80 kilometers south of Pingsha Valley, Hui'an City...
Hui'an City is a small city. According to Taixia's city standards, it can only be regarded as a third-class city.
The area within the city walls of this city is less than thirty square kilometers. Outside the city, there are market towns and large tracts of farms. Taixia has been at peace for a long time. Zhongzhou, one of the nine great states of Taixia, has hundreds of people.
It has not encountered any wars in the past years. Therefore, Hui'an City still maintains the appearance when it was first established. Although steam city defense equipment is arranged on the city wall, the height of the city wall is only about ten meters.
To a certain extent, Hui'an City can be regarded as an ancient city. The residents who live in Hui'an City are quite proud of talking about Hui'an City. In a place like Zhongzhou, although there are many Class-A cities, Hui'an still maintains its cultural heritage.
The small town retains its original appearance, but appears to have a special temperament that is thought-provoking.
Longxi County is the granary of Zhongzhou, and Hui'an rice and Hui'an wheat are equally famous. Because Hui'an's local grain is excellent, and because Hui'an is close to Huihe River, the water quality of Huihe River is suitable for wine making. Several famous wines brewed by Hui'an wineries are in Longxi.
The county also has a good reputation. Among them, the most famous Shuangjing wine is sold far beyond Zhongzhou and can even be seen in Xuanyuan Hill.
Hui'an City is famous for its grain and wine. The grain and wine here are sold to all over the world. For hundreds of years, the people living here have lived better and better each generation due to the hard work and wisdom accumulated by their ancestors. Now, the entire Hui'an City and its surroundings are rich and prosperous.
It is peaceful and quiet. Even the buildings in the farms near Hui'an City show a kind of elegance and sophistication unique to the rule of Taixia Shenzhou. Barbarians from many subcontinents came to Hui'an City and looked at the vast landscape outside Hui'an City.
The farmland, the garden-like farm and the neat buildings with strong Chinese style in the farm all exclaimed that this place is simply a paradise on earth.
It was August, and the sun had just come out in the morning. The fields outside Hui'an City looked as far as the eye could see. It was golden. When the breeze blew, the golden waves of wheat rolled in, which was pleasing to the eye...
The wheat outside Hui'an has matured in the past few days. Taking advantage of the good weather today, in many fields, a large number of farmers are driving steam machinery to prepare for harvesting at dawn. Due to the jihad, grain prices have been low in recent years.
There has been a steady increase, especially this year. The increase is somewhat larger than last year. This is a bumper harvest year. Looking at the heavy wheat ears in the fields, the farmers outside Hui'an are all smiling, with the hope of a good harvest flowing in their hearts.
joy……
In places like Zhongzhou, the city gates are not closed, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Except for the rotation of soldiers stationed at the city gates, the city gates here are generally not closed.
will close.
Even the local old people here in Hui'an can't remember the last time the city gates of Hui'an City were closed. It seems that there was one during the Second Holy War. After that time, nothing could stop Hui'an City.
The city gates were closed again.
However, today is an exception.
In the morning, the North Gate of Hui'an City was bustling with people. Suddenly, a group of neat and rapid footsteps came from Zhengde Street connected to the North Gate of Hui'an City. People who were entering and exiting the North Gate were astonished.
With the sound of footsteps, a group of thousands of fully armed soldiers from Hui'an City, led by an officer, rushed towards here in a hurry. People with sharp eyes can even see, and these soldiers
Also acting together were several criminal arrests and officials from the Hui'an City Court Office.
"The city lord has given an order to immediately close all the city gates in Hui'an City. Immediately close all the city gates in Hui'an City. First-level combat readiness. All steam defense equipment on the city wall will be fired and pressurized..."
Before they even reached the city gate, the officer leading the team yelled.
This loud roar and the furious attitude of the soldiers caused a commotion at the north gate of Hui'an City. No one knew what was going on, especially at the north gate, there was a long convoy waiting to leave the city. The front of the convoy was already there.
One-third of the way out, and two-thirds were still in the city. When they heard that the north gate was to be closed immediately, the convoy did not leave the city gate, but instead took the time to continue leaving the city.
"What's going on? I want you to close the city gate immediately, do you hear me?" The officer leading the team rushed over and saw that the airlock in the city gate had not been moved yet, and the trucks were still leaving the city in an orderly manner.
He was furious and rushed over with a few soldiers and two arresters from the Tingwei Department.
Seeing this officer walking over with an angry look on his face, none of the teams stationed at the city gate made a sound. It was just that the team leader was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to speak. Instead, there was a man in charge with a smile on his face.
He greeted him, "Master, this is the convoy of Shuangjing Winery. It is about to unload at the airship landing base outside the city. The convoy has already gone out a little. It only takes two minutes for all the convoy to go out. This
The people stationed at the gate of the city are all local people from Hui'an City. We all know each other well. I just asked them to give me two more minutes so that the motorcade can leave the city. Please don't blame the military master, just two minutes will be fine..."
