Power and Empire Chapter 2979: Cut off Yunkong (8)

Zhong Biya, Qingyang

The rain is rushing, and the strings of water droplets formed on the eaves of the house are knocked down, and it is even more cold and infiltrating. It is obviously the hot season of June, but it has become as cold as late autumn, beside the city wall. The phoenix tree withered in the wind, and the streets were scattered with leaves. The wind passed by and rolled up the leaves, like fragments intertwined in mid-air. The wind and rain are swaying, just like the current portrayal of the Chinese Empire.

Qingyang, as the most important estuary town in the middle of the Great River in the south, is a transportation hub connecting the north and the south, waterway and land, with cars and boats flowing through it. At its most prosperous time, the urban population exceeded 600,000, and the urban area reached more than 40. Here, in the days of Huishang, businessmen from all over Qingyang gathered in Qingyang, and once had the reputation of fifty miles of Qingyang Phoenix Market

Since the beginning of April, the Yelv family's army, who had lost the battle for Yanzhou, began to approach the Qingyang River and attacked at any time. This city has lost its former prosperity. A large number of residents and businessmen began to move to the southern region, praying to avoid the harassment of the war. Although the Zhongbia court issued several orders prohibiting relocation, it was declared that the prairie people can only ride horses, not boats, and there is a big river in Qingyang. The danger, and the 50,000 troops guarding the court, is absolutely impenetrable,

But apparently no results have been achieved. The prosperous city with hundreds of thousands of people has become deserted and lonely in just over a month, as if on the verge of death. The wind swept across the empty streets, and it seemed that the damp smell became stronger.

Twenty miles outside of Qingyang, the number one figure in the Central and Bianya Military Ministry Pavilion, Li Long, the man who has high hopes from the Li family, is watching an imperial carriage coming from a distance. An official of the foreign affairs of the empire, in fact an intelligence officer of the Ministry of Supervision of the empire, according to the emperor’s will, Lakgedin, who went to the core hinterland of Central and Biyah to "take a look", was not very good in appearance because he was a bit bloated It’s really difficult for people to associate a ferocious creature like a tiger with him, but in the Imperial Supervision Department, Lachdinger is known as the Tiger of the Supervision Department with his excellent memory and resilience. There are rumors. , As long as what Lakgedin has seen, as long as within three months, it can still be described very accurately by Lakgedin, it is simply a human memory

This is a typical meeting that can only be expected and can't be explained. The Chinese and Bianlian side is also extremely vigilant. Li Long, the head of the military cabinet, is even out of the city for twenty miles, so naturally he will not bring too many entourages. One seat in white clothes, four guards,

Lakgedin did not carry too many entourages, but there are still more than a dozen. Among these entourages, there are not many real entourages. Except for a few personal guards, the others have their own strengths. People, some specialize in geography, and some specialize in water networks. There are even those who specialize in the strength of buildings. The imperial military actions in the wilderness have made the Chinese and Biya courts unable to ignore

The strength of the empire’s combat power can be seen from the fact that it was able to kill the hooked wolf army in one fell swoop, and then the Yelv family went south in horror, flooded into Yanzhou and poured into the middle, also under the force of the empire, now In the name of crusade, he entered the wilderness, and the distance from the area controlled by the Central Biya court is almost borderline. A neighbor of such a cruel Western barbarian, no one will be at ease, and from a strategic point of view, the empire is completely possible. After occupying the wilderness, he will then use the wilderness as a support point to expand to the Central and Biya area. Then, what will the Central and Biya court hold?

"Long Li"

"Lakgedin"

The two exchanged simple greetings. In the carriage, in order to express the intention of the empire, Lakgodin delivered the documents in his hands directly to Li Long. Li Long opened the documents nervously. At the beginning, I looked at Lakgeddin on the opposite side, and asked, "What do you mean by your empire? It has been two years since the Shanzhong Province has been included in China and Biya, and it has been the land of China and Biya. This is your country." This time not only played the banner of crusade, but even declared the Shanzhong Province as the empire’s sphere of influence"

"Mountain Central Province has always been part of the Gaul region. How could it be the land of Central and Biyadh!" Lakgodin smiled disdainfully, and pulled back all the documents, and said in a condensed voice. "And this time It is not that our empire outrageously sent troops to the wilderness. As part of the Gaul rebels, the mountain province actually supported the rebels to attack our imperial army. The crusade was justice. On the contrary, it was Algernon Julie, the leader of the rebel army in the mountain province. Asia fled into the border between China and Bahrain. For the friendship between the two countries, Master Li Long's assistance is needed to help the arrest!"

