"There's some truth to what you're saying!"

After Liu Bingkun pondered for a moment, he had no choice but to give up this plan.

Na Antu is not an ordinary person, if he detects the movement, he is afraid that he will escape directly from Qingyang Mansion, and when Jiaolong enters the sea, they will fall into a passive state.

Chen Ziang replied: "And you also know. Although Na Antu has some forces, how can he support his entire expenses with his family wealth. There must be other people behind this person, otherwise even if he kills an Antu, it will be useless. And that person is our ultimate goal. ”

After Liu Bingkun listened, he felt that there was not much to discuss, so he closed his head slightly to show support.

"In that case, then I'll leave this matter to you. ”

Chen Ziang naturally agreed, and after walking out of the mansion, some thoughts rose in his heart, "That guy, what have you been doing lately?" , Driven by curiosity, Chen Ziang immediately found a reason to ask Antu out.

Although Antu has some influence here, after all, he is not as strong as the Chifeng Army, so he is naturally terrified, and soon came to the place agreed by the two.

Six miles away from the west of Qingyang Mansion, there is a place called Sheep Cliff.

This place is the junction of the plain and the mountain, the east is the continuous field, the traffic is endless, but in the north is the continuous mountain, there are often yellow sheep appear, so here is called the sheep cliff.

Stepping on the top of the mountain, Antu was worried, and after seeing the people who had been waiting for a long time in the distance, he asked, "What is the matter with Master Chen looking for me today?"

"Can't I look for you without something?" Chen Ziang turned around and said with a smile.

Antu was stunned for a moment, then touched his nose a little embarrassedly, and laughed lightly, this is still his original statement.

"I've heard people say that this is the most beautiful place to watch the sunset, so I came here. It's just the thought that there is only one person and that you are lonely, and that brings you in. Chen Ziang smiled heartily, seeing that the other party's body was a little stiff, he comforted again: "Of course." You don't have to be nervous. After all, this time, it's just a day of appreciation. ”

"Is it just a sun-watching?"

Antu was secretly vigilant in his heart, during this period of time, he knew that Chen Ziang was not that kind of literati and ink writer, he liked to express his emotions, and he was afraid that today's trip was only for other purposes.

Chen Ziang didn't react, just tied his hands behind his back and stared at the field in the distance.

The red sun had sunk below the horizon, but it seemed to be still greedy for the earth, shooting out all the little afterglow it had left, and the clouds in the sky were like fire, reflecting half of the sky.

Antu watched quietly, for him he had seen this scene too many times, and he didn't feel much.

It's just that Chen Ziang looked melancholy, and sighed in his mouth: "The twilight is heavy, and the sun is setting." What do you say you want in this life?" His deep voice seemed to be asking about himself, and as if he was asking about Antu.

Antu was shocked and couldn't figure out what Chen Ziang meant.

But when he thought of his life, he felt a little melancholy, and he didn't realize it: "Life is ups and downs, and life is wasted." Even if you figure it out, who can do it?"

"Oh, what does that mean?" Chen Ziang was amused and turned his head sideways to ask.

Antu replied: "When people are young, although they are innocent and splendid, they don't understand anything, and they think that they are invincible in the world and unmatched. But just stepping out of the house is enough to make everyone push it off, just because they can't find a place to stay except at home, don't you?"

"Indeed!"

Chen Ziang nodded.

After all, they were born in troubled times, and in this troubled times, although even a small soldier can seize the opportunity to jump into the sky, and the carp jumps into the dragon gate, but more are buried in the wilderness and penniless.

Antu added: "The youth of people, even if they are ambitious, think that they can turn the tide like the famous ministers and generals of the past generations. But the world was difficult, and before he could accomplish his goal, he was already covered in bruises and torture. There are many people who are blocked in the middle way and difficult to pay for their ambitions. How much of what you say we want can be achieved?"

"Listening to what you said, I was full of emotion. Chen Ziang replied.

Antu was a little embarrassed, and continued: "As for old age, at that time, the energy was exhausted and the body was decaying, that is, it was difficult to walk, sit and lie down, and I needed someone to support me. ”

"Huh. I didn't expect you to have such profound thoughts, which is really admirable. Chen Ziang smiled, seeing that the sunset had set, the previous melancholy look disappeared, and he regained his spirit.

The mountain wind howled, and the people who blew shivered.

Chen Ziang tightened his shirt and replied, "It's getting late at the moment, let's go back." ”

"So, I'll take my leave?"

