Fire, rain of arrows, slashing, roaring, swords clashing, blood pooling into rivers on the walls, and a steady stream of ants attached to the city.

The shouting and killing in the city pass gradually stopped, and the guards of Dayao City Pass shed their last drop of blood in the face of dozens of times their own siegers, and the Huangyang Pass, which had only been recovered for less than three months, became the first city pass broken by the grassland people, but it would not be the last.

Even if there was such a premonition, no one dared to believe that the grassland tribes, who had only experienced heavy losses in the beginning of spring, would once again provoke a war and once again entangle the men and horses to advance south.

After passing the pass in the north, the terrain of Jinju is a flat river, and when the rangers of the steppe barbarians appearing outside the city, the military officials and the people of Jinju have already realized that the plan of the barbarians to go south this time may no longer be just gold, silver and grain.

The land of the steppe could not support the people of the steppe, and to the north was the permafrost wasteland, where even the most hardy long-haired cattle could not survive, only moss and ice and snow.

After half a year of rest, the Jinju state army has been replenished to full strength, and there are even trained reserves to be used, but most of these recruits who have been in the barracks for less than half a year are far from being able to fight with the steppe people who can fight on horseback, let alone the field battle of foot against horse.

The four major battalions of the Jinzhou State Army, the southeast, northwest and northwest of the Jinzhou State Army also pulled out the camp and retreated south, and the city was the city of Jinzhou Prefecture, the number of garrisons also doubled, the streets and alleys were everywhere with the patrol soldiers with blades, and the houses in the city were also requisitioned.

"The smell of gunpowder smoke is getting stronger and stronger, and there is still blood. The window of the ancestral hall was opened by the old man, and the north wind poured into the house, almost blowing out the lights of the ever-bright lamp, the old man surnamed Zhang held the window lattice with one arm, closed his eyes and felt the breath brought by the north wind, "The battlefield and the round city are not far away, in the first year after Emperor Taizu of Dayao, the northern barbarians went south to the southernmost place of Jinzhou, which was under the round city. ”

Wei Changpan stopped practicing the knife, and was a little worried, "Those grassland people.... What kind of person is it?"

The old man was amused by the childish question, "What kind of person? ”

"Then why are the people in the dart game so afraid of them? When I went to the room yesterday, I heard a lot of people talking about it, and they were about to say that these people were demons who eat people and don't spit out bones. ”

"Because they were afraid, the dart bureau promised the government to send people over to help defend the city, and now there is no one to decide, so naturally everyone is in danger. After saying that, the old man turned his head and patted Wei Changpan's shoulder with one arm, "After you have been in the battle formation, you will know that killing a barbarian is just a matter of crossing the horse." ”

Barbarian, Wei Changpan hears this title the most these days, the people of Dayao look down on the tribes on the northern grasslands at the same time, but they are also afraid of their fierceness, the boundless grassland gives birth to these people and gives them indescribable bravery.

"Do you feel that your sword skills have reached a bottleneck, and no matter how you practice, you can't improve?"

"Yes. Wei Changpan couldn't help admitting, "In the past ten days, not only the knife technique, but also the third trick point has not been loosened in the slightest. ”

"Your knife is an antiquity, and it is also a murder knife that has been passed down from generation to generation, and ordinary people will be sick and weak due to the cold qi on the knife after a long time. The old man looked indifferently at the beast on the eaves of the house outside the ancestral hall, "If you want to practice the knife of killing, you must be aware of killing, but don't sink, this is a double-edged sword." ”

"The officials of Jinju are not very capable of other things, and they are quite clear about a few catties and taels, and they gave up the field battle in Jinju early, and all the soldiers and horses retreated into the city to hold on, and they could not find food and property in the countryside, and the barbarians who found nothing were bound to attack the city. "The cold night is cloudless, and the weather is clear and chilling," the barbarians made full preparations for going south this time, and the scouts of our army came back, and there were even siege equipment in the barbarians' camp. ”

"If the last time the Huangyang Pass was broken for the first time, it was still lost in the defenseless and dozens of horsemen disguised as merchants to deceive and open the door, then this time the barbarians have already broken the Huangyang Pass as a rehearsal for the siege. The old man, whose face gradually became gloomy, closed the window, "Huangyang Pass is not a steep Xiongguan, and there are only hundreds of garrisons in the pass, if you want to completely stop the army of barbarians, it is just a mantis arm as a car, but it will be broken after less than a day..."

Siege warfare has always been the strength of the Central Plains, there are no big cities on the grassland, there are no giant trees and craftsmen to make siege equipment, and there is a lack of generals and soldiers who are familiar with this way, so the raids that have always gone south are only to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the defenders to attack the merchant teams or villages and towns.

Wei Changpan didn't know anything about the skills of the soldiers, but he also sensed something wrong from the old man's tone, as if there was a great risk approaching.

