On a summer day shining through the clouds, the cicadas hissed in the forest, and on the official road to and from Hongnong County, smoke and dust splashed from under people's feet, rising into the sky and diffusing into a smear of light ash.

The creaking wheels twisted and moaned, the man who drove the old donkey wiped the sweat stains on his forehead, looked back from time to time, the wife and children sitting on the car were panicked, shrunk into a ball, and there were countless surging figures around, the old man who had lost his wife was holding a broken bowl, staggering and walking with a cane and following the crowd in a daze; the occasional cry, no one paid attention to it, and the lost children stood on the side of the road and cried; there were also people in the green forest, who looked back uneasily at the way they came, and at a glance it was full of moving heads, numbly moving slowly。

The officials who maintained order rode their horses and neighed among the ridges in the distance: "Don't go any further, don't jam the roads!"

However, no one paid attention, Tongguan was broken, and the soldiers and generals of the entire city either surrendered or died in battle, and the people who heard the news did not dare to stay, and went to Chang'an, the capital division, or farther away to seek refuge with relatives, or find another way to live, no one would be willing to bet whether these rebels would kill them.

"Folks, please get out of the way, disperse to the nearby village market, and don't go any further. ”

Changlong seemed to have to move to the side of the team, the officials led the horses and followed the running, and kept persuading the people who passed by, the capital issued an order, Chang'an will deploy a defensive line, can not accept the refugees who have fled, and the gods will not care about the other meaning of these people, but they dare not announce it, once it is said, people who believe in gods and Buddhas are likely to cause greater chaos.

Yang Guang could only send officials and officials to lobby and move people to remote villages and towns, waiting for the end of the war.

Not only Hongnong County in the east, Zheyang and Shangluo in the south, and Feng Ling in the north are also this scene, the soldiers who received the emperor's imperial order evacuated the city defense early, and there are also inconvenient roads in the northwest, the news is blocked, and the 50,000 troops of Liangzhou Li Rail are advancing eastward, which is difficult to resist, and Liu Jianwu, the general in the northwest of Rongbian for many years, led the remnants of the army to fight and retreat all the way, and stopped in Tianshui County.

"I can't go back anymore...... If you retreat, it will be the land of Gyeonggi, Chang'an. ”

The towering city wall stretches left and right, surrounding more than 30 miles, Liu Jianwu stood on the head of the city, looking at the sky clouds in the west, his gray hair trembled slightly in the wind, and he sighed.

Beside him, the old department and the guards in the city continued to carry the equipment to defend the city, and the stones and rolling logs were built up, and even the beams of the people's homes were collected and moved to the city wall, Liu Jianwu clenched the hilt of the sword at his waist, turned around and walked slowly, looking at the busy picture of the city wall, he couldn't help but think of Murong Fuyun, who was trapped in the Great Dou Tu Valley, and smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Presumably the Tuyuhun Emperor was in such a mood as I was at the beginning......"

The wind blew in the evening, and the slightly broken 'Sui' character banner hunted and flew rolls, and along the way, the deputy general beside Liu Jianwu looked at the remnants of the sky and looked a little uneasy.

"General..... Can we hold on? Those who don't look like people at all, who can get up and continue to fight after being cut down with knives and guns, the brothers all said...... They all say......"

Liu Jianwu turned his face sideways: "What do you say?"

"They all say it's a monster, and some say it's a god-man possession. ”

Hehe.....

Liu Jianwu chuckled, turned his face back, continued to walk forward, helped the two soldiers resist the rolling log, and patted the dust on his hands.

"What's the matter? It's a god and a monster, so let's not keep it?"

He slapped the wall buttress with one hand, his tired eyes blinked, and his words were firm: "When a soldier eats food, he should hold the territory and the horse leather shroud, how can he stop fighting because he can't win?

