Yinlang County is located in the southernmost part of Dayan, bordering the Jin State on one side and the Qianguo State on the other.

A hundred years ago, in fact, the name of Yinlang County was Yinlang County;

This is the name of the first prime minister after the founding of the Yan State, because he made great contributions in helping Yan Taizu establish the country and govern the country, so his hometown county was named after him.

It is named after the person, and in the same way, it is also renamed because of the person.

This name change is also related to the first generation of Zhenbei Hou.

A hundred years ago, that is, when the desert barbarians fought a decisive battle with Dayan under the call of the royal court, the new emperor of the Qianguo Kingdom drove a personal expedition, and the army of 500,000 Qianguo went on a northern expedition, and the Yan State was facing the dangerous situation of being attacked by the enemy on its back.

Next, it is the well-known battle of the first generation of Zhenbei Hou to break 500,000 with 30,000.

On that day, after the great destruction of the cadre army,

The first Zhenbei Hou once wrote a poem:

"Spur the horse to chase the silver waves, and pass the peach blossoms clearly."

The silver wave here refers to the 500,000 army of the Qianguo country that collapsed for thousands of miles, and on the avenue of Yinlang County, the corpses were pillowed, and the armor worn by the soldiers of the Qianguo reflected the luster in the sun, like a silver wave rolling.

The latter sentence refers to the leisure on the way to pursuit, which is not a war, nor a fight, but just a trip to see the peach blossoms.

Tactically, whether Zhenbeihou paid attention to the opponent's descendants is unknown, anyway, the Qianguo army was defeated and has been interrupted since then.

And these two lines of poetry can be said to vividly express the posture of the first Zhenbei Marquis who strategically completely despised the army of Qianguo.

In addition, the first generation of Zhenbei Hou was actually the original "Yin Lang County", and he was an authentic southerner of Yan Kingdom.

Because of this, Yinlang County was later simply renamed Yinlang County.

However, in the official correspondence between Qianguo and Yanguo, whenever Yinlang County is involved, all of them are replaced by "Yin Lang".

It is really the word "silver wave", too stinging the eyes of the Qianguo people, every time they see this place name, the Qianguo people will subconsciously think of the poem of the first generation of Zhenbeihou;

Then I thought of the tragic scene a hundred years ago, and thought of the tragic situation of my own children's corpses all over the field......

Seventy percent of the border army of the Qianguo State was used to defend the Yan State, and the remaining thirty percent were distributed on the border line with the Jin State and the Chu State.

And the Yan State forcibly placed 300,000 of the country's most elite 300,000 Zhenbei Army Iron Cavalry in the north to deter the barbarians, and on the southern border of its empire, only one frontier town was set up - Nanwangcheng.

Cuiliu Fort is a link in the defense chain relying on Nanwang City as the core, and there are eight fortresses similar to Cuiliu Fort.

Compared with the Qianguo side, which was waiting for the battle, Yan Guo's here is much more perfunctory.

There is no way, the hundred-year-old Jiwei is here, the psychological advantage is here, and the strong self-confidence is here, maybe, a series of defenses including Nanwang City and Cuiliu Fort are still for the sake of scruples about the face of the Qianguo people.

After all, Yinlang County all the way to Tiancheng County, which is the capital of Yan Kingdom, is completely flat.

Once there is a situation in Yinlang County, Yan Guotie can ride overnight.

Over the past hundred years, I don't know how many Yan Guo boys have dreamed of being able to revisit the original glory of the first generation of Zhenbei Marquis, and worship the marquis!

Helplessly, Qianguo has never been given this opportunity.

And the name of this Cuiliu Fort is also said to have come because of the first Zhenbei Hou.

According to legend, when this fort was built, the first Zhenbei Hou once planted a willow branch here.

At that time, the first Zhenbei Marquis was ambitious, thinking that when this willow branch grew into a green willow, he would probably have led the army to break through the capital of Qianguo.

It's a pity that the creation makes people, because the war in the north is urgent, and the Yan State can no longer transfer more troops and horses to the first Zhenbei Hou from the front line of the decisive battle with the barbarians.

