Chapter 99, big ups and downs

Liu An and his men rushed into the city after the East Gate was washed away by a group of bandits.

After entering the city, Liu An shouted in the crowd and encouraged the bandits to rush to Lingzhi County. He also threatened that there was countless money and grain in the county government, and everyone could take as much as they could. The bandits finally grabbed the tower and were overexcited for a moment. Naturally, they responded to the calls of Liu An and others in the crowd.

"Where there is fire is the county seat, everyone."

"Kill, kill."

The bandits chased along the street all the way to the county government. However, there are also some people who take advantage of the chaos to run to the streets and alleys and rob from door to door. The guards and volunteers who retreated from the East Gate Tower were scattered everywhere, as if there was no neat team. Originally, there were not many guards and volunteers. At this time, once they were dispersed, they lost the possibility of blocking the bandits, but became the target of the bandits chasing them all the way.

Liu An originally planned to restrain the bandits. After all, the primary task is to capture the county government, and even if possible, it is best to rush into the county government in front of Niuhai. However, after he killed two non-stop command bandits, he found that more people had run away, simply ignoring anything and led the two or three hundred bandits to rush towards the county government.

Half an hour ago, Lingzhi County was still in a quiet state, and now it is like a hell on earth. Chaos, killing, flames, screams, and releasing Buddhas are like a rolling hurricane, spreading from the east of the county to the whole city.

Liu An took his men through an alley and saw more than a dozen bandits pestering with seven or eight righteous braves who blocked the dead end of the alley. The seven or eight righteous bravely resisted desperately and repelled many attacks of the exiles with the blades in their hands.

"Big boss, do you need help?" One of Liu An's men asked eagerly, saying that they waved a hammer that was already stained with blood.

"Don't waste time and call them all out. Just set these people on fire. Liu An said coldly.

"Hey, braised or not. Leave it to me." The hammer's men smiled geryly for a while, turned around and waved to several bandits holding torches, letting these people follow him.

The sledgehammer came down to the entrance of the alley and fiercely retreated the still entangled bandits. He asked these people to keep up with the team and continue to rush to the county government. Then he sent someone to find some hay nearby, removed wooden boards from some homes and grabbed some lamp oil. After collecting, he took the bandits to throw hay and boards into the alley, and then threw the lit lamp oil, torches, fire sticks, etc. on the hay and boards one after another.

Although the weather is very cold, it is very dry. Coupled with the combustion of lamp oil, the hay was burned first, and the boards were smoked under the fire, and soon emitted strong black smoke. Seeing this, the righteous brave people trapped in the alley were so scared that they quickly begged for mercy, but these begging for mercy quickly choked the black smoke, leaving only the painful struggle.

Outside the alley, the bandits who followed Liu An did not seem to have any pity, and they were no longer the poor farmers when they came out of Qian'an. They smiled ferociously with Liu An's men, as if they were watching a drama, watching Yiyong trapped behind the fire kneel to the ground one by one, holding their throats desperately.

In less than two quarters of an hour, Liu An took a group of bandits to the front of the county government compound.

At this moment, the county government compound and even the surrounding streets are completely quiet. I couldn't see a trace of light, and I couldn't hear a trace of sound, just like a mass grave, even more mysterious than a mass grave, and there was not even some dog barking and insect sound.

The door of the county government was open, and a breeze brushed by. The seemingly heavy door shook and made a dragging "squeak".

Liu An stood on the street with a group of bandits, and couldn't help but have some doubts.

"Master An, how can this be like this?" Someone asked in surprise.

"Lao Liu, take people around to the back. Sand, go in through the main door first to see what's going on. Liu An always feels that something is wrong. Generally speaking, the county government should be heavily guarded. Even if people go to the empty building, they have to leave some movement. What's more strange is that why didn't you see Niuhai?

Soon, the team was divided into two parts, and Lao Liu took more than 30 people to explore the backyard along the county wall.

The sand was quite panicked and quickly called seven or eight people to follow him to the gate of the county government. Pushing the remaining half of the door open, the sand asked the bandits to go first to see the situation, and he looked at the threshold. After a while, the bandits who went to check the situation shouted one after another, saying that there was no one in the yard and many utensils in the court had been removed. Only then did Shazi feel relieved and turned around and waved to Liu An and others repeatedly.

"The people of the county government have fled for a long time."

Liu Anxin's stone was finally put down. He didn't care why Niu Hai didn't appear. Maybe he got lost outside the city, or maybe he bumped into a front with the escaped person of the county government, and he was still fighting. Anyway, now he has occupied the county government first. At that time, he will definitely rank first to receive credit. If not, he will become the new county king of Lingzhi County. In addition to joy, he raised his arms and instructed the bandits to pour into the county government to loot supplies.

