On a cold night, the moon and stars are scarce.

Thirty miles outside the east gate of Anyi City, at the foot of Chaoyangpo Mountain.

Thousands of people in Dongyuan City helped the old and the young to step on the moonlight, let the north wind blow, and hurried away overnight with packages on their backs.

"Third son, don't just worry about hurrying by yourself, help your mother to walk slowly, don't worry, after crossing Chaoyang Slope, you will arrive at Anyi City!"

In the crowd rushing by in the starry night, an old man over sixty years old grabbed the young man who ran past him and persuaded him.

The young man who was being pulled by the old man was about sixteen or seventeen years old, and he had grown up, more than eight feet tall, and his body was quite strong. As winter approached, he wore only two clothes, an undershirt and a coarse cloth coat full of patches; Even so, he didn't seem to feel the cold, and his face was full of excitement to surpass the villagers who were rushing to the night.

It's just that his young and immature face shows that he is still a half-grown boy who is ignorant of the world, and the young man does not know what it feels like, and regards this kind of escape from abandoning his family and business as a stimulating trip, and trotting all the way in high spirits, and can't wait to get to Anyi City as soon as possible.

"Second grandfather, don't worry about it, my mother has my sister by her side, it's okay!" The young man said to the old man with a grin.

After hearing this, the old man showed a loving smile on his wrinkled and shriveled cheeks, raised his hand to make a spanking gesture but was not willing to really beat, and scolded with a smile: "Heartless thing!" Your kid is sixteen this year, and he is already an adult, and grandpa has already gone into battle with a knife to kill barbarians when he was your age!

At present, there are not many young men in Li Zhuang, and we are counting on you half-grown children to protect the whole village, why are you so anxious, why don't you know that you feel sorry for your mother and your sister? ”

The old man's surname is Li, and the more than 200 women and children around him are all villagers of the same Zhuangzi, and most of the men are surnamed Li. Only a few families have foreign surnames, so the whole village is called Li Zhuang.

Li Laohan is a lonely old man, the second of the five brothers in the family, he was a soldier in his early years, fought with the Southern Huns, and is said to have been a centurion. In a battle twenty years ago, he was cut off his left arm by the Southern Barbarians, but fortunately saved his life, and since then he has returned to Lizhuang and has been living alone, claiming that he is a cripple. can't affect other girls, so at the age of more than sixty, he still has no children and no daughters, alone.

The young man he dragged was named Li Yuncong, and he was the precious grandson of his fifth brother. In the early years, his five brothers, father and son were forcibly dragged by the Yellow Turban thieves to join the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and waited until the officers and soldiers suppressed the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Father and son both don't know the news, and they don't know life and death. Missing. Therefore. Li Laohan takes good care of Li Yuncong's mother and son, and loves Li Yuncong even more, but if there is a bite to eat, it must be left to Xiao Yuncong, and the love of protecting the calf is indescribable.

"Second grandfather, you are wrong to blame your grandson this time!" After saying a word, Li Yuncong said with excitement on his face: "I heard that the general personally sat in Dongyuan City a few days ago. He appreciates our soldiers who defend the city very much, and has ordered all of us county soldiers to be incorporated into the soldiers of Chang'an County. Don't hide it from you, my grandson passed the guò school three days ago and was incorporated into the Jinyi Guard Battalion under the command of the general. Go home this time. I just want to take you and my mother and sister to Anyi City first, and then cross the river by boat to Chang'an, and after you are settled, your grandson will be the personal soldier next to the lord! ”

"Jin Qiwei?" Li Laohan was shocked when he heard this, and slapped his thigh, and couldn't help but say, "Okay, my grandson is finally here!" Grandpa has long heard of Jin Yiwei, it is said that there are more than 20,000 horses, all of them are cavalry, all of them are well-known men, and they have repeatedly made military exploits and are famous! ”

In addition to the great joy, Li Laohan said with relief: "Okay, it is worthy of being a good grandson trained by my one-armed Li Yishou, who is a personal soldier by the general's side at a young age, stronger than grandpa!" No wonder your kid ran so fast, it turned out that you were in a hurry to return to the barracks, this is very good, the pro-soldier must have a pro-soldier appearance, and he can't be free to wander around! ”

While speaking, Li Laohan pulled Li Yuncong forward slowly, and said with a smile: "Tell grandpa, who is your general, is it the famous flying general Li Zhi?" ”

Li Yuncong, who was praised by the second grandfather, smiled very brightly, and said with a smile: "Grandpa guessed correctly, our commander is Li Zhi, the flying general who once broke into Chang'an alone, flew the eaves and walked the wall, and rescued the great Confucian Cai Yong from Lu Bu. However, Sun Er is not General Li Zhi's subordinate now, but continues to follow General Xu Huang and is incorporated into General Xu's personal army to protect the general's safety. I heard that the reason why we were able to enter Jin Yiwei this time was that General Xu Huang took the initiative to propose it to the general, and after strict selection of more than 3,000 people in the whole battalion, only 200 people, including Sun Er, were selected for Jin Yiwei, and the others were all incorporated into the Chang'an County Soldiers! ”

"Xu Huang?" Li Laohan groaned, and then suddenly said: "I remembered, it is the son of Xu Tieniu in Xujiatun on the west side of the Qingshui River in Yangting!" ”

Li Yuncong was at a loss when he heard this, and Li Laohan seemed to think of something, and said with feeling: "Xu Tieniu is a man, he joined the army with me back then, and he was still a brother of a battalion, he was a good martial artist, as powerful as an ox, and he was promoted to the commander of the tun in less than half a year after joining the army." It's a pity that the luck is not good, and in the next few years, he repeatedly made military exploits but did not get the rewards he deserved, and then he was shot by the southern barbarians, and dozens of arrows were shot in the body, pierced like a hedgehog, and died on the battlefield.

