C58 (1/2)
After the battalion soldiers were ordered to enter the city, everything went smoothly at the beginning. They first went to the Castellan Mansion s to disperse the enemy forces that were attacking Qu Feizhi's subordinates, then left behind a portion to watch over the Castellan Mansion. As for the others, they were led by strong man to the granary to rescue Chen Chu and his subordinates.
Although there were a lot of people in Tiger Running City, most of them were already frightened, and more so, those who had received formal training were even fewer. In their eyes, there was no such thing as the number of enemy troops. There were only the two numerical concepts of ”tens of hundreds” and ”countless”.
From the ”hundreds of people in the first group”, to the ”over two hundred people in the second group”, and then to the ”hundreds of people in the third group”! A large group of people! ” And the fourth person's ”main force!” Do you understand?! None of them can be called a large group of tens of thousands? ”
The Tiger Running City had only used less than two hours to start the entire city's collapse. However, the only open city gate was personally protected by the Xiu'er and with Chen Chu's reinforcements, anyone who dared to approach the city would be killed without mercy. The tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers in the city did not dare to resist, and obediently held their heads as they squatted on the ground. Especially the straight pillars of smoke rising from the Castellan Mansion, it caused them to lose their confidence and some even collapsed on the ground while wailing. Only when the Xiu'er showed up and explained that she was only here to pick up the food and not slaughter the entire city did she finally calm down a little. She gradually returned to her home and anxiously waited for her fate.
The pillar of smoke was done by Qu Feizhi. Seeing that the situation had been resolved, he personally rushed over to Castellan Mansion. A mere Du Mingfa with a hundred guards could not even take them down, making him feel ashamed. But Du Mingfa could not do anything else, he had a way to hide himself. He dug a huge cellar inside the Castellan Mansion and hid all ten odd people in it with a group of guards guarding them. He really couldn't rush in for a while as he had a big mouth. The dignified Fire Phoenix Knight had been besieged and attacked by dozens of people in a row when he rushed into the cellar. He had created the largest number of casualties in Red Camp since he had entered the Moqiu.
Qu Feizhi personally led the team in charging a few more times but to no avail, he then lost all patience, so he simply used an old style, picked up a few kerosene tank and threw it in. Following that, he ordered the troops to retreat, and everyone stopped their actions, and directly burned the Castellan Mansion!
The flames that shot to the sky from the Castellan Mansion became the symbol of the destruction of the city and also became the switch to turn on the beast nature of the battalion's officers and soldiers.
As a reward, they looted the entire city. At first, everyone thought that these guys would just smash a bank, steal a gold shop, and destroy a few pawnshops. After all, the valuable items were all in these places. Most of the first battalion soldiers did the same thing, putting the gold and silver in their own pockets, and thus didn't have any other thoughts. However, there were always a few red-eyed people who were not satisfied with these. They looked at the rich families that lived in the mansion, not only targeting their money, but also their women.
With someone taking the lead, the rest of the more daring ones also started to move. A part of battalion's soldiers abandoned their status as soldiers and activated their mob mode. As long as anyone dared to resist, they would be treated as enemies and killed immediately. Some of them were too lazy to even kill the kerosene tank and just threw it into the house. After that, they locked the door and burned the entire family down.
You couldn't blame Fat Cui for acting rashly, couldn't blame strong man for being incompetent in supervision, and couldn't blame Xiu'er for being too immature.
Xiu'er found out about this first, after the city gate was settled, she ignored her injuries and brought a few Red Camp Knight s on a patrol around the city. She wanted to wait here for a few days for Xu Keding to reply. Naturally, she needed to understand the situation in the city.
Just as they reached an intersection, a figure suddenly appeared and sprinted towards Xiu'er. Red Camp Knight thought that someone was planning to assassinate him and hurriedly turned her horse to protect the general. However, when they finally saw the person clearly, they realized that it was a girl. The girl's face was covered in blood and his clothes were tattered, and his entire body was trembling uncontrollably. She hugged the leg of Xiu'er's steed tightly as he screamed for help.
Xiu'er dismounted, but before she could ask for the girl's name, seven or eight soldiers dressed in the robes of battalion rushed out, extending their big hands towards the girl with a face full of smiles, until the Red Camp Knight s shouted loudly, ”The Expeditionary Force Commander, Lord Xiu is here! ”Don't be rude!” This was enough to stop them.
Xiu'er hid the girl behind him, frowning she asked: ”What are you guys doing?” The leader of the soldiers tidied up his crooked clothes and said with a smile, ”Sir, this is a relative of the garrison, and his resistance is great. We brothers will teach her a lesson! ”
Nonsense!” They're talking nonsense! ” The girl crazily shouted, ”My family only has me and my mother. After you entered the city, my mother and I didn't dare to go out. ”When they broke in and killed my mother, they wanted to tell me — to me —” At last, the girl broke down in tears.
”Is that true?” The Xiu'er's face was already unfriendly, a few of the Red Camp Knight s were also tightly holding onto their blades.
The leader of the soldiers still smirked, ”Since the city is already ruined, we won't be coming, and there will be other brothers who will be coming as well.”
”Bastard!” Xiu'er was furious, ”I only allow you to rob gold and silver, who allowed you to do such a thing!”
The soldiers finally noticed that something was amiss and kneeled on the ground, kowtowing continuously. ”Mercy, milord, mercy!” We know we're wrong! ”
Xiu'er took two steps forward and asked in a stern voice, ”You just said that even if you all didn't come, someone else would have come as well. Speak, who will come?! ”
The soldier lowered his head, and only after a long while did he reply, ”Yes, yes sir.” ”This event had already begun ~ ~ Many brothers were looking for women ~ ~”
The Xiu'er was so angry that she turned around and shouted at the Red Camp Knight, ”Tie them up!”
Just as she finished speaking, the soldier had already stood up, unsheathed his sword and struck towards Xiu'er, at the same time scolding, ”If you don't let me live, I won't let you live either!”
Even if she was injured, Xiu'er would not be taken advantage of by this kind of people. Facing the steel blade, she did not retreat but instead advanced. At the same time, she stretched out her uninjured left hand to pinch the soldier's neck, using her fingers to break the soldier's neck, and then threw his corpse on the ground like throwing trash.
Seeing that the Xiu'er was so powerful, the other soldiers no longer had any desire to fight back and obediently knelt on the ground to be tied up by him.