Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1418
No. 18 days after the two letters of credence that shocked the world were issued, Luoyang City opened its gates.

Yelulang, the new king of the Northern Wei Dynasty, traveled from Luoyang to Pingcheng, the former capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, with a mighty guard of honor.

At the end of the accompanying courtiers, followed by a huge carriage, outside the carriage were many guards and palace servants from other gardens.

The people on the side of the road who saw him off all looked at the carriage with complicated expressions.

Yeluhua was lying unconscious in that carriage.

Yelulang stood on the driving seat at the front, without turning his head, he just pulled out the king sword, and said quietly, "Let's go."

The long procession of ceremonies set off, all the way north.

……

……

Ying Baoyue and others are also heading north.

Everything was as expected by Ji Jiashu, and their next journey was not smooth.

Maybe the news of Yeluhua's assassination has spread, maybe it's because Yelulang rushed northward and didn't punish the new horse thieves near Luoyang. On the next road, the village was destroyed by horse thieves again and again. .

"We're late."

Just last night when he fought against a group of more than 50 horse thieves, Ji Jiashu's face was a little tired, but fighting horse thieves is not the most painful thing, the most painful time is now.

Everyone stood by the burnt-out village, looking at the bones scattered in the ruins of the houses, silent.

They don't catch up exactly every time, either.

"I just do not understand!"

Mu Qi stabbed his sword hard into the ground, "It's all for these people to grab some money, why burn the village?!"

"Because this is the best way to hide crimes," Ying Baoyue said quietly, "We don't even know if it's done by people inside the Great Wall or outside the Great Wall after it's burned like this."

"What?" Chen Zichu was taken aback, then turned his head abruptly, "You said this wasn't done by horse thieves?"

Ying Baoyue shook her head, "I mean not necessarily."

She quietly looked at the scorched village. She had seen such a scene countless times on the border, and it was very similar to the style of a group of people she knew.

"Who else could it be?" The young men were stunned.

"It may also be from Xirong."

Li Ji spoke lightly.

Ying Baoyue glanced sideways at him, "You really have seen it."

"Destroying corpses and destroying traces is what the Xirong people are good at," Li Ji said. "The horse thieves in the Northern Wei Dynasty still learned from them to burn the village."

"People from Xirong?"

Listening to the conversation between the two, Zhao Guang, Chen Zichu and the others felt their hairs stand on end.

"But aren't the Xirong people outside the Great Wall of Eternal Night?"

"Not all of them are there," Ying Baoyue knew that now he had to admit the fact that many Xirong people had been able to cross the Great Wall and infiltrate into the Central Plains without anyone noticing.

"Leaving aside, Chunyuye and the others have been active in the Central Plains. What do you think they live on?"

Ying Baoyue lowered her head quietly, it is impossible to rely on the activity funds issued by the Buddhist monastery.

Everyone was horrified.

Did the Xirong people actually start looting in the Central Plains very early?

"Baoyue, you knew it from the beginning?" Ji Jiashu remembered Ying Baoyue's killing intent towards the Xirong people all the time, and his expression was a little strange.

"I knew it when I saw them," Ying Baoyue said, "As long as they appear here, they will definitely have blood on their hands."

It was a pack of hungry wolves, and their way of life was to ravage.

Where there are looters, there are murderers.

Ying Baoyue quietly looked at the scorched earth in front of her.

In order not to expose their traces, the Xirong people's looting will not even leave a living.

Zhao Guang stood behind the crowd with a complicated expression.

"Those bastards," Chen Zichu cursed bitterly, looked at the village in front of him, and took a deep breath, "Whether they are Xirong people or horse thieves, this is already the sixth one."

Except for the extremely remote villages they passed on the road, there were almost no survivors. Or were these just some they saw, and how many such people were there in places they couldn't see?

"Is the Northern Wei Dynasty going to subjugate the country? Don't care about it?"

"Even if the government wants to take care of it, there must be people in the village who can escape and report the letter," Li Ji said. "Even if someone succeeds in reporting the letter, by the time the officers and soldiers arrive here, those people will have burned the village and gone away."

This is what horse thieves and Xirong cavalry are best at.

There are times when so many of their practitioners can't catch up, let alone officers and soldiers.

"But...but did the government just ignore it?" Zhao Guang frowned, "Didn't Yeluhua wipe out the biggest gang of horse thieves in the Northern Wei Dynasty?"

"That happened a few years ago," Li Ji said, "but it's really strange that so many horse thieves appeared together."

Li Ji's face was sinking like water, as Ying Baoyue said, he suspected that many horse thieves were disguised as Xirong cavalry.

This makes it more difficult to track them down.

Ying Baoyue took a deep breath and looked to the north, "Let's continue going north."

They can indeed save one or two villages, but this is only a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

Xirong forces have quietly infiltrated the entire Northern Wei Dynasty. To solve this problem from the root, the Northern Wei Dynasty needs a monarch who has nothing to do with Xirong.

She had to find out if Yelulang was a human or a ghost.

"It is said that there are already Xibing soldiers in such a place to the south, is the Great Wall of Eternal Night okay?" Chen Zichu's voice sounded inadvertently, and Ying Baoyue's pupils shrank.

"Miss Violet!"

Ji Ange's terrified voice came, and everyone turned their heads suddenly, only to find that Li Jinniang crouched down suddenly, clutching her chest.

"Miss Violet?"

Ying Baoyue walked to her side, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Li Jinniang shook her head, her face pale, "I'm just a little worried about my sister."

Ying Baoyue's heart shrank suddenly.

Mei Niang.

Not only Mei Niang, there are too many people who are extremely important to her on the Great Wall of Eternal Night.

With the invasion of the Xirong forces, something must have happened on the Great Wall of Eternal Night, but she didn't know where the situation had reached and what the Great Wall of Eternal Night had become.

Mei Niang, please, please be careful.

She has not had time in this life to see her again.

"Sorry, did I say something wrong?" Chen Zichu was at a loss.

Ying Baoyue shook her head, suppressing the grief in her heart, she gritted her teeth, "Pingcheng is very close to the Great Wall of Eternal Night, we will know when we get to Pingcheng."

"Well," Li Ji also sensed something wrong with Ying Baoyue's mood, silently released some true energy to calm everyone's emotions, and said softly, "Let's go."

"Okay," everyone nodded, but at this moment, there was a rustling sound from the grass behind them.

"who?"

Ji Jiashu turned his head abruptly, lightning flashed from the Chunlei sword in his hand, everyone's nerves were tense for a long time, and they were also very nervous for a while.

But when they saw the person in front of them clearly, they were taken aback.

"Jun, please forgive me, the villain is just..."

The person who came out of the grass was so frightened that he fell to his knees on the ground with a plop, kowtowing like garlic.

"You are……"

Ying Baoyue looked at the ragged man in front of her. She had the impression that this man was not a practitioner, but the son of the village chief they rescued last night.

She breathed a sigh of relief and walked up to the man, "What's the matter with you?"

"Little man..."

The young man knelt on the ground with a hesitant expression, but the next moment he seemed to have made up his mind, he slammed his head on the ground.

"I heard that the benefactors are rebels, can you accept me?"

"Accept you?" Ying Baoyue was taken aback for a moment, but before she could react, a dozen or so young men came out from the grass, and they all fell to their knees on the ground.

"I beg the Lord Rebels to accept us!"

(End of this chapter)