"Bullshit, don't you know that Algernon Julia is a fourth-rank official officially canonized by the court of China and Biya, and your empire is going to be arrested as a rebellion, which is simply reversing black and white!" Li Long weighed heavily The ship’s document was pressed on the table, and his nose snorted heavily,

"The rebels are the rebels. No matter how dazzling aura they are, they can't change this!" Lakkedin took back the document without hesitation, his brows suddenly frowned, and he looked through the window. Looking at the front of the carriage, he whispered, "I thought I could make a difference when I got here, but I didn't expect it to be the same!

Li Long was stunned for a while, did not figure out what this sentence meant, squeaked, the carriage stopped and was blocked by the flow of people

"What's going on?" Li Long's face changed a little. Looking out the window of the car, he could already clearly feel the atmosphere of war. The houses outside the high ground city wall have been demolished, and the trees have also been demolished. Cut down. There are still many workers cleaning the site, digging deep in the silt of the moat, and many people stacking logs and boulders on the city walls. There are overseers with whips everywhere, beating those who do not work well. Workers, at the gates of the city, a large number of refugees from the north shore who are dragging their families, bringing their children and daughters, on the carriages used for loading, cups and pans, mosquito nets, everything, even some people even carry furniture

"Master Li Long, I heard that Yelu's house on the north bank has closed the river. Where did these refugees come from? It has been like this for dozens of miles. I thought it would be better to reach the relatively prosperous Qingyang. Unexpectedly, there are even more here!"

"These people are not from the north of the big river, but refugees on the front line of the continent 60 miles away from Qingyang. Where did the earth dragon appear, and more than half of the seven or eight cities, large and small, were destroyed." Li Long's eyes showed a cold look. , Fingers squeeze tightly. The so-called earth dragon is an earthquake. The people of Central and Bibia have always believed that the earthquake was caused by the dragon under the earth turning over. Just ten days ago, an earthquake erupted in the Luzhou area, although it was not too strong. The total number of people killed and injured was only 70 or 80, but the houses in Luzhou were seriously damaged. While a large number of refugees were preparing to flock to the gate of Qingyang, there were also many residents in the city preparing to leave the city in large packages. The cavalry of the Yelu Army We have reached the bank of Hebei, and now the Yelv family is not more than a year ago, and even the navy fleet has a certain size!

"Let's go in, we are starving to death!"

"Let's go out, we are going to kill!"

So many people had violent collisions near the city gate, loud noises, children's crying, women's crying, all in a mess, more screams of crying from heaven and earth, it was heartbreaking. Obviously, the Chinese soldiers who guarded the city were accustomed to everything they saw. They turned a blind eye to the crying and scolding, and drove them out of the city without hesitation.

"What's the noise, the prairie people have not crossed the river yet! Be careful that the prairie spies are mixed inside." The soldiers also made things difficult for the residents who went out of the city. They searched their luggage and items repeatedly, and some even searched their bodies. If you look at some valuable and small items, you simply detain them, and someone who is interested will immediately come up to take care of them and be released. Those who are reluctant to have money are blocked at the cross gate. They will not be released out of the city on the grounds that they must be thoroughly searched." Now it’s a national crisis. In order to resist the people on the prairie, we have also thrown away blood, and we have left some large amounts of throttling that should be taken for granted by the guards.

