Daming kill

Chapter 287 Two Worlds
In late February of the 17th year of Chongzhen, several ships flying the flag of the Western Army stopped at a small village along the river not far from Jiangjin County, Chongqing Prefecture at noon.

Then, dozens of soldiers of the Western Army in silk and satin jumped off the boat swaggeringly.

The quiet village quickly jumped up and down.

An old man who was basking in the sun in the yard stared dumbfounded at the soldiers who broke into his house by kicking the door and said in a panic: "Masters, who are some heroes? The old man is so polite."

Saying that, the old man hurriedly knelt down.

The leading soldier of the Great Western Army cast a contemptuous glance at the old man, and then yelled loudly while looking at the barren yard: "Grandfathers are the Great Western Army, passing by here for military affairs, so hurry up and serve them with something delicious and delicious."

"You are the Great Western Army?" The old man looked up at these glamorous soldiers full of doubts, obviously not convinced.

"Bold. Will the grandfathers lie to you that they are from the Great Western Army? Let me tell you, the grandfathers are not only from the Great Western Army, but also from Xijing."

"Xijing! Where is Xijing?" The old man looked confused, but he was also relieved, not so panicked.

But at this moment, the leader of the Great West Army soldier suddenly rolled his eyes, and then he smiled inexplicably and said, "You don't know where Xijing is?"

The old man scratched his head and thought for a moment, but still shook his head blankly.

Zhang Xianzhong became emperor not long ago, and Jiangjin is nearly a thousand miles away from Chengdu. It is difficult for ordinary people in the countryside here to know that Zhang Xianzhong changed Chengdu to Xijing.

At this time, a timid old woman's voice came from the largest room in the courtyard: "Masters must be hungry, I'll cook some food for them now. Although there is no meat or wine at home, there are still some dried fish , it is very delicious. I will cook all of them for the soldiers, and keep them full."

Then, two women flinched out of the room, one old and one young.However, they just leaned out and looked around in horror, obviously frightened by the more and more fierce noises from the neighbors.

In the countryside, it was a time of war. The people who were not able to live a good life had two meals a day. In addition, the boats in the village were taken away early to prevent them from being used by the Ming army. There is only silence, and there are very few people making noise.

"Bah! There are only some dried fish." A Daxi Army soldier cursed in disappointment.

But another Daxi Army soldier glanced at the leader of the Daxi Army and then continued the previous topic and shouted: "I don't even know that Xijing is my capital of Daxi. I think this family is either a traitor or a spy of the Ming Army."

"I think so too." The leader of the Great Western Army soldier nodded with a slow smirk, as if he had been waiting for this sentence, but his eyes had already been fixed on the young woman who was still at the door.

"Yes, yes!" "That's right, don't try to hide from our eyes!" After reacting, other soldiers of the Great Western Army followed suit.

The old man was terrified, and once again he said with horror on his face: "We are not rebels, nor are we spies of the Ming army! The little old man and his family just came back from disaster, so they don't know about Xijing. Please forgive me, some military masters."

"Yes! We really don't know about the military masters. A few days ago, Jiangjin fought a war, and we all ran to the mountains to take refuge. We have only been back for a few days. Please check clearly, military masters." Seeing this, the young woman Unfortunately, he ran out in a hurry and knelt down on the ground with a plop.

"Oh! This woman is quite beautiful, and her skin is fair. It seems that we chose this one and picked it up." The leader of the Great Western Army soldier looked at the woman kneeling in front of him carefully with a look of surprise on his face. Then he suddenly reached out and wanted to touch the woman's face.

But unfortunately, he didn't touch it.

The young woman boldly dodged backwards, and at the same time the old man's face changed drastically and he shouted, "Master Jun, no!" He half stretched out his hand to pull him away.

The leader of the Great West Army soldier was furious, kicked the old man down and yelled, "I'm tired of living! Since he came out of the mountains, it seems that he is a traitor. The evidence is convincing, you should all be killed. want to live..."

"what…"

At this time, there was a sudden scream from an unknown family outside, followed by several people's sudden and miserable howls. It was obvious that someone had been killed.

The soldier of the Great Western Army who had just spoken half of the sentence was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at the soldier who was still watching the show, and said, "Damn, I have already let go of it, let's not be coy, you go to the house to search See if there is anyone else."

After seeing all the soldiers screaming excitedly and rushing to several rooms separately, the leader of the Great West Army soldier pulled out the knife and put it directly on the neck of the frightened old man, saying viciously:
"If you want to survive, donate all your money as our military resources, and then let this little woman serve the gentlemen for fun. Otherwise, you will be convicted of rebellion, and you will be chopped up and thrown into the river." Feed the fish."

