Chaos began to appear in every corner, and the entire city of Suzhou was about to face a huge disaster.

The fire burned the rafters and made a clattering sound, and the burned beams lost their support and collapsed. From time to time, the fire was mixed with cries, and the men were shirtless to draw water from the well, and buckets were poured into the flames, but how could they extinguish the raging fire.

The screams of women and children raged throughout the city, and the old man, who had not had time to evacuate, was smashed down by the burnt beams, let out his last feeble moans, and his body melted in the firelight let out a ghostly cry.

On the streets, there were groups of soldiers from the city defense battalion rushing to the ten city gates, ranging from a few dozen to two or three hundred. The weapons were spears, bows and arrows, crossbows, halberds, lances, and tassel spears, etc., and the formation was very chaotic, and they hurried all the way through.

After the soldiers passed, rebels began to appear in the streets, all with turbans on their heads, and weapons such as knives, steel forks, bows and arrows, setting fires everywhere and spreading rumors.

"The world is in turmoil, the Holy Prince!"

"Rich and poor, kill corrupt officials!"

"Qingjun side, Zheng Chaogang!"

At this time, the task of the rebels was only to be responsible for messing up the city, but not to do other bad things, and to run away after setting fire.

There were fires everywhere in the streets, flags were burning, houses were burning, corpses were burning...... The soot dust in the sky penetrated into the mouths and noses of Song Ting and his party, and some people couldn't help coughing. At this time, the group had already taken refuge in the main hall of a restaurant.

"It's really a rebellion......" Chen Dabeard exclaimed, his eyes full of disbelief.

The young man Ah Ping hid in the counter and shivered, he was really frightened when he saw the old man let out that terrible cry when he melted into the firelight. After all, he's just a kid.

Even Lu Junyi, seeing this scene for the first time, couldn't help but ask, "Master Horse, what should we do now?"

The Song court also saw a real rebellion for the first time, and the rebel army in the city completely lost order and conscience, and set fires everywhere at every opportunity, and ran away after setting fires, shouting slogans all the way...... Thirty or fifty of them were in groups, but they were not easy to deal with.

"Now...... You can't get out of the city......"

After a few seconds of silence, everyone accepted the fact with dismay.

looked at the faces of Lu Junyi, Yan Qing, Hu Sanniang, Chen Dabeard, and Lao Liu one by one, and everyone's faces were solemn. And the young Ah Ping sat behind the counter crying, the shopkeeper of the restaurant didn't know where to go, and Xiao Er didn't know where to go, there were many wine jars neatly stacked behind the counter, and the slight aroma of wine was emanating, but no one would think of drinking at this time.

Song Ting sighed, shook his head, and said softly: "There is no other way, we can only protect ourselves." It won't be long before the city of Suzhou will fall, and when the city is broken, it will be the beginning of the killing...... We now have no other way but to protect ourselves. ”

In the distant memory, the movie picture is presented in my mind one by one, when the screen becomes real, how terrifying should it be?

"Lao Liu, do you know where there is a good place to hide?" Song Ting looked at Lao Liu and asked.

For a moment, all eyes were fixed on Lao Liu's face, Lao Liu frowned, thought about it carefully, and said, "What can be a good place to hide?" Only cellars...... It's going to be discovered...... I heard that they don't kill beggars, so why don't we pretend to be beggars? ”

"Pretending to be a beggar?" Chen Dabeard was stunned for a moment, scratched his beard and muttered, "Am I not like a beggar?"

Song Ting's eyes lit up, and he said to everyone: "This plan is feasible. It's not a complete insurance, but it may be able to get by. After the city is broken, there will definitely be a big search, as long as we can get through the confusion and wait for more than ten days, we can leave the city. ”

"Good! Then pretend to be a beggar! Chen Dabeard said.

Song Ting looked at Yan Qing and Hu Sanniang, and ordered, "You two go and get a few sets of beggar's clothes."

Yan Qing and Hu Sanniang nodded and went out.

Song Ting said to Lu Junyi again: "You go and collect some food, I'm afraid we will have to hide for a while."

