Chapter 343 Borrowing grain
The sky gradually turned white, and the sun was shining for several consecutive days, and finally it started to rain slightly.
Chuyang has not yet cast clouds, and the crowded thoughts most of the refugees on both sides of Xudu Ximen Road sleep on the ground in the rain, and some of them simply built straw huts with branches and thatch. Whether they were in the rain or living in the straw huts, they all looked desolate. Those who were sick were discarded and discarded in a faraway place, without seeing life and death. Some were injured on the way, and they had to moan in a daze in the rain, and they were more likely to hide in places where they tried to hide from the rain and curl up and cry in a low voice.
At this time, a slight tremor came from the ground. Someone raised his head and a war horse galloped over him. The horse's hooves hit the ground and rushed straight towards the city gate. In a blink of an eye, more than two hundred cavalry rushed towards him.
The man fell down in fear for a moment and subconsciously shouted: "There are cavalry, and the city gate is about to open." After the words fell, the war horses walked through the crowd with loud noises, as if they were shocking a flying bird in the forest. In the blue rain curtain, countless figures swayed out of the simple straw shed. A thin little girl held her mother's hand and looked pitifully at the closed city gate in her eyes.
Faced with many miserable scenes in the rain, even Gongsun Zhi couldn't help feeling pity, "Cao Cao's movements are so slow..." Then, he took out a piece of jerky from his arms and threw it to the other party. His gaze turned back to the city wall. The figure above walked in the light and poked his head out.
"Who is below?!"
In the light of the torch lit on the top of the city, the general holding an iron helmet shouted loudly, looked down, waved his hand and asked someone to put down the bamboo basket. The cavalry team over there was the first to run out and put a seal on it. After a while, the guards verified it, they asked someone to put down the bamboo basket again and arched their hands: "It turned out that Governor Gongsun returned. Please forgive me for being rude before. It was the Prime Minister who ordered it to investigate it very strictly."
Immediately, he waved: "Open the city gate!" A team of archers rushed forward, pulled the bow and pointed directly at the refugees below. The general's voice said again: "This is the governor of the northern region who has urgent needs to enter the city. You should take the opportunity to cause trouble. The Prime Minister is trying every means to let the elders have food to eat, so don't do anything."
When the footsteps sounded inside the city gate, behind the scenes, figures in the rain slowly moved their steps, as if they wanted to rush into the city as soon as possible, but they kept looking at the arrows protruding from the walls, and then suddenly, there was a sound from the crowd that came from nowhere, shouting in the crowd: "They just want to starve us to death... There are the best doctors in the city! There is still a lot of food. They are reluctant to give us some... We want to see Your Majesty... Let's see the Prime Minister!"
Someone wants to cause a riot.
Gongsun Zhi suddenly tied the reins and waved his hand. Dozens of knights immediately went to the city gate, drew out their swords and held the entrance. He turned around and in the dark rain curtain, the eyes that looked at them became vaguely hungry. The vast crowd slowly spread in the silence.
"You should go back and you must not take another step forward!" Dian Wei naturally felt something was wrong. While shouting loudly, he pulled out his halberds and pushed his horse to block the lord's body. He stretched his arms left and right, and his vicious eyes swept across everyone, "Otherwise, killing me, don't worry."
Over there, a gap was slowly opening. Gongsun Zhi frowned and looked at the dirty little girl in the crowd. He stretched out his hand and handed it over with a bow and arrow.
The next second, he raised his arms, pulled his bow, and made a slight blow. The arrow flew over to the little girl who was still holding the jerky meat. The front row was crowded with refugees who wanted to rush over. He was frightened by the sudden movement of the other party, and the arrow buzzed over their heads.
The dirty hair floated, and the black shadow with the sound of breaking through the air curled a few strands of the girl's hair. The dazed little figure stood there, blinking bright eyes, and then a warm liquid fell on her shoulder. The ignorant child raised his head and looked back in a daze. A tall and thin man holding a knife was inserted into the neck of a feather arrow, and he fell backwards with a bang.
The shock brought by the fall of the corpse was within sight of the crowd. Many people were just ordinary people and hungry people. When they saw the person who was leading the way was killed by the government, they shouted, screamed, and cried, causing noisy chaos.
