There are people who live in a peaceful world and are completely unaware of the horrors caused by wars and the like. Some people still wish for war. They thought that if war came, they would have a chance to become heroes or achieve their coveted political aspirations. But if war comes, it will be death, mutilation, and loss of one's homeland, hunger, disease, and more shameless meanness, and endless fear, anxiety, and the promise of an end-of-the-world hell. Yancheng County, as the eye of the storm of the red-clothed people's rebellion, the tragic scene is self-evident.

The end of October is about to enter November. A bitter cold wind was blowing. Zhao Rong couldn't help but wrap the cotton robe on his body. I saw a group of ragged and unkempt people, one after another, with no head in sight in front and no tail in sight. Some are pushing carts, some are carrying baskets, and some are carrying burdens. A middle-aged woman, holding a child in her arms and pulling one behind her, saw her eyes blank and her eyes glazed over.

Zhao Rong grabbed an old man and asked, "Old man, where are you going?" How's Yancheng doing? ”

The old man shook his head, "Young man, run away, Yancheng is already a hell on earth." Run. ”

Zhao Rong asked again, "Has Yancheng been broken?" How is Tao Taishou? ”

The old man seemed to be stupid and kept shaking his head, "Run, run." There is no hope. ”

A middle-aged man said, "Run, young man, the East China Sea is over, the wheat harvest is out of drought in summer, the locust plague in autumn is out of harvest, and finally in winter, there is a disturbance of bandits." This Lord Tao is a good official, and he finally tried his best to protect the county seat, and the dog, the mother-raised Jia Junwei, came back and lied that he had brought reinforcements. As a result, alas, Tao Taishou died miserably, and his head hung on the city tower. Jia Gouguan also wantonly killed non-cardinal people in the city. Now Yancheng County is bleeding like a river. It's just, it's just, alas, let's go. ”

Captain Jia surrendered to the Cardinals, no, to be precise, they turned out to be a gang. Zhao Rong already knew about it a few days ago, but it was unexpected for him to kill Tao Taishou.

I don't know what happened to the people of the Zhou family, as well as Liu Jingsheng, Zheng Huaien, and the little maid Shengyu. Thinking of this, Zhao Rong was anxious. I couldn't help but speed up my pace.

Walking by a lake, the small lake was glowing red, and after a closer look, Zhao Rong was stunned by the scene in front of him, the blood lake. The lake was densely packed with the bodies of several people, and the blood had already stained the lake red. Under the immersion of the lake, the corpse had risen and could not see its original face clearly. A two- or three-year-old child lay on his stomach at the water's edge and stopped breathing forever.

This scene deeply stimulated Zhao Rong.

It turned out that a few of his classmates were talking in the dormitory, and it would be nice if there was a war. I can be a general, show my political baggage, and think of the sentence at the poetry meeting that year, "Why don't men take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures." "Thinking of my dream of revenge on the battlefield is diametrically opposed to the scene in front of me.

No, this is not the war I want, this is not the happy revenge I want to think of, and the killing is decisive. If I had chosen, I would never want war to break out again.

How Zhao Rong wished that he would become very strong at this moment to protect these people.

He sat by the lake, where he was in a daze, and he didn't know how long it was, until the sun slowly went down. He got up and walked in the direction of the county seat.

The scene on the side of the road became more and more tragic, and the more I walked, the more Zhao Rong was determined to eradicate the Cardinal Sect.

I don't know how long he walked, but when he walked past a small village, suddenly a dark shadow came out, "What person?" Don't go any further. ”

Zhao Rong fixed his eyes and said, "Tian Qilang? ”

The black shadow was stunned when he heard the voice, and then looked at Zhao Rong and hugged him, "Great, you're still alive, great." Daddy Zheng, come on, Childe is back, Childe is back." He shouted all the way and ran all the way to the village.

I saw Zheng Huaien, Liu Jingsheng, the little girl Shengyu, as well as Zhou Boren, Zhou Hongyu, and a lot of people who didn't know each other. It's all out.

