A month ago, Li Yi went north with full of enthusiasm to protect his family and defend the country, but in just one month, his thoughts have changed dramatically.

On the one hand, it is due to the change in the situation in the north, and on the other hand, he sees human nature clearly.

In the past, Tai Jizi told him that the sharpest thing in this world is not the sword but the human heart, and he didn't understand it very well at the time, but what happened to Pengzhou Jun made him understand this sentence thoroughly.

Indeed, the sharpest thing in this world is really the human heart, because the interests of a very small number of people can sacrifice the lives of tens of thousands of Pengzhou soldiers and the safety and interests of tens of millions of border people.

A month ago, when he came, he was fierce and full of blood, and now when he returned, he was full of bitterness, and his eyes were full of desolation and slaughter.

But even so, Li Yi still tried hard to adjust his mood, because compared to himself, the experience of senior brother Jing Zizheng and the Qi family brothers and sisters was more tragic than himself.

Li Yi didn't want to make the mood of these three people worse because of himself.

I think that they were accompanied by a group of people from the Yang family firm all the way north, and now although there are not as many people as before, at least there are more Ansu, Haiyin and Yu Zhenlei.

When there are more people in this place, the road will not seem deserted, and when Li Yi was still feeling that his line of work might be so plain, he actually met an old acquaintance on the way back.

Not long after Li Yi and the others left Youzhou, they met a group of people from Yang's firm on the road.

It's just that this time the number of people in the Yang family firm is not as large as those who went north, this time their team only has about a dozen cars, and only Zhu Gengshi is protecting Yang Ping in the convoy.

As for the others, they were all recruited by the government to assist in the delivery of supplies.

Although the three cities in the border were breached, the local governments in the north believed that the grassland tribes would continue to sweep south, so they still needed a large number of materials and personnel to garrison, so the materials that needed to be transported during this period did not decrease but increased.

And Yang Ping was because there was an urgent matter within the family that he needed to go back to deal with, so he would rush back with Zhu Gengshi in a hurry.

And their destination this time is still Sizhou County, and he needs to return to Sizhou County City to return to the family with his eldest brother.

In this way, Li Yi and the Yang firm can still go a long way together.

However, Yang Ping is indeed a businessman, and his ability to observe words and emotions is indeed first-class, and when he saw the dejected appearance of Jing Zizheng and the Qi family sisters and brothers, he immediately understood the secret.

Therefore, along the way, he never took the initiative to mention the matter of going north to defend the army, even if others mentioned him, he always passed by.

However, he showed a very strong interest in Li Yi's plan to go to Shengzhou.

Because according to Yang Ping's own introduction, his family is in Huizhou on the edge of Shengzhou, and they plan to go back to Huizhou this time, so he and Li Yi and others agreed that when Li Yi finishes handling things in Shengzhou, he can go to Huizhou to find him, and he will definitely entertain everyone at that time.

In this regard, of course, Li Yi did not refuse to come, and he was also very yearning for Huizhou.

In this way, the group walked south with laughter and laughter, originally thinking that their journey would be smooth sailing, but they never thought that when they had not left for a few days, the court of the Dayu Dynasty ordered all the reinforcements in the entire north to retreat south and shrink the defensive line, in order to prevent the grassland tribes from plundering south.

And the main force of their retreat to the south hit the Youzhou line, although this order did gather a large number of fleeing troops, but there were still many troops still all the way south.

Among them were a large number of feudal town armies and feudal king armies.

And the reason why they dared to retreat so blatantly was also because they had orders issued by the imperial court.

Most of these armies retreating south were the feudal army and the vassal army in the southeast.

And their festival envoys and vassal kings all wrote to complain, saying that there were bandits in their territories, and the people were really unbearable and could no longer live in peace.

If they are not exterminated, the people of their territories will definitely be displaced, and once they do, they will most likely become displaced people and join the bandits, and the other part will definitely be dispersed to the rich state capital of the Dayu Dynasty.

At that time, the local order will certainly become chaotic, and now the Dayu Dynasty is already an eventful autumn, and there are bandits and bandits in the south who have caused trouble for thousands of miles, which has made the local people panic, and many officials and big families are worried all day long, and even some areas where the trouble is more serious, the local officials directly hang up the seal and leave without saying goodbye.