Lu Junyi nodded and searched for food in the hotel. After a while, Lao Liu also followed, with an extra sack in his hand, and together with Lu Junyi, he put the stored grain and meat in the kitchen into the sack.

In the main hall, Song Ting instructed again: "Water is the key, you need to prepare some water." looked left and right, and only Chen's beard remained......

Seeing his eyes coming, Chen Dabeard was stunned, stood up and kicked the counter: "Ah Ping!" Go get some water! ”

The young man Ah Ping touched his face with both hands, wiped away his tears, got up and found two or three water bottles and water bags to fill some water.

When Chen Dabeard looked at it, he wanted to cut him again: "Where is there enough water for this point?"

"There's no kettle......" Ah Ping said aggrievedly.

"I don't know where to look?" Chen said with a beard.

Song Ting waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't move around, sit here."

Ah Ping sat on a low stool next to Song Ting, still secretly looking at his master with some fear, but he felt close to Song Ting, the horse.

Song Ting said to Chen Dabeard: "The more critical times like this, the more we have to stay together to survive, don't scold him anymore." How to live safely now is the question we should think about. ”

Seeing Ah Ping looking at the air in a daze, Song Ting patted him on the shoulder and said slowly: "Fang La sent 400,000 people to besiege the city, and the city walls of Suzhou City are short and there are not many troops...... The thought is not how to defend the city, but how to escape. When the city is broken, the killing will begin, you see, now they dare to set fire everywhere with impunity, and when the city is broken, they dare to kill people and plunder women's property with impunity...... From now on, you have to stay awake at all times, you can't just wipe your tears casually, only then can you live, you know? ”

Ah Ping looked up at Song Ting sideways, with admiration in his eyes, nodded with a "hmm", and then burst out of his teeth with a few words: "I hate Fang La."

Suddenly, hearing him say this through gritted teeth, Song Ting and Chen Gui glanced at each other, both stunned, and then Song Ting patted him on the shoulder again: "Let's go out of this city first and then hate it."

Ah Ping nodded solemnly.

At this time, Yan Qing and Hu Sanniang came in with a few sets of beggar's clothes in their hands, and Chen Dabeard asked, "Picked up or robbed?"

Yan Qing said: "Give the silver." As he spoke, he handed over the cleanest set to Song Ting.

Everyone changed into beggar clothes, and Hu Sanniang went into the inner room to change. After changing into beggar's clothes, a group of seven people came out of the restaurant.

According to what Lao Liu said, go to a ruined temple.

In a place like a broken temple, there is nothing valuable, and there are few soldiers to rob it, so it is a more reliable place to survive, although it may have to withstand the wind and rain.

However, accidents always happen before you know it, as soon as you walk out the door, a group of rebels comes, and one of the men with a scar on the face stops Song Ting's group and yells, "Hey! You are called Hanako! Don't you dare to rebel? ”

The scar-faced man was obviously the leader of this group of rebels or something, and when he roared, the thirty or fifty rebels behind him who were holding steel forks, iron spears, bows and arrows and other weapons in their hands all looked at him neatly.

Silence, silence, not knowing how to respond.

After a brief silence of two seconds, the scar-faced man slowly walked over, dragging a sharp Pu knife in his hand.

Thanks to Yan Qing's cleverness, he hurriedly said: "Big brother, we don't have a weapon to rebel."

The scar-faced man was stunned for a moment, then laughed, raised his hand, and said, "Xiao Wu, give them a few weapons!"

When Dangdang, steel forks, small axes, iron shovels, etc. were thrown on the ground, Song Ting and a few others hurriedly picked up weapons, Yan Qing hugged his fists and said, "Thank you, big brother!"

The scar-faced man raised his hand and shouted, "Follow us, go, let's kill the officers and soldiers!"

When he shouted, the rebels behind him all cried wolf in excitement, holding their weapons and shouting slogans such as "Kill corrupt officials, both rich and poor."

Another group of rebels came from the other side, led by the man who shouted at the scarface, "Hey! Scar! The city gate on the east side of the city is about to be breached, so let's hurry to help!! ”

"Rush with me!!"

The two groups of rebels merged into one and rushed towards the east gate. There was a frenzy in the eyes of the rebels, and they yelled frantically.

