The fifteenth day of the first month of the thirty-second year of Wuwei of the Great Wei Dynasty

Just when thousands of families in Anyi City were immersed in the atmosphere of festive reunion, Chencang City, more than 700 miles away, was a completely different scene.

Due to the imminent siege of the city by the Wei army, the city has begun to implement a curfew in the past few days, and every family must stay in the house honestly, and it is easy not to go out, and in addition to the sergeants who patrol day and night, only groups of refugees fleeing from outside the city are left on the streets.

These refugees used to live a quiet life without fighting with the world, but when a fire broke out in the suburbs half a month ago, everything they once owned was burned in an instant.

"Wow, wow, wow......"

A shrill cry rang out among the refugees, as hungry children begged their mothers for food.

Women and children with vegetable-like faces with tears in their eyes, weakly humming nursery rhymes, gently soothing the child in their arms.

She had no other way, because her stubborn husband was unwilling to follow everyone to move into the city, and was finally whipped to death by the officials and soldiers, and she, although she escaped by luck, but also completely lost the pillar of life, orphans and widows have been left here, and have not eaten a few mouthfuls of food for several days.

The woman hummed for a long time, but instead of abating, the child's cry became more and more terrible.

The young and old around them were disturbed by the crying and threw disgusted glances at them.

The woman had no choice but to hold the child and get up away from the crowd.

She walked with difficulty through the closed doors of the street, and every time she passed a house, she would stop for a moment and beg them to give them something to eat.

However, after passing through hundreds of households, there was no response......

"Lingxiao Shangqing, Lingxiao Shangqing, all kinds of immortals, please, give us some food, please......."

The woman walked through the deserted streets to another refugee gathering place, where hundreds of refugees knelt beside a middle-aged Taoist dressed in bright yellow Taoist robes, who were muttering words and bowing down from time to time, as if they were praying for the protection of Shangcang under the guidance of a Taoist priest.

The woman had heard her husband talk about these people, and they were all members of the "Five Buckets of Rice Sect".

The so-called Wudou Mijiao, a side branch of Taoism, originally originated in the Hanzhong area, founded by Zhang Daoling, a heavenly master in the late Han Dynasty.

Because believers need to offer five buckets of rice before entering the Tao, it is named after it.

Like Taoism, Wudou Mijiao regards Lao Tzu as the ancestor of Taoism, but unlike Taoism's inaction, the doctrine advocated by Wudou Mijiao has always been quite extreme, especially they are extremely good at demagogic ways, and often preach some sideways such as Fu Shui curing diseases and sprinkling beans into soldiers, so as to attract believers to join the religion.

Therefore, the government of all dynasties regarded them as a cult and suppressed them in every possible way.

If it is placed in the ruling world, everyone will have a full bite to eat, and no one will pay attention to these cults and demons.

However, as long as the world is a little chaotic and there are more displaced people, then they will instantly resurrect and develop and grow.

This is not to blame the people for being ignorant, but because the troubled times are really dark, and everyone instinctively longs to find a glimmer of hope in the darkness......

Under the unison prayers of all the believers, the Taoist priest in the center also began to pretend to initiate the gong.

I saw him holding a dust whisk in one hand and a yellow paper talisman in the other, and there were words in his mouth.

"Heaven and Earth Xuanzong, Wan Qi Root. Extensive cultivation of ten thousand calamities, prove my supernatural powers. Haste as a commandment, go !! ”

After reciting a spell vaguely, the Taoist priest suddenly raised his arm high, only to see that the talisman in his hand was burned out of thin air at this moment.

When the talisman was burned out, the middle-aged Taoist priest conjured up a bag of bulging corn out of nowhere, and then he waved his big hand and threw the rice bag high, and in an instant, the golden corn fell out of the bag and sprinkled it all over the ground.

When everyone present saw this miracle, they shouted the blessing of the ancestors, and hurriedly lay on the ground and scramble for rice.

Everyone's face was full of hunger and madness at this time, and although they knew that the corn was not enough to fill their stomachs, they still regarded it as a straw to save the people.

This scene was quickly noticed by the patrolling defenders, and a colonel saw this and quickly urged his horse under his crotch to gallop towards him.

He came to the middle-aged Taoist priest, suddenly pulled out the sword at his waist, and before the Taoist could defend a few words, he swung the sword and cut off his head in the air.

"Huh!"

The sword in the little school's hand was extremely sharp, and I saw a flash of white light, and the stubborn head of the Taoist priest was cut off by a sword as if it were cutting tofu.

The skull spun in the air, flying several meters away in an instant, and hot blood shot out from the cavity, quickly staining the ground around it a dark red.

When everyone saw this, they immediately screamed in shock, and fell to the ground, not daring to move.

Looking at the headless corpse that was paralyzed on the ground, the little colonel spat and turned his head to warn viciously to the disciples present:

"Cult villains, gossip to confuse the public, it's not a pity to die! Wait and listen, if anyone dares to order in the cholera city, it will end like this! ”

Then he whipped his horse and walked away.

The disciples were already heartbroken, and they dared to stay here for a long time, so they scattered and fled.

The woman held the child in her arms, taking in everything that had just happened, and she was obviously so frightened that she forgot to run away for a while, but just stood in a daze, letting the panicked disciples pass by her one by one.

After being stunned for a long time, the cry of the child in her arms once again pulled her back to reality, she looked down at the blood spilled on the ground, and the blood-soaked corn, secretly gritted her teeth, and began to lean over to collect it like the previous disciples......

