Chaoqiu City, the city lord's mansion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The city lord Chao Wei felt his eyelids jump all the time early this morning, and he always felt that something big was about to happen, but he couldn't think of what it would be when he thought about it. However, as the lord of a city, even if he was upset, Chao Wei still showed a calm appearance as usual, and went to walk around the garden to see the precious flowers and trees in the garden that the slaves carefully cared for.

The leisurely fragrance of the precious flowers and trees in the garden plays a role in calming the mind, so Chao Wei likes to think about things in the garden.

Smelling the familiar fragrance, Chao Wei's feeling of restlessness in his heart faded a lot, but he didn't dare to be careless, he could be the city lord of Chaoqiu City, so that Chaoqiu City was stable so far, he was naturally capable, he believed in his intuition.

What the hell is going on?

Chao Wei lowered his head slightly, looking at the clump of green grass and trees in front of him.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a shout.

"Oh no! Oh no, Father!"

A brightly dressed young man rushed over panting.

Chao Wei frowned, he has always taught his children not to be surprised, to be calm in everything, and several children are also behaving well on weekdays, why are they so impulsive today?

"Why are you so alarmed?!" Chao Wei said in a low voice, but his tone was stern, obviously dissatisfied with the performance of the visitor.

Rushing over is Chao Wei's eldest son Chao Chuan, who is also the most likely to inherit the position of the city lord in the future, and on weekdays, Chao Chuan is also full of energy to brush up on his father's good feelings, and he has learned his father's posture four or five points, but today is really shocked, and the calm and calm of the past is not brought at all, but he was also knocked back to his senses by Chao Wei's tone.

After a pause, taking a deep breath, Chaochuan said quickly, "The sentry has sent a message, someone is coming!"

Since the turmoil of the situation, Chao Wei has specially sent a group of guards to keep an eye on the movements around Chaoqiu City, and quickly inform them if there is any abnormal movement. During this period, there were some things, but they were just minor troubles.

Hearing Chao Chuan say this, Chao Wei's eyebrows trembled, could it be that this is the reason why he was uneasy all morning?

"Who's coming?" Chao Wei asked.

"No...... I don't know. ”

Seeing that Chao Wei's eyebrows tightened again, Chao Chuan hurriedly continued, "Although I don't know who they are, the sentry said that it may be ...... Probably...... It's from over there!" he said, pointing in a direction, which was the direction of the sea.

"From there?" Chao Jiqi said, "Are you from the same tribe as the Longboat tribe?"

The Long Boat Tribe will come to Chaoqiu City from time to time to trade, this Chao Wei knows, but until now, what he knows is the special case of the Long Boat Tribe, I heard that the tribe on the other side of the sea is very weak, and the Long Boat Tribe is the strongest tribe over there.

The theory that the long boat is the strongest, this is actually the long boat tribe boasted when they came over at that time, and it is true that only the long boat tribe often traveled between the two continents for a long time, so many people gradually believed it.

Chao Wei also knew that because of the impact of the war and the situation, coupled with the fact that many places began to build cities, slave owners and nobles bought slaves on a large scale, and some small and medium-sized tribes that originally lived in the interior were forced to flee to the deep mountains and forests, which were difficult to find, and it was more difficult to catch slaves, so many slave trade organizations extended their hands to another continent, such as the largest slave organization "畀".

This also made Chao Wei always believe that the tribes on the other side of the sea were a group of people who were about to become slaves, so there was nothing to worry about. Later, when the navigation technology matured and the exchanges became more stable, Chao Wei also wanted to reach out and do it, and the people over there were captured as slaves, and the gem and salt mines over there were kept for themselves.

It's just that now there will be someone other than the Longboat tribe coming here?

Why don't you just catch it as a slave?

"How many people?" Chao Wei asked thoughtfully.

"Four...... Four or five thousand. Asagawa stammered.

"How much?!" Chao Wei's voice mentioned, and he asked word by word as if he couldn't believe it, "Four or five thousand?!"

Asagawa nodded vigorously, "The sentinel also said...... Say...... It's all quite strong, it's not like migration, it's more ...... More like ...... Purposeful action. ”

Chao Wei opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but suddenly it seemed to be stuck, and his complexion changed rapidly.

This number, in the current environment, is indeed a large number.

Four or five thousand people, none of them have fled or migrated, and their strength is generally strong, so when they are united, Chao Wei has come to a conclusion - this Tamar is going to attack the city!

Thinking of this, Chao Wei couldn't calm down, stretched out his hand to push away Chao Chuan, who was blocking in front of him, and his figure ran out of the garden like a wind.

In Chaoqiu City, the trading team from afar is busy, they have long been familiar with the trading methods here, whether it is a street full of shops, or a free trading area drawn by the city lord, they can walk over with their eyes closed, and they are very familiar with what activities at which time of the day, and where they can hear gossip.

It's just that today something happened.

The gilded gate of the City Lord's Mansion opened with a clattering sound. A hundred-man cavalry rushed out, and the men in front of them waved their long-handled weapons mercilessly, shouting, and expelling those who stood in their way.

The people in the city who reacted quickly saw that the situation was not good, and they had already retreated to the sides.

"What's wrong?"

"That's the city lord's personal guard!

"Look at the two in the middle of the line!"

"That's the city lord?"

In the team that came out of the City Lord's Mansion, there were obviously two people who were dressed differently from the others, and they were more glamorous and exquisite. That's Asakami and Asakagawa. On weekdays, I go out by car, but now I'm in a hurry, so I ride a horse directly.

