King Jingbei has a standing army called the Beidi Army, in the early days of the founding of Dafeng to resist the barbarians from all directions, the formation of the Beidi Army, the Xiliang Army, the Zhennan Army three armies.

Although it was formed at the same time, the fate of the three armies was very different, the Xiliang army was wiped out in the battle of Sim Mountain three hundred years ago, the defender Huo Chengsi was killed, and the Xiqiang army drove straight from the governor of Xiang and almost attacked Shuozhou, the land of Yongzhou.

The Zhennan Army also had a bumpy fate, after several turns, although the establishment is still there, it is no longer the Zhennan Army of the year; Among these three armies, only the Northland Army remained, but because of the decentralization of military power in the early years, the military power of the Northland Army is not in the military department, but in the hands of King Jingbei.

The commander of this victorious army is Qi Xi, who is known as the Confucian general of the North, Qi Xi was originally a Confucian disciple, and returned to the north after coming out of Qingzhou, because of his profound knowledge and extraordinary insight, he was entrusted with a heavy task by the young King of Jingbei.

Later, Qi Xi used the facts to prove to the King of Jingbei that he had picked up the treasure when he met Qi Xi, Qi Xi was not only proficient in Confucianism, but also extraordinary in martial arts.

Qi Xi not only stayed, but also stayed until now, although Qi Xi never went into battle to kill the enemy, but he has the military ability to strategize and win thousands of miles away, he used victory after victory to prove to the soldiers of the Northland Army that not only military attaches can lead the army, Confucian can also be.

Qi Xi's most powerful time was to command 5,000 soldiers to go deep into the hinterland of the Northern Barbarians for 800 miles, and cross the Liao River five times, which not only contained the 50,000 Northern Barbarian Army, but also almost wiped out the 150,000 Northern Barbarian Army.

A Confucian general in the north, two border tigers, the northland army with these three people not only made the northern barbarians jealous, but even Gao Zhen was quite concerned about this, fortunately, the king of Jingbei and the king of Anxi were different, and they did not break with Yindu, otherwise Qi Xi would be the next Lin Tianxiao.

In the north, Jingzhou Shanhaiguan.

As the first pass in the north, Shanhaiguan is connected to the north of Beiban Liao'an Lege, and the east is Heiling Mountain, yes, it is the Heiling Mountain where Faxiang Temple is located.

And to the south of him is the endless Saibei Plain, so once the Shanhai Pass is gone, the Northern Barbarian cavalry can drive straight into the Jingzhou Mansion and rush into the Jingzhou Mansion, the wide Saibei Plain is not dangerous to defend at all, and what awaits the people of Jingzhou is the ruthless butcher knife of the Northern Barbarian Cavalry.

In order to choke this choke point, the Beidi Army did not hesitate to set up the marshal camp in Shanhaiguan, and nearly 60,000 Beidi troops were stationed in the entire Shanhai Pass, accounting for more than half of the total number of the Beidi Army.

Shanhaiguan is worthy of being the first pass in the north, the pass is made of blocks of one-meter-long boulders, these granites are cut into one-meter-long stones, piled up into a twenty-meter-high pass city wall.

After more than 500 years of wind and sun, these granites are still strong, but there are some more scratches on them, which makes them much thicker and thicker.

The pass city wall stretches for 100 meters, connects the Heiling Mountain and the Xiongfeng Mountain in the west, the whole pass is like a huge stone lock, the main road that leads to the north and south is locked tightly, on the wall in front of the Shanhaiguan archway, you can also see the traces of a black and a white piece, these black are the explosion marks produced by the collision of true qi, and the white one is the traces of perennial repair.

Among the traces of these repairs, there is a charred yellow wound that is particularly striking, because in this granite there is a Buddha relic that radiates a golden light.

