Su Jing patted the Yanyun Beast under his crotch. This was from the royal family. Such a mount is not afraid of continuous march. However, he asked Princess Wuyou about the price of Yanyun Beast. Every Yanyun Beast, just buying is more than 60 times the price of the war horses in his army.

Moreover, the raising of the Yanyun Beast requires eating separate feed, which is about four or five days. Each time you eat, it consumes an amazing amount. The cost of raising a Yanyun Beast is dozens of times that of these excellent war horses.

The emperor can afford to raise the smoke and cloud beast, which is supported by planes. Otherwise, raising this thing in large quantities cannot be said to shake the empire's roots, and it is also a black hole to attract money.

It seems that my idea of ​​floating warships is correct. The only problem is how to solve the transfer of the army after the floating warships are shot down.

Su Jing is about to emerge from the Great Ice and Snow Wall, and his target is Hulukou in the northwest of Yizhou.

Go out there and walk for another two days to reach the location of the Xinyi Sect. Along the way, Jun Wuxie took the initiative to live in the same tent with Inujuro every day and accepted psychological challenges. Su Jing was happy to be with Su Mu, practicing the Pure Yang Cave Immortal Sutra. In the past ten days, the abnormality in Su Mu's body has been suppressed.

Su Jing knew that this was not intentional by Su Mu, but in the Demon City, Su Mu got too many benefits and could not digest them for a while. If it were humans, he could still slowly draw on it. But Su Mu was a half-demon, and the blood of the demon clan had to take the opportunity to awaken.

Hulukou is a pass, with 12,000 troops stationed by the Su family. This army of 2,000 people is a deterrent to various Buddhist sects. The Buddhist sects were forced to fall into the harsh frozen soil. Even if they were afraid of the Taoist sect, the Su family had to be careful.

Su Jing and others arrived at Hulukou and had already sent a small team of scouts to the pass to report. When Su Jing arrived, Su Mu came out to see the token, and the two hundred people were put into the small town of Hulukou.

The gourd mouth is not big, but there is a large market in the north of the city. People inside and outside the Great Ice and Snow Wall are all trading here. The market is a horizontal street, more than 240 meters long, with three-story buildings on both sides. Every distance, there is a tall tower, which is about nine floors.

After crossing this street, there is a small square, and there are also stalls in the cold wind.

Su Jing was curious and asked Inujuro to ask. It turned out that the Su family did not prohibit people outside the Ice and Snow Great Wall from entering. In fact, within a hundred miles outside the Great Wall, every village or tribe was registered with the Su family. Although they were not a citizen of the imperial family, they were under the jurisdiction of the Su family.

Yizhou is considered a vast and sparsely populated area among the thirteen states of the empire. If it weren't for the Demon City, the northern part of Yizhou would be quite desolate. Even so, people outside the Great Wall would want to enter and survive. But with the Great Wall, no one dared to do anything randomly. Without the permission of the Su family, even if you enter, you will be killed.

Although the Su family lacks population, they are not in a hurry to pull this poor person on the wasteland into the Great Wall, because these people have gone up to dozens of generations and are enemies of the empire. As the winner, the Su family can forget the bloody battles back then. However, the losers will definitely remember hatred and want to take away everything from the Su family.

The only problem is that they are too weak. Outside the empire, the heaven and earth are thin and not suitable for cultivation. With the same qualifications, if a person can build a foundation within the empire, he may not be able to stabilize even in the innate stage when he goes abroad.

There are too many people living in the small plain outside the gourd mouth because the heaven and earth here are still rich in vitality. They can still practice here and their strength improves quickly enough, so the pressure to survive is much smaller. The Su family has won over these people, saving a lot of troops.

All tribes that want to enter this area will be rejected and driven away by the indigenous people on the plains.

The Su family provides these people with winter food, and these people hunt prey on the wasteland in exchange. There are also some herbs on the wasteland, all of which are unique varieties of the permafrost zone, and the Su family will also purchase them.

This small plain has no name on the map of the empire, and the local natives call it Sunset Ruins.

Su Jing saw that the man who came to the Gourds from the Sunset Ruins was quite worn, with only the leather armor covering his upper body, and there was no protection on both arms. The gray matte cloth was wrapped in cotton, the gloves on his hands were sewn with rough animal skin, and there were thick animal hair on the back of his hands.

To the north of Yizhou, it can be said that it is the worst living environment, and it cannot be compared with the northern border. Because outside Yizhou, it was the place where Buddhism escaped, and there were also great monks in Buddhism who set up formations to gather the vitality of heaven and earth. As a result, the vitality of heaven and earth was even more scarce in areas outside Buddhism.

Because it was Su Jian's army, Su Jian was an elder of the Su family, 200 people could station in the city and borrow the military camp in the city. Su Mu ordered the team to rest for a day and a half before leaving the seclusion. She and Su Jing did not live in the military camp, but met the highest commander at the gourd mouth, a Qi-refining man in the Su family's peak foundation building realm.

Su Mu and Su Jing were arranged in a six-story stone tower and lived on the top floor. The Su Qi Refiner came to see Su Mu on the fifth floor and sat down after seeing him. The man was named Su Juexin, a man from the second elder's branch. After telling Su Mu about the situation of the gourd mouth, he asked Su Mu what he had.

