"The Red Eyebrow robbed my family's thirteen stone grain, and I should cut those thirteen swords to make it enough."

Xiang Ziping had only fifty young and strong people in the middle of the village. The most active one was the honest neighbor. His wife had just given birth to a child last year. Under Wei's rule, the taxes were no longer heavy. By diligently saving savings, the family was finally a little bit more fun, but they were all taken away by Chimei.

Little self-cultivated farmers are so fragile. Any natural disaster or man-made disaster can bring the savings of several years or even generations back to zero.

Along the way, I met a man nicknamed "Old Red Eyebrow". I heard that he was from Dongjun. He regarded it as Red Eyebrow a few years ago, but now he is deeply resentful of Red Eyebrow.

"We went to the Red Eyebrows because of the river disaster and we had no way to survive."

“But now…”

The former Red Eyebrow thief spitted: "We were defeated in the war, and were incorporated by His Majesty. After working as a coolie for a year, we were released. We helped the officials and soldiers in Wei. The rent and taxes were not heavy. If we save another year, we could build a thatched house. Once the Red Eyebrow came, we snatched all the food and didn't even let go of the cloth. My savings were gone! It was like the money and property was wasted by the river."

"Although they don't kill me, what's the difference between killing me?"

That's why he was willing to join the Wei army and raised his butcher knife to his former "brothers and sisters".

"Indeed, the red eyebrows are more dangerous than the river."

But Xiang Ziping felt that their civilians had no chance to meet the Red Eyebrow Army, because the civilians and civilians from Hanoi were mainly not fighting, but transporting supplies.

If there are not enough mules, horses, oxes and donkeys, you have to rely on the civilians to carry shoulder poles and push deer carts: This deer cart is not yet a turn, but a small cart in Jizhou, which was found in the Han Dynasty. Unlike ordinary human chariots, there are only one wheel. On this road where the ice and snow have just melted and are full of muddy, an adult man can push or pull it casually, which can carry people and carry things, which is several times larger than the transportation volume of human chariots.

The Fifth Emperor went from Yecheng to Chang'an, and also slightly transformed and promoted this unique deer cart in Jizhou. It is now the main vehicle of the Wei army, transporting troops and food when they go, and carrying injuries when they go back.

The civilians were protected between the front and back teams. Once an enemy approached, they needed to immediately remove the armor of the car and let the soldiers put on the enemy. They held the wooden spear and hid behind the car to see the situation.

But for ordinary generals, it would be good to send the scouts out ten miles, but now it is the fifth personal expedition, so they have to be dozens of miles away. The Red Eyebrow Army will not be able to sneak up.

Even the scouts had few chances to encounter Chimei. Occasionally, dozens of Red Eyebrow thieves robbed Lilu. After encountering the Wei army, they immediately fled eastward.

The fifth reunion prohibited his subordinates from pursuing rashly, and his "mob" went smoothly all the way, reaching the foot of Yecheng, easily relieving the difficulties in Beijing.

"As the guardian of Wei, I have crossed the red eyebrows and crossed the river, causing trouble to the counties and townships, disturbing the capital and disturbing the capital. I am guilty of my crime. Please punish your Majesty!"

The first Wei Cheng Yin Pi Tong was exempted from the crown and sued him for guilt. He was also unlucky enough. Wei County was in Geng Chun and Ma Yuan's wife was mediocre in the years he was in charge of the company. How could he have such a big miserable son in just one year? The red eyebrows were like entering a no-man's land, and even touched the edge of Ye City. Pi Tong was not good at fighting and was unable to seek help. The only thing he could do was to notify the counties to close the city gates and minimize the harm.

There must be someone responsible for this matter? The two main players who are directly related to this matter, Ma Yuan and Geng Chun, one is his father-in-law and the other is his in-laws. They all have their own reasons, so who should they punish? In the end, it is estimated that they are not the ones who are directly responsible.

Unexpectedly, Diwu Ren asked back: "Is Beijing lost?"

"No."

"Where is a county town lost under your rule?"

“Never…”

"Can you fight against Red Eyebrows and lose your troops?"

No, Pi Tong threw the countryside directly to Chimei, strengthening the walls and clearing the fields.

Wu Lun smiled and said, "Then there is no violation of the law, failure in combat, surrendering to defend the city, leaving the defense land without permission, abandoning the army and fleeing, and at most you have a minor punishment for transcending the enemy into the country."

"But the Red Eyebrows were not breeding in Wei County. After the big river was frozen, the cross-strait exchanges were unhindered. Jizhou's main force was in the north and the Kuomintang army was in the south. With only one county and concentrated in one place, how can we block the thieves divided into dozens of thieves? If we divide the troops to intercept them, we will easily be defeated by them, and the thieves will be even more severe."

