In the hotel with the door closed, Li Yi and the shopkeeper sat at the table, one talking and foaming, and the other listened with relish.

There was only a little peanut skin left on the plate of peanuts on the table, and half a pot of mash was also bottomed out.

In contrast to the calm atmosphere in the store, the streets of Toliang Castle are now full of tension.

A faint aura of murder spread across the empty streets as if it had taken on a shape.

Many people in the houses on both sides of the street are hiding in the corners and shivering.

Because in this era, the bandits who entered the city were basically no different from the ghosts of the underworld.

Soon the sound of stumbling footsteps sounded in the streets.

Li Yi ignored the dissuasion of the shopkeeper, approached the door panel and looked out through the crack in the door.

I saw that many people were walking quickly in the distance of the street.

Originally, in Li Yi's imagination, these people should be fierce and fierce men, and everyone was carrying weapons like a rainbow.

But these people in sight are not like that at all.

All of them were in rags, and many of them were torn into strips of rags hanging from their bodies.

There were also many people in the crowd who were shirtless, and the mud mixed with sweat smeared their entire bodies black and gray.

The thin skin was tightly clinging to the bones, and Li Yi looked at these people from a distance like walking corpses.

Their steps were vain, and many of them were staggering when they walked, completely lacking the ferocity of the bandits.

Looking closer, Li Yi found that what they were carrying was not a sword, but a bamboo pole or a wooden stick.

A group of people walked towards the city in a daze.

"What kind of bandit is this? Are you sure this is a grass army and not a refugee? ”

Li Yi lowered his voice and asked Xiao Er behind the door.

"Guest officer, these people are the grass army, do you see if these people have grass rods stuck in their heads?"

Li Yi looked at the heads of these people according to the instructions of the shopkeeper.

Sure enough, these people all had a long straw stick stuck in their heads.

Many people have unkempt hair, and the straw is inserted crookedly.

These grass armies walked the streets, but they didn't spread out and loot the shops on both sides of the street.

They collectively move in one direction as if they had a purpose in mind from the beginning.

Watching these people walk past the door of the store, Li Yi couldn't help but sigh that this is the world-famous grass army?

According to Li Yi's estimates, there were about two or three thousand grass troops in this wave just now, and the imperial court only needed to send one or two hundred regular troops to completely wipe them out.

If all the grass armies were like this, then the imperial court should be able to easily exterminate them.

But judging from the current situation, the imperial court not only did not exterminate them, but also let them develop better and better, and the places where they were raging became bigger and bigger.

When most of the ragged grass army walked through the store, the sound of kicking and clicking came from the street.

This voice is familiar to Li Yi, and it should be the sound of horses walking on the stone road.

Looking through the crack in the door, sure enough, five horses were walking down the bluestone street.

The five horses also looked scrawny like the grass army marching ahead.

A couple of short, lean fellows sat shirtless on their horses, like skinny monkeys.

It's just that they each hold weapons in their hands, and there is still a clear gap between them and the beggar-like grass army in front of them.

They talked and laughed on their horses, and when they were excited, they waved their weapons a few times.

The weapons in their hands were not standard weapons, two of them had rusty knives, two others had gourd hammers, and the last one had an arrow bag on his horse.

And in the middle of these five horses, a strong man with a height of more than eight feet was walking with his head held high with a Xuanhua axe.

Although this guy walked among the five horses, he was taller than the five skinny monkey-like fellows sitting on the horses.

Although this man is also shirtless, his figure and the five guys on the horse are two extremes.

The knotted muscles are like steel cast iron, full of explosive beauty.

The scars did not destroy the man's beauty at all, but added to the man's barbaric atmosphere.

Li Yi looked carefully, and the words were wide-faced, wide-mouthed, and the beard with a leopard's head and eyes trembled slightly as he walked.

There was a ferocious aura in his face.

Li Yi immediately felt that this guy was definitely a murderer, and this guy was a guy who was not easy to get along with.

Look at the guy with a thin thread tied to the loose belt around his waist, and something is skewered along the thread.

It's just that the distance is a little far, and Li Yi can't see it clearly.

Although the five skinny monkey-like guys were riding horses, and this man was on foot, Li Yi immediately judged that this man should be the leader of this grass army.

Sure enough, when this group of people walked in, Li Yi saw that the five people on horseback were nodding their heads and complimenting the walking man.

