Upstream of the Saiye River, a rare heavy snow covered the entire river valley.

The upper reaches of Saiye City were originally located between two snow-capped mountains. These two snow-capped mountains were collectively called Kyrgyz Mountain in later generations. There are not so many details in the current tribes. Anyone who sees snow on the top of the mountain is called "snow mountain". For convenience, the snow-capped mountains in the north, that is, the big mountain in the south of the river valley in the middle and lower reaches of Saiye City, we continue to call it "snow mountain", while the snow-capped mountains in the south of the upper reaches of Saiye City are called "nanshan".

There are many streams between the snow-capped mountains and the southern mountains and the river valleys are deep. Due to the barrier of the snow-capped mountains, most of the cold airflow turns into rain and snow when it arrives here. Therefore, this is the area with the richest rain and snow in the places west of the Rehhai.

Even so, the heavy snow this year has really come too much.

It took three days and three nights to stop.

From the western end of the Athai River to the Talas Valley further west, most of the time it is the upper reaches of the Saiye River. Only a small part of the upper reaches of the Talas River. Therefore, pedestrians can calmly follow the Saiye River to the west. At the end of the west, that is, the stone fort when Sun Xiurong first went to Talas. Geshuhai, the chief chief of the Geshuhai, had rebuilt the stone fort and firmly controlled it.

Therefore, nearly 20,000 households and 80,000 Dingkou of the Daxi tribe were trapped in the canyon that was only one mile wide and five hundred miles long after three months of long migration. Of course, at this time, the cavalry of Gao Xianzhi from the Yutian Town of the Tang Dynasty had arrived here, and the canyon belonging to the Daxi tribe was only one hundred miles.

The 80,000 Dingkou and the cattle, sheep and horses that were several times more than this were squeezed into this Baili Canyon. In the snowy canyon, there was a little comfort, the Zaoye River here was mostly composed of puddles, with only a trickle of running towards the downstream, and it was frozen strongly, and cattle, sheep and horses could walk along the river.

In the middle of this canyon, there is a river beside five miles in radius. At this time, this river beside has been completely occupied by a tent.

Black smoke was emitting from the largest tent.

This is a large tent with Xianbei style, with a diameter of about twenty meters. The top of the tent is separated from the main body, just like a small umbrella on the dome-shaped tent. This design allows the smoke inside to be emitted, and the people inside can breathe without any disturbance when the curtain of the tent is closed.

In the big tent, the person in charge was Da Xi Wenming.

Although Da Xi Wenming was thin and dry, his face was healthy, his eyes were bright, and every strand of braids on his head was neatly maintained, and the bone ring on his fingers was grinding brightly, but now he seems to have become a different person.

I saw that there was only one skin left on his face, a skin that was directly covered on his head, his eyes were empty, with a desperate gray color, some of his braids were dirty, and some were spread out, and he was strapped on it with only a straw rope.

The original white bone ring was also filthy. None of them was white and colorful, just like wearing various metal rings. In fact, the Daxi masters had always had a tradition of killing the enemy and then taking their bones to make rings. After receiving some sacrificial rituals of the Bon religion, they carried forward this tradition.

They believed that as long as the enemy's bone ring was always worn on their hands, the enemy and their tribe would never turn over.

The situation of the remaining few people is similar, but the Helian Fuyun from the Tuyuhun Helian tribe whom we had seen in Swan Lake in Yingshu River before was not much different from before.

Cold is the only theme of Snow Valley.

But this is not the theme of the Daxi civilization. This coldness is not enough compared to the southern slope of the Qilian Mountains. The high cold has long been ignored by them who have been on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for a long time.

Heartbreak is the theme of Daxi civilization.

Two months ago, when the ambush he arranged near the Dundo Silver Mine suddenly emerged and swept across the southern area of ​​Rehai, and then defeated Guduoluo in front and back, Daxi Wenming's spirit reached the highest level. In an instant, the Tang army, which originally made him a little afraid, seemed to have become a defeatable enemy in his eyes.

