It is early winter, the temperature has dropped sharply, and everything is withering.
On the Guanzhong Plain, you can often see dust and smoke filling the wide roads all day long.
That's the army marching.
They all headed west, heading for Yumen Pass, which is regarded as the most powerful pass in the world.
In order to avoid these troops and the camel and horse teams escorting supplies, the storyteller and his granddaughter Xiaolou tried their best to choose small roads after entering Guanzhong.
The ancient wilderness road is no longer green on both sides, with yellow and withered flowers and plants, making the whole world seem to have lost its vitality.
Fortunately, there is still some vitality, which comes from an innocent, kind and gentle girl.
Riding on a donkey up to Yuan Xiaolou, I seemed to be in a good mood, humming a cheerful ditty.
At the same time, she was holding a bamboo pole with half a carrot tied to one end.
The donkey keeps walking forward in order to eat carrots. He always thinks that he can get it by walking three or five steps forward, but he never can.
This made the big loser No. 1 laugh at the donkey as an idiot.
Compared with Yuan Xiaolou's optimism, her grandfather, the storyteller, has a different mood.
With a sad face, he looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle from time to time, and occasionally let out one or two sighs that sounded like compassion.
After the old storyteller let out another sigh, Yuan Xiaolou couldn't help but said: "Grandpa, you have sighed dozens of times all morning, and I didn't bully you. What's wrong with you?"
The old storyteller pretended to be a master and said hoarsely: "Grandpa, I am worried about the people in the world."
Yuan Xiaolou asked: "What are you worried about?"
The old storyteller said: "Grandpa deduced a hexagram last night, which is the fifty-first hexagram."
Yuan Xiaolou said: "Hexagram fifty-one?
The upper shock is also the lower shock, which is the Zhen Gua, the shock is thunder, the upper thunder is the lower thunder, the two thunders are superimposed, and the repercussions are huge, which can eliminate the dull air and make things prosperous and smooth.
This is not a very bad hexagram."
Among Fuxi's sixty-four hexagrams, most of the great evil hexagrams are related to water.
The 51st hexagram, Zhen hexagram, is a thunder hexagram. Although it has a sinister meaning, it also contains auspiciousness.
Yuan Xiaolou didn't understand why his grandfather was so worried after he made a fortune telling last night.
The old storyteller rolled his eyes strangely and said: "You are still new to the art of deduction, so you can only look at the surface and cannot see through the meaning behind the hexagrams.
Based on the catastrophe before him, grandpa deduced it with Tiangang Divine Calculation and came up with the Zhen Gua.
There are thunders above and thunders below. The two thunders overlap like two moons in the sky. There will be great chaos.
The hexagrams in the past few days were not so dangerous. Last night's hexagrams suddenly changed. It is very rare for the hexagrams to change so drastically overnight. If grandpa guessed correctly, in the past two days,
There must have been a big change in the world, maybe the door to catastrophe has been opened, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why the hexagrams changed suddenly."
Yuan Xiaolou said: "Grandpa, you are talking nonsense again. There are cultivators patrolling everywhere in the world now. If the Gate of Catastrophe appears, it should be discovered soon. Half an hour ago, we met a group of sergeants on the avenue.
, there was nothing unusual about them, which showed that the Gate of Catastrophe did not appear.
Grandpa, you must have been in a bad state recently and made a wrong calculation. Let’s have a good rest when we reach the small town ahead.”
The old storyteller responded in his mouth and said: "Maybe it's grandpa who hasn't had a good rest. Let's go quickly. Grandpa will eat a hundred buns tonight! All stuffed with pork and green onions!"
He sounded relaxed, but the worried look in his eyes never disappeared.
In the wasteland, a group of four hundred prairie cavalry marched southward in the vast wasteland.
There was a city ahead. After asking a group of migrating herdsmen passing by, I found out that it was Kouwai City.
This group of cavalry was very strange. They did not enter the city to rest like passing prairie cavalry, but stopped on a high slope about seven or eight miles northeast of the entrance.
The leading cavalry man took out a map and quickly found the specific location of Kouwai City on the map.
There are two men beside him, both wearing leather armor, but their skin is a little whiter, without the traces of the men on the grassland who have been exposed to wind and sun all year round.
A taller leather-armored warrior said: "Chief Fu, we have arrived at the outer city of Kouwai. We will soon reach Yumen Pass to the south."
Another shorter leather-armored warrior said: "We are marching very fast, and we should be the first vanguard to arrive at the outskirts of Yumen Pass."
The leading general said: "Yumen Pass is known as the number one military fortress in Middle-earth. In fact, its symbolic significance is far greater than its defensive power.
Our first wave of attacks were all destroyed on the Eagle Beak Cliff in the human world. It was because of a tactical problem.
This time, we will still use the old method to attack from the west. As long as we capture Yumen Pass, the ants in the world will completely lose their fighting power."
When several cavalry soldiers heard this, they burst into laughter.
This group of people is naturally not human prairie cavalry, but people from heaven in disguise.
They are very smart. The tens of thousands of cavalry marching in the wilderness are so eye-catching.
So, they broke them into pieces and divided the 30,000 disguised cavalry into seventy or eighty groups. Each group contained about 400 people, which was exactly the number of one talisman of the Celestial Legion.
This was used to avoid interrogation by the human grassland tribes.
The celestial army is actually not scary. These disguised cavalry are all knights of the celestial Storm Legion.
They ride on tall and powerful six-legged beasts and wear armor that protects their whole body. Their combat effectiveness is indeed super strong.
However, when they mounted the war horses in the human world and took off the armor, the knights were not as big as the cavalry in the human world. It’s just that the living environment in heaven is different from that in the human world, which makes the physiques of ordinary celestial beings in the heavens stronger than those in the human world.
The physique of an ordinary human being.
But this physical difference is not too great.
If they were in the wilderness and encountered prairie wolf cavalry, the elite wolf cavalry would only need about six to seven hundred cavalry to completely kill the four hundred celestial cavalry.
The four hundred cavalrymen only rested for half an hour outside the city, ate some solid food and drank some water, and then continued riding on the road.
At the same time, General Zhebie stationed in Yinshan also sent a large number of light cavalry and began to spread to the west.
There is no other reason.
Seven days ago, a tribe of more than 10,000 people with the nine surnames of Zhaowu who migrated from the vicinity of Yinshan Mountain to the Heishui River suddenly disappeared on the vast grassland.
It has been two days and there has been no news, which is totally unreasonable.
Even if you encounter bandits, you can't kill everyone in an instant.
After all, that group of people carried hundreds of falcons, and whenever they encountered danger, they could have the falcons deliver the message in a very short period of time.
The migration team of ten thousand people disappeared into the vast grassland, which made Zhebie very uneasy.
What Zhebie doesn't know now is that the searching Qingqi he sent out directly led to the subsequent Dragon Gate Battle.
That's the thing, maybe a small thing can trigger a huge chain reaction.
Who would have thought that the Battle of Longmen, which will be forever recorded in the annals of history, was originally caused by a small group of cavalrymen.
