The fortified city stands in the wilderness, and the bones are unkempt. The bandits are as cunning as wolves, and they are fiercer than tigers. Li Min earns a red neck, who knows about meat? Have mercy on me the suffering of the world, and weep for sorrow. A poem tells the sorrow of the people and the suffering of the people. Xing, the people suffer, die, the people suffer, the hard-won theorem in the world since ancient times.

After leaving the boundary of Zhongwu County, Zhao Jie and his party stepped into the boundary of Pengcheng County. Marching on the land of Pengcheng County, a scene completely different from Zhongwu County was displayed in Zhao Jie's eyes.

Above the endless field, it was late autumn, and the fields full of seedlings were overgrown with weeds. There is not a single figure between heaven and earth, villages are dilapidated, wild animals are running wantonly on the plains, and the scene of an abandoned plain is a scene.

In late autumn, night fell earlier than usual, and although Zhao Jie and his party accelerated their pace of progress during the day, unfortunately they still failed to reach the next town. Zhao Jie and his party had to stop and set up camp in the boundless wilderness.

The tents were hastily set up, and everyone took off their tired bodies to eat a supper, and then they all went back to their tents to rest. The whole campsite extends in all directions with the tent where Xingyi lives as the center, and all the tents are roughly arranged in one circle after another, and the tents between the circles are staggered, and the whole campsite stretches for more than ten meters. The tent where Zhao Jie lived was located in the second circle, next to the tent of the star instrument.

In the middle of the night, when everyone had fallen asleep, there was silence between heaven and earth, and when the darkness on the horizon covered everything, there was suddenly a trace of movement in the field, and a pair of emerald eyes were suspended between heaven and earth, moving rapidly.

A sharp wolf howl sounded between heaven and earth, and in an instant, the sound of "rustling" weeds swaying seemed to be everywhere in the field.

"Wolves!" A thought came to the mind of the armorer on duty at night. When wolves hunt, they all appear in groups, as few as a dozen, as many as dozens, and the wolves are almost invincible wherever they go, and the armor immediately realized the danger of the situation, so he immediately sounded the alarm drum around him.

"Knock knock knock ......" A few drums woke everyone up. When Zhao Jie escorted Xingyi to the outermost layer of the camp, almost everyone also arrived. Everyone had an anxious look on their faces.

"Uncle, what happened?" Xingyi still maintains his unique gentle temperament, approachable and asks.

When the soldier heard this, he looked up and found that it was Wang Ji who asked him, and hurriedly saluted: "The retainer of the Ji family Wei Dang pays a visit to Wang Ji!" ”

"No need to be polite." Xingyi picked up Wei Dang, and then said, "Uncle Wei, what happened. ”

Wei Dang reported excitedly: "Your Royal Highness, it seems that we are surrounded by wolves, and the Lord Commander has gathered us together to brainstorm and find a way to get out. ”

After listening to Wei Dang's words, Zhao Jie looked at Wei Dang who was excited, and felt depressed in his heart: "There are not enough arrows, and the number of people is not very large. You're all at this time, and you're still excited! ”

Zhao Jie accompanied Xingyi into the tent of the discussion, and Xu Yang, Gao Le and others were already sitting on the ground, in contemplation.

"Sorry, guys, it's late." Zhao Jie confessed, and then sat down separately with Xingyi. Xingyi is Wang Ji, and her status is the most valuable in this camp where the main body is composed of Zhou people, so she is seated at the top. And Zhao Jie lived as a guest.

"Your Royal Highness Wang Ji, according to the scouts, we have been surrounded by wolves, and hundreds of wolves are encamping in the camp from the eight directions of the back, how to act, please show Wang Ji." Zhou Chaozong, the leader of Xingyi's bodyguard, saluted Xingyi and asked.

Xingyi has been living under the care of her adoptive parents who are little officials before she was seven years old, and has been living in the glorious prince's mansion after the age of seven, if it weren't for this time traveling the world with Zhao Jie, it is estimated that she will not go to the wilderness in her life, and she will never come into contact with the wolf This vicious animal will not be in contact with the wolf in her life, and the wolf may only survive in her imagination. The guard's question is absolutely impossible to answer with her current knowledge, and it is about dozens of lives, and it is easy for her to answer it. The habit of relying on Zhao Jie for a long time made her unconsciously turn to Zhao Jie whenever she encountered difficulties, and this time was no exception, so Xingyi looked at Zhao Jie, her eyes were full of the meaning of asking for help. In Xingyi's eyes, Zhao Jie is omnipotent, so there is a sense of trust in his eyes.

After Zhao Jie saw Xingyi's eyes, he was about to get up, narrating his thoughts, and throwing bricks and stones. At this moment, Xu Yang beside him held down Zhao Jie and stood up first.

"There are some small opinions below, please consider them together." Xu Yang said. "As we all know, wolves fear fire, and today we break wolves with nothing but fire."

