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Xiang Ye did not order the guards to set up tents on the roadside, and the reason why he chose to camp on the roadside was because he didn't want the Hun scouts passing by here to discover their whereabouts.

The temperature at night was very low, and Erhu took a few animal skins and simply laid a bunk for Xiang Ye, and it was not very cold to sleep on it.

Xiang Ye was sleeping deeply, and Erhu, who had been guarding near him, shook him lightly and whispered, "Wang, is there a situation on the road?" ”

As soon as he heard that there was a situation on the road, Xiang Ye got up and lay on the ground and looked at the road.

A large group of nurseries and 'women' slowly marched in the direction of Jiuyuan, although they were numerous, they did not make a sound at all, and there was almost no sound on the road except for footsteps.

"What are these people doing?" Xiang Ye frowned, his eyes stayed on the people who were walking, and asked the two tigers on the side.

Erhu shook his head and replied, "I don't know, it can't be the Huns, right?" ”

"No!" Xiang Ye frowned and said to Erhu: "You go and take a look, ask them what they are doing?" Where do you want to go? ”

The second tiger answered, called the four guards and quietly 'touched' the road.

Before they could reach the side of the road, there was a rush of horses' hooves behind the fleeing people.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, Erhu and the others hurriedly bent down again, staring at the road without blinking.

When the civilians on the road heard the sound of horses' hooves, they immediately became a 'chaotic' mess, and many of them ran towards the fields on both sides of the road.

A young man happened to run towards the place where Erhu and the others were hiding, and as soon as he ran in front of Erhu, Erhu, who was crawling on the ground, jumped up, pressed him to the ground, and reached out to cover his mouth.

The "commotion" and "chaos" of the refugees did not last long, and the cavalry that caught up saw that some refugees were running to the fields on both sides, and immediately divided some people to chase after them. After catching up with the fleeing refugees, the cavalry did not capture them, but 'raised' their spears and stabbed them all to the ground.

Xiang Ye wrinkled his brows and crouched on the ground, he could already see that it was not the Huns who were chasing these refugees, but the soldiers wearing the armor of the Xia army.

"You Diao people, the county commander has an order to kill all of you, young and old." A cavalry officer shouted loudly and rode his horse to a young 'woman' with a child in her arms, grabbed the child in her arms and threw it to the ground, shouting: "I want all your heads!" ”

When the 'woman' who had snatched the child saw that the child had been killed by the officer, she howled miserably and threw herself beside the child crying and fell into a coma.

The officer glanced coldly at the 'woman' and said to the soldier behind him: "Her child is dead, you do a good deed, let her go and reunite with the child!" ”

As soon as the officer's voice fell, a roar suddenly came from the side of the road: "Stop! ”

Hearing the roar, the officer was stunned for a moment, and turned his face to look at the side of the road. I saw five men in armor and swords in their hands getting up from the ground with a man dressed as a civilian and walking towards them.

When Erhu and the others walked towards the road, Xiang Ye and the remaining guards also got up, and the guards led the war horse from behind a small dirt slope not far away, Xiang Ye turned over and rushed over to the road.

From the clothes of the fleeing people, Xiang Ye could see that they were not Huns, but the people of the Xia Kingdom. He didn't understand why the people fled in the middle of the night, and he didn't understand why the army was chasing them after them.

The armor of Erhu and the others is very different from that of ordinary Xia Jun, their armor is inlaid with a whole iron plate on the 'chest', as long as there is light, the iron plate will 'shoot' a faint luster.

"Why do you want to kill?" Walking up to the officer, Erhu lowered his voice and asked the officer, "They are not the Huns, but our people of Great Xia, I want to know why you are chasing them?" ”

The officer obviously hadn't seen this kind of armor like Erhu and them, so he first looked at him suspiciously for a while, and then said: "We came to hunt down these Diao people who refused to pay taxes on the orders of the county commander, who are you?" Dare to obstruct us from carrying out our military affairs! ”

Erhu sneered and said to the officer: "Our Great Xia Kingdom has always been a separation of military and government, and the county commander has no military power in his hands, which 'door' military order do you serve?" Moreover, the responsibility of my Great Xia army is to protect the people from foreign aggression, but you hunt down and kill the people, how can this be explained? ”

Seeing Erhu's sharp words, the fleeing civilians knew that they had met a backer, and hurriedly rushed behind him and several other guards, and the two young men did not forget to lift up the 'female' who had fainted next to the child's corpse when they were about to flee.

The officer was stunned for a moment by Erhu's successive questions, and then said to Erhu as if he was relying on some force: "There are people in the court who are county commanders, and what he wants us to do, of course we must do it!" ”

"Where's your general?" Before Erhu could speak, Xiang Ye had already arrived with the rest of the guards, and all the words of the officer were heard by him, and he wrinkled his brows and asked the officer, "Could it be that your general also supports you in hunting down civilians?" ”

The officer looked at Xiang Ye, and since he had never been in Jiuyuan City, he had no chance to see Xiang Ye at all. And Xiang Ye was wearing armor at this time, and the officer thought he was the general of a certain Xia army, so he pouted and said: "Our general drinks all day, so he doesn't have time to take care of us, and military affairs are handled by the county commander on weekdays." Who are you, this general? To take care of our military affairs? ”

Seeing that Xiang Ye's armor was gorgeous, the officer didn't dare to make a mistake, and his tone softened a lot when he spoke.