Later, for the sake of checks and balances, the first generation of Zhenbei Marquis, who was a southerner, was enshrined in the north, and he could not complete his long-cherished wish to go south to break the Qian.

"I said, there are so many willows here, which one was planted by the first Zhenbei Hou back then?"

Zheng Fan, who was riding on a horse, asked the people around him.

"Is the Lord interested in this?" Siniang, who was parallel to Zheng Fan and easy to tolerate, asked.

"What if the first generation of Zhenbei Hou buried any treasures under that willow tree, for example, Zhenbei's suicide note?"

"This is easy to do, Lord, you give an order, let the blind man use his spiritual power to investigate in this willow forest, and explore for a month without eating, drinking, or sleeping, and it is estimated that he will be able to find out."

The blind man next to him coughed subconsciously, interrupting Zheng Fan and Siniang's unreliable chat, and pointed ahead,

Road:

"Lord, there is Castle of Willow in front."

"It's not easy, it's finally here, order, speed up, and rest in the fort before sunset!"

As soon as the words fell,

Zheng Fan rode forward,

Liang Cheng behind him waved his hand, and more than 500 barbarian cavalry dressed in armor like the Zhenbei Army also began to accelerate.

Time

The horses' hooves in the willow forest were dusty.

It's just that before he rode his horse out of the willow forest, Zheng Fan had to give another order to slow down the horse.

As soon as I came out of the forest, my vision suddenly opened up, and there was no desolation and withering like a border fortress, but a fertile field that stretched as far as the eye could see.

Even, there were many farmers and peasant women who were busy working in the fields, and when they saw so many cavalry suddenly coming out, they couldn't help but put down their work and began to look at these people curiously.

Zheng Fan couldn't help but look back at the blind man behind him and asked:

"Blind, are you sure we're not going the wrong way?"

Is this a side plug?

Is this a side plug?

Is this special mother's side plug?

It's not that Biansai can't cultivate the fields, but the scene of this fertile field, coupled with the ruddy faces of the farmers and women here;

The bitter cold of Beifeng County is naturally incomparable, but it is the people of Huwei, Sanshi and Liangjun, the hinterland of Yan Kingdom, and even Tiancheng County, the county of Gyeonggi of Great Yan, who passed by on the way, this day, this scene, is not as rich as this side in front of them, right?

"Lord, the way must be right." Blind North replied.

Okay, the humanoid radar said that the road was not wrong, so Zheng Fan will believe it.

At the moment, Zheng Fan could only order:

"Restrain the speed of horses, whose war horse tramples on the crops, there is no mercy!"

After Zheng Fan gave the order,

Siniang stretched out her hand to Ah Ming,

Ah Ming was a little puzzled and said:

"What?"

"Give me your nail clippers first."

"Do what?"

"Maybe I'll have to cut my lord's hair later."

Ah Ming was a little puzzled at first, but then he came to his senses, looked at Siniang and smiled, but did not give her the nail clippers.

Rushing all the way, in fact, he was also training all the way.

After the first experience of the "Demon Cave" on the first day, the fear of Zheng Fan by these barbarians can be said to be imprinted into their bones, plus Liang Cheng's training of soldiers already has a hand, with the ideological and political education of the blind north after camping every night, and taking the barbarian soldiers to talk about the tragic years when they were in the desert when they were excluded and suppressed by the nobles, and their relatives were detained as prisoners, and the tribe was cannon fodder.

In short, this team of five hundred horsemen has been integrated, and these barbarians themselves are good at volleys, so it can be said that they are a real elite.

With Zheng Fan's order, the cavalry began to march slowly on the road.

The nearby farmers are not afraid of life, and there are even those who take the initiative to come over to see the excitement, of course, there is no scene where the military and civilians rush to deliver food and drink.

This couldn't help but make Zheng Fan a little disappointed, thinking that the next time he marched with the troops, should he notify the blind man first to arrange someone to hire some childcare in advance?

These people are not afraid of soldiers, and they lead soldiers over by themselves, as if they are being watched as monkeys.

And because most of Zheng Fan's troops were barbarians, their appearance was quite different from that of the Yan people, so this aroused the curiosity of the local households.

