Qinzhou border, Red River Fort.

Dali built a fortress on the northern border, generally three miles and one pier, ten miles and one fort, and also set up fortresses in strategic places.

Red River Fort is a very ordinary fortress, with thousands of soldiers and thousands of military dependents stationed in it. It's like a town.

After more than a month of wading through mountains and rivers, he just arrived at Red River Fort today.

And the sincerity he was looking for was in Xiangshan City, northwest of Red River Fort, and it was still a hundred miles away from Red River Fort.

Traveling to Red River Fort, he planned to rest for the night before heading to Xiangshan City.

Although most of the people living in the Red River Fort are soldiers and military families, there are also many passers-by who will stay in the fort, so there are inns, taverns and so on in the fort.

Bai Qi stayed in the inn, tired all the way, and just after night, he fell into a deep sleep.

"The Tartars are coming!"

"Run!"

"It's out of the water, put out the fire!"

……

In the middle of the night, Bai Qi was suddenly awakened by the noise, he got up and looked out the window, between the houses at the northern end of the Red River Fort, the flames were in the sky, and there were frightened shouts from all around, and a large number of people poured out of the street.

Seeing this, Bai Qi did not hesitate for a moment, and hurriedly picked up the long sword, opened the window, and jumped down.

He wanted to lead his horse, but he thought that there seemed to be no chance of fighting on horseback in this castle, so he hurried towards the northern wall.

The Red River Fort has walls on all sides, the walls are two feet high, and there are moats outside the walls.

At this time, a large number of soldiers in the fort had already poured up to the wall, holding bows and crossbows, pointing straight out of the city.

Although there was still chaos inside the city walls, the soldiers on the city walls were very calm.

Because of such situations they often encounter.

The nomads on the northern grasslands of Dali are mainly composed of the four royal courts, but the four royal courts have very loose control over the tribes under their hands, and although many tribes nominally belong to the four royal courts, they are actually self-contained and autonomous.

Just like the Four Great Princes and the Great Glass Dynasty, nominally the Four Great Princes are the subject countries of the Great Glass, but they have always been self-reliant, and sometimes they even provoke the Great Glass.

It's just that in the past ten years, the big glass soldiers have been strong and strong, and the four royal courts can only stop fighting, at least they dare not provoke on the bright side.

But the tribes under their command will still often invade the Dali border, plundering supplies and women.

There is no way, on the grassland, the environment is harsh, once it encounters a cold winter, many tribes cannot survive, they can only ensure their survival by plundering.

In the face of these Tatar cavalry coming and going like the wind on the grassland, the Dali border army was also helpless.

The Tartars don't fight them head-on at all, and every time they use sneak attacks, they can't be caught off guard.

Under the chaos, Bai Qi went directly to the top of the city.

Several soldiers around him glanced at him and ignored him.

In fact, it's not just Bai Qi, there are already many warriors with swords on the city wall, and most of them are from passing caravans.

The border land is barren, but there are millions of troops stationed there, and the supplies are very poor, so there are many caravans that will trade with the border army.

This is also the reason why outsiders are accommodated in the military fort.

After all, sometimes the soldiers and military families in the fort had to rely on these caravans for food.

Standing on the city wall, Bai Qi looked at it, only to see that under the dark night, countless torches were beating, and dense figures rushed towards this side.

"Archery, archery!"

The flag officer next to him roared loudly.

Whoosh~~

Sharp arrows flew out through the night.

Suddenly, there were bursts of screams under the city walls.

However, what followed was a counterattack by the Tartars, and a dense rain of arrows came in, causing a lot of casualties among the soldiers on the city wall.

In the case of a small number of troops, the night siege seems to be a bit brainless.

But don't forget that there are warriors in this world, and the two-zhang high city wall is like a threshold for warriors above the fourth grade, as long as you use a little bit of strength to jump on the city wall.

No, just when Bai Qi was observing the situation, he heard someone shouting not far away: "There is a master who has come to the city and stopped him!" ”

"Quick, shield soldiers!"

Bang Bang Bang Bang ~~

Heavy steps swarmed towards the leaping figure with the sound of metal grinding.

Dressed in iron armor and armed with huge shields, they huddled together on the narrow walls.

