October.

Although the sun is trying to reproduce the magnificence of summer, it is already out of its reach, and even in how it stretches, the temperature is inexorably lowered.

Liao Hua walked among the wriggling crowd with a wooden stick, surrounded by refugees from the Jingyu area, some from Runan and some from Jingbei, people subconsciously moved forward like a machine, wooden, dazed, fearful, and anxious emotions mixed together, mixed with the men's roars that sounded from time to time, the screams of women, and the intermittent cries of children, lingering in the ears, intertwined with exhaustion and hunger, like a blunted needle, piercing Liao Hua's head buzzing and faintly painful.

Liao Hua's current appearance is not much different from these refugees.

Originally, Jingxiang and Yuzhou have always been the land of fish and rice, with Daze, mountains, farmland, mulberry forests, fishing, pasture, farming, and weaving, as long as they are not born lazy, they can live here, but since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, all this has changed.

Yellow Turban Rebellion, hehe.

"The world is in chaos, the city is in ruins, the mother does not protect the son, the wife loses her husband, and the emperor is restored to live in peace."

As soon as he thought of this, Liao Hua wanted to laugh.

Huangfu Song killed Zhang Liang, killed 30,000 Yellow Turbans in the battle array, 50,000 Yellow Turbans threw themselves into the river, and then defeated Zhang Bao, killing nearly 100,000 prisoners......

Are all of these numbers real yellow scarves?

If they are not all yellow scarves, why is Huangfu Song so peaceful, and there are still songs and rumors?

Liao Hua was wrapped in a yellow scarf when he was young, so he knew that the yellow scarf should actually be said to be more of a homeless person, more than half of them were old and weak, and they were ordinary people who were wrapped up in the war zone.

Do these people deserve to die? Isn't it ridiculous that the people of the Han Dynasty did not die at the hands of the rioting yellow turbans, but at the hands of the army of the government and the imperial court?

There was a sudden commotion in the crowd, and some noisy voices came: "There is a whistle ahead!" There's a whistle ahead! Catch the people! Catch the people! ”

With a "coax", the wandering crowd became even more chaotic.

The sound of the gong sounded, and the shouting voice of the soldiers at the checkpoint came: "General Pingdong recruits troops!" General Pingdong recruits troops! If you are willing to work hard, you will have to eat! You have to eat! Chunks of steamed cakes! Chunks of steamed cakes! If you are willing to work hard, you will have to eat! ”

"Bang Bang! Steamed cakes! If you are willing to work hard, you will have to eat! Folks! Guo Tingshi was defeated, and now General Pingdong is in charge! Where can you flee when you are uprooted? Where is it not the same? It may not be good to have a hometown! General Pingdong is merciful, recruits soldiers, as long as he is willing to work hard, he will have food, and if he goes into battle to kill the enemy and take the head, there will be a reward......"

"Come on! Come! Great steamed cakes! Made of fine wheat noodles! See, all of them are yellow! It's yellow, not black! See clearly! Fragrant! One for each person who came to sign up for the army! ”

The crowd stopped.

The temptation of steamed cakes is magnified to the extreme under hunger.

After hesitating for a moment, some people took the initiative to walk towards the checkpoint, and some people who dragged their families also wanted to go, but they were dragged by the wives and old men at home, and they hugged each other and cried after arguing......

When you join the army, you are selling your life, and the price of selling your life is a piece of steamed cake.

Of course, although it is difficult to say whether you will be able to eat enough after entering the war, it is not surprising that people are desperate and sell themselves into it, and when they go to war, they will find an opportunity to run away.

And most people still watched cautiously. Generally speaking, displacement will cause mutiny, which will cause instability in law and order, but this is not necessarily the case. Most of these people are peasant households who have been in peace and security all their lives. Since they were young, they have never been out of the one-acre and three-point land near the village and county, and after fleeing their hometown to escape the military disaster, most of them are afraid and frightened. People are afraid of unfamiliar places, and they are afraid of unfamiliar futures, and in fact, not many people know what the future holds.

One night, the soldiers who came to arrest the people stormed the crowd, and Liao Hua escaped in a dark corner. These wolf-like soldiers killed hundreds of civilians, captured many young people, looted property, killed those they saw, raped the women of the refugees, and then escorted the captured young men away......

The scattered crowd slowly regrouped after dawn and continued to move forward in a daze.

As for when it will be a head, most people don't have an answer in their minds.

