A few market towns can not be compared with Nan'an, Shuikou such a large town in Fuzhou, the population is up to one or two thousand people, there are several shops on the street, a large number of dilapidated houses, and temporary shacks, most of the people are unkempt, yellow and thin, two eyes are godless, there are a lot of beggars, Xu Zixian such a large group of people came over, and the beggars and displaced people in the towns followed all the way, and the guide who led the way repeatedly warned that they must not give alms, unless they plan to stop and set up a porridge factory to give alms, otherwise they will give a charity, and dozens or hundreds of people below will have to give alms one by oneOtherwise, these beggars and homeless people can follow all the way to Yanjing City.

To the vicinity of the post house, there are still many low shacks on both sides of the road, and when Xu Zixian and others were talking, many beggars came out and looked towards this side.

The guide said on the side: "What the adults said is good, the place is very ruined, mainly in the sixth year of Chongde, the ninth year of Chongde, the eleventh year of Chongde, and the three times Donghu entered the country, all of which went deep into the south of Jinsu, and the people here can be regarded as the rest of their lives. And it's not just the locals, Zhending, Daimyo, Cangzhou, Gaoyang, straight to Henan Road, Shandong East Road, Donghu soldiers are all there, everywhere they go, burning, killing and looting, I don't know how many people died under the knives and guns of the Donghu people, and I don't know how many villages and towns were destroyed, how many people were arrested, how many gold, silver, copper coins, cattle, horses, pigs and sheep were robbed......"

It seems that the northerners really hate the Donghu people, and they do not repair their own armaments, and the Great Wall is not defended, and the northern forbidden army has no way to block the iron cavalry of the Donghu people from entering the border.

Although there are more than 300 forbidden troops on all roads, because they are all infantry, they can't rescue each other, Donghu is all cavalry, even if there are many dismounted infantry, but the speed of movement is not comparable to the Great Wei infantry. After the breach, the fierce and light cavalry roamed around to invite battle, defeated a small number of garrisons, and when the imperial court hurriedly issued a letter and the main force of the forbidden army was assembled, the Donghu soldiers did not know where to move.

When the Wei army is a little relaxed, the main force of Donghu will suddenly appear again, breaking the infantry formation with heavy cavalry, covering the two wings with light cavalry, and the Wei army has suffered many heavy defeats, which is to lose on this method of warfare.

The Donghuju tribe has more than 1 million people, and the maximum number is not more than 2 million, but the number of cavalry is between 300,000 and 400,000.

Among them, there are about 20,000 to 30,000 heavy cavalry, all of whom are wearing heavy iron armor, holding bones, giant axes, long knives, and long cavalry spears.

This kind of heavy cavalry is called Donghu Tiefutu, and the northern captives have fought against the Great Wei for 200 years, and rarely achieved success, the main reason is that there is no heavy cavalry that can break the infantry of the Great Wei.

In addition to the heavy cavalry, the two wings of Donghu flew in, and the light cavalry with long cavalry spears and bows and arrows attacked the light cavalry, and was called the two-wing crutch horse.

Breaking through head-on, flanking on both wings, the Great Wei infantry formation is already difficult to match, unless it is a heavy army group of more than 100,000 people, carefully using the terrain, plus a large number of strong crossbows and hard bows, it can barely match.

The Xiqiang people also have iron cavalry, known as the iron harrier, but their national strength is not strong, the number of iron cavalry is not much, plus the terrain around Qinfeng Road is complex, there are many valleys, many military villages, and many bow and arrow clubs, before the rise of Donghu, the threat of the Xiqiang people to the Great Wei is not great, and they have stopped outside Jiayu Pass.

In recent years, the Xiqiang people have also had a lot of changes, Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Military Road, which have been disturbed by it, and the losses are not small.

This is the external trouble of Da Wei, and everyone present is in a heavy mood.

In fact, Fujian people can also empathize, pirates are the biggest threat to Fujian, if there is no pirate attack, with the development of Fujian's industrial and commercial trade, the people's life is much better.

And because it is necessary to guard against pirates, the troops of dozens of armies are all burdened by local finances, and the officials and officials have an extra layer of oil, and the burden on the localities can be imagined.

It's not just the pressure of wealth, as soon as the pirates arrive, of course, they also burn and loot, do everything, and there are still more than 10,000 people in Zhangzhou who are still displaced and cannot go home.

But compared to what the guide said in front of him, as soon as Donghu arrived, at least more than one million people were slaughtered in dozens of prefectures and counties in the north, regardless of men, women and children, the ditches were filled in during the war, and the brutality of the Donghu people was far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and it was simply not like what human beings could do.

"I've always watched ...... in the mansion before," Chen Daojian said with a pale face: "If I can personally set foot on the land of the northern country, I know how much evil the Donghu people have done to me to Great Wei and to Huaxia." ”

"Sooner or later, this revenge will be avenged." Zhang Huchen and Lin Cunlin, Gao Shilai, Jin Jian and others are all martial artists, everyone listened to the guide about the tragedy in the north, their faces turned red with hatred, and several generals pinched the handle of the knife with their right hands, and their knuckles were white.

Many tooth generals and military pawns looked almost the same, and even more military soldiers scolded angrily in the Dongmin accent.

Who would have imagined these things if they hadn't been in the north in person, if they hadn't seen them with their own eyes and heard them with their own ears?

Xu Zixian's face was also a little pale, and after being reminded by the guide, he looked at the drainage ditch on the side of the road not far away, and there were still some white bones in it.

