[Comprehensive Martial Arts] Journey to the Homeland

After more than a thousand years, Jingling was renamed Tianmen City, and the straight-line distance from Hefei is between [-] and [-] kilometers.In other words, the two big cities are about a thousand miles apart.Common people rarely travel far, and it is even more difficult to imagine the feeling of traveling thousands of miles.Even caravans that are used to traveling all over the world still have to spend half a month or even a month to complete this journey according to the number of goods and trucks.

However, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, rebel armies rose everywhere, attacking cities and plundering land, and those who joined the army often couldn't help themselves and came to big cities and villages that they had never heard of in their lives.The people who settled in the local area in the past and lived and worked in peace and contentment were not spared from the disaster.

They are very lucky to meet a rebel army with strict military discipline. At most, life is not convenient enough, and they have to provide necessities such as rations, cloth, weapons, etc. to the rebel army. The bad luck of family ruin.

In times of war, the Jianghuai Army was not even the worst army.After a great battle, among the defeated side, there are often remnant soldiers who flee spontaneously.When they passed a certain village, no matter the Sui army or the rebel army, they had long forgotten the restraint of military discipline, and did not want to return to the battlefield of life and death, so they formed groups of threes and twos, eighty-nine teams, and even more violent people. As the leader, form a small army to snatch valuables and valuables seen on the road, as well as village women with outstanding looks.

Sometimes, the villagers spontaneously gather together to resist, which leads to another rebel army.More villages do not have such ability, and they are all waiting to be captured. All they want is for these evil stars to leave quickly.

Before Su Ye went to Jingling, he knew the current situation of Jingling.The Jingling area is being controlled by Zhu Can, who is known as the "King of Garuda".Jialou Luoniao has a fierce temperament and feeds on dragons, which shows Zhu Can's ambition.

He was originally a county magistrate in the Sui Dynasty. When the bandits were suppressed, he led a large army to flee and became a mighty rebel army.After Yang Xuangan rebelled against the Sui Dynasty, all parts of the Central Plains seemed to be inspired by him, and wars broke out everywhere in the past few years.Zhu Can can only be regarded as one of them, and it is nothing special.

However, this man was extremely cruel and cruel, and he had no habit of establishing bases. He led the army to plunder everywhere. If there was no army food, he would capture the women and children in the area under his control, cook human flesh for food, and force strong men to join the army.He himself was never ashamed of it, and said with relish: "The most delicious food in the world is human flesh. As long as my own power is satisfied, let others die."

It wasn't his exact words, but that's roughly what he meant.Therefore, the Jialou Luo army is like an army of evil spirits coming out of the underworld, and their reputation is so bad that it cannot be worse.They snatched wherever they went, and killed them mercilessly no matter they were facing tiny villages or giant cities.Due to the chaos in the world, no one stopped their march. It was not until the year Yang Guang was murdered that Zhu Can was defeated by Ma Yuangui, who was still affiliated with the Sui Dynasty, and fled to Nanyang in the north. correctness.

Now Yang Guangwu is alive and well, and the Sui army has not defeated the Jialou Luo army.After these two incidents happened, the generals of Jingling left the city and became a land without an owner. Then they were occupied by the Fang Zetao brothers who were former generals of the Sui Dynasty.

Every time Su Ye thought of Jingling, he felt very sad.Jingling is located near Han River, as is Pegasus Ranch.There are tens of thousands of men in the ranch, and there are countless horses. In fact, they are a force that should not be underestimated.But Shang Xiuxun has no intention of competing for world hegemony. Lu Miaozi, who lives in a small building on the ranch and is ready to take care of her at any time, is too busy to take care of herself. campaign.

Back then, Yang Xuangan came to see Shang Xiuxun in person as an important minister of the imperial court, because he wanted to cooperate with the ranch, or at least buy a large number of horses from the ranch to provide armaments for the next year's rebellion.

But Shang Xiuxun has just taken over the responsibility of being the owner of the field, and needs to take care of his weakening mother. He has neither experience nor mood, and has no intention of standing on the side of the rebels, opposing Yang Guang, who seems to be somewhat majestic, so he politely rejects Yang Xuangan proposal.

In fact, she knew very well that the troubled times had already begun, and the Pegasus Ranch had a subtle and important status in it. She was afraid that she would not be able to detach from the outside world and not be involved with any forces, so she came up with an idea similar to the Fang Brothers, planning to wait until it was a last resort, and then choose An excellent backstage.She has a good relationship with Li Xiuning, Miss Li Family, so she inevitably tends to Li Family. However, Li Yuan hesitates, cares about reputation, and worries about his relationship with Yang Jian, so far he refuses to raise troops.

Su Ye didn't want to force her, and after exhausting her words, she finally relaxed her mind a little, and agreed to send out the ranch's troops as an aid at the right time.Of course, at that time Su Ye was a younger girl than she is now.Shang Xiuxun's face was full of suspicion, until he finally agreed, he still looked at her with unpredictable eyes, wondering if she was talking nonsense that sounded reasonable but was actually innocent.

