That night, the people of Qizhou slept soundly, and the sound of iron hooves outside and the barking of dogs were intertwined, waking them up from their sleep.

"Dad, mother, what's going on outside?" A toddler rubbed his eyes and sat up.

When the mother hugged the child/child, put the child to sleep, and asked the man next to him: "His father, shouldn't there be trouble outside?" ”

The man was a soldier who had been disarmed and returned to the field, and after listening to the movement for a while, he put on his clothes and wanted to get up: "It doesn't sound like it, the sound of iron hooves is too neat, I'll go out and have a look."

The woman grabbed the man stiffly: "Dad, don't go out!" ”

"I'm not going out, I'm going to put the gate on top."

Then the woman let go.

Unfortunately, the strength of one person was too small when the catastrophe came, and the door was quickly kicked open, and the man who desperately resisted died in the blink of an eye.

Hearing the man's screams, the woman covered the child's mouth and hid under the bed.

Soon anti-soldiers with knives poured in and rummaged around.

Listening to the sound of rummaging through the cabinets and the laughter of the rebels, the woman took out a sweat towel and stuffed it into the child's mouth, silently asking the gods and Buddhas to bless her child through the catastrophe.

However, the sky was blind, and those anti-soldiers who had already gained experience quickly poked their long knives under the bed and pierced them on the woman's arm, and the woman couldn't help but scream in pain and was dragged out by the anti-soldiers.

The moment the woman was dragged out, she pushed the toddler in her arms into it.

Several long knives poked under the bed again, but this time they didn't touch anything.

The toddler hid in the innermost part and soon heard the screams of his mother accompanied by strange voices that he could not understand.

Several intruders took turns to spoil the woman, who was already dying, her eyes staring in the direction of the courtyard gate.

Her man is there, they grew up as childhood sweethearts, and when they got married, they made an appointment that if they died at the age of ninety-seven, they waited three years on the bridge, and now it seems that it doesn't take three years so long.

Daddy, you slow down a little, I'm coming.

"This peasant woman is really boring, this will not work." One of the rebels grinned and pulled out the filth and urinated on the woman's face.

The other anti-soldiers were not surprised, and gathered away the grain and soft materials that they had rummaged through.

"This is not bad, but there is broken silver hidden." A counter-soldier

Satisfied smiled, and stabbed the knife into the woman's chest, "Okay, for the sake of the silver, give her a good time." ”

Several of the rebels laughed and walked away to the house next door.

The woman couldn't move, so she dared to turn her eyes in the direction of the bed.

What will she do in the future, her child?

Don't come out, don't come out, you won't have your father and mother in the future, you have to live no matter what......

The woman spat out a large mouthful of blood and finally remained motionless.

Her eyes never left the direction under the bed, and two lines of blood and tears flowed from them.

The burning, killing and looting of the rebels lasted all night, and they left satisfied.

Qizhou has always been a good place for the people to live and start a business, but when the sun shines on this land again, the villages that were originally quite fertile have become devastated.

The old village chief of Qingniu Village knelt in front of the ancestral hall that was burned to ashes by the counter-soldiers, his forehead was on the ground, and the old tears were horizontal: "God, you have no eyes, let my Qingniu Village suffer this catastrophe, and more than 200 villagers have been poisoned by the counter-soldiers!" ”

Last night, those gangsters spoke in dialects they didn't understand, and they still didn't understand where they were, this was the anti-soldiers.

An old woman knelt down in front of the old village chief and cried hoarsely: "Village chief, why is this? Why didn't the imperial court send someone! Why! Pity my family of sixteen, only one of me survived, three sons, daughters-in-law, five grandsons and three granddaughters, and the eldest granddaughter-in-law who just entered the door, she is still pregnant! Why is it not me who dies and not me? ”

The old woman suddenly stood up and rushed towards a large rock.

At her age, she could run as fast as a young man, and what was even more surprising was that there was no one to stop the villagers who were kneeling or sitting.

Soon there was a bang, and the old woman fell crooked beside the boulder, her head bleeding and she died of exhaustion.

The old village chief looked at the miserable old woman and muttered, "Pure when you die, pure when you die......"

Only one member of the family of sixteen survived, and those who survived might be happier to go underground early to reunite with their relatives.

The villagers seemed to have lost their souls, and gathered together motionless.

After a long time, a young man suddenly stood up and said loudly: "These are all from Maozhou!" ”

The village chief said: "Maozhou? ”

The young man said firmly: "Yes! They speak with accents! It's Maozhou! There is a big drought over there, but the imperial court has not sent people to provide relief, they must have rebelled because of this! ”

The villagers no longer doubted, and they hid their faces and cried bitterly: "What should we do? ”

The young man said loudly: "Anyway, if you stay in the village, once the rebels come, it will be a death, I will go into the city to beg those officials and old men, let the court send troops!" ”

"That's right, ask the officials to let the court send troops!"

The villagers gathered together and rushed to the north gate, chased after the young children who had escaped by hiding under the beds.

On this day, I don't know how many people in the suburbs of Beijing rushed to the city, and even the guards guarding the city gate could not scare them away with swords and guns.

The looting of the villages on the outskirts of Beijing by the Northern Qi counter-soldiers was like a thunderclap in the middle of the court, and the earth was suddenly shocked.

"Why is this happening? How can there be counter-soldiers! Countless ministers surrounded the ruling prince and asked.

At this moment, they lost their usual scruples and tactfulness, and they all shouted with their necks stiffened: "We want to see the emperor!" ”

The emperor did not go to court for a long time.

The crown prince is so powerful that they don't dare to provoke it on weekdays, but now they don't report the news to the emperor, last night the counter-soldiers can burn and plunder in Qizhou, and tomorrow night they may be able to break into the city, and then the sky will change.

"Everyone, don't be impatient, this palace will give a satisfactory solution." Di Chexuan said with a calm face.

It was really unexpected that Maozhou actually sent a counter-army, and as a result, his hard work for several days was in vain.

The prince was in a hurry, and he didn't know what to do, but the father-in-law of Fushun had already come to deliver the decree.

"Your Majesty has an order to send Wang Shizi to lead 50,000 troops to quell the chaos in Maozhou."

The prince was dumbfounded. How did the Emperor know?

Immediately, he thought of what Shangguan Jin had said to him when he entered the palace that day.

"Out of Beijing as an official? What a good official out of Beijing! ”

The prince thought indignantly.

He must have known something, he came to complain to his father that day, what went out of Beijing to be an official! This is a direct commander!

When I thought of it, but some chaotic people, as long as they put a little pressure, they would collapse into an army, not to mention that his father gave him 50,000 elite soldiers, isn't this a clear gift to him for war exploits!

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