Chapter 401 Troubled Times
From the identification information of the nine rebel armies and their identities, we can tell that this is an ancient time of trouble.
Xia Yanzhen continued to look at the relevant information and found that it was even more chaotic than he expected.
The dynasty that rules this land of China is called Jingchao, and its royal surname is "Ai". It has ruled for more than three hundred years, and is now in a precarious stage.
There are two reasons. One is internal worries. Not to mention, it can be seen from the nine rebel armies that uprisings continue in various places.
The second reason, and the more important reason, is foreign invasion.
The Jing Dynasty was once very powerful, but after hundreds of years of being self-proclaimed, other countries caught up and used powerful force to open the country.
After many defeats, Jingchao had to pay compensation, cede territory, and demarcate concessions.
After defeating the war externally, the Jing Dynasty's internal oppression became even more severe, making the people miserable and leading to many uprisings.
From the initial scattered things, it gradually spread like wildfire.
Now they are the Nine Rebels. Of course, the outside world calls them the Nine Rebel Kings.
"This is a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society." Xia Yanzhen thought to himself.
According to the intelligence provided by the identity information, Yi Bo Yuntian's Southwest King had just captured Qiu City, which is where Xia Yanzhen is now.
When attacking the city, Wang Tong, the vanguard, was the first to rush into the city. He was rewarded by Li Yi, the king of the southwest, with the residence of a "big family", the Qu family.
The city was captured at noon.
now it is night.
It was originally a time for Wang Tong and other generals and even the soldiers below to have fun.
But now...
People leave at night.
Xia Yanzhen looked around. The lights around him went out, and the night wind blew into the room.
On the ground, five twisted corpses were lying on chairs.
One of them is the vanguard general Wang Tong, and the other four are the remaining bodyguards.
Only Xia Yanzhen survived - or in other words, one of the former guards also died, but was replaced by "Xia Shiyi", occupying the magpie's nest.
Wang Tong and his guards were all killed.
There were scattered meals on and under the table in the room.
Xia Yanzhen walked over and checked the bodies of these people, but found no obvious wounds.
The death of these people was horrific, and they seemed to have been brutally tortured during their lifetime.
Without investigating the cause of death of these people, Xia Yanzhen walked out of the house and looked at the sky. There was a bright moon hanging high in the night sky.
The moonlight shone in the courtyard, and some dark blood stains could be faintly seen.
These blood stains were the traces left by Wang Tong and others after they broke into Qu Mansion and killed and looted.
Couldn't completely wash it off with water.
The exact same thing is happening in many places in Qiu City.
"A terrible troubled world." Xia Yanzhen shook his head.
The Nine Rebel Army is not an army with strict discipline, ideals, plans and even programs.
They are composed of a group of refugees and rioters, and they are very destructive.
After each city was broken, there was burning, killing and looting. After occupying it for a period of time, some people were left behind. The large army carried wealth and carried more refugees and chaos towards the next city.
What they do is not much different from that of bandits and bandits.
The same is true for the "Loyalty Army" of the Southwest King.
It highlights the fact that if you have wine now, you will be drunk now, and you will live in a dream and die drunk.
It is estimated that only one or two of the nine rebel armies have plans for the future. The leaders or staff may have the idea of "building walls high, hoarding supplies, and slowly becoming king."
Anyway, Southwest King Li Yi is not available here.
His idea was very simple and simple, kill, kill, kill all the way to the palace, cut off the head of the dog emperor, and become the emperor himself.
The people under his command had the same idea as Li Yi, which was to change from being an emperor to being a founding hero.
Wang Tong was not exempt from vulgarity.
And then, tonight, die inexplicably.
Xia Yan was really too lazy to care about why Wang Tong and others died. He jumped directly to the roof of Qu Mansion and looked at Qiu Cheng.
Many places are still on fire.
The firelight illuminated the night sky.
In the nearby mansions of large households, except for the Qu Mansion, a large number of candles were being lit in all other places, and the wild laughter could be vaguely heard in the night wind.
Xia Yanzhen set his sights on the largest and most luxurious mansion among them.
It used to be the residence of the magistrate of Qiucheng, but now the magistrate is separated.
The head is hung high on the city gate - inside, to frighten the young people.
My body, I don’t know where it went.
You might be able to find it in the corpse pits outside the city.
The residence of the county magistrate was naturally occupied by Li Yi, the loyal king of the southwest.
Xia Yan really planned to go find the King of Loyalty to see if he knew what the Goddess was.
Before going, Xia Yanzhen checked the public channels.
Here is Chongxiao’s speech.
[Zhongxiao: "Are we friends from the brigade? We are the Chongxiao team. I bought armor from you and that strange dance. Does anyone remember it? I know about the Full-Time Eye. It is a team composed of Westerners. There are at least five people with good strength, and several of them are third-order dream apostles as soon as they come in. Shall we find a place to meet?\