Knowing that he would die, although tens of millions of people went to him, this is a brave move.

This is the situation that the night does not return, but all the night cavalry does not hesitate in the slightest.

The war horses had already exerted their maximum speed under their urging.

In the face of enemies several times or even dozens of times their own, they still move forward.

Although this is Huangquan Road, Wangxiang is especially worried about the country.

In the last moments of their lives, they still kept wielding the gourd hammer in their hands, even if they were knocked off the horse by the opponent's bones, they still had to swing the gourd hammer to break the legs of the opponent's war horse.

Until the opponent's war horse crushed their heads, the gourd hammer in their hands still never let go.

The entire front began to shrink as the number of soldiers who did not return at night continued to decrease.

The inverted triangle formation that did not return at night began to slowly disappear like hot ice and snow, until it was completely wiped out by the cavalry of the steppe tribe.

When the last soldier of the night did not return smashed over a steppe heavy cavalry, he himself was hit in the chest by the opponent's bones and fell off his horse.

He lay on the meadow full of corpses, his internal organs had been smashed at the moment before, and the blood was constantly pouring out of his mouth.

But at this moment his consciousness was still awake, and he saw that he was surrounded by cavalry from the steppe.

They rode on their horses and looked at themselves condescendingly, there was not the slightest pity in their eyes, only indifference on their faces.

Through the gaps of these people, the last cavalryman who never returned looked at the clear blue sky and the clouds that kept drifting through the sky, and his heart was unprecedentedly calm.

At this moment, he has no fear before death, no hatred before he was killed, only peace in his heart.

Soon the blood gushing from his throat began to clog his throat, his breathing began to become difficult, and he began to gasp violently.

No matter how hard he tried, the feeling of suffocation still lingered, and his face began to turn purple.

His vision began to slowly blur at this time, and the originally clear world was getting farther and farther away from him.

Just as he was about to fall into complete darkness, he saw the cavalry surrounding him suddenly retreat, and several figures appeared in front of him.

The clothes of these people were different from those of the soldiers of the steppe, and the colors of their clothes could be discerned from the blurred vision.

And they all wore headdresses of various colors on their heads.

He knew that these people should be their targets this time, but unfortunately now he was powerless to kill them.

The young shaman looked indifferently at the last cavalryman who did not return from the night, and swallowed his last breath with regret.

"We've finished the aperitifs, and it's time for a big meal."

The young shaman turned to the leaders of the tribes.

Immediately, the leaders of the various tribes knelt down on one knee and shouted with their hands to the sky: "For the glory of the wolf king god!" ”

And thousands of steppe cavalry also repeated loudly to the sky with their hands.

"For the glory of the wolf king god."

The sound was like a thunderclap on the flat ground, resounding throughout the grassland.

Felt tents began to be dismantled in the strongholds of the steppe tribes, and their large army marched towards the Great Wall in the south.

The seventh day of the tenth month of the seventh year of Emperor Shengheng

After a delay of more than a month, the grassland tribe finally launched a campaign against the Dayu Dynasty.

When Hongling hurriedly used the fastest speed to spread the news to the imperial city, the war in the border area had already started for more than two days.

The civil and military officials still have a normal attitude towards the raiding of the grasslands this year.

In their opinion, the grassland tribes invaded the Dayu Dynasty every year, and they were nothing more than looting some goods and people, and afterwards they would obediently retreat to the grassland.

Although it has been postponed for more than a month this year, it is thought that it is also because there may be some problems within the grassland tribe.

Therefore, above the court, there is still no sense of urgency above the court.

Emperor Shengheng was sitting on the dragon chair at this time, with his eyes closed, listening to the ministers below.

Although Emperor Shengheng was closing his eyes at this time, the ministers below only dared to lower their heads and report loudly about the recent major events in the DPRK and China, and they did not dare to raise their heads to face Long Yan at all.

To say that the appearance of this Shengheng Emperor is also heroic and extraordinary, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a square face of the dragon face, and he is not angry and arrogant.

In addition to his outstanding appearance, Emperor Shengheng's momentum is also extremely powerful.

He usually has an aura of not being angry and arrogant even if he doesn't make the slightest move, which also makes the ministers and eunuchs dare not make too many mistakes.

Although he did not have the decisiveness of Emperor Shengwu, he was still able to suppress the eunuchs and civil ministers and deter the feudal towns.

But as he grew older, his power grew, and eventually he inevitably followed the old path of his father, Emperor Shengcheng, and took Jindan in order to seek immortality.

