Chapter 57: Public Opinion
Su Yan, Yun Yiyi, and Liu Mengmeng left the academy in the eyes of Sansan's envy, jealousy, and hatred.
The three of them rode three horses, Liu Mengmeng was in front, and Su Yan and Yun Yiyi were side by side.
As the name suggests, the Acropolis is a city, the closest city to the imperial capital Licheng, and for countless years it has been like a loyal guard guarding the imperial capital Licheng.
At this time, Emperor Zilie had already placed his troops at Xiongfeng Pass, five hundred miles ahead.
Su Yan and the three arrived at the Acropolis at noon on the third day, just because Liu Mengmeng was anxious about the family of Fuyuan County, and there was no delay along the way.
Su Yan also wanted to go back to Wenshui earlier, like his grandfather and father to ask about his mother.
When I entered the city, there was no tension in the whole city, but I saw that the crowd on the street was bustling, and they all walked in the direction of the city lord's mansion.
The three of them couldn't help but be surprised, Su Yan grabbed an old man passing by and asked, "Old man, isn't there a war going on at the Xiongfeng Pass in front of you, why do I see that the people in the city are not fleeing from the city but are all on the street?"
Whenever a war broke out, the residents of the city always had to find some way out of the city to seek refuge with relatives and friends in the suburbs of the mountains.
The old man glanced at the three of them, and saw that they didn't look like people from the official mansion, and said: "What kind of escape, after the army of His Royal Highness the Second Emperor entered Tongmu County, he did not commit any crime against the people, and I heard that even those immortals worshiped in the empire are on the side of His Royal Highness the Second Emperor." We," he said, pointing to the crowd on the street, "all of them went to the City Lord's Mansion to petition, hoping that the City Lord would not go against His Royal Highness the Second Emperor, and open the city gate earlier to welcome His Highness." ”
He mistook the sword master and cultivator who appeared in the battle of Tongmu County to help the side of the Second Emperor Zilie for the Holy Church of the Imperial Military Department.
Su Yan was still puzzled: "Why do you want to open the door to welcome His Royal Highness the Second Emperor? Isn't the Great Emperor Zixuan already enthroned as the emperor? In this way, His Royal Highness the Second Emperor is a rebel and should be crusaded." ”
The old man glanced at him and said, "Who supports the recognition of the great emperor Zixuan to ascend the throne? Now who in the whole world does not know that he took advantage of the absence of His Majesty the Emperor to claim himself emperor in the palace, and also intended to kill His Majesty's favorite concubine Niangniang, who will recognize him as the emperor?" The old man's voice became indignant, and he no longer called Emperor Zixuan His Royal Highness:" Since he proclaimed himself emperor, the taxes of the entire Acropolis have tripled, this is not for us to live, if the empire really needs an emperor now, it is also a benevolent second highness, how can it not be his turn to be a mean and ungrateful person. ”
Su Yan understood, it turned out that this was public opinion.
No wonder Tongmu County was taken by Emperor Zilie in three days, the power of the cultivators is part of it, and the public opinion is also part of it.
His Majesty, the self-proclaimed emperor in the imperial palace, seems to be not only a matter of character, but also stupid.
After the old man finished speaking, he rushed forward with the crowd.
Su Yan and the three of them also walked forward with the flow of people, so they should take a look at the excitement.
At that moment, there was a commotion in the crowd in front of them, followed by a cry of pain. A voice sounded: "The city lord has an order, the big war is imminent, everyone is not allowed to stay on the street, if there is a gathering to make trouble, they will be regarded as anti-thieves, and they will be killed." ”
Su Yan and the three of them hurriedly squeezed forward, only to see a team of about fifty cavalrymen in front of them holding bright spears in their hands, and some people from the yamen on the side were holding leather whips in their hands and pumping towards the crowd.
Some people in the crowd couldn't dodge, and they couldn't help but cry out in pain when they were whipped on their bodies.
