57. Seize the door
On the day of the Spring Society, in the western suburbs of Yangcheng City, within a radius of several miles around the place of the temple and the temple, it was already crowded with people, rubbing shoulders one after another, and the crowds coming and going made the temple that was quite quiet in the past become extremely lively and noisy. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The core area of the temple is now in charge of the officials of the county temple in the city, and while they are busy preparing for the spring shrine sacrifice, the periphery is also guarded by several county guards in heavy armor and soldiers, preventing idle people from approaching the temple rashly and colliding with the shrine god who is about to enjoy the worship of mortals.
Outside the guard circle of the county guard, at this time there have been densely gathered a large number of Qianshou people, the spring community day is the most critical part of the agricultural sacrifice, related to the wind and rain throughout the year, so many people in Yangcheng rushed to the temple early, ready to pray to the shrine god, bless their fields in the year of abundance, and another harvest season.
And in the outermost part, it is a place where businessmen who are busy chasing profits gather, although agricultural sacrifices have nothing to do with their personal interests for these merchants, but such a grand sacrificial event on the Spring Society Day, how could the merchants who win by tricks miss such a good opportunity, and the large number of people soon formed one or two temporary small markets here.
Although the auspicious time for the sacrifice has not yet arrived, the county temple officials, village officials, and You You have already arrived, and everyone is waiting eagerly for the car carrying the county king, Gong Cao and others from the city.
This kind of busy and dense scene is still exactly the same as in previous years, and it has not been affected by the war in the Kwantung region, of course, this is also because Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses in Yuyuan Pass have made a strict appearance of defense, and there is no sign of attack, so that Yangcheng can present a peaceful atmosphere in the Spring Society.
At this time, a dense sound of horses' hooves sounded on the official road in the distance, and the people on the periphery of the dense crowd raised their heads one after another when they heard the sound and looked in the direction where the sound came from, where a small bamboo forest happened to block the view.
Presumably a knight who opened the way in front of the county king's car!
Someone thought to himself.
It's just that soon, a horse's head emerged from the bend of the small bamboo forest, and people's eyes were immediately cast, and what caught their eyes was not the county temple knight who was freshly dressed and angry and shouted for Qingdao, but a cold-hearted and armored horseman in armor.
"What is this?"
The people of Qianshou in Yangcheng rarely saw this kind of armored horseman wearing armor, and they were amazed, when did the county temple in this city have such people and horses and armor staffs.
In the midst of the people's admiration, more and more galloping horses' heads came out, and in the smoke and dust, the faces of the knights with cold expressions were revealed, among which there were many bearded faces with bald foreheads and braided hair, and the crowd was not all uninformed, and almost in an instant, someone pointed in the direction from which the horse came and exclaimed:
"It's a Liangzhou soldier, it's not good, let's go!"
This exclamation was like a huge stone thrown into the pool, and in an instant it set off a violent wave.
The panicked crowd began to flee in all directions, trying to avoid the onrushing cavalry. Many merchants have not had time to put away the goods on their stalls, and the goods have been washed away by the chaotic crowd, and the ox carts of the rich and noble people are also panicked under the collision of the crowd.
The soldiers who were originally held by the armor were now in a mess, they were also pushed by the panicked crowd, and fled backwards in the opposite direction of the cavalry, and many of the officials who were originally high-crowned and solemn were also frightened by this sudden cavalry, and the high crown on the head was also crooked and it was too late to straighten it, and they did not dare to stop when they lost their silk shoes, and in the panic, they hid directly under the seat of the god in the temple, trying to escape the catastrophe with the help of the protection of the gods.
The roaring Xiliang cavalry was like the wind from the grassland, everywhere they went, the panicked people fell to the ground like slender weeds, and the cavalry wantonly manipulated their mounts to rush into the crowd, and the knives and spears in their hands fell from time to time, bringing up a rain of blood one after another.
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At the same time, at the gate of Yangcheng, because today is the Spring Society Day, there are spring shrine worship activities outside the city, and the number of people out of the city has also increased, not only the county temple officials who preside, but also many rich and noble families in the city also drove carriages and ox carts to the outside of the city, and there are some city residents who have no mounts and cars, and they are also in groups of threes and twos, ready to go to the temple outside the city to participate in the sacrifice to the shrine god.
There are more people inside and outside the city, and the guards at the city gate who inspect also feel cumbersome and become slack, if it weren't for the city, there are still the guards on duty watching, I'm afraid they would have taken the opportunity to be lazy.
But at the moment, although they are lazy, but their routine inspection is also very casual, just take a look, wave and let go, there are female dependents in the car of the rich and noble, as long as you give a dozen Wen and five baht, the leader is also very good at being a person, and he doesn't need to check directly, and he will let people out of the city.
Although as soon as spring began this year, all parts of the Kanto region were clamoring to ask for Dong, but they did not see any troops and horses in the Kanto region taking the initiative to attack Luoyang, and the soldiers and horses of Luoyang were also stubbornly defending the pass, and there was no sign of attacking eastward. The soldiers of Yangcheng have spent more than a month, and their patience and vigilance have gradually relaxed, today is the Spring Society Day, there are more people coming and going in and out of the city gate, and there are more oil and water drawn from it, and the leader is thinking about where to go to have some fun with this extra money tonight.
