"The city gate is an important place, dismount and be investigated!"
Seeing a black horse coming with billowing yellow smoke, the newly appointed city gate official was not frightened. He stood in the middle of the road with his arms crossed and shouted at the visitor!
Of course, this city gate official who had been working for almost his whole life was not overwhelmed by this sudden promotion.
Before he became arrogant, he had carefully seen that the man on the black horse was dressed in ordinary clothes, so he dared to shout so ostentatiously.
If this person was the same as the yellow flag convoy two days ago, he would probably have crouched aside with his tail between his legs.
"Dong dong dong..."
The tall and handsome black horse was still running wildly on the road. The violent horse hooves were like stepping on people's hearts, causing the city gate official to feel an inexplicable chest tightness.
"Stop! Stop!"
Involuntarily, he stretched out his hand to cover his chest. The city gate officer's eyes opened wider and wider, and his legs began to shake.
Living in the south of the Yangtze River, peaceful days have passed for a long time. When has he ever seen something like a galloping war horse?
Now in front of him, even though he was just riding a horse, the menacing appearance still made all the muscles in his body tense up, and he had forgotten to even avoid it.
"Dong dong dong..."
The black horse was still running wildly, without any intention of slowing down, as if the city gate officer blocking the road in front of it was nothing, and it rushed towards it without hesitation.
"Fuck, oops..."
The huge horse's hooves were raised high, and it was about to step on the head of the city gate official!
At this critical moment, the city gate officer who was so frightened that he couldn't move suddenly remembered what happened a few days ago, and he couldn't help but roll to the side!
Then, the horse's hoof, which was as big as the mouth of a bowl, barely missed his ear, and then hit the ground heavily, making a small hole in the hard loess road.
As if he could feel the strong wind brought by the horse's hooves cutting his face, the city gate official was so horrified that he kept rolling down and rolled into the ditch on the roadside.
Familiar movements, familiar places, and familiar muddy water...
After thrashing twice in the cold, smelly water ditch, the city gate official turned into a clay figure again and finally managed to stand upright. He scratched the wall of the ditch and opened his mouth to curse!
However, before he could curse, Que vaguely heard a weak roar coming from the wind:
"I have a hundred thousand troops in urgent need. Anyone who dares to stop me will be killed without mercy!"
"Gah..."
With just this sentence, the furious city gate official immediately stopped and didn't even dare to make a sound.
But in his mind, he had already cursed loudly: "It's urgent? Are you conveying military information without wearing Yi Cheng's clothes? You don't carry the flag of urgent military information! Who knows you are conveying military information?"
"grown ups?"
"My lord fell into the ditch again!"
"Sir, are you okay?"
The black horse has passed away. The few soldiers who were standing by the door watched helplessly as they disappeared. Only then did they remember that their master was still in the ditch. They suddenly slapped their heads and rushed towards the ditch one by one. Go there.
This is also in Jiangnan! If it were in Chang'an, or even Luoyang! This group of rubbish, which no one could stop, and even their own officials could not protect, had long been hung to dry on the city gate tower.
I don't care about the yelling behind me.
The black horse knight did not stop for a moment after entering the city, and rushed straight to the Changshi Mansion along the main road in the city. Seeing this, the pedestrians on the road did not dare to block the road in the middle of the road like the city gate official, but gave way to a road early. , waited until he passed, and then pointed at the man's back and yelled.
At this moment, Yangzhou Governor's Mansion.
The chief official, Cui Jingzhi, commonly known as "Master Biejia", was discussing official matters with the visiting Yang Wenwen in the study room of the mansion.
The two of them were having a heated conversation when they suddenly heard a burst of noise coming from the yard outside.
"What's going on?" Cui Jingzhi frowned and looked out the window, but he saw the housekeeper leading several servants hurriedly from the front. In the hands of several servants, there seemed to be a person holding him?
"who is he?"
Seeing that the old housekeeper had sent the stranger to the study without his consent, Cui Jingzhi's heart skipped a beat and he asked in a deep voice.
The old housekeeper was in a cold sweat at this time. When the master asked, he quickly raised his hands and said, "Sir, this man claims to be the Chuzhou messenger and has urgent military information to report!"
"Chuzhou?" Cui Jingzhi frowned, looked at the messenger who was standing with his legs in a strange posture, and asked, "What's going on? Where is the military situation?"
The messenger was extremely weak at this time, and he would not even be able to stand on his own if it were not for the support of the servant next to him.
"... Report to your lord, Chuzhou has been defeated and trapped, and countless pirates have crossed Chuzhou and plundered towards Yangzhou!"
"Snapped……"
Cui Jingzhi's hand shook violently, and even the tea bowl in his hand hit the ground. The white porcelain shattered and the tea splashed everywhere!
Next to him, Yang Wenwen was even more shocked. He stood up suddenly and shouted angrily: "How is it possible? Hasn't the Governor personally sent troops to rescue him?"
The messenger looked at the tea flowing on the ground, licked his chapped lips, and said reluctantly: "The governor was ambushed on the way to support Chuzhou. Most of the three thousand brothers were killed and injured! If the Chuzhou County Magistrate hadn't led people to rescue him desperately, I'm afraid... The entire army will be annihilated on the spot!"
"Ambushed? Most of the casualties?"
Yang Wenwen couldn't hear the rest of what the messenger said clearly. These two words were the only ones left in his mind, and then the world started spinning!
He staggered back a few steps, his eyes were distracted, and he murmured to himself: "How is it possible? A few days ago, it was said that the Haijiang were just a group of stragglers. When did they have such a strong fighting force? Three thousand men, more than half of us in Yangzhou The strength of the troops has been reduced like this?"
"wrong!"
At this time, Cui Jingzhi, who was shocked and speechless at first, finally came to his senses and hurriedly walked towards the messenger, staring at him closely with a pair of red eyes, and asked in a deep voice: "Hai Jing's harassment is always just a disaster." You will leave after plundering, how could you be so arrogant as to ambush the army! Tell me everything about what happened in this, and you must not hide anything. If there are any lies, you will not be spared!"
"Yes! Tell me everything you know!" Yang Wenzhang roared. He didn't believe that the pirates, who had always been just bandits and bandits, could attack the city and destroy the team.
"Give me a bowl of water!" The messenger nodded, and then said in a hoarse voice.
Cui Jingzhi didn't waste any time, turned around and picked up the teapot. The messenger hugged the teapot, as if a thirsty ghost had been reincarnated, and drank heavily at the spout, refusing to put it down even if his cheeks were red from being burned.
After a long time, the pot of tea bottomed out. The messenger put down the teapot feebly, let out a long breath, and without wiping the water stains from the corners of his mouth, he began to tell the anxious two people in front of him everything he knew and even heard from hearsay. people.
