The border city is located between Qiuru Mountain and Daishan Mountain, and sits in the narrowest place between the two mountains, and the Huahe River and the Peng River, which originate from the two peaks, rush westward, forming a natural barrier.

This is the Xiongguan built by Jiang Yugang at the expense of tens of thousands of slaves and three years of grain storage.

The city wall planted by the logs of ten people is extremely tough, and countless witches are carved inside by the great witch of the Yan clan, and after being triggered by the people and witches in the city, it can be burned into a sea of fire within a hundred miles outside the city. There are tens of thousands of witch wars stationed here all year round, except for witch wars, the rest of the more than 100,000 people are slaves of the Beiqiang people.

Jiang Liejing sat on the city wall bare-chested, and the end of the roasted meat of all kinds of strange beasts came up and was poured into his mouth.

Since Li rebelled, he was sent here by Emperor Yan and has not returned to Yancheng for five years.

His wife and children have been taken over by him, although there is no prosperity of Yancheng here, but it is better to be free, Jiang Lie, as a town guard, follows his words, and his life is comfortable.

It's just that such comfortable days are coming to an end.

From the gap at the bottom of the city wall due west, the grain transport team sent by Emperor Yan was transporting the fifth batch of grain into the city.

Looking at the bustling crowd under the city and the mountains of grain that had been piled up in the city, Jiang Lie knew that Emperor Yan had made up his mind to eradicate all the Li people, including Li Greed, this time to prevent future troubles.

He was one of Emperor Yan's most confidant generals, and he had heard some secrets when he was in Yancheng, and he knew why he was so desperate to eradicate the Li people.

As the heir of the bloodline of the human emperor, Jiang Yugang's throne was to succeed his great-grandfather Jiang Ai's throne. However, when it was passed down to his generation, there was a problem with Emperor Yan's bloodline, and since Jiang Yugang ascended the throne, none of the concubines have become pregnant.

In the thirty-seventh year of his reign, Jiang Yuyan had recruited good concubines for three years, but after that, he did not marry another concubine, and his temperament became irritable and irritable, and there were often rumors in the harem that concubines were whipped to death.

Jiang Lie once overheard him mention it when he was having dinner with the guard commander of Emperor Yan's Palace, and Jiang Yu secretly asked the guards to go out of the city to hunt the spiritual veins of various ethnic groups, and take the living blood and the spirit fetus that has not seen the light of day. Only then did Jiang Lie know that Jiang Yuran, the original Yan Emperor who was the orthodox human race in the world, was unable to have children—those were all food supplements spawned by aphrodisiac.

Could it be that there is something wrong with Emperor Yan's bloodline? After learning this news, Jiang Lie suddenly discovered that perhaps since the fourth Emperor Yan, Jiang Li, this situation has begun to appear.

Before Emperor Yan Jiang Li, Emperor Yan had many heirs, and even after the world was divided, there would be several heirs who would stay in Yancheng and be raised by Emperor Yan himself.

However, Emperor Yan Jiang Li only gave birth to four children in his life, two of whom were still girls.

The sixth, seventh, and eighth Yan Emperors before Jiang Yugang all became a single lineage, and after the eighth Yan Emperor Jiang Ai passed the throne to his eldest son Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan was killed by the leader of the Qiang people in the grass field when he led the army to resist the invasion of the Northern Qiang people. And his only eldest son, Jiang Xian, led the army to avenge his father, but he was also trapped in Beihai by the Qiang people, besieged for several months and died, and he didn't even have time to pass on his heirs.

Jiang Ai had succeeded to the throne of the emperor at that time, and the Yan clan once fell into a situation where the dragons were leaderless, and the princes were ready to move. Later, the old princess summoned the princes and officials to pay a pilgrimage, which announced that Jiang Xian had a maid named Qingmei Yunyu in the palace before the expedition, and Qingmei was also conceived and conceived with the emperor's species, so she was specially named Qingfei, and the posthumous son in her womb was named the next heir of Emperor Yan, and that posthumous son was Jiang Yugang.

Jiang Yuyan became the king of the human race at birth and deserved to enjoy all the glory, but the princes did not let him go. After he recognized his ancestors and returned to his ancestors, all kinds of rumors circulated in Yancheng, claiming that Jiang Xian did not go to Wushan with Concubine Qing before the expedition, and Concubine Qing was actually pregnant because she had an affair with the guards, and she was actually a light-blooded wild seed sitting on the throne.

Although Concubine Qing swore by various gambling curses, the rumors were still spreading more and more, and even Jiang Lie had heard this kind of rumor when he was a child, so you can imagine how wide the rumors spread at that time.

Later, the old princess invited the great witch Jiang Xiang to test Jiang Yu's bloodline, and then blocked the mouths of the princes. In addition, the old princess personally ordered the guards to strictly prohibit the spread of rumors, and only after severely punishing several people could the rumors be stopped.

However, just after Jiang Yufu officially took over the throne as an adult, this rumor began to resurgence because he had no heirs for a long time.

The old imperial concubine also went to serve the ancestors, and the great witch waited for the witch fire all the year round, and no one helped Jiang Yu to come out, but he had secretly cultivated the power of his cronies.

When rumors spread, he brazenly launched a crusade war, slaughtering several princely states in one fell swoop, shocking the entire clan, and for a time no one dared to question his rule. At the beginning, Jiang Lie was gradually cultivated as a general because he fought bravely to be the first when he attacked the Qi Kingdom, and after being valued by Jiang Yu.

