I ate two bites of fatty and sweet sauced beef, drank two sips of burnt knives that had been aged for ten years, and washed off my dirty smiling face with clean water.

Shen Jin'an, whose complexion began to be ruddy, still has the sloppy and dirty appearance he had not long ago.

"Zhao Ponu, where are we now?" Shen Jin'an asked, pointing to the hills in the distance with a horsewhip.

"Back to His Royal Highness, we have arrived at the border of Northern Xinjiang, according to General Hehuo's predetermined plan, we will almost arrive more than fifty miles further." Zhao Ponu pointed to a hillside not far away and said.

"According to the informant, 20,000 people entered the northern Xinjiang this time, and we used a total of 10,000 people on this expedition, and Brother Huo sent your two battalions of men and horses, what if you encounter a large force of enemies?"

Facing Shen Jin'an's question, Zhao Ponu said confidently: "Your Royal Highness the Prince of the World doesn't have to worry, General Huo also brought the Modao battalion and the trapping camp with him on this expedition. ”

Hearing the Modao camp and the trapping camp, Shen Jin'an's worries instantly reduced by half.

As the first general of Northern Yan and the righteous son of Shen Yue, Huo Ping holds one-third of the elite armor of Northern Yan, and the four battalions of the Modao Battalion, the Trap Camp, the Beiwei Army, and the Iron Armor Battalion are among the eighteen battalions of the Northern Yan and have become the Four Heavenly Kings.

In the battle of Xiangming Temple ten years ago, Huo Ping used these four old battalions to resist seven rounds of attacks by 90,000 people in northern Xinjiang, providing time for Shen Yue's strategic outflanking.

Later generations of soldiers deduced on the platform dozens of times, and finally came to a conclusion with only one sentence.

"In the face of absolute strength, no surprise soldier can win."

That battle was called the battle of the transgression against the sky, there was no conspiracy and tricks, only the real strength of each other, that battle completely played the momentum of Beiyan, and also played Huo Ping's youthful heroism.

That battle lasted eight hours, Huo Ping killed 563 enemies, and the veterans of the fourth battalion killed 60,000 elites in northern Xinjiang at the cost of only surviving eleven people.

It is precisely because of that battle that Huayang's unification of the north was reversed, and there was a battle of Xiangming Temple, and Huayang's life continued for a hundred years.

Shen Jin'an led the crowd forward, and only walked more than 30 miles before the sound of passionate and generous war drums stopped.

"This is the Northern Yan Breaking Formation!" Zhao Ponu listened carefully for a while and said loudly.

"It's our Beiyan Breaking Formation!"

This sentence also began to spread among the soldiers.

If the battle of Xiangming Temple is the foundation of the war for Beiyan to gain a firm foothold, then the Northern Yan breaking the formation is the spiritual foundation for Beiyan to gallop the Huayang Dynasty.

When the 90,000 people in northern Xinjiang were pressed over like a mountain and a sea, the army defending the city in Huayang had already been disheartened, and even the people in the city began to prepare to surrender for fear of slaughtering the city.

When Huo Ping led a team of more than 10,000 people to support, he was not respected, and only endless ridicule was obtained.

There is also a Huayang guard general who released a bold statement: "If Huo Ping can resist the Northern Frontier cavalry several times larger than the enemy with more than 10,000 people, then he is willing to join Beiyan in this life to lead the horse and hold the whip for Huo Ping." ”

What everyone in the Huayang defenders didn't expect was that when the Northern Yan broke the formation, all the Northern Yan veterans launched a counter-charge against the Northern Xinjiang armor as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

The final result was that among the eleven people who survived, including the Huayang general who was wearing the armor of an ordinary soldier of Northern Yan.

Zhao Ponu pulled out the long knife in his hand and shouted: "General Huo should be entangled with the barbarians of Northern Xinjiang." Now that the war song has sounded, what should we do? ”

"The last soldier of the battle!"

With Zhao Ponu's shout, the arrogance hidden in the blood of the Northern Yan cavalry emerged along with the shout.

Drunk and lying on the battlefield, how many people will return?

That battle was nothing more than an ordinary one of the hundreds of battles between Northern Yan and Northern Xinjiang.

Huayang's historian recorded, "In the spring of the 34th year of Huayang, Huo Ping, a hussar general, led more than 10,000 people to break through 20,000 people in northern Xinjiang head-on, beheaded 14,000 people, captured 156 people, and returned with a great victory. ”

The Beiyan Mansion is located on the remaining veins of Yanshan Mountain, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the villa is also known as the summer resort.

As the king with a different surname who guards the twenty-nine states of the three provinces of Yanyun, the Shen family's mansion is naturally magnificent, not only holding the power of life and death on one side, but even only needs to symbolically pay some gold and silver to the Huayang Dynasty every year, and the rest is completely self-supporting.

It is no wonder that Shen Yue's excerpts can add up to dozens of books every day, and the feudal officials have been the biggest obstacle to centralization since ancient times.

Wu Sigui of the previous dynasty is the best example, and some straightforward imperial histories even persuaded the emperor of the current dynasty not to raise tigers for trouble.

Today's Beiyan Wangfu is very lively, early in the morning I saw the servants of the Beiyan Wangfu from the city to the outside of the city began to clean the water and splash the street, loess mat road.