Antu didn't understand a little, but he felt that Chen Ziang's invitation this time was with some temptation. "Hopefully he didn't find out what I was doing. With a secret prayer in his heart, Antu left.

Chen Ziang watched the other party's figure disappear, and then got up and walked down the mountain.

Just as he was about to leave the top of the mountain, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Qingyang Mansion in the distance, but he felt a different kind of fun.

"I just hope that this peaceful scene will not be destroyed. ”

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"It's dark!"

The huge city of Anding fell back into darkness, and Wang Gu breathed a sigh of relief.

After a day of fighting, he was exhausted, and the Mongol army in the distance finally stopped. Even the Mongols did not dare to attack in the dark of night.

After all, the Red Phoenix Army is not a vegetarian, and there is no possibility of fighting at night on the battlefield with black lights and blind fire.

Before the trenches, a brazier was erected every three feet, and the firewood crackled in the brazier, turning into a vigorous flame, expelling the darkness in front of them and filling the soldiers patrolling here with some warmth.

"Alas, it's too cold. Last year, it wasn't that cold. ”

Lei Min sighed into his hands and rubbed his body again, which made himself warm up a little.

Next to him, Wang Gu knocked him and ordered: "Be a little serious, we are patrolling." "There were so many losses in the previous battle that the two of them had to go on patrol to avoid allowing the Mongols to sneak up on them at this time.

"Hey, isn't it just us, and is it possible for those people to be in this freezing environment?" Lei Min muttered, after all, it was night, it was winter, and more importantly, it was still blowing a strong wind.

In this kind of environment, no one wants to come out.

Except for them!

Wang Gu raised his eyebrows and shouted: "Have you forgotten the battle of the Three Mountain Peaks? At that time, the Jin Dynasty army also thought that the other party would not sneak attack, but they were completely annihilated! What's more, you also know that those guys are people from Mobei, and they have long been accustomed to this kind of weather, and the so-called heavy snow can't stop him at all. ”

"Really?" Lei Min was a little unconvinced.

Wang Gu replied solemnly: "Of course!"

"Okay. Lei Min shrank his head and shouted again: "It's just that why do those guys always want to go south?

"It's not impossible. It's just that I've heard the Staff say that this can't be!" Wang Gu shook his head, remembering what he had heard from those staff officers back in the day.

Lei Min immediately aroused curiosity and asked in a low voice, "Oh?

He naturally knew that the staff house brought together the most elite talents of the entire Red Phoenix Army, and basically everyone was honored to enter the staff house.

"It seems to be talking about the Xiaoice period!" Wang Gu tried hard to recall, wanting to say the specific content.

Lei Min was even more curious, and continued to ask, "Xiaoice River?"

"It's like talking about the weather. It will be a while in the future, I don't know the specifics, anyway, it's something similar."

Although there were no meteorological instruments to observe climate changes in ancient times, there were rich phenological records. The so-called phenology refers to the time of the year when people observe frost and snow, rivers open and freeze, plants bloom and knot, migratory birds come and go in spring and autumn, and so on. China was founded on agriculture, and for the needs of agriculture, phenological observations began in the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1 BC ~ 77O years at the latest). "Xia Xiaozheng" and "The Book of Rites and the Order of the Month" all record the results of phenological observations at that time. This kind of observation, which is 3,000 years old, is rich in experience and well documented, and is a valuable historical climate research material. For example, the state of Tan (now Shandong) on the occasion of Xia Yin used the north of Jiayan to determine the arrival of the spring equinox. In the spring equinox in the thirties of the last century, Jiayan only flew to Shanghai, not to the north of Shanghai, the average annual temperature of Shanghai and three or four thousand years ago was 1.5 °C. This result is consistent with the conclusion that the temperature was inferred by the method of regional variation of bamboo distribution in the archaeological period.

The writing of the Zhou Dynasty initially had gold inscriptions engraved on bronzes, and later there were more inscriptions or written on bamboo slips. The widespread use of bamboo slips and the fact that many of the texts at that time were headed with "bamboo" indicate that the early Zhou Dynasty was warm and bamboo generally grew in the Yellow River Basin, which is very different from now. By the middle of the Zhou Dynasty, the climate turned colder, and the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" recorded that the Han River froze twice during the reign of King Xiao of Zhou, which occurred in 9O3897 BC. However, in the spring and autumn period one or two hundred years later, the weather warmed up again. Subtropical plants such as bamboo and plum trees are often mentioned in the Book of Songs. For example, in "Qin Feng", it is contained: "What is there in the south? "Zhongnan Mountain is south of Xi'an, and there is no trace of trees now. In the Warring States Period, Qin and Western Han Dynasty, the climate has always been warm, and it was only in the Eastern Han Dynasty that there was a record of getting colder, but it was not long. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the climate really cooled down, in the first half of the fourth century A.D. to the extreme, Bohai Bay froze for three consecutive years, and the ice was feasible for the chariot and horse army. In the middle of the sixth century, Jia Siqian of the Northern Dynasty wrote an agricultural encyclopedic book "Qi Min Yaoshu", which paid great attention to the phenological situation. The book mentions that pomegranate trees in the eastern part of Henan Province must be wrapped in pampas from mid-October to avoid freezing to death, but today in these places, pomegranates can grow outdoors without wrapping.

