After getting the assurance from Ma Kuo's mouth that 'so-and-so has its own solution tonight', those brothers gathered together temporarily.

In the time that followed, they were all busy with their own work.

Even after a short time, bursts of deliberately suppressed laughter sounded faintly in the courtyards where they were hiding.

It was a group of reinforcements who had long put their lives and deaths out of the way

I heard that before I died, I could eat a bowl of 'floating garden'.

In fact, it is the ancestor of the modern plane 'tangyuan', this kind of festive food, and got an unexpected laughter.

It's just that as time goes by, the sky gradually gets darker.

Then a bright moon began to rise, illuminating everything on the earth.

It's a pity that with the original time of tonight's reinforcements, that is, when the time is getting closer and closer, Ma Kuo still doesn't have the slightest clue to solve the problem.

The water gate was locked, the iron cable crossed the river, and a large number of archers originally prepared by the Jin soldiers on both sides of the river, as well as stone cannons.

For reinforcements that were essentially merely gathered by peddlers' pawns, these difficulties were almost insoluble.

Before such a disparity in strength, any ingenious plans and plans seemed to have turned into some ridiculous jokes.

So much so that during this period of time, one plan after another flashed in Ma Kuo's mind, and when he thought about it seriously, none of them could be more suitable.

In a moment of distraughtness, he opened the window that had been closed, intending to sober the night breeze from his messy brain.

At the same time, in my heart, I made a decision:

If you haven't come up with some better way when it's time to go, then you will take the 317 reinforcements who originally went out of the city by boat tonight and take advantage of the night to kill in the Jinming Pool.

No matter what, the battleships of the capital naval division must be burned clean.

No way! Under the so-called lesser of two evils, the Beijing Sailor is the biggest threat on the current Cooking Cake Mountain.

The problem is that even if they risked their lives to burn the battleship of the Jingshi Naval Division, so that his unification brother avoided the four sides such as land and water, they were all under the pressure of attacking.

But without a steady stream of reinforcements, materials and other support, Hu Yitong and others could only hold out for a day or two.

As soon as he thought of this, Ma Kuo was very upset in his heart......

After opening the window, when the bright moonlight shone in, a cold night breeze blew into the room, which lifted Ma Kuo's spirits.

He couldn't help but stick half of his body and his entire head out of the window.

It was precisely such a reason that made him see the situation of the boss around him.

I saw a large number of houses around, whether it was the deep house compound of a large family or the dilapidated small courtyard of a small family.

The doors were closed, and the lights in the rooms were extinguished.

In the streets and alleys, except for some soldiers and people who occasionally walked by the city, there was no figure of half of the people at all, it was like a huge ghost.

What if it's a previous year? Because of the Shangyuan Festival, the streets are full of people at this time.

Adult men and women with bright smiles on their faces, dressed in the most beautiful new clothes, helped the old and the young to play in the streets and alleys, and the laughter echoed over the whole city.

The shops on both sides of the street are lit up with countless lights and lanterns, and it is like a city that never sleeps.

Xu is the only thing that is lost, which is the most precious and cherished, after thinking of a grand scene that he has long been accustomed to in the past.

Ma Kuo's whole person couldn't help but be stupid for a while.

Unconsciously, after Ma Kuo's cheeks suddenly cooled, the whole person came to his senses.

And on his face, there was suddenly an extra drop of water, not on this night of the Shangyuan Festival, but it actually started to rain.

It's Ma Kuo, a very big man, who actually cried at such a time.

Everything is because he knows that such a scene full of lanterns in the city, I am afraid that he will never be able to see it in the city of Kaifeng in his life......

******

Ma Kuo soon found out that he was wrong, and he was still very wrong.

Because just when he was about to close the window, this one was also an outstanding foreign affairs officer in the Northern Song Dynasty, and he saw a scene that he could not forget for the rest of his life.

In the sound of the door of 'creak~', in a dilapidated yard that leaked on all sides and he thought that there was no one for a long time,

An unkempt woman, holding a child who was only three or four years old, and carrying a small lantern in the shape of a lotus flower, came straight to the edge of the Cai River.

The two of them had words in their mouths, and they didn't know whether they were paying tribute to their dead loved ones, or praying for the living, or both.

In the end, the lantern was placed on the water, and the lantern floated down the river with the quietly flowing Cai River.

It's amazing that in such a process, two people, one big and one small, they didn't even make a slightly louder sound during the whole process, let alone shout.

But it was such a simple action that triggered an incredible follow-up.

In the sound of 'creaking~', it was a door that had been closed a long time ago, and after the door was opened, one after another large and small figures walked out of it.

Without exception, they all carried a lantern in their hands and walked straight towards the bank of the Cai River.

Again, no one spoke loudly, only a slow, but determined footstep kept going.

Gradually, these scattered groups of people gathered together to form a brilliant river of lights; The city that used to be like a ghost has finally come to life at this moment.

