The dawn sun shines into the mountains, carrying warmth and driving away the coldness of the winter morning.

The man in the village was about to go into the mountain to chop wood. When he passed by Uncle Hong's house, he shouted at the door: "Second brother, is the little horse's hooves big?"

Inside, Uncle Hong replied: "It's not a problem, I'll be fine if I'll keep it for two days!"

"Let's go chop wood together!"

"I won't go, I'm going to pack up my house!"

"What are you doing when you pack up?"

"Follow the little horse's hoof to go to the sugar service, where there is white rice and copper coins!"

The outsider shook his head and walked towards the mountains, muttering in a low voice: "It turns out that there is a sugar service in the world who can eat white rice and give it copper coins. How could there be such a place?"

While muttering, he walked towards the mountains outside the village.

At night, the man and the woman were sitting on the bed and huddled together, so they started talking again.

The man said: "Brother Hong said he would go to the sugar service with the little horse's hoof, eat white rice and send copper coins."

The woman said: "Sister Hong said so, and she also said that their little lihua can go to school with the little horses."

“What to do in school?”

"Learn to read, write."

"What's the use?"

"I don't know what's the use, anyway, the rich Han people outside the mountain can read and write."

"It's still really white rice and copper coins. You can eat enough and buy clothes and drink wine."

Speaking of this, it seems that nothing else is said, and the man and the woman get together.

After a while, the two of them were finished and still felt bored. They lay on the bed together and looked at the dark roof.

"We will go to the sugar service with Brother Hong's second brother and his family. Eat white rice and make money!"

Two days later, the village gathered in front of the second brother Hong’s house. Except for the old man who couldn’t walk, they all gathered in front of the door and said, “Second brother, let’s go to the sugar service together and live a good life!”

The paths in the mountains are winding and winding around the mountains. It seems that there is no end. Walking on this path in the mountains is like walking through a rugged road. Small mountain villages are connected by this road, like melons born from a vine.

Every day, there are always boring people in the mountains squatting on the roadside to watch the scenery. When they see the people from Hongdong walking across the path in a mighty way, they shouted: "Where are you going so many of you?"

Someone who knows them replied: "Go to sugar, eat white rice, and make money!"

The squatting man muttered a few words, went back and called someone, and joined the team.

The team kept walking out of the mountain. There were more and more people, and it was already several miles to reach the mountain pass.

The young little horses could not remember the way they came. The people in the mountains followed the winding paths in the mountains and walked to the way to Menzhou, and anyway, Menzhou could still go to the sugar service.

Six or seven local soldiers from Jiadong were guarding the intersection to collect taxes from the business travelers. When they saw so many people coming down from the mountain road, they rushed up to stop and asked, "Where are you mountain people going?"

A man said: "Let's go to the sugar service, eat white rice, and make money!"

"Oh, I'm against you! The sugar responsibilities are under the rule of the Song Dynasty. Are you Jiaozhi people just running away? You are just saying it with confidence! I think you are asking for a fight!"

The man said: "This is Liangzhou. Isn't Liangzhou also under the rule of the Song Dynasty? Why did he become a Jiaozhi person?"

"You dare to talk back! The master is a Jiaozhi person, and you lowly guys are Jiaozhi people. Do you know? Where did you come from? Otherwise, you will catch it and hang it up and beat it!"

People in the mountains are used to being bullied. When they see these local soldiers, they are like seeing a tiger. Seeing that they look fierce, they dare not speak anymore. They turn their heads and look at the people behind them pitifully.

Someone sighed: "We have no life to eat white rice after all."

However, there are many people, and a young man in his twenties squeezed up from behind and shouted at the dirt soldiers blocking the road: "You say we are Jiaozhi people or Jiaozhi people. If you say you want to collect our food, you will collect our food. If you say you want to capture us, you will go to work. You even rob the young women in our village! I will give you my best efforts today and I will not listen to you. We will go to sugar servily and eat white rice. What can you do to us? If you want to beat us, we will fight you!"

After saying that, he turned around and shouted to everyone, "They are just a few people. Whatever they say is what they say, we fight them, and see if we dare to stop us!"

The people in the mountains did not respond. The fear that had been imprinted in their bones for generations could not be eliminated in just one word. But after we had arrived here, they were unwilling to go back and stood quietly at the intersection.

The Tu Bing was startled by the young man at first. When he saw the reaction of others, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then he looked at the young man in a hurry and cursed: "You little guy, you really dare to rebel!"

While saying that, he kicked the young man on the body, and hit the stick in his hand without any brainstorming, beating and scolding: "I dare to rebel, I will beat you to death! Look at who is still stubborn!"

At first, the few people watching in front couldn't bear it, so they turned their heads away. After a while, the people behind saw that the local soldier had been stopping and wanted to kill Housheng.

A man in his thirties could no longer hold it back and strode forward to push the local soldiers away: "You can't stop yet! Do you really want to kill someone?"

"Oh, another one appears! If you dare to rebel, then you will be beaten to death! You guys are so bad that they usually fight less, but they dare to make trouble today!"

As he said that, he held up a stick and hit the big man.

But this big man was not beaten like a young man for nothing. He raised his hand and grabbed the stick, snatched it, and shouted loudly: "Do you really think we are dead when you hit people at any time? Today I am just going to the reverse here. Let's go to the sugar service together. Could it be that you can still catch people there?"