"Master please let us go! Please let us go!" The old woman who was paralyzed by the entrance of the house began to cry.

"Aren't you the Great Western Army? How can you frame me and other ordinary people like this? Aren't you afraid of military law?" The young woman suddenly asked loudly.

The leader of the Great West Army soldier was stunned for a moment. He felt a little inexplicable, but immediately became impatient and said angrily: "Grandfathers are the military law. If you say you are rebels, you are rebels. You just accept your fate, and cut down any more nonsense." This old man."

Just as he was talking, the cry of a child came from the house.Immediately afterwards, a soldier of the Western Army came out with a four or five-year-old boy and shouted, "This is the only child in the room, there is no one else."

"Don't hurt my son!" The young woman shouted with a pale face.

The leader of the Great West Army soldier was overjoyed, and said with a sinister smile: "As long as you are obedient and obedient, everything is easy to talk about. If I hear another annoying croaking noise, I will chop that child up."

As he spoke, he suddenly raised a knife and chopped off one of the old man's arms.

Accompanied by the old man's screams, the young woman's eyes were straightened on the spot, and she desperately covered her mouth so as not to make a sound.

The old woman wailed even louder as if she was going crazy, and rushed towards the old man, but when she saw the leader of the Western Army soldier raising his knife again, she and the old man stopped the painful voice at the same time, and only looked fiercely frightened. Twitching the body.

The leader of the Atlantis Army soldier laughed loudly, and then grabbed the woman's hair and dragged her into the room.

Seeing the boss enter the house, the Daxi army soldier who was still grabbing the crying child swallowed hard, then went to the old woman and raised his foot and said, "Hurry up and cook, I'm hungry, I just want to try it." Your dried fish."

But when the old woman finally got up and tremblingly prepared to go to the firewood room, another Daxi Army soldier rushed out of the house, went straight to the old woman, tore her pants and said, "I'm so greedy! I can't wait." , let me make do with it first."

The Daxi Army soldier who was holding the child didn't realize it and was stunned, while the old man's eyes were darkened and he passed out with a bang.

At this time, the entire small village was completely noisy, and all kinds of cries, shouts, shouts and laughter could be heard endlessly.

However, although the village is small, and the incident happened so suddenly that the villagers did not expect it at all, the villagers were not completely wiped out, and many of them scattered and fled.

And the Daxi army who was raging in the village didn't chase them, as if they were not worried about things being revealed.

Of course, not all the Great Western Army is not worried.

In the largest family in the village, there was a Daxijun with a sharp voice sitting alone in a room, looking at the promiscuous and bloody scene outside and worrying.

The fish freshly placed in front of his eyes just now didn't whet his appetite.

When he found that a Daxi army in another room had got off the woman and was going around to rummaging through the boxes, he hurried out of the room and carefully stepped over the two headless corpses and chased after them.

"Didn't you just go to the village to find some game to eat? It's too much now. It's too close to Jiangjin, so we can't go on like this, otherwise..."

"No eggs means no eggs!" The persuasion in a high-pitched voice was interrupted impatiently, and his face turned red to the base of his ears, and at the same time he lost the mood to continue persuading.

He was touched with a sore foot.

Squealer is a eunuch!
But he didn't get angry, he just returned in embarrassment.

Although the Great Western Army was only the leader of his guards, he was an old man in the palace of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Xianzhong had just become emperor, and it was too late to make finished eunuchs, so he could only use people like them for the time being, what would happen in the future is uncertain!So Squealer still has a clear understanding of his status.

Finally, when all the Great Western Army disembarked from the ship were full of food and drink, satisfied their animal desires and were about to board the ship and leave, a large group of soldiers and horses galloping from the direction of Jiangjin suddenly surrounded them aggressively with the flag of the Great Western Army.

However, the Atlantis Army in silk and satin was not afraid at all, and quickly asked the newcomers, who were much more numerous than them, to put away their weapons and get out of the way.

Even had to escort them along the river.

And when they arrived at Jiangjin City in the evening, a large number of people had already been waiting on the pier in Jiangjin to welcome them.

Perhaps inspired by the awe of the Jiangjin defenders, the high-pitched guard leader hadn't even walked a few steps before disembarking, before he looked at the wide-open city gate where people were still coming and going. The city along the river is quite crowded, and now the city gates can still be entered and exited, so you are not afraid of that Li thief coming to sneak attack? Are you afraid that the mob will take the opportunity to make trouble? What a nonsense."

He felt that since their emperor was attacking Chongqing from the rear of the capital city of Chongqing, which was attacked by Jiangjin, it should have been heavily guarded and the nine gates were closed.