Wulun said: "The sheep pen broke the hole due to the rare cold and strong wind, causing hungry wolves to enter the circle. Should we blame the sheep dogs that deal with more wolves outside, or the sheep who protects the sheep in the circle and does not allow the hungry wolves to succeed? According to me, there is no need."

After saying that, he approached again, patted Pi Tong and whispered: "I understand your difficulties."

"I have said that regardless of the gains and losses of a city and a pool, it is important to completely wipe out the main force of Chimei. If the war is not over, you don't have to blame yourself too much."

Pi Tong breathed a sigh of relief, and his loyalty to the fifth reunion increased by at least several percentage points, but in terms of form, he was still given a salary of half a year as a punishment.

"Where is the Red Eyebrow now?"

"The day before yesterday, there were tens of thousands of people who surrounded him and did not attack him. He heard that His Majesty had arrived, and he retreated one after another."

The fifth reunion knows: "It seems that Wen Yuan is right. It is fake to attack Yecheng by the Red Eyebrows. It is true to want to lure my main force to rescue me!"

But Chimei didn't expect that she caught the old turtle, Diwulun, climbed slowly and steadily, and could not chew the shell or not. If she didn't retreat, would she still have to die with him?

"Red eyebrows are evacuating eastward at present, and they are mostly going to pass through Qinghe County, Jizhou and return to their old nest Pingyuan County..."

Of course, the fifth reunion cannot sit idly by and watch them escape calmly, which means that they will pursue them again.

This is not what the fifth reunite is good at, he just said in his heart: "I hate mobile warfare."

"Fortunately, there is a place where Chimei will definitely go!"

"Yuancheng!"

...

As expected by the fifth reunion, Chengtouzilu really had no interest in him.

"Even if our army is gathered together, there are only 50,000 or 60,000 people. The fifth unit is the emperor. There must be several divisions, and there will be no less than this number of subordinates."

As an old opponent, Chengtou Zilu knew very well that Chimei fought head-on with the Wei army when she had no advantage in military strength. Unless the other party was anxious to make a mistake, there was little chance of winning.

Therefore, when he heard that it was the Emperor of Wei who was personally expeditioning, he immediately ran away.

What's more, they have another important thing to do!

When crossing the river, Chengtouzilu assigned two gathering places for his subordinates: one was Yecheng, in order to scare the king and ministers of the Wei Kingdom, and the other was Yuancheng County.

Chengtouzi Road seems to be unseen to Yuancheng County. He leads his subordinates to the Shalu Mountain outside the city. This is a trace left by the Yellow River movement in ancient times. There are many undulating sand dunes, some of which are several feet high. They are not stable and often collapse after wind and rain.

It is said that in ancient times, Shalu Mountain was dozens of feet high, but it collapsed violently during the Spring and Autumn Period, and the "Wulu City" at the foot of the mountain was buried. This incident caused a great shock in the Spring and Autumn Period. Some people divined that "yin is the strongest of yang, and earth and fire are multiplied by each other, so Shalu collapsed. After 645 years, there should be a saint."

So more than five hundred years later, a family named Wang moved from Qi to the Soliuli of the Yuancheng County Party Committee. The descendants gave birth to a woman named Wang Zhengjun. She had a nephew named Wang Mang. The year when Wang Mang became Anhan Gong was exactly the 645th year of Shalu collapse...

I don’t know if this legend has existed since ancient times or was made up by Lao Wangmang. Anyway, the new emperor who first relied on his aunt’s skirt had regarded Sha Lu as a holy mountain and a symbol of virtue.

When the fifth relationship was still a new minister, he entered Wei County. His major political achievement was to preserve Shalu and not let the Red Eyebrow destroy it. He even suggested to Wang Mang: Carve a statue of His Majesty the Emperor on Shalu Mountain...

But before this plan was implemented, the fifth reunion turned against him. What Chimei saw today was still only the Shalu, which was surrounded as treasures, and the Wang Mang ancestral tomb and the temple surrounded by Wang Mang. The fifth reunion removed the sacrifices and incense, but did not destroy it.

Chengtouzilu said to everyone: "Many years ago, the river broke its mouth. In order to protect his ancestral tomb and Shalu Mountain, Wang Mang did not block it, and even the people in Dongjun, Qinghe, Bohai, and Plains were swept by floods!"

Most of the subordinates of Chengtouzi Road were residents on both sides of the Yellow River. When the flood came, they had no knowledge until the embankment suddenly collapsed and the torrents arrived. All the property and land were flowing. At that time, the earth was surging and shouting shook the sky. The sad and painful situation was still fresh in memory. Today, they mentioned it again, and there were many people who wiped their tears.

There were countless fish burials on the spot. They were lucky enough to die by climbing trees and climbing houses and boarding boats.

But the suffering has not ended, and more people died next time, most of them were short of food and clothing, and the desolate and corrupt officials of the New Dynasty refused to provide relief, and plagues and diseases were rampant.

