Hulukou is vast and boundless, and a majestic and extraordinary martial arts platform was temporarily built. Three miles away from the martial arts platform, there are two military parade buildings in the east and west directions. Form the momentum of the assistant of the temple hall. The Wen Building has six floors, which is one floor higher than the Wu Building. This makes the scholars who have climbed the Wen Building at this time feel a little honored in their hearts. There are many civil servants in Beiliang in the building. Outside of Xu Beizhi, Inspector Youliang had already climbed to the top floor, following Jinglue envoy Li Gongde to lean on the railing to look out, but the closest to Li Gongde was not Hu Kui, Inspector of Liangzhou, nor Wang Peifang, Inspector of Youzhou, but two fresh Faces, Shangyin school palace king Jijiu and Huang Chang, who was supposed to go to Yushitai to take office in the capital, with a high crown and a belt, and when the frontier fortress was blowing the building, the sleeves were fluttering, which set off the two old people's elegance and fairy demeanor. According to the law, Hu Kui is half a rank higher than the governor of Lingzhou in Beiliang Dao. Compared with the old man in the building, he is in his prime. The crossbowman is famous all over the world, and he has made great achievements in the Northern Liang army. Hu Kui didn't know what happened back then. He followed the steps and expected to win the Liangzhou general in five years. Eight years ago, he led three hundred Qingqi into the dragon's waist without authorization. In the hinterland of the state, more than 1,200 Beimang iron cavalry were beheaded in Zhebujun Town of Beimang, and they lost their official positions afterwards. This allowed Chen Zhibao, who took over the torch cavalry, to have the world's first-class scouts in all battles, and beat Beimang. Mang Dong Zhuo's crow fence is one end. However, after Hu Kui lost his official position, everyone betrayed his relatives, and he simply abandoned his martial arts and followed the civil service. He started as a civil official in Liangzhou, and in just seven years, he became the governor again. The dead ashes of several bubbles can be rekindled, which is unreasonable. Wang Peifang, the governor of Youzhou, was born as a pure scholar, and he never got along with Hu Kui, who had served in the army for twenty years. Almost every year, he went to Qingliang Mountain to meet the King of Beiliang, and he always complained about how Hu Kui, an old soldier, looked at him. Lawless, how to indulge his subordinates to bully him Youzhou officials wantonly, is different from the perverse Hu Kui standing alone on the far right of the top floor, since Wang Peifang can't get close to Mr. Jinglueshi and two well-known old men who are well-known in the government and the public, just like some famous people Mr. Jixia, who was away from the school, greeted politely, said some comforting words about going to the country and nostalgia, and chatted about the most popular poems about immortals and nostalgia in the current literary world.
Hu Kui was wearing a gorgeous official uniform of the first rank of the third grade. This governor of Liangzhou lived up to the name his parents gave him. It was scholars who went to Liang, and most of them were thin and thin, which further set off Hu Kui's superiority. After Hu Kui went upstairs, he didn't say hello to anyone. He stood by the railing and looked into the distance. Hu Ben's army lined up along the river, and Hu Kui's eyes were in a daze. If it weren't for the disaster that happened back then, he would have been in it himself, and he was even qualified to stand there for a military parade! Hu Kui shifted his gaze, looked at the school martial arts platform, held the railing with one hand, and the governor of Liangzhou, who was already under one man and above ten thousand civil servants in Beiliang, sighed softly. A young scholar who was personally introduced to Li Gongde by Mr. Wang Da of the Shangyin Academy, whose surname was Yu and whose name was Luandao, was neither humble nor overbearing when talking to Master Jinglueshi, and his temper was a little weak, which made the top floor Scholars from the two places at the back all complained that he didn't know the seriousness, and that he was really too proud of his talent. Yu Luan's saber is tied with a jade belt and wears a long saber, his face is like a crown of jade, and he is extremely handsome. Wenlou was shaking under the trampling of countless horseshoes. Many scholars from other places were pale when they saw the cold military appearance of Beiliang cavalry. Permitting the establishment of an academy and the association of scholars, Yu Luan walked up to Hu Kui silently without making a sound. The two looked at the battlefield side by side. , Said plainly: "You are the eldest grandson of the Yinyang Yu family, right? You became a blockbuster on the first day of studying in Shangyin Academy, and you successively solved the six questions of heaven and earth in the nine 'questions' left by Huang Sanjia. The second master of the Song family once As a review on the first day of the month, I also comment on your Yu Luan knife. "With Zen in your words, your words can relieve your greed. You can rise to the top in the court, and you can inherit the culture in the field." Even our unparalleled second princess, also appreciates your poems and essays I highly recommend it. It’s just that I, Hu Kui, pay attention to you. It’s because you once wrote the 48-character "Liangzhou Dama Song" to pay homage to Damaying, and I thank you for the 260 dead brothers."
