Chapter 400: Troubled Times
From the nine righteous armies in the identity information, as well as the identity, it can be seen that this is an ancient troubled era.
Xia Yanzhen continued to look at the relevant information and found that it was even more chaotic than he expected.
The dynasty that ruled this land of Shenzhou was called the Jing Dynasty, and the royal family name was "Ai", which ruled for more than 300 years, and now it is a stage of ups and downs.
There are two reasons, one is internal worries, not much to say, it can be seen from the Nine Righteous Armies alone, there are continuous uprisings in various places.
The second reason, and the more important reason, is external trouble.
The Jing Dynasty was once very powerful, but after hundreds of years of self-style, it was overtaken by other countries and blasted the country open with powerful force.
After many defeats, the Jing Dynasty had to pay compensation to cede the land and demarcate the lease.
After the defeat of the external war, the Jing Dynasty oppressed the people more harshly internally, making the people's livelihood miserable, so many uprisings were born.
From the most scattered, gradually sparks the prairie fired.
Now it is the Nine Great Righteous Army, of course, the outside world is more known as the Nine Roads Anti-King.
"It's a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society." Xia Yanzhen said secretly in his heart.
According to the information provided by the identity information, the Southwest King of Yi Bo Yuntian had just captured Qiu City, which was where Xia Yanzhen was now.
During the siege of the city, the vanguard Wang Tong was the first to rush into the city, and was rewarded by Li Yi, the king of the southwest, with a "big family", the Qu family's mansion.
The city was breached at noon.
It's night.
Originally, it was the time for Wang Tong and other generals and even the soldiers below to enjoy.
Can ...... now
People walk at night.
Xia Yanzhen looked around, the lights around him went out, and the night wind gusted into the room.
On the ground, on chairs, lay five crooked corpses.
One of them is the vanguard general Wang Tong, and the other four are the rest of the personal guards.
Only Xia Yanzhen survived - or rather, one of the former guards also died, but it was replaced by "Xia Eleven", and the dove occupied the magpie's nest.
Wang Tong and his guards died.
There were scattered meals on the table and under the table in the room.
Xia Yanzhen walked over and examined the bodies of these people, but found no obvious wounds.
And these people died in a horrible and horrible manner, and it seems that they were brutally tortured before they died.
Without investigating the cause of death of these people, Xia Yanzhen walked out of the house and looked at the sky, where a bright moon hung high in the night sky.
The moonlight sprinkled in the courtyard, and some dull blood stains could be faintly seen.
These bloodstains are the traces left by Wang Tong and others after breaking into the Qu Mansion to kill and loot.
I couldn't completely rinse it off with water.
In many places in Qiu City, exactly the same thing is happening.
"Bad troubled times." Xia Yanzhen shook his head.
The Ninth Righteous Army is not an army with strict discipline, ideals, plans, and even programs.
They are made up of a group of displaced people, rioters, and are very destructive.
After a period of time, some people were left behind, and the large army carried more displaced people with wealth and marched towards the next city.
There is not much difference between what they do and bandits.
The same is true of the "righteous army" of the king of the southwest.
Highlight a person who has wine today and is drunk today, drunk and dreams of death.
Among the nine rebel armies, it is estimated that only one or two have plans for the future, and the commander or staff may have the idea of "building a high wall, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king".
Anyway, Li Yi, the king of the southwest, doesn't have it here.
His idea is very simple and simple, kill and kill, kill all the way to the palace, cut off the head of the dog emperor, and become the emperor himself.
The people under his command thought the same as Li Yi, that is, from being an emperor to becoming a founding hero.
Wang Tong was not exempt from vulgarity.
Then, tonight, he died in vain.
Xia Yan really didn't bother to care why Wang Tong and the others died, he jumped directly onto the roof of Qufu and looked at Qiu Cheng.
There are still fires in many places.
The firelight illuminates the night sky.
In the nearby mansions, except for Qufu, there are a large number of candles in the rest of the places, and you can vaguely hear the unbridled laughter sent by the night breeze.
Xia Yanzhen locked his eyes on the largest and most luxurious mansion among them.
It used to be the residence of the magistrate of Qiucheng, and now the magistrate of the county is separated.
The head hangs high above the city gate, the inside, to frighten the young.
Body, I don't know where to go.
You may be able to find it in the pile of corpses outside the city.
The mansion of the magistrate is naturally occupied by Li Yi, the king of righteousness in the southwest.
Xia Yan really planned to go to the righteous king to see if he knew what the Divine Mother was.
Before going, Xia Yanzhen took a look at the public channel.
Here is Chongxiao's speech.
[Chongxiao: "Are you a friend of the brigade?" We're the Heavy Sky Team, and we've bought armor from you, and that strange dance, does anyone remember? I know that the full-time eyes are a team composed of Westerners, at least five of them, and their strength is not bad, and several of them are third-order dream apostles as soon as they enter. Shall we find a place to meet? ”】
[Brigade: "I'm in Qiu City, where are you?" ”】
Xia Yanzhen replied with a message.
After a while, there was a reply from Chongxiao's side.
"We don't know where Qiu Cheng is. We are located in Gangbuk City, the capital of Yao Dinh Province in Suncheon Province. As a servant in the government, you can get a lot of news, why don't you come and join us? There were five of us. Chongxiao said.