"But there are hundreds of wolves in the wolf pack, although we can use torches to stop the wolves, but we are not enough in number, I am afraid that we will not be able to cover everything, what can we do?" Someone objected.

"Listen to me slowly." Xu Yang continued: "I don't know if you can see the withered yellow grass all over the ground outside, these are the key to the strategy. ”

"What we need to do is to set fire to the wild grass all over the ground, and let the fire burn outward from the camp, so that even if this fire does not kill the wolves, the fire should be able to burn for a night, and by dawn, the wolves should probably retreat, and we can get out." Xu Yang said eloquently.

"Master Xu, are you kidding? If the prairie is set on fire by fire, we will inevitably be burned to death by the fire, doesn't Xu Gongzi understand such a simple truth? . Someone questioned.

"The brother is right, but there is a solution to this problem - we can sort out the open space not far from the camp, which is not too big, and make sure that the grass is completely cleared, and this open space surrounds the camp, so that we can make sure that when we light the grass, the fire does not extend to the camp." Xu Yang explained.

"Great idea!" Zhao Jie high-fived and applauded.

"If the others have any good ideas, if no one objects, just follow Brother Xu's strategy!" The star instrument made the final decision.

Subsequently, everyone was mobilized, and inspired by the idea of survival, dozens of people quickly sorted out a circle of open space outside the camp with different tools, and Zhao Jie and Xingyi also participated in the labor.

Just as everyone finished sorting out the land, the vanguard of the wolves also appeared in everyone's sight. Dozens of wolves opened their bloody mouths and demonstrated against Zhao Jie and his party, as if asking Zhao Jie and his party to surrender obediently.

"Ignition." Xingyi immediately ordered. So a mighty fire was kindled in the wasteland.

"Pengcheng Chronicles" contains: In the late autumn of the 30th year of King Xiang of Chuqing, at night, the people of the eastern cities of Pengcheng County saw the light shining in the eastern sky with their own eyes, and it lasted all night. At that time, everyone called it auspicious, and fools and fools even thought that it was a vision of the gods coming to earth. Pengcheng County has a huge response.

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The next day, Zhao Jie woke up from his sleep, and there was already a scene of clouds and clear wind between heaven and earth. Endless herbaceous ashes and charred wolf carcasses were the only signs of a fire that had broken out here last night.

Although after a night of tossing, Zhao Jie and his party did not dare to continue to stay here, so everyone quickly packed up their salutes and continued on the road, heading towards Pengcheng.

Pengcheng, that is, Xuzhou, Jiangsu. Pengcheng, at the end of the primitive society, Peng Zu, the great-great-grandson of Zhuan, was good at preparing delicious pheasant soup (pheasant soup), Peng Zu dedicated it to Di Yao to eat, the emperor praised Peng Zu's ingenuity, so Emperor Yao named Peng Zu in Pengcheng to establish the Great Peng Clan, Pengcheng got its name from this.

In the fifteenth year of Xia Qi, Wuguan and Xihe rebelled, Peng Boshou led his division to conquer Xihe, and Wuguan returned. Since ancient times, the prosperity must decline, Shang Wuding forty-three years of Wang Shi destroyed Peng, after the destruction of the country, Pengcheng became the Pengcheng of Shang. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Xu Yan, the head of Dongyi, united with Jiuyi to attack Zhou, and King Mu recognized him as the overlord of the East because of his great power. It was also a boom and a bust, and King Xu Yan was defeated by Chu shortly thereafter. The defeated King Xu Yan chose benevolence and righteousness to avoid the war between continuing the war and maintaining peace, and went north to Pengcheng, and the people felt their benevolence, followed by tens of thousands of migrants.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Pengcheng experienced the trauma of war, and was originally a city of the Song State, and then went through a series of changes, and finally belonged to the Chu State. In the thirteenth year of King Jian of Zhou, Chu Zi Xin invaded Pengcheng of Song, and killed it with 300 chariots, in the seventeenth year of King An of Zhou, Han Wenhou attacked the Song State, and captured Song Xiugong in Pengcheng, and in the twenty-ninth year of King Zhou Yun, King Min of Qi destroyed Song, and two years later, Chu State took advantage of the civil strife in Qi to capture Pengcheng and other places in Huaibei, and Pengcheng still belongs to Chu State to this day.

Zhao Jie and his entourage went all the way and finally arrived in Pengcheng after a three-day trek. At dusk on the day they settled in Pengcheng, the first snow fell on the world.

The snowflakes landed in the corners of the world step by step with elegant steps, the pine trees that seemed to be immortal were also moved by its crystalline and draped in layers of silver white, and the white and fat snowman on the ground stared at the ice flowers shining in the sunlight on the treetops with its small eyes in doubt, and the whole world seemed to enter a silent world. A white gown was draped over the tree, and a thick white quilt appeared to be spread on the ground. The earth has become a world of whitewashed jade.