Suddenly leaving Xiangyang, a place where he had fought for a year, Gao Huaiyuan also felt a lot in his heart, in this year, although he gained a lot, but the price he paid was also very large, in just one year, he had accumulated more than 20 large and small war wounds, and his blood was spilled on this land.

Now when he really wants to leave, he really feels a little reluctant, Huang Yan and others are even more reluctant to send Gao Huaiyuan out of more than 20 miles, only under Gao Huaiyuan's persuasion, and they said goodbye to tears, Gao Huaiyuan took Zhou Hao and others, and set foot on the road back to Daye County with light clothes.

As for what will happen in the future, Gao Huaiyuan still has a hazy feeling in his heart, but one thing he knows very well is that with his strength now, it is far from enough to affect this era, although he has invested in this battle of Song and Jin, and has created some good records, but it is still far from affecting the development of history, which he has a clear understanding.

Now the battle has also been fought, although it is only a short year, but Gao Huaiyuan boasts that he has learned a lot of things from these battles that cannot be learned in books, which has greatly strengthened his understanding of the art of war, and he is no longer a rookie who can only talk about soldiers on paper, and then continue to stay here, there is no greater benefit, what he needs now is to return to Crouching Tiger Village as soon as possible and continue to accumulate strength, which is a key to his resignation from Zhao Fang this time. And he needs to do too much, so Gao Huaiyuan will take the opportunity to return to Daye County under the pretext that someone is asking him trouble this time.

Although Gao Huaiyuan was taken one by one, it caused a certain amount of waves in the army, but in such a big war, the current matter at most only set off a small wave in the monstrous waves, and soon the clouds and fog dissipated, after all, he is just a small township soldier commander, to a character like him, in the army is really like a carp crossing the river, there are more!

For this matter, the most dissatisfied is Meng Zongzheng and Meng Heng's father and son, who feel that Zhao Fang's handling of Gao Huaiyuan is unfair, but now they are also busy dealing with the Jin army outside Zaoyang City, and they have no time to take care of more things, fortunately, Meng Heng still has something to gain, although Gao Huaiyuan's baggage battalion was disbanded, but the subordinates of Gao Huaiyuan he valued still invested in his command in accordance with Gao Huaiyuan's intentions, which made him feel very pleased, when he heard that Huang Yan and others came to vote, Meng Heng even personally welcomed them out of the camp and brought them into the camp.

Moreover, Meng Hui did not treat Huang Yan and the others badly, and directly kept Huang Yan by his side and became his deputy, and the rest of the people also according to Huang Yan's statement, according to their strengths, at least they were given more than one team arrangement, and Zhou Jun was even directly arranged to be the head of the capital, which shows that Meng Heng attaches great importance to these teenagers.

And Meng Zongzheng was also very dissatisfied with this matter, feeling that Zhao Fang expelled Gao Huaiyuan from the army, it was like cutting off his finger, and he found Hu Zaixing to complain, complaining that Hu Zaixing did not bring Gao Huaiyuan back to the Zaoyang army, and blamed Hu Zaixing!

Hu Zaixing also felt guilty in his heart, although Gao Huaiyuan was sorry for killing the prisoner, but on the whole, Gao Huaiyuan did nothing wrong, he left him in Taiping Town and didn't ask, which finally led to Gao Huaiyuan's return to Xiangyang and ended up with such a punishment, it seems that he is indeed responsible for this matter, and he also really likes Gao Huaiyuan, and feels that this matter is really a pity! Therefore, he was determined that if he had the opportunity, he must compensate Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan naturally didn't know these things, after leaving Xiangyang, he took more than a dozen of his men all the way back to Daye County, along the way they did not go fast, because of the war, the road was full of fleeing people, so that they could not go fast at all, and among these people, many of them were people who fled from the area where the two armies were fighting, such a large number of refugees, undoubtedly added a lot of burden to the Southern Song Dynasty, it can be seen that the war is simply a catastrophe for the common people, for the economy, It was also a devastating blow, and even on the way, they saw some refugees who died on the side of the road, and the grief was unbearable to witness.

But Gao Huaiyuan had no way, he could only walk in front of them silently, he knew that for the Song people, this was far from the beginning of the disaster, and when the Jin Kingdom fell, the Mongolian army would be a hundred times more cruel than the Jin army, and how many Song people would die tragically under the Mongolian butcher's knife?

After a few years, Gao Huaiyuan has now subtly regarded himself as a Song person, and no longer simply thinks that he is just a Han person, so he is worried when he thinks of what will happen soon.

While walking, several ragged teenagers blocked the footsteps of Gao Huaiyuan and his party, knelt in front of them, begging Gao Huaiyuan to give them something to eat, everyone was looking forward to it, and every pair of eyes on their dirty little faces were full of desire for life.

"Do you still have anything to eat? Give them all if you have them! Gao Huaiyuan felt a sour feeling in his heart, and turned his head to ask Zhou Hao and the others behind him.

