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MTL - I [Imperial] Am Not This Kind of Man-Chapter 186 Mystery
Pei Tuo and Yan Chang were very fast. Qin Nuo got up after taking a nap, and the two had already sent the letter in accordance with the line and method instructed by Lin Jia and returned quietly.
In the early morning of the next day, the sun rose high, and the cheerful atmosphere still floated inside the Xuelie clan.
No one in the happy tribe was aware of the conspiracy in the dark. As planned, thousands of ethnic groups, led by the Lord Dukh, were set off by Pandu City under the guard of two thousand soldiers.
This sacrifice will also serve as the new Pan Luo City Lord, staying there to preside over the overall situation.
However, with joyful departure, the tragic news came back.
Close to the border of Panluo City, the team was attacked, and the remnants of Panluo City fled under the leadership of Zhong Yue, together with the aid of Rising Sun City, ambushing on their way forward, hit a surprise.
The guards fought bravely and remained outnumbered. In the end, only part of the ethnic people could be returned, and nearly half of the ethnic people were trapped on the battlefield and captured by enemy forces. The Lord Duhe, who led the team, lived up to expectations and died on the battlefield.
Everything is as planned by Lin Jia.
The news returned to the clan, and the sentiment was angry. The high priest immediately summoned several principal priests and generals to discuss.
"We are so anxious." The high priest sighed, full of annoyance. "The house should be cleaned and then the weak women and children should be allowed in."
"This is not your fault, but I did not expect those who Zhong Yue had the courage to come and challenge us." Su He, the main sacrifice, comforted.
This year's blizzard is even worse than in previous years. The rear station of the Xuelie clan has no towering city walls and is low in position. It has been buried for half a day by the blizzards and cannot be delayed.
"It was a mistake made by the subordinates before. They did not drive the fleeing widowers to death, giving them the opportunity to turn back to bite back." Su Heng, the leader of the attack on Pan Luo City, knelt down to plead guilty. He is the son of Su He. Surol's brother is a famous warrior among the new generation of young people in the tribe.
At the same time he pleaded guilty, he also asked: "Please ask the high priest to give us the opportunity to sacrifice our sins. As long as five thousand cavalry, we can sweep the sunburst city like we did against pan Luo city. This time, we will never let Any wild dog escapes. "
The high priest nodded: "It is time to destroy the enemy as soon as possible, and we need to make a plan."
His gaze turned to several main sacrifice around him, including the ritual offering of Lin Jia.
Su Heng confidently said: "Why do we need to plan, our warriors are far better than the waste of Panluo City who can only crouch behind the city walls. Our subordinates believe that they should dispatch a large army to rescue the captives first. . "
"Does General Su ever think that the enemy will deliberately capture so many women and children and take them home without fear of trouble? This is to attract our army to attack and go forward. If we attack easily at this time, we will definitely ambush." Lin Jiashi Shiran Talking.
Su Heng frowned a bitterly: "But if you don't save the people as soon as possible, I'm afraid they will be sold as slaves." This is the approach taken by the nearby tribal cities to the Xuelie captives for many years. Wait a few more days, I didn't know that the sale went to Tiannan Haibei.
"Then what do you think you should do?" Shen Sheng, the high priest, asked Lin Jia.
Lin Jiabi frowned: "Compared to making a plan, we should first understand why the soldiers and horses of the Rising Sun can ambush us so accurately."
The hall was silent again. In this cold snowy day, even the elite cavalry can't ambush for a long time. If Sun City can ambush successfully, it must be aware of the route and time of Xuelie's migration.
The principal priest Su He frowned. "The route and time were set the night before, and it couldn't be leaked out so soon."
Lin Jiashen said: "Then, I suspect that these people are not ambush migrants. They may be planning to attack our Xuelie people, but they happened to meet the first wave of migrants."
"Attack our own family? This is impossible!" Yan Hui, another main sacrifice, began to choke.
In recent years, the strength of the Xuelie tribe has recovered, and the cavalry is powerful. The surrounding cities have retreated, and they can still resist against the solid walls. The field battles can only be abused.
"Before these cities were fragmented and scattered, and we didn't think we would really occupy the city." Lin Jia analyzed one by one. "Now that we attacked Panluo City and occupied it, we must make them feel dangerous."
Before the Xuelie tribe attacked other cities, they robbed property, food and grass, and strengthened themselves. They did not directly capture people. Panluo City is now the first. Of course, thanks to the defeat of the central court, they dared to take this decisive step.
Everyone wondered, although the strength of the Xuelie clan has quickly recovered in recent years, it is really troublesome if the surrounding cities are united.
