The blue sky is like a wash, and the wasteland is full of frost flowers.

Lin Yi's coalition approached the outpost of Dar City at sunset.

Because the terrain of the whole party is particularly high, the sunset time is also one to two hours later than that of the Southern Dynasty, which may be the reason why the land is closer to the sky, and the glow and clouds that will not be dark not far away are even more magnificent.

Under this kind of magnificence, the city of Dar is even more majestic.

Among the wastelands along the way, Lin Yi also saw many settlements of the party and the people, and the ones that impressed him the most were mostly tents or earthen walls covered with dried cow dung, as well as various stone pillars and stone piles with totems and scriptures.

The barrenness and tenacity of vitality have been best embodied in the boundaries of the party.

The city of Dar was never associated with prosperity and wealth in the dark glow of the sun, and the city behind the towering stone walls was full of dilapidated tents and stacked houses with overlapping earthen walls.

But in the Dangxiang area, whether it is the ordinary people or those royal families with amazing wealth, they all like those prosperous and warm colors, and these earthen walls and tents in the city of Dar are all in dark red or dark yellow colors, and from a distance, it seems that countless colored clouds have fallen in this city, and they are warmly entangled, brighter than those bright lights in the sky.

Darban City was originally dug into a city on a stone mountain, but now it looks like a feeling, but there is no trace of the stone mountain, it looks like this city is built on a slightly high slope, but around this big city, a large number of stones and stone piles can be seen everywhere in the flat wasteland of more than ten miles around, exuding a completely different atmosphere from the permafrost plain below, and at the same time, it also reminds passers-by that the original cave of Darban City is definitely not nonsense.

The atmosphere of the long history is also emanating from these beast-like stones and stone piles lurking in the wild grass.

These stones and stone piles also have dense totemic patterns and scriptures, but unlike the villages and gathering places seen along the way, the patterns and runes on these stones overlap, many of them are even carved, shuttling through the time of a hundred years.

But the most amazing thing is not only that, the middle of the city is always exuding a hazy mist, and the clouds are steaming, which is formed by the geothermal springs in the city, but the inner and outer walls are wrapped in silver, and the smell of slaughter is transmitted in the cold wind.

The outermost stone wall can't even see the true color of the stone, and the outer wall is all hung with huge ice edges, like a waterfall being suddenly frozen, and in the afterglow of the setting sun, it exudes thousands of colors, giving people a sense of blurry unreality.

The brightly colored tents and houses were always filled with gray or black smoke and fireworks, and no human figures could be seen in the distance, but they clearly gave people the feeling that many people were moving inside, and the horns of bullhorns were already sounding everywhere in the city.

The time of arrival in this city was also deliberately chosen by Xia Ba Hotaru, in this dim light, it was possible to let the Tuoba army in the city see the size of her coalition army, but also not let them see more details.

The army of the Xifeng clan is now scattered and mixed with the combined forces of the Xiaba clan, the Yeli clan and the Western Regions, and Lin Yi found that these armies have a very significant feature, they are not as clear as the armies of the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty, and there are many characteristics that can make people quickly judge whose army this belongs to.

In addition to the distinctive clothing of the Xiaba tribe, most of which resemble the color of blood or flame, the army of the Xifeng clan is the same as the army of the Western Regions Alliance Army and the Yeli Clan, and the costumes are almost the same, mixed in them, and it is difficult to distinguish them.

Soon after leaving Tianmu Xiyang, more than 10,000 troops of the Xifeng clan were sent back to the territory of Xifeng Hongqi by Xia Baying.

This army of more than 10,000 people of the Xifeng clan is used as the identity of the defeated remnants of the Xifeng clan.

In the mouth of the messenger sent by Xia Ba Ying to announce the city of Dar Ban first, the coalition army led by Xia Ba Ying had already defeated the Xifeng coalition army in Tianmu Xiyang, and after the Xifeng coalition army lost its armor, only more than 10,000 remnants of the army fled back.

In fact, she didn't deliberately arrange more details at all, because she just wanted to make a time difference.

Even if there are spies from the Tuoba clan who find out that something is wrong, and when the military information is transmitted back to Darban City, I am afraid that the battle between her and Lin Yi and Darban City will be over.

In the dim light, in the wasteland about a thousand steps away from the coalition army where Lin Yi was, there were already traces of the Tuoba Clan's reconnaissance cavalry.

The horses of these cavalry were breathtakingly fast, faster than any of the fast horses of the Southern Dynasty cavalry that Lin Yi had seen, but even if Xia Ba Ying had already sent a message, these Tuoba Clan's reconnaissance cavalry still did not dare to approach.

There are natural boundaries between many tribes in the party, and their armies are not as polite as the armies of the Southern and Northern Wei dynasties, even if they come to negotiate peace, if these cavalry troops get too close, I am afraid that the cultivators in the army will immediately report the color.

