Huian City, 80 miles away in the south of Pingsha Valley...
Huian City was a small city. According to the standard of cities in Taixia Country, it could only be a Class D, Class III city.
The area within the city wall of this city was less than 30 square miles. Outside the city wall, it was covered with towns and large tracts of farmsteads. Taixia Country had been peaceful for a long time. As one of the 9 immortal provinces in Taixia Country, Zhongzhou Province had not suffered any war over the past hundreds of years. Therefore, Huian City still maintained its original look. Although there were steam city-defense equipments on the city wall, the city wall was only about 10 m high.
To a certain degree, Huian City was already an ancient city. When residents in Huian City talked about Huian City, they would be pretty proud. In Zhongzhou Province, although there were Class A cities everywhere, small cities like Huian City which still maintained its original look looked special and thought-provoking.
Longxi Prefecture was the granary of Zhongzhou Province. Huian rice and wheat were also famous. Because of the excellent local grains in Huian City and the proximity of Huian River, the water quality of Huian River was suitable for liquor brewing, the famous liquor brewed by the distilleries in Huian City also enjoyed a good reputation in Longxi Prefecture. Among them, the most famous Shuangjing liquor was sold far away from Zhongzhou Province. It could even be seen in Xuanyuan Hill.
Huian City was famous for grains and liquor. The grains and liquor here were exported to other places. Over hundreds of years, due to the diligence and wisdom of generations, people living here lived better and better. Now, the entire Huian City and its surroundings were prosperous and tranquil. Even the buildings in the farmsteads nearby Huian City were especially elegant and exquisite. Many barbarians from subcontinents came to Huian City. At the sight of the vast farmsteads, garden-like farmsteads and tidy Hua buildings in the farmsteads outside Huian City, they all exclaimed that this was simply a paradise on earth.
In the morning of August, when the sun had just come out, the wilderness outside Huian City had been covered with golden wheat. When the breeze blew by, the golden wheat was rolling, which was very pleasing to the eyes...
These days, the wheat outside Huian City had already become ripe. As it was a good weather, a lot of farmers had started steam machines and prepared for harvesting the moment the sun rose. Due to the holy war, the price of grains was rising steadily; especially this year, it was a bit bigger than that of last year. It was a bumper harvest year. Watching the heavy wheat ears in the farmsteads, all the farmers outside Huian City revealed a big smile as they felt the pleasure of bumper harvest...
In a place like the Central State, the city gates would not be closed. There were 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Other than the soldiers stationed at the city gates changing shifts, the city gates would not be closed.
Even the local seniors in Huian City couldn't remember the last time when the city gate of Huian City was closed. It might be in the 2nd holy war. After that, nothing else could make the city gate of Huian City close again.
However, it was an exception today.
In the morning, the north gate of Huian City was bustling. All of a sudden, tidy and rapid footsteps drifted from the Zhengde Avenue which was connected with the north gate of Huian City. In the flabbergasted look of those who were entering and exiting the north gate, a team of over 1,000 fully-armed soldiers of Huian City had rushed towards here under the leadership of a military officer. Those sharp-eyed people could even see some criminal hunters and officials of the Provincial Court of Huian City together with these soldiers.
"According to the order of the castellan, close all the city gates of Huian City at once. Close all the city gates of Huian City at once. LV 1 combat readiness. All the steam city-defense equipments on the city wall should be heated and pressurized..."
Before they arrived at the city gate, the military officer had roared.
The roar and the flurried attitude of the soldiers aroused an uproar at the north gate of Huian City. They didn't know what happened; especially at the north gate where a long team of vehicles was waiting to leave the city. 1/3 of the vehicles had already left the city, 2/3 of them were still in the city. After hearing that the north gate was closed at once, the vehicles didn't leave the city gate; instead, they hurried to leave the city.
"What's wrong? I told you to close the city gate right away, did you hear me?" The military officer rushed over here. When he found that the air lock in the city gate was still there and those trucks were still leaving the city orderly, he became furious. Closely after that, he rushed over here with some soldiers and two criminal hunters of the Provincial Court.
At the sight of this military officer walking towards them with a furious look, all the team members at the city gate remained silent. The team leader looked a bit embarrassed as he didn't know what to say. By contrast, a person who looked like a steward greeted him with a smile, "Military officer, this is the fleet of Double-wells Winery. They're going to unload their cargo at the airport outside the city. Some of them have already left. In 2 minutes, all of them would leave the city. As we're all familiar with each other, I asked them to give me 2 more minutes so that the fleet could leave the city. Military officer, please forgive me, just 2 minutes..."