The city gate was originally very wide. If you let go of all of it, you will be able to walk through it soon, but the guard soldiers only opened half of the city gate at the time, so it seemed particularly crowded. I waited for more than two hours before I arrived at Lakgedin’s carriage. Li Long didn’t wear official uniforms, but only a white suit. Such aristocrats in China and Biya have seen too much these days, and most of them are homes. Broken-down small families are either literati,

In the prosperous and prosperous world, or these literati may become officials in power overnight, but since the fall of the Imperial Capital, the Central Bian Empire moved to the south, the Central Bian Empire has not conducted any imperial examinations for two years. , Because there are too many northern nobles that need to be resettled, and there are still vacancies for these literati. In this case, the original strong style of writing has become thinner, and even the locals are no longer given to these literati

So when I saw Li Long in white clothes, several soldiers held their spears with a look of nonchalantness, searching the contents of the carriage. They soon discovered that there were a lot of valuables on the carriage, and their eyes lit up, and a glimmer of coldness flashed in the eyes of the leader of the team. He walked over to question, and after a few casual questions, the words suddenly changed. , Sneered at the corner of his mouth, "What a crazy foreign spy, don't think that the little master has never seen what a prairie man looks like, just like a dog, come and catch all these prairie people!"

"Wow" heard that it was a gap between the prairie people. The soldiers nearby all surrounded at once, and looked at the few people on the carriage that were silent. They thought they were scared and stupid. Several soldiers had already grabbed the carriage. , Began to move the belongings on the carriage, as if these belongings were originally given to them. It was a happy one. Just now I have already cross-examined clearly, knowing that the goods above are not ordered by a certain powerful person. You must know that with the influence of the empire The rapid peace of mind in the Central and Biya region,

"Master Li Long, your country is really enthusiastic!"

Lakgedin’s mouth smiled coldly, Li Long’s face flushed scared of people, because last time the Li family suffered an innocent disaster because of the empire, he came here specially in plain clothes, and the purpose was to stop those people’s mouths. Thinking of the situation like this when I first arrived at the gate of the city, this is simply slapping myself in the face. As the head of the military cabinet and commanding the military forces of China and Biya, this is the case in important towns like Qingyang, but in other regions. It is conceivable that this was caused by the people in the grasslands. In order to make up for the lack of military power of the central court, the court has agreed to the family’s proposal to recruit soldiers. The uneven quality of the soldiers will naturally bring about the results. So,

"Tell them that we are merchants from the Falcon Empire"

Lakgedin calmly waved his hand to the coachman in front of him. This sentence was very light and plain, as if a gust of wind had blown and disappeared in a blink of an eye, but the faces of those city gate soldiers had already changed. , The eyes became a little frightened, the soldiers who got on the cart to carry their belongings also slowly stopped their movements, put their belongings back in the distance, and jumped out of the carriage, Falcon Empire, the name of the man , The shadow of the tree, this Falcon Empire, which was not known to most of the people in Central and Biyadh, has recently become known to everyone, because there are rumors that the Yelu Cavalry on the north coast is most afraid of the Falcon Empire. Caravans, and even some people have vowed to see the ferocious Yelujia cavalry once escorted the imperial caravans, and they were all like servants.

"Are you really from the Falcon Empire?"

Soon, a city guard officer appeared in front of Lakgedin, his complexion was slightly red, his eyes were piercing, fierce and deep~ IndoMTL.com~ is a figure who has really seen the shadow of the sword on the battlefield, his eyes are on The western mainlander of Lakgedin swept his face and landed on Li Long again.

"This is?" The city guards officer's eyes narrowed slightly. Li Long's clothes were typical of the Central and Bianlian people. The cold and arrogant breath revealed on the opponent's body made this famous city even more so. Officer Wei hesitated a bit, as if he felt that he had seen this person somewhere before, and the breath on the opponent clearly belonged to a soldier,

"As Chinese soldiers, don't you feel ashamed to rob the people brazenly?" Li Longqi's body trembled slightly, although the military cabinet also received a lot of such reports, knowing the army below It was very chaotic, and it became a trend to eat and take cards, especially when the court ordered to abandon the north of the big river, forcing many soldiers on the north bank to go south. These soldiers gave up on themselves, as if they had become soldiers who fought against the prairie people, but they didn’t. Thinking of the chaos to this extent, Qingyang, which is dozens of miles away from Linhang, is still like this, and other areas can be imagined

"We haven't paid the military salary for half a year. If you don't do this, how can you survive?" A touch of disapproval appeared on the face of the city guard officer, and the corner of his mouth curled slightly, "Relying on the mountain to eat the mountain, relying on the river to eat the river, everyone does this. Yes, and the people from the grasslands are going south. We will not be asked to go up at that time. Now we will eat a little bit and take a little bit, but we have to pay for it with our lives! There is also a mistake in this?" (To be continued.)

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