Shanxi, Binh Duong.

Jiangzhou is one of the scattered prefectures of Pingyang Prefecture, with only three counties under its jurisdiction: Jiangxian, Yuanqu and Jishan.

Recently, a group of displaced people fleeing from the famine have come to Yuanqu County one after another, one by one, unkempt, wrapped in colorful and shabby clothes, shivering in the cold wind, stepping on the thick snow, and struggling to walk towards Dongyang Village in front.

If you pay close attention, you will find that this group of displaced people is different from the ordinary refugees who fled the famine, there are no women and old people, all of them are adults and young people, and some are even tall and strong, and some people also have swords and other weapons for self-defense, and most of them carry a wooden stick and other guys to defend themselves.

In the war years, there were rogues everywhere, and there were thieves who occupied the mountains as kings and robbed the road every few sections, and it was normal for traveler caravans to have self-defense weapons, and powerful caravans even dared to carry bows and arrows, which were extremely lethal forbidden weapons.

Although this group of homeless people is unkempt, their clothes are tattered, and most of them are yellow, hungry and thin, they have a chilling aura that shocks people's hearts, and ordinary people dare to provoke them.

"Stop, stop moving."

As they approached the entrance of the village, a middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper hurried to stop the homeless people from entering the village, all of whom were armed with swords and other weapons, and even a few strong bows.

Among the displaced people, several strong men who walked in the front exchanged glances, and the person who called the tall brother turned his head and whispered a few words, and a thin young man came out of the crowd, and begged the housekeeper pitifully, can you give a little food, they lack food and clothing, hunger and cold, and are about to die of hunger and freeze to death.

The butler was hard-hearted, with a cold face threatening, and the thin young man suddenly burst into trouble, restrained the butler, and the cold dagger was on the butler's neck.

The housekeeper was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he was scared to pee on the spot, and hurriedly stopped the family members from putting down their weapons, and the homeless people took control of the situation without much effort, quickly threw away the wooden stick in their hands, and picked up the swords and other weapons thrown on the snow.

The housekeeper was forced into the village by the homeless people, called to open the door of the house, hundreds of homeless people rushed in, controlled the landlord of the village, the old wealth forester, and forced the subordinates in the house to boil water and cook for them.

It was cold and icy, and the villagers who lacked food and clothing could only sit around the fire to keep warm, and the village was quiet, and no one knew that hundreds of homeless people had poured into the village to control the foresters.

Until the next day, the villagers found that there were more than N strange faces in the village, and they were all worried and afraid, but fortunately, these people were very friendly and distributed food from house to house, so that the hungry and cold villagers were grateful, and called Brother Gao a good person, a living Bodhisattva sent by heaven to help the suffering.

Brother Gao is benevolent and bold, and his martial arts are strong, he is proficient in all eighteen kinds of martial arts, and his brothers are also proficient in skills, which naturally makes the young people in the village worship them, and soon follow Brother Gao and they mingle and learn self-defense kung fu together.

Since the 36th battalion was defeated by Sun Chuanting, Cao Wenzhao and other Ming troops, the plan to cross east into Jin was put on hold, they gathered the remnants of the old army and hid in the deep mountains and old forests to play a game of hide and seek with the officers and soldiers, seeing that the food was about to run out, and the cold winter was coming, they had to seriously think about how to live in the future?

Sichuan Shuixi Tusi An Bangyan and Extravagant Chongming Xing rebelled, and Qin Liangyu, the chief military officer of Shizhu, was ordered to lead the army to quell the rebellion. Emperor Taiji of the Jin Empire defeated Lin Dan Khan, unified the prairie, personally led an army of 100,000 to raid the border pass, Hongshankou guard Zhang Wanchun surrendered to the pass, and Cao Wenzhao was ordered to lead his troops to help, so that the king of Gao Chuang and others who were still breathing saw hope at once.

However, the leaders of the battalions failed to unify on the issue of going and staying, Zhang Xianzhong insisted on entering Sichuan, Sichuan has the reputation of the country of abundance, rich in materials, as long as you can kill Sichuan and Shu, you can make a fortune.

Gao Yingxiang and others are against entering Sichuan, Sichuan is rich in materials, but the folk customs are also strong, and there are more brave generals such as Qin Liangyu who are good at fighting, and the white pole soldiers under the command of the base are famous, and the Republic of China lacks food and clothing, and the weapons and equipment are even less pitiful.

Loyal to the ear, Zhang Xianzhong was determined to enter Sichuan to make a fortune, he parted ways with Gao Yingxiang and others, and led the people of the headquarters to embark on the road into Sichuan, but as Gao Yingxiang and others guessed, he was beaten by Qin Liangyu, and even Zhang Xianzhong almost hung up.

After bidding farewell to Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Yingxiang and others continued to discuss how to live in the future.

Cao Wenzhao led his Guangping army to fight at the border pass, and the pressure on the civilian army was reduced a lot, but it was impossible to mix in Shaanxi, they were all scared by Sun Chengzong's Xi'an Army, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, and Sun Chuanting's partial division, and they were all beaten by others when they were at their strongest, and now they are not even three-tenths of what they used to do, so what can they do to fight with others?

Since Shaanxi can't go on, you can only run out, Sichuan can't go now, there are more Ming troops in Beijing, the city is high and the walls are thick, you can't attack it at all, and the only way to survive is Shanxi. However, with the current strength of the people's army, it is simply unable to force the crossing into Jin, and it is difficult to be dumplings made by Sun Chuanting and others, and the whole army will be annihilated.

After some discussion, someone finally came up with a way, broke it into pieces, disguised as a homeless person, a business traveler, etc., and only brought a small number of light weapons into Shanxi.

After the agreement, Gao Yingxiang was the pioneer, and first led the brothers of the camp to explore the way, not to mention, the trick of breaking the whole into zero was very effective, Gao Yingxiang and his brothers were scattered, and cleared the customs in various identities in twos and threes, Gao Yingxiang is the eldest brother, killing the rich and helping the poor, for the Tianxingdao for a year or two, there is still a little silver, he and a few brothers who share life and death directly spend silver to bribe the soldiers guarding the pass, and swagger into the Shanxi territory.

Of course, not everyone has good luck, and there are also a few brothers who are too nervous and can't bear to be checked by the officials and soldiers, and they pull out their knives, and finally they are beaten by the officials and soldiers and chopped down with knives. There are a few people who deserted halfway, this kind of headless work is too dangerous, it's not that the outlaws can't play at all, or honestly go home and farm, I heard that the Son of Heaven issued a decree to reduce taxes, and also distribute potato seeds that can replace food for free to the people to plant, if it's true, try it first, and then go back to the big brothers to mess around.

Gao Yingxiang and his old brothers occupied the home outside the forester, including the grange, grain, gold, silver, copper coins, wives and concubines outside the forester, etc., as for the forester, the housekeeper and others, they had already been buried in a certain field in the village as fertilizer.

With the temporary place of the Lin Mansion, and the large amount of grain stored in the Lin family's grange, Gao Yingxiang and his old brothers temporarily recuperated here, and sent their henchmen to pick up Wang Jiayin and others to come over to meet.

Wang Jiayin, who is the leader of the 36th battalion, received a message from Gao Yingxiang, and was overjoyed, so that the brothers were scattered and divided into N groups of people to sneak into Shanxi.

Wang Jiayin pretended to be a businessman, and directly smashed the gate with silver, and the soldiers guarding the door waved directly to let him go.

"You, stop for Lao Tzu."