The northwest is known as the land of bitter cold because there are two landforms here, one is the grassland and the other is the Gobi.

Although Dunhuang City is the capital of Xiliang Prefecture, it itself is located in a piece of Gobi, which is connected by the Xiliang Corridor that runs through this Gobi and the granary Hexi Plain that supports the entire Xiliang Prefecture, it can be said that the Xiliang Corridor is the lifeblood of Xiliang Prefecture, and the Yumen Pass located at the pass of the Xiliang Corridor is the lifeblood of Xiliang Prefecture.

Huang Hanji once gave Xiao Yu a move, if he really couldn't resist Xu Lin's iron cavalry, he could send a strange army to the west of Xiliangzhou, and go straight into the hinterland of Dazheng, causing the government and the opposition to shake, thus forcing Xu Lin to withdraw his troops and return to defense.

Therefore, the key point of westward expansion, Yumen Pass, Xiao Yu can't help but take a look at it with his own eyes.

After leaving the city that night, Xiao Yu did not escape directly from Xiliangzhou, as Qin Quan expected, but went to Xiaofangpan City, two hundred miles away from Dunhuang City.

At the end of the hour, Xiao Yu and the three of them came to the outside of Xiaofangpan City, Xiao Yu stopped, he didn't have the same battle treatment as Qin Quan, and he still had the torn dark robe on his body, and at this moment, his black hair was still scattered on his shoulders, and it was gently blown up by the morning breeze, Xiao Yu didn't care about it, and pointed at Xiaofangpancheng with a sheathed broken array and said: "Good location, but I don't want to be forced to attack here one day." However, the dog will jump off the wall when he is in a hurry. ”

Qiu Si and Zi Shuiyang didn't say anything.

Xiao Yu laughed at himself: "I'm afraid that in the eyes of those scholars and Qingliu, I, Xiao Yu, am already a character like the Bank of China, a traitor in the Central Plains, and a lackey in the grassland." ”

Xiao Yu paused, and then laughed and said, "But what kind of thing is the Bank of China? It's just a dog of the Prairie King." And I, Xiao Yu, am the king of the grassland, throughout the ages, a person from the Central Plains has been the master of the steppe wolf, has anyone ever done it?"

Xiao Yu took a deep breath and pressed the sentence he still wanted to say deeply into his heart.

He didn't ask for a steppe king.

The grassland people should be in the grassland, and the Central Plains people should be in the Central Plains. In the same way, when the people of the Central Plains came to the grassland, are they still the people of the Central Plains?

What Xiao Yu has to do now is to return the grassland to the grassland, and the Central Plains to the Central Plains.

This is the rule that Xiao Yu has always believed in.

Even if he marries a steppe princess as his wife, he will be the Khan King of the steppe. Even if he has a huge family based in the Central Plains, he can't change the rules.

Xiao Yu has indeed been holding his breath in his heart, it is Emperor Zheng's intention to go to the grassland, it is Xiao Lie's plan, it is Mr. Fu's iron refining knife, it is the thousand-year-old plan of Taoism, and it is the helpless choice that the red lady forced him to desperate, but the big crimes are all buckled on his head, and today is a feeling, which makes Xiao Yu, who has always pursued what his grandfather said to control anger and cultivate anger, slightly out of shape.

Xiao Yu motioned for Qiu Si and Zi Shuiyang to stay where they were, sat alone on a gentle slope, sat on a sandstone and looked at the small square pancheng silently.

Suddenly I thought about a lot of the past, there was a childhood, that worry-free childhood with a mother, father, and grandfather, a mother spoiled at home, and it was a pleasure to study with my grandfather now, even if his father Xiao Lie threw him into the secret guard more harshly, it didn't matter, the little grandfather of Anguo's mansion, how good!

As for the future, at least until the age of fifteen, it is not annoying, if it is described in four words, it is young and frivolous. and the same group of gentlemen rampant in the eastern capital, slaves and vicious dogs, anointed children, nothing more.

Xiao Yu laughed at himself, he was only in his twenties, and his daughter-in-law was not pregnant.

Speaking of his daughter-in-law, Xiao Yu suddenly found that he was indeed very cold to Lin Yinping during this period of time, every time he met, he was in a hurry, and he didn't leave his business with three words, and it seemed that the days of swimming side by side on the Qinghe Embankment were gone.

Xiao Yu smiled bitterly.

