"Where are the people? Where are they dead! Open the door quickly!"
After knocking for a long time, no one answered him. Seeing that some soldiers on the street began to cast unkind glances at him, Boss Chen suddenly became anxious. He raised his legs and struck the door panel with two fierce kicks!
Next, I heard two loud "bang..." sounds! The next second, poor Mr. Chen started to jump up and down holding his feet.
"It hurts, it hurts! It hurts me to death!"
There was something wrong with the place where I kicked my foot. Poor Mr. Chen was so painful that the sweat on his forehead was dripping down like water!
However, his sacrifice was not in vain. When he was holding his feet and screaming like his little wife, the shopkeeper finally came from the inn door and asked timidly: "Who? Who is banging on the door!
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"I! I'm staying at your inn today!" Liu Hongji, who had been waiting outside, was also a little angry at this time. He was used to traveling all over the country, and he had never seen any inn shut out the guests without asking. This is called
What store? Black spot?
"It's you?"
Inside the door, the shopkeeper finally heard Liu Hongji's voice, and with a low cry of surprise, the closed door finally opened a crack.
"Whoa..." A candlelight shone through the gap on Liu Hongji's face. After confirming that the person outside was really a distinguished guest staying in the hotel today, the shopkeeper finally breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ordered the waiter holding a rolling pin and kitchen knife beside him.
He put down his weapon, stepped forward and removed the door panel, and let the two people in.
"Sir, you... aren't you upstairs? When did you go out? What were you doing?"
"Oh, um, after we finish eating, we need to go out for something!"
Outside the door, Liu Hongji's face was a little hot. He had the nerve to say that he was full, warm and lustful. How could a general of a country stay up late at night and go to a brothel? Do you still want his face? So he had to use his brain and find a random one.
Reason, put it aside.
"Hey, sir! I'm not in the mood to run around today!" The shopkeeper should be considered to be old. Hearing this, he didn't doubt his presence. He just kept nagging the two of them not to go out casually tonight.
In the midst of this chatter, the waiters around him hurriedly pulled the two people outside into the inn, and then quickly had the door re-sealed. This time, not only did the door bolts and door stops be moved, but they were also moved
Several sturdy tables were pressed against the door.
Seeing this scene, Liu Hongji finally realized, no wonder Boss Chen just stepped down with two feet, and the door didn't move at all, but his toes almost left him! Looking at this defense alone, it would probably take two battering rams.
Only then can it be hammered open.
"What's going on? There's chaos outside? Are those thieves so powerful?"
After being pulled into the lobby, Liu Hongji saw the anxious look of his boss and his waiters, and then thought of the soldiers he saw on the street outside. He couldn't help but be slightly shocked. He originally thought that there were only thirty or forty thieves, which was a huge number.
Personally, but looking at it now, it seems that he underestimated this group of thieves!
"So that the guest officer can know!"
The innkeeper also vaguely knew the official status of Liu Hongji and others, but he didn't hide it much when he heard this. He said directly in one breath: "I heard that the group of thieves outside have refugees from the previous dynasty and hunters who have suffered disasters."
!There were even officers and soldiers who lost the battle!
They just gathered in the Qinling Mountains this year, roared in, and scattered in all directions. They usually make a living by looting! After the officers and soldiers discovered this group of thieves, they actually came to encircle and suppress them several times, but because the terrain was not familiar to these people.
, often returned in defeat, and seeing that the officers and soldiers could do nothing to them, some idle men and rogues around them also joined in, which also made them stronger! I heard that now, they have as many as five or six hundred people!"
"Five or six hundred people?" Hearing this number, Liu Hongji was shocked at first, but he quickly realized that the number of five or six hundred must have been spread by common people!
If a group of thieves living in the mountains only rely on robbery to survive, their number will definitely not be too large! Because it is impossible to support such a large team just by relying on the few supplies they looted!
I feel like this, if there are at most three to two hundred people in this team of thieves, that’s the end of it!
Of course, Liu Hongji also knew that no matter whether the thieves were three or two hundred, seven or eight hundred, or even three or five thousand, it was undoubtedly a fool's dream to break through the former important town of Nanyang!
As an arduous siege battle, as long as the commander is smarter than a pig, if a team of several thousand people is thrown in casually, there probably won't even be a sound!
Thinking of this, Liu Hongji put down his snack for a moment, scratched his bare head, and asked again to the shopkeeper who was carefully inquiring about what was going on outside: "I just heard them say that this bandit went to attack Xiaoye Village tonight. Xiaoye Village
Where is it? Why did your governor here immediately send troops to rush for reinforcements after hearing the news?!"
"That's right!" When someone mentioned their governor, the shopkeeper, who was accustomed to nodding and bowing and smiling in front of him, showed a rare look of admiration.
"Our governor, Wu Ci, is an honest official and loves the people as his own children! When encountering such a situation, there is no reason to stand by and watch. He will naturally send troops to suppress the bandits! And just now, the mayors of this street came over and gave instructions one by one,
It won’t be too peaceful tonight, so I’ll keep the doors and windows closed and never go out!”
"Being an honest official and caring for the people like children?" Hearing the shopkeeper's praise of the city's governor, Liu Hongji couldn't help rolling his eyes: "What kind of advantage is this? Isn't this the duty of a city official? Besides, these days,
What is the use of being honest? Only those who can do things and know how to do things are good officials! An official who is only honest and loyal but cannot do things can only be a mediocre official! He is not as reliable as those who receive money to do things.
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"Yes, yes, that's what the guest officer said!" The innkeeper nodded and bowed to express his agreement with Liu Hongji's words. However, it is difficult to say how sincere this is!
"Hey, one is a soldier and the other is a thief, can't the soldier be beaten by the thief?" Liu Hongji didn't bother to argue with the shopkeeper, and muttered to himself, and then he couldn't help but think of the scene he just saw on the street, and in his heart
The impregnable strength of Nanyang City has finally been shaken!
There is no unbreakable city in the world! Once a city is built, it is just waiting for the day it will be breached!
Therefore, despite the fact that Nanyang City is still relatively strong now, Liu Hongji is not sure whether he can hold on if he encounters such a group of careless officers and soldiers!
"It's a troubled winter, a troubled winter! Look at the appearance of the officials who are going out to help. How can they look like the heroes of the Tang Dynasty! What if, what if the city is destroyed!"
Liu Hongji was still muttering in a low voice, but suddenly there was a sound of swords and guns clashing on the street outside the door, followed by a loud shout of killing!
The crow's mouth is really smart, and the thief has really entered the city!