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At the same time, thousands of well-fed and well-fed soldiers of the Shu Kingdom lined up on the tall and majestic city wall of Chencang City, their expressions were solemn, and they were waiting for the battle, and the blades in their hands were sharpened to be abnormally sharp, shining in the sun, and this light was connected together, like a silver dragon hovering over the city.

Fubo general Song Mi and a cadre of personal guards also stood under the city tower at this time, his eyes were like falcons, looking at the distant sky, and where he could not see, was the great ancient capital Chang'an.

"Knock knock knock~~~"

After about half an hour, Song Mi vaguely heard the faint sound of snare drums in the distance, and he looked intently and found that at the distant intersection of heaven and earth, a row of faint black shadows were slowly squirming in the direction he was.

"Here we are."

He let out a low snort, his voice mixed with a hint of excitement and nervousness.

"Knock knock knock~~~"

After another half an hour, the sound of the military drum in front of Chen Cangcheng was like thunder, and the black shadow also turned into a dark cloud that covered the sky and the sun, and swept majestically.

The soldiers of the Great Wei in black armor devoured every inch of land in their passage like countless locusts.

The neighing of horses, the sound of marching steps, and the sound of scouts were endless.

Suddenly, a loud trumpet resounded over the earth.

The rolling "black cloud" also stopped moving in an instant.

After a while, the sound of the horn gradually died out, the cold wind rose again, and the battlefield was silent except for the sound of countless flags hunting.

Song Mi looked down at the dense Great Wei soldiers under his feet, and his heart was tightened for no reason.

He has been fighting for half a life, and it is the first time he has seen such a solemn military appearance, and it is also the first time to see such a majestic military ceremony.

It can really be described as moving like thunder, quiet as a virgin.

As an absolute expert, he clearly knew what would happen to such a mighty division as an enemy.

So for a moment, his belief in victory was shaken.

While Song Mi was stunned, the majestic military formation of Great Wei began to change again, and countless armor soldiers quickly lined up on both sides as if they had a soul, and suddenly gave way to a wide passage.

Then dozens of burly knights in fiery red armor galloped out from the center of the military array, but after a moment's effort, they stopped in front of the moat outside the city generously, as if they were not worried at all that the crossbowmen of the Shu army at the head of the city would suddenly use cold arrows.

The first rider smiled and raised the halberd in his hand high, aiming at the position of Song Mi, this person is not a bystander, it is the chief general of the Wei army, Fei Zhen.

As Fei Zhen raised his halberd, he could only hear the army under the city shouting in unison at the same time:

"I am the general of Great Wei Fenwei, the pioneer of Shu, Fei Zhen! Please ask General Song to go down to the city! ”

"Please General Song go down to the city for a !!"

The shouts resounded through the heavens and the earth for a while, and Song Mi only felt that the city walls under his feet seemed to tremble slightly.

Song Mi was not a mediocre person after all, he quickly stabilized his mind, and a fighting spirit was raised again in his chest.

He knew that if he didn't dare to go down to the city to face Fei Zhen directly, it would be equivalent to changing direction and hitting the morale of the generals defending the city.

So he had to respond quickly!

Thinking of this, Song Mi smiled heartily and replied loudly:

"Haha, that's exactly what General Ben wants! Just wait! ”

With that, he commanded in a deep voice to his men:

"Someone! Prepare the horse, this general will meet him when he goes out of the city! Pass it on, no one is allowed to act rashly without my orders! ”

"No!"

After a while, Song Mi led a group of relatives to slowly come out of the city and confronted Fei Zhen and his party across the moat.

I saw Fei Zhen hand the halberd in his hand to a guard beside him at will, and then drew his horsewhip, pointed it at Song Mi, and said with a smile:

"Haha, okay, Fei originally thought that the general would not dare to go down to the city to meet, but now it seems that General Song is still a somewhat bloody person, and I think Fei Mou is underestimating Your Excellency."

Song Mi snorted coldly and said mockingly:

"Hmph, Huangkou child, you don't have to be so clever and colorful! Isn't it just to talk to General Ben this time? ”

Fei Zhen was not annoyed when he heard this, but persuaded him with kind words:

"Everyone in the world says that I am as true as fire, I can't imagine that General Song is so impatient, okay, since General Song is quick to speak, then I might as well speak bluntly. You are alone in Chencang, there is no backup, and there is no supply, even if you can really hold for three or five days, sooner or later it will be the end of the city's destruction, the general does not think about the soldiers under his command, but also should think about the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people in the city, is it true that they want to be buried with you? If the general is willing to defect and unload his armor, I dare to guarantee that the general will never lose the position of the marquis! ”

Song Mi seemed to have heard a big joke, and he laughed again and again.

"Hahaha, what a joke, as the old saying goes: on the day the teacher comes out, there is the glory of death, and there is no disgrace of life! Am I like a traitor seeking glory? As for the people in the city, it is even more difficult for the generals, my Shu country implements benevolent government, and is deeply supported by the people, and it has always been the army and the people who are united in their hearts and hatred of the enemy, where will they be as greedy for life and afraid of death as you Wei people! ”

As soon as these words came out, Fei Zhen only felt a little unable to get off the stage, and he immediately muttered softly unconsciously.

"Damn, it doesn't work, but that kid wants Lao Tzu to say, Lao Tzu himself hasn't been crowned yet, how can it be his turn!"

Song Mi didn't hear what he said, so he urged loudly again:

"If you want to fight, you will fight! What are you muttering! It's because I'm afraid! ”

Fei Zhen sighed and said helplessly:

"Okay, good, as you wish, fight, fight!"