Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

To the south of the Juma River is the Dazhou boundary, with important towns such as Xiongzhou and Bazhou to the east, and Yizhou to the west. The south of Yizhou is Dingzhou...Shishuyuan is between Yizhou and Dingzhou.

The place name Shishuyuan is probably because many households here have the surname Shi. Shi Hu is an 18-year-old son in this village. He is the only seedling of this family. His parents have long wanted to set up a family for him. There are also many matchmakers, but Shi Hu has been reluctant; he thought It is Xu Erniang from the same village.

I will find someone to propose a marriage later. Shi Hu wondered, and followed his father into his yard through the gate. Both father and son are bricklayers. They just came back to help people build tiles in the morning, and they watered their arms in the yard. After a while, his mother came out with water, Shi Hu took out a bag of copper coins and said: "Mother, put it for me, I have enough money to buy a horse."

His mother murmured a few words about the use of buying a horse, and the cost of food, and then nagging that his son should start a family.

Shi Hu smiled and said, "Mother is still worried that I can't find my wife? I'm looking for Xu Erniang!"

"Tomorrow I will ask your third aunt." His mother said something.

Shi Hu hurriedly said, "Don't worry, wait until I buy a horse!"

After he said, he looked at the large tiled house newly built last year in the yard, as well as the low wall of rammed earth. He stood there and said without looking back: "You have to plant some flowers and plants behind the wall, and there will be two plants in the yard Peach and plum trees. When spring begins, it is full of flowers!"

Shihu wants to make his home look better. After all, it is not easy to build this house. A family of three get up early and work greedily, not only farming, but also raising pigs, sheep, and chickens. The father and son have craftsmanship, and they all ask where they can work. Go, repair your own kiln and burn tiles to sell...In addition, you have to do corvee and pay a lot of food. Fortunately, after years of sweat and frugality, the Shi family is getting better and better.

Now he has a new house, food in the warehouse, and copper coins in the cellar. After the family’s sheep are sold, Shihu plans to buy a horse... As a prosperous offspring, he puts on new clothes and rides on a tall horse under the praise of the villagers. Go and marry the beautiful Xu Erniang.

There was an imagination in Shihu's mind, and he was so happy that he almost wanted to dance with his hands and feet, and then shouted at the kitchen, "I will have dinner in a while, I will go out and cut some grass to feed the sheep."

As soon as I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I suddenly heard a sound of banging and beating the basin. I saw a group of people rushing to the road in the village, and the village elder shouted: "The Khitan people are coming! The villagers quickly pack up some things and go!"

An old man of the same clan cursed, "Shihu, what are you doing in a daze! Go call your parents, get some food and clothes and leave immediately. Everyone goes west into the mountains, or crosses the river south to Dingzhou ."

"Qi... the Khitan?" Shi Hu was dumbfounded and was there.

The old man said, "The Khitan came on horseback. If you don't hurry, you can't run if you want to!"

At this time, the stone daddy in the firewood shed and the woman in the kitchen all came out to see, the people outside kept shouting "The Khitan people are coming", everyone panicked, and the dogs in the village barked everywhere. Not long after, someone from the uncle's family came over and let the Shihu family go together. Everyone babbled, saying that the Khitan people were extremely fierce, killing people, setting fires, and plundering everything.

"Bring the sheep out...but what about the food in my house and warehouse..." The woman cried anxiously.

"Why, why!" Shi Hu stared red eyes with an angry face.

He knows how long it takes to build up this new house, how much effort and sweat it takes. There is also the grain in the warehouse. When he is in the field, he is intensively cultivated. He is not so concerned about waiting for the old lady. He usually eats coarse grains to fill his stomach. Save it. The animals in the pen have been raised for a few months before they grow up. He has been helping his parents with work since he was a child, something his family has accumulated over many years. These things allowed his family to live steadily, live like a person, and get praise from people far and near. I was waiting for a better home, save more money and food, and buy more land...

Shi Hu became more and more annoyed, and roared: "I won't go anywhere. Whoever enters my house, I will hack the dog to death!"

Shihu was already strong and could win occasional fights with others. When he got angry, he went into the woodshed and found a hatchet. His parents were so frightened when he saw this, and relatives persuaded that the Khitan people came here with perseverance, and there were so many people that they could only die. His parents persuaded him and his relatives to leave first. They watched at home, but Shi Hu did not leave.

At this time, the outsiders jumped and panicked abnormally. The old man Shijia said that his son was the most important person in the family, and he was too anxious to cause trouble, so he found the rope, tied Shihu strong, and let his uncle's donkey cart take him away.

...In the afternoon, there really was the sound of rumbling horse hooves outside. The old man Shi and the old woman bolted the doors and windows, held things against them, and hid in the house with a hatchet.

Not long after, I heard a "bang" knock on the door, and then a loud "clang" sound. Old man Shi was horrified, holding the hatchet tightly against the wall and staring at the door. Suddenly, a few armored men rushed in. They looked at the hatchet in Old Man Shi's hand and yelled. The front man carried the hammer on his shoulder. Suddenly with a "swish", an arrow flew over, hitting the center of Old Man Shi's eyebrows, and he fell down without even screaming.

