Chapter 79 – Grievance has a rightful owner

Jing red chase show light power, towards the government office sped, carrying a person is still light posture, in the house can not be astringent heavy flavor.

Sporadic images flashed through my mind, suddenly it was the cave behind the waterfall, the naked boy fell backward, long hair like ink on the snow-white flesh, when he copied his neck, frankly thanked him; suddenly it was the wooden hut in the fortress, the young man sat cross-legged, dirty cloth robes can not hide all the air, pounding on the ground to curse the mother to show more sincerity and honesty; and suddenly it was pressed to his shoulder, the hand and his own high-fives, accompanied by a “vow shall not be broken” resounding promise With the resounding promise of “Vows cannot be broken”…

Is it all, is it all a lie?

Maybe the teenage official really had nothing to do with his parents’ death, and counting the time, at the time of the execution, he was almost just in time to enter the city and happen to bump into …… on the court.

Wang Wu and Wang Chen were twins and shared the same mind. As soon as Wang Wu saw his brother’s expression, he knew that his will was shaken, and immediately rushed over to him to block a sneak attack from behind, and scolded in a low voice: “Battlefield distraction, don’t want to die? For the sake of a swindler who has swindled you and me to kill our enemies, are you stupid?”

Wang Chen also knew that he still wanted to believe Su Yan at this moment, and even subconsciously looking for exculpatory reasons for him was indeed silly.

Gritting his back teeth, he swung his sword and chopped off the head of the attacking soldier, letting the hot blood splash all over his face as a reminder to collect his heart and break his mind, and not to be fooled by Su Yan’s bullshit any more.

When Governor Zhou arrived with his officers and soldiers, thousands of defenders were being pressed by 500 bandits, suffering heavy casualties and low morale, and the encirclement had been killed out of a gap. He hurriedly commanded the soldiers to fill in the gap, and rode on his horse and shouted: “The 5,000 elite troops of the guards have already entered the city, and will be here soon! The bandits are still not surrendered? If you surrender now, except for the leader of the bandits, the rest of the disciples will be exempted from punishment. Once the reinforcements arrive, the military order will be merciless, this official can’t save you even if he wants to!”

Although the reinforcements are still missing shadow, but Zhou way this governor position after all is also read to read, some heritage, a few words of falsehood, make is precisely the military fraud and the plan of attack.

When the bandits heard that 5,000 elite troops were coming, they began to feel weak, and when they heard that surrendering would exempt them from punishment, their hearts were shaken.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Wu also let out a loud voice and shouted, “Think about it, brothers, how you could not survive in the first place, so you fell into the weeds and became a bandit? For the sake of one sentence, do you surrender your weapons and go back to the desperate situation where human life is worse than a horse?”

Wang Chen also shouted, “I’d rather believe in ghosts than a mouth of an official! Kill this dog official!”

“Kill the officials! Seize food! Seek a way out!” The thieves and bandits echoed in all directions, shouting to the heavens.

Zhou Zhifu face white, thought: reinforcements are not coming, this official tonight can really be accounted for here, died in the line of duty!

Wang Chen thrust his Park Sword towards the ground, removed the iron tire bow on his back, drew the bow and pulled the string, aiming at Zhou Dao on the horse’s back, and the arrow shot out like a lightning bolt through the air.

Su Yan and Jing Hongchou, led by Tang Jing, the magistrate, rode their horses to the prison, and at a distance of a hundred paces, in the light of the torches, they saw in the distance that Wang Chen had opened his bow and was going to shoot, so they immediately drank, “Ah Chou, save the people!”

Jing red chase early in the hand buckle a willow leaf flying knife, heard the sound of finger force at first release. Flying knife cut through a shadow, in mid-air just hit the arrow cluster, “ding” a splash of fire, both fell to the ground.

Seeing that he had failed to accomplish anything, Wang Chen turned his head to glare at the visitor, his face full of anger turning into gravity and complexity when he saw the figure speeding towards him.

He drew another arrow on the string, this time aimed at Su Yan.

Hundred paces arrived in a flash, Su Yan stopped his horse beside Zhou Dao and said, “Lord Governor, be careful. I have already released the cloud-piercing sentinel arrows, and the guards’ reinforcements will soon arrive, so hold on for a few more moments.”

Wang Chen shouted with hatred, “You! It was you who released the sentry arrow!”

Between Su Yan and him there are dozens of soldiers and thieves and bandits who are fighting each other, an official robe wearing a body, high above, a cloth-clothed man, crossed swords stained with blood, and four eyes look at each other.

The head of the thief with the tattooed flower arm was still bare chested and naked with robust dark brown muscles, glistening with sweaty oil in the firelight. Half of his face had a hard profile and rough stubble, the other half was splattered with blood, and his gaze was as angry as waves and as deep as an abyss.

Su Yan recalled the boldness with which he raised his palm towards himself and said aloud, “High-five for an oath”, his heart couldn’t help but soften, and he said to Jing Hongchou, “I want to talk to him, but I’m afraid that my voice won’t carry that far.”