After walking a few miles, there were actually entire nearby villages who heard the news and rushed to see the western scenery, and the road, which was not wide, was surrounded more and more compactly.

The history of war between the Yan people and the barbarians is very long, but in the past hundred years, because of the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei, the barbarians have been in a state of passive beating, and the barbarians have long since ceased to be able to enter the hinterland of the Yan country at every turn, shocking the whole territory of the Yan country.

Therefore, the local people did not have any resentment towards the barbarians.

On weekdays, they also saw barbarian caravans, and in the territory of Yan Kingdom, they could often see barbarian slaves.

However, this kind of barbarian wearing the standard Yan State military armor is indeed the first time I have seen it.

When he took them from north to south, it also caused some turmoil, but fortunately, this kind of thing of integrating barbarians into the army is not uncommon in Yan Kingdom, and the Zhenbei Hou Mansion also raised the four major Guiyi tribes, oh, now there are only a few left.

Moreover, it may be due to the strong national self-esteem created by the Yan people's unparalleled military strength over the past hundred years, and they don't feel that there is anything wrong with using barbarians as soldiers, nor do they feel that there is anything to be afraid of.

This made Zheng Fan feel that he had the feeling of being a Tang Dynasty in another world.

The Tang people are also too proud, and too proud, so they can absorb foreigners into their own system and absorb the elites of foreigners for their own use.

Looking through the history books of the Tang Dynasty, there are not too many generals of the Tang Army with the names of foreigners.

Of course, it doesn't matter when your country is prosperous, but when your country is weak, the saying that "those who are not of my race will have different hearts" will be verified.

The night before yesterday, when Zheng Fan was drinking with the blind man Bei, he also joked that God knows when Dayan will also come out of An Lushan.

And then

The blind man looked at himself with his white eyes,

Look at yourself,

You taste, you carefully taste;

He didn't know that Da Yan was out of An Lushan, but Da Yan had already come out of you.

An Lushan is a Sogdian, and you Zheng Fan are not even from this world......

"Get out of the way!"

In order to allow the team to advance, Zheng Fan had to let his barbarians open the way.

The people of Yandi are fierce, but they are not fools everywhere, and they are not to the point where they have to work with soldiers in order to see a lively scene.

finally

After a short journey of about two hours, Zheng Fan finally led his troops to the place where he was going to take up his post - Cuiliu Fort.

And then

Zheng Fan felt blind.

Fort, it is not a city, this point, Zheng Fan knows, in fact, it is more like the kind of dock fort in Beifeng County, which is also large and small, but it has more official direct meaning than the dock fort.

The castle in front of Zheng Fan,

If you could still call it a fort......

Its area is not small, at least, it can be seen that the area used to be not small, enough to easily accommodate thousands of soldiers to fight in it without being too crowded.

But now,

Its façade has collapsed for an unknown number of years.

The ruins were also covered with moss.

After getting closer, Zheng Fan even saw Luhua chickens running out of it.

"Coo-goo, goo-goo......"

The bull was angry and took steps in front of Zheng Fan and his barbarians, as if he was declaring his sovereignty!

At this moment, even the blind man Bei didn't know what to say.

Toil and tease, operating from the north to the south,

Who thinks,

It's actually a chicken coop that inherited?

Fan Li said with a smile:

"I can eat eggs every day from now on."

Zheng Fan took a deep breath, he felt that he was now very much like an online dating, but Sister Zhiling on the Internet looked like a flower offline......

"Who?"

At this time, an old man came out of the chicken farm.

The old man was wearing a shabby leather armor and holding a clay pot in his hand, and he walked out with chicken food.

When he saw Zheng Fan and the black-pressed barbarians behind Zheng Fan,

The old man was stunned for a moment,

Then he fixed his mind,

Holding a broken clay pot,

Pointing at Zheng Fan and scolding:

"Who's coming?"

hey

Stop

Don't look old at this old man, but when he gets serious, he really has the momentum of "veterans don't die".

It's just that although this is a border land, it has not fallen here, and this veteran is not a lonely warrior.

