Jingzhou is one of the oldest capitals.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Jingzhou was the official land of the Chu State, the capital of the Chu State, and the palace of the King of Chu - Zhu Palace. It was here that the State of Chu became the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.

In the twenty-ninth year of King Qin Zhao, the general of Qin State attacked the capital of Ying, and the city was destroyed, known as "Bai Qi Pulling Ying" in history, and the king of Xiang of Chu had to flee north to Chengyang.

In the early Han Dynasty, Jingzhou was the seat of the palace of two generations of Linjiang kings.

To make Jingzhou truly famous all over the world, it has to be said that Liu Bei and Uncle Liu Huang in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and then Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang.

Prince Xiong decided to cross the Yangtze River here, and did not prepare to stop in Jingzhou, but to rush north to Jingmen.

rushed to Jingmen, on the one hand, to meet Yan Erniang, and on the other hand, to find Cui Haoyuan, the leader of the beggar gang.

But there will always be accidents, and even if you want to leave now, you can't go.

Chen Jie, who is in Jinyiwei, is really right, and now the Jingzhou area is in chaos.

The rebel army of the displaced people passed today and will come again tomorrow, like locusts, making the rich Jingzhou territory full of smoke and bones.

Now it is the autumn flood of the Yangtze River, and the river is rolling endlessly. The wide river is endless, which makes people feel empty.

On the one hand, Zhong Guozhu was worried that Xiong Chu was afraid to cross the river by boat for the first time, and on the other hand, it was also for secrecy, so he chose to cross the river at night.

Zhuan City is a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, which was originally the seat of Songzi County. The White Dragon Temple here is full of incense and is also the most famous symbol.

Zhong Guozhu and the others followed Miao Sanguan to cross the river to the south, that is, they came from Bailizhou in the upper reaches of Zhuan City, and then went south here, so this time they came to find the old way.

Unexpectedly, today's White Dragon Temple platform is surrounded by the shacks of the victims, and there is no place to insert feet at all.

Zhong Guozhu found a few victims and asked, only to learn that they had all escaped from Jiangbei. It is said that there was a big soldier over there, and when he saw that the woman was ruined, he would snatch the person away.

If you ask one person to say this, and ask two people to say the same thing, Xiong Chu's face will not look good.

All the way to the riverside, Xiong Chu hurried with a black face and bowed his head, and there was always a nameless evil fire in his heart that he couldn't do.

At this moment, a cry came to his ears, and Xiong Chu raised his head.

An old woman burns paper by the river, and this is where the cry comes from.

At this moment, what appeared in Xiong Chu's mind was the scene in the Fenglingdu Nuwa Temple.

At that time, it was Aunt Wu who kowtowed to Nuwa Niangniang, hoping that Nuwa Niangniang would manifest her spirit and avenge the entire Wujiapo.

Xiong Chu took Mei Rui'er's right hand, and said to Zhong Guozhu with a gloomy face: "Guozhu, you go over and ask, what's going on with the old man?"

After a short time, Zhong Guozhu also came back with a gloomy face: "Lord, to the north of Jiangling is the rebel army of the two brothers, the King of Chaotian and the King of Chaoshi, there are probably tens of thousands of people. The husband, son, and son-in-law of the old man were killed for blocking the rebels from entering the room, and a pair of daughters jumped into the river to find a short sight after being ruined, and naturally there were no bones left. ”

Mei Rui'er's pretty face suddenly turned red: "What kind of rebel army is this, it's just a bunch of bandits!"

Xiong Chu squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, then he whispered: "Guozhu, you go over and bring four pieces of paper money." ”

Zhong Guozhu understood what Xiong Chu wanted to do as soon as he heard it, thinking that at the beginning, Xiong Chu intercepted and killed Yelichatai, that is, he crossed the Yellow River from a person. Later, what Xiong Chu did in Fenglingdu, Zhong Guozhu was naturally clear.

