"The villain is indeed not surnamed Zeng, nor is he from Ezhou, the villain's surname is Dong, and his ancestral home is Yongan Town at the foot of Taihang Mountain."

Since Zeng Xiaoyi was willing to confess, Fan Zeng asked Xiao Liuzi to call the jailers guarding outside to take him down, and by the way, he also sent some hot food.

Zeng Xiaoyi has been in prison for a few days, eating leather whips and drinking the northwest wind, he has long been hungry, and when he sees the food, he immediately looks like a starving ghost reincarnated, and he devours it for a while, and when the hunger in his stomach is suppressed, he will reveal his family's origin and inventory.

The Dong family has lived in Yong'an Town for generations, and is a hunter in the area of Taihang Mountain, with the courage of the artist, Zeng Xiaoyi, who should now be called Dong Xiaoyi's father, Dong Rong, often goes deep into the hinterland of Taihang to hunt, and every harvest is quite rich, so the days are also quite moist.

In the second year of Jingkang, Dong Rong was twenty-eight years old, and already had a son and a daughter, the eldest son Dong Congjia was six years old; The second daughter, Dong Yue'e, is four years old. Wife, Liang Xiaoyu, is the only daughter of a distant branch of the local wealthy Liang family.

After the Jin army captured Bianjing, the entire Central Plains was full of smoke, Dong Rong did not want to get involved in the dispute, and led his wife and children to hide in Taihang Mountain.

Dong Rong thought too naively, where is there any paradise under the clouds of war? There are not a few people in the Taihang Mountain area who have the same idea as Dong Rong, and they have dragged their families into the Taihang Mountain to avoid the military disaster, and the originally quiet mountains and forests are as lively as a market town.

Where there is dissension. There was a lack of food and clothing in the mountains and forests, and as time went by, this contradiction became more and more prominent, and Dong Rong had to fight with people almost every day to protect his shelter and food. In addition, the heroes under the mountain rise together, people often go into the mountains to recruit soldiers, and some defeated soldiers often come to harass, Dong Rong's children are young, and Liang Xiaoyu is a cowardly little lady. Fortunately, Dong Rong's father is also from Orion, and the two fathers and sons support each other and barely survive.

It is not a way to do this in the long run, it just so happens that Liang Xiaoyu's uncle, who is also the current head of the Liang family, Liang Xing pulled up a team to fight against the Jin people, Dong Rong discussed with his father and simply went down the mountain to join Liang Xing's rebel army. At that time, there were many teams like this in the Central Plains, and they were all spontaneous resistance organizations of the people.

In the first year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei ordered people to get in touch with the anti-gold teams in various places to prepare for the joint anti-gold resistance, and these teams also had a unified name "Zhongyi Baoshe", and later, Yue Fei reorganized the "Zhongyi Baoshe" into "Yuejia Army Loyal and Righteous Army". Liang Xing is the leader of the Taihang Mountain Zhongyi Protection Society, and the commander of the Yuejia Army's Zhongyi Army and horses. Dong Rong relied on his strong martial arts, dared to fight, and was soon promoted to Liang Xing's deputy.

At that time, in addition to obeying and cooperating with Marshal Yue's military operations during Marshal Yue's Northern Expedition, the loyal and righteous troops in various places were more responsible for collecting and probing intelligence on weekdays, providing reference for Marshal Yue to formulate military action plans. To find out information, you need to enter the market town in disguise, and you have to walk in the mountains and forests, and my father was soon selected to be the director of the spy department of the Taihang Mountain Loyal Army. Under my father's influence, my brother and sister also became his helpers. ”

"Dong Rong? Dong Congjia? Dong Yue'e? Fan Zeng pondered, "In the second year of Shaoxing, the imperial court recruited people from the rivers and lakes to serve as spies, and the military information saucer lists of the border armies were archived in the secret spy department, why didn't the old man see the names of the three of them?" ”

"This is what my father asked. He once told me that he was only forced to collect intelligence, and my father still liked the mountains and forests and freedom, and when I was very young, he said more than once that he hoped that the war would end soon, and he took me to hunt in the Taihang Mountains and pick mountain fruits and mushrooms. It's a pity that although Song and Jin don't fight anymore, we can't go back to Taihang Mountain. ”

Fan Zeng ignored the remembrance in Dong Xiaoyi's words and asked, "How did you come to Lin'an City?" Where exactly did your brother and sister go? ”

"Why did we come to Lin'an, it has to start with Yue Shuai's last Northern Expedition——"

From the fourth year of Shaoxing to the tenth year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei organized and launched four Northern Expeditions in the six years, intending to recover his homeland.

In May of the tenth year of Shaoxing, Wanyan Zongbi, also known as Wanyan Wushu, tore up the peace discussion, divided into four ways to the south, Wanyan Zongbi personally led the main army to attack Kaifeng, the marshal of the right supervision army Wanyan Sali attacked Shaanxi, Li Cheng, the prefect of Henan of Jinguo, attacked Xijing Henan Mansion, and Nie Lixiao attacked the Jingdong Road of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the face of the menacing Jin army, Yue Fei planned to take this opportunity to eliminate the main force of the Jin army, smash Huanglong, and recover the rivers and mountains.

At this time, Yue Fei was already the envoy of the two towns of Wusheng and Dingguo Army, and the title of Jin Shaobao, known as "Yue Shaobao", and the troops under his command accounted for four-sevenths of the total strength of the Great Song Dynasty. He first won the support of the Great Song Emperor Zhao Gou, agreed to his Northern Expedition, and made meritorious contributions in one fell swoop.

