"Will!"

"Will!"

"Will!"

On the Xuanyuan Plain where the western boundary advances eastward.

Ten thousand horses galloped like a tide, and the king's banner was like a burning flame, hunting in the wind.

The drums of war beat.

The 100,000 Zhenxi army lined up neatly in this large plain, like a long dragon, and the soldiers in black armor drew the long knives at their waists in the autumn wind.

With the drum as the trumpet and the order flag as the first, the battle array was laid out in a neat and orderly manner.

50,000 light cavalry followed, three heavy cavalry troops were in front, and 20,000 infantry were interspersed.

The 500,000 Zhenxi Army, the 300,000 that were cut last time, most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and the remaining 200,000 were the elite of the Zhenxi Army, and all of them were middle-aged and middle-aged.

And the 100,000 Zhenxi Army that is now being trained is the elite of the elite, and everyone is a warrior.

This is the iron cavalry of the Chu State that Zhenxi Hou has saved up in his lifetime, and it is also the only army in the world that can hedge head-on with the barbarian elephant soldiers.

The vanguard general Xu Lie, with his arms bare and muscles shaking like a mountain, is now beating drums on the high platform built in the middle of the plain.

The thunderous beat of drums resounded in the army.

On the mountainside on the right side of the plain, Master Gu Jing held an oil-paper umbrella to cover the scorching sun for the white-haired old man in front of him with a golden crown in a python robe, and on the frame next to the old man was a messenger from the Southern Zhou Kingdom.

The old man was the Marquis of Zhenxi, and said with a smile: "Your envoy, how is the spirit of our army?"

"It is rare in the world, it is a heroic army, and it is a pity that Hou Ye has such an army, but he is alone in this remote western realm." The envoy of the Southern Zhou Dynasty sighed.

Zhenxi Hou grinned a few times: "No way, Benhou people are poor and short-lived, it is enough to guard the western boundary for Your Majesty, stop the barbarians from advancing eastward, and guard the peace of Chu State."

"Hou Ye said with a smile, I heard that there is an auspicious world in the Western Realm, and this is the will of heaven for the prince to achieve a great cause." The envoy of the Southern Zhou Dynasty said with a smile.

Zhenxi Hou did not answer, but looked at the Zhenxi army practicing on the plain below, and said lightly: "Such a mighty army can suppress the million-strong army of barbarians, tens of thousands of elephant soldiers, but it can't deter some young people, do you know why?"

"Oh, why?"

"Because the young are like rats who can only steal other people's food, hiding their heads and revealing their tails, they are too able to hide and can't see the light." Zhenxi Hou said in a deep voice.

The Southern Zhou envoy's face changed slightly.

"Your envoy's face is not very good today, could it be that the sun is too sunny......

Zhenxi Hou raised his hand: "Mr. Gu, give your envoy an umbrella."

A trace of cold sweat oozed from the back of the Southern Zhou envoy.

Liuchen, less than 100 miles away from the Xuanyuan Plain, built a pass a hundred years ago, named Zhenxi Pass, and the Tiger Prison Pass in the southwest, are the two major passes of the Chu State.

A hundred years ago, the barbarians were fierce and had been raiding the border of Chu, in order to prevent the barbarians from advancing eastward, Chu built Zhenxi Pass, and deployed heavy troops to garrison.

But now, the enemies faced on the surface are also barbarians, but the real role of Zhenxi Pass is to defend Zhenxihou in the western realm.

Once the Zhenxi Hou rebelled and the Zhenxi Pass was lost, then the army of the Zhenxi Hou was basically a horse and a flat river, until the capital of Nanyang.

Now guarding the town of Xiguan, it is Pang Tong, the imperial master of the dynasty, who was the teacher of the first emperor, with excellent martial arts, and is famous for being able to catch the three moves of the old sword immortal.

At this moment, under the scorching sun, he was standing at the head of Zhenxiguan in armor, and he could faintly hear the sound of drums in the distance.