But all of this was smashed to pieces and crushed, just like an extremely precious and extremely gorgeous vase that fell to the ground by accident, and the gorgeous instantly turned into worthless dust.

The person who knocked him down was Gao Xianzhi.

In the past, Da Xi Wenming did not take this person seriously, but only paid great attention to husband Meng Lingcha and Cheng Qianli. He occasionally watched He Lou Yurun in Yanqi Town and never looked at Gao Xianzhi with his eyes on him.

But now the cold reality made him fully understand Gao Xianzhi.

"This is a devil!"

Da Xi Wenming lamented in his heart.

Yes, this is a devil. He only has two thousand Tang cavalry under his command, but these two thousand people followed him through mountains and rivers. In his eyes, he was just a casual look. His adaptation to Gao Han was far greater than that of ordinary Tang army. Not only that, his combat power was also far greater than that of ordinary Tang army!

Not long ago, his rear troops fought against Gao Xianzhi's front-drive. Gao Xianzhi's vanguard cavalry had only 300 people, and he was led by a young man named Duan Xiushi, but he defeated the three thousand cavalry who were cut behind!

In theory, this scene would not happen if the strength of the Ida Xi tribe was, but Duan Xiushi used the environment in the canyon to do all this.

"Strong crossbow, or strong crossbow"

Daxi Wenming couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Yes, Gao Xianzhi was able to make Duan Xiushi the vanguard because these three hundred cavalry were indeed elite. Originally, Duan Xiushi was the commander of Gao Xianzhi's army (scout cavalry and military police). He was also very powerful in the front battlefield. Each of them had a horned crossbow, as well as a bow and arrow with a force of more than one stone, a cavalry, a cavalry, and a full body of iron armor. Yanqi's tall head and a big horse, even half of the horse was wrapped in thick leather armor.

"Father"

Da Xi Wenming suddenly thought of Duan Xiushi's tactics.

"We took advantage of the narrow canyon, first a dense crossbow arrow, and then a bow arrow, which immediately made all the young and strong people in our sudden front be shot to death. Due to the narrow road surface, a large number of knights and war horses were piled up, and we couldn't use it for a while. At this time, the powerful crossbows were shot over in a burst."

"In the end, more and more corpses piled up on the road surface. We couldn't get close to them, so we had to take a detour..."

Thinking of this, Da Xi Wenming's heart suddenly twitched, because his son's statement next made him even more frightened.

"The Tang army is extremely cunning. There must be ambushing the places we can detour. Every time we ambush the troops with bright big swords!"

"Father, we were lucky enough to capture a Tang army holding such a big knife. According to him, this is the newly organized camp of the Tang army, called the Shimo Dao Team. I have seen the Mo Dao, which is ten feet long and is made of fine iron, at least twenty kilograms. The users are all tall and strong."

"They were blocking the intersection casually. At the beginning, I felt that they were infantrymen, so I relaxed my vigilance and rushed over, but unfortunately it was not like that."

"Their formation is extremely neat, with one person's distance between them. Originally, we thought it would be easy to rush over such a wide distance, but we didn't expect that the distance they wanted to leave was because of the convenience of swinging the knife. When Mo Dao hand waved Mo Dao and cut it down with one knife, the knights were cut into two pieces, father, I had seen the terribleness of the Tubo front-drive team when I was near the West Sea before, but compared with Mo Dao Team, the Tubo front-drive team was like a child!"

"Strong crossbow, Modao..."

Da Xi Wenming sighed in his heart again. In fact, he had also seen these two things in the army of Wang Zhongsi, the former Hexi Jiedushi. At that time, he was just a little interested in the powerful crossbow. He thought that Mo Dao was the ritual knife used by the Tang army to serve as the storefront. Unexpectedly, they actually used it. They couldn't help but use it, and even let his troops die!