"They're going to the city gates!"

"What are you going to do when the city lord rushes to the city gate in such a hurry??"

Looking at the group of people who passed in a hurry, anyone with a little discerning knew that something was going to happen.

Something happened!

After rushing to the city gate, Chao Wei climbed up the city tower and looked into the distance, and his heart suddenly tightened. Although only a few small black dots can be seen in the distance, looking at the number, you can see that what Asagawa said is true. There are also some suspicious figures in the air.

"Close the gates!" shouted to the archers, and then asked the archers to prepare. Those figures in the air are not ordinary birds.

Boom Boom –

The heavy gates were shut.

There was also a team of newcomers outside the city, and before they had time to enter the city, they were blocked out, no matter how they shouted, begged, or bribed, the city gate just didn't move. The city lord is personally guarding it, who dares to open it?

Not only the people outside the city, but also the people in the city were even more puzzled, and the team that originally wanted to leave the city was stopped.

The onlookers also leaned over to the city gate, and if it weren't for the people of the court, they might have gathered directly in front of the city gate to find out.

"Why are the city gates closed in broad daylight?"

"It's like, even if something happens, you have to let us know. "It's good to run for your life when you know!"

"It doesn't seem good, should we find a way to leave first?"

"Turning it out? At this time, everywhere is strictly guarded. ”

"You can also hide it first. ”

"Don't guess, let's see. ”

However, these dissatisfaction and discussion stopped the next moment.

"Whew-"

A wolf howl came from afar.

The crowd fell silent, and then louder chatter.

"Wolves!

"It's not like a normal wolf, I can hear it!"

"We've heard wolf howls on our journeys, but how does it feel...... "The man who spoke shuddered.

"Beast!" affirmed an older traveler. They came from deep in the mountains, and knew the difference between the roar of wild beasts and fierce beasts in the mountains and forests. And the sound just now, only a fierce beast can make it, and an ordinary beast-level wolf can't have the effect of making people hairy and like every tendon is tightened.

"W-"

High in the sky, several eagles flew by, hovering above Chaoqiu City.

"It's too high to shoot. Said the experienced shooter. Even if they can shoot, the power is enough, but because they are too far apart, when they shoot past, the opponent is likely to have flown away, and judging by their reflexes, it is not a bird that can be easily shot.

"That'...... It's a ferocious beast too!"

"What's going on? What's going on? Could it be that someone is attacking the city?"

There were speculations in the crowd, and their minds were like wild horses running everywhere.

At this time, Chao Wei, who was standing in the castle tower, frowned so much that he could break the branches, and his eyes were staring at the front.

Asagawa had already been ordered to mobilize the manpower, while Asagawa looked at the approaching team, guessing the identity of the other party and what to do next.

In the team approaching in front, there were three large flags, two of which were known to Chao Wei, one was the totem flag of the Changzhou tribe, and the other made Chao Wei's heart full of bitterness.

"Flamehorn Man!"

The reason why I know the totem of Yanjiao is that when Wang Cheng wanted to hunt down the migration team of Yanjiao, he drew the totem of Yanjiao on the order issued, and later Chao Wei also learned about Yanjiao.

Back then, the Wangcheng team asked them to send reinforcements, and Chao Wei deliberately delayed the time, not because he wanted to help Yanjiao, but because he didn't like to waste his own troops. If Wang Cheng wants to fight, let them fight, and they just need to be pretentious towards Qiucheng.

It's just that Chao Wei didn't expect that at this time, he would see the totem flag of Yanjiao again. Sure enough, it came from the other side of the sea!

And, in addition to the totem flags of Yanjiao and Longzhou, the third big flag is very unfamiliar. There was a strange pattern on the flag, like a worm and snake, which had never been seen before, and I don't know which tribe it belonged to.

No matter what, Chao Wei has two big words in his heart at this time - not good!

As for the flag that Chao Wei felt unfamiliar with, it was actually not the totem flag of a certain tribe, it was a new flag. To say that it is "new" does not mean that the material is new, but that it has not been born for a long time.

Before Yanjiao's team set off, when the tribes in the Yan River Basin who received the news rushed to the trading area, when the tribe was preparing the totem flag, Shao Xuan proposed to make a flag belonging to the tribal alliance in the Yan River Basin.

As for the pattern on the flag, because the big alliance is not an alliance of a certain tribe, there are many of them, and there will be more in the future, it is impossible to use the totem of a certain tribe, even if it is a flame horn, the use of the two-horned totem will also attract strong opposition from various tribes, and in matters involving totems, the tribesmen are very stubborn and tough, and they will not agree to kill them. Therefore, Shao Xuan used a familiar pattern that others had never seen - a dragon.

The shape of the dragon was drawn based on the general shape of the Yan River in the section that Shao Xuan was familiar with.

For Shao Xuan's decision, the people in Yanjiao did not object, and they also felt that Shao Xuan's suggestion was very good, and the other tribes that came later naturally had no objections, since it was based on the shape of the Yanhe, of course they agreed. Even when Shao Xuan proposed that he would put all the tribal totems belonging to the Great Alliance of the Yan River Basin on this dragon flag in the future, he was eager to immediately print a totem on it, but the time was in a hurry, and their attitude towards the totem was very cautious and serious, and they would not draw a totem on a symbolic flag without any ceremony and preparation, so far, on the Yanhe Dragon Flag, there is only the dragon in the shape of the Yan River. (To be continued.) )