I am a soldier in the border army

Chapter 403: The Angel Arrives! Withered Grassland!
The army marched for one day.

A group of angels from the capital finally arrived.

When he heard that Han Shao had led a large army out of the northern border, preparing to sweep across the grassland and attack Longcheng, Li Jin, who was leading the team personally, looked a little unhappy.

"He is so bold! He dares to lead his troops out of the border without the order of His Majesty or the military order of the Grand Marshal's Office!"

"Do you still have your Majesty in your sight? Is there any imperial court in your sight?"

According to the imperial court's military garrison regulations, it is a serious crime for border troops to cross the border without permission.

Li Jin naturally had reason to get angry.

Of course, the most important thing was that it was freezing cold. This group of angels had not dared to delay at all since leaving the divine capital. They hurried all the way, but they never thought that they were still a step late after all.

However, when the secretary Lang Zhouxuan heard his words, there was no fear on his face. He glanced at the loyal dog beside Emperor Taikang and reminded him.

"Angel, have you forgotten that my prince, in addition to being the General Dingbei, is also the Marquis of Che in the current dynasty?"

"The Wuhuan barbarians invaded our Guanjun Marquisate for no reason, and my lord raised an army to fight them. This is within our duty, so what crime have we committed?"

Li Jin was stunned when he heard this.

Then he realized that he was so angry that he was confused.

Han Shao, the Marquis of Guanjun, is different from an ordinary marquis in that he is a real marquis with a fiefdom.

Emperor Taikang originally set a trap for the Gongsun clan and also created rifts between Han Shao and General Gongsun Du, who suppresses Liao.

In addition to giving him a fief of ten thousand households, he also promised that he could choose the land of Youzhou.

As a result, the area of ​​hundreds of miles around Champion City has become a country within a country in reality.

Naturally, it is not comparable to ordinary border troops.

Li Jin came to his senses and realized that he had spoken out of turn.

He raised his eyes to glance at Zhou Xuan who looked calm and composed, and said coldly with some embarrassment.

"Who are you? Why haven't we seen you before?"

With his mere Yuanshen realm cultivation level, he didn't even show the slightest awe towards this court angel and seventh realm true immortal.

Li Jin felt very uncomfortable.

Moreover, he had known Han Shao for a long time, and he had never seen this kind of person before.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xuan chuckled and bowed to Li Jin.

"I am Zhou Xuan, a lowly official, honored to be the secretary of the Marquis's mansion."

"Fortunately, you have my trust and I am here to stay in the city."

Li Jin snorted coldly.

"So that boy trusts you?"

He just said this casually.

But the ant in the Yuanshen realm in front of him had a gloomy expression and instantly stopped smiling.

The Lord humiliates his ministers to death.

"Angels deserve to be called champions!"

Li Jin was so angry that he laughed.

When he met Han Shao, Han Shao was very respectful to him.

Even though they had some unpleasantness later because of the Ninth Prince, they did not really break up, and their relationship was neither close nor distant.

How come all of a sudden even this lowly official dared to bar his teeth at me?
The aura of a True Immortal of the Seventh Realm was revealed, and a terrifying pressure as powerful as a mountain collapsing was released.

Li Jin narrowed his eyes and looked at the ant's red face with a teasing look.

"So what if our family is not called that?"

Under the heavy pressure from the Seventh Realm True Immortal, Zhou Xuan, a small Yuanshen Zhenren, naturally could not resist, and could not even speak.

But when he looked back at Li Jin, his eyes were neither dodging nor evasive, and he did not retreat at all.

"He is a loyal one..."

Li Jin spoke in a sarcastic tone and was about to say something else when he heard an angry female voice coming from the inner house of the marquis's mansion.

"Noisy!"

"Everyone in the family is dead!"

"Everyone is welcome to our home!"

"Don't throw it out yet!"

The voice is charming, and any word taken out alone has a strange charm that can make people fall in love with it.

But when they are put together, the words they form are extremely unpleasant to hear.

Li Jin, who was described as a nobody, turned pale, and the angels following behind him were also furious.

To humiliate angels is to despise the court!
If you really take it too far, it would be slandering the emperor!

The crime of high treason!
But just as they opened their mouths to scold, what came out was a mouthful of hot blood.

As they were horrified, a figure that looked like an old slave appeared in front of them in panic, laughing awkwardly.

"Everyone, everyone, my lord has just gone on a long journey, and my wife is not in a good mood. Please forgive me! Please forgive me!"

The old slave spoke politely, but his actions were rude.

"How about you, angels, please move on first?"

The group of angels suppressed their injuries and glared at the old slave.

"How dare you, an old slave, drive out an angel?"

"Don't be afraid of bringing disaster to your master!"

Amidst the scolding, the old slave continued to talk and laugh, just looking at Li Jin.

"Master Li, what do you think?"

He did not call her an angel or a constant attendant, but directly pointed out Li Jin's identity as the head of Lantai Pavilion.

Li Jin stared at the old slave for a while, and after a moment, he finally snorted coldly.

"let's go!"

