When Zhang Yu was isolated from the world and practiced martial arts in the "Three Yin Valley", there was a great chaos in the outside world, and the Ming Dynasty, which had been quiet for less than 30 years, once again set off a bloody storm.

Emperor Wen cut the domain, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was in power, wanting to seize the throne of the emperor, and launched the battle of "Jingnan", and was about to go all the way south.

Emperor Jianwen sent the veteran Geng Bingwen to take a hundred thousand to crusade against the king of Yan, Geng Bingwen waved his division to the territory of Hebei to garrison troops, and the king of Yan took advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival night to launch an attack, and defeated the vanguard of the southern army one after another.

When Emperor Jianwen heard the news, he almost fell into anger, and was recommended by his courtiers to appoint Li Jinglong as the general and go to replace the old general.

When he took office, he recovered the veteran general Geng Bingwen and defeated the scattered generals, and together with the soldiers of his headquarters and various localities, a total of 500,000, he arrived at the river stream and stationed them.

Li Jinglong was eager to win, rigid and self-serving, but he lacked wisdom and trustworthiness, and he was not benevolent and brave; his subordinates were full of rabble, and they were not united, and they were greedy for profit and merit, and they were defeated by the design of King Yan several times.

The Houyan army sent elite soldiers and strong generals to force Li Jinglong's military camp before and after, Li Jinglong was defeated by the enemy again and fled, and the soldiers heard that the commander had escaped, and the army was scattered and scattered, and Li Jinglong fled back in defeat.

Emperor Wen used people improperly, did not know people clearly, listened to slander, Li Jinglong was defeated, and he was rewarded without punishment.

In April of the second year of Jianwen in the following year (1400), Emperor Jianwen reappointed Li Jinglong as a general. Hui and Guo Ying, Wu Jie and other soldiers gathered 600,000 people, known as one million, and entered the Baigou River (now north of Xiongxian County, Hebei).

Zhu Di ordered Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu and other generals to lead more than 100,000 troops to meet Yubaigou River again. The battle was extremely fierce, and King Yan was short of troops and received the first blow.

However, the Southern Army had different government orders and could not take the opportunity to expand its gains. The Yan army took advantage of the favorable opportunity to defeat the main general of the southern army, and the southern army was sluggish and defeated.

Li Jinglong retreated to Texas again, and the Yan army also followed and pursued to Texas. In May, Li Jinglong fled from Dezhou to Jinan.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, led the Yan army to chase after the subdued army, and defeated more than 100,000 people led by Li Jinglong in Jinan.

Jinan was kept under the stubborn defense of the governor Sheng Yong and the political envoy Tie Xuan of Shandong. Zhu Di's siege of Jinan was not conquered for three months, so he retreated to Beiping. Li Jinglong was defeated again and again, and Emperor Jianwen removed him from his position as a general.

In September of the second year of Jianwen, Emperor Jianwen appointed Sheng Yong to lead the northern expedition to quell the rebellion again, and in October, he went to Cangzhou and was defeated by the Yan army. In December, the Yan army advanced to the areas of Linqing, Guantao, Daming, Wenshang, and Jining in Shandong.

Sheng Yong led the southern army in Dongchang (now Liaocheng, Shandong) and waited for the battle. The Yan army repeatedly defeated the enemy and was defeated by the southern army, and before Zhu Di's trusted general Zhang Yu died in battle, Zhu Di himself was also surrounded and trapped in Dongchang.

Zhang Yu came out of Sanyin Valley with emotion, put away his thoughts, and looked around. There are no four seasons in the valley, but at this time the outside world is full of yellow leaves, the cold wind is blowing, the leaves are floating along the wind, and it is obvious that it has reached the season of cold winter and wax moon at this time.

Zhang Yu couldn't help but feel excited, looked at the direction, walked forward, and thought, "I don't know what happened to my sister, I have to go back to Chengjiazhuang to have a look"

stepped on the stumps and leaves into the woods to find the way, but in his heart he thought about seeing Cheng Yuxi's various meeting scenes, and he didn't know what to do if he met the owner of the Cheng family again.

His heart was very entangled, he lost his way and walked around for half an hour, and finally walked through the woods to the official road, it was almost noon, and after a short time he saw a small town appear in front of him, he was overjoyed, and stepped into the town.

There are many strange things on the streets, and although there is a fresh breeze, the cries of selling that used to be endless are now quiet, and even many of the shops have closed their doors.

Even the people who set up stalls and opened shops are all sad faces, passers-by walk hurriedly with their heads down, only a few are still taking care of the store, and there are very few people eating.

Zhang Yu was feeling strange, and before he knew it, he had come to a thin old man with a sallow face and half-white hair next to the counter of a "Yuelai Inn", wiping the table lifelessly.

Zhang Yu called the shopkeeper a few times, and it took him a long time to react, and when the shopkeeper approached to look at Zhang Yu, he was startled and exclaimed: "Yo, where did the ghost come from in the middle of the day?"

Zhang Yu was startled when he saw the shopkeeper, and he was also shocked in his heart, thinking: "Where did the ghost come from in broad daylight?"

When the old man saw that Zhang Yu was not a ghost, he fixed his mind, and immediately waved his hand and said, "Get out... It's hard to do business now, and you don't know that we haven't eaten ourselves, where is there something for you, and we still need meat and vegetarian food."

It turned out that Zhang Yu had lived in the valley for more than a year, and he had not changed his clothes, and the clothes on his body were still the same as those worn when he fell off the cliff.

And the hair and beard have not been taken care of for many years, and the cloak is scattered, in such a cold weather, Zhang Yu has a strong internal strength, and this cold has long been resisted by the true qi, but when outsiders saw Zhang Yu's tattered beard and drooping jaw, they saw a ghost from afar.

And at this time, the shopkeeper actually regarded him as a beggar again, Zhang Yu looked at his body up and down, and he felt helpless when he understood it.

Zhang Yu said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, presumably you treat me as if you were asking for food" Saying that, he took out the gold that his mother left for him, and the shopkeeper saw that the gold's eyes were straight, and he made an excuse to explain that the shopkeeper was relieved.

Zhang Yu's outfit is really ugly now, so he ordered the shopkeeper to ask for a room, took a razor, and asked the shopkeeper to buy a decent dress.

When the shopkeeper delivered the food to the room, Zhang Yu smelled a burst of fragrance from afar, and Zhang Yu, who had not moved for a long time, was swept away by the wind, and it seemed that he had never eaten more comfortably than this meal.

When the shopkeeper saw Zhang Yu again, he was shocked to say that people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, Zhang Yu recovered his previous appearance, so that the shopkeeper was impressed.

When the shopkeeper returned Zhang Yuyin, after some inquiry, he understood the reason why the street was deserted.

King Yan and Emperor Jianwen fought a big battle, although only a few officers and soldiers came here, but the officers and soldiers went everywhere they burned, killed and looted, and did all kinds of evil, and the Yan army went to the opposite of the strict military discipline did not disturb the people, opened a warehouse to release grain to relieve the poor, which shows that the king of Yan is virtuous and the people want it.

Although it is close to the end of the year, all the people are panicked, the frightened people do not come out, many people are dragging their families to flee, and many people are also defecting to the city captured by King Yan.

Zhang Yu thought to himself: "When my father was alive, I heard him say that he had only lived a peaceful life for more than ten years, and I didn't want the world to become so chaotic now."

I thought about it again: "If you have such an idea, it is also groundless, how can you have the heart to take care of others if you can't take care of your own affairs, and your parents were forced to leave by the officers and soldiers, if you are not a hateful officer and soldier, how can you have so many disasters."