More than 8 months after Xia Xue came to Bohai County, she entered 617 A.D., the thirteenth year of the Sui Dynasty, and the world entered a more chaotic era. The Great Sui Empire was full of wolf smoke and storms. This year, the world is in turmoil, the heroes rise together, the people's lives are displaced, and the suffering is unspeakable, and God seems to have experienced the turmoil in the lower realm, which has made the world worse and worse, plagues are rampant, disasters and famines are continuous, the Yellow River bursts, floods are raging, heaven and earth are furnaces, all things are charcoal, and the blood and tears of the common people are cooked.

In the south, Lin Shihong, a native of Poyang, Jiangxi, led the people to revolt, first captured the county town of Yuzhang, and then defeated the Sui army in Poyang Lake, killed the Sui general Liu Ziyi, and the number reached more than 100,000, so he occupied Qianzhou, established the state of Chu, proclaimed himself the king of Chu, set the capital Yuzhang, and the year name was Taiping, occupying the vast area from Jiujiang in the north to Panyu in the south.

In the Central Plains, Li Mi rose to fame after defeating the Sui army and killing Zhang Xutuo, a famous counterinsurgency general of the Sui Dynasty. Later, he and Zhai Rang led 7,000 elite soldiers from Yangcheng to the north, crossed Fangshan, attacked and conquered the first granary in the world of the Great Sui Empire: Xingluocang from Luokou. After occupying Xingluocang, Li Mi opened a warehouse to release grain, attracting refugees from all over the country who had no food to eat and were hungry due to the war, and even the elderly and women also came with children on their backs, and the road was endless, and soon gathered hundreds of thousands of people, and their power increased greatly.

In the north, Xiazhou Shuofang Ying Yang Lang general: Liang Shidu, killed the county Cheng Tang Shizong, called the prime minister, and joined forces with the Turks to jointly oppose the Sui, according to Diaoyin, Honghua, Yan'an and other counties, and proclaimed himself the emperor, the country name Liang, Jianyuan "Yonglong". The Turkic Shihua Khan named him the Great Viga Khan, and relieved the Son of Heaven. Liang Shidu constantly colluded with and instigated the Turkic invasion of the south, and wantonly burned, killed and looted the residents of the interior.

Another rapidly rising force in the north is a native of Zhangnan County, Beizhou: Dou Jiande. Dou Jiande initially gathered a group of rebels against Emperor Yang of Sui, regardless of the Qilu floods, and forcibly conscripted troops to fight against the Goguryeo riots. The victims of the government rebelled, and the number of people was only about 1,000 at first. However, Dou Jiande is brave and strategic, not greedy for money, not greedy for women, and hard-working like a soldier, so he can inspire people to work hard for him. Her wife Cao Xiuying, known as the "Red Lady", is a heroine among women, leading a group of women's army to often help her husband give advice, charge into battle, and make many achievements. At the beginning, the bandits caught the officials and local gentry of the Sui Dynasty and killed them, and the red lady suggested that Dou Jiande catch them and treat them with courtesy. Initially, Song Zhengben, the magistrate of Raoyang County, the red lady asked Dou Jiande as a distinguished guest to discuss the plan with him. After that, the magistrates of the Sui Dynasty gradually surrendered to him, and Dou Jiande's power expanded rapidly. Whenever Dou Jiande captured a town and defeated his opponent, the property he obtained was distributed to the generals together, and he didn't want anything for himself. He lives a simple life, does not eat much meat, and only eats vegetables, peeled corn and rice every day, and shares weal and woe with his soldiers. His wife, the Red Lady, did not wear silk clothes, and was often accompanied by armor, a sword, and a red tassel spear. The husband and wife worked together to defeat the Sui Dynasty several crusade armies, and captured many cities in the land of Yan and Zhao, especially after defeating the 30,000 elite Sui troops led by Xue Shixiong, a well-known general of the Sui Dynasty, the army under his command became more prosperous, and in just over half a year, the elite soldiers and strong generals have reached more than 100,000 people. In the first month of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, he set up an altar at the junction of Hejian and Leshou counties to hold a ceremony, and called himself the king of Changle.

Due to the increase in Dou Jiande's power and influence, many bandits, thieves, horse thieves, deserters, ruffians and hooligans, and even some Turkic tribes joined Dou Jiande's ranks. Dou Jiande knew that now was the time for the heroes to compete for hegemony and needed manpower, so he did not refuse when these miscellaneous people came to defect.

As Dou Jiande continued to expand his territory, all kinds of battles, large and small, almost never stopped. Residents and civilians in the territory of the surrounding hostile forces are also inevitably affected by the pond fish, and it is common for them to be killed and robbed.

