Chapter 247: The Obstacle is Undoubted
"Snobbery is glorious for a while, and when it comes to disaster, Zheng Gang, how proud you are now, how miserable you will be in the future." Although there were thousands of people on Zhang Shuliang's side at this time, they did not dare to rush forward directly and fight to the death with Zheng Gang and them.
Because just an hour ago, Zhang Shuliang had relied on the large number of people on his side to launch an attack on Zheng Gang's department, which was relatively small.
But when the generals of the two sides fought, Zhang Shuliang's Huainan army was defeated by the other party. After dropping dozens of corpses, they stabilized their formation, and the two sides were at a stalemate.
As the commander of the city guard battalion, Zhang Shuliang immediately noticed that the rebels in the city guard camp on Zheng Gang's side were abnormal.
Because the one or two hundred people lined up in front of them obviously did not look like the soldiers of the city guard battalion. Although it was impossible for him, as the commander of the city guard battalion, to remember the appearance of every soldier in the city guard battalion, he still had some understanding of the strength of his subordinates.
The strength of the 200 people in front of Zheng Gang's battle was obviously too much more than the soldiers of the city guard battalion, so that the more than 50 black-faced troops on his side could not take advantage of these people in the slightest.
Although it is taboo for the commander to charge, Zhang Shuliang rushed to the forefront just now in order to motivate the momentum of the soldiers on his side.
And he also saw with his own eyes in the battle just now, when the number of people on both sides was the same, the black-faced army on his side was not the opponent of the other side at all.
Although it seems that the individual combat power of the Black-Faced Army is very good, the other party relies on the mutual cooperation of his companions to force the Black-Faced Army to retreat step by step.
This made Zhang Shuliang realize that these people must be veterans of the battlefield, and they are also the kind of strong infantry troops that can overwhelm the cavalry of the grassland tribe.
"Zhang Shuliang, don't play tricks on me anymore, if you continue to resist stubbornly, even if I Zheng is miserable in the future, I'm afraid you won't be able to see it." Zheng Gang was very annoyed by Zhang Shuliang's resistance, and now he desperately wanted to solve the matter here as soon as possible and then concentrate on finding Bao Wenqin.
Now that the king of Huainan is dead, he is very worried that Lu Simian will think that Bao Wenqin has lost his use value, and will cross the river and tear down the bridge.
He originally thought that Lu Simian would use Bao Wenqin to slowly plot against the King of Huainan after killing Mu Qingyun, but who would have thought that Lu Simian would be so crazy and directly blow up the King of Huainan and the Huainan Palace.
In this way, it seems that he doesn't want to control Huainan Kingdom, he wants to directly annex Huainan Kingdom!
"Zheng Gang, you brute, want your Zheng family to be favored by the King of Huainan, and now you dare to conspire with outsiders to rebel against the master, this is simply a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs, it really deserves to die." Zhang Shuliang is also very anxious in his heart at this time, now that the king of Huainan is dead, the entire Huainan Kingdom must be in danger, and although the great prince Mu Qingyun is still there, he doesn't know if he can turn the tide in the face of the treacherous situation of Huainan Kingdom.
But looking at the catastrophe in front of them, they are afraid that it will be difficult to get through, after all, it is now obvious that Zheng Gang is colluding with external forces, and it can even be said that Zheng Gang has taken refuge in external forces.
Therefore, he was worried that if they didn't hurry up and break through, the other party would probably gather more people, and it would be even more difficult to break out of the encirclement at that time.
"How is His Royal Highness the Prince now?" Thinking of this, Zhang Shuliang immediately turned his head and asked the deputy general behind him.
"Commander, now His Highness is sitting in a trance on the ruins of the palace silently, and now His Royal Highness is looking for the corpses of the prince and others in the ruins!" The adjutant general truthfully reported Mu Qingyun's current situation.
"The explosion just now was too violent, I think the prince ······ them"
"Shut up, don't you know what misfortune comes from the mouth?" Zhang Shuliang's lieutenant just wanted to say that the King of Huainan should have been completely blown into ashes, but was interrupted by Zhang Shuliang's fierce eyes.
