Chapter 769, Yan Liuyuan’s Decision

In the early years, Barrier 176 was on par with Fortress 178, but over the years, everyone has gradually mentioned only 178, not 176.

There are many reasons for this, on the one hand, the geographic location of the 176th Barrier is not as bad as the 178th, and the enemies on the prairie are not as vicious, so from the perspective of “payment”, the 176th Barrier has not paid much for the entire Barrier Alliance.

After all, the grassland is only a little bit of people, even the hot weapons are not complete, it is difficult to become a great danger to the Central Plains, and each other did not have any particularly heroic bloody battles.

On the other hand, the 176th Barrier’s combat power is not strong, and the generation is not as good as the generation, in recent decades the 176th Barrier has even become a hereditary system, and has become the private property of the Shen family.

Originally, all the resources of Barrier 176 were supplied by the Wang Clan, Fire Seed, and Kong Clan as a way to show their gratitude to 176 for defending the north.

But after the 176th Barrier became the private property of the Shen Family, and after everyone realized that the threat of the northern grasslands over the years was just the Shen Family itself crying ‘wolf’, this supply of materials was gradually cut off.

Because Barrier 176 was located in a land of poor supplies, and survived in the cracks of the Kong Clan, the Fire Seed, and the Wang Clan, it had been getting worse and worse over the years.

The previous Barrier 176 administrators lacked vision and resources, resulting in their light and heavy industries not developing at all, with the exception of animal husbandry and agriculture, which were not bad, so they also lost their competitiveness in the Barrier Alliance.

Now, their weapons were old, and there were even people who sold their weapons to the black market for money.

This was why Qing Shen said that 176 Barriers wouldn’t work.

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The big luminary continued, “And the enemy that my 178 Fortress is facing is not the kind of nomadic enemy that doesn’t even have hot weapons, which is why we are called a fortress, but they can only be called a ledge.”

Qing Shen carefully surveyed Dahuyou, he found that the pride and honor that Dahuyou felt from the bottom of his heart when mentioning the 178th Fortress, I’m afraid that it was something that most of the Central Plains people didn’t have.

Luo Lan said, ”Actually, the Shen Family was quite competitive in the beginning, and at that time, the Barrier Alliance’s military strength wasn’t that great, and it was still tough to face the wars initiated by the Grasslanders. Unfortunately, when it came to Shen Yin’s generation, it degenerated.”

“So, you are thinking that the Grasslanders will pose a threat to the 176 Barriers?” Ren Xiaosu looked at Qing Shen.

“Provided that the Grasslanders are strong enough now,” Qing Shen replied, “After all, a thin camel is bigger than a horse.”

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Seven days later, on the border of the northern grasslands, Yan Liuyuan suddenly stopped his horse and looked south, “Confirm the route and direction, check the supplies and horses and the number of people, every day from now on may face battles, don’t take it lightly.”

Hassan nodded, “Don’t worry master, there will be no mistakes on my side.”

Yan Liu Yuan nodded, he felt that in the past, Hassan was considered to be condescending for leading a small tribe, this period of time since Hassan became the Right Riding King, he quickly showed his talent in management.

At this time Yan Liuyuan asked again, “Where have the Servant Orchid tribe and the Uighur Bone tribe arrived?”

Hassan who was beside him respectfully said, “The scouts have been sent out, but they need to wait for a day to come back from there, I will report to you as soon as I have news.”

This time, Yan Liuyuan did not take his troops to the 176 barriers closest to the grasslands, but instead changed direction and headed to the Fire Seed territory.

Qing’s previous emissary came to the grasslands and brought him a more important news: the Fire Seed Company will go to war with the Kong Clan, and the Fire Seed has already mobilized its troops months in advance, and at this time the barriers a little to the north of the Fire Seed Company are all in a state of defensive emptiness.

It was also because Yan Liuyuan didn’t want the other tribes to know about his plans that he chose to be the last to move, so of the three big tribes, two went in the direction of the 176th Barrier, while he headed towards Fireseed.

The Qing Clan’s messenger had even made a deal with Yan Liuyuan that when he arrived at the bottom of Barrier 21, someone would open the gates for him.

However, when Yan Liuyuan arrived at the border of this grassland, and saw that the tens of thousands of troops consisting of eight tribes were only more than a hundred kilometers away from Barrier 21, he chose to stop: “Stay put and wait for the scouts to report back.”

Hassan did not quite understand what Yan Liuyuan was up to, but did as he was told.

That night, Yan Liu Yuan’s followers began to make a pilgrimage in the direction of the tent, which was still a ritual that had been passed down from somewhere, saying that one had to kneel to the gods a hundred times when waking up in the morning, and three times at night before eating, to be considered pious enough.

These nomads’ faith in Yan Liu Yuan is increasing day by day, and gradually began to have rituals.

Rituals are the usual rules of etiquette, such as sacrificing three animals when asking for rain, bowing before the Buddha and chanting sutras every day, and so on.

It was not until the next morning that Hassan brought the tribal leaders to the front of the tent, where Qiqige was combing Yan Liuyuan’s hair.

Yan Liu Yuan looked at Hassan, “If you have something to say, just say it.”

Hassan respectfully said, “Congratulations master, a scout came back to say that the Servant Orchid Clan and the Uighur Bone Clan have already arrived at the range of Barrier 176, however, Barrier 176 seems to have known that they were going to be there long ago, so they have carried out an ambush ahead of time, right now the two big tribes are struggling to fight Barrier 176 head on, and their retreat has been cut off in the back, so it looks like they are going to be buried outside of Barrier 176. ”

Several other clan heads also wore joyful faces, when the Servilan and Uighur Bone clans were dead, then they would no longer have any enemies in the grasslands.

Everyone even said privately that this male lord of their own family was afraid that he was really a god descending into the world, to the extent that someone helped to remove his opponents without losing a single soldier or pawn.

But Yan Liuyuan pondered for a long time, then looked at each of the joyful headmen in front of him and said, “Prepare to start, we’re heading for Barrier 176.”

Hassan froze, “Master, wouldn’t it be a bit dangerous to go to Barrier 176 at this time? Why don’t we continue marching towards the Fire Seed, didn’t we say that the defense over there is already empty?”

Yan Liu Yuan shook his head, “The population of the Servant Orchid Clan and the Uighur Bone Clan is much larger than ours, if all of their light and strong men die over at Barrier 176, how many years will it take for the grassland to slow down? Hassan, I want cattle and sheep and subjects in that grassland, not an empty grassland.”

Hassan and the others froze, they didn’t expect that this master in front of them was going to save the Servilan and Uighur Bone clans, vaguely, they felt the other party’s vigor and ambition, probably this is the temperament that the Lord of the Grassland should have!

Yan Liu Yuan laughed, “Go and get ready, Barrier 176 is actually not as strong as imagined, a new dynasty is about to be born on the grasslands, so why not take their blood as a sacrifice.”