Chapter 54: In the City of Chang'an
In August and autumn, it should be the season when melons are ripe and falling, and rice and wheat are harvested.
Outside Chang'an, however, it was a different story.
Outside the castle was originally a continuous wave of golden wheat, but at this time it was all scorched black, from which puffs of smoke floated into the air, and occasionally a little bit of fire flickered in the scorched earth, and the next moment it was knocked into the air by the galloping horses' hooves, and suddenly turned around a few times, and finally disappeared.
The horse's hooves hit not only sparks, but also ashes. A large area of cavalry outside the city almost surrounded the entire Chang'an City, accompanied by bursts of grass and ashes rising into the air, as if covering the dark clouds.
Only in the corner of the city gate on the east side of Chang'an, there has not yet arrived here, and it is still clear, but a little cold light flashes, and the sound of swords colliding from time to time sounds.
At this time, there were fires burning in several parts of the city, but it was fortunate that several houses in the gates were not affected.
On the road outside the house, a man in steel armor and riding a tall horse was giving orders to a few soldiers around him, like an officer.
Not far in front of him, a long line of archers with bowstrings stretched across the door of a house. In front of them, another group of soldiers, each with a sword, a hammer and a mace, crowded in front of the wide open wooden door, pushing back and forth, but almost no one dared to enter.
The sound of the sword and soldiers came from here, and no one dared to enter it at this time, but there were curses from inside, and the officer's face turned black for a while.
I saw him screaming in his mouth, and the soldier in front of the door looked embarrassed for a while when he heard this, but under the continuous pressure of the leader next to him, he rushed into the door hard.
As the last person entered, there was a sudden shouting of killing in the house, and after a while, only three or five soldiers with bloody armor rushed out of the door, but they had just crossed the threshold, and before they had run a few steps, their bodies suddenly burst out of the blood line, and they all screamed and fell to the ground.
When the officer's face was full of horror, there was no one in the room, but there was a burst of laughter, followed by a burst of scolding, and his face became more and more ugly when he saw it.
At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded on the streets on the left and right, and gradually approached the officer's group, and the officer's face slowed down when he heard the sound, and he looked at the house, undisguised a trace of vicious color in his eyes.
When the four cavalry gathered at the officer's place, and one of them dismounted and stepped forward to report, the officer could not hide the joy on his face, and then shouted and shouted, then turned his horse's head and led the people to gallop outside the city, where they were about to be surrounded by the outer soldiers and horses, leaving only a gap for them to flee with dozens of horses.
There were still a dozen horses and a long platoon of archers to be cut off, and when they heard the officer's order, they took out the oil and poured it on the arrows.
There were a few people hiding in the house, and they had already seen the movement of the soldiers outside through the hole in the window, and stopped shouting.
One of them, dressed in a Quanzhen Taoist robe, looked around with his fists in his fists at this time, and said to the others urgently: "Fellow Daoists, the Mongolian soldiers will soon find that the Jin soldiers have gone, and the fields outside the city have been burned by the Jin soldiers. And these Jin thieves at the door are going to set fire, if we rush out to fight, we are afraid of a rain of arrows. Disasters come one after another, dare to ask who has a clever plan?"
Hey, we are all people in the rivers and lakes, and we have not practiced climbing walls and tiles in normal times, and it is not so difficult to get out, but there is still a family in the back room, we can't ignore it!" Several people looked embarrassed, and one of them was covered with patches and dressed as a beggar.
As he spoke, he glanced back, and at this time, a small head poked out of a doorway behind the hall, a little boy, who was observing the situation in front of the hall, and was hurriedly hugged back by a pair of big hands, and then hid in the back of the room.
"There's really no way, it's better to fight to the death, maybe there's still a little chance!Hmph, Lao Tzu has already nested a belly of fire, it's better to go out now, cut down a few and make a few!" A man in a strong suit said angrily, and then he arched his hand, carrying a knife and about to break out of the door.
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"What's the matter, it's so daring, it's a big Quanzhen Sect, but don't make me look down on it!" the man said angrily, and the other people looked at each other when they heard this.