"In any case, His Royal Highness, as the Son of Man, must take into account filial piety, even if the prince really ······ If it doesn't exist, he must also look for it, otherwise this matter will be spread out and someone with a heart will reverse right and wrong and label His Highness as unfilial, and at that time, how can His Highness still have a foothold in this world. Zhang Shuliang sighed and explained to the adjutant general.
"Subordinates understood!" After Zhang Shuliang's pointing, the deputy finally understood why everyone was able to break through but did not take action.
"You go and assign another hundred people to assist His Highness in speeding up the search." Zhang Shuliang immediately commanded again.
"A certain general commands!" Then the lieutenant took him down and arranged for men. Just when Mu Qingyun was leading everyone to rummage through the corpse of King Huainan on the ruins of the Huainan Palace, the city of Shouzhou under the moonlight was already completely chaotic.
The people in the city also heard the explosion from the direction of the Huainan palace during the day, and at the same time, they also saw a fire fight between the soldiers of the city guard battalion and the Huainan army.
After realizing the chaos in the city, many clever wealthy merchants began to close their doors to customers, and then began to hurry up to pack their belongings and prepare to escape from Huainan City at night.
Because they knew that once the war came, they, the rich merchants who usually wore gold and silver, would be the best fat sheep in the eyes of the army and the homeless.
And these people will be the objects that everyone wants to plunder, so thirty-six plans are the best plan.
Only by escaping from this Shouzhou City can they be safer. Like these wealthy businessmen, there are other people who are the first to recognize the current situation.
Unlike these wealthy businessmen, who were in constant fear, these people were overjoyed when they realized that Shouzhou City was about to be completely chaotic.
And this group of people is the ruffians and hooligans who have been in Shouzhou City all the year round. Of course, this also includes gangs and tooth shops that have been whitewashed.
It is said that wealth and wealth are in danger, although they are still not sure how long Shouzhou City will be in turmoil, but looking at the frightened appearance of those rich people, I am afraid that this chaos will not end so quickly for a while.
So now is a good time for them to fight, once they can kill two or three rich merchants, they will have food and clothing for the rest of their lives.
Even if they failed, as long as they found an opportunity to hide in the corners of the city, those rich merchants would not have the time and energy to find their own bad luck, and as for the soldiers of the city guard battalion, they did not consider it, after all, the news of the large-scale rebellion of the soldiers of the city guard battalion had been spread to everyone at this time.
So although it was curfew time at this time, the streets of Shouzhou City were still full of people.
Especially on the road to Xuanwu Gate, there are endless cars and horses, and at this time, a large number of people are dragging their families to the direction of Xuanwu Gate.
Because the people of the dove organization planted a large number of thunderbolts near the inner gate of Xuanwu Gate in the morning, although they failed to kill Mu Qingyun, they blew down the entire city gate of Xuanwu Gate.
In addition, the situation in Shouzhou City has not been completely stabilized now, so neither the Huainan army nor the rebels have paid attention to the Xuanwumen side.
This led to the opening of the city gate on the Xuanwu Gate, and a large number of people fled from the Xuanwu Gate in order to escape the war.
At this time, in the Xuanwu Gate Urn City, a group of ruffians and hooligans with swords in their hands were guarding the outer gate of the Xuanwu Gate.
In the place near the outer city gate of the Urn City, the corpses of the innocent merchants who were shot dead in the morning and the masters of the Dove Organization who were killed by Mu Junhe had been piled up into a pile of corpses three or four meters high.
A middle-aged man with gloomy eyes was sitting high on top of the corpse. He was playing with a sharp dagger in one hand and a jug of fine wine in the other.
Below the pile of corpses, dozens of sloppy and sloppy ruffians are checking the passers-by one by one.
Their posture is like the appearance of the soldiers of the city guard battalion. It's just that the soldiers of the city guard battalion call it investigation, and they call it robbery.
"Listen to me, but anyone who wants to pass through the Xuanwu Gate must pay money, according to one of the twenty minutes that you carry your belongings." A thief-eyed guy was holding a gong in his hand and shouting as he banged it.
