Yun Yun fled in panic, and the lives of all living beings were waiting for the feathers!

Li Yi didn't expect the news of the smallpox epidemic in Sizhou County to spread so quickly.

In less than an hour, a large number of people began to flee quickly.

"What's going on in this city? Why are these mud-legged people running out of the city like crazy? ”

A soldier defending the city watched a large number of people fleeing out of the city with their families and mouths on their backs, so he muttered to himself in confusion.

"I'm afraid there's something big going on in the city, right?"

A soldier next to him whispered.

"Could it be that the grass army has mixed in the city?"

The soldier who was talking to himself just now immediately thought about whether the grass army had already fought here.

"No, if it's really the grass army entering the city, the city guard camp has already sent me a message!"

Another soldier shook his head.

"You're right, if it's really the grass army entering the city, there will definitely be a war in the city at this time."

The soldier nodded.

"But if it weren't for the grass army entering the city, what would make these guys panic like this?"

"Why don't we find someone to ask!"

The other soldier suggested.

"Come on, although I don't know what happened in the city, at that time as the saying goes, more things are better than less, we still honestly guard the city gates, and the rest is up to the captain."

The soldier leaned against the wall and looked indifferent.

"Oh, you're counting on him! That old boy is now hiding in the corner and falling asleep! ”

The other soldier couldn't help but spat at the ground.

"He went to the Emerald Red Mansion again yesterday?"

"That's right, he didn't return all night last night, and this old boy will die on a woman's belly sooner or later."

The other soldier said with an indignant expression.

"Well, maybe he should starve to death before he dies in a woman's belly, and how much more money can he have."

"Old Qi, you won't move, this guy can get a lot of benefits from the Duowen Gang every month, if he really only relies on Yulu, he should have starved to death."

The other soldier said with a sneer.

"It's always cool to take this kind of money, but when you want to pay it back, it's likely to be repaid with your life."

The soldier known as Lao Qi shook his head with a wry smile.

As a veteran who is almost fifty years old, he has seen too many things, and he knows that pie will not fall from the sky for no reason.

As time passed, more and more people poured from inside the city to outside the city.

It's even getting crowded.

At this time, the old Qi also realized that what happened in the city must be very serious.

So he finally couldn't bear it, stepped forward and grabbed someone to ask.

But the man he held back did not answer his inquiry, he just made a perfunctory remark.

Then he ran for his life and squeezed into the crowd.

When the others saw him come forward, they also lowered their heads and avoided his gaze.

Just when he was puzzled, a person in front of him suddenly whispered to him.

"Don't ask so much, old man, now your son and daughter-in-law are also in the crowd, for their lives, you must leave the city gate open."

When Lao Qi heard this, he raised his eyes and found that the person in front of him who was talking turned out to be his neighbor Lao Hetou.

"Old man, what's going on?"

When he heard that his son and daughter-in-law were also in the crowd, he couldn't help but be surprised.

Since the death of his wife last year, he is left with only two relatives in this world, his son and daughter-in-law.

The old man saw that none of the people around him noticed him, so he lowered his voice again and whispered.

"There's a smallpox plague in the city, and everyone is running for their lives now."

"Smallpox plague!"

Hearing these three words, Lao Qi felt that his eyes were dark, and he almost couldn't stand steadily.

"Are you sure?"

The shocked old Qi also lowered his voice and asked.

"It's not wrong, your city guard camp surrounded the Duowen Gang before, and also brought the ...... of Doctor Xue in the city, who diagnosed it."

Lao He Tou told the previous story.

"So, Tan Kelong, the leader of the Duowen Gang, and the other two gang members who were infected with smallpox have now escaped?"

Old Qi asked solemnly with a frown.

"That's right, that's why all the people in the city are running away now."

After Lao He Tou finished speaking, he saw that his family had already walked out of the city gate, so he immediately said goodbye to his relatives, and then quickly chased after him.

