Wei Zeng and the three of them hurriedly ran forward in the reeds, and suddenly saw the fire behind them, and the yellow-clothed rebels set fire to the reeds because of the failure to find people, but fortunately, although the fire was big, it was still far away, and the wind was not strong and there was still time to escape. Wei Zeng knew how to find his way through the reeds, and walked out of the reeds after following the river for a short time. After coming out of the reeds, I looked north, and by the light of the fire, I saw that a large number of yellow-clothed rebels were attacking the city in the direction of the county seat. The city wall of the county town is not high, only three meters high, and the yellow-clothed rebels are numerous, and they have already attacked the city wall and are fighting with the defenders. Although there were also rebellious troops near Wei Zeng, those people were attracted by the siege battle. So the three of them took advantage of the cover of night and hurried south.

After running all night, the three of them were getting away from the yellow-clothed rebels, so they all breathed a sigh of relief. Last night, they only cared about fleeing, and under the cover of night, the three of them didn't see the surrounding scene clearly, and now by the light of day, the three people who saw it were shocked.

I saw that all the crops in the fields were trampled on in the four fields, and the remaining crops were all withered and yellow, and no one pulled out the wild grass, and it also grew wildly, and there were still signs of human population. From time to time, a black shadow was seen on the ground, and the crow flew by, startled a fly, and pecked at the dead corpse. A foul smell hits people, and people can't stop sickening. There was no one left in the houses passing by, and the large village was scorched, and there was black smoke in the distance, and white smoke was rising, indicating that more than one village had suffered this fate. The scourge of the yellow-clothed rebel army has come to this point.

Wei Zeng's heart fluttered when he saw this, this is the current situation in his hometown? A wave of anger, a kind of sadness, grew in my heart.

Wei Zhen and Gu Cha were also shocked when they saw this, Wei Zhen didn't want to see this miserable scene, lowered his head and didn't speak; Gu Cha opened his mouth wide, pointed to the things around him, and couldn't speak, and a gust of wind blew, with a foul smell and soot smell, which made Gu Cha nauseous.

"Let's keep going." After Wei Zeng said this, he didn't wait for Wei Zhen and Gu Chayi, and walked forward without saying a word. As soon as Wei Zhen and Gu Cha saw Wei Zeng's somewhat hideous face, they followed him without saying much.

When I didn't walk for a while, I only heard the sound of horses' hooves on the road ahead, and a knight appeared in the field of vision, and there was a small flag behind the horse, on which the words Jingnan Army were written. When the knight saw Wei Zeng, he didn't ask a word, he directly lifted the horse pistol, and rushed towards Wei Zeng with his legs and the body of the horse.

Wei Zeng didn't seem to see the knight who was killed, and continued to move forward on his own. As soon as Gu Cha saw that Wei Zeng was about to be stabbed to death by the gun, he hurriedly bent his bow and arrows to rescue Wei Zeng. Wei Zeng suddenly raised his head the moment the knight approached, and then leaped sideways, and at the same time threw a javelin right in the knight's chest. The knight fell from his horse, and did not die immediately. Wei Zeng got up, patted the dust on his body, and then lifted the steel rod and walked towards the knight who had fallen to the ground.

"Damn the rebel army, the large army of my Jingnan army is behind, you can't escape." The knight who fell to the ground saw Wei Zeng walking and said.

"I asked you which villages were burned by you, and those villagers were killed by you." Wei Zeng took out a military emblem of the Jingnan Army and said to the fallen knight. The military emblem was found by Wei Zeng in the hands of a corpse next to a burned house.

"All the four counties of Yanbei surrendered to the enemy, became chaotic thieves, and all of them were killed, and no one was left. Hahahaha. Those people who collaborated with the enemy and rebelled were annihilated by our Jingnan army. Ahem. ”

Wei Zeng was dumbfounded, and roared: "What is the difference between a sergeant like you, who disregards indiscriminate efforts and kills civilians, and a rebellious army? He raised his steel staff and struck the fallen knight on the head. After killing this knight, Wei Zeng roared in the sky, and he was crazy. He struck the dead knight with his staff.

Where had Gu Chayi seen such a situation? In his impression, Wei Zeng has always been calm and unfazed, and he is more calm and resolute when encountering danger. This is the first time that such a big abnormality has occurred.

Seeing this, Wei Zhen held back the fear in his heart, hurriedly stopped Wei Zeng, and persuaded him: "Brother Wei, you have to calm down." He's dead, stop fighting. Brother Wei, you must cheer up. ”

Wei Zeng was persuaded by Weizhen like this, and he recovered a little, and saw that his hand was holding Weizhen's hand. Although Weizhen was in pain, he couldn't help but make no sound, but tears rolled in his eyes. Wei Zeng let go of his hand and apologized to Weizhen. And he walked forward on his own.

Wei Zhen and Gu Cha followed Wei Zeng closely, and when they saw that although Wei Zeng had calmed down, his expression was still wrong, and they were also very worried.

Not far ahead, I saw a group of 10 soldiers of the Jingnan Army chasing and killing a group of homeless people, and behind them lay more than a dozen corpses with their left ears cut off. Seeing this, Wei Zeng did not hesitate, picked up his weapon and ran over; Gu Chayi took out a bow and arrow to support Wei Zeng from a distance.

Wei Zeng stepped forward with a javelin in the middle of the first-class civilian, and was leaning over to cut off the head of the sergeant who was cutting off his ear, and the sergeant was still excited before he died.

