Tomin in The Alien World

The next morning, just before dawn, Tang Yin woke up. He went to the door of the firewood house and stood silently. He heard that there was no movement outside. Then he went out of the firewood house and turned out along the courtyard wall.

Although it is early morning, there are many pedestrians on the street, at least much more than during the day. It can be seen that the people are really frightened by Geng Qiang's indiscriminate arrest of strong men. That is, they dare to go out of the house or buy some food or daily necessities when the officers and soldiers are sleeping in the early morning.

Tang Yin strolled to a narrow alley, which was remote but very lively. The streets were full of stalls, with everything to eat, wear and use. Tang Yin felt his stomach and was a little hungry. He went to a small stall where he bought steamed stuffed buns, took a handful of loose copper money from his pocket, bought five steamed stuffed buns, and stood aside to eat.

Steamed stuffed bun is a vegetable steamed bun. It doesn't even have a diced meat inside. It's dry and astringent. Fortunately, Tang Yin is not picky about what to eat, as long as he can fill his stomach. While eating, he checked the people passing by on the street. People rarely talked. They came and went in a hurry, as if they were chased by ghosts. They left immediately after paying for their purchases.

But even so, there are still a lot of people in this morning market. After reading it, Tang Yin secretly laughed at the extent to which the people of Xibai city had been oppressed by Geng Qiang. It can be seen that people's disgust with it can be imagined. When Tang Yin was thinking about it, suddenly, there was a great chaos in the south of the morning market. He saw a large number of people running from the south to the north, and shouted from time to time, "the army is coming! The army is coming!"

As soon as I heard the words "the army came", the whole morning market was in chaos. Even the vendors who set up stalls were frightened. They didn't even want to sell anything. They grabbed what they could and ran away. Such a long alley and such a big morning market, with the arrival of the officers and soldiers, people go to the building empty in an instant.

Tang Yin narrowed her eyes and stood on the side of the road eating steamed stuffed buns. A kind-hearted people passed by and hurriedly shouted, "don't eat, run, if you don't run again, the army will take you away!"

Hearing the speech, Tang Yin bent her eyes, put down her steamed stuffed bun, revealed two rows of small white teeth and smiled. People only thought he was a fool, but they had no time to care about him. They could only shake their heads and sigh and continue to run.

Soon, the streets were empty, but the footsteps at the south alley were messy. From time to time, there were shouts and shouts: "don't run! Run again, we'll shoot arrows!"

Needless to say, it must be the officers and soldiers who shout this.

Tang Yin stood as like as two peas, but he continued to eat the steamed stuffed buns. But the body around him was thick with black mist. The black mist came to him behind him, and he gathered and remained unfinished. The gas was solid and he condensed a man like Tang Yin. It's a shadow part.

The shadow didn't even see the officers and soldiers running in the distance. He took two steps backward, then raised his body vertically, pointed his toes at the wall beside the street, and his body was like an arrow. He ran directly to the roof beside the road, and then disappeared into the houses with a jump.

It ran away, but Tang Yin's real body was still in the alley. He didn't want to run at all. He waited for the army to catch him and exile him.

After a short time, hundreds of officers and soldiers rushed up to him and suddenly saw a young man eating steamed stuffed buns on the roadside. The officers and soldiers were also shocked and wondered whether there was something wrong with the young man's brain.

"Hey, boy!" An officer quickly walked up to Tang Yin, shook his arm and flew half of the steamed stuffed bun out of his hand. Then he looked at him up and down and asked, "what's your name?"

"Early Tang Dynasty!" Tang Yin casually made up a name.

"Oh! Good, good, good!" The officer and soldier shouted three times, not because he thought the name of the early Tang Dynasty was good, but because the young man could answer his own name. Even if he didn't have a good head, he couldn't be stupid. He put his skill on Tang Yin's shoulder and said with a smile: "boy, don't eat. Junye will take you to a place where you don't need money for dinner!"

"Ah?" Tang Yin deliberately pretended to be stupid and his face was inexplicable.

"Stop talking and go!" While talking, the officer pulled Tang Yin's clothes and walked out of the alley.

Tang Yin was not the only one caught by the officers and soldiers. There were also more than 50 unlucky people, including middle-aged people in their 40s, fat and shiny childe brothers, and more young poor people as thin as firewood. They were gathered in an open space by the officers and soldiers. The leader of the team came out of the soldiers and counted the number like counting animals.

At this time, the arrested childe squeezed out of the crowd, walked up to the captain, bowed and bowed repeatedly, whispered a few words in his ear, and then took out a silver bag from his pocket and stuffed it into the captain. The latter took over as if there were no one else. He weighed it in his hand and felt very heavy. Then he nodded with satisfaction and waved impatiently at the childe.

