"Alright. All right! Zhang Dujian waved his hand impatiently: "Anyway, I will leave this matter to you, if you can't even do this little thing well, don't come back to see me alive!" ”

"Governor, just take a look! If you can't even do this little thing, you don't have to do it, and our family will cut off our heads ourselves. The captain of the gate reached out and gently slashed his neck: "It's windy outside, and the lowly post has prepared wine and food inside, or you will go in first and wait, and there will be an eye here." ”

Hearing his subordinates say this, Zhang Dujian felt that the wind on the city tower was indeed not small, he instinctively shrunk his neck, nodded, and a smile appeared on his face: "Then this place will be handed over to you!" ”

At the foot of the castle, the captives had been driven to the west gate by more than a hundred guards, perhaps because they had been hungry for a few days, and all of them had no strength, and their movements were slow, but there was no fighting. There are two gates at the west gate of Xiuzhou City, the outside is an urn city, the inner gate is half open, but the outer gate is closed.

"Why don't the gates outside?" Zhong Zhe'an asked the soldiers by the city gate with some cringe.

"The outer gates? Now that we're at war, how can you just drive it? The soldier replied, "If the two gates are opened, and the thieves attack, and you join forces with the inside and the outside, then won't this Xiuzhou City be finished?" ”

"Inside and outside?" Zhong Zhe'an smiled bitterly: "Master Jun, I've eaten a few bowls of gruel in the past few days, and I'm almost out of strength to walk, and I'm still fighting?" ”

"Then I don't care, this is the general's military order. Does the military order know? The soldier replied with a vigour, "When you are all in, and then open the door inside, the door will open outside!" Don't bother, get in! ”

Zhong Zhe'an smiled bitterly, leaned against the wall and walked inside, maybe it was because of the earthworms and bones just now, he felt a little more strength in his body, but the feeling of hunger in his stomach was more obvious, he had just taken two steps, and a ray of sunlight shone on his face from the outside. Zhong Zhe'an suddenly felt a blackness in front of him. The soles of his feet were weak, as if he were kneeling on the ground.

"Brother, what's wrong!"

Zhong Zhe'an felt that his ribs were being held by a large hand, and he turned his head. I saw a middle-aged man looking at him with concern. smiled bitterly: "See it." When the light shone on his face just now, he felt dizzy and the soles of his feet were weak. ”

"Brother is hungry. I can't see the light of my body! The middle-aged man sighed, carefully took out a cloth bag from his arms, opened it, and saw that it was a small piece of cooking cake, and he sent it to Zhong Zhe'an: "Come, brother, eat it, let's pad it!" ”

"How's that going to work!" Zhong Zhe'an hurriedly excused himself, he naturally knew the value of this small piece of cooking cake here, obviously the other party was also starving and stayed for emergency.

"What's not to do, we're going to be out of the city soon, and we can't get a bite to eat?" The middle-aged man smiled and said: "If you don't care, just give it back to me when the time comes, our family can say it first, and then we will have to pay back ten pieces of bread!" ”

Looking at the other party's warm smile, Zhong Zhe'an's eyes moistened, he nodded, took the cake and stuffed it into his mouth, he barely felt the existence of the cake, his tongue and teeth instinctively chewed it and swallowed it, after a while, Zhong Zhe'an felt a little strength in his body, stood up, hugged his fists and said: "Great grace is not grateful, in the next surname Zhe'an, from Qingyuan County, dare to ask the eldest brother Gao's surname!" ”

"I am also from Qingyuan County, my name is Zheng Yuanzhi!" The middle-aged man sighed and said: "This time I can not die, it is really the blessing of my ancestors, and I will honestly accompany my mother-in-law and children after I go back. ”

Zhong Zhe'an nodded with deep sympathy, and the two supported each other and walked towards the urn city, at this time there were still many captives who did not come in, and the two found a place to sit against the wall, talking about farming in the countryside, and their hearts were full of longing for the future life.

With the passage of time, more and more people came in, crowding this small urn city, Zhong Zhe'an and Zheng Yuanzhi had to lean closer, they looked at the inner city gate with some impatience, the half-open door has not yet closed, which means that the captives have not completely entered, and naturally the gate of the urn city outside will not open.

"Time flies so slowly, why hasn't the door been closed yet," Zhong Zhe'an said with a wry smile.

"Yes!" Zheng Yuanzhi nodded: "Isn't it that people haven't come in yet!" ”

"Hey, Brother Zheng, there are so many of us, there are many fewer officers and soldiers, why are we familiar with us?"

Zheng Yuanzhi scratched his head and said with a wry smile: "Brother, you are asking the wrong person, if I knew that it was the prisoner and the chief manager of the officers and soldiers?" ”

"Yes!" Zhong Zhe'an nodded, and at this time, the inner city gate finally closed slowly, and the people in the urn city let out a burst of cheers, and their expectant eyes turned to the outer urn city gate.

But the outer gates did not open as they had expected, and the people began to talk impatiently. Suddenly, a loud horn from the top of the city interrupted everyone's conversation, and the people raised their heads to look up at the city tower, only to see a military attache standing under the banner, who was Zhang Dujian.

