Qin Official

Seeing the beacon smoke of Huyang Pavilion from a distance, Feng Jing knew that the moment of decision had come.

He had taken back all the men sent to each township. In just half a day, the south suffered a loss of 2,000, and the other townships lost a total of 1,000. There were still 7,000 troops left, all concentrated inside and outside the county.

But according to the scouts' reports, plus the Anlu refugees who were gathering one after another, Heifu's army was probably twice this number!

"They are just a mob, without armor or weapons. If it is a field battle, we may be worthy, but if we are defending a city..."

Feng Jing looked back at this small county town crowded with 30,000 emigrants. Qin Shihuang's order came in a hurry. They could not build a high wall and fortress that could accommodate tens of thousands of people. Initially, in order to prevent the emigrants from escaping, they could only They were thrown into the city, while soldiers guarded the walls and streets to prevent any escape.

But now, when the news of Heifu's "resurrection" comes, Feng Jing faces a situation of being attacked both inside and outside.

The battlefield must not be chosen in the county town. Feng Jing must leave and move to an open area to give full play to the advantages of his own Guanzhong Guardsmen's elite cavalry!

But what about the 30,000 people in the city who were supposed to move to Guanzhong?

One of his subordinates suggested: "Captain, there is no better way to kill them all than to set fire to the city and kill them all!"

Feng Jing shook his head repeatedly. His family was a noble for several generations, and he was also a gentleman. He would not do such bottomless things.

"No, even if Mr. Hei is guilty of faking his own death, how can the people of Anlu be held accountable? His crime would not lead to death, let alone massacre. Your Majesty, who rules the world, has never massacred a city in his treatment of people from the six countries!"

Raising the butcher's knife to the people of Qin was a crime that the Feng family, who had always cherished their feathers, did not want to bear.

Even if they really want to do it, they don't have time. It could take half a day, or it could take an hour. Hei Fu will bring the fleeing Anlu people to the city!

Feng Jing made up his mind: "The situation has changed. These 30,000 people should be abandoned directly. Our army will immediately leave Anlu and head west to Yundu and Xinshi."

"Calculating the time, my father should also have received news from the Xiakou and Wuchang camps and sent troops to help. From Zhucheng to Anlu, it is more than 300 miles and will take at least five days to travel. We will evacuate lightly, and then delay Hei Fu, don't let him escape into Daze. After his father arrives, we can attack Anlu together and fight Hei Fu. By then, although Hei Fu has 40,000 to 50,000 Anlu people around him, most of them are women, children and the elderly, and they will become A burden, not a help!”

Feng Jing immediately sent people to the official temple to bring Heifu's family who were under house arrest to the North City Gate.

"As long as I bring Hei Fu's mother, brother, and their relatives with me, and they are under my control, Hei Fu will still use the same weapon!"

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Those who saw the beacon smoke in Huyang Pavilion were not only Feng Jing, but also Anlu people.

Anlu County can be roughly divided into east and west districts.

Xicheng is close to Jianshui River, with a small ferry and the location of lilu (residential area) and market. The east city is adjacent to Quyang Lake. It is said that it used to be the palace of the King of Chu. Now it has been converted into an official temple. Heifu used to work here when he was a county lieutenant. Qin Shihuang once lived here when he was on a hunting tour. Today, heavy troops gather here to guard Heifu. Relatives, friends and family members of the generals of the Southern Expedition Army such as Li Cang, Dongmen Bao and others.

As for Xicheng, which is across the street, it has been turned into a refugee camp for Anlu people.

A newly built wall has completely sealed off the West City, and the stinking captives were driven inside. Every five steps on the street, there is a soldier holding a crossbow. Anyone who escapes over the wall is directly regarded as a fugitive. However, Kill him on the spot, so no one dares to show his head.

But in the corner of the west city, there is a group of young people, leaning against the wall, hearing the clatter of horse hooves and the sound of hundreds of people trotting in unison, and peeking into the scene outside through a small hole carefully dug and blocked by the shrubs in the corner...

