The tangerine red in Xiyun was about to fall. Above the city where the smoke remained, Yu Jin's face was black and stained with blood. He held a knife with a gap and pressed the wall. The front of his sight was slowly retreating in the golden melody. He spat a bloody saliva on the ground and picked up a body that was caught in the arrow. He was a soldier who was only twenty years old, married for three years, and had a two-year-old child.

"Today they did not do their best to attack the city, be careful to steal the city tonight!"

The commander commander told the commander that he handed over the dead soldiers to his personal soldiers: "Burn well and give some compensation to his family." After that, he dragged his ragged cloak to patrol the city walls. Today, the soldiers from Liaodong, the soldiers from Tian Yu in Youzhou, and the soldiers from Guo Si's Xiliang soldiers still did not move. They just surrounded the Wuji City, and they were probably planning to surrender.

"General, now Wu Ji is an lonely city. The cavalry in the north completely cut off our rear. The soldiers below were panicked and could not fight this battle."

Deputy General Zhu Ling was covered in blood, with his own and his enemies. He had always led the army alone before. Because he had secretly slandered Cao Cao in words, he was seized by his military power. He had to be the deputy general Yu Jin and remained in office. After the northern army marched south, he followed the army to enter Wuji County.

Yu Jin stopped, looked at him, and then looked at the Beidi military camp that was spreading outside. During the war, he deliberately attracted people to pay attention to the Zhu Ling in front of him to avoid taking over the enemy. Fortunately, the other party did not make any extraordinary actions for several consecutive days. At present, his tone was slightly relaxed: "The lord should have arrived in Jizhou at this time. No matter what Gongsun Zhi wants, the city is guarded by me, Yu Jin. You will either die in battle or hand it over to the lord intact. The surrender is not discussed!"

"But this is not a solution. Now that Zhongshan Country is the only one who has not fallen, it is the situation behind us. Whether the war is fought or not, no one knows whether the lord comes or not." Zhu Ling's tone was also anxious.

"Then you can't retreat!"

The sudden loud shout interrupted the other party's words. In the setting sun, Yu Jin raised his ring-headed knife and pointed it at the field outside the city. His eyes were covered with bloodshot, and he roared: "Gongsun Zhi is savage and fierce, so what about a great soldier? He doesn't have enough food and fodder to support him, and he can't fight for long! In three or five years, he will definitely cross the north! Holding here, Yu Jin can only be a ghost of the Cao family, but cannot be a general of the Gongsun family!!!"

"You are asking all of us to die with you."

"Zhu Ling! You must be afraid, jump off the city wall now, and the city gate will never be opened for you!"

While the two were arguing, a soldier behind the wall shouted: "General Yu! Look out for a man who is riding a horse toward this side, as if he wants to enter the city."

Yu Jin left Zhu Ling and strode over. Looking at him, a knight was wearing armor and dragging a long red cloak, looking like a general from the north. He narrowed his eyes and stretched out his hand: "Get a bow! If you come to persuade him to surrender, you will be shot to death. You must not get close to the city wall!"

As he said that, he took the bow handed over by his personal soldiers, raised his arms and aimed at the knight who was getting closer and closer to the city gate. Just as the bowstring was tense, the knight stopped and took off his helmet in front of all the soldiers on the city wall, revealing his dark face, thick eyebrows and long eyes, and short chin and bearded. He looked quite heroic. He looked at Yu Jin who was holding a bow on the city and laughed: "General Yu doesn't know me anymore? In the army, Ang often asked the general for advice on how to platoon soldiers."

The first sound of "The Grand Master" was first made by Zhu Ling. Then, the arm holding the bow next to him suddenly dropped. With a clang, the bow and arrow fell on the floor tiles. Yu Jin widened his eyes and almost stretched out his whole body. The Adam's apple rolled, making it difficult to make a sound.

After a moment, he shouted: "Open the city gate and let the magnifying young master come in!"

A brief chaos occurred in Wuji City. The soldiers looked at the figure riding a horse slowly entering the city. The whispering sounds spread continuously across the city, and even went to other wall sections, which shocked many soldiers and lieutenant generals and lieutenant generals and collegiate people. Some of the old Cao army laughed excitedly.

Yu Jin ran down the wall quickly, and Zhu Ling and other generals followed behind. They were all complicated after all. The eldest son Cao Ang was strong, generous, and friendly. He traveled in the army when he was very young. Even Yu Jin, who joined Cao's army later, had many interactions, and every time he contacted was very harmonious. If nothing unexpected happened, the eldest son would inherit the entire Cao family, and no one would even object. However, in the battle of Wancheng, the news of Young Master Ang's death made Yu Jin feel some sadness during that period.

Although Mr. Pi became the eldest son later and was also intelligent, Yu Jin always felt that he was a little narrow-minded and not as harmonious and generous as Mr. Ang. The most important thing is that Mr. Pi was not good at military affairs, but the fact is that neither he nor the other generals could only accept it.

However

Yu Jin ran down the stone steps and came to the city gate. Seeing the heavy door opening the gap for single people little by little, he could feel his body trembling slightly, the cracked gap gradually widening, and the voices of the people in front of the city gate were reduced to the extreme. The figure of a single horse came in from outside, with a strong figure, a red cloak, and a beard was already raised under his chin. Although his skin was much darker, he gave him a calmness of a sword in the sheath.

