The Li family

The gate of the county gentry, nailed with gilt tin nails, is very gorgeous, the head of the household, Li Zhenlin, is a lifter, now the city gate is broken, and the gate is closed immediately.

In just a short time, the soldiers kept smashing open the doors of the big houses in the city with weapons in their hands, and there were screams and cries.

Li Zhenlin wandered in the courtyard, looking at the street, frowning deeply, but still smiling: "Don't worry, adults, I always raise people, and I don't dare to harass these rebels." ”

The person in his thirties on the other side was a special envoy, and said: "Li Juren, if you can serve the imperial court in a critical situation, I will tell the emperor when I go back, and the reward will not be a problem." ”

Li Zhenlin was overjoyed in his heart, and said repeatedly: "Lord Xie, Lord Xie." ”

At this moment, the sound of clothes and armor and neat footsteps came from the street outside the mansion, and someone was heard loudly annclaiming: "According to the order of the true monarch, the officers and soldiers in the county and the official gentry are rebellious and rebellious, and they will be punished as traitors and killed!"

Listening to the announcement, as well as the sound of neat footsteps, Li Zhenlin's face suddenly turned pale, and his voice trembled: "My lord, you still hide." ”

Seeing that the envoy was hiding, everyone in the mansion was pale, only to hear the footsteps outside one after another, and it was slowly quiet, and then he was a little relieved, and there were footsteps at the door of the mansion, and then suddenly the voice of the soldier came: "Open the door, open the door." ”

"Master, no, there's someone outside. The gatehouse was still screaming, only to hear a "bang", the door went to crash open, and then there were armor soldiers rushing in, the gatehouse was still shouting, the cavalry stabbed, only to hear a scream, immediately slashed on the spot.

Li Zhenlin was so frightened that he took a few steps back and shouted: "I am a lifter, you are officers and soldiers, how can you kill my people casually without trial?"

"Zhenjun copied the county government, there is a list of official gentry, Zhenjun has an order, anyone who lifts more than 10,000 acres, is a thief, and it doesn't matter if he kills - it is you who kills. ”

"If you are honest, you will die, and your family will be spared death, or the whole family will be buried together. ”

The team that rushed in was smiling, and with a wave of his hand, a soldier stepped forward, Li Zhenlin was shocked, and retreated again and again in fright, shouting: "You dare, you dare?"

Before the words fell, a knife handle smashed his body, Li Zhenlin was in pain, knelt down involuntarily, vomited blood in his mouth, and his face was miserable, and then, his hair was grabbed and pulled, and his neck was exposed.

The knife flashed, and the head fell to the ground.

"Copying the family, Zhenjun said, one-third of the money copied will be handed over to the public, one-third will be reserved for the brothers who have not gone out of the battle, and one-third is ours!"

"Whoever dares to stop it, kill it immediately. ”

As soon as the team waved his hand, the first soldier rushed up, and there were screams and crying in the backyard, as if a mother-in-law was blocking it, but the knife flashed, and a puddle of blood was splashed on the window paper of the firewood room, and the envoy had a gloomy face, hiding in the firewood and watching, gritting his teeth in his heart: "Damn, I don't want Pei Ziyun to be so mad." ”

However, it seems that these officers and soldiers did not realize themselves, they only looted, and were not interested in the firewood house at all, and the large group went straight to the storehouse, and for a long time, the officers and soldiers who had plundered a lot of gold and silver listened to the team's instructions: "Quickly, don't take anything worthless, go to the next house." ”

Waiting for the officers and soldiers to go out, there was a cry of women in the house, the envoy did not move for a while, listened to it, and found that it was indeed far away, so he pointed out the charm.

"Open the door, suffer death!" The sound was continuous, and thick smoke billowed from many places in the county, and the sound of breaking doors, fleeing, murder, and screams continued.

