Chapter 383: Disaster
I saw that most of the corpses of Zhang Mason and his relatives were already on the ground at this moment, and the death was extremely miserable, either the head was smashed to the flesh and blood, or the body was pierced through several holes, the bones were broken, and the blood flowed all over the ground. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
All around him were shards of hail that fell from the sky and smashed on the ground, white flowers, and most of the hailstones were stained with blood and ** and the like sprinkled all over the ground, and there were craters everywhere.
He struggled to walk between the hail and the corpses, shouting in a trembling voice: "Lord Wang, Wang Zhizhou, where are you?"
As he spoke, he walked towards Wang Zhizhou's official sedan chair.
Because when the hail fell, he only cared about finding a shield to hide, where was there time to take care of Wang Zhizhou's safety, so he didn't know what Wang Zhizhou's current situation was, he only saw Wang Zhizhou's official sedan chair dumped to the ground, and the official sedan chair had been smashed to pieces by the hail that fell from the sky, and blood flowed out from below.
Wang Zhizhou, who had persuaded the villagers on the official sedan chair before, was not found around the official sedan chair, and his heart was pounding nervously.
At this time, he would rather Wang Zhizhou not have an accident, and it would be much better to have Wang Zhizhou with him to deal with this terrible disaster than him alone.
So he called Wang Zhizhou with a trembling mouth, and at the same time staggered to Wang Zhizhou's official sedan chair with a shield, and looked around, and found that two soldiers were also squirming on the ground with shields, making a painful ** sound, but it turned out that the shield was not enough to stop their burly figures, and their limbs were still injured by the hail that fell from the sky, but they luckily took their lives, so they were in that painful **.
This gave hope to the general judge, and he hurried over to uncover his shield and get the soldiers to their feet, and found that one of the two soldiers had wounded his foot and the other of his shoulder.
After the two found dead bodies everywhere, they realized that they had just survived this great catastrophe, and the great joy that had escaped from death covered up the pain, and they struggled to stand up, and said in a trembling voice: "This, what's the matter?"
Tong Ju's voice also trembled a little, and said: "And no matter what's going on, hurry up and see if Lord Zhizhou is not in the official sedan chair, what happened?"
The two hurriedly nodded and stepped forward, and opened the smashed and broken official sedan chair, only to find that two bloody corpses fell out of the official sedan chair.
Judging from the clothes, it was the two sedan chair men who carried the sedan chair, but they didn't see Wang Zhizhou's figure, and the general judge was looking around, and suddenly heard Wang Zhizhou's weak voice under the corpses of the two sedan chair drivers: "Hurry up...... Lift it up, I'm going to be suffocated......"
But it turned out that Wang Zhizhou was hiding under the corpse, knowing that the hail outside had stopped, but it did not have the strength to lift the two heavy corpses and the official sedan chair that pressed on the body, and they were about to be suffocated to death.
The two soldiers hurriedly stepped forward to lift the corpse, revealing Wang Zhizhou, who was covered in blood below. Tong Juan was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to help, only to find that the blood was all on Wang Zhizhou's body from the two sedan chair men who had been smashed to a bloody blur, and he himself was not injured, but he was half scared to death.
The two soldiers were afraid that there would be hail falling, so they each picked up two shields from the ground, held them in the air, and blocked them above Wang Zhizhou's head, and the other shield blocked them for themselves, and looked around in horror.
Wang Zhizhou was also terrified, and said to the judge: "This, what's going on?"
The judge said nervously: "It seems that Lord Yang's guess is very accurate, and it really rained such a terrifying hailstorm, killing so many people, and I don't know how many people were killed and injured in the whole state, and how the cattle and crops were damaged, so I have to quickly inspect everywhere and report to the imperial court for rescue." ā
After hearing what the general judge said, Wang Zhizhou calmed down a little and said, "Yes, yes, how many people have died have to report to the court quickly." ā
Thinking of this thorny problem, he not only trembled all over his body, wiped a handful of blood from his face, and thought in his heart that if there were many dead people, although it was caused by natural disasters, but because of the warning of Lord Yang in front of him, the imperial court would also blame him for his poor prevention, and he would still be held responsible.
He first counted the casualties at the scene, and most of the dozens of soldiers he brought with him, except for the sword and axe men with shields, and most of the horse archers who had nothing to cover, died. Fortunately, he forced some of the villagers to return to their homes, and only twenty or thirty relatives of Zhang Masons were left at the scene, almost all of whom died, because they did not have the shields in the hands of soldiers to resist the hail falling from the sky, and there was no place to hide in the wilderness for a while.
Seeing the corpses lying horizontally, Wang Zhizhou stomped his feet and said: "It's all to blame for you stupid guys, who didn't listen to the words of the official and didn't listen to Lord Yang's greetings, so they ended up like this, and the official almost died with you." ā
Wang Zhizhou led people into the village to inspect the casualties in Stone Village, and he was a little relieved that there were only a few dead and injured in the village, and most of the villagers went back to the house according to his request, and basically none of them were injured in the house.
