Chapter 561 The robber who stood in the way

Fleeing crowds huggled each other and rolled along the streets.

There are people who continue to join the ranks, and there are also people who are knocked to the ground because of the slightest hesitation, and in the blink of an eye, they are swallowed by the waves.

Meng Tietou saw that a rich man was protected by several house slaves, holding a box and panting forward; A few beggars squatted in the street and drank half of the porridge, and ran with a broken bowl in their hands; There were scholars with disheveled hair, and women who had their skirts stepped on, and they all ran lifelessly with the crowd.

The rebels in the crowd were too slow, first panicked and tried to smash the crowd with their scabbards, and then in a hurry, they directly pulled out their knives and slashed the way in the way......

Meng Tietou panicked for a while, this fire is too evil!

Didn't you say okay, and you won't do it until tomorrow night?

However, at this moment, he could no longer think about this, and the master and servant were carried by the crowd, stumbling all the way forward.

"Burn the city, run......"

There was another shout, and the already panicked crowd suddenly became frantic.

The rapid flow of people knocked down a soup kitchen shed on the side of the road, the stove that was originally simmering porridge was crushed, and the firewood rolled straight to the eaves with sparks, where there were several pottery urns that did not know what to contain, and were splashed by the sparks, and the flames quickly licked the straw on the eaves, and the whole house was set on fire at once.

Seeing this, the people close to the fire rushed to the other side of the street in horror, and the people on the other side pushed the people in front of them desperately, and fell down in a large area.

Before they could stand up, the people behind them had already rushed up, dozens of people in front of them still felt soft under their feet, and those behind couldn't feel anything on the ground.

The fire quickly spread from room to room, from neighborhood to neighborhood, and the sound of a rapid gong was faintly heard, and someone in the next alley was desperately pouring water to put out the fire, and thick smoke was billowing in......

Meng Tietou was in a hurry, so he struggled to throw off his arms and smashed straight to the left and right, trying to get out of the crowd, but it didn't work at all.

Suddenly, a more powerful elbow hit his right ear, he only felt a "buzz", his mind went blank, he staggered to the left, but was bounced back by the person on the left, he couldn't control the direction, he couldn't stop, he could only be hugged by the crowd and kept going.

In a trance, he seemed to see the East Gate Tower in front of him, and in a trance, he seemed to have been squeezed out of the city gate hole.

It was still his little servant Meng Wen who was clever, and when he saw a stone tablet on the side of the road, he dragged him to the back of the stone tablet, so as to avoid the pile of human flesh......

When Meng Tietou came to his senses, he found that he was sitting in the mud by the dock, and the crowd that had been gathered had dispersed outside the city.

Of the three servants he carried, only Meng Wen was left.

After all, after experiencing the rout of Hangzhou, Meng Tietou quickly calmed down, he looked back at the city, and found that the fire was not very big, and the smoke that was originally choking had dispersed with the wind.

He was slightly disappointed in his heart - he had escaped, if only this fire had been set on fire and the one-eyed dragon had been burned to death inside!

He remembered that in the last batch of news he had received before leaving the city, the Caoding men and horses in the city and the general armor of the various Dingzhuang had begun to resist the officers and soldiers - it seemed that this time it was ruined at the hands of the "traitors"!

At this moment, he only felt pain all over his body, and then looked at his body, the burden had long since gone, a hole in his knee was broken, and his palm was also worn out, and he probably didn't know how many times he had fallen when he left the city.

Turning his head, Meng Wen also looked the same embarrassed, probably relying on him to pull desperately all the way, so that he would not be able to get up again after falling.

"Meng Wen, thanks to you this time!"

"Sir, don't say that,"

Meng Wen was a little frightened, "It's just that Meng Qing and they are gone, and the dry food and silver money they have there ......"

"Forget it, it's good to have a life,"

Meng Tietou sighed, "If they have a conscience, they will naturally find it back...... If you don't want to follow me anymore, take the money and find a way to live on your own......"

"Sir! Master! ”

As he was talking, he suddenly saw Meng Qing squeezing over from the crowd, and he couldn't help but scream when he saw them.

"Shh

Meng Tietou hurriedly stopped him, "Our master fled a few times, don't pay attention to this, be careful of revealing flaws!" ”

Meng Qing hurriedly closed his mouth, looked around, and then whispered: "Meng Wei has a bad heart!" He deliberately left me behind and ran away with the silver in the crowd! ”

"That's it,"

Meng Tietou smiled bitterly and shook his head, "When the catastrophe comes, the husband and wife have to fly separately, let him go." ”

In fact, among the three little guys, his favorite is Meng Wei, but he didn't expect that he was the one who absconded with the money at the end of the matter.

"Let's go quickly, as long as we run out, we will have a way to live......"

With that, the three of them blended into the crowd again and ran all the way north.

The east gate is close to the canal, from the city wall to the shore is only about 100 steps wide, after leaving the city, it is not far to the south and faces the canal that has turned a corner, and can only go back to the south gate along the root of the city wall.

So, with the exception of a few who had nowhere to go and the wounded, who were still sitting and wailing near the pier, the dense crowd rolled and continued north along the walls in the dark.

In front, after crossing the stone bridge in the ancient ditch, it can be regarded as leaving the city and going to the countryside.

It was getting darker and darker, and the crowd walked more and more slowly on the field road, but fortunately someone stole some dry wood and lit a torch next to the farmhouse, so that they could continue on their way.

After a short walk, the dense crowd gradually dispersed.

Most of the people still moved forward with the old and the young, along Shao Bo Lake all the way north, while others turned west - perhaps someone had a relative to take refuge there.

However, Meng Tietou found that there were many escaped stragglers who were also mixed here.

Meng Tietou secretly laughed, he also didn't dare to go north all the time—maybe he would meet the main force of the Ming thieves who were waving south.

Meng Tietou thought about it, the place he was going to was Tianchang County in the northwest.

Since Liuhe has fallen into the hands of the enemy, if you want to go to Luzhou, it will not work to go directly to the west.

Only by first going to Tianchang, where there is still the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and then detouring to Baita Town, and arriving in Chuzhou, you can go directly to Luzhou - this road, he has walked before escorting ordnance.

Walking along the barren path, the surrounding farmland is getting less and less, and most of the past is wasteland, the weeds on the roadside are getting denser and denser, but the crowd is getting less and less.

Meng Tietou secretly quickened his pace, he knew that the foot of Shugang Mountain was in front of him, as long as he walked out of the mountain pass between Shugang and Xiaomao Mountain, he would be safe......

"Hurry up!"

Suddenly, a wild goose knife crossed in front of his eyes.

A few men in uniforms suddenly lit torches and surrounded them from the left and right - the robbers who blocked the road were coming!