Yuan Yong's gaze was farther away. He stepped back and pointed at the solitary smoke path that could still be seen through the two walls after rising high:

"There's smoke!"

"It's the smoke from Huyang Pavilion!"

His companions, who were similar in age to him and were all seventeen or eighteen years old, also ran over and stood on tiptoe to watch, but they said:

"Yuanyong, go to the south. There are no less than three pavilions with beacons, including Shili Pavilion and Yun Pavilion. How can you be so sure that it is Huyang Pavilion?"

Yuan Yong clenched his fists: "I have not yet been admitted to the Fu family two years ago. I have been deeply regretful that I did not catch up with the eight hundred descendants of Anlu who followed Wuzhonghou in the south. I can only go to Huyang Pavilion to pay homage to the former residence of the monarch. In the past two years, I have been there More than thirty times, I touched the wooden tengu no less than a hundred times!"

Therefore, he determined that the pavilion where the smoke started must be the Huyang Pavilion more than twenty miles away!

"It seems that the recent rumors in the city are true. Wu Zhonghou has resurrected and brought eight hundred of his sons to kill him. He is coming to save the suffering Anlu father and brother Kun!"

Yuan Yong was very excited. Although the Anlu people were imprisoned in Xicheng, every time someone new came, they would always bring some news. These rumors were spread when they entered the city yesterday. The young men all worshiped Heifu. After hearing that he was "resurrected", he was doubtful and ready to "do something big".

But they alone were not enough. Yuan Yong immediately returned to the courtyard. Regardless of the obstruction of several servants, he pushed open the closed door and broke into the old secrets of his father Yuan Bai and several uncles. talks……

"You little boy, what are you doing here?"

Yuan Bai was shocked and quickly blocked the door. Next to him, Wang Gua and Dong Kui also stood up. The three of them were like a wall, blocking the view of outsiders.

Yuan Bai was the unlucky man who lost thousands of dollars in a bet with Heifu when he was doing corvee work. During the second attack on Chu, Yuan Bai, as a commander under Hei Fu, led several people to behead them for meritorious service. Although Hei Fu saw that those heads were not Chu soldiers but ordinary rogues, he turned a blind eye. Eye, let Yuan Bai and others get this credit.

Later, when the sugar industry emerged in Anlu, Yuan Bai led a group of people to join immediately, opening sugarcane fields and building workshops. Although the majority of the profits went to Heifu's family, the villagers could also get a share of the pie. Now they are rich in hundreds of gold. At any time, Heifu invited him to the main table at the long street banquet two years ago. His social status has also been greatly improved and he was elected. As a city official, he became a prominent figure in the county.

As for Wang Gua and Dong Kui, who were just small soldiers back then, they have now become county officials. As Heifu's old subordinates, their promotions are guaranteed.

In the past half month, this group of people has maintained order in Xicheng. They negotiated with Feng Jing and raised food from everywhere to meet the livelihood of the villagers.

However, Yuan Yong was very dissatisfied with the appeasement attitude of the three people and could not understand what they were discussing together all day, so he shouted:

"There's smoke in Huyang Pavilion, that's a signal! It's Marquis Wu Zhong who's back!"

Yuan Bai had heard what his trusted servant had said about this matter, and also knew that his son had always hoped to fight against the army, so he said with a straight face:

"What do you know, you want the villagers to die? Get out quickly and wait until we finish discussing it!"

Yuan Yong's blood rushed to his face, he pushed the servant away and said:

"Wait, wait, you know, wait, how long do we have to wait? The people of Anlu are good people, rarely commit crimes, pay the most taxes, perform the most frequent corvee, and have 800 children who have never looked back and followed Wu Zhonghou We went south and were loyal to the Qin Dynasty. But how did the imperial court treat us? They imprisoned tens of thousands of people in the West City and lacked food and clothing. Now hundreds of people have died of illness and starvation!"