The high priest knocked on his scepter and asked, "Yan Li, how do you think this should be handled?"
Lin Jia smiled: "Subordinates think that it would be better to count it ..."
Qin Nuo took Pei Tuo to them, walked outside the temple, and watched the people coming and going in the small square. Numerous soldiers rode horses, armed with weapons, ready to attack.
When Tao Yunqing came out of the hall, Qin Nuo said hello and asked with a smile: "Need help?"
Tao Yunqing laughed: "The young general is our distinguished guest, how can we let the guests come to fight for our lives? Then our Xuelie tribe is too rude."
Qin Nuo nodded: "I just heard that the front line lost the battle." This sentence, he felt hypocritical himself.
Tao Yunqing confidently said: "It's just a bunch of jumping clowns. It's nothing short of a loss. Panluo City is the first city that Xuelie people have regained in these years and will never give up."
Added another sentence: "Sooner or later, the Xuelie tribe will return to its former glory and take back all the land and cities that have been taken away in these years."
Another fellow young man also laughed: "This time, Mr. Zhen's plan will surely wipe them out. Maybe even the Rising Sun can be overcome in one fell swoop."
Young Junxiu's face was full of vigor and pride, and he briefly said a few words, and they hurriedly left.
In the evening, 20,000 soldiers and horses were dispatched, and the scattered snowflakes did not affect the speed of these soldiers at all.
Standing on the hill, watching the long line disappear at the end of the mountain road, Qin Nuo had the illusion of being in the historical picture.
"Is it a feeling of making history?" After repeating Qin Nuo's words, Lin Jia felt the words were extremely fresh.
"Tao Yunqing said just now that you have formulated a new strategy?"
Lin Jia shrugged: "It's just a plan to draw a snake out of a hole. These brutal kills are not all the same."
Qin Nuo glanced at him, "We better not meet often." He and Zhen Yuezheng just met each other just because they had come to the doctor for medical treatment before.
Lin Jia laughed: "My subordinates know that this time, they were ordered by the High Priest to invite General Pang to move."
"Where to go?"
"Don't the son wonder why this Xuelie tribe's food is so plentiful, can they still make wine? Now go and see their biggest secret."
Qin Nuo followed Lin Jia curiously and greeted everyone on the road.
When the team met at the Temple Square, Qin Nuo discovered that it was not only a few of them that had to set off. In fact, almost all the women and children in the city of Xuelie were in this huge team.
They went out of the humble north gate and headed northeast all the way. The tens of thousands of people were unusually silent.
Hurrying in the snow is a hard job. This team, which mostly consists of women and children, is quite strong. And it's not slow.
Like the refugees who fled, they were mixed in the team and looked around. Most of them carried simple small packages on their shoulders. If they were rations, they might only have three to four days.
The place to go should not be far away. Qin Nuo looked up at the magnificent stretch of Tianxing Mountain in front of him.
Soon Qin Nuo found himself guessed. At sunset, they reached the east side of Tianxing, and went north along the plain at the foot of the mountain. The team quickly bypassed most of the plain.
Over a sloping field, watching the sudden appearance in the distance. Qin Nuo was speechless in surprise.
Faintly in front of it is a huge city, the thick walls are megaliths, and the houses and lofts in the city are thick and solid. The scale of the entire city, let alone the settlement of the Xuelie people, even the Panluo City is far less than ...
After seeing the city from a distance, almost all the people stopped and many people, especially the elderly, bowed down in the direction of the city. With tears streaming down, wailing gradually sounded in the procession, as if it was the time of Qingming, worshiping relatives and friends.
The Qin Nuo people also stopped and looked at this scene at a loss.
"Here is Xuelie City, once the most prosperous city of the Xuelie people, and the center of its rights." Lin Jia stood beside Qin Nuo and explained in a low voice.
It turned out that there was once the capital of the Xuelie tribe. Qin Nuo looked from afar. Looking down, the city was a bit dilapidated, and there were huge crisscross crisscross walls, which seemed to be traces left by the earthquake many years ago.
However, according to historical records, the center of the original earthquake was far away from here. Although the city was severely damaged, it was not inhabitable after repairs.
Qin Nuo was surprised, "Why do you want to rob Pan Luo City with such a solid city?"
Looking at it from afar, you can see the entire city's depression and solitude, which is completely deserted for many years and looks uninhabited. And the sorrow of these people.
Lin Jia smiled bitterly and lowered his voice. "According to them, this is a city of cursing."
"After the upheaval of the world more than twenty years ago, this city was suddenly shrouded in death. But overnight, all the souls of the entire city, whether it was people or livestock, fell into the abyss of death."