Hu Kui slapped the railing with one hand, and said softly: "Qingqinghuanghuang, kill wild sheep. Liangzhou Dama, died in a foreign land. Well, it's really good, even a rough warrior like me can't slur it when he reads it. Just based on these two sentences, even if you, Yu Luandao, asked me to ask for a fourth-rank official, and you will take office tomorrow, I would willingly agree. The horse stepped on the green grass and yellow sand, rode the horse to kill the sheep and ate the meat, and I still didn’t see you when I looked back Hometown. Many literati can write these simple things, but they don’t want to write them.”
Yu Luan Dao, the eldest grandson of the Yu family in Yinyang, when he was one year old, he grabbed a copy of "Spring and Autumn" with one hand and a peerless famous knife "Da Luan" that has been treasured for generations with the other. He wrote a poem at the age of four and became famous all over the world. At the age of 18, he went to the Yin Academy alone to study with a sword and a sword, and the world looked at him. He was also the most distressed and annoyed young man of the Liyang court during the trip to Liang. For this reason, the Yu family was angered by the emperor of the Zhao family, and he was suppressed miserably on Guangling Road.
Yu Luandao looked down at the knife, then raised his head and looked into the distance, with a warm smile on his face and firm eyes, he said: "General Hu, I didn't come to Beiliang to ask you for an official, I just wanted to see the prince with my own eyes. Your Highness, there will be no regrets in this life. I don’t like the arrogance and indulgence of the rich and powerful, I don’t like the pretentious Guozijian, and I don’t like the imperial court. Only His Highness is pleasing to the eye. I also want to ask His Highness personally, If one day, Beiliang is no match for Beimang's million iron cavalry, will Xu Fengnian dare to die in battle, dare to really guard the northwest gate for the Central Plains? Luan Dao! I was a scholar, seeking fame and fame in times of peace and prosperity, and studying in times of troubled times, just trading death for peace for the common people!"
Hu Kui said calmly: "I'm afraid that you scholars have high eyesight and low abilities. If you talk well on paper, you will be a fool on paper."
Yu Luandao listened to Liangzhou Inspector's distasteful remarks, instead he laughed and said, "I'm also afraid of this, so after the military parade, I'm going to join the army and become a pawn, whether it's a mule or a horse. Just take a walk and you will know. It's just that along the way, I have seen many beauties from the north who are not as graceful as the Jiangnan women. They are tall and tall, with a bold personality, and they are very appetizing. Before they die, they must marry such a tall daughter-in-law to live up to this life. I just lived up to my trip to Beiliang. Yu Luandao doesn’t have any elders here, so when posting to a woman’s family, he still asks Mr. Hu to do it for him?”
Hu Kui was noncommittal, and said something even more inauspicious, "I, Hu Kui, have no other great skills, but to collect good corpses. If your Yu Luandao dies someday, I will collect the corpses for you."
Many scholars on the top floor were standing inside the building, and they were not qualified to come to the corridor and stand by the railing. Seeing this eldest grandson of the Yu family, he could not only join in the fun with Mr. Jinglue Envoy, but also "talk to General Hu Kui of Liangzhou" Very happy", they were all jealous, listening to Yu Luan Dao's laughter, it was a little harsh. How could they expect that this famous boy came to Beiliang because he wanted to die.
