The only consolation is that fortunately, Chu Taizu was as wise as a torch at the beginning, regarded the border army as the top priority, and made secret agreements with eight generals in the capital at the beginning of the founding of the country. Since then, eight generals have served as town guards, guarding one side of the border for generations to prevent the troubles of the northern grasslands.

"These eight town guards are Yao, Fan, Li, Wu, Liu, Wang, Sun, and the Jiang family" When mentioning the Jiang family, Lao Li hesitated for a moment before continuing to introduce Fang Ming.

In recent years, although the northern border has been in danger several times, after paying a great price, it still barely blocked the attack of the main force of the Xiongnu and ensured that the territory was not lost, so that the Great Chu can still be preserved and survived.

In order to raise more military salaries for the army to suppress the rebels, and at the same time to send blood to the border army of the eight town guards, the imperial court had to take a two-pronged approach, increasing taxes and raising money and food, and selling officials and lords to increase income.

As a result, in order to recoup their capital, those who bought officials intensified their exploitation of the people, causing complaints in various places.

In terms of time, it is now the twenty-fifth September of Guanghe (the year name of Emperor Chu Huai).

In a day, it is also divided into 12 hours, including Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai, each hour is divided into four quarters, 30 days in January, 12 months in a year, a total of 360 days, divided into four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Lao Li Tou's generation of three brothers, he is the third, the eldest has a family business in Yuncheng County, the second young man ran away from home, so far there is no news of the bird, I don't know where to go.

Lao Litou's family originally consisted of four, Ergou is seventeen years old this year, and there is an older brother who is five years older than him, who went to join the army three years ago, and has not yet sent any news back, I don't know if it is life or death.

Ergou's mother died of illness a few years ago, leaving only the father and son to rely on each other.

Originally, according to Ergou's meaning, he didn't want to leave his hometown, lest the eldest brother come back one day and not find them.

However, the drought that lasted for a year led to no harvest of crops, and Lao Li Tou had to take medicine on weekdays, which cost a lot, and in desperation, Lao Li Tou took his son out to join his eldest brother, this thatched house was also used by the two of them to rest when they passed by a deserted village, and they turned back when they saw Fang Ming halfway.

What made Fang Ming feel strange was that when he heard Lao Li Tou say that the world was miserable and miserable, he originally thought that most of the world was already a purgatory realm with thousands of miles of red land and no one in ten people.

Carefully inquired with Lao Li Tou, he denied it.

According to Lao Li Tou, although the victims have been starving and starving to death from time to time, it is by no means a large-scale phenomenon, and most of them just can't survive and seek a way to live.

The reason why the victims rebelled against the imperial court was because in addition to not being able to endure the life of hunger and fullness, but also because they were guided and used by people with good intentions, so that the victims hated the nobles and the gentry.

Under the lure and support of these people, the victims of the disaster in various places rose up one after another to rebel against the imperial court.

In this world, people's bodies are relatively healthy, there are few diseases, often after the age of 60 will gradually age, as long as there are no accidents, ordinary people can live to about 80 years old.

Like Ergou, the height of 190 is only tall, not the outstanding wave, if Lao Li Tou didn't have a dark disease, he wouldn't have started to use crutches in middle age.

After the baptism of heaven and earth aura, the grain has also become a high-grade product, according to Lao Li Tou, like the piece of dough that Fang Ming ate just now, it is enough for him to digest it for 1 whole day, this is only made of coarse grains, if it is replaced with refined grains, the effect is better.

The three of them hurried during the day, and when they couldn't walk anymore, they found a random eaves and rested for the night. Of course, Fang Ming would still practice the Spiritual Clearing Divine Technique at night, and the three of them left at dawn.

Fortunately, Ergou's skills are good, not only did he not encounter any difficulties along the way, but he was also able to find some food, barely enough for the three of them, and the piece of bread in Ergou's burden never moved.

But whenever he left a village, Lao Li Tou would always sigh and shake his head silently.

After walking for a few days, most of the villages I bumped into along the way were dilapidated, and the people's faces were as pale as dirt.

In the end, after many inquiries, Fang Ming could understand why Lao Li Tou always sighed.

It turned out that twenty-five years ago, when Lao Li Tou was also a hot-blooded young man, which man did not have a heroic dream, the first time he heard that the northern border was attacked by the Huns on a large scale, Lao Li Tou ignored the opposition of his family, resolutely ran away from home, went north to the war-torn land, joined the army, and defended the country.

Lao Li Tou is also a strong-willed person, and went directly to the most critical place in the military situation and joined the Lanzhou border army ruled by Jiang Zhenshou, the envoy of the Eight Great Town Guards. In training, he endured hardships and stood hard work, had the courage to fight, and was even more fearless in battle, and fought bravely to kill the enemy.

Soon he was appreciated by Shangfeng, and finally by chance he was recommended to the newly formed elite army guard, where he trained secretly for 3 years, and his horizontal kung fu was also boiled out here.

In the past three years, no matter how dangerous the war was, Jiang Zhenshou never used this force.

Like most of his comrades-in-arms, Lao Li Tou originally thought that Jiang Zhenshou spared no effort to train this group of elites, and he must want to shine at a critical moment, settle the battle in a decisive battle, and reverse the situation of passive defense, but he did not expect that this was a shocking conspiracy.

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The sun was scorching, the yellow sand was flying, and in the camp of the border army's rearguard, the soldiers did not train on the school field as usual, and three thousand people stood in formation, whispering from time to time.

On the other hand, there was a circle of soldiers in black plate armor standing around the school grounds, and they did not make any noise.

These black-armored soldiers are all standing with black spears in their right hands, the spear is one and a half inches long, the tip of the spear is one foot long, the silver tip of the spear is under the sun, braving bursts of cold light, the left hand holds a five-foot iron shield in front of him, a delicate short sword pinned to his waist, and the black feather on the helmet on a half-foot flutters in the wind, showing that it is extraordinary, and the whole team exudes a murderous aura all the time, which makes the guard in the center of the school field breathless.

"San Lang, have you heard any news, what is going on with these ironclad warriors?" At the very edge of the team, Li Saburo's deceased brother Wu Xiong, looked left and right, and pointed to those ironclad samurai, and asked Saburo.

"I haven't heard what the commanders said, who knows what the Xuanjiawei gang are doing, it's Jiang Zhenshou's own soldiers, all of them are killed in the sea of corpses and fires, the elite of the elite. Saburo wondered.

"It turns out that this is the famous Xuanjia Guard. But I heard from Lord Jun Hou in the morning that General Tianming might be coming to supervise the army in a while!" Wu Xiong said with envy on his face, the border army in Lanzhou was proud to join the Xuanjiawei, and he Wu Xiong was naturally no exception.