These people in the Nanban are some evil guests, who come uninvited and go to other people's homes to make a fortune.

For these, the imperial court of the Eastern Tang Dynasty would naturally react. Not to mention anything else, just the barbarians occupying their own cities to burn, kill and loot, such a thing is unbearable.

The previous situation was too tense to send people to the city. Now that the situation has eased a little, it is the people with the Tang Army who have infiltrated Gangneung City.

As the saying goes, "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles." Intelligence is very important for confrontations on the battlefield, and no matter what task this advance team is tucked in, intelligence cannot be missed.

After entering the city, these people briefly converged and broke into pieces again, continuing to disperse according to the plan to prevent attracting the attention of the Southern Barbarian Army.

The young man's face was somewhat familiar, and if Lin Yan or Ming Ya were there, they would definitely recognize him. Because this young man is not an outsider, it is Li Zongsheng, who has not been seen for a long time.

It's just that even if they see it, I'm afraid Lin Yan and others don't dare to recognize each other easily, because compared to the past, the changes in youth are too great!

If you look at reality in terms of reality, Li Zongsheng can definitely be called a "gentleman", no matter how you think about it, it should have nothing to do with joining the army.

Moreover, his father's side does not belong to the military system, even if this guy wants to go to the army on a whim to gild or something, it is impossible to come to this kind of front-line location.

After all, the purpose of gilding is to obtain credit safely, so that those second-generation disciples can easily lie on the merit book and make a fortune, how can they really come here to play with their lives?

Gangneung City is not a good place to get along with today, no matter what your identity is, it is almost the same here, and you may lose your life in an instant. As long as Li Zongsheng's brain had not been caught by the door, it would be impossible for him to come to this kind of place to gild.

Now that I think about it, no matter what happened, Li Zongsheng should really join the army, and he is not a "showman", he is a real Tang sergeant.

He is now less hangy and cynical than before, but more of a calm and restrained momentum, and the lines on his face are not the white-faced appearance of the original, with sharp edges and corners, and he looks much more resolute.

After only a brief appearance, Li Zongsheng's figure disappeared again, like a ghost, and began to carry out his mission.

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On the other side, Lin Yan and the others also rushed towards Jiangling City after grasping the situation.

Now that the situation in the Tang Kingdom is critical, he will naturally not be arrogant enough to think that he can turn the tide with his own strength or something, but as a Tang man, and even more as a former soldier, he should also do his part in such a national crisis.

Although the offensive of the Western Wilderness was fierce, the initial army seemed to be relatively strict because of the elite relationship. They have a clear purpose, they only plunder what they need, and they do less damage to the people.

The Northern Desert Buddha Kingdom is also as ambiguous as before, although it also has the idea of taking advantage of the fire to rob, but it has too many scruples, and it does not dare to be too obvious after all.

Among the three parties, it was these people from the Nanban who caused the most damage. Originally, they and the Eastern Tang Dynasty were fighting for many years, and their hatred continued to accumulate, and they were even more unscrupulous when they started.

These people marched all the way, and all they did were burning, killing and looting, which were several times more cruel than the methods of ordinary bandits and robbers, and there were mountains of corpses and a sea of blood all the way!

Not to mention, take the "three-day non-sealing knife" after the destruction of Gangneung City, those officials were brutally killed in various ways, some were beheaded for public display, some were skinned and bones were peeled off, and so on and so on.

Naturally, it is difficult for ordinary people to escape, and basically the situation is that men are killed, and women are taken away and bullied, even the use of "purgatory on earth" is not enough to describe the eventuality of this tragedy.

Since Yang Guang ascended the throne, the style of the Southern Barbarian Army has lost the bottom line more and more, as if it has completely detonated the dark side of human nature and turned into a group of demons who wantonly carnival!

Even if Lin Yan has already stepped into the congenital, if he wants to turn the situation back with his own strength, it is a fool's dream.

The role of high-level martial artists is naturally not negligible, but manpower is sometimes poor, and battle formations are even more so, and personal strength is not as great as imagined at this time.

Otherwise, if it is a high-level martial artist today, what is the meaning of the existence of the country?

However, there are things he can do, sneaking into the city and causing some damage, not only helping Tang Guo and doing his duty, but also stopping Yang Guang, killing two birds with one stone, why not do it?

Lin Yan and the others also entered the city in batches, but in fact, entering the city is still extremely strict now, and they have to go through a lot of checks.

But the so-called "upper beam is not right and lower beam is crooked", and now the city is not allowed to rob it, but these barbarians have tasted the sweetness, how can they stop there?