"Whether it is a distinguished lord, a brave soldier, or an innocent woman or child, all have died in silence. Only less than half can escape."
Qin Nuo frowned: "Is it because of the earthquake ... Did the dragon turn over?"
"It's not just Earth Dragon who turned over. In fact, Xuelie City was extremely strong. In the big earthquake that year, only 12 or 12 of the collapsed houses in the city were still habitable. Compared to the ruins in the north, it was not terrible. Lin Jia whispered.
"That was the third day after the quake. It seemed as though the **** of death had discovered that the quake could not turn the city into a fan, and it was all out of the blue. Overnight, the entire city turned into a dead city."
"This kind of upheaval in the central capital, and the surrounding cities turned over with the fierce earth dragons, collapsed and collapsed, and the countless people died, and then the invasion of foreign enemies, the entire upper layer of the Xuelie tribe died, It was impossible to organize an effective resistance, and it was defeated again and again, and finally the whole family perished. "
Qin Nuo opened his eyes wide. Is this listening to fantasy novels? The shaking of the surrounding mountains can also explain a major earthquake, but how could it be that most people in the entire city died in the face?
Lin Jia shrugged. "This is a story told by their tribe, but according to the subordinates' speculation, it should have been poisoned by the fine work infiltrated by the hostile tribe in the water."
Qin Nuo murmured that poisoning was indeed the greatest possibility, or that the hostile tribes sneaked into the city and brutally slaughtered them.
The situation must have been extremely tragic at that time, otherwise a strong and warlike tribe like the Xuelie tribe would not have fallen into such a miserable situation in just three or five years. Soldiers were killed and women and children were trafficked into slavery.
Qin Nuo stood on the top of the mountain and looked at Xuelie people who were kneeling down.
Their voices are lowered as much as possible, and this repressive voice creates an unparalleled tragic atmosphere. Qin Nuo and these outsiders were deeply infected.
Kneeling and crying did not last long, and soon the leader of the team began to scold and drive away. The crowd slowly stood up and continued to move forward in silence.
Over the hillside, continue to march towards the mountain, and finally reached a mountain stream.
A crack in the middle of the mountain road entered the mountain.
There are twists and turns along the way. The narrowest place that can pass by can only accommodate two or three people in parallel. The cliffs are thousands of meters high, standing on both sides, looking up, and the dark sky seems to have only one narrow line.
"This is a good place for ambush." Yan Chang murmured beside him.
"Where is this going?" Qin Nuo couldn't help asking Lin Jia who was accompanying him.
"It is the secret realm of Xuelie. A very magical place." Lin Jia whispered, her face full of mystery.
Secret Realm, I suddenly heard this special term for meditation, Qin Nuo really felt a sense of traversal.
After passing this narrow road, he walked not far ahead, and his eyes suddenly opened up.
Qin Nuo's eyes widened, not only him, but everyone around Pei Tuo was stunned, not because the scenery in front of them was too spectacular and too beautiful, nor because of the tents on the side of the valley and the busy people.
It is because, in this vast basin, there is even a little green.
Green! It was grass, and there were some plants with enlarged leaves. According to Qin Nuo, it should be some kind of hardy potato. It's cold winter, and there is no grass at all outside. How can you cultivate here?
This is a huge valley basin. Looking at it, it covers an area of at least thousands of hectares. There is such a place in the depths of Tianxing Mountain.
After calming down, Qin Nuo immediately felt that the temperature around him was much warmer than outside. The towering mountain wall cuts off the cold wind and looks out from afar. The surrounding mountain wall is covered with white snow. Who knows, in the shadow of this white snow, there is such a paradise.
"When I first saw it, I was shocked and incredible. With this secret, it's no wonder that the Xuelie tribe can quickly recover in just two decades." Lin Jia whispered in the back.
Twenty years is just a generation's time. Such a valley site is like a magic weapon in the portable space inside! The title of this mystery is really accidental. We must know that no matter in what era the grain is, it is the most valuable resource. With grain, we can feed the population and fight vigorously.
"At that time, the Xuelie tribe suffered a great disaster. The high priest led tens of thousands of people to flee into the mountains, so as to avoid being ransacked by other clans. Countless. At the most desperate moment, the clan had less than 10,000 people. Then, they found this mysterious valley. "Lin Jia sighed beside him.
"Now it is only after two years of breeding itself and housing the displaced population that it will return to its current size in just two decades."
It's an infinite road. The Xuelie tribe's luck was so extreme that they bottomed out and rebounded. Qin Nuo's brain is really such a simple matter?