They carried lanterns in their hands, each of which was obviously made in a hurry, and the workmanship was terrible.

Compared with the elaborate production of various large and small merchants, wealthy mansions, and even official families in previous years, those lanterns competing for beauty are fundamentally two different concepts, and the gap is amazing.

But Ma Kuo could solemnly swear to the gods and Buddhas in the sky that this was the most beautiful and precious lantern he had ever seen in his life.

The main thing is that at such a time, he already has a faint guess in his heart, a guess about why these people do this, and what changes will be brought about in the future.

Of course, the person who can see such a situation behind it is not only Ma Kuo.

The one with hundreds of Imperial City soldiers and horses guarded the Northeast Water Gate.

Originally, he was still giggling and looking at the excitement in front of him, and between the fingers of his hands, he was still pointing at a certain little lady in the crowd, shouting that the other party's figure was really graceful, and he didn't know which girl's daughter it was.

Or maybe it's the little lady in the Vasher and the wine shop.

If you have free time, you can also patronize one or two.

But gradually, he felt something different from those people, something that he couldn't tell what it was, but felt a strong fear.

Even something that made his body tremble a little.

After being full of spirits, this one, who is said to be a captain after the nobles of the imperial court, suddenly pulled out an ancestral sword from his waist.

While waving it in his hand, he yelled viciously in his mouth:

"Go back, everyone give me a quick back, the court has an order, all idle people are not allowed to go out at night, and those who violate the order will be given thirty rods, and they will be killed on the spot.

You, you, don't you want to die now~"

But in the midst of his fierce roar, the people in the street did not even look at him more, and continued to walk towards the riverbank.

In a huge panic, the lieutenant glanced left and right.

Only then did he realize that he was not fighting alone, and he still had hundreds of soldiers and horses under him.

Immediately, he yelled at some of his subordinates around him: "You birds who only know how to eat rice, hurry up and drive them home."

If anyone dares to resist the rebels, they will kill me. ”

It's a pity that all his current performances are like a poor clown.

The soldiers in front of him all twisted their heads to the side, as if they hadn't heard his orders.

At the beginning, the lieutenant, who was furious in his heart, immediately turned the back of his knife and whipped at these disobedient subordinates.

As a result, I found out that it was only a few beatings, and these soldiers who were driven by him like slaves on weekdays, helping his family do all kinds of chores, like servants.

looked at his eyes, it was so strange.

To be more precise, it was he who saw murder in the eyes of his men.

Instinctively, this noble man stopped the whipping in his hand after that, and did not dare to continue to do it no matter what, because he believed that if he continued to do it, these subordinates would definitely kill him.

However, based on his long-term condescension, he couldn't stand such a humiliation.

After he got on a war horse, he cursed loudly:

"You rebels and thieves are waiting for me, and I will immediately report to the officials and ministers, and you will be well after that."

After leaving such a cruel sentence, he hurriedly slapped the war horse and left directly.

I'm afraid that if it's a little late, I just won't be able to go at all.

But what he didn't expect was that after he turned a street corner, a rope loop was thrown out of an alley on the side.

It was precisely put on his neck, and in a single stroke he was dragged off the war horse and into the alley.

After a mouth was covered, there was no movement after a faint scream.

Soon after, after a man rushed out and led the war horse outside, this noble man lost the last trace of his existence in this world......

Of course, the performance of this great Song Xungui actually did not have the slightest impact on everything that happened on the side of Cai He.

Soon after, on both sides of the Cai River were the people of the city.

After praying one after another, they put the various lanterns in their hands into the river one by one, and let them float along the river.

sent their blessings, expectations, and exhortations to Grandpa Hu and others on the Cake Mountain in this way.

For a time, it seemed that in the entire Cai River, there were various styles of lanterns; Looking at it from a distance, it was as if the galaxy in the sky had fallen into Kaifeng City.

In such a process, no one spoke, including the hundreds of Imperial City soldiers stranded in front of the Northeast Water Gate.

But there was a calm smile on his face that he hadn't seen for a long time since Jin Bing arrived.

Just silently looked at the mother and daughter who appeared first, put down the lotus-shaped lantern, and took the lead in floating out of the iron fence along the river, and went out of the city.

Subsequently, the river surface is like a galaxy of lanterns.

With the love and hatred of tens of thousands of people in Kaifeng City, as well as blessings and other emotions, more and more floated out of the city one by one.

Tell the truth! At this moment, Ma Kuo's eyes were moist again.

However, this is only the beginning, and what makes him unbearable is still to come.

To put it mildly, this thirty-year-old man has never cried so much today since he became sensible.

For soon after, the sound of shouts and gongs and drums reached his ears.

This is not the Great Song Dynasty soldiers and horses in the city, they have already been killed and suppressed.

But in a burst of 'going out of the water' and 'the big ship of the capital sailors has been ignited~', it seems that there is a problem with the henchman in their hearts.

After reacting, Ma Kuo quickly came to the roof and looked in the direction of Jin Mingchi.

