Leopard Water City, Montenegro County, is less than thirty miles away from Qinglu City controlled by the Rakshasas, and is at the forefront of the war between the Great Shang and the Rakshasas.

Now, Leopard Water City has gathered more than 150,000 troops, in addition to the main force of the 100,000 Youzhou Army led by the Pingbei general Zi Yuqin, there are also reinforcements sent by neighboring Jizhou and Qingzhou, as well as 10,000 people sent by Buyeo, a subject of the Great Shang, and then there are volunteers and mercenaries from all over the country.

The whole Leopard Water City has become a large barracks, most of the houses are full of soldiers, but there are many shops on both sides of the street, most of them are earthen kilns, and then there are taverns and blacksmith shops, all of which provide various services for these warriors.

"I don't know where all the original inhabitants of this city have gone. In a dirty tavern, Mo Li said curiously while pinching his nose and drinking the unpalatable ale.

Half of the town, which had enough to accommodate four or five hundred thousand inhabitants, was now populated by big-headed soldiers, and the other half were merchants who served them, and the original inhabitants were gone.

"Most of them fled," replied the Blood Swallow, "and the rest who did not have time to escape were pulled by ropes to the north of the town or beyond, and sold in the market like cattle for military expenses." ”

Mo Li was stunned for a long time before he spoke: "No, how do you know?"

Contrary to the usual cold and glamorous normal, the Blood Swallow said with a miserable smile: "This is war. ”

After drinking a large glass of ale, he continued: "I was like this back then, my cousin and I, like two pigs, were dragged from the fish suit to Jingzhou of the big merchants, and from Jingzhou to Youzhou, where they were sold back and forth in the market, and finally sold to the kiln in Zhangchu County. ”

Mo Li was already stunned, and Yun Zhong also poured a large sip of ale wine, and Fei Na said softly: "Yanzi, the past is over." "They are naturally clear about the past of the Blood Swallow, but they can't bear to listen to it.

The Blood Swallow was already in tears: "I was twelve years old when I was sold to the kiln. ”

Wei Ling scolded: "Don't say it, Yanzi!"

Blood Swallow obediently stopped talking, sobbing on the table, and Mo Li put his hand on her back, regretting that he had provoked this topic.

Yunzhong sighed lightly, the battlefield where the soldiers made meritorious contributions was also the Shura field of the people, whether it was the winner or the loser, the people were miserable, remembering that Menghe Taishou Gongsun Du had lamented in front of him, in the nine years since the war, the population of Menghe County has decreased by more than 600,000.

"This girl, why is she so sad, Xiao Ke Fang Yan, if the girl has anything difficult to do, you can tell Xiao Ke, Xiao Ke will go to the soup and die. ”

The sudden sound from the side made everyone in the audience stunned for a moment, and they saw a young man of medium height with a fair face who came out of nowhere, and approached the blood swallow with a hippie smile.

Shi Jin, who had a hot temper, was the first to shout out: "Where did the king and the eight lambs come from, how far and how far to roll!"

Yun Zhong laughed, this person is just a late-stage cultivator of the Yellow Order, there are more than ten people on this table, most of them have reached the Ground Rank Cultivation, and he dares to come up, he is definitely a wonderful person.

Fang Yan was trembling by Shi Jin's voice, but he didn't run, sat down beside the blood swallow with a shy face, and said: "Don't misunderstand, Xiao Ke is also quite famous in his hometown, I don't believe you go to Jizhou Jinmucheng to inquire, who doesn't know my Fang Yan's name." ”

Shi Jin stood up and wanted to make a move, but was preempted by the blood swallow, the red-haired beauty who was molested twisted Fang Yan's right hand behind her with one hand, and pinched the back of Fang Yan's neck with the other hand, Fang Yan screamed like a pig, and the blood swallow threw Fang Yan a few meters away at once, and before he could stand firmly, Li Te rushed over and kicked Fang Yan directly to fly away from a few tables.

The boy was honest, got up and ran.

After this incident, everyone was also in a state of interest, got up and settled the accounts and prepared to leave.

