Li Hanhui is about 50 years old, he is the brother-in-law of the rebel general Zhou Guangzhi, and also his first confidant, when Zhou Guangzhi rebelled, he had followed Zhou Guangzhi to massacre thousands of civilians in Shaanxi, and later Zhou Guangzhi was exterminated by Guo Ziyi, Li Hanhui knew that he was guilty, so he fled south to Funiu Mountain with 100 personal soldiers, and fell into the grass on Fangcheng Mountain.

After six or seven years, his people gradually grew stronger.

Being a grass warrior for a lifetime is not a way, Li Hanhui began to consider surrendering a certain feudal town in the past two years, such as Jingxiang Liang Chongyi, Huaixi Domain Li Zhongchen, etc., especially Liang Chongyi, who has been peeping at Dengzhou for a long time, and took Dengzhou as a meeting gift.

But Li Hanhui was afraid that after he took Dengzhou, Liang Chongyi found an excuse to enter Dengzhou, and exchanged his head for his control of Dengzhou, which was absolutely possible, which made Li Hanhui suffer from gains and losses, and he couldn't make up his mind.

At the time of the two watches, Li Hanhui, who was asleep, was suddenly awakened by a shout, he got up and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

A personal guard outside hurriedly said: "It seems that there is a fire outside, and more than a dozen houses are on fire." ”

Li Hanhui was shocked, his cottage was most afraid of fire, the houses were too dense, and they were all wooden, and the mountain wind was very strong, and a piece would quickly form after a fire, so he was usually extra careful of fire, usually cooking in the cave, and he was not allowed to light the lamp, but he didn't expect it to go fire.

"These idiots!"

Li Hanhui scolded angrily, put on his robe and walked outside.

Outside, there was already a sea of fire, and a dozen houses in the east had burned up, and they had become one in a row, and under the raging mountain wind, they were rapidly spreading to the west.

The minions in the cottage were in a mess, some standing there shouting in despair, others scurrying around like headless flies.

"What are you doing standing in a daze, give me all the fire!" Lee Han-hye waved his arms and roared loudly.

Little did he know that in a dark corner fifty paces away, a cold arrow was aimed at him.

As soon as the string was loosened, a wolf's tooth arrow shot out like lightning, the power was extremely powerful, as if there was no difference in time and space, the bowstring bounced back, and the arrow had already reached Li Hanhui's eyes, and he didn't even have a chance to react.

'Poof! ’

The arrow entered his right temple, and in an instant it shot out of his left temple with flesh, and the arrow actually pierced his skull and flew into the darkness.

Li Hanhui fell down the steps and died tragically on the spot.

At the same time as this arrow was fired, Guo Song had already disappeared from the darkness, and he climbed the cliff at an extremely fast speed, and quickly climbed upward.

When the soldiers found out that the lord had died, Guo Song was already thirty feet away from the ground, hiding in a stone crevice, coldly looking at the fire below.

"The lord is dead!"

"Someone is shooting arrows in the shadows and catching the assassin!"

There were shouts, and dozens of people rushed towards the place where the arrows were fired, but nothing was found.

But the fire is getting bigger and bigger, half of the houses have been burned, and the whole cottage has become a sea of fire, and the minions have fled outside the village.

The gate of the village opened, and the minions rushed out, but they heard a bang, and the arrows were fired in unison, and the minions fell to the ground one after another.

When Liang Wu and his entourage were still 100 steps away from the cottage, they found that the fire in the cottage was blazing, and the flames were raging, and he immediately guessed that this was Guo Song's change of plan to burn the cottage.

Liang Wu made a quick decision, he also gave up the plan of sending salt to deceive the Zhaimen, and surrounded the Zhaimen with nearly a thousand soldiers, and once the enemy rushed out, he immediately shot and killed.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the fire engulfed the entire cottage, the flames were monstrous, the smoke was billowing out, and even Guo Song above could not bear the heat wave and left quickly.

More than 2,000 cottage minions crowded around the camp fence, they couldn't stand the fire and smoke, and there were officers and soldiers outside the gate to intercept, the minions overturned the camp fence one after another, climbed out, and fled into the mountains and forests........

By noon the next day, the fire was finally extinguished, the cottage had been burned to a white ground, and more than 1,500 minions were burned to death and killed, but seven or eight hundred people still fled.

The Tang army rested for a long time, then went down the mountain, embarked on the road to the north, two days later, Dengzhou assassin Shi Yu Hui took more than 1,000 state soldiers up the mountain, they found that the cottage burned into white ground, in the interrogation of the convection of the Kou, Yu Hui learned that Li Hanhui was dead, he was overjoyed, immediately reported to the imperial court, exterminated the bandit Li Hanhui, killed thousands of thieves, Li Hanhui burned the cottage in desperation and died of self-immolation.

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Not long after Guo Song left Chang'an, more than 20 people from the Xue family rented five carriages and left Chang'an to take office in Bashu Jianzhou.

The crown prince Li Shi was more thoughtful and sent ten soldiers to escort them south.

Xue Xun's position is good, Changshi is equivalent to the mayor of a prefecture-level city, a department-level cadre, and Jianzhou is close to Yizhou, located in the Chengdu Plain, with a large population, fertile land, abundant water, and pleasant climate.