More than 20 years have passed, but he didn't expect that his son has grown up and is now a general who leads a battalion of men and horses. Xu Huang met a good lord, otherwise how could he become a general with a baby who was less than thirty years old? Back then, his father Xu Tieniu also had the ability to be a general, but unfortunately he was born at the wrong time, and he lived desperately for many years, and he was still a tun chief until he died! ”

Speaking of the past, Li Laohan sighed. But it is not difficult to see from his speech and demeanor that while he is upset with Xu Huang's father Xu Tieniu, he also admires Xu Huang and Xiliang coach Li Li.

Click!

Just as Li Laohan and his grandson Li Yuncong were walking and talking, they suddenly heard a rumbling sound of horses' hooves behind them. When the grandfather and grandson looked back, they saw a cavalry of five or six hundred men galloping towards them, and in the blink of an eye, they caught up with the people who were hurrying away.

"You don't have long eyes, get out of the way! Get out of the way———! ”

At the moment when the people were hurrying away, the armor soldiers who were galloping on their horses had no intention of slowing down their runs, but when they saw more than a dozen cavalrymen in the lead, they scolded loudly, waved their whips in their hands, and wantonly whipped the people who were blocking the way of the cavalry.

"Ahhhh

Amid the panicked screams of the people, the 600 cavalrymen whipped their prancing horses and rushed into the crowd, rampage all the way, and some soldiers slashed the people who stood in the middle of the road and did not have time to avoid them.

"Stop!" Seeing the soldiers in front wantonly killing the people, a general in black armor in the middle of the cavalry immediately shouted: "Just drive them to both sides of the road, don't kill in vain, so as not to cause extraneous branches!" ”

When the junior colonel who took the lead in opening the road heard the sound, he immediately withdrew his hand and shouted: "General Cao has an order, it is important to hurry, and no extraneous branches are allowed!" ”

"Shut up, idiot!" At first hearing the words of the little colonel, the black armor general's expression suddenly changed greatly, and while beating his horse and galloping, he shouted angrily.

"Smack!" The moment he caught up with the little colonel, the black-armored general shook his hand like a horsewhip and rebuked in a low voice: "You are a stupid pig!" If you dare to talk nonsense about my big things, I will chop you with a knife! ”

"The general is angry, and the last general will never dare again!" The little colonel who was beaten with a horse whip on his head and face, his neck was beaten open, and a bloody whip mark was left on his face, but he didn't dare to contradict the black-armored general, but instead pleaded guilty.

"Hugh has to be verbose, expel the crowd, and hurry up!" The black-armored general reprimanded angrily, then galloped on his horse, led the cavalry to disperse the people on the road, and galloped straight to Anyi City.

"Be careful!" Just as Li Laohan and Li Yuncong's grandfather and grandson instinctively got out of the way, Li Yuncong suddenly caught a glimpse of a cavalryman whipping at his mother and sister. Suddenly, he casually pushed Li Laohan to the side of the road, strode and shouted, and then flew in front of his mother and sister before the whip fell.

"Bang——— bang!" With the whip firmly drawn on his back, Li Yuncong threw his mother and sister to the ground, and then the mother and son rolled to the side of the road, avoiding the trampling of the horse's hooves of the cavalry that followed closely behind.

"Hoo ———!" After a while, the sound of horses' hooves faded away, and Li Yuncong endured the hot pain on his back and turned over and got up, and leaned over to pull up his frightened mother and sister.

At this time, Li Laohan ran over quickly, and scolded with an angry face: "These beasts who kill a thousand knives, why are they in such a hurry in the middle of the night, rushing to mourn!" ”

"Ugh!" Li Yuncong was stunned when he heard this, and immediately ignored the pain in his back, and turned his head to look at the cavalry galloping a hundred paces away. By the moonlight, he saw that these cavalrymen were wearing dark cyan armor, and their backs were no different from the defenders of Dongyuan City, almost identical. Looking at it, his face suddenly changed, he raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, as if he couldn't believe his eyes, and then his eyes widened, looking at the back of the cavalry in the distance and was stunned.

As a member of the defenders of Dongyuan City, Li Yuncong is very familiar with the entire defenders of Dongyuan City, but there is no middle and low-level general above the commander of the tun that he does not know. However, the general Cao just now was a general he had never seen, and what shocked him even more was that the war horse that these cavalry rode was not a Xiliang war horse, but a Wuhuan war horse from Youzhou.

Although Li Yuncong was only a team leader of fifty people beside Xu Huang before, and he had joined the army for less than a year, he was a small contact with war horses and was keen on weapons and war horses. Maybe he is not deeply involved in the world and does not understand the world, but when it comes to war horses, he is self-taught, as long as any war horse is given a look, he can immediately tell the breed and origin of the war horse. And the reason why he was able to pass the assessment of Guò Li Zhi was precisely because he was not only agile and physically strong, but also had superb riding skills and the ability to go on horses.

"Not good! These people are not the defenders of Dongyuan, but the enemy army of the princes! Suddenly, Li Yuncong, who came back to his senses, exclaimed in surprise.

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