If there is an order from above, then use some other means, anyway, there are policies and countermeasures, and it can always be bypassed.

Lin Yan mixed some gold and silver with Mingya into a caravan and entered the city first, anyway, ordinary gold and silver were not too valuable to him now.

After entering the city, after some investigation, even if they had been prepared, the tragedy that happened in Gangneung City still subverted their cognition.

Although Lin Yan said that he had served in the army, he was only a border army at that time, and he was just a head-to-head battle with the barbarians.

Although he knew the ferocity of the barbarians, the border army fought desperately at that time, and did not let the barbarians enter too much of the hinterland, and the damage caused was also controlled in a small area, which seems to be unheard of today.

It's just that now although the news of the fall of Jiangling has spread all over the world, what happened here has not been fully spread under the deliberate control of Nanban, and the world naturally knows the cruelty after the city is broken, but they didn't expect that things have come to such a point.

Now that the Southern Barbarians have taken advantage of the fire to rob, they still claim that there is no way in the Eastern Tang Dynasty, and that they barbarians are sending troops to help the people of the Tang Realm live a better life.

Such a shameless act is simply red-faced, and I can't help but be angry. Isn't this what you have to do to build a memorial arch? He really let him say everything, and let him take advantage of everything!

But even if the current Gangneung City has temporarily resumed some commercial circulation under the deliberate control of the Nanban high-level, so that the city's functions have recovered a little, this is only the surface, and the tragedy in the inner city will continue.

Those rich squires and powerful clans, whether they are forced or active, have already turned from victims to accomplices of the Southern Barbarian Army, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are a raccoon dog.

In the face of a crisis, these people can always quickly adjust themselves, lean towards the more interested party, and call it "those who know the times are handsome", but they hang the incorruptibility and shame on the lintel.

Of course, not everyone is like this, after the city was broken, in the face of the Nanban or coercion or temptation, there were still some people who maintained their style and stood up the backbone of the Tang people!

Jiang Hongwen, originally a great Confucian in Jiangling City, has a very lofty identity among the literati, and also has a lot of friendship with some important ministers in the Tang Dynasty.

If such a person can be recruited for his own use, then he can severely damage the morale of the Tang army, which is really an excellent idea.

It's just that although this old man who is over seventy years old is old, he is iron-clad and would rather die than surrender, and finally more than dozens of members of the family were beheaded by the barbarians in front of everyone.

Before he died, the old man left this sentence: "It is better to be broken than to be broken!" ”

In just eight words, it is so deafening.

It's easy to stand for a while, but it's hard to stand like this for a lifetime. Some people talk and talk endlessly on weekdays, but when they really need him to stand up, they kneel down without hesitation, and everything he said at the beginning seems to turn into the most violent slap and hit him in the face.

The old man insisted on his beliefs all along, straightened his spine, and died vigorously.

In fact, at the time of the city's destruction, the backbone and bloody people were almost dead, and some people who knew how to judge the situation and protect themselves survived and continued to do their best in the heads of the people.

For these people, self-interest is more important than the state. Compared with people like Jiang Hongwen, they seem to be on two opposite sides, and they do not intersect with each other.

Now the city is only maintaining peace on the surface, but in fact, the chaos and disorder inside are still continuing.

A large number of women have recently disappeared in the city, and some have even been forcibly taken away in broad daylight.

At night, outside a Taoist temple in the city, a black-clothed figure was quietly approaching.

This place is called Baiyun Temple, which was originally a place for Taoist monks to practice, but since the city was broken, it has been occupied by barbarians, and now it is the territory of a general.

The man in black was agile, and soon infiltrated the temple, bypassing the guards guarding in front of him, and then sneaking behind.

After entering a large hall, he clenched his fists as far as he could see, and unconsciously burst into a foul mouth: "These beasts!" ”

I saw that in the originally solemn hall, there were now cages lined up, and among them were not beasts, but women in rags.

Some of them were in a trance, some were glazed, some were covered with scars, lying in the cage and moaning, seeing more breath and less breath.

The original Sanqing statue has collapsed, and several figures can be faintly seen shaking from the back of the statue, mixed with the cries of women and the lewd laughter of men.

There was an obscene and foul smell in the air, which made people want to be disgusted, and the man in black had bloodshot eyes at the moment, and directly pulled out the knife he carried with him, and walked quickly towards the back of the Sanqing statue.

Someone heard the movement and turned around and shouted, "What person? ”

There was only a sword light that answered him, and then the head flew up, and blood splattered everywhere......