Chapter Twenty-Six: The Yellow Clothes Rebellion
More than ten days later, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhen and Gu Cha and his party walked on the Yanbei Plain, Yanbei Ping's drought for days and days, the crops in the fields were yellow, and in addition to the merchants who passed in a hurry, there were only farmers with sorrowful faces.
In Shifeng City, Liu Hexin said that in September, the Jingshi would hold a grand meeting of the world's martial artists, and most of the martial arts masters of the dynasty would participate, and invited Wei Zeng and Gu Chayi to go together. Wei Zeng said that he had to avenge his mother before he thought about other things. So they agreed to meet in Beijing in September, and the two sides broke up. Although Gu Chayi wanted to go all the way with Liu Hexin in order to ask him for martial arts, he thought that he couldn't help Wei Zeng, so he had to talk about it when he went to Beijing later. Of course, Wei Zhen followed Wei Zeng.
Before parting, Wen Di called Wei Zeng to a separate place. Then he stuffed a purse in Wei Zeng's hand, saying that he had picked one up, and it was useless, so he gave it to Wei Zeng. Wei Zeng saw Wen's first very unusual twisting and pinching image, and he didn't know whether this purse should be taken or not. Just before Wen Di was about to be angry, Wei Zeng made the right decision. Wen Di was also very happy to see Wei Zeng receiving the purse, and told him to be careful all the way, he must go to Beijing in September, and then he could witness the martial arts event together. Wei Zeng agreed, looking at the appearance of Wen's first little daughter, Wei Zeng was very strange, "Are you dreaming" Wei Zeng asked himself, looking at the four different things embroidered on this purse, Wei Zeng was sure that this Ding Wen Di embroidered it himself. Finally, when Wendi left, he said, "If you dare to lose or break your purse, I must make you look good." Wei Zeng was relieved, it seemed that all this was really not a dream. But Wei Zeng, who came back to his senses, understood the meaning of the girl's purse, and wanted to explain something to Wen Di, but Wen Di had already ridden away.
After more than ten days of traveling, Wei Zeng and the three of them have already approached Wei Zeng's hometown, but the closer they get to Wei Zeng's hometown, the more strange the situation becomes. The people in the neighborhood were very unfriendly to strangers, and Wei Zeng was not less wary of the eyes when asking for directions, sleeping, and buying food. On the way, they met a group of refugees, but the group of refugees avoided Wei Zeng and the three with weapons. Wei Zeng somehow, he had to wonder in his heart.
On this day, Wei Zeng and the three of them were already very tired after a day of traveling, and they wanted to spend the night to rest, but they found that the nearby houses were empty, and there was no one. Wei Zeng saw that the county seat was not far away, so he had to take the two of them to the county seat to find a hotel to stay. There was not a single pedestrian along the way, there were no farmers working in the fields, everything was too quiet. When I arrived at the county seat, I found that the city gate was closed, the drawbridge was raised, and the guards on the city wall looked very nervous. Wei Zeng asked Weizhen and Gu Cha to stand in their place, and they moved forward, wanting to open the city gate. The soldiers who were looking for the city were also very nervous when they saw Wei Zeng and a warrior coming, and they took their bows and arrows at Wei Zeng.
Wei Zeng stepped forward and hurriedly explained: "Master Jun, we are just passing travelers, and we only want to go to the city to find a hotel to spend the night, and there is no malicious intent. ”
"Go quickly, for the whole city is now under martial law, and no one will be allowed into the city. If you are a traveler, hurry up, the yellow-clothed rebels are about to fight, otherwise we will deal with you as rebels. ”
"The Yellow-Clad Rebellion? Something happened, can the military master tell me one or two more. ”
"I don't know more, but I know that there was a rebellion in the south ten days ago, and several county towns in the south were attacked, and another county town was conquered, and everyone died. Hurry up, or we'll have to shoot arrows." ”
Wei Zeng saw that everyone in the city was about to raise arrows to shoot, so he hurriedly retreated, and left the vicinity of the county seat with Weizhen and Gu Chayi.
Wei Zeng explained to the two of them what they had just heard, and the two of them were also very surprised, trying to understand why people were so wary of strangers along the way, and there were too many homeless people. So the three of them had to find a house where no one was around, and after eating some dry food, they were about to rest. Wei Zeng thought about the purpose of this trip, and then thought about the chaotic army in yellow clothes, and had a bad feeling in his heart.
"The Yellow-clothed Rebels, why does it sound so much like a Power Cultist. But isn't the Power Sect a cult, why do they want to launch a rebellion, do they have the strength? Could it be that the Tianjia soldier on the Yushan Road has something to do with it when he never returns? A few counties in the south, isn't that the direction of my hometown, is my hometown a chaotic army? Then do I want to take revenge on this, do I want to avoid the chaos and return later, or take the risk of going now? Wei Zeng had too many doubts in his heart, and gradually fell asleep while thinking.
In the middle of the night, he suddenly heard a noise all around, and Wei Zeng, who was alert, immediately woke up and looked around, only to see that there were torches everywhere, and there were thousands of people under the torches. Some power cultists wearing yellow clothes and wearing yellow belts on their heads were directing the crowd, listening to the sporadic shouts, this group of people was going to attack the county seat overnight, and said that the Jingnan army had chased after them, and they must capture the city before the Jingnan army hit, and then defend the city. Except for the yellow-clothed men who took the lead, the others were all dressed in tatters, holding sticks and farm tools, and only wrapped a yellow cloth around their bodies as a sign of power, and they looked like poor peasants who had been coerced by the rebellious army.
