At the end of three seconds, Dingxi City was on the west side of the city wall.
A soldier covered in blood quickly climbed to the top of the city. After looking around for a week, he saw a strong man in black armor with a square face standing next to the wall and looking at the enemy camp outside the city.
The soldiers came at a trot, and behind the square-faced strong man, they bowed and said:
"Reporting to Captain Zhang, the big families in the city have begun to incite the people to cause trouble in the city again."
Zhang Xiaojing's mouth twitched when he heard this, he looked away from the city, turned around and asked:
"Are they still planning to leave the city through the east gate?"
The soldier bowed and said:
"yes."
Zhang Xiaojing frowned and asked again:
"Where is Magistrate Song? Didn't I ask him to appease the people?"
The soldier heard this and smiled bitterly:
"My subordinates have just received the news. A quarter of an hour ago, Magistrate Song had fled with his family members from the east city gate."
Hearing this, Zhang Xiaojing punched the city wall and cursed:
"This dog official is greedy for life and afraid of death."
"Zhixian Song ran away, what about County Magistrate Li?"
The soldier bowed and said:
"Li Xian Cheng leads the government officials and is on duty at the east city gate."
Hearing that the county magistrate was guarding the east gate, Zhang Xiaojing's face improved a little.
He rolled his eyes and said:
"Hurry to the east gate and let Prime Minister Li go and appease the people."
"Tell him that the enemy has thousands of cavalry ambushing near the East City Gate. As long as the people rush out of the East City Gate, they will be caught by the enemy."
"The enemy will definitely take the opportunity to attack Dingxi City. At that time, no one in Dingxi City will survive."
The soldier hesitated after hearing this and said hesitantly:
"But Captain, we didn't find any enemy cavalry?"
Zhang Xiaojing looked cold and scolded:
"What I said is true."
"Follow what I said and execute the order."
The soldier looked at Zhang Xiaojing's cold eyes and trembled.
He straightened his back, faced Captain Zhang Xiaojing, made a military salute, and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Here."
After saying that, the soldiers did not dare to delay, immediately turned around and ran down the city wall.
At this time, drums sounded outside the city, and Tuyuhun's siege began.
Zhang Xiaojing took a deep breath, glanced at the blood-stained brothers around him, pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist, raised it above his head, and shouted to the brothers beside him:
"Beat the drum to meet the enemy."
"At the 33rd turn of Longyou Road, I rushed to the mansion and won a great victory."
For a time, the crowd on the city wall was excited and shouted:
"At the 33rd turn of Longyou Road, we rushed to the mansion. We won, we won, we won."
...
Time returned to a quarter of an hour ago, outside the east gate of Dingxi City.
There were hundreds of people from Song Zhixian's family, old and young, driving carriages or walking out of the east city gate.
On the carriage, Magistrate Song's new concubine lay trembling in Magistrate Song's arms and asked timidly:
"Alang, can we really reach Longxi County safely?"
Magistrate Song, who was over sixty years old, stroked his gray beard with one hand and kneaded his concubine's soft white flesh with the other hand, and said calmly:
"Xiao Qian, don't worry."
"At noon, I sent people from the government out of the city to test it out."
"I rode along this official road for half an hour and didn't even see the figures of those barbarians."
"If this were not the case, how could I possibly take you and risk your lives!"
After saying that, Magistrate Song lifted his concubine's chin and kissed her lips.
The concubine felt much more relaxed after hearing Magistrate Song's words.
She cast a flirtatious look at Song Zhixian, gently tapped Song Zhixian's chest with a pair of white and tender hands, and said with a sweet smile:
"Alang, you are so awesome. You actually came up with such a good way to test those uncivilized barbarians."
"The slave family is really lucky to meet Alang in this life!"
When Magistrate Song heard this, he was overjoyed. He pinched his concubine hard and said proudly:
"Those barbarians are all a bunch of idiots who study to death."
"The military book says that there are three enemies and one person is missing. When they attacked the city, they really surrounded three people but one person was missing. They didn't know how to adapt at all."
"Hey, barbarians are barbarians."
The concubine chuckled when she heard the words, twisted her body, and put her hand into Magistrate Song's hand. She gently raised her chin, put it against Magistrate Song's ear, and said with a blue breath:
"Alang, I think about it."
Magistrate Song was startled and reached out to press his concubine's head.
At this moment, the carriage shook violently, causing Magistrate Song's head to collide with that of the concubine.
Magistrate Song was furious, stood up, walked to the front of the car, opened the car curtain and said:
"You bastard, how do you drive?"
"Can I still do it? I can't do it..."
The driver of the car turned a deaf ear to Magistrate Song's curses. He pointed forward with his trembling right hand, trembling and stammering:
"Barbarian...barbarian...barbarian."
Magistrate Song also realized something was wrong.
He looked in the distance in the direction pointed by the groom, and saw a hundred feet away, with smoke and dust everywhere, a group of barbarians with half-bald heads and armed with swords and arrows, riding tall horses, charging towards them.
Song Zhixian's legs went weak, and his whole body collapsed on the spot.
In the carriage, the concubine, who heard the commotion, straightened her clothes and walked out quickly.
When she saw the barbarians whizzing past the carriage, her whole body went limp and she fainted on the spot.
At this time, not only Magistrate Song was paralyzed on the ground, but also many of the family members who were walking on foot following the carriage were paralyzed on the ground when they saw the barbarians charging towards them.
Only a few people immediately ran back after realizing something was wrong.
It's a pity that no matter how hard a two-legged man runs, he can't outrun a four-legged war horse.
So it took a moment.
Those men who escaped were shot by sharp arrows, and most of them died on the spot.
The men who survived were even worse. One by one, they were caught by ropes thrown by the Tuyuhun people, and then dragged back to Magistrate Song's carriage like dogs to death.
For a time, the sound of wailing, pain, and begging for mercy filled the official road.
At this time, Magistrate Song felt his ears roaring.
He stared blankly at the corpses in front of the carriage, including his legitimate sons, concubines, and concubines.
Song Zhixian kept opening and closing his mouth and beating his chest, but no sound came out.
At this moment, a savage man with a sinister face whipped the horse hard and rushed to the front of the carriage laughing.
Behind him, dragging a young man with his ankles tied with a noose.
The young man was about five or six years old. His originally fair face had been cut into disfigurement by stones, and the plain Confucian shirt on his body had also been dyed red.
The young man was about to faint from the pain. The moment he saw Magistrate Song, his eyes suddenly burst into light.
He gritted his teeth and slowly raised his blood-covered arm, as if he wanted to ask for help from Magistrate Song on the carriage.
"Ah..."
With a pop, the young man's head flew up and just landed in Magistrate Song's arms.
Magistrate Song trembled, and slowly lowered his head, looking at his beloved grandson.
The old magistrate of Song Dynasty burst into tears.
He held his grandson in his arms, stretched out his trembling right hand, and gently brushed his little grandson's eyes. Then he looked up to the sky and roared:
"Aye, I hate it so much!"
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