The main city of Yunzhou is located in the plain area and there is no danger to defend, but Yunzhou City is different from other cities, it has a total of five city walls, forming an almost regular pentagon shape. There was a bastion on each corner, and when the enemy attacked, it was inevitable that they would be attacked on their backs, and a trench was dug five meters deep outside the walls.

These Yunzhou cities alone are enough to be called a fortified city, but its horrors are far more than that. A few miles outside of Yunzhou is the castle of his ally Highlanders, who are stationed in the castle with a standing army ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 all year round, and whenever there is a war in Yunzhou, the Highlanders will send troops to help their allies as soon as possible.

Moreover, the castles of the highlanders are all over the surrounding mountains, among which the main city of the king of the highlands, Thanadin, is also located on the sacred land of the ancestors of the snowy plateau, which is not only the holy land of the highlanders, but also the western people of Daliang also regard it as a holy place.

In mythology, their ancestors lived there with the great twin gods of the snowy regions, and as the elder brother of the twin gods, Yata was full of kindness to all creatures in the snowy regions, while the white wolf god Nagam was less popular than his brother.

The White Wolf Clan is fierce and cunning by nature, and in order to protect other creatures from the White Wolves, Yata drove the White Wolf Clan to the snowy mountains far away from the Holy Land. As the god of the white wolf, Nagam was naturally dissatisfied with this sentence, and even if Yata later handed over the holy land to his brother to appease his anger.

Enraged, Nagam split the mountains of the north that blocked the cold wind, bringing biting cold winds into the Holy Land, and since then the otherwise warm Holy Land has ushered in an endless winter. It was also since that time that a large number of human ancestors reluctantly left the holy land given by God and moved to the Western Regions and the Central Plains.

However, there are also some humans who choose to stay in the snowy plateau, and those people are the ancestors of the highlanders. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed the Highlanders to be taller than ordinary people, and their lush hair and thick fat can give them better warmth.

Food is the most important thing for the highlanders, and although the highlands have their own unique crop varieties, the yields of those crops are so low that the risk of hunting is too high, so they often fall into food shortages.

And the appearance of Yunzhou City has alleviated this problem very well. At the beginning, the highlanders were naturally not so civilized, and what they wanted was not to trade with Yunzhou, but to prepare to grab it directly. Naturally, the people of Yunzhou would not be accustomed to these big men, so they took up arms and fought with the highlanders.

The war between the two sides has lasted for hundreds of years, and generations of highlanders and Yunzhou people have died in the war, and everything is developing in the direction of endless feuds, but the emergence of a common enemy has forced the two enemies to choose to join forces.

The Qin State, the earliest overlord of the Warring States, at the beginning of the troubled times, the Qin State unified the frontier of the Western Regions with the tendency to devour the world, and then went east to occupy most of the Central Plains. At that time, the Qin State could be said to be the only one in the world, and the heroes did not dare to disobey the orders of the King of Qin. The King of Qin, who had gained the supremacy, then turned his attention to Yunzhou City, but a comedic thing happened, and the Qin army accidentally broke into the territory of the highlanders.

When the king of Qin learned the news, he thought that the highlands and Yunzhou had already colluded, and on the surface they pretended to be still hating each other, but in fact they were waiting for the Qin state to enter the trap, and the king of Qin, who thought he had insight into everything, immediately sent 200,000 troops westward to crusade against these two treacherous traitors.

Then the Qin army was not adapted to the water and soil and did not prepare enough winter cotton clothes, and the 200,000 Qin troops were all lost in the two places, and after this battle, the vitality of the Qin state was greatly damaged, and it was not long before it was divided by other vassal states. After that, the prestige of Yunzhou and the highlands spread all over the world, and no one dared to underestimate the strength of the two places, and every regime bordering Yunzhou would try their best to curry favor with this powerful neighbor in exchange for the support of the Mo family.

After Yunzhou and Gaodi fought this battle, they also felt that the two sides should not continue to fight meaninglessly, and it was not good for the two sides to form an alliance? So the two places made an agreement, that is, the highland was responsible for sending troops, and Yunzhou was responsible for contributing money and grain. Every year, the highlands would send 5,000 soldiers to serve in Yunzhou, so that the highlands would have 5,000 fewer mouths to eat every year, and they would also be able to get rich food.

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Lookout Fort.

As a person who yearns for freedom and advocates wildness, Mo Si likes to come to the battlements to enjoy the beautiful scenery outside Yunzhou City, feeling the harsh mountain breeze, his thoughts have already gone to the far distance with the wind, to those places he has never been.

The mist of the morning sun covered all the beautiful scenery, and the entire Yunzhou City seemed to be floating in the sea of clouds at the moment, and when the sun rose, the mist was dispelled by the rising sun, and Yunzhou City would appear clearly in front of his eyes.

But today, what should have been beautiful has been tarnished. When the mist lifted, the newly built shanty towns outside Yunzhou came into his eyes, and as the White Wolf Priest had said, the outbreak of the plague had caused thousands of refugees to abandon their homes and come to Yunzhou from the far south to escape the terrible disease.

The reason why these people chose to come to Yunzhou is because of the strength and solidity of Yunzhou City, they believe that the tall Yunzhou City can resist the spread of the plague, and they believe that the temple in the city will protect them poor people.

But the first thing that the tall Yunzhou City stopped was not the disease, but the refugees themselves. It was hope that would lead them here, but Murwin ruthlessly extinguished that hope. Looking at the people who were kneeling on the ground and pleading, and thinking of his father's cruel decree, Mo Si felt extremely guilty and ashamed.

There is enough space in Yunzhou to accommodate these refugees, and the food problem can be solved through reasonable distribution, but once the lives are lost, there will be no return.

Even from the lookout, the misery and suffering of the shanty town is palpable. Once the heavy snow falls, these people will die in pain of hunger and cold, and the corpses will be strewn all over the outside of Yunzhou City, and the initiator of all this is his own city lord father.

Moth had made up his mind, he was going to do what he had to do. He turned and called his guard to him. Nominally, the Western knight named Francis was Morth's guardian, but in reality Francis rarely stopped by Merce's reckless decisions.

"Bring my horse, and I'm going out of town for a ride."

"Young Master, are you going to Wild Dog City?"

"What do you say? They are people! Moth yelled at the knight.

Francis didn't feel guilty about Moth's anger, and continued, "Because those guys are scurrying around like wild dogs all day long, and all the soldiers call them wild dogs. ”

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so angry." Moth calmed down and said apologetically, "Francis, they're suffering enough, we should help them." ”

"Yes, but you shouldn't be in that kind of place anyway."

Mo Si knew that this Western knight of mine was a stubborn temper, otherwise he would not get along so well with him, so his tone softened a lot and continued, "These people are here to ask for help, as a nobleman, I can't watch the cold winter take their lives, if I ignore these people, it will not be in line with my identity." ”

Francis hesitated and said, "Your father will be upset." ”

"I'll fix it over there. Knight Francis, can you bring the horse here for me now? ”

"Yes, my master."