The childe hurried to thank him. He didn't dare to delay for a moment. He turned and ran away quickly.

It's the so-called money that makes the devil push the mill. No matter when and in what Dynasty, money has the effect of connecting the sky.

The group stabbed the silver bag into the armour, then looked around at the arrested people and said, "today, the military master has shown mercy. No matter who can pay 50 liang of silver, he will let you go immediately. If you have no money, hehe, go to war with the military master!"

"Junye, Junye, the villain doesn't have enough money!" After listening to the captain's words, more than a dozen people turned out their silver and handed it to the captain and begged bitterly.

The captain was not polite. He took the money and accepted the silver of more than a dozen people, but he didn't mean to release them. Looking down at the scattered silver and copper coins in his hand, he shrugged and sneered and said, "this money is enough for dry farts? It's not enough to plug the teeth of the military Lord!" As he spoke, he looked at more than a dozen people and said, "you're lucky today. Junye is happy. Since you have paid the money, Junye can't take care of you. I'll arrange for you to guard the city wall, those..." he looked around at these Hundred Surnames, including Tang Yin, who have no money to pay, He continued: "if you don't pay the money, you don't take care of the military Lord, and the military Lord can't take care of you, you will guard the city gate for me!"

You should know that in the siege, the city gate is always the focus of being attacked by the enemy. Guarding the city gate is also the most dangerous post, and there is the possibility of death at any time. The captain was not polite to the people who didn't pay the money. He arranged to guard the city gate directly. Of course, only Tang Yin secretly rejoiced in the crowd, and things were much smoother than he expected.

The soldiers took them to the north gate, which was the most fiercely attacked by the Tianyuan army. On the way, Tang Yin looked at the people around him. These people were in rags, with patches on their clothes and holes in their shoes. The young man on his left, only in his early twenties, walked all the way to the north of the city and sighed all the way.

Tang Yin asked, "brother, who are these soldiers?"

Hearing the speech, the young man looked at Tang Yin strangely and asked, "you don't even know what people you were caught? They are all the soldiers of the county head!"

"Since he is a soldier of the head of the county, why dare he take bribes openly?"

The young man smiled bitterly and shook his head. If Xibai city had not been besieged by the Tianyuan army for several days, he would really doubt whether Tang Yin had just arrived in the city. He whispered, "the upper beam is not straight, and the lower beam is crooked! We haven't had a good day since the chief of the county came to Lehu County!"

This immediately aroused the resonance of the people around. People sighed one after another and said, "rather than suffer like this, it's better to let the Tianyuan army fight into the city!"

"That's not good! It's said that the Tianyuan army will kill the city as soon as they capture the city!"

"There is no difference between dying in the hands of the Tianyuan army and dying in the hands of the county head..."

People, you speak to me and vent your depression and dissatisfaction. It's not hard to hear that although the people of Xibai City hate Geng Qiang, they are also full of fear of the Tianyuan army. Tang Yin didn't know where they heard about the Tianyuan army's massacre of the city. He was about to ask, but when he thought about it, he knew it. It must be Geng Qiang's fool propaganda. Its purpose is to make the people fear the Tianyuan army and help him defend Xibai city.

He took a deep breath and said firmly, "the Tianyuan army will not kill the city, at least not its own people!"

People looked at him one after another and asked, "how do you know?"

Tang Yin smiled and said, "because I've seen the Tianyuan army before! We are wind people, and the Tianyuan army is also wind people. How can wind people kill wind people indiscriminately?"

"But..."

People still want to talk. This is when several soldiers came quickly and shouted, "what are you talking about? Don't try to escape. If you dare to escape, I'll break your legs!"

The crowd shrunk their necks and dared not say more. They bowed their heads and walked silently.

Beicheng.

Tang Yin and more than 30 civilians were led directly to the north gate by the soldiers. He looked up and saw that the wall was filled with boulders and rolling logs, and the bundles of arrows were stacked together, just like hills, with amazing equipment for guarding the city.

Looking straight ahead, there are ten stone throwers in front of the city gate, which can launch boulders, fire oil and other objects from the city, which is a great threat to the soldiers attacking the city outside the city. Looking forward, there is the thick city gate. Although the city gate is not blocked, it is also supported by dozens of thick wooden stakes. It is almost impossible to knock open the city gate from the outside.

This is the city defense of the north gate of the West hundred cities. The city wall is as high as 30 feet and a half as a barrier. Under such sufficient city defense facilities, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack. No wonder our army has nothing to gain after four days of fierce attack.

Tang Yin slowly clenched his fist as he watched. At this time, the leader of the army ran to a Peng general in general's armor, smiled at him and said, "General Li, I've brought you more than 30 people this time!"