Gou is a soldier on the border

Chapter 263 Defending the Family and the Country
"Have you heard? Daliang City has been surrounded."

On the west bank of the Yellow River, Zhaojia Village is a quiet small village.

Sitting under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, Lizheng Zhao Goudan, who was full of wrinkles, said to an old man next to him.

"That's not true. A few days ago, the official road was full of northern barbarians. Fortunately, we didn't harm our place." Another old man stroked the white beard on his chin and nodded.

"I also heard that the county magistrate has already started gathering Xiangyong to go to King Qin."

"Where are the strong laborers in our village? Why aren't they together? Your Majesty is a good Majesty."

"It's strange to say that the county has sent someone to notify me a few days ago, making me worry about Xiangyong. Why hasn't there been any movement these days?" Zhao Goudan said with a puzzled expression.

At this moment, a young man rushed to the entrance of the village.

He stopped in front of Zhao Tiedan, supported his knees and gasped for breath. He wanted to say something, but because of too much force, he coughed violently.

"What's the rush? Is someone from the county here?" Zhao Tiedan looked at his grandson.

"Yes... yes... there is an army crossing the river!" Panting for a long time, the young man finally recovered his breath and said to his grandfather.

Zhao Tiedan stood up abruptly.

"Army? Where's the army? Is it King Qin's army?" There was surprise on his face.

The young man shook his head repeatedly.

"Those troops are all white-skinned, and the flag decorations are completely different from our beams."

Zhao Tiedan's face instantly sank.

"White skin? Could it be people from Dashi Kingdom?"

Thinking of this, he hurried to the big bell hanging on the big locust tree, and struck it vigorously.

The long bell rang through the sky above the village, breaking the long-term peace of the village.

The whole village instantly became chaotic.

Not long after, a dozen young people about the same age as his grandson came to the entrance of the village, carrying sticks, knives and guns.

"Second Grandpa. Fifth Grandpa."

"Second Grandpa! Fifth Grandpa!"

The young man greeted Zhao Tiedan and the old man next to him, and stood in a row, waiting for Zhao Tiedan to give an order.

Zhao Tiedan looked serious.

"Children, the big stone man may be calling."

As soon as this remark came out, the villagers were in an uproar.

They are in the hinterland of the Central Plains, not to mention wars, and even thieves are rare, and they are usually in a state of not closing their doors at night and not picking up lost things on the road.

A few days ago, the Lie Nation's army crossed the border, and their nerves were tense.

Today, the news was clearly told to them.

War is at hand.

"Xizhu, you go to the county town to report the news, others, evacuate the old and young women and children in the village, and go to the county town! Xizhu, get on your horse and go back quickly!" The old man first let his grandson ride the only horse in the village , went to the county to report, and then took the others and walked quickly to the village.

Zhao Xizhu rode on the old horse in the village and ran towards the west of the county town.

After arriving at the county seat, he ran directly to the county government office.

"I want to see the county magistrate!" He got off his horse, without even caring about tying the horse, and ran directly to the gate of the county government office, and said to the gatekeeper.

"What's the matter with the county magistrate?" Seeing Zhao Xizhu's panic, the yamen servant hurriedly asked.

"Caomin is from Zhaojia Village in the east of the city. Today, I saw a large army crossing the river by the river, so I came here to inform you."

The yamen servant didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly brought Zhao Xizhu to the back yamen.

When the county magistrate heard the news, he quickly sent the county lieutenant to rush to Zhaojia Village with Xiang Yong, who was recently preparing to go to King Qin in the city.

There are more than 100 township braves, but only five horses. Although there is no shortage of horses in Daliang, most of them are in the hands of the Sifang Frontier Army, and the rest are scattered in post stations all over the country.

Before reaching Zhaojia Village, Zhao Xizhu saw a fire coming from the direction of his own village.

He pointed to the direction of the fire, and said to the county magistrate who personally led the team: "Old parents, that direction is our Zhaojia Village."

The county magistrate kicked the horse under his crotch violently.

"Boost!"

When they arrived at Zhaojia Village, the whole village was already engulfed in flames.

A party of cavalry spotted them and came round from behind the village.

The tall cavalryman in the lead had several heads hanging around the horse's neck.

Zhao Xizhu's eyes were about to burst, and one of the heads was his grandfather.

Zhao Goudan's face was covered with blood, his eyes were open, and his unrepentant face was full of anger.

Those cavalrymen looked at these Xiangyong with weapons, and rushed over without saying a word.

"Meet the enemy!"

The county magistrate who was born as a literati drew the decorative long sword from his waist, and pointed at the foreign enemies with different skin colors without fear.

Zhao Xizhu drew out his weapon, and looked angrily at the weapons still dripping with blood in the hands of those white-skinned soldiers,
"It's these people who killed their grandfather and slaughtered their village!"

His eyes were bloodshot with anger.

The cavalry on the opposite side rushed into the village brave.

These township braves are not lacking in courage, but courage cannot bridge the huge gap in strength.

Seeing that the cavalryman who killed his grandfather rushed into the villager closest to him, and raised a knife in his hand to drop a stream of blood, Zhao Xizhu also raised the steel knife in his hand and slashed at the cavalryman.

Zhao Xizhu, who lacked actual combat experience, managed to slash the man's shoulder with only a brute force, but the muscles on the man's shoulder contracted subconsciously, and Zhao Xizhu couldn't pull out the knife.

The painful enemy subconsciously turned around and slashed at Zhao Xizhu.

Zhao Xizhu held the mentality of death, did not dodge or dodge, pulled out his weapon with both hands, and stabbed at the cavalry again.

At this time, several Xiangyong nearby rushed forward at the same time.

Zhao Xizhu's knife did not hit the enemy again.

At the same time, he felt a chill in his chest.

Looking down, the flesh on his chest has rolled up, and blood is gushing out quickly.

The severe pain came, and Zhao Xizhu almost fell off the horse.

Before he fell into a coma, he saw the cavalryman, surrounded by several Xiangyongs, and abruptly pulled him off his horse.

He smiled slightly.

"Grandpa, I avenged you."

Immediately afterwards, the boundless darkness came.

After the Dashi army crossed the Yellow River, they burned, killed and looted all the way, pointing directly at the besieged Daliang City.

As soon as the news came out, the whole country was outraged.

Countless county towns and villages spontaneously assembled their troops and rushed towards Daliang City along the official road.

They prepared their own dry food and weapons, and walked silently on the official road with only one pair of feet.

Zhao Xicheng has been raising people for 20 years, and finally at this most dangerous moment, he saw the flowers blooming.

If you look from the sky, you can find that countless small streams of people converge on the official road, slowly merge into larger streams of people, and these streams of people continue to merge together, and all the streams of people are heading in the same direction.

The besieged Daliang capital.

Daliang City!
(End of this chapter)