Weizhen and Gu Chayi had also woken up, and they were also surprised when they looked at the scene around them. Qi Qi looked at Wei Zeng and asked him for advice.
"If they find out, once we fall into the encirclement, it will definitely be difficult for the three of us to escape, so we quietly touched the edge of this chaotic army, seized the opportunity and ran to the reed swing over there, I am still very familiar with the reed swing, as long as we get there, we will definitely be able to escape."
Wei Zeng and the three of them took advantage of the cover of night to touch the reeds, this army was not regular, these people walked without a queue, and they looked like a rabble. There were no people who were scouting and guarding everywhere, but they just hurried in the direction of the county seat, so Wei Zeng and the three of them easily touched the reeds and the vicinity. But just as the three of them were about to enter the reeds, a group of black shadows appeared on the left side of the three of them, a group of rebels armed with wooden sticks and farm tools. Wei Zeng and the three of them were shocked when they saw this, and quickly pulled out their weapons to fight and flee.
"Don't be nervous, we're running away, not here to arrest you. Those yellow-clothed men were fierce and vicious, saying that if we didn't follow them, we would kill us all, and we would be coerced. As soon as we found an opportunity, we escaped with our families. Seeing that Wei Zeng and the three of them were about to attack when they drew their weapons, they hurriedly said.
Wei Zeng saw that there were indeed no powerful sectarians among these people, and there were many old and weak women and children, and it seemed that they had really escaped, so they went their separate ways.
After Wei Zeng and the three fled into the reeds, they only heard someone shouting from behind, "Someone has escaped, go and arrest them back and punish them, I see who will dare to run away in the future." Then there was a commotion and footsteps. Wei Zeng heard the reeds around him shouting, and there was a rustle of the reeds brought by the people when they ran away, it seemed that there were really a lot of chaotic troops who fled, no wonder they were discovered so quickly.
Wei Zeng took Weizhen and Gu Chayi and hurriedly fled to the depths of the reeds, I don't know how long they fled, when they pushed aside a clump of reeds in front of them, they met a group of resting rebels, there were three yellow-clothed people and more than 20 coerced peasants in this rebel army, it seems that these people did not go to arrest the deserters, nor did they want to go back to attack the city, but were lazy here. It turned out that the reeds were extremely dense, and the night made it difficult to see and distinguish things, and Wei Zeng also used his voice to avoid the pursuers along the way. Unexpectedly, I encountered this group of lazy rebels.
"Brothers, lucky, I didn't expect that we didn't catch the rabbit, but the rabbit sent the **** by itself. Let's go up together and take them back to receive their rewards. A man in yellow said to the crowd.
Wei Zeng secretly scolded and shot a chaotic army chasing him with a flying knife, Gu Chayi also knocked over a chaotic army with a wooden bastard, Wei Zhen held a short sword to protect his body, and those chaotic troops were difficult to get close to. The reeds were inconvenient to walk, the sound would reveal their whereabouts, and the enemy was outnumbered, and the three of them were surrounded in a short time. But except for the three men in yellow, these rebels were all peasants who had been coerced, and their hands trembling with weapons trembled, and they didn't dare to fight hard, so the three of them were okay for a while.
"Boss, these people don't seem to be running away, they are like some passing martial arts masters, and they are very difficult to deal with." A man in yellow said to the man in the lead.
"So what, there are only three of them and a girl, can't we have more than twenty of us deal with them. You all work hard for me, and if I can't even take them, I'll kill you when I go back." The leader shouted at the rebels. The rebels were afraid, and they also struggled a little, adding pressure to Wei Zeng and the others.
Seeing this, Wei Zeng knew that if he didn't kill these three leaders, he was afraid that he would be entangled by this group of people all the time, and if reinforcements arrived, he would be in danger. Wei Zeng stopped retreating and forced in the direction of the leader, Gu Chayi and Wei Zhen saw that Wei Zeng would also understand, and cooperated with Wei Zeng to kill the past, and the leader also hurriedly retreated when he saw this, letting people block in front of him.
Wei Zeng used his shield to overturn a slaughtered rebel, rolled forward and reached the leader's feet, and struck the leader's leg with a staff. The leader couldn't retreat, so he fell to the ground with a wail, and then received a blow from Wei Zeng in the chest, and there was no sound. As soon as Gu Cha took advantage of Wei Zeng to open a gap, he also followed and stabbed another man in yellow with a shot, and the man in yellow resisted a few moves under Gu Cha's hand, and was stabbed with several wounds, and he was unable to support it. Wei Zhen used his sword to force back the attacking rebel army and cover the attack of Wei Gu and the others. The last man in yellow hurriedly ran backwards, trying to avoid the crowd. Wei Zeng hit the man in the back with a javelin, pinned the man to the ground, and killed the man. When the rebels saw that their leader had been killed, they had lost their will to fight, they had been coerced, and now that the leader had been killed, one of them threw down his weapon and fled, so they fled one after another.
Wei Zeng, Wei Zhen and Gu Cha tidied up a little, and then hurriedly left this place of right and wrong, wanting to run deep in the reeds. At this time, the fire broke out in the direction of the county seat, and it seemed that the yellow-clothed rebel army was about to begin to attack the city.