Borrow the day to change the day

Zhong Jinwei didn't speak, just let the horse walk forward slowly.

In his thinking, he originally believed that the peasant army had no choice but to rebel, so most of the peasant army should focus on appeasement, pardon them, and give them a chance to survive.

As for the leaders of the peasant army who led the rebellion, they must be resolutely punished and killed as an example to prevent them from rebelling and endangering society if they feel unsatisfactory.

But Zhong Jinwei saw the tattered appearance of the peasant army at the ferry of the Yellow River. It didn't look like an army at all, just like refugees with weapons.There was a trace of intolerance in his heart, but he didn't have the idea of ​​letting them go, but he couldn't figure out how to deal with it for a while, so he kept it with him.

Through such a conversation today, Zhong Jinwei was greatly shocked.Just imagine that if you were in their situation, if you couldn't plan ahead and escape from the disaster area, then the remaining road must be the same as them, because I definitely don't have a personality waiting to die.

Zhong Jinwei was thinking about it, and Xie Dong, a thousand households of Jinyiwei, came up to him and said to him: "Master Hou, what they said is only one side of the story, Lord Hou can't believe it all."

Zhong Jinwei turned his head, glanced at him, then turned back, and said lightly: "I know it well."

In fact, in his heart, he believed it a lot.The expressions and demeanor of these peasant army leaders when they speak are basically not fake, otherwise their acting skills will be very high.

Zhong Jinwei's mood was not very high due to the impact just now.He didn't speak, and no one else in the team dared to speak, so he was on his way silently.

Not long after, the team left the banks of the Yellow River and began to enter the hinterland of Shaanxi. To be precise, they had already left the area of ​​influence of the Yellow River waters.

The farther away from the Yellow River, the more startling the drought.

It is now the beginning of April, according to Zhong Jinwei's impression, it should be the season of revival of all things, and it is the season of emerald green.

But within his field of vision, there were only a few green dots.There were basically no pedestrians on the official road, and even a few birds flying in the air were not seen.

The fields on both sides of the official road have been barren for many years, and the dead grass has grown very high. It can be seen that no one has taken care of the farmland for a long time, which is why it has become like this.

Zhong Jinwei looked uncomfortable, and there were more and more signs proving that what the leaders of the peasant army said might not be true.

At this time, Hu Hao stepped forward and cupped his fists and said, "Master Hou, are you going to the front?"

Although this peasant uprising army has been wiped out, who knows if there are other peasant armies in this plane.So Zhong Jinwei nodded and said: "Be careful yourself, go."

"Thank you, Lord." Hu Hao agreed, and then led his Yebushou brothers across the team and galloped forward, leaving a trail of dust flying.

Finally, Zhong Jinwei saw some sparse trees in front of him. When he got closer, he saw that the twigs and buds of these trees were gone. It could be seen that they had been broken off by someone.Half of the bark was gone, so he asked, "What kind of tree is this, an elm?"

Gu Baichuan and the others didn't know each other, so they could only shake their heads.It was Li Laosi who said, "This is not an elm tree, but a locust tree."

"Oh." Zhong Jinwei agreed, and continued to move forward without speaking.

But he was thinking in his heart, according to that person, this kind of unpalatable bark has been eaten by people, and the situation will be even worse in the future.

Sure enough, the further we went, the more trees there were without bark.A gust of wind blew through the branches, as if a naked person was shivering.

After Zhong Jinwei and others walked for a while, they saw a small village not far away.

One night, he was at the entrance of the village, and when he saw the army approaching, he rode back and told Zhong Jinwei, "Master Hou, this village is empty, as if there was no one there a long time ago."

"Where are people, are they all dead?" Zhong Jinwei was a little surprised, looking at the houses in this village, it seemed that they were not very poor.Yebushou said that there was no one there a long time ago, so it wouldn't be the peasant army passing by and engulfing them.

Ye Bushou couldn't answer, so he shook his head.

Gu Baichuan looked at the village in the distance, and guessed: "It may be that they ran away because they couldn't pay the taxes, or they may have gone to nearby Shanxi to make a living."

