The sun was skewed, Liu Wei and Zhao Yun rode away from the camp in the north of the city, led more than 100 personal soldiers, and slowly marched towards Anyi City.

"Dusk always brings a sense of peace and tranquility!" Walking slowly along the field, Liu Wei said to Zhao Yun on the side: "During the time when I just escaped from Luoyang, what this king was most afraid of was the dawn. Do you know what the road is? ”

Zhao Yun smiled slightly, and did not answer Liu Wei's words, but looked up at the slanting sun that was already hanging in the west and sighed softly.

"Dawn means running away!" Liu Wei shook the reins, rode his horse faster, and after running a few steps, he dropped a sentence to Zhao Yun: "Only after dusk and the sky gets dark, the eyes of the chasing soldiers will not be able to see, and the world at that time is the king's!" ”

Looking at the back of Liu Wei riding the horse forward, Zhao Yun clamped his legs towards the horse's abdomen, and also sped up some speed. However, he soon discovered that Liu Wei was not marching towards the north gate of Anyi, but made a circle and galloped in the direction of the west gate.

At the same time, in the field three miles north of Anyi City, a man in a black dark coat ran quickly to a bush and burrowed into the grass, and the man said to a group of black-clothed people lurking in it: "Brothers, go back to the city quickly!" King Hongnong left the camp and did not come in the direction of the north gate, but went to the west gate. ”

"Damn!" Hearing that Liu Wei made a detour to the West Gate, the leading man spat and scolded: "This King Hongnong is really treacherous and like a ghost, Lao Tzu has been waiting here for a long time, and he has changed his distance!" ”

After scolding, the leading man beckoned to the other black-clothed people lurking in the grass, lowered his voice and shouted: "Brothers, go!" ”

More than two hundred black-clothed men came out of the grass and followed the leader to the north gate of Anyi City.

They didn't know what to do, and at the moment when they got up, only more than two hundred steps away from them, hundreds of soldiers wearing big red armor and carrying swords and shields were lying dormant in the grass, silently looking at them.

More than 200 black-clothed men rushed to Anyi City, and when they saw that they were about to run past the eyes of the officers and soldiers who had set up an ambush, Hu Cai, who led hundreds of officers and soldiers to lie dormant in the grass, did not give the order to kill immediately.

"Steady! Steady! The man in black was getting closer and closer, Hu Cai muttered softly, staring at the more than two hundred men in black who were getting closer and closer without blinking.

"Shoot the arrows!" It wasn't until more than 200 men in black all ran into the ambush circle they had set up that Hu shouted.

As soon as he shouted, more than 100 crossbowmen who were ambushing immediately squatted up, leveled the crossbow arrows in their hands, and pulled the machine spring.

Arrows "swished" towards the man in black who was running at a high speed. More than 200 black-clothed people only cared about ambushing Liu Bian, who would have thought that the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches were behind, not only did they fail to ambush Liu Biao this time, but they were ambushed by the officers and soldiers under Liu Bian.

The arrows flew towards the men in black, and many of the men in black were caught off guard and fell to the ground, but these men in black were specially trained dead soldiers, and they were not afraid of death.

"Kill! Leave no mouth alive! When a group of black-clothed men rushed up against the arrows, Hu Cai also jumped up from the grass and rushed towards the black-clothed men.

Hundreds of officers and soldiers armed with swords and shields immediately got up and howled and pounced on the black-clothed man who rushed towards them.

The battle outside the city had just begun, and on the street that had just entered the north gate of the city, Yang Feng led six or seven hundred officers and soldiers to surround a wine shop on the street.

"Wait, get out as soon as possible!" Standing at the door of the wine shop, Yang Feng pressed the hilt of his sword and shouted loudly to the civilians who were drinking in the wine shop.

The liquor shop was suddenly surrounded, and the guests who were drinking inside were startled, trembling one by one, looking at the officers and soldiers outside.

Hearing Yang Feng shouting out that all the idle people were leaving, the frightened people came back to their senses and hurriedly ran towards the door, and many people were too flustered, and when they ran to the door, they also kicked over a few low tables in the house.

The guests in the house quickly ran away, and the cousin and the shopkeeper hurriedly followed behind everyone, trying to run out of the wine shop, but as soon as the two reached the door, several soldiers blocked their way.

"You go back!" Glaring at the courtroom and the shopkeeper, Yang Feng mumbled into the room.

Several soldiers pushed the two into the house, one of whom did not expect to close the door when he turned back to the door.

"Ignition!" Furrowing his brows and looking at the wine shop in front of him, which didn't look too big, Yang Feng lowered his voice and gave an order to an officer beside him.

The officer nodded and waved his hand at the soldiers behind him. Hundreds of officers and soldiers took out the torches they had prepared earlier, lit them, and threw them towards the liquor store.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, most of the houses were adobe or wooden frames, and the wine shop in front of me happened to be a wooden-framed house, hundreds of torches were thrown up by the officers and soldiers, and soon the fire spread, and the raging fire and the orange afterglow on the horizon reflected each other, and the vicinity of the north gate of Anyi was covered with a heavy blood.

