Chapter 606: Victory and Defeat
"Do you want to eat?" Charles asked suddenly.
"I think, I don't want to, I think about it!" Almost everyone scrambled to answer, as if Charles had become their boss, surrounding him and staring at him.
"Hmph, starve the faint-hearted, support the courageous!" Charles looked fierce, pointed to the corpse of the big man on the ground, and said viciously, "If Lao Tzu doesn't kill this bastard, it will be me who will starve to death, and he will die!" So, have a kind, which of you has the guts? ”
"What are you going to do?" Everyone was surprised.
"Where is the food now?" "The black market, the big families, the army, the palace!" We can't afford to provoke the palace and the army, but the profiteers and big families in the black market are originally because they are speculative, so we have no food to eat. ”
"Are you going to steal or rob?" The crowd asked.
"Lao Tzu doesn't steal or rob, he just goes to get back his own food!" Charles said, "You don't go, if you don't go, Lao Tzu will go by himself, die, Lao Tzu will not be a starving ghost!" ”
After Charles finished speaking, he actually stood up, picked up a burning stick in his hand, and really strode out, walked to the door, and saw that everyone was still surprised and did not react, turned around and sneered: "Hmph, a group of guys who have no seeds, sooner or later will die, but they will die so badly!" ”
"Wow wow...... I can't stand it! A man jumped up and shouted, "When is it the turn of this kid to point to Lao Tzu's head and speak, doesn't Lao Tzu have eggs?" Lao Tzu did it! ”
When the man had finished speaking, he took the wooden spoon that had been licked cleanly from the pot, and when he gestured, he felt that it was too light, and did not take advantage of it, so he immediately threw it on the ground, and carried a huge piece of firewood, and went out with Charles towards the gate......
When everyone saw that the two of them were so majestic, their brains were immediately congested, and they also picked up firewood and followed them towards the gate, one, two, three...... In the end, there were only five or six people left in the temple courtyard, and they were never bewitched in any way, just stared blankly at the fact that others went to drink wine and eat meat......
Out of the temple gate, soon on the street, Charles and other eight or nine people, found that they were not alone, on the street, many places also gathered large and small crowds, some five or six, some dozens, the most there were twenty or thirty people, even after a good discussion, they all ran in one direction - the black market in the southeast block!
There are more and more people, and in the end, these people are mixed together, and there is no longer a distinction between which gang is the man brought out by Charles, which gang is the man brought out by Charles 5 and Charlie 6, in short, in the dark, no one can tell who it is, only know that everyone has the same goal and the same hatred, that is, the black market, and even some people who don't know each other still talk very happily, but most of them talk about the fiasco of the army along the river defense line.
Before arriving at the black market in the corner of the southeast neighborhood of the city, thousands of people had already gathered, each with a guy in their hands, and a large area of black pressure was pressed, and the big families hurriedly closed their doors, and even the dogs on the side of the road did not dare to bark out, and they seemed to be shocked by this hatred and anger.
The reason why it is called the black market, in addition to the black price and the black source channels of goods, there is another meaning, that is, the trading locations are often relatively hidden, and the night is the best time for black market transactions.
But the profiteers in the black market, all of them have big forces as the background, all of them have gangsters as the background, and they are all licking blood and begging for a living, which is not easy, so around the black market, there are hundreds of gangsters dressed as people, armed with long knives, to prevent such chaos. Thousands of rebels are not a problem to them at all, because they know that as long as these blood-congested rebels see blood, they will have to break up one after another, and they will be a complete rabble, with a fierce momentum when they come, and scattered like birds and beasts when they go, such a scene is nothing more than a joke in the eyes of every profiteer.
But today's scene made them see what it means to be a bold rebel, a dozen people led by Charles, after entering the black market, did not stop their steps at all, and went straight towards the granary, more than a dozen gangsters came up with long knives to scare them away, who knows, people are not birds at all.
The gang boss gave an order, and the thugs immediately came up and slashed and killed without mercy. Charles and a dozen others were fearless, and before those thugs arrived, they immediately smashed the big firewood, burning sticks, and stones in their hands at the dozen thugs who rushed to them, and at the moment when the thugs dodged, Charles shouted loudly: "Hurry, move food, if it's slow, it's gone!" ”
After shouting loudly, Charles and a dozen people rushed forward, and the more than 1,000 chaotic people who followed behind were infected by this momentum, where could they still take care of the dozen or so thugs who were already frightened, and rushed to the granary like a beast tide, and those thugs had to avoid one after another.
But in the midst of the uproar, no one noticed that Charles and a dozen leaders quickly snatched the long knives from the hands of the thugs, and cut each thug in two without hesitation......
