The morning sun had just risen, and in the wilderness, a dilapidated carriage was slowly moving. Pulling the cart were two thin yellow horses, with their heads pulled weakly, moving along the rugged road, just like the old man driving the car, thin and old.

"Grandpa, where are we?" A boy of seven or eight years of age, with a dark face and sweat stains, peeked out of the carriage and stared at the old man with bright eyes.

"It's almost there, and after crossing two mountains is the range of Zhendong County. Wherever we go, we will be able to rebuild our homes and live in peace. The old man looked back and looked at him with pity.

"When are Daddy and Mother coming?" The boy tilted his head to look at the hill in the distance and asked in an expectant tone.

The old man was stunned when he heard this, and said bitterly: "They are doing a very great, very important thing. It will be a long, long time before I can come to see you. Little Tonghu, you have to work hard to cultivate. When you become transcendent one day, you can go to them. ”

Tong Hu nodded solemnly and said, "I'll go to exercise." He got into the carriage, and in a moment there came a hard but firm voice from the carriage: "One, two, three, eighty, ninety, one hundred, two hundred......

The old man saw that the little boy was practicing strength in the carriage. He saw that the boy's young body was already trembling, but he was still holding on, and he couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart: "Little Tonghu, your father and mother can't come back." I don't have much time, you have to work hard to cultivate before I die, and then enter the army or the cultivation sect, only in this way can you leave a bloodline for the three-hundred-year-old Tong family. Only by working hard can you avenge the Tong family. ”

Thinking of these, the old man couldn't help but hate in his heart: "The Liang Dynasty, the border army, and the local gangs are all murderers who killed the Tong family. Someday you will be punished. The old man felt some wetness in the corners of his eyes, and he looked up into the distance, not letting the tears remain.

"Huh." Suddenly, the old man saw a blurry black shadow appear on the horizon in the distance. He stood up and looked over with his eyes wide open, and immediately found the appearance of a black shadow, which was clearly a group of cavalry with no end in sight. The cavalry ran like the wind, and it was still a vague black shadow just now, but in a dozen breaths it climbed over a small hill and ran towards him.

"Tong Hu, stay in the carriage and don't come out, sit tight." Thinking of the chaos in Dingzhou in the past few months, human lives are like grass, and seeing this group of knights running over again, the old man suddenly exclaimed, and with a whip, he whipped to the yellow horse pulling the cart. The yellow horse was whipped and ran away. Under the control of the old man, he did not advance, but walked sideways, trying to avoid the cavalry.

"Stride, stomp." The thunderous footsteps of the cavalry were getting closer and closer, and the old man was anxious, but the thin yellow horse could only run for more than ten breaths.

"Huh."

"Smack."

A sharp arrow slammed into the wagon, barely rooted.

"Stop, or you will be killed." A shout came from behind him, and in an instant, a dozen or so knights had already surrounded the carriage, swords and bows unsheathed, and pointed at the old man and the carriage steadily. At such a close distance, the carriage would not have the slightest defense, and no matter how many people were inside, they would be shot into hedgehogs.

"Don't, the military master will be merciful." The old man was so frightened that he didn't even care about his horse, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the knight. In fact, he didn't have to worry about it, the two yellow horses were already trembling, and they didn't have the slightest courage to move.

"What are you running?" A cavalryman condescendingly drank, he rode on a dragon horse twice as tall as the yellow horse, looked at the old man with vigilance, did not relax at all because he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and held a man-long saber in his hand steadily, as long as the old man dared to make the slightest move, he immediately added a sword and died on the spot.

"Master Mingjian, I just took my grandson to Zhendong County to seek peace, not a person who made trouble. When I saw the soldiers coming, I ran to the side knowing that I was in the way, and I didn't mean anything else. The old man cowered and kowtowed.

"Grandpa." The little boy tiger peeks out of the carriage. Even when he saw the child, the knight did not put away his saber, he waved his hand and drank: "Be careful and search." ”

"No." Several horsemen turned over and dismounted, swords in hand, and leaped into the carriage.