Wang Zhizhou rushed back to Shouzhou City overnight, and after entering the city, he found that his eyes were full of desolation, and many houses were smashed by hailstones. Later, he learned about the casualties in Shouzhou, which made him greatly relieved. -- Only a few people were killed or wounded in the city. Fortunately, the previous measures were taken to ban the streets, basically no one went out, and the beggars rushed to the city god temple to take refuge, and the few dead and injured were still casualties caused by the hail smashing the roof.
This result made him happy and lucky. If it weren't for the fact that Yang Xianmao had warned him before that everyone was forbidden to go out, the casualties would not know how heavy they were.
At dawn the next day, the counties and villages reported very small numbers of casualties. Because the yamen forbade people to go out, except for those who did not listen to the greetings in Shicun and other villages, the people in other villages and towns were still very obedient, so not many people were injured because of this, and there were almost no deaths or injuries in the ploughing cattle, and they were all locked up in the cowshed under the stilted building. However, the building was seriously damaged, and he had to ask the imperial court for disaster relief.
Wang Zhizhou is not in the mood to close this now, and another more important thing hangs in his heart, that is, Lord Yang Xianmao and Princess Xuan'er don't know where they went.
If something happens to the two of them, the credit for saving many lives in this huge hailstorm will only be written off.
Therefore, Wang Zhizhou immediately ordered to send almost all the officials and horse foot archers to search around.
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After Yang Xianmao used the sword of Shang Fang to force Wang Zhizhou to prohibit people from going out that day, he quickly walked out of the yamen and rode a Chiyang donkey to Bald Mountain to find Princess Xuan'er and the snake fairy Gu who went there to enjoy the mountains and rivers.
Bald Mountain is very large, and wandering around without a goal is tantamount to looking for a needle in the bottom of the sea. But this didn't make it difficult for Yang Xianmao, he patted the head of the Chiyang donkey and told him to go find Princess Xuan'er. This Chiyang donkey can understand people's words and know the meaning of the master, and he has smelled the smell of Princess Xuan'er's body before, so he knows how to track it, and it is speeding like the wind at the moment, and it is galloping away on the undulating cliffs of Bald Mountain.
However, they were blocked by a small river, and at the edge of the river, the Chiyang donkey hissed, stopped, turned his head and snorted at Yang Xianmao.
Yang Xianmao knew that it was the river that blocked the princess's scent. How can I find the smell of Xuan'er?
Yang Xianmao looked at the small river, wanting to see if he could cross the river. Yang Xianmao was hesitating whether to find a shallow and gentle river beach to cross the river, and the Chiyang donkey had already guessed his intentions, and jumped into the stream, like a fast boat, quickly swam towards the opposite bank, and went ashore in a moment.
Yang Xianmao was surprised and delighted, patted the neck of the Chiyang donkey and said: "You guy, not only a thousand-mile donkey, but also a master swimmer, now that you can go by water and land, what else can I worry about!"
However, although the Chiyang donkey crossed the river, it did not find the smell of Xuan'er on the other side of the river, which was a bit troublesome. Didn't Princess Xuan'er cross the river and go ashore?
Yang Xianmao rode a donkey down the side of the stream to see if he could find any trace of Xuan'er's scent, because Bald Mountain was too big, and if you blindly searched, there would be nowhere to find it.
He rode the Chiyang donkey for a while, and suddenly, a few birds flew up in the woods in front of him, circled in the air, and then fell back into the forest.
Yang Xianmao's heart couldn't help but froze, and his eyes looked towards the woods, but he didn't find anything.
This bald mountain is rocky and rocky, and there is basically no suitable place for farming, so there are no people, and there are no pedestrians along the way, how can any birds be frightened? He was alert, but there was no expression on his face, he still looked nervously, as if looking for something, and then rode his donkey down the stream.
Walking to the place where the bird flew up just now, suddenly, a rain of arrows flew out of the woods, not only very dense, but also extremely fast, and there was a purple aura lingering on the arrows, indicating that the person who shot the arrow was at least a seventh-level purple qi powerhouse.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of sneak attack on Yang Xianmao is difficult to dodge, especially since these arrows come from masters who are one level higher than Yang Xianmao. But the birds that flew up had given him enough warning, and made him aware enough in his heart, so, at the moment when the arrow was about to hit him, he struck a wall of earth.
This is an earthen wall artifact that instantly spawns a defensive earthen wall.
However, although this earthen wall blocked the rain of arrows, it could not stop such a fierce force, and with a series of explosions, the earthen wall was actually shattered by the rain of arrows, and the earth collapsed into countless fragments.