The land of the west, the town of Xiguan.

Northwest folk are popular limerick poems.

Thousands of miles of yellow sand and bones, a wall on the outer wall of Zhenxiguan.

It is said that the dangerous terrain of Zhenxiguan is like a high wall erected in the northwest courtyard where yellow sand is flying and dry bones are everywhere, guarding the peace of the people in the west for a long time.

This also confirms the long history of the western land.

It can be said that since the disintegration of the Tiandu clan and the civil strife of the Eight Kingdoms, Zhenxiguan is the patron saint of the people in the western part of the Great Zhou.

After the rise of the Qin army, Zhenxi Pass has always been a Xiongguan that the Qin army cannot cross.

It makes the people living in the western land feel very safe.

But in the past few years, Zhenxiguan has almost lost twice.

This also made the people of the entire western land worried.

Zhenxiguan has a heavy weight in the hearts of the people of the entire Northwest, and has always been regarded as a guardian saint by them.

Now even Zhenxiguan has almost fallen.

The people did not know what else could be done to keep them safe.

Li Yueming followed the nearest route from the north to the west, and when he passed through, he also met many people from the western land.

Dismounted to inquire, I found that they were all teams that spontaneously organized to go to Zhenxiguan to transport grain.

Some of the people pulled donkey carts, and some simply carried heavy wheat, sweet potatoes, corn and other grains to Zhenxiguan thousands of miles away, just to let the troops in Zhenxiguan eat a full meal.

Among them, a lot of grain is old grain from last year, which is the household foundation that the people hide to resist various natural disasters.

Rao is Li Yueming was prepared for this, but when he saw it with his own eyes, he still felt that he couldn't bear to look at it directly.

You must know that the Northwest is not a rich Central Plains.

The grain production here is extremely low, and it is not easy for the people to make a living here, and in addition to the chaos in recent years, every family has tightened their belts, and life is quite difficult.

But in this case, they sent all their family's grain to Zhenxiguan without any compulsion.

This shows how much they trust Zhenxi Pass and the Zhenxi Army.

In fact, Li Yueming wanted to remind them that once the Qin army really launched a total of recklessness, it would not be able to resist its million-strong army with just one Zhenxi Pass.

But it's just a thought, and he really asks him to say it, he can't open his mouth, and he doesn't know how to open it.

Let's not say that this hasn't happened yet.

Even if it really happened.

What about a group of helpless civilians?

There are no eggs under the nest, and the first to be unlucky when disaster strikes is often the poor man.

Sighing, Li Yueming shook his head.

Urging the spirit horse to rise directly into the air, and his head did not look back.

……

About five days later, Li Yueming came to Zhenxi Pass.

As the first pass in the northwest of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the majesty of Zhenxi Pass is unimaginable to normal people.

From a distance, the entire city wall of Zhenxiguan seems to be completely made of steel, the black and gray wall rises from the ground, and the city wall hundreds of meters high and dozens of meters thick is built on the narrow and dangerous place.

On the left and right sides of the city wall are majestic cliffs thousands of feet high, and the cliffs are so steep that they seem to be cut and cast by a knife and axe.

Such a rare scene in the world was formed after a remnant of a vein in the Extremely Cold Snow Mountain was broken.

The mountain range of the Extremely Cold Snow Mountain spans thousands of miles, extending from the southwest to the northeast, the dragon tail is here in Zhenxi Pass, and the extremely cold Snow Mountain at the 100,000 mountains is the dragon's head, the whole dragon vein is completed in one go, only there is a break here in Zhenxi Pass.

According to ancient legends, this gap was taken by the heavenly capital

What the clan emperor cut with a sword, it was this sword that completely cut off the last breath of the Zerg master.

Therefore, Zhenxi Pass was also known as Renhuang Pass a long time ago to commemorate the great achievements of the Renhuang Tiandu clan.

All in all, the steep cliffs made Zhenxiguan a majestic and dangerous terrain, and also isolated the possibility of a large-scale enemy attack from other directions.

The moment Li Yueming saw this majestic checkpoint, he suddenly understood why the Zhenxi Army was able to resist the Qin Army's nearly one million tiger army with more than 300,000 troops.

This kind of natural danger is really a nightmare for any enemy army who wants to attack the city.

After approaching Zhenxi Pass, Li Yueming soon saw the soldiers of the Zhenxi Army standing guard, the other party was wearing a beautifully made but some years old armor, and his face was full of murderous aura.

Even if they were far away, Li Yueming could feel the evil aura on the other party's body.

Just a cursory glance, even Li Yueming could conclude that the other party was definitely a veteran of a hundred battles crawling out of the pile of dead people.

The Star and Moon Army is already elite enough.

