The fire in the house was blazing, the walls kept the heat indoors, and the floor was also warm. Tan Laizi was in a coma, feeling that he was already in a wealthy family's home in Anqing, and there were maids constantly adding carbon to the heater.
There were all kinds of cries outside, as if they were coming from the distant sky. You might look at them normally, but they were not enough to wake Mr. Tan up at this moment.
"The bandits have entered the city!" someone shouted.
"Rogue!" Tan Leizi suddenly opened his eyes. The fire in the fire became small, and there were sharp screams all around. Tan Leizi was panicking and wanted to stand up, but his body was a little stiff.
Before he could get up, a voice with a northern accent shouted from nearby, "Where are the horses and mules?"
A person with a Hezhou accent said in panic, "Qiantai, spare my life, I don't know...ah" A figure fell down in front of him. He looked at Tan Lezi with wide eyes, and kept vomiting blood from his mouth. Tan Lezi's whole body was numb, and behind him
There was the sound of footsteps, and he quickly closed his eyes. Some foreign accents were shouting, and the chaotic footsteps were on Tan Leizi.
People were coming and going, there were sounds of blades going into flesh, there were screams everywhere, and occasionally liquid was sprinkled on the face, which was still warm.
He stepped on his back with one foot and kept exerting force. Tan Leizi suddenly couldn't breathe, but he didn't dare to move at all, let alone scream. A woman's voice screamed just a few feet away, and the knife struck on the bones.
The dull sound was right next to his ears. Tan Leizi couldn't breathe, and his chest felt like it was about to explode. He didn't dare to struggle, so he desperately held in his breath. After another dull sound, the woman's voice disappeared, and the woman who stepped on Tan Lezi's back
His feet stopped for a moment and finally left Tan Lezi's back.
.
There were still people walking around, and Tan Leizi could only breathe slightly.
A voice outside the house shouted, "Follow Tang Gaozhao's lantern. Grab the horses and mules first. If you don't enter the nunnery and temple, draw a circle with blood on the occupied house!" After a while of echoing, footsteps left the house warming themselves by the fire. Tan Leizi
I lay there for a moment and opened my eyes a little. The fire was almost extinguished. There was only a faint light on the wall. In front of me were still those wide-open eyes. I don’t know who’s hand was on them.
On that person's head.
With his heart beating wildly, Tan Lezi quickly closed his eyes again. He didn't know how the bandits entered the city, but those people were definitely rogues. Hezhou had been captured. There were shouts and footsteps mixed in the streets.
This is close to Xiaoximen and is Chenggen Street to the west. Although it is not a necessary place to enter the city, once the rogues penetrate deep into the city, there will be no way for them to escape. And with the number of rogues, they can kill them all.
After that, he will definitely live in all the houses in the city. Lying down like this is not an option. There is no way he can hide until dawn.
When I opened my eyes again, the fire in the fire was almost extinguished, and the crying in the street outside was quieter.
Tan Laizi got up and saw that the house was full of corpses. He leaned against the wall and walked to the door. Firelight flashed on the street outside. From time to time, people ran past screaming. In the darkness, he couldn't tell whether they were bandits or ordinary people in the city.
His heart was beating hard, and the chill was still coming. Tan Lezi squatted down and felt a corpse in front of him. There was a thick cotton coat on the body. He immediately went to untie the belt. The belt was tied very tightly. Tan Lezi's hands were shaking. Why?
Can't be solved.
At this time, there was a cry from outside, and the sound of horse hoofbeats came from the direction of Xiaoximen. Tan Lezi quickly fell to the ground again and closed his eyes. The horse's hooves did not stop, followed by the sound of messy footsteps, and intermittent flashes of light. Tan Lezi opened his eyes slightly.
, I saw countless figures holding torches and running towards the south of the city. Many people following them stopped and opened the doors along the way.
The streets were full of people. They were holding sticks and knives, shouting in different accents, and robbing the corpses in the street. A good cotton coat would cause a fight. Two people pretending to be dead were found, and the black shadows in the street shouted.
surrounded them and beat the two people
Die on the ground.
Those dark shadows gradually approached the house warming up by the fire. Tan Laizi was lying on the ground anxious. They were not like the slashers in front of them who passed by in a hurry. Instead, they looked through each one one by one. No one could escape.
The black shadow was getting closer and closer, and Tan Leizi's whole body was shaking uncontrollably. He suddenly stopped, stood up, wiped his sleeve on the ground, and strode out of the door.
The streets outside were filled with street bandits carrying torches. They were dressed in tatters and unkempt. They were men, women, old and young. They looked no different from ordinary people. After seeing Tan Leizi, several men prepared to surround them.
Tan Laizi held his head high, turned around, drew a blood circle on the wall, and turned around to face the bandits proudly.
"This is the residence occupied by Tang Gaozhao. Get away from me. Do you know who I am? Can you afford to offend me?" The people in the street are all servants, and most of their elders and supervisors are in the first place.