"Those soldiers from Guanzhong also regarded the Anlu people as enemies of the enemy. Yesterday, someone tried to escape and killed more than a dozen people. Now their bodies are still hanging on the tower. People from Yunmeng Township said that Wu The wife of Zhonghou, Yan Zhiyan Weng, an eighty-year-old man, was also beaten to death because he did not want to leave his ancestral land! "

He stamped his foot and said angrily:

"If we continue to wait, we will all be tied up with ropes and treated like cattle, sheep, dogs and pigs! We will be rushed from one place to another. I heard a scholar say, if the skin is gone, the hair will be gone. Attachment? Father, we are like hair, and Anlu is the skin. If we don’t resist, these tens of thousands of people will be uprooted from the skin!"

Yuan Bai didn't expect his son to be so enlightened. Just as he was stunned, a burst of laughter came from behind:

"Yuan Bai, Yuan Bai, you have a good son who understands the general situation and understands righteousness. Now that things have happened, there is no need to hide it from him."

Yuan Bai, Wang Gua, and Dong Kui then stepped aside, revealing the people in the hall behind them who they had tried their best to hide these days.

Like a skinny monkey, he was sitting on the couch in an awkward position, with a wine cup in his hand and his legs crossed...

Who else could it be besides Ji Ying?

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"It turns out that my father and two uncles have been acting under the orders of Lord Ji and Marquis Wu Zhong, and they are acting in vain with that Feng Duwei!"

After listening to several people briefly talk about these days, Ji Ying disguised himself and sneaked into Anlu and hid in his own home. Yuan Yong felt very ashamed. Compared with these young people, the plans of his elders were much more far-reaching.

"When Marquis Wu Zhong was in trouble in Yunmeng, he ordered me to return to Anlu to contact the old troops and wait for an opportunity to rescue my fellow villagers and the families of our generals in the Southern Expedition."

Ji Ying drank the wine in one gulp. This guy who was the timidest among the Black Fu gangsters at that time, after more than ten years of turmoil, he has become able to stand alone and has a bit of a leader's demeanor.

He said: "Now that Marquis Wu Zhong has led his army to Anlu, I think Feng Jing wants to abandon the city and evacuate with the generals and their families!"

"We can't let him go!"

Yuan Bai lost his usual slickness and said: "I have children, and the prince teaches them. I have fields, and the prince cultivates them. Who among Anlu people has not received the favor of Wu Zhonghou?"

"Furthermore, Tangnu and Zhongjun also treated the people of the county very well. They did not hide anything that was beneficial to them, and shared it with the people of Anlu to make them rich. It is through their sharing that I can become so rich. How can I let it happen?" They kidnapped her as hostage?"

Wang Gua and Dong Kui next to them also nodded and said: "When we were attacking Chu, we were poor and had no summer clothes or shoes to wear. It was Marquis Wu Zhong who gave us the clothes made at home. It was Tangnuo who did it herself. We will never forget this kindness. Today, Marquis Wu Zhong and his family are in trouble. We must not just sit idly by and watch!"

They still remember what Heifu said at that time: "Soldiers are like my hands and feet. My mother weaves summer clothes and sews shoes for my hands and feet to wear. How is it different from wearing them myself?"

The two of them said in unison: "Marquis Wu Zhong regards us as brothers and sisters. He is the mother of the prince and the two of us!"

Ji Ying also laughed loudly: "Well said! In the past ten years, Anlu has changed many county magistrates, and those foreign officials are not of the same mind as us. But there is only one Sugar Woman, one Wuzhonghou, and Wuzhong Hou is the elder brother of the Anlu people, and that sugar lady is the loving mother of the Anlu people!"

"Second and Third Sons, now that the Lord has led his soldiers towards the county town, how about we stop Feng Jing for half an hour, cooperate inside and outside, and annihilate all the thieves?"

"promise!"

Everyone in the hall happily agreed, but Yuan Yong scratched his head again: "But all our weapons have been taken away..."

