Chapter five hundred and sixty-eighth one hundred thousand fire
The painting boat crossed the Yellow River and stopped at the ferry on the west bank. Before Liu Xiu and others got off the boat, they saw that the ferry was already in chaos. wavv
I saw people sitting next to each other, squeezing each other, pushing each other, people were running desperately to the boats, and many people were squeezed into the river.
Liu Xiu frowned secretly, turned his head and said, "Long Yuan, go ask what's going on!"
Long Yuan agreed and found a bundle of ropes from the deck. He tied one end to the mast and threw the other end under the boat. He grabbed the rope and walked down the boat. Long Yuan fell into the water and swam ashore.
He asked the people on the shore about it and then returned quickly.
Everyone on the deck pulled the rope and dragged Long Yuan back to the ship. After boarding the ship, Long Yuan quickly came to Liu Xiu and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, the bandits are attacking the county!"
Hearing this, the expressions of everyone present changed. The bandit army was actually attacking the county! Liu Xiu was much more nervous than the others. Yin Lihua, Xu Xiling and Hua Feiyan were all in the county now.
He asked: "How is the situation?"
"Your Majesty, according to...according to the people, the city has been captured by the bandit army!"
These words made Liu Xiu's head buzz. Without asking any more questions, he quickly walked to the edge of the deck, pulled the rope, and made a gesture to get off the boat. Fu Zhan and Fu An hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and asked hurriedly: "
Where is Your Majesty going?"
"My wife is in the city, I must save her!"
Liu Xiu only thought that Pingyuan City would be in danger, so he deliberately left Yin Lihua and others in the city. However, despite all his calculations, he still failed to predict that the rebel army would attack the county and even breach the city.
Now he was so anxious that he wished he could grow wings on his back and fly to Yin Lihua's side.
The two brothers Fu Zhan and Fu An looked at each other and said in unison: "I will go to the city with your majesty to rescue my wife!"
Liu Xiu thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Zhiwen needs to stay to protect Prefect Fu!"
Fu An said seriously: "Your Majesty, the boat is relatively safe. As long as the eldest brother does not get off the boat, there should be no danger. In addition, I can leave my subordinates on the boat to protect the eldest brother and his family!"
Liu Xiu didn't hesitate any more and said: "That's fine!" As he spoke, he said to Li Tong: "Ciyuan, you stay too!"
"Your Majesty!" Li Tong said urgently. Liu Xiu waved his hand to him and said: "Ciyuan, you are on the boat, adapt to changes. If things change, don't wait for us, sail the boat and leave first!"
"How is this possible..." Fu Zhan waved his hands hurriedly.
Liu Xiu ignored Fu Zhan's objection, looked at Li Tong deeply, and said sternly: "Ci Yuan, you have only one mission, be sure to protect Prefect Fu and his family!"
Looking at Liu Xiu's sharp eyes and listening to his tone of voice that could not be refused, Li Tong stopped talking and raised his hands to Liu Xiu and said, "I obey my orders!"
After explaining the matter, Liu Xiu grabbed the rope and jumped from the boat into the river. Fu An, Long Yuan, Long Zhun, and Long Bu followed closely behind and jumped into the water one after another along the rope.
The five of them swam ashore without even bothering to change out of their wet clothes. When they saw horses outside the ferry, they ran over. Liu Xiu came to the horses and asked loudly: "Whose horses are these?"
A rich middle-aged man, surrounded by several servants, walked over, glanced at Liu Xiu and others who were all wet, sneered, and said proudly: "It's mine!"
"I want it!" As he spoke, Liu Xiu stretched out his hand to untie the reins tied to the tree trunk. The rich middle-aged man almost laughed angrily and cursed: "Who the hell are you? You don't even own my horse.
You dare to snatch it, I think you don’t want to live..." Before he could finish his words, the cold sword edge was pressed against his neck first. Long Yuan’s sword. The rich middle-aged man’s face suddenly changed, and his legs went weak.