This is the people killed during the invasion of Donghu in the ninth year of Chongde, there are too many people who died, there are clan relatives, and the corpses of the family members are buried, the government was already a mess at that time, and they can't take care of it at all, many ownerless corpses have been cleaned up and buried one after another a few years behind, but there are still some deserted villages and ditches, there are corpses that can not be buried at that time.

The corpses had marks of slashing with knives and axes, and some of them were white and thin, either women or children.

Xu Zixian still can't understand, how can human beings be so cruel and ferocious? How can you swing a butcher's knife at a child?

Xu Zixian stopped everyone's shouting and scolding, and said in a deep voice: "Fujian and Zhejiang, aren't there also pirates?" They are no better than the Donghu people, if they have the heart, go back and do what they are doing, and then talk about other things after they have suppressed the pirates. ”

"Your Excellency is really a big breath."

Xu Zixian stood next to the post house and spoke, and there were many idlers gathered around, and when he heard his words, someone immediately accosted: "I don't know where the young man who blows such a cowhide is sacred?" ”

"I killed more than a dozen pirates with my own hands." Xu Zixian replied casually: "And led his subordinates to behead more than 1,000 pirates, I think about my words, it can't be said to be complete bragging." ”

"I see." The person who accosted him smiled and said, "Zunjia is the prince of Nan'an Hou who came from Fujian Road, isn't it?" ”

This person is really well-informed, and he immediately told Xu Zixian's origin.

In the north near Yanjing, people pay more attention to military and political affairs, compared with the prosperity of culture and education in the south, the newspapers are mostly social news or poetry and songs, and the news in the north is mostly the movements of foreign enemies such as Donghu and Beiyu, the movements of the imperial court and the garrison, people try to see something from the clues, if the Jiyan defense line is tight again, many people are fortunate to flee quickly at the first time when the incident happens.

In the past few military disasters, the people in the north have died more than one million, and more than 600,000 sturdy men and women have been forcibly plundered to Liaodong as slaves, and I don't know what kind of miserable life they lived.

Since the people are concerned about the affairs of the soldiers, not only in the north, but also on Jinghu North Road, the war against bandits on Jinghu South Road, the war on Qinfeng Road against Xiqiang, and of course the war on Fujian Road against pirates, which often appear in newspapers.

Xu Zixian's fame was circulated in the south with two articles, and in the north, it was famous for the war of suppressing bandits and beheading more than 1,000 people.

At this time, the guide turned to each other and arched his hand: "I only know that you want to hire a guide to Yanjing, and I thought it was an ordinary clan, but I didn't expect it to be the prince of Nan'an, who killed the bandits, in front of him, and he was less polite." ”

The north is straightforward, and pays attention to the side of martial arts achievements, which is quite obvious from the attitude of this guide.

Everyone was also amazed, most of the people at the post station were not ordinary people, but the image of Nan'an Hou Shizi in front of them was still not the same as the image they imagined.

First of all, Xu Zi is too young, less than twenty years old, has not yet begun to grow a beard, looks ordinary, but tall, strong, and looks magnificent, from this point of view, it seems that the report of the Hou Shizi of Nan'an who is too brave seems to be close to the truth.

At first glance, Xu Zixian is an ordinary northern youth, but after a closer look, his demeanor is the majesty of a person who has been in the top position for a long time, but not deliberately, relatively speaking, Xu Zixian's temperament is more complex, there are young people who are calm and calm, and there is also the majesty of the superiors, and there are some nobles of the children of the clan, and there are more martial arts and martial arts.

This is a very complicated person, the first person who spoke was an old man, who didn't know how many heroes he had seen in his life, but in front of Xu Zixian, it was a rather complicated feeling for this old man, and it was difficult to see through at a glance.

Xu Zixian was also looking at the other party.

He is about sixty years old, medium height, thin physique, and is not a northerner from the perspective of face shape, accent, and temperament, but the temperament and appearance of southerners such as Fujian, Zhejiang, and Xixi.

This kind of thing, as long as people who have the heart to watch and listen more, it is always not far behind, of course, there may be times when you are wrong, if you judge from the accent, then eight or nine are not far from ten.

"It's Xu Zixian below." Xu Zi first hugged his fist to the other party and said with a smile: "I don't know what the old man has to say?" ”

"It's really better to meet than to meet by chance, I heard about the name of the prince a month ago, and I thought that I might meet in Beijing, but I didn't expect to meet in this post house, and at first sight, sure enough, the young hero, a rare talent in the clan." The old man retracted his eyes, and at this moment, he was full of energy, and there was a momentum that looked at all directions. Zhang Huchen, Lin Cunxin and others were originally angry that this bad old man was talking nonsense, but at this time, they were shocked by the old man's momentum, and they didn't dare to come forward and scold.

"I think I know who my husband is." Xu Zixian bowed again, and this time he was very respectful.

The old man had a smile on his face and said, "Sure enough, the son of the world is a rare shrewdness, and he really guessed who the old man is?" ”

Xu Zixian smiled slightly bitterly and said, "My husband reminded me like this, if I can't guess it, then I am really a fool." ”

Xu Zixian reviewed and said to Chen Daojian, Chen Zuocai, Gao Shilai, Jin Jian, Zhang Huchen, Lin Cunxin and others: "This is the general of the Left Guard, who once crisscrossed the East China Sea, and now the general of the Left Guard, the envoy of the Jing Navy Festival, Lord Wang Zhiwang, why don't you hurry up and salute?" ”