After saying this, he ignored the shock and astonishment of the people behind him, and disappeared in the hall of the Marquis' Mansion in a flash.

……

Inside the Angel's Office.

"How arrogant he is! How dare he disrespect the angels!"

"Are you planning to rebel?"

The angels who were kicked out of the Marquis' Mansion looked angry and cursed.

But as they were cursing, they discovered that their leader Li Jin's face had turned pale.

puff--

A mouthful of hot blood spurted out.

"Attendant!"

"Attendant!"

Amidst a burst of exclamations, Li Jin took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his mouth, and his face gradually regained its redness.

"Keep on scolding, why don't you?"

Li Jin glanced at these idiots.

"It would be best if you could take all the people from the Marquis of Guanjun's mansion for me and bring them back to the capital to be punished. What do you think?"

The irony in Li Jin's words was too obvious.

All the angels present were instantly silent.

At this moment they finally realized that the reason why Changshi Li had been holding back his anger until now was simply to save the face of the court and His Majesty.

And what kind of terrifying cultivation level must the mysterious woman in the inner house of the Marquis' Mansion have to have been able to injure Li Jin, a True Immortal of the Seventh Realm, with just one word?

In an instant, they felt a chill on their backs and sweat on their foreheads.

"Damn it! Isn't it just a marquis' mansion in a bitter cold borderland? How can there be such a terrifying existence?"

Seeing these guys finally shut up, Li Jin sneered.

"Not that stupid."

Everyone smiled awkwardly when they heard this.

Li Jin no longer paid attention to them, but looked towards the inner house of the Marquis' Mansion with a complicated expression.

Eight realms of heavenly beings!

Can’t go wrong!

And there’s more than one!
Now that he had calmed down, he suddenly came to his senses.

The charming voice just now seemed to scold and hurt them, but in fact she was protecting her own life and others.

If she hadn't interrupted, another cold aura would have erupted in the backyard.

How can they survive?

Li Jin let out a long breath with some lingering fear.

Then I couldn't help feeling a little ashamed.

I always call my subordinates idiots, but I never thought that I would be so stupid today.

I subconsciously forgot that the boy is no longer the cautious person he was when facing me on the grassland.

Now, the one you need to look up to carefully should be yourself.

"Eight Realms of Heaven..."

Recalling the moment when he learned that the brat had killed nine immortals and achieved unity with the celestial beings, even His Majesty could not help but reveal a look of astonishment.

Li Jin smiled bitterly and sighed.

At this moment, the angels who had finally come to their senses hesitated and spoke carefully.

"Chang Shi...what should we do now?"

"Go back?"

go back?

How can he go back if the order has not been passed on to that kid?
Aren't you afraid that His Majesty will be furious and chop them all to pieces?
Li Jin glanced at them and was too lazy to talk to them anymore.

"You guys wait here, we'll go chase that little...that champion marquis!"

After saying that, he thought about it and gave a stern warning.

"You are not allowed to leave this place until my family comes back!"

"Don't cause trouble!"

"If anything goes wrong, don't blame us for being ruthless and heartless!"

Li Jin knew these guys' character too well.

Coming from the inner court, when he was in the capital, the palace had its own rules, and with the pressure from the Beigong, it was relatively restrained.

But once they received the emperor's order to leave the capital, they became unscrupulous.

If Li Jin didn't want to show his importance to Han Shao, he wouldn't have brought these burdens with him on this trip north.

When they heard Li Jin's words, everyone responded quickly. "Don't worry, Chang Shi, we won't have to worry!"

In fact, even if Li Jin hadn't reminded them, they wouldn't have dared to cause trouble after the shock they had just experienced in the Marquis' Mansion.

Li Jin looked at their frightened faces and finally felt relieved.

His figure vanished into thin air and disappeared in the camp.

In fact, although Li Jin looked calm along the way and did not show anything unusual.

But inside I was extremely nervous.

Not worrying about anything else.

He was only worried that the boy would... disobey his orders!
And this worry became more and more intense after the test at the Marquis' Mansion.

"Yesterday's fledgling, now it has grown wings..."

……

November, mid-winter, the dragon hides.

At this time of day, even in the south of the Yangtze River, where there are four distinct seasons, the breath has turned into fog.

Not to mention this vast grassland.

Han Shao exhaled a puff of white mist and said to Li Jing and others behind him with a smile.

"Do you remember this time last year?"

Hearing Han Shao's words, Li Jing and others also smiled.

remember.

How could I not remember such an unforgettable thing?

The 59th year of Taikang, the second day of the eleventh month.

They were attacked in the valley, and countless wild dogs surrounded them and shot arrows like rain.

In their breakout, they left behind countless corpses of their comrades and fled in all directions.

It was at that time that the prince, a small soldier in the army, was appointed by the lady as the Sima of their remnant army.

Then a story that could be called a battlefield legend unfolded.

"Without you, my Lord, we would have all become dry bones in the grave."

Zhao Mu sighed with emotion.

This guy's temperament has never been liked by others, but no one refuted what he said at this time.

Instead, he nodded in agreement.

Han Shao laughed and shook his head.

"If it weren't for you, this would be the same for me."

