The noise outside continued, and people's rushing footsteps were about to come out of the house. There was noisy and yelling, and the children were crying, and the dogs barked. It was very lively.
In this very flustered scene, Jiang Li was sitting at the door with bright eyes reflecting the luminous sky, but there was no panic at all. Wen Renyuan looked at him, and suddenly smiled. When he was not sloppy, It was very serious, he said: "Miss Jiang Er is not afraid at all."
"Compared to the unarmed people and the soldiers facing off at the gate of the city, there is really nothing terrifying." Jiang Li replied.
"You are so bold, you are quite similar to Ah Heng." Wen Renyao seemed to have thought of something, "When he had nothing, he was so bold when he had nothing to rely on."
Jiang Li smiled, noncommittal. She didn't know what Ji Heng's past was, and now she has no time to hear Ren Yao talk about these past things. Just because a letter fire suddenly rose up in the sky, this letter fire was different from the previous drum horn, and it was fleeting.
Immediately afterwards, the voices outside suddenly became noisy, and the cry of women and children became louder.
At the same time, a few torches were suddenly thrown from the outside of the house. The courtyard in Huangzhou is not big, and the houses are made of wood. It ignited as soon as it was touched by sparks. Zhao Ke jumped up and flew a few torches. One torch was still burning. The room ignited almost immediately. Only when Zhao Ke cursed, he said: " They splashed oil, hurry up!"
Wen Ji immediately ran out of the house with Jiang Li, and as soon as he walked out of the house, he was stunned by the sight outside. The entire Huangzhou city was full of flames, and the neat rows of houses on the street were burning at the moment. Like a serpentine snake, a running person chasing.
That's all, the people who heard the sound immediately wanted to use water to extinguish the fire. But the fire became more and more fierce, and those people had poured oil before to make the house burn.
Before Jiang Li had time to ask Wenji, he heard screams one after another in the distance, and the sound of people chasing and crying. From the other side of the street, many people ran out. The clothes of the people were splattered with blood, and some people were chasing them behind.
It was someone Cheng Wang arranged in Huangzhou in advance.
Jiang Li frowned, and Cheng Wang wanted to start with Huangzhou and go north to Yanjing. During the attack tonight, there are his men in Huangzhou City, and his soldiers and horses outside the city. The inside and the outside should be combined. Under such a sudden situation, the Huangzhou City Defense Army is certainly not the opponent of the king. But Cheng Wang probably didn't expect one thing, that is, Ji Heng would come unexpectedly.
Those people ran extremely fast. Jiang Li was surrounded by people running in a hurry. Wen Ji guarded Jiang Li and said, "Second Miss, go first!"
Jiang Li said, "Can't you save them?"
"The defending army will be here soon." Wen Ji's tone was very indifferent, "Our responsibility is to protect the second lady."
When he was speaking, Jiang Li watched a few steps away from him. A child was pushed by the crowd and fell behind. A man in black holding a sword grinned and chased him, and he was about to catch up.
Jiang Li didn't have time to think about other things, so he pushed Wenji away and ran to the child. The child was already shocked and fell to the ground again, crying desperately, but at this moment, he felt that someone was running over, picked himself up, and ran back.
The man in black didn't expect that someone would rush to rescue the child, but he didn't do much and immediately followed Jiang Li. Jiang Li dragged a child, and he couldn't run any longer. Just when he was about to be overtaken by someone, Wen Ji rushed up and started fighting with the man in black.
Jiang Li took the opportunity and ran to the side, Zhao Ke caught up and couldn't help saying: "Second Miss, you are so messy!"
"I..." Jiang Li knew that it was too dangerous just now, so he said: "I'm sorry, but... I can't watch him die like this."
The child, who was only five or six years old, looked at Jiang Li blankly, as if he had only reacted at this moment, crying loudly, and hiccups aggrievedly. But his hands clung to Jiang Li's sleeves. Jiang Li was also very sad. The child was covered with blood, fearing that his parents had already encountered an accident. His round eyes reminded Jiang Li of Xue Zhao, how could she bear to leave this child here
Wen Ji struggled with the man in black for a while. The man in black was so cunning. Seeing that it wasn't Wen Ji's opponent, he didn't want to fight, so he turned and ran away. Wen Ji didn't chase him, what if he was caught by someone else's plan to tune the tiger away from the mountain? When Ji Heng left, he said that if he wants to protect Jiangli, he naturally wants to protect it.
Wen Renyao murmured: "This king has killed and committed countless evils... Even the life and death of the people is ignored."
Zhao Ke saw this very openly, completely unlike his harmless baby face. He said: "One accomplishment has done everything, and it has been like this since ancient times. What about the people? There is no shortage of people in the world. "
While speaking, the drum horns of the city gate became fierce again. I don't know if it was Jiang Li's illusion, but I felt that the ground under her feet also shook a few times.
