A few days passed quickly, and it was all quiet.

Shilipu sent a message to the dungeon forts below, saying that the small forces of Jiannu had also withdrawn from the jurisdiction of Zhenqiangbao, so that the armies could defend with peace of mind and no need to panic. This news also made the more than 10,000 people under the jurisdiction of Zhenqiang Fort breathe a long sigh of relief.

In the meantime, Xu Rujie personally came to An Xiangdun twice to interview Dong Ce, and said that he had already reported the credit, and the big men above attached great importance to it, and had reported it layer by layer, I was afraid that he would be able to arrive in the capital in a few days, and he would listen to the heavens. For this result, Dong Ce was naturally very happy.

No matter how much he can fight, he has a natural disadvantage - the time he has come to this era is too short after all, and there is no channel to find out some official news, if you want to know about it, you can only wait and listen to others. And Xu Rujian obviously has more channels than him.

He was punching in his words, and the meaning of enveloping, how could Dong Ce not see it? It just so happened that Dong Ce also needed such a boss to rely on, and the two sides hit it off. The little unhappiness earlier was selectively forgotten by the two of them, and they became happy.

Of course, Xu Ruwei did not forget to ask for some benefits from Dong Ce.

This benefit is not money, Dong Ce and the others have seized a large amount of money, which has been covered by him solidly, not to mention outsiders, except for a few dun soldiers who participated in the attack and killing of the Jiannu camp that day, it is them? One? Root? Read? The family of the novel M.Ybdu is also unknown. After all, the woman is shallow, and when she gets the news, she will inevitably publicize it in private. The outside also knew that Anxiang Dun must have been captured, but they didn't know how much, and Dong Ce even denied it, because they all got the benefits, so all the Dun soldiers were also of the same caliber, and no one leaked secrets.

They don't say it, and others are helpless, so Xu Ruji aimed at those things that were put on the bright side, such as war horses.

To put it mildly, he finally asked for six war horses from Dong Ce, he had ten family members, but the entire ten miles of shop added up to only six horses, and one of them belonged to Dong Ce. If you want to take these war horses from Dong Ce, you can arm his family team - in this era, what the army can't count on, you have to point to the family Ding.

Of course, Dong Ce and other people who plucked their feathers would definitely not give it to him in vain, and in exchange, he asked for a large number of soybeans and horse feed from Xu Ruji.

An Xiangdun is not rich, and it has long been a bit difficult to raise these war horses, so it is good to release some to relieve pressure.

On this day, the gate of Anxiang Dun was opened, and a group of five knights rode out of the Dunmen and headed southwest.

Their equestrian skills are quite skilled, and they are very indulgent and heroic. Immediately, everyone was a sturdy man, and although the battle jackets they were wearing were quite shabby, they were all clean. They carried a strong bow that was one size larger than the ordinary infantry bow of the border army, and the quiver was dangling on the other side, some holding long iron spears in their hands, and some holding long-handled knives, which was rare in the border army.

Although these men were in shabby clothes, they were well-armed, and all of them were in excellent spirits, and they knew at a glance that they were brave and courageous.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the war horses under their crotches, all of them are fat and strong, and their body size is much larger than that of ordinary war horses.

It was Dong Ce who was surrounded by everyone, and this time his face was rarely filled with a bit of anticipation.

This time, the place where he took Shi Jin, Wang Hun, Zhou Zhong, and Wang Tong was going was Lingyidu, his home.

Dong Ce's father was originally from Lingyidu, and after becoming an official, he bought a house and land in Lingyidu, and settled his home there. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, after Dong Ce's father died, the situation deteriorated, and Dong Ce was also bullied in Shilipu.

In Shilipu's family, there are three relatives: mother, brother, and sister-in-law.

Since crossing over and occupying this body, Dong Ce has always been suspicious of this matter, after all, he still can't accept calling a person who has never been masked his mother. So he has been evading, procrastinating, and looking for all kinds of reasons, but he just doesn't want to go back and take a look. But the residual longing emotions in this body also affected him all the time, and finally, he knew that he couldn't drag it out any longer.

I haven't returned home for months, how long is it going to be delayed?

He finally decided today that he wanted to go home and have a look, to see the old mother at home, to see the land in the family, and the house left by his ancestors.

However, he can't go back to the image of the bullied wrecked dog in the past, but he must completely transform.

He wore a cyan arrow suit today, with narrow sleeves, a slim design that was quite rare in this era, which set off his tall and straight figure. Freshly dressed and angry, everyone is around, it is a young man in the turbid world.

In these days, the Jiannu have retreated, so the vigilance of the forts has been relaxed a lot, and there are many more military households and civilians working in the fields by the roadside. Especially after leaving the northernmost borderland, the more you go inside, the denser the population becomes.

