Bi Jin, Yang Zaixing, and dozens of people left Yingtianfu and arrived in Huazhou in a few days. Adjutant General Wang Lan led 3,000 black-armored cavalry troops to wait outside the city. These cavalry soldiers are the Taihang rebels who have followed Yang Zaixing for the longest time. After half a year of fighting with the Jin soldiers, the three thousand black armor troops had already been tempered into an elite division by blood and fire.

The three thousand black armor stood outside the city of Huazhou, with a straight waist, like wood and stone, silent, but on the bright swords and guns, they exuded a murderous aura that frightened the birds in the air and made a detour, not daring to fly over the head of the sergeant. The war horse also sensed this murderous aura and snorted uneasily.

Han Chang said convincingly, "General Yang, I didn't expect that you are not only higher than me in martial arts, but also better than me in military training. Han asked himself if he could train such elite soldiers. ”

Yang Zaixing shook his head and said, "Brother Han, don't put gold on my face first, I don't have the ability to train the army." These cavalry troops were all trained by my righteous brother Wang Lan and the 300 teams sent by Yue Shuai. I'm just going to fight. ”

Han Chang laughed and said, "I'm also a natural fighter!" ”

Yang Zaixing pointed at Wang Lan, who was as tall as a pine tree, and said, "So we can't do without my righteous brother when we go north this time." ”

Liang Xing, Bijin, and Han Chang turned their attention to Wang Lan. Wang Lan has clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, she should have been a handsome guy, but unfortunately the scars on her face are shocking, and they also add a vicissitudes of life to Wang Lanping.

Yang Zaixing looked at Wang Lan and asked, "Is the defense of the city clear?" ”

Since Zong Ze's death, Yang Zaixing, who was sent to Huazhou by Zong Ze, no longer has any illusions in the imperial court, and decisively erected the battle flag of the Rizhao Great Wall to protect the people. Of the two commanders, Liu Yan chose Zhao Gou and Zhang Xie chose the Protector Army.

At this military meeting, Zhang Xie was transferred to Chenzhou. Now the military general guarding Huazhou is Yue Fei's uncle Yao Zheng. The prefect is the three yuan of the Jinshi King of the Heavenly Mansion. After Yang Zaixing and Wang Lan led 3,000 cavalry troops to leave Huazhou, Yao Zheng was in charge of the defense of Huazhou. Huazhou is the center of Hebei West Road, and the location is critical, and there is no room for error. That's why Yang Zaixing asked.

Wang Lan smiled, "Big brother, don't worry. General Yao is a fine man. In the past few days, he and the newly appointed prefect Wang have been on patrol all around, leaving early and returning late, very attentively. Before he went out of the city this morning, he asked me to make amends to you. said that everything is cumbersome, and you can't send the eldest brother in person. ”

Yang Zaixing said jokingly, "He is Yue Shuai's uncle, I don't dare to blame him." ”

And they all burst into laughter.

What Yao Zhengjun is like, everyone is not clear. Because he was seriously injured in the battle between Zhuludu and Shaguzhi, he was recuperated in Yingtianfu for several months before he recovered. When he was finally able to go to the battlefield, the battle to defend the Central Plains came to an end. However, judging from Wang Lan's narrative, Yao Zheng is at least a very attentive general.

Yang Zaixing glanced up at the soldiers on the head of the city, turned his gaze to the north, pointed to the north with his big hand, and shouted, "Brothers, all the way to the north!" ”

The hundreds of miles from Huazhou to Zhendingfu are extremely desolate, and the dilapidated villages are slumped on the ground, and the population is extremely sparse. Half of the fertile fields on both sides of the official road were abandoned. Half of them were planted with dried soybeans. One by one, the peasants were working in the fields with their backs on their backs, mostly old and weak, women and children, and when they saw thousands of cavalry galloping towards them, they first panicked, and those who could run ran into the valleys and rivers in the sorghum fields, and the old men who could not run stood in the fields with their fate. When they saw the sunshine of the Great Wall on the flag, they immediately settled down, pulled their necks and shouted, "All come out to work!" The Protectors who came did not disturb the people. Yue Shuai's military horse! ”

The hider came out in a daze, smirking embarrassedly at the passing Black Armor. There is only this one of the military horses in the world that does not disturb the people. The only ones who had to hide in front of the Protectors were the Golden Dog and the Swallow Horse Thief.