With the support of the emperor and the imperial court, Yue Fei immediately formulated a battle strategy with several major commanders and ministers, and prepared to meet the Jin army separately.

Since the Jin people attacked in four ways, they also attacked in four ways. Because Wu Jue died of illness a year ago, Xilu decided that his deputy Hu Shijiang would lead Wu Ling (Wu Jue's brother), Yang Zheng and Guo Hao to fight against Yan Sa Liyu; Jingdong Huai East Road Xuanfu disposed of Han Shizhong against Nie Lixiao of East Road; The most important central battlefield was fought by Yue Fei's "Yuejia Army", Zhang Jun's "Guardian Army in the Camp", and Liu Qi's 20,000 "Bazi Army" against the main force of the Jin Army led by Wanyan Zongbi and Li Chengjun respectively.

Since it was a decisive battle between the Song and Jin countries, how could the loyal and righteous army under the Yuejia army stay out of the matter?

When Wanyan Zongbi had just raised his troops, Li Bao, the leader of the rebel army attached to Yue's army, led his troops to raid the Jin army camped in Jingdi, Wanting County, on the night of May 24, killing three thousand directors and four thousand commanders of the Jin Guozong family, capturing a thousand horses, and repulsing the Jin army that came to encircle and suppress on June 2, opening a good situation for Yue Fei's fourth northern expedition.

At the end of June of the 10th year of Shaoxing, Liang Xing and Dong Rong received Yue Fei's order to "cross the Yellow River, kill the gold thieves, and occupy the prefecture and county", and arrived on the south bank of the Yellow River on July 1. On the second day of the first month, Liang Xing and Dong Rong led the loyal and righteous army to cross the river and return to the north bank of the Yellow River, and joined the Hebei heroes Zhao Yun, Li Jin, Niu Xian, Zhang Yu and others, and recovered Hengqu County in Jiangzhou in one fell swoop, and then marched east along the north bank of the Yellow River across Wangwu County in Mengzhou.

Gao Taiwei has 5,000 soldiers and horses in Mengzhou, Liang Xing and Dong Rong led the loyal army and Gao Taiwei and others had a fierce battle, the two armies fought from Chen to noon, the Jin army was defeated and fled, Liang Xing and Dong Rong led the rank to chase after the tail, and the corpses left by the Jin army can be seen everywhere on the ten-mile long battlefield.

After Gao Taiwei went back, he transferred more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from Huaizhou, Mengzhou and Weizhou to turn back and kill the Taihang Loyal and Righteous Army, Liang Xing and others fought with the Jin army again, never fought to the time of You, killed seven or eight out of ten of the Jin army, and Gao Taiwei led the remnants of the army to flee again.

Liang Xing and Dong Rong decided to temporarily stay in Yanchuan in Jiyuan County for repair, and during the repair period, the loyal and righteous army received strong support and cooperation from the people of Hebei.

"Although the villain has a vague memory of the war at that time because of his young age, I heard my father mention that at that time, whether it was the loyal army or the regular army of the Song Dynasty, as long as it was a gold striker, the people everywhere the army passed were to take out the best food at home, vacate the best house and do their best to entertain, and even risked their lives to help investigate the military situation and cover the troops. It's a pity, seeing that the victory is imminent, Yue Shuai was recruited back by the twelve gold medals, who would have thought that as soon as the army of the imperial court retreated, what would be left for the loyal army and the people? How will the Golden people treat them? ”

Dong Xiaoyi's face was gloomy, he was not yet thirty years old, but the expression on his face now was like a withered old man who had gone through vicissitudes, and he couldn't see half of his anger.

When Dong Rong went to war with Liang Xing, his family stayed in the fortress of the loyal army at the foot of Taihang Mountain. Liang Xing and Dong Rong set out at the end of June, and then leap June and July, and good news came from various battlefields.

Maybe there is really a god blessing in the dark, just when everyone was celebrating the upcoming final victory, and even ready to welcome the return of the Great Song Emperor and redo the preparations for the people of the Great Song Dynasty, Dong Xiaoyi's grandfather suddenly went crazy and asked his daughter-in-law to leave the fortress with his three grandchildren.

Why do you want to leave all of a sudden? Faced with his daughter-in-law's questioning, the old man was silent, but urged Liang Xiaoyu to pack up his things immediately and take the child with him. Later, Liang Xing's wife was even alarmed to persuade him personally, but the old man still did not say anything and was still stubborn to leave.

Liang Xiaoyu couldn't make up her mind, and in the end, under the persuasion of her eldest son Dong Congjia, Liang Xiaoyu finally decided to take the child and leave with Old Man Dong.

Old man Dong took his daughter-in-law and three grandchildren and did not go far, he went around and entered Taihang Mountain from a hidden path, and the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren chose the secret path to walk, endured mosquito bites, worried about the attack of fierce beasts, and finally settled down in a cave in the middle of the mountain.

A few old and weak women and children, can not bring much food, on weekdays the grandparents and grandchildren are nested in the cave, by the old man Dong and the eldest grandson to go out to hunt some prey to supplement food.

Liang Xiaoyu sent his eldest son to ask the old man, how long would he stay in the mountains? Dong Rong can't see the children when he comes back, what should he do if he is in a hurry?

Old man Dong replied sullenly: "When is it too peaceful, when will you go out?" Ah Rong knows this place and he will come to us. ”

Knowing that her husband could find her and the children, Liang Xiaoyu was relieved and took the children to settle down in the cave. In order to avoid being discovered, Liang Xiaoyu followed Old Man Dong's instructions to cook on the fire at night and eat cold food during the day.

In this way, Old Man Dong found temporary peace for his family in the midst of chaos.