Shuiyun County, one of the poorest counties in Ye Country.

The reason is the same, nearly 100 miles west of Tongquan Mansion, the county seat, is sandy land, and even if it is cultivated, the yield is pitiful.

Ten miles of land and nine miles of sand, and one mile is also eight points blind.

The western part of Shuiyun County is the current situation of the people's lives, not to mention in the war era, even in the peace era, there is not a single family on ten miles of road.

In the early years, it was better, because there was the Northwest Army, they were soldiers in wartime, for the people in peacetime, helping the people to build houses and things, and farming and carrying water.

That period of time may also be the most reassuring time for the people of Shuiyun County, they don't have to worry about the tribes on the desert coming to harass them, and they don't have to live in fear all day long.

But now, the Northwest Army has also existed in name only, and the tribes on the desert have jumped over Huma Pass and entered Shuiyun County to loot, and now even where people live, destroyed houses and villages can be seen everywhere.

The people living in the western part of Shuiyun County could not, so they could only pack up their money and drag their families to the eastern part of Shuiyun County, and they could see crowded people fleeing everywhere on the official road, and the scene was very chaotic.

After all, the old people were not as good as the young people, and some of the old people were thrown to the ground by the crowd behind them, and then trampled to death by the people who followed, and the cries of children were everywhere, and the scene was very bleak.

Perhaps only at this moment will they think of the general who single-handedly shocked the entire Northwest.

But the general is no longer there......

"Grandmother, where are we going......"

A twelve- or thirteen-year-old gray-faced little girl supporting her grandmother.

Chu Qianwen has been away from the northwest for four years, but in the past four years, the desert tribe has never carried out such a large-scale attack, just some small-scale attacks, and when Chu Qianwen is here, the desert tribe is even more afraid to come.

The little girl had never experienced such a thing at all, and looking at the panicked crowd, her eyes were full of doubts and incomprehension.

"Grandmother doesn't know ...... either"

The old woman sighed and said, "Let's just follow everyone, how can we find a place where there is no war......"

"But is there such a place in this world......

There was despair in the little girl's eyes, although it was the first time she had experienced such a cruel war, but she had already felt the horror of war.

Both of her parents died in the last desert tribe pursuit, leaving only an elderly grandmother.

The old woman gently stroked the back of the little girl's hand and said comfortingly: "Yes, there must be, there must be such a place in this world." ”

Hearing this, the little girl nodded and said, "I know, there is no war in the capital of our Ye country, I heard that the people there wear clothes without patches every day, and they can eat white flour buns for meals." ”

Seeing the innocent appearance of the little girl, the old woman couldn't help but feel a little distressed, but what could she do?

Just as the two grandparents were talking, there was a commotion behind the crowd, followed by chaos.

"Oh no, the barbarian soldiers are catching up, the barbarian soldiers are catching up, everyone run!"

One after another exclaimed, and when I looked back, I could see that not far behind them, the yellow sand had risen in the sky.

It was a scene that would only appear when the iron cavalry charged, which was all too familiar to the people who had lived in Shuiyun County for so long.

In an instant, the crowd became chaotic, the people fled everywhere without purpose, some people got into the woods on the side, some people ran blindly forward, and for a time the scene was extremely chaotic, and many people did not have time to react to what was going on, they were pushed by the surging crowd, and then they never stood up again.

And the crowd of the people on this side was chaotic, and the cavalry of the desert tribe on the other side had already rushed to the front in a blink of an eye, and hundreds of horsemen were directly loaded into the crowd of the people.

The slower runners were killed, and there were only dozens or hundreds of people killed by the knock, and then the hundreds of horsemen shouted strange trumpets and waved their long knives through the crowd of people.

In an instant, the crowd screamed, and with the flash of the sword, the iron horse swept by, and all that could be seen was the corpses of the people everywhere.

The blood of the people gathered together like a small river, flowing to the low-lying places.

Seeing this scene, the grandparents and grandchildren hiding behind a boulder did not even dare to breathe, the little girl was trembling with fright, her eyes were full of frightened looks, and the old woman hugged her granddaughter tightly, covering her mouth tightly with one hand, not letting her make a sound.

This is the case in this world, the lives of ordinary people are like duckweed on water, which will sink to the bottom of the water at any time.

At this time, a desert cavalry spotted the pair hiding behind the stones, and the cavalry turned his horse and rushed towards them.

The little girl was completely frightened, and had forgotten to run away, and stood there in a daze, until the old woman's blood was dripping on her face, and she suddenly woke up.

The old woman blocked the fatal blow for her, and the little girl sat down on the ground in a panic, and stepped back with her hands on the ground.

But how could the desert cavalry let her go?

