As the saying goes: people leave their hometowns cheaply, and things are expensive when they leave their hometowns.

Therefore, when Yan Wuping, Qi Lao and the others looked at the city gate that was getting farther and farther away from them, they couldn't help but feel sad.

The eyes of the two old men were full of tears at the moment.

Although they knew that this time the escape from Sizhou County was only a temporary move.

When the steppe army leaves, they will still come back.

But even so, they couldn't help the sadness in their hearts.

This kind of inseparable complex is difficult to see in young people.

Just like Yan Junheng and Tan Kexun and others now, they are riding on horses at the moment, looking at the winding road, but they have endless expectations in their hearts.

For them, this departure from the city is just a way for them to avoid their edge, and it is a manifestation of the husband's ability to bend and stretch.

At this time, they were looking forward to how to go to New South Wales to turn the tide and how to defeat the grassland army.

"Elder Qi, although we have saved the people of the city from the poison of war this time, I am afraid that I will not be able to escape prison when I go to Xinzhou City."

Yan Wuping, who was riding on the horse, said a little unwillingly.

Although he did not instigate the exodus of the people of the city, after all, he himself fled with the rest of the people in the city in the end.

For a county warden whose duty is to defend the land, this is dereliction of duty and a capital crime.

He originally wanted to stay and live and die with the county seat of Sizhou, but considering that his grandson Yan Junheng was not old enough to carry the great cause of reviving the Yan family alone, and also so that those stubborn city elders could leave together, he finally chose to escape from the city together.

By the time they reached the gate, all the people of the city had already gone.

At the city gate, only the soldiers who were still holding their posts and the soldiers of the city guard battalion were left in a neat line.

Afterwards, Yan Wuping tearfully told these soldiers of the city guard battalion who were sticking to their posts the real reason for their withdrawal from Sizhou County.

At the same time, he also told the soldiers of the city guard camp that their evacuation was not a run without a fight.

They wanted to concentrate the forces of NSW and other states and counties to fight against the Prairie Army.

Moreover, he also assured the soldiers of the city guard camp that this matter was an order given by him, the county guard, and that even if the court thoroughly investigated it in the future, he would take it all in.

With Yan Wuping's promise, the soldiers of the city guard battalion, who were originally very confused, finally had a goal.

Therefore, in this matter, each of the soldiers of the 1,000 city guard battalion who evacuated with Yan Wuping was high-spirited.

In their opinion, they will fight together against the Prairie Army in NSW.

"This matter may not be as you think, if you go to other states and counties now, the imperial court may indeed put you in prison, but this time we went to Xinzhou in advance to inform Zongzheng Temple of the imminent arrival of the grassland army, I think they should not do such a stupid thing as crossing the river and demolishing the bridge."

Qi Lao had a different opinion on Yan Wuping's ending.

In his opinion, their escape from Sizhou County and their way to Xinzhou City this time was actually a gesture.

This is to tell the imperial court and Zongzheng Temple that they will stand with Zongzheng Temple from now on.

It stands to reason that both Qi Lao and Yan Wuping are people who have read the books of sages, so both of them should take the Three Principles and Five Constants as their life guidelines.

Like this, it is obviously an act of deceitful and betrayal, and the two of them should not do it.

But after listening to Li Yi and Mu Junhe's analysis, they clearly realized that the reason why the grassland army was able to move south smoothly this time was completely what Emperor Shengheng meant.

And the reason why Emperor Shengheng did this was completely to use the grassland army to cut off Zongzheng Temple, the force that posed the greatest threat to imperial power.

Originally, the battle between the emperor and Zongzheng Temple was just a contradiction between their royal family surnamed Mu.

In the final analysis, it was an internal matter of their Mu family, but Emperor Shengheng did not hesitate to destroy the three county towns in the border in order to achieve victory, so that thousands of people in the north fell under the threat of the iron hooves of the grassland army.

This is undoubtedly due to the abolition of the public for private purposes, and it is even no exaggeration to say that the current Emperor Shengheng is completely insane.

And after hearing Li Yi's analysis, Qi Lao also understood why Emperor Shengheng wanted to try his best to make the Pengzhou army guilty of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.

This is to find a scapegoat in advance for the next steppe army to go south.

But things did not develop in the direction expected by Emperor Shengheng.

He didn't expect that the Pengzhou army would finally choose to fight to the death with the grassland army.

