I used to think that the Central Plains was miserable enough, and that was because I hadn't reached Hebei yet.

The entire county town was in ruins, the city walls were completely destroyed, and there were no buildings more than one person high in the entire county.

The city was full of foul odors, and everywhere were crows with shiny black eyes and wild dogs with round bellies.

Continuing north, passing through Ci County, Linzhang County, Wei County, Ye County, and Shexian County, we came to Handan City.

Handan City, like the previous counties, has become a puddle of gravel, but the difference is that it is a very large puddle of gravel.

The city of Handan was like hell, full of headless corpses.

This is because the Royal Army's military merit certificate is a head, and for every ten heads cut, the rank is increased by one level.

I saw many soldiers of the Royal Army rummaging through the ruins with sacks on their backs, which contained skulls, gold and silver treasures.

Handan's situation is 10,000 times worse than that of the Central Plains - if there is still Handan.

After all, this is Zhao Zhengbao's lair.

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It has to be said that the resistance of the Hebei people is much larger than that of the Central Plains.

There were also many corpses of the Royal Army on the side of the road, whose heads had also been cut off, and their comrades had to go to receive merit.

There are also people attacking us, both soldiers and bandits.

Some of the Royal Army are attacking us, trying to steal our equipment; Some of the Hebei Army thought we were the Royal Army; There are also some bandits in the rivers and lakes who are also attacking us, and they do not know their intentions.

Without exception, those people never survived 10 seconds of our counterattack.

Dealing with machetes and spears with submachine guns is nothing short of a massacre.

Continue to the north, through Zhending County, Jingxing County, Houlu County, Yuanshi County, Lingshou County, Qicheng County, Luancheng County, Wuji County, Pingshan County, Shulu County, Fuping County, Xingtang County, Shijia County, Heping County, Dingzhou County, Xincheng County, and came to Baoding outside the city.

This has been under siege for more than a month, and Baoding City has not yet been breached.

The tragic scene in the counties in front infuriated the Hebei army, they had no way to retreat, and under the city of Baoding, the two armies carried out countless fierce charges and counter-charges.

In the sea of corpses and blood, black smoke rises everywhere, and crows cover the sun.

We bypassed the city of Baoding, deceived the front-line troops of the Royal Army with the password obtained from the forced confession, and entered Zhao Zhengbao's territory.

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As soon as we entered the north of Baoding, the Hebei Army launched an attack on us.

Although Yan Zhao Tieqi was powerful, it was still impossible to beat our submachine guns and grenades.

Wang Yuquan, a major of the forbidden army, was indeed very powerful, he commanded a team of 100 people to defeat the attack of hundreds of cavalry and thousands of infantry, and also captured many people.

The captives were ordered to take off their clothes and then executed.

We put on their clothes, planted their provincial flags, military flags, and government flags, and changed into Hebei documents.

The checkpoints on the road were strict, but we all went all the way.

The men were amazed at the sight of our equipment, and some waved at us happily.

All the way through Anxin County, Hejian County, Renqiu County, Bazhou County, Dacheng County, Jingzhou County, Jinghai County, Nankai County, Tianjin County, Hexi County, Jinnan County, came to the vicinity of Yanjing, at this time can no longer enter, because the front is the Acropolis.

These acropolises were well guarded, and there were walls and moats between them, and we could not enter them at all.

By this time, the truck was empty, the gas was running out, and the food was gone.

Hebei banned the circulation of paper gold dollars from the imperial court, so the hundreds of thousands of paper gold dollars we brought with us became a pile of waste paper.

We had no choice but to stop and spread the news that we were a government army from Handan, and we had come to Yanjing to join Zhao Zhengbao.

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On December 15, the third year of Daming Honghua, our team was stationed in a small uninhabited village.

Wang Yuquan and Zhang Kangning commanded their men to build fortifications, and I fell asleep in the military tent.

It was night, and the dense sound of horses' hooves came from a distance, mixed with human voices and horses.

I got up and walked out of the tent, climbed onto the roof, and found a force of thousands of cavalry surrounding the camp.

Dense flames surrounded the entire village, like stars in the sky.

We all put on body armor and steel helmets.

Wang Yuquan commanded his men to set up submachine guns on the house, which was surrounded by bullets and grenades.

If we really fight, these thousands of cavalry will not hurt any of us after they die.

At this time, a torch comes from a distance, from far to near, from small to large.

Wang Yuquan: "Don't fire yet!" ”

When the torch came to view, holding it was a cavalryman in the shape of an officer, who glanced at our weapons and shouted to us: "I am the deputy commander of the Tianjin Guard, who are you?" ”

I said, "My name is Zhao Fangju, a member of the Handan clan. I'm here to find Zhao Zhengbao, and I have something important to tell you. ”

He said: "Lord Zhao Zhengbao, the governor of Lianghe, has an order for you to surrender your weapons and then go to Yanjing to meet him. ”

I had thought about all these situations before, and I had already thought of countermeasures.

There is no basis for trust between the two sides, so they can only take their time.

I can start with the simplest fuel technology to gain the initial trust, and then little by little the trust is strengthened on both sides.

After teaching the technique, I immediately returned to Chang'an.

I said, "We can't disarm." I have a suggestion, I go to see him by myself first, I won't bring any weapons, how about it? ”

He nodded in agreement.

I went back and got the small bottle with the "soybean enzyme" in it, and then said to Wang Yuquan and Zhang Kangning, "You guys are waiting here." If I don't come back in forty-eight hours, you'll break out. ”

Zhang Kangning said: "I will go too." ”

Me: "If you're not afraid of death, come along." ”