Seeing this capable and strong small team passing by, everyone looked sideways, and secretly wondered in their hearts which adult's family team this was, how had they never seen it before.

Lingyidu is about five miles away from Shilipu, but it is quite far from Anxiangdun, almost twelve or thirteen miles.

Everyone galloped all the way, and soon they could see it from afar.

The more you get here, the more you can feel the prosperity of the world, as the name suggests, it can be seen from the name that it is a ferry. In fact, it is true that Lingyidu was a small ferry on the side of the Huanshui River at the earliest, and the flow of the Huanshui River was quite large, flowing eastward into the Yuhe River, and finally flowing into the Sanggan River, the largest river in northern Shanxi. Later, the Ming Dynasty established a nine-sided town, and millions of military households were moved to the northern Xinjiang, which developed rapidly because of the convenient transportation, and soon gathered a large number of military families, and then many people also migrated here.

There is also a reason why the development here is so rapid, the river is so hot and the soup goes east, and the two banks are reclaimed into a bunch of farmland, because of the irrigation of the river, within five miles on both banks, it is basically drought and flood to ensure the harvest, and the impact of natural disasters is relatively small.

This is in the entire Zhenqiangbao and even the northern Hebei branch patrol road, which is a number of fertile land, and the land is watered with good water.

Now Lingyidu is a big town, with three or four hundred households and more than 1,000 people, which is much larger than ten miles.

This prosperity is reflected in all aspects, on both sides of the official road leading to Lingyidu, is the neat cultivated land, which has given birth to seedlings at this time, with the breeze gusting and undulating, a piece of green, looks very gratifying. There are also more people busy in the fields.

Not far from the left hand side is the wide Huanshui River, which makes a burst of rushing water.

Dong Ce came all the way and watched carefully, the situation on both sides of the Huanshui River was good, but in the distance, it was much worse. It's not just a lot worse, it's just heaven and earth.

In recent years, there has been a severe drought in northern Shaanxi and Jinbei for many years, and there has not been a drop of rain since last summer, so if you want to cultivate land, you can only rely on river irrigation, and some water conservancy measures here have long been abandoned, and no one cares about it at all. Without irrigation canals and other water conservancy measures, you can only rely on manpower, and manpower is limited after all, as long as it exceeds the distance of five miles, it is basically unrealistic - think about it, it takes ten miles to water the land again and again, how terrifying it is.

It is very prosperous within five miles, and it is a barren land five miles away, and many lands have been abandoned there, which makes Dong Ce feel a pity when he sees it.

Soon arrived at Lingyidu.

Looking at the low and dilapidated fortress wall in front of him, Dong Ce's face was a little gloomy.

This wall is more than eight feet high, and it is not repaired with bluestone, but ordinary blue bricks, and there are many large and small gaps on it, and some sections have even collapsed, and a large amount of sand and soil flows out of the not thick wall skin, piled up in the gaps.

"What kind of bullshit city defense is this? It's not as good as paper paste, the Tartar can be killed directly as soon as he rushes, do those officials in Lingyidu eat dry rice? ”

Zhou Zhong scolded in a low voice.

Dong Ce kept his face calm and didn't speak, and when he turned his gaze, he saw everything in his eyes.

I don't know when the trench outside the fort wall was filled, and only a shallow strip about two feet deep remained, and there was no water inside, and there was not even a watchtower on the fort wall, and two men dressed as military households dozed in the hole in the city gate where their shabby clothes were.

According to common sense, in order to prevent thieves from wandering, the Minbao villages in various parts of Daming Border Town are no different from military forts, with the same defense system, fortress walls, fortress walls, suspension bridges, gatehouses and urn cities. Although most of the walls are made of rammed loess, they are also tall and sturdy, usually with only one entrance, and the gatehouse is sturdy with masonry arches, and the watchtower is set up on top of it.

But it seems that Lingyidu, who has been leveling for a long time, obviously has no vigilance in this regard.

A layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out behind Dong Ce's back - fortunately, it was only a small group of Houjin soldiers who flowed to Zhenqiang Fort, or even the dozen or so people he killed were their main force, but fortunately they didn't notice this Lingyidu. Otherwise, with this ruined bullshit city defense, the Houjin soldiers would be sorry for them if they didn't go in to kill them for a while.

And their loved ones ......

Thinking of this, Dong Ce's heart suddenly became impatient.

Lingyidu is quite lively, there are people coming and going back and forth at the door, seeing these heavily armed knights, they all consciously let on the side of the road, this year the soldiers are not as good as bandits, and it is in vain to be killed, I have to find a reason to blackmail you.