Two injured horizontal sword hands were temporarily settled in Wei Ti's carriage to recover from injuries. Chen De rode the free horse. Wei Ti rode a tall yellow-fat horse by himself and walked with Chen De.

"Looking at your outfit, I'm afraid it's a Han man who came from the south of Khitan to join the army?" Wei Ti asked.

"It's the Youzhou people." After Li Jiuyan's misunderstanding, Chen De found that it was basically an impossible task to defend himself as being a Han person in Youzhou. Who made him have short hair and a "Youzhou accent". It should be noted that in this era, if it weren't for the Youyan Han people living under the rule of a different race, the Han people in the Central Plains would never have cut off their parents' hair. The difficulty of learning a local speech was far greater than that of modern media. This is also the reason why the ancients were unable to change their local accent from beginning to end, even if they were wandering outside.

Wei Ti stared at Chen De's eyes, as if to see if there was any deception. Although Chen De lied, he had no other thoughts, so he looked at Wei Ti honestly.

After looking at each other for a while, Wei Ti said with a sigh: "Depending on your strength and courage, you will definitely be behind the general. As long as the military man is united in killing the enemy, he will not ask where he comes from." Chen De, who had arranged his origin in his heart for a long time, felt a sudden loss.

Looking at Chen Denana who had not told the lies, Wei Ti, who was over 100 years old, felt a little funny and said, "From your knowledge, how about my team?"

Chen Deshun said, "All the subordinates are bears and tigers."

He casually spoke, and Wei Ti immediately said, "Chen De, let me say that you can't do that flattery in the army."

Seeing that Wei Ti looked solemn, not like being fake, and didn't want him to look down on him, Chen De thought about it carefully and said, "My master is agile and riding skills, I think he is the elite in the army. But..." Looking up, Wei Ti's face remained unmoved, and he continued, "But it seems that they are only good at fighting formations, and they are not good at marching and fighting in the squad, and they don't seem to be very morale."

Wei Ti sighed and said, "It's true that he is a general. He can see the joints at a glance. The Tuhun Army is surrounded by spears and arrows. Before the battle formation with long spears and big arrows, there are few such private activities. After my elder brother left, the emperor no longer trusted Tuhun." Seeing Chen De's face unhesitant, he patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about the future of the army. My Taiyuan Wei family and the Hequ Yang family have been intimidated for several generations. At present, Yang Ye, the governor of Jianxiong Army, is deeply trusted by the emperor to defend the north. If you are willing, I recommend you to serve in Jianxiong Army after returning to Taiyuan."

"Yang Ye?" This is a hero who has been worshipped since childhood. Chen De suppressed his excitement and clasped his fists to Wei Ti with gratitude: "Thank you, sir."

Wei Ti sighed and waved his hand to make Chen De feel polite.

While he was talking, he had arrived at the camp site in front of him. After the team set out a warning post, they placed the horses and ate some grass while setting up camp stoves, putting the jerky and dry food they carried into the pot to cook. Soon, the meat was filled with fragrance. After the meal, the team only took a short rest and set off halfway. They were like this, and they were traveling through the mountains and wilderness.

After five generations of war, the population of the Central Plains had been reduced to a very small amount. In addition, Wei Ti chose a road far away from the town. Even if he encountered a post station checkpoint from the Song State on the road, he avoided it because there were long rewards from scouts. Therefore, the Northern Han people and others had been traveling through the deep mountains and wilderness. On the way, they only exchanged some food supplies with the villagers in the mountains. The group passed through Jinzhou and Jiangzhou along the mountains between the Luliang Mountains and the Fen River. After arriving at Hezhong Prefecture, everyone put away their knives and arrows, pretended to be merchants, hired several river boats to go westward on the Wei River, and re-landed in Jingzhao Prefecture, entered the Xingyuan Prefecture of Hanzhong along Ziwu Valley, and arrived at the former land of Shu State, which was destroyed by the Song Dynasty eight years ago.

