Chengdu at the beginning of summer was supposed to be the season for wheat beans to bear fruit, but what Ouyang Xuan saw was a scene of abundant weeds, and the barren artemisia growing on the side of the road was more than one person high, and he could only vaguely see the former farmland, and some of them had even grown into small forests for a long time. The farmland and streams beside the road revealed the skeletons of Bai Sensen's people and animals from time to time, and Ouyang Xuan's scalp was numb, and he couldn't help but speed up his pace, sweating all the way. By the time we got to a collapsed bridge, it was already sunset. Although it was not early, Ouyang Xuan still decided to take a break. As a traveler who often hikes long distances, his walking speed is not slow, he estimates that he has about three hours, only about a few miles left, and it is not a big problem to reach Jiezi Ancient Town before dark.

Ouyang Xuan had just sat on the side of the road, cleaning up the pebbles in his shoes, when two people suddenly sprang out of the weeds behind him, knocked him down with lightning speed and tied him firmly. The two men were lean-looking, dressed in shabby linen clothes, their hair curled on top of their heads, and each carrying a long knife. While he was looking in horror, dozens of men with swords, spears and shields came out of the grass on both sides of the road, and they surrounded him one after another. Immediately, he was pushed to a tall, black-faced man who looked like a leader.

"Where are you from, and where are you going?" The black-faced strong man who was questioned was dressed in an old half-length leather armor, and in addition to holding a knife in his hand, he also carried a bow and arrows on his back. He was the tallest and strongest of the group. Looking down at Ouyang Xuan with his eyes that shimmered. Ouyang Xuan is about 1.7 meters tall, and the black strong man is a little taller than him, estimated to be 1.75 meters.

If you say that you are a traverser, it is impossible to convince the group of people with knives and guns in front of you. When he was still lying on the wooden bed of the Wang family, Ouyang Xuan seriously thought about how to answer this question. The argument he prepared was that his parents were originally from Jinyuan County, Chongqing Prefecture, and the whole family fled to Huangzhou when they slaughtered Shu in Kuoduan, Mongolia, and because of the poverty and lack of food, they were sent by their parents to Longhu Mountain to become monks since childhood. Because of the homesickness of his parents and his own heart is not broken, he invited Du Dish to be a wandering monk, returned to Jinyuan County on behalf of his parents' homesickness, and is now preparing to go to the Huacheng Temple in the northwest mountains of Yongkang County. Ouyang Xuan was able to make up such a statement because of his professional reasons - Chongzhou has been called Shuzhou since the Tang Dynasty, and the great poet Du Fu and others have been officials here, "the sea is known, and the end of the world is next to each other", which is the famous sentence in the famous sentence of "Send Du Shaofu to Shuzhou" written by the great poet Wang Bo for his friend Du Fu. In the fourth year of Chunxi in the Southern Song Dynasty (1177), Shuzhou was promoted to Chongqing Mansion by Gaozong Qianvan to show the meaning of Chongqing, and the famous patriotic poet Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty also served as a general judge here. As a librarian, Ouyang Xuan has done some research on the history of Chongzhou City, and has systematically studied the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, so his rhetoric is also in line with historical facts, and it is not difficult to fool these men with knives and sticks.

"Well, your words have a Jingxiang accent." After listening to Ouyang Xuan's words, the black-faced strong man had not yet spoken, and a sturdy bald middle-aged man next to him said. "Of course, Huguang fills Sichuan, my family is an immigrant from Xiaogan, Hubei," Ouyang Xuan thought secretly. "Lord Escort, all his stuff is here!" Someone next to him had already turned out all the things in Ouyang Xuan's bag and was taking a closer look at them one by one.

"What's the use of these things?" The black-faced strong man asked.

"This is my weapon for self-defense", Ouyang Xuan stared at the sapper shovel and said, it was normal for the monks of the wandering side to carry weapons to guard against bandits and beasts.

