The sound of horses' hooves trampling on a piece of earth-gray earth was particularly eye-catching and harsh, which made the five hundred brocade-clothed guards who protected the carriage shocked.

I thought it was still an official army, but if I looked closely, the clothes and flags didn't look like each other at all, and the Jinyi Wei Qianhu who led the team didn't dare to take risks at all.

"Quick, go back to the city..."

"What's wrong?" Zhang Yan poked her head out of the car, looked at the panicked team, and hurriedly asked.

"Back to Niangniang, a group of cavalry came from the northwest, almost more than a thousand horsemen, it doesn't look like an official army."

"Difficult... Could it be that they are thieves, they have all arrived in Kaifeng? Zhang Yan's face also showed a hint of nervousness.

"Niangniang is at ease, the cavalry is still far away, the ministers will lead people to block them, and let Liu Baihu protect Niangniang's carriage back to the city first, it should be too late."

After Qianhu finished speaking, he didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly greeted.

Suddenly, hundreds of brocade guards pulled the carriage and hurriedly turned around, and all the palace maids and eunuchs followed in panic and trotted behind.

And the movement on their side finally attracted the attention of the cavalry, and they rushed straight over.

"Chief, look, these guys are riding Mongolian horses."

The cavalry who came was the guard battalion led by Qin Yu, who came to Xiangfu County to check the situation of the displaced people, who would have thought that when approaching the county seat, they found a team of people and horses, more than 500 tall Mongolian horses, and immediately blinded the eyes of many people.

This is too far away, and I didn't see those palace maids clearly, otherwise I am afraid that I will really be blind.

"Leave those who escape, kill these people first, and snatch all the horses."

Qin Yu pointed at his horsewhip, and a thousand guards pulled out their sabers one after another and rushed forward, their movements obviously much more proficient than before.

Hundreds of brocade-clothed guards are used to showing off their might in the capital, and they are also good at fighting alone, but they have never been on the battlefield, especially this kind of cavalry battle.

But these are hereditary brocade guards, who can be said to be loyal to Daming, and at this moment, in order to buy time for Zhang Yan, they all pulled out their waist knives and rushed to kill them.

"Kill!"

The result is self-evident, in less than a moment, the four hundred brocade guards were killed by the wolf-like guards, and they only paid more than 100 casualties.

"What a horse!"

"Yes, it's a good horse, and it's a waste to let these guys ride it."

After the guards had dealt with the brothers and wounded who had died in battle, they led three or four hundred tall war horses, and they were overjoyed.

Only Qin Yu looked at the corpse on the ground and frowned slightly, and then looked at the waist card in his hand and said:

"Could these be the legendary brocade guards? But it's too vulnerable, isn't it, and what are so many brocade guards doing here? Is it a arrest? ”

After speaking, he looked at the faint city wall in the distance, and finally ordered: "Search them carefully to see if there are any official documents or anything like that." ”

"Yes!"

Everyone immediately rummaged through the corpse, but they couldn't find any ghosts except for some silver coins.

"King, are these corpses buried, or are they burned?"

"Burn it, these guys are also a little bloody, the coat and shoes are stripped off, and the underwear is forgotten."

Qin Yu waved his hand, hundreds of thousands of homeless people nearby, if the corpses were buried, most of them would be pulled out again, as for the cotton clothes, they were in demand, and they could never be wasted.

In a short time, more than 400 corpses turned into a raging fire, and Qin Yu led people to drag the corpses of his brothers who died in battle forward.

At this time, Zhang Yan and they had fled into the city, and all the gentry came to the city gate with palpitations.

"Close the gates."

"No, the guards of the main palace haven't come in yet."

"Niangniang, they can't get in anymore, just one round, and they were all killed by the thieves!"

"What, all killed?"

Zhang Yan's face was shocked, those guards were all one of the best in a hundred, and they were all killed in one round, how strong should the anti-thieves be?

Although the city gates were closed in time, the faces of the gentry still did not show a relaxed expression.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people outside the city, if those thieves fan them to attack the city, I am afraid that they will not be attacked in an instant.