Today, Prince Xiong wanted to repeat his old tricks, and Zhong Guozhu's face suddenly changed greatly: "Lord, I can't help it." The King of Chaos and the King of Chaos have tens of thousands of people under their command, which is not a simple matter. ”

Mei Rui'er felt strange: "Brother Zhong, what are you nervous about?"

"Well, Miss Rui'er doesn't know something. Zhong Guozhu also hoped that Mei Ruier would help dissuade him, so he quickly explained: "The lord is looking for someone to ask for four pieces of paper money, this is to be a killer." It's too dangerous to go out into the tens of thousands of people to find the killer and kill him. ”

Mei Ruier was at a loss when she heard this, obviously not knowing what the four pieces of paper money had to do with the killer.

Zhong Guozhu had no choice but to explain the conditions for Xiong Chu's killing, and then glanced at Xiong Chu's side.

Unexpectedly, Mei Ruier misunderstood Zhong Guozhu's meaning, so she walked to Xiong Chu and said, "Don't worry, son, I'll accompany you when I cross the river and kill all those villains." ”

When Zhong Guozhu heard this, his heart was half cold: It's over, this Rui'er girl is simply adding fuel to the fire.

Xiong Chu patted Mei Rui'er on the top of her head and didn't speak, Zhong Guozhu knew that the matter was a foregone conclusion.

Zhong Guozhu was a little helpless, his lord was too pedantic sometimes. If you want to kill someone, you must have a commission, but in fact, this commission is still entrusted by yourself.

But since the lord had spoken, Zhong Guozhu had no choice but to go to the old man's house and quietly take away four pieces of paper money, which can be regarded as someone entrusting Xiong Chu to kill people without breaking the killer's rules.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Prince Xiong had crossed Jingzhou City with Mei Rui'er, Zhong Guozhu and his eight brothers.

All the way was to make a light effort, because the victims had already said that those armies were in Jizhen, sixty miles north of the city, which was the location of the capital of Ji Ying.

As a result, all the way over, the eyes were full of desolation.

The cotton that had just hung the bell was almost out of harvest because no one took care of it.

The middle rice seedlings in the paddy field have not yet been headed, and they have all fallen and withered yellow.

All the villages and towns, the houses have been dilapidated, and sure enough, they are miserable after being plagued by war.

The more Xiong Chu walked, the more depressed he became, and Zhong Guozhu suddenly returned and said, "My lord, there is no one in Ji Zhen. However, there are traces of military camping there, and it seems that they left only two days ago. ”

Prince Xiong's brows furrowed: "Continue to go north, and at the same time let those eight brothers disperse to see what these bastards are doing!"

I didn't expect such a chase, and it was four days in the blink of an eye, and I finally found my whereabouts in the northeast ten miles of Yuan'an County, north of Dangyang.

"Lord, it has now been ascertained that Yuan'an County has no city walls, and it has been broken by the King of Chaoshi. The big tent of the Chinese army is located in Yuntaiguan, Ma'anshan, but he himself lives in the county seat. ”

Zhong Guozhu drew a brief map on the ground: "More than 10,000 people of the left army are stationed in Yingzui Mountain in the east of the county, more than 10,000 people of the right army are stationed in Wu'an Mountain, and more than 7,000 people of the front army are stationed in Wulong Mountain in the northwest of the county. Lord, where are you going to find the murderer?"

Prince Xiong said in a cold voice: "Do you still need to find the murderer? Listen to what these names are: the King of Mixed Heaven, the King of Mixed World. They didn't dare to fight Jingzhou City, Jingmen City and Dangyang City didn't dare to fight, and they specifically harmed the people, which was simply unreasonable. ”

In Fengming Mountain, twenty miles southwest of Yuan'an County, Xiong Chu and others began to hide and wait.

It was only noon, and Xiong Chu ordered everyone to eat all the dry food and go to bed, and start the operation tonight while the iron was hot.

The killer must personally observe the target before drawing conclusions, so Xiong Chu arranged for everyone to go down the mountain alone.

