Another year has passed, and the leaves on the branches have become green and withered, withered and green, and they are indifferent to the vicissitudes of the world.

Li Fengyun and Su Yunong didn't expect that Chenjia Village, thirty miles west of Luoyang City, would be like this, the ruins and broken walls in front of their eyes, there were traces of fire everywhere, looking at the scale, this Chenjia Village should have more than 100 households, but now there is not a single figure in sight.

Li Fengyun's heart sank, you must know that the Khitan invaded the Central Plains three times, the first two times did not hit near Luoyang, this time, the Jin State was defeated, and even the emperor was arrested, but there was no major war near Luoyang. Why did this Chenjia Village become like this, like the land of Hebei?

"Could it be that there is a bandit?" Su Yunong also wondered in his heart.

"Look, General!," one of the guards suddenly shouted.

Li Fengyun and Su Yunong hurriedly ran over, only to see no less than two or three hundred corpses lying densely in a ditch, men and women, old and young, disemboweled, and heads in different places. Look at the clothes on these people, they are all dressed up by ordinary people.

"These bandits really deserve to be killed!" Su Yunong frowned, his face full of anger.

"It wasn't the bandits who did it!" Li Fengyun jumped down the ditch, examined it carefully, shook his head, and said, "Look at their wounds, most of them are caused by the scimitar chopping and dragging. And the man who killed them was on horseback.

Moreover, many of them were tied behind their backs, which means that the killers of them drove them to the ditch before they moved.

Although bandits are hateful, they also have a way of thieves, and if they kill all the people, they will not do them any good. On the contrary, they can't survive. Moreover, a bandit who can afford to raise so many horses, even if he wants to rob a large family, how can he do it to the poor? ”

At this moment, another guard came over with the arm of an eight- or nine-year-old child and said loudly: "General, there are still living people in this village, and this kid has just been caught by his subordinates." The child struggled, his eyes full of hatred.

"What are you doing?" Seeing this, Su Yunong hurriedly took a few steps forward, pushed the guard away, and scolded, "He is a child, how can you treat him like this?"

The guard hurriedly said: "Miss Su, be careful, this kid is very fierce, just now he hid behind the broken wall and attacked me with a firewood knife, if it wasn't for the quick flashing of his subordinates, he almost injured this kid's men." His subordinates didn't want to treat him like this, but this kid was a dog and would bite. With that, he raised his hand, and there was indeed a circle of bloodstained tooth marks at the tiger's mouth.

So that's the case, Su Yunong squatted down, lightly held the child's arm, and asked, "Little brother, don't be afraid, we are not bad people." What's going on here? What about your family?"

After asking a few questions, the boy raised his head to the sky, blinked his eyes, and his eyes were full of wariness, and he refused to say a word. However, his stomach was hollow and he refused to cooperate, so he screamed twice.

"The little brother thinks he's hungry. Su Yunong smiled, let go of the child, took out the dry food from the package, handed it over, and said, "Eat, let's talk when you're full." ”

The child was still a little resistant at first, but seeing Su Yunong's kind face, he didn't seem to have malicious intent, the vigilance in his eyes gradually dissipated, and when he saw the dry food in Su Yunong's hand, the sound of "cooing" in his stomach became more and more out of control, hesitated, grabbed the dry food in Su Yunong's hand, stuffed it into his mouth, and was choked for a while, choking and rolling his eyes.

Li Fengyun jumped up from the ditch and laughed when he saw this, Su Yunong patted the child's back, gave Li Fengyun a blank look, and said angrily: "What are you laughing at? ”

A personal guard had already untied a water bag tied to the horse and sent it over.

The kid finally swallowed the choked food, Li Fengyun patted his head and said with a smile: "Yes, he can actually bite Li Shishi's hand and bleed, it has a future." ”

Li Shishi's face turned red, and he said loudly: "That's because his subordinates didn't watch out after taking his firewood knife when they saw his age, otherwise, with this kid, where can he get close to me?"

"If it weren't for the master, I was hungry for three days, how could you have snatched the master's sword?" the child blurted out.

Everyone was stunned and laughed, Su Yunong suddenly thought of the plot when he first met Li Fengyun, and felt that this kid was a little similar to Li Fengyun at the beginning, and he also used a broken firewood knife as a treasure knife, and he didn't feel it.

Seeing that the child no longer meant any hostility, he asked about his background and what happened in the village. As soon as the child had said a few words, he burst into tears, and wept as he told the whole story.

It turned out that the child's surname was Zhang, his name was Zhang Aniu, and he was the son of Zhang Carpenter in the village.

Three days ago, a group of strong men suddenly came to the village, all of them on horseback, surrounded the village, entered the village to rob grain, plundered property, and drove the people of the village to the ditch outside the village. Afterwards, he killed people for fun, killing all the villagers, and his father and mother were not spared.

If it weren't for Carpenter Zhang, who saw that the situation was not good and hid him in a dry well, he would not have escaped death and escaped.

According to the dress described by Zhang Aniu, there is no doubt that the strongmen are Khitans.

In the past three days, Zhang Aniu has been hiding in the village, and on this day he heard the sound of horses' hooves, thinking that the gang of strongmen had gone and returned, so he hid in the dark and secretly observed. After all, he was young, and he couldn't tell the difference between the Khitans and the Hans, and when he saw Li 14 searching around, he thought that he was an accomplice of the Khitans, and he was eager for revenge, so he hid behind a broken wall and attacked Li 14.

Li Shishi's martial arts are not weak, and he is also a third-rate master, how could he be attacked by him, so there was this scene.

"This group of Khitans is really inferior to beasts!" Su Yunong said angrily, "They have all won the world of the Central Plains, why are they so cruel to the people under their rule?"

"Hmph!" Li Fengyun snorted coldly, and a wave of anger rose in his heart, and with a "snap", he smashed a big bluestone beside him, and said coldly: "Blood debt and blood repayment, sooner or later, I will have to return this blood account from the Khitans." ”

It turned out that the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang led 300,000 troops to Yang Wei Kaifeng, but Henan's financial resources had already been exhausted because of the need to support Du Chongwei's army, where could he afford to raise 300,000 Khitan horses?

Zhao Yanshou asked for the transfer of grain and grass from the Khitan, but Yelu Deguang replied: "Since the founding of the Khitan, the wars abroad have been used for grain in the enemy country, how can there be any reason to transfer grain and grass from the Khitan. ”

So Yerod rode out in all directions, in the name of herding horses, and plundered them repeatedly, which was called "beating the grass valley".

Ding Zhuang, the common people of the Central Plains, died under the blade of the Khitan iron cavalry countless people, the old and infirm were buried alive, from Kaifeng, Luoyang to Zheng, Hua, Cao, Pu Prefecture, hundreds of miles of land, the property and livestock were almost looted, and the corpses were all over the field.

Not only that, Yelu Deguang also demanded a large amount of property in the name of rewarding the three armies, but the warehouses of the Central Plains government were already empty, so where could he get the money?

They also sent dozens of envoys to various states to borrow money, and when they could not afford to pay the money, they were severely tortured, and as a result, countless families were ruined and killed, and the people's livelihood was even more miserable.

"How can there be immortals in the battle for hegemony and the Central Plains? General Li is fighting for dominance on the battlefield, and there are still few people killed?" Just as Li Fengyun was furious, a voice suddenly came from the entrance of the village.

"Who?" Li Fengyun was shocked in his heart, and shouted angrily, "Yes, I, Li Fengyun, fought on the battlefield, and I didn't count as a murderer, and I have never done anything to the common people, and I have done such a thing of cannibalism." Who are you, why don't you come out and see you?"