"Alas! What can be done now? It would be nice for the mother to go one step earlier. ”

"Why don't you send someone to Kaifeng City and inform the governor to send troops to help!"

"I'll have to wait until the evening to go!"

In fact, everyone is not very worried about their own safety, and they have already heard about the style of these anti-thieves.

After the city is broken, at most they will lose some maids and concubines, and then lose some money, anyway, the food is so small, so what they are really worried about is Zhang Yan.

"You don't have to worry, if the thieves really break the city, this palace is nothing more than doing the royal duty."

Zhang Yan calmed down at the moment, maybe it was because she had seen too many tragedies in the world in the past few days, and she had already looked down on life and death, so she waved her hand.

Everyone also understood what she meant, and did not say more, but came to the city again one after another, and watched the cavalry wandering outside the northern city, and saw a few horsemen rushing over.

"Listen to the people above, the king of my family said, for the sake of the soup kitchen, as long as you open the city gate, promise not to kill a person, as long as you hand over the maid, you can not take money, food and other materials!"

One of the guards shouted.

While the gentry and landlords were overjoyed, they also looked at each other, opened their mouths, and finally did not answer, if it weren't for Zhang Yan here, I am afraid that they would have agreed a long time ago.

And the old man of the Zhang family, seeing Zhang Yan nodded, so he replied: "Little brother, you don't want money and food, why don't you just retreat?" ”

"Old thing, you dare to think about it, don't be embarrassed, open the city gate quickly, and be less verbose!"

The guard immediately scolded.

The two sides argued for a while, and the guards saw that the other party still refused to agree to open the door, so they had to return.

"King, these guys are so ignorant of lifting that they are reluctant to hand over the maids."

"Ignore them for now, you go back and ask the sappers to bring some food over, I'm afraid there won't be much surplus food in the city."

Qin Yu waved his hand, just now from the mouths of the homeless people, he had already learned that the big families in the city had been cooking porridge for more than two months, and in the first half a month, it was two steamed buns per person, which really made his jaw drop.

The sky soon darkened, and the hundreds of thousands of homeless people suddenly became agitated again when they saw that they did not give porridge again at night.

Some of these radicals are already running back and forth yelling, simply going against the fuck, going into the city or something.

More people started to think about the children.

Qin Yu also knew that either he would be hungry all the time, gnawing on the bark and grass roots, or he would keep giving porridge, so that cutting off food halfway was the most terrible.

The point is that among these 500,000 people, there are many children under the age of 10, including many girls, which is terrifying.

Therefore, he did not dare to leave at night, and ordered his guards to run back and forth among the displaced people and shout to maintain order.

While preaching the benevolence of King Hua and the purpose of the Hua Army, everyone is asked to wait, and there will be porridge to drink tomorrow morning.

Those who dared to beat the women who snatched the children with sticks were all killed, and only then did the situation come under control.

"These thieves are so hateful, they actually killed so many people in one fell swoop."

Zhang Yan has been paying attention to the city, and when she sees these thieves, she will pull out some big men and cut them down from time to time, and her pretty face suddenly flushes with anger.

Huang Zhixian on the side understood what was going on, because there was no major turmoil in the situation outside the city, and most of the people who were killed were big men, so he immediately understood that the gang of thieves was maintaining order.

But he won't explain to Zhang Yan, otherwise he will inevitably be suspected of helping the thief get away.

The next day, before dawn, the line of grain arrived, and in a short time, the fragrance wafted in the cauldron.

In fact, it smells like a fart.

"What are these thieves doing? Do they want soup kitchens? Relief for these victims? ”

Zhang Yan stayed awake all night last night, came to the city early in the morning, and watched the displaced people outside the city being divided into dozens of pieces, some sat on the ground, and some lined up in a long line, and suddenly opened her small mouth and said in surprise.

Because this scene is too similar to the soup kitchen, and it is even more orderly than their usual soup kitchen.