The most famous of the Buddhist exercises is the vajra, the Buddhist vajra is also known as the first martial arts refining technique, ordinary martial artists are to cultivate the true qi, nourish the muscles and veins, and the Buddhist vajra is based on refining the body, the true qi in the flow through the muscles and veins, but also need to nourish their own musculoskeletal.

Over time, the muscles and bones of these Buddhist disciples are much stronger than those of the same realm of martial artists, and those Buddha monks who break through the half-step spirit, after the death or death in battle, the muscles and bones around the body will not be destroyed, they will be handed down in the form of relics, and after the eighteen monks rejected the enemy at Shanhaiguan, there was a monk who blew up the dantian and stopped the Northern Barbarian army.

The powerful power of the True Qi Storm Body directly turned the 20,000 Northern Barbarian army into powder, and the same monk also disappeared with his bones, and when the battle was over, the guards guarding the Shanhaiguan found this finger-long Buddha relic embedded in the city wall on the city wall.

Now this piece of Buddha relics has become the spiritual pillar of the Shanhaiguan soldiers, and the story of the eighteen monks is also passed on from mouth to mouth in Shanhaiguan, although there is no Buddha in the south, but in the north, especially in Jingzhou, the Buddha still has an unshakable position, the key is that there is a northland army behind the Buddha.

Qi Xi, who was over half a hundred years old, sat cross-legged on the soft couch, and the yellowed map in front of him clearly marked the route of the Northern Barbarian attack, and the Pingjiao Pass, which was the focus of the battle, was also circled in red by him.

Qi Xi was dressed in a Confucian robe, with a pure yang turban on his head, his face was serious and vicissitudes, and the whole person gave people a feeling of simplicity and poverty; Behind Qi Xi hung an ancient sword, with an ebony scabbard, wrapped in northern yak skin, and at a glance he knew that it was not ordinary.

Although he is not in Pingjiao Pass, but this Confucian general in the north has been paying attention to the battle in Pingjiaoguan, judging from the information sent by his scouts, the situation in Pingjiao Pass is not optimistic, this time Murong Zhuozhuo led the army to fight, and the Northern Barbarian Army under his command is well-trained, offensive and defensive, and the previous Northern Barbarian Army is obviously different.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Qi Xi said without raising his head, "Come in." ”

An old monk dressed in a red robe, holding a Buddhist bead in his left hand and a Zen staff in his right hand, walked in slowly, stood in front of his chest with his left hand, and said in a deep voice, "General Qi, the prince's reply has arrived." ”

Qi Xi raised his head suddenly, smiled at the old monk, and took the reply letter from the old monk's hand, but after reading it, Qi Xi's face was not so good-looking, he sighed, and slapped it helplessly on the case.

The old monk saw helplessness and unwillingness on the face of this battlefield veteran, and even a trace of pity, "Amitabha, did the prince refuse your proposal......

"Yes, the prince still doesn't agree with the plan to send troops from Shanhaiguan to attack the Northern Barbarian Army, and he also ordered me to transfer 20,000 Beidi troops to Changlin City.

It is not difficult to guess in Gao Lan's mind that the northern barbarians invaded the south, and the emperor drove the expedition in person, and obtained the Dingzhou Pingjiao Pass where he was still in charge of the prince, once this is a little wrong, who can guarantee that Qin Feng's army will not go straight to Lin Cheng.

The tragedy of King Anxi is just around the corner, and for this emperor's brother, King Jingbei has to guard against it.

"General Yan was ordered to rush to Pingjiao Pass and was also ordered by the prince, on the surface, it seems that he was supporting Pingjiao Pass, but why did he arrive with General Qin Feng by coincidence, isn't his purpose to monitor General Qin with power?

With all due respect, if His Majesty really intends to do something to the prince, he will never choose this kind of cannibalism regardless of reputation......" The old monk looked serious, and stopped in the middle of speaking.

Qi Xi also knew it, and muttered, "There is a spirit extinguishing gate by the prince's side, if Zhongfu wants to do it, I'm afraid it won't be so easy." ”

"Amitabha, I hope so." The old monk said while rolling the beads.

