The interior of the river is north of the Yellow River, south of Taihang, north of Huanshui Path, west of Qinshui Path, Qi Shui Path, with the river as solid, three rivers and Hui Liu, three generations of descendants is the place where the ancestors of Zhuxia recuperate and reproduce. On the occasion of the two Han Dynasty and Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was also the storage place of the king of Luoyang Hebei's mansion and warehouse, and the agriculture, mulberry and animal husbandry and hunting were all thick.

However, after Emperor Hui Yuankang of the Chinese Dynasty, the Sima clan was in turmoil, and Hanoi County was the hometown of Sima County due to its geographical geography. After Yongjia, the Xiongnu and the two Zhao attacked each other, and this area was the focus of the Erhu war, and the vitality was exhausted, the people were displaced, and the prosperity of the past was never restored.

To this day, Hanoi is still in turmoil and depression, the bamboo forest is full of elegance, and Liu Thief Shi is also defeated. In the suburbs, the grass stretches, and the bamboo and trees are bad. Walking in this barrenness, you can occasionally see some ruins and broken fences, or the garden industry surrounded by the Chinese and North Korean magnates, or the traces of life left by the gathering and dispersion of the displaced people.

In previous years, the state of Qian also chose to live in the area with abundant water and grass for animal husbandry, but with the death of Zhao Zhushile, the agricultural and animal husbandry affairs were abandoned again. The people wandered, the powerful and the strong, and once again lost the unified government decree moderation.

In the suburbs, there are dozens of rangers flying over the gang, and there are also murderers wandering near the Jindu path, and anyone who finds a walker in the field will pounce on it like a hungry wolf.

Occasionally, there are some dock wall villages scattered in this vast field, although there are countless barren fields in the suburbs, but in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, small hidden in the troubled times, but also dare to cultivate the wilderness on a small scale around the dock wall. On the occasion of the wheat harvest, the men, women and children of the village are all out together, Ding Zhuang is holding bamboo and wood sharp weapons scattered in the field to look out, and the old and weak women and children seize the time to mow the new wheat.

If there were strong beams roaring around, they could only reluctantly discard the mature life-sustaining rations in front of them, hurriedly return to the dock wall, and defend the fort.

As for the murderers who haunt the countryside, there are both rout and rioters, and there are also internal migrants, although these people are cruel, but they are often only wandering and looting.

The most fearful thing is that they will be discovered by those big dock wall giants in the realm, once they find these small living people's settlements, not only will they rob all the wheat grains, but even the living people will have to be taken away for them to control and enslave and strengthen themselves, and the living people will no longer have freedom to speak of, and they will not be able to work and live and die involuntarily from now on.

At this time, in the middle of the field, a group of travelers was heading south along a not very wide river. The size of this team is not too large, with a total of more than 40 people, and there are quite a few horses, nearly 100 horses. In Hanoi, cattle and horses are not too scarce, and even after wandering in the countryside for a long time, you may encounter a large herd of wild horses.

However, the horses in this team have many fat hair, and they are all tame in their movements, and there is no lack of good horses, which is enough to control and fight. In this way, the value of these war horses is high, and if they roam in the wilderness like this, they will definitely attract the covetousness of bandits.

In addition, there are two chariots in the horse team, and the front one should be a seat, and the wooden frame is covered by a canopy and green curtain, so that it is not clear to see the situation inside. The latter is a pallet, which is piled high and tightly bound with straw felt and hemp rope, and drives up to press out a few thick ruts on the grass, although it is impossible to see what goods are carried, but it is inevitable that people will think about it.

Such a team in the wilderness will inevitably attract more robbers in the countryside, but few people dare to come forward and intrude, because of the dozens of knights in the team. The dozens of men were all skilled in horsemanship, and their bodies were also burly, with iron armor draped on their bodies, long lances hanging from their saddles, sabers wrapped in cowhide hanging from their waists, and large lacquered bows hanging from their waists.

Such a well-armed force, and that kind of undisguised courage, it is enough to see that this group of people is unusual, and it is by no means an ordinary bandit can intrude and provoke. What's more, several flight attendants in the team were still wearing many bloody and fleshy human heads, strung with whiskers, which was a silent deterrent, which made people feel frightened.

The team traveled along the river for nearly two hours, from midday to dusk, and finally stopped at a river bend shoal, and a middle-aged man who looked like a leader among the knights turned his horse to the carriage in the middle of the procession, and the man bent down on the horseback to the carriage and said in a respectful tone: "Mr. Lu, it is getting late, do you want to choose a place to spend the night now?" ”

There was silence in the carriage for a moment, and then a slightly lazy voice sounded: "Captain Luo can decide himself." ”

The middle-aged man who was called Luo Wei nodded after hearing this, first turned his head and ordered the knights to disperse to find the campsite and roam around the left by the way, and then turned over and dismounted, climbed on the wheel, and then said with emotion: "All the way, the boat and car have traveled thousands of miles, and I still feel tired and tired when I wait for the cold death, it is really hard Mr. ”

There was a sound of rustling in the car, and then the hanging green curtain was lifted, and a middle-aged man in a gray robe with a goat's whisker and a clear face poked his head out of the car. He turned his head to look at the desolate river bay, and there was no lack of heaviness between his eyebrows, and then he sighed: "Since Chen Gongya is respected, he is driven to work hard for him, but it is a pity that this time Ye Du and his party have no success after all, I only hope that Luoyang and his party can have a harvest and live up to Chen Gong's expectations." ”

"We have arrived at Yewang here, and we can reach Mengjin in three or five days. It's just that the future is strong and the beams are blocked, and it is indispensable to negotiate and kill, and please bear with the pain of being disturbed. ”

When Captain Na Luo said this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Shi Kan rat generation, in vain reputation but jealous of virtuous people, we wait for the far to go forward, even if they are cowardly and dare not cross the river to help, such as the sage of Mr., they should also give a ride......"