"Even if it's a man of God on the other side..... Devil..... At this time, on the Chang'an side, His Majesty and the national teacher should be dealing with it, and what we have to do is to defend and delay the anti-thief. ”

In fact, he didn't understand a little in his heart, that Li Liang was originally the Sima of the Yingyang Mansion of the Sui State, why did the good man rebel and claim the king, and how to collect such a group of soldiers who were not afraid of swords and guns.

There are still more than 100 miles in the west, and Liu Jianwu thought of Li Liang, the king of Daliang, who had already led 50,000 of his troops to conquer Zhangye, Dunhuang, Xiping, Jincheng, and Longxi, and quickly marched eastward, as if rushing to time, all the way to the direction of Chang'an.

As the sun sets, in the red glow, the banner stretches for several miles, the mighty army raises dust and rises into the sky in a straight line, and Li Liang, who is riding on a war horse, is looking into the east in the distance.

"If you cross the city in front of you, you will be able to make peace with a group of immortals in Chang'an. ”

As a famous family in Hexi, Li Rail, who was originally Sima of Yingyang Mansion in Wuwei County, suddenly raised a rebellion, which puzzled everyone, but no one knew that a few months ago, he was possessed by a stomach pheasant of one of the twenty-eight constellations, which set off this rebellion, to disrupt the world and take back the Kongtong seal, these things are really planned in the sky and cannot be changed.

"When it's dark, arrive at the camp outside Tianshui City!"

He gave the order, and the marching army around him quickened his pace, advancing with a dense sound, and just as he looked into the distance, there was a fast horse returning in front of him, which was a scout attached to the immortal soldiers under his command.

"Report, there is yin qi spreading ahead, there should be a yin god haunting. ”

Li Liang frowned slightly, raised his face on the horseback and looked at the sky, it was getting dark, "It seems that Lu Liangsheng's Yin God has come." ”

Thinking of what happened to the previous few Star Immortals, he waved his hand and commanded:

"Be careful, advance slowly! You go and find out again, who is the Yin God. ”

However, the sky was about to darken, and less than thirty miles had passed, a wind blew out of the pine forest, and hundreds of ghosts were seen holding banners and crossbows, and a chariot flew out of the next moment, and the chariot instantly closed the distance, and before the scout could react, a simple bronze short sword slashed across his body, splitting a golden figure in half.

The figure on the chariot came down, and the tip of the sword wrote a few seals on the horse at random, leaving the fainting scout body, patted the war horse, and let it run back to Li Liang in the original direction alone, and was taken forward, and saw several big characters composed of yin qi - King Wu'an of Qindi, Bai Qi.

"The yin god of the world dares to deceive me!"

Li Liang suddenly shouted, and slapped away the winding yin qi with one palm, and the war horse screamed sadly, and was also knocked to the ground, and the four hooves struggled a few times, and then there was no sound.

"I'm going to catch him with my own hands and wear out his soul!!"

Soon, the 50,000 troops advanced rapidly along the horizon, and on Tianshui City, Liu Jianwu, who heard the news, rushed over with a sword in armor, looking at the end of the sky and the earth in the distance, when a black line swept over with dust and smoke, he also smashed his fist on the wall, gritting his teeth and squeezing out the sound.

"Prepare for war!"

"General!"

Almost at the same time, the adjutant general's voice was shouting, "Look over there!"

The last afterglow of the setting sun fell, and in the direction of the point, the army that came from nowhere, there were thousands of people, lined up in an array to guard a chariot slowly coming from the side, the clothes and armor on their bodies, and the long soldiers in their hands were not at all like the Central Plains.

For the strange army that suddenly appeared, Liu Jianwu on the city wall, and a group of defenders fell into a tense atmosphere, waiting for the other party to be friend or foe.

However, at the same time, to the east of Chang'an, Dou Jiande and Li Mi, who had spread through Hongnong County, were the first to encounter a group of enemies.

At the end of June, across the field of Hongnong County, the yin wind gusted, and more than a dozen Yin Gods, who had been waiting for a long time, launched a harassing attack on the two combined armies, and slashed the first sword.