The woman was taken aback, and suddenly burst into tears on the old man's body. A Khitan man came over, kicked her over with a sharp kick, grabbed the woman by the arms and dragged her out, leaving her in the yard. On the dirt road outside, some pedestrian soldiers with only a small amount of iron on their bodies also rushed in and rushed into the house to look everywhere.

The woman lay on the ground, unable to move, and watched as a group of people led away the pigs and sheep in the pen, and others carried sack of grain out. Later, I didn't know anyone who threw a torch into the wood house, and the firewood burned, and it quickly spread like a tiled house, and the whole house gradually ignited a raging fire.

... Shihu broke free the next day on his way to Xishan and returned along the road. Before he got to the place, he saw thick smoke in the village. He hurried home and saw a few blackened earth walls still smoking inside, and nothing was gone... Shihu suddenly felt his hands and feet Cool, sad and angry. Hurriedly ran into the yard and saw his mother still curled up on the ground, hurried to help him up.

Seeing Shihu, the woman said with red eyes: "Your father is dead, dead... What are you doing when you come back, run away."

Shi Hu burst into tears and helped his mother to lean against the wall. He took a wooden pole and ran to the ruins to search for it. Finally, he found a startled corpse in the black ashes. He dragged the corpse out of the rubble and sat on the ground with a fart, crying.

After crying for a while, he thought of another person, and ran out of the yard with a wooden pole. When I ran to the Xu family house, I heard a cry inside and walked in. I saw that the courtyard was in a mess, all kinds of debris were thrown everywhere, but the house had not been burned down. A corpse stopped on the door panel, and an old woman was crying there, her eyes swollen. Shi Hu stepped forward and saw that the dead person was an offspring, Xu Erniang's younger brother. He hurriedly asked, "Auntie, Erniang escaped?"

The old woman was still crying, and she pointed her finger.

Shihu looked in the direction, it was a straw shed. He walked over and saw that there were some broken women's clothes inside, and there were blood stains on the grass. His brain buzzed, squeezed his fist and banged on his forehead, turned around and choked up and said, "Where is the person?"

The old woman said: "It was snatched away..."

Shi Hu was full of grief and anger. He lifted the wooden pole and rushed out, surrounded by ruins. It took him a while to wake up and find someone to vent his shame in his heart. What can I do if I find a Khitan?

...

On the Yizhou city wall, a heavily armored and heavily armed Jiedu made Sun Xingyou stand there with a sullen face, and a robe official next to him was talking: "The Liao army is burning, killing, looting and plundering on our territory. Just looking at Jiedu? "

The general said angrily: "This time the Liao people entered the grassroots valley, at least tens of thousands of horses! I won't wait to defend Yizhou City first. If the city is broken, can you have good fruit?"

Someone said: "Hurry up to Xiong and Ba Ercheng for help."

Sun Xingyou raised his head and took a deep breath, then turned his head and said, "It's useless. The Liao army has entered the bandit, and the cities are the main defense towns, and there is no force to deploy against the Liao army. Besides, who will command the army? This is the story. Shuai has sent eight hundred li to report to the court urgently, and everything awaits your majesty's decree."

He said coldly: "You will not disarm at night now, patrol the city defenses at all gates, catch spies, and beware of the Liao army seizing the city!"

The generals clasped their fists and said: "Here."

Sun Xingyou looked up and saw a blue flag fluttering in the wind with two words: Da Zhou.

Suddenly heard the sound of singing, Sun Xingyou followed his reputation and saw the soldiers resting on the inner wall of the city singing. Gradually, many people followed and sang, "Great Zhou warriors, regain my rivers and mountains. The blood does not drain, the death never ceases. ..."

Sun Xingyou and the military officers around him said nothing.

Suddenly, I saw a group of people with long poles coming from the post road under the city. There were no pedestrians around, just a crowd. Sun Xingyou and others watched alertly. After waiting for a long time, the group of twenty or thirty people walked down to the city and raised their heads and shouted~www.readwn.com~ A general of the city shouted: "Who is the one here?"

The present one said: "Let's join the army!"

The people in the city murmured: "Isn't it a spy that the Khitan people bought at this time to join the army?"

The shouting officer said loudly: "Who is the person, who is the name?"

The post-mortem replied: "The people of Shishuyuan, the family members were killed by the Khitan people, we will join the army to avenge..."

The military commander said: "Right now the whole city is under martial law and no entry or exit is allowed. You will come back later in a few days."

The gang did not respond, but did not leave the city. A few arrows were shot from the city soon, and they retreated some distance. The person who had just shouted to the city was Shihu, who was at a loss when he saw it; another epilogue said: "The Khitan people are in Yizhou. The generals in this city are afraid to come out. They must be a bully! I heard about Tokyo. The emperor who had just ascended the throne was the one who killed tens of thousands of Liaoqi in Zhuozhou that year. We might as well go to Tokyo to throw in the ban!"

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