Wen Renyao's face looked ugly: "The war has changed, I'm afraid that the soldiers and horses of the king are stronger than imagined."
"What should we do now?" Jiang Li asked, "The whole city has been burned, and there is no safe place."
"After the city defenders came, those people in black should not rush around. Now the important thing is the city gate." Wen Renyao said solemnly: "They caused chaos before, just to open the city gates and let them take advantage of the chaos. People come in. Once the king's soldiers and horses enter the city, even if there are Aheng and the defending army, they will not be their opponents."
Jiang Li pondered for a moment, and said, "They should have been unsuccessful? At least not right now. If they succeed, it won't be the case."
"It is true, so they will get worse." Wen Renyao said: "I hope Ah Heng can handle it."
Jiang Li didn't propose to go to the city gate this time. A few of them can't do anything right now. If they go, if they are caught by those people and become a handle to threaten Ji Heng, it will be more than a loss.
The men from the city guard came soon, and they seemed to know Zhao Ke and Wen Ji, and one of them asked Zhao Ke and Wen Ji to take Jiang Li to the side. There were fires everywhere in Huangzhou City, and some were extinguished at this time. The people gathered together, and it was only then that they came back to their senses, a little better.
The men were a little uneasy, while the women hugged the children beside them, all looking in the direction of the city gate. As time passed, everyone felt that tonight was extremely long.
The child who was rescued by Jiang Li stared blankly at the horizon, but he did not see his family come to him for a long time. Jiang Li cried when he asked about it, and finally stopped crying. Jiang Li knew from his mouth that the people in black started from the south of the city. The first family was their family. His family was all there at the time. He was asleep, and was brutally killed by all those people. Only his brother rushed out holding him, but in the end his brother also died. Just when he was about to die, Jiang Li rescued him.
Jiang Li asked him: "What's your name?"
"Lin Yao." He choked, very wronged. Such a small child probably still doesn't understand what it means to be destroyed overnight. If he were a little older, sensible, and experienced such a big blow, he didn't know what it would become.
Jiang Li had to coax him, just as he coaxed Xue Zhao when he was a child. It was so easy to put him to sleep, and he gave the child to Wen Renyao. Wen Renyao was okay. He was not reluctant. On the contrary, he was very curious. Looking at the child, he didn't know what he was thinking. Jiang Li looked around and found that many injured people fell to the ground. The doctors who were still alive in Huangzhou were also here, busy seeing these people. Some defenders helped find the medicinal materials from the drugstore, and after they got the medicinal materials, they decocted them on the spot.
In the end, many people were killed and injured.
Jiang Li sighed and looked outside. There was still some distance from the city gate, but it was faint. It seemed that he could hear the sound of swords facing each other and the sound of horses' hoofs. These voices reached here, and the women trembled even more. A look of fear appeared on everyone's face.
Jiang Li was a little worried.
Cheng Wang has planned for this moment for many years. Counting from that time, Ji Heng was only a young boy, and many years had passed by the time Ji Heng knew how to start planning for this moment. Such as she, Wenji Zhao Ke, Ruwen Renyao Lu Ji Kongliu, they always blindly believe in Ji Heng, thinking that Ji Heng can do everything. But after all, Ji Heng was just an ordinary person, and only a mortal body, which would be dangerous.
But she can't do anything.
Jiang Li sighed and couldn't do anything. It was better than trouble. As long as you survive this night, as long as you survive this night, the morale of soldiers and horses who want to become kings will be damaged, not as good as before. If you wait any longer, the reinforcements will come back. It is not appropriate to get all the bargaining chips for a Huangzhou. King Cheng will surely rectify his troops and go north to Yenching before the reinforcements arrive, and enter the palace in one fell swoop.
But it's not right. In this case, why is Ji Heng doing this here
Jiang Li always felt that something was wrong. There were imperial forest troops in Yanjing City, but there were too many people in Yanjing City. Once the king came in, the consequences would be disastrous, and reinforcements must be sought. General Wang Zhaode of Xia County in the northwest... General Zhaode
Like a ray of light, finally illuminating reality, Jiang Li suddenly understood.
Ji Heng was not in Yanjing, but came to Huangzhou, and why he was stuck with Cheng Wang like this. Probably to make the emperor of Yanjing City transfer Zhaode general Yin Zhan back to Beijing. When Wang Cheng gets entangled, and when he goes to Yanjing, he will meet Yin Zhan.
But why did Ji Heng do this? In order to better eliminate Cheng Wang? This is too much trouble, or maybe... just for Yin Zhan
Jiang Li didn't understand. She wanted to think about this problem. Unknowingly, Dongfang Tiantian was white. One night passed, and it turned out to be dawn.