Twilight is the time of ten thousand lights. The northwest wind blew very strongly, and the rising stars seemed to be blown to a staggering spirit.

On this day, the soldiers defending the city were changed to the third group, and the patrol soldiers of a team of ten did not notice anything unusual. The guard general Zuo Yiwei General Yin Shishi and the criminal department Shangshu Wei Wensheng who sat in the city, the two of them wrapped themselves tightly, resisted the wind, and personally went to the city tower to patrol around, and the situation outside the city was the same as a few days ago.

The wind was cold and urgent, and when General Yin and Wei Shangshu saw that there was no change, they hurriedly went down the city tower, said goodbye to each other, and were about to go to their respective residences. Suddenly, a soldier ran to catch up with the front to pray, only to say that countless Kong Ming lanterns had risen in the northwest outside the city.

Yin Shishi and Wei Wensheng looked at each other suspiciously, incomprehensible, if it was on the days of the Winter Clothes Festival, someone in the countryside outside the city released Kong Ming lanterns, it was normal, there was already a folk custom of praying for the sky in winter clothes, but at this time it had already passed the Winter Clothes Festival, and with such a strong wind, it was unreasonable for the paper lanterns to rise into the sky, and how could there be so many Kong Ming lanterns.

At that moment, the two of them climbed the city tower again, and looked into the distance, and there were really tens of thousands of Kong Ming lanterns flickering into the sky, and with the help of the wind, they flew towards Daxing City. In less than half a moment, the lights are shining, flying over Daxing City, just like the stars descending from the sky, it is very beautiful.

The people in the city who were hurrying and were about to return home involuntarily stopped, looking up at the paper lamps that flickered in the twilight, full of doubts. The people in the market also walked out of their houses, pointing to the wonders in the air and competing to watch.

There are one or two lamps of oil about to burn out, while continuing to fly with the wind while slowly descending, the Yin Shishi's eyesight is better, although the sky is dark, he can still see the four big characters on Kong Ming's lantern, he was awakened in an instant from surprise and hesitation, and his heart was instantly filled with a chill that was several times colder than the wind on this city wall, shaking his hand and pointing at those lights, "Quick!" Fast! Shoot them all! ”

On the city wall, in order to prevent the Tang army from approaching the city, there were archers arranged day and night, and at this moment they heard the order of the Yin Shishi, and the archers quickly lined up in two teams and stood on both sides of the city wall, one facing the outside of the city and the other facing the city.

With the order of the military leader, the stray arrows flew, and the paper lamp was filled with heat, and suddenly the cold iron arrow shot through, and instantly burst in mid-air, and countless pieces of paper spread out from the belly of Kong Minglan, one after another, like goose feathers and heavy snow, and were blown by the wind to all corners of Daxing City. On the avenue, in the city, on the rooftops, and even in the courtyards of each house, there were several pieces of falling.

As more and more Kong Ming lanterns were pierced, more and more pieces of paper were scattered, and the heavy snow that fell in the cold winter month was not as fast as these pieces of paper. Wei Wensheng picked up a piece of paper from under his feet, and looked down at the flickering lamp in mid-air, only to see that the piece of paper that was not as big as a palm was clearly written: "Covenant with my father, the three chapters of the law, the murderer dies, the wounder is punished, and the crime of theft is punished." ”

Wei Wensheng's eyes followed the paper lamps that had flown into the city, the archers shot out rows of arrows, the paper lamps burst one by one in the city, and the snowflake-like pieces of paper were scattered in all directions, he suddenly slapped his thigh, shouted "not good" in his heart, and stretched out his hand to grab the Yin Shi Shi, "Don't shoot again!" Swap in the rockets and burn out the lights before they hit the ground. ”

A moment later, in the dark sky, flames lit up, and many paper lanterns turned into piles of black ash and fell down. I don't know how many rounds of archers were changed, how much smoke and fire, oil and feather arrows were consumed, and finally all the Kong Ming lanterns in the sky were shot down, and the cost of arrows was no less than a frontal siege battle, and because all the rockets that were shot later were fired, it would take at least half a month to pick up those iron arrows and rebuild the arrow shafts.

I wanted to intercept those pieces of paper, but it was too late. The people in the city picked up the pieces of paper that fell in the streets of the city and even in their own yards, but all those who were literate carefully read the words on it several times, and those who were illiterate also invited those who could read and write to solve the problem.

On this night, even after the closing time, the people were still in a state of agitation. As far as the people are concerned, the strict levy of conscription is tantamount to murder, injury and robbery, and there must be no objections, no resistance, even in the face of such a famine this year, the military rations that should be levied are still not missing, how can some officials think about how the people can make a living, let alone put down their posture and meet the people, it is no wonder that the crowd is passionate.

The people of Daxing City have been fighting for too long in the dark, and at this time, the bright and dark night has come, but people have a vague glimpse of the bright sky after a few hours. The chatter, approving, and applauding voices of the houses in the house rose quietly, and quickly penetrated the whole city, and the small fragments of sounds buried in the darkness seemed to gather more and more, until they pierced the dark night.

