The wind was galloping, Xiao straddled the horse with the wind, and in the mountain road surrounded by mountains and forests, he rode straight west. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xiao Suifeng's destination is very clear, it is the place where the imperial army that surrounded and suppressed Shen Lun's gang of horse bandits was stationed, Shacheng.

Since the establishment of the Dakang Dynasty, Wangshanyuan has been in a state of chaos, at first, it was divided by the forces of the previous dynasty, and later, although the fugitive army and the forces of the previous dynasty slowly dissipated, but Fushan City and countless horse thieves of all sizes have appeared in the Wangshan Plain, coupled with the Leng Yue Sect behind it, so that the Dakang Imperial Court has not been able to complete the complete control of the large land of Wangshanyuan.

It's just that although the imperial court has not been able to completely sweep away the large and small forces in Wangshanyuan, and has not been able to completely control Wangshanyuan, after decades of operation, it has also infiltrated the power into Wangshanyuan.

Now, the imperial court has not only controlled the place near the Central Plains or the North Land in Wangshan Plain, but also firmly punched a few wedges in the hinterland of Wangshan Plain. And these wedges are the military cities built by the imperial army in the Wangshan Plain.

The Wangshan Plain is extremely extensive, but most of the area is either grassland, Gobi, or lofty mountains and dense forests, in short, they are some wild places.

Naturally, such a barren land is also inhabited by people, but those who can really live here are either mountain people or herdsmen, like those ordinary farmers in the Central Plains, but there are basically none.

Whether it is a nomadic or a mountain people, in fact, there is no habit of building cities and walls, so in the entire Wangshan Plain, although the area is vast and boundless, there are few real cities.

It's like Gesang City, which Xiao Suifeng just passed by, really speaking, there is still the Cold Moon Sect that came forward to build, in order to ensure the safety of the west side of the Cold Moon Sect's base camp, Guyu City.

Looking at the entire Wangshan Plain, there are definitely no more than ten big cities that are really counted, and of course, the most famous of them is naturally Nafushan City.

In addition to Fushan City, there are five of the remaining slightly larger cities, which are military cities built by the Dakang army.

The five military cities are Lancheng, Gaicheng, Shacheng, Izumo Castle, and Baiji Castle.

The main purpose of the existence of the so-called military city is naturally not to provide people with residence or to provide merchants with trade, but the real purpose is to garrison troops and control the place.

In this Wangshan Plains, not to mention the behemoths like Fushan City or the Cold Moon Sect, there are countless mountain tribes and horse thieves.

Most of the mountain and forest tribes are in the mountains and forests near the Yunling Mountains or the Tianshan Mountains in the Wangshan Plain, and most of them are the Liyi tribes who have migrated.

These tribes, living in the poor mountains and bad waters, and the natural struggle with heaven and earth, although one by one is extremely hard, but the combat effectiveness, but also amazing, all of them are very fierce, often the whole clan is a soldier.

Speaking of which, the main force of the Liyi tribe is in the 100,000 mountains south of the Yunling Mountains, and it is not subject to the indoctrination of the Central Plains Dynasty, since the founding of China, the farming dynasty of the Central Plains has always had three great enemies, among which the greatest threat is naturally the ghost slave tribe in the northern grassland, in addition, it is the Liyi tribe south of the Yunling Mountains. As for the last one, it is the Tu tribe in the mountains and forests of the Northeast, but compared to the threat of the Guinu and Li Yi tribes to Chinese civilization, the danger of the Tu tribe is much smaller.

The entire history of the Chinese Dynasty is deeply entangled with these three major ethnic groups, and when the Central Plains Dynasty was in its heyday, it was often either the northern expedition to the ghost slaves, or the southern attack on Liyi, in order to establish immortal feats. Similarly, whenever the Central Plains Dynasty falls into decline, the shadows of these three major ethnic groups are bound to be indispensable behind it.

Although since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there has never been a precedent for foreign races to enter the Central Plains, but there are many examples of the destruction of the Central Plains Dynasty and foreign races.

The mountain people who looked at the mountain plains were the tribes south of Yunling who crossed the Yunling Mountains from the Liyi tribe.

Today's Dakang Dynasty has ordinary martial arts to the outside world, and it is not as if it has never completely conquered the three major foreign races, and can only maintain a reluctant peace.