"Treading the ......"

Suddenly, the deputy general ran quickly to the head of the town of Xiguan, came to Pang Tong's side, and gasped for breath.

But Pang Tong didn't give him time to breathe, and hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

"Back to ...... Returning to Taishi, Zhenxi Hou led the army to drill the army formation in the Xuanyuan Plain, watching the soldiers and horses, I am afraid that there will be no less than 50,000." The lieutenant general said a little breathlessly.

"Drill?" Pang Tong frowned, and looked westward: "Why did the drill run to Xuanyuan Pingyuan to practice?"

Vice-side of it

The general said: "The Xuanyuan Plain is only a hundred miles away from Zhenxi Pass, and the Marquis of Zhenxi is training here, if it is ......."

In recent years, Zhenxihou has raised his own self-respect, and everyone in Zhenxiguan knows it, even His Majesty thousands of miles away knows that now there is something in the west of the world that "the west is the world", which makes the soldiers of Zhenxiguan remind them day and night to lose their courage, for fear that Zhenxihou will call.

"Zhenxi Hou is not a fool, the western realm is very poor, the imperial court has not allocated military funds yet, he dares to keep Chen now, even if he breaks the Zhenxi Pass, he will not be able to beat Nanyang, once the black cavalry army goes south, even if the Zhenxi army is powerful, it will be defeated, the only grandson is also in the capital, and he is crazy to rebel at this time." Pang Tong said that he said so, and the next moment he asked people to strengthen their combat readiness, and the so-called not afraid of 10,000 was afraid of what happened.

What if people really raise their arms and go east.

Nanyang.

County Lord's Mansion.

Chen Mo has already left the house, no, to be precise, he left Beijing and took Liu Xing to save his mother.

Chen Mo was not in the house, Chu Lechan was naturally not interested in glaring at Du Zijin, and took the maid to the house to go shopping.

In the backyard, Du Zijin was wearing a long yellow skirt, extremely dignified and tidy, sitting on the swing, sewing his robe, and watching Du Tian practice not far away.

The maid stood aside, holding a tray, and there were towels and tea on the tray, so that Du Tian could wipe his sweat and drink water when he was resting.

"Xiaomo is also pitiful, his father died in battle since he was a child, his mother remarried, and now he has been kidnapped by thieves, although he hasn't seen him for more than 20 years, but after all, blood is thicker than water......" Du Zijin muttered in his mouth.

It's okay not to say this, but when I mentioned Du Tian's sadness, I stopped practicing and walked in front of the maid, the maid picked up a handkerchief to wipe Du Tian's sweat, Du Tian said: "I'm more pitiful than Chen Mo, okay, my father and mother are gone, and I have a grandfather, but I haven't seen each other for more than ten years......

"Ah, be careful......

At this moment, Du Zijin saw a scene that made her face pale.

When the maid wiped Du Tian's sweat and was covering her vision, a black shadow suddenly appeared on the eaves, holding two daggers, and rushed towards Du Tian with the momentum of thunder, so fast that Du Zijin could only see an afterimage.

"Poof!"

The maid who was drying Du Tian was directly killed by a knife, and after falling to the ground, the dagger in the black shadow's hand slashed towards Du Tian's throat.

Du Tian couldn't dodge, raised his hand to resist, his arm was directly cut out, and then retreated to dodge, screaming around, this is the backyard, men are generally not allowed to enter, only maids.

As soon as Du Tian wanted to mobilize his true qi to fight back, he found that the true qi in his body was running slowly.

"Poisonous ...... on the knife," Du Tian's face changed.

"Oh my God." Du Zijin's face turned pale with fright, like a mother's child, and he pounced on the assassin after getting off the swing.

"Sister-in-law, don't come here."

The words just blurted out.

"Boom!"

The cold light suddenly appeared, and the blade in the assassin's hand had already pierced Du Tian's chest.