Chapter 169: Trouble

The city gate was quickly squeezed open. Those who were about to die would not care about the life or death of others. Even if they squeezed all the people in front of them to death, they would do whatever they could.

Tens of thousands of refugees flocked to the city gate, and the five hundred garrisons who rushed to the scene were instantly flooded by the crowd.

Soon, smoke and fire broke out everywhere in the city, and noisy voices could be heard for miles.

Gu Du turned around and walked back. Ten days ago, there was a reward that Lingyu County sent people to Sunset Pass, but Sunset Pass had no movement. It must be that the guards at Sunset Pass were unwilling to send troops to suppress the refugees, because this was a thankless thing.

But today the refugees rushed into Lingyu County and became rioters and mobs, which is another matter.

However, if this news is to reach Rizhaoguan, it will take at least two days. If the garrison troops are killed by refugees and the county government does not send people to ask for help in time, then I don’t know how many days it will take.

However, it doesn’t matter whether Sunset Pass can get news in time, because there is not much grain in the city. Gu Du’s grain store is the most grain store in the city, but the granary has been empty for nearly a month.

Lingyu County is a dead city, and refugees will inevitably flock to Sunset Pass, because in the north of the grassland, there is still a rich country of Ze to seek refuge.

Rich, a word that once belonged to the Ling Kingdom can finally be used in Ze Kingdom.

Back to the main village, walked towards his house, and a female disciple came towards him, and said with a cold face: "Son-in-law, the junior sister choked on drinking water today."

"Oh." Gu Du agreed, a little confused.

After taking two more steps, another female disciple came over and said with a cold face: "Son-in-law, today the junior sister has learned to embroidery and pierce."

Gu Du frowned and stood there watching the female disciple walk away. As soon as he turned his head, another female disciple came over and said with a cold face: "Son-in-law, the junior sister is stuck in her meal today."

Gu Du suddenly woke up. They were saying that he did evil like this, and Dongfang Xia Lan was suffering retribution.

Gu Du smiled bitterly. It was different for her family to have a mother. She choked when drinking water, learned embroidery and got stuck in her meal. These were all very ordinary things, but when it came to Dongfang Xia Lan, these became great things.

Gu Du shook his head. The woman was soft-hearted, and because of the seclusion of Juelingmen, he naturally could not see such a tragic situation in the purgatory of the world. Let them tell me. No matter how unhappy they were, they would have to call him a son-in-law.

When Gu Du returned to the room, Dongfang Xia Lan raised the embroidery work in her hand with a smile on her face and said, "I embroidered it, isn't it beautiful?"

Gu Du smiled, walked over and hugged her, looked at the style of flowers and dumplings on the cloth, and said, "You should practice hard, what should you do to learn these things? Just follow me to charge into battle, don't know these things."

Dongfang Xia Lan said: "Lixia can do it, and I must do it too."

Gu Du frowned slightly, why did he argue with Li Xia again? He asked, "Did Xia believe it later?"

Dongfang Xia Lan replied: "No, I'm sipping clothes today and I saw the cloak she made for you."

Gu Duhu laughed, raised his hand and pointed her nose, and said, "You are so idle."

Dongfang Xialan pouted and said, "You don't take me with you, of course I'm idle."

Gu Du smiled, stroked her face and coaxed: "Be good, I'm for your own good."

Dongfang Xia Lan replied: "I know, I am not obedient and idle at home."

While dispatching troops to suppress the mob of the Jiegang Uprising in the Northeast, and while transfering money to remit food to disaster relief, the Emperor Lingyu County garrison and the yamen officers were killed by hungry people. County magistrate Liu Gui and garrison commander Li Ke only brought a few surviving soldiers to escape to Sunset Pass. The county magistrate who had refugees passed by did not report it, and they all thought that as long as they did not cause trouble in their own jurisdiction, they would do it.

In less than ten days, Lingyu County was almost in ruins. The surviving people began to march towards Sunset Pass, but there was no movement in Sunset Pass, but the city gate was closed and more defenders were sent on the top of the city.

Qiu Changshou, the commander of Sunset Pass, sent 600 miles to speed up, but did not follow the northwest official road, but instead went to Zhenbei Pass outside the pass and reported to the imperial city from the front line of Zhenbei Pass.

When the Emperor of Ling received an urgent report, the refugees were approaching Sunset Pass and shouted loudly under the pass: "Open the door! We want to eat! We want to go to Zeguo!"

Qiu Changshou learned from Lingyu County's lessons and ordered people to strengthen the city gates early, so the refugees could not be squeezed out for a while, but Qiu Changshou did not dare to order arrows to be fired easily, and arranged dozens of defenders to circulate the message in unison: "Don't be in trouble, I have reported to the court, and disaster relief grain will be transported soon!"

The disciples of Jueling Sect squeezed into the crowd and shouted, "How quickly will it be? We are all going to starve to death. How long will it take for the grain and rice to arrive? You can give us food first!"

Qiu Changshou was speechless. The military rations in Guanzhong cannot be used for disaster relief. Otherwise, the soldiers would have no food to eat and would be likely to mutiny. Even if the military rations were taken out, they would not be able to feed so many people. In the end, no one could eat them.

The disciple of Jueling Sect shouted again: "If you don't give us food, just let us out of seclusion. We can go to Zeguo even if we eat grass!"

The refugees all shouted: "Let us out of seclusion! We are going to Zeguo!"

No one thought that they were originally in opposition to Zeguo. When they were hungry, they had to eat and survive. As long as they could survive, they would do whatever they wanted. Anyway, they would just farm and eat.

Refugees rushed to the city gate again, and someone shouted: "Don't squeeze, let's go over the mountains!"

The disciple of Jueling Sect shouted: "You can't cross the mountains. We are so hungry that we don't have the strength to die in the mountains!"

The person next to him looked at him and asked, "Is there anything to eat in the mountains? Grassroots and bark, maybe there is still..."

Before he finished speaking, a dagger pierced into his abdomen. The speaker opened his eyes wide and stared at the disciples of Jueling Sect. The disciples of Jueling Sect let go of the dagger, squeezed forward, and shouted: "Roar in! Take their food! You can't starve to death like this!"

The person who was talking just now fell to the ground and was cut off by the person who rushed up from behind.

Qiu Changshou couldn't hold back and shouted, "Get back! Otherwise I'll shoot an arrow!"

The soldiers who were passing the message shouted three times, and the refugees were still pushing the city gate. Qiu Changshou could only say, "Shoot the arrow!"

Sunset Pass is different from Lingyu County. Sunset Pass has 30,000 defenders and 8,000 archers. With a command, arrows on the top of the city were like locusts. A large area of ​​refugees under the city fell down in an instant. The people behind did not dare to squeeze forward. No one was a fool. Everyone knew that the pass was different from the county town. No matter how many refugees were, they would be massacred by the Guanzhong defenders.

In the distance, Gu Du stood on the hillside with a few of the most pretentious female disciples and watched. Seeing arrows fired from the city wall, Gu Du said: "I just reduced their food and did not kill them. They just killed each other."
Chapter completed!