"That's not right! Why didn't there be any news from the city guard camp for such a serious matter? ”

Although Lao Qi didn't want the city gate to be sealed at the moment, he still felt that it was not normal for them to not receive any orders now.

"What are you muttering here, old man? Did you find out what news? ”

The other soldier saw that the old man was muttering something to himself on the spot, so he asked curiously.

Originally, the old Qi wanted to tell this colleague of his about the matter.

But considering that his son and daughter-in-law were also in the crowd, if he couldn't tell the matter and alarmed the gang leader, and finally caused the city gate to be sealed, then he really regretted it.

Therefore, he immediately adjusted his mentality, and then said with a pretended anger on his face.

"It's fucking weird, I asked them what was going on in the city, but they didn't say a word and they were dumb!"

"And this? Otherwise, I'm going to wake up the guy, and if something really goes wrong, it's going to be troublesome. ”

The soldier had not thought about the situation before, but when he saw more and more people leaving the city, he realized that the matter might be much more serious than he thought.

So he now opened his mouth to take the initiative to wake up the captain.

"If it's really a big event in the city, the top should have conveyed the order to us, but so far I haven't seen anyone sent by the top to deliver the order, which means that there should be no big event in the city."

At this time, the old relatives had to say this sentence against their hearts for the sake of their families.

"You're right! If it had been true, the order from above would have arrived a long time ago. ”

The soldier couldn't help but nod his head when he heard Lao Qi say this.

In fact, what the old Qi didn't know was that in fact, as early as half an hour ago, the county guard had ordered the city gate to be closed immediately.

Moreover, the city guard battalion also sent special personnel to deliver letters to the four city gates.

But none of these messengers succeeded in delivering the order to the city gates.

And these soldiers of the city guard battalion who delivered the letter were all lying in the alleys of the city at this time, and they were sleeping soundly!

As for Li Yi, who did all this, he was leaning against the mouth of the alley at the moment, carefully observing the crowded crowd on the street.

At the same time, in another alley in Sizhou County, there were also a few soldiers of the city guard battalion delivering letters, and Mu Junhe, like Li Yi, watched the surging flow of people.

However, unlike Li Yi and Mu Junhe, the two limited people, the soldiers guarding the other three city gates were as anxious as ants on a hot pot at this time.

By this time, they had already learned the reason for their escape through the people.

The soldiers defending the city were also terrified of the terrible plague of smallpox in the city.

Therefore, they saw that the government had not given the order for a long time, so they guessed that the government did not know about it, so they immediately sent soldiers to the city lord's mansion to deliver the news.

But the soldiers who had been sent to deliver the news did not return.

At the same time, the government order they were anxiously waiting for was not issued.

In this way, they could only watch as the people of the city poured out on a large scale.

During this period, it was not that no one proposed to close the city gate first, but these city guards looked at the people who were in a long line, and then looked at the dozen or so people on their side, and they really didn't have the courage to close the city gate.

You must know that these people are running for their lives now.

Once they cut off the last hope of escape for these people, they are likely to be torn to shreds by these cowardly and deceitful people.

For anger catalyzes these people into bloodthirsty beasts.

And the only hope for these defenders now is that the city guard battalion will immediately send a large army to suppress it.

But what they didn't know was that the soldiers of the current city guard battalion had divided into several ways to search for the escaped Tan Kelong and the other two Duowen Gang.

Although they already knew that some people had begun to flee for their lives, according to their thoughts, the county guard should have arranged for other city guard soldiers to go and block the four city gates.

It is precisely because of their inability to communicate effectively with each other that the current situation has been created.

"There are about five or six thousand households in this Sizhou county, with a population of about twenty or thirty thousand people, and at this rate, it is estimated that they will be completely almost complete in less than half a day at most."

Li Yi carefully counted the number of people going out of the city, and then made a rough calculation in his heart.

According to his calculations, the people in the city should be able to evacuate before the arrival of the grass army.