And the attitude of these alien races towards the Central Plains Dynasty is often to eat hard rather than soft, only by really beating them down can they completely surrender, like the Great Kang Dynasty, etc., naturally the three major alien races can not have the slightest sense of awe.

It is already common for ghost slaves to attack and harass the Central Plains, and the Li Yi clan south of Yunling is not plundering everywhere, and it is precisely because of this that the Li Yi people in the Wangshan Plain are also unruly, although they are nominally in the territory of the Dakang Imperial Court, but they are not half in awe of the imperial court.

Out of the Liyi tribe in the mountains, which made the Dakang court a headache, those horse thieves were also average.

On the grassland in the Wangshan Plain, although there are also small nomads, and even some small tribes of the ghost slave tribe are among them, but the ones who can really threaten the Dakang court are those horse thieves who are as many as cows.

In Wangshan Plain, the life of a horse thief is the least valuable, and even a horse and a cow may be more than the life of a horse thief, and the reason for this is because there are too many horse thieves among them.

The individual forces of these horse thieves are actually not very large, and the most are only a few thousand, and the few may only be a few dozen, or even a dozen. It's just that the power of this single horse thief is not very large, but in the entire Wangshan Plain, these large and small horse thieves, I am afraid that there are hundreds or thousands, and together, they are an amazing force.

These horse thieves, as well as those large and small tribes of Liyi, on weekdays, do not have much to do with each other, and even fight with each other in order to compete for various interests, even the Liyi tribes in the same group are also average.

However, when these Li Yi tribes and horse thief forces encountered the pressure of the Dakang imperial army, they would often gather together to fight against the imperial army.

When the army of the Dakang Dynasty first advanced into this Wangshan Plain, if the number of troops was small, it was slowly eaten by these horse thieves or mountain and forest tribes who suddenly joined together, or even directly ate it in one bite.

But if the army sends too much, those horse thieves and the Liyi tribe will not be able to gnaw, but those elusive Liyi Mountain names and those horse thieves in the roaring grassland will interrupt the supply and grain routes of the army, so that even if the army in front wins all the way, it will often return in vain in the end, and even if you are not careful, you may fall into a situation of cutting off food and grass.

After encountering several failures in a row, the Dakang Imperial Court also learned wisely, and finally changed its strategy, no longer wanting to solve the chaos in Wangshanyuan once and for all as it did at the beginning, but chose the method of slowly sorting out Wangshanyuan.

This method is to take it step by step.

According to this step-by-step method, the Dakang Dynasty cleared the army in the Wangshan Plain, no longer as before, but blindly cleared and advanced blindly, but after clearing an area, it was to camp on the spot and consolidate its power.

This approach, although the speed is very slow and the efficiency is very low, but the effect is good, not only do not worry that the troops are too scattered will be eaten by those Li Yi tribes or horse thieves who suddenly gather, and at the same time, there is no need to worry about the lack of logistics and supplies because the battle line is too long, or cut off by the horse thieves.

In this way, it took decades for the Dakang Imperial Court to build five military cities in this Wangshan Plain, and the five wedges were firmly driven into this Wangshan Plain, although it was still not really in control of the Wangshan Plain, but compared to the situation that the army did not dare to enter the Wangshan Plain easily, it has been turned upside down.

Five military cities, nailed in the shape of a cross in this Wangshan Plain, among them, Lancheng can be said to be the central guard, is the main military city that coordinates the general trend of the imperial court army in the entire Wangshan Plain, including 20,000 elite garrisons. On the southeast, northwest, and northwest sides of Lancheng, there are Nagai Castle, Sand Castle, Izumo Castle and the dead city of White Horse Castle, guarding the four directions, and each military city has a garrison of 10,000 troops.

Of course, the power of the imperial court in Wangshan Plain is naturally not only these five military cities, but also between these five military cities, as well as the road to the hinterland of the Central Plains, there are also more than a dozen small military towns or fortresses, large and small, among which there are also troops of varying numbers, most of them are three or four thousand, and the few are only a few hundred people.

Five military cities plus large and small military towns or fortresses, in the entire Wangshan Plain, the Dakang Dynasty has 100,000 troops stationed in it, which is already an extremely large number in the standing army of the Dakang Dynasty.

