Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

"The boss!"

Someone called out to Li Yuan, and Li Yuan raised his hand. Several people behind him immediately went down from the city wall and prepared to open the door.

Li Yuan led his men down the stairs on the city wall.

They ran into the people guarding the inner city gate below, and Li Yuan didn't even have to do anything, as the people behind him had already dealt with them.

The door was suddenly opened and the person outside came in.

"Walk--"

Li Yuan and others sneaked into the city under the cover of night.

Because of the curfew imposed after Lei Hao took over, there was no one on the road.

Li Yuan knew where the granary was in Chenzhou. As soon as he entered the city gate, he sent some people to look for horses, while the other group followed him and went straight to the granary.

There were many people guarding the granary, but Li Yuan also brought a lot of people. When the two sides fought, no one had time to send out a message for help.

The rescue team had no idea what had happened in the granary.

After a bloody battle, all the people guarding the granary were eliminated.

The sword in Li Yuan's hand was dripping with thick blood, which fell on the bluestone slabs.

"Tell them to go find the horse first. When they find it, beat the gongs and drums and shout, saying that the granary has been opened and someone is robbing the rich to give to the poor. Let all the people in the city come and take it."

Li Yuan didn't think he could enter the city so smoothly tonight, and he hadn't even thought of attacking Chenzhou at night at the beginning.

But at that time, looking at the tranquil night sky of Chenzhou from a distance, I felt that the people who took over Chenzhou should not be so complacent.

It's okay to add some chaos.

Li Yuan thought.

The people under him had strong execution capabilities, while the refugees were staring at the food in the granary without blinking.

There could have been a simpler and more brutal way.

A fire set the Chenzhou granary on fire.

But could the person who died really be the one he wanted to kill?

Is this how these people should be?

And...how does Qi Niang see him...

The sounds of gongs and drums were soon heard, and the refugees without horses followed suit, throwing bags of food into the yards of every household.

There was commotion in every household.

Standing on a high place, Li Yuan could see some families lighting candles, and then the lights in the house quickly went out.

"Go and notify them again. If you don't come to claim it, don't blame us for burning it down!"

When he said this, the people who had been following Li Yuan understood what he meant.

"Yes."

The content of the music that was conveyed during the beating of drums and gongs quickly changed.

Li Yuan waited for a while, and several people looked at them stealthily and slipped into the granary under their noses.

Seeing that they did not take any action, these people became even more outrageous.

One of them grabbed a sack and started running out.

There were some people hiding in the darkness watching the fire from the other side. When they saw that the fire was indeed not hot, they immediately emerged from the darkness.

one by one.

Li Yuan and his gang of bandits were more like guards. Under the light of torches, people were risking their lives to get back the harvested grain at all costs.

In troubled times, if you want to survive, you have to gamble with your life.

It's just the courageous ones who will die.

"Master! The city defenders are here! Support from other places is also on the way!"

Someone came running over.

After receiving the news, Li Yuan knew it was time and took the horse handed to him.

"Each person takes several bags of grain and distributes them to different places on horseback. After the distribution, the person must immediately leave Chenzhou on horseback. No one is allowed to hide the grain privately."

"Yes."

The people around Li Yuan took action immediately.

Their actions frightened the people who were carrying food and rushing over. These people stared motionlessly at Li Yuan, who was in the lead.

Li Yuan glanced at them and said loudly: "You have two quarters of an hour left. The city defense troops will arrive in two quarters of an hour. Hurry up--"

After saying that, he rode away.

Watching his back disappear from everyone's sight, people came to their senses and took advantage of the cover of night to work harder to carry the things to their homes.

Some people covered their faces to be careful, leaving only their eyes exposed.

Now not only the men in the family, but also the women came out to help the men who were about to return home.

The city was in chaos.

Li Yuan and others rushed to the city gate in the chaos.

A group of reinforcements arrived and ran into a group of people who were preparing to leave the city. Before Li Yuan and others arrived, the city gate had not yet been reoccupied by the defending troops.

Li Yuan's men arrived at the city gate one after another.

The melee broke out at the city gate, with Li Yuan standing alone in the front, almost in a state of being killed.

When he estimated that everyone was almost there, Li Yuan gave an order to the people behind him: "Hurry up and get everyone out of the city! Every last one will be counted!"

The refugees who heard the order immediately rushed out of the city, while others retreated towards the city gate while fighting.

From time to time, people came on horseback from a distance and fought with the defenders.

The chaotic scene here quickly turned one-sided.

Li Yuan, along with a few other people who had come over, was forced to retreat step by step to the city wall.

He looked into the distance, confirmed that no one was coming out, and called out, "Let's go—"

The few people on horseback were very fast and moved forward and backward together with Li Yuan.

When everyone retreated to the city gate, Li Yuan and others no longer cared about the people behind them who were attacking them, but ran for their lives.

There were also cavalry in the garrison.

Li Yuan looked at the large number of soldiers behind him, gripped the reins tightly, and shouted at the horses to run faster.

They were in hot pursuit and when they ran two or three miles out of Chenzhou, Li Yuan and his men met the people who had escaped earlier.

The reins in his hand immediately turned, forcing the horse to turn around.

When the other people who were following Li Yuan saw him turn around, they also turned around and stood there with the people who were escaping, waiting for them to fall into the trap.

There were only twenty or thirty people chasing after them. On Li Yuan's side, there were six or seven people with horses, and fifteen or sixteen people without horses. All together, there were no more than twenty people.

Among them were several unarmed refugees.

Li Yuan was riding on a horse and handed the spear on his horse to one of the refugees below. The refugee looked at the spear and then at Li Yuan, wondering how he got the spear.

"Seeing that you have the strength, you only need to disrupt the other party's vision later, and we will do the killing."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of horse hooves was heard not far away. Li Yuan honked and rode towards them.

He was the only one guarding the pass, facing the horses that were charging towards him.

He dodged the spear from the opposite side by leaning sideways, grabbed the pole that just brushed past his chest, and then pulled the spear towards him with force.

The owner of the spear was pulled by the force and bent down, almost falling off his horse, but he was stable and experienced and quickly steadied himself.

Unfortunately, Li Yuan’s purpose was not to pull the man off the horse, but to draw his sword and directly pierce the man’s back.

Then he took the spear with force and swung it to the left, knocking a man on the left off his horse. A strong wind came from behind, he immediately bent down to avoid it, then turned around and stabbed the man's abdomen with the spear.

In just a moment, Li Yuan killed three people in a row.

Both the people on this side and the cavalry chasing from the other side were frightened by Li Yuan's killing manner that was as easy as cutting vegetables.

Li Yuan, who had no idea how many people he had killed, raised his eyes.

He raised his spear and attacked again together with his men who had rushed over.