"I don't think that's what the brothers of the Quanzhen Sect meant. The man dressed as a beggar explained with a smile.
"Exactly, no matter how you rush and kill, you won't be able to take the lead, so it's better for us to break out together. Poor Dao and several heroes in the rivers and lakes are all to protect the people of Limin, so they meet here together, hate each other, since they can't be born on the same day, fortunately, they can die on the same day!"
When the others heard this, they all responded in unison, and there was a look of determination on their faces.
The man dressed as a beggar saw that the soldiers outside had already lit the oil, and all of them pulled their bowstrings to aim here, laughed and said, "Hahaha! Why don't I take the lead with the beggars!"
The Taoist hurriedly said, "Let's hurry up and keep up, don't let them steal the limelight!" said and ran outside, followed by the Quanzhen disciples.
Several other lone rangers also shouted for a while to grab out of the door.
More than a dozen people rushed to the door one after another, shouted and scolded, and rushed straight to the military formation. A small boss on the opposite side looked happy, and hurriedly shouted, and a rain of arrows came to everyone.
Seeing that it was the moment when the first few beggars were dying bravely, there was a bang on the ground, and a wave of air rose, and the horses were frightened and neighed.
Several people were blown forward and stagnated, and then they were blinded by the sand and dust, and hurriedly jumped backwards, holding the weapons in their hands on their chests.
After a while, the wind cleared, and everyone looked in front of them, and they all gasped.
I saw that the original row of archers not far away had all fallen into the opposite wall at this time, life and death were unknown, and a pile of things crackled and burst into flames in the open space in the middle, and when I looked closely, it was actually the fire oil arrow that had just been fired.
At this time, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and everyone hurriedly looked up, but it was the little leader, who fled out of the city on horseback at this time, and had already run far away, and could not catch up.
Everyone came back to their senses and found that no one had fallen to the ground, so they hurriedly searched all over their bodies for a while, but they didn't touch a wound, and they couldn't help but look at each other in shock.
One of them didn't know what to say, when he suddenly felt a flash of golden light above his head, and hurriedly looked up, but saw nothing.
At the same time, the fire in the city has become more and more intense, and the people who had taken refuge at home have already come out to carry water to help extinguish the fire, but with little success.
Seeing that the fire was about to be uncontrollable, a cold wind suddenly fell in mid-air, and in an instant, the place where the fire was burning was frozen all at once.
After a while, the people who noticed the abnormality screamed in surprise, and they rushed to tell each other in surprise, but they didn't know what was going on, and it didn't take long for the saying that the gods were rescued from nowhere, and it quickly spread.
At this moment, in an alley in the city, the last house on fire was finally blown by the cold wind. Then a cloaked figure descended from mid-air, and it was Yuntian.
As soon as he fell to the ground, Yun Tian ran to the house non-stop, and saw in front of him the old man who had a meal, who had been half-fallen to the ground against the wall at this time, with a piercing hole in his chest, and a piece of blood on the ground was still crawling outward.
In three or two steps, Yuntian quickly came to the old man, probed his pulse, and noticed that the old man's vitality was exhausted, so he hurriedly took a true qi, and at the same time connected a few times on his chest to seal the acupoints and stop the spilled blood.
"Huhu! cough cough!" the old man gasped twice, and then coughed again.
Yun Tian saw clearly, the old man had a piece of cigarette ash in his mouth, obviously seriously injured, and stayed in the smoke for a while, and he was able to hold out until now, which was far beyond the ability of ordinary people.
Yuntian thought of his father-in-law's granddaughter, and his heart was complicated, but he didn't delay in his hand, he wanted to probe into his father-in-law's mouth, clean up the soot for him, and breathe smoothly.
He had just turned on his superhuman senses, and he had already sensed that his granddaughter was hiding in the well of the small courtyard behind the house, and he had no worries about life, so he thought about stabilizing his father-in-law's vitality first, even if it seemed that there was little hope.
However, at this moment, the old man suddenly opened his eyes suddenly, and a huge force came from nowhere, and a pair of bloody hands grabbed the placket of Yuntian's clothes.