Chapter 698 A Dream of Youth 230
As the thin clouds drifted by, countless sheets of paper scattered in the sunlight. Standing atop the high walls of the eastern city, they could, by calculating the wind direction, scatter the papers containing Xi Li's evil schemes into the city. For even more distant places, they would need the assistance of Kongming lanterns.
The people on the street looked terrified. After listening carefully for a while, they did not hear any shouts of fighting from the east side of the city, so they figured the enemy had not yet broken in.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, if there hadn't been Zhou soldiers at all four city gates, they would have run away long ago.
"What is this?" The illiterate person looked at the piece of paper repeatedly with curiosity.
Those who could read turned pale. The governor actually wanted to breach the Seven-Level Canal, and now that the east gate of the city was open, not only would the Zhou army outside die, but those inside would also not be able to escape.
Even if the city gates remain closed, once the canals are breached, they can indeed remain safely within the city, but their land will be completely submerged...
The people in Lingzhou City were in turmoil, and everyone's attention turned to the south of the city, but how could they stop it?
"I don't want to die!" A scholar-like man covered his face and wept bitterly.
Some of the bolder ones picked up sticks, saying, "Those officials all want us dead. Are we just going to sit here and wait to die?"
"Yes, yes! Either way, it's just death. It's better to let Zhou's army enter the city. Xi Li's army suffered defeat after defeat and retreated to Lingzhou, but along the way, they looted all the people's food and burned what they couldn't take!"
Everyone says Zhou Jun is a jackal, so isn't Xi Li a tiger or leopard?
They ate all of us!
As they spoke, the refugees begging on the street corner shed tears; they were the people who had been driven into the city by the scorched-earth policy.
They can still run and are still alive, but what about those who can't? In the dead of winter, without food or firewood, how long can they survive?
"Since we're going to die anyway, we might as well give it our all!"
......
One person took up arms, two people took up arms... a group of people took up arms. People have a herd mentality; as long as someone takes the lead, more people will have the courage to follow.
A boy also took a wood-chopping knife from home and ran outside, but was stopped by his gray-haired mother. She shook her head, tears streaming down her face, but her lips trembled and she couldn't speak.
The boy knelt beside the woman, his eyes red-rimmed. "Mother, the Zhou army attacked us, the Xili soldiers burned our grain, my father died, my sister died, I carried you on my back for a month before we reached Lingzhou City."
I don't know who to hate, and I don't know if the Great Zhou army will kill us and enslave us, but I do know that if the flood spreads, we will surely die.
Mother, I want to live. My sister wants to eat the peach blossom pastry the storyteller talked about. I haven't tasted it for her yet...
Amidst the biting cold wind, a brilliant firework suddenly burst into bloom in the sky.
"Sister, are we doing the right thing?" The one who spoke was the scholar who had just been weeping in the street.
“There is no right or wrong in this world. Your hesitation and doubt are just a lack of self-confidence. I believe in my father and I believe in myself, so I want to finish what he didn’t finish.”
The young woman in the wheelchair patted the little gray pigeon's head before throwing the secret letter she had finished reading into the charcoal stove beside her.
“What are you standing there for? The people outside are waiting for you.” They needed a strong and capable leader in public, so he released the guards that his father had specially hired for her, while secretly, someone had to guide their emotions.
Otherwise, it would quickly fall apart.
Change must be swift and precise, leaving no time for anyone to react.
There are many wealthy and powerful people in this city, but there are even more homeless people and poor people struggling to survive on the streets. They live in constant fear of the enemy army that is about to attack their homes, and they are also burdened by the various taxes imposed by the war.
The news that the governor intends to breach the Seven-Level Canal has amplified their fears to the maximum, so they desperately need an outlet for their emotions.
This created an opening in their anger and fear.
The uprising happened very quickly. When the governor of Lingzhou heard the news, he almost vomited blood.
"Send men to suppress it immediately!" There are so many soldiers in the city, surely they can suppress a small civil uprising. There are only a few people involved.
"General Lin has already sent men to suppress the rebellion, but..."
What is it?
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