The imperial envoy was blocked at the gate of the city by a small ninth-grade county magistrate and made rude remarks. Even if Zhou Yangong could bear it, how could he endure it with Liu Ling's soldiers? The person responsible for Zhou Yangong's safety this time happened to have just returned to Liu Ling.
Wang Xiaoniu, who is the leader of the Imperial Guards, is not a vegetarian.
Tima guarded Zhou Yangong, and Wang Xiaoning shouted at the top of his voice: "Which bastard is talking? The imperial envoy, Dr. Yinqing Guanglu, and the governor of the six states, Mr. Zhou Yangong, are here. Hurry up!"
Open the city gate!"
"Hey! Where did this wild dog come from and howl at the gate of our city in Ping'an County? Why bother, Lord Imperial Commissioner? It's been 20 years since Ping'an County was founded by the Han Dynasty, and the county governor has never been here. Why?
Imperial envoy? Stop talking nonsense with me. If you don’t leave, you will end up with the same fate as those rioters!"
Wang Xiaoniu was so angry that he even cursed. Looking at the injured victims, Zhou Yangong urged him to take a few steps forward. He asked Wang Xiaoniu to take out the imperial edict and seal from the bag, and raised the bright yellow satin imperial edict with his own hands and shouted loudly.
Said: "Open your eyes and see clearly! I have inspected the six southern states according to the order of His Majesty the Emperor. If you don't open the city gate, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
The county magistrate has never seen anything like an imperial edict since he was born, but he also knows that bright yellow things must be related to the royal family. He has been working as a county magistrate for ten years, waiting to die, so he still has some experience.
As the county magistrate's brother-in-law, he still has access to some common sense in officialdom.
Realizing that the gentle guy on horseback outside the city gate was probably an imperial envoy sent by the imperial court, the county prime minister felt as if an earthquake had occurred in his heart. The biggest official he had ever seen in his life was from Gyeongju.
Lord County Sheriff, I still saw the Lord County Sheriff from a distance because of my brother-in-law. The last time I followed my brother-in-law to Gyeongju Mansion to give gifts to County Sheriff Ouyang Zhuan on his birthday, it was the most glorious moment in his life so far.
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The governor is said to be an official of the fourth rank, who is higher than his brother-in-law. He doesn’t know what kind of official the imperial envoy is. He only heard from his brother-in-law Su Hui that the imperial envoy represents His Majesty the Emperor himself. What the imperial envoy says is His Majesty the Emperor.
What he said was like an imperial edict.
At the moment, a person who looked like an imperial envoy scolded him for being bold at the city gate, and said he should be ruthless, which frightened Wang Du. The imperial envoy is like the emperor, and if the imperial envoy said he would be ruthless to himself, wouldn't it mean that the emperor wanted to be ruthless to him? Ruthless is a
What is the concept? Wang Du immediately thought of the fate of those people in Ping'an County who offended his brother-in-law.
He immediately started to sweat on his forehead, and the first thing he wanted to do was run down and open the door for the imperial envoy himself. But when he saw the thousands of noisy victims outside, he was afraid of opening the city gate and irritating him, and strictly ordered himself not to let anyone in.
Mr. Su Hui, the magistrate of Ping'an County and the brother-in-law of a disaster victim who came to the city, said categorically that as long as a disaster victim is brought in, he, the county magistrate, will no longer be able to wear the black gauze hat.
Your Majesty the Emperor, he has never seen the majesty of the Imperial Envoy, but he has seen too much of the majesty displayed by his brother-in-law. In the ten years that brother-in-law Su Hui has been the magistrate of Pingan County, how many people who have offended him have been punished
His wife was separated and his family was broken up? Wang Du couldn't remember the exact number. The only thing he was sure of was that he couldn't count it with two hands.
Therefore, to be on the safe side, Wang Du decided to send someone back to ask for Su Hui's opinion first. Just thinking of how terrifying the imperial envoy was, he no longer dared to show off his power when speaking.
"Your Majesty, the imperial envoy, please wait outside the city gate for a while. I will invite the county magistrate to come over."
Leaning his neck out from the city wall, Wang Du said with a stern expression.
These words made Wang Xiaoniu so angry. He had never heard of an imperial envoy being turned away by a local official. In addition, he also came from a poor family and had experienced years of famine. If his parents hadn't saved a mouthful of food to take care of him,
, I'm afraid he won't grow up, let alone still wearing the uniform of a sixth-grade military attache.
Although the garrison on the city wall was obtained by donations from the rich people in the city, most of the arrows shot were weak. But after all, there were too many people gathered under the city wall, and hundreds of arrows were still injured after being shot.
There were more than a dozen victims. Although none of them had any serious injuries, these victims didn't even have thick clothes. Blood would immediately come out when the arrows pricked their bodies.
The relatives of the injured person carried the injured person a certain distance away from the city gate, crying and hurriedly bandaging the wound. They didn't have any clean cotton cloth, and they just grabbed two handfuls of frozen snow from the ground and put it on the wound.
"Clean" it, then tear off the cloth strips and tie them around yourself.
There was not even anger in the eyes of these skinny victims, but some were just filled with blank sadness. Even the injured people did not cry out. They pursed their lips as hard as they could, trying not to make a sound.
The injured person looked at his relatives with deep apology in his eyes.
Yes, living in such an environment is already a luxury. If you are injured and have to drag down your family, how can you continue to live?
