At this moment, there are still some fields near the official road outside the city. The villagers collecting firewood, seeing that the situation was not good, dropped their hoes, axes, and load of firewood, turned around and fled towards the city gate. The dark yellow smoke seemed to be seen
Like a wolf pack of prey, they quickly chased after them from behind, rolled up from left to right, and in an instant, chopped up all the civilians who could not escape.
The gatekeeper had never seen such a battle before. He was so frightened that he did not have the courage to lead his subordinates to go out for rescue. He just loudly urged a few temporarily recruited civilians to quickly close the city gate. Several people had already fled to
The people at the gate of the city were locked out and had no way to go. Some of them spread their legs and continued to flee to the north and south along the walls. Others were so frightened that their legs became weak and they knelt on the ground, crying and begging for mercy.
.The dark yellow smoke refused to be merciful at all, waving horizontal knives, steel forks, big sticks, and iron maces and circled half a circle along the base of the city wall, leaving behind bloody corpses everywhere.
"Open the door quickly and surrender, otherwise, when the army enters the city, no chickens or dogs will be left behind!" The leader of the rebel army dressed as a school captain, wiped the minced meat from his mace, and spoke to the city head in an unskilled Tang Yan.
threaten.
"Master, spare your life, Master, spare your life. I will inform the county magistrate right now and ask him to come out to greet Master Wang!" The gatekeeper had already collapsed on the enemy tower, tremblingly leaning out half of his body.
Head, crying and begging.
"Go quickly, go quickly. You're late, don't blame grandpa for being impatient!" The rebel leader, dressed as a school lieutenant, knew that the other party could not make the decision. He frowned and replied, then packed up the whole team of his subordinates. There were only more than a hundred people in total.
, but calmly, as if thousands of troops were coming.
Liling local official surnamed Qu is a civil servant with long experience in officialdom. After receiving a warning from his colleagues in Xianyang County, he temporarily recruited more than 300 people from the homes of wealthy families in the city. However, with these people at his disposal, he was able to
Suppressing the local gangsters so that they could not take advantage of the situation, they did not have the courage to compete with the elite soldiers under Anlu Mountain. On the way to the city gate, I heard the rebels' demands relayed by their officers and burst into tears.
With a full face, he stood on the empty street and howled a few times. Then he became worried and stumbled to the ground floor. He bowed to the ground outside and said, "I'm here. Qu Yuan, the magistrate of Liling County, has seen several generals."
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"Stop talking nonsense, open the door and surrender, otherwise the army will go in, leaving no chickens or dogs behind!" The rebel captain was getting tired of waiting, and finally found a person in charge. He immediately pointed his blade at him from a distance and shouted loudly.
"General, general, can you agree? After I order the city gates to be opened, please don't make it difficult for the people in the city?" Magistrate Qu said again and bowed his hands toward the outside of the city, forcing himself to bargain hard.
"Don't be wordy, are you going to surrender or not?" The rebels immediately got angry and shouted at the top of the city.
"If you don't surrender, I will go straight in."
"I can even take down Luoyang, but why are we afraid of a sheepfold like yours which is less than five feet high?"
"Master, please calm down! Master, please calm down!" Magistrate Qu continued to beg while stroking the cold sweat on his forehead. "There are 40,000 copper coins in the treasury, and there is also a large amount of grain stored in the official warehouse. If Master agrees,
Without embarrassing the people in the city, I can offer these hands to you!"
"Why are you such a verbose person!" The rebel captain who led the team glared, so frightened that the Liling city wall shook three times.
"General, have mercy, general have mercy!" Magistrate Qu did not dare to reply, and knelt down, kowtowing to the other party. The rebel commander raised his blood-red eyes and glanced viciously at the city wall, which was more than three feet high.
, reluctantly agreed: "Okay, I promise you. Just don't kill people indiscriminately. But you must open the city gate immediately, mobilize all the soldiers and horses in the city to the city gate, and ask me to surrender in person. If you miss it,
If you lose one, I will kill a hundred people as compensation!"
He only has about a hundred brothers under his command. If he really wants to attack Liling hard, taking the city is probably not a problem, but casualties will definitely be inevitable. So for the sake of the lives of the brothers, he decided to make some compromises for the time being. The surname is Qu
The county magistrate was overjoyed and immediately got up from the brick floor of the enemy tower and responded loudly: "Don't dare, don't dare. There are no defenders in the city, only some temporary recruits..."
"The people must also be brought out!" The rebel captain frowned and continued to add.