Jing Hongchu leapt onto Su Yan’s horse, her palm against his back heart, “Speak up, my lord, just speak at a normal volume, he will hear you.”

Su Yan opened his mouth, and found that the voice was really easily transmitted to the distance under the excitement of internal power, but not like the effect of the megaphone in the latter days, but condensed into a line, and sent to the other side, straight as if he was talking face to face.

“Wang Chen, Wang Wu.” Su Yan said clearly, “I know that you have lost your loved ones and are grieving in your hearts, wanting to take revenge. However, there is a debt for the wrongdoer, and the one who killed people with harsh torture laws was Imperial Historian Lu An Gao. I have already uphold the imperial decree, dismissed him from his post to investigate, ordered to escort back to the capital, at the disposal of the son of heaven, I expect that even if he does not die, he will not be exempted from imprisonment or exile.

“I have also reported to the court about the improper local horse policy, which has led to unrest, and requested that the strict arrest order be suspended, the people be pacified, and the displaced people be properly resettled, so that when the horse policy is cleaned up and effective, farming and production can be resumed, so that the officials and the people can all be at peace with their duties. I also ask you to trust me and give me some time to fulfill my promise, don’t let hatred obsess your nature, chivalrous robbers and thugs, it’s originally between a line.”

The Wang brothers were all stunned. Wang Wu took the lead and shouted, “Lu An Gao was only dismissed from his post, but how can it be worth the sins he has committed over the past year of indiscriminately killing innocents! Without further ado, my brothers and I will first cut off his head with our own hands to sacrifice his father and mother!”

Su Yan said, “If he is guilty, the country will rule by law. If everyone can be lynched, what will become of the country? You robbed the rich government officials and gentry, there are also parents, wives and children at home, there are servants and subordinates to feed, the sword has no eyes, accidentally injure their lives, the same is a sin. Then their families can also lynch you, captured and beheaded? And the ordnance you’ve seized. You only want to strengthen your own armament, have you ever considered that if the soldiers at the border lack weapons, how can they fight against the Tatars? If the soldiers are bloodied on the frontiers, won’t their parents and children at home be just as grief-stricken?”

Wang Wu choked for a moment and added: “We are not saints, where do we care about the millions of people in the world, we only care about the poor folks on one side, with the hundreds and thousands of brethren under our command, so that they can have food and drink, and don’t freeze to death and starve to death, and it’s already not easy.”

Su Yan asked rhetorically, “It is not easy for you to take care of a hundred or a thousand people, so is it easy for the emperor to take care of a population of seventy to one hundred million people?”

He said sincerely: “The court manages a large territory, many people, whether it is policy and governance, it is impossible not to make mistakes. Now the horse government has made a mistake, it is a big mistake that the people do not want to live, the emperor also misses the people and is worried, so he sent me here to check and govern. Can’t you all give me this opportunity to fulfill my promise to the king and the people, and my expectation for a future of a clean and peaceful world?”

Wang Wu gritted his teeth and steeply erupted with a stern cry, ”Don’t bother talking! Look at this blood all over the ground, just like old grudges, where can it be washed clean! Since my brothers and I have taken this path, we have to go to the end, otherwise in the hands of the imperial court, how can we still live? Tonight we robbed the prison to save people, and cut down many soldiers, have already committed a great crime that is not amnesty. Officials are officials, bandits are bandits, since ancient times there is no two ways, no need to persuade!”

Seeing that he stubbornly refused to be surrendered, Su Yan asked Wang Chen again, “Do you feel the same way?”

Wang Chen hesitated and said in a deep voice, “I just want to ask you one thing-“

“You asked.”

“Were you at the execution ground the night my parents were beheaded? Why didn’t you save them?”

Su Yan speech blocked, the heart of guilt arose. He was also very chagrined, because the first time in the place, the first time to see this kind of scene, according to the normal logic and procedure, first to colleagues to understand the situation, out to dissuade; can not be dissuaded, ready to sacrifice the Shangfang sword to force to save people. Who expected to be captured by the Qi Mang sudden upsurge, Lu An Gao under the shock of throwing order sign shouted “fast”, the executioner reflexive hand knife down.

At this moment, Jing Hong chased after him with concern for his safety and was busy taking him out of the battle circle, while the Brocade Guards were also under imperial orders to only protect his safety. He was caught off guard and indeed did not order them in time to go save the people first – even if he had ordered them, he was afraid that he would not be able to catch up with the milliseconds it took for the blade to fall.

It’s only by mistake and God’s trickery that this bloody battle is caused tonight.

Rationally know that he is not responsible for this matter, but emotionally, still feel uneasy in the heart, and do not know those who know or do not know the truth of the people, will be how to scold him behind the scenes ……

Su Yan sighed and said grimly, “I’m sorry.”