Some of the ceremonial guards that will only be used on important matters are also fully displayed.

All the people thought that there was some big official, but when that person appeared, they were all dumbfounded.

A young man in a coarse cloth shirt walked forward with his head held high, and there were also well-wishers on the side who were ready to persuade him to come down.

But when those who were ready to persuade saw hundreds of heavy cavalrymen in armor and horses behind the young man, they couldn't help but secretly sweat for the young man.

"That's Shen Jin'an?"

"Oh my god, what's wrong with this evil star?"

Just a few words seemed to be fried in the crowd, and there were outsiders who had never heard of Shen Jin'an's name who were just about to ask a few more words, but were stopped by the locals.

When someone panics, someone rejoices.

The local Qinglou woman climbed up the tall building in one go, shouting at Shen Jin'an regardless of her face, and those Oiran who recognized herself as tall and enchanting also began to prepare to bathe, change clothes, burn incense, pray and order, and do not see other guests except Shen Jin'an for two or three days.

In the Beiyan Palace, the housekeeper who guarded the door shouted at the house

"His Royal Highness the Prince has returned home."

After a while there was a noise from inside the house

"Jin'an is back, and I miss my father to death."

Under the attention of everyone, a man dressed like a rich man trotted out all the way, and he was holding a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, which was Shen Yue.

Shen Yuesheng was kind and kind-eyed, if it weren't for a scar of about two inches in the corner of his eye, others would definitely think that he was a great good man from somewhere, and they would never have associated him with the great general of the Thirteen Kingdoms.

Shen Jin'an, who saw Shen Yue, didn't show too much excitement, and avoided Shen Yue's embrace with a bend.

"Looking for something to eat, I'm a little hungry." Shen Jinan said to a housekeeper in charge of the back kitchen.

Seeing that he had lost face, Shen Yue immediately catered and said, "What, didn't you hear that?" Hurry up and find something to eat for His Royal Highness the Prince, and take out the bear's paws and deer antler velvet to make up for His Royal Highness. ”

After hearing Shen Yue's words, the housekeeper immediately took the order and left.

"It's best not to eat so greasy, it's better to be lighter." Shen Jin'an stretched and said.

Shen Yue's words immediately changed and said, "Didn't you hear His Royal Highness the Prince say that you want to eat lighter?" Go and take out the ginseng and Tibetan flowers from the storehouse and stew some clear soup. ”

Shen Jinan leaned on the seat of a gazebo and crossed Erlang's legs and said, "Why do you have time to stay at home today?" ”

Shen Yue took out a paper fan from his arms and slowly shook the wind for Shen Jin'an.

"Didn't I hear Huo Ping say that you were back, so I thought I could see you at first sight."

Shen Jin'an hurriedly stopped with his hand and said, "Stop, stop, don't say such sensual words." ”

"Mr. Guozijian just left a few days ago, and he told me that he was about to resign and go home, do you want to go to him to learn his skills?" Shen Yue said humbly.

Seeing that Shen Jin'an didn't respond, Shen Yue began to continue: "Huo Ping said that he has always lacked a capable man recently, are you willing to ride a five-flowered horse?" ”

Shen Jin'an didn't pay attention to it at all, his eyes were closed gently, and he hummed a song in his mouth that he didn't know where he had learned.

Seeing this, Shen Yue had no choice but to change his tone and continue: "Your clothes are plain, where did you buy them?" ”

Hearing this, Shen Jin'an slowly raised his head, stared at the folding fan in Shen Yue's hand and said, "Dong Ziqing's pen and ink? ”

Shen Yue said in surprise: "Yes, my son's knowledge has risen a lot, this is one of Dong Ziqing's legacy, I spent 50,000 taels of silver to buy it from a Jin merchant." ”

Shen Jin'an stretched out his hand and spread his five fingers.

Shen Yue said with some embarrassment: "I just had two days, why don't you give it to you in a few days?" ”

Shen Jin'an didn't force it, and slowly retracted his hand.

"It's for you, my son is back, and he can't always be too shabby, no gift at all?" Shen Yue gritted his teeth and stuffed the folding fan into Shen Jin'an's hand.

"This trip back, we won't go anywhere, just rest at home, the garden that Dad promised to build for you is almost finished, when will you have time to accompany Dad around?" Shen Yue took a few lychees from the table and slowly peeled off the skin, leaving only the crystal clear flesh.

At this time, lychee is a rare thing, the kind of fruit that grows in the south, if it is not preserved, it will lose its original color in two or three days, which makes the already expensive fruit can only be sent back and forth by fast horses, and the price in the north is naturally rising, only the string of lychees on the table can be sold for more than a dozen taels of silver in the north.

Shen Jin'an closed his eyes and let Shen Yue slowly put the lychee in his mouth.

"Dad can't eat with you tonight, there are some things to wait for Dad to decide." Shen Yue looked at the sun and said with some embarrassment.

Shen Jin'an just nodded and did not speak.

It wasn't until about half an hour after Shen Yue left that Shen Jin'an slowly got up, stretched his waist, and drank the ginseng soup that had already been boiled, wiped the soup stains on his mouth with the corner of his clothes and said, "I don't eat in the house at night, I want to go out for a walk." ”