The mountains in the northern part of Namchanaburi are much steeper than in the south, and the biggest difference from the southern mountains is that there are not many trees on the peaks here, and the white rocks are abrupt in the sun, and only scattered weeds and shrubs can be seen in the crevices of the rocks.

Two wagons, four horses, and a team of eleven men walked on the ridge, and in the scorching sun, they walked very dullly.

Half a month has passed since the departure from the Holy Capital, and the group has come to the border between Middle-earth and Belen, and the Middle-earth Plain has long been left behind.

With the support of the Holy Capital, Jacto successfully became the king of Middle-earth. Sure enough, he did not go to Belém with everyone again, and even the Middle-earth army that had been assembled in the Holy Capital to go to Belém did not set off, but began a war to destroy the rebel forces in Middle-earth under the leadership of Jacktu.

The day after their departure, the princes of the Carolingian principalities in the south of Middle-earth, the princes of the Duchy of Sarian in the west, and the princes of the Duchy of Bavaria in the southeast announced that they would not obey the so-called king of Middle-earth and would proclaim themselves kings. Jacktu quickly summoned the princes of the remaining kingdoms that had not declared themselves to the holy capital, bestowed on them the title of hereditary princes, and prepared to begin a crusade against the three kingdoms that had not yet declared their independence.

Before everyone left, Jacktu said that everyone would not be embarrassed by a walk, and instructed everyone to leave Middle-earth quickly, although only the Three Kingdoms rebelled on the surface, secretly I don't know how many people are about to move, and the world of Middle-earth is about to usher in a great upheaval.

Of course, everyone understood that he would treat his group like this because of Xinzhu. But he managed to take advantage of his own people, killing eight kings and throwing Middle-earth into chaos. So walking on the road to Belém, everyone was a little sullen.

On the contrary, Yu Tuo's master and apprentice seem to take these things for granted, Yu Tuo persuaded everyone that everything has cause and effect, and the so-called Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform. Everyone only has **, so they will feel hopeless about today's things, if you let go of your obsession, you should have never met Jack Tu, or you will suddenly open up.

Everyone agrees with Yu Tuo's opinions, and Niu Er even argues with Yu Tuo. However, it has been four days since the last city-state of Middle-earth, and it has not been possible to pass through any inhabited places, and food and water are somewhat scarce, and it will be difficult not to replenish them.

Fortunately, in the evening of this day, the Zeng brothers who were exploring the road ahead came with good news, and the smoke of cooking could already be seen in front, and it was estimated that it was not far from the city-state.

It is much more difficult to walk in the mountains than on flat ground, and even if you already see that the target is not far ahead, it will take a lot of effort to get there. The crowd did not come to the city-state until late at night.

The city-state is nestled in a mountain col and is surrounded on all sides by high mountains, with only one road in the center to pass through. The perimeter of the city-state was covered with a high wall of rock, and a heavy gate more than three men high was closed, and above the gate was a watchtower, on which two guards with spears were on duty.

When the people came to the gate, the sentinels stopped the procession and inquired about their coming.

Niu Er stepped forward to answer, and after a while, a small window opened in the middle of the city gate, and a sentry poked his head out and asked everyone to take out the name cards one by one to inspect them.

Everyone showed him in turn, but Niu Er didn't take out his gold medal this time, but took out an ordinary name card. The sentry still didn't open the door, and the morning light was about to ask, but Xu Xun took the lead and handed the sentry two gold coins, and the sentry weighed the gold coins a few times, and closed the small window with a "snap", and then, the city gate slowly opened.

Stepping into this city-state, it is not too big, a winding road leads to the other side of the city-state, and the rock-paved road is quite neat, reflecting the pale cyan light in the moonlight.

The houses in the city are almost all made of rock, most of them are only one storey, and sometimes some are small two-story buildings, which are already standing out from the crowd.

The group headed straight for a two-story building with a sign hanging from the hotel. Knocked on the door for a long time, someone inside answered, Niu Er said that it was a merchant to live here, the gate was also like the city gate just now, open a small window, the people inside asked carefully for a long time, almost to ask the ancestors of several generations to ask clearly, then slowly swallowed the door.

The shopkeeper was a short and fat man, with a dim oil lamp in his hand and a big beard, and he was chattering about something as he watched everyone enter the shop.