Ordinary people hid in their homes, all frightened, and some hurried to the cellars, and those who did not have cellars only shrank in the corners, but the officers and soldiers did not look at them, and went straight to the big houses.

At the pavilion of the city wall, the eunuchs accompanying the army watched, seeing the smoke billowing and the sound of killing, their eyes were unbearable.

"Hey" The eunuch sighed, Pei Ziyun smiled and ignored it, suddenly felt something, first glanced at a place in the city, and then turned to the opposite side to look outside the city, only to see that the sky was raining, the clouds and mist were surging with the wind, and the drizzle was falling slightly, just looking at it and smiling: "Lu Wangjun, it's coming." ”

The eunuch couldn't bear to look at him, he was shocked when he listened, and looked at Pei Ziyun uneasily: "Why did Zhenjun say this? How could King Lu's traitor come so quickly?"

The eunuch didn't think that Pei Ziyun was cheating, or he had questions, Pei Ziyun sneered and said lightly: "The emperor is different from the liukou, if the emperor can't maintain the county, the people's hearts will be scattered." ”

"I am a big trouble for King Lu, every move must be closely watched, in order to supervise me, the enemy army is not far from the original, although the county town is broken, but the news can be transmitted, and now I am coming. ”

"Zhenjun, what should I do then? The original plan was to fight guerrillas, but now I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to fight. ”

The eunuch was uneasy, hearing this, Pei Ziyun smiled: "It's them who are waiting, you don't have to worry, the officials and commissioners who have been requisitioned, if you don't want to die, you have already prepared the grain, grass and resting place, and the soldiers will have hot meals and sleepers as soon as they return to the camp." ”

"Whoever comes, send an order down, order each team to seal the sword, go back to the camp to eat and sleep, and the looted property will be counted by the Judge Advocate General's Office, and the reward will be unified in the future. ”

"Those who do not accept it will be dealt with by military law. ”

The eunuch was stunned, only to see Pei Ziyun issuing them one by one, the orders were neat and orderly, with the soldiers, the servants who didn't want to die immediately opened fire, buried the pot to cook, the cooking smoke was faint, and the heralds kept shuttling.

Official Road

The drizzle continued to fall with a chill, falling on the field, the cavalry of the three thousand Lu Kings was speeding in the rain, the rain continued to flow down in the gaps in the armor, taking away the body temperature, the strange thing is that although it was cold, they were silent, marching like a black snake, and occasionally fell into the muddy water, they all jumped up and continued to walk.

Arriving at a place, the first general looked very young, twenty-five or sixteen years old, his face was full of coldness, he rode on his horse and looked into the distance, and asked, "Are you almost in Taiping County?"

The soldier in front glanced around and nodded: "General, we have arrived at the pipe shop, and there are still ten miles to go, and we will reach the county seat." ”

"Stop" This man is a guerrilla general, and when he heard this, he raised his horsewhip and shouted loudly, and with the order, three thousand cavalrymen pulled the saddle and slowed down.

The guerrilla general swept over the cavalry and ordered: "Eat all dry food and dried meat, eat and drink to your heart's content, rest for a while, and prepare for battle." ”

When the three thousand cavalry listened, they were silent, and they took out dry food and dried meat one after another, and swallowed it in large gulps on their horses, and there was rain and sweat flowing down, but they didn't care at all, and ate it in a big gulp.

The guerrilla general was followed by a Taoist official, listening to the words, he hurriedly persuaded: "General, as long as you bite the enemy's cavalry, you can't make it escape, Pei Ziyun is fierce, if we damage the spirit of our army or a trivial matter, we can't help but let it escape, I'm afraid Your Majesty will not like it......"

The "bastard" guerrilla general listened, his face turned blue, and he scolded.

"My elite battalion is invincible, and the number of people is also equal to the enemy, and the court cavalry of the loyal and diligent uncle is not also known as the elite, holding several times the number of people, and it is not for me to be defeated?"

