PS: I was in a hurry yesterday. After thinking about it, the final disposal was a bit inappropriate. I changed it today without affecting the big plot. Chapter two at night

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In December, the cold northwesterly wind from Mobei had completely overwhelmed the warm cyclone. As the winter snow fell, a piece of white falling snow on the grassland covered the withered blades of grass, and horses' hooves rustled as they stepped on it.

The prairie winter is harsh and terrifying. People living here not only have to worry about the increasingly scarce food, but also beware of hungry neighbors.

Following the failure of the military operation in the summer and autumn this year, Daiqi returned to Longcheng and Daicheng, and the morale was extremely low. The new puppies did not dare to take care of themselves. The grassland outside the Great Wall was temporarily abandoned, and the Donghu people began to penetrate westward. , approaching the foothills of Yinshan Mountain.

"The grassland is about to change!"

This situation has made the grassland tribes with a sensitive sense of smell realize that, just like the collapse of the kingdom more than a decade ago, a turbulent period that determines the ownership of the grassland has come again.

Against this background, Loufan, Linhu, Dai, Wuzhong and other ministries who were previously enslaved by Zhao State reacted unanimously. At first, Loufan tremblingly intercepted the cattle that should have been handed over to Mayi. sheep and horses. Seeing that the Zhao people did not respond much, they also expelled the tax collectors of the Zhao state and raised the banner of resistance openly. Even evil was born on the side of courage, and gathered young and strong people from various tribes to form a group of three to four thousand people, and rushed to Mayi County, Dai County.

Mayi is the border between the mainland and the grasslands. It used to be a land where people lived in trouble. It was not until the Zhao army occupied the place more than ten years ago after the demise of the Zhao kingdom.

Mayi is not only a border town, but also a big market where Zhao Guo and Loufan trade each other, and a trading center for horses and furs. It's annoying to know that the old building has not only food, population, money and silk, but also the horses they have been transporting in the past ten years. They are just going to take back what belongs to them!

At the beginning of December, the various ministries of Loufan began to gather around Mayi, trying to invade the border.

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Mayi is built on a small hill, and it monitors the grassland from a high position. The city wall has been strengthened and increased many times. To the south of the city is the towering Xiawu Mountain. Direct to Dai County. Looking from a distance, there are many beacon towers along the road, which have been lit at this moment, and the wolf smoke floats straight to the sky, passing to Shanwu County and Longcheng in the north, and Yanmensai in the southeast.

However, Dai County was in chaos at this time. After Yu Xi's death, the Xia and Di cavalry were headless, and the Rong and Di rebelled across the country. Xinzhigou put all his energy into defending Donghu, and the defenders on Yanmensai had a very difficult time crossing Xiawu Mountain in this snowy day, so in a short time, Mayi could only rely on himself... …

Isolated and helpless, the soldiers in the city were not as annoying as the buildings outside. Therefore, the city gate of Mayi was closed, and the young men in the county gathered at the head of the city to guard. Looking at the arrogant and annoying building outside, the county magistrate Luan Zhong cursed bitterly: "The despicable building is annoying, repeating and unbelievable!"

"Rong Di is unbelievable in the first place. For Lou Anren, it's just like eating and drinking."

A clear but tough female voice sounded from behind. Luan Zhong and the people above the city quickly turned their heads to look, but saw a heroic and valiant woman, wearing a white fur with a black armor inside. The bun is also tied into a man's appearance. If you don't look at her pretty face without a beard and no Adam's apple on her slender neck, she really thinks she's a teenager.

"Why did the daughter-in-law come to the city!?" Luan Zhong was shocked. The daughter-in-law was Jin Gui and was the most favored younger sister of Zhao Hou. Four years ago, she committed suicide as a servant of Prince Zhongshan, which destroyed Zhao's diplomatic relations. She was expelled to Daijun by Marquis Zhao and lived in Mayi, making her "think about it".

