The rebels under the West City were heading in the direction of the treasury, and waves of bows and crossbows and arrows were shooting from behind. Stunned, many people looked back, only to see that the drawbridge over the inner city gate had been tightened with a noose. With the muffled sound of the wooden planks on the drawbridge crashing against the earthen walls, many of these rioters began to panic.

Seeing this, Ah Hu, who was in the lead, was even more angry in surprise. However, seeing the sound of Wu Weijun's shooting behind the female wall, the battalion soldiers continued to draw their bows and shoot expressionlessly, and dozens of tribesmen in leather coats and hats had fallen in the streets, and panic had begun to appear in the ranks, so he had to calm himself down, and shouted hoarsely in Hu language: "Villagers, now that the west gate of the inner city is closed, we have no way to retreat, we might as well rush to open the treasury, get food from each other, and then go out of the city through the rest of the gates!" ”

The Qiang tribesmen who followed him to this place saw that there was no way out, so they had to find some shelter on the side of the street first, and then continue to rush in the direction of the treasury under the leadership of Ah Hu.

Li Yanzhi, who was standing at the gate of the barracks, listened to the reports of the heralds who came and went to report the situation in the city, and secretly made a judgment in his heart. The southern city is now in flames, and the soldiers at the head of the city are trying to put out the fire while fighting the rebellious people. And Cao Jian had already led the soldiers of the Zhanfeng battalion patrolling the city to rush over, and it wouldn't take long to arrive. Li Yanzhi was not too worried, and after listening to the report of the herald who came to the West Gate, the rebels who broke into the West Gate had also been locked up in the inner city by the closed city gate. However, these rebels did not try to capture the castle tower, but continued to advance in the direction of the treasury.

"Beat the drums!" Li Yanzhi turned around and looked at the big drum in the direction of Dianjiangtai, and ordered in a deep voice. The herald holding the flag on the gate waved the flag vigorously, and the drummer on the general's platform saw the signal and beat the drum with all his might.

Hearing the sound of drums, the soldiers who had already assembled in the barracks and were ready to stand by left the camp one after another. Liu Jiwu looked at the subordinates who were hurriedly assembled with a stern face, and said in a deep voice: "Brothers, now Qianghu in the city, instigated by enemy spies, is killing and looting in the city. There is an order in the long history, only the first evil, and the threat is never asked! ”

"Let's go!" Seeing that the command flag on the gate waved again, Liu Jiwu issued an order to attack the assembled Zhanfeng battalion, hundreds of soldiers of the Zhanfeng battalion wearing iron armor, holding long knives in their hands, and even wearing hideous iron masks on their faces came out of the camp one after another, and several iron streams on the streets near the left went in all directions of the chaos.

"Notify all gates in the outer city, if Wang Cheng and Lei Rong finish their drills and lead the army back to the city, all gates will not be allowed to go!" Li Yanzhi summoned a herald and admonished. When the herald heard this, he immediately ran out of the camp. At this time, the city was in turmoil, and if those Qianghu who surrendered to the army were put in, it was not known what variables would appear.

When arranging for the second general to lead the army to the drill today, Li Yanzhi also quietly instructed Wang Cheng to monitor and guard against Lei Rong's department. When it comes to those who are not of my race, their hearts will be different. Wang Cheng also knows a thing or two about this. Therefore, it is also a safer way not to let the Jianrui battalion enter the city at the moment.

Liu Jiwu led the Zhanfeng battalion into several hundred-man teams, and soon controlled the north-south and east-west arteries in the city. Immediately, he personally led a team of 100 people and touched in the direction of the treasury where the chaos was raging. More than 100 soldiers of the battle battalion walked, and the sonorous sound of the collision of the armor leaves on their bodies was also spectacular in the ears of others. Liu Jiwu ordered one of the guards to walk through the streets with a gong in his hand, shouting loudly while striking the gong to warn the residents of the city.

"The Qianghu exiles were provoked by thieves and spies with the intention of slaughtering the people and plundering the treasury. Our department was ordered to quell the chaos, and I hope that the township party will be relieved, with me waiting, the chaos will be decided later. ”

After passing through several streets to reassure the residents who had not yet been affected by the turmoil, the procession continued in the direction of the treasury. The guard who struck the gong changed his tone at this time, and shouted while beating the gong in Hu language: "There is a saying in the long history, this time there is chaos, the county government only investigates the first evil, and the coercion does not ask about it. Whoever catches the chief evil and the leaders at all levels, the county government will reward 10,000 yuan, 50 stones of grain and rice, and 50 horses of cloth, and the children can enter the county government and serve as officials......"

