When the grass grows and the warbler flies, the whole vast sea has completely faded out, withered and yellow, and full of vitality.


    From Yanmen county to the north, the flood is overwhelming. There are human eating swamps and waste lakes everywhere. The water surface is wantonly magnificent. Countless fierce animals lying under the ice lake in autumn and winter emerge, isolating the Yanzhou people from the barbarians in the vast sea into two worlds. Directly after winter, the swamps, lakes and rivers are frozen again.


    But six or seven thousand miles north, the wild river finally tamed down and merged into a great lake, and the terrain around it was slightly higher. With the interweaving of rivers and rivers, the Great Lake hundreds of miles around was like a pearl, quietly inlaid on the green earth, and the wilderness of the lake was also suitable for farming and grazing.


    With the summer wind blowing, ripples rippled on the lake. Facing the rising sun, a group of scale Eagles cruised on the water, rising and falling from time to time. Under some sharp claws, large fish several feet long struggled ceaselessly. After catching the big fish, the scale Eagle immediately turned back and flew to the shore. Behind him, some scale eagles who had nothing came after him, screamed and scrambled.


    A large river with a width of tens of meters enters the mouth of the lake. A huge and poorly built stockade is built in front of the gentle slope of the estuary and stands there quietly in the face of the slow summer wind. The stockade is bustling in the whole stockade garden for more than ten miles, just like a market. Although it is located in the depths of the vast sea grassland, the stockade is full of quite different human people, and it is not a slave village of any barbarian.


    Ning chaner put on a gauze, covered with a smoky face, frowned slightly at Emei, stood on a low mountain by the lake, leaned to Chen Hai''s ear and said: "Although Yan Yuan can''t be regarded as a famous general for a hundred years, he is also in line with the rules. In just over a year, he can stand on the edge of the grassland surrounded by wolves and bring the black Yan army like this. Isn''t it worth investing a lot of money?"


    Chen Hai hey ran smiled and didn''t answer, but what he saw was different from Ning chan''er.


    He had already noticed that a large number of fields had been reclaimed around Dazhai, but it was easy to talk about how to cultivate enough grain fields to feed 300000 or 400000 people on the grassland.


    Besides, how many resources can Yan Yuan bring with him when he leads the remnant of Heiyan and his family members to withdraw North in a hurry?


    The cultivated grain fields are limited, and the young crops don''t look so strong. If the barbarians around come to rob in the harvest season, the remnants of the black Yan army can''t harvest much food -- and Yan Yuan''s department doesn''t occupy a more steep valley, but chooses to stand in the open estuary. It should also consider or be able to survive the spring famine by supplementing food with fishing and hunting.


    Although the stronghold is messy, it is in good order after careful study. There are still some tall buildings in the center. Although the traces of knives, axes and chisels on the walls have been repaired, you can still see a lot. From this, it can be concluded that the black Yan army should expand after seizing a manzhai.


    Chen Hai doesn''t think this trip will convince Yan Yuan, but he just needs to work hard. Ning chan''er is very worried when he doesn''t answer.


    She has always acted from her heart, free and easy. After the death of the great heavenly master Gong Qing and others, she became even more unscrupulous. However, after she was suppressed by the divine spirit by the divine legacy a few days ago, she felt as if there was a sharp sword hanging on her head all day.


    Although she believed that under the influence of the evil spirit, Chen Hai would not be harmful to her in the end, it was never her character to listen to fate, so she wanted to sell the last remnant of the black Yan army to Chen Hai.


    At present, there are still 100000 soldiers in the remnant of the black Yan army, but Ning chaner doesn''t count how much combat power remains and how much weight he can have in Chen Hai''s mind.


    Then go to the stronghold, the flow of people gradually decreased, and slowly you can hear the cry of soldiers practicing. Ning chan''er''s heart is also much more stable, and walks slowly in with Chen Hai.


    The stockade is divided into two layers inside and outside. The inner city is slightly smaller. It is only three or four miles around. It is where the military camp is located. The retaining wall is also stronger. Yan Yuan''s big tent is in the middle.


    At this time, Yan Yuan sat in front of the case, staring at the document in his hand and frowning.


    The content of the document is similar to that in the past. It is nothing more than the poor growth of young crops. If you want to increase the output, you need to pull out more iron materials to cast agricultural tools. The scouts found hundreds of demons and barbarians cruising around Chimei lake and asked to send troops to suppress the stupidity of the surrounding barbarians, etc.


    At the beginning, Yan Yuan saw that the general situation of the black Yan army was gone, and if he continued to stand in Yanmen County, he could not escape the tragic outcome of defeat. He was willing to fight for the Taoist temple and the red eyebrow sect to the end, but it did not mean that more than 100000 elite under his command would also die for the Taoist temple, not to mention more than 300000 innocent families.


    After Huang Shuang, Le Yi and others were called down, he saw that the Huben army attacked xiasongdu mountain in the north. He was unable to resist, so he had to withdraw from Yanmen County in a hurry.


    After leaving Yanmen pass, the black Yan army traveled a long way and finally found such a habitat here. It looks like the bend of the great lake. The predecessor of the black Yan army is the red eyebrow sect. Yan Yuan named the lake red eyebrow lake. Previously, a barbarian family of 30000 or 40000 people lived and multiplied here.


    At that time, the black Yan army had lost all its patience by the long march. Without temptation, it boldly besieged the tribe. Fortunately, most tribes on the grassland had no defense. They either fought, fled or surrendered. There were no other options at all.


    Although the barbarians were fierce and stubborn, tens of thousands of remnants of the black Yan army were elite old soldiers. After all, their combat power was extraordinary. They surrounded three jues and fought several bloody battles, and finally expelled the barbarians from Chimei lake.


    Hundreds of thousands of people have not yet been able to take root in the vast grassland. The first problem facing them is that although the Bank of Chimei lake is convenient for fishing and hunting, there is no dense forest and stone ridge for mining wood and stone. The materials carried by the black Yan army north can also build a wall around the stockade.


    In the depths of the grassland surrounded by the enemy, it is too difficult to stand firm.


    Lacking a large number of farm tools, it is extremely difficult to reclaim wasteland. We can only supplement food by fishing and hunting, but the cold winter is the real enemy of the black Yan army.


    In the evolution of more than ten thousand years, the demon man has long adapted to the severe cold in the extreme north, and his physique is much stronger than that of the ordinary human race. He can easily survive the cold winter, but the ordinary people in Yanzhou can''t. they withdraw North in a hurry and don''t have enough warm clothes.


    In the first winter of entering the Hanhai grassland, more than 400000 people died of ice and starvation on the way to Chimei lake. It can be said that it was terrible.


    After they had a foothold in Chimei lake, barbarians from all directions invaded, which was even more annoying. Fortunately, in the face of this elite Terran who suddenly entered the north, the Krieg and Tuoba departments in the north also felt quite sudden. Last winter, they did not rashly assemble large-scale troops to attack, which made Yan Yuan and them breathe a sigh of relief.


    Just by the side of the couch, no one can sleep soundly. One or even several big bloody battles will break out sooner or later. At that time, how long can tens of thousands of disabled soldiers and defeated generals stick here?


    Picked up the tea cup on the case and took a sip. Yan Yuan shook his head anxiously. He didn''t care about the bitterness of the tea soup. When he heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside the account, 7 he saw a Huwei soldier buried his head in the account, gave a salute and said, "report to Yan Shuai, and school captain Chen Hai came to see him!"


    "Chen Hai?" Yan yuanleng was there. No one would have shocked him at this moment.