Although the Dongcheng area where they were located was still a long distance away from Jinmingchi, there was a sky-high fire in that direction, which almost illuminated most of Kaifeng City.

In addition to the fact that the entire capital sailor was ignited by a fire, there would be some other possibilities.

As for the hands-on personnel, except for those men whose blood is not cold in the capital sailors, it can be said that they will not be the second choice.

Thinking of a group of hot-blooded men, with a desire in his heart to discourage his brothers, he risked his life to set the sailors in the capital on fire, Ma Kuo was so excited that the whole person trembled.

As a result, at this time, the brother dressed as a servant walked behind him.

He clasped his hands into fists and said: "Brother Lead, the time has come, it seems that even if you can drive a boat out of the city, there is no way to cross the iron rope of the Jin people."

But so what? I am waiting for a good man, and there will never be a situation where I will watch Grandpa Hu and others die in battle.

Even if we swim over, we will swim to Cooking Cake Mountain to fight side by side with Grandpa Hu and others; It's like they sing, don't rely on the immortal emperor, rely on ourselves~"

After that, after arching his hands, he walked away resolutely.

In the time that followed, under the gaze of Ma Kuo standing on the roof, and under the eyes of tens of thousands of people on both sides of the Cai River.

There were a total of more than 300 men in various costumes, carrying a big package behind them, holding wood, bath tubs, and even withered toilets in their left hands, and swords in their right hands towards the Northeast Water Gate.

Fortunately, they didn't have to fight, and some of the defenders shouted loudly.

Not only did no one stop them, but they got out of the way, and with the combined efforts of several people twisted the turntable, causing the iron gate to slowly rise.

And the official rushed to the door, and jumped into the icy river with a log in his arms.

In the time that followed, the sound of 'Dongdong~' falling into the water was endless, and not only the more than 300 men who had been prepared for a long time jumped into the Cai River.

More than 30 soldiers of the Imperial City Division and more than 200 men on both sides of the river also jumped into the river one after another.

With those spark-like lanterns, they floated out of the city along the river.

At the same time, a childish voice suddenly appeared on the shore, taking the lead in singing a song with a strange tune that he had learned from the Cake Mountain:

"Rise up slaves who are hungry and cold, and rise up and plant all the flowers and suffer...... There has never been a great sage, and there has never been an immortal emperor......"

Soon after, such a song resounded and resounded throughout Kaifeng City.

One second later, Song Huizong, who was still thunderous because of the fire of the sailors in the capital, and the ministers of the imperial court, became pale-faced in the next second in great fear.

They discovered that there was an incomparably strange and terrifying power in the song.

Everything that happened on the night of the Lantern Festival in the second year of Jingkang, in fact, Ma Kuo will never forget it for the rest of his life.

The many soldiers and civilians in the city, as well as the hundreds of thousands of gold soldiers outside the city, Hu Biao and others on the Cooking Cake Mountain, how could they forget everything that happened on this night when the moon seemed to be particularly round.

Wanyan Zongwang, the second prince of the Jin Kingdom, in order to verify the effectiveness of his methods.

That night, he personally sat in the upper reaches of the Cai River, and saw that in the starry lanterns, countless Song people holding wood came out of the city and floated to the doomed iron rope across the river.

In a huge panic, he shouted frantically: "Throw arrows, throw stones, and smash these Song people to death!" ”

Even in this process, he personally held a bow and arrow painted with gold and fired a bow at those Song people in the river.

But I don't know why, he is known to be able to hunt wild wolves at the age of nine, and his hands are very soft at this moment; So much so that I don't know where the arrows I shot go.

Ten minutes later, the red-eyed college student Maize jumped into the water amid Hu Biao's broken roar.

After dragging a man who had been hit by a number of arrows and was dressed as a servant from the water to the shore, he was ready to pick up the other party and rush to the pit on the anticline for treatment.

I didn't expect the man to smile ugly at him.

As he put his hand into his arms, he said:

"This grandfather doesn't know what to call it, the villain is called Lin Ping'an, but he is a servant in Kaifeng City, or a subordinate of Liu An and Liu Tou.

When you robbed people that day, it was the villain who escorted Liu Tou, and we met once.

It's a pity that I hesitated for a moment that day, and couldn't follow you up the mountain; But it doesn't matter, I can just bring some 'floating gardens' with me this time.

My mother told me when I was a child, where can I not eat 'floating garden' on the Shangyuan Festival~"

Speaking of this, although Lin Ping'an, who was holding his last breath in his heart, did not die, he couldn't even take out the things in his arms.

In the expectant eyes of the other party, Corn reached in and helped take out a small bag.

After opening it, you can find that there are not many raw rice balls that have been soaked in the river and stained with a lot of blood, so that they have long been out of shape.

In the following time, when the corn was stuffed into his mouth with one in his hand and swallowed it with great effort, Lin Ping'an closed his eyes with relief.

But corn, a junior college student, was in tears......

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