Qi Xi rubbed his temples and was silent for a long time.

The old monk looked at the map on Qi Xi's case, and after a long time, he muttered, "General Qi, you are still angry about the battle of Changting back then." ”

Qi Xi turned to look at the old monk, and looked back at the map, between the Changting City in Liao'an Lege, in the north of Shanhaiguan, there was an old red circle, this map was the map that Qi Xi formulated the plan to cross the Liao River twenty years ago.

Twenty years have passed, and Qi Xi has always been unable to forget the battle of that year, which was not only a battle in which he made a name for himself and established his position in the army, but also a battle that he considered the most regrettable in his life.

The Liao River is a big river that originates from the northern snow field and crosses the north and south of the Beiman, winding for thousands of miles, not only bringing thousands of miles of grassland to the Beiban, but also bringing them a natural moat, when the Beiban army went south, attacked Shanhaiguan on three sides, after two months of hard fighting, the Beidi army suffered heavy casualties, and saw that Shanhaiguan was in danger.

At this moment, a 5,000-strong Beidi cavalry suddenly appeared in Liao'an Leg, behind the Beiban, in order to protect the Shanhaiguan, the imperial court sent a well-versed border minister, and the young Jingbei King was personally sitting in Shanhaiguan, vowing to live and die with Shanhaiguan.

Qi Xi knew that Beiman's move was a desperate battle, if they couldn't take the Shanhaiguan, then they would have no way back, so he took 5,000 elite cavalry with the intention of unsuccessfully becoming benevolent from the eastern foot of Heiling Mountain into the territory of Beiman, and within three days, he attacked 800 miles to the Liaohe grassland, burned a large number of Beiman's military rations, and killed more than 3,000 enemies, which was a crossing of the Liaohe River.

Later, the Northern Barbarians sent 30,000 troops to encircle and suppress this cavalry, and it was expected that this Northern Army would go south to relieve the siege of Shanhaiguan, but they did not want Qixi to go the other way, and did not go south, but went north to the Liao River again, and attacked Zizhen City, and the two thousand defenders of Zizhen City fled when they heard the wind, and the army entered the city and burned the granary, which was the second crossing of the Liao River.

After the Northern Barbarian army heard that Zizhen City was destroyed, 30,000 troops crossed the river overnight and attacked Qixi in three ways. Qi Xi calmly responded to the battle, and ran five hundred miles south to cross the Liao River, which was like a broken bamboo, and had the posture of rushing straight to the rear of the Northern Barbarian Army, which was the third crossing of the Liao River.

The commander of the Northern Barbarians was forced to move the camp west, and at the same time sent another 20,000 troops to the north, at this time Qi Xi had already commanded the army to turn around and kill the east, so that the 20,000 troops of the Northern Barbarians were in vain.

And at the east ferry, Qi Xi commanded the army to go north again, this is the four crossings of the Liao River, this time Qi Xi detoured to the rear of 30,000 Northern Barbarian Army, taking advantage of the slow movement of the Northern Barbarian Army, surprise attack the rear, burned tens of thousands of catties of military rations, it was a cold winter, there was no military food support, a barren prairie, the Northern Barbarian Army could not last long.

The angry Northern Barbarian army was dizzy by Qi Xi, and he didn't know where Qi Xi was, so he could only circle around the prairie, and at this time, Qi Xi had already crossed the Liao River in the south, and won the Changting City built on the Liao River's natural danger in one fell swoop.

50,000 Northern Barbarian troops were dragged away, the pressure at Shanhaiguan plummeted, and at the same time, Cheng Yuan also killed from Dingzhou with 50,000 troops, and the 150,000 Northern Barbarian troops were trapped in the south of the Liao River, without grain and grass, and the Changting City that crossed the river was stuck.

However, King Jingbei made a decision that no one could have imagined, that is, to withdraw his troops.