Master Chang's incident did not bring the expected excitement to the people of Pingcheng. The sudden news gave the people of Pingcheng a new shock.
One hundred thousand stones of grain and grass transported to the northwest were burned. Nine foreign tribes used this as an excuse to gather one hundred thousand cavalry to raid the key towns in the northwest, massacring several small border villages overnight, and leaving no human traces in the place they passed.
When war breaks out, the world is in chaos.
News of the war in the border areas spread to the Central Plains, causing turmoil among the government and the public. The whole country wailed, and people as far away as Pingcheng could also feel the panic.
There's a war again!
Thinking of the tragic battle six years ago, blood flowed into rivers, bones covered the ground, and people shivered in the cold wind.
Why do we have to fight and kill people? Isn’t it good to live in peace?
As a result, Master Chang disappeared from people's sight, and no one paid attention to Master Chang's news anymore. War means death, and death requires more troops. Increase in troops means family members are separated and people die in a foreign land. For those who are used to it, This is very bad news for the people of Pingcheng who have lost their peace and happiness.
What's even worse is that at the end of the new year, this new year is also uneasy.
News of additional troops will come in a few years at most. At this time, no one is interested in discussing Master Chang. People on the street look frightened. The most talked about thing is the war. They hope to learn more news. Unfortunately, Pingcheng is too far away from the northwest. It's far away, and the news I got today is probably news from ten or twenty days ago.
In the Xiao family, everyone in the Xiao family rarely sat together to discuss the matter.
Xiao Ming was also confused. She was born in a peaceful and prosperous age, and war only existed in legends for her.
There's going to be a war!
Generals die in a hundred battles, and heroes return in ten years. War is always ruthless.
Because of the war, everyone's face was not very good, and their mood was a little low. Yueniang was remembering in a daze, her eyes gradually became frightened, the veins on the back of her thin hands were exposed, and her body was shaking non-stop. She had only experienced it personally, Only when she saw it with her own eyes could she know how cruel the foreigners were.
During the war six years ago, foreigners invaded Hanguang Town. She was also there at that time, experiencing the cruelty of war first-hand, and feeling the threat of death up close and personal.
That night, the foreigners' iron cavalry continued to plunder Hanguang Town, burning, killing, robbing, and plundering. The long scimitars in their hands were waving with a ruthless cold light. Each cut could take away a living life. Each cut could bring out a large splash of blood. The hard iron hoofs stepped on the flesh and blood. Fuzzy corpses ran past, and she hid in the cold water tank and witnessed the most brutal and bloody scene in the world.
It's like being in hell.
There are cold corpses everywhere, women in disheveled clothes, miserable and desperate roars rushing from the ears, and the wanton laughter of foreigners.
They are not human at all. They will kidnap the women, cut off the limbs of the men and take them away to make dried meat and become their food for the winter.
That night, she experienced the most desperate and ruthless scene in the world. She didn't even know how she escaped. Even six years later, she still had it fresh in her memory and didn't dare to forget it. Every time she dreamed about it at midnight, she was haunted by evil spirits. Awakening from dream.
Now there is another war, and the foreigners are coming again.
Yueniang couldn't stop her heart from beating wildly.
The scenes of that year reappeared in front of her eyes, and she seemed to once again see the men with their limbs cut off, hanging on the tree trunks, and the blood dried up into a river. This was a nightmare that she would never forget.
Yueniang tried hard to stay calm, but the more she did this, the more uncomfortable she became. My body shook uncontrollably, the defenses in my heart broke, and I cried uncontrollably.
"Mom." Yueniang screamed.
Everyone panicked, obviously frightened by Yueniang's sudden appearance. Xiao Ming's eyes flashed, watching Mrs. Song quickly stand up and hold Yueniang in her arms to comfort her: "Yueniang is not afraid, already." We’ve passed, we’re far away, and they can’t hit us.”
"Mom, I'm afraid, they are all animals, not humans." Yueniang cried in her mother's arms, as if she wanted to vent all the frustration and fear she had suffered over the years.
"Godmother, please help eldest sister back to the house to rest first!" Xiao Ming said, Yueniang's expression at this time was obviously nervous.
The influence of foreigners on her was too great and far-reaching, and it was now to the point where she became distraught.
This is a disease and must be cured! Xiao Ming was thinking quietly, and suddenly noticed that Xia Xiaoba beside him was so quiet, which was not like his character!
Could it be that he was also frightened?
"Hey! Let's go back first." Mrs. Song responded, greeted Li'er and helped Yueniang back. Her daughter's appearance made her feel so distressed that she shed tears of anxiety.
"Girl, I think this war will have little impact on us." Yi Feng thought for a while and said.
"How do you say this?" Xiao Han asked, he could not understand what Yi Feng said.
"Girl, Master Han, this war was caused by the burning of our court's grain and grass, which was used by the court to support the nine foreign tribes. The harvest this year is not good, and the foreigners are affected by the geographical location and weather changes. The impact on the harvest will be even less. Now that the food has been burned, the foreigners have no food to eat, so they launched a war to plunder. As long as the northwest army can defend the northwest fortress and prevent the foreigners from overstepping the limit, time will be saved. In the long run, the more disadvantageous it is to foreigners, the more beneficial it is to us."
So what if the foreigners have a hundred thousand troops? As long as they don't have food to survive the winter and can't fight, they will starve to death sooner or later.
It is only a matter of time before peace is sought.
When talking about the war, Yi Feng's heart was calm. He had practiced martial arts well since he was a child. When he was young, he also thought about going to the battlefield with blood and making achievements, but unfortunately this was just a dream.
A dream is a dream after all, and it must be consistent with reality, otherwise it would not be called a dream. His status as a son of a generation family made it impossible for him to have the opportunity to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.
Now that time has settled and he has been ruthlessly tortured by reality, he has become more mature. He is no longer the passionate boy he used to be. He has an elderly mother to support and young children to educate. The pressure of reality has made him stop thinking early. .
After all, Yi Feng is also a young man who has been defeated by life. After experiencing countless hardships, he is always more mature and steady than his peers, thinking deeper and further.
Xiao Han listened humbly and nodded from time to time. What Yi Feng said did make sense.
"I know." Xiao Ming said. This was what she had thought of early on. Pingcheng was a long way from Northwest Town. The last time they went to the northwest to rescue Jiang Sihai and the others, they ran as fast as they could, without stopping day and night, running to each other on the road. It took several horses to reach the northwest within half a month.
If we follow the normal marching route, it will probably take two months.
Therefore, the war had little impact on Pingcheng, and it could not even reach their small and remote place at all.
What she thought was that the news came too slowly. Even if she used the fastest flying pigeon to deliver the message or rushed eight hundred miles, she would not be able to understand the dynamic developments on the battlefield at the first time.
The era without mobile phones and communicators was even more backward. The news they heard today happened more than ten days ago. Maybe the war is raging now, or maybe the war is over.
"No matter what, everyone must be careful and guard the door to prevent anyone from causing trouble." Xiao Ming ordered.
"Understood." Yi Feng nodded.
Xiao Ming asked Yi Feng to escort Jiang Xiangyuan to her home again. In this situation, she couldn't leave Jiang Xiangyuan at home, otherwise Mrs. Qin should be worried.
Jiang Xiangyuan stared at Xia Xiaoba before leaving. Unfortunately, Xia Xiaoba was sitting in a chair in a daze, not even looking at him from the corner of her eye. This made Jiang Xiangyuan so angry that her face turned red, and she snorted softly. Walked away.
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