Mr. Big Air's First Lady

Chapter 69
The winter snow in Wucheng has rarely melted since the first game.

Then one snow after another piled up together, and it didn't start to melt until the next spring.

Throughout the winter, the temperature outside was getting lower and lower. At the end of November and December, it could be said that people's breath was frozen outdoors, and they could not even breathe smoothly.

In such weather, it is said that the cat should sit on the kang at home to keep warm, that is the most comfortable.

If you go out to fight, you may break your bones if you fall, and the two armies will face off with heavy casualties.

The Wucheng side is okay, if the troops are not enough, they can recruit from the people.

If there are not enough soldiers in the frontier, they will report to the court and recruit from other places.

This is not the case on the grassland. The grassland is developed in units of tribes, and there is a competitive relationship between tribes. If a warrior of a certain tribe suffers heavy casualties, this tribe will definitely be captured by other tribes as slaves.

It is impossible to unite with other tribes and fight back.

Therefore, in winter, the tribes on the grasslands are not willing to go to war.

There is often a big discrepancy between truth and reality.

There is another saying, starve to death the timid, and starve to death the bold.

Most of the people on the prairie are savage, but there are also smart ones who vividly deduce "survival from a desperate situation" and "calculation".

On the grassland, tribes with a small number of people are small tribes, and it is difficult to survive on the grassland.

There are some large tribes who will specifically catch people from these small tribes and sell them as slaves.

There are also some people who will drive these small tribes to the border of Dalang, let them sneak attack the villages at the foot of Zushan, and bring back the items they want before letting them live.

Anyway, there is no need for people from their own tribe to be dispatched, and some people from small tribes who are captured will not lose money if they die, and they will make money if they bring back things.

They threatened the relatives of the warriors, so that the warriors of those small tribes had to obey.

This is the origin of the winter battlefield.

In the beginning, they succeeded a few times, and later, some garrisons set up traps in these villages, making these Tartars come and go.

After so many times, those Tartars gave up attacking the villages at the foot of Zu Mountain in winter.

Why did it appear again later?

That's because there is a need here in Wucheng.

On Wucheng's side, it's not that they don't have the strength to wipe out the Tartars who invaded in winter, but they can't.

Humans have their own selfishness.

The greater the power, the greater the ambition.

The King of Zhenbei, a prince with a foreign surname, has been able to stand in Wucheng forever because of this military merit and the sense of responsibility of "guarding the frontier as his own responsibility".

Generations of meritorious deeds have allowed them to accumulate great prestige in the frontier. The people of Wucheng only know the king of Zhenbei, but they don't know the emperor in the city.

Hundreds of years ago, the emperor had a sense of crisis. He was afraid that the first King of Zhenbei would support his troops and establish himself as king, so he wanted to announce him into the city of Lang to weaken his influence on the frontier.

The first king of Zhenbei also had a sense of crisis, fearing that the old emperor would kill him.

In fact, if it is really for the good of the people, the king of Zhenbei can return to the city at this time, or even resign from office and return to his hometown for the elderly.

He was an important minister who guarded the frontiers for the Dayang Dynasty and protected the people on the frontiers from the persecution of the Tartars. After he retired after his success, the emperor would not treat his family like him in order to stabilize the hearts of the people and to show his majesty.

King Zhenbei just lost his rights.

The talents of the Dayang Dynasty came out, and the king of Zhenbei retired, and there would be other good men on top.

But the king of Zhenbei didn't think so back then, he felt that Wucheng could not do without him, and Erlang Wucheng would be broken by the Tartars without his own family.

Looking at the previous history of Wucheng, without the guarding of the son of Hong's family, the king of Zhenbei, as long as he didn't meet the king of subjugation, he would never have broken through the city. Where did the king of Zhenbei with the surname Hong come from?

In the final analysis, there is still one word: right.

Reluctant to give up power.

Unwilling to be mediocre.

How to keep the power in your hands?
The king of Zhenbei at that time believed that as long as he held Wucheng's troops firmly in his hands and as long as the Tartars were rampant, he could keep his position.

Back then, the most elite troops under the King of Zhenbei were called the Hong Family Army. Anyone who heard this said they were raising private soldiers, not raising soldiers for the court.

The emperor's concerns were not without reason.

Later, a counselor advised him and asked him to change the words "Hongjiajun". He was paid by the imperial court, and the army was also supported by the imperial court. its right.

The word "Hongjiajun" is a taboo.

