Chapter 214 Father and son reunited after many years!

The land of the western frontier, the town of Xiguan.

A popular limerick is popular among the people in northwest China.

Thousands of miles of yellow sand and thousands of miles of bones, there is only one outer wall of Zhenxiguan.

It refers to the dangerous terrain of Zhenxiguan, which is like a high wall erected in the northwest courtyard where yellow sand is flying and bones are everywhere. It has long been guarding the peace of the people in the western border area.

This also confirms the long history of the Western Frontier.

It can be said that since the disintegration of the Tiandu clan and the civil strife among the eight kingdoms, Zhenxiguan has been the patron saint of the people in the western border areas of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Before the rise of the Qin State, Zhenxiguan blocked the plundering from the barbarian lands outside the Great Wall.

After the rise of the Qin army, Zhenxi Pass has always been a pass that the Qin army cannot cross.

It makes the people living in the Western Frontier feel very safe.

But in the past few years, Zhenxiguan has almost been lost twice.

This also made the people in the entire western border area very worried.

Zhenxiguan has a very heavy weight in the hearts of the people in the entire northwest, and has always been regarded as their patron saint.

Now even Zhenxiguan has almost fallen.

The people didn't know what else could protect their safety.

Li Yueming followed the nearest route from the north to the west, and met many people from the western frontier while traveling.

I dismounted and asked, and found that they were all self-organized teams heading to Zhenxiguan to transport grain.

Some of the people pulled donkey carts, while others simply carried them on their shoulders, carrying heavy loads of wheat, sweet potatoes, corn and other grains all the way to Zhenxiguan, just to give the troops in Zhenxiguan a good meal.

Many of the grains were old grains from last year, which were stored by the people to resist various natural disasters.

Even though Li Yueming was prepared for this, when he saw it with his own eyes, he still felt that he couldn't bear to look directly at it.

You must know that the Northwest is not the wealthy Central Plains.

The food output here is extremely low, and it is already difficult for the people to make a living here. In addition, due to the war and chaos in these years, every household has tightened their belts, and life is quite difficult.

But under this circumstance, they sent all the grain stored in their homes to Zhenxiguan without anyone's compulsion.

This shows how much they trust Zhenxiguan and the Zhenxi Army.

In fact, Li Yueming wanted to remind them that once the Qin army really launched a general attack at all costs, a single town in Xiguan alone would not be able to resist its millions of troops.

But it was just a thought. If I really asked him to speak, he couldn't speak and didn't know how to speak.

Not to mention that this has not happened yet.

Even if it really happened.

What can a group of helpless civilians do?

There are no eggs left when a nest is overturned, and when disaster strikes, the first unlucky ones are often the poor people.

Sighing, Li Yueming shook his head.

He urged the spirit horse to fly directly into the air, and didn't look back.

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About five days later, Li Yueming arrived at Zhenxi Pass.

As the first pass in the northwest of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the majesty of Zhenxi Pass is beyond the imagination of normal people.

From a distance, the entire city wall of Zhenxiguan seems to be made entirely of steel. The black-gray wall rises from the ground. It is hundreds of meters high and tens of meters thick. It is built on a narrow and dangerous place.

On the left and right sides of the city wall are majestic cliffs thousands of feet high. The cliffs are so steep that they seem to have been cut and cast with knives and axes.

This rare scene in the human world was formed after a remaining vein of the extremely cold snow mountain broke.

The mountains of the Extreme Cold Snow Mountains span thousands of miles, extending from the southwest to the northeast. Zhenxiguan is the tail of the dragon, and the Extremely Cold Snow Mountains in the Shiwanda Mountains are the head. The entire dragon vein is in one go. Only Zhenxiguan has one place.

fracture.

According to ancient legends, this gap was cut off by the Tiandu Emperor's sword, and it was this sword that completely cut off the last breath of the Zerg master.

Therefore, Zhenxi Pass was also called Renhuang Pass a long time ago to commemorate the great achievements of Renhuang Tiandu clan.

All in all, the steep cliffs create the majestic and dangerous terrain of Zhenxiguan, and also isolate the possibility of large-scale enemy attacks from other directions.

When Li Yueming saw this majestic pass, he suddenly understood why the Zhenxi Army was able to resist the Qin Army's nearly one million tiger troops with more than 300,000 troops and was unable to advance for several years.