In the end, the Pengzhou army was completely annihilated, but it also greatly damaged the vitality of the grassland army.

Such a result made Emperor Shengheng, who originally felt that he had a wisdom bead in his hands, extremely angry.

At the same time, the Pengzhou Army's move also caused a rift in the subtle cooperation between the original grassland tribe and Emperor Shengheng.

However, judging from the later situation, although the desperate battle of the Pengzhou army made the grassland army very angry, they still behaved relatively restrained in the following actions.

Although Qi Lao and the others did not know how Emperor Shengheng and the grassland army reached an agreement, they were sure that Emperor Shengheng must have promised enough benefits to the grassland army.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the grassland army to maintain restraint on the way south to besiege the imperial capital of Dayu in the future.

It was precisely because they saw the reason clearly that Qi Lao and Yan Wuping would be completely disappointed in the imperial court and Emperor Shengwu.

At this time, in their opinion, Emperor Shengwu was no longer qualified to call himself Emperor Dayu and the co-ruler of the world.

Although the sage once said: The Son of Heaven has seven ministers, although there is no way, he will not lose his world.

But where are there any ministers in the Dayu Dynasty today.

In Qi Lao's opinion, the entire court is full of flies and dogs.

They have no merit other than flattery.

And those who are truly full of wealth and have the world in their hearts are either exiled or sent to the world.

There are even many truly talented people who have been absorbed by various Tibetan countries and feudal towns, and have become the forces that secretly threaten the Dayu Dynasty.

"Don't have too much hope for Zongzheng Temple, the tigers in the east mountain eat people, and the tigers in the west mountains also eat people."

Mu Junhe was riding on a horse at this time and saw that Yan Wuping and Qi Lao were discussing Zongzheng Temple, so he sneered and said.

"What do you mean by this?"

When Tan Lixing heard Li Yi say this, he immediately asked with a serious face.

As the county lieutenant of Sizhou County, although he also understands the deception of officialdom, he still doesn't want these people who escaped by luck in Sizhou County to end up in the hands of Zongzheng Temple.

"Hmph, as the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the same is true of this Zongzheng Temple, maybe some people will be very happy when you go, but there must be people who will be unhappy."

Mu Junhe didn't beat around the bush and said it directly.

"So what are we going to do?"

Zhang Weiyan has always been good at this kind of open and secret fighting, and he knows that sometimes this kind of secret struggle is more terrible than the fight of real swords and guns.

"Don't panic around the rock, as long as we deal with it carefully, there shouldn't be any surprises."

Although Zhang Weiyan is not good at fighting openly and secretly, Qi Lao was not a vegetarian when he was able to stand in the court for decades.

"By the way, Li Xiaoyou said before that my uncompetitive grandson and granddaughter will also go to Xinzhou this time, presumably you are also ready to assist Zongzheng Temple to fight against the grassland tribe together?"

Previously, due to the urgency of time, Qi Lao didn't have time to ask Li Yi in detail about the purpose of their trip.

And now that they had escaped from the county seat of Sizhou, there was no danger along the way, so he asked.

"We have nothing to do with Zongzheng Temple, although my senior brother's surname is Mu, but he is already a monk and has not much to do with Zongzheng Temple, of course, we will definitely repay the people who were kind to my senior brother this time, as for the others, we have nothing to do with us."

Mu Junhe made the purpose of this time clear to Li Yi before.

Of course, he also said something about the inside story of Zongzheng Temple.

Li Yi learned from his description that when he was hunted down by Emperor Shengheng, it was an old man in Zongzheng Temple who came forward to stand up for him, and finally persuaded the elders of other Zongzheng Temples to have Zongzheng Temple come forward to stop Emperor Shengheng's pursuit of him.

So this time they went to NSW, and they had to find a way to get the old man out of NSW.

The other Zongzheng Temple elders, Mu Junhe, had no intention of helping at all.

Because he knew very well that the reason why the other elders of Zongzheng Temple agreed to come forward to protect him was completely because he wanted to weaken the majesty of Emperor Shengheng with the help of Mu Junhe's confrontation with Emperor Shengheng.

Therefore, the relationship between the two parties is completely exploited, and there is no so-called affection.

"But now is the time when Xinzhou's survival is in danger, if you can lend a hand at this time, I think Zongzheng Temple will definitely not forget your kindness!"