But in front of the Zhenxi Army, which has been fighting with the Qin army all year round, it still seems that the spirit of slaughter is insufficient.

At the same time, several soldiers at the city gate also saw Li Yueming riding a tall horse at a glance.

After signaling him to dismount from afar.

Several soldiers with weapons came over with wary faces and asked, "Who are you, and what is the matter with coming to Zhenxiguan?"

Li Yueming took out the road guide from his pocket.

He couldn't get this thing himself, after all, he didn't have the permission of the imperial court, and he ran out in private.

But he has a good master!

As the nominal supreme commander of the Northland, You Aotian had no problem getting a guide for Li Yueming.

After seeing Lu Yin and Lu Yin's virtual identity, the eyebrows of the soldiers standing guard in Zhenxi Army stretched slightly: "It turned out to be the brother of the Zhenbei Army, why are you here to do so?" Is there any specific instrument?"

Li Yueming had already prepared his speech in advance: "General You asked me to see how the friendly forces are, if necessary, our Zhenbei Army might be able to help!"

The Zhenbei Army and the Zhenxi Army both belonged to the border armies of the two places in the northwest.

Although officially, there is not much in common with each other.

But there is always some friendship in private.

It is also common for the two armies to communicate with each other.

Therefore, the soldiers at the door quickly accepted Li Yueming's excuse.

Since it was a private visit, it was normal to have no specific documents.

After confirming that Li Yueming was not a person with ulterior motives, several soldiers of the Zhenxi Army obviously relaxed a lot: "Please wait a little longer, the brothers who bother the Zhenbei Army will wait, this matter must be reported first, and the above can only release the person after nodding his head!"

In this regard, Li Yueming has nothing to do.

The purpose of his coming here is to make a cheap dad, and it is naturally impossible to easily reveal his true identity before he finds out the specific situation of the Zhenxi Army.

The sergeant standing guard left one person, and he should have reported the situation to the higher-ups.

Another soldier helped Li Yueming tie the spirit horse to a temporary stable set up under the city wall.

It was also at this time that Li Yueming noticed that the people who were delivering grain at the side gate not far from Zhenxi Pass had lined up, so the Zhenxi Army even specially posted a notice on the city wall, so that the people did not have to send grain, and kept the grain for their own winter.

But it still can't stop the enthusiasm of the people.

The food delivery team was overwhelmed for days.

The Zhenxi Army is helpless about this, people have traveled thousands of miles to carry the grain, and it is impossible for them to let the family carry it back!

Therefore, they can only send people to collect the grain of these people.

In order to repay the enthusiasm of the people, the Zhenxi Army also sent soldiers to cook porridge for the people who delivered food 24 hours a day at the gate of the city to ensure that they would return after delivering food

Wait for a bite to eat.

Li Yueming stared at the people coming and going, and did not say a word.

About ten minutes later, the sergeant informed him that the high-level of the Zhenxi Army had allowed him to operate in Zhenxi Pass.

It's just that the range of his activities is limited to the city.

The high passes do not allow all unrelated people to approach.

Passing through the thick city wall dozens of meters wide, Li Yueming entered the west of the town.

Because Li Yueming's reason for entering the city was to see if there was a place in Zhenxi Pass where he could communicate with each other, there was a quartermaster of the Zhenxi Army who followed him.

It's just that this is not something worth mentioning for Li Yueming.

After all, the more difficult part of the plan is to enter the Zhenxi Pass, as long as you enter the Zhenxi Pass, with Li Yueming's personal strength, as long as you don't die by yourself, there will basically be no safety problems.

A mere quartermaster naturally can't restrain him.

Soon, in a moment, Li Yueming disappeared under the eyes of the quartermaster.

The quartermaster thought he was dazzled.

I finally came back to my senses, and my first reaction was that something was wrong.

Hurriedly trotted all the way to report.

But in the next few days, even if the soldiers in the city turned over Zhenxi Pass, they didn't find the slightest trace of Li Yueming.

In recent years, it is not uncommon for cultivators to act as spies to go deep behind enemy lines to gather intelligence.

With mental arithmetic or unintentional, most of the time the party being investigated is unable to guard against it.

If the invading cultivators were strong enough, ordinary armies would not be able to find out even if they knew that there was an invasion.

Therefore, in order to cope with this scene, the elite military branches of various countries have their own set of counter-espionage programs.

The Zhenxi Army naturally also has it.

As long as the soldiers completed their tasks normally, even powerful cultivators could only get some of the most cursory information.

The information that really matters is hidden.

After looking for a circle to no avail, the Zhenxi army could only give up.

About half a month later, another war broke out between the Zhenxi army and the Qin army.

