After Zhu Sheng left, Lu Yao didn't say a word, and hurried out of the city.

After passing under the Fengyang Gate, he hesitated slightly, and did not go in the direction of the dock fort that Yang Heng provided for him to stay, but turned his horse to the east and continued to gallop along the towering city wall.

The knights did not know why, and they shouted and beat their horses, and followed closely.

Running for nearly ten miles in one breath, it was not until the sturdy horse under the seat sweated like pulp that Lu Yao relaxed the reins and slowed down.

This is a high slope located on the south bank of Zhangshui, not far from the garden tombs of the kings of the former Wei dynasty. After the Great Jin Dynasty, the status and treatment of the former Wei clan became increasingly bleak, and the degree of surveillance was not much different from that of prisoners. But in the eyes of ordinary people, these former princes were still unattainable nobles, so many poor people placed their family graves here in an attempt to taint themselves with wealth and shelter. Over the decades, the dead have accumulated, so much so that as far as the eye can see, countless small earthen bags are one after another, which is quite terrifying and extraordinarily spectacular.

In fact, there should be a large area of fertile farmland in the distance. It is a pity that after the war, Wei County was unable to effectively organize the people to resume agricultural production. Countless acres of land were barren, and as far as the eye could see, only the bare land was divided vertically and horizontally. On Qianmo, there were several ragged people supporting each other. They looked at Lu Yao and his party with tired and numb eyes, and slowly walked around the side of the mass grave.

Lu Yao sighed, threw his stirrup off his horse, and walked to the southwest corner of the slope.

A cavalryman came back from patrolling the perimeter on horseback, wanting to say something, but was stopped by Ma Rui with an extremely stern gaze.

In the battle that broke out in Yecheng a few months ago, nine of the thirty soldiers who accompanied Lu Yaodong to Taihang were killed. Zhao Yao and Mo Zhe were killed in the siege of the prison city, and Ding Jin, Guo Jian, He Yunzhi, and Chen Sen were sacrificed in the hard battle between Jianchun Gate and Shi Le, and when the enemy Ji Sang was outside the Jianchun Gate, Song Yi, Yang Pei, and Luo Yigan were killed successively. Lu Yao buried them here before forming a large army to go north to Daidi. Ma Rui, who was born in the Jinyang Army, clearly remembers that this is the place where Lu Yao buried nine Bingzhou warriors who died on the battlefield after the Yecheng Rebellion.

Nine burial mounds are arranged in two columns. Perhaps because Lu Yao entrusted the familiar officials of Wei County to take care of it, it was newer than the surrounding cemeteries and was easy to recognize.

Lu Yao walked between the two rows of graves, occasionally leaning over and gently patting away the floating ash from the graves to remove weeds. These nine people are all warriors who followed Lu Yao and Ding Miao from birth to death and established many meritorious deeds, including four team leaders and one military master. If they can live to the moment when Lu Yao dominates the northern frontier, they can at least command more than 1,000 troops, and they may even get the title of general. But when they died, their lives ended, and they were buried in a foreign land, no longer having the opportunity to witness Lu Yao's brilliant achievements, nor having the opportunity to enjoy success.

From the easternmost mound to the westernmost side, farther away, there is a grave raised by He Yun. Maybe the people in the tomb are very important in He Yun's heart, Lu Yao still vaguely remembers He Yun's mournful expression at that time, but he can't remember who was buried in that mound at all.

In fact, this high slope is also an important battlefield for the Jisang thieves to intercept the beggar army. Lu Yao looked around, and the blurred traces of flesh and blood were already very inconspicuous at that time. Only under the grass that grows everywhere, the new soil excavated from the graves is intertwined with the old mud soaked in blood and purple. The mottled mud ground reminded Lu Yao with a vivid color contrast that the warriors of the Jinyang Army who fought, fought fiercely, shed blood, and sacrificed here were by no means the only ones.

