In the early morning, when the sky was hazy, there was some noise in the camp, Luo Tang and other families had already started to make fires and cook and were busy, but most of the soldiers were still asleep.

A miserable scream sounded from the tent, Chen Wangting and other guards were shocked, and they all turned over and ran away with knives, but saw Chang Yu kneeling on the ground with his head in his hands and roaring, vowing never to drink again.

The guards breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled at each other, but they did not agree, and the good drinker would make such an oath when he woke up the next day with a headache, but never kept it.

Chang Yu doesn't like alcohol, and has always drunk less, but the pressure has been too great recently, and he has a bit of a sense of borrowing alcohol to eliminate his sorrows, or he wants to use a big drunk to relax the nerves that have been tense for days, but he didn't expect that Erguotou's stamina was so strong, and he woke up with a headache, which made Wu Zhong and Jia Waixiong, who had not drunk alcohol, secretly gloat.

After a night of hot porridge, a few pots of tea went down, and he washed his face with cold water, Chang Yu Fangjue's headache gradually disappeared, and at this time, the four battalions under his command were ready to go, and they started the camp.

Due north was dusty, but Li Yan's vanguard had arrived, Chang Yu was planning with him for a while, and then immediately ordered to set off to Dingxing County.

Dingxing County is in the northeast of Baoding 100 miles, the surrounding counties are dense, such as Gaobeidian, Yi County, Laishui, etc., belong to the northern end of Baoding Mansion line, only adjacent to Shuntianfu, but are sesame small cities, some even have no garrison guards, close to some yamen to catch fast or militia to maintain law and order.

On the third pole of the day, Chang Yu led the four battalions to gallop, but after more than ten miles, he met many refugees who fled northward, all of them with yellow faces and thin muscles, and looked frightened.

It wasn't until he saw that this army of soldiers and horses did not chase after him that he stopped, and Chang Yu led more than ten people to dismount and inquire, and learned that they had all fled from Baoding Mansion and had been gone for several days.

Asked again, I learned that the ten rooms and nine empty around Baoding Mansion, the rich gentry were tortured to death by the thief army, and the rest of the people were mostly attached to the thief army, and responded to their call to attack the city and plunder the land and turn over to be the master: "Juntian is exempt from taxation, and the temptation to meet the king is too great, and the people who have suffered a lot suddenly find that they don't need to farm, they don't have to pay taxes, and they have food and drink with the righteous army to burn and plunder, how comfortable this life is!" Servants are like clouds.

But there are also real people who don't want to be thieves, so they have to flee in all directions, and choose to flee north, after all, the safer it is to be further from Beijing.

"Master Jun, are you here to support Baoding Mansion" An old man among the refugees asked, seeing Chang Yu nodding, he shook his head with a wry smile: "This is not enough, the thief army is like a locust, covering the sky and the sun, and Baoding Mansion is surrounded by thieves......"

"There are not many soldiers, but they are fine!" Chang Yu smiled slightly, took some dry food and handed it to a child: "The thief army is just a rabble, vulnerable, less than half a month and more than a month, it will definitely let them fart and urine, some time ago in Taiyuan can defeat them, this time will also defeat them, you have to have confidence in the court, the officers and soldiers" Chang Yu's eyes were murderous, so shocked that the refugees did not dare to talk.

"That's right, fellow countryman, the emperor has issued an order to exempt the whole territory of Henan and some areas of Hebei, Shanxi and Shandong from paying taxes for three years, this Baoding Mansion is also among them, you remember that the thief army retreated and hurried back to the hometown to make a living, and I hope to tell you" Chang Yu did not forget to advise, and then turned over and got on the horse, and ordered the team to hurry.

The farther south, the more refugees, dragging the family with the tragic situation can not bear to look directly, Chang Yu heartache, ordered Luo Tang to take some military rations to alms, and spread the news of tax exemption to the imperial court, the refugees were grateful, and asked which team it was

Knowing that it was the fourth battalion under the command of Dongchang, the people were shocked and puzzled, they had never heard of this army, but the reputation of Dongchang was not good, but how could there be such a kind army.

