80 kilometers south of Pingsha Valley, Hui’an City…
Hui'an City is a small city. According to Taixia's city standards, it can only be regarded as a third-level city.
The area within the city walls of this city is less than thirty square kilometers. Outside the city, there are market towns and large tracts of farms. Taixia has been at peace for a long time. Zhongzhou, one of the nine great states of Taixia, has hundreds of people. It has not encountered any wars in the past years. Therefore, Hui'an City still maintains the appearance when it was first established. Although steam city defense equipment is arranged on the city wall, the height of the city wall is only about ten meters.
To a certain extent, Hui'an City can be regarded as an ancient city. The residents who live in Hui'an City are quite proud when talking about Hui'an City. In a place like Zhongzhou, although there are many Class A cities, Hui'an still maintains its cultural heritage. The small town retains its original appearance, but appears to have a special temperament and is thought-provoking.
Longxi County is the granary of Zhongzhou, and Hui'an rice and Hui'an wheat are equally famous. Because Hui'an's local grain is excellent, and because Hui'an is close to Huihe River, the water quality of Huihe River is suitable for wine making. Several famous wines brewed by Hui'an wineries are in Longxi. The county also has a good reputation. The most famous Shuangjing wine is sold far outside Zhongzhou and can even be seen in Xuanyuan Hill.
Hui'an City is famous for its grain and wine. The grain and wine here are sold to all over the world. Over the past few hundred years, the people living here have lived better and better each generation due to the hard work and wisdom accumulated by their ancestors. Now, the entire Hui'an City and its surroundings are rich and prosperous. It is also peaceful. Even the buildings in the farms near Hui'an City show a kind of elegance and sophistication unique to the rule of Taixia Shenzhou. Barbarians from many subcontinents came to Hui'an City and looked at the vast landscape outside Hui'an City. Farmland, a garden-like farm, and the neat buildings with a strong Chinese style in the farm. They all exclaimed, this is simply the paradise on earth.
It was August, the sun had just come out in the morning, and I looked around on the fields outside Hui'an City. It is just a piece of golden color. When the breeze blows, the golden waves of wheat are rolling, which is pleasing to the eye...
The wheat outside Hui'an City has matured in the past few days. Taking advantage of the good weather today, many fields are showing off at dawn. A large number of farmers are driving steam machinery to prepare for harvesting. Due to the jihad, food prices have risen steadily in recent years. Especially this year, the increase has been larger than last year. This is a good harvest year. Looking at the heavy wheat ears in the fields, the farmers outside Hui'an are all smiling, and the joy of the harvest is flowing in their hearts...
A place like Zhongzhou. The city gates are never closed, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Twenty-four hours a day, except for the rotation of soldiers stationed at the city gate, the city gates here are generally not closed.
Even the local old people here in Hui'an can't remember the last time the city gates of Hui'an City were closed. It seems that there was one during the Second Holy War. After that time, nothing could happen to close the gates of Hui'an City again.
However, today is an exception.
In the morning, the North Gate of Hui'an City was bustling with people. Suddenly, a group of neat and rapid footsteps came from Zhengde Street connected to the North Gate of Hui'an City. People entering and exiting the North Gate were astonished. With the sound of footsteps, a group of thousands of heavily armed soldiers from Hui'an City, led by a leading officer, rushed towards here in a hurry. Those with sharp eyes can even see that several criminal arrests and officials from Hui'an City's Tingwei Department were acting together with these soldiers.
"The city lord has an order to immediately close all the city gates in Hui'an City. Immediately close all the city gates in Hui'an City. First-level combat readiness. All steam defense equipment on the city wall will be fired and pressurized..."
Before they even reached the city gate, the officer leading the team yelled.
This loud roar and the furious attitude of this group of soldiers made the north gate of Hui'an City tremble. No one knew what was happening, especially at the north gate, there was a long motorcade waiting to leave the city. In front of the motorcade One-third of the way out, and two-thirds were still in the city. When they heard that the north gate was to be closed immediately, the convoy did not leave the city gate, but instead took the time to continue leaving the city.
"What's going on? I want you to close the city gate immediately, do you hear me!" The officer leading the team rushed over and saw that the airlock in the city gate had not been moved yet, and the trucks were still leaving the city in an orderly manner. He was furious and rushed over with a few soldiers and two arresters from the Tingwei Department.
Seeing this officer walking over with an angry look on his face, none of the teams stationed at the city gate made a sound. It was just that the team leader was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to speak. Instead, there was a man in charge with a smile on his face. He greeted him, "Master, this is the convoy of Shuangjing Winery. It is about to unload at the airship landing base outside the city. The convoy has already gone out a little. It only takes two minutes for the convoy to all go out. This The people stationed at the gate of the city are all local children from Hui'an City. We all know each other well. I just asked them to give me two more minutes so that the motorcade can leave the city. Please don't blame the military master, just two minutes will be fine... "
Hui'an City has been at peace for so long that when the urgent order to close the city gate came out, everyone was a little confused. The soldiers stationed at the city gate no longer had that sense of urgency. Instead, they took advantage of the fact that they were familiar faces. Shuangjing Winery is well-known in Hui'an City, and they usually have some favors. They have to wait for two minutes to close the city gate to let the other party leave the city.