This time, when the righteous path factions were attacking the Cold Moon Sect, under the dispatch of the Tiantai Mansion, the Dakang Imperial Court also dispatched 30,000 elite troops, and cooperated with the righteous path factions to clean up the Cold Moon Sect, and also started a new round of sweeping against the Wangshan Plains.

And these 30,000 elites were drawn from these armies, and the purpose was naturally to further sweep away the large and small forces in Wangshan Plain that were not controlled by the imperial court, and if possible, prepare to wipe out some of the forces of Nafushan City.

It's just that at the moment, the forces of the righteous sects are confronting the Cold Moon Sect, and the elite army of the imperial court has not made any progress, although it has been killed all the way to the sphere of influence of Fushan City, but the results of the rapid attack have also been revealed, under the attack of the countless horse thieves and the warriors of the Li Yibu tribe, the logistics supply is gradually becoming a little difficult, and the momentum of the beginning of the war is no longer resumed.

Fortunately, the Dakang army and the large and small forces in this Wangshan Plain have been accustomed to fighting, and they have long expected such an outcome, so the morale can still be maintained, but it is also in the absence of the previous attack posture, and it can only be caught in a confrontation with the forces of the righteous path factions.

Of course, that's another story.

The border army that Xiao Suifeng wanted to find that encircled and suppressed Shen Lun's gang of horse thieves back then, according to the records of Tiantai Mansion, was the border army of the imperial court from Nasha City, and Xiao Suifeng wanted to find the army that surrounded and suppressed Shen Lun back then, so naturally he could only go to Shacheng.

Shacheng is not close to Nagesang City, there is a distance of hundreds of miles, but in this endless Wangshan Plain, the distance of hundreds of miles is really not too far, if Xiao Suifeng rides all the way over, even if it is a day and night break, it is only three or five days of work, and he can arrive.

Xiao Suifeng had already counted this time in his heart, but in his heart, he was still a little uncertain.

Xiao Suifeng is not worried about what will happen on the road, what he is most worried about is whether the army that surrounded and suppressed Shen Lun's group of horse thieves still exists, and if so, will the old case files of that year also be well preserved.

It's no wonder that Xiao Suifeng is uneasy in his heart, Xiao Suifeng is investigating after all and it is a little too late, the Xiao family extermination case was twelve years ago, and Shen Lun's bandits were exterminated by the army, three years earlier, that is to say, Shen Lun's bandits were exterminated, and it has been fifteen years since now.

Fifteen years is not a short time, and for many people, I am afraid it is already half a lifetime.

Although the establishment of the border army of the Dakang Imperial Court is not like that of those armies in the hinterland of the Central Plains, which will rotate around, but fifteen years have passed, and that army is not there, who can know? Moreover, even if the army of that year is still in Shacheng, but fifteen years have passed, those old soldiers who participated in the encirclement and suppression of Shen Lun back then are probably either dead, or they have already been disarmed and returned to the field.

Although, the investigation of the border army that encircled and suppressed Shen Lun back then was only a small part of Xiao Suifeng's entire investigation in Wangshan Plain, but after all, this is a beginning, if you can't get any results from the beginning, will it really be smooth sailing next?

Xiao rode on the horse with the wind, all the way, but in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

It's just that although Xiao Suifeng is restless, the quality and caution that a martial artist should have have have not been discarded.

The surrounding mountains and forests are reckless, and Xiao Suifeng had already expected that in the mountains and forests west of Gesang City, I am afraid that I don't know how many masters or secret agents of the righteous path sects are hidden, so after leaving the city, when passing through this section of the mountains and forests, Xiao Suifeng's heart has always been with a trace of caution.

Although Xiao Suifeng himself didn't want to have too much to do with the Cold Moon Sect at the moment, no matter what, he couldn't change the fact that he came out of Gesang City controlled by the Cold Moon Sect, and naturally it was very likely that he would be targeted by the masters of the righteous path.

Although it is said that with Xiao Suifeng's current strength, even if a few masters of the righteous path make a move, they will not pose any threat to Xiao Suifeng, but Xiao Suifeng's purpose in coming to Wangshanyuan is to investigate clues, not to get caught in the entanglement of grievances between the righteous path and the Cold Moon Sect.

It's just that things in this world are often the more afraid of something, the more worried about something, the more something comes, and the world is created, and I often like to joke with people so much.

Xiao Suifeng was riding a horse on the forest road, and sure enough, it didn't take long to find that someone was already targeting him.

...... (To be continued.) )