"Everyone be conscious, you have also seen the fate of those disobedient guys, I advise everyone to do their own thing, don't lose your life for a few money." Another guy with a brass shovel was pointing in the direction of the pile of corpses, and said unashamedly.
And the people who lined up at the city gate all looked at the pile of corpses three or four meters high with cringe.
When they saw the man sitting on the pile of corpses, they couldn't help but gasp.
"It turned out to be the hall master of the Freedom Hall, Huang Budo!" Someone exclaimed after seeing the middle-aged man's appearance clearly.
"I didn't expect it to be this killing god, it seems that it will be difficult for us to get out of the Xuanwu Gate if we don't hand over our belongings today." The other person couldn't help but sigh after confirming that the person sitting on the pile of corpses was Huang Budo.
"Just hand it over, anyway, it's one-twentieth of our possessions, and one-twentieth of them is not much." A rough-dressed man with a mouth in tow said.
Most of the people present shared his thoughts, saying that the twentieth of the wealth was not much for the poor people.
The lives of their families are more important than a few possessions. After all, you can still find a way to earn money if your wealth is gone, but if your life is gone, even if you have more money, there is no point.
So the people in line opened their packages one after another, and then revealed their belongings.
Although they say that their wealth is not exposed, they do not hide their belongings in the face of these people who are at ease.
Because this free hall is very famous in the entire Shouzhou City and even the entire Huainan Kingdom. And the reason why they are so famous is entirely because of the man who was sitting on the pile of corpses and drinking.
It is rare to say that a gang can be so famous, but this Zizitang has done it.
In fact, this free hall was originally just a small sect on the rivers and lakes, and it often did some things to bully the people and collect protection fees on weekdays.
But since this Huang Budo became the hall master of Zizaitang, Zizaitang has changed his previous style of acting.
Although they still collect protection money from ordinary people and small traders, the amount they collect is significantly reduced.
At the same time, they began to really protect the people and the peddlers. But whenever they encounter some dignitaries and wealthy businessmen who are bullying the people, they will inevitably stand up for the people.
At first, everyone thought that this Huang Budo didn't know the height of the sky, he was just pretending, and he was just pretending, even if the three fires of the new officials took office, once a period of time passed, they would be the same as before.
But as time passed, these people who originally planned to watch Huang Budo's jokes were all slapped in the face.
And what really made Huang Buyu and Zizaitang famous all over the world was precisely because they had come forward for a girl who was abused and directly sent the city lord of Shouzhou City to prison.
It is said that the youngest son of the lord of Shouzhou City fell in love with the girl at that time, but the girl had already promised her husband's family, so she refused to obey.
But the youngest son of the city lord of Shouzhou City secretly tied up the woman, and did the beastly behavior, and afterwards said unashamedly that this woman was his forbidden belly, and whoever married her was his enemy.
Because the city lord of Shouzhou City and the King of Huainan are brothers, no one in the entire Shouzhou City dared to stand up for this woman for a while.
The woman was desperate to find a short-term vision, and was finally saved by her father. And Huang Budo, who heard about this at that time, directly ordered his subordinates to write a giant banner, and then pulled the banner and beat gongs and drums all the way towards the Huainan Palace.
At that time, this incident shook the entire Shouzhou City, but the city lord of Shouzhou City was also a ruthless man, and after understanding the cause and effect of the incident, he immediately sent a large number of officials and officials to intercept and kill him.
But what he didn't expect was that this Huang Budo was also ruthless, he actually slashed the officials who came to intercept him and kill him on the spot.
And afterwards, he was still directly tying the heads of these dozen people together with ropes, and then he dragged a bloody string of heads to the Huainan Palace.
At that time, because of the disturbance he made, hundreds of city guards were directly dispatched from the official mansion. But when they arrived at the scene, no one dared to move, not only because of Huang Budo's fierceness, but also because they saw a tattoo on Huang Budo's forehead.
And this tattoo is one on it
The word "inverse". Know that Dan is stabbed
The people with tattoos on the word "rebellious" are all people who have openly rebelled, and these people are generally extremely fierce and ruthless.
