"One... one to twenty thousand!!!"
As this number came out, the originally silent long street suddenly felt like countless large exhaust fans were turned on. The yamen officer even felt that his body was shaken to the side by the sound of breathing.
He rolled his eyes and looked disdainfully at Lin Jin, who had a big mouth and could be related to a hippopotamus.
The yamen servant clasped his hands behind his back and staggered out of the long street.
A bunch of rubes! Only 20,000 stragglers are so scared? If I tell you this: Mr. Xiao Hou once retreated from Wang Shichong's 100,000-strong army alone, and once led fifty people to retreat from the danger of Yangzhou, wouldn't you suck the air dry?
"Really... twenty... twenty thousand?"
I don’t know how long it took, but someone finally woke up from the shock, trembling and came to Lin Jin and asked: "Brother Lin, you were so close just now and heard clearly, did the official really say that?" Twenty thousand pirates attacking the city?”
"It seems, right!" Lin Jin trembled all over, swallowed hard and said: "But there really have to be 20,000 people, no, let alone 20,000 people, even if it is 20,000 pigs, at this time It’s time to break into the city! How could they not be able to attack it?”
They are all locals who were born and raised in the city. No one knows the situation in Guangzhou better than them! It's like the yamen said that 20,000 pirates are coming. Let alone 20,000, even if it is 2,000, it is not something that the poor soldiers in the city can resist! How could it be possible that after only one night of commotion, there was no movement? Do you really think that those pirates came to see the scene?
"How about we go to the dock to have a look?"
Just as the neighbors on the street looked at each other, someone suddenly whispered a suggestion, and this suggestion immediately reminded Lin Jin!
"Yes! You can go and have a look!"
"Let's go! Go take a look!"
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On the dock.
At this time, Xiao Han and Qi Pu had already left, and most of the three thousand Miao people had also retreated.
After all, the scene of throwing corpses on the boat like sacks is not acceptable to everyone, not even the Miao people who are good at hunting!
"Hurry up! Don't even think about running! Whoever dares to run should just look up and look at the ones on the mast!"
Next to the ship at the pier, a soldier with a cold face raised his whip, pointed at the mast of a large ship and shouted loudly!
On the top of the pole, several naked pirates were hanging by their hands. They were hung high by the sea breeze and struggled a few times from time to time, proving that they still had the breath of life.
There was no other way, but the Marquis refused to throw the body directly into the sea, saying that he was afraid of causing a plague, so he had to put the body into a boat and drag it into the deep sea to burn it on fire.
Regarding this point, although many Tang soldiers felt that they were taking off their pants and farting, they were obedient to the core and allowed them to carry out Xiao Han's orders to the letter.
It's just that the dirty work of moving corpses cannot be done by our own people. What are these prisoners doing with their hands free? Isn't it just for work?
As a result, a strange scene soon appeared on the huge pier: a group of ragged pirates, their feet tied with ropes, were connected into a long string, seven or eight people in groups, under the whip of one or several Tang soldiers. , laboriously carrying the bodies, or carrying water to flush the docks.
Because a group of people are tied to each other with ropes, dragging each other down, even if there are occasional people who want to jump into the sea to escape, they will be caught quickly, and after being beaten severely, they will be hung directly on the mast as a warning.
At first, there were many people escaping, so the mast was quickly filled with people. However, as time passed slowly, no one thought about jumping into the sea to escape.
This is not because they accepted their fate, but the blood that washed the dock flowed into the sea. The strong smell of blood attracted countless sharks from the deep sea to come to feed!
Watching a shark like a small boat open its mouth and swallow the floating corpse on the sea! A group of pirate captives shivered one after another and no longer dared to think of diving into the water. They would rather have their heads chopped off with a knife than jump in to feed the fish.
"Did you see it? Those piles of things as high as the hill are all the corpses of pirates!"
"You guys are late. When I came, they had already shipped it out on several ships! I don't know where it was shipped or what it was used for!"
There is a high slope far away from the pier, which has long been crowded with countless people from the city. The pier is still under martial law and they cannot enter, so they have to come here to look at it from a high place.
But among the dense crowd, Lin Jin and others once again widened their eyes and took a breath of cold air.
What if, just now, he was still skeptical about the number of 20,000! So at this moment, looking at the pirate ships on the pier, like a forest and a sea, and the groups of people transporting corpses, the suspicion in my heart suddenly disappeared!
Just by looking at this, you can deduce that the number of pirates is definitely more than 20,000!
I don’t know how the Marquis, who looked ordinary and no different from the big boy next door, blocked them at the dock and completely wiped them out!
Twenty thousand people, even if they lined up and beheaded one by one, it would still take a long time!
"I heard that the Marquis who came from Chang'an last night smashed dozens of large ships with his divine thunder! By the way, he killed 8,000 pirates and frightened the remaining pirates to the point where they knelt down and surrendered!"
"Yes, yes! My house is built high. At that time, I secretly ran to the roof and looked out. I saw a flash of thunder and lightning in the sky, and a raging fire broke out on the pier. The sound and the tiles on the roof shattered many pieces! Look! Look at my head, it was smashed by a sliding tile!"
"Ahem, Ergou, why do you come to join in the fun? Wasn't your head injury caused by Lao Fan's wife being lazy next door and being beaten by him?"
"roll!"
"If you keep talking nonsense, believe it or not, I will tear your mouth to pieces!"
The man known as Ergou and his neighbor Lao Fan looked at the speaker angrily at the same time. The fierce light in their eyes made the speaker stagger, quickly shut his mouth, and ran away in despair.
have to say
Xiao Han's feat of wiping out 20,000 pirates last night had a huge impact on the people in the city! So much so that the discussion about him soon became the biggest talking point in the city!
"Hey, have you heard? There is a certain marquis in our city who is like a greedy wolf star in the sky and comes down to earth. He eats people every now and then! He used to eat people in Chang'an and Jiangnan, but now he comes to Guangzhou and beats the teeth of those pirates as sacrifices. !”
"Nonsense! The Marquis is obviously the reincarnation of the Pojun Star. No matter what kind of army it is, no one can do anything with the Marquis! If you don't believe it, go and ask about the Hu merchants who once traveled to the Western Regions. The Turks were much more powerful than these pirates back then. However, when I met him later, I was beaten to the point of crying for my father and mother. I heard that even the Turkic emperor was captured and taken to Chang'an, and he studied what dance to perform to His Majesty every day!"