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"Hey... Are they all still there? Seven people dressed as beggars gathered under the eaves, looked at the rebel army rushing frantically in front, checked the losses of their small team, and saw that there were no losses, Song Ting breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Lao Liu: "Lao Liu, lead the way!"

The destination is still the ruined temple six miles away.

Lao Liu walked in the front, Lu Junyi was second, Song Ting was third, and Chen Dabeard's master and apprentice followed, still behind Yanqing Palace. Luckily avoided this wave of rebels, everyone became more nervous, just heard that the east gate was about to be breached, but I hope it is not true. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't even be able to go to the broken temple.

It was the fifth watch, the sky was still dark, but under the light of the fire, the streets and alleys were as bright as day, and the seven-man team chose the dark places to walk, climbed over the walls and alleys, and sometimes squatted under the stone bridge to avoid the rebels......

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East Gate.

On the tower, dozens of corpses of soldiers lay on the ground, most of them killed by arrows, and some were stabbed to death by spears thrown up.

Zhang Jin, the general who defended the city, was a lieutenant general who was qualified to command 1,000 soldiers. He had participated in the wars of the Great Liang against Western Xia and Liao, and although he was only twenty-six years old, he was an experienced veteran.

Zhang Jin joined the army at the age of fifteen and fought the Liao people and the Western Xia people, but it was the first time to beat his own people.

At this moment, under the city is a dense Fang La army, comparable to the tide, just heard the news that Fang La sent 400,000 people to besiege the city, at this time he did not doubt it at all.

Under the city walls, some peasant troops did not have regular weapons, and they held weapons such as steel forks and pike darts in their hands, and even some threw stones at them.

Under the east gate, the peasant army of 50,000 or 60,000 people and more than 10,000 regular troops set up ladders to the city wall, at first some of them were afraid of death and wanted to climb the ladder up, but after being shot dead by a group of soldiers on the city tower, they did not dare to climb the ladder anymore, but kept shooting arrows and throwing stones at the city wall.

In the face of these seventy or eighty thousand people, although Zhang Jin panicked, he was not helpless, and hurried to ask for support while shooting arrows downward.

In the entire east gate, he only has 246 soldiers to deploy, not to mention, dozens of them have died. General Pan Long was transferred to the government by the prefect, I don't know what to do, he was very fierce, and he was the first to discover the enemy attack, and notified the whole city with drums and beacons.

There was a wave of support from the city defense battalion, but unfortunately there were only 80 people, and the entire city defense battalion was about 2,000 people, and he didn't know why only 80 people were sent to the east gate.

If the city defense battalion has no troops to support, it will have to go to the Wu Song camp thirty miles away to ask Jiedu to make Chen Tao transfer troops to save him...... Unfortunately, the east gate was fenced off, and no one could be sent out.

There are more than 4,000 registered officers and soldiers in the entire Suzhou city, and more than 1,000 people were transferred to the north to resist Liao, and less than 3,000 people are left to defend the city.

3,000 people to 400,000 ......

Thinking of this, Zhang Jin took a deep breath and shot down sharply with his crossbow, and the crossbow arrow passed through the throat of a peasant soldier......

Sou! A feathered arrow suddenly grazed his ears, and he immediately ducked down to hide by the battlement, and at this moment, he suddenly heard a dull crash from under the city.

The siege engines of the peasant army were pulled over. The wheels of the rushing cart ran over the ground and made a creaking sound, and dozens of peasant troops, under the command and whipping of several regular soldiers of the Fangla regular army, pushed the rushing cart, shouted the trumpet, and slammed the city gate with the rushing cart.

"Yo-ho-"

Bang –

The huge impact sound made Zhang Jin feel startled, and he hurriedly glanced at the guarding situation, and saw that more than 30 soldiers were busy moving wood to nail the city gate, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang Jin commanded the archers to shoot arrows to the left and right of the rushing cart, and a rain of arrows killed many peasant soldiers.

But soon another peasant army came up to push the cart, this time there were shield men on both sides holding shields to resist, and the sound of "yo ho" sounded again, and every time the city gate was hit, Zhang Jin's heart jumped with it......

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