Where do other thugs dare to come and provoke this gang of rebels, the food is profiteers', their lives are their own, they are just working for others, there is no need to take their own lives! So I had to watch them enter the granary, and each of them carried a sack out of the granary like ants moving.
The first group of people who returned to the street with sacks of grain shouted on the street, "Move the grain, move it quickly, if it's slow, it's gone!" ”
This kind of *-like news immediately spread in the Zhengpian South Block, the lights of the whole block were lit up one after another, and people ran out of the houses like a tide, seeing so many people carrying sacks, where can they care if there is any danger? Along the crowd carrying sacks, they moved grain in the opposite direction towards the black market......
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For several days in a row, the frenzied turmoil that began in the southern block quickly spread to more than a dozen neighborhoods in Croatian City, and more than a dozen neighborhoods also staged robbing the black market one after another, so that those profiteers did not have time to clear the granary in time, and the underground grain trade in the whole Croatian City collapsed one after another......
But many people don't get food, food on the black market, where is there enough for a sack per person in a city for millions of people? All eyes began to focus on the big families in the city, and the tense situation was about to erupt......
Gossip, like flying flakes all over the city, like swallows returning in spring, enter thousands of households......
The poor patrol of the city defense battalion, like rats, has no trace of their usual arrogance......
The people in the army were panicked and their morale was extremely low, and their last hope was for the Qinwang army to enter the pass, but the news of the defeat of the army along the river defense line was ten times faster than the spread of the plague...... Compared with the daily drills, polo, celebrations, and scenes of squires competing with the army and various military exercises of the soldiers of the Fifth Army under the city...... The officers and men of the two armies looked at each other, but the gap between them was self-evident......
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The palace, which had always been calm, finally broke out in depression, not against the Fifth Army outside the city, nor against the rebellious people in the city, but against the courtiers and the army, but the usurpation of the crown prince Nicholas.
Prince Nicholas personally led 300 armor soldiers to surround the inner palace, thinking that he was sure of victory, but where was the opponent of the scheming Arad? Arad has been a horse all his life, the founder of the country, and every move of the crown prince has long been under his control!
When the three hundred armor soldiers just entered the inner palace, they immediately appeared on the palace wall, and the inner and outer palace doors were immediately closed, and the three hundred armor soldiers, except for the crown prince Nicholas, there were no survivors! The blood-stained palace wall was cleaned for three days and three nights before there was no fishy smell!
"I can't imagine that even you have to turn against me!" At Nicholas' final dinner, the white-haired Arad drank a glass of wine and asked slowly, "Why?" ”
"I've been the heir to the duke, the heir to the throne, and the heir to the throne since I was a teenager, and I've done enough as an heir!" Nicholas had a cold expression and said, "I want to taste what it is like to be a king!" ”
"The throne will be yours sooner or later, what are you anxious about?" Arad said, "What I gave you, you can want; I won't give it to you, but you can't rob it! ”
"Hahaha, sooner or later it's all mine, does my father believe it himself?" Nicholas laughed and said, "The army along the line of defense has been defeated, and the city of Croatia will be left with no tiles, and my father thinks that if I don't do this, will I be able to taste the emperor's authority in my lifetime?" ”
"As I said, the defense line along the river is as stable as Mount Tai!" Arad said angrily, "Why do you believe those gossip, believe the inciting words of the enemy, and do the act of a jackal who killed the king and killed his father? ”
"Is it as stable as Mount Tai, even my father doesn't believe in it, right?" Nicholas sneered, then shed tears again, and said, "It's gossip, I know!" But only you and your sons know about it, so what can you do? Mountains of gossip, the army of the defense line along the river is undefeated, but also defeated! In today's situation, how should my father deal with it? Now that the defeat has become a fact, and let me sit on the throne for a few days, what can I do, can't you pity the poor ministers? ”
"It's not the last moment, I still have a way!" Arad said fiercely, "Even if he loses this time, my father will still have a way to make a comeback and fight with Catherine and Higg Kid!" ”
"Self-deception, my father can say it so high-soundingly, my son really admires it!" Nicholas scoffed.
"Hmph, it's really stubborn!" Arad got up angrily, flicked his sleeves hard, and paced away......
Nicholas stared at Arad with a firm step, and there was no sign of turning back at all, until he disappeared from his sight, then he turned his eyes to the wine glass on the table in front of him, and said through gritted teeth: "The victor is the king, the defeat is like this in ancient times, if there is an afterlife, I, Nicholas, will definitely not be subservient to others again!" ”
After speaking, he picked up his wine glass without hesitation and threw himself up......