Youzhou Mansion, Pingyang County.

White mist filled half of the town, and the rain fell like smoke and fell on the wet bluestone slabs that no one stepped on, telling that the bustling street market was long gone.

In the panicked town, only the houses of the Nanlin family are particularly quiet.

There are two reasons for this tranquility, one is that the two families of Nanlin are not small, and the men in the clan are collected and guard the courtyard gate at all times. The second is the rebellion that has just invaded the town, and he took special care of the Nanlin family, and did not touch the Nanlin family at all.

Qingbei, who was branded and dressed in armor, stood in the restaurant outside the Nan family's house for a long time, and did not wait for the person he wanted to see in his heart.

"Qingbei, do you want me to help you snatch someone?"

The young man who had followed Qingbei before also changed his outfit at this time, and he looked extremely powerful in iron armor.

Qingbei glanced at the young man, didn't say anything, and showed a hint of indifference in his eyes.

After a long time, when Qingbei retracted his gaze, he said to the young man.

"That winter, the steamed buns that rescued you and Xiaoman were begged from here, do you still want to go?"

When the young man heard this, his eyes widened and he was shocked.

"Ah...... Shall we bring something into them? ”

I see, now the young man finally knew why the leader of their rebel army was so polite to the two families next to each other.

Qingbei turned around, glanced at the Lin family's house again, sighed and said.

"No need, the Lin Nan family is also a big family in the town, and they are not short of food."

"The reason why they didn't move is not only because they have saved our lives, but also because we need the support of these big clans, and the Lin Nan family can be an example for us to treat the big clans preferentially."

Qingbei stood in the restaurant, looking down on the whole town, his eyes narrowed, and the whole person looked extremely deep.

The young man couldn't figure out why Qingbei did this, so he touched his head and smiled, echoing Qingbei and said.

"Do whatever you say, we will all listen to you!"

"Hmm!"

Hearing this, Qingbei, who was squinting, turned around and showed a satisfied and pleasant smile to the young man.

The imperial capital Bianliang, Wenqu Building.

Nanshan, Zhu Yuan, and Yuanji sat around a square table in the private room, with sad faces, worries, and frowning brows, which is the most intuitive portrayal of the three of them at the moment.

The three of them had recently received official positions and errands from the Ministry of Officials, and after wanting to buy some gifts in Kyoto, they rushed to their hometown of Youzhou Mansion to take up their posts.

Who knows, the day before he was about to leave, a conscription order was sent from the ministry, recruiting Nanshan, Zhu Yuan, and Yuanji into the counterinsurgency team.

At this point, Nanshan, Zhu Yuan, and Yuanji learned that Nanping Mansion and Youzhou Mansion had fallen one after another, and all the county towns within the boundary of the two prefectures were occupied by the rebels.

When they first heard the news, Nanshan, Zhu Yuan, and Yuanji had trouble sleeping, as if they had been struck by lightning.

Bang bang bang!!

Just when the atmosphere in the private room of the restaurant was so oppressive that it was uncomfortable, there was a knock on the door, and Zhu Yuan's servant Ruan Xiaosi entered the room and said eagerly.

"Young master, the news is true, our Youzhou Mansion has also fallen!"

Zhu Yuan frowned, came to Ruan Xiaosi, and said in a serious voice.

"Speak slowly, but the news from the clan?"

Ruan Xiaosi took the tea from Nan Ruyan, and after taking a big sip, he said 1510.

"Yes, young master, there is news from the clan."

Ruan Xiaosi wanted to say something, but suddenly remembered that he had an urgent letter from the clan, and immediately took it out of his arms and handed it to Zhu Yuan.

Zhu Yuan received the letter, opened it in front of Nanshan and Yuanji, and looked at it carefully.

Later, Zhu Yuan, who had finished reading the letter, handed the envelope to Nanshan and Yuanji.

Nanshan and Enyoshi didn't say anything, and the two got together to check the contents of the envelope.

After a long time, Yuanji, who had read the letter, let out a long sigh.

"As I thought, the combination of floods and tax corruption made it impossible for the people in the south to live and chose to rebel."

"The mountains of Nanping Mansion are far away, and the support is not in place, so it is understandable that it fell early."

"However, why did the Youzhou Mansion of the Standing Guard also fall?"

This is the question that Enyoshi asked after reading the letter.

His question was answered by Zhu Yuan.

"The guards of Youzhou Mansion rebelled, and they coerced most of the families of the two prefectures, and now Nanping Mansion and Youzhou Mansion are the rebels who have the final say."

"My family's roots are in Youzhou Mansion, and the clan has to compromise, because the rebels will be exterminated."