"Open the gates! Why don't you open the gates yet! ”

I don't know which person shouted, at first the voice was not loud, but soon more people let out the same shout, and the shouts of more than a thousand people converged, forming an invisible shock wave, and the guards on the city tower looked at Zhang Dujian with some trepidation.

A grim smile appeared on Zhang Dujian's face, and he waved his hand and ordered: "The archers come forward, and the people below are all thieves, don't leave any of them!" ”

The Manichaeans in the city were shocked to see rows of archers appear on the city plate, their arrows reflecting a cold light in the sun. Now everything is clear, it was a trap from the beginning, a trap that would kill everyone.

"Dog officer, you are treacherous, you will be punished by God!"

"As soon as Sect Leader's army arrives, he will definitely break the dog officer into ten thousand pieces!"

All sorts of resentful curses erupted from the mouths of these desperate people, and almost at the same time, arrows rained down from the walls, piercing a body and snatching life from the living flesh.

"Get down!"

Zhong Zhe'an didn't fully react to what was going on, he was thrown to the ground by Zheng Yuanzhi on the side, and was immediately pressed under the other party, and the other party's voice came from his ears: "Don't move, live, if you can get out alive, my wife and child will please leave it to you, my home is at the entrance of Luoshan Village, Qingyuan County, and there is a big locust tree at the door of my house——"

As soon as he said this, Zheng Yuanzhi's voice suddenly stopped, and Zhong Zhe'an was horrified to see a painful expression on the other party's face, and then his skin felt some warm and moist liquid.

"Brother Zheng, what's wrong with you?" Zhong Zhe'an reached out in panic to determine what was going on. And Zheng Yuanzhi stopped him, and said with difficulty: "Don't be like this, I can't do it anymore, remember what I said just now, my home is in Luoshan Village, Qingyuan County, at the door-" Speaking of this, Zheng Yuanzhi's head hung down weakly, and his voice stopped abruptly, Zhong Zhe'an could clearly see that the other party had two crossbow arrows stuck in his vest!

In the camp outside the south gate, Zhou Ping was discussing things with his subordinates, when suddenly there was a cry and scolding outside.

"She'er, go see what's going on!" Zhou Ping frowned, and threw the bamboo cane in his hand on the map, although he couldn't hear the specific content of the voice clearly due to the distance, but the kind of bitter resentment contained in it still made him upset.

"Whoa!" Rochel, who was in charge of the retinue, answered the call and ran out quickly, and after a moment he replied: "Tell the general, it is the Manichaeans who have been captured!" ”

"Manichaeans?" Zhou Ping couldn't help but chuckle in his heart when he heard this, and he couldn't help but recall the conversation in the Zhizhou Mansion yesterday.

"Exactly, Prison Zhang sent these thieves to the urn city, and then fired ten thousand arrows at once—" Luo She'er said, her eyebrows fluttering, and she seemed to admire Prison Zhang's tricks.

"Enough!" A break interrupted Luo She'er's narration, and the young man looked at the anger on Zhou Ping's face a little at a loss, not knowing where he had said the wrong thing. Seeing this, Li Bao on the side hurriedly came out to play a round and said to Luo She'er: "She'er, you go down first, and the prisoner tells you to come in again!" ”

"Yes!" Rosher hurriedly answered and retreated. Zhou Ping sighed: "That's it, I just think it's ominous to kill prisoners, these people are also children of the imperial court, just confused by demons!" ”

"Prison Zhou, there is something wrong with what you say!" It was Chang Zongtian who spoke, and his actual dispatch in this small reinforcement was Zhou Ping's deputy general, but his experience in the army was unparalleled, and Zhou Ping respected his opinion very much, so since the army was sent out, the two have cooperated very happily, and there are many less scruples when they speak.

"Compared with the brothers, we have eaten a few more years of military rations, so I will say a few unkind words here. As the saying goes, 'Compassion is not in charge of soldiers, and righteousness is not in charge of wealth!' 'Since we've done this business of licking blood from the edge of the knife, those turban-like things have to be thrown aside, and we have to kill what we deserve.' In my opinion, the prince killed the right man, not only to kill, but also to build those corpses into a Jingguan to deter the courage of those Manichae thieves, and then we have to deal with tens of thousands of people! Who knows when the reinforcements will arrive! ”

Hearing Chang Zongtian's words, except for Zhou Ping, the rest of the people nodded slightly, looking as a matter of course,

"Prisoner, where are you going!"

Under the surprised gaze of everyone, Zhou Ping stood up and walked straight out of the tent, leaving only the generals looking at each other. Breathing in the clammy and cold air outside the tent, Zhou Ping's mood gradually calmed down, and he once again felt the huge difference between himself and the robes' inner world. Maybe he can kill a bandit leader like Song Jiang without any guilt, because in a sense, Song Jiang, like himself, is an opportunist who climbs up through this impending troubled world, and since he has participated in this dangerous game, he must accept the logic of this game - defeat is death. (To be continued......)