The dead are back.

"The eldest son..." Yu Jin couldn't help calling out softly.

"General Yu, I haven't seen him for many years."

Cao Ang turned over and dismounted and walked towards him.

Everyone, all their eyes were focused on the figure below. The sun set, and the two walked up to the city soon, talked about some past, and talked about the current situation. The red-colored western clouds rolled and rolled. Many lives in this city and even the Central Plains could change at this moment...

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The sunset shines on the earth, and the orange light makes people unable to open their eyes. The dry dust in summer is rising in countless escape steps. The temperature in May gradually becomes hotter. Cao Yu staggers south in the crowd with dust. Hunger makes her body thinner. The heroic spirit that was originally before is gone. The thin horse that was following the side was killed by a group of refugees last month, and even the long sword in her hand was almost snatched away.

The war disaster fell on everyone in northern Jizhou, and the people in the city were still better. The civilians outside the city could only gather and go south to take refuge in a group. The sobbing sea of ​​people. Cao Yu, who was mixed in the middle, could only feel that there were refugees around her, and she could not see them at all. There was only the helpless expressions of people and the hungry eyes. She looked for something in the crowd from time to time. Occasionally, she could hear the heart-wrenching cry of the child. She could only cover her ears and dare not listen, and she didn't have much strength to care.

Now I have been walking south for a long time, and I don’t know where I have. Sometimes when I encounter a village and town, a wealthy family set up a porridge shed to help. Cao Yu rushed up regardless of her image, held a bowl with her dirty hands, and finished her mouthfuls. Not far away, there was a slave in the rich man’s family shouting hard: “The war disaster is so great that you can escape? Instead of starving to death on the road, it is better to sell yourself to your home, and you can also make a living and do some work within your ability. When the military disaster is over, I will let you go back to your hometown….”

Cao Yu squatted on the side of the road and saw a man bringing his wife and children over and pushing them to the manager sitting in the shed, and then quickly went to get the grain cakes placed beside him. Because he took two more, he was beaten by a few fierce servants. His wife and children looked at him numbly. Soon, he was pulled on a chariot with his unpopular chariot and pulled away with other women and strong men. Most people around him were alone, or with their families to join this scene. The war-torn era is not rare.

When the sky was about to end, the continuous team was still moving forward. Some of them were tired of walking, and groups of people were on the roadside, or occupied nearby woods to rest, and guarded against wild beasts and deserters who were defeated from behind. Cao Yu did not dare to rest. Not long ago, she knew that she was about to arrive in Fucheng in front and was about to enter in panic, but was blocked by the soldiers guarding the city.

"I am your prime minister's daughter, my name is Cao Yu! Let me in." She waved her hand and pushed her. After all, she was not as strong as a man. She was thrown back hard. When she got up in a mess, she heard the voice of the soldier saying: "The prime minister's daughter is not staying in the mansion, will she be mixed with the refugees like you? The prefect has set up a porridge shed. You can go there for a few meals and a few nights to rest, but you don't want to go in the city."

The setting sun is like blood.

Cao Yu walked back to the stretch of refugees, cried and screamed back to her ears, awakening her. Soon, the shaking gaze saw a familiar figure, lying weakly on the side of the road, and a few wisps of pale were caressed in the evening breeze. When the past, the old woman who had given her water was no longer moving. The dull son had one leg missing, and the blood stained a large area of ​​soil, and he was wading not far away and he had already lost his breath.

She knelt down, turned the old woman over, pillowed on her knees, and opened her dry eyelids weakly when she saw Cao Yu, her toothless mouth stuttered, as if she wanted to smile at her, and her trembling hands moved on her body, took out half a piece of dry food from her arms, and stuffed it into the woman's hand.

"A girl who will get better when she is in the south... Don't be afraid... I... experienced it when I was young..." The old woman patted her back of her hand, and her voice became intermittent: "......... I haven't died several times... I'm not dead... I'm the eldest son... I'm dead... My wife starved to death... I'm not dead... Now... I can't walk anymore... You have to leave..."

“…be alive.”

The last sound broke, Cao Yu covered her mouth and cried hoarsely.

The noisy and chaotic team was still moving forward. Occasionally, someone looked at him, and then turned away and became cold. The originally stable and peaceful Jizhou changed in a blink of an eye, and it seemed to be two completely different worlds from before. Soon, a crowd surged, and a voice shouted: "Prime Minister Cao's troops headed north!"

When Cao Yu held the half of the dry food and raised her head, more messages came from the people's mouths and shouted to this side, "The army of the governor of the Northland also pressed towards this side!"

"Friends, run away, war is coming here!"

“…where to go!”

"Do they want people to live..."

"Honestly, after fighting this war, Jizhou will be peaceful in the future, and there will be no war."

…

Countless voices mixed together, and countless people stopped for a moment, not knowing whether to continue moving south or return the same way. The sky darkened, but Cao Yu was missing in the chaotic team. She carried the long sword and ran towards the direction that might be the battlefield.

The pleasant sunset also sets at this moment.

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