The best way to deal with high-grade warriors is the rain of arrows, but in this case, it is obviously impossible to release the rain of arrows, so the border army fortress is also equipped with a large number of shield soldiers, although they are a little bulky to move, but on the narrow city walls, they can restrict the movement of high-grade warriors and prevent high-grade warriors from creating greater chaos.

Sure enough, surrounded by dozens of shield armor soldiers, the high-grade martial artist was immediately forced to jump off the city wall.

However, he did not jump outside the city, but directly inside the city.

When the soldiers on the wall saw this, they were full of anger, but they did nothing.

With their strength, it is not easy to completely kill high-grade warriors, and their most important task compared to killing high-grade warriors is to defend the city walls.

As long as the walls are not broken, they can hold the Red River Fort.

As for whether the high-grade martial artist would kill the military families in the city, they didn't care at all at this time.

The cruelty of war is like this, and death is just the most common thing.

Bai Qi glanced at the high-grade warriors who were creating chaos in the city, and jumped down from the city wall.

"Damn the thief!"

Bai Qi leaped forward, and the long sword in his hand slashed out.

Clang~~

A crisp voice sounded.

The Tartar warrior held his sword to block the white sword.

The cultivation of this Tartar is also a seventh grade, and its strength is quite good, even in the face of Bai Qi, it is not weak.

However, the people who came to intercept him were not only Bai Qi, but also many warriors of the caravan.

Although the warriors of these caravans were not soldiers, their individual strength was far superior to that of soldiers.

The Tartar warrior blocked Bai Qi's sneak attack, but was slashed by a long knife.

Bai Qi glanced away, and it was a man with a full beard, who looked at the tartar fiercely, and slashed hard one after another.

This kind of desperate play forced the Tartar to retreat again and again.

How could Bai Qi let go of such a good opportunity, and hurriedly stabbed out with a sword.

The sword was like a long rainbow, directly piercing the shoulders of the Tartar warriors.

The bearded man slashed again, directly cutting off the head of the Tartar warrior.

"Hahaha, damn Tartar!"

"Little brother, thank you!"

The bearded man laughed.

Bai Qi nodded slightly, this time was obviously not the time to be polite, the two just glanced at each other, and rushed to the other side.

Although the soldiers on the city wall tried their best to fend off the tartars, there were still fish that slipped through the net and climbed the wall.

Bai Qi and bearded men sword by sword, supporting everywhere.

At the same time, a general wearing iron armor and armed with a spear was also around.

The three of them met from time to time, and even joined forces to meet the enemy.

But there was not much communication throughout.

In just half an hour, they killed more than a dozen Tartar warriors who were not weak.

The darkness of the night gradually brightened, and the situation outside the city gradually appeared in the eyes of everyone.

There were not many Tartars attacking this time, probably more than a thousand people.

However, after a chaotic battle, nearly half of the Tartars were killed and wounded.

Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, the Tartars outside the city seemed to have given up on continuing the attack and planned to retreat.

"Damn, these Tartars really think that Lao Tzu's Red River Fort is easy to bully."

The general in iron armor stood on the city wall and looked at the Tartars who wanted to retreat outside the city, and said with a red face: "What are you still doing in a daze, go out of the city with Lao Tzu and kill them!" ”

The Dali Border Army is not a weak army, and there has never been a saying that it only takes a beating and does not fight back.

The general was also a ruthless man, although this time they held the Red River Fort, but the casualties were not much worse than the Tartars outside the city.

"That's Guo Jin, the guerrilla general of Red River Fort!"

"This guy is a reckless man, as long as there is a fight, he will never rest."

The bearded man stood beside Bai Qi and said.

"In the next white, I haven't asked Your Excellency for your name!" Bai Qi said.

"Hahaha, my name is Luo Jing, and the little brother calls me Lao Luo." Luo Jing smiled heartily.

He was the leader of the caravans of mountains and rivers, and as a caravan leader who walked the border all year round, they were often attacked by Tartar cavalry.

However, in the past, in the face of the Tartars, they were very aggrieved, and sometimes they could only abandon the goods and flee for their lives.

So Luo Jing hated Tartar very much.