Xia Ba Ying looked at the big city from a distance, and her face gradually glowed with a layer of misty color like those ice edges scattered in the glow, "In your opinion, what is the biggest problem of the party?"

Lin Yi, who was also carefully looking at the city, was slightly stunned, and turned his head to look at her: "Is it asking me?"

"You're an outsider, so of course you'll see it better. Xia Ba Ying smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "What's more, the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty are still the most powerful countries in the world, and the party is compared, so naturally it is also compared with the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty." ”

"The biggest problem?"

Lin Yi frowned deeply, and he muttered: "Of course, there are many problems with the party in my opinion, but the biggest problem you talked about, I haven't seriously thought about it before. As far as I have seen in the days since I arrived at the party, the biggest difference compared with the Southern Dynasties is that the production is too scarce, and the wealth is concentrated in the royal family, and the most important thing is that what the ordinary people learn and listen to is the myths and stories instilled by these royal families, although they are obedient, but they have lost the ability to change, and the generation is limited to such poverty. ”

"The people think about progress, the dynasty will be strong, the party royal family has woven myths since ancient times, so that ordinary people serve the gods and Buddhas to serve them, although it is conducive to rule, and in the relatively barren land, it is also very easy to accumulate military strength, but such savings and dry up and fishing are not much the same, so in a short period of time, it is okay to have a big war with the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty, but if it is sustained, it is bound to be defeated, so in history, even if there are foreign tribes with strong military strength like the party to invade your Central Plains countries, they can only plunder, and cannot occupy a place for a long time, this is because the people of your Central Plains Dynasty are different from the people of our party。 ”

Xia Baying nodded and said slowly: "So in my opinion, it's the same, whether it's the party or Tuyuhun, if you want to be strong, you must first become a people." This has nothing to do with production, and the territory where my Shaba tribe is located is also lacking, but with a skill, you can still have a steady stream of wealth. ”

Although Lin Yi already knew something about Xia Baying, when he heard these words, his eyes were full of brilliance, and his heart was cheerful, "It turns out that you didn't want to talk to the Tuoba clan from the beginning, just because the Tuoba clan is the strongest royal family in the party and the leader of the royal family, and you want to completely defeat the Tuoba clan from the beginning, and you want to change the entire party from the beginning." ”

"The Tuoba clan and the Mi Bao clan are representatives of the royal family, so they are destined to be my great enemies. Xia Ba Ying turned his head, looked at the city, and said slowly: "So this has nothing to do with interests, only with my ambitions, and I and the Tuoba clan are destined to be endless." ”

Lin Yi smiled faintly and said: "Freezing three feet, not a day's cold, the more you want to break the status quo, the more you must have enough patience." ”

"The world trapped in front of you is, first of all, the world that has not stepped out of front of you. Xia Ba Ying smiled freely, she stretched out her hand and nodded at the big city in front of her and beyond, and said: "I have already thought that one day, I will definitely send many young people from the party to the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty to see the outside world and learn the thousand-year-old inheritance of Middle-earth." They naturally think about the meaning of life. ”

"In life, after all, you have to understand why you live. ”

Xia Baying's voice became lighter, but when it came into Lin Yi's ears, it made Lin Yi feel powerful, "For me, it's not interesting to conquer the city." I understand why I am alive, and I want all the party members to really live. If ten years is not enough, it will take twenty years, and if twenty years is not enough, it will take my whole life. If I die, there will be people who understand me who will continue to do such things. ”

Lin Yi fell silent.

Of course, he understood that the reason why Xia Ba Ying said these things to him was because Xia Ba Ying knew that he understood her true aspirations.

It's just that he still feels that it is too crazy to completely reverse the thousands of years of precipitation and habits of a country with the power of one person.

He also knows very well that he is not actually a crazy person like Xia Ba Hotaru.

Although he was born in a general's family, he has been bound by dogma since he was a child, and he has the teachings of the Southern Dynasty School, and the world in front of him is not very broad.

After changing the dynasty, he was used to seeing the hot and cold world, but he didn't want to change the status quo by force.

"Since childhood, I am not the same kind of person as you, but I naturally admire you very much. He was silent for a moment, and then said softly sincerely: "These words, even those who left those classic works may not have such courage, you can be regarded as teaching me a lesson." ”

"I've seen too many ambitious people, and I've seen too many mediocre people who do nothing, but I don't see too many ambitious ambitions in your eyes, especially people like you who have such power, but don't have that kind of fiery ambition in their eyes, I was the first to meet. And you're a good listener. Xia Ba Ying turned her head, glanced at Lin Yi deeply, and said, "So if it is possible, in the future after these things in the party territory are over, I also hope to be able to maintain the alliance with you." ”

Lin Yi thought about it seriously, and didn't agree, but said solemnly: "I'll do my best." ”

Xia Ba Ying smiled and said no more, this was already the best answer for her.