The night road in the mountains was extremely difficult, and He Yi's speed was also very slow, and when he returned to the vicinity of Pingyuan County, the sky was already bright.

The city gate was in shambles, littered with corpses that had not had time to be dragged away. The wreckage of the huge siege engine was still blocking the gates, and black smoke was constantly emitting out.

On top of the broken ladder, the defenders laboriously cleaned the bloodstained walls, and the carriages full of corpses departed, and the scarlet water stains trickled down the cracks to the ground until the end of the sight.

This is war.

Even if He Yi has experienced it many times, he still feels extremely cruel.

He dragged his tired body, took heavy steps, stepped over several corpses of the Li Rong army, and slowly walked to the city gate, and from a distance, he could see a group of men and horses waiting in the temporary grass hut outside the city, cleaning and bandaging the wounds of the wounded.

Pei Dong, Jia Shao and others, as well as the two city gate guards, are among them.

They all had wounds of various sizes, some of which had not even had time to be bandaged, but the blood near the wounds had been drained, and only white flesh remained.

"General He, you're finally back!" Pei Dong pulled his horse and hurried over, his face was full of excitement and smiles, he draped a cotton robe on He Yi's body, and then patted He Yi on the shoulder.

"How's the result?" asked He Yi in a low voice.

"It's a big victory with few casualties! Pei Dong smiled, personally supported He Yi on a horse, and personally led the horse into the city.

"Look! General He is back!"

Jia Shao shouted loudly, and came to He Yi's side with Fan Wu, and his two pairs of eyes looked around He Yi's body, and saw that there were no obvious injuries, so he was relieved.

As He Yi's direct subordinates, Jia Shao and Fan Wu were more worried about He Yi's situation than anyone else.

"General He is mighty!"

The defenders of the plains stood neatly on both sides of the city gate, shouting in unison to celebrate He Yi's triumph, their eyes full of respect and worship.

They had also learned from Pei Dong about He Yi's going deep into Li Rong Village alone.

If it weren't for He Yi's way of returning the favor, burning all the ordnance, grain and grass of Lirong Village, forcing Li Rongzhai to retreat, only with their 1,000 defenders who lacked armor, they would not be able to resist the strong attack of Li Rong's army.

"General He is mighty!"

"General He is mighty!"

"General He is mighty!"

“......”

In this burst of cheers, He Yi sighed for no reason, and he couldn't be happy in his heart.

After entering the city, He Yi turned over and got off his horse, bowed to Pei Dong apologetically, and said: "General Pei, I am tired of my body and mind, I just want to rest for a while, and today, I will not go to the camp." ”

Tiredness hit, and now he just wanted to get a good night's sleep.

Pei Dong nodded, stretched out his hand and patted He Yi's shoulder vigorously, and said, "It's okay, you must have a good rest, and after cleaning up the battlefield, I will personally take you to the county to show your merits!"

"Then thank General Pei first. He Yi said a little lazily.

To be honest, he didn't care about any merits, and since listening to the narration of those men in black, He Yi didn't have a good impression of the county man he had never met.

Snatch people's things, snatch people's wives. All I can say is...... This generation is not a good type.

After Pei Dong left, He Yi's eyes turned to the direction of the city gate again.

He saw a young man dressed in white and with a black crown walking in from outside the city.

It was the military advisor of Li Rongzhai.

"This little tail, from Li Rongzhai all the way to Pingyuan County, doesn't do anything, what do you want to do?" He Yi opened his mouth and yawned.

This person knew that He Yi set the fire in the mountain behind Li Rong Village, and accurately guessed He Yi's hiding place and escape route after setting the fire, but he didn't seem to tell Li Rong Village about it, but kept following He Yi unhurriedly.

At first, he also led a group of village soldiers, but after following for a while, he dismissed all the people around him, which made He Yi even more puzzled.

Not only that, Pingyuan County had just experienced a war, and the inspection at the city gate was extremely strict, He Yi thought that the military division would be stopped outside the city gate, but what he didn't expect was that the other party seemed to be quite familiar with the sergeants guarding the city.

Under He Yi's gaze, he talked and laughed with the city gate guard for a while, and then walked straight into the county.