"The manpower sent out by the dart board to promise has been decided, most of them are young people with little experience, you are their leader, and the two old men of the dart board will assist you on the side. The old man smiled at Wei Changpan, "Give you a little errand to see how you do." ”

I want to find some reason to refute the old man's words, I have never received anyone, and I still have some relationships that have not been cleared up, and he can't carry the lives of these people....

"What you are trying to do in the future is just a small test compared to what you are doing now. ”

The old man's words dispelled the worries in Wei Changpan's heart, yes, what to do to the leader of the Jiangzhou rivers and lakes is not comparable to the barbarian sword soldier who is going into battle now.

"How long will it be?"

"Just tomorrow morning, the government will send someone to take the people of the dart bureau away, and don't practice knives today. The old man returned to the Taishi chair and closed his eyes, "Keep your strength, many things in the barracks are different from outside." ”

If you want to practice the knife of killing, you must have the consciousness of killing, this sentence made him unable to sleep at night, killing is not killing chickens.

Maybe he was wrong from the beginning, he should have been in that town, don't have any illusions of wandering the rivers and lakes after practicing martial arts, honestly farming, being a man in his duty, marrying a wife and having children after growing up a few years old, living a mediocre life, and finally dying of old age at home, and the coffin was buried on the green mountain.

But now it's too late to say anything, Wei Changpan lay down, forcing himself not to think about it, so that he can sleep for an hour or two before dawn.

He embarked on this path, probably only holding the knife all the time, and he could still make some redemptions.

....

"Wu He is also stingy, how can he give you stunned young people. The middle-aged lieutenant with a big waist and a round waist looked at the Wu and dart board dart masters standing in a row in front of him with his hands behind his back, and all of them were tender and tight, even if they had some headaches, "I told you that I want old ginger, and how to give it is tender ginger." ”

And most of the people in the villages and towns near Yuancheng have retreated into the city, and in recent days, the barbarians have been riding more and more by day, and earlier they were able to forcibly eat by relying on the number of people, and later gathered into a team of 100 people, and even dared to attack and disturb the march of two or three thousand people, and the team transporting grain was even more unbearable, and dozens of grain carts did not have two or three hundred people to each other, and they did not dare to walk at all.

Holding on to the city is bound to store grain, and the barbarian leaders also know this truth, several groups of rangers come out to disturb the grain road, plundering nearly 200,000 stone of grain, killing and injuring the grain transporters and escorting soldiers, and there are even more numerous, coming and going without a trace, often waiting for the nearby cavalry team to receive the news and hurry to come, can only see the raging fire and the dead and wounded people in the grain cart.

At present, the northern pass has not been fully broken, but most of the garrisons have withdrawn south, and the soldiers and horses of the neighboring states and counties have not yet arrived to help, and if they want to pursue these rangers, they must only rely on the people of Jinju and Benzhou, but even the cavalry army that can collide with the barbarians has not been able to cut down those rangers several times.

Jinzhou is still martial, and there are many good hands in the Jianghu sect, and each sect has some manpower, and it is not difficult to make up a team of hundreds of people to encircle and suppress the rangers, and there are a lot of people in the Wuhe Dart Bureau, but more than 40 people look at the usable ....

"Brother Wei, didn't we say that we were helping to defend the city, why did we go out of the city to chase down the barbarians' rangers?" Gu Sheng was dressed in the rhinoceros skin armor that the old Gu Gu Shengyang got out of nowhere, which was much stronger than the plate armor and cowhide armor of the military system, and was lighter than the iron armor, which was a first-class good thing in the army.

"Not to mention helping to defend the city, how can you be able to move you boys. The old dart master beside Wei Changpan took Gu Sheng back to his place, "From now on, this Wei brother is our leader, and fighting is not a child's play! Listen to the words of the commander in the army, and when you kill the barbarians' rangers, you can all follow the darts in the spring of next year!"

As soon as these young people heard this, they were all eager to try, most of them were the children of the dart master, and they were forced to be in the dart game by the chief dart head Song Yanchao for a long time, and they all thought that the martial arts realm was not low, and they grew up listening to the story of the barbarian and our Da Yao, and it was the age of blood bravery, and the trick of splitting a stake and cutting a branch could not satisfy them, and in the face of the temptation of establishing meritorious deeds and killing enemies on the battlefield, the barbarian who drank blood seemed to be not so terrible.

"Kill the barbarian!" I don't know who was the first to roar, and the remaining dozens of people also shouted together, and for a while there was quite a bit of momentum, "Kill the barbarian!"

The middle-aged lieutenant with a big waist and a round waist listened to it, and his impression of these people changed slightly, he didn't know the depth of his ability, and his spirit was okay at first sight, but when he went to the battlefield and saw the scene of killing people one step at a time, would he be so frightened that he peed his pants.