Wang Yan thought very clearly, listening to the voice, the cavalry was only about 100 people, and he had about 200 people here, who could hold a knife and kill people with more than 40 people.

Although these people are not trained soldiers, as long as the number of horse thieves is small, they will still have a chance.

But when Wang Yan ascended to the heights and looked far away, his plan was doomed to fail.

I saw that on the originally dark official road, a fire dragon suddenly appeared, stretching for several miles. Countless people with torches, enough thousands, came down from the official road and poured into the village!

Where is this horse thief, it is clearly a large army transiting!

In the land of Beizhili, there has long been no official army, and it can only be Li Chuang's people.

A sense of powerlessness suddenly hit Wang Yan, making him sigh, he couldn't imagine that he had fled from the capital for more than a month, and in the end he would still fall into the hands of the thief army.

In the face of thousands of troops, even if Zhuge is alive, he has no power to fight back. All Wang Yan can do is report the facts, and as for resisting, he doesn't have to think about it.

If the army has fallen into Beijing, it can no longer be regarded as a rogue, and it is expected that it will not embarrass ordinary people, which has made most people lose their determination to resist. As for them, former courtiers, nobles, and officials, then they can only resign themselves to fate.

As several people who wanted to escape from the village were stumbled back, the cavalry finally appeared outside the courtyard gate.

As Wang Yan judged, there were only about 100 horsemen, most of them were just wearing messy cotton clothes, and they looked very poor, but the aura of slaughter exuded made people dare not underestimate them, and they must be the elite of a hundred battles.

The cavalry stepped forward, but they did not immediately rush in, which made the hearts of everyone in the courtyard relax slightly, and only a few nobles still looked like earth.

They have an inextricable relationship with the old Zhu family, scholars and officials can be demoted, but they can't, even if they do, there will be no good end.

"Brother Shiheng, I have something to ask for, and I hope you will definitely answer it." I don't know when, Xu Zhi was already standing beside Wang Yan, he looked at the cavalry outside the courtyard gate, and he was a little distracted.

Only then did Wang Yan find Xu Zhi standing beside him, only to see him dressed in an official robe, his expression was a little trance-like, but there was a trace of perseverance in his eyes. This made Wang Yan couldn't help but be surprised, the nobles and the rich were busy changing into civilian clothes, this Lord Xu was good, he was dressed neatly in official robes, afraid that the army would not know that he was a member of the imperial court? Or are you finally ready to be a thief?

Wang Yan was a little disappointed for a while, he had already decided to follow his mentor and let Chuang Jun see the martyrdom of the scholars, so he no longer responded to Xu Zhi.

At this time, outside the courtyard gate, the cavalry had already gathered in front of the armored general. This man is in his forties, quite majestic, he looked at the people standing at the door, raised the horsewhip in his hand, and pointed to everyone: "I am Zhao Yingyuan, the mighty general of the Great Shun Dynasty, who is in charge here!" ”

escaped for more than a month, but the result is still the same, this may be destiny. Wang Yan took a deep breath and was about to walk towards Zhao Yingyuan, but before he could take a step, he was grabbed by Xu Zhi on the side.

Wang Yan looked back at Xu Zhi in surprise, but heard him say softly: "I am the minister of the country, I should have died early, but Yan'er is innocent." His mother died early, take good care of her for me! ”

Wang Yan was stunned for a moment, but Xu Zhi had already thrown off his official robe in front of him and strode out. "My Ming Dynasty officials are outside Xu Zhi, and they have done the master!" He shouted loudly as he walked, and finally stopped in front of Zhao Yingyuan's horse.

"Oh, since he was a member of the previous dynasty, he was captured by me now, and he is willing to surrender." Zhao Yingyuan had long noticed Xu Zhi that he was stationed in Shandong on the order of King Chuang and needed the assistance of officials and scholars, so he said sincerely.

But who knew that Xu Zhi didn't want to reply: "I am a Jinshi of the Chongzhen Dynasty, a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and I don't want to be a thief!" ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yingyuan couldn't help but be stunned, many of the former dynasties in the Beijing division had already surrendered, but he couldn't even surrender to a foreigner. For a while, he couldn't help but be a little angry and said: "If you don't surrender to me, you can know the consequences!" ”

In the face of intimidation, Xu Zhi resolutely said: "But please die quickly!" With that, he closed his eyes and said nothing.

In Wang Yan's mind, since Xu Zhi did not die when the Jingshi was broken, he must have taken life and death very seriously, and it was completely possible for such a person to surrender, but he didn't expect that when he was captured, he was so resolute.

This made him full of shock and shame, and at the same time made his blood surge, and he studied hard for more than ten years, learning not only loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness. When he was in Beijing, he was persuaded by his teacher to live alone, but today he doesn't want to run away from it.

Seeing Xu Zhi closing his eyes and waiting for death, Wang Yandun was born and died together, if he was a mere person, he would enjoy the martyrdom of the doctor, die for loyalty and righteousness, and die like a life!

But when Wang Yan made up his mind, he remembered Xu Zhi's explanation, and he couldn't help but turn back suddenly, looking for where Xu Yanyan was.

Behind him, a thirteen-year-old girl, with two lines of tears flowing, left two white marks on her soot-covered face. Wang Yan couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart when he looked at it, this is the reason why Xu Zhi didn't follow the emperor in the first place.