The snowflakes are falling sparsely and tend to grow gradually. The north is cool and bitterly cold. As long as it snows, it will be completely unstoppable. It is destined to be a sleepless heavy snow. Yu Luandao stretched out a hand to catch Snowflake. His five fingers are fair and slender. Presumably, if he is in the affluent Guangling Road, no matter whether he is playing the piano, holding a book, or laying pieces on the chessboard, he will be very attractive to women. Hu Kui sniffed, and in half an hour, it's time for the school's military parade. He was originally a first-class crossbowman, and he has many incredible and complicated skills, among which is the ability to tell the time, which is more accurate than relying on experience to judge the time by observing the sky. The truth is that carrying Peng Ai to dig pits and burn them to look for energy and dig wells to find water is a kung fu that the Beiliang Army must master. It's not without reason, Xu Xiao's command is not only like a cloud of fierce generals, but also "Sanxian" craftsmen who are proficient in heresy, and the rest of Liyang's generals are also hard to come by.
Hu Kui suddenly pointed to the school martial arts platform, and said with a smile, "Yu Luan Dao, after half an hour, you might as well open your eyes and see who will be there! You will know whether the 300,000 cavalry in Beiliang can carry it or not!" You have to live in Beimang with a million riders!"
The martial building on the west side is one floor lower than the Wen building, which made a large group of old warriors who were scolded by the Liyang court as old men of Beiliang all gather together to dance and scold their mothers, saying that it must be the bad idea of his mother's son. Otherwise, the general wouldn't hit the old faces of their subordinates like this! There are many mountains in Beiliang, except for the two old army leaders Yan Wenluan and Zhong Hongwu, and even though the young and strong generals of Chen Zhibao have left Beiliang for Xishu, but the meritorious veterans of the previous generation , Many of them have close relations with Chen Zhibao, and most of them have miscellaneous generals on their heads. They just drag their families and lead their families, so they don’t get old and make trouble. They go to Xishu, where they are not familiar, and choose to stay in Beiliang. In addition to these three mountains, there is also the lineage of the general Yizi, and many veterans who have retired from the deputy commander of the cavalry and infantry. These veteran generals are naturally different from the group of generals who were awarded miscellaneous names. , in the Northern Liang army is still flourishing, with deep roots. Wu Lou was supposed to be ranked according to seniority like Wen Lou, and those with higher positions stood in tall buildings, but today it was a bit abnormal, because a one-armed old man surnamed Lin who drove a bullock cart out of customs was unwilling to go up the building, and many people who followed Lin The old man had a life-and-death acquaintance with fellows of the same age, so he didn't bother to go upstairs to show off his prestige, and gathered around Lin Doufang, the first commander of the Lianzi Camp.
Although Lin Doufang followed the Xu family to Beiliang, he resigned from office and went back to seclusion. He has been an unknown farmer for twenty years, but who doesn't know that Lin Doufang and the general are really close friends, let alone almost He became an in-law, and Lin Doufang also appeared outside Liangzhou city when the old soldier respectfully sent his son to Beijing. At that time, the old man in the ox cart followed the former Youzhou general "Jin Partridge" Zhou Kang, and he held most of the white feather cavalry. Yuan Nanting, the commander in chief, was also among them. Lin Doufang's popularity in the Xu family army was good back then. After he was not an official, there was no inevitable strife and strife in the officialdom. This time he "come out of the mountain" looks even better. Happy to ramble a few words, even Liu Yuanji, who retired from the high position of deputy commander of the infantry, and Wei Tieshan, who only vacated the position of deputy commander of the cavalry under his ass last year, are no exception. He has meritorious deeds and a family background, and he speaks very openly. Compared with Wenlou's sourness and sourness, Liu Yuanji is cursing that His Royal Highness is so ignorant, and Wulou is five years old. It's nothing more than one floor, but it's one floor lower than Wenlou. Isn't this intentional to embarrass them, the old guys who have made great achievements for Beiliang
Liu Yuanji has been abdicated for some years, and he is also known for being impatient and rude. Listening to his swearing, all the old people around him who are wearing old cold knives will smile heartily. It has been less than a year since he left the Beiliang Army. Wei Tieshan was much more reserved, and didn't even speak up.
