack the two bridges of peace and friendship?"

"Although the Luo River and the Lonely Mountain are steep, there are many weak links. The eagle's beak, the guest back cliff, the crane wing rock, etc., can stop ordinary people, but they can't completely block the Chu people from crossing south. Now there are soldiers of the Chu State in our country, obviously smuggling. ”

"Maybe it's just some rogues who can't stay in Chu State?" Wang Shoucheng still felt that Wu Lan was alarmist: "It's true that it's not a big problem to smuggle a few people in those places, but it's not so easy for the army to cross the border." ”

Wu Lan clenched her fists, if she was still the marshal of the Southern Army, she would have dragged this elm-headed guy down and beat the eighty boards.

Helplessly, now that the hairy phoenix is not in the chicken, Wang Shoucheng can still remember the old feelings, and he is willing to let himself, the old janitor, make a big deal on the city lord's mansion, which is already commendable.

Sighing, Wu Lan said in a low voice: "Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be investigated." General Wang, be prepared for danger in times of peace, have insight into the details, and be cautious as a general. ”

Wang Shoucheng arched his hand and said: "What Lan Tou'er taught me is that I will send someone out to investigate." And I'll have someone bring you ten jars of wine, thank you for the reminder. ”

Hearing that Wang Shoucheng was nothing more than perfunctory, Wu Lan turned around and walked down the hall lonely, and when she came to the door, she turned around and said:

"The merchant travelers at the pass come and go from the south to the north, and now the south can't pass, and the north doesn't look back, if the general is interested, go north to Lingnan, south to Gongga Mountain, take a closer look. I hope it's just in time. ”

"As for the wine, you don't have to send it. The big war is coming, and although I am crippled, I still want to sharpen my knife quickly and kill two more enemies. ”

As he spoke, he took off the wine gourd that had been with him for ten years around his waist and threw it hard. The purple gourd fell on the stone steps and shattered into a dozen pieces in response.

Wu Lan didn't look back, and strode out.

Wang Shoucheng stood stunned for a long time, and sighed: "This old Wu is always so alarmist, back then, he didn't say that the Wu clan of 100,000 mountains would run out to counterattack the Yue Kingdom. As a result, the Southern Legion was empty for half a year, and the Wu Clan did not even have a shadow. ”

In the end, he couldn't even keep his official position, and he was demoted ten levels to become the captain of the janitor team, but he didn't admit his mistake. ”

"That is, my king Shoucheng misses the old, otherwise he would have been killed hundreds of times if he drank so much every day and ignored military orders. ”

"I didn't expect him to wake up to this day, and because of a few bandits, he pulled out some Chuyue war. It's amazing, my lord. This is even more exaggerated than the Wu Clan's counterattack. ”

"When his energy is over, he doesn't want to come back to beg for a drink. ”

"Lingnan Province, Gongga Mountain, my little guard, dare to send spies so far?"

"Later, two hundred-man teams will be drawn out to help suppress the bandits, and by the way, the area around the eagle's beak will be explored, and by the way, two Chu Liukou will be arrested and interrogated to see how the Chu army is going to invade our Dayue country. ”

"That's the kind of prudent thing to do. ”

"Forget it, let's wait until tomorrow. I'd better hurry back to find Hachi first. It's just been two days, and you can't snub people. It's also a scholarly family, a small jasper. These three-inch golden lotuses are really... Tsk..."

Putting Wu Lan's nonsense to the back of his mind for the time being, Wang Shoucheng smiled and walked briskly down the hall. (To be continued.) )