There are really old people who have seen the world a little, and they will only say the same sentence over and over again: "When we get to the north, the court will settle me and wait...... Yes...... Yes, it would......"

Liao Hua looked at the busy checkpoint coldly, shook his head, and continued to move forward. Maybe it's because Heluo is approaching, and he takes some care of face, maybe General Pingdong wants to save some reputation, or maybe he doesn't want the recruited soldiers to have too many rebellious emotions, anyway, no matter what the reason is, this time, Cao Cao's soldiers didn't come up to arrest people, but adopted a lure method, which was somewhat gentle.

This is naturally a good practice.

Some people stayed, and most of them still walked forward, after all, General Pingdong only recruited young people, not all cats and dogs.

In the left front of Liao Hua, there is a young mother holding her child, staggering along, vigilant and apprehensive looking at everything around her. The mother, with a scorched face and disheveled hair, hugged the child tightly to her chest. The child also seems to be quiet, completely different from the other children around who are crying and asking for something to eat.

Liao Hua sighed slightly.

The kid was dead......

It's been two days since I died.

The reason why the mother hugged her to death, in addition to perhaps because she was emotionally unacceptable, there was another reason, along the way, the dead children were boiled and eaten.

And some young people. Maybe not completely dead, but the hungry couldn't wait, and even cut off the flesh from their thighs alive and threw it into the pot.

The old man who died was lucky enough to keep a whole corpse, because there was no one to eat it, not only did it have no meat, but it was also shriveled. The old man who fell on the side of the road was breathless, and most of his relatives kneeling beside the corpse looked desperate and dazed, and then staggered to his feet, following the flow of people, not even shedding a single tear.

Man, at this moment, is not much different from a beast.

In such a situation, all the great principles of heaven and earth have lost their effectiveness, and there is no hope for the future, and the only thing left is the road in front of us, accompanied by hunger in the belly, and fear and death.

The chaotic procession stretches out, you can't see the beginning and the end, and you can't go to the edge, compared with the land of the Han Dynasty in the previous years, it seems to be two worlds. Liao Hua sometimes raised his head in the team, thinking about the past few years, everything he had seen, and sometimes when he looked at the fleeing people, he seemed to feel that in fact, there was no special change, it was still the same world, the same people.

North, I heard that there is no war in the north? I heard that there is a new Tian Masai in the north? I heard that under the rule of General Zhengxi, the yield per mu has five stones? Heard......

Where will a new world be, perhaps?

Liao Hua didn't know, but he wanted to take a look......

………………………………

Luoyang City.

The cold wind in late autumn is like a knife, cutting off all the yellow leaves on the trees.

Wei Xu hesitated, standing outside Lu Bu's mansion, not knowing whether he should go in or turn around and leave.

The Yang clan seems to have stepped up its attack on Luoyang after the autumn, and is constantly expanding and consolidating the occupied area, and most of the officials in Luoyang City have followed Liu Xie, and the surrounding counties and towns are between Lu Bu and Yang Biao, so it is naturally more and more trusting of Yang Biao, so during this period of time, it is becoming more and more difficult to deal with Yang Biao's offensive.

After Yang Biao captured Gucheng, perhaps because the weather was close to winter, it was inconvenient to continue the march, or the supply of grain and grass could not keep up, anyway, he postponed the march to the east, and Lu Bu was unable to counterattack here, so he was once again deadlocked.

And almost anyone with a discerning eye can see that Lu Bu is already at the end of his crossbow.

Although when Yang Biao's army consolidated the defense of Gucheng, Lü Bu also led the team to have several encounters with Yang Biao's army in the field, and all of them were victorious, but Lü Bu did not dare to pursue deeply in the face of the Yang army, which was still orderly under the retreat, and in defense, Lü Bu's army exposed more and more loopholes, and finally had to defend completely with Luoyang as the center, losing most of the strategic depth.

Wei Xu had a feeling that Yang Biao didn't want to lose too much, but he didn't want to lose too much, so he didn't move and waited for the opportunity.

At the beginning, Lu Bu also inspected the surrounding area every day, inspected the city defense, and even led a team of soldiers and horses out to strangle Yang Biao's scouts or something, but as time went by, Lu Bu slowly reduced the frequency of inspections, once every two days, three days, five days, and now, ten days have passed, and Wei Xu has not seen Lu Bu climb the city wall.