Once Liu Yuanji rolls up his sleeves and scolds others, even the country shrews will stay away, especially after drinking. Back then, they dared to spray the general Xu Xiao with spit all over his face. Drinking the northwest wind, the old general who was still at odds with the old man at that time was also a muscle, he was thrown outside by the general, and others refused to take him back to the tent to rest. He sat on the ground and continued to curse, and fell to the ground when he was tired Sleeping, that's a snoring sound like thunder, in Liu Yuanji's words, even if I don't get angry with the general, I don't dare to, just use the snoring so loudly that your general can't sleep well all night! Liu Yuanji scolded His Royal Highness for a long time, and was still angry. He was about to blame His Highness for bullying Huaihua General Zhong Hongwu in Longqing County. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Wei Tieshan winking at him again. Just when he was puzzled, he After being punched hard, Liu Yuanji was stunned, turned his head, and was punched in the face again, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen immediately, Liu Yuanji finally saw that it was old man Lin's dirty tricks, Liu Yuanji didn't get angry, and immediately Returned a punch to the head of Lin Doufang, and cursed angrily: "My surname is Lin, I have been wanting to beat you for a day or two, how did I tell my old Liu back then?! He kept saying that he wanted to kill the northern barbarians with me, we They were born in the same year, the same month and the same day, so they can’t tell the difference between the big and small, so the one who kills the most barbarians will be the big brother, and when you come to Beiliang, you will be a bastard! Also, when you planned to elope with the princess of Nantang, who was it? Let me keep you in the loop? Why, I scolded that ignorant prince for hindering you, Lin Doufang?! It's none of your business! You are a coward, hiding somewhere, and haven't touched it for twenty years You have passed the knife, why do you call me brother and brother?!"
The two old guys were immediately dragged away by their respective elders. Taking advantage of Liu Yuanji's swearing, Lin Doufang, who was tied back and dragged away, kicked Liu Yuanji several times, and said angrily: "Liu San'er, what are you doing with me?" Those things of mine are muddleheaded, I owe you, I will be your cow and horse in the next life, wrinkle my eyelids, I will be your grandson, don't fuck your highness! Well, if you scold your highness, then I will Let me ask you, when you were whipped and thrown outside by the general so many times, which child secretly brought you good wine to drink, and who listened to you telling those bullshit stories all night long? Who personally told Lin Doufang that the general gave birth to a good son, and that in the future several daughters would marry that boy as his wife? Liu San'er, good you Liu San'er! Became an infantry soldier Deputy Commander, you think it’s a big deal, don’t you? Don’t think I don’t know about your son, who invaded several government salt farms and made a lot of money every day, not to mention salt households, even the government soldiers dared to kill you, Liu San My son is amazing, I gave birth to three sons who are more powerful than His Highness, and His Highness is just the cavalry general who killed King Jing'an Zhao Heng in Qingzhou, and the fifth raccoon dog in Tibing Mountain in Beimang, never dared to kill the people of Beiliang! Liu San Boy, do you believe that I'm going to ask the general for an official right now, and I'll do nothing but kill those bastard bastards of yours who call me foster father?!"
The old general Liu San'er was stunned, and then he burst into anger and cursed: "Fuck you, Lin, tell me clearly, who killed the Yanhu Jiabing?! My son can't do this Wait for something outrageous!"
Lin Doufang got the strength from somewhere, broke free from the pull of several old people in Wei Tieshan, and punched Liu Yuanji in the face again, "Everyone in Beiliang knows, only you, an old dim-eyed fool, don't know!"
In the ground floor of the Wulou, there was an instant silence.
Liu Yuanji looked around, Wei Tieshan was still calm and speechless, and many old people avoided the eyes of this "oldest Liu". Finally, Deputy Commander Liu's lips trembled and he waved his arms, not wanting to be "supported", and sat slumped on the ground, mouthing pant.
Lin Doufang was still so angry that he was about to step forward and give Liu Yuanji a kick. Fortunately, Wei Tieshan hurriedly hugged him tightly, and finally stopped the old man who built the lotus seed camp.
The scene inside the building can really make outsiders stunned.
