Chen Hongyi took 30,000 horses to the east, the goal was directly aimed at Xiangguo, and along the way he was constantly attacked and harassed by the Black Flag Khanate rangers, Chen Hongyi had to sigh that the Fire Dragon Clan made rapid progress, knowing that they could not defeat the Liang army head-on, so they turned into zero attacks and disturbed the Liang army.

Along the way, Chen Hongyi took Pharmacist Zhu with him to inquire about the situation of Qin Jun and Yan Zhao and other cities. Zhu Yaoshi fled to many places since he was a child, and was later taken in by Hu Jian, and now he has become a centurion at the age of twenty-four.

Zhu Yaoshi was also frank and said bluntly: "In fact, the people in the land of Yan and Zhao do not welcome the Liang army, nor do they welcome the people of the Black Flag Khanate, and there are several forces in the Qin army. Most of the Qin army led by Hu Jian was composed of untouchables in the Yanzhao region, so they were closer to Hu Jian. And the Qin army under the command of the big families in the Guanzhong region is the most unpopular"

Chen Hongyi called all the way from Luoyang, and all he saw was the people eating pot pulp to welcome Wang Shi, or the first time he heard someone say that they were not welcome, his face was a little solemn, but Chen Hongyi knew that what Zhu Yaoshi said was the truth, so he continued: "It's just that the locals are more emotional, and when the time comes, the world will be unified, or you locals will manage the counties, so naturally there will be less resistance."

Pharmacist Zhu wanted to speak and stopped, Chen Hongyi stretched out his hand: "You and I can speak freely today, I really want to hear the truth"

Zhu Yaoshi clasped his fists and saluted: "Before I speak, I also ask General Chen not to blame, General Chen is a family, and King Han is a prince, so naturally we untouchables think differently."

Chen Hongyi and Liu Jian both glanced at Zhu Yaoshi and motioned for him to just continue, and Zhu Yaoshi began to speak: "General Hu Jian is an enemy in your eyes, although you respect him very much, it is just a sympathy for the opponent. And the untouchables of our land of Yanzhao regard General Hu Jian as a savior. Since General Hu held the military power of the Qin State, the family clan in the land of Yan and Zhao has no good life, and we will inevitably rob the people if we follow General Hu, but more often than not, we are killing the rich and helping the poor, saving the untouchables from the prison of the family and exempting the untouchables from their debts that can never be repaid, so even if we are hard, we are willing to follow General Hu."

Chen Hongyi thought of something, and said in disbelief: "In this case, under Liyang City, why did you cut down the people who escaped from the city, but let the people help us?" ”

"Liyang City has convenient transportation by land and water, and most of the people in the city are rich businessmen, and when you were in Liyang City that day, I am afraid that you want to get rich again, so you have the move to kill the people out of the city" Liu Jian took over and wanted to give Pharmacist Zhu a round.

Pharmacist Zhu became serious: "Those who can still carry a few carts of things out of the city after more than ten days of siege must not be untouchables, so we will start."

Chen Hongyi sighed again and again: "Grass Kan people's lives, grass Kan people's lives." Pharmacist, do you know that the word pharmacist in your name means that you hope that you will have the loving heart of a healer, and save people from high to low. Forget about the past, in the future, in our army, no matter whether the people we are facing are untouchables, rich families, or even foreigners, we cannot kill them at will. All beings in the world are equal, and life is precious, how can they kill at will? ”

Pharmacist Zhu nodded: "The general's teachings, I must follow them below, if the masters of the family we met before could have half of General Chen's bearing and knowledge, we would not have fallen to this point." The Qin State was also torn apart because of the discord between the great clans and the untouchable Heavenly King generals."

Chen Hongyi encouraged Pharmacist Zhu a few words, and when he thought of the things in Jiangnan, he couldn't help but worry in his heart. Liu Jian looked at the road in front of him and became excited: "Master, you are almost in Xiangguo, in front of you is the remaining veins of Taihang Mountain, take Xiangguo, and then recover the surrounding counties, you can go north to Fanyang"

Chen Hongyi signaled the army to stop, everyone was puzzled, Chen Hongyi pointed to the foot of the mountain: "There must be a deep valley here, there must be an ambush on both sides of the deep valley, the army will camp first, and it will not be too late to attack the city after it is clear."

30,000 horses camped on the plain, in order to prevent the enemy from sneak attack, Chen Hongyi led people to dig many trenches and deep pits around, one is to block the cavalry of the Black Flag Khanate, and the other is to store water and dispose of sundries.

At this time, it was the eighth day of the first month of the tenth year of the Xianchu Dynasty, after the army camped, there was a strong wind, Chen Hongyi knew that it was not good, if it snowed heavily, the 30,000 horses would only retreat. Sure enough, a day later, on the tenth day of the first month, it snowed heavily, the sky and the earth were white, and the city of Xiangguo was covered with ice and snow, and the defenders did not see a single one.

Most of the Liang army were southerners, and they had not seen the knee-deep snow, and there was not much firewood left in the army. Liu Jiandu went to Chen Hongyi to discuss: "Master, we might as well withdraw first, and wait for the ice and snow to melt before entering the army."

Chen Hongyi shook his head: "The ice and snow are gone, and we are going to spring ploughing in the south of the Yangtze River, and we will fight in the spring ploughing season, and in the future, there will be hunger and anti-people everywhere, and this war will never end." Let's retreat first, but our army is exposed to the plains, and we must make proper arrangements and withdraw gradually, otherwise the enemy will take the opportunity to chase after us, and the whole army will be annihilated."

