In the Xiling Shrine Kasuga Dabiri, an unknown Taoist from the firewood room of the Heavenly Oracle Temple won the first place, and showed an extremely unimaginable realm.

In the distant steppe, a young slave who picks cow dung for a living wins the conference, is released from slavery on the spot by a gold bill, and becomes a glorious warrior.

In this grassland conference, there were two young attendants who were accepted as personal disciples by the national teacher, and the Golden Horde had thirteen profound priests, and the national teacher himself seemed to have become more powerful.

Such a situation occurs in various parts of the world, a middle-aged Taoist in the Taoist Temple of the Song Kingdom, entered the realm of knowing fate by the well, and the same picture also appeared in many Taoist temples.

The simple Taoist temple in the deep mountains of the Xiling Divine Kingdom is still so quiet.

Since the departure of the Guanzhu, Zhishouguanli has been abandoned for several years, and the withered yellow fallen leaves have accumulated on the stone steps, which are very thin and crispy by the wind.

The wild view is open without people.

The formation in the view is still running, no one can enter, only the wind can enter, the breeze blows across the lake, leading the golden white straw under the eaves, and then seeps in through the window, and lingers against the wall, and finally comes to the table in front of the window, and opens the big book like a pair of invisible hands.

Qingfeng was illiterate, and he had to flip through the book, and the big book was turned around, and the snow-white paper kept lifting and falling, and the ink words on it became blurred lines.

The spring breeze is slowing down, and the words are becoming clearer.

This scroll that records the names of the strong people in the cultivation world has many fewer names than a few years ago, such as Liu Bai, who was once written on the highest place, such as Ye Su, such as Chen Pipi, but there are more names, and the new names have never appeared in the past, such as Yokoki Liren.

Haotian is fair, she has made her followers get all kinds of benefits, and she has not forgotten to let some people in Chang'an City get eternal life, but at the same time, she is also unfair, because the Xiling Temple is so cool, and the summer in Chang'an City is still so hot.

In the middle of summer, there was no rain for many days, the streets of Chang'an City were about to smoke under the scorching sun, the well water in the well at the entrance of the alley was clear and slightly cool, but the heat bubbling from the well was intimidating, and the dry world was full of the smell of smoke and fire, as if only a small spark was needed for the city to burn.

The situation in Chang'an City is the same, in the seemingly calm atmosphere, there is endless pressure and irritability, the empire has been fully launched, preparing for the war that may come soon, the officials and scribes in the ministry are running even if they pass the documents, the transfer of grain and grass has entered the most important stage, and the military is even more vigilant, and countless military orders are sent from this city to the states and counties and the front line.

Suzaku Avenue to the north, past Jianshenfang, there is a large forest, behind the forest is a blue meadow, the meadow is scattered with dozens of pavilions with Ming Wa Wu eaves, here is the military headquarters.

The pavilion in the middle is the head of the military department, and several deacons and officers stand under the stone steps outside the building with solemn expressions, all drenched in sweat, but they don't know that it is because of the suffocating heat wave, but the suffocating tension represented by the voices behind them.

"The focus of the battle situation must be that if we can get out of Qingxia within half a month and open up Qinghe County, there is hope to help Sword Pavilion stabilize the Southern Jin Dynasty. ”

The person who spoke was Shu Cheng, who had been transferred back to Chang'an City a few years ago, responsible for the overall handling of the Tang army's defense, and no longer served as the general of Zhenxi, while General Xu Chi stayed in the camp in the north of the town and was responsible for facing the powerful Golden Horde.

The pavilion was quiet, and several generals and more than a dozen staff officers remained silent, not agreeing with this sentence or raising objections.

Everyone knows that if it can be aligned with the Southern Jin Dynasty, then the Tang Dynasty will inevitably be in an invincible position, but this is something that cannot happen, first of all, the Tang Army is not sure that it will be able to open up Qinghe County within half a month, even if it can, there is no way to rebuild the water division in a short time, how can Daze cross?

The most critical problem is that the Tang Dynasty and the Southern Jin Dynasty have been feuding for many years, and although the Sword Pavilion is now on the opposite side of the Daomen, it is impossible for the Southern Jin Dynasty royal family to the military team to the ordinary people to choose to ally with the Tang Kingdom.

"I thought that the decisive battle was still in the north. ”

A general put forward his own opinion, in the battle of the world's invasion of Tang a few years ago, the greatest threat to the Tang State, the greatest damage, after the war was the Golden Horde, the Golden Horde Court, there is no doubt that those wolf riders on the grassland are the most powerful enemies of the Tang Army, and they are also the enemies that the Tang Army wants to defeat the most.

The Tang army chose the Golden Horde as the opponent of the decisive battle, without any mistakes, but the problem is that because of the cession to the late plains, the Tang army lacked war horses a few years later, and the Zhenbei army alone was far from enough to defeat the Golden Horde, and there was no way to expel the enemy from the Seven Cities.

"When the peace treaty was signed with the Xiling Temple, the academy promised the imperial court that even if Xiang Wanyuan was ceded, there would be no problem, then, I think there should be no problem, General Xu Chi also expressed the same meaning in the letter, what we have to do is to cooperate with the academy. ”

General Shu Cheng's expression looked a little tired, and he said: "The problem is, if we choose to fight the Golden Horde from the beginning, even if we can gather the strength of the whole country to win, what about the rest of the directions?

Qinghe County must be recovered, because if the lords survive in this world for one more day, the Tang Dynasty will endure one more day of humiliation, and the Golden Horde Court must be baptized in blood, because there are countless heroic souls of the Tang army waiting to be redeemed by their comrades, and the Yan Kingdom must be conquered, because that place represents betrayal and intolerable slaughter.

Correspondingly, the Tang Kingdom is full of dangers all around, the temporary silence of the Yuelun Kingdom cannot explain anything, far away in the depths of the Western Wilderness, those barbarians who have never fought against the Tang Army have begun to gather cavalry, or in a few months, they will join the Southern Invasion Army of the Golden Horde Court, similarly, under the rule of Emperor Chongming, with the help of the Xiling Temple, the Yan State is rapidly recovering its vitality, and the Yan State with the help of the Eastern Wilderness cavalry will definitely not be as weak as it was back then, as for the Qinghe County and the Southern Jin Dynasty in the south.

In this world, there are enemies of the Tang State everywhere, then there is no peaceful frontier, and in this world, there are enemies that the Tang State must defeat, so there is no direction of the main attack.

"Last time, I let the disciples of the Sword Pavilion enter the Great River Country for temporary refuge, is there any news back?" Shu Cheng asked.

The current situation is very clear, if the Xiling Temple goes north, it will definitely be impossible for the Southern Jin Dynasty to keep it, in the eyes of the Tang people, the disciples of the Sword Pavilion have helped them, so they have the obligation to protect each other.

At this moment, a military report from the Southern Jin Dynasty came from outside the building.

The Sword Pavilion told the Tang people that they were unwilling to evacuate and were determined to defend Linkang City.

Why the reluctance to evacuate?

Liu Yiqing's reply in the letter was simple: because he didn't want to.