Footsteps in straw sandals walk through the dry and hard dirt. As far as the eye can see, the mountains are full of human figures, and the noisy sound buzzes in the ears, and the crying woman breaks free from her husband's arm and wants to go home with the crying child, and only stops after being slapped a few times by the man. An old woman with gray hair and ragged clothes was helped to sit tremblingly under a tree, looking at her relatives who were walking away with cloudy eyes, her thin and weak legs moved, and she could no longer stand up......

“...... Let's go, there's already a fight in the back, and if you don't go, it will affect us! ”

"Daddy... Mother..."The helpless child's panicked voice shouted.

"I'm not leaving, let them kill me—"

The autumn wind whistled over the mountains, the noisy sound became intermittent, and the clouds in the east shrouded it, and a large number of people in the east and west directions of Bishui Pass began to leave their homes, either to seek refuge with relatives or to beg in the city, and then return to their dilapidated homes after the soldiers had passed, and continue to live as before, perhaps some of them will never return to their hometowns. However, since the beginning of the war, their ancestors have also come and gone back to continue to multiply.

On a hill, eight hundred riders from the west stood in the red glow, Gongsun Zhi hugged the girl in his arms and looked at the 'ants' that were densely crawling all over the foothills under the clouds, and the last autumn rain was coming.

On horseback, Cai Yan covered his mouth, stared with wide eyes at the mountains stretching away, the roads and forests were crowded with people, and heart-rending cries gathered above the crowd.

"They're here... Something is wrong? ”

With the Gongsun Zhi and his party going down, if it was in the past, the other party would have avoided them when they saw them, and now in such an environment, these gentle 'sheep' with a hurried and frightened look came to push them hard. Although Cai Yan has never seen much of the world, he is also such a smart person, and he has already guessed what he is going to do. In the past, I would occasionally hear my father talk about the tyranny of Dong Zhuo after entering Beijing, the opposition of the Taishou and the state pastor in various places, although the court was the hall of that person's words, but after all, people have been angry in their hearts for a long time, in this case, there is only one possibility - a war.

In her thoughts, she saw an old woman in ragged clothes sitting on the ground under a tree in front of her, numbly looking at the figures passing by in her sight. Cai Yan stretched out his hand and pointed at the old woman, and Gongsun Zhi said in a low voice: "The best way is to shoot an arrow over." ”

"No—"

Cai Yan hurriedly shouted, glared back at him, struggled down from the horse and ran towards the white-haired old woman, turned out a piece of jerky, a piece of rice cake and handed it to the old woman, the wrinkled face turned around, looked at her calmly, and then waved the branch in his hand violently to drive the girl away.

"You eat...... Good to live......" said the old woman under the tree.

.........

Sunset.

Cai Yan sat on horseback, looking back from time to time, the sun shone obliquely, reflecting a tree and an old woman sitting there in the red glow. The wind blew through the hill, stroking the green silk, and feeling a hint of coolness, she looked up at the sky.

The rain is falling.......

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The autumn rain hangs on the eaves and falls in drops.

There was a dim light in the room, and a figure behind a few cases was writing on the cloth, writing to the place of thinking, and couldn't help frowning and hanging the pen, at this time there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, the figure raised its head, the door was pushed open, the wet and cold air squeezed in, and when the candle flame flickered, the door closed again.

The figure in a gray robe strode closer, sat down tightly opposite the collared robe, and the candlelight reflected a pair of thick eyebrows and tiger eyes, and after a while, he arched his hand: "Big brother, it's late at night, we just came back from recruiting troops from Yangzhou, and it's not too late to do anything tomorrow." ”

The pen rests gently.

The person who waved the pen was Cao Cao, he picked up the cloth silk and blew it, so that the pen and ink on it dried quickly, and it took a while to put it away, looked at the opposite side, and slowly spoke.

"Yuan Rang, don't worry about it, it's not okay, it's said that it's a crusade against Dong Thief, but what is the news like...... Yuan Benchu wrote to him before saying that Jizhou Mu Hanfu was spying on him, and his thoughts were repeated, so I should be careful...... Before the alliance was gathered, the front line began to fight, and at this time they said such things......"

Speaking of this, he put away his cold gaze, closed it gently, and sighed: "...... The hearts of all the suspicious people, how can the hearts be divided to get rid of the thief. ”

"What then?" The man, surnamed Xiahou, has a single name. The word 'do' fell, and a punch smashed on several cases, and the short beard was angry, "Do you still fight?!" ”

Cao Cao knew his temperament very well for such a brother in the clan, and he would not be angry, he stood up from there, opened the door, let the wind blow on his face, and took a breath, "Fight... It's already begun. ”

Countless news is like snowflakes flying in Luoyang to gather or disperse transmission, a war is not the two sides set up the soldiers and horses, you come and go, just fight once, which involves the information of all parties, the possibility of rebellion, the terrain of the battlefield, the mobilization of logistics supplies, the training of soldiers, weapons, armor, horses, .......morale, and so on, are all included in a war.

…….

Dozens of miles north of Luyang, in the middle of the night, frightened birds suddenly jumped up and chirped in the air, several scouts rode through the forest, and a scout shouted in a low voice: "Be careful-"

With a whoosh in the air, arrows shot and nailed to the shoulders of another scout, and at the same time that the figure fell from the horse, in the shadows opposite, three war horses rushed out, and a blade slashed out, and Jin Ming struck, bursting out sparks, reflecting the hideous and fierce expressions of both sides.

"Let's go! Deliver the news to General Sun, the Xiliang army is coming—"

One of his companions pounced, pulling a sword-wielding enemy off his horse, drawing his sword and stabbing him into the body, and when he roared, a horse passed by him, and the blade poked out, slashing his head off with a pop, and then chased after the fleeing scout.

The army will march, and the first contest is the scouts of the two sides, and gradually in Luyang, Hanoi, Suozao, Longcheng, etc., the north, east, and south directions began to evolve into small-scale confrontations.

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The bonfire of Mars's self-destruction bounced occasionally, Cai Yan woke up from the blanket, looked at the sky, the sky outside the forest was already bright, and faintly heard the sound of shouting and killing, only to find that there was a thin blanket on her body when she got up, she looked around in a little panic, and saw Gongsun Zhi sitting on a stone not far away sharpening her scimitar, and her heart calmed down.

In this forest, eight hundred wolf riders are checking bows and arrows, weapons, and kneading the muscles of war horses in preparation. Cai Yan squatted down in front of the man with a thin blanket, "What's going on......"

"I accidentally got involved." Gongsun Zhi glanced at her and continued to sharpen his blade, "... It's going to be war. ”