Everyone has been on the road for more than half a month, they are already very tired, and they just want to rest early, Xu Xun raised his hand and threw a gold coin to the store, and all the empty rooms in the store were covered.

The inn has two floors, the guest rooms are on the second floor, there are a total of seven rooms, two of which have been inhabited, and the remaining vacant rooms have five.

I haven't been on the bed for a long time, and I slept very comfortably this night, and when I woke up, it was already the middle of the day, and Peng Mu, who was in the same room, had long since disappeared. Chenguang walked out of the room, and the lobby on the first floor was already full of people, and Xu Xun and the others were gathered around a table, discussing something.

Chenguang walked over, and Guo Xinzhu said with a smile: "You slept so well this night, your eighth brother went out to call you, and you couldn't hear it." ”

Chenguang was shocked: "There is such a thing, but I don't know at all, where did the eighth brother go?"

"He and Niu Er and the Zeng brothers went to the city to inquire about the news, and it is estimated that they are coming back soon, and we are discussing how to go to Kanchanaburi through Fort Wick. Xu Xun said, waving at the shopkeeper, pointing to the bread and milk on the table, and signaling for more.

Chenguang said: "What's wrong with Wickburg, can't you go over?"

Guo Xinzhu said: "You have been sleeping, we are fortunate to get up early and inquire about some news from the store." With that, she told Chenguang the news of the inquiry.

It turned out that what the heir Shaojun said in the Holy Capital before was true, and on the way to the Holy Capital, Belén had officially started a war with Mitarion. Mitarion's national strength was strong, and it was premeditated, and soon formed an army of 100,000 people at the northern end of the Golden Corridor, and slaughtered Namchanaburi.

And Belém was also prepared, they concentrated most of the country's army in the southern fortress of the Golden Corridor, Fort Wick, and prepared to rely on this fortress to fight Mitarion to the death. However, Belen's national strength is far from Mitarion, and the total number of troops that Fort Wick can gather is only about 30,000 people, and Mitarion also has a fleet of heavenly boats, which is simply invincible for Belen. The countries of Namchanaburi believed that Belém would definitely lose this battle, and it was only a matter of time. Therefore, except for the two neighboring countries, the rest of the countries were unwilling to send troops to rescue, and only hoped that Belém could delay Mitarion for some more time and create opportunities for themselves to protect themselves.

Belém did not want to sit still, and with 20,000 men and horses from two neighboring countries to help them, they felt that they could fight Mitarion, so the king of Belém, Heater the Great, personally led his three princes to sit in Wickburg, leaving the youngest prince alone to guard the capital.

Speaking of this Hisai Emperor, the people of all countries in Namchanaburi are all admired. His full name is Hippola Brook Popperas José. Just over thirty years ago, when Emperor Hisai took over the throne at the age of sixteen, Belém was a small, impoverished state in the northernmost part of the state of Namchanaburi.

Belém has many mountains and lacks arable land, and has always been a poor country in the state of Kanchanaburi, and the rest of the countries disdain to compete for the land of Belen, and they all expect Belém to be a good watchdog of the state, so there has been no change in Belen. However, with his wisdom and courage, the Emperor led the people of Belem to exploit mineral deposits, develop technology, and greatly strengthened trade with Kanchanaburi and weakened exchanges with other states of Kanchanaburi, which in recent decades has made Belém a powerful state in Kanchanaburi.

Emperor Xisai has four princes and five princesses under his knees, the older prince is eighteen years old this year, the youngest prince is twelve years old, the eldest of the five princesses is sixteen years old, and the youngest is nine years old.

There is also a folk legend that says that Emperor Xisai was not too keen on state affairs at the beginning of his accession to the throne, but fell in love with a foreign woman and gave birth to a son. At that time, the royal family of Belém did not want to admit that this prince with impure blood, but also hated this foreign woman for disturbing the life of Emperor Xisai, and quietly executed this foreign woman and the prince. But they deceived the Hisai Great, saying that the foreign woman hoped that the Hisai Emperor would be a good emperor, and if she continued to stay with the Hisai Emperor, the Hisai Emperor would become a faint king, and she did not want to be such an infamy, so she took her son incognito. If one day Emperor Hirsai led Belém to dominate Namphanhuri, she would return to him with her son and share the prosperity with him.

