Chapter 218 Grassland Wolf

The next morning, a team of fourteen people left Chang'an City. People who left the city generally did not accept inspections, so they did not encounter any obstacles when they left the city gate with their weapons. The group drove away in a carriage. Prince Zhong stayed in Chang'an City, plus the big dog, Qilin, Tienu and Ye Xiao.

This time, Fang Jie was left with only a Shenqing Fan, especially the lack of a big dog, which made him look much deserted. When he returned to the shop, Fang Jie didn't want to go out again.

"I hope the Big Dog and the others don't have any strong opponents this time."

Fang Jie sighed, but he still had no confidence in his heart. He didn't know much about the ten people of Chungu, so he was not sure whether he could protect Wu Yinyu with the strength of the fourteen of them. Wu Yinyu was so angry in Qingle Mountain, but now he couldn't say he was absolutely safe. Those Taoists would not take care of a little girl in particular, and if the killer pretended to be a tourist, he would be invincible.

"The Lame Master said that ten of them are very strong."

Chen Qingfan comforted Fang explained.

Fang Jie nodded: "There are only so many people who can do now, and there are still too few people around me. It seems that in the future, I will really pay more attention to the people who can be used in secret. More helpers are necessary. There are a few people in the Martial Arts Academy, but at least they can't help me in two years. So if you want to find people, it's better to touch the world. Gyeonggi Province is the place with the least visitors in the world, and of course it is also the place with the most great practitioners. But who would like to follow me for those great practitioners?"

Chen Qingfan raised his jaw and said, "I am also a great practitioner now."

Fang Jie laughed at her words, and took her hand to let her sit down on her legs. He hugged Chen Qing's slim waist, smelling the faint body fragrance on her body, Fang Jie buried his head in her chest and murmured: "Actually, I should be content now, right?"

"Satisfied makes people lazy."

Chen Qingfan smiled and said, "This is what you said."

Fang Jie shook his head: "It would be great if I didn't have to get involved in so many things, and I would be promoted and made a fortune in a simple manner."

Chen Qingfan's fingers gently brushed Fang Jie's cheeks: "The ordinary thing of promotion and wealth is like a daydream. The adults in the court look glorious, and who has no worries behind it? Sometimes they have to take sides and express their opinions. In fact, most people don't want to provoke them, they just have ordinary thoughts of promotion and wealth."

"This idea is really too extravagant."

Fang Jie suddenly thought of a question: "You haven't told me what your original master's name was, and where was it?"

"The largest mountain range in Nanyan is called Moshan. My master sect is on Moshan. The master sect is called Huachiyuan, and they are all women. It is said that the founder of the sect was a concubine of Shang Kingdom. After being dismissed by the emperor, he read and wrote every day. Later, because he had read too many books, she actually figured out how the great practitioners recorded in these classics and historical books how to practice. In this way, she was imprisoned in the cold palace for sixteen years, and she had a high level of cultivation without a teacher."

"Sixteen years later, she escaped from the cold palace. She saw the injustice along the way and reached out to care. After saving seven women, she accepted these seven people as disciples. On Moshan, eight of them built their own wooden houses. Because there was a pool not far from where they lived, she called this place Huachi. Later, there were more and more disciples of the sect, and the name of Huachiyuan gradually became louder in Nanyan."

"However, in Nanyan, there is another sect that is also women, which is stronger than my Huachiyuan. Since the mysterious man seriously injured his master and several elders in the sect, Huachiyuan has no longer been glorious anymore. The other sect that is all women, called Piaomiao Palace."

"It's a strange woman."

Fang Jie sighed: "Zhuo Buyi pondered in the iron walls for ten years and realized that painting land was a prison. The ancestor of your sect studied in the cold palace for sixteen years and eventually became a great practitioner. However, I am not like this kind of calmness. If I stayed in a place for ten years, I would probably become a fool."