Follow the crowd into the county government compound, pass the public hall, and come to the backyard corridor. While looking at the furnishings of the county government, Liu An secretly thought about how to reorganize this place if he was the master. The ears were full of cheers of the bandits. Some people found some valuable objects from some houses, some people found a lot of dry food, and some people found soap in the public door from the class room and were eager to try. All this shows the victory!

At this time, there was an exclamation from the door bridge leading to the backyard official residence: "Who is it!"

Liu An was slightly stunned and rushed to the door bridge with several of his men. On the side of the gate bridge, more than a dozen bandits looked flustered and were staring at the other end of the gate bridge. He narrowed his eyes and looked carefully. He saw a figure standing opposite the door and bridge. With some moonlight and fire, he could recognize that the other party was wearing soap and even a sword around his waist. He was a man of the public door.

Although the bandits present gained sweetness and killed the generals all the way from Dongchengmen. They also killed some soldiers and volunteers along the way, they were still a group of oppressed peasants and poor people in their bones. Chad was still a little timid when he saw the people of the public gate.

Liu An is not afraid at all, especially there is only one lonely figure opposite the door bridge. Even if he is a person in the public door, is it possible that he still wants to fight against a hundred? Immediately, he shouted, stabilized everyone's mood, and said to the opponent, "You two, go and do him."

The two men fiercely rushed to the bridge with knives, and then halfway through, they immediately found that the situation was different.

One of them turned his head back and shouted to Liu An, " boss, that man seems to be Dazhang..."

Liu An's eyes were cold, and Dazhang was the one who had arranged to sneak into the refugee crowd outside the city and sneak into the city. According to their advance plan, Dazhang tried to find a way to get a set of soap clothes, dressed up as a servant of the county government, and then cheated the west gate to pick up Niu Hai's people into the city. Normally, Da Zhang should be with Niu Hai's people at this time. How could he appear here?

Before Liu An could clear his clue, another man on the door bridge was approaching the figure and suddenly shouted in shock, "No, it's not good. It's really a big chapter. He, he died, he was stabbed in the chest with a knife, and he has been dead for a long time..."

After listening to this sentence, Liu An's face changed instantly and suddenly realized that the situation was really bad.

He should have expected that since the county government had been set on fire before, if no one had put out the fire, the fire would have burned into the county government compound. But the county government is not only empty, but also the fire has been extinguished. No one can do this in such a short time. In other words, this is simply a trap.

"Oh, that's a trick!" He blurted out these words in a panic, and then fled in the direction he was about to come, "Go, get out of here, go, get out!"

Seeing that Liu An was so nervous, the already unstable mood also became chaotic and quickly followed him.

Two Liu An's men on the door bridge were planning to see why Dazhang's body stood, but after hearing Liu An's words, they did not dare to stay any more and turned around and ran back. However, suddenly, the change happened without warning in the air. The first thing I heard was a round after round of dense "swish" sound from the wall around the courtyard. Then some people came from afar: "Don't let go of a thief, shoot arrows!"

With that round after round of sound, experienced people can immediately recognize that it is the sound of bow and string.

Before Liu An's men came down from the door bridge, they had been hit by seven or eight arrows behind them. After screaming one after another, they rolled to the ground, like a dead hedgehog on the spot.

And the other bandits in the backyard just wanted to escape and didn't want to hide at all. They completely became the target of the archers on the courtyard wall. Only a rain of arrows hit, and more than half of the dozen people immediately fell. The last few people died on the spot, and others were injured by arrows and lay on the ground crying.

Because Liu An was the first to escape and used the bodies of the men and bandits behind him to block the arrow rain, he fled from the backyard to the front yard safely. He was about to gather a group of bandits who were still looting in the front yard, but he suddenly found on the porch that the front yard was also being attacked by archers who had been in ambush for a long time.

Those archers who have been lurking on the courtyard wall and the eaves of the house are all dressed in white. It is clear that they are not the government and do not look like ordinary volunteers.

Liu Anxin panicked. He really didn't expect that the plan to rob the city was so smooth, but why did it go wrong at the most critical time? Who are these people in white? He originally planned to organize some people to fight back, but the other party was condescending. The people on his side did not have bows and arrows at all, and it was a problem to escape and break through, let alone counterattack.

It was just a brief thought, and he immediately made a decision to gather everyone to protrude.

Although the ambush of these people in white caught them off guard, at a glance, in fact, there were not many of these people.

If you successfully escape from the county government and gather other bandits in the city, there is still a chance to compete.

"Lao San, Lao San, pull everyone out quickly. Hurry up." Liu An shouted loudly to a subordinate not far away.