Feng Jing implemented an order to withdraw troops in Anlu County. Not only did he confiscate all the private swords and knives of the Anlu people who advocated martial arts, he also confiscated axes for chopping firewood, knives for chopping vegetables, and copper cauldrons for cooking meat. Today's Xicheng , there is almost no force.

However, Yuan Yong knew that there was a batch of weapons hidden in his cellar that could arm hundreds of people. The reason why he came to his father was for those weapons.

Yuan Bai immediately asked his son to open the cellar, while Wang Gua and Dong Kui called all the old brothers who had been soldiers and fought in the war that they had contacted in the past few days, and distributed the weapons to them.

After handing out the last sword, Yuan Yong looked at the densely packed Guizhou hair buns behind him, looked at the empty cellar, and stamped his feet: "Young Master..."

Thousands of people gathered at the Yuanbai family, and thousands of men outside were also willing to participate. In order to repay the kindness of the Heifu family for ten years, they fought to the death with the thieves who treated them harshly, but most of them were empty-handed and used their heads. Going to fight?

Ji Ying clapped his hands and told everyone loudly.

"The Lord said, if there are not enough weapons..."

He raised his arms and shouted:

"Then cut down the wood to become a soldier and raise the pole to become a flag!"

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On Feng Jing's order, a leader of 500 people and hundreds of people set off immediately, heading to the county temple along the street where Heifu once held a long street feast. They wanted to kill Heifu and the main generals of the Southern Expeditionary Army. Take your family members with you and evacuate Anlu with Feng Jing...

But after walking only half a mile, the guard next to him pointed at the sky above Xicheng and shouted:

"Lord Five Hundred, there is smoke rising from the west city!"

Lord Five Hundred reined in his horse and turned his head to look, and sure enough, there was a huge plume of smoke rising from the west city...

"Did you get lost?"

But it's not like an ordinary fire, it's more like a man-made fire, and then adding dried dung and other materials into it. The fire is small but the smoke is big!

Looking at the ever-lasting beacon smoke at Huyang Pavilion in the south, Lord Five Hundred's heart skipped a beat.

"No, there are also rebels and rebels in the city. They want to use smoke as a signal to cooperate inside and outside!"

But this is no longer something that he needs to pay attention to. The five hundred masters must rush to the county temple immediately and take away the Heifu family members!

But before he could speed up, a brick was thrown from the right side, hitting the five hundred master's forehead impartially!

This is an ordinary blue brick, with mottled colors and green moss growing on the surface. It has been stuck in the wall for countless years and has withstood wind and rain for many years.

Just like there are tens of thousands of ordinary people in Anlu County.

With the anger of the Anlu people, it smashed the Five Hundred Masters so hard that he fell off his horse and suffered a bloody head.

The Five Hundred Lord covered his wound and looked up to the right, only to see a few desperate young people climbing up on the roof of the high-gate compound near the wall. They were either holding simple bows and arrows, or They were grabbing rocks and bricks and throwing them at the soldiers shamelessly!

"Cum it down!"

Just as Lord Five Hundred angrily commanded his soldiers to wind up, he felt the ground shake!

"boom!"

A huge collision sounded beside me, someone was slamming into the wall!

boom! boom! boom!

Once, twice, three times!

The solid wall of the new base, the cage wall that locked the Anlu people in a small urban area, made him fearful and trembling. With the impact again and again, he began to tremble uncontrollably, and the trembling amplitude became larger and larger. !

Finally, it collapsed!

The wall fell down, and a group of Anlu people, led by Yuan Yong and his companions, rushed out holding the huge beams that had been removed from the house, shouting loud chants, and behind them, there were unknown people. Hundreds and thousands of people, densely packed, like a torrent that has been accumulating for a long time.

After tearing down the wall that took away their freedom, the Anlu people still didn't stop and rushed straight towards the Five Hundred Lord and the soldiers behind him!

Its momentum is like a river collapsing due to congestion!

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ps: There is only one chapter today, so go to bed early and try to advance the update time tomorrow.