The fire did not spread to the houses on both sides, and as soon as the flames broke out, another group of more than 100 officers and soldiers rushed out of the street. These officers and soldiers rushed to the vicinity of the fire, and without greeting Yang Feng, they rushed into the shops on both sides of the fire, drove out all the civilians in the house, waved the hammer and shovel in their hands, and demolished the two shops adjacent to the fire in a short time.

The flames spread to both sides of the liquor store, and soon ignited the ruins left by the officers and soldiers who demolished the houses, because the shops on both sides had been demolished, the flames could no longer spread to a wider area, and the fire was completely controlled within the scope of the liquor store lit by Yang Feng and others.

Yang Feng led the army to surround the liquor store, and there were originally some civilians watching nearby, but when they saw the officers and soldiers setting fires, and then a group of officers and soldiers forcibly demolished the shops on both sides, the onlookers felt a burst of fear in their hearts, and many of them had already turned around and ran home.

Looking back behind him, the civilians who had been watching and waiting to see the excitement had already run away, and only a few people on the street couldn't resist the temptation of curiosity, and hid in the corner of the wall to peek at the burning liquor store.

"Fight!" The flames burned more and more, and there was a miserable howl in the wine shop, and suddenly there was a desperate cry from the inside of the house, and then the door was pulled open from the inside, and a group of men with flames on their bodies rushed out from inside, brandishing long swords, and pounced on the officers and soldiers led by Yang Feng.

"Kill! Not a single one to stay! Drawing out his long sword, he slashed over the man who rushed to the front, and Yang Feng shouted loudly to the officers and soldiers behind him.

With Yang Feng's shout, countless Pu Dao slashed towards the black-clothed man who rushed out of the door, and in an instant, at the door of the burning wine shop, there were twenty or thirty dead corpses with dancing lights on their bodies.

The shopkeepers and their families who had been driven out of the houses by the officers and soldiers who had demolished the houses looked at their homes in ruins, and they were dumbfounded, and after a while, some people began to cry.

"Oh my home! That's it! A woman in her forties stared at the demolished house for a long time, sat on the ground, slapped her thighs with both hands, and howled in her voice like a mourner......

As soon as the woman cried like this, all the men, women and children of the two families affected by the demolition of the shop began to cry, and the earth-shattering sound of crying made people feel a burst of bad taste in their hearts after listening to their cries.

"Don't cry!" Facing the dozen or so civilians sitting on the ground and howling, Yang Feng shouted: "There are assassins in the city, intending to do evil to His Highness, and we are waiting to set fire to the grass and eradicate the roots!" What are you crying about? ”

"General!" Yang Feng's shout fell, and the shopkeeper of the shop on the left knelt on the ground, kneeled in front of him, looked up at him, and said with tears on his face: "The assassin should be killed, but the family I am waiting for ......"

"Your Highness has its own placement!" Looking down at the shopkeeper kneeling in front of him, before he could finish speaking, Yang Feng said to him and a dozen other civilians: "I will arrange for you to go to the pavilion to rest tonight, and tomorrow morning, someone will calculate the losses for you." His Royal Highness has already explained, including the premises, all losses will be repaid three times! ”

The houses that were demolished were all businessmen who made a living from business. Although they are not big businessmen, they also rely on profits to eat.

Hearing that all the losses were repaid three times, the crying of the people who were still howling stopped abruptly, and the woman who cried first even wiped a handful of tears, broke into tears and said to another woman on the side: "The slave family just knows, who is Your Highness?" Your Highness is a good man who loves the people like a son, how could he tear down our house and not accommodate us? ”

More than a dozen people, led by several soldiers, went to the temporary residence where they were placed, looking at their backs, Yang Feng pursed his lips, shook his head helplessly, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Wait until the fire burns out, you wait for a good life to rummage, be sure to find out all the corpses, even if these assassins are dead, you must find out their number!" ”

"No!" Hundreds of soldiers clenched their fists in unison, answered, and lined up to look at the fire that was still burning not far away.

While intercepting and killing the assassins in two places inside and outside the city, Zhou Cang led a team of more than 100 officers and soldiers to run out of the barracks and go straight to the county capital.

When he arrived at the gate of the county government, Zhou Cang did not lead the team into the palace, but waved his hand to the officers and soldiers who followed behind him, and more than 100 officers and soldiers rushed towards the silk village facing the door with the county government like a pack of hungry wolves.

Standing on the street with his hands on his hips, Zhou Cang clearly heard a burst of miserable howls coming from the silk village, and after a while, two soldiers covered in blood walked out of the silk village with a black-clothed man whose upper body was bound by hemp rope like a rice dumpling and came to Zhou Cang.

"General Qiyu, all the thieves were killed, this person hid in the dark room, and injured several brothers before he was captured!" In front of Zhou Cang, one of the soldiers reported to Zhou Cang.

"Escort to the county hall!" Examining the tightly bound man in black from head to toe, Zhou Cang furrowed his brows and gave an order to the soldiers.