December 28, five o'clock in the morning.
Li Tianyu led ten thousand Slaying Barbarians Army soldiers out of Slaying Barbarians City.
But instead of heading north to battle the Northern Barbarians' army outside the city, they went south toward Beichuan Province.
At first, Qin Shixian had only dispatched ten thousand elite border soldiers, organized into several hundred hunting squads, to hunt down Barbarian Soldiers within Beichuan Province.
But as more and more Barbarian Soldiers entered Beichuan Province, its defenses grew increasingly difficult to maintain.
If the Northern Border defense line was viewed as a river channel, and the Northern Barbarians' million-man army as a great river,
then Slaying Barbarians City, Polu City, and the other three great cities were five small mountains in the river channel. They blocked the channel, forcing the river to split and leaving only a trickle in the downstream reaches.
Behind those five small mountains lay Beichuan Province. Although its terrain was not completely flat, it offered no great obstacle. At most, it could be considered a bumpy ditch.
Under such circumstances, the border soldiers sent to Beichuan Province were like sacks of cement thrown into a river.
They could impede the river's flow, but they had no way to cut it off completely.
At that moment, Li Tianyu led ten thousand martial artists of the Slaying Barbarians Army into Beichuan Province. It was truly sending charcoal in snowy weather!
In fact, Qin Shixian had wanted to use this Slaying Barbarians Army from the beginning. But because its commander was Li Fei, he had not issued the order directly.
The Northern Border Governor did not want to offend anyone by moving Li Fei's personal troops without permission.
The Li Fei of today was no longer the Jing An, Marquis who had once needed a golden token