"Our troops, even if we fight head-on, we can win, not to mention that we still have internal response, the envoy sent news during the day, the county is plundering, it is a good opportunity for a night attack, as long as we kill Pei Ziyun, we can win a big victory, Your Majesty has an order, kill this Liao, and the official will be promoted to three levels." ”

Just saying that, the guerrilla general's eyes were bloodshot and ready to move.

The Taoist officer of the military was stunned when he heard this, and he was speechless, this would be too conceited, to know that Pei Ziyun had a brilliant record, where it was so easy to kill.

But the Taoist officer looked at the guerrilla general's red eyes, demonic and rebellious, don't look at it as his own person, in this case, it is useless to say anything, and swallowed the words again.

The guerrilla general watched the Taoist official being beaten by himself, his face gradually softened, and he asked, "Is the envoy Hu Chu still there?"

The Taoist closed his eyes and felt it, and there was a sense in the city, and he said: "It's here, it's still in the county." ”

"That's right. ”

I saw the guerrilla general with a fierce face, looking at the county town in the distance, and licking his lips greedily.

Walls

The group approached, and at this time it was night, and saw that there were torches lit on the city wall, and there were soldiers and armor going back and forth, vigilantly looking into the distance, the guerrilla general was relieved, if he didn't even have any precautions, he felt cheating, and immediately ordered: "Send a message, let the envoy open the door, and we can kill it." ”

The Taoist officer took out the talisman a little, and the talisman burned, with a dim light, the fire spread rapidly, and the talisman was burned out in a blink of an eye.

Inside the city

Temporarily made a sandbag to build a sandwich road, on both sides of the road, there were many cavalry, all of them had eaten enough and slept for an hour, wearing armor and riding on horses, with a murderous aura, while Pei Ziyun was riding on a horse, his face was like cold dew, and he was playing with talismans in his hands.

The envoy was tied to the crossing, with injuries all over his body, staring at Pei Ziyun with hatred, and kept struggling.

"Whew"

Pei Ziyun looked at the talisman in his hand, and the talisman burned.

"Is it for you to open the city gates? This general is really conceited, really when I can't put it up?"

"You're also a fool, if you don't move, or can't find you for a while, but you still want to use the talisman to communicate with the internal response - I'm an earth immortal, and the talisman communication in the city, can you still feel it?"

Pei Ziyun said, looked out of the door, and smiled: "Hide everything, prepare the oil oil, as long as Lu Wangjun comes in half, immediately start and close the city gate." ”

"Yes"

After Pei Ziyun finished speaking, the cavalry all suppressed their excitement and dispersed, hiding everywhere, and with another wave of their hands, someone stepped forward and opened the city gate.

"Zi"

With a sound, the gate of the county town opened, this person was similar to the envoy, the door opened, and suddenly the city wall found out, exclaimed, and beat the gong, panicked.

"The city is defenseless, too careless, kill, kill in, kill them all. The guerrilla general shouted.

"Pei Ziyun didn't defend himself, and he easily opened the city gate, I'm afraid there is fraud in it. The Taoist looked at the county seat, the black hole in the city gate, it was a beast that swallowed people, and couldn't help but shudder.

"Well, Pei Ziyun just didn't expect us to come so quickly, and the envoy has strong martial arts, so he opened the city gate, there is nothing suspicious about this, what are you afraid of?" The guerrilla general said, at the city gate, the envoy had already fought, and someone wanted to close the city gate, and the Taoist official wanted to say something, but the guerrilla general ignored it: "If you don't dare to go up, then keep it, and I will report to the court truthfully at that time." ”

As soon as he said this, the guerrilla general no longer cared about the father-in-law in front of him, roared angrily, and the whip was whipped on the horse, and the horse was in pain, galloping forward with all his strength, shouting: "Kill, rush in with Ben." ”

The cavalry behind him did not hesitate at all, and the whip was also drawn, and like a stream of rolling iron, they rushed towards the open gate.