Chen Qingshan shook his head: "No one can be sure of things that have not been experienced. Moreover, I have always believed that even if people all over the world live in difficulties, you must be the one who can find the best way to live."

"I'm so grateful to my wife."

Fang Xie joked.

"It's because you're shameless enough to be shameless."

Chen Qingfan explained seriously.

Fang Jie curled his lips and slapped her on the butt: "You said, if something really happened to Sanjin Hou, if I go to ask Master Lame, will he help him? You two ninth-grade masters, you don't know how sure you are to rescue him from Chang'an City. As long as he doesn't die, as for the world's fortunes, you will probably not be able to save them."

"Fang Jie, don't you think the emperor is a very paranoid person?"

Chen Qingfan asked.

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Fang Jie nodded: "From the beginning, I thought he was a paranoid person, especially later, when I knew what he did for this conquest of the northwest, I felt that he was even more terrible. The responsibility of all the emperors of the Sui Dynasty to expand their territory was his obsession. This is a good thing and a bad thing. Fortunately, the emperor was not a person who did it for the sake of his desires. He prepared for this war for more than ten years, and who knows how many years would be fought in this war?"

"You don't think that the Sui Dynasty can win?"

Chen Qingfan asked with a frown.

"Vict?"

Fang Jie shook his head slowly: "If I were a genuine Sui person, if I had not been in Fan Gu for the three years, maybe I would have believed that the Sui Dynasty would win as firmly as the people, but because I knew some things about the Mongol Yuan people and some things about the Buddhist sect, I always felt that this war would not be so easy. Even if I won, maybe... it would be a miserable victory."

Chen Qingfan was silent, thinking that being an emperor expands territory and leaves his reputation in history is really so important?

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Northwest Grassland

General Li Yuanshan personally led nearly 20,000 cavalry to pursue the remaining soldiers of Mandu Banner. The people of Mandu Banner retreated step by step to Tumu Fort. This is the second largest city of Mandu Banner, second only to the city. However, this place is really not big, because the Mongols and Yuan people never had the habit of building big cities. Tumu Fort is next to Keqin Banner, and less than twenty miles west of it is the camp of nearly 60,000 cavalry led by Keqin Lelang, the head of Keqin Banner.

Perhaps Khinleran is already regretting why he did not send troops to help Mandu Latu. He really didn't expect that the Sui people's offensive was so fierce, and the warlike Mandu Latu was defeated so easily and easily. The Mandu flag was over. The banner owner Mandu Latu and his son Mandu Teller were all dead. The eldest son in the royal court was now lonely as if a geese had escaped from the flock.

The battles on the grasslands were originally a cruel one. Although a family that had been destroyed was a shame for the Mongols, no one was willing to help Mandu Banner stand up again.

Manduyong might have rushed back with the Wangting army, but when he came back, the family's pasture had become the enemy's territory.

The reinforcements sent by Wang Ting camped about thirty miles away from the Keqin Banner. This time the troops were led by Mengge's brother Teqin Quequettamonlie, who led the 200,000 troops of Wang Ting arrived in advance. When they left the Wang Ting, the second batch of reinforcements were already gathering, and probably one month later than they would arrive at the easternmost side of the grassland.

The Sui army cleaned the Mandu flag, and most of the territory was occupied by them. After the 700,000 Sui army marched westward by 1,700 miles, it began to build a defensive line. Before His Majesty's order came down, the top priority of the army's expedition was to defend the nearly two thousand miles of grassland that had just been captured.

For the Sui Dynasty, this is more than just a number.

The Great Sui Dynasty lacked war horses, and the Mongolian Yuan was the country with the most war horses in the world. With these two thousand miles of grassland, the Great Sui Dynasty could establish its own horse farm and cultivate its own cavalry. As long as it could defend the Mandu Banner, ten years later, the Great Sui Dynasty would have a strong cavalry team. At that time, in comparison with the Mongolian Yuan, the Great Sui Dynasty would have an advantage.