The search was soon over, and a soldier came out and reported, "Captain, everything is normal. There were no weapons, only silver stamps and shoddy food and clothing. It should be someone who has fled. ”

The leading knight nodded, and then everyone collected their weapons. He turned over and dismounted and gave a military salute to the old man, then helped him up and said, "Disturbed, we are from Zhendong County and are heading to Yangon City." Along the way, we met many people who had fled, and from their mouths, we also knew the current situation in Pingdong County, and the chaotic place had to be guarded, so please understand the old man and the little brother. ”

The old man was so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything. The knight patted the dust on the old man's body and asked kindly, "Where does the old man come from?" ”

"We're from Yangon." Without waiting for the old man to answer, Xiao Tonghu preemptively said.

"Oh?" The knight glanced at him, then at the old man, and said, "We are just about to know the situation in Yangon City, please move the old man, our general may have some questions for you." ”

"A question is ten taels of silver, and I know everything." Seeing the knight's amiable attitude, the little boy did not have the slightest fear. He knew that it was not easy for his grandfather, so he asked for money.

"No, don't talk nonsense." The old man hurriedly stopped and covered Tong Hu's mouth.

The knight glanced at Tong Hu and said with admiration: "I like brave people, the little guy is good, he can join the army when he grows up, this is a gathering place for the brave." ”

He didn't care, took out a silver ticket from the backpack hanging on the Dilong horse, and said, "Speaking of which, my ancestors were also from Dingzhou hundreds of years ago. The old man doesn't have to be polite, this thousand taels should be my funding, and I will train the little guy well. ”

The old man shirked but had no choice but to accept the silver ticket, and then the knight escorted the carriage around and walked back with Tong Hu and the old man. A few hundred meters away there is a small mound no more than 30 meters high. Beneath the mound was surrounded by hundreds of knights, all of whom were burly and athletic, and rode tall earth horses. At the top of the mound is a group of imposing generals, surrounded by a majestic general wearing coiled dragon armor, who is none other than Yu Canghai.

"We're in Pingdong County, which is already part of Yangon City. This mound at your foot is the dividing line. Ma Yuan reported.

Yu Canghai nodded, he raised his eyes and saw that the vegetation was abundant and dusty, so he said: "The road under this foot was originally the main road connecting the two counties, but now it is dense with vegetation, this is a desolate scene, and there are not too many pedestrians passing by. It was infuriating that the Battle of Dingzhou had become like this in just a few months. “

Yu Taiping was also angry, and said coldly: "According to those refugees, the land of the two counties killed and injured millions of people in the war, and the Liang army killed people when they saw it, and there were no less than thirty cities slaughtered. The Liang army retreated, the place was eroded, and many people were persecuted by the local people, gangs, cults, Liang Dynasty spies, and local tyrants who robbed by fire were all murderers. Countless families have perished, abandoning everything to migrate for peace. The people of my Yu Dynasty are living so badly, and I don't know it. If I catch those people, I will be punished with death. ”

Xiao Wu came over and reported, "General, there are two people from Yangon City passing by, do you want to ask?" ”

Yu Canghai nodded: "Please come up and ask." ”

Tong Hu followed the old man up the hill step by step, and when he saw a group of well-dressed and majestic sergeants staring at him, not only was he not afraid, but he held his head high. Because his family once told him that the army was their patron saint. So he looked at these sergeants with admiration and novelty.

Suddenly, Tong Hu saw that in the middle of this group of sergeants, there was a general who was like a dragon and a tiger, and he stood there motionless, like a mountain. He looked at himself with a heroic face and a majestic face. He was dressed in deep, dark, domineering, and majestic armor, and the big cloak behind him fluttered in the wind, and he pressed the long sword in his hand, and his heroic spirit soared into the sky.

Tong Hu blurted out: "Husband, it should be like this." ”