Liu Jiwu led his troops to travel for a short while, and they had arrived outside the treasury wall located on the other side of the county government. Looking around, I saw that the gate of the treasury was closed, and the county government, which was only separated by a wall from the treasury, was waiting for it with a sword. Liu Jiwu saw that Wang Qiang was looking for a wooden ladder, lying on the wall, and watching the situation in the courtyard of the treasury.

"Wang Qiang!" Liu Jiwu shouted. When Wang Qiang heard this, he hurriedly climbed down the ladder, then opened the gate of the county government and walked to Liu Jiwu's side.

"What's going on in the hospital?" Liu Jiwu pointed to the treasury and asked Wang Qiangdao.

Wang Qiang thought for a while, and then returned: "I just lay on the wall, and I saw hundreds of people gathered inside, each holding sharpened sticks, and a few people holding knives. The door of the granary of the treasury had been smashed open, but there seemed to be nothing, and the rebels argued for a while until Liu Du led the people to come. ”

"Let's go, let me go up to the wall and take a look." Liu Jiwu patted Wang Qiang and commanded. When Wang Qiang heard this, he was busy introducing Liu Jiwu into the courtyard. Liu Jiwu found a wooden ladder by the wall, and then used his hands and feet together, climbed the wall, stood on tiptoe slightly on the wooden ladder, and looked into the courtyard of the treasury.

Earlier, Li Yanzhi had already instructed the treasury treasurer and clerks to carry away the money and grain from the treasury. Now that the treasury is empty, it is not surprising to Liu Jiwu. It's just that these soldiers came so quickly, probably because of the surprise of those chaotic people.

Ah Hu looked at the empty county government treasury, scolded angrily, and then turned his head to look at a few companions around him, and asked, "Wait for the discussion, how is it good now?" ”

Several people listened to the nonsense coming from the side of the wall, but they were all silent, and they each shrunk their necks. Seeing that everyone was like this, Ah Hu couldn't help but be angry. He stepped forward and grabbed a person by the collar: "At the beginning, you said that the villagers were hungry, and the lives of women and children were dying, but now I take the lead and lead the villagers to take risks, so you treat me like this?" ”

The man who was grabbed by the collar was full of panic, he looked at the angry Ah Hu, and said in a trembling voice: "Ah ...... Ahu. Now there is no money or food in this treasury, and the gates of the inner city are closed after we enter the city. In addition, the county soldiers came to suppress it so quickly...... It can be seen that the officials in the county town have been prepared for our grain robbery for a long time......"

"Who leaked the news?" Ah Hu couldn't help but frown deeply when he heard the man say his doubts. He looked around, and everyone was silent. However, before he could ask for a result, there was a sound of banging on the door outside the treasury.

"We are soldiers of the Warrior Battalion! There is a saying in this long history, only the first evil is investigated, and the threat is never asked! Those who capture the chief evil and the leaders at all levels will be rewarded with 10,000 yuan, 50 stones of grain and rice, and 50 horses of cloth, and their children can enter the county government as officials...... If you still don't repent, then don't blame my soldiers for having no one under the sword! ”

The shouts from outside the hospital were heard again and again in the hospital. And the sound of several soldiers in front of the door banging on the door with a thick log became louder and louder. Many rioters in the courtyard immediately panicked and shrank into the courtyard one after another, and there was no one near the left of the gate.

The conversation between several people in the treasury house gradually disappeared into the endless noise coming from outside. Ah Hu looked at the few people who were at a loss, and he was even more resentful.

However, at this moment, a knife pierced out of Ah Hu's back, impartially stabbing him in the back, he screamed, let go of the collar of the person in front of him, struggled to pull out the knife and wanted to stab the person who attacked him in the rear. As soon as he turned sideways, the man who had just been grabbed by the collar also pulled out the knife at his waist and slashed at the side of his neck. The knife had not been sharpened for a long time, and the blade was a little blunt, and the spine that had been cut into the neck stopped, but the flesh and carotid arteries that had been opened by the blade spurted blood outward one by one.

"Hu, I'm sorry." The man who slashed at the side of his neck pulled out a knife, looked at Ah Hu with a look of disbelief, and said lightly: "If you don't die, then everyone has to die, for everyone, we are forced to ......"

Ah Hu breathed hard and rapidly, and his mouth was ho-ho, as if he wanted to curse the man in front of him. Before he could assemble the curse language, the knife in the man's hand stabbed him in the chest again. As the blade of the knife stabbed in and out, Ah Hu finally fell to the ground with his eyes wide open, his body as if twitching uncontrollably.

The man with the knife stepped forward, raised the knife in his hand, cut off Ah Hu's head with a knife, and then lifted it in his hand, walked to the courtyard, and said to the six gods and ownerless rebels: "The first evil is ambushed, and we are coerced by it, and we have no choice but to make chaos." Now open the door and come down......"