In the north, due to the threat of the grassland tribes, a large number of people in the north also began to go south to avoid the military disaster, which also led to many places in the north, and with the population of the north decreasing, these states and counties in the south suddenly increased in population, and many cities could not afford so many people for a while, so these places also began to cause food shortages.

In this way, because of the natural disasters that caused the people to be displaced in the south, they desperately ran to the north, and in the north, due to the war disaster, a large number of people moved south to the south.

As a result, the population of the prefecture and county in the middle of the north and south suddenly increased, and at the same time, various unexpected situations also increased day by day, which made the government and the people of the original place very annoyed.

Therefore, after the deliberations of the various departments of the imperial court, the military department and the northern division agreed that reinforcements from some parts of the south could go back to clear the bandits, so as to reduce the pressure on the central region.

Unfortunately, the convoy of the Yang Merchant House happened to encounter a retreating feudal army on the way south.

Since ancient times, soldiers and bandits are actually the same thing, and soldiers and bandits are not mutually exclusive in the world in peacetime, but once they come to troubled times, these soldiers are sometimes much more terrible than bandits.

Snatching the people's property and killing the good and risking merit have been unforbidden since ancient times.

And the army that stopped in front of the Yang Merchant House at this time happened to be such an army.

When Li Yi and the others encountered this army, he didn't even see that there was an army in front of him.

These guys are all carrying large bags and small bags on their bodies, and many of them are still holding chickens and ducks in their hands, leading cattle and sheep.

From a distance, I thought it was a group of fleeing people.

But all of these guys had swords around their waists, and all their dirty leather armor was covered with them.

"Hey, stop the convoy behind me, we have requisitioned all your carriages and horses, and now we will remove all your things from the carriage!"

A small officer with two fat chickens hanging around his neck stopped the convoy of the Yang Firm's firm with a long sword in his hand, and was standing in front of the convoy and shouting.

Looking at him, he should just be a squad leader, but his arrogant appearance is not much better than that of the governor or general of the Pengzhou Army.

Li Yi couldn't help but feel angry when he looked at this guy's high-minded appearance, he didn't need to ask where these guys' belongings came from, just by looking at these chickens, ducks, cows and sheep, he knew that they must have robbed the people.

Otherwise, there is no reason why these creatures will be in their hands.

Thinking about the Pengzhou army that died outside Yuyang County, and looking at these crooked melons and cracked dates, Li Yi had an urge to kill them all.

But this can only be thought about, after all, they are still the army of the Dayu Dynasty on the surface, and if they really do it, they are afraid that it will cause unnecessary trouble.

Li Yi took a cursory look at the guys in front of him, roughly four or five hundred people should be the number of a battalion.

"This military master, we can't vacate these carriages for you, because our convoy is going to the southern Yuanzhou to deliver supplies."

Yang Ping was not afraid of these troops who were deliberately looking for trouble, after all, he did have the transportation documents issued by the government.

At this time, maliciously obstructing the delivery of military supplies is tantamount to rebellion, and these feudal army will generally not trouble them as long as they are not short-circuited.

It's just that this time the guy Yang Ping met was a 205 who didn't know the severity.

"Hmph, don't talk nonsense with me, today Lao Tzu will requisition your carriages and horses, and when you arrive in Yuanzhou, Lao Tzu will return the carriages to you!"

Seeing that Yang Ping refused to hand over the carriage and horse, the guy couldn't help but pull out the long sword in his hand.

This move made An Su, who was already on fire, completely explode, he was unhappy with these guys in front of him from the beginning, but he didn't expect these guys to draw knives against them without knowing whether they were alive or dead.

"Which army are you from?"

Li Yi's gaze also began to become sharp.

"Hmph, Lao Tzu is Mo Qiang, the captain under the command of Lord Li!"

The guy put his long sword on his shoulder and put on a very good look.

"Weide Jiedu is under the command of Li Ne?"

Yang Ping couldn't help frowning when he heard this name.

In fact, he was not worried about the feudal town army of just one Jiedu envoy, but he had heard of this Weide Jiedu envoy.

There are a total of fifteen powerful feudal towns and feudal kings in this world, among which there are six feudal kings and nine festival envoys.

Therefore, it was also known as the six kings and nine envoys by the people of the world.

These fifteen people are among the most powerful of the feudal towns in the world, and all the feudal clans in the world are looking forward to these fifteen people.

However, these fifteen people are also the most guarded people in the Dayu Imperial Court, and most of them are under the surveillance of the Dayu Imperial Court at all times.

