As the leader of this peasant army, Liu Shan naturally walked at the back with his people. The people accompanying him were dressed in rags and covered with various household items. The first group of Yier and others took away all the jewelry, gold and silver they obtained in Xin'an. It's ridiculous to say that at this time, a group of seemingly the poorest refugees had wealth that no one could compare to at this time.

No one would have thought that the patched and dirty bags were priceless jewelry.

If King Zheng knew that all the wealth he had worked hard to conquer in the Central Plains area ruled by him was brought by a group of refugees, I wonder what he would think and do.

Liu Shan obviously would not have thought of this at this time. He looked at the villages in the Central Plains, the continuous thatched huts, and the men passing by in groups of three or three on the way in the village.

Liu Shan came to the early Tang Dynasty. This was the first time that he had truly walked out of the surrounding areas of Luoyang. He had been to the front line before, but the front line was different from the villages. There were no villages there. Because of the war, almost everyone moved away. He rushed to Luoyang to see once. However, there were incidents that time, and he was in a hurry to go, and he did not pay attention to the areas along the way. There were few villages on both sides of the official road, mostly towns. Even if there were villages, they would not be deserted. Later, when he arrived around Luoyang, in Liu Shan's impression, although the Central Plains region was ravaged by war, ravaged by corrupt officials, and ravaged by anti-kings, the areas where Liu Shan went were still prosperous and the population was not thin. Just like Xin'an and Xuanyang, the population was more than 100,000.

Liu Shan initially thought that the people around Luoyang had already lived a miserable life, and that there were fewer people there, but when he really walked out of Luoyang, he saw even worse than those around Luoyang. The population was getting smaller and smaller. Sometimes, villages appeared on the horizon, but when he looked closer, he saw the walls and collapsed houses under the setting sun. Obviously, no one lived here for a long time.

Liu Shan once tried to enter several better houses, with dust and cobwebs everywhere, the room was empty, and thick dust accumulated on the rotten furniture.

The Central Plains have been fighting for years, and the people have lived in poverty. Many places have reached the point of thousands of miles of Chiye. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the population has dropped sharply. The villages that can be preserved are quite good. Some villages were burned by fire and only black foundations remain.

Walking all the way, watching all the way, thinking all the way, Liu Shan no longer had the mood to sing. At this time, Liu Shan was in a heavy mood. Until the end of the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, no one would have thought about the hardships that war brought to the originally crowded population and prosperous Central Plains.

Nine out of ten rooms are empty, rabbits travel in the deserted village, and pheasants chirp loudly on the trees in the originally densely populated village.

When Liu Shan passed by a deserted village burned into scorched earth, Liu Shan saw a baby's skeleton at the entrance of the village. The meat on it had already rotted. Next to the baby's skeleton, there was an adult's arm and finger bone. It was supposed to be left by the child's mother.

Liu Shan dared not think about the origin of this bone. When he thought about it, Liu Shan felt heartbroken.

I am sad that people's livelihood is so difficult. I am afraid that when I see the dry bones in the weeds on the roadside during the war, the villages burned into wasteland can better understand the hardships of life.

Liu Shan felt that he was heavy and his mind was filled with the severe disasters brought to the villagers by the war.

Liu Shan didn't know how he got out of these villages. He used to know that the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty brought to people's livelihood were all seen in books. After personal experience, Liu Shan realized that the thick brick book was so heavy that it was pressing against his heart, and the heart was beating with tremolo.

After walking in the Central Plains for nearly ten days, Liu Shan and his group tried to stay away from prefectures, counties and towns as much as possible, and passed by the countryside. Along the way, Liu Shan remembered clearly that he had passed by twenty-seven abandoned villages and forty-three villages burned to the point of scorched earth. These numbers were portrayed in Liu Shan's heart with specific scenes.

The once fertile land was covered with weeds. The cunning rabbits jumped and jumped away from the land. They could not say that they would see the pheasant flying past in front of them.

No one restrains the dead bones. Perhaps the owner of these dead bones has no family, or their family members are also on the way to escape and have no time to deal with the corpses, or there are too many.

Ten days later, a large number of peasant soldiers gathered in a place that had been discussed in advance. Liu Shan was the last batch. When he arrived, the previous batch had arrived. After counting the number of people, some people were lost on the way, or some people did not catch up with the large army or catch up with the large army. But most people were still here, while Yi'er's group of people were all here because of heavy responsibilities.

The final digital newspaper came out. At this time, Liu Shan had nearly 6,000 peasant army under his command. Among these people, except for the three thousand people who started to attack Xin'an, almost all the people recruited from Xin'an. Of course, there were more than 300 cavalry brought by Chen Hu and Zhang Biao and nearly 500 originally garrisons from Xin'an and Xuanyang. After they surrendered, they asked to join the peasant army, and Liu Shan also agreed to their request.

In addition to the peasant army, nearly 20,000 people and refugees followed Liu Shan, following the team closely. Among them were the families of the peasant army and the people of Xin'an, most of them were refugees who had originally fled to Xin'an.

Thanks to these people's cover along the way, Liu Shan and his group were able to concentrate so smoothly on the edge of King Zheng's sphere of influence.

As Liu Shan, he also provided food and drinking water to these refugees and the people. The food he obtained from the Xuanyang Guanjian was enough for everyone to eat and consume.

"The last level is ahead. Before you come, I have taken people to investigate and inquire. There is a garrison of about 1,000 King Zheng, most of which are infantry and a small number of cavalry. Both sides of the level are mountains as high as a hundred feet high. It is difficult to climb over it. Moreover, there are so many people behind us, so it is almost impossible to climb over the mountain." Liu Shan counted the number of people and had a rough understanding of the people who followed him at this time. Yi'er, who arrived in front of Liu Shan, had already brought people to find out the situation ahead and came back to report.

"You mean we forcefully pass the barrier?" Liu Shan asked.

"It's probably the only way. After passing here, we can't walk a few miles. Even the border line of the Tang Dynasty, our people are safe. However, if we force ourselves to pass the level, we will only have about an hour. After seeing the wolf smoke in the level, we must win the level before the nearby army arrives." Yi'er said to Liu Shan.

"The opponent's military strength is not large, only one thousand people, we should be able to take it down there." Liu Shan thought for a while and said.

"The terrain is extremely unfavorable to us. Local villagers said that there are many crossbowmen and archers in the level. Last time, the Tang army attacked there with 3,000 troops, leaving hundreds of bodies behind, and finally they had to withdraw."

"The terrain is not good for crossbowmen and archers. You can tell the terrain there in detail, and let's see if there are any other solutions."

Yi'er began to describe the terrain and landform around the level in detail to Liu Shan, and the description was very carefully. Liu Shan knew that Yi'er and his people had carefully patrolled the surroundings.
Chapter completed!