Chapter 288 Takayanagi Castle

Hua Kai led the Hua family convoy on a deserted mountain road.

It had been 20 days since they left Guang County. After leaving Leling County of Qi State and entering Yan State, there were more mountains here. At the beginning, everyone could travel hundreds of miles a day, but later they could only travel 70 or 80 miles a day. Now they can only travel 30 or 40 miles a day in the mountains, and they often have to walk one day and rest one day.

In the past 20 days, except for wild beasts and wild animals that appeared from time to time, the convoy did not encounter any danger. After passing this forest, there is a vast plain, and they are not far from Gaoliu County.

Hua Kai also knew that Baoyu Pass and the Great Wall on the northeastern border of Gaoliu County were attacked, and the family cavalry could no longer support them. He needed to be extremely careful after passing this forest.

On the ninth day of the ninth month, there is no Double Ninth Festival in this world. The Hua family convoy was driving on the plain road in the southwest of Yan State. Some wolves saw so many people migrating and gathered from a distance, following the sides of the team from a distance.

Hua Kai asked the servants to ride horses and kill the wolves. With so many people, they were not afraid of the wolves holding a grudge. If the Hua family wanted to control the entire Gaoliu County, the biggest enemy was not only the Donghu Kingdom, but also the grassland wolves waiting for an opportunity.

Five thousand cavalrymen were divided into thousands of small teams, and they killed the wolves when they saw them. In just three days, they no longer saw the wolves, and the team harvested thousands of wolf corpses.

After climbing a high slope, Hua Kai rode on the [Di Lu horse] and looked behind. There was no easy way to migrate. Women and children got off the carriages and pushed the carriages. Some carriages slipped down halfway and injured people. The servants hurried to help.

At this time, a servant came to report that several teams of scouts were found in front, and they left after seeing them. Hua Kai knew that half of the Yan State actually made a living by grazing, and many families in Yanbei still lived a nomadic life. They had a special relationship with the Donghu Kingdom. They were subordinate to the Yan State, but they were also a bridge between the Yan State and the Donghu Kingdom, and occasionally played the role of horse bandits quietly.

Hua Kai asked people to pay attention to the movements of the enemy scouts, and report immediately if they found a large number of enemy troops.

This place is only more than 100 miles away from the southern border of Gaoliu County. Hua Kai ordered the convoy to speed up. The next step is all flat grassland. Everyone must enter the territory of Gaoliu County before dark today.

At noon, the Hua family servants came to the Hua family with more than ten people in special clothing. These were the spies he had captured, and asked Hua Kai how to deal with them.

"Ask them clearly which country and which family they are from, and detain them all first, and throw them to the coolie camp when they arrive in Gaoliu City!" Hua Kai said.

The servants quickly asked about the other party's origins. They were all soldiers of the Fang family in Shuocheng, Yuyang County. Shuocheng is located in the westernmost part of Yuyang County and is connected to Gaoliu County. Now the Hua family convoy is in the area of ​​Shuocheng, and the Fang family is a sixth-rank family in Shuocheng. The entire Shuocheng belongs to the Fang family's territory.

If the noble families of Qi are pedantic and greedy for enjoyment, then the state of Yan is characterized by chaos. Because the land is vast and the population is sparse, everyone is martial, all the noble families put force first, and the communication between the noble families is not close, which makes the people at the bottom of society live in a relatively chaotic environment, and few families can survive here without relying on the noble families.

Therefore, Hua Kai feels that Yan is more suitable for the growth of the Hua family now. Even if there is a conflict with the noble families here, it will not affect Jicheng, and the Hua family does not need to restrain themselves. Everything depends on strength!

Not long after the Hua family convoy set off in the afternoon, Hua Kai heard a large group of cavalry appearing in front. Hua Kai summoned the Hua family servants and the main combat forces of the affiliated families to travel north for more than 20 miles, and saw that there were nearly 10,000 troops blocking the road waiting for him, including about 3,000 cavalry and about 5,000 infantry.

"Is it the Fang family in Shuocheng ahead?" Hua Kai shouted in front of his own 5,000 cavalry.

A young man came out from the other side, who was about the same age as Hua Kai. Hua Kai checked that he only had the strength of Qidong Realm Cultivation, and he was protected by more than ten Qi Training Realm cultivators.

"Since you know that this is our Fang family's territory, you dare to attack our Fang family's family generals. If you know what's good for you, hand over the people quickly and leave all the horses. I can still let you go. Hua family... Hehe! This young master doesn't care about it." The other party looked at Hua Kai and said disdainfully.

"You want my Hua family to leave the war horses, may I ask why you do it? We are migrating to Gaoliu County, and your Fang family keeps sending spies to provoke. I didn't cause trouble to your Fang family, so you dare to come and stop me?" Hua Kai saw that the other side only had some combat power in the 3,000 cavalry, and many of the more than 6,000 infantry were not fully equipped. This Fang family was too bad as a sixth-grade family!

"Oh! A small sixth-grade family is actually quite courageous. I'm standing here today, you can try to move forward!" The young master was riding on a horse, and he would not give way until he saw the benefit!

"In that case, there is nothing to say! I hope you can still be as arrogant as you are now." Hua Kai raised his silver spear, and all the Hua family servants tightened their horses after hearing the order, ready to attack.