Only then did it change its name and become the current Four Spirits Army.

The counselor came up with another idea, contacting the big tribes on the grassland to plot a war.

As long as there are frequent wars, the emperor has no reason to transfer Zhenbei Wang back to the city, and he can still make a fortune.

Since then, Wucheng warriors have been frequent, even in winter.

And the big tribe drove some warriors from the small tribe to burn, kill and loot at the foot of Zushan Mountain, but they were never wiped out again.

But only in winter.

Because the Tatars are more flexible than Dayang people in the snow in winter, if they escape, whether they run into the grassland or the ancestor mountain, it is understandable that the garrison cannot catch up.

If Xia Tian can't catch up and doesn't send troops to garrison at the foot of Zu Mountain, people will be suspicious.

Some generals who were good at fighting also fell one after another under the design of King Zhenbei and the Tartars.

If he was transferred to Langcheng at this time, the Tartars would definitely take the opportunity to attack.

Thus, the first generation of Zhenbei King successfully stayed on the frontier.

After that, he became low-key, and the emperor had no excuse to transfer him to the city again.

After everything has been done to this point, it will not be difficult to collude with the courtiers and let the courtiers encourage the emperor to send the most heinous criminals to the foot of Zushan to be killed by the Tartars.

If there are too many civilians killed, it will ultimately be unfavorable for Wucheng, which will affect the prestige of King Zhenbei in the Wucheng army.

But the exiles are different, they are all deserving of death, sent here to be killed by the Tartars, everyone thinks they should.

No one will sympathize with them, or even take pleasure in their misfortune.

Several generations of Zhenbei kings have been passed down to this day. Hundreds of years have passed, and the people of Wucheng have long been accustomed to the village at the foot of Zushan being attacked by Tartars every year, and people die every year.

No one doubted that the garrison was ineffective. They only thought that the Tartars were too vicious and cunning, and that they had the drug made by Mudara, which caused the six villages at the foot of Zushan to be attacked every winter.

In the garrison and all the military households, there is a set of reasonable arguments in their hearts, explaining why the garrison cannot guard the foot of the Zu Mountain to prevent the Tartars from attacking the village.

The garrison only needs to keep an eye on the village at the foot of the Zu Mountain. If there is an attack by Tartars, after confirming it, they will drive away the Tartars and rescue the villagers.

Regardless of whether it was originally to prevent the Tartars from sneaking into Wucheng without keeping their integrity, or to establish an image in the hearts of the people, anyway, after a few hundred years, a kind of inertial thinking has formed, and no one wants to break it in the past.

Wan Ning came, and she found a lot of unreasonable things here.

She was soft-spoken, she didn't expose these things, she just wanted to restore Wen Wanning's kindness, so she had to protect her family well.

That's it.

This day is the day when November and December alternate.

As usual, the Tartars sneaked into the six villages at the foot of the Zu Mountain, and ambushed each of them, waiting quietly for the appointed time, and then everyone entered the village at the same time to loot.

On the grassland not far away, among the white snow, there are several white tents. Because the colors are almost the same, almost no one can find these tents.

In the largest tent, a Tartar leader was guessing with a few confidants how much he would harvest this year, how many sheep and how many horses he could exchange for.

Then transport these sheep and horses to Wucheng, and how much grain, how much tea, how much salt, etc. can be exchanged.

There is no business, and it is naturally happy to do it.

The harsh living conditions of the Tartars also created a more cold-resistant physique.

The Tatars ambushing at the foot of the Zushan Mountain moved freely in the icy outdoor air without feeling cold.

He kept watch until it was dark, and the lights in the village were extinguished one by one. It was not until the beginning of Haishi that he touched the village.

This time, their targets were food and women.

The Tartars who raided other villages at night all entered the village very smoothly, but the Tartars who entered Yaoguan Village triggered the ringing town set up by Wan Ning when they first entered the village entrance, causing the bell to ring. The people in the village were alarmed.

Hundreds of bells rang suddenly in this moment of complete silence, which was quite scary, frightening the unprepared Tartars for a moment.

Watching the extinguished candles in the village light up one after another, they realized that they and others had stepped into a trap and woke them up!
"What are you afraid of? We have drugs in our hands. Let's get them one by one, so we won't have to go over the wall!"

When the other Tatars heard that it was indeed the case, they stopped panicking and became even more arrogant.

People in Dayang are cowardly, even if they don't have the drug, they can still kill these people, now that they have the drug, why should they be afraid?
(End of this chapter)