Huian City had been peaceful for too long. Therefore, the emergency order to close the city gate was delivered at this moment. Everybody was confused. Therefore, the soldiers at the city gate didn't have that sense of urgency anymore. Given that the opponent was familiar with them and the Double-well Winery was well-known in Huian City, they decided to close the city gate 2 minutes later so that the opponent could leave the city.
With a sound of "Clang...", the leading military officer pushed the supervisor away as he drew out his long sword and brandished it towards the neck of the team leader of the garrison team at the city gate, causing everyone's face to change at once...
The sharp long sword stopped when it squeezed the skin of the team leader's neck, causing blood drops to roll down. The team leader's face turned pale at once as he felt weak at his feet. Just now, he thought that he was going to be chopped off.
"If the city gate is not closed in half a minute, I will chop off your head!" The military officer said coldly.
The moment the officer took action, the two law enforcers who followed the officer here immediately ran to the two trucks that were about to leave the city, flashed their waist tags, and rudely pulled the truck drivers out of the driver's seat. Then, the two trucks backed up at the same time and crashed heavily into the vehicles behind them, making way for the airlock at the city gate to open up.
The moment the two vehicles collided with each other, a lot of famous Double-wells Wines in clay jars were broken, causing the entire place to be filled with the fragrance of wines.
"What are you doing? These wines are going to be delivered to Zhongzhou City. Lord Mayor of Zhongzhou City's father is going to celebrate his 120th birthday. The old man always likes to drink our Double-wells Wines. Therefore, he wants to hold his birthday banquet with Double-wells Wines. Can you afford to delay the delivery time? You're just a foreign military household. What's so great about you? Even Lord Mayor of Huian City has to respect our Double-wells Winery... "After being pushed away by the military officer rudely, the steward's face turned pretty bad as his voice turned sharp at once. He started to make threatening gestures...
As the provincial city of Zhongzhou Province, Zhongzhou City was also a Class A city. The official rank of the castellan of Zhongzhou City was equal to that of the prefectural governor of Longxi Prefecture. Additionally, the castellan of Zhongzhou City was closer to that of the provincial governor of Longxi Prefecture. Additionally, his social status was higher than that of the prefectural governor of Longxi Prefecture. Therefore, he could be promoted more easily.
"F * ck off!" Seeing the steward still chattering in front of him, the military officer directly kicked onto the steward's belly, sending him flying out of the city gate. At the same time, he almost lost his breath.
The military officer didn't exert his full strength; instead, he just wanted to teach the steward a lesson. If he exerted his full strength, he could kick a commoner to death. Even so, the steward didn't pick himself up for quite a while.
When the steward picked himself up, the air lock of the north city gate of Huian City had been closed.
That steward just stomped his feet and swore loudly at the city gate. Soon after that, he had heard an exclamation from the top of the city gate. The steward turned around and saw a black smoke rushing into the sky from a town a few miles away from Huian City.
'Is it a fire? '
Just as this thought flashed across the steward's mind, black smoke also rose up from the farmhouse in another direction outside the city …
'What happened? '
At the sight of the two fires outside the city, some people among the crowd who were blocked outside the city gate immediately climbed onto the trucks and looked at the black smoke.
"Ahh, how could people escape out of Fuan Town? What happened..." The one who climbed onto the roof of the truck exclaimed...
The city gate of Huian City was closed in an emergency; the farms and the towns outside the city were covered with thick smoke; someone escaped out of there... The moment the steward thought about this, his face turned pale, 'It must be a big event...'
Although this steward pretended to be a tiger, he was not stupid. Watching the closed city gate behind him, the steward understood something at once. Closely after that, he started to wail as he forcefully pounded the thick metal city gate, "Ahh, hurry, open the city gate, let me in..."
It was already a bit chaotic outside the city gate...
All the soldiers on the top of the city gate changed their faces, including that military officer and the two criminal hunters from the court of Huian City...
Due to its high height and the telescopes on the top of the city gate, they could easily see what was happening in Fuan Town.
The dense smoke and fire broke out in the center of Fu 'an Town. Watching the big fire, many people who were busy in the farmlands put down their work and prepared to put out the fire. However, before those people ran back, more and more residents of Fu' an Town had rushed out of the farmlands and burst into the wheatfields from all the places of the town …
Only after 2 minutes, before those who ran out of Fuan Town ran 1,000 m away, some bloody figures had rushed out of the town and caught up with the last few people in the wheatfield. In the blink of an eye, they had torn them into pieces in the wheatfield...
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