Chapter 22: The Great Snow Mountain
"Sister!" When Liu Chen led the army away, the female capital Governor Lan Ruo walked to Ji Wanzhu's side, and frowned lightly: "If you do this, everyone will begin to doubt the identity of the little prince, which is not good!"
"Just to make them suspicious!" Ji Wanzhu's eyes fell on the distance, with a sneer on his face: "I just want to see the reactions of each family, after so many years, I should also give an explanation to the people of the world! Besides, my father is still alive, and this is our biggest hole card!"
Lan Ruo nodded slightly, and then stopped speaking, he knew that the father in Ji Wanzhu's mouth was definitely not the old prince, but the legendary existence, with him, it was true that no one could afford to make waves, after all, in the face of absolutely powerful force, any conspiracy and trickery was unassuming.
Langya Wei is the Son of Heaven's pro-army, when it was first established, it was mainly to control the princes, so it would set up the governor's mansion in each state, but over the years, the governor's mansion has been changed a lot, just like Lan Ruo, she was born in a large sect under the command of Yuezhou Tingxue Lou, is an authentic Yuezhou person, her upper position, is also inseparable from the support of the holy lord and the grand duke of Yuezhou, and the Langya Wei governor's mansion in each state is recruited on the spot, and the next generation has been passed down from generation to generation, gradually, the central royal family's control over the local governor's mansion has long been gone。
Regarding the matter of Liu Chen, Lan Ruo knew, but the emperor didn't know, this is the expression of the Governor's Mansion to the princes and the royal family, not only in Yuezhou, but also in other states, much the same, now, the Metropolitan Governors have become the right-hand men of the Grand Dukes in governing a state, comparing each state to a ******, then the Metropolitan Governor is equivalent to the existence of the Prime Minister. On the surface, they obeyed the orders of the commander of Langya Weidu, but in fact, the orders of the Duke of Guo are really greater than everything.
As the champion of the Langya Guard, he also knows these things, his henchmen are not the governors, but the 200,000 Langya iron horses located in Zhongzhou, that is the real Son of Heaven pro-army, of course, there are still some of the governors of the states who are loyal to the royal family, such as Xue Zheng, the governor of Jinzhou, Jinzhou is located in the country of Buddhism, the folk customs are relatively simple, most of the officials are Buddhist believers, and they don't take the rights seriously, each generation of Jin Guogong is a high monk in the holy land of Buddhism, they are dedicated to martial arts and Buddhism, and Langya Wei is the ruler on their behalf, they can't ask for it, they don't care if the Jinzhou Governor's Mansion is loyal to the royal family。 The saddest thing is that there is no Chongzhou, not even the Langya Wei Governor's Mansion, it can be seen that over the years, the royal family has been weakened to what extent, and even the inquisition of the Chongzhou State Religion has gradually had a tendency to replace Langya Wei.
After a day of non-stop walking, the wooden character camp finally came to the front of Hangu Pass.
"In the Tiankai Hangu Zhuang Pass, the valley is shocked to the north sky!" Liu Chen sat quietly on the star-chasing horse, looking at the city pass standing under the snowy mountain in front of him with a shocked face, the towering city wall was carved with a knife and axe, all the traces of the years, as if telling the blood and sad song of the thousands of people who came to Xia, "It is worthy of being the first Xiongguan in the world!"
"The First Xiongguan?" Ji Huan, the commander of the wolf soldiers beside Liu Chen, smiled slightly, lowered his voice a little and said: "Cousin, this is not the first Xiongguan, although this Hangu Pass guards the natural danger, stretches for dozens of miles, and guards the gate of the west of the empire, for thousands of years, it has made the seventy-two clans of the Western Regions look at the pass and sigh, but when it comes to the first, it is not its turn!"
Liu Chen didn't bother to correct his title, just looked at him with a puzzled expression, waiting for his next step.
"The first Xiongguan in the Eastern Continent is the Yinyang Pass between my Xia people and the Kingdom of God!" Ji Huan's face was solemn, and he looked up to the north and said: "Eight hundred miles of Yinyang, countless martyrs threw their heads, spilled blood, and after several hard battles, they were able to drive the Iron Cavalry of the Kingdom of God to the outside of the pass, and that Xiongguan was made of the flesh and blood of my Xia people!"
The things that Ji Huan mentioned Liu Chen knew, in Great Xia, whether it was the barbarians in the west or the demon tribes in the south, in fact, they did not pose much of a threat to the Xia people, and the fear that people passed down from generation to generation came from the gods in the north.