Lin Doufang took a deep breath, patted the back of Wei Tieshan's hand, and the latter let go of his hand slowly, Lin Doufang sat in front of Liu Yuanji, facing each other, turned his head to look at the snowy sky outside the building, and said softly: " Liu San'er, and the old Wei, we old guys who are half buried in the ground, always talk about helping the general to fight the world and defend the country. I know that you are not blindly in love with the stacks and greedy for wealth. To put it simply, it’s almost enough for your descendants to have no worries about food and clothing. Any more would be the blessings that you have worked so hard to save, and you think this is also a blessing that your descendants deserve. You guys, I’m most afraid that Beiliang will forget the credit you made before. I'm afraid that people will forget it. But if you are like this, the descendants who have never experienced hardships will have nothing to fear. No matter how good the seedlings were, they will be spoiled by you. Your Highness has not done a proper job in those years. Who in the building is not angry? My Lin Dou Fang was so angry, when the General visited my field in person, I was unwilling to turn around to see the General from the beginning to the end, but we compare our hearts, what His Highness has done in the past two years, Li Yang will not admit it That's all, you are not blind, don't you know the truth? Let's talk about it with conscience, Your Highness went to Beijing, did you ever embarrass Beiliang? Xiangfan City, Guangling River, Tiemenguan, Beimang Ruoshui He, and on the imperial road of Tai'an City, who in the building can do what His Highness does? You, Liu Laosan, who can't even control his son? Or is it you, the old captain who likes to make peace with you as you get older? Or you? All these years, Han Tuizhi who only cares about his disciples' official career?"
Lin Doufang withdrew his gaze and looked at Liu Yuanji, "Liu San'er, the general doesn't owe us anything, especially His Highness. We conquered the world, but since we can't do it, we can do it if we want to." If you can’t do it well, let’s honestly hand it over to those guys in Wenlou. Wenlou is higher than Wulou, so what? In the Spring and Autumn and Nine Kingdoms, there are not many famous and important ministers who underestimate our Xu family’s cavalry? We have already let them After suffering a lot, if you are worried that your children and grandchildren will be looked down upon by others, let them make their own way instead of taking advantage of the merits of you old men. The general said something rough, but it makes sense, who The sons of the family are not born to suffer, nor should they enjoy happiness. He doesn't care about other places, but in Beiliang, no matter how capable you are, you can suffer as much as you can and enjoy as much blessing. So, Liu San'er, now is We owe the Xu family, we may not owe anything, but your descendants owe it, a lot."
Lin Doufang patted Liu Yuanji's shoulder, then stood up, bent down, helped him up, and helped Liu Yuanji pat the dust from the shoe prints on his chest that he stepped on.
Liu Yuanji grinned suddenly and said, "Mother, Lin, I only rewarded you with one punch. Let's look at you again, there are several punches and kicks!"
Lin Doufang smiled and said: "I told you earlier, I am more capable than you, you can't be convinced, if you are still thinking about the old relationship, you just used your housekeeping skills to flirt."
Liu Yuanji put his arms around Lin Doufang's shoulders, and wanted to swear a few words, but when he touched the empty sleeve, he stopped talking. Back then, Liu Saner gritted his teeth and helped his old brother bandage the wound in front of him. The brother surnamed Lin was embarrassed, and he dared to squat on the ground and sob when he got out of the military tent. The feeling seemed to be more painful than his own broken arm.
Liu Yuanji clearly remembers that year, when Lin Doufang broke his arm and the general was seriously injured, the child couldn't help much, but he kept guarding outside the military tent with a pale face. As a result, the old and the young stood side by side to "watch the night" .
Liu Yuanji, Lin Doufang, Wei Tieshan, Han Tuizhi, the four old people walked side by side to the gate of Wulou, the snow was flying, although the scene of yellow sand wrapped in iron armor was no longer seen, but looking up, the river had never been frozen After thawing, the glacier goes further north, full of white snow and black armor.
One hundred thousand steps to ride the Beiliang army, divided into two giant battle formations in the east-west direction, leaving a line of path in the middle.
Yuan Nanting, the commander of the white feather cavalry, was able to approach the glacier and sit high on his horse.
In addition, there is a lotus camp. Da Ma Ying. Partridge camp. Go to camp first. There are thirty-six old camps and new camps in total, all lined up in a row, and the arrogance is particularly majestic.
Li Hanlin, the crossbowman leader of the Xiaoxue camp, was slightly behind, holding his sword and holding his crossbow, holding his breath. Beside him is the double pupil Lu Dou. The two looked at the school martial arts platform together, their eyes were fiery.
There was no one on the school martial arts stage, except for a huge war drum, it was also empty.
The war drum had not yet been beaten, and the horn, which is most familiar to soldiers from Beiliang, had not yet sounded.
The Xiaowutai, which has stone steps in the north and south directions, finally slowly reveals a hill-like figure.
Beiliang protects Chulu Mountain, and for the first time in twenty years, he appears in armor!
