If the bloodshed at ten o'clock in the evening was only aimed at the city defense forces, then from the second half of the night, the butcher's knife had been aimed at the innocent people of Broken Leaf City.

Li Wei, a Han teenager who narrowly escaped the massacre that shocked the world, later testified to the special court as follows:

That night, our family had already slept, Abba and Grandma, the eldest sister, the second sister and the younger brother.

In the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door - Abba was a doctor, and he thought that a patient was going to see an emergency, so he lit an oil lamp and got up to ask who was outside.

I heard Uncle Ma, a neighbor who was a tobacco seller, knew Abba very well, and often drank together. Abba heard that it was Uncle Ma who said that he had a stomachache, so he opened the door, and before he could speak, Abba made a strange sound - like the sound of someone covering his mouth - and when I was woken up by my eldest sister, Uncle Ma had already entered my bedroom, he was holding a knife, pulling my mother's hair, trying to separate her throat, and I heard her shouting - Run. I cried and didn't know what to do. And the cry of my little brother, whose voice came from the ground, and as soon as I looked down, I saw my little brother, crawling on the ground, and a Uighur with his head wrapped in his head picked him up and threw him out of the window.

Sister pushed me to the edge of the window and told me to run. I don't have any shoes on, I want to go get them. But my sister told me to run, and my second sister dragged me out of the window and ran through the back door with me. The eldest sister was dragged back by the Uighurs, and I never saw my grandmother and my eldest sister again......

(Q, what happened to you and your second sister later?) ）

The second sister dragged me to Aunt An's house next door, and Aunt An and we were neighbors. She has always been nice and polite to us in the past. There was no lock in her backyard, we went in, we cried, Aunt Ann came out, she and his sons tied me up and dragged my sister into the house, I heard my sister screaming, they beat her, scolded her - they were usually very nice to my sister, but that day they were ...... Still...... Later, I heard my sister screaming very badly inside, I struggled desperately, and finally broke the rope away, at this time Aunt An took a knife out, and said "I should kill the little cub...... I was very scared, so I quickly ran through the back door, until I ran to the door of a big inn, and met a few kind big brothers, they saved me.

The few kind-hearted big brothers Li Wei mentioned naturally referred to Cheng Qi and the other three strangers. They had feasted as usual that day, and then fell asleep. In the middle of the night, Cheng Qi suddenly felt a little cold, so he got up and put on his clothes to enjoy the starry sky that Li Bai had admired.

However, he soon shifted his attention from the vast starry sky to the city, which should be said to be very quiet, and even if something happened occasionally, it would only be confined to one area.

But he noticed that there seemed to be some unspeakable sound coming from all the streets.

There seemed to be a lot of people running and shouting in the street, and there seemed to be a faint smell of burning in the air.

He stood on the balcony and looked around, as if the whole city was going to turn into a boiler.

Cheng Qi secretly said in his heart: It seems that something has happened, it seems to be quite serious? Could it be that the Uighur spies got in and caused trouble?

He hurriedly walked to the next door, called Huang Yang up, and went to drag Guo Shan, who was entangled with a blonde and blue-eyed girl, out of Gentle Township: "Get ready, I feel like we have a big trouble." ”

The three of them went to the balcony together to look at it for a while, and they all felt that there seemed to be a riot in the city.

Guo Shan washed his face and sobered up, and woke up the retired black veteran Aka - these black people are really unreliable, all of them are full of wine and double essence talents, and Ada and Allah are still messing around with dancers in the small bar of the inn. Guo Shan didn't talk much nonsense, he turned around and picked up a basin of mixture mixed with ice water and poured it on the necks of the two.

Looking at their embarrassed appearance, Cheng Qi felt very relieved - these guys eat a lot and can play. I didn't feel like they were playing a role in the journey, and now was the time for them to serve.

"Brothers, the time has come to be faithful to your master's family!" Aka dragged them up without saying anything: "There is a riot in the city. We will hold out here until the riots subside. ”

Acre experienced slave riots and riots during his time in the colonies. It was in a small seaport in South-West Africa. The inland area was famous for its gold production, and the Portuguese first discovered it, and then the Song people expelled them and established their own colonial palace, which was mainly a port, through which countless amounts of gold flowed to the Song mainland through large ships, and became the capital of the Song Dynasty. But in order to obtain this gold, the locals were reduced to slavery and died. Eventually, even the blacks rebelled one day, burning the minecarts, killing the Goryeo overseers, tying the Japanese engineers to plantain trees and burning them to death, and trying to capture the port and destroy the source of evil.

