Lu Yao, who was suddenly mentioned by everyone, did settle in Yang Heng's manor.

That day, outside the Luochuan camp in Dai County, Lu Yao vaguely confided in Shao Xu the great ambition hidden deep in his chest. With Lu Yao's original intention, he was going to make a little temptation, so he was ready to turn it around at any time in his words, but unexpectedly, he hit it off with Shao Xu, which made Lu Yao overjoyed. Since the two understood each other's intentions, they discussed countermeasures overnight in order to seek the greatest benefits in the war-torn situation in Hebei.

According to the results agreed upon by the two, Shao Xu sat in Daijun, manipulating and contacting forces from many sides to act secretly, while Lu Yao rode south with a light horse and maneuvered among many high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Hebei, which could not only show his innocence and innocence, but also have nothing to do with the events that were about to happen; and can act appropriately according to changing circumstances.

Therefore, Lu Yao first went to Guangzong and met with Ding Shao, the assassin of Jizhou, and then offered to escort Ding Shao's subordinate Huan Yi to Chiping to report the military situation to Gou Chun, the general of the Yanzhou Army and the general of Zhichong.

Unexpectedly, Ding Shao's painstaking plan not only failed to succeed, but was calculated by Shi Le's generals, brutally defeated the Yanzhou army, and then led the army across the river to the Central Plains. And Lu Yao and the others happened to be on the road where the thieves were going south.

This time, it is inevitable to have a fight.

Lu Yao's personal commander Ma Rui, dressed in iron armor, took the lead in opening the way. He controlled his horse with both feet, wielding a long sword with a length of one foot and six feet in his left hand to resist the enemy, and in his right hand he used a short spear to stab and fight. He was in the middle of the battle, but a heavy arrow flew from the cheek from nowhere, pierced through the mouth, and peeked through the other cheek. This kind of heavy head arrow was extremely powerful, and Ma Rui's upper jaw was shattered suddenly, and even his teeth were shattered a lot, and he could no longer fight.

At such a critical juncture, Lu Yao personally shot and killed the enemy, and even a civil official like Huan Yi had to draw his sword to defend himself. Fortunately, the thieves respected Shi Le's order and marched south at full speed, intending to quickly seize the Chiping Ferry, so Lu Yao and others killed and retreated the thieves several times, but they did not attract the attention of any of the thieves, and the number of enemies was always limited. Except for the two Huan Yi brothers, everyone is an elite warrior in the Daijun army, and the horses are also specially selected horses. The enemy came less and could not withstand their charge, and came a little more, and could not keep up with their speed. The group fought and walked, ignoring even the east, west, north and south, and only clashed with the sparse thieves.

It wasn't until night that the thieves' brigades passed one after another. Five of Lu Yao's subordinates were killed in the cavalry battle, and the rest were all wounded. Everyone did not dare to delay, and with the help of the starlight to identify the path, they fled for their lives overnight. It wasn't until the next morning that I found out that I had run all the way to Yangping County, and even crossed Yuancheng, almost to Baigou. The group was frightened for a while, thinking that Lu Yao had a lot of old days in Yecheng and could provide good conditions for the wounded to recover from treatment, so they simply threw themselves in the direction of Yecheng. Lu Yao came forward to find Yang Heng and rested in his manor.

As the leading town in Hebei, Yecheng has its own economic foundation. In the west of the city, there are mountains, forests and rivers with staggered valleys and fragrant forests, and the output of various animals and plants is extremely rich, and there is graphite to dig deep in the mountains. The so-called graphite is the coal of later generations. This thing is the most suitable for igniting fire, when Emperor Wu of Wei built Yecheng, he stored hundreds of thousands of catties of graphite in the ice well platform. When Lu Yao's uncle Lu Yun was working under Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, he once picked up a few of them and sent them to Lu Ji as gifts.

The east, south and north sides of Yecheng are vast plains suitable for farming. The water system on the plain is developed, there is Fushui in the north of Zhangshui, there is Huanshui in the south, there is Qishui in the south of Huanshui, between these rivers, there are twelve canals, Tianjing weir and other water conservancy facilities built artificially since the Wei and Jin dynasties, which provide good irrigation conditions for the plain.