In this battle, Li Yueming hid on the edge of the battlefield and witnessed everything throughout the whole process, and he even saw his cheap father patrolling the entire battlefield on the city wall.

The combat effectiveness of the Zhenxi Army is really quite strong!

With its excellent military strength, the Zhenxi army fought for three days and three nights in a row against the attack of hundreds of thousands of Qin troops, and forcibly pressed back the hundreds of thousands of Qin troops besieging the city.

If it was in the same situation, the Qin army might not be able to defeat the Zhenxi army.

You must know that among the twelve armies of the Qin army with military souls, all the men and horses of the entire five legions are displayed in Zhenxi Pass, in addition to ordinary soldiers, the Qin army has 500,000 troops with military souls in Zhenxi Pass!!

This is still because there is a Tang Dynasty in the south, and the Qin army cannot be dispatched.

On the side of the Great Zhou, there are 300,000 troops in Zhenxi Pass, of which only 150,000 are the Zhenxi Army with military souls, and the remaining 150,000 are mixed ordinary troops.

In this case, even if it occupies the natural danger, it is not easy to compete with the Qin army.

After the battle, Li Yueming still didn't say anything.

He roughly estimated the combat effectiveness of the Qin army and the Zhenxi army, and then tested the situation of Zhenxi Pass through infinite deduction, and finally came to the conclusion that if the Qin army really attacked desperately, then Zhenxi Pass would definitely be more than lucky.

After determining this.

He didn't waste any time.

Sneaked straight into the outskirts of the Zhenxi Army camp in the dark and windy wilderness for a month.

After waiting patiently for a long time, he stopped Li Nanfeng, who was preparing to inspect the city wall in the middle of the night.

Looking at the young man who suddenly appeared in front of him, Li Nanfeng subconsciously pulled out the sword on his waist, but after taking a closer look at Li Yueming's appearance, the whole person was stunned, pursed his lips for a long time and didn't know what to say.

Li Yueming glanced at it

circle, compared to a silent gesture, and immediately took Li Nanfeng to the camp not far away.

After making sure that there was no one left and right, Li Yueming said, "Dad, come with me!"

Li Nanfeng's head hasn't turned around yet.

Hearing Li Yueming's words, he subconsciously rubbed his eyes, and finally came back to his senses to make sure that it was not an illusion, and then said in a trembling voice, "Son, is it you?"

Li Yueming nodded.

Father and son haven't seen each other for more than a decade.

Since Li Yueming left home, it didn't take long for Li Nanfeng to return to the army.

Li Ruxing and Li Ruyue's two sisters are in the Cultivator Academy.

After ten days and half a month, they can still meet each other several times.

But Li Nanfeng has been stationed in Zhenxiguan, afraid of the imperial court and Zhou Tianzi, and does not dare to come back even if it is a New Year's holiday.

Both father and son were in contact by letter.

Now that he suddenly saw his face, Li Nanfeng didn't even recognize Li Yueming at the first time.

The son grew taller.

The people are also very handsome.

Meiyu vaguely still has the appearance of his youth.

After confirming that the young man in front of him was really his son, Li Nanfeng's voice couldn't help but tremble even more, and he trembled, "Why are you here? There are Qin troops everywhere outside Zhenxi Pass, it's very dangerous!"

Li Yueming smiled when he heard this: "Dad, I have grown up a long time ago, and now my strength is not necessarily weaker than yours, don't underestimate people!"

Li Nanfeng was stunned, and subconsciously wanted to laugh.

However, I remembered that I was still in the barracks at this time, and it was not appropriate to make a big announcement.

I could only scratch my head in embarrassment and said, "Don't talk about this, it's inconvenient here, wait for Dad to deal with the affairs in the army, and invite you to drink after freeing your hands!"

Li Yueming nodded.

Men communicate more with each other, and alcohol will appear more relaxed.

Besides, I haven't seen him for more than ten years, and Li Yueming also wants to sit down and have a good chat with his cheap father.

After making an appointment for a time and place, Li Nanfeng returned to the army.

As a high-ranking general of the Zhenxi Army, Li Nanfeng's daily itinerary is regular, and his sudden disappearance may cause turmoil in the entire army.

If you want to leave the defensive line, you have to explain it to the people under you.

It was less than an hour.

Li Nanfeng appeared in front of Li Yueming with several jars of wine and some appetizers.

It was also at this time that Li Yueming discovered that compared with more than ten years ago, there were several more hideous scars on his father's body, and I don't know if it was because of time or injury, and the originally straight back was also a little awkward.

Li Yueming's mood was extremely complicated, and he was even more glad that he came in time, otherwise if it dragged on for a few more years, it would be a question of whether Li Nanfeng's body could still bear it.