There are only these two possibilities, Zhong Jinwei thought.He was not interested in going to see it, so he continued to walk along the official road.

Not long after, he came back on horseback all night and saw Zhong Jinwei report: "Master Hou, there is a small city about fifteen miles ahead, where the army can stay."

What Zhong Jinwei led was not a large army anymore. In the battle at the Yellow River Ferry, one hundred white cavalry troops and eight hundred Datong troops escorted the prisoners to Zhangjiakou, and the team was reduced by half.

Now there are only 100 white cavalry troops and nearly [-] Zhong Jinwei guards. As for the caravan, they don't need to be counted, and they can eat and drink by themselves.

Zhong Jinwei wanted to understand the local situation, so he ordered Ma Xianglin: "Send the order to speed up, and go to the city ahead to have a rest and eat."

The order was passed down immediately, and everyone, including the caravan, began to speed up.

Just in this way, the four children behind the caravan suffered.

I don't know when they caught up with the caravan, they were just four children around ten years old.The people in the caravan ignored them, thinking that they saw the caravan and wanted something to eat.

As soon as the caravan picked up speed, the four children were slowly left behind.In particular, there was one child who seemed to be still limping and limping, and fell to the end.

The child walking in front was the tallest, like the leader of the four.He looked at the crippled child who was left behind, and at the caravan that was slowly getting further and further away. He stamped his feet anxiously and said, "Dingguo, throw away the knife, or we won't be able to catch up."

"No, how can we save foster father without a knife?" Li Dingguo refused.After all, he was still small, so he had nowhere to hide the knife, so he stuck it in his trouser leg, so that when he walked, his leg couldn't be bent, so he walked with a limp.

"You are so stupid, you can't even catch up, what's the use of a knife?" Sun Kewang wished to knock Li Dingguo's elm head a few times to open him up.

"You chase first, I'll catch up slowly." Li Dingguo still didn't want to give up the knife, because this knife was what he relied on to save his adoptive father.

The fourth son, Ai Nengqi, also persuaded him: "Second brother, I still lost it, and even with a sword, I can't beat those soldiers."

"No, at least a knife can cut the rope that binds the adoptive father." Li Dingguo was a little stubborn, but still disagreed.

The third brother, Liu Wenxiu, did not persuade Li Dingguo, hesitating for a while and said: "Second brother, how about I accompany you, eldest brother, fourth brother will catch up first."

Upon hearing this, Sun Kewang said to Ainengqi: "Let's go, let's chase."

He ran for a few steps, then stopped suddenly, turned around and said, "The adoptive father asked me to take care of you, if I leave you behind, I will be scolded by the adoptive father."

So, the four children went on the road together, but in this way, the caravan was slowly going away.

Li Dingguo looked at the back of the caravan and became anxious.Suddenly, he saw a stone on the side of the road, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and he stopped.

Sun Kewang immediately noticed Li Dingguo's movements, frowned and said: "Dingguo, what do you want to do? If you want to keep the knife, you will follow me, but why don't you leave now? What are you going to do now? You are the big brother, you can do whatever you want, and we will all be with you!"

"Brother, no, I have an idea." After Li Dingguo finished speaking, he took out the knife from his trouser leg with some difficulty, and then ran to the side of the road.

When the other three children heard this, they all followed, not knowing what Li Dingguo was going to do.

Li Dingguo ran to the side of the road, picked up the stone, found an uneven spot, leveled the knife and hit the spot with the stone hard, the tip of the knife broke in two.

Li Dingguo picked up the tip of the knife, held it in his hand and said: "The fourth brother is right, even with a knife, I can't beat those officers and soldiers. I use this to cut the rope is enough."

After finishing speaking, Li Dingguo picked up his clothes, lowered his head and inserted the broken knife point into the waistband of his trousers, put the clothes back, then raised his head to look at his righteous brothers, and smiled.

When Liu Wenxiu saw it, he smiled and said, "Second brother is really smart."

"Smart ass, he's the one who delayed for so long. Let's go and chase after him." Sun Kewang cursed, then took the lead, turned around and chased after him.

The three children in the back also let go and followed Sun Kewang to chase the army, waiting for an opportunity to save their adoptive father.