Yecheng is the northern capital of Cao Wei, since the end of the Han Dynasty, there are many nobles of the Wei clan who ask for land in this place. After the practice of Zuo in this dynasty, most of the princes of the clan below Cao Huan, the prince of Changdao Township, were detained here, and later the king of the Wei family was reduced to the county marquis. In the following decades, the former Wei clan gradually died of old age under strict supervision, the clansmen scattered, and the land in their hands was slowly transferred. Yang Heng's manor was obtained from the hands of a Wei clansman.

The scale of this manor is not small, the manor is also engaged in farming, animal husbandry, and also organizes servants and maids to engage in silk weaving, and in the past few years, half of the expenses that Yang Heng has used to support the clan have come from here. However, in the middle of the year, the Jisang Shile thieves swept through Wei County and affected Yangheng's manor, and even after vigorous repairs, they could not fully recover the heyday scene. What Yang Heng did not expect was that from today onwards, the production of the entire manor would be destroyed again.

Because the outcasts are coming.

These homeless wanderers roam aimlessly, like herds of migrating beasts or livestock, scavenging wild vegetables or sweeping through the fields for unripe grain. Yang Heng's manor bore the brunt of the occupation by a team of displaced people, so that most of the servants could only gather in the dock fort in the center of the manor, and once they left the dock fort, it was simply impossible to move an inch. If this continues, won't there be another civil uprising? This situation shocked the people of the Yang clan who were in charge of managing the manor, and they could only turn to the highest position person present, the Eagle Yang General Lu Yao.

Lu Yao didn't want to interfere, and he couldn't stand the people of the Yang clan begging for help, so he had to take three or five to run out of the side gate of the dock fort, and look out on all sides from a small hill.

The large number of displaced people poured into the territory of Ye County, probably last night. It was hard to see in the night, but when the sky was bright, I looked up and saw what I saw was really shocking. From a ditch on the south side of the dock wall to near the dock wall, there are many unclothed people sitting and lying in the fields that are far from north to south and east and east and west. The child cries out a terrible and piercing cry, but it seems that there is no mother to take care of it; Someone dug up some kind of suspicious tuber from the soil, and did not wipe it, but just chewed and swallowed it bite by mouth; The fathers and elders of the vicissitudes of appearance supported each other with their thin limbs, and they did not move for a long time, almost not knowing whether they were dead or alive. There were black crows circling in the sky, occasionally chirping a few times, and even if they flapped their wings and landed in the crowd, no one made a sound to drive them away, as if they were used to it.

There are probably thousands or more of these displaced people. The tragic and never-ending war has destroyed their homeland, leaving them with no hope and no way to live, but simply wandering subconsciously, like the walking dead. Even a martial artist like Lu Yao, who struggled out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain of Bingzhou, once he approached them, he couldn't help but be frightened by the cruel scene in front of him, and he was almost speechless.

and Lu Yao went out to investigate, in addition to several personal guards, there was also a young scholar. He sighed: "They should be displaced people in the plains and Qinghe area. ”

Lu Yao glanced back at him. The young scholar showed a helpless look and said: "The Shile thieves sent their troops to the south of Jizhou, and in a few days, the county seat of Lianke County was killed incalculably, and the people were forced to embark on the road of fleeing, hoping to survive in Wei County, Guangping County and other places...... Alas, since the previous military disaster, Wei County has also been dilapidated, and the treasury is empty, where can I have the ability to help? ”

Lu Yao groaned: "Yecheng is an important town after all, General Zhengbei and Yu are sitting in Yecheng, and they have the responsibility of soothing the people and governing the people, so they will always come up with some methods." ”

The young man sneered and shook his head. Just as he was about to say something, smoke and dust billowed in the distance, and a horse made a huge circle to let the displaced people come at a gallop.

Lu Yao recognized that the knight was Yang Heng's right-hand man. This person ran closer, flew off his horse and shouted: "General Lu, General Zhengbei heard that you are here, please go and see him immediately!" He took two steps forward and lowered his voice: "Today's emergency military report, Youzhou Assassin Wang Jun is dead!" ”

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I'm sorry, my mother-in-law is sick, and my son-in-law has to go to shoot the horse in the starry night. After two days of worry, I finally rushed back today, thanks to the Harmony.