A fat man in brocade with a red face riding on a horse and said loudly: "The city lord asked everyone not to listen to the rumors of the anti-thief, we are the people of the empire, and now that the emperor has ascended the throne, we should naturally support His Royal Highness the emperor as our emperor." ”
A middle-aged man in the crowd roared loudly: "We are the people of the empire, not the people of the emperor, when the emperor was there, he did not issue an edict to let the emperor succeed to the throne, everyone knows that the emperor is cruel and unkind, we naturally do not recognize such an emperor." ”
Dahan said this, raised his arms and shouted: "What the empire needs is a virtuous emperor, and what it needs is a benevolent emperor like His Royal Highness the Second Emperor, everyone will go with me to see the city lord." ”
The crowd responded.
Under the human skin whip in the yamen, some scattered crowds gradually gathered again, and some people began to snatch the whips in their hands.
The fat man in brocade was not incompetent, he gave the cavalry leader a color.
The cavalry leader shouted: "Where did the anti-thieves come from here to bewitch the people, take it down for me." ”
One of the cavalrymen in the front row slapped his horse forward, and the spear in his hand stabbed at the shouting man in his chest.
The big man didn't dodge, he was not afraid, and he still shouted to himself: "The emperor is mediocre, the city lord is obsessed, don't be afraid, he can't kill it, my generation should exchange blood for future generations for a bright blue sky." ”
The spear stabbed at the big man like a bolt of lightning, and the big man did not close his eyes, and glared angrily at the cavalryman who stabbed him with the spear.
The big man did not die, and stopped at a position where the tip of the spear was three inches from his chest, and the cavalry naturally did not stop because someone grabbed his spear with his hand.
It was Su Yan who caught the spear, he just arrived, and he was also angry when he saw the cavalry so careless of human life: "The spear is used to protect the people of the empire, they are not enemies of the empire." Su Yan said coldly to the cavalry.
The spear was grabbed, the cavalryman did not speak, his hands were clenched to the handle, and his calf was clamped between the horse's belly, but he wanted to move forward, he did not believe that the strength of anyone could be greater than the strength of a war horse.
Seeing that the cavalry was obsessed, Su Yan snorted coldly, and a ray of starlight rushed towards the right hand that grabbed the spear, pushing and swinging forward: "You give it down." With a snap, the knight fell to the ground, and the horse that stepped down neighed and took three steps back, staggering like drunkenness, and fell to the ground.
Su Yan has already seen the sea Dacheng, and the sea of stars in his body is vast and boundless, which can be matched by just one person and one horse.
Seeing that the cavalry in front was thrown off the horse by Su Yan, the cavalry behind shouted, and the spear in his hand was about to sprint towards Su Yan.
"Slow!" The brocade-clothed fat man raised his hand to stop the cavalry, he looked at Su Yan's gaze hesitantly, he had seen several Templar cultivators in the Acropolis barracks, although it was easy for those people to deal with a cavalryman, but no one could grasp the spear that thrust forward with the strength of his flesh like Su Yan.
Aren't all practitioners coming and going?
"Shi Yuyan, a staff member in the Lower City Lord's Mansion, may I ask who Mr. is?"
Dead fish eyes, Liu Mengmeng snorted and came out.
"It doesn't matter who I am, it's important that you listen to these people. Su Yan said, shaking the spear in his hand, the barrel of the gun was broken, only the tip of the gun made of stainless steel was left in his hand, and then it turned into a ball of scrap metal when he rubbed it twice: "It's still the same sentence, the weapons that the empire has equipped you with are not for you to use against the people of the empire." The more he spoke, the more angry he became, "Take me to your city lord!"
Seeing him show such a hand, Shi Yuyan was even more uneasy in his heart, and he had the heart to follow what Su Yan said, but he was afraid that the surrounding crowd would take the opportunity to make trouble. With a heart, he shouted: "I don't care who you are, obstructing the city lord's mansion is rebellion, come and take it down for me." ”
is also a fluke thought, don't those strong people who practice ignore these little things?