As he said that, the stick in his hand hit the Tu soldiers, turned his head to shout to the mountain people behind him, "We are against you, go to the Song Dynasty together, they dare not go to the Song Dynasty to arrest people!"

Jiadong, Jia Chenggui was drinking tea leisurely. A servant ran in panic and shouted, "Master, something big happened!"

Jia Chenggui put down the tea and frowned and said, "What's the matter? Tell me clearly! I'll panic if I have a small matter. What kind of decent style!"

The servant gasped and said, "Someone defected in the mountains and went towards Menzhou!"

Jia Chenggui asked in a deep voice: "Well, how many people are there?"

“There are—one or two hundred people—”

"What?" Hearing this number, Jiadonggui suddenly stood up, "Then are you still standing here slowly? You haven't recruited people and chased them, and you have to chase them back no matter how alive or dead!"

When the servant saw Jia Chenggui's appearance was like a wild beast that wanted to eat people, he didn't dare to say anything. Go out obediently.

In the side hall of Menzhou, Xu Ping and Sang Yi calculated the troops gathered in Menzhou, the food and grass they prepared, and the various materials needed to march towards Guangyuanzhou.

Tan Hu came in and crossed his hands to Xu Ping and said, "Officials, some people from the mountain fled to us from Liangzhou. It is said that they were going to join Sugar Service, and the soldiers and horses of Jiadong followed behind and chased us."

Xu Ping stood up and asked, "How many people are coming?"

"It seems that there are two or three hundred people, and they have walked a lot of roads with their families."

Xu Ping asked again: "Where are you currently? Are you in Liangzhou or Menzhou?"

"The fleeing people have entered Menzhou. The chasing soldiers and horses followed behind, without any stopping. They are about to enter Menzhou."

Speaking of this, Tan Hu asked in a low voice: "Official, should we respond?"

Sang Yi said: "At this time, don't make trouble! The troops who go to Guangyuanzhou in the past two days will set off. Why bother to go to Jiadong again? When you come back from Guangyuanzhou, you will have all your strength to deal with them!"

"No! The more you are at this time, the more you can't give Jiadong a good face!" Xu Ping ordered Tan Hu, "You go and order Han Daocheng to take all the cavalry under his command to pick up the fleeing people, and then wait for the marquis on the spot. Remember to instruct him to let Jiadong soldiers enter the state, and then stop them, and don't act rashly!"

Tan Hu took the order and left.

Xu Ping said to Sang Yi again: "You lead the cavalry of the village soldiers, then take the command of Anyuan army and Jingjiang army, plus Han Daocheng's Zhongrui army, one thousand infantry and cavalry each, and drive out the soldiers and horses of Jiadong. Take advantage of the situation and kill to Liangzhou. No need to fight, break their village at the entrance of the valley and walk around the dam."

Sang Yi frowned and said, "What's the trouble? Is it okay to have some extracurricular problems at this time?"

"Scholars, this is not the case. Why have we been hesitating these days? We are not worried about Jiadong, and we are afraid that the soldiers in the country will come to cause trouble when they move. Now that we have this opportunity, we go to his door to scare him first and let him be honest for a while. When we come back to our senses, Guangyuanzhou is over. This is like fighting, and we will be ruthless to him first, so he has to take time to breathe a sigh of relief!"

"Then I might as well just defeat Liangzhou?"

"That won't work. Once Liangzhou is around, Jiaozhi will definitely come here regardless of everything. We can't find time to deal with Guangyuanzhou behind us. We need to take steps to do things, and we must take one step at a time, and we must not make mistakes. Speaking of which, I have always wanted to teach Jiadong a lesson before fighting Guangyuanzhou. This time I would like to thank these people in the mountains."

"Okay. Yunxing, I always feel like you're thinking too much."

"As long as we are not confused, it is better to think more than to think less. This time we have to eat two tables of dishes with one mouth, and we must calculate carefully and not make a mistake in a single step! Just listen to mine."

Although Sang Yi felt that Xu Ping was a little overdoing to do things, it was just a reminder because of the different relationship between the two. Since Xu Ping had decided, as a subordinate, he should do it seriously.

Little horse hoe lay on Uncle Hong's back and felt frightened. He didn't expect that he would just return home to give him some money and rice to Uncle Second, so why did he cause such a big mess?

The local soldiers chasing the Jiadong behind were as fierce as the swords and guns in their hands were shaking, and they were afraid of people. Some mountain people who ran slowly had been caught, and the local soldiers were tied up and threw them on the side of the road, waiting to catch them and clean up together.

The little horse's hooves had already heard the shouts of killing from behind, and the sound of the horse's hooves became clearer and clearer. He couldn't help but close his eyes and lay on Uncle Hong's back. Did he want to harm Uncle Hong's family?

At this time, the sun sets in the west, and a red sun is as red as blood in front of you.

Behind this red sun, a rumbling sound came, and the mines were getting closer and closer.

The little horse hooves raised his head on Uncle Hong Er's back. The rolling sound gradually covered everything, and the smoke and dust in the sky covered the setting sun. Just in the blurry shadow of the setting sun, a big banner with the word "Song" was picked out high. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!