The most worthless thing in this troubled world is human life. Zhao Lei has seen too many tragedies over the years. Now he has no relatives and his heart has long been cold and heartless.
He had no ability and was unwilling to meddle in the current affairs. Zhao Lei just watched from a distance, waiting for the final result.
Zhao Lei had inquired with Heimao Xiong before, and now this place is only three or four days away from Pingyang City.
It was getting dark now, so Zhao Lei was not in a hurry. As it got dark, the riots would slowly stop.
We are all ordinary people with flat heads. Many of them have blindfolds and cannot see very well when it gets dark.
But just for a while, Zhao Lei felt a slight vibration in the earth, and then the vibration became stronger and stronger.
Zhao Lei felt something was wrong. This reminded him of a time when a group of cavalry passed by their Zhaojiazhuang when he was a child. The sound was just like this.
I'm afraid this is someone from the government, and we shouldn't stay here for long.
Soldiers pass by like a comb, bandits pass by like a grate.
Zhao Lei hurriedly ran towards the mountains. As long as they reached the mountains, the cavalry would have no use. He dismounted and relied on the terrain of the mountains and his own martial arts. It should not be a problem to deal with two or three.
But facing an organized army, there may be cavalry in it. Even if it is mounted infantry, it is not something Zhao Lei can deal with.
All the troops used were battle formation techniques. No matter how good Zhao Lei was in martial arts, he could only catch someone blind. He had no choice but to run away.
Although he couldn't figure out why he encountered the army in the wilderness, this kind of thing was not something Zhao Lei could think about now. He could just run away.
After running only three to five hundred meters, the general hid behind a big rock when he saw billowing sand and dust not far away. The vibrations were getting louder and louder, and the pebbles on the ground were vibrating up and down with the frequency.
What appeared along with the smoke were dozens of tall horses and heavily armed cavalry on them.
As loud as thunder and as fast as lightning, dozens of cavalry formed a cone shape, and the sky filled with smoke and dust followed them, creating a great visual impact.
What followed was the collapse of the entire crowd. Before the cavalry could charge, the entire crowd was like frightened animals, fleeing in all directions.
Many people running behind were so frightened by the cavalry that their feet and stomachs were shaking. They stood there with their legs unable to control themselves, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Those who did not face the cavalry directly ran away for their lives. Many of them were frightened and ran forward with the flow, completely leaving their backs to others.
Those running behind just wanted to pull the people in front to protect themselves from the knife, while those running in front hurriedly threw out all the things that were in their way. They didn't want to run the fastest, they just wanted to run faster than others.
A dead Taoist friend is not a poor Taoist. Many people think that as long as they run faster than most people, someone will support them.
Just like this, dozens of cavalrymen easily overwhelmed the dark crowd. Zhao Lei also saw three cavalrymen chasing hundreds of people and killing them, but no one resisted.
Everyone is rushing forward, fearing that the unlucky guy running behind is themselves.
At this time, as long as someone took the lead, the three cavalrymen could be drowned by spitting, but unfortunately it didn't happen.
Some of them couldn't run anymore, so they simply sat on the ground and waited for death. Others, looking at them wearing the armor of imperial soldiers, felt lucky and stopped.
But their wishful thinking was wrong, and these people did not relent because they gave up resistance.
They were holding scimitars in their hands, so they didn't have to use force to slash, it was just a matter of lightness.
With the speed of the galloping horse, a good head flew into the sky, and the blood sprayed completely defeated the fearful people.
At this time, they had no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth, and there were dead people everywhere.
But most of them were injured refugees who did not die immediately. They fell to the ground and groaned.
Zhao Lei saw with his own eyes that a woman was cut in half from the waist by a cavalry knife. She did not die immediately afterwards, but just held her lower body and wailed.
These refugees are desperate. They just want to make a living, but there is no room for them.
This group of cavalry shuttled back and forth through the crowd three times. After each pass, it was like plowing through it with a knife, forming a bloody blank.
At this time, the sky had completely darkened. A huge dark cloud passed by covered the sky, and the entire earth was dark.
Only the torches held by the cavalry emitted light, while cries could be heard from time to time on the ground.
These cavalry did not kill them all. They drove everyone to a low-lying area, picked out the old, weak, sick and disabled among them. After searching their bodies from top to bottom, they drove them away from the crowd.
Among them, the middle-aged men were pulled out one by one, and then they were connected together with the ropes they carried. These were all their "captures", and their fortunes depended entirely on them.
The women and children were also lined up individually and strung together with ropes.
You can already imagine what consequences awaited them, but these people had been frightened by the cavalry, and no one dared to resist.
Although it was already dark, these cavalrymen still drove them forward in the dark.
Zhao Lei, who was hiding far away, was glad that he reacted quickly, otherwise he would have become one of them, and maybe he would still be the one who fell to the ground.
After they left, a pile of corpses were left on the ground. Many of them were not dead, but would soon be dead.
Zhao Lei did not take advantage of this to escape, but quietly followed the group of cavalry.
He was not very familiar with the surrounding areas of Pingyang City. He had only been here two or three times, and it was a long time ago.
Now there is still a way to follow these cavalry.
Because only Pingyang City in the surrounding area can afford this group of fully armed cavalry, as long as you are careful, there should be no problem.
And there is another advantage of being invisible, that is, with these dozens of cavalry, at least there will be no blind bandits on the road.
Zhao Lei comforted himself that as long as he could reach Pingyang County in a few days, everything would be better then.
Sometimes he couldn't help but wonder if the Water Element Technique he had obtained had used up all his luck, and that was why he was so unlucky.
Zhao Lei did not dare to slack off at all. He followed them carefully along the roadside in the dark.
Fortunately, the people in front were not very fast because they were connected together, so Zhao Lei could keep up.
They kept walking and stopping until midnight when the whole team stopped.
The cavalry were divided into two small teams, one large and three teams. One team patrolled, and the other team was on guard. The team with the largest number of people all dismounted, lit a fire and gathered together to rest and eat.
When Zhao Lei saw them stopping, he quickly stopped as well, then got into a small dry ditch, and then covered himself with the withered grass on both sides.
The team out on patrol happened to pass by where he was hiding. As the sound of horse hooves approached, Zhao Lei's heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
He held the knife in his hand and was ready to kill at any time, seize the horse and escape.