Xiang Ye ignored him, but raised his hand and pointed at a young civilian hiding behind Erhu with a horsewhip and said, "You come out and tell me why you fled in the middle of the night?" And why did they kill you? ”

When the young commoner saw Xiang Ye asking, he knelt on the ground and cried with a "poof" and said: "After the establishment of the Great Xia Kingdom, the King of Xia ordered the land of the whole country to be distributed to the people. Unexpectedly, the new land did not wait, but the old land was confiscated by the government on the grounds that all of it was confiscated and then distributed uniformly. After the land was confiscated, after waiting for a long time, the government never saw the distribution, and some 'smart' people inquired around, and finally got the news that the land had been returned to the state, and we could only cultivate it. ”

When the young civilian said this, he 'licked' his lips and lips and looked up at Xiang Ye tremblingly, and saw that the expression on Xiang Ye's face had not changed much before he continued: "It's okay to farm, but the officials don't treat us people as human beings at all, as long as we are a little slack, we will be beaten at least and killed at worst, I really can't survive, I can only escape!" ”

Xiang Ye's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked the officer, "Is he telling the truth?" ”

The officer pursed his lips, shrugged his shoulders and said to Xiang Ye with a disdainful face: "I advise you to take care of this matter, our county commander is the wife and uncle of the right Sima Chen Feng, if you offend him, I'm afraid that your position as a general will not be stable!" ”

"Really?" Xiang Ye sneered twice, and then his face changed and he shouted to Erhu and the others: "Clear these moths that plague the people for me!" ”

Erhu and the others responded in unison, turned over and jumped off the horse, and rushed towards the more than 100 Xia soldiers who were chasing and killing the people with their swords.

The officer who was talking to Xiang Ye just now didn't expect Xiang Ye to suddenly order them to be killed, he was stunned, and before he could react to what was happening, Erhu had already rushed in front of him, swung his long sword and stabbed him in the lower abdomen.

Seeing that the officer was killed, the remaining soldiers of the Xia Army hurriedly rushed towards Erhu and the others.

The training that Erhu and the others received on weekdays was almost customized according to the standards of swordsmen, where were these ordinary soldiers their opponents.

When the guards slashed their swords and rushed towards the soldiers who were chasing the civilians, all the fleeing civilians were stunned. They didn't expect that these Xia Jun, who were also wearing armor, who came out of the side of the road, would show their weapons to the Xia Jun who were chasing them, and when they rushed out, they still looked like they would never retreat without killing them all.

Although the number of Xia soldiers chasing the civilians was large, they were not the opponents of Erhu and the others at all, and it didn't take long for a guard to overturn the last soldier standing, and Erhu and the others made up a sword for those Xia soldiers who fell to the ground one by one, and then returned to Xiang Ye's side.

"Folks, I really didn't know that there was such a thing in the land of Great Xia! I thought that from top to bottom, the Great Xia Kingdom was all dedicated to fighting against the Xiongnu, but I didn't expect that there would be officials who would use the new policy to benefit the people to do such things! You can go back with me, and I will naturally call the shots for everyone! Seeing that Erhu and the others had killed all the pursuers, Xiang Yele turned his horse and shouted to the civilians behind him: "You lead the way for me, and I will follow you on a journey!" ”

After Xiang Ye shouted these words, the refugees looked at each other, and some 'commotion' moved.

After a while, an old man walked out and knelt in front of Xiang Ye and said: "General, we are from the Wuyuan clan, and it is only because Wuyuan County ordered Liu Shousan to cut down the land and treat us as slaves, so we were 'forced' to leave our hometowns. It's just that Liu Shousan is very powerful, and it is said that even King Xia can't help him, and he asks the general not to miss his future because of me and other grass people! ”

Xiang Ye's eyes narrowed slightly, and he sneered and said to Erhu: "Send someone back to Jiuyuan, tell Lieutenant Cao Budo, and let him investigate Chen Feng immediately, if you find that Chen Feng and Liu Shousan's case are involved in anything, immediately connect the nine clans!" ”

The second tiger answered, turned around and said a few words to a guard behind him, and the guard slapped his horse after receiving the order, and rushed towards Jiuyuan at a gallop.

"Folks, in front of you is King Xia!" Xiang Ye gave the second tiger a look, and the second tiger stepped forward and said to the civilians: "The king of the wrongs you have suffered will definitely help you get it back!" Just now, the king has ordered someone to investigate Liu Shousan's backstage, no matter how powerful he is, he will definitely get this justice back for the people! ”

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