Youzhou Prefecture County Jicheng inside

At this time, three days have passed since the end of the Pengzhou army, and due to the loss of the three counties at the border pass, a large number of soldiers and civilians have all retreated to Youzhou, which is relatively south.

Jicheng, which had been used as a concentration of reinforcements, was once again overcrowded at this time, but there were still more feudal towns and feudal lords who had to continue to evacuate south after a short period of supplies.

Since the Dayu Imperial Court had not yet given instructions to these feudal towns and vassal armies that had come to aid the border fortresses, they did not dare to return directly to their own feudal towns and feudal kingdoms.

In an inn in Jicheng, Jing Zizheng and Qi Ning Qi Chao's eyes were red and swollen.

Although they knew three days ago that the outcome of the Pengzhou Army might not be too good, they still cried silently when the news of the annihilation of the Pengzhou Army reached Jicheng.

Perhaps the total annihilation of the Pengzhou Army was a shock to others, but it was real bad news for them.

Their relatives died in this battle, and they paid with their lives to preserve the reputation of the Pengzhou army.

What makes people angry is that even if everyone knows now that this is the intention of the Beisi and the Ministry of War to make the Pengzhou army take the blame, and the Pengzhou army will have to create the grassland cavalry with the heart of death, but the court does not have the slightest obituary and will.

This makes people feel as if the imperial court still wants to cover the pot of the northern border and continue to let the Pengzhou army carry it.

This kind of chilling behavior made all the reinforcements in the entire border area lose the military spirit to continue to resist.

"Senior brother, Qi Ning and Qi will mourn you!"

Li Yi sat opposite the three of them and comforted them, but he himself felt that his comfort seemed so pale and weak.

Three days ago, when the Pengzhou army began to massacre the people of the Beisi and the military department in the city, Li Yi knew that the next Pengzhou army would definitely do something earth-shattering.

It's just that they didn't expect the Pengzhou army to be so decisive and bloody, and they would collectively fight to the death with the grassland tribes.

In the end, it also created such a brilliant record.

However, with the annihilation of the Pengzhou army, Yuyang County was finally easily captured by the grassland tribes.

In this situation, Li Yi had no choice but to retreat to the south with five hundred cavalry, because he knew that all the Dayu troops would retreat to the south next.

Sure enough, when he was about to arrive in Jicheng, he finally met Mu Fengxun and Helian Yun, and Jing Zizheng and Qi Ning Qi Chao were also with them.

Originally, seeing that the situation in Biansai had fallen to such an extent, he wanted to hand over Wan Qi Haiyin to the Dayu Imperial Court, which would also be regarded as a credit and bargaining chip for the imperial court, and he could add some chips in the next game with the grassland tribe.

But after waiting for two or three days, he didn't wait for the obituary of the imperial court, which made Li Yi extremely disappointed and cold.

He knew that even if he handed over Wan Qi Haiyin to the imperial court now, in the end, these credits would only go to those damned Beisi and the military lords, and these credits would not be given to the Pengzhou Army and the Linguo Army, let alone the beggar army led by Helian Yun.

So Li Yi simply discussed with Mu Fengxun and directly concealed the matter of killing Murong Qinyou, the king of Tugu, and capturing Xianbei Khan Wan Qi Haiyin.

Mu Fengxun and Helian Yun didn't have any opinions on this, because they had been participants and experiencers of the Pengzhou Army incident from the beginning, and they were also extremely annoyed by what happened to the Pengzhou Army.

Even Mu Fengxun had sent a letter to his father asking to lead the Linguo army back to the country, and he thought of the reason: the Linguo grass army was raging, and the army needed to return to China to quell the rebellion.

As for whether Da Yu's military department and Beisi and Emperor Shengheng would believe that Mu Fengxun didn't care anymore, because a large number of feudal army and feudal states had already written to ask for retreat.

But this time, the only one who made a difference was Helian Yun's beggar army.

Although there were only ten of them, and two of them died halfway through, Helian Dong also broke an arm, but they succeeded in killing their great enemy Murong Qinyou, so when Helian Yun saw Murong Qinyou's head, he happily held the whitened head and hugged and kissed it.

directly watched the lively crowd on the side, and they were about to vomit.

Then the three parties discussed the question of Wan Qi Haiyin's whereabouts, and Mu Fengxun wanted to kill Wan Qi Haiyin directly, but he felt a pity when he thought about it.

And Helian Yun wanted to take Wan Qi Haiyin to exchange something with the grassland tribe, but thinking about the current situation in Biansai, I am afraid that the shaman of the wolf court will not agree.