What’s even more terrifying is that the salinization of the land after the flood really defeats everyone’s hope! For several consecutive years, famines have been frequent in the counties along the river, and millet harvests are often only 10% or 20%, and some counties have completely lost autumn grain!

They are diligent and endure hardship, but what did they get?

The local area cannot survive, so they can only run out, not for the sake of drowning ghosts, but become refugees... For them, begging, traveling to the world, working hard labor, selling children, and making all kinds of unscrupulous ways to make a living, but they can be hungry and forced to follow them like shadows.

In the end, I had no choice but to dye my red eyebrows and join the ranks of resistance, relying on plundering wealth from other regions and robbing the food of innocent or innocent people to fill my stomach, for several years.

But unlike Fan Chong's hundreds of thousands of people who hoped to find a "land of happiness" in a foreign land, the Red Eyebrows of the River have never been too far away from home. They still hope to calm the Yellow River and find the prosperity and happiness that has been in the past two hundred years.

There is always some way to restore everything from the past to its original state.

The Yellow River is not so unruly in the past. It must be a reason for it to flood and move around!

"Natural disasters are manifestations of chaos on earth, and everything is because of the new room and because of Shalu."

I don't know when, but a saying gradually spread. Chi Zhao relied on it to gather the loose people, which led to the adventure of attacking Yuancheng several years ago.

It’s a pity that she was defeated by the fifth reunion as soon as she crossed the river. Chi Zhaoping jumped into the river, but her statements and ideas were inherited by the head of the city.

The ritual feeling of Chengtouzilu was not as good as his ex. He put Chi Zhaoping's Nuo mask on, applied only human blood to his eyebrows, and raised a fire.

Tens of thousands of Red Eyebrow soldiers also raised fires one after another, which was their preparation for cutting off all nearby trees.

"This time I went north, although Chimei took food, she did not burn a city, but this Shalu could not be destroyed!"

The first to be destroyed was the temple and tomb of Wang Mang's three ancestors. His great-grandfather was posthumously named "King Yuanchengru", his grandfather was "King of Yangpingqing", and his father was "King of Xinduxian". The tombs were originally ordinary, but after Wang Mang became the emperor, he sent someone back to repair and expand.

Now the coffin was slashed by the Red Eyebrow warrior with a blade, the temple corridor house was lit and burned by fire, and even the tomb was dug up, and the burial objects were plundered. The corpses of Wang Mang's three ancestors were drowned by the Red Eyebrow's peeing, and they stepped on ten thousand feet. Finally, they were thrown into the fire and turned into ashes, which caused cheers.

The three temples have been destroyed, and more people vented their anger of losing their homes for many years on the sandy hills. The hills that had risen several feet flat on the ground were almost flattened within a day...

After the Red Eyebrow Warrior was tired, he sat on the ground and saw that the temple of Wang Mang’s ancestors was left with only a dark grave of graves left, and the sandy slopes were razed to the ground.

"We did it." Tears fell from behind the Nuo mask by the way to the city. After completing this, he also comforted the souls of the brothers and sisters of Tuhe.

"As long as you finish this, Dahe will restore it to its original state?"

With the Red Eyebrow Warriors full of longing, their hard work for so many years has finally not been in vain.

For a moment, the red eyebrows were as eager as they returned home, and they had to go back and take a look.

Let’s see if the unruly river will return to the old ways.

See if it becomes a homeland of wasteland after being submerged, sowing a seed in spring and growing fresh crop buds.

They marched between the old and new roads of the Yellow River. Under the ravage of the river, this has almost become an unmanned land. The villages have long been abandoned and covered with weeds.

The Red Eyebrow Army unfolded on the Hebei Plain, talking and laughing, and was pushing deer carts, and they were shaped like a flock of geese returning home - the kind that lined up in a human-shaped shape.

But the enemy did not intend to let them return smoothly, because it was expected that the Red Eyebrow Army would do a big thing in Yuancheng, and the Fifth Reunion dispatched reinforcements from all walks of life to continually gather and encircle them.

When the Red Eyebrow arrived at the new Dahe Road for only a few miles and could go home after crossing it, they intercepted a huge army in front of them - Geng Chun's Jizhou soldiers, an armed force mainly composed of powerful men, and was a mortal enemy of the Red Eyebrow and the bronze horse.

Red Eyebrow has already thrown away several pursuers, but the 20,000 enemies in front of them are the last obstacles for them to return to their beautiful life in the past.

There was no geographical advantage on the Great Plain. Geng Chun arranged troops in this deserted yellow area. The Red Eyebrow also threw down the pushing deer cart, pulled out their simple weapons, ready to fight to the death.

The two sides were tense and when they were about to fight, a wave of strange sounds sounded between the desolate world.
To be continued...