The two were discussing the details of the retreat, when the soldiers outside the gate came to report: "The enemy has attacked the camp!" ”

Chen Hongyi went out to get on the horse and saw that it was the chariot of the Black Flag Khanate, but after a closer look, the chariot had no wheels, and the four horses pulled a large piece of wood flew through the snow, and shot arrows back and forth to the Liang army camp.

Chen Hongyi looked at it for a while: "In this way, you can't retreat, you have to kill and defeat the enemy before you can survive."

It was easy to defeat the enemy, but for a while, all the generals and officials had no good way, Chen Hongyi looked at Pharmacist Zhu: "Pharmacist, have you ever seen such a big snow?" ”

Pharmacist Zhu smiled: "My hometown Fanyang also had waist-deep snow, this snow was nothing, but because King Han and the general were both southerners, they were scared"

Chen Hongyi also smiled: "In this way, you have the idea to let our army pass unhindered in the snow."

Pharmacist Zhu didn't answer, turned around and ran like snow not far away, Chen Hongyi led everyone to follow, Pharmacist Zhu first stepped on the snow with his feet and fell into it two feet, Pharmacist Zhu pulled out his foot, took a big shield and put it flat on the snow, and the person followed and stood up, but the shield only sank a few inches, Pharmacist Zhu.

Everyone understood, so they followed the example of Pharmacist Zhu, and they could all stand in the snow. Chen Hongyi looked at the remaining veins of Taihang Mountain in the distance, drew his sword and pointed: "The whole army goes up the mountain and camps"

It only took half a day, and Liang Jun used tens of thousands of shields to pave the road in rotation and turn all the people to the mountain. From time to time, there were also black flag khanate chariots, and the Liang army threw spears and arrows on their shields to fight back, killing some Black Flag Khanate soldiers. After that, until dark, the Black Flag Khanate chariot was never seen again.

Chen Hongyi's quick thinking and saw that the soil had been frozen and could not be cut by a knife, so he ordered everyone to take local materials, cut down trees to build houses, and build ice walls for fortification. The Liang army built an ice city against the mountain, and the defenders of the Black Flag Khanate in the city of Xiangguo climbed the lookout and shouted after seeing this ice city.

At the same time, Li Xiaofei and Xiaoyu Murong Ling led more than 3,000 people to continue to settle the displaced people in Liyang, and it snowed heavily, and many of the fleeing refugees froze to death without clothes. Li Xiaofei took people to carry the body out of the city every day.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Li Xiaofei and Murong Ling carried a girl to walk, and when they passed through the city gate, the wind was too strong, so the two of them roasted the fire by the fire in the corner of the city gate, and put the little girl next to the fire. Li Xiaofei looked at the frozen blackened little girl and shed a few tears: "Such a young woman is frozen to death like this, when will this troubled world be calmed down, and when will you not freeze to death or starve to death?" ”

Murong Ling looked at Li Xiaofei coldly: "Don't talk about these useless things, if there is still a horse, I will stuff this girl into the belly of the horse, maybe I can save it."

Li Xiaofei also said angrily: "What is the basis for your home remedies, I haven't seen you use it, why don't you cut open my stomach and put him in."

Murong Ling seemed to be electrocuted: "There you have it!" ”

Murong Ling picked up the girl and ran into an empty room by the city gate, and Li Xiaofei chased after him: "What are you going to do?" ”

Murong Ling shouted, "You come here and make the fire!" ”

Murong Ling carried the girl into a bedroom, put the girl on the bed, and turned over herself. When Li Xiaofei finished lighting the fire and went in to look, he was stunned. Murong Ling didn't wear anything and pressed on the girl, Li Xiaofei drew his sword and pointed at Murong Ling: "You guy, I misjudged you!" “

Carrying a sword, he was about to stab Murong Ling, but Murong Ling pulled his clothes with his right hand and threw it over to cover Li Xiaofei's head: "I'm saving people, aren't you asking me what is the basis for saving people?" The horse's belly is hot, it can protect her heart, and my body is also hot, as long as I protect her heart, and then wipe her body with warm water, I can save him."

As soon as Li Xiaofei heard this, he thought that so many women in Murong Ling had fallen for him on weekdays, so he believed it, so he went out to boil water.

After a while, the girl woke up, coughed a few times, opened her eyes and shouted, Murong Ling had no choice but to click on her acupoint so that she could not scream. The girl looked at Murong Ling, who was very beautiful, and calmed down a little. Li Xiaofei broke in with water, the girl's eyes widened, the basin in Li Xiaofei's hand fell to the ground, and Murong Ling shouted: "Go out"

Li Xiaofei hurriedly covered his eyes and ran out, Murong Ling went to adjust the warm water and slowly wiped it for the girl, the girl's whole body turned from black to white, and finally slowly regained its blood color. Murong Ling saw that the person had come back to life, so he put on her clothes and untied her acupoints, and the girl also knew that it was Murong Ling who saved her at this time, so she blushed and thanked her. Murong Ling just hummed and turned around to leave, but the girl hugged Murong Ling: "You look at my body, you just leave like this, I might as well freeze to death!" ”

Murong Ling was unmoved: "No one knows, I still have something", as he spoke, he shook off the woman and wanted to leave, Li Xiaofei came in with a bowl of wild vegetable porridge at this time: "Girl, drink porridge first, this kid wants to leave, the official will not let him go"

Murong Ling said lightly: "Do you believe it or not, I kill people and kill people!" ”