The road is uneven, the road ahead is difficult, the wolf army bandits and horse thieves are ravaging outside the city of Yingdu, shouting for help, and the sound of killing is endless.

The overwhelming tide of soldiers, wave after wave, galloped past in front of Ruo Aoziyong's car window, shaking the earth, bringing the afterglow of the undulating body, and thousands of soldiers marched through the north.

Ruo Ao Zike was surrounded by all the soldiers, sat on top of the horse, casually glanced at the family emblem of the "Ruo Ao Clan" on their convoy, and waved the horsewhip, "This is my cousin and uncle's grandfather, I want to go back to the convoy of Jingling, go, don't check!"

"Yes, Third Son!"

The soldiers were ordered to let go of the convoy that Ruo Ao Ziyong and Ruo Ao were talking about.

In the carriage, Ruo Ao Ziyong thanked Ruo Ao Zike with a thousand thanks, and when he was far away, he finally couldn't help but start scolding his mother, "What kind of family?!...... If we were really the same race, my Ao clan would not have fallen to the point where it is torn apart today, and no one would have stood up at the critical moment!

His dry mouth and scolding didn't help, and the attendant brought him a bowl of rice porridge, which was only clear of water, so that he could settle.

Ruo Ao Ziyong almost cried when he held this pottery bowl, and he couldn't catch the rice grains with a chopstick, "Damn, I've never eaten such a thin rice porridge in my life......"

The attendant was embarrassed, "My lord, we left in a hurry, we didn't bring enough food, there were barren mountains along the way, other courtier clans were also looted, and they refused to help us, and the nearby villages were also ten rooms and nine empty......"

Ruo Ao Ziyong also knew that this time was different from the past, and his stomach was uncomfortable with hunger, so he could only hold the bowl and drink it in a few sips, but he still couldn't fill his stomach, so he had to let the attendant go to fetch some pheasants and hares to fill his stomach, and then looked back at the elderly Ruo Ao Tan, lying in the carriage, holding the gold plaque wrapped in brocade in both hands, and refused to let go of his hand, not letting the gold plaque leave his sight an inch.

Looking at the golden plaque given by the King of Chu in the dim carriage, Rizhe lost its dazzling light in the past, eclipsed, and sighed lightly.

He was just the least important marginal child of the family, so he was sent out early.

Now that the family is in such a difficult situation, he can't help but reddened his eyes, and then helped Ruo Ao Tan to pick up a bowl of gruel and called, "Clan elder, wake up, drink some gruel, there are still many days to go to Jingling, how can we say that we have to live and wait for the cousin to come back and hand him the gold plaque!"

But Ruo Ao Tan, who heard the words, just hugged the golden plaque and cried, "It's all my uselessness, it's all my judgment that I didn't believe in at the beginning...... If we all supported the decision of the child and disposed of Yue Jiao in the morning, there would be no disaster today!"

"Who knew it would be today?"

"Ling Yin must not have thought of ......"

If Ao Ziyong muttered in a low voice, a few days had passed since Yin Zi's death, although he couldn't accept this fact, he could already learn to face it calmly.

Maybe no matter what choice they make at this time, they are destined to not escape the scourge of war, leaving Yingdu is the same as staying in Yingdu, and all the results are doomed from the beginning.

Suddenly, the guards outside shouted, "There are horse thieves, protect Lord Yin!"

A gang of horse thieves with blood-stained knives and axes blocked their way, and if Ao Ziyong watched them shouting and shouting to rush up, kill them all, and rob them of their belongings and horses, but he was only surrounded by hundreds of parts, how could he defeat these hundreds of horse thieves who killed people and oversold goods.

Everyone was like a frightened bird, tremblingly carrying their swords, protecting Ruo Ao Tan and Ruo Ao Zi Yong on the carriage and fighting with the horse thief, but the guards around them fell to the ground one by one.

Ruo Ao Ziyong in the carriage ordered everyone to hurry up without saying a word, and cried again and again, "Why has my Chu Kingdom become like this...... Why did Ziyan's cousin go to fight the Jin Kingdom at this time, if he didn't go, maybe Yue Jiao and Zike would not be so unscrupulous......"

But there are no ifs.

Holding the car window, he saw from a distance that there were Cheng clans and Pan's subordinates in front of him, as if he had seen a savior, and he didn't care whether their current identity was against the party, whether they were being chased and killed by Ruo Ao Zike, and frantically shouted for help at them, "Cheng Zuo Yin, Pan Taishi, I am the county Yin of Jingling County, Ruo Ao Ziyong, we met a horse thief, save us!"

This way, Cheng Daxin encountered most of the clan families who avoided them because they were too female comrades, and Ruo Ziyong was still the first courtier to take the initiative to ask him for help.

