The sky is overcast, and today's night looks particularly dark.

The fire caused by burning the wooden walls during the day was still burning, and under the deliberate guidance of Zhang Xianzhong's troops, it had gradually spread to the residential areas on both sides. However, Zhang Xianzhong's troops had only slightly controlled the burning speed.

A fire during the day hit Zhang Xianzhong's intention. What Zhang Xianzhong cares about most is not the city. What he needs most now is gold, silver and population. Gold and silver can be used to reward soldiers and buy weapons, food and grass. Population can be used to

Serving as a new recruit. For Zhang Xianzhong, the last thing he needed was the city of Anyi.

He is different from Pei Xiaoer, and Pei Jiajun is different. Pei Jiajun focuses on production, and everything comes from the production under his own control, such as soldiers, grain, ordnance, etc., so he must have a stable rear.

Zhang Xianzhong, on the other hand, paid more attention to plundering. When the food and grass were gone, he would rob him, and when the soldiers were finished fighting, he would go and capture them again. So for Zhang Xianzhong, the city was not a stable output, but a burden and a stumbling block. Just think about it.

If you stay in one place all day long, who will he rob?

In order to coerce the people in the city to the greatest extent, the method is to use fire. A fire will burn the entire Anyi, and everyone will be displaced. When they are homeless, it is the easiest time to coerce them into joining the gang, so even if

It is he who refuses to let go of Anyi City. After Zhang Xianzhong finishes looting, he will also set fire to it. Because only in this way can the entire Anyi people be made homeless, and can they be better coerced and let them buy money for themselves.

Life.

And now that his own people in Anyi City are doing this, Zhang Xianzhong can laugh out of his dreams, so how can he let the fire go out? Let the fire continue to burn, especially after he has finished plundering, the fire will have completely spread. By then

Zhang Xianzhong can backhand the reputation of burning Anyi to the big households in the city. He can even get a good reputation and it will be easier to win the support of the young people of Anyi in the future. Why not?

Perhaps this is the cruelty of this era. The lives of ordinary people are like grass on the roadside, worthless.

If there is regret medicine for sale in the world at this moment, and who would go bankrupt to buy it, it must be those high-ranking families huddled in Anyi. They clearly had a chance to escape from this prison, but they mistakenly thought they could defeat Zhang Xianzhong

, to recapture Anyi, so that we have reached the current situation where the sky is not responding to the sky and the earth and the earth are not working.

However, they themselves would definitely not admit that it was all their own fault. They put all the blame on Chen Yongkun. It was this beast who killed a thousand swords who deceived them, which caused them to miss the opportunity to escape and ascend to heaven.

Good chance, everything is his fault.

However, no matter how much he complained, he could not change the reality. Hua Yuncheng sat on the chair without saying a word, with his head tilted back and his eyes looking at the beams, wondering what he was thinking. His wife, Mrs. Liu, was in a mess and felt uneasy.

He was pacing back and forth in the room, chattering endlessly about something. Seeing this, Hua Yingfeng looked at his father and hesitated to speak.

"Master, what should I do? Please tell me something," Mrs. Liu complained. "If I had known better, I would have run away as soon as the bandits came in."

"If I had known it earlier? If I had known it earlier, I would have informed Magistrate Qiao and guarded the city gate. Why did we end up like this?" Hua Yuncheng's words were not good.

"Okay, you, you can't beat the gangsters outside, so you know how to be cruel to me? I'm not alive anymore." Mrs. Liu squatted on the ground and started crying, tears falling down her cheeks one by one. She looked extremely miserable.

Hua Yuncheng was left unable to do anything by her. He couldn't hit him, and he couldn't talk about it. Hua Yuncheng had no choice but to wink at his son next to him and signal Hua Yingfeng to help his mother up.

Hua Yingfeng naturally understood what his father meant. He sighed, stepped forward, and gently helped his mother up. He was so skilled that he had done it countless times. After a few words of comfort, Mrs. Liu gradually stopped sobbing.

From time to time, the sound of groups of soldiers moving around could be heard outside the Hua family. Zhang Xianzhong did not have that many troops in his hands. Faced with so many resisting families, he could only send troops to a few big families to guard them until he could free up his hands.

You can defeat them one by one.

Suddenly, the Liu family, which was about a hundred or two hundred meters away from the Hua family on the street, let out a burst of women's screams, and then a fire broke out. Apparently, the Liu family either couldn't stand such a desperate atmosphere and had surrendered like Zhang Xianzhong, or they had surrendered to Zhang Xianzhong.

It was breached by Zhang Xianzhong. But no matter what the reason was for the Liu family, Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers broke in anyway, and the end that awaited them would not be good.

The tragic situation in Liu's house shocked the Hua family who were discussing. His wife, Mrs. Liu, ignored the quarrel with her husband and quickly came to her husband's side and took his arm, as if this would bring her a great sense of security.

Unable to delay like this any longer, the whole family would die without a burial place. Hua Yuncheng made up his mind and recruited his son Hua Yingfeng. He planned to send his son out of the city to ask for help, and the person he asked for help was.

It was the Pei family army who was close to Anyi.

As a private salt dealer, Hua Yuncheng is quite well-informed. He knows that the army is currently defending Taiyuan and will definitely not have time to come and deal with him. And within a radius of nearly a hundred miles, the only one who can defeat Zhang Xianzhong and rescue Anyi

There is only the Pei family army in Xia County next door.

Although the Pei Jiajun is also a band of rogue bandits, Hua Yuncheng sent someone to inquire and found that the Pei Jiajun is obviously different from other rogue bandits. Not only will they not go around burning, killing, looting and harming the people, but they are keen on relieving the people and upholding justice for the people. Xia

The people who were punished one after another after the county was breached are proof of this. After having been on the road for a long time, there is no dirty thing that can be hidden from Hua Yuncheng. He knows that Pei Jiajun did not wrongly accuse a good person.

Perhaps he might lose some money and food when Pei Jiajun comes over, but he has to choose the lesser of two evils. On one side is Zhang Xianzhong who wants to eat him alive, and on the other side is Pei Jiajun who is mild-mannered. Who should he choose? Hua Yuncheng naturally knows what to choose.

"Feng'er, you take advantage of the night to disguise yourself, find an opportunity to sneak out of the city, and go to Xia County to find Pei Jiajun. Tell him that the people of Anyi look forward to Master Wang as much as they look forward to the rain. Please also ask Pei Jiajun to read in An

In the name of the hundreds of thousands of people in the city, we must send troops to expel Zhang Xianzhong and protect our people.

Your parents are old and can no longer run away. Following you is a drag. This time you will go alone. If you can't ask for reinforcements, don't go back to Anyi. Find a safe place to hide for a few years and wait for the world.
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