Chapter 356: Conflict
1 day, 2 days, 3 days......
Four days and nights, one man and two horses, galloping through the narrow road.
The edge of the desert that is inaccessible, the edge of the miasma full of thorns.
Liu Xianglian's horse team has become, a group of knights whistling around!
The terrain has also changed from the humid tropical monsoon season of the river to the dry temperate grassland climate of Biani.
The sky is blue and the grass is wide, and there is no end in sight.
"Brothers, we have entered the confines of Xining Mansion, big guy get off the horse and rest!"
Calling for the Laws ......
The sound of people neighing horses is incessant.
"The sky is high and the birds can fly, and the grass is wide and the horses can gallop!"
Liu Xianglian looked at the blue sky and white clouds, and the cattle and sheep were sliced into herds, and couldn't help but exclaim.
"Yes, Jiangnan will never see such a scenery!
The ancients said that those who love mountains are benevolent, those who love water are wise, and those who love grasslands are broad-minded!
No wonder Temujin was able to sweep east, west, north and south back then, and the villain felt an indescribable ambition here!"
Tian Qi tied up the horse and stood beside Liu Xianglian and praised.
"Senior sister, you can take the snow to play!
We have traveled all the way, and we have come to Xining Mansion in just three days, and today is the time to repair!"
Meng Meng screamed with joy, jumped to the erection neck of the snow, and shouted loudly: "Step on the snow, run!"
Xining Mansion has a natural pasture close to the Mongolian steppe, if it weren't for the hunting of foreign races, this would have been one of the best natural pastures in the Great Zhou!
It's a pity that the nomads are born with bandit habits in the face of farming people, so that this place is only overgrown with barren grass.
"Lao Tian, you go and settle the brothers to cultivate their lives, and in a short time, we will enter Xining Mansion, which is located on the border, and the people are fierce, and it may not be easy for our horse team to enter!"
Cavalry!
The king of the age of cold weapons!
Although Liu Xianglian now only has a hundred horsemen under his command, this power should not be underestimated!
This force suddenly appeared here, I'm afraid that the defenders of the city will not let themselves in!
"Young Master Liu, I'm going to settle down!"
Tian Qi is a veteran who is used to the rivers and lakes, and quickly placed everyone in an orderly manner, and found a downwind outlet to find enemy traces and wolves!
Liu Xianglian looked at everything in order, simply lay on the grass, and looked up at the eagle soaring in the sky.
It's a beautiful scene!
After Tian Qi settled everyone, he buried the pot to make rice, and the cooking smoke slowly rose!
"It wouldn't be nice to settle here in the future...... No, no, Sister Lin is weak, but she can't stand the wind and sand and cold here!"
Xining Province is also the future Qinghai, at the end of this Xiaoice River period, the temperature difference between day and night here is very large, and now in early September, snow is a common thing.
"In the future, why don't you settle down in Jinling?"
Jinling is not a place to compete for hegemony, but it is very comfortable to live, the sound of glamour, the lights are far away from the center of power, and it belongs to the kind of situation where you can live your own small life.
And whether it is Sister Bao or Sister Lin or Qin Keqing and Shi Xiangyun, they can all adapt to the climate here!
The only thing that has some doubts is that this is the nest of these people, will the emperor make himself so comfortable?..
"What a decay!"
Liu Xianglian sighed in annoyance: "Now that he has been sealed the Five-Rank Crazy Dragon Guard, he has now become a sharp knife of last resort, constantly killing people, and after killing it, what fate is simply lice on the bald head!"
Obvious!
Damn the superiors, damn the art of controlling the people!
I just want to live simply, is it so difficult!?"
Liu Xianglian quickly researched the root cause of all problems, not for other reasons, the only reason that was fiddled with by others was that there was no strength!
Looking at the knights gathered in twos and threes on the grass, these people are their own subordinates
How nice it would be!
He is confident that he will make a small force like a copper pea, just like Drift City!
A paradise of its own!
"Senior brother, what are you muttering?"
Meng Meng played in the sky for a while, and then landed on Liu Xianglian's stomach, jumping back and forth!
"Oh, senior sister, you tap!"
Liu Xianglian only felt like an old man was running back and forth on herself, but she didn't expect that she looked not very huge and cute, and her weight was no worse than that of a real girl!
"Huh?"
Meng Meng wrinkled her good-looking bird eyes: "Senior brother, are you saying that senior sister is very heavy?"
"Haha, how can it!
The younger one is praising the senior sister for being honest and sincere, but the younger brother's stomach is a little ignorant and can't afford the beauty of the senior sister."
"Poof!"
Meng Mengjiao smiled: "Flim tongue is useless to me Senior Sister, I am not one of those ignorant girls, Senior Sister, I have seen the bird fairy of the world."
Liu Xianglian saw Mengmeng's anger turn into joy, and hurriedly changed the topic: "Senior sister, what about stepping on the snow?
Why don't you play with it?"
"I'm a bird fairy, what's the fun with a stupid horse with no brains?
I just threw it a blood angelica, and it's going to be a big sleep!"
"Blood Angelica?"
Liu Xianglian's eyes lit up: "Senior Sister Mengmeng, what is there a good thing, don't just focus on the beasts, junior brother, I also need to make up for it!"
"No!"
Meng Meng tilted her head: "I promised Master, until I help him heal successfully, I will never waste the spirit fruit on others, and neither can you, junior brother!"
Because, in the end, it is very likely that these spirit fruits of mine will have to be taken out and sold!"
Liu Xianglian's face turned dark, and she was disappointed in her heart, Senior Sister Meng Meng was obviously giving herself eye medicine.
"It's not that I don't want to save Master, it's just that we really don't have a place to get so much gold right now!
When I think of a way, I will definitely save Master and Uncle!"
"I know, I know!
