Aggrieved Fish Sprite: 315|It means knowing the suffering and benefiting
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Some people are crying, others are calling for help.
Intermittent weeping and wailing from the ruins.
It happened so suddenly that the government had no time to block the nearby roads. The shock was heard throughout Ningtai City.
Many people hurried to the place where the accident happened because their relatives and friends lived there.
When we got to the ground, everyone was horrified, shaking and unable to control.
The prosperous Fang City seems to have been smashed into a big hole by a giant hammer, and the falling rocks are piled into undulating mounds, and the original appearance cannot be recognized. The house a little further away was smashed to pieces, and the streets were mixed with bricks, stones, tiles, furniture, and lying dead bodies.
There are lime brick powder everywhere, and all around my eyes are smeared with a ghostly whiteness.
——The mutilated corpse, struggling to grab something with the arm under the ruins.
Someone couldn't help rushing in, looking for the bodhisattva blessing with tears. More people didn't even dare to step in, so they turned their heads and ran away in fright.
"Where is the doctor?"
"Save people!"
Many living people were trapped in the outermost house. They banged on the doors and windows with blood flowing in their faces, and they were dragged out one after another.
That's the case, it's inevitable that someone in their home just hit the back of the head or forehead and killed him.
So the crying became louder and louder, and the people became anxious, saying everything.
Why did the good city wall collapse?
Is the earth dragon turning over, or is the city **** furious? Especially King Ning had been arrogant a few days ago. Could it be that he offended which god?
The strong sulphur smell in the wind persists for a long time.
Meng Qi stood expressionlessly under a collapsed city wall. The bricks and stones beside him seemed to be crumbling and not very reliable. Ordinary people did not dare to approach at all. Only a few people from Fengxing Pavilion arrived in time and were cautious. Looking around.
Everyone's face is very ugly.
There is no enemy outside the city, but in case there is one, such a big gap can't be closed at all.
Especially this is the east of the city, not far from the palace and the big yamen, it is not an outer city that can be easily abandoned.
"Meng Guoshi."
Qiu Jing came very quickly. She didn't close her eyes all night, and she was about to exhaust her energy and energy after several bad news.
She didn't bother to check the surrounding tragedy. Like Meng Qi, she rushed to the city wall first, following the smell of sulfur and the traces of the collapse to find the place where the gunpowder was buried.
"Six locations in total."
Even though this place has become ruins, clues can still be found based on where the city wall collapsed.
Meng Qi clenched his right hand unconsciously. If this were decades ago, if he was still a general of Chu who led an army under his command, after the army settled in a city, he would surely investigate the hidden dangers, the city wall The granary wells can’t wait to inspect every inch.
Because he has manned, capable and loyal subordinates that will cut off the risk before the enemy strikes.
But now he is negligent, because Ning Tai is in Yangzhou, which is far away from the Tianshou King. After all, Fengxing Pavilion is not a decoration. Although the city is full of fish and dragons, in general, whether it is the government or the people of the rivers and lakes, the soldiers of King Ning or the spies of King Wu, they are unwilling to see this royal city fall quickly.
The interests of all forces are at stake. The enemy's minions (Thunderbolt Hall) have all been arrested and are under the strict supervision of Fengxing Pavilion. Who would have thought of an accident at this time?
And when it comes out, it's a big leak.
The third person who came was Cheng Jingchuan. Unlike Meng and Qi, he was able to do light work. He came on horseback, and even if he reacted quickly, he was delayed for a while.
At this time, the officers and soldiers were already driving away the people, trying to catch the suspicious person.
Cheng Jingchuan promptly stopped the conflict between the officers and the army and the Jianghu people, and Fengxingge also bought his account, so no other trouble occurred.
Seeing such a tragic sight in front of him, Cheng Jingchuan could not speak for a long time, and his eyes were full of anger. If the people of Pilitang were in front of him, he might be chopped into eight pieces.
Qiu Jing took a deep breath, and greeted Cheng Jingchuan, who was scorched, and Meng Qi, who was exuding coldness, slowly said a word:
"This thing is weird."
Cheng Jingchuan frowned immediately, because it sounded like Fengxingge was shirking responsibility.
It is the real person Bai Yu of Fengxing Pavilion who stole the people of Pilitang, etc., because of selfish desires, the current predicament has been caused. Although some mistakes broke Qiu Si’s calculations, Qiu Jing took advantage of this incident to return strongly. Integrating Fengxing Pavilion, but for Cheng Jingchuan, the only benefit he got from this incident was probably the death of Qiu Si.
Now the good things have turned into bad things, and the destruction of the city walls has changed the deployment of troops in the entire territory of King Ning.
No matter how Cheng Jingchuan proposes a method of steady combat and layered defense, no one will listen to it.
——Even if the wall can be repaired in time.
Where is a wall collapsing in front of me, but the courage of many people.