Nanshan didn't speak, because after reading the contents of the letter, Nanshan didn't get any news about his hometown Pingyang County.

The letter mentioned that most of the county towns under the jurisdiction of the state government were looted by the rebels, which made Nanshan's heart half cold.

"Dad, mother, little sister......"

Nanshan was unsteady and stood in place muttering to himself.

"Don't worry, uncle and aunt, they will be fine!"

Enyoshi noticed Nanshan's anomaly and walked over and whispered comfort.

Zhu Yuan cleaned up his mood, and also came to Nanshan's side, and said something to calm Nanshan's mind.

"I have already arranged for Ruan Xiaosi to send a message back, asking my father to arrange for someone to go to Pingyang County to inquire about the news of my uncle and aunt."

"Don't worry, news will come back soon!"

Comforted by two friends, Nanshan's mood improved slightly.

Yuanji is careful, he is a second person, and when he saw that the atmosphere was low, he immediately transferred to this recruitment.

"You say, this call-up, will we be arranged to enter the army and go out with the army?"

The answer to the question thrown by Toyoshi is easy to guess, but as a diversion, it is enough to start the topic.

"The errands we received were all from Youzhou Mansion, and we issued a conscription order before we were about to leave Kyoto, so things wouldn't be so coincidental."

Zhu Yuan was not stupid, and sensitively discovered that something was wrong.

Zhu Yuan and Yuanji turned their eyes to Nanshan, wanting to ask Nanshan's opinion, because Nanshan had a more accurate grasp of the situation than them in the past.

Nanshan took a deep breath, suppressed the worry about his relatives in his heart, walked to the window, and looked at the bustling streets of Kyoto, his voice was a little solemn.

"Remember what I said earlier?"

"Scientific research is a cage that imprisons scholars."

"Before we went to Beijing to catch the exam, before the news of the troubles in the south reached Kyoto, we should have entered the chess game designed by the ministers of the DPRK and China."

"The recruitment list of the Gongyuan and the errands sent by the officials are all ropes that bind us."

"Don't you feel weird?"

"Why did we receive an errand from Youzhou Mansion, this is not in line with the rules of officialdom!"

Nanshan's words made Zhu Yuan and Yuanji lower their eyebrows and think, and as they thought deeply, their expressions became more and more solemn.

"The current conscription order is just a third chain that binds us."

"Next, we will definitely be assigned to the army and go out with the army."

"This is our participation in the imperial examination, and the court's reward for us is also a kind of surveillance."

"With those of us who are scholars from the two provinces in the army, the families of Nanping Mansion and Youzhou Mansion will consider it, and they will not immediately fall to the rebels."

"Without the support of the family, it would have been easy for the court to suppress the rebels."

"In a way, it's a kind of coercion!"

"We've been reduced to pawns!"

The whole private room was very quiet, and Nanshan's analysis made Zhu Yuan and Yuanji speechless.

Nanshan looked back at Zhu Yuan and Yuanji, his eyebrows solemn.

There is another point that Nanshan did not say, all the power factions in the DPRK and China must want to benefit from this rebellion, and this trip is very deep.

What Nanshan just said was only for the situation in Nanping Mansion and Youzhou Mansion, which had already fallen.

Sure enough, three days later, Nanshan, Zhu Yuan, and Yuanji were transferred to the Ministry and sent to join the army under Wu Sen, the vanguard general of the Zhennan Army.

said that he joined the army, only Nanshan had a position and grade.

But it doesn't have the right, it's a vacant position.

To put it bluntly, Nanshan, Zhu Yuan, and Yuanji directly became the staff of the vanguard general Wu Sen.

……

In May of the same year, the regular rebel forces of Nanping and Youzhou were coerced by bandits from all sides, and induced hundreds of people and refugees to sweep towards Jingchuan Mansion again.

Youzhou Mansion, Pingyang County.

The rebel forces occupying Pingyang County, the leader Qingbei, once again came to the restaurant across the street from the Lin family's house to look.

"Chief, the general of Youzhou Mansion has sent a battle order, asking us to go together to capture Jingchuan Mansion."

The one who spoke was a scholar, the kind whose name fell to Sun Shan.

The scholar was a staff member who took refuge in Qingbei after occupying Pingyang County.

Qingbei didn't speak, still looking at the Lin Mansion.

"Chief, shall we go together?"

Seeing that their leader did not respond, the scholars behind Qingbei asked again, their tones full of eagerness and eagerness.

Qingbei turned his head and looked at the reader deeply, the light in his eyes flashed away, and the whole body of the reader was stiff and numb.

After a long time, Qingbei didn't say anything, and turned his head to look at the Lin Mansion again.

However, this time Qingbei's eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes were confused.

