Sui and Tang Dynasty Generals

Chapter 81 You Can't Go Back

"Why did you bring us into the city? We don't even have a place to stay!"

"That's right! It's so cold in the middle of the night, what are we going to do?"

"I should have listened to the village leader and stayed in the village to see what they could do!"

In the dead of night, the wind was cold and bleak, but under the torches, a steady stream of people were entering the East City with their families in the cold wind.

On the top of the East City.

Torches were inserted into the wall, and a soldier was guarding there with a spear and a sword in his hand.

Hu Jingyuan hurried into the city, walked up to Fu Zihou, and raised his hand to salute.

"Captain, all the people have been taken to the barracks!"

Hu Jingyuan reported, looking at the fire in the distance late at night with his eyes full of worry.

At the moment, Hu Jingyuan was a little curious. Why couldn't Miss Li, who was beside Captain Fu, persuade the captain? Didn't she know what consequences the captain would face if she did so?

I'm afraid that after tonight, many children of noble families will go to West City, ready to advise the captain together with other officials from Taiyuan.

"it is good!"

When Fu Zihou heard Hu Jingyuan's words, he looked at the people under the city and breathed a sigh of relief.

"does it worth?"

Cui Wenjin asked from the side.

Fu Zihou turned his head and saw Cui Wenjin looking at the people below.

Looking at Cui Wenjin, Fu Zihou was very surprised. Even Hu Jingyuan, Yin Tianzong, and even Cao Yong, Xiong Ruixiang, Xia Jia and others suspected that he was worrying too much. Only Cui Wenjin never questioned himself from beginning to end. He just listened to the words of the people under the city and asked whether it was worth it.

If you ask yourself honestly, it was because of Cui Wenjin's trust that Fu Zihou felt much better tonight.

"I have a clear conscience! I made a mistake, but at least I don't regret it!"

Fu Zihou gave the same answer as last time.

"If you are wrong, when I return to Luoyang, I will find a way to use my connections to redeem you from prison!"

Cui Wenjin turned her head to look at Fu Zihou. A few strands of black hair were fluttering beside her pretty face, and she seemed to be much more beautiful.

"Thank you!"

Fu Zihou couldn't help but smile. In that era, there was no such thing as rescuing people, but Cui Wenjin's words had the same meaning.

Suddenly, Fu Zihou felt that he was very lucky, or rather, Li Cha really brought him good luck. Giving Li Cha the hairpin allowed him to meet Cui Wenjin, his business partner.

He has the background and the conscience, and he really does not abandon or give up at critical moments.

"You should go to bed early! You have to travel early tomorrow morning!"

Fu Zihou said to Cui Wenjin.

As soon as the sun rises, Cui Wenjin will leave Jinyang and return to Luoyang and Qinghe County immediately. If Cui Wenjin does not return for a long time, Cui Yuzhe, Cui Xin, and even the Qinghe Cui family will definitely be anxious.

"I am not sleepy!"

Cui Wenjin did not listen to Fu Zihou's words. She looked outside the city with her beautiful eyes, listening to the noisy complaints.

For some reason, Cui Wenjin inadvertently glanced at the young man next to him, with some heartache in his eyes.

Sudden.

Fu Zihou saw Yin Tianzong and his group appear outside the city without even lighting torches.

"Drum roll! Drum roll quick!!!"

"Hurry! Hurry into the city! Hurry into the city!!!"

Under the gaze of Fu Zihou, he accompanied Yin Tianzong and his party to the city gate, and then shouted loudly, seeming very panicked.

Hearing the voices of Yin Tianzong and others, Hu Jingyuan, Lai Bo, Ma Huer, Cao Yong, Cui Wenjin, and all the soldiers defending the city were all a little confused.

Not only the people on the city wall, but also the soldiers below the city wall and the common people were all looking at this scene in confusion, looking at the dark night around them, not understanding what was going on.

Only Fu Zihou realized something quickly and his expression changed.

"Beat the drum! Call everyone into the city! Pull up the drawbridge!"

Fu Zihou turned around with a look of horror and gave orders to the soldiers.

Hearing this, Lai Bo and Ma Huer nodded hurriedly. One of them turned around in a hurry and ran towards the bottom of the city wall, while the other ran to the big drum, picked up the drumstick and started beating it.

Soon, a huge drum sound was heard from the top of the city wall, spreading throughout the city in the night.

Hearing the urgent drumbeats, the soldiers under the city wall realized something and shouted at the people to hurry into the city.

The people who had been complaining incessantly had also realized that something was wrong and rushed into the city in a hurry, scrambling to be the first, looking completely different from how they were just now.

"Quick! Get into the city!"

"quick!!"

Amid the urging voices, as the people walked across the suspension bridge, the soldiers guarding the city gate on the other side of the moat hurriedly pulled up the suspension bridge, tied the ropes, lit torches, and turned back into the city.