Qi Lao kindly reminded at this time, in his opinion, this kind of behavior of sending charcoal in the snow will be recorded by Zongzheng Temple no matter what.

As long as Zongzheng Temple owes this kindness, there will be a day when it will be useful.

"We understand Qi Lao's kindness, if there are people like Qi Lao in Zongzheng Temple, we may fight to the death for them, but unfortunately the people in Zongzheng Temple are not much different from those flies and dogs in the court, so this kind of thing is not binding on them."

Mu Junhe spoke at this time,

But what he said revealed a chill down his spine.

His words also made Qi Lao, who originally had great confidence in this trip to Xinzhou, also have doubts in his heart.

At the same time, on the foggy Huaishui, a ship was heading south along the water.

Since there was no wind above the Huai Shui at this time, the speed of the ship was not fast.

In addition, when the Huaishui reaches this section, the water surface of the Huaishui has also begun to shrink due to drought, so the ships are also paying special attention when driving.

Because if you are not careful, the ship is likely to sink into the mud on both sides.

"We've seen a lot of ships stuck in the mud along the way, and it seems that quite a few steppe barbarians have already come ashore!"

Through the thick fog on the water, Keiko could faintly see that many boats on both sides of the river were stopped.

And he listened carefully and found that there was no sound in the direction of the ships.

Therefore, he speculated that the steppe tribes on these ships had already come ashore.

"That's right, I guess they've wanted to go ashore for a long time, and it's completely beyond my expectation that they'll be able to hold on here."

At this time, Hai Yin, whose face was extremely pale, spoke weakly.

This journey of sailing and doing things has made him, a grassland man, suffer enough.

It is no exaggeration to say that he basically spent the whole time lying in the cabin.

And he has been eating and vomiting everything these days, and he almost didn't vomit the bile in the end.

But fortunately, Yang Ping knows some ways to treat seasickness, and with his help, Haiyin's seasickness is finally better.

But even so, he still vomited once or twice a day, and his brain was in a dizzy state all the time.

If he wanted his mind to be clear, he could only stand outside the cabin and breathe in the fresh air all the time.

So he spends most of his time outside the cabin.

Compared to him, Yu Zhenlei's seasickness is more serious than him, even if Yang Ping uses all his methods of treating seasickness to him, he still can't keep Yu Zhenlei clear-headed.

Moreover, Yu Zhenlei vomited more seriously than Haiyin, and in the end, Xu Yan had no choice but to find Hu Qing and ask him to use sweat medicine to stun Yu Zhenlei directly.

In this way, Yu Zhenlei will not vomit all day long.

However, although this method is good, it also has drawbacks, because every day they still have to let Yu Zhenlei wake up once or twice to solve the problem of eating and excretion.

Therefore, in just the past two days, Yu Zhenlei felt that he had lost a lot of weight, and even Yu Zhenlei swore that he would never take a boat again in the future.

"I asked Yang Ping before, where we are now, we are still a day away from Sizhou County at most, if the grassland tribes have all gone ashore at this time and changed to land, then their arrival at Sizhou County will be delayed for about half a day."

Keiko was analyzing carefully.

"I don't know what the situation is in Sizhou County, although I believe that Li Yi can have a way to take all the people in the city out of the city, but I don't know if he can convince the county guard and other officials in Sizhou County."

At this time, Qi Ning was also very anxious, because at this time, all her family members lived in Sizhou County.

If Li Yi and Mu Junhe can't let everyone in Sizhou County leave, then they will only be greeted with death.

"Sister, don't worry! Li Yi has a lot of ghost ideas on weekdays, maybe there is no one in Sizhou County at this time. ”

Qi Chao was not worried, he knew that Li Yi was full of scheming, and he told Li Yi before Li Yi set off that he would persuade the Qi family to leave Sizhou County no matter what.

He even told Li Yi that if his grandfather was stubborn, Li Yi could directly choose to knock his grandfather unconscious and then forcibly take him out of the city.

I have to say that Qi Chao is really a filial grandson.

"Although I also have confidence in Li Yi, as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens!"

Qi Ning was still a little uneasy.

"Miss Qi, don't worry, even if the grassland tribe really attacks the city, in their current state, if they want to loot on a large scale, it will definitely be a day or two later."

At this time, Hai Yin's weak voice suddenly sounded.

When everyone looked at Hai Yin's bloodless face, they thought that at this time, most of the soldiers of the other grassland tribes should be not much different from Hai Yin.