Wang Chen teeth clenched, eyes red, staring at him, as if to engrave the figure of this teenage officer in the heart, and then with a knife blade, one by one from the heart to scrape away. Throat as if stuffed with a sharpening stone, each word from above bloody grinding past, he choked: “High five oath, this is null and void …… in the future to see each other again, just to fight for their lives as enemies …… on this arrow as a witness! “

He drew his longbow to its fullest extent, and the arrow shot forward as if it were lightning that had broken through the darkness of the beginning of time.

Jing Hongchou’s pupils shrunk fiercely, and instead of catching this decisive arrow that contained all of his heart and soul essence with his bare hands, he hugged Su Yan and dodged to the side with his legs clamped to the horse’s belly. The arrow whistled past, flying into the void in an unknown direction.

Su Yan gripped Jing Hongchou’s arm tightly in his hand.

Jing Hong chasing know his heart sad, in his ear whispered: “This arrow accuracy skewed, even if not to avoid, at best, only by the arrow wind cut a little skin. This thief head heart know his parents can’t blame adults, just can’t get over it. Adults do not blame themselves.”

A flying horse galloped up behind him, and the messenger shouted remotely, “The guards see the men coming out behind the sentry arrows, reinforcements are coming–“

Wang Wu bellowed, “Good iron mouth imperial historian, after all this talk, all he has done is to slow down the troops! Brothers follow me, kill the siege and go out of the city!”

The thieves and bandits hissed and shouted, holding up their weapons and rushing towards the direction where Zhou Zhidao and Su Yan were, like a black torrent crashing through the official soldiers’ closed circle.

At that time, the scene was chaotic, Jing Hong chased Su Yan, drawing his sword to cut off a handful of chopping over the weapon, set aside the rain of arrows. And Su Yan also have to take care of a panicked sliding down from the horse Zhou Zhifu, desperately pull him to his side.

Fortunately, eighteen Jin Yi Wei Tie Riders arrived at this moment and protected the two, retreating while fighting. Not long after, Gao Shuo also led seven or eight secret agents to arrive, joining the protective circle, the pressure was immediately reduced.

Led by the three bandit leaders, the crowd of thieves and bandits finally rushed out of the city gates before the elite soldiers of the guards entered the city, and met up with Yang Hui, who was receiving them.

And at this time, the guard’s vanguard of 5,000 men had already arrived at the outskirts of the city. After the two armies briefly exchanged blows, the rattlesnake pirates suffered heavy deaths and injuries, so Wang Wu Wang Chen ordered to retreat while fighting and fled in the direction of Qingyangfu.

They had previously made a good tactical plan to roam around the territory of Shaanxi Province and fight guerrilla attacks, so they did not attack Qingyang City, but rather picked states and counties with weak garrisons to plunder, and sucked in stragglers from all over the place, moving south from Qingyang Province to Pingliang Province, Fengxiang Province, Hanzhong Province, and then circling around Xi’an Province to the east.

Into the boundaries of Henan, the team has developed to thousands of people, to throw off the name of the “ringing horse thief”, renamed the “righteous army”, the momentum is greatly enhanced. But after all, members of the farmers, horse households, military surplus, and many ruffians, only know kill corrupt officials, robbing the landlords and tycoons, and occasionally harm the people, but also did a lot of rape and pillage, military discipline is not tidy.

After absorbing a group of “Liao lunatics” in Henan Province, the military discipline was tightened, and the banner of “acting on behalf of heaven and reopening the chaos” was raised, and a group of rabble was transformed into a regular army of several tens of thousands of people. At the time when the old and new emperors were changing and the situation in the imperial court was unstable, it triggered a riot that nearly shook half of the country.

Just an afterthought, of course.

Su Yan, a time-traveling butterfly, wings set off the wind of the end, changed the fate of many people, and I do not know whether it will be able to save the day at that time in the future.

Only know right now, he has not recovered from a serious illness, dizziness and weakness, strong support to preside over the situation, protect Zhou Zhifu and a cadre of local officials safety, successfully delay the situation until the arrival of reinforcements, with minimal loss, from the hands of the ringing horse pirates to protect the city of Yan’an.

After the dust settled, due to the exhaustion of yuan qi is too much, see his face green, cold sweat pulp out, eyes closed directly fainted, Jing Hong chased and the Jin Yi Wei Tie riders scared half dead.

Jing Hong chase holding him all the way to run wildly, running faster than the horse, rushed into the medical lodge, grabbing the front lapel of the doctor begging him to cure Su adults first.

The doctor was also shocked by the situation, after carefully checking the pulse and diagnosis, he frowned and said, “Is the patient suffering from a high fever for several days, not eating and drinking, and has just recovered from the fever and is running around again?”

Jing Hong chased remorsefully nodded his head, thinking that if he had known this, he should have detained Su adults to prevent him from going into danger, regardless of what others! He urgently asked: ”Are you seriously injured? How should I treat it? What rare medicines are needed? I can think of ways to get it.”

The doctor stroked his whiskers and laughed, ”Late-born, concern is messy. He is just weak after illness and has been starved for a few days. Just need to eat a light diet warm tonic, more quiet and less movement, slowly recuperate for a few days, will be able to get well.”