"Captain! Captain! Something bad has happened!"

Yin Tianzong didn't bother to rest or care that he was covered in mud. He quickly ran to Fu Zihou, breathing heavily, and looked at him in panic.

"What happened?"

Fu Zihou looked at Yin Tianzong and asked.

"Captain, when I was leading my men back just now, I encountered the enemy. I don't know how many there were, but it was definitely a lot!"

As Yin Tianzong spoke, he was still frightened. If it had not been for the darkness of the night, they would have seen torches faintly going out outside the canyon from afar. Realizing something was wrong, they quickly extinguished the torches, and they would have been afraid that they would have died and not been able to return alive.

Thinking of the scene just now, Yin Tianzong couldn't help but shiver.

Who could have imagined that after they came out of the valley, they were surrounded by people in the pitch-black night.

"what?"

When Hu Jingyuan, Xiong Ruixiang, Cao Yong, Xia Jia and others heard Yin Tianzong's words, their faces changed and they hurriedly looked towards the dark plain outside the city.

Seeing Yin Tianzong's terrified look and his hands and feet covered in mud, everyone admired him. To be able to run back in such an emergency at night, it would be impossible to do it without courage and bravery.

"But how could the thieves know that the captain would order the people outside the city to move into the city overnight?"

Hu Jingyuan frowned. General Pan was ambushed by bandits in the north today, and the order was given by Fu Zihou at dark. How could the bandits come to Jinyang overnight?

"It's not that the bandits knew that I ordered the people to move to East City, but that they have their people in East City!"

When Fu Zihou heard Hu Jingyuan's words, he looked outside the city and spoke softly.

After Hu Jingyuan heard Fu Zihou's words, his face changed instantly.

"That is to say... there have always been thieves who have been eyeing Jinyang!"

Hu Jingyuan said softly.

Lai Bo and Ma Huer returned to the crowd. When they heard Hu Jingyuan's words, they were all shocked and then looked outside the city in shock.

"Tell the soldiers to be on guard against the bandits' accomplices in the city! If the bandits' accomplices don't show up tonight, they must be related to the captured nobles. Investigate them one by one tomorrow!"

Fu Zihou ordered that it was uncertain before, but if the thieves attacked tonight, the result would be obvious.

There must be an insider in the city, and his status among the bandits is definitely not low.

"Here!"

Hu Jingyuan quickly raised his hand to accept the order, and even worried about any changes in the barracks, he turned around and walked towards the bottom of the city wall.

In East City.

Late at night, Chu Bo was walking back and forth in the small room. When he saw Song Jianfeng coming in, he hurried forward. "How is it?"

Chu Bo asked anxiously.

He didn't know how he had such bad luck that he met this young captain named Fu from Dongcheng. If Duke Wei wanted to capture Dongcheng as soon as possible, he only had one chance.

"No! Fu Zihou has sent people with household registration to send all the families of the nobles in the city to the barracks. I was almost caught just now!"

Song Jianfeng looked at Chu Bo and said breathlessly.

According to the plan, after Pan Changwen was killed, he and Chu Bo took advantage of the chaos in Jinyang when they were unprepared. They united with those bribed and lured noble families in the East City, gathered all their men in the middle of the night, and cooperated with the troops outside the city to seize the East City.

As a result, before he could start a fight with those people from the aristocratic families, all the family members and children of the aristocratic families in the city, without exception, were all arrested by Fu Zihou.

"What? Send them all to the barracks? Oh no! Fu Zihou must have guessed that there is a spy in the city. We need to find a place to hide and try to escape from the city!"

When Chu Bo heard what Song Jianfeng said, he frowned and shook his head.

Calculating the time, the news of Pan Changwen's murder came out at dark, and Fu Zihou sent people to control the gentry in the city in the middle of the night, obviously he had guessed something.

Thinking of Fu Zihou's methods and cleverness, Chu Bo knew that not only did he have no chance, but even if he didn't find a way to leave Dongcheng, both he and Song Jianfeng would be in danger.

………………

West City of Jinyang.

"Luckily we're not in East City!"

"That's right! It's really a pain to meet a young and troublesome lieutenant!"

Under the cover of night, on the road to West City, the soldiers guarding the city were talking about East City on the other side of the river. Thinking that they would have to relocate the people in the middle of the night, they felt full of sympathy for the soldiers in East City.

"Is that the sound of a drum?"

"Who's beating the drum in the middle of the night? It's Dongcheng!"

Suddenly, they heard the sound of drums coming from the East City. At first, the soldiers thought it was an illusion. After they reacted, they hurriedly looked towards the East City.

"Report to your lord quickly!"

Hearing the drum beating in the east city, the soldiers guarding the city did not dare to be careless and hurried to the city to report.

In the west city.

"What? Beat the drum!"