A thunderous roar came to mind at the door of the tavern: "Who dares to bully my brother!"

Yun Zhong and the others followed the sound, only to see Fang Yan, who had just escaped, going and returning, pointing at them and saying, "Don't run." He shouted outside again: "Third master, this is the group, don't let them run." ”

"Okay, let me see, who dares to bully our volunteers!" A big black man scolded, stepped into the door of the tavern, looked in the direction of Fang Yan's finger, and was stunned, "Why are you?"

Yun Zhong and the others were also stunned, and then Yun Zhong took a step forward and arched his hand: "I've seen Zhang Sanye." ”

The tower-like man is Liu Bei's sworn brother, Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei was stunned for a few seconds, and then burst into laughter: "It turned out to be Brother Yun, you are also here, okay, okay!" stepped forward and grabbed Yunzhong, "Brother Yun, I didn't drink well in Menghe last time, and today I am here, let's have a good drink." ”

Fang Yan was dumbfounded: "Third master, you know!"

Zhang Fei lifted the neck of Fang Yan and scolded: "You dog slave, this is a good friend of your third master, Brother Yun in the clouds, if you dare to offend him, the third master will tear you up now!"

Yunzhong hurriedly persuaded Zhang Fei, and asked Mo Li to take everyone to go first, but he said to Zhang Fei: "This place is too dirty, why don't you change places with me and have a few drinks." ”

Zhang Fei was overjoyed, the two came to a nearby restaurant that could be seen, went up to the second floor and sat down, a bartender had already come up to serve, and Yunzhong ordered: "The best wine and food are on it." ”

The bartender took the order and left.

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "I've always heard Brother Suo Chaoxian say that Captain Yun is a righteous man who stands up to the sky, sure enough!"

After the bartender brought the wine, Zhang Fei poured a glass for Yunzhong, but he poured himself a drink, and after a while, he was six or seven glasses.

Yunzhong pressed Zhang Fei's wine glass, Zhang Feiyuan opened his eyes, and said, "My two brothers don't let me drink, why don't you let me drink." ”

Yunzhong said in a deep voice: "Third master, you can drink wine, but you can't be sulky." ”

Zhang Fei slapped the table with a slap: "I'm just angry!" threw the wine glass in his hand against the wall, and the fragments flew around, startling the surrounding guests to leave the table one after another.

The shopkeeper ran upstairs with a few big men, and was hit in the face by a handful of gold coins in the clouds: "Today, on the second floor, our brothers have taken care of it, just serve good wine and food, and don't let other guests come up." ”

Seeing that Yunzhong and Zhang Fei were both majestic men, the shopkeeper was already weak-hearted, and seeing this large amount of gold coins, he hurriedly picked up the gold coins with a few of his subordinates and coaxed the other guests downstairs.

Zhang Fei laughed: "Brother Yun, you are still doing things happily, unlike my eldest brother, who is too honest." "Another glass of wine.

"Let us escort the grain and grass, we will escort the grain and grass, let us deceive and lure the enemy, we will deceive and lure the enemy, but the good thing of really killing the enemy and making meritorious service is not our share, it has been almost three months in Montenegro, there is not much credit, the brothers have been killed and injured hundreds, Brother Yun, we are aggrieved!" Zhang Fei said hatefully.

Under the careful questioning in the clouds, it turned out that for more than two months, General Ziyu had accumulated grain and grass on the one hand, preparing for a protracted war, and on the other hand, he had repeatedly attacked the nearby Rakshasa army fortresses with suspicious soldiers, testing the truth and taking on the task of doubtful soldiers, mainly the mercenaries from all walks of life and Liu Bei and their volunteers, and if there was a Rakshasa army chasing them out, they would be ambushed and eliminated by Gongsun Zhan, Xu Rong and other Youzhou troops.

"The Rakshasa Army has built forty or fifty fortresses near Qinglu City?" got a lot of information from Zhang Fei and the two armies, and muttered in the cloud center, "Such a big stroke, it seems that General Ziyu's attack on Qinglu City will be a larger battle than the Battle of Qingdai City at the beginning of the year, and it may even affect the victory or defeat of this war." ”