However, some of these fifteen people were particularly relieved by the imperial court, so the supervision of them was relatively lax.

This Li Ne is one of them, and the reason why he is relatively lax under the supervision of the imperial court is entirely because of this person's personality.

It is said that he was unscrupulous and unscrupulous, indulging in women all day long, and at the same time he was very lax in the management of his subordinates, so his army was at the bottom of the Six Kings and Nine Envoys in terms of quantity and quality.

It was precisely because he was busy drinking and drinking every day and never managed his army far away that the Dayu court was relieved.

However, it is precisely because of his laxity and lack of management that the combat strength of his subordinate army is underground, and at the same time, the military discipline is also very poor.

It is said that he now has only one army in his hands, only 5,000 men.

And among these 5,000 people, there are still many who are on empty wages, so the actual number is far less than 5,000.

But although the combat effectiveness of this army is not strong, because Li Ne has not managed it for a long time, it has also created the lawless character of this guy on weekdays.

It is said that every year when they go to the border and come back, there will be a matter of plundering the people, and every time the father-in-law and the military commander report the situation, but in the end it is all gone.

Over time, these guys began to become more and more aggressive, and at the same time, they became more and more unafraid.

"Okay, don't be verbose, hurry up and move all the things on the carriage and vacate the carriage for Lao Tzu, don't you see that Lao Tzu's brothers are tired of carrying supplies!"

Seeing that Yang Ping and the others were still inactive, the guy couldn't help but take a few steps forward with a long sword, and at the same time, dozens of people behind him also surrounded him.

These guys also showed their long swords one after another, looking ill-intentioned.

"You guys are unreasonable, our wagons are for transporting military supplies, what is the difference between you so blatantly and forcibly demanding and looting."

In the carriage, Qi Ning finally couldn't help but show his head and scolded angrily.

The Wei Dejun, who were originally relatively calm, couldn't help but look angry when they heard that someone dared to speak like this, but when they saw that it was a beautiful girl who refuted them, many soldiers shouted and even whistled.

"Yo, this little beauty, uncle, I'm going to rob you today, what can I do, today Lao Tzu is not only going to rob the car, but also robbing by the way!"

The squad leader couldn't help but itch in his heart when he saw Qi Ning looking so beautiful.

As soon as his words came out, he felt three chilling murderous auras rush towards him from the convoy.

"Try to repeat what you just said!"

Qi Chao drove forward, and he had already clenched the Glaive Sword in his hand.

The glaive glaive was held in front of his horse in one hand, and he could use the glaive to cut off the creature's head whenever he wanted.

And the squad leader looked to the other side, and he saw that Li Yi was staring at him with a fierce look at him at this time, although Li Yi did not have a weapon in his hand, but the one he was tied to his back looked like a spear.

On the other side, Ansu looked at him with a wicked smile, although Ansu put one leg on the horse's back at this time, the boring rod on his leg was lying quietly.

"You······ Who are you! ”

Feeling the murderous aura of the three people in front of him, the squad leader knew that he had hit a hard stubble, but he still didn't want to give in.

"This military master, as we just said, we are a convoy transporting supplies to the north!"

Yang Ping saw that Li Yi and the three of them showed signs of making a move, and he immediately stepped forward and said that he didn't want to make a move with Wei Dejun because of this trivial matter.

After all, although the other party only has four or five hundred people now, there are only more than twenty people on his side, and there is still a lot of difference in the number of people.

If you really make a move, your side will definitely suffer.

"It's nothing to talk to this kind of guy, in the past, Lao Tzu directly ordered him to be thrown into the fire and roasted."

Hae Yin smiled and looked at the squad leader in front of him who was pretending to be calm.

His words made the team leader who was still insisting couldn't help but shudder, he could hear that the guy talking in front of him was not joking, his calm and breezy appearance must have really done this kind of thing.

"Childe, or I will let Yu Zhenlei deal with this guy directly, it will be an eyesore!"

Hai Yin's face still maintained this smiling demeanor, but Yu Zhenlei beside him jumped off the war horse, and then squeezed his fist with a loud sound.

Looking at Yu Zhenlei, who was like a giant in front of him, the squad leader immediately felt that his calves and stomach were shaking.

"Humph! For the sake of you also serving the court, I won't bother with you today, let's go! ”

As he spoke, the guy immediately turned around and took three steps and two steps and ran into the distance.