Jiang Lie drank a cup of deer blood, smelling the faint fishy sweetness lingering on the tip of his nose, he seemed to see the blood sprayed into the sky in his cavity when he cut down the Marquis of Qiguo Jun Li Tian with a knife, the muffled snort that was sealed in his throat with a knife, now that he thinks about it, maybe it was a wrong?

During the reign of the fourth Yan Emperor Jiang Li, he originally wanted to pass on the throne to his eldest son Jiang Yong, and his second son Jiang Zheng was enshrined as a marquis in the Qi Kingdom. But Jiang Yong died of illness soon, and Jiang Zheng had also been divided, and he was unwilling to come back to take over the throne. Therefore, he had to pass the throne to his elder brother, Jiang Ming, the grandson of the third Yan Emperor Jiang Cheng.

He originally thought that Jiang Yu wanted to slaughter the Qi Kingdom because he had discovered the rumors that had spread in his Hou Kingdom, but now it seems that maybe the reason is not so simple.

In the rumors against Jiang Yugang, the core point is that Jiang Yugang's blood is not pure, and he wants to replace the successor of Emperor Yan. And there is no successor to the orthodox bloodline, and after several generations of dilution of the bloodline in the vassal states, the purest one is the descendant of Jiang Zheng's branch of the Qi Kingdom.

In addition to the ancestor Jiang Zheng in the Qihou Kingdom, he also took Jiang as his surname, and his descendants were all surnamed Li by him in the name of his father. By the time of Jiang Yugang, Li Shao, the only son of the Marquis of Li Tian of the Qi Kingdom, should be the reasonable heir in the rumors.

Jiang Lie still remembered that when he found Li Xiao and a group of Qi children hiding in it from under the Qi State Chamber, he had the opportunity to kill all those children, but he hesitated.

Have you been suspicious ever since, or have you not even been aware of your suspicions?

Perhaps it was the ancestor who appeared at that time, but he waited for the decree of the great witch Jiang Xiang, and a local witch rushed to the Qi Kingdom, demanding that they stop the killing, and took Li Shao and other Qi children away.

At that time, he didn't understand why the Great Witch Jiang Xiang would betray the Yan Clan and take Li Shao and them away to the East, and now he already has some guesses.

However, even if he knew the truth, he was no longer a child, and the so-called bloodline of Emperor Yan was nothing more than the rhetoric of the ruler. The greatness of the Shennong clan has nothing to do with his bloodline, even if Jiang Ming, Jiang Yi, and Jiang Lai, who are directly related to the bloodline, aren't the Yan Emperors also mediocre in talent? Even during the period of their rule, Yancheng's dominance over the vassal states was still weakening year by year. It wasn't until Jiang Yugang ascended to the throne that he used iron-blooded means to restore Yancheng a trace of its former prestige.

Jiang Lie finally had his fill, and he stood up, his naked body covered with scars, which were the traces of glory left in countless bloody battles.

He had the biggest scar on his abdomen, which was pierced by the sharp horn of a hairy giant rhino in the vein of the Mao Clan's Thunder Beast King, he almost lost his life in that battle, but he also led the Yan army to resist the invasion of the Mao Clan in winter.

Sighing, he looked to the east, even if Jiang Yugang was really not the bloodline of Emperor Yan, but now he was still the ruler of the human race.

Only power and force are the real power, and the so-called orthodox bloodline is meaningless at all.

With the gradual expansion of the human race, the contradictions between the various races are also increasing, and the border cities alone will kill countless foreign tribes who wander into the city every year during the snow season.

Therefore, what the Terrans need today is a leader who can lead the entire Terran to become strong in a world full of strong races, and that person will only be Jiang Yugang.

The six granaries in the border city have been filled, and before the autumn harvest, the Yan army will once again march eastward, and this time, the Yan bull's head banner will be planted in the east forever.

"Someone!"

Jiang Lie shouted, climbed up from behind the city wall, and stood in front of Jiang Lie with his head held high.

"Pass my order, the border city witch war will be completely wiped out from now on! The generals of the Tenth Army have come to discuss the matter of autumn hunting!"

"Order!"

Wu Zhan received the order, turned over and got off the city wall, Jiang Lie looked at the slaves who were busy like worker ants under the city, and licked his lips.

The so-called autumn hunting is not to hunt foreign animals, but to hunt slaves.

Every Terran war creates a lot of slaves, and even the most capable slaves have to eat.

In the years when the harvest is poor, in order to reduce the number of people, whether it is Yancheng or the vassal states, autumn hunts will be held, and those slaves will be used as prey for the witch wars to hunt.

In Yancheng, the witch war of the autumn hunt is often the witch war of the young man who has only reached adulthood that year, and an autumn hunt can not only let the young people who have not fought seriously taste the sweetness of blood, but also allow the rulers to see the outstanding ones and recruit and cultivate.

I remember that when he was just coming of age for the autumn hunt, he cut off the heads of seventeen slaves, right? That was the first time he knew how heavy human heads were.

The witch wars in the border cities are all bloody men who fight for their lives from the battle array, but they haven't cut off their heads for five years.

It's time for their stiff wrists to reacquaint themselves with the hardness of their necks, and Jiang Lie needs to stimulate the blood of those children.

Soon, they will once again set foot on the battlefield, where a tough battle awaits them.

Jumping off the city wall, Jiang Lie fell into the crowd, and the scattered slaves fearfully moved out of the way, these Qiang people who had been deprived of their magic power seemed to have been cut off with their magic power, and they had already lost their blood.

Maybe you should let those boys save some hands, and after the war, they will have to carry food and grass with these slaves!