However, he is sure that there are some people who will insist on staying in the city and are unwilling to leave Sizhou County, and this part of the people is also the person who gives Li Yi the most headache.

However, since Li Yi had decided to keep all the people in Sizhou County, he had to find a way to let them evacuate with the other people.

As for the supplies in the city, Li Yi really had no choice, after all, the people left in such a hurry, it was impossible to take all the food and property with them.

This will inevitably become a supply for the grassland tribes, but there is no way to do it.

Li Yi believed that even if Sizhou County desperately resisted the grassland tribes, they would still be able to get enough supplies.

Therefore, in Li Yi's mind, as long as the people are still there, there will always be supplies, but if all the people in Sizhou County are killed, then Sizhou County will no longer exist.

Thinking of this, Li Yi was even more determined to keep all the people in Sizhou County.

At this time, Yan Junheng in the city lord's mansion was anxiously telling his grandfather Yan Wuping about the Duowen Gang.

When Yan Wuping heard his grandson say that he knew about the smallpox plague in the city because he had met a Taoist priest's prophecy, he immediately felt a strange feeling in the city.

"Junheng, you carefully explain the characteristics of that Taoist priest and the content of his specific prophecy."

Yan Wuping stared at his grandson with deep eyes, and then asked with a solemn expression.

"That Taoist priest is very young, he looks a few years younger than me, but when he speaks, he is very old, and he listens to the meaning of his words, he should be more than he seems, and his prophecy is ······."

Yan Junheng told Yan Wuping in detail every word that Li Yi met Li Yi and what Li Yi said.

After listening, Yan Wuping stroked his beard and fell into deep thought.

After thinking for a moment, his eyes suddenly froze, and then he asked slowly.

"Junheng, you go and call that Xue Divine Doctor to me!"

"Grandpa, do you suspect that this smallpox is fake?"

When Yan Junheng heard that his grandfather wanted to see Doctor Xue, he immediately guessed his grandfather's thoughts.

"That's right, I feel that this matter is too strange, and I suspect that the Taoist priest you met has other plans."

Yan Wuping snorted coldly and said.

"Grandpa, you mean the whole thing was done by that person?"

"That's right, don't you know, just earlier today, a swordsman suddenly came to the door of the city lord's mansion, this swordsman came up to see me, but was stopped by the guards at the door, and the swordsman saw that the guards stopped him, and he just said loudly at the door of the mansion that there was a big epidemic in the city."

Yan Wuping also thought at first that this was just a little trick used by someone seeking fame to see him, so he didn't pay much attention to it at first.

But then, when the swordsman left, the guard at the door carved a line with his sword on the wall next to the gate.

"When I heard smallpox, the county government never knew it, even if it had the heart to protect the people, it was not enough."

Then the guards at the door reported the poems on the wall to Yan Wuping.

And when he heard that the word smallpox was in the poem, he immediately arranged for someone to take Doctor Xue to Duowen Gang to check the situation.

"But what are they doing all this for? If they are trying to create panic and cause chaos in the county town of Sizhou, then why should they prevent us from locking down the city? ”

After Yan Junheng returned to the mansion, he found that Uncle Zhuang had not returned, and at the same time, he sent people to investigate and found that the people in the city were fleeing on a large scale, which made him guess that the other party's purpose was to let all the people in the city escape from Sizhou County.

According to his thoughts, if he really wants to mess up the county seat of Sizhou, then he should support the government to trap all the people in the city.

Because as long as the people are forcibly trapped in the city, they will be in chaos.

"Maybe they wanted to use a plan to drive all the people of Sizhou County out of the city from the beginning."

Yan Wuping had already thought of a terrifying possibility in his mind at this time.

"What profit will they gain by driving the people out of the city?"

Yan Junheng still didn't understand this.

"They can take the county seat of Sizhou without blood!"

Yan Wuping's face at this time was as cold as ice.

"They're the ones of the Grass Army!"

Yan Junheng immediately thought of their identities after hearing that the other party might want to take the county seat of Sizhou without blood.