Who can guarantee that the Celestial King's army will not come to the city? Who can guarantee that they will not send manpower again to blow up the second wall? What else to fight at that time, it's better to clean up earlier, and escape as far as possible.
So the battle didn't start, and the hearts of the people dispersed first. When he received the bad news, Cheng Jingchuan didn't have the breath to faint, and he was already able to withstand adversity.
Cheng Jingchuan tried his best to suppress his anger. He knew that it was not the time to blame each other. If Fengxingge provided cover for the people in Pilitang because of internal disagreements, and led the wolves into the room, wouldn't his people have made the mistake? With such a long section of the city wall, people actually buried several gunpowder. How did these heavy gunpowder mix into the city?
Wait, Cheng Jingchuan keenly caught the problem.
Although Ningtai is not an iron and copper wall that can't even fly in by flies, compared to other cities, it has several lines of defense, each from different forces. Even if these forces are opposed to each other, they are the same in terms of safeguarding common interests.
How did Pilitang conceal so many pairs of eyes and bring in the illegal fire and medicine?
Is it the cover that Real Bai Yu gave them? No, Bai Yu is not a fool. It is reasonable for Pilitang to bring some hidden weapon crossbows. Arrows are reasonable, and enough gunpowder for siege warfare is outrageous.
These thoughts slid through Jingchuan’s mind quickly. He changed from questioning and dissatisfaction to bewilderment. Finally, he successfully followed Qiu Jing’s words: "The Lord Qiu is right. This is an unusual thing. Excavate the ruins and search the corpses."
If you bury the gunpowder, you have to detonate it.
Looking at this scale, the person who ignited the fuse was probably killed on the spot, and now we can only check the dead body to find the suspect.
——Is it an unidentified stranger? Or eat the city guards outside?
"I have an insider who came here." Meng Qi suddenly spoke, and from the ruins, he took out a man wrapped in a black night suit.
Qiu Jing and Cheng Jingchuan even blurted out at the same time: "Is it you?"
"Oh, we all know each other?" Meng Qi looked at Li Konger, who had been tapped and couldn't say anything.
Then Cheng Jingchuan sold Li Konger in one sentence.
"She is Mr. Qiu's person."
"It is the descendant of Kongkongmen, she should be the only female disciple of the same generation." Qiu Jing added, and at the same time was surprised by Cheng Jingchuan's words. Obviously she didn't know that Li Konger was still Qiusi's subordinate. .
Li Konger desperately shook his head, happily crying, and looked up pitifully.
It's a pity that the three people present...
No, the two of them don't eat her in the same vein.
Longmai is blind, Qiujing is a woman, and Cheng Jingchuan knows the details of Li Konger too well.
"Mr. Qiu used her way...er, eclectic." Cheng Jingchuan hinted, and continued, "Coping with the situation in the officialdom, it's no wonder Pavilion Master Qiu doesn't know."
A thief who is very light and flexible, and has a pitiful and moving face, isn't it a natural spy? Although the beauties are old, they can't stand it up, especially when facing official figures, they only guard against assassins. Li Konger doesn't carry any weapons at all. Instead, she wants to take "some" things to leave.
Qiu Jing previously felt that the woman was not feeling very comfortable with her. After receiving the answer, she suddenly realized that she had no idea about the frivolous appearance of Li Konger's eyes, because that is the way of other people's survival, just like the beast's. Like sharp claws and teeth, they are always used to attack the enemy to protect themselves.
"A while ago, she saw people in Pilitang planting gunpowder. She was going to sell this news to Huang Biejia who visited the city's yamen'this morning'. It is said that it was the power of King Wu?" Meng Qi's words are very subtle, and he deliberately emphasized the sound of certain words.
All the wise people present, including Li Kong'er, her face changed suddenly, and she showed a hint of horror despite her efforts to calm down.
She thought her lie was very clever. After all, she was shocked when the city wall collapsed, and she didn't expect it to be like this, so the disguise at the time can be said to be seamless. However, when such an urgent matter happened, Meng Qi, in a rage, even remembered a little thief, who did not give her a chance to escape and caught her directly here. Li Kong'er didn't even expect that the least conflict between Cheng Jingchuan and Qiu Jing didn't break out, and she immediately exposed her old bottom.
"What I saw a while ago, why did you say it today? Why do you want to sell such important news to the people of King Wu?" Qiu Jing looked at Li Konger, who tried to argue with clever words, but was restrained. There was no sound at all.
Cheng Jingchuan stared at Li Konger, the chill in his heart slowly engulfing him.
Meng Qi relieved Li Konger’s acupuncture points in the air, and the latter hurriedly called Qu: “Mr. Qiu’s whereabouts are unknown, and his attendants are dead again. The body fell in the hands of the Xuncheng Yamen. The slave family just wanted to use this news to follow Don’t Huang make a deal, because the slave family is too worried about Mr. Qiu’s safety..."