With a sound of "Choke...", the officer leading the team pushed the steward away, suddenly pulled out the long sword hanging on his own, swung the long sword, and without saying a word, headed towards the small team stationed at the gate of the city. The captain's neck was chopped off, causing everyone's expressions to suddenly change...
The sharp sword stopped squeezing the skin on the squad leader's neck. The sharp sword blade had cut the skin on the squad leader's neck. Blood beads rolled down. The squad leader's face suddenly turned pale. He was pale and his feet were a little weak. Just for a second, he thought his head was about to be chopped off.
"If the city gate is not closed within half a minute, I will chop off your head!" the officer said coldly.
The officer here moved his hands. The two criminals who had followed the officer here had not said a word for a long time. They each ran to the two trucks that were about to leave the city at the city gate. They showed their badges and took the truck drivers away. The driver's seat was roughly pulled off, and then the two cars backed up at the same time, hitting the vehicle behind them hard, leaving the place where the city gate airbrake had fallen.
As soon as the two cars collided and moved out of the way, many Shuangjing famous wines contained in clay pots in the car were broken into pieces. For a while, the aroma of wine was everywhere.
"What are you doing? These wines are going to be delivered to Zhongzhou City. Master Chengmu's father is celebrating his 120th birthday in Zhongzhou City. The old man used to like to drink our Shuangjing famous wine and requested Shuangjing famous wine for his birthday banquet. Do you deserve the delay in delivery? You are a foreign military household. What's so great about you? Even the mayor of Hui'an City wants to give our Shuangjing Winery some face..." The steward's face was rudely pushed away by the officer. It became extremely ugly, and the voice suddenly became sharper, and began to show off its teeth and claws...
Zhongzhou City is the prefecture city of Zhongzhou, and it is also a Class A city. The city lord of Zhongzhou City has the same official rank as the Longxi County Sheriff. Not only is it the same, but it is also closer to the governor and others, and the status relationship is one step higher than the Longxi County Sheriff. level, it is easier to get promoted.
"Get the hell out of here!" Seeing that the steward was still chattering in front of him at this time, the officer directly kicked the steward in the stomach, kicked the steward away, and fell outside the city gate. Almost lost his breath.
The officer did not use all his strength in this kick. It was just a lesson. If he really used all his strength, this kick was enough to kick an ordinary person to death. However, even so, this kick made the steward unable to crawl for a long time after being kicked down. stand up.
By the time the steward got up, the airlock of the northern city gate of Hui'an City had been lowered and the city gate had been closed.
The steward was jumping at the city gate and cursing. Before he could even curse a few words, he heard the exclamation from the city gate tower. When the steward turned his head, he saw a thick black stream coming from a market town a few kilometers outside Hui'an City. Smoke rose into the sky.
Was there a fire
This idea just came up in the steward's head, and black smoke suddenly rose from the farm in the other direction outside the city...
what happened
Seeing the fires in two places outside the city, those people who were blocked from the city immediately climbed onto the truck cleverly and looked towards the place where the black smoke was coming out.
"Ah, why did the people in Fu'an Town escape? What's going on..." The person who climbed on the roof of the car exclaimed...
The gates of Hui'an City were closed urgently. Smoke rose into the sky from the farms and market towns outside the city. Someone ran out... As soon as these pieces of information passed through the head of the steward, his face turned pale. Something serious must have happened...
Even though the steward was pretending to be powerful just now, he was not stupid. Looking at the closed city gate behind him, the steward suddenly understood something, and then he cried out loudly and beat the thick metal gate hard. "Ah, open the city gate quickly and let me in..."
Outside the city gate, there was already some commotion...
At the city gate, all the soldiers, including the officer and the two arrestees from the Hui'an City Court Office who followed, all changed their expressions at this time...
At the city gate, because of its height and the several telescopes placed on the city gate, it is easy to see what is happening in Fu'an Town.
Thick smoke and fires were burning in the center of Fu'an Town. Seeing the fires burning in the town, many people who were busy in the farmland put down their work and prepared to put out the fire. However, before they could wait, Those people ran back from the farmland, and more and more residents living in Fu'an Town rushed out from various parts of the town, shouting and crying, and ran into the wheat fields...
Just two minutes later, before the first people who ran out of Fu'an Town had gone 1,000 meters, several blood-red figures had already rushed out of the town and caught up with the last few people in the wheat field. In the blink of an eye, they were gone. Tear those people to pieces in the wheat field... (.)