But where did this lady come to think about it? At first, she was quite safe, and she didn't take a step outside the door, but after a few months, she couldn't stand it anymore, and began to organize to follow her to play polo in Yecheng Liangjiazi in Dai County. Half a year later, it even worsened, taking more than a hundred cavalry entourages to hunt and shoot arrows in the grasslands, and even crossed the frontier fortress several times, entered Loufan, and even went further west to the Linhu and Kongtong clans.

There are quite a few times in distress, but fortunately, she herself is excellent at bowing and horses, and the Yulin guards and Yecheng Liangjiazi are also dedicated to serving her, so she can come back without any danger every time.

But Luan Zhong's head is big, but this ancestor can't beat or scold, so he can only serve carefully. He begged Yousi, who is in charge of supervising the daughter-in-law here, to inform Yecheng of the matter, but Zhao Hou seemed to be afraid of something, and he has ignored his own sister for the past four years, just saying: "Let her go... …”

So Luan Zhong could only open one eye and close one eye, and added her guards when the son and daughter ran around, but what made him helpless was that the Mayi soldiers who followed Zhao Jia ran on the grassland for a while. After the circle, they all seemed to have fallen into evil, regarded their daughters as gods, and began to devote their allegiance to her.

That's all, now that the enemy is facing the enemy, why doesn't this young lady hide in the palace and run to the top of the city? The arrow has no eyes, what should I do if it hurts?

Zhao Jia is not afraid of the wind and frost, standing at the top of the city. Compared with four years ago, her face has completely lost the childish baby fat of the girl, and turned into a slightly cold line. That unforgettable break has accelerated her. Growing up, and leaving Yecheng Changle Palace, she seems to have found another self on the grassland.

Looking outside Loufan, who was sitting proudly on horseback in the cold wind, she said, "It's not easy to survive on the grassland, Loufan has his own set of rules for doing things. I've been to Loufan, where there are few cities, and most of them are made of blankets. In the tent tribe, everyone lives on the meat and milk of livestock, and uses their skins to make clothes. Livestock must eat grass and drink water, and it is not acceptable to stay in one place for a long time, and must change places with the passage of time. It used to be a luscious pasture for the various tribes of Loufan to graze in winter, but the State of Zhao occupied this place, established a city, and prohibited Loufan from crossing the border to grazing..."

"The organization of Lou Anren is also different from that of the Central Plains. The relationship between monarch and ministers is simple. When the times are relaxed, people are happy and have no burden of labor. However, after Zhao Guo intervened in the grasslands, he began to recruit riders and herdsmen in Lou Anren for a year. As many as several times, Lou is annoying. They have long been dissatisfied with the above, maybe in Lou's annoying view, they just want to take back what belongs to them, just want to end what Zhao Guo added to them. Hard labor... that's probably why Lou Ren's rebellion."

Luan Zhong was a little dumbfounded when he heard Zhao Jia's eloquent words. After thinking about it carefully, it really made sense. He couldn't help but forget his original intention and blurted out: "Then how to deal with it?"

"This is a dead end, and there is no win-win situation at all. If the wolf wants to eat the sheep, the sheep will not be caught without his hands. It will retreat to the corner, show its sharp horns, and fight against the wolf's claws. Intestinal flow..."

These buildings are annoying, euphemistically called "borrowing grain", in fact, they picked up the old work of their ancestors, trying to grab grain from the farming city and looting the population in the season of lack of grain in autumn and winter. If Mayi can't stop them, they can go deep into the farming counties in the east of Dai County, and even go south into Taiyuan County.

This is the inevitable conflict between farming and nomadism. The two economies collide violently. Naturally, the Zhao people in Mayi can't tie their hands to send food and horses, and a war is inevitable.

This sentence made Luan Zhong and the county soldiers a little uncomfortable. The son and daughter compared Loufan to wolves. Are they sheep?

"No, in my opinion, Zhao Cai is going to devour the wolves of all the tribes on the grassland, and Loufan is just a group of poor sheep trying to resist the Jedi..."

She smiled and showed sharp tiger teeth, like a long-starved she-wolf: "Although the wolf knows that as long as he doesn't eat sheep, this danger can be avoided, but he has to pounce on it..."

