Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and Liu Ruoxue looked at Uncle Li who seemed to know all this in surprise, meaning that you can give an explanation.

"Everything you see is both true and an illusion, this is the secret place of our Zhengyi sect's cultivation, how can it be easily revealed, it is naturally to be hidden, in fact, it is not gone, but it has entered another space with the help of the huge energy it contains, this is also a kind of space transformation, you will understand in the future, now it's better to hurry up and return to Cangzhou City, I'm afraid something big is going to happen there, hey!" Uncle Li didn't have time to talk to them about the disappearance of the underground palace, and after a long sigh, he dragged away and strode in the direction of Cangzhou City.

It is also strange to say, when they started walking this time, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou felt as if they were stepping on hot wheels under their feet, and they walked like the wind without the slightest sense of fatigue, so they knew that this was undoubtedly the benefit of the full true qi in their bodies.

At this time, it is the middle of winter, there are few pedestrians on the official road, there are few cars and horses, the thick snow is not crushed into a hard snow layer, and the individual snow is squeezed into a thicker place by the wind, forming a snow wall that is nearly one person high on the first floor of the roadbed, and it is also magnificent to look at.

Because the body was full of true qi, it would take two or three hours to get to Cangzhou City by carriage, but Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and Liu Ruoxue only took less than an hour to finish, but Li Shu'er followed behind, and he was a little physically exhausted.

However, along the way, Li Shu'er, Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and Liu Ruoxue became more and more frightened, and the more they walked, the more they realized the strangeness of the atmosphere around them, but what was going on?

It turned out that Uncle Li and the others were speeding all the way, and they saw that the villages on both sides of the official road that were originally smelled of chickens and dogs turned out to be ten rooms and nine empty, leaving only some timid women, children, old and young people drawing water or chopping wood, and the young and strong men could not see any of them.

"It's not good, it must be that the war in Cangzhou City is tight, and the young and middle-aged men in these villages are all going to defend the city as villagers, go quickly!" Uncle Li is still an experienced man, and as soon as he saw the situation in those villages, he already guessed that the situation in Cangzhou City was precarious.

As Li Shu'er expected, when they crossed those villages and approached the urban area of Cangzhou, there was an endless stream of soldiers and villagers shuttling back and forth on the streets, but their faces were dark, their heads, faces and bodies were covered with traces left by gunsmoke, and some soldiers and villagers were still covered with blood, and they were not lightly injured.

At this moment, the sharp-eyed soldier saw Uncle Li, and shouted unexpectedly: "Old immortal, it's Li Lao Immortal, it's really Li Lao Immortal, brothers, the old fairy is back, our Cangzhou City has been saved......"

It didn't matter what the soldiers shouted, which caused the soldiers and villagers who were originally depressed to surround Li Shu'er and them, and one by one they were stimulated by the instantly ignited hope, and their faces were congested and red towards Li Shu'er, and they shouted nonsense: "Old fairy, you came back to help us defend the city, right?" "Old fairy, don't you always know how to scatter beans into soldiers, hurry up and use spells, this old city is about to be captured by Long Hair!" ……

Li Shu'er looked at those haggard faces tormented by war and fear, and felt a sadness in his heart, this from ancient times to the present, the establishment of dynasties has been based on the bones of these soldiers who have been used as cannon fodder, and the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people is not in exchange for the peace and contentment of the people, but only the glory and wealth of the emperor's family. Thinking that Hong Xiuquan, but it is not the first talent in Nanyue, who is not the first to show his talents, he raised troops to occupy Nanjing and called Wang Nafu and refused to be satisfied, and even wanted to compete with the Manchu Qing Dynasty's Aixin Jueluo royal family for the world, and sent this Northern Expeditionary Army to capture Gyeonggi, trying to unify the Central Plains, and the king was in the world, which led to the Northern Expeditionary Army passing through the city and village, which was ruined, and the villages and villages were Dai Xiao, whether it was the people who were inevitably affected when the Taiping Army and the Qing Army were fighting, or after the war passed, the rout soldiers and mountain bandits took advantage of the chaos to rob, The people who suffer the most from the secondary disasters that are inflicted on those people are always the ordinary people who just want to live in peace and honesty, and the so-called leaders who create these disasters, whether they are legal or illegal, have all smeared their actions with a layer of sacred oil paint of "relieving the people from hanging upside down", which is really a great irony.

Thinking of this, and then looking at the faces in front of him who seemed to see a glimmer of life, Uncle Li sighed in his heart, and couldn't bear to let those soldiers who thought they had caught a life-saving straw be disappointed again, so he responded with a smile on his face: "Okay, you don't need to be polite, the military affairs are urgent, it is important to go to the city tower to defend against the enemy first." Rest assured, since the real person is here, there is no reason to leave, and you must find a way out before you are willing to stop. ”

To put it mildly, Li Shu'er finally persuaded those soldiers to leave, and then, Li Shu'er and Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and Liu Ruoxue walked all the way along the bluestone main street located on the central axis of the city, but they saw that the originally bustling and lively wine shops and teahouses on both sides of the road had closed down.

Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and Liu Ruoxue were just looking at it shockingly, when they heard a boiling shout from the direction of the city tower: "Hidden, hidden, Long Mao has launched artillery to attack the city again......"

The shouting has not yet disappeared, the overwhelming whistling sound will follow, accompanied by the huge and piercing "Woo Ng" sound that the air is cut through, the dense cast iron cannonballs cross the city tower, and fall down to the buildings in various blocks in Cangzhou City, for a time, the houses in Cangzhou City are collapsed, the earth and stones are flying sideways, and the dust that flies up after the houses are smashed by the cannonballs covers the sky and the sun, and it looks like the sky is falling apart.

Groups of people dragged their children and daughters, crying and screaming, ran out of the houses that had been smashed by the shells and fled for their lives, and some elderly people were slow to move, mercilessly knocked down by the falling masonry, and gradually died in the wailing and wriggling of pain.

Looking at the tragic scene in front of them, which looked like purgatory on earth, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were filled with righteous indignation at the inhumane behavior of Lin Fengxiang, the commander of the Taiping Army outside the city, and others who disregarded the safety of the people in the city, and hated to go out immediately to capture Lin Fengxiang, and let Ya order to stop the shelling on their necks.

At this moment, a flowering cannonball hit the east and west two street gates only ten steps away from Li Shu'er's location, and the two gatehouses were embedded with heavy stone plaques inside and out.