, almost sitting on the ground, and asked tremblingly: "You...what are you going to do?"
Long Yuan was too lazy to talk to him and shook his head at Long Zhun. The latter stepped forward, took off the package he was carrying, took out a cloth bag from it, stuffed it directly into the arms of the wealthy middle-aged man, and said: "
We are not robbing, we are buying!”
After speaking, everyone followed Liu Xiu, untied the reins of their horses, mounted their horses, and urged their horses to head straight towards the city.
They came and left even faster, and the rich middle-aged people were dumbfounded. A servant came forward and asked cautiously: "Master, just... let them go like this?"
The rich middle-aged man finally came to his senses, subconsciously touched his neck, and then glared at the servant. Are you blind? Didn't you see that your master was almost beheaded just now? He put the little boy
I opened the cloth bag, looked down, and my eyes suddenly widened. It turned out that the dragon coins inside were all one by one. Each dragon coin cost one thousand, so many dragon coins, at least twenty or thirty thousand.
This isn't trying to steal a horse, it's simply showing favor!
Let's talk about Liu Xiu and his party, after leaving the ferry, they rushed straight to the city. The ferry was not far from the city, only about ten miles away. When they were about to approach the city, they could already hear the people in the city shouting horses and could see inside the city.
Thick smoke billows.
Before Liu Xiu and others reached the city, more than a dozen soldiers ran toward them. These soldiers were dressed in disorderly clothes and all carried spears in their hands. They lined up to block the way of Liu Xiu and others.
One of the leading soldiers held a spear in one hand and pinched his waist with the other. He tilted his head and shouted loudly: "Stop! Stop! Leave the horse behind and save the heads on your neck!"
No one listened to him, Liu Xiu's speed did not slow down at all, and he flashed past the soldier. At the same time, a long electric light was drawn in the sky. The horse passed by, the head flew away, and the body fell.
Earth, done in one go.
Before the remaining miscellaneous soldiers could react, Fu Zhan, Long Yuan and others also walked through them. As they passed by, the sharp blades were unsheathed, and flashes of lightning suddenly appeared. What happened to the miscellaneous soldiers?
Without seeing anything clearly, they all fell into a pool of blood.
Liu Xiu and his party rushed directly to the east gate of the city.
At this time, the city gate was already wide open, and there were still many soldiers standing inside and outside the city gate. Seeing a few cavalry rushing towards them like lightning, the soldiers thought they were their own.
Several soldiers came out of the city gate and shouted: "Hey, these brothers, are you from the Fifth School or from Tanxiang?"
Liu Xiu didn't say anything. He rode up to several soldiers and swung his sword. Sha! The blade of the sword slashed open the chest of one of the soldiers, who screamed and fell to the ground.
Fu Zhan and Long Yuan, who followed closely behind, also took death blows. The other soldiers did not even have a chance to speak, so they followed in the footsteps of their companions.
The soldiers in the city gate were dumbfounded. They captured the city, and the people in the city ran wildly outside the city. No one ran from outside the city into the city.
"Damn it!" All the soldiers cursed angrily and hurriedly picked up their weapons. Before they could get out of their stance, Liu Xiu and others were already in front of them.
Bang bang bang, the war horse collided with the soldiers, knocking them away. Before they could get up from the ground, the four hooves of the war horse had trampled over their bodies.
The battle in the city was not completely over yet, at least the sounds of fighting were still coming and going. Liu Xiu and others passed through the gate tower and entered the city. There were soldiers on the top of the city shouting loudly: "It's the enemy! Shoot arrows! Shoot arrows quickly."
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Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh
There were not many miscellaneous soldiers on the city top, and the number of archers among them was even smaller. A few scattered arrows shot down, which did not pose a threat to Liu Xiu and others, and they were knocked down by them with their swords.
When the archers re-rigged their bows and prepared to release arrows, Liu Xiu and others had already run far away.
