The sun sets over the long river, and the solitary smoke stretches straight across the desert. This is probably a portrayal of the Gobi Desert outside Gaochang City.
Yifeng Shen is a handsome young man, dressed in Han Dynasty's rich and jade clothes, holding a bamboo slipper in his hand, playing a desolate and melancholy tune towards the setting sun.
He learned this from the slaves in a Uighur caravan. The slave who lost his freedom missed his hometown and his family.
But what is this young master of the Han family who is far away from China thinking about?
While he was playing the Hujia, there was a woman sitting next to him. She was also dressed in the clothes of a daughter of the Han Dynasty, but her long skirt was changed into breeches, which was more convenient for riding horses in the desert.
The daughter of the Han family kept holding her chin and looking at the young master's profile. The smile on her face was a bit shy, happy, admiring and attached.
After a Hujia song is played, the setting sun outside the horizon is less than a finger's breadth. The sky in the desert of the Western Regions will get dark very quickly, and at night, the temperature will drop suddenly.
There was a melancholy expression on the young master's face. He looked at Gaochang City where smoke was rising from the kitchen in the distance, and asked in a confused voice: "Cousin, hasn't uncle come back yet?"
The woman looked back at the servants who were busy setting up camp and said: "He came back a long time ago. He said that the Sui envoys have come to Gaochang City and we cannot enter. We can only camp on the Gobi Desert tonight."
The young master sighed and said softly: "At night in the desert, horse bandits are active. Although this place is very close to Gaochang City, it is not a place where the defenders can take care of it."
He paused and then said: "And...along the way, I have felt that there are barbarians with malicious intentions targeting us."
The woman's eyes flashed with excitement, "Brother Wen, you haven't killed someone for a long time."
Mr. Wen frowned and said, "I don't like killing people."
The woman suddenly became very serious and said: "You may not like killing, but you must learn to lead troops. Only in this way can you return to the Central Plains to complete the great cause of restoring the country! Only in this way can I become your queen and honor the world."
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This young master turned out to be the Northern Zhou Dynasty Emperor Yuwen Chan. According to official history, when he abdicated the throne, he was killed by Yang Jian.
In this time and space, Yu Wenchan was also poisoned and assassinated by Yang Jian many times in the palace. However, when he was poisoned, he was healed by Xu Yin, who indirectly washed his tendons and cut his marrow, and completely penetrated the eight extraordinary meridians.
With these bones and the legacy of Xu Yin's innate innocence, although he is not invulnerable to all poisons, he is quite resistant to ordinary poisons.
Yang Jian ordered people to poison and assassinate him many times, but at most he only made Yu Wenchan seriously ill.
In addition, when Yang Jian first seized the throne, he was wary of public opinion, and Bi Xiuxin had realized that something was wrong, so he often stayed in the palace to accompany Yu Wenchan as a guard.
Yang Jian and his wife gave up the plan and only strictly monitored them.
In order to protect himself, Yu Wenchan secretly began to practice the family's internal martial arts while living in the palace. He made rapid progress and soon broke through the innate realm. Even Yang Jian's personal bodyguards were very few who could defeat him.
Until last year, Yang Jian's prestige was unparalleled in the world, and he could no longer accommodate himself, the last emperor.
Queen Dugugarotiev took action and decided to send an assassin to assassinate her directly.
No one knew that Yu Wenchan already had superb magical skills. He relied on his family's Bing Xuan Jin and wood-burning sword skills to kill four assassins, and then escaped from the palace in the chaos.
Leaving the deep palace garden where he grew up since childhood, Yu Wenchan was full of fear of this strange world, but more importantly, he was curious.
Along the way, he witnessed Yang Jian's clear governance, suppressing powerful families, and the people living and working in peace and contentment. No one missed the Northern Zhou Dynasty anymore.
Therefore, I completely gave up the plan of revenge, and just wanted to be a free and easy person, wander around the world, and appreciate the customs and customs of various places in the world.
So he changed his name to Wen Yuzhou, which was not only a nostalgia for his past identity, but also a separation.
After that, while escaping the pursuit of the Sui army, he headed west. By chance, he met the Yuchilang family who were being hunted by the Sui army.
Yuchi Lang was the third son of the former Northern Zhou general Yuchi Jiong of the Shangzhu Kingdom. Since Yuchi Jiong and his son failed to raise an army with the Zhou family clan, Yuchi Lang had been leading the remaining generals to retreat to the mountains and forests to resist, and fought against the Sui Dynasty for more than ten years.
In the end, he still couldn't escape the fate of being defeated and captured. If Wen Yuzhou hadn't recognized his uncle and took action to repel the Sui soldiers, his family would have been wiped out.
After that, the Yuchilang clan was led by Wen Yuzhou and vowed to help him overthrow the Sui Dynasty and restore the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Wen Yuzhou grew up in an incarcerated environment and developed a stoic but weak character. Seeing that the last belief and hope of these people was to restore the country, he couldn't bear to refuse, so he was silently pulled into this group of people determined to restore the country.
country’s team.
In order to escape the pursuit of the Sui army, they had no choice but to flee far away from the country.
According to Yuchilang's plan to restore the country, we must first have soldiers. Only with soldiers can we have territory, and only then can we gradually accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity to march into the Central Plains.
At that time, the Sui Dynasty and the Turks were at odds with each other, and they could not go north to the Yinshan Mountains, so they decided to go to the Western Regions to find the Western Turks Datou Khan to borrow troops.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived in Gaochang City, he met the Sui envoy, which made the plan unexpected.
At night, the quiet camp was set up against the wind, and the bonfire was burning brightly, but it was the melancholy Wen Yuzhou who was illuminated.
Facing these inexplicably excited tribesmen, all he showed on his face was an agreeable and reluctant smile. He didn't want to kill anyone, and tonight was destined to be stained with blood.
There are no clouds in the desert, so the moon is as bright as a brilliance, bright and flawless.
On the edge of the Gobi desert where the moonlight shines, there is flying dust and hurried horse hooves. They are a group of sand bandits, and they are also the most famous horse bandits in the vicinity.
Horse bandits who can come and go freely outside of a major trading town like Gaochang City are certainly not weak.
Like wolves that smelled blood, they pounced on the weak camp standing against the wind.
The cold wind blows and the cut face hurts!
Except for the barbarian servants in the camp, all the Han people had drawn their weapons. They were either martial arts masters or veterans of many battles. Their eyes were filled with excitement and hope.
Qi Yi was heading towards Wen Yu Zhou. Before dark, Yu Chi Lang told them that tonight's battle would be commanded by the young master.
This is the first battle that the young master comes to command. The young master has never participated in such a war. He should get experience. Just like the heroes in many legendary stories, they can often show their overlord demeanor in their first command.
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These people without a home are very eager to have the kind of overlord in the legendary stories who can lead them to gradually grow up, fight back to the Middle-earth, and return home in glory, and this is their only belief.
Wen Yuzhou looked at the expectant glances around him, and finally looked at Yuchilang with uncertain eyes, that middle-aged man with graying hair and gray hair, a face full of wrinkles, but a particularly thick figure.
Yuchilang smiled and said: "Young Master, these are just a mob in the desert. Although there are more than two hundred people, they are nothing to worry about. You can command the battle as you like."
"I don't know how to lead troops to fight..."
"Everyone has a first time. This time, follow your heart."
Wen Yuzhou's original intention was: "I don't want to kill anyone."