This man felt very useful when he heard the compliments of the five people, and he was proud to wield his Xuanhua axe.

The huge axe made the air whistling in the air, and you can imagine the strength of this guy.

And when this man walked in, Li Yi saw what was hanging on this man's waist.

It turned out that the string of things hanging from this man's waist turned out to be a string of human ears.

Li Yi once heard his master say that on the battlefield, the sergeants would cut off the enemy's ears and bring them back after the battle as proof of killing the enemy.

In the army, the soldiers will judge the merits based on the number of ears and ask for merit for the soldiers.

But this is the first time Li Yi has seen someone do this in reality.

This completely subverted Li Yi's impression that the grass army was basically equivalent to a refugee.

Exiles and beggars can kill people, but no one can cut off each other's ears.

Looking at the ears that were still dripping blood from this man's waist, Li Yi knew that the soldiers who defended the city in Duliang County were probably more than lucky.

Seeing this group of grass troops leave this street in a mighty way, Xiao Er behind the door finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why didn't this group of grass soldiers break into the door and loot the people's property?"

Li Yi didn't understand very much, according to his thoughts, after this group of grass troops entered the city, they should go door-to-door to rob.

But the grass army turned a blind eye to the surrounding residents, and had the demeanor of not committing any offense with Minqiu.

You must know that no matter which army in history can do what it is forbidden to do without the rules and the people, this army will be the most powerful and invincible army.

"Guest, you don't know the mystery when you look at it."

Xiao Er still lowered his voice and explained.

"It's not that these grass soldiers don't want to rob our small households, but they are worried that the big families in the city will hide or transfer their belongings if time is delayed."

"I see!" Li Yi suddenly realized.

"These big families in the city have developed in my Duliang County for several generations or even more than ten generations, and if there is no means to prevent bandits, it is impossible to continue to this day."

"Besides, if you don't take advantage of the city that has just broken through to immediately take action against these big households, when these big households organize a monk to protect the home, the casualties of the grass army will also double."

"In this way, the grass army should now concentrate on attacking those big households."

Li Yi nodded, thought for a moment, and then asked the shopkeeper.

"In this case, why don't the people in the city take advantage of the grass army to attack the big households and organize to attack them behind their backs, so that they can cooperate with the big families in the city, and the grass army will not suffer from the enemy."

"What are you talking about, what does the life and death of those big families have to do with us and other small people?"

The shopkeeper looked at Li Yi with a puzzled expression.

At this time, Li Yi heard the sound of Suo Suo coming from upstairs.

Before Li Yi could continue to ask again, the voice of the shopkeeper suddenly came from upstairs.

"Xiao Wang, why don't you hurry up and clean up the softness!"

"Okay shopkeeper, I'll come now."

The shopkeeper walked upstairs quickly, and he told Li Yi as he walked.

"Guest officer, you should also pack up quickly, and take advantage of the grass army to attack the big families in the south of the city, and we will quickly escape from the county seat."

Li Yi slowly sat back on the bench at this time.

He began to think seriously about the current situation.

According to what the shopkeeper said just now, the grass army at this time must be hurrying to attack the big households in the south of the city.

At this moment, I am afraid that there are not many grass troops at the city gate, and it may even be that the grass army does not leave any manpower to guard the city gate.

There are several benefits to doing this:

First of all, if the city gates are guarded, their forces will be scattered, and they will not be able to conquer the major families as quickly as possible.

Secondly, not defending the city gate can allow the panicked people in the city to flee as soon as possible, so that the resistance in the city will naturally be reduced.

In this way, when they attack large households, there will be less chance of being attacked from behind.

This is a typical method of encircling three without one, which belongs to a tactic in the art of war.

Third, not defending the city gate is actually a way to survive after death, which is similar to the truth of breaking the kettle and fighting against the water.

Because not guarding the city gate means that if the surrounding counties send reinforcements, they will be dead.

At the same time, letting go of the people is actually a means of motivating the soldiers under them.

Because only if you capture the big houses as quickly as possible, you will have a chance to recover those who have escaped, and you can loot more property and beautiful women.

Thinking of this, Li Yi couldn't help but be vigilant against this group of grass troops who seemed to be beggars.

Sure enough, as Master Taijizi said: In this troubled world, you must not underestimate anyone.