Emperor Hisai was deceived by such a clumsy scheme, and since then he has worked hard to govern Belém in good order and become one of the powerhouses of Kanchanaburi. Moreover, although the Emperor accepted the partner arranged by the royal family and gave birth to nine children, he never became the queen, which also made this legend even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Fort Wick is the Fort Will Crook Fortress mentioned by the young prince before, and the people of Nanchanaburi are used to calling it Fort Wick.

The fort is both the northernmost city-state of Belém and the gateway to the entire state of Namchanaburi. It is located at the southernmost end of the Golden Corridor, and since the southernmost section of the Golden Corridor is less than 20 miles wide, at the end of the corridor is a desert plain, known as the Belém Desert, and the desert is flanked by cliffs hundreds of feet high, which has also become a natural gateway. Belém built a city-state between the cliffs, similar to the city of Ludoco where the people now live.

Later, the Golden Corridor became the main transportation route between the north and south of the Bizhou mainland, and Belen worked hard in Fort Wick, constantly expanding the size of the city-state, and various unions also settled in Fort Wick, and Fort Wick finally became a magnificent fortress city-state.

Now Wick Fort has three huge city walls that are tens of zhang high, each city wall has nearly 1,000 people stationed, the city gate under the city wall is ten zhang high, it is the unique diamond rock of the Nanchanibhai continent, wrapped in the skin of the deep-sea giant beast Jiao whale, and then tied with the tendons of the Jiao whale, weighing more than one million catties, in order to open the city gate on the city wall, there is a huge winch, and the gate is pulled by dozens of steel cables, and it takes 30 people to work together to push.

When Chenguang heard this, he said in his heart, this Emperor Xisai is really like a god, he was still trading with the Bei Bizhou continent, but he had already expected that there would be a war between the two states in the future, so he took precautions early.

However, he was wrong, Emperor Hisai did not have this idea at first, only after having economic and trade contacts with Kanchanaburi and seeing the strength of Mintarion in Kanchanaburi, he would make such a great effort to run Fort Wick.

Mitarion had declared war on Belém ten days earlier, but the armies of Belém's two neighboring countries had not yet assembled and set off, in order to buy time for their reinforcements, and at the same time, in order to build a special weapon against Mitharion's fleet, Hisai the Great sent 5,000 troops to the Golden Corridor to harass Mittalion's army and delay Mittalion's march as long as possible.

As for the country, due to the fact that Mitarion still has many assassins sent to Nanchanaburi, Belém has closed almost the entire border, and his party was able to enter the city-state of Belém last night, thanks to Brother Jin. After that, it may not be feasible to go further north from this Ludoko city, so everyone gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

Chenguang was also a little difficult to hear, but more anxious.

"The third senior brother and the sixth senior brother are still waiting for us on the mainland of Kanchanaburi, we have been delayed in Nanchanaburi for more than a month, and we don't know what the situation of the senior brothers is, if it is delayed any longer, I am afraid that it will ......" As he spoke, his eyes seemed to be a little red.

Everyone also knew what he meant, Xu Xun said: "Old Seven, how can I not know your thoughts, I am also as anxious as you, but now is not the time to panic, have you forgotten what the master said to be indifferent in case of trouble? Sit down and eat something first, and then let's think about it in the long run." ”

When Chenguang heard this, he had to sit down stupidly, grab the bread and nibble on it.

When everyone was worried, Peng Mu, Niu Er and the Zeng brothers pushed the door in, and as soon as Peng Mu saw everyone sitting at the table and the people were still at the door, he shouted: "Second brother and seventh brother, good news, good news!"

As soon as Chenguang heard the good news, he immediately got up and said, "What good news?"

The situation next to him Xinzhu pulled his sleeve and motioned for him to sit down quickly, Chenguang was puzzled, but he caught a glimpse of other people around him staring at him, and hurriedly did it.

Guo Xinzhu said in a low voice: "At this moment, Belen is at war with Mitarion, and it is already known to everyone that Mitarion sent assassins from the Shenzhou Continent to Nanchanaburi, you are shouting like this, you really don't want us to go any further?"

Chenguang hurriedly said: "I didn't mean that, I just ......"

Xu Xun said: "Don't say more, let's go back to the room and say." With that, he stepped over and pulled the ignorant Peng Mu and walked upstairs.