Chu Lushan stood slightly to the left in the center of the school martial arts platform, standing with a sword.
Beiliang's new cavalry commander, the white bear Yuan Zuozong, the world's number one cavalry warrior, and the well-known infantry commander, General Yan Wenluan, walked on the colonel's platform at the same time, standing with a sword!
Yuan Zuozong was originally known to the world as a handsome man in Yushu Linfeng. Now he was wearing heavy armor and holding a cold knife, which made him even more imposing.
If Yan Wenluan was only concerned with height and size, he would lose far behind the Northern Liang Guard and Cavalry Commander. General Yan was short in stature, perhaps a bit shorter than the Jiangnan man, and he was shot blind by Liu Ya early on on the battlefield With a glance, this man who is neither tall nor strong, once drew an arrow and swallowed his eyeballs, and continued to fight again. Before the Western Chu Kingdom was conquered in the First Battle of Xileibi, Ye Baikui, the soldier saint, was invincible in the Spring and Autumn Nine Kingdoms. Only Yan Wenluan's infantry could draw a tie with Ye Baikui's Euphorbia Army! In the later Song and Western Shu countries, it was not suitable for Xu's cavalry to gallop.
Standing there, Yan Wenluan, who in the world would dare to underestimate him
Then there are Buqi and Chen Yunchui and He Zhonghu who have served as deputy commanders with Liu Yuanji Wei Tieshan for many years!
Next are the two new deputy commanders, Gu Dazu, the number one general in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Zhou Kang, who was promoted to deputy commander of the cavalry after holding the military power in Youzhou for more than ten years!
And followed by Liangzhou General Shifu, Youzhou General Huangfucheng, and Lingzhou General Han Laoshan.
But why don't you see the general and the king of Beiliang
In the end, Xu Longxiang, who was dressed in black and barefoot, led Qi Xuan and sat down with the black tiger, and walked into the school martial arts stage.
Chu Lushan, Yuan Zuozong, Yan Wenluan, Chen Yunchui, He Zhonghu, Gu Dazu, Zhou Kang, Shi Fu, Huangfucheng, Han Laoshan.
Ten people lined up with knives!
When the second son of the Xu family, who led the dragon and elephant cavalry and crushed several military towns in the Northern Mang and Southern Dynasties all the way, appeared, a melodious and sad horn resounded through the world.
Xu Longxiang walked step by step towards the battle drum that was one and a half tall.
The sound of drums in Beiliang was once the loudest in Spring and Autumn and Xilei!
Behind the Beiliang army formation, there is a battalion of eight hundred phoenix characters, with white horses and white armor.
When a gray-haired young man put on a jade-white python robe that could only be worn by a vassal king, mounted a horse with a knife and a spear, an old man led the horse for him, and the snow-white war horse slowly stepped a few feet away. The hunchbacked old man let go of the reins, straightened his waist, patted the horse's head lightly, and said with a pleased smile, "Go."
This cavalry led the eight hundred phoenix-character light cavalry behind them in the battle formation of the two armies, and galloped away in the flying snow.
The old man looked at the back of the rider, put his hands into his sleeves, and smiled from ear to ear.
Xu Longxiang began to beat the drum.
The drums sounded like thunder, and they rolled away from Beiliang.
That ride did not trample on the icy river with the hooves of the horse, but jumped high with the horse and the horse, the iron horse leaped over the ice river!
While crossing the river with the sound of drums, the man thrust the iron spear obliquely into the glacier.
The entire glacier crumbled.
After the 800 riders stopped behind them, they just filled that line.
The python-robed man who only wore a Beiliang saber dismounted in front of the school martial arts platform, walked up the stone steps, stood in the very center, then held the saber, and shouted suddenly: "Beiliang, draw the saber!"
Chu Lushan, the guardian of Beiliang, no longer uses a knife, but draws a knife!
Yan Wenluan, Yuan Zuozong, Chen Yunchui and other nine people also pulled out the Beiliang Saber almost at the same time!
The Beiliang army, who was still motionless under the snow and armor of a hundred thousand, also drew their knives!
The chaotic snow became even more chaotic, and the iron armor that had shaken off the snow became more and more amazing.
Beiliang Iron Cavalry is the best in the world.
The sound of drums in Beiliang is heard all over the world.
Beiliang has a new king, Xu Fengnian.