The administrative division of the Jing Dynasty was the largest province, followed by the prefecture, which was the prefecture and the prefecture had counties.
As for cities and villages, they are just titles, not real administrative divisions.
There is a big gap between XX City and XX City.
Chongxiao's five people, the status of the government officials is not low.
Jiangbei City can also be regarded as a prosperous city, and it is a place where you can inquire about all kinds of news.
"Well, I'll inquire about the location, and I'll come over when I'm done with the matter at hand." Xia Yanzhen replied, "If you don't wait for me within three days, everyone will act separately." ”
There was no reaction from Chongxiao's side for the time being.
After all, there are only ten opportunities to communicate, and it will not increase, so don't talk nonsense in the channel.
The five people in Chongxiao were actually muttering in their hearts.
The brigade's answer, why is it just "me", and not us?
They know that the brigade is a big adventure group with a large number of people, but it is not clear what kind of model it is.
I don't know that the brigade will be divided into multiple teams and work in small teams to carry out different missions.
I don't know that the head of the regiment, Xia Shiyi, is a lone wolf.
This information can be exchanged after meeting, and the members of Chongxiao, who felt a little strange, did not ask much to avoid wasting the number of speeches.
Let's just make an appointment where we meet.
This mission lasted for half a year, and they would not leave Jiangbei City unless there was an accident in the short term.
On the other side, when he ended the conversation with Chongxiao and the others, Xia Yanzhen had already come to the high wall of the mansion of Lord Zhixian.
Lanterns were lit everywhere in the house, and occasionally servants and maidservants could be seen with frightened faces and hurried looks.
The sound of dogs and horses came from a large room in the house.
The entrance to the mansion and everywhere in the courtyard were guarded by soldiers.
However, looking at their absent-minded appearance, they couldn't find Xia Yanzhen, who was standing on the wall undisguised, obviously his strength and quality were limited.
Xia Yanzhen jumped off the high wall and walked towards the big house.
There were quite a few lanterns hanging outside the house, but there were no guards guarding them.
Xia Yanzhen walked over and pushed open the wooden door.
Bursts of wanton laughter and painful voices suddenly became extremely clear.
The room was brightly lit and illuminated as if it were day.
The floor was covered with soft bedding and blankets, and all kinds of furniture were moved aside.
There were six naked men, blindfolded, or chasing the disheveled women in the room, or burying their heads in hard work.
There were about twenty women in the room, no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, with frightened faces and forced laughter.
The blood and corpses in the corners reminded them of what they should do to save their lives.
As the door was pushed open, one of the men playing hide and seek took off the black cloth from his eyes and looked at Xia Yanzhen.
The man was tall, powerful, and had a beard on his face.
If it weren't for the obscene expression at the moment, anyone who saw it would have to praise the "beautiful bearded man".
It's none other than the king of the southwest, Li Yi, who is known as the righteous Bo Yuntian.
"I remember, you are Wang Tong's little guy's personal guard?" Li Yi was still stained with blood in many places on his body, looked at Xia Yanzhen and asked, "Why did you come here suddenly?" ”
"Wang Tong is dead." Xia Yanzhen said.
"What?"
These words made the other people also turn their heads to look over and stop their waist movements.
"What's going on!"
Li Yi took a step forward, and his breath changed, as if a tiger had awakened, with the momentum of a tiger roaring and a dragon roaring.
In an instant, he changed from a lewd man to a murderer.
"It's just dead." Xia Yanzhen said.
"I remember, he's in Qufu, right?" Li Yi frowned and narrowed his eyes, "Bi Xing, you go and take a look." ”
"Yes!" That Bi Xing casually put on the clothes that were discarded on the ground and went to Qufu.
"Tell me, what the hell is going on! There's always a reason why people die, you know something. Also, as a personal guard, Li Yi is dead, why are you still alive? Li Yi's expression became dangerous when he looked at Xia Yanzhen.
The rest of the guards also gathered around.
If Xia Yan really ran over in a hurry and screamed loudly, Wang Tong was dead.
Li Yi may not suspect anything.
But he's behaving too much of an anomaly now.
With a sword at his waist, he was not wearing armor on his body, he was only dressed in black (prisoner of darkness), he had an indifferent attitude, he did not kneel down and salute when he saw him, and called Wang Tong by his first name, not "general".
If Li Yi couldn't see the strangeness, he, the king of the southwest, would have come to an end a long time ago.
"I'm here to ask you something." Xia Yanzhen said, answering the question.
"Humph!"
Li Yi snorted coldly and suddenly made a move.
He stretched out his hand to grab Xia Yanzhen, and the aura on his body was agitated, forming a looming tiger behind him.
With the movement of reaching out, the terrifying tiger also stretched out its claws.
and Li Yi's right hand overlapped.
This grasp is enough to shatter the gold and crack the stone.
This mission world is naturally a transcendent world.
The emptiness of the courtyard is not that Li Yi is not strict, but that he doesn't need it at all.
He himself, plus the personal guards, is the strongest existence in the entire righteous army.
Where do you need the protection of those soldiers who are not well-educated?
Seeing that the tiger claw was about to land on Xia Yanzhen's shoulder.
"Click!"
The crunch of bones shattering.
Li Yi flew upside down, almost hitting the wall of the room and flying out.
Xia Yanzhen withdrew his fist: "It's so weak." ”
(End of chapter)