Zhang Pinggao, who was sleeping soundly with his beautiful concubine in his arms, heard the report from the servant outside. He woke up with a look of confusion on his face.

"Why are the drums beating in the middle of the night?"

Zhang Pinggao knew the significance of beating the drum, but that was also why he was even more confused.

Puzzled, Zhang Pinggao looked at the petite and beautiful concubine who had woken up beside him, then he got up from the bed, picked up a piece of thick clothes and walked out of the room.

At the same time, whether it was the generals who were sleeping or the officials who were still enjoying themselves in the West City, after hearing the news that the drums were beating in the East City, they all got up and left their homes.

On the west city tower.

Xu Shixu, Wen Dayou, Liu Wenjing, Pei Ji, Zhao Wenke and other officials and generals came to the city road and looked at the East City across the Fen River from afar.

Zhang Pinggao and Jiang Baoyi met at the foot of the city wall, and then they went up to the city wall together, looked at the puzzled people in the city road, and then listened to the drums beating from the east city.

"Is there any news from East City?"

Zhang Pinggao asked. He looked very unhappy because he was injured and couldn't rest, but he didn't say anything angry when he heard the drumbeats.

"The drum has been beating for an hour, but none of the people sent to East City have returned!"

When Xu Shixu heard Zhang Pinggao's question, he shook his head and frowned.

"what?"

After hearing what Xu Shixu said, Zhang Pinggao also realized that something was wrong.

"Could it be that the villagers are gathering to cause trouble?"

After a long silence, Zhao Wen Ke guessed softly, remembering that Fu Zihou had ordered all the villagers around Jinyang to move to the East City.

As someone who had lived in Jinyang for many years, Zhao Wenke knew that this action would certainly cause resistance from many villagers, especially some respected clan leaders, who would most likely disobey Fu Zihou's orders. After all, no one wanted to be tormented by a young and aggressive Fu Zihou in the middle of the night.

If a conflict arises, it is possible that a riot will break out.

"If that's the case, there should be news sent to West City!"

When Liu Wenjing heard what Zhang Pinggao said, she shook her head softly.

Fu Zihou was young and had no roots, and those villages had been hiding people over the years, so it was not surprising that they were dissatisfied with Fu Zihou.

But now, looking at the East City from afar, there was no sight of fireworks, nor any shouting or screaming. Apart from the faint light of fire on the top of the city, everything was quiet. However, Liu Wenjing didn't feel that it was the case.

Liu Wenjing was also puzzled as to what had happened in Dongcheng and why the drumbeats continued.

"I'll send someone else..."

Wen Dayou knew that the people sent to East City had not returned and something must have happened.

Thinking of Mr. Li who had done him a favor and worrying about Fu Zihou, Wen Dayou could not sit still and planned to send his trusted soldiers to cross the river to Dongcheng to see what was going on. But before he could finish his words, suddenly, in the sight of Wen Dayou, Zhao Wenke, Jiang Baoyi, Pei Ji and others, some flames began to rise on the originally pitch-black plain on the other side of the river, and the flames became more and more numerous and wider.

Soon, everyone was horrified to find that on the plain on the other side of the river, a group of people had been hiding in the pitch-black night, and from a distance they looked very powerful.

"what!"

"It's a traitor!!!"

Seeing this scene, not only Wen Dayou, but also Zhang Pinggao, Liu Wenjing, Jiang Baoyi and others realized what was happening and their faces were horrified.

East City of Jinyang.

On the top of the city wall, Fu Zihou, Lai Bo, Ma Huer and others finally saw the rebel army appearing outside the city!

Looking at the overwhelming number of torches, all the soldiers defending the city were frightened and turned pale.

Seeing the rebels' troops no longer hiding and their scale, even Yin Tianzong, who had been prepared, was shocked.

"Captain! There are probably no less than 10,000 people!"

Yin Tianzong said in horror.

Fu Zihou said nothing, just stared at the rebel army outside the city in silence.

Compared with Yin Tianzong, Fu Zihou knew better that this was just the beginning. He was afraid that the real rebel army would arrive in Jinyang within the next two days.

Thinking of this, Fu Zihou couldn't help but look to the side and saw Cui Wenjin, who also had a dazed look on his face.

"You can't go back!"

Fu Zihou said softly.

Once the bandits' troops arrive, they will definitely capture Jinyang. If Cui Wenjin is unlucky, his life will be lost here. If he is lucky, even if he can defend the East City in the future, he will not be able to leave the city for at least a few months.

In short, Cui Wenjin has no chance of leaving Jinyang for now.

"Go back..."

Cui Wenjin looked at the rebel army outside the city, heard Fu Zihou's words, looked at Fu Zihou, and her pretty face was a little dazed with surprise.

Can’t go back?
But my brother, father, and clan members all don't know that I'm in Jinyang...

　My head feels a little dizzy.

　　The weather today in winter is a little different. You should drink more water and take care of your health.

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