Emperor Shengheng, who was originally a vassal king, was the uncle of the first three emperors, and he had no chance to ascend to the throne.

However, his elder brother Emperor Shengyin and his three nephews Emperor Shengjing, Emperor Shengshu, and Emperor Shengwu all died young for various reasons.

He eventually ascended to the throne with the support of the courtiers and eunuchs.

At the beginning, although Emperor Shengheng was majestic and solemn, he was kind and tolerant to others.

But in recent years, after he started taking pills, his temper became hot, and his personality began to become cruel and murderous.

It is said that once because a palace maid walked too loudly, he couldn't meditate on the Tao, so he directly broke the palace maid's legs and threw them out of the palace.

And for the eunuchs and civil servants, he often beat and scolded at every turn, and his moodiness makes it impossible to speculate.

"Your Majesty, the tax payment of this year's autumn grain is less than forty percent of previous years, and the treasury is really empty now, and it is no longer possible to spare money and grain to build the Yuan Yi Palace."

Hubu Shangshu Wen Yulin stepped forward to report with a guard plate in his hand.

"Less than forty percent? It seems that officials everywhere are afraid that they will give bad reviews this year's performance appraisals, Wu Aiqing, what do you think! ”

Emperor Shengheng didn't raise his eyelids and said leisurely.

Wu Siyuan, the secretary of the ministry, immediately stepped forward, cold sweat was dripping on his forehead, as the secretary of the ministry, it stands to reason that collecting taxes and grain is a matter for the household department, but now Emperor Shengheng pointed the finger at their officials.

This shows that Emperor Shengheng has become dissatisfied with the officials below.

"Your Majesty, please let the old minister be detailed, in recent years, my Dayu Dynasty has been in drought for many years, the people are poor and the people are not able to make a living, and the officials below have no choice, this is the fault of heaven and inhuman sin!"

Wu Siyuan, the secretary of the ministry, immediately said.

"Oh, is it? What a heavenly sin! I am the Son of Heaven, do you mean that this successive years of drought is my fault? ”

Emperor Shengheng suddenly opened his eyes, staring sharply at the Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials.

Wu Siyuan, the secretary of the ministry, immediately knelt down and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty is angry, and the minister has no such intention. ”

The official book is the head of the six departments, known as the heavenly official, this Wu Siyuan as the official book has not been very popular with Emperor Shengheng.

After all, no emperor would like someone who takes away the rights.

And this Wu Siyuan is an old man of the Five Dynasties, he has been in a high position in the court since the time of Emperor Shengyin.

Now he is the head of the civil ministers, and he can be regarded as a highly respected person.

"You keep saying that this successive years of drought is God's fault, but now I want to build a Yuan Yi Palace to communicate with God and pray that God will bless me, but you are delaying."

Emperor Shengheng's tone was still very flat, as if there were no mood swings.

But the ministers below all became nervous, and they knew that this majesty was moody.

Two years ago, Emperor Shengheng proposed to build a Yuanyi Palace, and at that time, considering the emptiness of the treasury, the six scholars wrote to express their opposition.

However, Emperor Shengheng had a tough attitude, and he insisted on building the Yuan First Palace.

In desperation, Wen Yulin, the head of the household department, could only propose a method of allocating a certain amount of property every year and spending several years and time periods to build.

Although Emperor Shengheng was very unhappy, he had no choice but to agree.

But it was precisely because Wu Siyuan was the first to oppose the construction of the Yuan First Palace, so Emperor Shengheng hated him even more.

It is really strange to ask why Emperor Shengheng wanted to build this Yuan Yi Palace.

It is said that Emperor Shengheng wanted to build the Yuan First Palace entirely because of a dream of his father, Emperor Shengcheng.

It is said that during the reign of Emperor Shengcheng, he also practiced Taoism and loved to take pills.

And one day, Emperor Shengcheng had a dream at night that a Taoist dressed in purple and wearing a jade lotus crown came to him and told him that he was the Heavenly Immortal Yuanyi Immortal.

He went down to earth this time to go through the mortal tribulation, and he saw that the heart of Emperor Shengcheng was firm, so he was willing to entrust his life to his family to marry him, and when he returned to the immortal world after the tribulation, he would definitely go with him.

Then the man disappeared, and when Emperor Shengcheng woke up, someone from the palace came to report that one of his concubines had given birth to a son.

