In the depths of the Jieshan River Valley, the spring water melts, and the grass and trees on the flat ground at the bottom of the valley are the first to sprout and grow leaves.

Ling'er carried a basket to pick wild vegetables, jumped and ran far away, and looked back, the Bai family army camp was hidden in the depths of the mountains.

Only a big red flag fluttered in the wind, and the flag with white letters on a red background was already very worn. As early as when he met in the mountains with Grandpa Black Crane and Grandpa Baifeng, he unfurled this flag. With the wind and sun of a long winter, the flag faded badly.

On it are the words "Dongliang Army".

Right now, for this flag, Grandpa Heihe and Grandpa Yun are quarreling.

Grandpa insisted on replacing this flag, but Grandpa Yun disagreed, saying that it was tantamount to pushing Grandpa Bai's family into the fire pit.

Grandpa Hei He blushed and shouted: "What's wrong with the Bai Family Army? This banner should have been hung up a long time ago! It's all because the eldest brother is too cautious, but the final result of caution is not the same as losing his life? Since he is alive, he should be vigorous and happy, why should he suffer from those wretches? Now that the eldest brother is dead, why can't he still hang out the banner of the Bai Family Army? Are you really willing to let the dead brothers be nameless and worthless under Jiuquan?"

Grandpa said that he was sad, and the old man burst into tears, "The eldest brother is dead, what is the meaning of us people living? What is the way out? Anyway, we are all dead, we might as well hang out our banner openly, now the Moro army has no food and grass, and the people are scattered, and it seems that they have no ability to run to the mountains to besiege us again, but Qin Jian's kid will take the opportunity to pick up the bargain, and we will fight with him! Under the banner of the Bai Family's army, we will die and be unscrupulous, so as not to be charged with a rogue thief by them!"

Grandpa Yun has always been stubborn, and today he is really anxious, his old face is as thin as wood, twisted in pain, and shouted: "We have to think about the rest of the brothers--the eldest brother is dead, but why did the eldest brother die? He volunteered to die! He died, but he left us a way back, we wait a little longer, the court will investigate this matter clearly, and we will also give us justice, at that time we will be loyal and good generals who have resisted the enemy and made great contributions." We'll be treated preferentially. This is also the back road that the eldest brother painstakingly arranged for us - it turns out that the banner of the Dongliang Army is not very good, once the Bai Family Army is changed, we will really become the rogue robbers under the leadership of Bai Feng!"

Grandpa Black Crane still shouted with a red face: "I don't care, I don't have as many complicated intestines as you, I just want to avenge my eldest brother, I want to die, to duel, to duel on the battlefield." Rather than live in such a humiliated way, I might as well die with my eldest brother! I just hate that my eldest brother didn't take me with him before leaving. ”

It is said that a hundred strong people were taken away by Grandpa Bai Feng, and then none of them came back, and they all died on the battlefield.

It is said that after many anti-siege battles and the test of hunger, cold and disease, many people were killed and wounded, and now there are 20,000 soldiers left in the Jieshan River Valley.

Horses have long been gone, and in the long cold winter, they have been slaughtered day by day to save lives, and even the horseskins and hooves have been boiled by them to fill the hungry stomachs.

Where are the 20,000 people alive going, no one knows, as soon as Grandpa Bai Feng dies, the command falls in front of Grandpa Heihe and Grandpa Lao Yun, and the two of them can't talk about going together, and they quarrel if they don't agree.

It was always Grandpa Lao Yun who let Grandpa Hei He, and Grandpa Lao Yun had a bitter face: "Lao Hei, calm down - think about it, why didn't the eldest brother take us, only take a hundred young people, sneak out of the mountain along the frozen river of the dark river on a snowy night, and then sneak into the Moro camp in a hurry, why don't you escape but go to the camp to assassinate after burning the Moro grain and grass, because the eldest brother has already thought about the front and back very clearly and thoroughly, he is destined to die on the battlefield in this life, and the battlefield is his destination!" He died, but he used his death in exchange for the hope of all of us to survive! Brother has made such painstaking arrangements, do you want to live up to it?"

Grandpa Yun wiped a handful of tears and persuaded bitterly: "Once this flag is hung out, it will be roasted all of us on the fire, and the name of the eldest brother will be in vain." In the past, he Qin Jian besieged us and attacked us, saying that we were bandits, robbers, and rogues, but this was their rhetoric, and the court might not believe it. Because we never took the initiative to attack the imperial army, we only fought against the Moro army. So we are still the army of Dongliang Kingdom. Now that the Bai family army is hanging out, we have become the people and horses recruited by the surname Bai, and we are no different from those thieves who rob houses and gather in the mountains and forests, and it is also an excuse for Qin Jian to exterminate us. ”

Ling'er was still a little unacceptable when she saw her grandfather, "Hanging out the banner of the Bai family army is our real identity, and we are originally the Bai family army." Didn't the eldest brother hang the banner of the Bai family army in the early years, and he was also recognized by the first emperor. Why not now?"

Grandpa Lao Yun shook his head: "You are a big old black, how come you have lived for sixty or seventy years, and the more you live, the more you go back! Now is not the same as in the past, this is not the same as in the past! Old Hei, you have forgotten what kind of world it was in the beginning, it was a troubled era! The previous dynasty was corrupt and dark, the people were not able to make a living, the people were resentful, and the bandits were in trouble. Heroes from all over the country have risen up one after another. The times create heroes, and the eldest brother took us to rise up and play the banner of the Bai Family Army, which is in line with the trend of the times and should be. Later, when the first emperor accepted us, wasn't the banner of the Bai family army canceled, and since then we have all been the soldiers of the first emperor, and there is no Bai family army anymore. Now that you are raising a banner that has long disappeared, aren't you trapping everyone in injustice, to put it bluntly, aren't we showing that the current Dongliang Zhengxi Dynasty is as corrupt, incompetent, and dark as the previous dynasty?

Grandpa Black Crane was stunned and muttered, "I never thought of rebelling—"

"So this flag can't be changed! This Dongliang Kingdom is all of us, the eldest brother, and it was obtained by countless people with the hard work of the first emperor, and finally laid a peaceful and prosperous era, how can we take the lead in overturning it and smashing it? The common people have suffered enough, countless people have died just by changing the dynasty, and now they are invaded by the Moro country, and at the same time there are other small countries surrounding us, as the heroes who followed the first emperor to conquer the country, we can't do this——"

Grandpa Black Crane burst into tears, "Then what should we do next? Do you just watch your eldest brother die in vain?

Grandpa Yun shook his head: "There is only one way, wait." Now that spring is coming, so is the vitality, and there are more wild vegetables, wild grasses and wild beasts in the mountains, and we will not die of hunger. While we were dealing with Qin Jian outside, we were waiting for the reaction of the imperial court. Only in this way can everyone have a glimmer of life. ”

Grandpa Black Crane slammed his big bow to the ground, "Womb—this is a fucking wretch!"

Some of the adults' conversations Ling'er could understand, and some were simply confused, he shook his head, didn't listen, and lowered his head to dig weeds.