Zheng Huaien burst into tears, and knelt on the ground, "Your Highness, Your Highness, you are finally back, the old slave still thinks, the old slave still thinks you." Woo woo woo woo "After saying that, I cried with a child.

Zhao Rong helped him up, "Gonggong Zheng, I'm fine, don't you see that I'm fine." ”

Liu Jingsheng also ran over and hugged him, "Fuck, I knew you couldn't die, haha." I knew it. Zhao Rong also laughed, "Fuck, I can't die if you die." ”

Zhou Boren and Zhou Hongyu also knelt down when they saw this, and Zhao Rong hurriedly helped him, "Brother Zhou, what are you doing here." Hurry up, hurry up. ”

Zhou Boren shook his head, "Grass people Zhou Boren, I don't know the identity of His Royal Highness Taisun, and I still call you a brother, please forgive your sins." ”

"Brother Zhou, my good big brother, we are equals, we have friendship, trust, and not the identity of Raushzi. To hell with identity or anything. What will happen in the future? ”

Zhou Boren shook his head, "Don't dare, don't dare,"

Zhao Rong was anxious, "Why don't you dare, you look down on my brother." Zhou Boren said, "How is it possible, I just see that you are talented and resourceful, so I am willing to have a heart-to-heart with you." ”

"In that case, you will still call me brother in the future, and I will still call you big brother."

Zhou Boren nodded, "Okay." Good". After speaking, he wiped his tears with his sleeve. Zhao Rong saw that Zhou Hongyu also knelt on the ground to look at them, the elder brother was long, and the younger brother was short and blamed each other for a long time and ignored himself. Sulking there.

also went to pull him with his hand, "Big niece, get up, you will be a relative of the emperor in the future." Hahaha"

Zhou Hongyu glanced at him, "Hmph." Who is rare? The crowd laughed.

Several people hugged Zhao Rong and walked towards the village. I entered a fairly spacious house.

Everyone greeted each other with greetings. Asked how Zhao Rong was doing with the rescue soldiers. Zhao Rong shook his head, walked for several days, and was drugged by Lieutenant Jia and pulled back in a carriage, which was considered to be in vain these days. Then he told the complicated life story of Zhuang Liulu to everyone, and everyone sighed, pitied, and angry. And so on. It seems that the king of Huainan raised his troops to go north, and this road seems to be impossible.

Zhao Rong asked how the situation was on Yancheng's side. Everyone shook their heads, Jia Junwei colluded with the Red Cloth Sect to break Yancheng County, and Tao Taishou's father and son were martyred. It seems that everyone is going to flee in the future.

At this time, Zheng Huaien stood up and said, "The black-clothed guards, the scouts sent out said that five days ago, the captains of Xiangben, Xuanxian, Quxian, Xiapi, and these counties led their troops to Lanling to quell the rebellion. The governors of Xuxian, Xuyi, Dongyang, Guangling, and Tangyi counties have already begun to move towards Huaiyin. Although the number of troops was small, they tried to fight, and for a while, the civil unrest could not expand. It's always good, just don't know how it's now. ”

Zhao Rong nodded, and then said, "We still have to ask for help from Langya, Xuzhou, and Jiaoxi around us, and then I will repair a letter to the palace and ask the imperial grandfather to transfer soldiers from other places." ”

I only hope that the war can be ended as soon as possible so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

Everyone analyzed the situation, it is not good, if Lanling and Huaiyin are defeated, the counties of Donghai County are empty, and the Cardinal Sect takes advantage of the situation, then the small farce of the people's rebellion will become a big wave of rebellion. If the landlord armies take the opportunity to join, then it will really be impossible to clean up.

The more I think about it, the more clueless I get. Let's wait until tomorrow. This night, Zhao Rong slept very unsteadily, with nightmares one after another, one moment the Cardinal Sect entered the village, and the people around him died in order to protect him, and then he dreamed that the two or three-year-old child by the lake was wailing. After a while, I dreamed that Tao Taishou stared at his eyes and asked, where are the reinforcements you went to find? All in all, it's not good.