And this time against Bai Qi, although the two met for the first time, they cooperated extremely tacitly. Luo Jing felt that he was very happy to kill, so he was full of good feelings for Bai Qi.

"Brother Luo, do you want to go out of the city to fight?" Bai Qi pointed to the soldiers who had mounted the horses and proposed.

"Oh, Brother Bai hasn't enjoyed it yet?" Luo Jing said with some surprise.

"I'm going to Xiangshan City to join the army, and I want to take this opportunity to make some military achievements!" Bai Qi said bluntly.

"Haha, okay, since my brother wants to go, then I will accompany him to the end."

Luo Jing smiled happily.

Afterwards, the two of them found horses and followed the soldiers in the Red River Fort towards the outside of the city.

Guo Jin noticed the two, not only did not stop them, but grinned, his rough face was full of excitement.

He had been paying attention to Bai Qi and Luo Jing in the city just now, if it weren't for Bai Qi and Luo Jing's help, Honghe Fort would probably be breached by these Tartars.

"Brothers, kill!"

Guo Jin yelled excitedly.

However, the three hundred cavalry pursued the Tartar cavalry in front.

……

Tianzhou City.

Zhenwu Division Yamen, in the study.

Qin Wei leaned on the soft collapse and looked at the document in his hand.

With the Tianzhou Town Martial Arts on the right track, Li Ru and Wen Su put forward a lot of opinions on how to manage the Tianzhou Martial Arts forces.

Chivalry is forbidden with martial arts!

If you want to make martial artists no longer violate the ban, you can't blindly suppress it.

As the saying goes, blocking is not as good as sparse, and sparse is not as good as leading.

Qin Wei looked at the booklet in his hand, looked up at Wen Su, and said, "This is what you thought of?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, the lower officials feel that the battle between the warriors is nothing more than fame and fortune, and there is no better way for the lower officials to distribute the benefits, but in terms of this reputation, the lower officials still have some ideas." Wen Su Dao.

Qin Wei raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Ru.

Li Ru sat next to him, smiling and drinking tea.

"That's a great idea!"

"But it's still a little bit of something!"

Qin Wei bowed slightly.

Wen Su's proposal is to establish a list, so that the Jianghu warriors can have a way to gain fame.

Top list.

It is promulgated by the Zhenwu Division, promulgated once a year, revised once a quarter, and under the congenital, a total of 100, ranked according to strength.

In this way, if the Jianghu warriors want to gain fame in the future, they only need to get a high enough ranking on the list.

If you want to improve your ranking, challenge the top players.

It's easy and fast.

The downside is that it will cause some unnecessary disputes.

Qin Wei thought for a while and said: "The challenge rules should be explained, and it is advocated to be more than the pilot." ”

"In addition, in the establishment of a list of young talents, the age is limited to under the age of twenty-five."

Although the establishment of the list will cause some unnecessary disputes, it can consume the energy of some warriors, so as not to cause trouble everywhere because these warriors are too energetic.

As for the challenge rules, Zhenwu cannot limit them, but they can advocate it.

"Your Highness is still thoughtful." Wen Su Dao.

Qin Wei smiled and said: "You go find some scholars who are good at writing, and let them write some about the martial arts of the rivers and lakes, the central idea is to act chivalrous and defend the country!" ”

"After writing it, find some storytellers and go to the restaurant teahouse to talk about it."

Wen Su was slightly stunned when he heard this.

He didn't understand how Qin Wei's thinking jumped from the list to the top of the list.

Seeing him like this, Qin Wei said helplessly: "Forget it, you can find a scholar first, and when you find it, bring it to this king to see." ”

Don't look at the prosperity of martial arts in this world, but there is no martial arts among the people, but there are many monsters, and there are some people who don't like to wear clothes, well, this kind of is more popular.

And the reason why Qin Wei wanted to find someone to write it was to spread the idea of 'the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people'.

Although this theme is not liked by literati, it is most widely circulated among the people.

If it weren't for Qin Wei being too lazy to write, he could have been a copyist and copied all of Old Man Jin's books.

"The subordinate obeys!" Wen Su responded.

Qin Wei waved his hand, signaling that they could go down.

(End of chapter)