Lu Yao squatted down and picked up a handful of soil, and slowly crumpled it into pieces, scattering them all over the place. Not long ago, the continuous heavy rain in Jizhou had apparently also affected Wei County, and the soil was wet and sticky, containing abundant moisture. And Lu Yao vaguely felt that as long as he added a little force, he could squeeze the gurgling blood out of the soil again.

When Lu Yao was in Jinyang at the end of last year, he set up tombs and spiritual seats for the soldiers who died in the Jinyang War, and arranged special people to sacrifice them; This is true in Yecheng; This is still the case after arriving in Daishire. Therefore, the same cemetery was set up in the royal city of Luochuan and in the source of the river. The only difference is that as his status grew, the forces under his command became stronger and the scale of the battles grew. At the same time, the number of dead in each battle is increasing, and it does not change because of victory or defeat.

Ding Shao casually discarded the old and weak in the Jizhou army to Shi Le as bait, which once made Lu Yao deeply unhappy; But he also knew that there was no reason to accuse Ding Shao of being ruthless. Lu Yao's status has risen all the way, all out of military merit, I don't know how many of his subordinates are built on the bones, and once he tries to win through strategy, while reducing the casualties of his own soldiers, he will create new victims. Just like in Lingshou County, Changshan, those soldiers of the Jinyang Army who were attacked by the Youzhou Army due to the stratagem of the county were innocently killed?

Although he is a commander with a heart like iron on the battlefield, Lu Yao still retains the emotions of ordinary people, and he has not become the protagonist of the kind of online article that is decisive and not like a human because of the crossing. Being in this terrible world that slides into the abyss, everything Lu Yao has seen and caused has brought pressure to him, making him deeply feel his responsibility, deeply feel that time is pressing, and seize the day.

The Hu'er on the grassland integrated their terrifying power step by step, and the Hu'er such as Liu Yuan and Shi Le, who were in the interior of the Central Plains, were also eyeing each other, tearing the flesh and blood of the Great Jin Dynasty every moment. Time is tight, and the power at your disposal is not enough.

"Be quick! Be quick! Lu Yao said to himself.

Only by staying in Youzhou can we obtain a foundation of sufficient scale and be stable and not shaken by others. And all the means that a traverser can think of will soon be displayed one by one in the vast land of Youzhou. Therefore, in any case, you must take Youzhou in the shortest possible time!

Lu Yao got on the horse. He planned to go to the west of Yecheng to seek another opportunity to communicate with the county lord of Jingling. After all, the support of this county lord does have an irreplaceable and important role.

However, just as he was about to raise the whip, his face suddenly changed. Although his hearing is not as talented as Zhu Sheng, relying on the experience accumulated in a hundred battles, he is extremely sensitive to the clues of the military environment, so he subconsciously reins in the horse and looks around. A moment later, smoke and dust rose over the field, and the sound of hooves as heavy as thunder could be heard from afar. Immediately, a huge team of hundreds of cavalry jumped into Lu Yao's field of vision, stepped through the Zhangshui tidal flats, and continuously extended troops to the two wings to outflank him.

Although it is in Yecheng, the town of the heavy army of the Great Jin Dynasty, the body of the King of Dongyan is still missing, and the experience of the past is still fresh in people's memory, and no one dares to relax their vigilance against this unknown force. Without Lu Yao's orders, Ma Rui immediately ordered his subordinates to concentrate on Lu Yao's location, and the soldiers quietly put their bows and knives in a position at their fingertips.

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On Monday, I received an urgent notice, and I was transferred to a new company and a new position on the same day, and I was facing a lot of work pressure, so I was so busy in the past few days that I couldn't take care of the code words. I'll adjust it though. First of all, please forgive me, and secondly, there is no need to worry. All in all, in short, this book will not be a eunuch, and it must be completed with quality and quantity. In addition, this chapter was started at one o'clock in the evening and completed at two :45 p.m., and the crab felt that he had done his best.