It's just that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, junior brother, do you know me------!
"Senior Sister Mengmeng, will you come with me to Xining Mansion in a while?"
"Why don't you take me there?"
Meng Meng didn't understand what she meant, she didn't go all the way with her junior brother, and now she is almost at her destination, and she doesn't know which one her junior brother is singing.
"Senior Sister Mengmeng, General Li Fei, the guard of the Silver Dragon Guard, is in Xining Mansion, he is kind to me, and I don't want to conflict with him.
I'm afraid he'll find out your true face, senior sister."
"Is that General Li Fei who was in Jinling City at the beginning?"
Obviously, Meng Meng also has an impression of Li Fei, the silver gun and silver horse gun are like a dragon, this is a real powerhouse!
"Not bad!
You know, I'm also in the bureaucracy now, and I'm focusing on inquiring about some people, and I happen to know that General Li Fei is now guarding Xining Mansion!"
"Okay, I'll listen to you!"
Everyone rested for three or four hours, and after a while of squinting after being full of wine and food, their spirits were just right!
Liu Xianglian called Lao Tian.
"Lao Tian, it's not appropriate for us to go to Xining Mansion together, I'm afraid we will be misunderstood.
You pick a dozen brothers to go into the city with me to purchase, and the rest of the brothers will work hard, and for the time being, we will set up camp here, and we have purchased enough supplies, so it will not be too late for us to set off again."
Tian Qi nodded yes, and soon picked out more than a dozen sturdy men and went to Xining Mansion with Liu Xianglian!
There are two riders and three riders!
There were only five horses in all, and a total of thirteen people were carried.
Seeing the city wall of Xining Mansion from afar, Liu Xianglian almost thought that she had come to a shantytown, with a stretching fence......
"What are you doing!?"
The equipment is poor, but the quality of the soldiers is very good!
In the distance, a group of shirtless knights with bows soared and hurriedly rode horses to stop the crowd.
Looking at the momentum of this slaughter, it is definitely not those young master soldiers in the capital, but they have never seen blood killing people in training!
"Quick, dismount!"
Liu Xianglian hurriedly beckoned Tian Qi and his men to dismount, they were here to purchase supplies, not to find excitement!
Liu Xianglian turned over and dismounted, waiting for the team of knights to approach.
"Calling for the ...... of Law"
The knight's face was red, but his skin was dark, his body was covered with well-proportioned muscles, and his lines were beautiful and hard, which made people feel powerful at first sight.
"Who are you?"
The man just glanced at everyone, and then turned his gaze at Liu Xianglian: "What's the matter with coming to this Xining Mansion!?"
"Under the surname Liu, he was a merchant who walked the Great Zhou, and he went to this Xining Mansion to buy some furs and spirits to be shipped to Jiangnan."
The leading sergeant glanced at Liu Xianglian with a strange expression: "I heard that the Holy Lord has sent troops to punish the illegal salt dealers in Jiangnan, I don't know if you know?"
"Has it already begun?"
Liu Xianglian's expression darkened.
"It turned out to be a smuggler from Jiangnan! Take it!"
The spear in the sergeant's hand stabbed out fiercely, Liu Xianglian dodged sideways, and stabbed a spear on a war horse, making a rag sound, and then the spear in the sergeant's hand spun and pulled out!
His own war horse neighed, blood gushed like a spring, and after a few kicks on his legs, he died.
Liu Xianglian's eyes were cold, her body turned, she flew in front of the sergeant, and held the spear!
Both hands exerted force, and before the sergeant could react, he was already picked upside down and flew into the sky, and the two sides went up and down, wrestling vigorously: "Why did you suddenly do it to us!"
When the rest of the knights saw that the leader was restrained, they opened their bows and arrows for a while, but they did not dare to act rashly.
The sergeant is also a man, although his strength is not as good as Liu Xianglian, he is also a second-rate master, and his internal force is constantly surging towards Liu Xianglian along the spear!
"You are from the south of the Yangtze River, and you have such a fine war horse, fine skin and tender meat, and you dare to lie to your grandfather that it is a businessman, where in the world is there a businessman like you like a girl!?
I think you're clearly pampered salt dealers!
Come to our Xining Mansion to plot against you!"
"Huh!"
Liu Xianglian sneered: "Just because of arbitrary judgment, so you have to put people to death!?"
"Humph! The first strike is strong, and the last strike suffers!
There is no etiquette on the battlefield, only life and death!"
The sergeant suddenly blew a strange whistle in his mouth, and the rest of the knights quickly began to gallop away, Liu Xianglian was about to subdue the leading sergeant, but saw the man step on the spear, and flew into his own army formation with strength!
"Not good!
Hide!"
In an instant, the horse team of the defenders of Xining Mansion ran away forty or fifty paces, and as soon as their own personnel hid behind the war horses, the group of elite sergeants looked back at their bows and arrows!
......Woooo
Bursts of arrow rain began to be thrown like Liu Xianglian!
Puff puff!
The sound of arrows entering the flesh came from time to time, just a few breaths, except for Liu Xianglian's stepping on the snow, the rest of the war horses were all shot to death!
"Projectile!"
The horse archers, who were obviously elite, ran back a few more steps and began to shoot into the sky!
This kind of shooting method is specially designed to deal with targets hidden behind cover, and the bow and arrow fall high in the air, like a meteor falling to the ground, which not only has amazing penetration, but also has a considerable impact!
"Not good!"
Liu Xianglian shouted, turned over and stepped on the snow, pulled the horse rope, and the snow rose in response, like a big bird jumping high!
Liu Xianglian knew that it was time to take action herself, otherwise these people she brought would probably be devastated!
"A sword of fiction and reality!"
The sergeant was right, on the battlefield, no
Be polite, righteous and shameful, only you live and die!