Bohai County is Hebei Jing County, which is located in the southeast of Yanzhao Land, close to Qilu Dezhou. Due to the continuous expansion of Dou Jiande's power, his forward troops are getting closer and closer to Bohai County.

I heard that Dou Jiande's forward troops burned and looted all the way, and they were powerful. For the safety of his family, the eldest grandson Wuji discussed with Gao and decided to go to Jinyang in the Sanjin Dynasty (Taiyuan, Shanxi in later generations) to join his friend Li Shimin, who was the second son of Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Guo, Li Yuan is now the left guard in Jinyang, the palace supervisor of Jinyang, and the highest military and political chief in the Hedong region of the Sanjin Dynasty, and his soldiers are strong and strong, so it must be safer to go to Jinyang than to stay in Bohai County. After discussing the plan with their mother, grandmother, Xia Xue and others, everyone agreed that it would be better to go to Li Shimin in Jinyang.

So the next day, he packed up the money and food, and hired two coachmen to drive two big carriages that had been bought in advance. One was carrying Grandma, Mrs. Gao, and Auntie, and the other was loaded with luggage. Originally, Xia Xue was also allowed to ride in a carriage with her grandmother, but Xia Xue resolutely disagreed, she said that her martial arts are the most powerful among them now, and she should take the responsibility of protecting her grandmother, mother, and aunt, how can she hide in the carriage.

Everyone saw that Xia Xue insisted on being a bodyguard, and they also knew that she was extraordinary, so they finally agreed to Xia Xue's request, let her ride a white horse with a bow and arrows, hold a long lance to break the Tang knife, and guard around the carriage with the eldest grandson Wuji, Gao Cheng, and Ouyang brothers and sisters, all the way to Jinyang.

Xia Xue knew that the road was dangerous, so after setting off, she took out the protective helmet and put it on, and also moved the special bulletproof glass mask from the top of her head to cover her cheeks, which could protect her entire head. She was still wearing a jacket suit. In order to keep out the cold and increase the cushioning defense, she manually filled the airbag in the sandwich of the smart jacket with a little more gas. And put the collar up, although there is a long-necked underwear to protect the neck, but use the collar with the airbag inside the outer coat to protect the neck, so that it is safer. Otherwise, if you encounter a heavy weapon attack on the neck, it will not be scratched if you have underwear protection, but you will also suffer a fatal injury from a neck fracture, and the neck is a relatively fragile part, so you can't be careless. Xia Xue pulled down the top of the collar with a zipper made of special materials to protect her whole body.

In order to make it easier to move around on the road, she also packed her satchel into a multifunctional backpack containing a lightweight parachute bag. Satchels and backpacks have special features such as bulletproof, impact-proof, scratch-proof, waterproof, moisture-proof, fireproof, and radiation-proof, which can also increase the protection of the back.

She didn't want anyone in this era to know that she was coming from the future more than 2,400 years later, because such a fact was too unbelievable for people of this era to understand. If they tell the truth, it may backfire, and even bring disaster to themselves, and they may burn themselves as a babbling witch. It's better to follow their guesses for the time being, and she is a Nine Heavens Fairy. Therefore, she did not introduce and display these special items brought from the future to anyone, including the eldest grandson Wuji, Gao Cheng, Mrs. Gao, aunt, grandmother, Ouyang brothers and sisters, etc.

The eldest grandson Wuji and them are all dressed in leather armor, which can appropriately increase the protective capacity, and the weight is light, which is beneficial for long-distance trekking. The texture is also softer and does not affect the movement of the limbs. They asked Xia Xue to wear a leather armor as well, but Xia Xue didn't want to wear it because it affected her flexibility. In the end, under the patient persuasion of the eldest grandson Wuji, she had to wear a leather armor to protect her chest and back. Although she wanted to say that my equipment was stronger than thousands of pieces of leather armor, she couldn't tell the truth, so she had to reluctantly put on this brown leather armor to protect her upper body in order to reassure her relatives.

Although Xia Xue's clothes and helmets are a little strange in this era, in the Sui Dynasty, due to the migration of many Hu people and northern ethnic minorities to North China and even further south, the Hu people and northern ethnic minorities wore various kinds of clothing, which was originally weird compared to Hanfu, and everyone was no longer surprised, so Xia Xue's dress did not attract much attention from passers-by.

The group walked west for two days, entered a small town on the border of Bohai County, replenished some grain and fresh water in the town, and replenished some warm clothes because the weather turned cold, rested for a day, and continued to set off to Jinyang early the next morning.