The night before they set out, they mapped out their route on the map of the empire's territory. The whole empire is divided into 28 cities, and the 11 northern cities are: Beichangdu (imperial capital), Sanchuan, Xinbeicheng, Baili, Longyang City (the emperor's mausoleum is located in this city, and it was named the national mausoleum city by successive emperors), Xinliu, Tongyuan, Shangbei, Shangnan, Baichuan, and the seventeen cities in the south are counted from the dividing line between north and south, which are Longgu, Shaotang, Kas, Taiyuan, Mingguang, Dong'an, Hexi, Gu'an, Linbei, Linnan, Hedong, Riyue City, Baishui, Tushan, Haimen, Agu, and Haijiao. The southernmost part of the empire is Cape, and the northernmost part of the empire is the New Taipei City.

At present, Beichang and Sanchuan Castle are basically adjacent to the occupied five cities, so the situation is still quite serious. And this time their group was under the banner of going north to beg for thieves, and they had to pass through six cities, namely: Hedong, Dong'an, Shaotang, Xinliu, Tongyuan, and finally through Sanchuan and arrived in Beichang. Under ideal circumstances, if everything goes well, you can go to Sanchuan in half a month, join forces with the northern army, and conquer the five cities of Baili, Longyang, Xinbei, Shangbei, and Shangnan captured by the rebels. After Shaotang City, and then to Xinliu City, it is a turning point from the south to the north of the empire. Although the route was planned in this way, there was no latest battle report from the front line, and it was not known whether the northern cities to pass through had been lost, and the team still had to adapt to the situation.

The two cities of Hedong and Dong'an and Haimen were originally allies in the south. Therefore, the army crossed the border very quickly, and even the two city guards each sent 3,000 men and horses, led by the deputy general in the city, and went north with the Haimen army of Luohe, and the two armies were controlled by Luohe, and the strength of the army reached about 10,000 at once. After camping outside Shaotang City and resting for two nights, and the weather was about to turn cold, he ordered people to go into the city to buy winter clothes, distributed winter clothes to the sergeants, and ordered people to inform the city lord, opened the city gate, and after the army crossed, they went straight to Xinliu City.

On the way, Lian Yun (disguised) told Bai Yu (Yufeng's pseudonym at the moment) about the military system of the empire: "The main force stationed in the imperial capital of Yangdu is the dragon camp, which belongs to the forbidden army of the national capital, with a total of about 100,000 troops, and is stationed at the junction of Xinbei, Shangbei and Sanchuan near the capital. In addition to this elite of the empire, each city in the country has its own garrison armed guards, the number of small cities is about 10,000 or 20,000, the city is larger, and it belongs to a strategic place, the garrison is about 30,000 or 40,000, and the number of soldiers in the entire empire is about 700,000. Not to mention anything else, the total number of soldiers and horses in the three cities of Haimen, Hedong and Dong'an through which our soldiers and horses passed together is 80,000. ”

"The commander of the normal local team will be concurrently served by the local city lord, and the accompanying army will bring staff officers, and there will be several adjutant generals under him, and some cities are not worthy of accompanying the army staff officers, and the adjutant general will also serve as staff officers. The commander carried a short spear and a long sword, and a strong crossbow, rifle, and ** were the configuration of ordinary soldiers. If it is an expedition, it is also necessary to recruit war horses, and a commander will ride it, which is convenient for commanding operations. The second is equipped with cavalry units. The rest of the soldiers are mostly equipped with high-speed aircraft, which are also known as magnetic levitation aircraft, but if the machine breaks down on the road, it will lose its balance and affect the speed of the march, so it will be necessary to fly the army as infantry. ”

As he spoke, he came to the outside of Xinliu City, only to find that the village outside the city was very desolate and dilapidated. The ground of the village square was red, corpses were piled up everywhere, and the stone road was also stained with blood, and a child was lying on the side of the gutter against the wall, sobbing, very helpless. And in the gutter lay a woman, disheveled, soaked with blood, and dying a miserable death. Some of the corpses in this square died neatly, and a row of decapitated heads were washed and brushed. Not far away, a few of them did not lose their breath, but they were also seriously injured, covering their wounds and struggling in pain. A very few of them were crushed under the pile of dead people, although they were not dead, they did not dare to come out, so they could only pretend to be dead and wait for it to get dark and escape.

"Help me, save me!" the dying man struggled but did not dare to make the movement too big. for fear that the thieves who slaughtered them would go and return.