Now that he has fallen out with Qin Quan, Xiliangzhou is not a place to stay for a long time, and Xiao Yu is not as good as he planned to enter Xiaofangpan City to take a look, and after looking at it for a while, he got up and said to Qiu Si and Zi Shuiyang, who were waiting on the side of Zi: "Let's go." ”

Qiu Si hummed softly.

The woman's mind is more delicate, and she can see that Xiao Yu's expression is not quite right, and she seems to have some feelings, but who she feels is is not what she knows, in short, it will not be her, a cold woman who abandons the sect and seeks a future.

Qiu Si felt a little bitter in his heart.

The cool man does not like the cool man.

It's pathetic, ridiculous.

Qiu Si didn't use his vitality, and compared an immovable seal in front of him in vain.

Peace of mind, calmness.

Behind him, the roar of horses' hooves came from the Gobi.

Four thousand horses' hooves trampled on the earth, raising a cloud of dust.

A thousand Xiliang iron horses came out of Dunhuang City and went straight to Yumen Pass.

Iron hooves trampled through the tranquility of the Gobi.

The leading general of the 1,000 cavalry is the chief military officer in charge of the soldiers and horses of Xiliang Prefecture, and Chen Han, the governor of Xiliang, who is a real general with real power. And this thousand Xiliang iron cavalry is not an ordinary cavalry, it is a heavy cavalry made of real gold and silver, and the horse is a three-river horse in Xihe Prefecture, each of which weighs nearly 800 catties. Moreover, people wear heavy armor, and horses also wear heavy armor, it can be said that it is a mobile steel fortress, and ordinary empty and underworld cultivators will be more than lucky when they encounter such an iron horse with more than a dozen horses.

Thousands of horsemen are encircled, and the iron armor is sensen.

The commander of these thousand horsemen was Chen Han, the chief military officer, but the leader was Qin Quan, the king of Jin.

According to the law of Da Zheng, the border army and the local army are not subordinate to each other, for example, the post of governor in the border army and the chief military officer of a state are both ranks, but in fact, the chief military officer is under the control of the governor of a state and is evaluated by the military department. The Metropolitan Governor is controlled by the Metropolitan Governor and directly evaluated by the five Metropolitan Governors. Chen Han is stained with the light of the Northwest War, and it is a great honor to be crowned the governor of Xiliang as the chief military officer of Xiliang Prefecture, which means that he has been transferred from the military department to the command of the five major governors, and Li Chen, the governor of Xiliang, can no longer control him. In other words, the only people in the entire northwest who can make him bow down and obey his orders are Xu Lin, the governor of the central capital, and Qin Quan, the king of Jin, who was ordered to supervise the army.

The six departments of Da Zheng, the Ministry of Officials are in charge of the promotion of officials in the world, and they are the heads of the six departments. The Ministry of War is the most detached, and unlike the other five ministries headed by the cabinet, the Ministry of War is inherently closer to the five major prefectures. The difference between the two is that the five major governors are in charge of the border army, while the military department is in charge of the local army in each state.

Judging from the current situation, the cabinet dominated by civil ministers is in charge of the five ministries, while the five major governors' offices, which are dominated by military generals, have only one poor military department left, and it is a foregone conclusion that the civil and military forces are weak.

Fortunately, with Emperor Zheng's determination to launch the Northwest War, the generals who had been suppressed for many years finally had another chance to come out.

Chen Han's ability to get rid of Li Chen, the governor of Western Liang, as the governor of Western Liang, is the most obvious example.

As for others, there are more, for example, Xu Lin is in charge of the military and political affairs of the five northwestern states as the governor of the capital, if there is no Qin power to control it, then Xu Lin, who has a combination of military and political power, is not much different from the king with a different surname. But with Qin Quan, the overseer, as long as he controls the grain road in the central capital, then Xu Lin can only be a powerful governor.

Now that Qin Quan has entered the Western Liangzhou, Chen Han, the newly crowned governor of Western Liang, naturally looks forward to His Royal Highness the King of Jin.

Qin Quan sat on a heavy horse with a coat as black as ink, and the Bodhisattva who used to be a Confucian sword hung from his waist was hung from his waist. There were more than 20 horsemen beside him, although they were also wearing armor, but the armor style was a little incompatible with the heavy horses around him, and at the same time, he did not hold a spear, but hung a knife from his waist like Qin Quan.

These twenty or so horsemen did not have the excited expressions of ordinary soldiers before the battle, they were relatively calm, or they could be said to be indifferent.

For a while, there were waves on the ground.

Xiao Yu picked up the broken array and squinted at the twenty or so riders.

Dark Guard.