However, after all, the bandits were undisciplined and organized, and only gathered more than 30 or 40 people after greeting them for a long time. Liu An couldn't take care of anything else and only took more than 30 or 40 people to rush towards the gate.

As they were approaching the gate, there was a scream outside the door. After a while, several bandits fled from the door.

"It's not good, no... it's not good, there are...ah..."

Before the bandit finished speaking, a feather arrow shot from behind and penetrated his throat.

Liu An was shocked, but now there is no way back. He can only hold a trace of fantasy, hoping that there will not be too many enemies outside the door. Even if he fights all the people around him, he has to escape. He continued to rush to the gate with a group of people. The left and right arrows were like raindrops. From time to time, someone fell and then screamed. After a stumbling, he finally rushed out of the door. Before he came to catch his breath, the survivors were already stunned by the scene outside.

On the street outside the county government where the bandits just passed, a team of knights were neatly arranged. Around this team of knights, there are two other teams of archers who have already put their posture. At this moment, the archers' arrows are aimed at the gate of the county government. There are more than 100 knights, with white clothes covered with leather armor and holding short horse halberd. As for the archers, some of them are also dressed in white, while the other part is dressed like ordinary people, which seems to be the local hero of Lingzhi County.

Liu An and others were stunned on the spot. The joy of victory not long ago was less than half an hour, but they suffered such a huge turning point, which was a big ups and downs.

The two sides held a little with each other and slowly walked out of the Cavaliers, but they were a young man.

The young man's white cloak was stained with a lot of blood, and there were dried blood foam on the blade of the halberd in his hand.

"Who is Liu An!"

The teenager's cold eyes scanned the crowd at the gate of the county government and asked with a forced momentum.

Liu An was shocked. How could these people even know their names? He was stunned for a moment and shouldn't have answered easily for a moment, but quietly retreated a few steps.

"Anyone who identified Liu An can avoid death." The teenager was not anxious and immediately added.

After a while, a group of bandits at the gate of the county government coincidentally gathered their eyes on Liu An. Although they were afraid of Liu An, at this moment, Liu An had become the turtle in someone else's urn, and naturally they could only see the wind to rudder. Liu An just wanted to winp to the left and right to make everyone shut up, but one of his men hurriedly stood up and pointed to him and said, "He, he is Liu An."

Liu An was so angry that the wall was really pushed by everyone.

"Well, I thought you were a bold person, but now it seems that you are just a rat." The teenager on horseback laughed sarcastically, causing the knights behind him to laugh.

"You, don't be complacent. We are just playing the lead, and it won't take long for the brigade to arrive. Know-informed, now run for your life. Otherwise, as long as it falls into my hands later, you will not be able to survive and die. Liu An pretended to be fierce and said. After all, he is a ruffian who wanders around the world, and this little slippery is still there. In addition, he does have a hint of illusions about the people of Niuhai.

"Real?" The teenager suddenly sneered, which made his hair stand on end.

He turned around and gave a winp behind him.

A female knight was seen hitting the horse, taking out a cloth bag the size of a wine jar from the horse's back, and throwing it straight to the gate of the county government. The cloth bag rolled down on the ground and stopped under the steps of the county gate.

Liu An took a closer look and saw that the cloth bag was full of blood. Without thinking much, he knew that there was a human head in it. He suddenly had a feeling of falling into the ice cave. It seemed that nine out of ten people in the bag were a sea of cattle.

"You, go and have a look."

A bandit was pushed forward by everyone and carefully opened the cloth bag, revealing a bloody head, which scared the man to quickly stagger back a few steps.

Liu An narrowed his eyes to identify it. Sure enough, the head was a sea of cattle. He took a few steps back in horror and stared at the teenager in front of him in surprise. His previous fierceness, cruelty and violence were swept away, and he was replaced by a helpless state of despair.

"Two hours ago, Niu Hai of the thief had been killed outside the West City by us, and 56 people were killed and 21 people were captured. Liu An, what else do you have to say now? The teenager said in a condescending manner.

"Who the hell are you?" Liu An swallowed a mouthful of water and asked with confidence.

"I am Zuzhao from Xu Wuxian County." The teenager said in a gentle tone, as if he were understated.

Liu An's eyes widened. He knew the name of Zu Zhao, the "Dragon City Flying General". The last time he ambushed this son in Fan'an Pavilion, Xu Wu County, he also sent several people to help. He just went for the reward and didn't care how capable the son was. It was not until this moment that he realized that it was indeed a foresight for the mysterious man to offer a reward of 5,000 yuan to get this son's head, but unfortunately...

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[I haven't saved manuscripts recently, and I'm busy during the day. School will start next Monday, so it's a little late to update every day. Dear readers, please forgive me.]

[Recommend an older movie, Hitchcock's "Phone Murder", one of the most perfect murders so far!]