They were ordered to cross the river to ask Shi Kan, the king of Qianhu Wei, for assistance to relieve the Huainan army's oppression, but they were met with cold and ran into a wall at Shi Kan. Asking for help to no avail, he could only go west from Yecheng to Luoyang through Hanoi, hoping to get some assistance from Luoyang Taobao.

The lieutenant's name is Logan, and he is responsible for escorting the middle-aged man next to him. The middle-aged man is named Lu De, who is a wild man in the cold stream of Yanzhou, a young man who learns vertical and horizontal, criminal law, and is quite famous in the township, and is hired by Chen Guangli to quote it, and has repeatedly offered good strategies, Chen Guang can persist for so long under the encirclement and suppression of the Huainan Army, and it is also thanks to his people's strength, so he respects this person quite much, and even compares it to the right marquis of Henan.

Hearing Logan say this, Lu De couldn't help but sigh, pointed to the river bend wilderness and regretted: "Shi Kanqi is indeed more powerful than real, in the old years, because of his martial arts, he was used as a fake son by Shi Longfeng, and Zhao was in chaos, and his people pretended to steal Han Wei's hometown, but they were shallow and difficult to plan." Living in Hanoi but unable to govern and benefit from the military, a thought of returning south and no way, empty with heavy troops but sitting in Jiangdong children to kill the Central Plains, the momentum of the void, decline is not far away! ”

Na Luo Gen didn't care about Shi Kanqi's situation, but looked back at the direction of the countryside in Henan, and his eyes were full of melancholy: "We have been leaving the country for more than a month, and with Mr. Foresight, can the current rural situation still be good?" ”

After hearing this question, Lu De sighed again: "Although Chen Gong is in chaos, he is deeply rooted in the nostalgia to be governed by obedience, and the villagers hope for it, although it is not possible to win with power, but self-protection but self-protection should be no difficulty." Huainan's military view is strong, after all, it is far away, it is difficult to get help from the township, and if it is strong, it will be blocked and stronger. The roads are divided, and it is difficult to be long, and it is easy to break. But after all, the accumulation of people is far better than Chen Gong, if there is no foreign help, Chen Gong is burdened, and he may not be able to hold it for a long time. ”

Speaking of this, Lu De also has no lack of self-pity in his heart. Although he is full of talent, but because of his humble background, he is not able to flow from time to time, although he has accumulated talent but has a bad fate, and he has been lonely in the mundane for a long time.

Chen Guangli hired him earlier, which was also an opportunity for Ludd. Although he was not optimistic about Chen Guang, he also understood that he was really well-known and had little choice, so he could only temporarily commit himself to Chen Guang. Although Chen Guang admired him and even compared him to Zhang Bin, the right marquis, he understood that Chen Guang was not his master after all.

For example, he previously advised Chen Guang that he should send troops to rescue Liu Zheng, first, he could introduce Liu Zheng's men and horses into the trees as a fence, second, he could make good friends with Shikan in Hebei and obtain further cooperation with Shikan, and third, he could use Liu Zheng to infiltrate and develop in the eastern Qingyan.

After all, Chen Guang only survived temporarily under the pretext of his hometown, and in terms of strength, he was not the opponent of the Huainan enemy at all. Moreover, Chen Liu's river is narrow, and there is no danger, once the Huainan army strongly goes north to encircle and blockade, there is no detour and depth at all, and can only wait to be killed.

However, Chen Guang was afraid that the Huainan army would be attached to the countryside, so he did not dare to go out lightly, and sat back and watched Liu Zheng be eliminated. In this way, on the one hand, it is difficult to count on Hebei's strong reinforcements. On the other hand, after Liu Zheng's troops were eliminated, Xu Bei was no longer restrained, and Huainan and Xuzhou jointly sent troops to sweep the land of Xu Beiqing and Yan, which further squeezed Chen Guang's living space.

He took the initiative to ask for help, and he also did his best to see if he could save and save the benefactor who was about to fall. The two also hope to borrow Chen Guang one last time to see who will be worthy of his assistance in the future.

In fact, Shi Kan was originally Lu De's first choice, and his people not only occupied Yecheng in Shi Zhao's hometown, but also had hundreds of thousands of people, and half of Jizhou was in his hands. Moreover, there is no strong enemy outside, so it is completely possible to take advantage of the mutual attack of Shi Zhao and the two monarchs to continue to develop along Hanoi to the west, sweep the division and merge, take Heluo, choke Guanzhong in the west, and dominate the Central Plains.

However, Shi Kanqi has such a strong foundation, but he has no idea of operating and developing in Hebei at all, and he is always thinking about returning to the old land of Huaibei, which is simply another Xiang Yu who is crowned by a monkey. Of course, if he is willing to pay attention to Lu De, Lu De is also willing to explain the pros and cons and warn Shi Kan.

However, this person was arrogant and conceited, only because Chen Guang sat and watched his old general Liu Zheng be exterminated, so that he lost the echo of the old Huaibei department and held a grudge, and he didn't see Lu De at all. This also made Lu De disappointed, and more and more realized that Shi Kanqi was really difficult to be the hero, and he had no chance to copy Shi Shilong's old business.

The next trip to Luoyang pinned on Lu De's great desire, otherwise he could only enter the west of the pass.