In the morning he woke up early, and this sleep was exhausted. Maybe it's because I'm tired from walking too much yesterday, or maybe I'm confused about the future.

When he finished eating, someone came in in a hurry, and Zhao Rong thought silently in his heart, "God, bless the East China Sea." "However, reality always defeats ideals. Lanling, Huaiyin two road armies failed. Three of the nine lieutenants were killed, two were seriously wounded, and four were missing. Things are finally going like a wild horse getting out of their rut and moving in an uncontrollable direction.

At noon, news came again, but the news that came made Zhao Rong a little crying and laughing.

Sun Yuji, who laid down Yancheng County, became the emperor. The year name is Min'an. It's a great irony that this era name has anything to do with him.

and divided the kings. Luo Jiukun, the helmsman of the Cardinal Sect who was far away in Lanling, was named the king of Lanling, and the helmsman Wang Erji was named the king of Huaiyang. There are also no Xiangben, Zhangxian, Qu County, Xiapi, Xuyi, Dongyang, Guangling, Tangyi have all been crowned kings, this is not counting, even the surrounding counties have also been crowned kings. Known as the "Eighteen Roads Anti-King" of the Cardinal Sect. "For a moment, the world shook. The landlords, armed and cardinal, who did not participate, were ready to move. So far, the civil unrest in Donghai County was originally a node, but now it has been upgraded to a full-scale one.

Blessing and misfortune are not alone, and Zhao Rong and the others, who got these two news, were at a loss. Someone came to report that a Taoist priest had come to the door.

Zhao Rong said, "People can't run and jog tightly, so he sent it to the door." Let him in. ”

After a while, I saw a young man, dressed in a Taoist robe and holding a compass in his hand, and he went into the house, looking left and right. How does Zhao Rong look at him, how familiar he is. But he couldn't remember, the Taoist priest took out a handful of black pills and gave it to Zhao Rong, "Your Highness, take it to play with a slingshot." After speaking, he squeezed his eyebrows at Zhao Rong.

Zhao Rong suddenly opened his mouth and patted the little Taoist priest on the shoulder, "I'll go, Ge Hong." Haha, you didn't accompany your master on the mountain, why did you come here? ”

Ge Hong pretended to be pretending. shook his head and said, "Xiaodao, pinch your fingers and know that you are in great trouble." We're here to help. ”

Zhao Rong said, "You still pinch your fingers, we have been playing since we were children, you will steal your master's pills and eat them, why did you take the wrong medicine?" Kicked down the mountain? Tell me what good things you brought with me besides the pills. ”

Ge Hong shook his head and said, "The parents of the one who gave birth to me, and Zhao Rong, the one who knows me, can't hide anything from you, okay, show you my baby." ”

After speaking, he took out a small box from his arms, and the box was wrapped in cloth, and the cloth was unraveled layer after layer, and finally inside was a piece of paper. When I opened the paper, I saw that it was black inside.

Zhao Rong asked, "What is this?" ”

Ge Hong shook his head, "I don't know, this is my alchemy." ”

Zhao Rong asked puzzledly, "What's the use of your alchemy to practice such a thing?" ”

Ge Hong said, "Listen to me, that day, while the master was away, I secretly made my own alchemy, added hoarfrost (nitrate) from the toilet, added some plant ash (charcoal), and added some sulfur to the stove. Then ......,"

Zhao Rong suddenly became a curious baby, and then asked, "Then what's wrong?" ”

Ge Hong continued, "Then I didn't know anything, and when I woke up, the roof of the alchemy room was gone, the furnace was blown up, and Master's precious bottles and jars were all blown up by me. That's why Master kicked me out. I had nowhere to go, so I had to go to Langya to join you, but when you came to the East China Sea, I followed, and then I found the scouts of the Black Guards, so I secretly followed. ”

Zhao Rong slapped him, "Okay, it's amazing, this thing can blow up the roof, if it blows up the rebels, hehe." ”