Li Xiaofei woke up, his body fell after him, he hurriedly grabbed around with his hands, and when he opened his eyes, he found that he was grasping on a branch, and he was trying to twist his body to change positions, but he couldn't move because of the pain. He looked around and found himself on the branches of a large tree, and there were several people lying on their stomachs under the big tree.

He wanted to call the people below, but when he looked down, he found that there was already a large cloud of blood around them, and it seemed that most of them were dead.

Looking at the black smoke rising in the distance, Li Xiaofei remembered what happened last night, when a group of soldiers broke into Lijia Village, led pigs and sheep, robbed houses, and burned down all their houses. The patriarch led the villagers to hide in a cave in the back mountain, but was searched by the soldiers, and he and some of the resisting villagers fought and retreated, and finally jumped off the cliff.

He took a deep breath and took a closer look at the woods, where he saw that there were still some soldiers searching for villagers in the forest. His hands were a little unsufficiency, so he untied his trousers and tied himself to the tree, slowly moving himself to the leafy side of the tree, observing the situation under the tree.

He continued to stay in the tree for two days, during which he watched the patriarch being hacked to death by the soldiers, and the villagers being killed by the soldiers.

It wasn't until the third day, when it was confirmed that the soldiers were gone, that Li Xiaofei descended from the tree to the ground. He carefully searched for his family and survivors in the pile of corpses, and after a day of searching, he found bad news.

None of the villagers were spared, and in a desperate state of hunger, he pulled out a few pieces of charred meat from the ashes and ate them, trying to recall the appearance of his enemies: a tall, thin, white-faced, high-nosed man at the head of the leader, and the other soldiers called him General Hou, with a scar-faced beard, and a swordsman with a broken arm.

After nightfall, when the moon was in the sky, a large flock of crows was chirping in the village, and he was only fifteen years old, he couldn't help but be afraid, he was very sleepy but didn't dare to sleep, and he really didn't have the courage to stay here, so he only picked up a stick and walked towards the top of the back mountain.

He was very sleepy and fell asleep on the side of the road, and in his sleep he saw the patriarch and his relatives walking towards him covered in blood, and General Hou came to him with his soldiers, and he woke up several times, and finally survived until dawn.

When he walked to the main road not far from the town, he found that the town was also in ashes, and there were many corpses on the side of the road. He sat down on the side of the road and pounded the ground with his hands: "What the hell is going on, why are you killing, why are we doing well, they are coming to kill us, why?" ”

His cry drew another flock of crows, the red-eyed ravens staring at him, and he soon became alert, and the crows became unusually furious after eating human flesh. He looked around and saw a water tank, and the crows rose from the ground and pounced on him, and he plunged into the water tank, and the crows screamed around the tank. He held his breath in the tank and soon lost consciousness, and when he woke up again, he was already next to a fire.

He looked around, saw another group of soldiers, and thought that his time had come, so he stood up and shouted, "Kill me, you have killed all my people, and I don't want to live." After shouting these words, the surrounding soldiers remained motionless, and a person came out of the tent in front: "You take a closer look, whether we are your enemies." Li Xiaofei looked at the person who spoke, it was indeed not his enemy, and then looking at the clothes of the soldiers, it was very different, this group of people were all red and had white turbans wrapped around their heads, and the sergeants who killed the villagers were all dressed in black armor.

The middle-aged man who spoke looked at him: "Little brother, presumably you were also killed by those beasts, I am Chen Hongyi, the captain of the Tun Cavalry, our Chen family army is still a few days late after all, if you want to take revenge, follow us, we are also avenging the emperor and relatives, in order to do it for Tianxingdao" He knelt down without hesitation: "I am willing to follow General Chen to make cattle and horses, and avenge my dead clansmen."

Chen Hongyi looked Li Xiaofei up and down again: "It seems that you came out of the countryside and mountain villages, and you haven't learned any skills, so you can learn archery and be an archer first", Li Xiaofei knelt down and thanked him, and Chen Hongyi's guards took him to the stable: "You are new here, just take care of the horse first, I will teach you these archery slowly, you just call me Captain Shen", Captain Shen told him about feeding the horse and tethering the horse and left. Li Xiaofei looked around, there were several horse feeders of the same age as him, he just wanted to go and greet them, and suddenly someone gave him a whip: "Take care of the three horses you should be optimistic about, don't walk around blindly if you have nothing to do, be careful of being killed as a spy!" ”。 It was the patrol officer in the barracks who beat him, and he quickly made amends to the patrol officer and went back to his stable.

Chen Jiajun repaired for a month, and although Li Xiaofei would be whipped a few times from time to time, Captain Shen also taught him archery and horseback riding in a month.