Without waiting for her to finish her grievances, Cheng Jingchuan interrupted her unceremoniously, and said coldly: "So, you didn't see the people in Pilitang?"
"Yes, the slaves are all nonsense. The collapse of such a large-scale city wall, plus this movement, must have been caused by Pilitang." Li Konger nodded as if smashing garlic, and looked sadly at Meng Qi. , "The slave family was just to get away."
Meng Qi reminded her expressionlessly: "The news that you said you were going to sell Pilitang was before the city wall collapsed."
Li Konger was stagnant, and then forcefully argued: "This, this is all a coincidence. The most valuable news of Ningtai City at the moment, except for Mr. Qiu's whereabouts, is only the movement between King Tianshou and Pilitang. It is a mistake. I caught up by accident..."
"Kill it." Qiu Jing waved lightly.
Li Konger was shocked, Cheng Jingchuan sighed: "The Lord Qiu Pavilion really didn't want to leave this useful chess piece to me, no matter what, the situation in Ningtai is currently turbulent, and the nobles of the family are thinking of migrating and fleeing. It's useless to come and keep her. Since there is a suspicion of colluding with Pilitang, let's kill it!"
"No, no, I didn't collude with Pilitang, it's not me!" Li Konger blurted out and shouted, "The person who buried the fire. Medicine is not Pilitang, it is Mr. Qiu!"
Qiu Jing tilted his head slightly, Cheng Jingchuan closed his eyes, silently concealing the grief and anger that flowed from the bottom of his heart.
——The guesses that I don’t want to confirm, the answers that I don’t want to hear, finally come.
Before today, Meng Qi was very considerate of them. At the moment, facing the corpse in the ruins, he no longer felt that way.
"The matter is very clear. In the original plan of Qiu Si, King Ning, General Cheng, and Pavilion Master Qiu were trapped by their respective forces and had to confront and even fight, but because of my existence, you No one will die." Meng Qi looked around at the two of them and said mercilessly, "If there were no disturbances in the Pilitang, after Ningtai was completely messed up into a pot of porridge, the owner of the Qiu Pavilion could only be far away in order to prevent the Fengxing Pavilion from being completely divided. Going to Jingzhou or Qiantang County was just in time for the Tianshou Wang army to march forward. At this time, Ning Tai was still far behind to enjoy a moment of comfort. This did not meet Qiu Si's expectations, so the collapse of the city wall was also something that had been prepared for a long time ago."
Jiusi had prepared what happened after his "death" early, whether it was true death or fraudulent death, so his death would not change the crisis of the collapse of the city wall.
Unless Cheng Jingchuan and Qiujing discover the gunpowder here in advance, but... this is almost hopeless. You can tell by the timing of this choice. Others think that the best time for the city wall to collapse is Tianshou Wang Dajun. Soldiers are near the city, but it's not the case. How can you not check the city walls when you deploy troops to guard? Now is the most chaotic time for Ningtai, and it is also the best day to break people's hearts.
"He wants everyone to know that apart from escape, there is only death."
Ningtai is in chaos, Qiantang County will not get any better, and wealthy families will flood into the southeast.
Qiu Jing was forced to leave in order to prevent the Tianshou King from going to Jingzhou.
Cheng Jingchuan had no choice but to bring Ningdi soldiers and horses to lay down the line of defense in the area of Yangzhou, Jingzhou. This battle decided life and death, but this battle may not be won.
Because of the collapse of people's hearts, even Ningtai's city walls could collapse.
Can the officials and the forces of the rivers and lakes who are afraid of death and who have been fighting for benefits for many years go all out to follow the Cheng Jingchuan Autumn Scenery?
Know that no matter who becomes the emperor, it doesn't matter to them.
Cheng Jingchuan has ambitions and Qiujing has ideals. They have to do their best to maintain the situation in the south of the Yangtze River. Others can't bet on their wealth and life.
The people, business houses, and some of the powerful families in Jiangnan will all die in this war. But those arena forces and small tax collectors can surrender to the heavenly king and have the same fame, wealth, power and wealth. Why do they desperately?
The general trend is like a torrent, and people's hearts are nothing but a wall of grass.
No matter what you martial arts is outstanding and talented, you can't turn the tide.
"Does he want to give all this to the Heavenly Consecrated King?" Qiu Jing muttered, and she immediately rejected the words, "No, he doesn't believe that the Heavenly Consecrated King can rule the world."
The rebellious army that has always used evil cults to confuse the people can only gain a moment of arrogance. Even if the court and the vassal kings are weak and incompetent, once these mobs stand on their feet and own a large area of land, the upper class of the rebellious army will quickly split and collapse.
The Yellow Turban Army at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was like this.
The Tianshou King will certainly follow this path.
"By that time, Jiangnan has already..."
Being stricken by soldiers, the people are not living, and the people are devastated.