Wei Xu had an idea, he consulted with Gao Shun, but Gao Shun was just a stone, smelly and hard, stuffy, and couldn't let out any fart.

Song Xian, Hou Cheng?

These two boys were originally sent by Wang Yun at that time, and now although Wang Yun has died and the two of them have lost their heels, they are not trustworthy characters.

Looking for Chen Gong?

Wei Xu didn't believe in Chen Gong either, and Wei Xu knew that Lu Bu didn't trust Chen Gong either, at least since that night.

"General Wei......" The guards in front of Lu Bu's mansion couldn't help but watch Wei Xu go back and forth, and asked, "Are you going to enter or not?" ”

"......" Wei Xu stomped his foot, "Come in!" Annoyance is all over the place. ”

But when Wei Xu really saw Lu Bu, Wei Xu regretted it a little. Wei Xu didn't expect that the decadent man in front of him was the once high-spirited Wen Hou, full of alcohol, deep-set eyes, with a disheveled hair and wrinkled clothes, just like a beggar?

Beggars can't afford to drink, but Lu Bu can afford to drink?

"This ...... Junhou, how did Junhou look like this!? Wei Xu took a step forward and bowed down in front of Lu Bu, "Prince, you can't drink anymore......"

Lu Bu frowned slightly, as if he was disgusted by the light brought by Wei Xu, and turned his head away. "What's the matter? The Yang family is coming? ”

"Uh...... Haven't ...... yet" Wei Xu was stunned for a moment and subconsciously replied.

"Since you haven't ......attacked," Lu Bu waved his hand, "then sit down and drink two cups......"

"This ......"

Before Wei Xu could turn his brain, a wine bowl was stuffed in his hand, and then Lu Bu lightly hooked a huge wine jar with one hand, and accurately poured eight points of wine into the bowl.

"Come on! Drink! ”

Lu Bu poured a bowl by himself, grunted, and dried.

Wei Xu looked down at the wine bowl, was silent for a while, and then also picked it up, and drank it with a lur. Maybe it was the stimulation of the spicy wine, or maybe the current situation was really imminent, Wei Xu finished drinking, put the wine bowl down, and plucked up the courage to say: "Junhou...... But the prince wants to die here? ”

Lu Bu's hand pouring wine paused, and then smashed the wine bowl towards Wei Xu, shouting: "What a gut! How dare you speak falsely! Is it not good to bully a knife? ”

The wine bowl slammed into Wei Xu's head, smashing his forehead, and the wine mixed with blood rolled down.

Lu Buteng stood up suddenly, angry and arrogant, like a lion, waiting to be devoured.

Wei Xu didn't care about rubbing the test, bowed his head and bowed: "If you offend the prince, your subordinates will die!" If the prince wants to die, he should chase after him! Death doesn't spin! Can...... But what will the prince's family be like! ”

The muscles on Lu Bu's face throbbed, glaring at Wei Xu, and after half a sound, he slowly sat down again, exhaled, and beckoned out: "Get some water!" Wipe General Wei's face...... I'll also make a pot for so-and-so, and it's hotter......"

The attendant soon brought water. Wei Xu thanked Lu Bu, and then wiped the wine stains and blood on his face, the wound was actually not big, it was just a broken skin, and it was quickly stopped, which was nothing at all for Wei Xu, who had been licking blood for a long time.

Lu Bu covered the steaming face towel on his face, let the white smoke rise, and only after the heat dissipated did he rub it a few times, rubbing it so that his skin was a little red, and then threw the face towel casually, and after signaling the attendants to retreat, he said to Wei Xu: "Say, say what you think, listen to ......it."

"Here in Luoyang, it's already a lonely ......city," Wei Xu lowered his head and said, "Now that I am waiting for the hub, it is not the loss of the prince and the prince, it is all the fault of Chen Gongtai!" The Prince......"

"Stop!" Lu Bu suddenly shouted in a deep voice, "Who the hell taught you that?" ”

Wei Xu was stuck, and raised his head to look at Lu Bu.

"You can't even recognize half a basket of big characters, and you still learn from others?" Lu Bu said dissatisfiedly, "I asked who taught you to say that?" ”

“…… Yes, it's Zhou Zifeng......" Wei Xu lowered his head and said in a low voice.

"Zhou Zifeng?" Lu Bu frowned and groaned, "Call Zhou Zifeng to come...... I didn't ask you to go, you sat honestly for me! ”