So, Emperor Shengcheng was overjoyed and reincarnated the child as an immortal, and named him Mu Yuanyi.

When Emperor Shengheng grew up, he was obviously influenced by his father to love Taoist culture.

Originally, according to Emperor Shengcheng's favor, Emperor Shengheng should have been made the crown prince, but Emperor Shengcheng considered that after becoming the crown prince, he would seriously affect Emperor Shengheng's cultivation, so he passed the crown prince position to his eldest son, Emperor Shengyin.

It's just that in the end, Emperor Shengheng still ascended to the throne by chance.

However, Emperor Shengheng was also convinced that he was the reincarnation of an immortal, so he insisted on building this Yuan Yi Palace.

In this way, he may be able to communicate with the heavens, so that he can find a way to ascend.

"Your Majesty, now that there has been a drought in the southeast of Dayu for four consecutive years, the people have reached the point where they can eat their children, and there is indeed no money and grain to pay taxes and grain."

The imperial envoy Yue Gangfeng came out of class and said loudly.

Emperor Shengheng watched Yue Gangfeng come out of class to speak, and couldn't help frowning.

If you want to say that among the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, Wu Siyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, can only rank second at most, and this Imperial History Doctor Yue Gangfeng is ranked first without any suspense.

Usually, although Wu Siyuan is a little old-fashioned in his speech and behavior, his attitude is not too intense.

But this Yue Gangfeng is completely like a stunned young man, he usually says whatever he wants, without any cover, and he doesn't give Emperor Shengheng any face.

Even this guy has asked Emperor Shengheng to issue an edict several times to ensure that he will no longer indulge in monasticism.

This made Emperor Shengheng really unable to get off the stage.

But the other party is the imperial envoy of the Imperial Observatory, so although Emperor Shengheng is annoyed, there is nothing he can do about him.

"And now that the border is going to war again, the front line still wants a lot of supplies, so please stop building the Yuan Yi Palace."

Yue Gangfeng immediately added.

Emperor Shengheng's face immediately turned bad after hearing his words.

"That being the case, this matter is postponed for the time being, is there anything else Aiqing has to do?"

Emperor Shengheng saw that this Yue Gangfeng still wanted to entangle himself in the matter of building the Yuan First Palace, so he immediately changed the topic.

"Your Majesty, the Northern Division has just received the battle report from the front, and the grassland tribe with an army of 150,000 has officially launched a battle at the border two days ago."

A shrill voice rang out in the court.

At this time, in the center of the main hall stood a man with a white face and a beard and a strong body.

Although this man was wearing a purple robe and civil official clothes, he looked like a military general.

If Li Yi was here at this time, he would definitely be able to find that this person's facial features were six or seven percent similar to his dead Qiao Fugong.

At this time, it was Qiao Fuguang, the supervisor of the North Division.

Although this Qiao Fuguang is a eunuch, because he is a normal year of dealing with the army in the north eunuch, he is also contaminated with a little military temperament.

Compared to other eunuchs, he is more like a man than ordinary men, except that his voice is more sharp and his face is white and beardless.

"Oh, they mobilized 150,000 people this year? I remember that in previous years they would not have exceeded 100,000. ”

Emperor Shengheng was a little surprised by the actions of the grassland tribe this year.

"Yes, not only that, in previous years, the grassland tribes generally only chose to attack one pass, and after attacking the Great Wall, they would disperse and plunder everywhere, but this year they chose three passes to attack in one go. It seems that they have changed their commander-in-chief this year. ”

Beisi still knows a lot about the grassland tribes.

They set up a special department to listen to the news of the steppe tribes and analyze and record them.

And the leaders of the steppe tribes every year pay close attention to them, so they have a detailed record of the behavior style and combat preferences of the leaders of each steppe tribe.

And this year's tactic has never been used by the grassland tribe before, so Qiao Fuguang guessed that the grassland tribe has changed commanders this time.

"It doesn't matter if the commander is changed, as long as our border defenders can resist for a while longer, and when reinforcements from all over the country arrive at the border area, they will inevitably retreat in a hurry."

Emperor Shengheng waved his hand disapprovingly, in fact, his attitude towards the grassland tribe was far less tough than that of his nephew, Emperor Shengwu.

Compared with sending a large army to sweep the grassland, Emperor Shengheng preferred to defend.

He believed that it was the most time-saving and labor-saving way to wait for work, delay the grassland tribes with the defenders of the border fortress, and then dispatch various local troops to rush to the aid of the border fortress.