The cavalry suddenly agreed, and rushed towards Su Yan on horseback together, and when they saw the cavalry rushing towards them, the crowd had already retreated like a tide.
However, the big man saved by Su Yan and a few sporadic people rushed in front of Su Yan: "Little brother, get out of the way, these people will really kill you here," he had already appreciated the cavalry's unhesitating killing attempt.
Human beings are like this, when danger comes, they are always instinctively afraid, and only a few are really not afraid of death.
Fortunately, with these few people, the whole race was propped up.
"It's okay, big brother, you go to the side first. For Dahan's actions, Su Yan sincerely has some respect, regardless of strength, just for Dahan's blood.
Pushed the big man to Liu Mengmeng, Liu Mengmeng has been in the backyard for more than a year, and he has already stepped into the peak of Lishan, and he is still half a step away from entering the fate, with him watching, no one here can hurt the big man.
Yun Yiyi was not worried, she looked at Su Yan with a smile, she knew that these people couldn't hurt him, and she was happy to see her sweetheart powerful.
The cavalry of the Acropolis is not as good as the Xuanjia elite cavalry of Xi City, nor is it as good as the guardian cavalry of the Daomen, and it is not as good as the Red Guards of the border city. Su Yan was not far from them when he appeared, and the cavalry could not organize a charge, so they could only stab at Su Yan with spears each.
At most, it can only be regarded as a group fight, and forty-nine people came to beat Su Yan alone.
The cavalry who had just been thrown to the ground by Su Yan was helped up by others and leaned against the corner of the wall and was still humming and chirping, so there were only forty-nine of the fifty cavalry left.
I haven't heard that a group of ordinary people can fight a cultivator in a group fight, so.
The sound of the human body falling to the ground sounded, the sound of the spear being broken, the scream of broken bones sounded, and Su Yan's fights were sometimes very rough, not blindly smooth.
Just like Mingzong's Miao Miao took Mo Fang and smashed Fang without returning.
Su Yan was very brave, and the picture of the figure flying around to the end was also enthusiastic enough, and the little stars in Yun Yiyi's eyes flashed and flashed.
It didn't take long for those cavalry to lie on the ground, humming and chirping in pain, and the war horses that were not controlled by their masters may have been taken by Su Yan's bravery, and they slowly retreated step by step.
Su Yan didn't kill a single person, they just acted on orders, but they didn't sin to death.
Those who lie on the ground have just lost their combat effectiveness,
Shi Yuyan's face had turned pale, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans kept dripping down his forehead, and he now fully understood who he was going to take.
He is definitely a strong person in cultivation, he wants to cry without tears, your old man is a god, you said it earlier.
You say you're a cultivator who has broken away from the world, what are you doing with all this?
Emperor Zixuan and Emperor Zilie were at war, and the cultivation powerhouses of the Holy Hall were inseparable from the border on the surface, but in fact, they were unwilling to participate in the internal struggle of the empire.
They are guarding the entire empire.
Therefore, Emperor Zilie got three hundred great sword masters from Dahe County and a group of former cultivators to take Tongmu County in three days with an overwhelming advantage, and the soldiers pointed directly at Licheng, where Emperor Zixuan was located.
"Big ...... My lord...... Shi Yuyan knelt on the ground and trembled and said, "Villain...... Villain...... There are eyes without beads, and I don't know the holy driving ...... adults."
Su Yan waved his hand to stop him, "You have eyes without beads, but you don't know me, you don't know them." He gestured to the crowd around him, and he had said that three times. "Take them to the lord of the city. ”
Su Yan wanted to see if the city lord of the Acropolis would change a little after seeing the people.
At this point, where did Shi Yuyan dare to say half a word, his head could not be harder than the tip of a gun made of stainless steel.