After saying this, Zhao Jia tilted his head and said to Luan Zhong, "Please invite the magistrate and Sima to gather the young men and soldiers in the city, and open the city to meet the enemy!"

Luan Zhong is a civil servant. Looking at the dense buildings outside, he is annoying, and some dare not call the shots: "But the buildings are so annoying! There are only a thousand soldiers and young men in the city."

Zhao Jia said, "The lord and lord once said that there are three things that are urgent for you to combine your swords in battle: the first is to obtain the terrain, the second is to learn the uniforms of the soldiers, and the third is to use the tools."

"The terrain of Mayi, there is a stream blocking it outside the city. Loufan did not fully cross over, only part of it was provoked under the city. The stream divided it into two. The terrain is beneficial to us."

"Although the number of Mayi is small, there are many veterans and well-trained soldiers. The 100 Yulin guards under my command and the 100 Yecheng good family members are also good at riding and shooting. I was just annoying in the watchtower at the top of the city. There is no formation, probably several tribes joined forces, retreated when they saw danger, and fought for profit, they couldn’t work together, and they were easily defeated by each of them.”

"As for the blade..." Zhao Jia smiled and said, "The range and power of Zhao Jun's strong crossbow far exceed Loufan's bow, arrow and stone arrow, and leather armor and wooden shield can't resist the ring-headed sword and iron arrow. Zhao Ke Dian Wuhu. It is a slight advantage of the number of the old people, and it is not enough to determine the victory or defeat!"

One Zhao is worth five Hus! This sentence is very inspiring, but Luan Zhong and the county Sima and the county magistrate still have embarrassed expressions on their faces. Zhao Fa is strict. If they lose the city after leaving the city, they will lose the city, and let the male and female have three strengths and two weaknesses. How can they afford it? !

However, Zhao Jia's performance was not over yet. Before she knew it, she had replaced the magistrate and Sima, and became the center of attention in the city. She stepped on the battlements, her white robe fluttered in the wind, and said loudly:

"The rule on the grasslands is to fear the strong, oppress the weak, and avoid fighting behind closed doors will only make Lou Nan's courage more and more courageous. Even if they bypass Mayi, they will go deep into the villages behind and loot wantonly. , and even threaten Taiyuan County, your wife and parents are just behind Mayi, and we are the only wall standing in front of Lou Anren..."

The soldiers at the head of the city have been infected. They realized how important it is to defend Mayi, and they gritted their teeth one by one. The morale that had been lowered because of Yu Xi's death also recovered again.

Zhao Jia cupped his hands again and said, "The county magistrate, Sima, and the lords and lords moved the people of the inner county to settle the fields in Mayi, so that they must learn riding, archery, bow and arrow for several months every year. What is it for? The duty of a big country to do the city, is it to defend the border and defend the enemy for the country? Please open the city gate and attack the enemy outside!"

"County magistrate, Sima~lightnovelpub.net~ Please open the city gate. We are willing to be the sons and daughters, for the parents, and for the country to strike Hu!" A large crowd of people knelt down at the head of the city, Luan Zhong and Sima I also felt that my blood was boiling in the cold wind, so I promised, "Okay!"

He couldn't bear to regret it. Under the turbulent public opinion, the three county officials also knew that they could not control the situation at all. Although the military and political power of Mayi was in their hands, the status of this good master was too high. Zhong can only reluctantly agree.

However, when Zhao Jia claimed that he would also go out of the city with the army, Luan Zhong still tried his best to stop it.

"Two or three sons are enough to fight, how can a son and daughter stand under a dangerous wall?"

However, Zhao Jia was unmoved: "Apart from me, who else has accompanied the caravan to Loufan and Linhu over and over again, drank kumiss with them, and tried archery with those vulture shooters?"

She glanced at the three county magistrates and said with a smile, "Although Lou Anren has no faith in some things, in other matters, such as honor and tradition, it is more important than Guan Chenshan! He is more important than Dahe! Be serious! How to deal with the annoying Lou, I have a plan, I might as well try it out of the city, if it doesn't work, Sima will lead the army to fight it soon..."