The other side did not expect Hua Kai to dare to attack. He hurriedly organized people to resist, and then turned around and retreated. He came to blackmail and not really for war.

Hua Kai rode towards the other side. His speed was not fast enough for the family members behind him to keep up. This battle was to disperse the other side and not really to kill the enemy. The average strength of the 5,000 cavalry of the Hua family was above the late stage of the body tempering realm. Although the other side had nearly 10,000 people, they were unable to resist. One charge dispersed the other side, and some people had already begun to flee.

The second charge was a mess, and the Hua family cavalry had already begun to capture prisoners. Hua Kai watched the other side's young master riding away on horseback surrounded by more than ten people. He did not let anyone chase him. He did not want to capture the other side's young master for ransom. With so many prisoners of war, the scale of Gaoliucheng coolie camp would be expanded again.

The battle was resolved in less than an hour, and the Hua family convoy did not even stop. When they came up, they saw that the cavalry was capturing prisoners. Some people even came up to help. Many teenagers in their teens took off their clothes and dragged slaves back with several war horses, with proud faces.

Although these horses were trophies of the Hua family, they could enjoy the feeling of riding now.

Such a battle was just a small episode on the migration of the Hua family. The main enemy was still the wolf pack. Every night, there were wolves waiting for opportunities to attack, and many people were bitten to death or injured, but Hua Kai would not compromise with the wolf pack at all. He killed them directly after discovering them.

He wanted to convey a message to everyone that on the grassland, the wolf pack would always be the enemy of mankind, and there would be no compromise.

When everyone crossed the Guanshui River and entered the territory of Gaoliu County, many people cheered happily.

They looked at the vast plain in front of them, and this would be their home in the future. Because Gaoliu County was vast and sparsely populated, there were also many wolves and wild beasts here, and the Hua family convoy had encountered several attacks by wild beasts.

Hua Kai was most worried about the sudden appearance of horse bandits and Donghu cavalry. The Great Wall of Yan State in the northwest has not been gradually completed. Gaoliu County has been neglected for many years. There may be hunting Donghu cavalry everywhere, and there may even be Donghu tribes secretly migrating into Baoyu Pass.

Thousands of cavalrymen scouted hundreds of miles day and night. The Hua family convoy finally arrived in the south of Gaoliu County on September 17th. Hua Zihuan brought tens of thousands of representatives, servants, and people who had arrived here first to respond.

After a 32-day long journey, the Hua family convoy crossed several rivers and finally arrived at the destination. Hua Xing and a group of direct members of the Hua family came to Hua Kai. They walked through the welcoming crowd together to let everyone know that the new owner of Gaoliu County has arrived.

The six major families have already built their new mansions in Gaoliu City. The new mansion of the Hua family occupies the most central position of more than 600 acres in the inner city. It is surrounded by the mansions of the family and the affiliated families. This will be where everyone will live in the future, a place that belongs entirely to them.

It was the first time for Hua Kai to come to Gaoliu City. He saw that the walls of Gaoliu City were only more than six meters high. The walls were wide and majestic, but they were all built with a mixture of stone and soil. No city in Qi dared to build such walls.

Stone and wood were scarce here, and most of the defenses were against wolf packs and cavalry attacks. Such walls were basically enough. What made Hua Kai happy was that Gaoliu City occupied nearly ten times more land than Guangxian City. It was really one of the largest cities on the border of the Central Plains.

Entering Gaoliu City, Hua Kai felt a completely different atmosphere from that of the Central Plains cities. The streets here were very wide, and many vendors even set up stalls in the middle of the streets. Cows, sheep, and horses kept walking on the streets. Most of the shops on both sides were earthen houses, and wooden pavilions were rarely seen.

Hua Kai brought important members of the family and representatives of various affiliated families, a total of thousands of people, to the new Huafu, and stopped outside the new ancestral temple of the Hua family. After offering incense to the ancestors, the Hua family was officially rooted in Gaoliu City.

After dinner with everyone, Hua Kai, Grandpa, Fourth Uncle, Hua Mo and others came to the conference hall. The inner city of Gaoliu City was carefully built by various families. The buildings inside were no worse than the inner city of Guang County, and all the tables and chairs were made of the best spiritual wood.

After everyone sat down, Hua Zihuan, as the temporary person in charge of Gaoliu City, reported to Hua Kai on the construction of Gaoliu City.

"When I first came to Gaoliu City, it was still a ruin. The population in the city was less than 3,000. According to our plan, I took a thousand Hua family servants and more than two thousand refugees to renovate the entire inner city. We used work instead of disaster relief to let all the people who survived and returned to Gaoliu City help us build the inner city, and then we settled down here."

As Hua Zihuan said, everyone could feel the difficulty of the construction of Gaoliu City. It took more than a year to repair Gaoliu City to such a level in a wasteland. The labor paid was unimaginable.

"Later, the vanguards of various noble families and clans also arrived. The Hua family sent more than 20,000 people and thousands of craftsmen. The inner city gradually got better. Now, there are more than a hundred mansions built in the inner city of more than 2,000 acres, with a total of tens of thousands of houses, which can accommodate 50,000 people at the same time. However, the inner city wall has not yet been built. Many complex inner city buildings will take some time to build."