The old land of the Sun family, named Kangzhou, is said to be a desolate beachhead when the previous dynasty was first established, fierce beasts are everywhere, cordyceps are rampant, until later Emperor Jirui sent an edict to the people, hundreds of people moved here to overcome thorns and thorns, open up the wasteland, after several generations, finally turned this wild land into a warm southern jade.

The Sun family gained a firm foothold at that time, and the ancestors of the Sun family went through two generations from the unknown Liupin petty officials, and managed Kangzhou in an orderly manner, all the way to Kangzhou, and became a local famous family.

Nowadays, in Kangzhou, you can see endless green rice fields everywhere, stretching from both sides of the river to one end of the valley, birds and dragonflies flying above, and chickens and dogs walking leisurely on the ridges.

On the sparkling water, the people drove the fishing boats, sang a small tune and pulled the trumpet to cast the fishing nets, and countless big fish jumped out of the water in the tightening of the fishing nets, which was fat and attractive.

It is a scene of abundance and happiness.

When Jing Wu was first established, Zhuge Wanling realized that Kangzhou had been run by the Sun family for many years, and the people had rich food and clothing, never worried about not being able to pay taxes, and even had a lot of surplus grain at the end of the year.

Therefore, when the government took over the ruling power, the almost monolithic hometown of the Sun family was ceded again and again, and the county guards sent in the past were only in charge of the government taxes and monitoring the actions of the Sun family, and almost nothing was touched on some local affairs, and the Sun family was allowed to manage and govern themselves.

But even so, he still failed to guard against the instigation of people with intentions, which led to today's disaster.

A few days ago, in the name of "the county guard is not benevolent", Sun Zitong raided the official office with his servants, and showed the head of the county guard court to the public, and the entire Kangzhou became a rebel army of Jingwu overnight, and the momentum was so great that the whole country was shocked.

The direction of the wind in the court also became strange all of a sudden, first of all, the officials of the Sun faction wrote one after another, generously accusing Sun Tong of being a traitor, in order to prove that they had no two hearts.

But in fact, many people have already given birth to a bit of wait-and-see thoughts, and even other families have begun to come and go frequently, in order to know whether Sun Tong's matter has Sun Ji'an's instructions, and even began to think about whether to stand on the side of the court or stand on the side of the Sun family to respond.

Zhuge Wanling has indeed forced the scholars to be very bitter in these years, starting from the case of destroying the embankment and flooding the fields, and then to the later case of private possession of armor, countless people from the Shi clan faction have fallen or been beheaded, and the new policy of the court has tightened the collar around the necks of the scholars more and more, and the contradictions have been silently expanding and may erupt at any time.

Of course, the most people are still waiting, because anyone with a discerning eye can see the current situation, as long as Gao Changgong is there, it is not easy to rebel, just the iron hooves of the more than 100,000 Qingzhou ghosts are enough to shock people's hearts, not to mention that at the forefront of this iron hoof, there is a more shocking Jingwu God of War Gao Changgong.

Kangzhou's private soldiers are untrained, and there are only 10,000 people who can really come in handy on the battlefield, even if they secretly bring in Tang Guo to help, they can only create pressure on the border, and they are far from being able to do any powerful deterrence, so no matter how you look at it, it is an egg hitting a stone.

But the initiator of it is not afraid at this time.

In the old ancestral hall of the Sun family, Sun Tong looked at the flickering candles and said impatiently: "How is the matter going? Why hasn't it been completed yet?"

The entire ancestral hall seemed empty, but his question naturally couldn't have been asked at the tablets.

Soon, a figure began to appear in the darkness, and as he walked forward, the silhouette of the figure gradually appeared in the candlelight.

The man was dressed in a broad black robe and a hood, his face was blurred, and his voice was even more strange, as if a thick phlegm was stuck in his throat, and as if he had something in his mouth, hoarse and vague: "You know, even though that seed has sprouted, it is still very difficult to control it completely. ”

"In that case, why don't you start in Jianye City? Why do you have to wait until here to do so? You said that your envoy has already arrived in Jianye, and now that he is thousands of miles away, won't he be affected?"

Sun Tong looked at the figure, and his eyes also revealed a bit of distrust, but at this moment, he had to trust these people, because only those who have really come into contact with them know what kind of terrifying power these people have.

He had never heard of such a group of people, even in the annals of history, but they said that they had been living in the dark, like emperors in the night, who had existed for tens of thousands of years and never disappeared.

Thinking of this, Sun Tong couldn't help but feel a little afraid.

"The distance in your eyes is not the key to this matter, how do you know that the envoy has not done anything since he went to Jianye? In fact, he has already done what he should do, but no one has ever known. ”

The black-robed man said calmly.

Hearing this, Sun Tong's gaze softened a little.

The black-robed man continued: "It's just that if you launch it in Jianye, it is simple and direct, and it is closer to Zhuge Wanling, but because the distance is too close, it is easy to be affected by Zhuge Wanling, and the big array in Jianye City is the foundation of Zhuge Wanling, once he senses something strange and makes a move, then the great cause you expect will have no chance to be realized." ”

Sun Tong was silent for a while, knowing that it was difficult to know the true purpose of these people at his level, so he could only explain to the black-robed man, and nodded slightly: "In that case, I'll wait for you for a few more days, but shouldn't that master of yours fall when he plays a chess piece?"

The black-robed man sneered, dismissively dismissed the question, "How do you know that the chess pieces have not fallen?"

Jingwu border, Yanqu Pass.

Since the beginning of spring, there is often some light rain, although it seems not to be large, and it is sprinkled like falling cow hair.

The continuous rain moistens the farmland and nourishes the fish and shrimp, but it also makes the land muddy and difficult to navigate, and even rises a thick fog that makes it difficult to see from afar.

"Hell weather, it's raining again. Huang Yao, who was wearing leather armor, had just dismounted, and he almost fell in the muddy ground, and couldn't help but raise his head and scold.

He had been running around outside these days, and it was already very hard, and the rain was endless, like a debt collector, and there was wet rain everywhere, and he couldn't even find a dead branch that could make a fire in the whole mountain.

He couldn't eat hot food, so he could only replenish his strength with hard and salty jerky and wine from the water bladder, and he still needed to keep moving forward in the next time, and he had to get enough energy for his body.

Although most of them are usually safe, once they encounter danger, they may lose their lives at any time, and they can only rely on their abundant spirit and cool head to deal with it.

When the subordinates on the side heard his scolding, they couldn't help grinning: "General, this is the tenth time you have scolded this weather today, aren't we all used to it?"

"Fart, when did Lao Tzu say that you are used to it?" Huang Yao glanced at the somewhat broken horsewhip in his hand, and didn't care too much, he stuffed it into his belt indiscriminately, and then began to untie the water bladder from the war horse.

The jerky was very hard, so Huang Yao had a lot of effort to chew, but he still chewed very hard, and the liquor in the water bladder was swallowed into his stomach along with the finely chewed meat foam, feeling the heat slowly rising from the dantian, and finally drilling all the way to his chest, before gradually dispelling the chill on his body.

The leather armor had already been wet with rain and sweat, and it was tightly attached to the body like a dog skin plaster, and it was very sad that it was stuffy and hot, but Huang Yao's face was expressionless, and he lowered his waist to observe the mud on the ground, and said softly: "Da Liuzi, you look at these traces, the Tang people seem to have increased their manpower." ”

Da Liu Zi also discovered this, he looked at the muddy horseshoe prints that could still be recognized, and said with a vigilant expression: "Yes, the scouts they sent out two days ago were only a team of three people, but now they have doubled, it is hard to believe that there is no connection between Sun Tong and the Tang people......"