"First it was Black Mountain, then Snow Mountain. After the two defeats, our troops lost a lot of young and strong people, and the women, children, cattle and sheep that were unable to escape were also intercepted by them. This is the first time we suffered a big defeat after moving out of the West Sea!"

In addition to the fear that Gao Xianzhi brought to him, the tenacity of Geshu's troops who were blocking the road ahead also surprised him.

After Yingshuchuan defeated the Shinishi tribe, which was one of the ten Western Turkic tribes, Daxi Wenming looked down on the other tribes. When he learned that the Geshu tribe in front was severely injured after the internal fight, he thought that as long as his forward arrived, he could easily defeat the Geshu tribe and turn it into the second Shinishi tribe.

Unexpectedly, this time the Geshu tribe burst out with great energy, trapping the huge Daxi tribe outside the stone fort with just 300 people.

At this time, he had another choice, which was to retreat to the Naren Basin from the way Sun Xiurong and the others came.

But after experiencing the war with Gao Xianzhi, Daxi Wenming would rather be trapped in the canyon upstream of Suoye City than go to the Naren Basin, because he had already learned that Fu Meng Lingcha, the governor of the Nexi, personally led an army of 10,000 to guard the southern end of the basin. The two thousand Gao Xianzhi cavalry made him feel uncomfortable, let alone Fu Meng Lingcha's tens of thousands of troops!

"Tang Jun, Tang Jun, why are you so powerful?"

At this time, Da Xi Wenming regretted it a little.

"If I had known this, I would have slowly dealt with the blackmail of the Tang army with the wealth of Shi Nishi. When the surrounding tribes were conquered and became a huge tribe of 40,000 or 50,000 households, the Tang people would not dare to come and blackmail casually. Alas, I still value the treasure women too seriously. What is these things compared to the future of the tribe?"

Of course, Daxi Wenming not only rebelled because of the extortion of the Tang army, but also had a more important reason.

When he thought of this reason, he couldn't help but touch his chest, where he hid a treasure and a shocking secret.

When he thought of this shocking secret, he was originally extremely depressed and suddenly cheered up, straightened his upper body, and his face became resolute.

"My fate is up to me, not to God!" He suddenly remembered what his father said to him before his death.

"I notify the ugly slave in front of him that he will not be responsible for life and death. He must take down the stone castle within one day! Otherwise, it will not be used to see me."

"Secondly, the headquarters will be renamed Tuoba from now on. Those who violate the order will be killed immediately!"

Then he changed his smile and a very strange smile, and said to Helian Fuyun: "Brother Helian, Ben Khan admires your scheming very much."

Helian Fuyun seemed to realize something, and he smiled and said, "Hang, compared to you, I am the firefly by the bright moon, what's the point?"

"Is that?" Da Xi Wenming saw the bone ring on the index finger of his left hand removed. After he wiped it with his equally dirty sleeve, the cracks on it were clearly visible. He threw the ring casually, "It's time to throw it away, the new ones don't come, the old ones don't go."

Then he leaned closer to Helian Fuyun and said, "Originally, Khan was staying well in Yingshuchuan. Since you came, my troops have taken a sudden turn. You have done something for Gao Xianzhi, and Gao Xianzhi seems to know everything about our whereabouts. Who is it that you informed?"

"It's unfair..."

Helian Fuyun shouted.

Da Xi Wenming shook his head, "Actually, Ben Khan has seen through you a long time ago. He was originally planning to be useless when he was desperate and contacted Gao Xianzhi, but unfortunately Ben Khan's current idea has changed."

Then he said to the left and right: "Drag down and follow the tradition of Ida...Tuoba tribe, peel off skin, cramp, and bones, then make the head into a wine vessel and make the calf bone into a bone ring."

Helian Fuyun's screams lasted for a day and a night. When the familiar screams echoed over the Daxi Civilization tent again, his soldiers seemed to have returned to their previous courage.

This time, Da Xi Chounu in front successfully captured the stone fortress, and the army behind also blocked Gao Xianzhi's fierce attack.
Chapter completed!