Chen De originally had several fights to fight, but unexpectedly, the checkpoints in the Song Dynasty were extremely loose. Even if they encountered investigations by the Song army or local yamen runners, Wang Gui often put some money and goods in the Song army and could even buy some forage in the Song army's post station.

As soon as he entered the former land of Later Shu, the Song army's investigation became much stricter. However, Chen De found that this strict investigation was not limited to foreign merchants, but targeted local Shu people. At that time, Sichuan and Shu brocade and silk were all over the world. Zhao Kuangyi set up a "Bo Maiwu" in Chengdu, stipulating that all the cloth produced in Sichuan were bought by the government, as well as tea and other things, and all the restrictions were adopted. In addition, after the Song Dynasty destroyed Later Shu, all the property in the Houshu treasury was transported to the public. Song general Wang Quanbin massacred 20,000 surrendered Shu troops in Chengdu. The people of Shu were living in miserable life and were extremely hated to the officials of Song State and Song soldiers. On the one hand, smuggling traffickers who sold private tea, salt and brocade rose. On the other hand, many Houshu defeated soldiers gathered in the mountains and forests, calling for the revival of Shu State to continue to resist the Song State.

Therefore, the Song army strengthened the checkpoints leading to various places in Shu. On the one hand, it was strictly prohibited to sell Shu brocade and Shu tea to other places. On the other hand, it was strictly prohibited to flow into Shu.

The main purpose of Wei Ti and others' trip to Shu was to use gold, silver, military weapons and war horses as gifts to make friends with Shu people from all over the way. These people smuggled Shu brocade and tea to the Northern Han, and then gave the Northern Han to the Liao Kingdom as tribute. This transaction has existed since the Later Shu period, and the Shu Lord even had a discussion to contact the Northern Han to attack the Song Kingdom. After the demise of Shu Kingdom, there were old ministers of Shu Kingdom and green forest heroes who inherited the transaction, but the scale was not as large as before.

When passing the checkpoint, I saw that many Shu people selling private goods were hung on the walls or city towers. Chen De's face was unbearable and sighed: "It's all Han people, so the Lord of Song treats Shu people so fiercely."

Wei Ti didn't hear this sentence, and he whispered: "Chen De, you don't know what you have grown up in a foreign land. The Emperor of the Central Plains only wants us to treat the four vassal states as pigs and sheep and slaughter him. Where can we say anything about friendship? He hates me, the soldiers in North Han even more. If our country is destroyed, I am afraid that the fate will be a hundred times more miserable than those in Shu."

This made Chen De, who regarded the Song Dynasty as the orthodox Chinese in his heart, felt uncomfortable. He remembered the Song army's looting of the villagers of Northern Han and the later orders of Zhao Kuangyi to destroy Taiyuan City and Xiazhou City and other important border towns, so that when foreign races invaded the Central Plains, there were no more famous cities and important towns that could support them.

Before crossing the army, Chen De had been training with the Qinling Army many times, and had participated in several cross-border operations in the southwest border. Therefore, he was familiar with the situation in the Sichuan Basin and learned a Sichuan-Shaanxi accent. Although the other Tuhun soldiers were brave, they were either mostly not in such Sichuan-Shaanxi, or were not good at talking. When Wang Gui was overwhelmed along the way, Chen De came out to deal with the local area. In addition, Wei Ti seemed to appreciate him quite a bit, and gradually Chen De also gained a certain status in this small team.

When there were no outsiders on the left and right, Wei Ti always asked Chen De and Wang Gui to follow the left and right, and casually pointed out the situation of mountains and rivers, where suitable for camping, where dangerous terrain should not be left for a long time, where is the pass not easy to attack, but he could send a side army to capture the enemy's retreat, where is suitable for farming. Chen De responded to Wei Ti's topic in conjunction with modern military terrain, which made Wei Ti have the idea of ​​"this son must be a general." The stronger the desire to cultivate Chen De, even Wang Gui secretly admired Chen De, which reduced the hostility he had when he first met.

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