"I should be with my heart, I should be clear to all sentient beings, I should use my sword, to control my mountains and rivers!" The ascetic on the side folded his hands, chanted a Buddha horn, and heard the words of the Holy Ancestor back then, everyone in the wooden word camp was serious, and the blood in their hearts was boiling, which was the pride of the human race, the sad song of the Xia people, and the ultimate that countless warriors pursued all their lives.
Just when everyone was remembering the martyrs, under the snow-capped mountains in the distance, there were bursts of muffled thunder, and when they looked at it, it was a black that covered the sky, like a torrent that deceives the mountain, and went straight to Hangu Pass.
"Xuanjia Army!" Suffering put up a tent in front of his forehead, and saw the scarlet "Wu" banner from a distance, and suddenly said with excitement on his face: "It's the Xuanjia Army, Hangu Pass outside the Snow Mountain, and Hangu Cangyun is wearing Xuanjia!" I used to hear about the Xuanjia Army, but when I saw it today, it really lived up to its reputation, and with this momentum alone, it was not something that ordinary troops could have. ”
"Muzi battalion! Queue, queue, defend the formation!" Liu Chen frowned, the Xuanjia army had already seen the wooden battalion, but they were still unabated, how arrogant they looked, obviously they wanted to give the wooden battalion from afar a dismount, which immediately caused Liu Chen to feel annoyed, in everyone's puzzled eyes, he raised the spear in his hand, beat his horse to the flank of the military formation, and shouted angrily:" The monk army is in the middle to defend the banner of the Chinese army, the wind and thunder iron cavalry responds to the left flank, the wolf army flanks the right flank, the pikemen and crossbowmen are ready, brothers, prepare for battle!
"Forward!" Even if he was puzzled, the whole army of the Muzi Battalion did not want to disobey Liu Chen's order, and after a while, the entire Muzi Battalion assembled into a defensive formation, staring at the oncoming Xuanjia Army, falling in the eyes of others, this is simply the rhythm of the imminent outbreak of the war.
The black Xuanjia Iron Rider had a Mo knife in his hand, the long blade was dragged on the ground, with a trace of sparks, Liu Chen stood in front of the wooden battalion formation, his body was slightly bent, like a sword on the string, he had already made up his mind, when it was fifty steps, if the Xuanjia army did not stop, then, the wooden battalion would be under his own leadership, and launched a charge against the Xuanjia army.
"Grand Duke, it seems that the left vanguard sent to us by the princes is somewhat interesting!" On the corner tower of Hangu Pass, a middle-aged man in a robe shook the feather fan in his hand, looked at the wooden character camp with admiration and said: "This leading young man can be regarded as a tiger general, a certain person has read the battle report of Heishuiyuan before, it is this young man who led the army to defeat the vanguard of the barbarian army, won more with less, and finally captured the seven princesses of the barbarian tribe, in the face of the world-famous Xuanjia army, he also dared to fight a decisive battle, it is really good!"
"Sir, don't say cool things here, originally you and I promised Tong'er to let him be a pioneer, now it's good, there is more left vanguard, he is unhappy, it seems that he is going to take this left vanguard, they are all friendly troops, but you can't hurt the harmony, you better think of a way, young people have no sense of proportion, we can't watch them mess around!" In front of the man in the robe stood a sturdy man in black armor, the appearance of the black armor was the style of the Xuanjia Army, I saw that he was expressionless, and he couldn't see joy and anger, as if the wooden battalion and the Xuanjia Army that were about to collide together under the city tower had nothing to do with him, this big man was none other than the contemporary Weiguo Gong, one of the four gods of the empire, Wu Feng, the commander of the Xuanjia, the man in the robe behind him was not ordinary, and the one who could make such fun with the princes of one side could only be the governor of Weizhou, known as Zhuge Ming, who was known as Zhiduoxing.
"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, you see that the archers of the wooden battalion have all replaced their arrows with wooden poles, and they are measured, so let's just stand here and take a look, what is the ability of this wooden battalion that has been booming recently!"
Wu Feng nodded, thought about it a little in his heart, and acquiesced to Zhuge Ming's statement, looking at the Muzi Battalion and the vanguard of the Xuanjia Army who were about to fight together, although they didn't say it, but they exchanged a look with each other, and they were still quite happy in their hearts, the military is this good, generation after generation, it has never disappointed, the young sons and daughters are slowly replacing the glory of their older generation, and through this war, they began to move towards their own stage, the era of the four gods, it's time to become history.