The inn where Yin Lihua and others stayed was located in the west of the city. From the east of the city to the west of the city, you had to pass through the center of the city, but the streets and alleys here were full of bandits.
Listening to the sounds, the most intense fighting between the two sides was in the county government. It can be judged that most of the county soldiers have retreated to the county government to continue to resist the rebels.
Liu Xiu and others slowed down their horses and said, "There are too many thieves around the county government. We have to go around them!"
As he spoke, he turned the horse's head and circled towards the south of the city. The deeper into the city, the faster the enemy troops became, especially on the streets, where it was difficult to move even an inch.
As soon as they rode to a street, a large group of thieves appeared in front of them. One of them raised his finger and pointed at them and asked: "Who are they? Tell me your name!"
Liu Xiu secretly frowned, turned the horse's head, and wanted to go back the way he came, but the bandits on the opposite side were already rushing forward. He couldn't hide, so he had to fight! Liu Xiu clamped the horse's belly with both feet and shook hard.
Reins, urging the horse forward.
Bang! The war horse crashed directly into the crowd, knocking the bandit army into a large area. However, a few people fell, but a group came up.
A large number of thieves surrounded Liu Xiu and stabbed him with their spears. Liu Xiu waved his sword to block, click, click, click, and with a series of crisp sounds, the spears thrust around him were cut off by the Chixiao Sword.
Made a circle.
People were horrified and screamed in surprise. Liu Xiu swung his sword out again, and the blade of the sword instantly cut open the chests of the three thieves.
But soon, more bandits came over. Liu Xiu didn't see any of them, and pierced the horse's body with a spear.
The war horse neighed, and then several more spears struck the war horse. The war horse could no longer hold up and fell to the ground.
Liu Xiu was well prepared. He jumped off his horse in advance and rushed into the crowd of rebels. He swung the Chixiao Sword and attacked from left to right, killing the enemies around him. Fu Zhan, Long Yuan, Long Zhun, and Long Bo were four.
He has dismounted and started a foot battle with the bandits.
Although there are only five of them, their martial arts are stronger than the last. Even if there are one or two hundred rebels, they are no match for the five of them. But now the number of the rebels is not just one or two hundred, but a sea of people.
In fact, as they started fighting here, more and more thieves gathered on the streets. Looking around, there were so many people that it was so dark that it was hard to tell how many there were.
Liu Xiu fought and retreated, and joined Fu Zhan, Long Yuan and others. After looking at the situation before and after, he said hurriedly: "Let's go!" As he spoke, he took three steps into two steps and came to the road.
I kicked him in front of a nearby shop.
Boom! The wooden door of the shop was kicked open by him, and he rushed in.
Fu Zhan, Long Yuan and others also followed Liu Xiu and rushed into the shop. Two thieves were about to chase them in, but as soon as they reached the door of the room, two long swords suddenly stabbed out from the door and penetrated their bodies.
chest.
The shop was a tavern. Liu Xiu walked through the lobby and went to the backyard of the tavern. He opened the backyard door and ran out.
There was a small alley in the backyard. Several thieves were dragging two women into the alley, and they happened to bump into Liu Xiu.
Without another word of nonsense, Liu Xiu stepped forward and attacked with the Red Sky Sword. With a few puffs of puffs, several thieves were hit by swords in their chests, two of them had their necks cut open, and the other was cut off directly.
Beheaded.
Five corpses lay on the ground.
The two women screamed in fright. Liu Xiu pushed the two women angrily and shouted: "Stop screaming! Run!"
As he spoke, he passed the two women and ran towards the fork in the alley ahead. When he reached the fork in the alley, Liu Xiu checked the direction and ran towards the intersection on the right. Not far after running, he heard a rumble from ahead.
Rapid footsteps.
He took a deep breath, handed the Red Sky Sword to his left hand, shook his right arm, then held the sword again and stepped forward to meet him.