Seeing this, He Yi's face stiffened, and his tired color suddenly disappeared by half.

"Who is that guy?" he hurriedly stopped a soldier passing by and asked as he stretched out his hand to the commander of the Na Li Rong Army.

"Is that the young man in the dark white coat the general?" said the soldier.

"Not bad. He Yi nodded.

"Eh, General He, you have only been in our Pingyuan County for a short time, no wonder you don't know———— he is a well-known Mr. Gongliang in our county, and his knowledge is very high! It can be said that he knows astronomy and geography at the top, and he is proficient in the methods of training troops and battle formations, and even the adults of our county have respected him as a guest! Earlier, the soldiers in our county were all trained with the help of Mr. Gongliang!" the soldier said, and there was no lack of respect in his tone.

Erudite and proficient in battle formations...... He Yi secretly pondered.

"In that case, why didn't the county recommend this person to the imperial court and recommend this person as an official?" He Yi asked again.

"I don't know much about this, but I've heard that a group of immortals from our Pingyuan County who practiced Qi Sect came half a year ago, and I don't know why, they suddenly had a conflict with Mr. Gongliang. However, because of Mr. 's prestige, those immortals didn't treat Mr. well, but our county Cheng, afraid of offending the Qi Sect, expelled Mr. Gongliang. ”

“......”

If it was because he offended the Qi Sect and was expelled from the county, he held a grudge, so he joined Li Rongzhai and gave him advice...... This reason is reasonable.

But what did he do with himself?

The remnants of the Zhou State made Erlang Lianzhushen Slingshot, and he was proficient in the art of war in battle formations.

Could it be......

He Yi was stunned for a moment, and then turned his head to look at Mr. Gongliang, his expression changed slightly.

............

After walking around a few streets and alleys, He Yi bought some wine and meat snacks, and took two thick blankets from the cloth village, and then carried a bunch of things to the outskirts that were rarely visited.

He looked around, and it was a rare quiet and elegant place with low mountains, white rocks, pine forests, and snow.

He took out the food and wine he had bought, laid them on a fairly flat stone, and then laid out two more glasses, each on either side, and filled each one, first drinking one and then filling it again.

Then, He Yi raised the cup in his hand, bowed to the uninhabited place in the north, and sprinkled the wine on the ground.

It seems to be some kind of ritual.

"I've been following for a long time, right? There's no one here, come out to talk. After all this was done, He Yi suddenly spoke.

"After many years, the style of the young general is still the same as usual, moving like thunder, and it has not changed at all..."

I don't know when, the military advisor in white was already sitting opposite He Yi, took another wine glass, and played with it in his hand, but he didn't mean to drink it.

His gaze stayed on He Yi, as if he was confirming something, and after a while, the person who came finally sighed, and followed He Yi's example, facing the northwest direction, and spilled the glass of wine on the ground.

The wine is fed to the ground, which is to pay tribute to the deceased, and facing the northwest, it is the direction of the deceased.

This is "Ground Feeding".

When He Yi was young, he was sent by his father to the "Beirong Army" stationed on the northern border all the year round to exercise, at the border of the territory, there were often barbarian invasions, years after year of conquest, countless comrades buried in the yellow sand in the northwest.

As a result, the Beirong army gradually had this "ground wine" to pay tribute to those soldiers who died in battle.

Since the other party knows about this memorial ceremony, it should be a comrade who once fought side by side.

"I don't know the young general, do you still recognize me?" After the salute, the military advisor sighed leisurely.

"Some of them are familiar, but they don't recognize them. He Yi glanced at him, saluted him with a glass of wine, and replied truthfully: "The 14th Army of Beirong, there are eight generals, 20 generals, and more than 100 healthy generals, I remember them all in my heart, but I don't remember that you are among them." ”

Since the other party called himself a "young general", he thought that he was also a member of the Beirong army.

And with such skills, his status in the Beirong army will definitely not be too low.

But He Yi doesn't remember.

Among the old things in the past, He Yi has too many that he doesn't want to mention or recall. Only the comrades in the Beirong army are what he can't forget no matter what.