"That's nature, that's nature!" Magistrate Qu wiped the cold sweat from his head and walked down the city tremblingly. The people who were temporarily recruited from wealthy families, under the leadership of the government officials, had already assembled
When we arrived at the gate of the city, we were ready to fight. I accidentally listened to every word that Magistrate Qu had just said to the enemy general. It was like a bucket of cold water was poured on my pocket. Many people, including the officers on duty, immediately yelled and cursed.
They threw down their weapons and dispersed on their own to go home. However, a few dozen people wanted to wait and see, standing at the door waiting for orders from above.
Magistrate Qu didn't dare to stop those who left. He just blushed and explained to the village heroes who stayed behind his good intentions of sacrificing his family's honor and honor to preserve the elders of Hecheng. Then he led the rest of the gang.
The officials, government officials, Minzhuang, and helpers all walked to the city gate together. They opened the heavy wooden door from the inside and knelt down on the roadside. They held the official seal and weapons above their heads and respectfully welcomed the "King's Master" to take over.
The rebels outside the city had long been impatient. Seeing the city gate open, they immediately rushed in on horseback. While galloping, they put the blade of the knife in their hand against the horse's leg and dragged it left and right. In time, they killed the people kneeling on both sides of the city gate.
The villagers chopped down the ground.
The remaining minor officials screamed in fright and ran away. The rebels showed no mercy and mobilized their horses to pounce on them and kill them all. Only Quxian was left.
Ling still didn't understand why, so he knelt on the ground and cried loudly and complained, "The general said that he would not kill innocent people indiscriminately. He said that he would not kill innocent people indiscriminately. Wuwu, wuwu, this county listened to the promise of the general.
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"Hahaha, hahaha!" The rebel captain who led the team laughed loudly, and smashed the head of the county magistrate surnamed Qu with his mace. "I said, don't kill people indiscriminately. One by one like this.
How can cutting down on the ground be called random killing?!"
The headless body refused to fall down immediately, and circled around in circles. It was as if it wanted to ask the gods in the dark world if the tragedy that was happening at the gate of the city was real? How could there be such viciousness in this world?
Shameless person? How can the promises he made be worse than farts?
The rebel captain didn't care if there were gods watching in the dark. He raised his mace, pointed towards the city, and shouted an order: "The things in the yamen, warehouses and granaries are reserved for General Sun. Others, who
Whoever gets it first wins. Hurry up, we can only wait until dawn tomorrow. After dawn, let's run to the next place and set off!"
"Lord Solu is wise!" All the people in Yiluohe agreed in unison, dispersed, and began to loot the house skillfully. When they saw a decent house door, they opened it with a knife, dragged the man out and hacked him to death, and stripped the woman naked.
, tie the elderly and children to the tail of the horse and gallop along the street.
It has been two generations since the people in the city heard the sound of war. The people in the city did not know how to deal with this sudden disaster. The people who lived near the East City Gate were unprepared and were attacked by poisonous hands. Those whose houses were a little further away from the East City Gate heard the sound.
Hearing the cry from afar, he immediately packed up his belongings, rushed out of the house with his wife and children, and ran towards the west gate to escape for his life.
How could the rebels let go of these lambs waiting to be slaughtered? They had already skillfully separated out a few people and blocked all the exits to the outside of the city. Then they gathered experience based on their looting all the way south.
, divided into small groups, started from the root of the city wall, and "cleaned" in circles. The people who had nowhere to escape turned around and ran back one after another, being squeezed like lambs, rushing towards the county government office in the center of the city.
.Then I met other fleeing teams in the open space in front of the county government office, huddled together, and shivered.
Among a group of shivering lambs waiting to be slaughtered, a few horses looked particularly eye-catching. The tall foreigners on the horses had obviously experienced some storms. After rushing out of the hotel where they were staying, they were not in a hurry to escape.
The carriages were neatly lined up in a row, protected by more than twenty servants, and they slowly walked outside the crowd.
"Who knows how many traitors are coming? Who knows the specific number of traitors?" The tall foreigner asked the headless crowd while clearing the way. He asked several times in succession, but did not get any answer.
.On the contrary, it attracted a few local scoundrels, who attacked the gorgeous carriage one after another.
The servant guarding the carriage immediately waved his scabbard and knocked over the scoundrels who were trying to snatch the carriage. This caused big trouble. The heroes and young heroes in several places pulled out their daggers and shouted at the convoy,
"It's these strangers who attracted the rebels. Let's all go up together, seize the carriage, and let's rush out together!"