Hearing the words of the chief guard, his squeaky voice was taken aback. As an eunuch in the original Shu Palace, he was not new to the world.He looked a little uneasy at the armored general who was by his side.

He knew that this armored general was currently Jiangjin's No. [-] leader, and his military rank was much higher than his own guard leader.

However, although the armored general seemed stunned for a moment, and was clearly angry, after taking a weird look at the high-pitched voice who had been keeping a low profile and seldom speaking, his expression quickly changed back and he said politely:

"Brothers, you don't know something. There are nine gates in Jiangjin, and eight gates along the river. We only open the gate in the middle along the river. It is absolutely impossible for the thieves to suddenly approach here through the long city along the river.

Moreover, there is a large army on standby behind this gate, which can ensure that the upper city gate will be closed in case of emergency, so there is no need to worry about sneak attacks by thieves and riots by mobs.

Not closing all the city gates and allowing the people to continue to gather by the river and under the city is because we, King Dingdong, said that a county has opened so many gates and eight along the river. It is presumably because the surrounding people and merchants have a great demand for this place. , If there is no emergency, don't cut off everyone's life easily. "

The king of Dingdong is Zhang Rujing.

Zhang Xianzhong became emperor, and several of his adopted sons became kings.

However, in the original history, Sun Kewang was the king of Pingdong, Liu Wenxiu was the king of Funan, Li Rujing was the king of Anxi, and Ai Nengqi was the king of Dingbei.Now not only is Ai Nengqi missing, but Li Rujing has also become the king of Dingdong.

But the squeaky voice was the eunuch sent by Zhang Xianzhong to deliver the edict to Zhang Rujing.

Since Zhang Xianzhong had just proclaimed himself emperor, the top and bottom of the Daxi Army still attached great importance to the imperial decree, and it was also very novel.It was the second time that Jiangjin's Great Western Army met someone who passed on the imperial decree. The last time they learned that Zhang Xianzhong was proclaimed emperor and their boss was named Dingdong King.

Therefore, after learning that there was an imperial decree passing by and that the decree was still to be delivered to their boss, Jiangjin's No. [-] leader would deliberately condescend to go out of the city to greet them, and did not dare to turn against these decrees.

"Is this what you, King Dingdong, said?" This time it was the turn of the chief guard with a sharp voice and his subordinates to be stunned.

They dared to pretend to be powerful in front of iron-armored generals, but they couldn't do it in the face of one of Zhang Xianzhong's only three adopted sons and also the famous King Dingdong.

"Really, how could I lie to you?" the armored general stared.

"Who are those hanging heads? Are they the Ming army's spies, or the mob's? There are not many, but I think it's been a long time, and there seems to be nothing new!" The leader of the guard with a squeaky voice hurriedly Pointing to the wall of the city gate not far away to change the subject.

"Oh, they are the ones in our army who bullied the common people. Hanging there to warn the troops and let the common people know that we will not do anything wrong." The armored general said in a low voice, with a glint of sternness in his eyes.

He already knew about the tragedy at noon!
"You guys are really..." The leader of the guards with a high voice couldn't continue speaking halfway through.His subordinates also looked at each other in dismay, with incredible expressions on their faces.

But there was no fear on their expressions, just shock.

Only the high-pitched voice was full of dignity.

Hearing is believing, seeing is believing, his heart is trembling.

But the guard leader with a high-pitched voice seemed completely unaware of the trouble. He quickly regained his composure, looked at the armored general with disdain, and continued to speak earnestly and earnestly: "You kill your brothers like this. It's not good, it's too much."

Then he strode forward heartlessly.

This time it was the Iron Armored General's turn to be shocked, and he was really shocked, his face turned livid.

But what the armored general didn't expect was that his face turned green after only an hour.

His anger could no longer be concealed.

Looking at the mess and blood on the floor where the imperial guards were arranged for dinner and rest, the naked and crying cooks and waitresses, and their indifferent eyes, the armored general tightly held the knife at his waist while roaring. handle.

But he still didn't pull out the knife after all.

Soon, under the direct order of the supreme commander of the Jiangjin garrison, a fast boat left the city at night regardless of the danger, and then Zhang Manfan sailed straight to the direction of Chongqing Fucheng.

And in a room in the city, the squeaky voice was also full of worry, standing in front of the window for a long time, not daring to fall asleep.

Unlike the ill-informed guards who only knew the general content of the imperial decree, Squealer knew every word of the imperial decree clearly.

He can read and write, and he has also experienced wind and rain.

He couldn't predict what consequences this edict would lead to.

(End of this chapter)