Xue Xun did not have such good luck at first, and he repeatedly criticized Chang Gon for arbitrarily increasing or removing officials, thus offending Chang Gon.

Chang Gon originally wanted to demote him to Songzhou and stay in Songzhou, where the conditions were harsh, without any power and without enjoying the prosperity of Chengdu, but because the crown prince Li Shi was dissatisfied with Chang Gon's appointment, under his interference, the officials reappointed Xue Xun as the governor of Jian.

Xue Xun was very satisfied with this position, he was very bored in the East Palace, and he had long wanted to go to the place to do a career, and when he was forty years old, he finally got this opportunity.

Historically, Xue Xun was indeed demoted to Bashu because of offending the minister, and was deceived by the magistrate, and sent him to the southern Xinjiang with poor conditions, and died of illness in less than a year.

But because of the appearance of Guo Song, Xue Xun's fate was changed, and the fate of his wife and daughter also changed.

From Chang'an to Bashu mainly across two mountain ranges, one is Zhongnan Mountain, that is, Qinling, they take the Meridian Valley, up to 600 miles, this road is easier to walk in the Tang Dynasty, its other name is the Lychee Road, from Bashu to transport fresh lychees to Chang'an, won a smile from the concubine.

In fact, this road was repaired many times in the Sui Dynasty, and it was paved and smoothed in the Tang Dynasty, so that the messenger cavalry could run fast in the valley, and they could run out of the Meridian Valley in one day and one night, making it the main road from Chang'an to Hanzhong.

Xue Tao looked up at the cliffs hundreds of zhang high on both sides, and exclaimed, "How did this valley form? ”

Xue Tao's carriage is very long, one is divided into two, the front part is a carriage, and a very small carriage in the back is a bathroom, and the carriage for a long journey is like this, there are three people sitting in the carriage, in addition to Xue Tao and the maid Xiao'e, there is also the little fish girl sent by Guo Song to protect Xue Tao.

Xiao Yu Niang is actually very high in martial arts, sharp swordsmanship, excellent light skills, coupled with Guo Song taught her the skill of flying knives, making her a leader in the third generation of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion, if it weren't for Guo Song who came to ask Gongsun Auntie by mistake, she would enter the palace as a palace maid and personally protect the princess.

The guilt and haze in Xiao Yu Niang's heart have gradually faded, she is the same age as Xiao E, she has known each other in Luoyang, several Xiao Niang are together, chattering all day long, Xiao Yu Niang has regained the cheerfulness of Fengzhou.

"I think it was tens of thousands of years ago that a god split the Qinling Mountains with a big axe and an axe to form this valley road, otherwise how could the cliff be so straight?"

"Nonsense!"

Xiao'e retorted: "The immortals don't use axes at all, they use the fairy sword, and the sword immortals have such great power." ”

"How do you know that the immortals don't use axes, some immortals use swords, some immortals use axes, maybe they don't use weapons at all, the immortals read a fairy trick, and with a finger of their hands, this valley road appeared."

Xue Tao on the side rolled her eyes when she heard this, and she smiled and asked Kang Baodao, who was walking outside: "Uncle Kang, how did you say this valley road was formed?" ”

Kang Bao is a foot general, his body is too heavy, plus a hundred catties of cooked copper sticks, the average war horse can't carry him at all, he simply walks, his legs are long, the pace is big, he can completely keep up with the team, he mainly follows Xue Tao's carriage, just walk all the way, deaf to their conversation, and rarely speak.

When he saw his mother asking himself, he scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "I heard Guo Gongzi say that this kind of valley hundreds of miles long is generally cracked by earthquakes, and it existed when the mountain range was formed, and then after tens of thousands of years of river erosion, the two sides will be so smooth and flat. ”

Xue Tao's beautiful eyes lit up, this statement was very fresh, it was the first time she had heard of it, she hurriedly asked, "This is what your son-in-law said?" ”

"Yes! When we headed south from Toyoshu, he told us about the formation of the canyon. ”

"How does he know so much?"

Xue Tao muttered to herself, she held her cheeks, and was leisurely fascinated for a while.

Behind her, Xiaoyu Niang and Xiao'e stuck out their tongues, and they both covered their mouths and laughed secretly.

........

The team walked for more than 30 miles, and the sky gradually darkened, so Xue Xun ordered to stay overnight on the spot, the carriage was gathered together, the soldiers were stationed outside, and the family members and servants were sleeping in the carriage.

Five years ago, a war broke out between Guo Yingyi and Cui Yang in Bashu, resulting in the death of tens of thousands of people, and countless soldiers became rogue bandits, raging in various places, and bandits were rampant on official roads, openly extorting money.

Even Xue Xun's wife, Han, knew that Bashu was not in good order, in fact, in addition to Chang'an's abnormal prosperity, the people everywhere were very poor, and there were many robbers who robbed houses.

Not long after Xue Xun's convoy entered the Meridian Road, they were targeted by a group of more than 20 bandits.

In particular, Xue Xun had a lot of books, carrying dozens of boxes and two carts, and the bandits misunderstood that they were full of gold and silver treasures and silk and silk, which made them murderous.

Kang Bao sat on the wheels of Xue Tao's carriage, his eyes half-squinted, and he felt a sense of foreboding.