"This place is called Machai Village, this village has just been looted by the mountain bandits of the nearby Jiangshi Village, the leader of the bandit is a woman called the lord of Yunzhai, who is extremely fierce, looting property and food. When the people didn't give it, they set up troops to grab food, and most of the dead were local villagers, and most of them fell under the knife of her men, and they would rather fall down, shed blood, than hand over food, and died unjustly." Men report from below.

What is the chaos in this world, I have always heard that many places in the empire are full of thieves, wanted criminals, thieves, bandits, and local evil forces, and I can't believe it is true. The appearance of Haimen City in the south is only a few local bullies, and the mountain bandits in this place are so murderous. If this group of people is not exterminated, it is simply intolerable. What would it be like if the army continued to go north, he thought that his great cause of recovering the country was a personal vendetta, but when he saw that the good world was tossed into this ghost by Qingtao, his heart ached faintly. Seeing this situation and the news reported by his subordinates, Bai Yu thought of all this, and felt that the great task of recovering the country and the suffering of the people were pressing on his body like a mountain, and his shoulders seemed to be carrying a burden of tens of thousands of catties.

"This group of damn mountain bandits must be exterminated. The young and vigorous Luo He gritted his teeth with hatred, and his two fists were clenched tightly.

Lian Yun said: "General, let's go into the city as soon as possible, it's cold, let the city lord here arrange the residence of our army, otherwise it will be dark, and we will have to set up a barracks outside the city." ”

"Okay, Uncle Lao Lianyun arranged for a few people to save people with the surviving villagers, so that they can be treated, if you can't catch up, let's live in the village tonight." After everything is ready, we will return to the city tomorrow. My brother-in-law and I led the army into the city first. ”

So they entered the city before dark, with their army. After entering the city, Luohe took the Wuwei army to meet the city lord and arrange a residence. Bai Yu was very worried, and told Luo He that he wanted to go by himself, and Luo He agreed. He was alone in the streets of the city, walking in despair.

As I walked, I saw a wine shop not far away, called Drunken Xiangju, so I walked in. He happened to be in a bad mood and wanted to drink to kill his sorrows. "Shopkeeper, do you have any good wine in this shop? Give me a few jars and prepare to cut some appetizers." ”

"Yo Yo Yo, hum, a few jars, you should drink water, this general is so big, my drunken wine, drink two glasses, you will pour it, believe it or not. There are also a few jars, since he is not afraid of death, the man will bring him a jar first, and I want him to see how powerful my wine is. If you can drink three glasses in a row without getting drunk, the shopkeeper will accompany you to drink bitterly, and you won't take any money for the wine. At this time, a female shopkeeper came out of the counter, pouted, sat down opposite him, and said angrily.

"Okay, the shopkeeper is optimistic," Bai Yu lifted his wine glass and drank heavily.

"A glass of ,......"

"Two glasses of ,......"

"Three cups of ,......"

After pouring it one by one, it is all drunk directly. The third cup went down and took the shopkeeper's hand. "Who said he wanted to have a drink with me just now, so don't count. "Bai Yu is unrelenting.

"Okay, okay, the old lady is admitted, I am willing to gamble and lose, drink with you, and drink with you. Guy, I'll have a few drinks with the general. The shopkeeper knew that he was unlucky, so he had to admit it. Although the two of them sat down to drink to each other, they didn't know each other's identities, and he didn't know that the shopkeeper sitting opposite him was the leader of the mountain bandits.

After five flavors of food and three rounds of wine, the two gradually became acquainted. "Shopkeeper, do you know why I'm unhappy, I'm the deputy general of Haimen City, and I went north with the army this time, and I saw the villagers outside the city being slaughtered. Although I have the heart to protect the country and the people, I only hate that I have not been able to get rid of the bandits, and my heart is depressed, indignant, and offended. ”

"Hey, what should I do, there are more such things in our northland, if the general takes care of them one by one, he can manage them?" while comforting him, he looked at this handsome and hearty young general.

An hour ago, the men from outside the city had just reported that they had looted a village, and only said that they had collected a lot of grain. Who would have thought that these grandsons would actually commit evil, kill so many villagers, and hide it from me, wouldn't it make the cottage bear the infamy of the ages? If he knew that I was the owner of this Jiangshi Village. I'm sure you'll want to kill me. I might as well devise a trick for him to plant in my hands, and let him extinguish this revenge. The lord of Yunzhai thought about it in his heart.

In his heart, he secretly set up a plan, just waiting for Bai Yu to put on the cover. Poor boy lying on the table drunk, not knowing it.