Among the people who attacked the city, Siyang followed him in to grab things. Siyang was usually at the lowest level. He didn't recognize the people around Tang Gaozhao. When he heard Tang Gaozhao's name, he immediately looked at each other. Hearing that the accent of the person in front of him was not right,
But with such a loud tone, he was probably one of Tang Gaozhao's confidants. Otherwise, how could he have such a high momentum? They all stopped and regarded Tan Lezi as the eldest son of the family, with a docile expression on their faces.
With an expression on his face, he took a few steps away from the door. Tan Leizi secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva. These people are docile now, but when the management team comes back, they will probably know that Tan Leizi is not from Tang Gaozhao. By then, these people will be able to eat him.
.I took a quick look to the north, where there was a blazing fire.
There was a lot of noise, and I don't know how many bandits were entering the city from Xiaoximen. If you want to sneak out, you don't have to think about it. Fortunately, it is more empty in the south.
After snorting, Tan Leizi turned around and went back to the house. When he found the body, he immediately turned it over. He took a breath to steady his hands, and finally untied his belt with a lot of effort. The man was lying on his back, and Tan Leizi had to turn him over.
, he was already thin, and after two days of hunger, he couldn't pull the man away at all. Tan Laizi was anxious, so he fell to the ground and kicked the side of the body with his legs, growling in his mouth, but the man didn't move at all.
move.
"Brother, if you die, you won't be needed anymore. If you can lend it to me, Old Tan, I will burn some for you on July 15th. Why don't you move? I told you not to move..." Tan Leizi said lowly.
He roared angrily, kicked hard with both feet, and the corpse finally turned over. Tan Leizi was already sweating profusely. He took off his cotton-padded clothes several times, and more than ten copper coins fell out. There was a clanging sound in the dark, but Tan Leizi didn't care.
, get up and get ready
Walked and stopped again.
"It's money after all, don't waste it." Tan Laizi squatted down and groped for the copper plate, picked it up and put it in his arms. He put the cotton coat on his body, and his body finally felt warm.
"Where should I run, get out of the city... There are bandits outside the city, and you can't go there, so where should you run? The nunnery! If you can't enter the nunnery, go to the nunnery. There is a temple next to Wang's restaurant, from the west gate to the south gate.
, Gods and Bodhisattvas, how can you get by..." Tan Lezi went out, and the people outside were still rummaging through things. Tan Lezi turned his eyes and shouted, "You people are clearly not allowed to follow Tang Gaozhao's lantern, you are hiding here to grab it.
Clothes, and the many good things in the city are all snatched up by others.
Come on, don't stop here, go south." After that, he went up and punched and kicked a few nearby bandits, and those people ran south in a noisy manner. Tan Leizi followed at the end, driving them all the way and not letting them stop.
Next. When the bandits saw these people, they didn't doubt him. Tan Leizi got along smoothly like this.
Run south.
There were loud cries along the way, some thatched huts were set alight, and firelight flickered in the dim streets of Hezhou. Many people who had woken up from their homes were running in the streets, and bandits were chasing them everywhere. There were many corpses on the road.
The gangsters in front ran away more and more, and from time to time someone ran to the street to rob. Tan Laizi could not catch up, and he did not dare to delay. He could only stare at the old and weak people in front of him, forcing them to go to Nanmen Street. He said to Hezhou
Not familiar with it, scurrying like headless flies in the chaotic streets, the physical strength of several old and weak people could no longer hold on. After the initial stimulation, Tan Lezi's physical strength also plummeted. He was panting like an ox, and he was extremely anxious at this time.
this
Some people were traveling the same way, and it was difficult for his accent to fool other bandits, because along the way he saw that those who came into the city were basically the elders and their servants, and they were carrying out organized robberies, so they could not be impersonated casually.
When they were about to despair, there was a sudden light in front of them, and they had jumped out of the side street and onto Nanmen Street.
Tan Lezi was panting violently, and several old and weak men almost collapsed on the ground. They were escorted by an inexplicable leper master and ran half of the city for no reason at night, but they could not hold on any longer.
Nanmen Street has a wide view and the light is brighter. Tan Laizi gasped and looked up. There were fires everywhere on the city wall, and the six towers had turned into huge torches in the night sky. Nanmen Street was filled with cries and everyone along the street
The houses were broken open, corpses were scattered on the ground, items were thrown everywhere, figures were chasing people everywhere, various weapons were waving with light, and some women were dragged to the street, crying.
The sound was earth-shattering. Not far ahead was a pond, and the water was covered with women of all colors diving. From time to time, women ran out of the darkness, screaming and jumping into the pond, causing splashes of water. Because there were too many people diving.