All of a sudden, Wan Qi Haiyin turned out to be a tasteless chicken rib who was abandoned and discarded.

In this case, Wan Qi Haiyin himself felt very helpless, and even when Li Yi proposed to release him, Wan Qi Haiyin himself did not agree.

Because he knows that he is safe with Li Yi now, once he leaves Li Yi and they return to the grassland tribe in the north, not to mention whether his identity will be known by these Dayu soldiers along the way, even if he successfully walks to the three counties of Biansai, it is a question whether he can see Muhua Li Falcon alive.

Because now he should be a dead man like Murong Qinyou, because only dead people are good men of the grassland tribe, once he goes back, why he can return safely is a debatable question.

Don't talk about whether the Xianbei nobles who have watched his position as Khan all these years will let him continue to live.

Now he is not only a chicken rib for Li Yi and them, but he is also a chicken rib for the Xianbei clan, which is even more shameful.

In the end, under the discussion of the three parties and Wan Qi Haiyin's own opinions, Wan Qi Haiyin still followed Li Yi's side for the time being.

It was claimed to the outside world that he was a grassland slave brought back by Li Yi, and Yu Zhenlei was a slave of the grassland, and they were all rescued from the grassland by Li Yi.

Although the gap from a steppe tribe khan who controls the lives and deaths of thousands of people to a lowly grassland slave is really a bit big, it is already very satisfying for Wan Qi Haiyin.

After all, compared to Murong Qinyou, he is still alive, as long as he can live, he always has hope, isn't it.

Therefore, from this day on, Wan Qian Haiyin officially changed his name to Haiyin.

Bidding farewell to the glorious surname Wan Qian, Hai Yin felt that there was actually no difference, and even for him, who was so humiliating and humble, he was indeed not worthy of such a noble surname as Wan Qi.

As for Yu Zhenlei, there is no need to change his name at all.

Li Yi was actually not very happy about the sudden presence of such a slave in many places, he didn't feel that it was something to be happy about having a khan as a slave at all, but he felt that it was a thing worth celebrating to have a master like Yu Zhenlei as a subordinate.

However, Yu Zhenlei, who was like an elm pimple, stubbornly declared that he would only be loyal to Wan Qi Haiyin, and he would not listen to other people's orders.

For this reason, Hai Yin was beaten by Ansu, the leader of the bandits, and in the end, for the safety of his khan, Yu Zhenlei finally relented and agreed to obey Li Yi's orders, but the premise was not to hurt Hai Yin.

"Now that the imperial court is so corrupt, the army of the grassland tribe is about to go south to attack the imperial capital, where should we go?"

Jing Zizheng, who was more calm and wise in the past, is also a little ownerless.

In the past, he was the most loyal to the country and the imperial court, but the impact of Pengzhoujun's incident on him was too great, so big that his worldview began to change.

"Hmph, what else do you have to do, is such a court still worth our efforts? Aren't the steppe barbarians going to plunder the imperial capital, then let them go, what do we care about! ”

Qi Ning's eyes were now red and swollen like little bees, and her hatred for the imperial court, the military department, and the Beisi had boiled over the sky.

When he heard yesterday that Wu Chengwen's father and son were imprisoned by the imperial court, she applauded happily.

She couldn't wait to rush to the imperial capital and slaughter the father and son with her own hands.

"I also think what my sister said is right, the imperial court is really not worth our lives to fight for it now."

If the Qi family sisters and brothers had said such rebellious words in the past, Jing Zizheng would definitely have reprimanded him, but at this time, Jing Zizheng just lowered his head and said nothing.

"In fact, even if we have the heart, we are actually powerless, and now I have returned the five hundred Linguo cavalry to the prince of Linguo, and we only have a few of us left, and it is very difficult to protect ourselves in the face of the army of the grassland!"

Li Yi said with a wry smile.

Indeed, at this time, neither the Qi family siblings nor Jing Zizheng realized that they were now incapable of facing the army of the grassland tribe.

"The northern border fortress has now fallen, and the Pengzhou army has all died heroically, do you and the Qi Dynasty plan to go back to Sizhou County?"

Li Yi asked such a sentence in a ghostly way.

Qi Ning suddenly raised his head and stared at Li Yi quietly with red eyes, staring at Li Yi a little hairy in his heart.

"If we don't go back, we will follow you wherever you go, this is what my uncle told us before leaving!"

Qi Chao saw that the atmosphere was a little awkward, and he immediately said.

His words directly made Qi Ning and Li Yi's faces flush slightly.

In fact, Song Shilong did not instruct the two to follow Li Yi before he died, he just asked Qi Ning not to give up such a good person as Li Yi, but Qi Chao was worried that his sister would not be able to pull down, so he simply said it to death.