Aka is a mixed-race black, his father is half-black (the first generation of Song people to intermarry with blacks), and his mother is a Korean cook. This kind of intermarriage would have been difficult to happen, but because his father was loyal to the Song people and risked his lieutenant many times to save the lieutenant he served from critical situations, in recognition of his loyalty, Aka's father had a chance to give birth to Aka.

From an early age, Acre served as a servant in the military camp of the Song Kingdom, carrying a gun and bullet belt to the lieutenant. In the course of his service, he showed outstanding shooting talent, so at the age of sixteen he was specially promoted by the lieutenant to the rank of rifleman - to celebrate this rare honor, the lieutenant also went to his house, and had a good drink with Akata's father, after the adults were drunk, Aka looked into the house curiously through the window, and saw the lieutenant, who was usually very iron-faced to him, riding on his mother's body shirtless, and the creaking sound of the bamboo chaise longue, Aka didn't know why, and felt very frightened in his heart, I quickly ran away.

Since then, Aka has been working under the lieutenant, including his younger siblings, but his two younger brothers have not had the same good fortune as him, and were able to become full-fledged soldiers until they were married.

"Occupy the high ground and block the doors and windows." Aka exhaled a cloudy breath and drove the memories of the African rainforest out of his mind: "Ada, you go over there, Allah, you go to the top floor, bring enough ammunition, we will hold out until reinforcements arrive!" ”

Although he didn't want to recall the lieutenant, he couldn't help but wonder what he would do if the lieutenant was here.

At the time of the rebellion, the lieutenant had only a platoon of discontent, and because the rebels were all black, the black orderlies in the platoon were kept in the cellar - which later proved to be a mistake.

Considering the safety of more than 200 Song people and their families in the colony, the lieutenant adopted a more conservative strategy, placing the guards of the Governor's Palace in the inner line, while he himself led a squad of elite archers to guard the highest building on the main street of the Governor's Palace, a tavern.

As soon as Acre had set up his defenses, Huang Taiji drove a carriage to the inn with the lame Gulandam and a dozen children.

"Crazy, crazy!" Gulandam, dressed in a white scarf, limped out of the car, her face full of horror: "Keno City...... Keno City ...... Same! ”

Cheng Qi stood at the door with a gun, and he could already see a church in the distance turned into a huge torch.

"The mob tried to storm the library, and the director negotiated with them, but they were beaten. I shot and killed two thugs, and then escaped with Gulandam and the children in a car. Huang Taiji explained as he picked the child out of the car.

Cheng Qi recognized these children, they were orphans or street children in the city. The kind curator adopted them, educated them, and expected them to become the future pillars of the city.

"Grandpa Curator......" One child began to cry, and soon the children all began to cry. Huang Taiji said to Gulandam: "You bring the children in first." ”

Gulandam gritted his teeth, limped, held a small dot, and led a half-sized boy to the inn. Huang Taiji looked at her back and said to the three strangers, "Young men, cheer up." The next thing is not easy for the big guys! ”

"This riot is not a simple matter," Huang Taiji said, taking a gun: "The army has not responded so far, and there are people and arsons everywhere in the city." We may be preparing for the worst. ”

His judgment was soon verified. Just after two o'clock, a group of thugs with open flames came to try to rob the inn, but they were immediately repelled by Huang Taiji and others.

One after another, some injured people came here to take refuge, and Cheng Qi and the others arranged for Gulandam to take the children to take these wounded people. Among them, those who were slightly injured all picked up temporary modified sticks to act as defenders, and those who were seriously injured could only be disinfected with spirits first, waiting for dawn before making plans.

The innkeeper also realized that if he was still concerned about money at this time, then he might have no money to spend tomorrow morning. He generously gave everything he had, and as long as the guests were willing to fight to defend the inn, he would not say a word.

This scene brought the black veteran Acre back to the scorching hot and humid rainy season of the rebellion:

The rebels did not have any organization, they still launched a primitive charge according to the tribe. They also did not have modern weapons, and the most high-tech was the sickle issued to them by the Song people to harvest crops on the plantations.