There were many corpses on the water. Some of the women who fell into the water behind them couldn't sink, so they fluttered in the water in panic. Then the nearby gangsters ran to the shore and hooked the women back to the shore with hook guns and the like. Once hooked,
When the meat was eaten, the women screamed in pain, and the bandits on the shore
He laughed loudly, then dragged the woman to the shore and took her back into the darkness.
All kinds of shrill screams seemed to come from hell. Tan Laizi's whole body was shaking, and he cried and cursed in a low voice, "Your grandma Jiang Fan, you are not so kind in sending me to Hezhou!"
There was a sudden bang in the distance, and Tan Laizi was startled. He saw the south gate tower collapse in the light of the fire, and large sparks flew in the night sky.
Tan Laizi quickly shook his head, and before the bandits became suspicious, he gathered his energy to observe, and to determine his location, he went to Wang's restaurant, and then found the temple near the restaurant.
The South Gate is the place Tan Laizi is most familiar with in Hezhou. In the past few days, he had to go out every day to listen to some news. He quickly judged the location from the street scene. At that moment, he did not bother to rest and urged a few old and weak people to leave quickly, but those few
People don't get up despite saying anything.
Tan Laizi was among countless bandits, but he dared not stay for long. He snatched the torch of an old man and the red scarf of a child of bandits, wrapped it around his head and hurried to Wang's restaurant.
"Grab it! Follow Tang Gaozhao's lantern!" Seeing someone trying to stop him, Tan Leizi howled as he walked. There were tens of thousands of bandits, including countless guards and stewards. Most of the passing bandits didn't recognize them.
Tang Gaozhao, but after hearing the word Gaozhao and looking at Tan Leizi’s red scarf, he immediately
He considered himself one of his own.
The bandits from the south gate poured into Hezhou like a tide. They howled excitedly and dispersed into the streets under the leadership of the guard team.
Tan Lezi's teeth chattered as he walked through the endless flow of bandits. Under the extreme tension, he almost lost all feeling. He just walked forward numbly, and finally saw the familiar Wang's Food Shop.
All the door panels were opened, and the boss was lying on the threshold, looking dead.
Tan Laizi took another look, but without stopping, he entered a market to the east. The temple was at the east end of the market.
There were also bandits raging in the market. Tan Lezi walked through the market carefully. Two women suddenly jumped out of the darkness. Suddenly they saw Tan Lezi in front of them. The two women screamed and turned around and ran away.
A bandit chased him from behind. He had a ferocious face, half of his nose was cut off, and he was laughing loudly while chasing him.
Unable to escape, the two women turned around and jumped into the well in the market. The bandit seemed a little disappointed when he heard the laughter. He rushed to the mouth of the well and looked inside with a torch.
After a while, the bandit shouted happily to Tan Leizi, "One of them didn't sink. You hold the wheel steady so I can catch her!"
Tan Leizi's mouth was dry, so he could only follow the bandit's instructions and grab the swing arm of the roller. After looking at Tan Lezi's small body, the bandit found another well rope and put it on the pillar next to it.
Just tie it around your waist.
"Wait for me to lasso her, and you can shake the woman with the windlass." After he finished speaking, he took the torch, pulled the rope and slid down. Tan Laizi leaned over and saw the firelight illuminating the well, and the water surface at the bottom of the well was layered.
There were piles of corpses. Because there were too many people jumping into the well, the water surface was not far from the well mouth. No wonder the stream
Kou Dare to grab the rope to arrest someone.
A woman's body on the water was lifted up by other corpses and was not immersed in the water. She saw the bandit entering the well and struggling in the water. His screams of fear echoed on the well wall and reached Tan Lezi's ears.
The two of them struggled in the water, but the woman remained unyielding. The bandit stepped on the corpses and was unable to stand steadily. He was helpless for a moment. In anger, the bandit waved a torch and hit the woman's head repeatedly. The light in the well flickered.
The woman's physical strength gradually gave out. The gangster got excited and grabbed the woman and burned her hair with a torch. The pain made the woman scream again.
The screams quickly subsided.
Tan Leizi stared blankly at the mouth of the well. When he saw this, he threw down the torch in his hand and found a stone to hold down the raincloth. Tan Lezi picked it up with both hands and came to the edge of the well to take a look at the position.
"Kill your mother!" Tan Leizi roared and dropped the stone, and the bandit inside screamed.
Tan Laizi lay on the wellhead and looked in. The bandit's torch had been soaked in the water and had been extinguished. The cave was pitch black.
"Then, girl, you, are you still alive?"
There were bandits looting nearby, so Tan Leizi didn't dare to raise his voice. He called out several times, but there was no response.
Tan Laizi lay down at the mouth of the well and cried twice. He quickly stood up, found his own torch, and hurriedly ran to the temple in the east. Note: On the night of the fall of Hezhou, due to the sudden drop in temperature, the people in the city went home to avoid the cold.
The rogue bandits made a sneak attack at night and easily defeated Hezhou.