The so-called hearing is false, seeing is believing. Just listening to other people's legends is subjective bias.

He also wanted to see with his own eyes what the so-called homeless rebels looked like.

What does the outcast rebels look like? Actually, it doesn't look like anything at all.

Xiong Chu stuck to the west gate of the county seat with his tail on the mountain beam, and soon feasted his eyes.

The first thing he saw was smoke coming out of a village, so the bear prince used his trick to fly over, and it turned out that it was a small village halfway up the mountain, and two thatched houses had already been on fire.

On the threshing floor, a group of peasants is fighting another group of peasants.

Xiong Chu looked around and found that there were still some differences between the two groups of farmers:

A gang of peasants had forks, harrows, shovels, hoes, poles, and even latches.

In addition to farm tools, a group of peasants also had some weapons such as ghost head knives, slice knives, and iron rods.

There were not many peasants with weapons, about twenty or so, and now they were surrounded by more than a hundred peasants on the threshing floor.

Xiong Chu, who was hiding in the shadows, was puzzled: "What years and months have they been, and they still have a fight?"

At this moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves at the bottom of the mountain, and Xiong Chu flew to a big tree to see that it was more than 20 horses galloping towards him.

This time it was different, and the twenty-odd people on horseback were much more neat. Although it was still a peasant's garment, they were all armed with swords more than six feet long, and there were even three guys with bows and arrows on their backs.

Before the Xiong Chu could figure out who was coming, an exclamation came from the village below: "The cavalry of the People's Army is coming-"

Xiong Chu finally understood: "It turns out that this is the so-called Wandering Righteous Army? It is not comparable to our Xiong Family Army in Yunnan at all, no wonder military discipline is lax and the people have suffered." ”

In such a blink of mind, more than twenty cavalry had already rushed into the threshing floor, and five or six peasants fell in a pool of blood on the spot.

"It just doesn't make sense!"

When Xiong Chu found out that the homeless rebels really slaughtered the common people indiscriminately, he was immediately angry in his heart, and with a low roar, he had already rushed out of the treetops.

More than thirty zhang away, it is a little too late.

Seeing a teenage boy fall to the ground with his head separated, Xiong Chu's eyes were suddenly red, and he shouted loudly, a handful of branches in his hand had been thrown out, and the four war horses that rushed to the front had fallen to the ground.

With a bang, the Qingyu sword volleyed out of its sheath, Xiong Chu pounced on the ground like a goshawk, and the pale yellow Liuyun sword qi swept out, and the target was the cavalry who were slashing with knives on horseback.

The sword fell from the sky, and the three cavalrymen were dismembered by a sword.

Xiong Chu's body did not hit the ground, his right foot was a little on the horse's head, and his body was pulled up again, and the target was still the remaining cavalry.

It was only at this time that the rebels of the exiles discovered that a strong enemy had come, and they scattered and fled at the sound of a shout.

The first thing that Prince Xiong did was to deal with the strange soldiers, because he was worried that these people would escape and report the news. There is still a big move tonight, how can it be possible to let these people escape?

The twenty-four cavalrymen were all planted under the horses, and Xiong Chu used the Nine Consecutive Body Method to the extreme, starting from the guy who escaped the fastest, and began an all-round pursuit.

After all, they are a group of farmers, even if they have been robbing houses for a long time, they are still a group of farmers in the eyes of Xiong Chu.

The three of them couldn't breathe, and all the guys who fled were all stabbed in their throats and corpses on the spot.

The three guys who escaped the farthest were only twenty feet away. Most of them have not yet run out of the threshing floor before they have been stabbed in the throat.

Seeing that all the enemies were eliminated, Xiong Chu finally breathed a sigh of relief. It's almost evening, and it seems unlikely that the news will leak out.

He was about to gather the twenty-four war horses and prepare for tonight's assassination to facilitate the retreat, but he didn't expect the next scene, so that the bear prince didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

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