Yang Zaixing immediately looked at these peasants and found that they were all in tattered clothes, like beggars. The children had no clothes to wear, and they were all naked.

Liang Xing's mind was quick, and he immediately explained, "General Yang, these farmers are all homeless people who have just settled down, although they are in a difficult situation right now, they will be better after the autumn harvest. Governor Zhang's Mansion gave each homeless family 30 acres of ownerless fertile land and seeds. And this year's taxes are exempted. Therefore, after the autumn harvest, the people will definitely eat and drink. ”

Governor Zhang's Mansion is Zhang Gong, the commander of Tiegu County. Zhang Gong was originally a genuine county magistrate from Jinshi, and he was good at political affairs, and he guarded the calf village just out of the enthusiasm of a scholar. After Bi Jin took over Baoqi Village, Zhang Gong continued to be in charge of the political affairs of Zhending Mansion. In order to cope with the tide of displaced people, Yue Fei specially invited Zhang Gong to sit in Kaide Mansion. Zhang Gong lived up to expectations and successfully persuaded millions of the most ruthless refugees on the West Road of Hebei to return to their homes and cultivate the land. Yue Fei admired Zhang Gong, a literati who had both ability and character, so he sent Zhang Gong to the Daimyo's Mansion as the prefect.

And judging from the fact that the homeless people can recognize the flag of the Protector Army at a glance, Zhang Gong has done quite well. He not only settled millions of displaced people, but also settled the flag of the Protector Army into the hearts of the displaced people.

Yang Zaixing sighed. "I thought that the people of Huazhou were hard enough, because they were not as good as Ying Tianfu. But compared with these displaced people, the people of Huazhou are lucky again. ”

The Jin soldiers besieged it for half a year, but they never could take the city of Xiazhou. Although most of the villages outside the city were destroyed, after all, the people hid in the city and escaped the mace of the golden soldiers. The Jin soldiers retreated, and the people returned to the villages, erected grass huts on the ruins, and soon regained the vitality of the countryside.

Because of this, the people of Huazhou live a life that is more than enough. Compared with Ying Tianfu, which has never been looted by the Jin people, it is much inferior. However, compared to the Shinding Daimyo who had been occupied by the Jin people, it was far superior.

Listening to Yang Zaixing's sigh, Bi Jin suddenly said, "General Yang, although these homeless people are living hard, compared with the Han'er in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, they are lucky stars. Although the homeless people can't eat enough for the time being, at least they don't worry about the saber of the golden dog and the iron hooves of the horse thief. After Brother Liang and I killed Pharmacist Guo, we took advantage of the situation to enter the territory of Mozhou, but we thought we were in the ghost domain. Except for the dock fort of the family, there are no people in other places. It is really white bones exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. ”

Han Chang nodded, indicating that he agreed with Bi Jin's statement. "When Han was still in the Golden Dog Army, he led the army to suppress the Yanyun horse thieves, and found that everywhere he went, there were all homeless people who had started trouble due to hunger, and they couldn't be killed, and they couldn't be killed. The sixteen states of Yanyun, which have always been rich, have long been squeezed out of the last drop of oil and water by the Khitan nobles. Coupled with the successive droughts, locust plagues, military disasters, and the massacre launched by the golden dog to reduce the number of soldiers, Yanyun's tens of thousands of men are struggling on the death line every day. ”

Yang Zaixing said angrily, "I'd rather be a peace dog than a mess." The people of Yanyun have been enslaved by foreign races for more than 100 years, which can be described as even more miserable. ”

Bi Jin sneered, "It's not that there is no proud man!" For example, those wealthy forts that spread Yanyun have money, food, soldiers, and knives, and in the troubled times, they are more comfortable than before. These wealthy families surrendered to the golden dogs, and sent wine, meat and women to the golden dogs living in the dock fort, which was so despicable that they were vicious and evil to the same clan of the homeless people outside the dock fort. As far as I know, most of the Jin people's policy of reducing the number of Ding was implemented by these families. ”

Yang Zaixing's face faintly showed murderous aura. "Damn the family, damn the traitor!"