Thirty miles away to the Baigou River to let the horses drink, many people here are resting, Chang Yu wants to go forward to hear the news, Chen Wangting and others are worried that there are thieves and spies, and do not want him to come in person.

Li Zicheng was ambitious at this time, all the way north to force Beijing since he had made preparations early, although the army stopped in Baoding City, but it was inevitable to send a large number of spies to follow the refugees to the north, if you see Chang Yu exposed, Bao Buqi will assassinate.

Chang Yu resolutely went, and killed a few in and out of thousands of troops, and he was not afraid of the assassination of the spies, so he went to the refugee group to hear the news, Chen Wangting and other relatives did not dare to be careless, and held the scabbard to follow the left and right.

The riverside was crowded with resting refugees, some were breaking the ice to get water, and some even made a pot on the spot to live and cook, but it was just a few grains of rice boiled in clear water, but many people watched and salivated.

Knowing that it was an officer and soldier, and seeing that the military discipline was strict and there was no attack, the refugees were not too afraid of Chang Yu, and they answered all questions about him, and even surrounded him to ask questions.

Under the dead tree by the river, a child cried bitterly, and others turned a blind eye to it, and they didn't even look at it, after all, in these years, the dead person is too common, and he has long been numb.

Chang Yu approached and found that the child was only five or six years old, and he was actually a child, but lying beside him was an old Taoist man with white hair, about seventy years old, with a thin body, his clothes were stained with blood, and he was injured under his ribs.

"What's your name," Chang Yu asked, squatting down.

Xiao'er raised his head, tears in his eyes, and a sad face: "No name, the master's name is my Xiaodao Tong......"

Chang Yu saw that he was extremely sad and slurred, and asked him how his master died, Xiao Daotong said that the master took him to travel to the Quartet, and the day before yesterday he encountered a thief who entered the village to kill people and set fire, and the master couldn't bear to see a woman humiliated, so he raised a knife to kill the thief......

"The Governor often says that he doesn't like monks, do you know why?" Chang Yu got up and looked around.

"The factory said that those monks will only pretend to be gods and cheat people out of money, and they will not work hard and contribute nothing, they are moths," Hu Ling said softly.

"This is just one of them, this Buddhism is not my native religion, it shrank out in troubled times, but it is a lot of incense to collect money in prosperous times" said and turned to look at the old Taoist corpse on the ground: "On the other hand, my native Taoist sect, in troubled times, go down the mountain to hang a pot to help the world, and in the prosperous times return to the mountains and forests to practice, although they are all ghosts and gods metaphysics, and they make judgments."

Everyone in his command nodded, thinking that this seemed to be the case.

"Would you like to go with me" Chang Yu squatted down and asked the little Taoist boy, in the years of war, the chances of such a big child surviving alone are too slim.

Xiao Daotong shook his head: "Master I said that those who are soldiers are all bad people, and there is no good thing."

cough cough cough, Chang Yu was almost choked, he just praised your master for being right, just like that, he didn't give face.

Li Tiezhu raised his hand to teach the little Taoist boy a lesson, but Chang Yu glared back, and said gently: "We are exceptions, we are good people, we specialize in killing those thieves, I buried your master, you can go with me."

Xiao Daotong looked up at him for a while, and nodded slightly: "Then you buried my master."

Chang Yu asked people to dig a pit under the dead tree to bury the old Taoist, and cut the wood as a tablet, carving the tomb of the nameless Taoist, the little Taoist boy was too young to know the name of the master.

Hu Ling was very fond of Xiaodaotong, and held hands and asked him: "Do you recognize me as a father?"

Xiaodao Tong was at a loss: "What is Dad".

The people were suffering.

Chang Yu clenched his fists and his muscles soared, looking at the south, trembling all over.