Huang Qi is just a small soldier in Longbian City. He is responsible for guarding the west gate. There are 500 people in his team. They all obey the command of Captain Shimo and usually take turns to guard the west wall of Longbian City.
Huang Qi heard that Shi Mo was a child of a famous scholar family. He had a profound background and was well-spoken in Longbian City.
Being chosen to guard the city gate is considered the pride of Huang Qi's family. His parents always brag to everyone that my son guards the city gate and has one bowl more rice porridge every day than other soldiers.
Every time his parents talk about it, Huang Qi will puff up his chest and be full of momentum.
But now, the situation seems to be very wrong. In the past month or so, Shimo disappeared for a few days. When he came back, he was much more generous and would give copper coins to the guards at every turn.
Huang Qi was even more happy about this. He took pride in his duties and guarded the city gate with all his heart every day.
This night, he was on duty, patrolling the city wall with four of his companions, a total of five people.
Suddenly, they heard someone blowing a whistle in the middle of the night in the city. The five of them looked at each other, not knowing what to do, when they saw dozens of galloping horses suddenly rushing towards the city wall.
Huang Qi was startled and wondered: "What's going on?"
Before he could react, another person appeared behind the horse, running extremely fast.
Just as a horse ran up to the city wall and stopped to rest, the man stepped forward with a knife and stabbed it into the horse's belly.
The city wall was brightly lit, and the scene below the city was watched by five people.
The five people were shocked, Huang Qi said angrily: "Who is killing horses in the city!"
Although he didn't know where the horse came from, in this era, horses were first-class good things. How could he just kill a strong horse like this?
The people in the city ignored him, turned around and walked towards the horse next to them.
Huang Qi's team leader also reacted. With an order, the five men descended the stairs directly from the city wall and chased the man who killed the horse.
"That man!"
Huang Qi went down to the city and shouted, but he didn't wait for a reply. What he waited for was only a pair of cold eyes and a long knife.
The knife had been curled. It was very likely that many horses had been killed before, and there was still blood on the knife.
"Arrest first and then talk!"
The soldiers guarding the city were used to being majestic, and the common people had to obey their orders and show respect to them when entering or leaving the city gate. This exit was very imposing.
Five people immediately surrounded him, and the man struck out with a knife.
The corps commander immediately shouted: "Be careful!"
He wanted to remind everyone that this man must be a good fighter, but he had no chance to say it.
The man's knife hit his head without any explanation.
Blood flowed down his forehead, dyeing the captain's eyes red.
The corporal fell to the ground, blood staining the ground red.
"Killing!"
Huang Qi broke out in a cold sweat. They were just detaining people. They never thought that this person could be so tough. He would just kill people without saying anything about fighting back.
The four defenders' eyes were red, and they rushed forward with shouts.
A quarter of an hour later, Huang Qi clutched his lower abdomen and looked at the bodies of his four companions, including the corps leader, and then at the thug who had not said a word from beginning to end.
Blood flowed from his forehead and slowly dyed his left eye red.
Huang Qi was breathing heavily. After the fight just now, he knew that if the opponent's knife hadn't been sharpened, the five of them might not have been able to defeat just one person from the opponent.
Where did this ruthless bandit come from? Riding and killing horses in the middle of the night, what is the purpose?
Huang Qi's face was mixed with blood and tears, and he shook his nose with difficulty, which was from crying.
He was too scared.
He stood up, walked over, and closed his eyes for his companion. At that moment, he saw something tied to the horse's belly.
As the pride of his parents, he knew a few characters, which made him different from his companions who could not read a few characters.
He grabbed the paper on the horse's belly in confusion.
Although he was literate, he had never seen such soft, flexible and good paper in his life.
He read slowly.
"Shi Wu, Shi Ji, and Shi Yi disrespected their filial piety and brothers, criticized their elder brothers, and caused trouble in Jiaozhi. They have been detained in the city lord's palace. However, there are bandits from Jiangdong who have entered the city to cause trouble. Please kill them together with the four guards!"
Huang Qi stared blankly at the words above many times.
Everyone in the city had heard about the serious illness of General Suinan and Shi Xie, the prefect of Jiaozhi. They had also heard that Shi Xie's three younger brothers wanted to take over as prefect. However, he had never known anything about disrespecting filial piety. What trouble is happening in Cochin.
What exactly is going on?
Huang Qi looked up at the sky blankly. There was only a dim moon in the sky.
The blood flowing from his forehead dyed his vision red, and the entire sky was filled with blood.
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Ximen, a small tower on the city, Ximen City Guards Colonel Shi Mo was sleeping soundly when he was suddenly woken up by someone. Just as he was about to scold him, he saw Li Zhang, the deputy general guarding the city, standing in front of him.
Li Zhang patted his face and said, "Get up!"
"what you do?"
Shimo was surprised and wanted to touch the knife.
The knife that had been lying next to him was not there, and he felt empty.
"I am a descendant of the Shi family, what do you do?"
Shimo had no weapons and could only yell.
"Do you deserve the surname Shi?"
Li Zhang stood up indifferently and drew out his sword: "It's just a side branch. Others respect you and think you are the direct descendant of the scholar family, but I know that the old eunuch asked me to look at you just because you are nothing. With you Is it also worthy of a surname?"
Shi Mo opened his mouth wide. He did not expect that Li Zhang, who was always respectful to him, would actually say such a thing.
He wanted to say something more, but saw a flash of cold light.
Li Zhang's knife had already struck his head.
When Li Zhang stood on the tower holding Shi Mo's head, the soldiers below were watching with trembling eyes.
Huang Qi was also one of them. He came to report that there were villains in the city, and showed the letter to Li Zhang, the deputy general who was guarding the city on duty.
Unexpectedly, after receiving the letter, Li Zhang was overjoyed and rushed into the place where Shi Mo lived.
Then Shimo died.
A son of a scholar family died like this?
Li Zhang coldly glanced at the city defenders below, took a piece of paper and shouted: "Everyone, the three soldiers and warriors have rebelled against the superiors and disrespected their brothers. They have been executed. There are Jiangdong thieves and dogs disrupting the order of my city. Please follow me to eliminate the thieves." !”
There were only a few people who responded, and there were still people here who had just been woken up. Not many people knew the situation, and everyone was at a loss.
Li Zhang sneered, pulled out one of the flags on the city wall, and threw it to the bottom of the city.
Huang Qi saw that the word "zhou" was originally written on the flag.
It is said that the old guard Shi Xie was seriously ill. His younger brother Shi Wu took charge of the Shi family and brought in strong reinforcements from Jiangdong to help them resist the Cao thieves from the north.
The flag of Jiangdong leader Zhou Yu was therefore hung on the city wall.
But now, this flag, which had been hung for just half a month, was thrown into the city.
Huang Qi rubbed his eyes, and the blood he had wiped dry flowed out again.
His eyes saw that the entire city wall was red.
He doesn't know yet, but this is the beginning of the bloody dragon series.
And the dropped flag was the end of a coup.
The top of the city changes, and the king's flag appears.