"Grab the carriage and rush out together!" The gangsters were worried that no one would take the lead, so they immediately got up from the ground and swarmed up. Some people who had been waiting for death heard this, and their heads were hot, so they followed behind the gangsters.
Robbery on the carriage.
"Kill anyone who dares to take advantage of the fire!" The strong foreigner swung his sword horizontally and used the back of the sword to knock over the hero who rushed in front of him and tried to snatch his mount.
"Kill anyone who dares to take advantage of the situation and rob them!" All the servants also waved their knives and beat the heroes and young heroes who rushed towards them until they ran away. Seeing the fierceness of the other party, the scoundrels immediately did not dare to come any closer. They stood in the crowd and yelled at the convoy.
The strong foreigner glanced at them contemptuously and shouted sternly: "You don't have the ability to fight against the thieves, but you take out your anger on innocent people. What the hell! This is a man, pick up the knife and fight your way out!"
"It belongs to me, pick up the knife and fight your way out!" All the servants shouted in unison, suppressing the scoundrels' shouts. When the common people who were originally huddled together waiting for death heard this, their hearts suddenly surged.
With a hope of survival from death, they all raised their heads and looked forward to the strangers. Despite all the heroes, the young heroes refused to suffer the disadvantage of being dumb. They hid in the crowd and continued to shout: "Who believes it?"
You? You all have horses and knives. After fighting your way out, you run away first. Those of us who don’t have horses, are we still going to stay and fill the tank for you?"
"If you don't kill the thief with Wang, do you have any other options?" The strong foreigner turned his head towards the heroes. The young heroes asked back, their voices were not loud, but they suppressed all the noise. "You.
It’s okay to travel around the countryside. After all, his arms and legs are stronger than others, and he is somewhat capable. But in times of crisis, everyone has shrunk their eggs. Isn’t it really embarrassing? Wang asked again, who wants to follow
Wang Mou goes to kill the thief? Wang Mou doesn’t need you to take the lead, just follow Wang Mou! If you don’t have the courage to go, just spit out all the things you eat and take from others!”
"If you don't have the guts to go, just vomit out all the things you eat and take for free!" The servants raised their voices and repeated the words of the stranger named Wang as if they had been trained for many years.
Although the heroes, young heroes, gangsters, and scoundrels were of bad conduct, they were always hanging out on the street. Just because of their face, they were slapped in the head by a stranger named Wang, and their necks immediately turned red. They squeezed out of the crowd and rushed
The foreigner continued to shout: "If you dare, take the lead, and whoever is shy will be the son of a bitch!"
"Just hit him. If you have a scar the size of a bowl, whoever cuts it off is the son of a bitch!" The foreigner surnamed Wang was obviously very familiar with the incisions of market scoundrels. He sneered in reply, then turned his horse's head,
He rushed straight out of the crowd: "It belongs to men, come with me. Kill those bastards and give the wives and children behind you a way out!" The crowded crowd automatically moved out of the way, watching the strangers.
The war horses ran in front of him. The servants followed closely behind the strangers, forming a short column in twos and twos. The heroes and young heroes did not want to be compared with a group of outsiders in front of their hometown elders.
After they got down, they also pulled out their short knives and iron rulers and followed the cavalry. Following closely behind were dozens of people who had fled earlier. They grabbed wooden sticks and kitchen knives from the houses on the roadside and chased the team without hesitation.
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"Erlang!" Zi Luo leaned half out of the carriage and waved to Wang Xun who was about to leave, her face full of worry. In the middle of the night yesterday, her man also vowed that he would no longer care about Datang's affairs.
He handed over his army to Song Wu, and then took his family to find a place where no one knew him, and became a wealthy man in peace. But after only half a day, he actually forgot about the promise he made last night.
"Let him go!" Bai Yunzhi quickly stretched out a hand and pulled down Zi Luo's arm, "Wang Fu, drive the car and let the team follow. Don't get separated."
"Hey!" Wang Fu, the servant, agreed, drove the carriage, and led the motorcade to follow Minzhuang. Following the motorcade were the fleeing people, not leaving an inch, as if a drowning man had grasped the last straw.
"Erlang..." Zi Luo slowly sat back in the carriage, tears slowly flowing down her face. With more than twenty cronies, how could she not defeat an unknown number of rebels?
Husband is worried?! Moreover, these arrogant guys around him were still trying to convoy a team just now. Erlang went to great lengths for them. What is it for, and what is it worth?
"He is a man!" Aunt Yun stretched out her hand and gently wiped away Zi Luo's tears. She slipped a short knife into the other man's hand. "He has no right to run away on his own at this moment!"