Chen Huang clenched the long sword in his hand, looked at him and said, "Are we going to save him......?"

Now they can't protect themselves.

"As long as it is a Chu person, there is no reason not to save it. Save!"

Cheng Daxin, Chen Huang and Pan's subordinates quickly killed back, and their 10,000 subordinates quickly killed these chaotic horse thieves and saved them.

But when he saw Azhu get out of a carriage and hand him a handkerchief, he pointed at her "you" for a long time, and his tongue knotted and said, "You...... Are you still alive?"

He stared blankly at the bewitching woman in front of him, "Weren't you killed by Yue Jiao?"

"Lord County Yin, the little girl is not a princess, just a female concubine of the Cheng family, she replaced her in order to save the princess that day, and she concealed something, please don't blame the adult!"

Ah Zhu knew that he still thought she was a princess, so he explained, but in exchange for him clapping his legs and laughing, the laughter was so loud as if it was not a time of war, which attracted everyone's sideways, he saw everyone look over, covered his mouth and smiled, and waved his hand, "It's okay, I'm just happy...... It's great that you and the lady are fine!"

"That's great!"

"So that I can give my cousin Ziyan an explanation!"

Ah Zhu looked at him with tears coming out of his eyes, and scolded him for being a fool!", and turned away, but he was even happier.

Because of Ao Ziyong's small episode, the original solemn atmosphere in the team has dispersed a little, the night is low, covering the four fields, the river is long, and the road ahead is unpredictable.

Along the way, they saw too many nobles of the family leading their own tribes to flee to the counties, and the endless flow of people from all over the city gates poured out of Yingdu.

Some people even saw the Cheng clan and the Pan clan in the team, and even the family emblems of the major clans of the Ruo Ao clan, shouting, "Look, the Cheng clan, the Pan clan, even the Ruo Ao clan has escaped!"

"Let's all run!"

"If you don't escape, Ruo Ao Yuejiao will slaughter the city!"

"There is a big war in the country soon!"

"Let's go to the county below to avoid the limelight first!"

……

Outside the city of Yingdu, all kinds of rumors are spreading, and along the way are all kinds of villages that have been visited by bandits or rebels, and most of them are empty, and most of them are gone...... Cheng Daxin and Chen Huang drove the team, led the Cheng clan and the Pan clan, guarded Pan Chong, if Ao talked about them, under the relentless pursuit of Ruo Ao Zike, they wanted to go all the way to the counties and territories below, asking the county princes to return to the national capital, but they were forced out of the city.

Cheng Daxin, who had been running for many days, had been sick for a long time, and his body was overwhelmed, Chen Huang and Xianyin, two civil officials, and some of the children of the Cheng clan of the Pan family, were not much better, and the children of the nobles took off their fancy clothes and changed into armor, and everyone's young faces were full of filth and bloodstains, and the hands that had always held the pen also learned from the soldiers to pick up the sword, trying to resist the chasing soldiers of Ruo Ao Zike who were rushing like wolves.

But Ruo Ao Zike is like a pack of hungry wolves, constantly chasing them, while chasing them, and on the other hand, plundering the nobles, rich gentry, as well as their slaves, guards, and forcibly encircled as private slaves to expand their strength.

And they tried to organize the various clans that fled to resist Ruo Ao Zike alone, but those officials and nobles who fled would rather draw their swords against them than join forces to deal with Ruo Ao's six tribes, and even gave him sufficient reasons to preserve his strength, go to the north, find horses, come back to fight to the death with the rebels, recover the mountains and rivers, and so on......

In short, they would rather do it with their own people.

I don't want to go back and fight with the wolf army of the two brothers.

Under his orders, a general kept shouting, mobilizing everyone to resist the raging rebels, but no one paid attention to them, and some even scolded them shamelessly: "All the regular troops inside and outside Yingdu have all surrendered to Yuejiao, the princess, the king of Chu is gone, we are just courtiers, what can we do to recover the national capital?"

"You Cheng clan, the Pan clan is a big clan in the country, with tens of thousands of supporters, and it is still like a lost dog being chased and killed, we are just more than a thousand people and guards, how can we resist the wolf army of Yuejiao?"

"There are only more than 1,000 of us, and we don't have armored chariots, what can we do to reverse the tide?"

"You might as well go north with us to ask for help from the horses!"

Faced with all kinds of scolding and even accusations.

Cheng Daxin was silent.

Watching those close friends who used to be close to the DPRK and China, passing by in embarrassment, their bodies were covered with mud like him, and they fled in a hurry.

In such a moment of chaos, everyone lost their splendid clothes and was left with only wind and dust, lost their guards and could only protect themselves with their swords in their hands, and without the service of slaves, they could only use their feet to step on the muddy ditch, and wet their robes that could no longer tell whether they were brocade or silk......