But what answered him was a helpless shake of his head: "No! Just now, the last bit of dry food we had already given to a family that was dying of starvation! Now we don't have anything to eat ourselves! There are too many refugees, we can't help them, so let's get to the town as soon as possible! Otherwise, we'll be hungry today! Zhou Hao looked at the hungry teenagers in front of him with a sad face.

Gao Huaiyuan helplessly shrugged his shoulders to these little callers, spread his hands and said, "I'm sorry, we don't have anything to eat now, you better go to the town in front to find something to eat!" ”

So a group of little Hanako got out of the way in disappointment, and lay on the side of the road weakly, obviously these little Hanako have no family, and what their fate will be next, can only be left to fate!

I don't know how many times such a scene happened along the way, but Gao Huaiyuan tried his best to provide them with some help, and took in more than a dozen twelve or thirteen-year-old teenagers from them, and brought them back to Crouching Tiger Village by the way, there was only so much he could do, and he couldn't afford more.

Xiangyang to Ezhou five or six hundred miles, they walked for nearly ten days, along the way over the mountains and mountains, and on foot, and by boat, this day finally saw the city wall of Ezhou City, after arriving here, the situation is finally better, a large number of refugees have been dispersed into the south, the number of refugees here has been greatly reduced, after arriving in Ezhou, they are basically about to reach home.

Everyone showed a look of joy, Crouching Tiger Village was their home, and they were finally about to go home, so they even walked much briskerly.

They were very depressed along the way, and because they were kind-hearted, they kept distributing food to the refugees, so even they were hungry and full, and when they came here, they were already so hungry that they almost wanted to eat a cow!

So when they saw Ezhou City, everyone was anxious to run to the city to have a full meal, so everyone involuntarily accelerated their pace and ran to the gate of Ezhou City.

"Come, stop! Take out your road and check it before you enter the city! The soldiers at the city gate suddenly aimed the weapons in their hands at Gao Huaiyuan and his party!

"We are the ones who came back from before the army and want to go into the city to rest! This is our way, I'm going back to Daye County later! Zhou Hao immediately took out the middle of the road, handed it to the soldiers guarding the door, came from Xiangyang, along the way they don't know how many times they have encountered the check, but only here, the strictest check, shows the importance of Ezhou in the entire Jingxi Road, it is estimated that as long as the Jin people are not stupid, they will definitely send people to Ezhou to find out the news.

After checking their path, there was no problem with listening to everyone's accents, and Gao Huaiyuan was still a Bao Yilang, so the soldiers didn't dare to treat them slowly, and put everyone into the city.

However, as soon as they entered the city, everyone immediately felt that the atmosphere was different, because unlike the tension outside the city, the city did not seem to be too heavily affected by the war, and the streets were still bustling with people, and there were many shops and shops on the roadside, and the fireworks were still dressed up in flowers, attracting customers to find business.

Looking at the scene in the city, everyone was like a world away, they have lived in a military camp for more than a year, although it is not a day to lick the blood on the knife, but the nerves are still very nervous, and suddenly entered such a prosperous city, everyone felt a little unacceptable, and opened their mouths for a long time.

"Don't look at it! Find a place to rest and eat, and we'll rush back to Daye County tomorrow!" After all, Gao Huaiyuan was a little nervous, and he was the first to react from such an environment and instructed everyone.

In the bustling crowd, their group looked at the lively scene in the city, as if they had suddenly returned to reality from the wasteland, Gao Huaiyuan was better, after all, he had been in and out of Xiangyang City many times in Xiangyang, and he did not go out in Crouching Tiger Village on weekdays, and walked around the surrounding counties, but since these teenagers entered Crouching Tiger Village, they rarely had the opportunity to walk around in a city of this size.

Gao Huaiyuan also saw their excitement, thinking that they had been born and died with them for so long, but they had not enjoyed it properly, and he felt a little guilty in his heart, so he slowed down and let them take a good look at the bustling city of Ezhou.

These people seem to be a little out of place in this city, because they are coming back from the front of the army, and everyone is still wearing military clothes, although they are not wearing armor, but they all hang waist swords, and although they are not very old, they all look very strong, so it is more attractive for such a group of people to go anywhere.

The roadside liquor shops saw them, greeted them warmly, invited them to come in and taste the good wine in the store, and from time to time there were some roadside hooks*, which would flatter them, trying to keep them and do their business.

Now they have been in the army for a year, and they have been instilled with yellow jokes by those military men for a long time, and they have long known about men and women, but after all, they are still a bunch of boys and chickens, where can they stand those * people so pranayama! Therefore, including Gao Huaiyuan, he could only flee in the wilderness, leaving behind a woman's laughter.