The injured person will be a drag on his family. In order to take care of his family, he can only leave the group of victims and find a shelter to live temporarily. But in these days and times, facing the barren land, they can't find food for them.
How to continue to survive?
Zhou Yangong and Wang Xiaoniu watched, and the tears in their eyes couldn't help but flow down. Suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd, and then a sad and earth-shaking cry resounded in the sky. Everyone looked over there, and it turned out that
It was an injured man who couldn't bear to drag his wife down, so he pulled out the arrow stuck in his thigh and stabbed it into his chest.
His body was very dirty, with dust and mud covering the original color of his skin. The blood on his chest kept flowing out like a stream, but it was not dirty at all. It was cleaner and purer than those on the city wall.
The sad cries were heard in his ears, but it was like a sharpened dagger stabbing into Zhou Yangong's heart. The dagger was still twisting and turning in his heart, stirring his conscience.
How could this happen? Why should this happen?
He looked at the dead man who was still holding his wife's hand with one hand, and the two thin, dark hands were tightly held together. There was an apologetic smile on the corner of the dead man's mouth. Was he feeling guilty?
? Are you feeling guilty that you have not fulfilled your vow to protect your wife for the rest of your life? Are you feeling guilty that your wife will raise a five or six-year-old child alone from now on? Or are you feeling guilty that you should not have made that unrealistic vow in the first place?
Hold your son's hand and grow old together with him.
Such simple eight words, but now living has become a luxury. What they pursue is no longer the romantic feelings when they vowed to make each other, it is just a meal of gruel that cannot really fill their stomachs. Any emotion, in
The couple looked so pale and weak before holding hands tightly.
"Which bastard did it! Stand up for me!"
Wang Xiaoniu pulled out the horizontal knife at his waist, pointed at the garrison on the city wall who were still watching the excitement and shouted loudly. The hand holding the knife shook violently, and the veins were exposed. His eyes had turned blood red, and the eyeballs protruded, as if
It's like coming out.
"If you have the ability to go to Tanzhou to fight Zhou soldiers with real swords and guns, what the hell do you think you have the ability to use swords and guns on your own family members! I fought bloody battles at the border without caring about life and death, but you bastards used the weapons in your hands
The bows and arrows are pointed at my fellow villagers! Are you still fucking human beings?"
Wang Xiaoniu cursed hoarsely and was hysterical.
The garrison on the city wall looked at each other in disbelief, and then focused their attention on the madman outside the city gate.
"Who is this guy?"
"Who knows where this madman came from?"
"It's so fucking funny. You went to Tanzhou to fight with Zhou soldiers. You're a fool. But don't mention it. I heard that the loyal king Liu Ling brought an army of 100,000 people south to fight against the enemy. We really have some in Zhou Dynasty.
There are a hundred thousand fools. Haha.”
A garrison soldier pointed at Wang Xiaoniu and laughed unscrupulously.
His voice was loud, and amid the cries of the woman who had lost her husband, his voice became increasingly harsh and unpleasant, hurting the hearts of countless people.
Wang Xiaoniu couldn't bear it anymore. Not only him, but the hundred soldiers behind him were all the soldiers who followed Liu Ling south. They all survived by chance after experiencing a bloody life-and-death battle. They had seen too much.
One by one, their robes are lying in a pool of blood. Even if they die, their robes will bite off a piece of the enemy's flesh like wolves. There are too many brothers who die with the enemy on the battlefield, so many that the living ones
Every night as soon as a person closes his eyes, vivid faces will appear.
However, Paoze, who fought to the death to protect his homeland, has now turned into a fool in the mouths of these garrison troops. How can Wang Xiaoniu and others who have returned from the battlefield alive face it calmly? The spirit of the dead Paoze is in the sky.
How can we rest in peace?
"Shoot him!"
Wang Xiaoniu pointed his sword at the garrison with a ferocious face and roared.
Zhou Yangong wanted to stop him, but he hesitated before he could say anything. A soldier behind Wang Xiaoniu took off his bow, pulled out an arrow, and completed the process from aiming to shooting in just two breaths.
The process of launching. The feathered arrow looked so desolate under the sunlight and the winter snow.
One arrow breaks the throat.
The clamoring Ping'an County garrison soldier never imagined that such accurate archery skills existed in this world. Although the city wall was not high, the distance between the two people was at least sixty steps. At this distance, according to his own arm strength, although he could
He reluctantly shot the arrow, but there was no guarantee of accuracy at all. He was the one who fired the arrow that hit the victim's thigh just now. It can only be said that he was unlucky.
At a distance of sixty steps, it is not difficult for Liu Ling's soldiers to pierce the opponent's throat with an arrow without wind. Liu Ling's own archery skills are very accurate, and bows and arrows are his most important skills besides iron spears.
His favorite weapon is even more so than iron guns. Liu Ling comes from modern times, so he has an irresistible love for long-distance weapons in his heart.
This arrow was fired in anger, with no intention of demonstrating at all. He shot it just to kill people. After following Liu Ling for a long time, each of these soldiers had a heart-stopping murderous aura. After the arrow was successful,
, the soldier raised his riding bow, raised his arms and shouted: "You deserve to die!"
Under the leadership of Wang Xiaoniu, one hundred soldiers drew their horizontal knives at the same time, and performed a solemn military salute to the dead victims from afar on their horses. Under the cold sunshine, the one hundred horizontal knives gave off a strange brilliance. (