It was another full moon night, and Chen Hongyi gathered the soldiers in the middle of the night to issue a battle order: "Tonight, on the sixteenth day of May in the eighth year of the Xianchu Dynasty, our Chen family army must recover Huaiyang City in order to respond to the imperial army. ”

Li Xiaofei followed Chen Hongyi as an archer to the south gate of Huaiyang. When he arrived, Zhang Sheng at the east gate set fire to the city gate, beat the war drums, but did not approach the city gate, and the enemy army at the east gate could not see the soldiers and horses of the Chen family in the fireworks, so he urgently asked for help. At this time, on the ladder frame at the south gate, Chen Hongyi erected the banner of Chen Zi and attacked. Most of the enemy troops defending the city rushed to the southeast second gate, Shen De took the opportunity to sneak in from the west gate to open the south gate, Chen Hongyi broke into the south gate and Shen De joined forces to defeat the defenders of the east gate, at dawn, the enemy army escaped from the north gate, and the sun recovered.

When Li Xiaofei attacked the city, because the infantry was lagging behind, so he didn't kill a single enemy army, he couldn't help but be a little annoyed. Another boy, who was also feeding horses, shot three enemies to death, and was given a silk horse during the day. Chen Hongyi found Li Xiaofei's chagrin, and called him in front of him when everyone returned to the camp one after another: "There are still many battles we have to fight, young people must calm down, don't care about temporary gains and losses, with your skills and physique, you can't charge in front of you yet, I know you have courage and hatred, but fighting on the battlefield is strength and luck, don't think about killing people in every battle, but think about how to survive every battle, and surviving is victory" Li Xiaofei seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and looked at Chen Hongyi, He wanted to know why this General Chen had to talk so much to his pawn, Chen Hongyi saw his thoughts, touched his head and said: "The old man is already in the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, if my grandson is still there, he is the same age as you, but it is a pity that he couldn't escape when the capital fell, you look very similar to him, big eyes, and a mole on your ear, I often wonder if you will be him." Of course, the military discipline in the barracks is strict, and I won't take special care of you because of some of my own thoughts, but sometimes I want to talk to you, you can step back first, remember what I said", Li Xiaofei's relatives were all killed, and at this moment, someone regarded him as a relative, and he couldn't help but retreat in tears.

After Chen Hongyi finished rewarding his meritorious deeds, the big families and servants in the city returned home one after another from the county government with empty burdens. Because the Chen army's attack on the city was too sudden, the enemy army in Huaiyang's grain cloth was not captured, and the materials for the Chen family army were much more abundant.

At noon on the 17th, a group of 50 red-clothed and heavily armored cavalry surrounded the envoys of the imperial court and entered Huaiyang City. The envoy took out an edict, and Chen Hongyi, Shen De, and Zhang Sheng knelt down to listen to the announcement: "Chen Hongyi, the captain of the Tun cavalry, has a good way of governing the army, and has a small merit in the starry night, but he has a small merit, but he is running through the enemy and is not effective in combat, so he is specially ordered to leave Huaiyang quickly to pursue the remnants of the enemy and make a mistake to repay the country's kindness", Chen Hongyi knelt down to receive the edict and evacuated Huaiyang with his subordinates.

At sunset, the imperial army marched into Huaiyang, and that night, the large households were searched, hundreds of families were confiscated, and 2,000 people were beheaded by the conviction of treason and collaboration with the enemy.

Chen Jiajun continued to march north, Shen De asked Chen Hongyi in private: "General, we fought Huaiyang City, but the imperial court wiped our military exploits with a piece of edict, and now we are still alone in the army, I see that there are traitors in the court", Chen Hongyi slapped Shen De with a whip: "Don't talk nonsense, the edict of the Son of Heaven, we as courtiers must obey it, you don't say anything against the court in the future, be careful of being punished in the future", Shen De sighed and stopped making a sound.

In the north, in Lizhou City, the base camp of the rebels, Hou Tianzhou, the leader of the rebels, is dispatching troops to block or even eliminate the Chen family army by the Lishui River. In the hall, Hou Zhao, who had just escaped from Huaiyang, introduced to everyone how he ran rampant in Huaiyang with 800 cavalry and finally got rid of the encirclement of 100,000 troops. I warned you early on that the arrogant army will be defeated, and that our army can have the situation of occupying one-third of the world today, not because we are invincible in all battles, but because the people in the court who give orders are mediocre, and if someone like Chen Hongyi is in power, I am afraid that we will not be able to sleep well. Chen Hongyi is now approaching Lizhou, what we have to do now is to defeat him by any means, and not let him enter Lizhou", all the people in the hall looked at the military advisor Shi Hu silently, Shi Hu smiled: "The king of heaven doesn't have to worry, to defeat Chen Hongyi, you don't have to fight with real knives and guns, we just need the golden silk beauty to be sent to Jinling City, and naturally someone will kill him for us", Hou Tianzhou seemed to remember something, the corners of his mouth twitched and tightened: "Then this battle will be handed over to the military advisor, it doesn't matter if you need more gold and silver, As long as we can achieve our purpose. Now that Chen Hongyi's matter has been resolved, generals, we should change our plans, and I am determined to send troops to Xiangyang, and after conquering Xiangyang, I will enter the east by land and water to take Jinling to complete the great cause." The generals rejoiced, as if they had captured Jinling, and that night, Hou Tianzhou and the generals drank all night.