"Damn, this looks like it's been a war!" After all, Zhou Hao is also from Shaoxing Mansion, he has seen some of the market, and after swallowing a mouthful of foam, he looked at the lively scene in the city and said to Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan had regained his calm at this time, and said with a slight smile: "Ezhou is an important town on Jingxi Road, and this place is in the south of the Yangtze River, although the Jin army is not small, it is blocked in the north of the river and cannot cross to the south, and this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack because of the river, plus the two armies of Chen Zhu and the waterway, this place is naturally much safer than the Jiangbei Prefectures, so it is naturally not affected by the war, even if the Song and Jin are at war now, this is still the place where the East and West of Jingxi Road meet, and it is also a place where businessmen gather, so it is much more prosperous than the Jiangbei Prefectures, which is not strange!" Let's eat first! Now I think you guys have forgotten about hunger! ”

A group of people nodded again and again, as Gao Huaiyuan continued to look for the inn, after walking two streets, finally found a suitable place to stay, twenty or thirty people sat down in the hall in front of the inn in an orderly manner, Zhang Luo had a full meal, when the hot meal was served, everyone moved their index fingers and worked together, sweeping away a lot of food.

Looking at the lively scene in the city, although everyone was tired along the way, they were still a little excited, especially because they were still young, and it was rare to enter such a big city once, and they couldn't sleep when they were immediately allowed to rest, and they sat in the hall one by one, with an expression of eagerness to go shopping on the street, but they didn't dare to say it, for fear that Gao Huaiyuan would not agree.

Gao Huaiyuan saw what these boys thought, smiled and ordered: "Don't look at me like that, if you want to go to the street, go to the street, but be careful not to cause trouble, leave your waist knives in the inn, the province is too ostentatious, everyone goes to Zhou Hao where to spend some money, it doesn't hurt to buy something you like, don't delay the rest, come back early!" ”

"I'm not going to turn around! I'll stay in the store and sleep, and I'll leave you guys to me!" Zhou Hao shook his head and said, he doesn't like to be lively, so he would rather stay in the inn and watch these newly recruited teenagers than wander around the streets.

A group of people immediately let out a burst of cheers, handed over the waist knife to Zhou Hao, and ran out of the inn in groups of three or five, and even Li Ergou, who didn't like to talk on weekdays, walked out of the inn together, which shows that they are still young men after all, and they still can't withstand the temptation of the colorful world.

Gao Huaiyuan smiled and watched the group of boys under him run out, patted Zhou Hao's shoulder and said: "I said Zhou Hao, you don't have to be so stuffy in the inn, let Wu Ming watch here, let's go out and go around, we should buy something for the family, you can't go back so empty-handed!" ”

Wu Ming is a new teenager Gao Huaiyuan on the road this time, he is thirteen years old, he is very calm, and he is very appreciated by Gao Huaiyuan among the newly recruited teenagers, this group of newly recruited teenagers naturally has no treatment to wander on the street, so Gao Huaiyuan let these people temporarily be taken care of by Wu Ming, and decided to go out for a walk.

Zhou Hao saw Gao Huaiyuan say this, so he nodded and agreed, and sternly admonished Wu Ming and their dozen newly recruited teenagers, let them obey Wu Ming's arrangement, and stay in the inn honestly, not allowed to go out, since the teenagers were taken in by Gao Huaiyuan, they have gradually become accustomed to obeying their orders in the past few days, so they nodded and agreed, under the leadership of Wu Ming, they went to the backyard to rest, they cherished this opportunity, if it weren't for Gao Huaiyuan, they might have starved to death in Jiangbei, So they are more obedient.

Gao Huaiyuan walked out of the inn with Zhou Hao, and came to the streets of the bustling Ezhou City, Gao Huaiyuan is now quite a little homesick, he has been away from home for almost a year, and he doesn't know what is going on in Crouching Tiger Village now, these two days will appear in his mind from time to time Liu Er's face, today to Ezhou, how can he buy something for Liu Er, he can't go home empty-handed.

So the two of them walked the streets and alleys, from time to time to some shops to see, constantly buy some gadgets, and after a while, they collected a lot of objects, Gao Huaiyuan also specially bought a few pieces of jewelry for Liu Er, hoping to compensate for Liu Er's care for him for so long.

After they wandered around, the two of them unconsciously walked near the south gate of the city, seeing that it was getting late, so they were about to return to the inn to rest, but suddenly saw a team of messengers pressing more than a dozen people towards the city, Gao Huaiyuan didn't care, and Zhou Hao suddenly grabbed Gao Huaiyuan's arm.

"Big brother! Oops! It's our people! Zhou Hao whispered to Gao Huaiyuan.

After Gao Huaiyuan was taken aback, he quickly looked at it, and really saw that this group of people seemed to be familiar, one of them was a young man named Zhao Tong from Crouching Tiger Village, these people were all tied up with five flowers, and they all had leather whip scars on their bodies and faces, so they were taken aback in their hearts, knowing that they were in big trouble!

It turned out that these people were all northerner craftsmen who Gao Huaiyuan had selected from the troops in Taiping Town to be sent back to Crouching Tiger Village, and they were obviously blocked here and arrested as Jin people's spies.

"Didn't they arrive in Daye County a long time ago? How did you just get here? When he saw this group of people, Gao Huanyuan immediately grabbed Zhou Hao and hid behind the crowd, and the province was recognized by this group of people and caused trouble, Zhou Hao asked Gao Huaiyuan in confusion.

"I don't know! Maybe they're walking slower! Or maybe it's something on the road that will grind until now! That's a big problem! Gao Huaiyuan frowned and replied.