He already knew that Su Mu had left the seclusion and I was the one who conquered Xinyi Sect. Seeing that there were no powerful Jindan people in Su Jing's team, he wanted to send more soldiers to follow him in case of an accident.

Su Mu thanked Su Su for his determination and said, "I only need two guides to be familiar with the terrain near Xinyi Sect, and I also need a map."

Su determined to say, "This is easy."

He ordered the disciples behind him to do it, and asked Su Mu if he needed supplies. Su Mu calculated that he did not insist on camping in the wild along the way. The food carried in the back box of the chariot was enough. There was snow everywhere, and it was clean water. The weapon properties of the chariot were tested along the way. The weapon consumption was quite large, but there was enough supplement in Su Jing's bracelet.

With Su Jing here, it seems that supply has become less important.

However, she still told Su Juexin that the weapons needed were mainly arrows and some damaged tents. There were not no monster attacks along the way, but they all happened in the second half of the night. There were no casualties, and there were many damaged things.

It’s easy to deal with in the south. In the north, tents need to be kept warm, and air leakage is not enough.

While he was talking, a personal soldier ran in and was scolded by Su Juexin. Why is there such a no-rules?

The personal soldier hurriedly saluted and said, "General, it's not good, something happened outside Hulukou."

"What happened?" Su determined to calm down. It has been more than a day or two for tribes abroad to cause trouble. Basically, the Su family can solve the problem by just sending a team of 200 people.

"Thousands of cavalrymen rushed into the Sunset Ruins, destroying three villages in a row. The airships had been sent over, and the scenes sent back were at least thousands of people killed, and the ground was covered with blood."

"Where is the airship?"

"It was shot down and exploded." The personal soldier replied. The airship was only for reconnaissance. Once it was shot down, the Taoist equipment on it could not be given to the enemy and would destroy itself. This thing was unmanned and was not fast. It flew slowly at high altitudes. It was originally a permanent thing in the empire, but it was just a supplement to intelligence.

Su Juexin frowned. The flying height of the imperial airship was a thousand feet high and could be shot down, which means that there was at least the foundation-building stage among the enemy.

Without the golden elixir, there will be a slap in front of his army of 12,000 people. But if there is a hidden golden elixir, you will not be able to divide your troops to attack. Once the small number of troops sent out are destroyed, you will not be able to bear the losses.

"What reactions are the people on the Sunset Ruins?" Su Dixin asked.

"Many people rushed to the gourd mouth and wanted to escape into the city."

Su Decided to be silent for a moment and said to Su Mu: "Elder, what do you think you should do?"

Su Mu asked back: "The one on the sunset ruins are the people of the empire?"

"no."

"But the Su family's bloodline?"

“Not it.”

"What is their significance for the Su family when they exist in Sunset Ruins?" Su Mu asked for three consecutive questions, and Su was determined to be ashamed. Why did he hesitate? The people in Sunset Ruins were originally placed there as a buffer force. No matter who the enemy was, since they came, if the people in Sunset Ruins didn't even want to resist and just wanted to rely on the Su family to protect them, what's the significance of their existence?

Thinking of this, Su decided to order: "Down in seclusion, pass on our military orders, and all soldiers will take their place immediately. Let the Ordnance Office replenish arrows immediately, elders...

Su determined to take a look at Su Mu, and Su Mu said, "It's okay, my people need a rest, but my brother and I can go up to the top of the city to see what happened."

Su was very happy. Su Mu had no intention of staying out of the matter. She brought two hundred innate soldiers. If she defended the city, it would be too effective. Now she was blinded and didn't know what was happening on the Sunset Ruins. The soldiers here were not as relaxed as they were training every day, but they hadn't seen any blood for a long time.

With foreign aids here, even if there are two hundred people, I feel more at ease.

Su Jing asked Yingyang and Inujuro to call Jun Wuxie, and sent an order that everyone would rest in the military camp and not move without any movement. They would have to sleep for at least three hours. No matter what happened during this period, they would wait for the order.

Su Jianxin brought more than 20 personal soldiers to the city, and naturally someone commanded the defense. He was the highest commander of the gourd mouth. If several orders were issued, there would be no need to be executed in person.

The city wall at Hulukou is a trapezoidal structure that is sunken inwardly, with towering peaks on both sides. This city wall just blocks the narrow mountain pass. It is still a hilly area to the south, and the sunset ruins to the north, and you can see dozens of miles from the top of the city.

The Great Ice and Snow Wall did not garrison, but used Taoism to change the terrain and define the boundary of Yizhou. Therefore, if the enemy wants to take down Hulukou, they can bypass the mountains on both sides, walk 200 miles more, and send troops to the back to attack.

Su Jing asked Su's determination: "Where is the closest support location to this gourd mouth?"

"Six hundred miles away, Moran City. But there are no powerful Jindan people there, there are more than 10,000 imperial miscellaneous troops and more than 8,000 Su family's army."

Su Mu nodded and said, "Send someone to support me. How far is Tianhe Mansion from here? I'm asking about the length of the road."

"Then it will be more than one thousand four hundred miles."

"I will send a message to Fumo City to see if I want to call the army of Tianhe Mansion. What is the military preparation of Moran City?"

"The soldiers are similar to mine, but the weapons are more abundant."

"If you transfer here, will the enemy break through the city of Moran?"

"No, it is just a support point, and it is also a transit to contact Tianhe Prefecture. The north of the city is a mountain range, which is difficult for the army to cross."
Chapter completed!