The long knife was raised high and slashed at her.

The girl had already resigned herself to her fate and closed her eyes.

This world is very cruel, especially for ordinary people like them, they don't know what brocade clothes and jade food are, they don't know what authority and dignity are, they only know the prosperity of the capital, and only the legend that the capital has white flour buns to eat.

The pain did not come for a long time, and the girl opened her eyes, and then she saw a small flash of light on the chest of the fierce desert cavalry, and if you looked closely, it should be an arrow of arrows, she had seen this, and her parents were killed by this.

The girl forgot to stand up, and subconsciously turned her head to look, and saw that a man in delicate armor had slowly lowered his bow and arrows, and then took off the bright silver spear on the Desheng hook and swung forward, and then, a group of cavalrymen in black leather armor rushed out from nowhere.

These black-armored cavalry descended from the sky like divine soldiers, and like fierce tigers out of the cage, they pounced on the desert cavalry that was wreaking havoc in the crowd.

The desert cavalry, which was still like a wolf and a tiger just now, was like mud and paper when facing this black-armored cavalry, and it was killed in an instant, then it was a grappling, and then it was killed and destroyed.

The people stood stunned, looked up, and saw that there was a Chu flag hanging in the middle of this cavalry.

Chu Ziqi ......

Is it that Northwest Army is back?

But the people knew that it was impossible for the Northwest Army to come back, because the general was dead.

But why, this army is still hanging the Chu flag?

Could it be that the general was under Jiuquan, and he didn't worry about his own people, and led the Yin soldiers of the underworld to kill back?

The people of this era are superstitious, and they all believe that there are ghosts and gods in this world.

The girl also looked at everything in front of her in a daze, until the man with the silver spear came to her neighborhood, and ordered the soldiers around her: "You go back and tell Yan Tianrui, just say that I have found the enemy's large army, and let him hurry up and lead people to follow and collect the war horses." ”

"Yes, General. ”

Hearing this, the girl was stunned for a moment, this person is a general?

Immediately afterwards, the general stopped a soldier and said: "You take ten brothers to Humaguan, and ask me Yang Renqi, is his 20,000 Northwest Army eating shit in Humaguan, if not, let him hurry up and roll over for me, let him take his 20,000 waste to cover the people to retreat to safety, if there are any more people on the road who are pursued by barbarian soldiers and suffer heavy casualties, let him come to me with his head." ”

"Yes, General!"

The soldier did not hesitate, and there was no surprise that his general would be rude, and after selecting ten people, he told them the original words of the general, and then the ten people rushed in the direction of Huma Pass.

They didn't care about anything else, they were only responsible for delivering the general's orders, and when Yang Renqi received the news, it was this passage that he heard.

After giving the order, the general took off his helmet and breathed a long sigh of relief, as if he noticed that someone was watching him, so he turned his head to look over, and saw a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old, standing beside the corpse of a desert cavalryman, looking at him blankly.

This cavalry with the Chu character banner has a total of about 500 people, coming and going fast.

If it weren't for the corpses of the people on the ground and the corpses of those desert cavalry, I'm afraid no one would know that there was a fierce battle here.

Of course, the little girl will remember, will always remember.

And who else could this general be besides Chu Yujia?

Just now, he took his bow and arrow, and killed the desert cavalry with one arrow, and it was he who saved himself.

The girl wanted to say something to him, but she didn't even open her mouth.

The general in his eyes only smiled softly at her, then put on his helmet and urged the horse away.

After the cavalry left, many people who had been hiding everywhere came out, looking in unison at the dust raised by the cavalry's departure.

"Could it be that General Chu really has knowledge underground, knowing that we are in trouble, and led the underground ghost army to save us?"

"Don't talk nonsense, where are ghosts in this world, I think they are all living people. ”

"But this cavalry army is also playing the Chu flag. ”

In this era, the traffic is blocked, so some people still don't know about Chu Yujia.

Of course, some people also knew, and at this time, someone said: "If my guess is correct, this should be the son of General Chu, General Xiao Chu." ”

General Xiao Chu......

The little girl remembered the name, and then looked down to see her dead grandmother.

She pursed her lips tightly, strong enough not to cry, only tears sliding down her cheeks.

After a short time, another cavalry army came, this one was more numerous, and when they came, they helped the people to collect the bodies of the dead, and then went to clean up the battlefield and dug a pit for the corpses of the desert cavalry and threw them indiscriminately.

When that was done, they buried all the unclaimed bodies.

The girl's grandmother, who was also among them......

She has no relatives left and nowhere to go......

She looked up at the soldier beside her who had helped her bury her grandmother, pursed her lips and said, "Can I follow you......