"This is a magic artifact that my master brought back from the far west........ For headlamps, drink bottles and other items, Ouyang Xuan explained.

"Quickly untie the elders", the black-faced man shouted, in fact, seeing the hair and outfit, he was also like Wang Da, he had a preconceived idea that Ouyang Xuan was a monk from Youfang, and seeing that his answer was reasonable and decent, he no longer doubted it. He also learned that he was going to Huachengji Temple in the same direction as the place he was going, so he invited him to go with him.

All the way together, all the way to talk. During the conversation, Ouyang Xuan learned that this year was the year of Chunyou in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Ouyang Xuan used historical knowledge to convert it into 1257 AD. The black-faced strong man who led the team was called Li Shuang, and he was a famous inspector in Chongqing Mansion. The patrol was originally an official in charge of rural security, but this time he was ordered by the commander of Chongqing Mansion Pan to go to various forts in Yongkang County to collect grain, and the bald middle-aged man who just said that Ouyang Xuan had a Jingxiang accent was called Yu Zhu, and he was the escort of the Chongqing Mansion Xiang Army. The Southern Song Dynasty army is divided into the central army forbidden army and the local army army, according to the military system, it is 10 people for a fire, 50 people for a team, the captain position is called the escort team, and the deputy position is called the support team. According to the official system of the Southern Song Dynasty, although Li Shuang was only an official from the eighth grade, he could take a team or even more soldiers to perform his duties according to the authorization of his superiors. Li Shuang set out from Chongqing Fucheng with the officers and soldiers who collected grain, but did not collect grain in the forts along the way, but was almost discovered by the Mongolian rangers who plundered in the countryside.

The more information he got from Li Shuang and Yu Zhu's mouths, the more cold Ouyang Xuan became, and he knew that there was a high probability that he would really penetrate into another parallel time and space. When I was lying in bed thinking about this question yesterday, although I felt that the loyal old man was unlikely to lie, there was still a trace of luck in his heart, he couldn't be so unlucky, he really crossed over, right? What if Wang Da is mentally ill? What if the scenery around Wangda's shack is only highly similar to the scenery of Yuantong Ancient Town.

It was already dusk when it was about two miles away from the Yongkang Walled City, and the Yongkang City Wall at the foot of the mountain could be faintly seen in the distance. At this time, the marching team somehow stopped, and Li Shuang and Yu Zhu, who were walking in the middle, walked forward when they saw this, and Ouyang Xuan also followed closely, ready to step forward to find out.

The three of them broke through the crowd and walked to the front of the line, only to find out the reason for the stop. Originally, due to the gentle terrain here, the river that crossed here formed a low-lying water valley that was several miles long and dozens of meters wide, and only the official road formed a narrow and calm area more than ten meters wide, but the stone bridge across it has been washed away by floods. The water flowing on the wide surface of the river upstream, when flowing through the narrow area of the stone bridge, formed a deep and rapid turbulence, and it was impossible to wade across the river at all.

"Can you swim across the river?" Li Shuang asked. Ouyang Xuan followed him around, and all the soldiers in his sight were yellow and thin. According to Li Shuang Yuzhu, the lack of food caused by the long-term war, even if it is a soldier, it is barely enough to feed his stomach.

"Inspector, there is a bridge three miles upstream to cross the river," replied a soldier next to him.

At this moment, Yu Zhu's face suddenly appeared different, he made a silent posture, put his right ear on the ground, and after a while, he immediately got up and hurriedly shouted: "There is a horse team of Tartar soldiers coming this way." Ouyang Xuan knew that the Song people called the Mongols on the steppe Tartars, and the Tatar soldiers in Yu Zhu's mouth were Mongol soldiers.

Yu Zhu's words made the team panic suddenly. There are only more than ten war horses in the entire Chongqing Mansion, and those are the mounts of Pan Tong and his cronies, which are usually regarded as treasures and are not easily used. It was believed that the horses that appeared at this time could only be the rangers of the Mongols plundering the countryside.