But Su Ye didn't talk nonsense.In her opinion, if Jingling, Mianyang, and the ranch are united, and then control the shipping on the Han River, they will be able to resist the enemy approaching from any direction.She even tried Zhai Rang's idea, but the Wagang army was too far away from Jingling, and there were other rebels in the middle. When resisting the Sui army, it was really inappropriate to have conflicts with other forces and fall into a situation surrounded by enemies.

Therefore, when she set out to Jingling, she didn't have any specific goals, she just wanted to see the situation in this area, and then return to the pasture to discuss with Shang Xiuxun again.

The trip lasted thousands of miles, and the first half was safe and sound.She never provoked others, and others never provoked her.But in the last two or three hundred miles, the situation has changed subtly, and the atmosphere in the world has also become unnecessarily desolate.

On the way, she saw many refugees fleeing to the east, all of whom were forced to live by the Garuda army, fearing that their wives and daughters would be snatched away, and that they would be forcibly conscripted into the army.They leave their hometowns and abandon the farmland they have depended on for generations. Life will never be easy, but compared with the "King Garuda" who eats human flesh and drinks human blood, it seems not so terrible. They just want to stay as far away from him as possible .

Adhering to his principle of killing innocent people indiscriminately, Zhu Can felt inadequate after capturing Jingling, and allowed the soldiers to burn, kill and loot for a few days.Su Ye guessed that he didn't really set up any grounds as in the history books, because according to what the refugees said, they had been harming the city for more than two months.

Her footsteps were much faster than normal, and she missed the date with Dugu Ce, neither deliberately slowing down nor speeding up.After nightfall, she went in to stay when she encountered an inn, and went in to beg for shelter when she encountered a small village, but she didn't feel uncomfortable at all.

However, when she walked a hundred miles away from Jingling Mausoleum, the village was clearly showing signs of being deserted, and the villagers rarely smiled, and instead looked worried.That day, the setting sun sank below the horizon, wrapping the sky and the earth in the unique gloom of cloudy days. She happened to come to a village that was still eighty miles away, so she entered the village for the night according to her past habits.

This place is called "Peach Farm". Residents plant not only crops, but also peach trees, which are transported to the city for sale in summer.Now is the time when the peach trees bear fruit, but the village is sparsely populated.Many young and strong men and women avoid further distances, those with relatives go to relatives, and those without relatives find another way out, for fear of bad luck befalling them.Those who are still here either feel that they are far away from the Garuda Luo Army and do not want to leave their hometown, or they think that they are old and frail and will not be in danger, so they insist on staying at home.

For cavalry, eighty miles is not a long distance.Su Ye walked into the village along the road and found that the village was sparsely populated, and the farmland also showed signs of being trampled and forcibly harvested.She found a house and knocked on the door for a long time before an old woman with hard of hearing came out to answer the door.

When Su Ye said that he would pay, the old woman said: "Why do you need money, even if you have money, it will be snatched away."

The old woman's son, daughter-in-law, daughter, and son-in-law are not here, and have gone to seek refuge with their uncle fifty miles away.She wanted to ask a few more questions, but felt that the other party was old and had bad ears, so she might not be able to provide reliable information, so she had to give up.Lying on the bed that night, she kept thinking about the notorious Zhu Can, and his beautiful but equally cruel daughter, "Poisonous Spider" Zhu Mei, and she didn't fall asleep until midnight.

Just after midnight, she suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes coming from the entrance of the village, which was especially loud in the middle of the night.The sound of horseshoes came fiercely, which showed that the visitors were not good.When the knight saw the first dwelling, he reined in his horse, jumped off his mount, lit a torch recklessly, and began searching from house to house.

Su Ye has never seen the actions of the Jianghuai army, because the Jianghuai army is still entangled with the Sui army and has not plundered people's wealth in the direction she went.But from the behavior of the visitor tonight, it is not difficult to see the harm this kind of behavior has done to the people.

They knocked on the door very loudly, but often when there was no one in the house, or the owner was too afraid to open the door, they immediately forced the door open, pushed the door open, and ordered the people in the house to get out and stand there. On the other hand, he began to rummage through boxes and cabinets, not only looking for gold and silver jewellery, but also taking away rice, flour, oil and salt, and his methods were extremely skillful.

The Jialou Luo army never bothered to recuperate, let alone rest with the people. When the military resources were scarce, they would send small groups of soldiers to go tens or hundreds of miles away to rob other people's homes of food and money.The night Su Ye was staying, happened to meet them coming to Taozhuang.

Naturally, this team was not the only one sent by the army, and the nearby villages would also be hard-pressed to escape.But Su Ye is only one person after all, and he can only take care of the affairs here if he stays here.She really couldn't bear to stay out of the incident and see the residents of the village suffer.

She listened for a while, and was about to go out, but suddenly, she heard the sound of a man screaming and scolding.Immediately afterwards, a clear and pleasant male voice said: "Don't you think it's too much to do this?"