Zheng Fan exhaled, took two steps forward, and took out his identity token,

Road:

"Dayan Cuiliu Fort is guarded, Zheng Fan!"

The old man first looked at the token closely, and after confirming that it was correct, he took a few steps back and knelt down in front of Zheng Fan:

"Humble to your lordship!"

"Who are you?"

"The subordinate Cuiliu Fort Captain, the Iron Three Pillars."

Zheng Fan put away his token, pointed to the Cuiliu Fort in front of him, and asked:

"This Willow Castle, how did it become like this?"

"My lord, Cuiliu Castle has been abandoned for decades."

…………

It's night,

It's a little chilly,

The air is filled with the smell of aged and exudes sourness,

In short, it's shabby.

Zheng Fan originally thought that he would build a soup pool of his own in his Cuiliu Castle.

And so, good fellow, fix the soup pool into the chicken coop?

Watching the big cocks feed themselves while taking a bath?

The barbarians set up tents relying on Cuiliu Fort,

Liang Cheng and Fan Li first carried a coffin into the fort, found a fairly clean room, and put the coffin down.

Along the way, I encountered many checkpoints, and I was asked why I took office many times when I took office, why I still brought a coffin.

Zheng Fan's answer was:

"Be prepared to sacrifice your life for the country."

But many checkpoint guards were moved, and even many senior officers took the initiative to invite Zheng Fan to drink and worship.

Therefore, Dayan's atmosphere is still very simple.

In fact, the coffin was filled with Shatuoque stone.

Ding Hao, Xiao Yibo, and Hongbazi were responsible for escorting the little lady and some goods over in the back, and they did not follow the team.

There are two chickens boiling in the iron pot, and Siniang also pasted corn tortillas on the edge of the iron pot, which is considered a pot chicken.

"My lord, aren't you slapping the villain in the face, the adult is in office, what's wrong with the villain inviting the adult to eat two chickens?"

The old man walked here with the silver and shouted.

Zheng Fan didn't go to pick up the old man's silver,

Rather, in an unmistakable tone,

Pointing to the opposite side of himself,

Road:

"Sit."

The old man hesitated for a moment, didn't dare to push the silver again, and obediently sat down opposite Zheng Fan.

"How long has this Willow Castle been abandoned?"

"If you go back to adulthood, it's been almost thirty years."

"Why is it abandoned?"

Dayan border defense, is it such an absurd child's play?

If he hadn't seen the scene of Beifeng County with his own eyes, Zheng Fan really thought that this Dayan had reached the end of the dynasty.

"If you go back to your lordship, it was decided by the top to dismiss it, and our original soldiers of Cuiliu Fort have long been dismissed, and we will not be paid for food.

Because he has never had a family, and he has feelings for this place, he has been living. ”

"The border defense is so lax, do the officials above know?"

"I know mile, I must know mile, the other forts are similar to our Cuiliu Fort, there are no people anymore, we are pretty good here, because we live here, we can still maintain a brick frame or something, and the other forts and even the stones have been pulled by local households to build a pigsty."

Hearing that it was not only Cuiliu Fort that was like this, but that all the fortresses were like this, Zheng Fan knew that this matter, the Dayan official, was clear.

Zheng Fan couldn't help asking:

"Aren't you afraid that the Qianguo people will call?"

Tie Sanzhu heard Zheng Fan's words,

Tears immediately soaked into the eyes,

It's like being poked in the deepest pain in my heart,

Choked up:

"My lord, I joined the army at the age of seventeen, and in order to join the army, I also pushed away my mother-in-law who was told me by my family, just to wait for the day when I can make war achievements and glorify my ancestors!

Who knows

Who knows

Who knows! ”

Tie Sanzhu stomped his foot and stretched out his hand to the south,

Gritted teeth:

"I've been waiting here since I was seventeen years old, and I've been waiting for his mother for more than forty years, and the people of the Qianguo who are killed by God can't come!

The life of the lowly was ruined by the Qianguo people who killed him that day!! ”

The blind man who was sitting there eating oranges next to him listened to the words of Tie Sanzhu,

whispered teasingly:

"It's another year to look at the Wang Division, and there are still a few companies left in the Wang Division."