After thinking about this, Li Yi also quickly went upstairs and entered his guest room, carried his luggage on his back, and quickly came to the street.

At this time, the streets were already full of panicked people.

They carried their belongings on their shoulders, took their children and daughters, helped the old and the young, and rushed quickly to the city gate.

But the strange thing is that none of them dared to make a sound, even if a child cried, his parents covered his mouth.

Fear and panic appeared on everyone's face, and in Li Yi's opinion, they really looked like a frightened flock.

Originally, according to Li Yi's idea, there were tens of thousands of people in the city, and even if there were no less than twenty or thirty thousand people left in the entire county because of the flight and famine.

In the face of a grass army ten times less than himself, as long as the whole city worked together, the grass army of only two or three thousand basically had no chance of winning.

But this beggar-like army of two or three thousand grass easily frightened the twenty or thirty thousand people like a flock of panicked sheep.

Even though they knew that the grass army was now attacking all the big families and would not attack them at the first time, these people still fled in panic.

This made Li Yi feel helpless and helpless.

It is said that people's hearts are moving together, and it can be seen from the words of the shopkeeper just now that in Liang County, big households and ordinary people are basically two different people.

Even if the people and big households are not at the point of being in the same situation, it is estimated that they are not much different from the same travelers.

So when the grass army came in, there were no people who wanted to help the big families.

Thinking of the luxurious life of the Qiao family, Li Yi could only sigh that the return of the Heavenly Dao Wheel should be unhappy.

The trace of thought that originally rose from the bottom of my heart to rescue the Qiao family immediately faded.

"Why are you still here, guest officer? Get out of the city and run for your life. ”

The shopkeeper and the shopkeeper also quietly slipped out of the inn.

They quickly closed the door, and several of them hurried to the city gate.

Li Yi had no choice but to follow everyone to the city gate.

In a short time, the people had already come to the gate of the city, and they saw that the gate of the city was wide open.

And all the people did not doubt him, and they all ran to the city gate.

After passing through the city gate hole and arriving at the urn city, Li Yi saw more than 20 corpses lying scattered on the ground.

When Li Yi got closer, he found that all the left ears of these people had been cut off.

Everyone rushed to the urn city only to find that the gate of the urn city was closed, and everyone began to open the gate of the urn city and put down the drawbridge in front of the door.

During this period, Li Yi carefully inspected the officers and soldiers of Duliang County who had been killed.

First of all, the three soldiers closest to the city of Urn each had a feathered arrow stuck in their necks.

Looking at Yu Jian, Li Yi's brows couldn't help frowning.

The three soldiers closest to the gate of the Urn City can be dealt with with three feathered arrows in a short period of time, and they are all sealed with one arrow.

This shows that there is a master of archery in this group.

Li Yi recalled carefully, it seemed that there was only one of the five thin monkeys riding a horse, and there was an arrow bag hanging from the saddle.

Not far from the three people, there were several people lying on the ground, but there were no scars on the front.

Li Yi took a closer look and found that there was a large pool of blood under the bodies of these people, and there were also a lot of blood foam in their mouths.

This means that these people were killed by someone who pierced the lungs with a sharp object from behind.

"It seems that there are ghosts in the grass army in the city!" Li Yi muttered quietly.

The bodies of the remaining men were some distance away from them, and they were scattered, many of them face to the ground.

This shows that these people were hacked from behind while they were fleeing.

The corpses of the closest to the inner city gate had a huge scar on their backs that ran from their right shoulder to their left waist and abdomen.

This scar should be the masterpiece of the Xuanhua Giant Axe.

This is Li Yi has roughly stitched together the specific situation at that time.

At that time, it was supposed to be the sharpshooter in the grass army who fired three arrows in succession and hit the three soldiers guarding the city gate.

At the same time, among the people who were entering and leaving the city gate, several grass soldiers suddenly showed their weapons to the soldiers guarding the city beside them.

They dealt these defenders a fatal blow in the back.

Seeing this, the other soldiers defending the city should run to the inner gate as soon as possible.

It is estimated that they want to close the inner city gate as soon as possible and block the grass army outside the inner city.

However, their speed was obviously not as fast as that of the grass army, and before they could get close to the inner city gate, they were saved by the grass army that rushed in.

And the soldiers defending the city on the city wall should know that the general trend is gone as soon as the grass army seized the inner city gate.

So they had no choice but to flee.