Just as he was thinking about it, he noticed that there were a few more carts on the official road, which seemed to be merchant vehicles from other places who wanted to enter the city to sell goods.
That's another big deal of oil and water!
These days, because of the Kwantung soldiers, Yuzhou Assassin Shi Kong Ling also joined the Dong coalition army, Yangcheng not only sent soldiers to strengthen the garrison, but also asked to strengthen the inventory of the city gate, so the soldiers guarding the gate often use this as an excuse to make it difficult for the merchants and vehicles who come and go in and out of the city gate, and businessmen like this from other places can take the opportunity to extort the target.
The chief guarding the city gate was anxious to check the merchant vehicles behind the troubled ranks, and after a little or two glances at the pedestrians and diesel carts entering the city who did not have much oil and water in front, he hurriedly asked them to hurry into the city.
Although when inspecting the ox cart full of firewood in the front line, the old man who was driving seemed to be a little nervous, and he wanted to stop talking, and he couldn't speak, but this was a familiar face, and there were many gatekeepers, all of whom recognized him as the old man in the west of the city who often drove into the city to sell firewood, so he didn't think much about it, and after the young son and nephew who accompanied him secretly stuffed ten cents, the leading chief immediately waved his hand and asked them to hurry into the city.
The guards at the gate all looked at the carts of the merchants behind them, and they were exchanging glances with each other, preparing for the group of merchants' vehicles to approach and go forward to carefully check the difficulties, so that the merchants in the car would know that they had to pay an extra five baht to honor them, who were like door gods.
Unexpectedly, the merchant cart in the back row was not close, and the ox cart that entered the middle of the city gate road behind them suddenly made a strange noise, and the old ox pulling the cart was suddenly frightened, "moo" screamed, broke free from the frame, and rushed into the city like a splash, Lao Suo and his young nephew seemed to be going to chase the old cow, and immediately ran into the city, leaving only a carriage full of bundles of firewood to fall in the middle of the road, blocking the traffic and making the city gate that had already entered the busy city gate become crowded.
"Damn it!"
The leader scolded secretly, this old man and his nephew would really cause him trouble, obviously they had already asked them to speed up the passage through the city gate, and they didn't know how to swallow slowly, so that this troublesome thing happened.
If it weren't for the county magistrate's car had already driven out of the city, he wouldn't be able to miss the big thing for the time being, and the leading chief was afraid that he would immediately scold, so he picked up five or six soldiers, scolded and scolded, and was about to turn around and move the firewood cart that was blocking the way.
But just as he turned around and walked back, the wagons of several foreign merchants behind him suddenly sped up and rushed to the front, and at the sound of an order, the curtain was torn down at once, and a dozen or so soldiers in armor rushed out of the car.
This?
The leader looked back, was taken aback, and before he could react, those wolf-like soldiers in armor rushed over, leading a stout soldier, who went on a rampage, and cut off the head of the chief with a knife in the head.
"Kill!"
In each of the wagons, there were more than a dozen armored soldiers, who were armed with swords, extremely fierce, and did not care about indiscriminately, but they were faced with swords and swords, and slashed the people who stood in front of them one by one, and rushed straight to the city gate.
"Oh no, there's an enemy attack!"
The soldiers who reflected it did not dare to resist, and directly spread their legs and ran towards the city, while tearing their throats and shouting loudly.
"Go and close the gates!"
There was another soldier guarding the inner side of the city gate, and after hearing the warning of the enemy's attack, he hurriedly pushed to close the city gate on both sides.
However, there was a firewood cart in the middle of the city gate, and without the pull of the mount, the cart was full of heavy firewood, not only there was no way to close the city gate, but even if you wanted to push the firewood cart away, you couldn't move it away immediately.
At this time, the soldiers outside the city who attacked the city gate had already held bloody swords, driving the surviving people to rush into the city, the soldiers on the inside of the city gate were rushed by the panicked crowd, and when they gasped and wanted to retreat, it was too late, the soldiers outside the city had already been killed, and in a few breaths, the soldiers of Shiyang City on the inside of the city gate were killed.
"100,000 Luoyang kings are covered, and if you don't want to die, let go of the battle immediately, and surrender to the ground!"
The stout soldier who shouted was Ma Lin who had always been brave and forward, and now he had led people to seize the passage at the gate of the city according to Yan Xing's instructions, and shouted to disturb the hearts of the people in the city, just waiting for Yan Xing and Xu Huang, who were lurking outside the city, to come with the cavalry.
And before the Fei Lian cavalry poured into the city gate, he and his forty warriors in the army would be like a nail, stubbornly holding on to the city gate.
There is advance and no retreat, there is death and no life!
Note: "Zizhi Tongjian: Han Ji Fifty-one" Zhuo sent the army to Yangcheng, and the people would be under the society, and they would be beheaded, driving their cars and carrying their women, tying the wheels with their heads, and the brothers were called back, and the cloud attacked the thieves. Zhuo burned his head, and took women and soldiers as concubines.