On this side, when the longbow was put down the horse's back, Gongsun Zhi lifted his cloak, crossed the reins and headed towards the city gate, his voice was cold and loud: "Whoever is causing trouble again, I will kill you all! I will give you food before noon today."
The city gate opened a smaller gap, and more than two hundred riders entered one after another.
On the top of the city, the guard general also walked down to the entrance of the gate of the city, and hurriedly bowed to Gongsun Zhi who came in, as if he had come to meet him, as if he had come to confirm. Then he said a few politely and led the team back to the city tower. Li Ke whispered beside him: "That general looks a bit familiar."
"It's Bian Xi. When we first came to Yanzhou, we were the first general to turn against each other in the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans." Gongsun Zhi nodded and remembered who the other party was.
The horse team entered the street. There were few pedestrians in the early morning of rainy days. Gongsun Zhi turned his head and gave a sudden order to the people around him: "Look for a wealthy family nearest, let's go to borrow food. Prime Minister Cao has concerns, but I don't, so I will make this decision for him."
"drive"
More than two hundred cavalrymen were ordered to scatter. There were early people around. The merchants watched the cavalry wandering around in groups of three or five, not knowing what had happened. Soon after, they returned here and gathered again. A bold look at the man in the middle and knew that the governor of the North who had entered the city triumphantly that day.
"Report to the governor, I found several nearby."
"Just go to this one..."
Under the rain curtain, my fingers casually pointed at the collected news, where the family was located.
...
The cavalry was running on the street, and the horse's hooves stepped across the slippery bricks and stones and heard a crazy "step" sound. One of the riders looked at the simple drawing position in his hand, and then looked at the gate of the courtyard with marks in front of him. When he turned around to ask for instructions, Gongsun Zhi raised his hand and waved it briefly.
More than ten people got off the horse, and did not knock on the door. They directly tied the cable hood on the copper ring that knocked on the door, turned around and rode on the war horse. A whip sounded, and more than ten horses suddenly exerted force, neighing, and the horse's hooves moved forward and ran wildly. The rope suddenly stretched out the next moment, and a loud "bang" sound, two courtyard doors exploded, one of which collapsed, and the other wolf riders dismounted with their knives and rushed in.
Hearing the noise, the door of the room stuck its head out of the door and room, it was pinched by a big palm that stretched out and pushed it back. At this time, there were already many servants in the yard. The maid got up and was busy working. When he saw a group of people who suddenly broke in, he seemed a little at a loss.
"Who are you here? Can you tell who this is his mansion? How dare you trespass..."
When a man who seemed to be in charge rushed over with the guard, Dian Wei bumped into his double halberd and shouted loudly: "We are just here to borrow food, don't be ungrateful..."
Over there, the stick has been hit.
Bang bang
The stick roared and broke in the air. Before the fierce manager could finish his words, a short halberd cut open with the stick. The headless corpse fell to the ground and twitched from time to time, and the broken neck was still bleeding. Dian Wei swept across the people in the courtyard, "If you want to survive, take out the food."
When such a scene gradually started to stir up in the city, Cao Cao tossed and turned on the bed, his head was fast, making it difficult for him to fall asleep. He occasionally glanced at the sky, and sighed and put on his clothes and sat up, staring at the lights and thought about the disaster victims outside the city, as well as the complicated things between the gentry and the disaster relief. After a moment, footsteps suddenly came over quickly, and a servant came to the news: "No... Prime Minister... Something happened in the city, something happened, and Governor Gongsun returned to Xudu and killed someone..."
"What the hell is going on? When will Gongsun Zhi come back?"
Cao Cao was suddenly shocked by the news, and his headache was relieved a little. When he opened the door, the servant pointed outside tremblingly: "Just when he came back to the city in the early morning, somehow, after Governor Gongsun entered the city, he went directly to a large yard and forced people to take out a lot of food."
".……that's all?"
"And...and..." The servant lowered his head and his voice became weaker: "......more than one, among them was the mansion of Mr. Geng in the court. He suddenly insulted and was cut off by a giant man under the command of the governor..."
"Cutted?!"
Chapter completed!