The snowy night is vast, the cold wind is cold, the fire inside and outside the Dongwu City of Langya Kingdom of the Han Dynasty is blazing and the sound of killing is shaking the sky, more than 10,000 rebels with yellow scarves on their heads are receiving the soldiers in the city, and soon enter the county government, the treasury and the streets and alleys in the city from the east and south gates, and the Dongwu county town within a radius of six miles is boiling like an oil pot in a hot fire.

In less than half an hour, the Tobu County Commander and more than 30 officials were killed, and more than 50 bloody officials' heads hung on the county Yayi Gate, cheering one after another.

With the roar of Shen Qiao, the commander of the Yellow Turban, the tens of thousands of Yellow Turban heroes who poured into the city fell into madness under the stimulation of blood and fire.

Amid the roars and screams, the property, cloth, and grain of the wealthy families were looted, the stone-paved streets covered with residual snow and the courtyards of large households were soon covered with corpses, the quaint and elegant houses were lit by torches, a large number of cattle, horses and donkeys were pulled to the streets, thousands of poor people in the city were wrapped in yellow turbans under the call of "the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the year is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious", and even the ignorant young men and white-haired old men also carried the rake, and the only tattered clothes and quilts on their backs were sent, in the shouts of leaders at all levels, they gathered at the gate of the county in the city.

The three most famous mansions of the wealthy merchants in the southeast of the city have been turned into a sea of fire, the money and goods in the courtyard have been carried by thousands of people, the sound of the overturning of the beams and pillars and rubble is incessant, and the sky is full of sparks and ashes flying and circling in the cold wind.

A group of yellow turban soldiers who set fire swept away all the valuable items and hurriedly evacuated, a black shadow fell from the sky, and with a "bang" smashed, the horse shed that was burning in the backyard of the Lin family in the southeast of the city, and the flames rose rapidly under the action of the wind.

The two yellow turban guards who had just walked out of the gap in the courtyard wall suddenly turned their heads when they heard the strange noise, looked at the corpses in the courtyard and the burning and crumbling stable, did not find anything alive, looked at each other suspiciously, put away their waist knives and turned to chase after their companions in front.

In the smoky stable, Liu Cun, who fell into the dark, desperately rolled down the burning haystack, crawled out of the fire with his hands and feet, and stumbled into a puddle of sewage reflecting the blazing fire in front of him, regardless of throwing himself into the sewage and rolling continuously.

The flames on his body were finally extinguished, and Liu Cun, who was ragged and smoking, struggled to prop himself up, looking at the dozen corpses in front of him and the burning houses around him, and soon fell into extreme consternation.

Faintly, the child's suppressed crying came from behind the huge stone mortar more than ten meters away on the left, and Liu Cun, who woke up, hurriedly got up, ignoring the wet muddy water flowing all over his body, and vigilantly took steps to detour and approach, and soon saw the frightened figure and the child in her arms close to the back of the stone mortar.

The woman's frightened face, the child's tearful eyes, her thin, dirty clothes, and her feet with only socks were visible in the light of the fire.

Liu Cun, who was drenched with mud all over his body, stopped three meters away from the woman, glanced around vigilantly, and then turned to the woman with a dirty face.

The woman shrank behind the mortar in terror, her eyes full of horror, and she clung to the child in her arms who were too frightened to cry.

Liu Cun shook his head vigorously, hesitated for a moment and returned to a corpse on the edge of the sewage beach and squatted down, looked at it for a long time and stood up suddenly, walked to the corpse in front of him again, turned over the corpse without caring about the pungent blood, and carefully examined it with the help of the burning fire of the house.

After inspecting seven corpses in a row, the frightened and inexplicable Liu Cun silently walked to the back of the stone mortar and slowly squatted down in front of the frightened woman: "Eldest sister, what happened?" ”

The woman raised her dirty sleeves and wiped her tears frequently, slowly raised her head and took a deep breath: "It's all dead, it's just me and my daughter, if you want to kill me, then kill it......"

Liu Cun scratched the small half of his hair that was scorched by the flames: "I have no grievances with you, why did I kill you?" ”

There was a gleam in the woman's desperate eyes: "You're not a yellow scarf?" ”

Liu Cun's heart froze, and he looked thoughtfully in the direction where bursts of cheers were heard.

The woman stared blankly at Liu Cun in front of her, and asked timidly for a long time: "Who is the strong man?" ”

Liu Cun, who was confused, turned his head: "Who is the people?" Oh, I'm from the Zhucheng SWAT Brigade, and I don't know how I got to this place, like a dream...... Excuse me, who are the people yelling in that direction? ”

Before the woman could reply, shouts and responses came from outside the broken wall in the northwest direction, and the noise was getting closer and closer, apparently more than a hundred or ten people.

Liu Cun realized that danger was coming, pointed to a low wall under the big tree on the guide side, and whispered to the frightened woman: "Hide there first, go quickly!" ”

The woman stood up in a panic with the child in her arms, followed closely behind Liu Cun and walked quickly to the broken wall, hid in the dark behind the broken wall and squatted, hung her head and gasped, and kept whispering in the ear of the child in her arms.

The messy footsteps quickly crossed outside the courtyard wall, and when the footsteps gradually disappeared, Liu Cun, who was full of doubts, jumped on the chest-high broken wall in one step, jumped up the thick branches of the big tree, and stepped on the trunk agilely under the stunned gaze of the woman.

