During this period of time, the streets in the city seemed much duller. It was obvious that the new year had just passed, and the transition from bustling to deserted was so fast that it made people uncomfortable. Vertex Novel Updates Fastest
Even the number of children who are always running around on the street is much less, and the children have to do some work when the man is not at home.
But whenever these children asked when their father would come back, the family didn't know how to answer them.
The battle is getting more and more urgent, and no one knows when they will be able to return.
At the beginning, the common people only knew that there was going to be a war. Other things were secret military reports, and they didn't know much about it.
In the recent period of time, as the war officially started, rumors about the war began to spread everywhere. In the streets and alleys, you can often hear discussions about these things.
The Yanzhou army was pressing down on the border and went down to two cities in a row. The news made them worried. When they came to Beihai for a while, some people were panicked.
"Give me some money." An old beggar with a dirty face sat on the ground, holding a broken bowl, and said in a hoarse voice to passers-by on the street.
The loose hair made people walk around him unconsciously. One of his legs was too thin, like a dry bone with a layer of skin stuck to it. It seemed that he couldn't walk.
"Give me some money." No one responded to him, and no one threw money into the bowl. Nowadays, no one's life is easy, and no one has the heart to give money to others.
The old beggar seemed to understand this too, sighed, put down the bowl, leaned against the corner, and closed his eyes.
He fled from the junction of Qingzhou and Yanzhou, and there was going to be a war. Everyone knew that there were more and more soldiers and horses in the city.
It's a pity that he was stopped by someone and robbed on the way to escape. He was an old guy who was robbed of all his belongings and had a broken leg. To be able to survive to Beihai is already God's blessing for him.
It seemed that the time had come. He was suffering from hunger and cold, and he probably wouldn't live long.
"Hey, this is the way of the world." The old beggar leaned against the corner of the street, talking to himself, and the hot air from his mouth condensed into a cloud of white mist in the air.
He doesn't want to go anymore, if he can't live, he can't live. He is tired enough to live up to now.
It's not bad to die.
"Clang."
It was the sound of copper plates falling into a broken bowl.
The old beggar opened his eyes in astonishment. There was a handsome little girl squatting in front of him, holding a sword in her hand. She was dressed like a man, but she didn't look like a child from a wealthy family. She was probably a girl. Raise it as a boy.
At this time, she was putting a copper coin into his bowl.
"I only have one on me." Lingqi looked at the old beggar and said.
She looked at the person in front of her, and remembered when she met the master.
"Heh." The old beggar looked at the copper coins in the bowl with an inexplicable meaning in his eyes, and said after a while.
"Little girl, take this money back, the old man won't need it anymore."
He can't use it anymore, he is already ready to find a place to die everywhere.
"The master said that what is given out cannot be taken back."
The little girl with the sword shook her head and was about to leave.
The old beggar was stunned for a moment, he had never seen such a serious girl.
"Little girl." When he came back to his senses, he stretched out his hand to stop the girl.
Lingqi looked at the old beggar suspiciously.
The old beggar put down his hands and sighed again. Maybe people always like to sigh when they are old.
This little girl is a good person.
"Little girl, the old beggar escaped all the way, and heard some things along the way."
The beggar hesitated for a moment, he didn't know if the other party would believe what he said and could understand him, but he continued.
"Lu Bu from Yanzhou and Tao Qian from Xuzhou are planning to attack Qingzhou together. Qingzhou may not be able to stop it. It will be a matter of time before they reach Beihai. You should ask your family to take you out of this place earlier."
After finishing speaking, the old beggar lay back in the corner. He didn't touch the copper coin in the bowl, he was waiting to die.
Lingqi stood there blankly, not because of the matter of Yanzhou and Xuzhou, but because she heard a name.
Lu Bu.
"Dang." The tip of the sword touched the ground and made a soft sound.
Cao Pi stood panting heavily while holding the long sword in his hand that was almost as tall as his body.
Lingqi sat not far from him. He wanted to practice swordsmanship. Among the people he knew, Lingqi was the only one who could teach him swordsmanship at this time. So he often came to her these days.
Although Lingqi only taught Cao Pi some basic swordsmanship, she was very serious, but today she seemed absent-minded.
"Hey, what's the matter with you?" Cao Pi wiped the sweat off his forehead, still out of breath, and asked intermittently.
But he could tell that Lingqi was thinking about something today.
Lingqi looked at him in a daze, and suddenly asked without knowing why.
"I heard that the general of Yanzhou is a man named Lu Bu?"
In her memory, her father led the soldiers away, and her mother stayed at home with her, until a group of unknown people rushed into her house with swords and hacked and killed.
Mother took her away and sent her out of the city, and the people behind kept chasing her. Mother told her to keep running, not to come back, and not to tell anyone her name. She just kept running and never looked back.
She always thought that her father, like her mother, was dead.
"?" Cao Pi didn't know why Lingqi asked this, but he thought about it and nodded.
"It should be right, I heard my father mention it."
"Hmm." Lingqi sat there, as if a little at a loss, and finally did not make any movements, but lightly held her hand on the sword.
"Lu, is it possible that Lu Bu won't come to Qingzhou?"
Cao Pi was stunned for a moment, then pursed his lips, raised the long sword in his hand, and asked back.
"What do you say?"
With that said, he took a deep breath and continued to practice.
Yanzhou's soldiers and horses have already invaded Qingzhou, so how could they not come
On the city wall, soldiers sat around each other, with their heads down, eating the dry food in their hands. It was getting late, and no one spoke except for a few occasional greetings.
A young general walked through the crowd and walked to the city wall, with his hand lightly pressed on the sword at his waist, looking at the distance outside the city.
In the distance, he could vaguely see a camp and tents.
After marching for more than a month, when they arrived here, the Yanzhou army had captured two cities. Now because of their arrival, the Yanzhou army temporarily stopped their offensive.
They seemed to be waiting for something, and the teenager knew what they were waiting for.
"Crack." A man wearing a bamboo hat walked up to the young general.
The torches on the top of the city keep the wind from blowing up from being so cold. .
Gu Nan looked at Cao Ang and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Cao Ang looked at the camp in the distance, turned his head, and looked at the countless soldiers and horses in the city.
He didn't dare to think what kind of scene it would be like with so many people fighting together.
"Mr. Gu, what were you thinking about when you set off?"
Flesh and blood flew everywhere, ordinary people would be too scared to move.
Cao Ang suddenly had some admiration for the person in front of him. Just thinking about that appearance, he already felt like quitting. As a woman, Mr. Gu, how did she fight till now
Gu Nan glanced at Cao Ang and smiled. This kid, after all, was fighting for the first time, so it was inevitable that he would do this.
Forget it, give him some experience from his predecessors.
She stretched out her hand and pointed to the camp in the distance.
"When fighting, it will be a little better if everyone wants to make mandarin cabbage (radish and cabbage)."
Cabbage
Cao Ang was stunned, not knowing how to answer.
After a while, he smiled bitterly again. How easy is it for what Mr. Gu Nan said
If he hadn't been used to seeing life and death and flesh and blood, who would regard people who kill and kill each other as turnip cabbage.