When the other sergeants saw that their own people had been killed, they brandished standard steel knives and surrounded Wei Zeng. Wei Zeng blocked a knife with a shield, and struck forward with his shield, knocking the most advanced sergeant back a step, and swinging his staff out to shatter the head of the sergeant who had not yet settled down. Another sweep of the staff, relying on that momentum, forced several sergeants to take a few steps back. An arrow also came from Gucha, and several sergeants were thwarted from attacking.

Wei Zeng did not retreat at this time, but advanced, and knocked one person to the ground with the impact of the shield, and the other sergeants hurried to the rescue, and Wei Zeng returned to the shield to block before he could kill the enemy. Gu Cha shot another arrow and hit the thigh of a sergeant on Wei Zeng's left, and the sergeant's body was staggered by Wei Zeng's shield in the face, and he fell to the ground when he couldn't support it. Wei Zeng rolled sideways, avoided the steel knife on the right side, and smashed the body of the fallen sergeant with the shield as a fulcrum. The sergeant spat out a mouthful of blood and was unconscious.

After Wei Zeng rolled, he knelt on one knee, raised his shield upward, blocked a steel knife, and swung the steel rod forward to hit a person's kneecap, and the person fell to the ground and wailed. Wei Zeng rolled to the side again, dodged a knife, and threw the steel rod out with his hand, and the steel head smashed into the man's face, and the man's head fell backwards and passed out. Gu Chayi's arrow came at this time, hitting one of the soldiers in the heart of Wei Zeng.

Wei Zeng took a breather, drew his javelin as a short spear, and continued to fight with the remaining four sergeants. The sergeant, whose knee was shattered, was killed by Gucha's arrows one by one, and he was unable to move. Wei increased his shield and slashed and pierced a man's heart with a short spear, killing the man. At this time, Gu Chayi also threw away his bow and arrows and rushed with a gun. When the last two sergeants saw this, they fled in a hurry knowing that they were outnumbered.

Wei Zeng was fierce and didn't want to let the two go. A javelin struck one man, slammed the shield into the other's back, and then picked up a steel knife and rushed forward, killing both of them.

Wei Zeng was not hurt at all after this fight, but he was covered in blood and his face was hideous, like an evil ghost Shura. Gu Chayi and the people who were rescued looked at Wei Zeng in shock, facing his terrifying image at this time, no one dared to move forward. Only Wei Zhen walked up to Wei Zeng, broke Wei Zeng's bloody hand that was holding the steel knife, threw the steel knife on the ground, and then raised his sleeve to wipe the blood beads on Wei Zeng's face. Wei Zeng looked at Wei Zhen, and the gaze in his angry eyes was a little gentle, but the pain in that gaze was also more obvious because of this.

Wei Zeng walked in front of everyone with Weizhen and said, "The large army of the Jingnan Army should be not far away, let's get out of here quickly." ”

Hearing this, everyone came back to their senses, thanked the three of them, and then walked towards a forest, with Wei Zeng, Wei Zhen and Gu Chayi also going. Wei Zeng saw that a middle-aged man was very capable, and everyone walked in an orderly manner under his leadership, without too much panic. Wei Zeng walked forward and asked him about the reason for this ****.

It turns out that the imperial court has imposed a lot of taxes and miscellaneous taxes in recent years, and the Yanbei Plain is not rich, and it has already been miserable under the harsh government. Just twenty days ago, the county's tax collectors went to the countryside again, but they were killed by a man in yellow. The man in yellow killed the tax collector and used it to encourage the rebellion of the townspeople, and then led these people to attack the county seat. The county was defenseless, and it was easy to capture the county seat and kill the county official. Later, many people in yellow came to this county and coerced the people of a county to cause chaos. All those who did not obey, and those who did not have time to escape, were killed, and the rich houses were ransacked. A large number of coerced peasants followed the yellow-clothed people to make chaos everywhere, and swept through the four counties in a short period of time.

The Jingnan Army was originally stationed at the junction of Yanbei and Xuhuai, not far from the four counties of rebellion, and after receiving the order to suppress the rebellion, it quickly dispatched troops. Who knew that the commander of the Jingnan army was so brutal that on the grounds that the people of the four counties were colluding with the rebellious army, he killed people when he saw them, and burned them when he saw them. Burning, killing and looting all the way, everywhere they went, they became a scorched earth. Many innocent pedestrians and business travelers were also affected. The damage caused is ten times more serious than that of the yellow-clothed rebels. When many people saw the Jingnan army coming, they came out of the shelter to greet them, but they were all killed by the brutal army. As a result, more people either joined the rebel army, or fled to other counties, and there were people like this group who hid in the mountains and dense forests for refuge.

This time, the middle-aged man went out with a few companions to look for food, and met a group of fleeing people, who took them to the shelter together because they were sympathetic to the same disease. but encountered a team of Jingnan troops. When everyone saw the army, they fled in a hurry and were chased all the way until Wei Zeng and Gu Chayi killed a group of Jingnan troops to save them.

Wei Zeng had always thought that only those robbers and cultists were the scourge that endangered one party, but he didn't expect that this Jing Nanjun, who claimed to be the mighty army of the dynasty, would be so brutal. The rebel army is everywhere, and there will be people's lives, and this Jingnan army wants to kill all the people in the four counties, whether they are really guilty or innocent. Is it for military merit, or is it for the name of "might"? In any case, how could the imperial court allow the Jingnan army to be so chaotic, or has the imperial court really been corrupted to this point.

Wei Zeng wondered if the small village he was born in would be spared. Although it is within the four counties, it is also in a very remote place, and there are very few business travelers in ordinary times. He came back for revenge, and the enemy should die in his own hands.