In just a few days, they lost their pride that originally belonged to the nobles of Great Chu.

fled north in a hurry and looked south to Yingdu.

Ruo Ao Ziyong pouted and said, "Cheng Zuoyin, it's useless for you to do this, and they won't be our assistants if you pull them over." ”

Pan Chong raised his hand to stop the angry Chen Huang and Xianyin, nodded and said, "Yes, let them go, my Chu State doesn't need such courtiers!"

"Yes, Master!"

"Yes, grandfather!"

Chen Huang and Xianyin retracted their anger.

Pan Chongyao looked at the capital city in the distance, but he didn't expect that in the old age, he was forced to leave the old city where he had lived for nearly seventy years, and the old man helped the old slave, boarded the carriage again, and said slowly, "The only way to do this is now, if we really go north to Jingmen, we will be too far away from Yingdu and will be unable to return to help...... If you go to the camp of Phoenix Mountain, if the princess is still in the world, Ziyan will return to the dynasty, and she will inevitably use this place as a basis to compete with the puppet dynasty of the national capital occupied by Yuejiao!"

"Why don't we go there and hold it for them!"

"Yes!"

Everyone bowed their heads.

When it was dark, they finally arrived at a small village, where they could rest their legs, with Pan Chong in charge, and Ruo Ao Tan was not as frightened as before, hiding in the carriage, not going out all day, and occasionally getting out of the car and walking two steps to talk to him.

The night was long, the jackdaws were everywhere, and the tribe of 10,000 people settled around the outside of the village, and Azhu carried the water that came up from the river, boiled it, and presented it to them, "My lord, you are still sick now, drink some hot water to warm your body......"

The river water in the clay pot was even mixed with a turbid smell of sand and earth, and when it was presented to them, she held the clay pot with a slightly red face and said, "Now the conditions are limited, the son will order it first, and when he is free later, Azhu will put this water away!"

Chen Huang is okay, he was born in a cold family.

Without saying a word, he picked up the bowl and took a big sip.

But when did Cheng Daxin and Pan Chong drink such soup in their lives?

"Now that the war is in chaos, how can I have time, just drink it like this!"

Cheng Daxin glanced at Chen Huang and the Taishi who had already bowed his head to drink the soup, and also followed their example, took Azhu's bowl directly with both hands, and didn't care about the fact that the water in Chengfu had to be quiet for two days in the past, precipitate the dust inside, and then pour it into another clean clay pot, boil it and drink it again.

The salty river took away the man's tears and swallowed it in his mouth, he got up and picked up the sword at his waist again, urged the horse to hurry, and headed towards Phoenix Mountain, but Phoenix Mountain, which was obviously very close to the capital, could not get close at all because of a big circle and Ruo Ao Zike's obstruction.

Seeing this, Ao Ziyong secretly stared at Cheng Daxin, who was discussing with Pan Chong and the others in the distance, and pouted angrily, "Ah Zhu, it's good to have food in this poor country, and you can still let him pick and choose?"

"I've been drinking porridge all the way!"

"I'm still hungry, and I haven't seen you open a small stove for me alone......"

Ah Zhu automatically ignored Ruo Ao Ziyong's sour words, and began to cook for everyone, "I'm too lazy to tell you, you go out quickly, I want to cook!"

Ah Zhu blasted Ruo Ao Zi Yong out, but if Ao Zi Yong stood outside the courtyard wall of the farmhouse and grinned, the bright smile frightened the passers-by to see it and froze for a moment, did he have the consciousness that everyone was fleeing?

Cheng Daxin also frowned.

Chen Huang looked clear, biting the hard and hard-to-swallow steamed bun and said, "I don't know what happened to Qingqing and them, but fortunately they left early." ”

Cheng Daxin frowned when he heard this, "Yes!" Thinking of the big stone in his wife's mother's heart, he was puzzled, "Fortunately, the second brother arranged it early, and I don't know how he knew in advance that something would happen to Yingdu." ”

At dawn, thick smoke and fire suddenly rose in the east and reflected the sky red, and many soldiers suddenly jumped up and shouted, "My lord, my lord, look, it's the flames of war, the flames of war are coming!"

"Let's go!"

But Pan Chong knew that this was not a war, it was impossible for the war to burn so big, and there was a smell of burnt Hu in the air, and the smell of the aroma of the rice fields turning into ashes came from afar with the wind.

He took a hard breath and said, "No...... It's 100,000 acres of fertile land in the eastern suburbs that have been burned!"

"What?"

Xianyin, Chen Huang exclaimed.

"Dongjiao?" Cheng Daxin clenched his fists, "Is Yue Jiao crazy?"

"Do you really want the entire Chu State to fall to the ashes for his ambition alone?"