Outside the city, on the high soil slope in the northwest, four people stood facing the city.

"In this way, you can conquer the hearts of the people in the city?" Yinghua was facing the wind, looking into the distance, only to feel that the red light was dotted, shining endlessly, and it was very good-looking, but he didn't understand the way very well.

There was a hoarse female voice behind her, chuckling a few times, "I have heard for a long time that Mr. Du is strategizing and decisive, and I can see Mr. Du's methods today, and I really live up to this reputation." ”

"Mrs. Li praised it falsely." Du Ruyan humbly pushed the way.

Li Shimin stood silently beside Yinghua, without saying a word, a little fire jumped in his eyes, the whole city was noisy under his feet, and the momentum of calm and brazen floated around him, as if he could hold the whole world as soon as he stretched out his hand. Yinghua raised her head and peeked at him, the rock-solid silhouette suddenly crashed into her heart, she immediately lowered her eyes, and did not dare to take a second look, afraid that she would not be able to take her eyes off it after taking one more look at this life.

At this time, on the high soil slope outside the stronghold of Changle Palace, there were also two people staring at the situation on the other side of Daxing City, looking at each other and puzzled.

"You, go outside Daxing City. You go to Erlang's camp and ask. "Li Jiancheng summoned two scouts and sent them to find out." What is this for? He muttered to Pei Lin beside him, and looked back again, but instead of looking at Daxing City, his eyes were on the camp in the northwest direction, in the endless darkness.

Two moments later, the scouts who went to Li Shimin's camp returned in vain, and they couldn't find out the slightest, which provoked Li Jiancheng to reprimand him angrily.

The scout who went to Daxing City, but the luck was much better, and when he arrived outside Daxing City, he encountered pieces of paper, he raised his hand and grabbed a few pieces, put them in his arms and hurried back.

Li Jiancheng and Pei Lin each held a piece, unfolded it, and read it. "This, can you take the city?" Li Jiancheng looked at the piece of paper in Yang's hand and sneered, "Three chapters of the law with those common people? It is not the people who defend the city, so what good is it to make an appointment? In vain. Could it be that Duke Ming saw that Daxing City was well guarded and that his donkey skills were exhausted, so he came up with this little trick. ”

Pei Lin followed with a low smile, without saying a word, but said in his heart, Du Keming is really a good means, he wants to shake the hearts of the people and the army, and enter Daxing without blood, so it seems that he knows that Daxing is easy to attack, and it is necessary to retain troops to fight against those difficult bones, such as Li Mi, such as the Xue family in the northwest, in the final analysis, Da Lang has always lost compared to Erlang.

A few days after Kong Minglan passed the letter to the people at night, the bright and dark in Daxing City became somewhat impetuous. There are people in the family who serve in the army, and the family members all persuade Mo Zhen to fight for merit, and the glory of fighting for his life will not be able to last for a few days. There are also well-off families who are so heavy with taxes that they can't breathe that they have already tried to beat out the officials who are forced to pay for money.

Many merchants can't buy and sell due to the lockdown, so they get together every day, hoping to come up with one or two methods. Among them, there is a bearded and curly Hu Shang, who is the most heroic and righteous, if there is a temporary livelihood that is difficult to maintain, he will take care of it, so that he can spend a few days. At this time, the gold cake money skewers were obviously of little use, so all he could give was some rice noodles to fill the stomach.

In front of him, he couldn't come up with anything to chew on, so he had no choice but to sigh and explain the reason to everyone, "Since the siege of the city, I, Kang San, have been unable to come up with anything good, so I can't help you." ”

"Kang Saburo, don't say that." Another merchant patted him on the shoulder and said to all the merchants present: "If it weren't for San Lang's help from time to time, more than half of us here would have already become hungry and filled in the pit. ”

"Who's to say it's not?"

"Thank you too much, why can't you live it, if you want to say that you can't live it, we still can't live with Saburo."

Everyone thanked each other together, but Kang Saburo didn't twist and refuse, smiled and hugged his fists in return, and moved his fingers with a sad face, "I don't know when this city will be affected." To put it mildly, I would rather Tang Guogong's men and horses break through the city as soon as possible, and it will be easy to solve our suffering. ”

If this had been said a few days ago, I am afraid that no one would dare to speak up, and it would have led to death. At present, everyone has seen the piece of paper dropped by the paper lamp that flew to Daxing City, although they don't say it, most of them are very much in favor of it, so when they heard Kang Saburo's words, they nodded unconsciously, and they couldn't help but take the words on the paper to discuss it.

Speaking of impassioned indignation, Kang Saburo couldn't help but put on a storytelling-like posture again, stood up, waved his hand and said: "Speaking of Tang Guogong, although I don't know how, his second son, who has had a few contacts in the Eastern Capital, is really a person who can achieve great things......

The merchants sat down and listened for a while, and they didn't know who muttered, "In this case, we should welcome the Ming Lord into the city, and who is willing to guard the broken city with them." On the day the Tang army entered the city, it was necessary to go to the city gate building to greet it, although there was no pot pulp, it was good to teach us to see the righteous flag. ”

…… R1152