"If you don't surrender to me, the general will not be able to keep you. However, Ben will admire Xu Yuanwai's loyalty and righteousness, take it off and leave a whole corpse! Xu Zhi's determination did not seem to be a lie, which made Zhao Yingyuan very annoyed, but the Han people have revered loyal people since ancient times, and he said with some regret.

After speaking, his own warrior dragged Xu Zhi out, and he didn't say a word except for a glance at Wang Yan. Xu Yanyan, who was already crying with pear blossoms and rain, could not bear it, seeing that her father was going to be dragged to the execution, she immediately shed tears and squeezed out of the crowd.

Wang Yan was shocked when he saw this, where did he still care about any loyalty and righteousness, and what kind of martyrdom he cared about. At this moment, he has already promised a straight trust in his heart, a gentleman's promise, walking alone for thousands of miles, will also be fulfilled.

Taking advantage of the fact that Zhao Yingyuan and the others were all on Xu Zhi, he hurriedly retreated into the crowd and pulled Xu Yanyan behind him.

At this time, Zhao Yingyuan's eyes finally looked at the courtyard, but without Xu Zhi, he was already interested in the people in the courtyard, and he had no intention of wasting time. He raised the horsewhip in his hand and pointed at the people in the courtyard and said coldly: "Punish its leader, and the rest will be used as the front army." ”

After Zhao Yingyuan finished speaking, he hit the horse, turned the horse's head, and the soldiers behind him immediately separated a passage. After he and his guards left, a military academy immediately turned over and dismounted, pulled out the long knife at his waist and ordered loudly: "Rush in with me, those who dare to resist, those who do not obey the order, chop them with knives!" ”

No one dared to stop the wolf-like invasion of the army, and they all accommodated their demands and squatted in the courtyard. Xu Yanyan completely collapsed at this time and lost her opinion, but her instinctive tears kept flowing. Fortunately, a good education made her not cry, but her thin and sobbing body made Wang Yan even more uncomfortable, which he couldn't imagine

The consequences of such a poor little girl falling into the hands of thieves.

Sergeant Chuang walked around the crowd with his sword in his hand, and from time to time someone was screened out. This is the most common method in the early days of the invasion army, every time a city is broken, it will kill its gentry, kill its clan elders, and coerce ordinary people as a precursor. It's just that now Li Chuang has half of the country, but his subordinates are still doing this, and it is really difficult to achieve great things if they do not change the habits of the peasant army.

The rich and noble in the crowd were pulled out one by one, and although some of them changed into civilian clothes, they could be pampered for a long time, but their better skin and body betrayed their identity.

This intruder army was obviously very experienced, and in a few moments it was possible to select a dozen people from the crowd.

In their opinion, those who can still grow fat in these years are definitely either rich or expensive, and they are all existences that should be killed.

Seeing this, Wang Yan couldn't help but be anxious, he didn't care, he had escaped for more than a month, relying on a pair of old legs, exposed to the wind and sun, and he had long lost his appearance as a scholar. But Xu Yanyan is not easy to pass, she is a delicate little beauty, although she has smeared some cigarette ash, she can still see one or two.

At the moment, Wang Yan didn't care about any Confucian etiquette, what men and women were guarded against, so he grabbed a piece of **** next to him and smeared it on Xu Yanyan's body. His behavior naturally made Xu Yanyan stunned, and he actually stopped the tears like a broken thread, stared at a pair of beautiful eyes with tears, and looked at Wang Yan a little sluggishly, as if he didn't understand what he was doing.

Seeing her like this, Wang Yan felt distressed, but the movements in his hands did not stop, and he did not stop until Xu Yanyan, who had a trace of fragrance, dressed up as an ugly and dirty little beggar.

The screening action of the army is not very strict, and the occasional mistake or omission is irrelevant! After all, life in troubled times is as cheap as a dog!

Wang Yan and Xu Yanyan were very lucky, one of the intruders frowned and did not come forward after smelling the unpleasant smell of feces, and they escaped.

But those who can be pulled out have no good luck. The army left a few soldiers to guard the courtyard, and then pressed the people with dead faces to go out.

Just outside the courtyard gate, a line of soldiers lined up, the soldiers raised their knives and fell, and more than a dozen fresh lives fell to the ground in an instant. Blood splattered all over the ground, turning the muddy pavement crimson and shocking.

After killing people, the invading army drove out the people in the courtyard again, and this was no longer a place where prisoners could live, only officers could live.

An army of poor people who overthrew the old landlords and aristocrats, now they are the nouveau riche. This has been the case with peasant uprisings in all dynasties, and it seems that there is not much progressiveness.

The people were driven out of the courtyard, not allowed to carry any belongings, and under the pressure of the soldiers, they walked out of the village. When passing by the corpse and blood all over the ground, Wang Yan tried his best to block Xu Yanyan's sight, afraid that the little girl would be hit again.

But when she walked outside the village, a scene that made Xu Yanyan collapse still happened.

The white bird pattern on the cyan official robe hanging under the big tree at the entrance of the village is vivid, who is it not Xu Zhi! A thirteen-year-old girl, who could still withstand such a blow, fainted after just one glance.

A gust of cold wind blew, Wang Yan picked up Xu Yanyan on his back and continued to move forward, the rope behind him swayed with the corpse, this is the fluctuating Ming Dynasty!