This kind of person will basically be sentenced to death according to reason, and those who can survive will either hide deep in the mountains and forests, or try to get rid of the tattoo on their forehead.
And to be able to appear in Shouzhou City in a bright and bright way, it must be that he has made great contributions on the battlefield.
In the Huainan Kingdom, as long as they have made enough achievements on the battlefield, the black-faced army will have the opportunity to offset all the guilt and finally become a legitimate civilian again.
However, in the hundreds of years since the establishment of the Black Mask Army, there are basically no more than 30 people who have been able to successfully offset the guilt and return to the countryside again.
Each of these 20 people was a person who was terrified on the battlefield and led the grassland. This Huang Budo was one of them, because when the soldiers of the city guard camp saw him dragging his head and carrying a group of people behind him with banners, none of them dared to step forward.
They knew that once they angered the killing god, they might not know what extreme things this killing god would do. So he finally went to the Huainan palace with his head and banners, and in the face of the encirclement of these many black-faced troops, he was still awe-inspiring and did not fear the cause and effect of the incident.
And after the king of Huainan learned about this, he immediately put the family of the lord of Shouzhou City into prison.
As for the son of the arrogant city lord, he was directly beheaded by the king of Huainan and abandoned the city for three days.
For this reason, the people of the entire Shouzhou City all cheered and celebrated, and some even set off firecrackers to celebrate, which shows how the son of the city lord was angry before.
However, although Huang Budo's move upheld justice and helped the girl get rid of the enemy, he also committed a crime by killing ten officials and officials in anger.
Because of this incident, he was included in the black-faced army and returned to the battlefield, and it took him only three years to obtain a pardon again and become the master of the Freedom Hall again.
For such a legendary figure, the people of Shouzhou City still admire him very much, and even the people of the government respect him.
However, in this world, there is yin and yang, some people admire Huang Budo, and naturally some people hate him. Compared with the poor, people are pursuing him, and the rich businessmen simply hate Huang Budo.
In their eyes, Huang Budo, a reckless man, is simply a disgusting-stirring stick, and he is always looking for trouble for these rich businessmen.
Usually, he doesn't make trouble for himself for those mud legs, but in the face of such a god-like figure like him, these rich businessmen and tycoons know that their strength is far inferior to the previous Shouzhou City Lord, so most of the time they can only pinch their noses and consider themselves unlucky.
But today, at the critical moment when they fled for their lives, this damn Huang Budo actually led someone to block the Xuanwu Gate and openly demanded money from everyone.
Moreover, one of the twenties of everyone's property is at stake, and this kind of lion's wide-mouthed behavior is simply shameless.
After hearing Huang Budo's request, many wealthy families with huge sums of money with their families said that they would take a detour to other city gates to get out of the city.
But before they could turn around and take a few steps, they heard some of the people who had fled before rushing towards the Xuanwu Gate again.
According to them, at this time, several other gates of Shouzhou City have been completely sealed, and even some people have blocked some boulders at the city gate in advance, and the suspension bridge outside the city gate has also been hoisted.
It is said that at this time, the rebels in the city were trying to clear the boulders, and when these rebels saw people coming to the city gate and found that these people were carrying a large amount of property, they decided to kill them directly on the grounds that the other party was a spy of the Huainan army, and then took the property they were carrying for themselves.
As the saying goes: The soldiers and bandits in troubled times are one family, but in the eyes of these giants and wealthy businessmen in Shouzhou City, these rebels are more fierce than bandits.
Compared with Huang Budo of Xuanwu Gate, it is much cuter. So in the extreme heartache and unwillingness, these rich businessmen and tycoons had to endure the pain and hand over one-twentieth of their belongings.
Of course, there are also unbelievers who want to lie about the amount of money, but in front of the ruffians and hooligans in the Freedom Hall, all the tricks they play are pediatrics.
So the property of these self-proclaimed smart guys directly changed from one-twentieth of the original to all, and in the end they had to cry their father and shout their mothers to be driven out of Shouzhou City by the people of Zizaitang.
In this way, no one will dare to lie about their possessions in the future.