"I'm willing to surrender to the ......" began to sound in the crowd, but as the sound of soldiers banging on the door intensified, more and more rioters began to shout this slogan, which in their opinion, could save their lives.

Liu Jiwu stretched out his hand to stop his subordinates who wanted to carry the log to hit the door again, and there was a neat sound of "I am willing to surrender" in the courtyard. It was the Qiang people who might not have been able to speak Chinese before, and at this time, under the leadership of the surrounding villagers, they used their vocal cords to make unfamiliar syllables, trying to find a way to live for themselves.

After a while, the door of the treasury opened. Liu Jiwu watched a young man carrying a head and taking the lead. However, after going out, he immediately knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "We were originally Shunmin of the Di tribe, and we were oppressed by thieves in Longxi before, and we were humiliated, so we came north to cast cold, and fortunately we were taken in by the county Zhongming Mansion. We wanted to plow and graze and find some food and clothing for our family, so we knew that we were enough, but we didn't expect this person to coerce us into chaos, so we had no choice but to follow the thief. Now that the general has stopped drinking, he has repented, so he beheaded the thief and expressed his guilt. I hope the general will be forgiving......"

Liu Jiwu walked in front of the young man who spoke, only to see him folded his hands on the ground, his chin pressed against the back of his hands, kneeling in an orderly manner, and he didn't dare to take a breath. Liu Jiwu raised the knife in his hand, gently patted the short knife that the young man was still tied to his waist with the knife surface, and said, "Since you have already surrendered to me, why don't you untie the knife?" ”

"It's a lowly negligence...... Humble and immediately solved! When the young man heard this, he trembled, and hurriedly got up on his knees, hurriedly untied the short knife from his waist, and then put it in front of him. When he untied the knife, he secretly raised his eyes and glanced at Liu Jiwu in front of him. And Liu Jiwu's gaze through the iron mask made this young man shudder. He laid the knife in front of him, and then hurried to continue prostrating himself on the ground.

"Why don't you do the same?" Liu Jiwu looked up at the rebels in the back row and said expressionlessly. When the rebels heard this, they also got up, threw aside the sharpened sticks in their hands, and then knelt down and bowed to the ground like the young man at the head. Seeing that these people were so obedient, Liu Jiwu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and ordered his subordinates to collect the weapons used by these rebels, and then lined up the subordinates in two columns, ordered these rebels to stand up, arranged a column of soldiers on each side, and escorted them to the barracks.

The turmoil that occurred in this hurry seems to have ended in a hurry. In order to prevent the people from running out of the city to fall into the grass when the situation was not good, Li Yanzhi deliberately sent Tao Heng to lead his cavalry to wander around the city and prepare to intercept. However, the fact is that until the rebellion of this part of the population was completely suppressed or quelled, no one was able to escape from the county.

The fire that started in the south side of the castle has been extinguished. Cao Jian's subordinates slaughtered all sides in Nancheng, and more than half of the rioters who set fire to the chaos became ghosts under the knife of Cao Jian's subordinates. Like the western city, the inner city on the south side also closed the city gate soon after the rebels entered the city, and used an urn to catch turtles in those riots. Although the fire near the south city has been extinguished, the howls of the old and weak women and children still shook the sky in the ruins. In the streets and alleys, corpses were stacked and scattered. When many county residents saw the bodies of their relatives on the streets, they wept bitterly. The soldiers defending the city carried down the casualty robes in the streets and alleys.

Li Yanzhi looked at the two thousand-person governors in front of the general's platform, one of whom came to give him an account with hundreds of heads and two or three hundred prisoners. The other, with a human head and hundreds of captives, came to deal with him.

"The captives will be guarded in the camp tonight, and Wei Xu will be on guard with two hundred-man teams, and those who try to escape or attack the guards can be shot on the spot." Li Yanzhi said expressionlessly to the newly appointed Sima Liu Xin of the Wuwei Army beside him.

"As for Liu Du and Cao Du, tonight's chaos can be described as hard, but it is not the time to rest. Please leave a hundred-person team to patrol the city, and the rest of Liu Bu will be on guard in the outer city, and Cao Bu will be on guard in the inner city, so as to strictly prevent changes in the Lei Rong Department of the Jianrui Battalion. Li Yanzhi bowed his hand to the two people who had come to the same place, and said in a calm tone.

Seeing that the two of them led their troops to leave, the remaining two soldiers of the 100-man Zhanfeng Battalion began to send the prisoners to various places in the camp to prepare for custody, and Li Yanzhi called a herald and ordered him to ride out of the city on horseback, and ordered Tao Heng to lead his troops back to the camp.

This hastily happened and ended hastily, and it only took more than an hour from beginning to end. But Li Yanzhi knows that the series of turmoil caused by this has just begun.