Everyone talked all the way, and when they walked to the Daimyo's Mansion, they said goodbye to Liang Xing and continued to march towards the Zhending Mansion. On the day of the Midyear Festival in July, I just arrived at the calf village. Yang Zaixing looked at the village and blurted out, "What a village with Taihang locks and keys!" ”

Baoqi Village is located in Zhending Prefecture Luxian County, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the Jurchens were allowed to occupy this village, it would block the way of the Taihang Righteous Army out of the mountain. In the original history, Tiegu County isolated Zhang Gong, and after two years of trapping the calf village, the village was still broken by the Jin people. Zong Han saw the importance of holding the calf village, so he sent heavy troops to garrison here. Since then, this stockade has been like a chain that has locked the mighty Taihang Righteous Army. When Yue Fei's northern expedition to Zhuxian Town, 100,000 Taihang rebels besieged the calf village, and they could not go down for a month. Later, Yue Fei withdrew his army, and the Taihang Righteous Army was defeated by Zong Bi, who had his hands freed, and Zhao Yun died in this battle. When the Mongols destroyed the Jin, they also repeatedly attacked the calf village, and finally adopted the same method as the Jin people besieged Zhang Gong, besieged for a year and a half, starved to death the Jin soldiers in the village, and then took the village.

The area of the calf village is very large, and there are more than 1,000 acres of fertile land in the village, but now they have been transformed into simple houses. You must know that when there were the most displaced people in the calf village, there were more than 100,000 people. In the severe cold of winter, you can't drench the homeless people in the open air. However, now the displaced people in the village have been scattered in the Zhending Mansion, and the huge calf village has become a pure barracks. Hundreds of sharp-eyed soldiers stood at the head of the wall, always paying attention to the movements outside the wall.

When the 3,000 black-armored troops broke into the sight of the defenders, a hurried horn sounded in the village. In less than a quarter of an hour, the wall was already full of soldiers standing in battle, and all kinds of long-range weapons were also placed on the wall.

Gao Lin, Bi Jin's deputy who stayed in the village, stood above the gate of the village, looking at the black-armored army that was getting closer and closer, and a smile suddenly appeared on Yan Sù's face. Because he had already seen under the banner, a figure as thin as iron was General Bi Jin.

Even so, Gao Lin did not suddenly order the opening of the village to greet him. It wasn't until the three thousand black armor troops stopped more than a thousand steps outside the wall, and Bi Jin, Yang Zaixing, and Han Chang marched into the walled gate, that Gao Lin ordered to open the walled gate.

"Gao Lin has seen General Bi!"

Bi Jin nodded. Gao Lin is rigorous in handling things, and he is the talent of a general.

Gao Lin saw Yang Zaixing, and his face showed excitement. He clenched his fists and said to Yang Zaixing, "Gao Lin has seen General Yang. ”

Yang Zaixing was stunned for a moment and said, "Do you recognize me?" ”

Gao Lin danced and said, "Zhuludu, General Yang killed Sha Guzhi in the battle, and the last general is the back sergeant under General Yang. ”

Yang Zaixing cut the sand in the bamboo reed formation, which is famous all over the world. But the battle was also extremely fierce. Yang Zaixing did not rush into battle alone, there were still a hundred backs behind him.

Yang Zaixing said a little embarrassed, "Ah, I'm sorry. Brother Gao, Yang didn't remember you. ”

A look of disappointment appeared on Gao Lin's face. But it soon recovered. "At that time, I was just an ordinary sergeant, and General Yang couldn't remember me. But I will never forget General Yang's god-like heroism. General Bi, could it be that General Yang is also coming to my calf village? ”

Yang Zaixing laughed and said, "Brother Gao, I want to sue you for two things. First of all, General Bi is now a division commander. And you, too, have become the deputy commander of the independent division. The second thing is, can the 3,000 brothers who came with me also let them enter the village? ”

When Gao Lin heard that Bi Jin had become the division commander, he was immediately overjoyed. After all, in the Protector Army, the division commander is a high-ranking general. He scratched his head and said repeatedly, "When I saw General Yang, I was so excited that I forgot about the other brothers. ”

Bi Jin patted Gao Lin on the shoulder and said, "Vice General Gao, don't get excited. Although Yang Zaixing is your idol, you don't have to block the door of the village to talk. Tonight, let's have a long talk. ”