The reason why neither the Great Sui Dynasty nor the Mongol Yuan Dynasty wanted to start a war easily was that neither the monarchs of both countries were sure to win the war. The Sui infantry could not go deep into the grasslands to fight thousands of miles, and the Mongol cavalry could not conquer so many big cities in the Great Sui Dynasty.

But now, the balance seems to be starting to tilt.

As long as the Great Sui Dynasty defended its results, when the Great Sui cavalry became stronger, the Sui people would have the strength to further fight westward.

Tumu Fort is a city built on a dirt mountain. It is not big. There were less than 4,000 herders and more than 1,000 cavalrymen living here. When the defeated soldiers of Mandu Wolf entered here, the already small city seemed even more crowded. About 8,000 people were crowded in this dirt city, and food and weapons were the first issues they began to worry about.

Because the west side of Tumu Fort is the territory of the Keqin Banner, the Sui army only surrounded the three sides of the south and northeast of Tumu Fort. The Sui army was unwilling to easily place a team of troops in the cracks of the Mongolian Yuan people, and the terrain here is not suitable for encirclement on all sides.

Mandu Wolf stood on the west side of Tucheng, looking at the Keqin Banner Army camp faintly visible in the distance, frowned slightly. The old fox of Keqinlelang refused to take his troops to the front again. He was worried that he would be sneak attacked by the Sui people and wanted to preserve his strength. But if there were no reinforcements, this small Tumu Fortress would definitely not be able to defend for long.

He killed Mandu Latu for his father to avenge his father, and wanted to regain what should have belonged to him. But he did not expect that the reinforcements of Wang Ting were also holding their troops forty or fifty miles away. That despicable guy, Queke Taimonre, must have no good intentions.

Just as he was thinking, a group of people suddenly galloped to the west. It seemed that there were not many people, about seventy or eighty horses. When he got closer, he saw clearly that the flag of the Mandu flag was actually attacked.

The seventy or eighty horses arrived outside the Tumu Fort, and the leader shouted loudly: "I am Mandu Yong. The warriors of Mandu flag guarding the city, open the city gate and welcome your new flag owner into the city!"

Hearing his shouting, Mandu Wolf frowned even deeper.

"General, please open the city gate. It's really the young banner master who is back."

A thousand-man shouted excitedly.

Mandu wolf's eyes frightened and nodded to Agudamum. Agudamum understood what he meant and took his personal soldiers down from the wall of Tucheng.

"Welcome to you, my banner owner!"

The wolf in Mandu shouted on the city wall.

The city gate creaked open, and Manduyong rushed into the city gate with seventy or eighty cavalry soldiers. Manduyong looked at the herdsmen and soldiers who were surrounding him, feeling sad and even wanted to cry. Just as he was about to open his mouth and say something, a wolf-tooth arrow penetrated through his mouth. The bloody arrow came out from behind his head, and there was some white brain matter on it.

In an instant, hundreds of wolf-toothed arrows poured down, and the seventy or eighty cavalry soldiers were shot to the ground before they could react.

This mutation surprised everyone. They looked at the Mandu Wolf standing on the city wall, with fear and anger in their eyes. The Mandu Wolf laughed loudly, glanced at the crowd below and asked loudly: "Now, is anyone opposed to my inheritance of the Mandu Flag's lord? If so, you can stand up and speak."

Wherever Agudamu stood with hundreds of personal soldiers, holding bows and arrows, the originally angry people began to retreat. Manduyong is dead, what else can they do? Help Manduyong take revenge? They do not have the courage. The herdsmen dare not, nor do they dare. The strict hierarchy makes them full of fear of the people of the Mandu family. Now... the Mandu family is only one Mandu wolf left.

"Children, bury him. Next we should think about how to defeat the Sui people."

The wolf Mandu smiled, with a plain expression as if the one who had just killed a flock of sheep.
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