More than ten minutes later, Liu Cun, who bit his lip and swallowed blood, slid down the tree, returned to the back of the low wall and sat down, his right hand subconsciously rested on the empty gun holster on his waist, and his slightly trembling left hand kept stroking the bulletproof vest with the burnt edge on his body.

After a long time, Liu Cun turned to the woman who was looking at him blankly, and asked slowly: "Eldest sister, what kind of place is this?" ”

"Tobu South City, three hundred steps to the east, another hundred steps to the north is the east gate, one hundred steps to the south from the west alley, and another four hundred steps to the west is the south gate, and the place where the noise comes from the city is the county office." The woman replied in a low voice, wondering where the sturdy man in front of her, who was eight feet tall and had a bearded head, came from.

Liu Cun still didn't understand after listening: "I'm asking you, where is this Tobu City?" Belch...... Let's put it this way, what are the big cities around this Tobu Castle? Where's the charge? ”

The woman was stunned for a long time, and finally replied truthfully: "Dongwu City belongs to the Langya Kingdom, thirty miles to the south is Zhuxian, one hundred and twenty miles to the north is Anqiu County, fifty miles to the northeast is Qianqian County, and one hundred miles to the southeast is Xiahe City. ”

"Xiahe City? Xiahe City ......"

After listening to this, Liu Cun finally understood, although he didn't know that the Dongwu City where he was located at the moment was actually the Zhucheng that moved north after thousands of years, but he was familiar with the famous historical scenic spot Langya Terrace, and knew that Xiahe City was the predecessor of Langya Ancient Town, and the Dazhu Mountain and Tieshan Mountain in the northwest of Langya Town not only have beautiful scenery, but also have high-quality quartz, feldspar and the best porcelain clay in the entire Jiaonan area for porcelain glaze.

From childhood to adulthood, his father, who inherited the ceramic skills and ceramic workshops of his ancestors, took Liu Cun and his elder brother around, buying ceramic raw materials while guiding him and his brother to identify various mud and natural glazes for making ceramics, and traveled all over the mountains and rivers in the Jiaonan area for hundreds of miles year after year.

As for Anqiu County, it is better to understand, this place has not changed its name from ancient times to the present, and it is only more than 100 miles away from here, so Liu Cun came to a judgment after thinking about it for a while: Dongwu City, where he is at the moment, should be somewhere north of Zhucheng!

But Liu Cun couldn't figure out how a well-prepared and swift arrest operation could encounter a violent explosion? As the deputy captain who led the team to carry out the arrest operation, Liu Cun clearly remembered that he was the first to jump over the high courtyard wall, followed by five elite teammates with loaded guns...... Could it be because of the explosion?

The woman was frightened by Liu Cun, who was holding her head in pain, and subconsciously moved out, but she didn't dare to leave the hidden broken wall where she was hiding.

After a long time, Liu Cun finally raised his head, and the light of the fire that was still burning around him reflected on his dark and dirty face: "I was on the tree just now, and I saw that the place in the city was full of people, it is estimated that it was the Yellow Turban Army you said, and I also heard the people patrolling the southern city wall shouting, indicating that in two days everyone will follow their Qu Shuai to the north, all the way to attack the cities and villages along the way, and join the million army of their great sages and good teachers by the Yellow River, and also said that the county town in the south is also surrounded by their other leaders, and it is estimated that they will soon be able to break the city, After that, we will meet here, so we can't stay in this place, the south and north are very dangerous, it is estimated that the east side by the sea is safe, if you want to, sister, I will quietly send you out, and then you will want to go to relatives and friends. ”

The woman immediately burst into tears: "The family is gone, that's it!" Life and death are up to heaven......"

Liu Cun was stunned, weighed for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Why don't I take you and the child out to hide for the time being, and then come back by yourself after settling down?" ”

The woman glanced at the collapsed home that was still burning, suddenly put down the child, knelt down at Liu Cun, and begged in a choked voice: "Please help the servant bury the family who died tragically!" You can bury it anywhere, as long as you don't leave the corpse outside, it is a great kindness from the Duke to the Lin family! ”

Liu Cun was embarrassed, and when he saw the three- or four-year-old child crying in fright, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover the child's mouth for comfort, and then nodded to the woman with tearful eyes and a sad face.

A quarter of an hour later, Liu Cun moved more than a dozen corpses from the courtyard together, neatly put them into a shallow pit hastily dug under the broken earthen wall, knocked down the loose low wall and filled it with soil to cover it, and finally brought two large stones, one in front of the other and one at the other end of the mound, to prevent the rain and water from washing away the mud layer.

It was past midnight after all this, and Liu Cun, who was tired and hungry, was so hungry that he was sweating, quietly sneaking out of the broken wall on the west side of the courtyard, taking advantage of the favorable terrain to quickly swim around, sneaking into the dilapidated houses that had not been burned down along the way to look for food, but he didn't expect to find even a grain of rice in the end, and the only gain was to be familiar with the surrounding terrain and the warning points of the surrounding Yellow Turban soldiers.

At dawn, most of the huts that had been burning overnight had been overturned, and the fire was gradually getting smaller and about to be extinguished, Liu Cun, who had already gone out twice to investigate, woke up the woman leaning against the low wall, pointed to the child in her arms, and then took out a long strip of cloth connected by a knot, squatted down and asked the woman to put the sleeping child on his back and tie it up.

After fixing the child on his back, Liu Cun whispered to the panting panicked woman, and then took her to avoid the field of vision of the Yellow Turban Guards again and again, and smoothly climbed out of the unguarded hole in the southeast corner of the city wall, and soon disappeared into the mulberry forest next to the official road in the east of the city.

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