Such uncanny natural dangers are really a nightmare for any enemy who wants to attack the city.

After approaching Zhenxi Pass, Li Yueming soon saw the soldiers of the Zhenxi Army standing guard. The soldiers were wearing exquisitely crafted but already aged armor, and their faces were filled with a murderous look.

Even though they were far apart, Li Yueming could feel the evil aura on the other person's body.

With just a cursory glance, even Li Yueming could conclude that the other party was definitely a veteran who had crawled out of the dead.

The Star-Moon Army is already elite enough.

However, in front of the Zhenxi Army, which had been fighting against the Qin Army all year round, it still seemed to lack the killing spirit.

At the same time, several soldiers at the city gate also saw Li Yueming riding a tall horse at a glance.

After signaling him to dismount from a distance.

Several soldiers armed with weapons came over with vigilant faces and asked: "Who are you, and why do you come to Zhenxiguan?"

Li Yueming took out the road guide from his pocket.

He couldn't get this thing by himself. After all, he ran out privately without the permission of the court.

But he has a good master!

As the nominal supreme commander of the Northland, You Aotian would have no problem finding a way out for Li Yueming.

After seeing Lu Yin and the fictitious identity on Lu Yin, the soldier on guard in the Zhenxi Army relaxed his eyebrows a little: "It turns out that he is a brother of the Zhenbei Army. What is your purpose here? Is there any specific document?"

Li Yueming had already prepared his words in advance: "General You asked me to come and see how the friendly forces are doing. If necessary, our Zhenbei Army may be able to help!"

The Zhenbei Army and the Zhenxi Army are both frontier armies in the northwest.

Although officially, there is not much in common with each other.

But there is still some friendship in private.

It is also common for the two armies to communicate with each other.

Therefore, the soldiers at the gate quickly accepted Li Yueming's excuse.

Since it is a private visit, it is normal that there is no specific document.

After confirming that Li Yueming did not have ulterior motives, several soldiers of the Zhenxi Army obviously relaxed a lot: "Please trouble my brothers from the Zhenbei Army to wait a moment. This matter must be reported first, and we can only release him after the superiors nod!"

In this regard, Li Yueming is all right.

The purpose of his coming here is to take advantage of his father. Before he understands the specific situation of the Zhenxi Army, he cannot easily reveal his true identity.

One of the soldiers standing guard left, probably reporting the situation to superiors.

Another soldier conveniently helped Li Yueming tie the spirit horse to a temporary stable set up under the city wall.

It was also at this time that Li Yueming noticed that there was already a long queue of people delivering food at the side gate not far from Zhenxi Pass. For this reason, the Zhenxi Army even posted a notice on the city wall, telling people not to send food and to keep the food for themselves.

winter.

But it still cannot stop the enthusiasm of the people.

The food delivery team was packed with photos for several days.

The Zhenxi Army had nothing to do about it. They carried the food all the way here, so they couldn't let them carry it back again!

Therefore, we can only send people to collect the food of these people.

In order to repay the enthusiasm of the people, the Zhenxi Army also sent soldiers to cook porridge at the city gate 24 hours a day for the people who delivered food, ensuring that they would have a hot bite when they returned after delivering the food.

Li Yueming watched the people coming and going without saying a word.

About ten minutes later, the soldiers informed him that the senior officials of the Zhenxi Army had allowed him to move around Zhenxiguan.

It's just that the scope of his activities is limited to the city.

The high passes do not allow any unrelated persons to approach.

Passing through the thick city wall dozens of meters wide, Li Yueming entered Zhenxi City.

Because Li Yueming's reason for entering the city was to see if there was a place where supplies could be exchanged at Zhenxi Pass, he was accompanied by a quartermaster of the Zhenxi Army.

But this is not something worth mentioning to Li Yueming.

After all, the more difficult part of the plan is to enter Zhenxi Pass. As long as you enter Zhenxi Pass, with Li Yueming's personal strength, as long as he does not commit suicide, there will basically be no safety problems.

Naturally, a mere quartermaster cannot restrain him.

Soon, Li Yueming disappeared under the quartermaster's nose in a blink of an eye.

The quartermaster thought he was dazzled.

When I finally came to my senses, my first reaction was that something was terribly wrong.
To be continued...