Hui'an City has been at peace for so long that when the urgent order to close the city gate came out, everyone was a little confused. The soldiers stationed at the city gate no longer had that sense of urgency. Instead, they took advantage of the fact that they were familiar faces.
Shuangjing Winery is well-known in Hui'an City, and they usually have some favors. They have to wait for two minutes to close the city gate to let the other party leave the city.
With a sound of "Choke...", the officer leading the team pushed the steward away, pulled out the long sword hanging on his own, swung the long sword, and without saying a word, headed towards the garrison team at the city gate.
The captain's neck was chopped off, causing everyone's expressions to suddenly change...
The sharp long sword stopped squeezing the skin on the squad leader's neck. The sharp blade had already cut the skin on the squad leader's neck. Blood beads rolled down. The squad leader's face suddenly turned pale.
He was pale and his feet were a little weak. Just for a second, he thought his head was about to be chopped off.
"If the city gate is not closed within half a minute, I will chop off your head!" the officer said coldly.
The officer here moved his hands. The two criminals who had followed the officer here had not said a word. They each ran to the two trucks that were about to leave the city at the city gate. They showed their badges and took the truck drivers away.
The driver's seat was roughly pulled off, and then the two cars backed up at the same time, hitting the vehicle behind them heavily and making way for the city gate airbrake to fall.
As soon as the two cars collided and got out of the way, a lot of Shuangjing's famous wine contained in clay pots on the car broke into pieces. For a while, the aroma of wine filled the place.
"What are you doing? These wines are going to be delivered to Zhongzhou City. Master Chengmu's father is celebrating his 120th birthday. The old man used to like to drink our Shuangjing famous wine and requested Shuangjing famous wine for his birthday banquet.
Can you afford to delay the delivery time? You are a foreign military household. What's so great about you? Even the Master Chengmu of Hui'an City wants to give our Shuangjing Winery some face..." The steward was rudely pushed away by the officer.
His face became extremely ugly, his voice suddenly became sharper, and he began to show his teeth and claws in a pretentious manner...
Zhongzhou City is the prefecture city of Zhongzhou, and it is also a Class A city. The city lord of Zhongzhou City has the same official rank as the Longxi County Sheriff. Not only is it the same, but it is also closer to the governor and others, and his status relationship is even higher than that of the Longxi County Sheriff.
level, it is easier to get promoted.
"Get the hell out of here!" Seeing that the steward was still chattering in front of him at this time, the officer directly kicked the steward in the stomach, kicked the steward away, and fell outside the city gate.
Almost lost his temper.
The officer did not use all his strength in this kick. It was just a lesson. If he really used all his strength, this kick was enough to kick an ordinary person to death. However, even so, this kick made the steward unable to crawl for a long time after being kicked down.
stand up.
By the time the steward got up, the airlock of the northern city gate of Hui'an City had been lowered and the city gate had been closed.
The steward was jumping at the city gate and cursing. Before he could curse a few words, he heard the exclamation from the city gate tower. When the steward turned his head, he saw a thick black stream coming from a market town a few kilometers outside Hui'an City.
Smoke rose into the sky.
Was there a fire?
This idea just came up in the steward's head, and black smoke suddenly rose from the farm in the other direction outside the city...
What's going on?
Seeing fires in two places outside the city, those people who were blocked outside the city immediately climbed onto the truck cleverly and looked towards the place where the black smoke was coming out.
"Ah, why did the people in Fu'an Town escape? What happened..." The person who climbed on the roof of the car exclaimed...
The gates of Hui'an City were closed urgently. Smoke rose into the sky from the farms and market towns outside the city. Someone ran out... As soon as these pieces of information flashed through the mind of the steward, his face turned pale. Something serious must have happened...
Even though the steward was pretending to be powerful, he was not stupid. Looking at the closed city gate behind him, the steward suddenly understood something, and then he cried out loudly and beat the thick metal gate hard.
"Ah, open the city gate quickly and let me in..."
Outside the city gate, there was already some commotion...
At the city gate, all the soldiers, including the officer just now and the two criminal arrestees from Hui'an City's Tingwei Office, all changed their expressions at this time...
At the city gate, because of its height and the several telescopes placed on the city gate, it is easy to see what is happening in Fu'an Town.
Thick smoke and fires were burning in the center of Fu'an Town. Seeing the fires burning in the town, many people who were busy in the farmland put down their work and prepared to put out the fire. However, before they could wait,
Those people ran back from the farmland, and more and more residents living in Fu'an Town rushed out from various parts of the town, shouting and crying, and ran into the wheat fields...
Just two minutes later, before the first people who ran out of Fu'an Town had run 1,000 meters, several blood-red figures had already rushed out of the town and caught up with the last few people in the wheat field. In the blink of an eye, they were gone.
Tear those people to pieces in the wheat field... (To be continued.)