As he said this, he turned around and glanced at them.

"So I have always regarded you as my humerus and limbs."

Li Jing and others were all moved when they heard this.

"Your Excellency's kindness is so great that we would never be able to repay it even if we die!"

"I am willing to go through fire and water for the cause of the Marquis, and I will never regret it even if I die!"

This is a bit too explicit.

Up to now, as Han Shao's most trusted confidants, they have already vaguely guessed some of Han Shao's thoughts.

So this can be considered a small test.

It’s a pity that Han Shao just smiled and didn’t respond to them.

The reason why he brought this up suddenly was simply because today marks the day when he traveled through time for a full year.

"It can be considered a small birthday..."

Han Shao felt emotional.

It’s just that no one knows about this unspeakable birthday except himself, and no one can celebrate it for him.

"Go a little further and rest here."

Han Shao said this, and then suddenly said in the puzzled eyes of Li Jing and others.

"Tell the soldiers to have soup noodles later."

……

Riding on horseback all the way in the wind and snow.

This year's snowstorm came a little earlier than last year.

If we delay a few more days and the snow piles up to our knees, it will be troublesome.

Han Shao looked back in the direction of Champion City and suddenly grinned.

Then his mind moved, and his supernatural powers were used, instantly covering the entire army.

I have to say, the dragon clan's method of hiding does have some skills.

It is no wonder that the 50,000-strong army was able to rush all the way to the city of Guanjun a few months ago and even concealed the perception of Gongsun Zhi, a seventh-level true immortal.

"I want to launch a surprise attack on Dragon City, so it makes sense to proactively conceal the movement of the army, right?"

As for whether Li Jin can find him, that is his business.

When the time comes for him to find it, I will naturally let him find it.

……

The army marched forward.

Han Shao ignored the slight snow.

Unless the sky is really covered with dark clouds and heavy snow is about to fall, Han Shao will ask Li Jing and others to soar into the sky and disperse the clouds.

This is the terrifying thing about the great monk. It is not too difficult to change the celestial phenomena in a small range.

The soldiers also got used to it along the way.

But after marching for several days, they didn't encounter a single wild dog.

This inevitably made the soldiers feel like they were hitting cotton with a fist.

Looking at the dilapidated yurts that were half-buried in the snow along the way, some soldiers couldn't help but ask their captain.

"Captain, were these tribes slaughtered by you, the Lord?"

The captain who had followed the prince across the grassland frowned, recognized him, and then shook his head.

"No."

“Wrong direction.”

No?

The soldier was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then he let out a long sigh.

"Barbarian dogs are indeed beasts. They are so cruel when it comes to killing their own people."

But after he said this, he immediately remembered that the Yong people seemed to have done a lot of similar things, so he stopped talking immediately.

Then he looked at the grassland in front of him that seemed to be dead and withered, and couldn't help but say.

"It really is like the legendary icy purgatory."

……

indeed.

All the way north, all we saw were withered grass and trees, mutilated and hideous corpses, and deserted tribes.

There is no hope at all.

If the soldiers had not already experienced mountains of corpses and seas of blood and had strong mental strength.

I've seen this kind of dead silence so many times that I'm afraid I'll go crazy.

"My Lord, I'm afraid that the Wuhuan tribe is..."

Li Jing, who was riding a horse behind Han Shao, couldn't help but let out a breath.

"It's over!"

Any rule requires a foundation.

And this foundation is people.

Without people, everything comes to an end.

Han Shao nodded, agreeing with what he said.

He also knew what Li Jing meant by saying this, which was simply that he doubted the possibility of mobilizing a large army to march north in the severe winter wind and snow.

But after nodding, Han Shao immediately shook his head.

"You must uproot the grass at its roots, otherwise it will grow again in the spring."

The coldness in Han Shao's words was undoubtedly more severe than the snowstorm in the middle of November.

Although Li Jing agreed, he still couldn't help feeling a little cold in his heart.

After hesitating for a while, he still said.

"I am just worried... Today, Wu Wan is gone, and tomorrow, Hei Wan and Bai Wan will come... It will go on and on, with no end."

After hearing what Li Jing said, Han Shao finally looked at him with surprise.

Then he smiled.

"This is a statement that is meant for the country."

"You can be a commander now."

Being able to see this is enough to prove that Li Jing's vision is no longer limited to the battlefield.

Li Jing felt a little embarrassed because Han Shao thought so highly of him.

After calming himself down, he suddenly realized what Han Shao meant.

"Your Excellency means..."

Han Shao shook his head and did not give a clear answer.

"Let's wait and see."

But after saying this, he added another sentence.

"Barbarians are beasts, they all fear power but not virtue!"

"If you don't beat them till their skin is torn and their bones are broken, no matter how much you say, it will be useless. Do you understand?"

After hearing Han Shao's words, Li Jing pondered for a while, then solemnly agreed.

"Jing, I will accept your instructions!"

Han Shao nodded with satisfaction.

Then he looked at the familiar valley in the distance and his smile gradually faded.

"Let's go back to the old place, offer sacrifices, and then go on."

……

(End of this chapter)