"Senior brother, since that's the case, I'll still follow you, anyway, the Qi family sister and brother and I will bring back the book trustee that needs to be given back to Sizhou County. Now let's go back, I don't know how to deal with my parents, relatives and friends. ”

Keiko also sighed and said.

Two days ago, when all the members of the Pengzhou army died in battle, the grassland tribe thanked them for their loyalty and bravery, and buried the entire Pengzhou army outside Yuyang City in accordance with Dayu's military salute, and also erected a stone monument for it.

There are only five big characters on its stele: Dayu Pengzhou Army.

Although it is only five words, it is an affirmation of its bravery and loyalty as an enemy.

At the same time, this also shows the coldness and cold-bloodedness of the Dayu Dynasty from the side.

It was ironic and ridiculous for Dayu to be buried and erected by the enemy, but it was a pity that the imperial court was unmoved.

So when Jing Zizheng and the others found out about this incident, they originally wanted to snatch out the remains of their relatives, but finally gave up completely.

Therefore, he and the Qi family siblings now felt as if they really had nothing to do, and they felt as if a piece of their soul was missing.

"In that case, let's go to Shengzhou now!"

"Shengzhou? You mean going to Tianjing! ”

Jing Zizheng and Qi Ning didn't understand why Li Yi wanted to go to this place.

You must know that Shengzhou is actually not far from the county seat of Sizhou, and the distance between the two places is only less than half a month.

Shengzhou is the most famous place in the southeast, and the reason why this place is famous is that nearly 400 years ago, there was a figure here who shook the past and the present: Mu Yuan.

He is the founding emperor of the Dayu Dynasty, Mu Yuan was a native of Shengzhou, and then the world was in turmoil, he led a kind of righteous army to punish tyrants, civilian chaos, except for warlords, and set the world to create Dayu This nearly 400 years of the country.

Later, he went all the way north and finally set the imperial capital in the current imperial capital.

However, as his own land of Longxing, he was reluctant to give up, and finally he took Shengzhou as the capital of the Dayu Dynasty and changed Shengzhou to Tianjing.

And he also ordered that after his death, the imperial tomb must be placed in Shengzhou, and since then Shengzhou has Yu Tailing, and then after the death of Yu Gaozu, a total of six emperors chose to follow Gaozu's will to be buried in Shengzhou.

The rest of the emperors chose to be buried in the imperial capital.

However, as time passed, although Shengzhou, also known as Tianjing, was also nominally the imperial capital of Dayu, it was rarely mentioned.

Because it is located in the southeast of the Dayu Dynasty, Shengzhou's water system is developed and the climate is pleasant, so it is extremely rich in products.

In addition, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the Dayu court vigorously supported Shengzhou, resulting in the entire Shengzhou business extremely prosperous.

After hundreds of years of development, it is also known as "Dayu Longxingdi, the first city in the southeast".

It is precisely because of so many advantages that it has become an excellent resort for the Dayu royal family to retire, and it is said that the Zongzheng Temple of the Mu royal family is located here.

Most of the elders of the Mu royal family have lived here for a long time.

However, due to the drought this year, the people's livelihood in the entire southeast region has withered, and the grass army has intensified in the southeast, and the prosperity of Shengzhou has also withered a lot.

But even so, Seungju is still a good place to bloom.

It's just that Jingzi Zheng doesn't understand why his junior brother wants to go to this place.

"Shengzhou, a good and prosperous place, it's not bad for us to go to this place!"

For the lively place, Qi Chao will not have any opinion.

"There are two reasons why I plan to go to Shengzhou, one is because when I was going north, I met a friend who was one of the leaders of the Grass Army, he was near Shengzhou, and I planned to catch up with him."

Nervously hearing about the grass army, his brows couldn't help frowning.

"The second senior brother said before that there are officials involved in my parents' affairs, and according to my speculation, there must be someone in Shengzhou who knows, and I have to take a look."

Keiko nodded in agreement.

"Last but not least, I feel that Shengzhou may soon usher in chaos."

"You mean that the grass army is preparing to attack Shengzhou? We're going to recruit a team? ”

Jing Zizheng's face showed a look of surprise, he immediately heard the real purpose of Li Yi's trip from Li Yi's grass army leader and the chaos in Shengzhou, if this was really the case, Li Yi thought that they would have a chance to pull up their own team when they went to Shengzhou, it would be really good.

In this way, they will have the ability to avenge the Pengzhou army.

"That's right, you can only take chestnuts in chaos, and you always have to pay back something you borrow from others, and your own is the best."