Although Qingbei is not a reader, he loves to listen to and listen to stories, and he can learn a lot of wisdom and experience from the stories from the storyteller's mouth, although these things still need a little practice.

Qingbei knew very well that once he participated in this attack on the Ikawa Mansion, he would never have any chance to turn back.

Therefore, Qingbei is hesitating.

The previous fall of Nanping Mansion and Youzhou Mansion can also be attributed to natural and man-made disasters and the rebellion of the guards of the two prefectures.

At this time, if Qingbei chooses to surrender, he can be forgiven and even promoted.

However, after the imperial court started to suppress the rebellion, Qingbei chose to attack Jingchuan Mansion and even Yingchuan Mansion with the rebels, so there was really no turning back.

"Qingbei, shall we go?"

This time it was the honest young man who spoke, and there was a thin girl standing beside him.

As if he felt that his words were a little inappropriate, the honest young man followed up and said another word.

"I don't care what you think, we will go wherever you go."

After the honest young man finished speaking, the thin girl next to him also chimed in.

"Brother Qingbei, where you go, we will go."

At this moment, the scholar who took refuge in Qingbei spoke again,

"Chief, we don't have a choice!"

"If the leader doesn't go, the follow-up team coming from the direction of Nanping Mansion will definitely sweep us away."

"With our manpower, we can't hold it."

"When the time comes, Pingyang County will be lost, we will also be displaced, and the families we want to protect will be displaced."

I have to say that the staff of the scholar are bewitching Qingbei, and he has also hit Qingbei's soft underbelly.

It is very true, if Qingbei does not go together to attack Jingchuan Mansion, for the sake of peace in the rear, the regular rebel forces in Nanping Mansion and Youzhou Mansion will definitely clean up the disobedient forces.

After a long time, Qingbei turned his head, looked at the honest young man and the scholar's staff, and said solemnly.

"Reply to the general, let's go, and leave in three days."

……

Imperial capital, Bianliang.

Flags fluttering, horns and horns, grain and grass trucks and horses transported in and out, and patrol soldiers one after another, this is the weather of the Zhennan Army barracks.

In the big tent of the pioneer camp, there was a heroic and sonorous voice.

"Hahaha...... Wu Wusen is a rough man, he has only read a few books, don't laugh at me. ”

"Since we are together, everyone can call me General Wu, or you can call me Lao Wu, but you can't call me Xiao Wu."

"Hahaha...... That's the bottom line! ”

In the vanguard tent, a group of generals laughed again and again.

Only a group of scholars bowed their hands, shouting that they didn't dare to dare.

Nanshan is one of the scholars who dare not shout, and it is Zhu Yuan and Yuanji who sit next to him.

Nanshan glanced at the scholars in the big tent, almost all of them were students from Nanping Mansion and Youzhou Mansion in this scientific expedition.

From this, the scene in front of him confirmed Nanshan's previous speculation.

Then, Nanshan moved his gaze to Wu Sen, the vanguard general who was firmly in the main position, and gradually fell into deep thought.

The pioneer general Wu Sen spoke loudly and heroically, and he could talk to the literati and military generals, and he firmly grasped the atmosphere and topics in the big tent while laughing, this is a general with a delicate heart that is not exposed.

Moreover, Nanshan could see that under the eyes of the vanguard general Wu Sen, there was a ray of unfathomable profundity.

Just when everyone was talking and laughing with each other, the vanguard general Wu Sen put down his wine glass, coughed lightly, and the next moment the general began to silence, and the big camp tent quickly fell silent.

Some of the readers who gradually opened up only reacted at this time, this is the military camp.

So, everyone was silent, and everyone sat down.

Vanguard General Wu Sen was very satisfied with the atmosphere at this moment, and the deterrent effect of this moment was very good.

"Tomorrow we will go south, who can tell me about this disaster before we leave?"

Vanguard General Wu Sen threw out a very general question, which was difficult to answer because it was general.

The generals sitting on the left side of the camp tent had a smile on their lips, and their eyes were staring at the scholar sitting on the right.

At the same time, these generals unscrupulously unleashed the murderous and evil aura on their bodies, making the scholars on the other side fidget.

Nanshan narrowed his eyes, and after the vanguard general Wu Sen threw out this question, he immediately knew that this was a dismount, and it was also a test.

If you pass this test, you will be able to prove that you are not a waste, and you will be looked down upon.

In the army, the most important thing is real ability, and everything else is false.

The tent continued to be silent, and as time passed, the atmosphere was depressing to the extreme.

Just when the vanguard general Wu Sen's face was disappointed and indifferent, and he felt that the readers in front of him were all nerds and waste, Nanshan's voice rang out at the right time.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.