Until now, no one knows how many soldiers and horses the Northern Barbarians sent.
Overnight, the entire Longxi Mansion was in chaos.
Xiangyi Mansion, which is adjacent to Longxi Mansion, temporarily stopped the Northern Barbarian cavalry heading south due to Shen Wansheng's timely response. However, Donglin Mansion and Qifeng Mansion, which are adjacent to Longxi Mansion, have already been affected.
"Brother, is there no way to force the Northern Barbarians to fight decisively?"
Shen Wansheng really has a headache now.
He has sent people to set up defenses at the places where Longxi Mansion must pass when entering Xiangyi Mansion. However, if he cannot clear out the Northern Barbarians who enter Longxi Mansion, he will have to keep people guarding those official roads.
If the situation worsens further, Xiangyi Prefecture will have to defend the official road pass connecting Donglin Prefecture and Qifeng Prefecture. But in fact, Xiangyi Prefecture does not have so many troops at all.
The combat strength of the newly recruited soldiers is almost zero. Once they are attacked by the northern barbarians, they may be defeated in a single battle.
"Second brother, the purpose of the Northern Barbarians going south this time should be to plunder."
"The spring cold here is so severe here, and it's probably even colder over there in the Northern Barbarians."
"Today's Northern Barbarians are trying to survive!"
Mr. Xu doesn't want to drive the Northern Barbarians out, but it's really difficult.
They were well prepared for last year's battle. They used a thousand eight-oxen crossbows, but they were almost defeated by the Northern Barbarians at Huangfengkou Pass. If he hadn't been lucky enough and the Xiangyi Prefecture soldiers who went with him fought desperately, he and his two sons might have been buried somewhere by now.
He once fled and traveled all the way in order to survive.
On the way to escape, he saw too many people going crazy in order to survive.
It's cold in spring, and natural disasters can kill people.
Mr. Xu can guess what the current situation of the Northern Barbarians is just by thinking about it. Today's Northern Barbarians may have become a purgatory on earth.
In order to survive, the madness that broke out in the northern barbarians was absolutely unimaginable by ordinary people.
"Second brother, now I can only wait and see what the court decides!"
Mr. Xu sighed, "Also, the Northern Barbarians broke through the border this time. If the court does not respond properly, the world may be in chaos. You must prepare early!"
"ah… ?!"
Hearing Mr. Xu's words, Shen Wansheng was stunned.
"Brother, what do you mean?"
Mr. Xu sighed quietly and said, "Why do I have to pretend to be sick?"
"I was originally planning to go to Jiangnan on this trip, but I accidentally discovered that the Jie Luck Road was secretly buying food in Jiangling City. I guess the Jie Luck Road may be rebelling!"
"Now, the Northern Barbarians have broken through!"
"The current late spring cold will definitely affect the spring planting. This is a source of internal and external troubles..."
At this point, Mr. Xu no longer needs any more words. Shen Wansheng is also a smart man, so he naturally understands what will happen under such internal and external troubles.
If you are not careful, the Tang Dynasty, which has been in existence for more than a hundred years, may collapse in one day.
"Brother, I know!"
After listening to Mr. Xu's words, Shen Wansheng finally understood that the situation was more serious than he imagined. When he came, Shen Wansheng was only worried about Beiman, but now, he feels that he should be worried about the whole world.
When the spring cold came, Shen Wansheng just felt that the weather was cold.
He was born in the Shen family of Changshan, and was a member of an aristocratic family. He knew a little about farm work in the fields, but he was not proficient in it. He did not think of spring planting because of the late spring cold, so he naturally did not think of a bad harvest.
Now after being awakened by Mr. Xu, Shen Wansheng felt that the situation was serious for the first time.
It’s cold in spring!
This is not just a matter of Xiangyi Mansion, Longxi Mansion is even colder. And in the letter his mother came home, she also mentioned that it was very cold this spring.
The Changshan Shen family is located in Changliu Mansion in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty.
Changliu Mansion is also suffering from the spring cold. If you think about it, half of the entire Tang Dynasty is suffering from this unusual spring cold.
After leaving Lingshui Village, Shen Wansheng immediately wrote a letter and asked his personal guards to send it back to the Changshan Shen family.
Save food!
hiring!
Shen Wansheng, who is an official, has already deeply understood the profound meaning of the saying "food is the first priority for the people".
People, if they don’t have food to eat, they will do anything.
…
Dongming Mansion is located on the eastern border of the Tang Dynasty, adjacent to Bailuo, which is a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.
There are no four seasons in Dongming Mansion, only two seasons a year, winter and summer.
Xueji Pass is the key pass for Bailuo to enter Dongming Mansion.
However, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty and Bailuo surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, this Xueji Pass has been described as a useless thing. Although the Tang Dynasty had a garrison at Xueji Pass, the number was only five hundred.
Of course, the five hundred town troops are only a figure on the books. In fact, the number of town troops guarding Xueji Pass is less than two hundred, and most of them are old and weak.
Taking advantage of free money is not unique to the northern and southern camps.
Throughout the Tang Dynasty, people were eating empty wages everywhere.
Lin Ao, as the guard of Xueji Pass, had already loyal to the local emperor of Xueji Pass.
But at this moment, Lin Ao was kneeling on the ground like a dog, kowtowing as if pounding garlic.
Around him, corpses lay on the ground, and blood dyed the white snow red.
"killed!"
A burly man wearing animal skins, looking like a wild man, waved his hand casually.
As the man waved, the savage next to him who was also wearing animal skins suddenly swung the stick in his hand and hit Lin Ao's head hard. Lin Ao's head was blown open with one blow.
By the time the group of savages wearing animal skins left, Xueji Pass was already ablaze with fireworks.
On the white snow, savages wearing animal skins escorted a large number of people from Xuejiguan towards the vast snow forest to the north.
In the Xueji Pass, which was shrouded in flames, the old and the weak were crying.
…
The news that Xueji Pass was looted by the Northern Barbarians and burned to the ground was only discovered two days later. When the beacon fire and smoke came to Beijing, Emperor Yongping was already ready to personally conquer the Northern Barbarians.
When Emperor Yongping learned that the Northland savages had attacked Xueji Pass, he did not take it seriously. After all, in his opinion, the Northland savages were just like a group of uncivilized beasts.
However, a group of savages dared to kill the people of the Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Yongping certainly could not ignore it.
"Dong Guo, I'd like to trouble you to take a trip to the Xueji Pass!"
Emperor Yongping just thought about it for a moment and handed over the task of exterminating the savages in the north to Xu Shuo, Duke of Dingguo.
It is true that Emperor Yongping felt that Xu Shuo was an idiot.
However, in his opinion, it should not be a problem for Xu Shuo to deal with uncivilized savages like the Northland savages.
"I accept the decree!"
Xu Shuo was appointed by Emperor Yongping and happily accepted the assignment.
To deal with a group of savages, relying on the armaments of the Tang Dynasty, it is definitely a good way to kill a pig.
"I will give you a guard of soldiers and horses, and I will definitely kill all the savage tribes!"
Emperor Yongping glanced at Xu Shuo, "Is it feasible?"
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will eradicate the savages in the North!" (End of Chapter)