After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the weather became warm again. According to records, in the winters of 65O, 669 and 678 AD, the capital Chang'an was free of ice and snow. At the beginning of the 8th century, plum trees grew in the palace and citrus trees were planted. Plum trees can only tolerate cold up to -14°C, while citrus can tolerate -8°C. But by the early 11th century in the Song Dynasty, there were no plum trees in North China, and the climate was colder than that of the Tang Dynasty. In the twelfth century, the climate continued to get colder. Not only was Taihu Lake frozen in 1111 A.D., but it was also possible to drive on ice, and all the citrus in Dongting Mountain on the lake froze to death. From 1131 to 126O, the average date of snowfall during the Spring Festival in Hangzhou was April 9, which was almost a month later than the latest spring snow in the 12th century and the previous decade. The cold of the twelfth century stretched from north to south to southern and southwestern China. In 111O and 1178, all the lychees in Fuzhou were frozen to death. Lychees once grew in Chengdu, Sichuan, and Zhang Ji's "Chengdu Song" clouds: "The Jinjiang River is green near the west, and the lychees are ripe in the new rain mountain." But in the Northern Song Dynasty, where Su Shi lived, lychees only grew in Meishan, south of Chengdu. In the Southern Song Dynasty in the twelfth century, according to Lu Youshi and Fan Chengda's "Wu Boat Record", even Meishan did not grow lychees

Although there were no meteorological instruments to observe climate changes in ancient times, there were rich phenological records. The so-called phenology refers to the time of the year when people observe frost and snow, rivers open and freeze, plants bloom and knot, migratory birds come and go in spring and autumn, and so on. China was founded on agriculture, and for the needs of agriculture, phenological observations began in the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1 BC ~ 77O years at the latest). "Xia Xiaozheng" and "The Book of Rites and the Order of the Month" all record the results of phenological observations at that time. This kind of observation, which is 3,000 years old, is rich in experience and well documented, and is a valuable historical climate research material. For example, the state of Tan (now Shandong) on the occasion of Xia Yin used the north of Jiayan to determine the arrival of the spring equinox. In the spring equinox in the thirties of the last century, Jiayan only flew to Shanghai, not to the north of Shanghai, the average annual temperature of Shanghai and three or four thousand years ago was 1.5 °C. This result is consistent with the conclusion that the temperature was inferred by the method of regional variation of bamboo distribution in the archaeological period.

The writing of the Zhou Dynasty initially had gold inscriptions engraved on bronzes, and later there were more inscriptions or written on bamboo slips. The widespread use of bamboo slips and the fact that many of the texts at that time were headed with "bamboo" indicate that the early Zhou Dynasty was warm and bamboo generally grew in the Yellow River Basin, which is very different from now. By the middle of the Zhou Dynasty, the climate turned colder, and the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" recorded that the Han River froze twice during the reign of King Xiao of Zhou, which occurred in 9O3897 BC. However, in the spring and autumn period one or two hundred years later, the weather warmed up again. Subtropical plants such as bamboo and plum trees are often mentioned in the Book of Songs. For example, in "Qin Feng", it is contained: "What is there in the south? "Zhongnan Mountain is south of Xi'an, and there is no trace of trees now. In the Warring States Period, Qin and Western Han Dynasty, the climate has always been warm, and it was only in the Eastern Han Dynasty that there was a record of getting colder, but it was not long. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the climate really cooled down, in the first half of the fourth century A.D. to the extreme, Bohai Bay froze for three consecutive years, and the ice was feasible for the chariot and horse army. In the middle of the sixth century, Jia Siqian of the Northern Dynasty wrote an agricultural encyclopedic book "Qi Min Yaoshu", which paid great attention to the phenological situation. The book mentions that pomegranate trees in the eastern part of Henan Province must be wrapped in pampas from mid-October to avoid freezing to death, but today in these places, pomegranates can grow outdoors without wrapping.